Yinzhen turned his head and glanced at her, with a gloomy expression on his face: "I have my own opinion regarding Fourth Brother's affairs, I don't need your concubine to worry about it." Nian heard the displeasure in Yinzhen's words and secretly blamed herself for being too impatient, so she quickly shut up.
He remained silent and watched the progress of the matter.
In that room, after Yinzhen scolded Nian, he coldly glanced at the tearful Ling Ruo and returned to the desk to sit down. There was a blank imperial edict spread out there. It was before he was interrupted by the queen that he could
The intended purpose.
It has been delayed for a long time, now it is time to issue an edict, Tongzhou and Xu Rongyuan, everyone must die!
Seeing Yinzhen writing, Ling Ruo was shocked. She knew very well that once the decree was issued, Rong Yuan would really be dead. She hurriedly crawled over and cried: "I know, no matter what I say at this time
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The emperor will not believe it, but Dr. Xu is really innocent. Please forgive me and let Dr. Xu have a way out!" After saying this, she kowtowed repeatedly, and the sound of "bang bang" kowtowed could be heard in the south study room.
Yinzhen stared coldly at her red and swollen forehead, and only uttered three words, "Impossible!"
"Please, Your Majesty, have mercy! Please have mercy, Your Majesty!" Ling Ruo didn't know what else she could do besides begging at this moment. She kowtowed, and refused to stop even if her forehead was painful from the kowtow. She owed Rong Yuan so much in this life.
, so we must save him this time, we must!
However, she didn't know that the more she begged, the more resentful Yinzhen felt. He endured the anger in his heart and allowed Ling Ruo to beg. He just lowered his head and finished writing the decree. After taking the jade seal next to him and stamping it, he raised it.
Voice: "Li Dequan!"
"The slave is here!" Li Dequan agreed quickly, fearing that any delay would arouse Yinzhen's wrath.
"Send the decree to Fengtai Camp and Xiaoqi Camp immediately without delay!" he said, his eyes cold and ruthless.
"No! Your Majesty!" Ling Ruo grabbed Li Dequan, who had received the imperial edict, and refused to let him leave. This made Li Dequan unable to advance or retreat, and was in great embarrassment.
Nian, who had just been scolded by Yinzhen, couldn't help but said again: "If you really have nothing to do with Imperial Physician Xu, why are you so worried about his life and death? It's obvious that you have an affair!"
Ling Ruo ignored her and just looked at Yinzhen sadly, wanting to see if he really had no trust in her. Yinzhen said angrily: "Niu Hulu, Lingruo, let go! Otherwise, I will punish you too!"
He waited for a while and saw that Ling Ruo still didn't let go. He walked down angrily, kicked her hand away from Li Dequan's clothes, and cursed loudly: "Are you deaf? I told you to let go!"
He was filled with hatred in his heart. What good was that damn imperial doctor? She wanted to plead for him to do this to her, and even contradicted him again and again, even risking her life.
"Your Majesty is a sage monarch. I beg your Majesty to spare his life for the sake of Imperial Physician Xu who once saved your Majesty's life." Ling Ruo endured the pain in her hands and continued to kneel on the ground and said.
"Okay! Very good!" Yinzhen did not expect that Ling Ruo would plead for Xu Rongyuan at this time, her expression distorted under the orange-red candlelight, "You want to save Xu Rongyuan, right? I will help you!"
Following these words, he returned to his desk, picked up a pen and wrote a few words on a blank piece of paper, and also stamped it with a jade seal. Then he walked up to Ling Ruo with the piece of paper and said in a cold voice:
"I will not let Xu Rongyuan go. I want to save you. Go and save yourself. This is the decree to leave the palace. You can use it to leave the palace and go to Tongzhou. As long as you take Xu Rongyuan out of Tongzhou before the cannon bombards Tongzhou, he can
Stay alive!"
Ling Ruo's fingers couldn't help but tremble. She wanted to pick up the piece of paper several times but then put it down. The thin piece of paper seemed to weigh a lot. She knew very well that Yinzhen didn't really want to let go of Rong Rong when he did this.
Instead, I am testing myself to see how far I can go for Rong Yuan. Once I take this piece of paper, I really can't look back.
There were clearly five people standing in the study, but there was no sound at all. Everyone was holding their breath and waiting to see Ling Ruo make a decision.
Nian was really hoping that Ling Ruo would take the piece of paper, so that Yinzhen would be completely disappointed with her and no longer show mercy.
Li Dequan couldn't say anything, so he could only use his eyes to signal Ling Ruo not to accept the piece of paper. This was not an order to leave the palace, it was clearly a reminder.
Ling Ruo also knew very well that if she was smart enough, she should not accept the piece of paper, but the kindness Rong Yuan once treated her kept flashing before her eyes, whether it was before she entered the palace or after she entered the palace, without Rong Yuan,
I have already died in many calculations, and there is no way I can stand here.
She owed him a lot and she had to pay him back, even if it cost her her life!
Thinking like this, Ling Ruo's eyes gradually became firmer. She stretched out her hand, took the decree in Yinzhen's unbelievable eyes, kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"
Yinzhen looked at her blankly, and then was overwhelmed by the huge anger. Niu Hulu Lingruo deserved to die for betraying him so blatantly!
Ling Ruo kowtowed again, then stood up to face Yinzhen's gnawing eyes, and said with tears: "I know that my crime deserves death, and I dare not ask the emperor for forgiveness. After I rescue Imperial Doctor Xu, I will come to confess to the emperor."
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"Get out!" Yinzhen stared at her with red eyes and said, "I never want to see you again! Get out of here!"
Ling Ruo turned around and stepped out of the south study room under Yinzhen's angry gaze. There was the sound of things being broken behind her.
"How is the master?" Shui Xiu, who had been waiting outside, came up and asked with concern. Although she did not go in, she could vaguely hear the noise inside, and the situation did not seem to be good.
"I'm fine." Ling Ruo smiled weakly and said to Shui Xiu, "Go to the stable and fetch a horse. I want to leave the palace."
"Leave the palace?" Shui Xiu's eyes widened in surprise, "Master, you are a concubine in the palace. It is impossible to leave the palace without the emperor's will, not to mention that the palace door has been closed at this moment."
"It doesn't matter, I have the emperor's decree." She didn't say much, she just urged Shui Xiu to go to the stable to get the horse. Fortunately, Yinzhen had taken her riding a horse before, otherwise she would have to take a carriage or a sedan chair.
The speed is much slower.
"Master, where are you going?" Shui Xiu felt that something was unusual and asked: "And the emperor, how could he allow you to leave the palace late at night? Master, what happened? Don't scare me."
Ling Ruo gently stroked her worried face, shook her head and said, "I said it's okay, don't make random guesses, don't ask too many questions, just do as I say."
Shuixiu couldn't believe it, but Ling Ruo refused to say it, so she had no choice but to follow her words. The young eunuch in charge of the stable was very unhappy when Shuixiu woke her up in the middle of the night, but she heard that it was Concubine Xi.
The empress wanted to use a horse, so she quickly chose a docile horse for Shui to show off.
Shuixiu took the horse and followed Ling Ruo all the way to the Meridian Gate. She couldn't help but ask her again where she was going.
Ling Ruo didn't say anything, only said: "You took good care of Hongli these days when I was away. If he asks, just tell me that I will go do some things and I will be back in a few days."
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Shui Xiu could only say: "Master, please be careful along the way and come back early."
[Author's digression]: There is one more chapter, I'm still revising it, I'll post it in another two minutes.