The Rescue Of The Tragic Villain Is In Progress!

A2 C77 - Entering the Tiger's Den

Emperor Yan is old, but not stupid. The silver taels on the list is clearly written, and the people from Prince Jin's faction donated the least. One is more outrageous than the other. First is Xiao Da, who only donated five hundred, and then Prince Jin who is even more absurd, not giving up even just a single cent!

With a flick of his sleeves, Emperor Yan swiped all the papers on the imperial table, his chest heaved with anger, and he pointed at the ministers and said: "Answer me! Who do you think am I for all of you to do this treacherous thing! Growing snakes all day long, are you really thinking for the benefit of Dayan?!"

Everyone quickly knelt down to plead guilty, not even daring to lift their heads up: "Your Majesty, calm down—!"

Prince Jin has never fallen so hard in the court, half ashamed and half remorseful. He wanted to make up from the situation, he hurriedly stepped forward on his knees and said: "Father, all mistakes are the fault of this son, please, don't be angry. It's all because of my bad managing, and the time to raise money is not enough. It took me a long time, and so I failed to hand in the donation, which led to such a misunderstanding."

Emperor Yan used to think that Prince Jin was polite and filial, but has a narrow vision for the future. Now, looking at it now, it is more than his narrow vision. It is clearly something else. His tone shows an inevitable disappointment: "Answer me honestly! Are you deliberately not wanting to pay, or it really took a long time to raise money? I don't need your sweet talks in front of me!"

Prince Jin felt a blow to his head as he listened, and his face turned deathly pale: "This son deserves punishment. It is really my negligence! I'll immediately make up for the silver taels, please I ask Father Emperor to calm down, please calm down–!"

Emperor Yan closed his eyes and looked away, as if he didn't want to pay any more attention to him: "The Crown Prince's errand is well done. I used to think you were impulsive and reckless, but today, you have prove yourself to me, you went beyond from my expectation. I'm very please with that."

The Crown Prince cupped his hands, and said without emotion: "Thank you, Father Emperor, for your praise.”

Emperor Yan’s spirit was weak, and he had only barely managed to get up early this morning. When he saw that the ministers had finished playing ignorance and silently retreated, he also stood up but still staggered not long while. Fortunately he was supported by the old eunuch beside him: "Your Majesty, be careful!"

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"Your Majesty, it's time to administer acupuncture."

The imperial doctor tried to lift his arms, but Emperor Yan instead grab the doctor's wrist. His eyes were angry and suspicious: "You are stabbing by skin every single day, yet nothing works. Why is my illness not getting better, but it just continuous to worsen? Could it be that you want to harm me? You want to kill me?!"

This kind of blame is really life threatening. The imperial doctor was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, not even caring about the overturning of the medicine box: "I don't dare! I don't dare! An evil spirit entered His Majesty's body, ordinary medicine won't help it!"

Diseases that the Emperial Hospital cannot cure are usually dumped to the Taoist monks and blame it to 'evil spirits'. In short, those Taoist monks will surely die as a escape plan for the imperial doctors. Emperor Yan suffered from a sudden and serious illness, coupled with nightmares every night. He was already in a state of exhaustion and his vitality is slowly diminishing, no matter how much treatment he had, it would be in vain.   

Emperor Yan was startled when he heard the words, subconsciously let go of the imperial doctor's wrist, and muttered to himself: "An evil spirit has entered my body? An evil spirit has entered my body..."