I insist

Chapter 151: Someone's Backing Me Up

She didn't know what had happened, but she could only bite the bullet and walk up to Lin Yecheng.

Lin Yecheng slammed his hand heavily on the wooden table, causing the tea in the teacup to splash out and leave some water stains on the table.

Song Miqiu's shoulders trembled with fright. She looked up at Lin Yecheng, then resignedly closed her eyes. She was doomed…

She could tell that Lin Yecheng was quite angry. Judging from the imperial physician's commotion and Lin Yecheng's expression, she guessed it must be related to her going out for her lunch break.

Could it be that we've been discovered?

Song Miqiu was surprised to find that Lin Yecheng's face was ashen and his eyes were wide open as he stared at her.

"Song Miqiu! Do you know that in this palace, even if you are a royal physician, even if you are on your afternoon nap, you cannot run around!" Lin Yecheng scolded angrily.

Upon hearing this, Song Miqiu immediately breathed a sigh of relief; it was indeed the problem.

She didn't think she had done anything wrong. Seeing that Lin Yecheng still looked at her as if she was in the wrong, she immediately explained, "I just went out for a walk. Besides, the palace doesn't stipulate that you can only stay in the Imperial Hospital for lunch break and can't go out for a walk, right?"

"You!" Lin Yecheng's beard bristled with anger as he slammed his fist on the table again. "So you're saying I wronged you, is that it?"

"According to what you're saying, does that mean these imperial physicians can just wander around the palace at will and we can't do anything about it because they're on their lunch break and have to come back at the designated time?"

At this point, Lin Yecheng laughed in exasperation. He put his hands on his hips, and he was half a head taller than Song Miqiu. "You said you were free during lunch break, but you didn't come back on time either!"

"You can go out and see what time it is!"

Seeing the gloating looks on the faces of the imperial physicians around him, Song Miqiu finally understood.

Right now, she has Consort Lin backing her up, and she previously made a name for herself in the Yan family, causing Lin Yecheng to lose face. At the same time, some of the imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital have also begun to dislike her.

She made another mistake today by not returning before her lunch break, which became the trigger for the whole thing.

Fortunately, the forestry department went with the flow, dealing with her directly in front of many people, which also served as a warning to others, deterring the people of the Imperial Hospital, and further securing his position as the head of the hospital.

Thinking about it, Song Miqiu sneered.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Yecheng asked, frowning.

Song Miqiu clasped her hands and bowed, her face indifferent, and said coldly, "If Dr. Lin is saying that I ignored the lunch break, I admit that mistake, but I don't admit anything else."

"I finished my tasks for the Imperial Medical Academy this morning long ago, so why can't I go out for a lunch break? They don't go out because they'll rest for a while and then finish the tasks they didn't complete this morning!"

Song Miqiu coldly glanced at the group of people, exchanging a quick look with each of them before looking away, and then turned her gaze back to Lin Yecheng.

"Everyone in the Imperial Medical Academy does almost the same thing every day. They haven't even finished their tasks in one morning. What else could it be but slacking off?"

Song Miqiu was slightly out of breath as she spoke. After a moment of pause, she continued to question, "Then may I ask the head of the academy, since you intend to punish me, why not also single them out and punish them together?"

Lin Yecheng's face was extremely grim. He remembered the people Song Miqiu mentioned, but they were usually his leaders and listened to him the most, never going against his orders.

If he catches them and punishes them all, it will discourage them and that wouldn't be good.

At the same time, Lin Yecheng felt that Song Miqiu was provoking him!

"Song Miqiu, don't think that just because Consort Lin is backing you up, you can go against me at every turn!" Lin Yecheng said in a cold voice, glaring at the person in front of him with gritted teeth, he was extremely disgusted with Song Miqiu.

He looked around, his gaze finally landing on the rolled-up whip on the wooden table behind him. He rubbed his teeth, grabbed the whip, and swung it forcefully on the ground.

The whip struck the ground with great force, making a loud sound that forced the imperial physicians who were close to the whip to stagger backward.

The Imperial Medical Academy rarely uses whips, so it seems that Song Miqiu has really angered Lin Yecheng this time.

The imperial physicians looked at Song Miqiu with some sympathy. Everyone in the Imperial Hospital knew not to easily anger Lin Yecheng, but Song Miqiu just didn't learn her lesson.

The person who had been speaking quietly with Song Miqiu at the door saw this and nervously clutched the hem of his clothes.

The whip was clearly designed to tear flesh when it struck someone, not to mention that Song Miqiu was old and couldn't withstand any such treatment.

"Hold on!"

A sharp sound rang out, and Lin Yecheng raised his arm, turning his head to look at the sound.

The chief eunuch slowly walked in. He stood in front of everyone, his gaze sweeping over Song Miqiu and the others, before finally settling on Lin Yecheng's provincial branch.

"You must not touch this person."

Lin Yecheng frowned. He was currently reprimanding Song Miqiu. If he didn't teach Song Miqiu a lesson by now, how could he expect to gain the respect of the people in the future?

He lowered his hand, clenched the whip into a fist, and bowed to the head eunuch, "I wonder if you intend to protect her?"

"Protect?" The head eunuch chuckled. His voice was high-pitched and effeminate; if one didn't see his face, one would definitely mistake him for a woman.

The head eunuch tossed the whisk to his elbow, raised his face slightly, glanced at Song Miqiu, and said slowly, "The Emperor wants to see her. If you don't want me to take this woman away, you can go and talk to the Emperor yourself!"

emperor?

Song Miqiu suddenly looked up and met the head eunuch's gaze. Startled, she quickly looked down at her embroidered shoes.

Her memory of the Emperor was still from when he thought she had harmed Consort Lin's unborn child and was so angry that he wanted to harm her.

She's taking good care of the baby in Consort Lin's belly, so why is he looking for her again?

"This..." Lin Yecheng looked troubled, but in the end he let the man go. He glared at Song Miqiu fiercely and said sternly, "Consider yourself lucky today!"

The head eunuch looked at Song Miqiu, turning his head slightly, which Song Miqiu noticed.

"Aren't you coming with me right now?"

The head eunuch noticed the conflict between Lin Yecheng and Song Miqiu, and realized that his arrival was timely. He glanced at the whip in Lin Yecheng's hand and looked around at the surroundings, and roughly guessed that he had ruined Lin Yecheng's plans.

He chuckled, glanced at Song Miqiu, snorted coldly, turned around, raised his chin, and strode away.

Upon hearing what the head eunuch said, Song Miqiu's eyes lit up instantly. She nodded vigorously like a chick pecking at rice and quickly followed behind the head eunuch.

As Song Miqiu passed by Lin Yecheng, she glanced at him with amusement.

In Lin Yecheng's eyes, the other party arrogantly passed by him, and he was so angry that he wanted to curse a few words, but because the chief eunuch was there, he could only hold back.