"I'm not going," Su Wan'er flatly refused. Si Junlin was simply being unreasonable. What did he mean by saying she refused to treat him? Could it be that this king of the country would die if she didn't go?
"Your Majesty, the Emperor said that if you don't go, he will issue an imperial edict to take back General Gu's military seal," Fang Xi thought he really couldn't persuade her to go back, so he said what Si Junlin had already instructed.
"What?!" Su Wan'er felt as if something had exploded in her mind. The military seal? That was the lifeblood that had been in the hands of the Su family for decades. How dare Si Junlin touch it? This was a matter of national stability and could not be taken lightly!
"Your Majesty, please go back with this servant. You don't know. The Emperor is so angry that he almost tore off the roof of the Yangxin Hall. If you don't go back and take a look, we'll all suffer," Fang Xi really knelt down and kowtowed to her. It seemed that he was really scared.
"Get out of the way!" Su Wan'er turned her horse around.
"Huh?" Fang Xi was confused. To avoid being trampled by the horse, he quickly got out of the way.
"Didn't you ask me to go to the Yangxin Hall? Get out of the way," Su Wan'er said impatiently.
After the secret agent made way, she told Qingcao to wait for her there and galloped away alone.
She couldn't afford to delay. She had already calculated that if she didn't waste time during the day and rode for a few more hours at night and stayed in a convenient inn, she could arrive in the Southern Border in three days. But it was almost noon today. Si Junlin was really a troublemaker.
"Lin'er, why are you doing this? It's mother's fault. It's all mother's fault, okay?" Before Su Wan'er entered the room, she heard the Empress Dowager seemingly giving in and persuading Si Junlin to get treated inside.
What on earth was going on? Su Wan'er stopped the person who was about to announce her arrival and walked in directly. She wasn't the Queen anymore, so she didn't have to abide by such etiquette.
As soon as she entered, she saw this scene: There seemed to be a wound on Si Junlin's left shoulder as if it had been stabbed by a sharp weapon. Blood was still oozing out, and he hadn't even changed his clothes. The blood had stained half of his sleeve red. A group of crying concubines were gathered around the bed, and a bunch of imperial doctors were kneeling on the ground, making everyone feel panicked.
He was really asking for trouble.
Su Wan'er said in a bad mood, "What is the Emperor doing? At this critical moment when the Jin Kingdom is in danger, he collapses himself first?"
"Your Majesty, you're here. Hurry, hurry and apply medicine to him," the Empress Dowager completely changed her overbearing attitude in the morning. Now she seemed to be flattering Su Wan'er.
Su Wan'er had never seen her look so kind before, so she naturally got goosebumps all over.
"Cough, this... this subject doesn't know anything about medicine. The Empress Dowager thinks too highly of me. Come, imperial doctor, go and apply medicine to the Emperor," Su Wan'er randomly grabbed an imperial doctor kneeling on the ground.
"Yes," the imperial doctor scrambled up in a hurry. Su Wan'er thought he looked so old and slow. How unlucky that it was such a slow - moving old man.
"I won't get treated. Let me die here today," Si Junlin, who originally looked extremely weak and seriously injured, actually had so much strength at this moment. He threw the imperial doctor who had finally reached his side and was about to open the medicine box far away.
Su Wan'er watched the imperial doctor roll on the ground and suddenly laughed.
It was ridiculous. What was this all about? Suicide?
"Lin'er, you're killing me," the Empress Dowager shed tears. "I might as well follow the late Emperor now. Otherwise, if you, this unfilial son, do something today, I'll have no face to see him underground."
The Empress Dowager cried more and more painfully. None of the concubines were easy - going people. Now they naturally knew it was a good opportunity to show off, so they cried more miserably than one another. Su Wan'er pinched the bridge of her nose and impatiently scanned them. People who didn't know might think Si Junlin was already dead. This scene was just like a mourning.
"Your Majesty, please be magnanimous and save the Emperor," suddenly a concubine came up and pulled her to plead.
Then they all knelt down and pleaded with her. This scene was so different from when they all agreed to depose the Queen. Su Wan'er finally saw what it meant to say different things to different people.
"Alright, alright. Empress Dowager, please allow me to talk to the Emperor alone. Could you please all go out?" These people were all up to no good. They were watching the fun when the Queen was deposed, but now they were all flattering her.
"Get out, all of you," Si Junlin immediately got excited when he heard what Su Wan'er said. He gave an order and drove everyone out.
Su Wan'er thought he was like an unreasonable and rebellious teenager now. But he had been the Emperor for several years. He shouldn't be so immature.
"What's this all about, Your Majesty?" Su Wan'er started to get straight to the point after everyone left. She didn't want to waste any time.
"Wan'er, you can see that I'm injured. Without you, I'll die," Si Junlin really took advantage of the situation and seemed to be throwing caution to the wind. He really acted like a child.
"Really? Then it must be my sin," Su Wan'er said with disdain on her face.
"Wan'er, will you stay? If you stay, I... I will definitely..."
"Si Junlin!" Su Wan'er interrupted him sharply.
"I'm no longer the Queen you casually married! And I have the imperial edict to depose the Queen and the permit to leave the palace! Do you think you can stop me now?"
"The deposed Queen can be reinstalled. You can see that mother will never ignore my life because of you," Si Junlin returned to his weak and seriously - injured look just now. He seemed so pitiful: "I know you've always thought I neglected our wedding. As long as you're willing, I'll immediately ask the Ministry of Rites to prepare the most grand ceremony to reinstall you as the Queen. I'll never let you down again."
"Enough. A great war is imminent. Si Junlin, at least in my eyes, you've always been a wise king. Don't let me down."
Su Wan'er sighed, turned him around, then roughly rolled up his sleeve and bandaged the wound.
"Wan'er," Si Junlin hugged her tightly while her hands were behind his back wrapping the bandage. "Are you really willing to leave me? I won't let you go."
"Let go," Su Wan'er warned him.
"I won't let go. Stay with me," Si Junlin pleaded in her ear.
"Ah -" Su Wan'er stabbed him hard right on the wound.
Just now when she was bandaging the wound, she found that it wasn't deep at all. It just stabbed a part that was most likely to bleed. In fact, it didn't harm the inside at all. It was obviously a deliberately - made wound with some skill.
"Do you dare to leave? If you walk out of this door today, I'll immediately issue an imperial edict to take back Gu Jingtian's military seal, dismiss him from his official post, and exile him to the border!" Si Junlin was in pain and anxious. He seemed to be roaring.
"Si Junlin, do you know what you're doing? You're threatening your mother with your own life, and now you're threatening me with Brother Jingtian?"