Chapter 126: Beautiful Bride

"Miss, Princess Liang, Young Master Yuan has arrived."

"Come in quickly!" Ji Yingying turned to the Emperor: "Your Majesty, let's wait a little while, I want to take a look at that man's legs."

"Go!" The Emperor waved his hand, but didn't move.

Everyone was waiting for her, and Ji Yingying felt a little bad, so she exchanged some snacks from the department store: "Your Majesty, Minister Gong, please eat first. These are my favorite foods, especially this pig's trotter."

The emperor looked at the packaging with great interest.

What kind of good stuff is this?

Before I could even ask, Ji Yingying had already started taking my pulse and examining my legs.

After Young Master Yuan and the Liang family members who escorted Liang Kang entered, they bowed to the Emperor and dared not utter a single word, standing trembling to the side.

Liang Kang answered whatever Ji Yingying asked, without daring to lift his head.

"His leg is broken and not set properly. I can perform surgery to set it, but not now. His health is too poor, and he needs to rest. Also, you need to prepare some things."

Ji Yingying took out a pen and wrote a recipe for them, and also wrote down what they needed to prepare.

"Take this prescription for ten days. After ten days, I will go to perform the surgery on him. Also, make sure he gets plenty of sunshine every day and doesn't stay lying in the house all the time."

The Liang family immediately agreed and even knelt down to thank Ji Yingying for saving their lives.

"Go back, I'm busy."

After the Liang family carried the person back, the Emperor suddenly said, "Minister Ji, your medical skills are so superb, could you please take a look at me?"

Ji Yingying immediately frowned: [Heh, even when the shit comes, you have to smell it to see if it smells good or bad, right?]

The Emperor immediately felt wronged... It wasn't that he didn't want to pay for the consultation, and besides, he was practically her godfather, so why did he have to say that to her?

"Stretch out your hand."

The emperor gave a haughty snort and stretched out his hand.

Oh wow~ she's quite the tsundere.

This put the Emperor in an awkward position. What was he supposed to do with this little rascal? Fortunately, Ji Cailiang spoke up and said, "Watch your son carefully and don't make any jokes."

"Okay, Father~" The emperor's sweet voice cheered him up a bit.

"His Majesty's pulse is fine, and his health is fine too. He should exercise more in the future and not sit all day long, as this can easily cause a herniated disc. Otherwise, he should be able to live to be seventy or eighty years old."

[Unless someone kills him, aside from this, his health is just some old-age ailments, nothing serious. However, if he doesn't exercise, things might really get complicated, since people who overuse their brains are prone to dementia.]

What is dementia?

Everyone was puzzled, but no one asked.

Now that the Emperor was in good health, the group prepared to go to the estate, and the Emperor went along as well.

[Why does it feel like I've got a little tagalong following me around?]

[Haha, you're absolutely right! Everyone's so reserved now that he's here. Not only are they all struggling to get the job done, but they also have to protect him.]

[It's good that you know, let's not say it out loud. Look at our old man, he's become cautious again, oh my, so pitiful. It's a pity, my medical skills aren't good enough to figure out what's wrong with him. I clearly see some signs of kidney deficiency, but after taking his pulse, I don't think so.]

[Host, wanna join the fun?]

[Tell me, what big news is there this time?] Ji Yingying yawned and ate a bag of fries.

Yesterday, the Emperor went to the Empress's palace but was refused her offer of sexual favor.

Oh wow~ who rejected whom?

[Of course, the Empress refused the Emperor's request, saying that he should visit the inner palace more often, spread his favors evenly, and have more children. After saying this, she even chased the person out. Helpless, the Emperor had no choice but to return to his study to review memorials. Now, there's no more jealousy or rivalry in the palace; everyone is incredibly busy.]

[No way, even the Emperor can be rejected...] Ji Yingying was about to continue watching the drama unfold when her father pinched her hand, making her wonder if there was something wrong with his hand.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"Eat your food properly, don't let your mind wander like that, sit up straight."

Ji Yingying couldn't refute it, so she could only agree.

[Menopause has arrived! I never imagined my dad, who's only thirty-seven or thirty-eight, would start going through menopause already. What am I going to do?!]

"Ahem~" Everyone coughed lightly, knowing what menopause meant.

However, compared to this, the gossip about the emperor being refused the emperor's favor in bed is even more tantalizing. If the emperor weren't here, they would have definitely finished gossiping about it.

If even a king can be rejected by his wife, then it seems that it's not such a big deal for ministers to be rejected as well.

"Want some more?" Xiangxiang asked again, still a little annoyed at being interrupted earlier.

[Eat, and tell me what those palace concubines were doing?]

Of course, some play mahjong, some play cards; today they win a set of jewelry, tomorrow they lose a set of clothes. They play every game they can get their hands on. And some even play games that you don't have, losing so much they're almost broke.

Goodness... once their badminton uniforms are out, they'll be even busier. Those delicate beauties, playing badminton... do you think I should design some cheongsams and evening gowns for them, to make them all glamorous? I really want to see these beauties!

【If you don't mind the effort, you can design it yourself. Besides, the Emperor's concubines are indeed beautiful.】

[She must be a beautiful woman to be a concubine, what a pity, her husband doesn't cherish her!]

"Yingying~" the emperor called out, feeling both embarrassed and angry. He felt like he had been cuckolded, yet also like he hadn't. In short, his head felt half-cool and half-warm, and he was in a bad mood.

"I'm here..."

What is this ancestor up to now?

What is this?

"This is dried sweet potato. Try it. It's sweet, soft, and delicious."

I opened it and tried a piece, and I have to say, it was really delicious.

"We can make it too?"

"Hmm, it should be possible, but the resulting product won't be quite the same. Here's the ingredient list, you guys take a look."

I can't figure it out anyway.

Minister Gong was particularly interested and looked through each bag of snacks. They all had ingredient lists, some simple and some complicated.

Then, he asked a lot of questions, and kept asking Ji Yingying. At first, Ji Yingying would answer seriously, but later she didn't want to answer at all.

The question is: who would willingly keep answering the same question, and even try to answer it in different ways?

Fortunately, they arrived at the village. Ji Yingying quickly went to check the land and found a suitable plot for planting sweet potatoes. She then unintentionally discovered another patch of red soil.

This land has been fenced off, and it's said to be an ominous place where nothing that's planted there can survive.

[With such a high acidity and alkalinity, it's impossible to grow anything here. However, it could be converted into terraced fields or used to grow tea, sugarcane, etc. This is mountainous land, and there's only such a small plot. We could plant some citrus, bamboo, etc.]