Chapter 222 A Grand Gift
People in Beijing felt that a very important person must have come to today's Spring Festival Gala.
The usually bustling Chunbuwan restaurant is now closed for the day.
Meanwhile, the charming and eloquent manager of the teahouse, Chun Buwan, stood respectfully at the entrance with her tea servants, as if waiting for someone.
Soon, the female imperial guards, whom everyone had only heard of but never seen before, appeared in an orderly fashion on the street in front of Chunbuwan Gate.
Each of them had a calm expression, with their left hand on the scabbard and their right hand gripping the hilt of their swords. Anyone could tell that if anyone with ill intentions approached, these female imperial guards would immediately decapitate that person.
Although the Spring Festival Gala has been thoroughly protected, it has not caused much disturbance to the people.
The people are only temporarily not allowed to come to Chunbuwan, but they can watch from a distance.
Almost all the people watched all this quietly from a distance.
This kind of spectacle...it must mean that a very distinguished person has come to Chunbuwan.
Who could it be?
Your Majesty? Impossible! Your Majesty personally led the expedition. Although some say Your Majesty has already returned to the capital, he is still on his way and it will take at least ten days to return.
If it's not His Majesty, then who could it be?
Chun doesn't have a powerful backer. Even if princes or nobles come, at most the private rooms on the second or third floor will be cleared out, while the lobby on the first floor remains open to ordinary people.
The scale of things today...
Soon, everyone's doubts were resolved.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, two ebony and gold-inlaid carriages slowly came to a stop in front of Chun Buwan's house.
The first carriage was empty, but the person who got off the second carriage gave everyone a shock.
A woman appeared before everyone, dressed in a reed-colored bamboo-patterned narrow-sleeved stand-up collar official robe, her hair tied up with a jade crown.
Everyone quickly knelt down.
Princess Tianyuan, Ye Yunshu!
Since this legitimate princess revealed her identity, she has almost never appeared in front of everyone, spending almost every day in the Surveillance Department.
Now, suddenly appearing like this in the Spring Festival Gala...
Could it be that there's someone this princess wants to meet on Spring Festival Gala?
The owner of Chunbuwan respectfully led his men to greet Ye Yunshu and personally welcomed her through the main gate of Chunbuwan.
After Ye Yunshu entered Chun Bu Wan, the door to Chun Bu Wan was closed.
...
"Where are the elderly folks?" Ye Yunshu asked anxiously as soon as she entered Chun Bu Wan.
The shopkeeper, Chun Bu Wan, quickly led Ye Yunshu to the third floor.
"This servant has arranged for you to stay in the private room overlooking the mountains and sea on the third floor. Fine tea has already been served! Your Highness, please watch your step carefully."
Ye Yunshu let out a long sigh and started walking towards the third floor, but suddenly stopped halfway up.
"You all wait on the second floor, you don't need to come up to the third floor with me!"
The attendants and guards behind him immediately stood at the top of the stairs on the second floor.
Ye Yunshu walked step by step up to the third floor, stopping at the door of the Guanshanhai private room.
She looked at the closed door, took a deep breath, and then gently knocked twice.
"Junior Ye Yunshu requests an audience with the venerable senior!" Ye Yunshu said softly.
There was silence inside the door at first, then the old man's voice could be heard.
"Child of the Ye family, come in!"
...
The door was closed but not bolted, and Ye Yunshu pushed it open with just a gentle push.
As soon as Ye Yunshu entered, she saw the white-haired old man sitting upright in a chair.
The old man looked Ye Yunshu up and down. Not bad, she looked quite like the girl he had met before.
Especially his eyes, firm yet somewhat stubborn...
It seems like all the girls in the Ye family are like this...
The old man seemed lost in thought, as if he were transported back to his trip to Beijing thirty years ago...
Back then...
"Junior Ye Yunshu greets Elder Lian!" Ye Yunshu respectfully bowed to the old man.
This man was none other than Lian Qiao's master, Elder Lian, the chief poison-making elder of Medicine King Valley.
Even the old gentleman looked at Ye Yunshu with some surprise.
He didn't speak, and Ye Yunshu maintained her bowing posture.
If Emperor Xiao Xuan were here, he would definitely think that his daughter's bowing to him was over as soon as it was done, and she wouldn't care whether you saw it or not...
But now Ye Yunshu...
“Young lady of the Ye family… You are the most honored princess of Dayu. In this capital city, apart from His Majesty, you do not need to bow to anyone.”
"Such a grand gesture today... makes this old man a little uncomfortable." Mr. Lian suddenly spoke up.
Ye Yunshu maintained her bowed posture.
“Mr. Lian is worth it!” Ye Yunshu said softly.
The old man sighed, "Come here! As usual, let me take your pulse first!"
After the old man finished speaking, he took out his pulse pillow from his bag.
Ye Yunshu then got up, walked to Mr. Lian, and extended her wrist.
Even the old man placed two fingers on Ye Yunshu's pulse...
After a long while, the old man finally nodded.
"Your health is very good. Apart from some blood stasis in your lumbar spine, everything else is fine."
"Avoid prolonged sitting, and practice the Eight Pieces of Brocade more often!" Mr. Lian said with a smile.
Ye Yunshu withdrew her wrist and respectfully agreed.
After taking Ye Yunshu's pulse, the old man put away the pulse pillow and looked at Ye Yunshu.
He was waiting for Ye Yunshu to speak.
"Old sir, you said there's nothing wrong with my body, so why does the Crown Prince have such a serious problem?"
"How can two children born in the same pregnancy be so different?" Ye Yunshu asked softly.
Even the old man sighed.
"This matter... is not complicated. The Crown Prince's illness was something he had in the womb."
To be precise, your mother has this disease.
The Ye family's little girl...it's not easy!
As you should know, your family's first Inspector General, Ye Cishu, the Grand Calculator, suffers from a heart ailment.
It just so happened that my father was there when the illness struck. With his help, not only was the fortune teller Ye's life saved, but my father also specially prescribed medicine for her.
That medicine... it really used every rare and precious thing in Medicine King Valley to cure that great fortune teller's illness.
Although it is eradicated, the disease still exists in the bones and blood.
I never expected that three generations later, your mother would be diagnosed with this disease.
At that time, your mother was three months pregnant. It happened to be the time of the floods in Jiangnan. Your mother checked the accounts day and night to ensure that every penny was used for disaster relief.
"Exhausted...you two almost died." Mr. Lian recounted the situation at the time.
Ye Yunshu was stunned for a long time.
So, the Empress Dowager encountered such a thing when she was pregnant with me and the Crown Prince?
All she knew was that her mother's condition was very bad when she was pregnant with her and the crown prince. Several times she almost lost the baby, and in the end, she survived only thanks to the pills given to her by the old doctor.
When they were born, she was healthy, but the prince was sickly from a young age.
"Mr. Lian, can you save the Crown Prince?" Ye Yunshu looked at Mr. Lian expectantly.
The old gentleman did not answer the question, but said something else.
"The last time I came to the capital was thirty years ago, when your mother was pregnant."
After she returned from Jiangnan, she fell seriously ill and never recovered. At that time, I told her that the only way to save her life was to have an abortion.
As long as you don't have children, you can be safe and sound for life!
But she insisted on giving birth to you!
Ye Yunshu...
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