EBE Chapter 232 You can go ahead
Chapter 232 You can go ahead
Negligence?
Zhou Chang has almost neglected sleep and food since he took on this task. However, he had just received the prescription yesterday and had not yet left his house when he got these four words.
The anger suddenly rose up.
"Your Highness Prince Yi, please accept the order." After Yuan Shao finished reading the order, he stood on the spot with an arrogant look on his face.
"Grand Secretary of the Imperial Household?" Zhou Chang felt sick in his heart and refused to accept such an imperial decree. At the same time, Prince Yi's memory came to his mind, so he asked, "Are you the son of Yuan Chuan, the Grand Secretary of the Imperial Household?"
Although Prince Yi Fengming did not participate in political affairs in the past, he still had some impression of some people and things.
"The Imperial Household Order is my father," Yuan Shao admitted, and urged, "Your Highness Prince Yi, please accept the order."
"Where is the imperial edict?" Faced with Yuan Shao's arrogant attitude, Zhou Chang was also disdainful.
Yuan Shao raised his eyelids and said, "It was a verbal order from His Majesty, there is no explicit decree."
"Why are you clamoring without a clear order?" Zhou Chang was unwilling to accept such an imperial decree and kept delaying.
"Your Majesty's oral order is also the imperial edict. Your Highness Prince Yi, please accept it." Yuan Shao stood with his hands behind his back, not afraid of Prince Yi's attitude.
"In the past, the eunuchs in the palace were the ones who delivered the imperial eunuchs. Why did you get sent here today?" Zhou Chang sneered. His father was the Imperial Household Director, and his son became the Junior Secretary of the Imperial Household. He really inherited his father's business. "The Imperial Household Officials are now doing the work of the eunuchs in the palace?"
The Yuan family is indeed a noble family. Even if Yuan Shao looked down on Prince Yi, he would not confront him directly. He held his breath and said, "Your Highness Prince Yi, please accept the order. I have things to do and cannot delay."
"Your Majesty, you said that I was negligent and idle? I dare not accept such an imperial edict." Zhou Chang's whole body was cold, but his chest was filled with burning anger.
"Hmph, if His Royal Highness Prince Yi is unwilling to accept the order, then I will go back and report truthfully." Yuan Shao did not make things difficult for himself.
"Your Highness..." The skinny monkey gently pulled Zhou Chang's sleeve and reminded him in a low voice, "He is not Li Zhi. You must not do the same as last time."
"Hey, why is the prince standing here?" Zhong Yu had returned to the palace at some point and happened to see this scene. He complained to the thin monkey, "Monkey, the prince has not looked well these past few days and has been unable to sleep or eat. Why is he still standing at the gate in the cold wind?"
The thin monkey curled his lips and said, "Mr. Zhong, it's not that I am not caring enough and let the prince stand at the door to listen. It's clearly this Lord Yuan who came to convey the emperor's oral instructions, so the prince had to listen at the door."
"Oh? Your Majesty's oral order?" Zhong Yu turned his head with a strange look on his face. "If it is Your Majesty's oral order, where is the eunuch? Our court has always been afraid that the oral order may be misdelivered. There must be more than two people present to convey the oral order, and one of them must be the eunuch who is by Your Majesty's side and heard it in person. He should also be the one to write it down for the record."
Zhou Chang's eyes lit up. She had a feeling that something was wrong just now, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Could it be that this guy in front of her was faking an imperial decree to deliberately disgust her?
Yuan Shao did not answer directly, but said loudly: "Your Highness Prince Yi, if you knew what the ministers were talking about at the court this morning, you would not embarrass me. People die every day in Xicheng, but Your Highness Prince Yi is just lying in his house enjoying his leisure time, withholding the money for relief from the court..."
He was halfway through his words when he seemed to have thought of something and shut up.
"Why don't you continue?" Zhou Chang had already anticipated that those who were avoiding the epidemic as much as possible would have the leisure to say unpleasant things.
She had been so worried and anxious these days that her mind had been slow to work. Only now did she remember that Yuan Chuan was a member of Prince Duan's faction. If her father was like this, her son must be the same too.
"Ahem..." Yuan Shao cupped his hands again, "Your Highness Prince Yi, I just made a slip of the tongue, but those words were all discussed by the court officials, not from your mouth. I was just following orders. Now people in East City and South City have begun to report epidemics..."
"People in East City and South City have also started to get sick?" Zhou Chang looked at Huang Yuanpan who was still standing aside.
Huang Yuanpan's cold sweat that had just stopped broke out again: "Your Highness Prince Yi, the other three cities are not under my jurisdiction, and I haven't been able to take care of them these days."
Yuan Shao could see Zhou Chang panicking, and smiled contemptuously, as if he would not be infected: "Your Highness Prince Yi, after all, human lives are at stake, and the epidemic is a serious matter. I hope Your Highness Prince Yi will fulfill his duties and not..."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Zhou Chang was furious, with nowhere to vent his anger. "If you can do it, go ahead."
Yuan Shao was sent here by Prince Duan on short notice. He had no intention of showing off in front of Prince Yi, but after listening to the conversation between Prince Duan and his father before coming, he couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous towards Prince Yi.
As for the emperor's oral instructions, that was relayed by Prince Duan, and he didn't hear it himself. Zhong Yu also pointed out a loophole, so he didn't intend to argue about it anymore. He bowed slightly and said, "Your Highness Prince Yi, since I have conveyed it clearly, I will go back and report."
"Get lost," Zhou Chang didn't know why he couldn't suppress his anger today. "If you dare to step into the epidemic area, I will kill you bastards."
Zhong Yu pulled him aside and bowed to Yuan Shao: "Sir, since His Majesty's order has been passed on, please go back and report. My prince usually doesn't like to listen to other people's gossip, so I hope you can forgive me."
Yuan Shao said no more, threw his cloak around, and left angrily.
Although Zhou Chang said this, he didn't feel better at all, and even felt dizzy.
"Your Highness, why are you standing here in such a cold weather?" Zhong Yu looked at Zhou Chang's face. "Your Highness has looked worse these days. My medical skills are limited. Huang Yuanpan is here. Why don't you check your pulse?"
"No need, Huang Yuanpan, please go back now. Remember, no matter what, the porridge and medicine in the blockaded area can't be stopped." Zhou Chang refused and sent Huang Yuanpan away.
Judge Huang was eager to leave, so he bowed and stepped back: "Yes, I will take my leave."
Zhou Chang had to go to the epidemic area halfway to pick up Zhong Yu. Now that Zhong Yu had returned home first, she felt exhausted, so she turned back and asked Zhong Yu, "It's good that Mr. Zhong is back, but have the herbs arrived yet?"
Zhong Yu replied, "Yes, I have supervised the pestilence hospital to sign for the medicinal materials sent by Manager Fu."
"Sir, what should we do? The prescription is gone. If we delay any further, more people will die." Zhou Chang was in a state of panic, and this was the only life-saving straw that Zhong Yushi could grasp.
Zhong Yu still had a frown on his face, but what he said was out of character: "Don't panic, Your Majesty. I just came back from the plague hospital and asked the doctors at two clinics I know. They are both helpless at the moment, but..."
"But what..." Zhou Chang said as he was about to step onto the stone steps of the front hall.
Zhong Yu looked hesitant, but still said: "I just heard a piece of news from the clinic on the next street. Maybe we can give it a try."
Zhou Chang stopped and turned around: "What is it?"