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The Emperor's fingers holding the memorandum turned white.
Eunuch Wei looked at Gu Jinyu, then at the Emperor, shaking his head and sighing.
Gu Jiao didn't keep any blueprints in her hands. She just drew it on the ground at the beginning and then it was copied by a carpenter—
It was precisely due to this that Gu Jinyu had the confidence and daring to insist that the bellows was her invention.
The Emperor really didn't have any evidence. He could only swallow this breath and say, "Very well, Zhen believes you. You may rise."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Gu Jinyu stood up slowly.
The Emperor said, "You’re already at the age to discuss your marriage. The Empress and Imperial Consort Zhuang have found some outstanding men of this dynasty for you. Come and have a look."
Gu Jinyu was stunned at first, then her heart was filled with joy. She quickly stepped forward and responded, "Yes!"
She walked over to the Emperor's desk and reached for the portrait that the Emperor indicated to her with his eyes.
She swore she hadn’t touched anything else, but the jade seal on the table suddenly fell off.
As it turned out, the portrait that Gu Jinyu had reached for was being pressed by the jade seal, but the jade seal was being covered by another portrait.
The imperial jade seal hit the floor and its corner cracked!
Gu Jinyu's face blanched!
However, the Emperor was extremely calm. He looked at the broken jade seal on the ground and said lightly, "Yo, princess, this is the state’s imperial jade seal, and you broke it."
"Your Majesty... No... This female subject didn't... This female subject didn't drop it!" Gu Jinyu was in an extreme panic.
The Emperor grunted coldly, "If it wasn't you, could it be Zhen? Zhen didn't even lift my hand just now, and everyone else in the room saw it."
Gu Jinyu looked at the Emperor in disbelief, "Your Majesty…"
The Emperor drank a sip of tea in a light mood, "Deliberately destroying the imperial jade seal is a capital crime. I will order someone to investigate whether you did it intentionally or not. Step down and reflect on yourself first. Somebody! Put the princess in the prison of the Ministry of Justice!"
Gu Jinyu almost lost her voice from shouting, "Your Majesty— Your Majesty— Your Majesty—"
Gu Jinyu was dragged out by the imperial guards, cutting a sorry figure.
Eunuch Wei gave Gu Jinyu a sympathetic look. You want to fight with His Majesty? You’re still too green, yo.
At long last, the Emperor gave vent to the pent-up frustrations in the bottom of his heart a bit. He asked people to put away the imperial jade seal broken by Qin Chuyu and said to Eunuch Wei, "If Marquis Ding'an comes to plead for his adoptive daughter later, tell him to go to his eldest daughter and beg her to help.”
The corner of Eunuch Wei's mouth twitched, "...yes."
It was as the Emperor expected. Marquis Gu really entered the palace to plead in front of the Emperor immediately after learning the news.
Eunuch Wei kept him out of the imperial study. Of course, he couldn't directly convey His Majesty's words as is, for it would be easy to bring hatred to His majesty and the little physician that way.
As the chief eunuch who had experienced and made it out of the bloody harem, Eunuch Wei had his own set of verbal skills.
After polishing his sentences a little in his mind, he said, "His Majesty hasn't slept a wink all night as he was very concerned about what happened in the yamen of the Ministry of Works, and has just taken a rest. The Commandery Princess has made a big mistake and harmed so many innocent craftsmen. His Majesty is inevitably angry; even if Lord Marquis sees His Majesty, it is of no use. Lord Marquis's eldest daughter has done a great job in treating the injured. If Lord Marquis really wants to save the princess, he might as well ask his eldest daughter for help. If she comes forward, I think His Majesty will be willing to give her this grace."
That girl was just a little medicine girl. What kind of injured person could she treat?
She simply basked in the light of the Miraculous Hands Hall, nothing more!
Despite the disparaging thoughts in his mind, his steps were nonstop.
He hurried to Miraculous Hands Hall as fast as he could.
It was still quite early at the moment. Gu Jiao had just changed the medicine for the victim with black cloth strip. After the infusion, she went to other rooms to check the condition of the six critically ill patients.
Everything was fine.
She went back to her small courtyard.
Classes in the women’s academy started again.
The female student named Li Wanwan started practicing her guqin in the neighboring garden again.
Fortunately, Gu Jiao's ears were not so tortured as before.
Gu Jiao’s eyes were narrowed as she lay on the rattan chair in the yard, listening to Li Wanwan’s playing.
In the midst of listening, aggressive knocks sounded from the courtyard gate.
"Open the door!"
It was Marquis Gu.
Li Wanwan was startled and the music stopped abruptly.
"Keep playing." Gu Jiao said.
The owner of the guqin didn't ask what the matter was, and she seemed to trust Gu Jiao so much that she really continued to play the guqin.
The sound of her playing was very beautiful, which could calm people's inner restlessness.
However, Marquis Gu outside the gate had no time to appreciate the sound of the guqin. The gate was bolted from the inside. That girl was in the yard, but she just wouldn’t respond even after banging on the gate for a long time.
The girl must be doing this on purpose!
Marquis Gu was furious, "I know you're in there! Get out of here right now! Jinyu has been arrested! Why don’t you hurry and save her!?"
Gu Jiao scoffed and put one hand behind her head.
Gu Jinyu was arrested, but what was that got to do with her?
Marquis Gu was not discouraged, "Jinyu didn't make a mistake on purpose! She didn't mean an accident to happen! She also wants to improve the bellows for the good of the imperial court! She never thought there would be such a tragic accident! You’re her elder sister! You can't let her get imprisoned!”
Yo, she was imprisoned?
Gu Jiao raised her eyebrow.
Marquis Gu lost his reason as soon as he heard of Gu Jinyu’s arrest. He forgot to ask Gu Jinyu what charges she was arrested for, and still thought that His Majesty was still blaming Gu Jinyu for the accident.
Marquis Gu growled, "She's your sister! Do you have any conscience! Come with me to the palace to meet His Majesty! Plead with His Majesty to grant you the grace to pardon your sister!"
Gu Jiao: Hehehe!
Marquis Gu was enraged, "You, you, you... You... If you don't come out now, I'll shut down this medical hall! I’ll see how you can still be——"
Before he could finish his words, the gate creaked open.
A slender hand poked out of the gate, and the smooth and white wrist of the hand was as delicate as a jade.
The flawless wrist lifted gently while the white hand was grabbing on Marquis Gu's lapel.
Marquis Gu was dragged into the yard before he could even react.
"You, you, you... You stinky girl, what do you plan to do?" Marquis Gu's bottom rubbed mercilessly on the ground.
Gu Jiao indifferently dragged him into the woodshed like a sack without saying anything.
She closed the door of the woodshed.
On the other side of the courtyard, the guqin continued to play melodiously.
At the same time, there was an unspeakable and miserable shriek coming from the woodshed.
"Ah——"
"Ah——"
"Ah——"
Peng, peng, peng!
Dong, dong, dong!
Ka, ka, ka, ka!
"Don't hit my face——"
"Ah-——"
The sound of the guqin was melodious and soul-stirring, and when the last note was played, someone in the woodshed also finished her last punch.
Gu Jiao opened the door and went out of the woodshed feeling refreshed.
The sunlight came in and shone on Marquis Gu's bruised pig's head. Like a puppet with broken strings, he sat against the wall soullessly, slumping on the floor.
Marquis Gu felt wronged, "Wu... I said, don’t hit my face..."
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