Extra: Yingliu × Mo Duo (4)
Just the day after Yingliu received the news from Moduo, an uninvited guest suddenly came to the Prince's Mansion.
Chief Eunuch.
Summoned by the imperial decree, Yingliu was ordered to enter the palace to meet the emperor immediately.
Ying Liu really couldn't understand why, with her status and under such circumstances, she would go to the palace to meet the emperor?
What is the emperor's purpose in meeting her?
Was she trying to link Mo Duo to Prince Ning's Mansion through her words? Or had the Emperor discovered her and Mo Duo's secret relationship? Or perhaps...
For a moment, Yingliu eliminated all doubts and all impossible factors, and finally only one remained.
Falsely convey the imperial edict.
The emperor would never see her. She was a criminal slave, so why would the emperor see her?
But the person who came to deliver the oral order was the chief eunuch. Could she just refuse to go if she said it was a false imperial decree?
Yingliu was extremely anxious and had no other choice. After the maid passed the message, she walked out and gave herself a shot with a silver needle.
The acupuncture point was pierced accurately and fiercely. The maid stepped out of the door and heard a bang. She turned around and saw Yingliu with a pale face and a mouthful of blood spurting out. She staggered and hit the table.
All the cups and plates on the table crashed to the ground, and she fell to the ground with them.
The maidservant was so frightened that she screamed and ran to help the person.
She had fainted, and even the chief eunuch could not take her away even if he conveyed the emperor's oral order.
Yingliu was helped back to bed by her maid, and the imperial physicians from the Prince's Mansion came immediately to examine her. Before the imperial physicians had finished taking her pulse, the imperial physicians from the palace were sent over.
Since the palace sent someone, the doctors from the Prince's Mansion could only take a back seat.
Ying Liu lay on the bed anxiously. She was not worried that the doctors in the palace could find out anything. She was weak to begin with, and she was worried about Mo Duo these past two days. She couldn't eat or sleep well, and was very restless.
It is also common to vomit blood due to anger.
She was afraid that the imperial physician in the palace would diagnose her with some other illness.
Whatever you fear, it will come to you!
The doctor who came to examine her took her pulse for about half a cup of tea, then his face suddenly changed drastically and he stood up abruptly, "Miss Yingliu has scarlet fever!"
Scarlet fever is a highly contagious disease.
Ying Liu was mentally prepared and was not too surprised by the other party's words. She just cursed these people in her heart for being despicable.
But the doctor in the mansion was suddenly anxious. "How could it be scarlet fever ? Scarlet fever doesn't mention vomiting blood. Besides, Miss Yingliu has never left the house since she came to the Prince's Mansion. No one else in the mansion is fine. How could she, who doesn't interact with outsiders, get scarlet fever?"
However, you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.
The imperial physician from the palace insisted that Yingliu had scarlet fever, so Yingliu must have scarlet fever, no matter what anyone said.
"Don't talk about these nonsense. I just want to ask, today you all said that she doesn't have scarlet fever, but what if? What if she does have scarlet fever? Who will take the responsibility?" The palace physician put a big hat of accountability on her, and who can do anything?
This is the Prince's Mansion. If we are not careful and the whole mansion is infected, how will we explain it when the Prince returns?
Moreover, the stewards of the Prince's Mansion often go in and out of the palace. If Yingliu really has scarlet fever, the palace must strengthen its precautions.
No one dared to refute, and Yingliu was isolated.
In such a large courtyard, all the people that Moduo had dispatched to serve her were sent away, and Yingliu, under the pretext of having scarlet fever, was given a bowl of medicinal soup and fell into a coma.
When she woke up again, she was already in a bumpy carriage. Riding with her was Moduo's nominal biological sister, the only legitimate princess of Da Qi.
Seeing Ying Liu open her eyes, the legitimate princess smiled and looked at her, "You have a really good attitude. You can actually sleep well."
Ying Liu thought to herself, "Did I sleep well? This is the medicine you gave me!"
But she couldn't say anything and could only remain silent, otherwise she might say something that would anger Her Royal Highness the Princess, which would do her no good.
"In the past, my mother always mentioned you to me, saying that you were well-educated, well-educated, good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and that you were good at everything, even your beauty was the best in the capital.
I used to be dismissive of it.
But ever since my royal brother spent 100,000 taels of silver to buy you home and kept you in the mansion like a canary, I began to believe it.
My brother, the Crown Prince, has very high standards. The woman he protects so carefully must be extraordinary."
The legitimate princess leaned forward slightly and patted Yingliu on the cheek. "He thought you could get away with it by fabricating such a reputation. Tsk~ You really did fool most people. Even my father and mother believed that my royal brother was really trying to humiliate you.
Fortunately, God has eyes and let me see it."
The princess' eyes were filled with a malicious smile. She looked at Ying Liu and said, "Do you want to know where I'm taking you? You're so smart, why not take a guess?"
Yingliu remained silent.
My mind was racing with all the possibilities.
"You're from Prince Ning's Mansion. Tell me, if you were to associate with those horse dealers, what would my father think of my brother?" The legitimate princess blinked innocently at Ying Liu. "That's really interesting. If my father finds out that my brother didn't treat you like the outside world says, he wouldn't humiliate or play with you at all, just think how angry he would be. He'd probably be charged with deceiving the emperor."
At first, Yingliu thought that the legitimate princess's plan must be to pave the way for the second prince. After all, these two were the children of the current queen.
But after calming down, Yingliu slowly realized that the arrangement made by the legitimate princess seemed to have even taken the second prince into account.
It was the Second Prince who kidnapped Mo Duo.
What is she going to do!
Yingliu was in a state of anxiety. She was tied up today and could do nothing. After the carriage jolted for a long time, Yingliu finally managed to make some sense of the myriad of confusions.
"Your Highness, are you planning to hand me over directly to the horse dealer?"
The legitimate princess of Da Qi never expected that Ying Liu, who had been mute all the way, would actually speak. She certainly knew what Ying Liu's speaking meant, but Ying Liu's resistance did not make her angry, but only aroused her fighting spirit.
The Queen had been nagging at her for three whole years. Yingliu was the halo covering her head, forever shrouding her in darkness.
How can a lowly-born maid like her be worthy of being compared with her?
The queen mother was also confused. She kept asking her to learn from Yingliu. She wanted to see who was more skilled or Yingliu was more evil.
The princess looked at Yingliu's face, which looked like it was about to be torn into pieces, and raised her eyebrows. "Miss Yingliu, what advice do you have for me?"
Ying Liu calmed her mind, "Now that the Second Prince has captured Your Highness..."
As Yingliu spoke, she carefully looked at the expression of the legitimate princess.
Sure enough, when she suddenly said this, the princess looked at her in surprise.
Ying Liu suppressed her emotions and continued calmly, "...Does the Second Prince think he has a sure win, so he dares to attack the Crown Prince?
The Crown Prince is the heir to the throne. Once His Majesty knows that the Crown Prince went to the northwest to solve the war horse problem, his journey was delayed because he was kidnapped by the Second Prince.
Your Highness, what do you think His Majesty would think?
Your Majesty will not think that there is anything wrong with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but will instead think that it is His Royal Highness the Second Prince who has ulterior motives."
After a pause, Ying Liu said meaningfully: "After all, the Second Prince has ulterior motives."
There was a certainty in her eyes that showed she understood everything. This calmness and the words she said made the princess feel deeply uneasy.
How did Yingliu know that it was the second prince who kidnapped the crown prince?
In addition, what did Yingliu mean by having ulterior motives?
Ying Liu didn't give the legitimate princess any room to think. After a brief pause, she delivered a fatal blow. "After all, there's a difference between a biological mother and an aunt. Otherwise, why would Prince Ning's mansion be wiped out?"
In fact, the extermination of Prince Ning’s family has nothing to do with the current identity of the queen.
But don’t smart people like complex situations?
When a simple and straightforward situation is put in front of them, they feel that it is an insult to their intelligence!
Ying Liu understood human nature and knew how to manipulate it. She stared at the legitimate princess, "But Your Majesty is not completely foolish. The Ning Palace is gone, but the young princess and the young prince are still there. If it is true that they are plotting a rebellion, doesn't Your Majesty understand the principle of eradicating the roots?"
Yingliu asked tricky questions one after another.
She was once the most valued teacher by Princess Ning, so it was not shocking at all that she knew something.
Just now, the princess thought that Yingliu must have known those things from Moduo, but now, she has ruled out this possibility. She is certain that after the incident in Prince Ning's Mansion, Prince Ning left someone for Yingliu.
Otherwise, how would Yingliu know that the Crown Prince was kidnapped and held hostage by the Second Prince.
