Su Yan sat at the door for another half an hour.
By the ti the herbal soup was brought to her again, Yu Wenxu still hadn’t co out.
Su Yan beca quiet for a while.
Taking the herbal soup from Wei Wan’s hands, she stood up and walked towards the study.
The little eunuch was conflicted, tasked with stopping her but not wanting to offend Su Yan.
He could only plead
"Miss, please don’t make it difficult for this servant. Why not let this servant deliver the soup for you?"
Su Yan looked at him,
"The herbal soups from yesterday and the day before, he didn’t drink them, and they were returned as they were. The dicine on the wound hasn’t been changed for two days, and this morning the wound has beco infected and worsened."
Instantly, the little eunuch dared not say a word.
He was caught between a rock and a hard place.
The herbal soups from the last two days were indeed delivered by him, but what could a servant do if the Prince chose not to drink it?
Su Yan looked at him, speaking earnestly
"Allow inside. If sothing goes wrong, you will not be punished."
The little eunuch hemd and hawed for a long ti, but seeing Su Yan so serious, and thinking about the Prince’s complexion growing paler and his appearance more haggard by the day,
The little eunuch silently stood aside.
Wei Wan couldn’t help but speak up
"Miss..."
Su Yan had already started walking forward, only leaving behind the words
"You wait outside, I’ll co out very soon."
The sound of her voice had barely faded when she pushed the door and entered.
A screen depicting mountains and a sunset was placed across the room.
Concealing the scene inside the study.
Discussions among the civil servants could be heard from within
"Prince, the new Emperor’s coronation is set for the tenth of next month."
A voice joined in from the side
"It’s already the end of the month now. The coronation ceremony is complex and may be difficult to complete."
"Alas, we can only simplify as much as possible. Who would have thought the forr Emperor would abdicate so suddenly? A country cannot be without a ruler for a day, I’m sure the new Emperor will understand and show leniency regarding the ceremonies."
"That’s true..."
Four civil servants sat on both sides discussing.
As they spoke, they noticed the Prince’s attention seed to be drawn to the screen.
His gaze kept unintentionally sweeping across it.
Even after they had talked for so long, when the Master of Ceremonies just now asked for the Prince’s opinion, the Prince was distracted and did not hear.
The four n exchanged glances and also looked towards the direction of the screen.
And at that mont, a General who had been through battles, seated to the right of Yu Wenxu, harrumphed heavily.
"Trouble."
He voiced it unequivocally, his brow filled with displeasure.
The four civil servants did not yet understand why the General had suddenly made such a comnt.
Only to see from behind the screen, a woman in white clothes, holding a tray, walked out from behind.
Her delicate and fair face had a calm deanor, she looked around at everyone present first.
Then, she glanced at Yu Wenxu, who was sitting behind the desk and had yet to utter a word.
Before she could speak,
A civil servant already furrowed his brows.
"Who’s this ignorant person? Do you think this is sowhere you can just barge into?"
Civil servants have the right to offer criticism in the imperial court.
To put it nicely, they are upholders of righteousness and order; to put it rudely, they are sticklers for the rules.
They were here discussing important state affairs.
An unknown woman, without announcent, had barged in; who knows how long she had been hiding behind that screen.
That is a great disrespect.
Not to ntion the woman’s unidentified status.
Even if she were the Prince’s future Princess, such behavior would warrant a beating and confinent.
Following the customs of Daliang Country that she rembered, Su Yan perford a polite gesture first.
"Here to deliver herbal soup"
Then she stepped forward, completely ignoring the others.
She walked straight to Yu Wenxu.
Placing the herbal soup she carried on the table.
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