"I was thinking that if Military Advisor Cao came, I could bring the medicine into the palace..."
"What?! The prince's leg is crippled?!"
Why is this happening?
Yun Duoduo gripped Qingdai's arm tightly. "Don't worry, tell me slowly, what exactly happened?"
"Did Your Highness injure your leg while fighting?"
Qingdai shook her head, sobbing, "I don't know the specifics, I only know that Your Highness seems to have been poisoned."
Seeing that she couldn't get any information out of Qingdai in a short time, Yun Duoduo released Qingdai, took out her medicine box from the bedroom, and strode towards the gate of the mansion. "Prepare the horses!"
"I want to enter the palace!"
Seeing Yun Duoduo's anxious expression, Uncle Fu knew that she must have found out about Jin Jinzhi's injury. He couldn't stop her, so he had no choice but to prepare horses.
As Yun Duoduo stepped out of the mansion and was about to mount her horse, two girls stopped her at the gate.
"Sister, are you going to see the Prince?"
Shangguan Wanwan grabbed Yun Duoduo's arm.
"Sister, take your younger sister with you!"
"Sister, who is your sister?" Yun Duoduo pushed away Shangguan Wanwan, who was pulling her.
"I'm busy, I don't have time to talk to you here!"
She leaped onto her horse, grabbed the reins, and galloped away.
"Your Highness, please drive carefully!"
Uncle Fu shouted as he watched the clouds rush away.
Startled by the horse's hooves, Shangguan Wanwan and her maid retreated one after another. Watching Yun Duoduo's departing figure, Shangguan Wanwan stomped her foot in annoyance.
"Princess, I heard that the Prince of Jibei has crippled his leg. Do you still want to marry him as a concubine?"
Shangguan Wanwan's maid asked, puzzled.
"Today, I, the princess, am going to the palace to see if the Prince of Jibei's leg is truly lame or just pretending."
"If his leg is really crippled, I, the princess, will quickly find another suitable candidate."
...
At the Nanyang Imperial Palace, the guards saw horses galloping towards them from afar and quickly blocked the palace gate.
Who comes from ahead?
"Dismount immediately!"
Anyone who trespasses through the palace gates will first be warned by the guards. If the warning is ignored, they will be shot at blanks. If they still do not stop after hearing the sound of the bowstring, they will be shot dead on the spot.
"Archers, prepare!"
The head of the guards waved to signal the archers to prepare to fire.
"Boss, the one riding the horse looks like the Ninth Princess!"
A senior guard squinted at her. He had seen Yun Duoduo before and naturally recognized her appearance. However, the others present had not seen Yun Duoduo before. Some of them were only transferred to guard the palace gate after Yun Duoduo left the palace to establish her own residence, and they did not know her.
"Is she really the Ninth Princess?"
"Did you see clearly?" The head guard tensed up immediately upon hearing that it was the Ninth Princess.
"Yes, it's the Ninth Princess." The guard squinted and looked at her carefully again.
"Quickly, put away all the bows and arrows!"
"His Majesty has decreed that the Ninth Princess may enter the palace at any time and in any manner, and no one may obstruct her; otherwise, it will be a capital offense!"
The archers, who had been poised to fire, were so frightened that they quickly lowered their bows. Several of them were sweating profusely. If they had hit the Ninth Princess with an arrow, the entire clan would have perished.
"Greetings, Ninth Princess!"
The sound of horses' hooves grew closer and closer. By the time Yun Duoduo passed through the palace gate, the guards had already knelt down on both sides of the gate, greeting her in unison.
As Yun Duoduo galloped into the palace on horseback, the head guard suddenly remembered, "Quickly, send someone to inform His Majesty that the Ninth Princess has entered the palace!"
"yes!"
One of the guards took off running towards the Zichen Palace. In the palace, unless there was an urgent military situation or a report, it was forbidden to ride a horse at full speed. The guard who was delivering the message had to run inside.
Watching Yun Duoduo's gradually disappearing figure and the guards running wildly, the head guard couldn't help but sigh inwardly. By the time the messenger arrived at Zichen Palace, the Ninth Princess would probably have already finished a cup of tea with His Majesty.
But there's no way around it, the procedures still have to be followed.
...
Inside the Zichen Palace, Xia Xiazi lifted the curtain and knelt before Yun Beiye.
"What's wrong? Is something urgent?"
When Yun Beiye saw Xiao Xiazi walk in, she seemed to be in a hurry and her expression was not very natural. She looked at him with concern and asked, "Could it be that Jinzhi is not well?"
"Your Majesty, the princess has arrived!"
"What? Duoduo's here? Why didn't you stop her..."
Jin Jinzhi was someone he had left in the palace. He was worried that Yun Duoduo had come to demand an explanation, but it was he who had given the order not to stop Yun Duoduo.
"Father!"
Before Yun Beiye could think too much, Yun Duoduo had already rushed in.
"Father, how is Brother Jinzhi?"
Seeing his daughter's anxious expression, Yun Beiye shook his head. "Since you're here, go and see him. He's in the side hall."
Yun Duoduo didn't say anything, and went to the side hall with her medicine box on her back.
She walked quickly to the side hall, ignoring the dumbfounded palace maids, eunuchs, and Military Advisor Cao, and went straight to the bedside.
"Brother Jinzhi!"
When she saw the person on the bed, she was stunned. Jin Jinzhi was breathing heavily, his eyes were sunken and he looked very haggard, and his face was a terrifying purplish-black color.
Sitting next to him was Ye Mingzhu, who was giving him acupuncture.
Jin Jinzhi was already quite weak, and the moment he saw Yun Duoduo, his eyes flashed with surprise, joy, despair, and utter despair.
He turned his head away, not wanting Yun Duoduo to see him like this.
He was such a proud man, and now, facing her with this defeated face and broken body, he was extremely unwilling.
Yun Duoduo's forehead veins bulged, her anger and sorrow visible to the naked eye.
"Brother Jinzhi, who hurt you like this?"
"Your Highness, those who harmed the Prince have all been killed," said Military Advisor Cao from the side.
"Shut up! I'll settle the score with you later!"
"Brother Jinzhi was poisoned and returned to the capital, yet he kept it from me! If anything happens to Brother Jinzhi, I..."
"We thought the poison in the prince's body had been completely cleared, but who would have thought that the poison was so potent..."
As Cao Canjun spoke, Ye couldn't continue. If it weren't for Yun Duoduo's arrival today, there would probably be no one who could cure Jin Jinzhi's poison.
Yun Duoduo knelt by the bed, large tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Brother Jinzhi, don't worry, Duoduo will definitely heal you."
With trembling hands, she took out various medicinal herbs from the medicine box.
"Everyone, get out."
The people in the side hall didn't react for a moment and stood there dumbfounded. Yun Duoduo looked at them, her face full of tears, and roared, "Get out of here!"
The group hurriedly retreated from the side hall.
Yun Duoduo took out her instruments and began to examine his body. If it was just a leg injury, it would be easy to treat; she had a medicine kit containing many medications and instruments.
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