Chapter 224 He's a Good Husband
Ye Yunshu looked at Aunt Cui, who was standing respectfully in front of her, and was still a little dazed.
This Aunt Cui entered the palace at the age of fourteen, serving either in the late Empress Dowager's palace or in her mother's Fengwu Palace.
She probably knows everything that happens in the Empress Dowager's palace!
"Aunt Cui!" Ye Yunshu called out softly.
Aunt Cui immediately bowed and stepped forward.
"Yes, Your Highness! What are your orders?"
Ye Yunshu smiled. Before she revealed her identity, Aunt Cui was one of the few people who knew who she was.
This shows that both her mother and her father trusted her very much.
“Aunt, I remember you used to work in Mother’s palace. In terms of the time you entered the palace, you even entered two years earlier than Eunuch Xue, who served Father.” Ye Yunshu looked at Aunt Cui.
Aunt Cui quickly bowed and gave a salute.
“Your Highness is right! I was selected to enter the palace by the late Empress Dowager in my early years, and I initially served by her side.”
Later, His Majesty was made Crown Prince, the late Empress was made Crown Princess, and the Empress Dowager gave me to the Empress.
Her Majesty the Empress has always been very kind to me!
Ye Yunshu nodded; she knew that her mother treated Aunt Cui very well.
I heard that my mother had Aunt Cui take me back to the Ye family, and every time the palace sent something, it was Aunt Cui who delivered it.
Aunt Cui has always been very kind to her.
Ye Yunshu always remembered that Aunt Cui would play with her for a long time every time she disguised herself and came to the Ye family.
"Elder Aunt, you have been serving the Empress Dowager for a long time."
I was sent to the Ye family at birth, and you should know all about what happens in the palace...
What exactly happened when the Crown Prince and I were born?
"Was the situation extremely urgent for Mother Empress at that time?" Ye Yunshu asked directly.
Aunt Cui looked at Ye Yunshu in surprise.
Why would this princess suddenly ask about what happened back then? Those events... were kept secret from everyone.
Even the Empress Dowager doesn't know much about it!
"Your Highness, Her Majesty the Empress is blessed with good fortune. Although the situation was urgent during childbirth,..." Aunt Cui did not want to say more.
"Aunt, I want to hear the truth!" Ye Yunshu said calmly, looking at Aunt Cui.
Unable to withstand Ye Yunshu's gaze, Aunt Cui had no choice but to say, "His Majesty has issued an order that no one is allowed to discuss this matter further!"
"So, does Aunt mean I should ask Father about this?" Ye Yunshu still wouldn't allow it.
Aunt Cui...
"Since Your Highness wants to know, then this servant will tell you the truth!" Aunt Cui sighed.
Ye Yunshu gestured for Aunt Cui to sit down in the chair opposite her.
Aunt Cui steadied herself and thought about what happened thirty years ago...
Blood, blood everywhere you looked, blood all over the delivery bed—that was Aunt Cui’s only memory from that time!
...
"The Empress did not have a smooth delivery because she was pregnant with twins."
Even though the Imperial Hospital had made ample preparations, they were still caught off guard.
When the Empress was first pregnant, her pregnancy was unstable. Both the Imperial Hospital and the doctors outside said that the Empress's body was not suitable for having a child.
However, the Empress was reluctant to give up her twins and had been trying to protect the pregnancy.
When it came time for childbirth, after giving birth to you, the Empress was no longer strong enough to give birth to the Crown Prince.
Later, it took five hundred years of ginseng slices to give birth to the prince.
The crown prince had spent a long time in his mother's womb, and when he was born, his body was covered in bruises. It took the imperial physician a long time to get the crown prince to cry.
Just as the Crown Prince was out of danger, trouble struck the Empress.
The Empress suffered postpartum hemorrhage, and even acupuncture at the Imperial Hospital could not stop the bleeding.
Seeing that the Empress's breath was getting weaker and weaker, His Majesty had someone bring in a pill for her to take.
It was because of that pill that the Empress's life was saved.
"Since then, although His Majesty instructed the Imperial Household Department and the Imperial Medical Academy to take good care of the Empress, her health continued to decline day by day," Aunt Cui explained in detail.
Ye Yunshu was stunned for a long time.
Was it really that dangerous when my mother gave birth to me and the crown prince?
They only knew that their mother had a difficult childbirth when she gave birth to them, but they never imagined it would be so dangerous.
Ye Yunshu quickly noticed a shop, and the pill her father had sent in...
"Is there any special story behind the pill that Father Emperor gave Mother? Was it prepared by the Imperial Hospital?"
"Since it has such miraculous effects, why didn't we prepare it earlier?" Ye Yunshu stared into Aunt Cui's eyes.
Aunt Cui opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
“Tell me! If you don’t tell me, I’ll ask you anyway when Father Emperor comes back.”
"The Crown Prince is unwell now, and I have already invited people from Medicine King Valley to treat him. I need to know more," Ye Yunshu said calmly.
Aunt Cui was a little helpless.
If it were any other prince or princess, she could simply ignore all of this and keep her mouth shut.
She dared not do this only towards this legitimate princess.
After thinking it over, Aunt Cui decided to tell her everything.
"Your Highness, the pill His Majesty gave to the Empress is called the Soul-Returning Pill! Just from the name, you should know how miraculous this medicine is."
This medicine was concocted by... Elder Baiyao of Medicine King Valley, whose skills in both medicine and poison are superb.
During the reign of the late emperor, the late emperor did Elder Baiyao a favor. Elder Baiyao did not want to owe this favor, so he specially prepared three pills for the late emperor.
It's the Resurrection Pill!
It is said that as long as a person's head hasn't fallen off, even if their heart has stopped beating, as long as it hasn't been more than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, taking just one pill can save their life.
The late emperor kept the pills after he received them, feeling that he would never need them.
He did not use the pill on the day the late emperor passed away.
However, the late emperor gave the pill to Your Majesty.
His Majesty used one pill when the Empress gave birth, but the Empress Dowager passed away at Bao'en Temple, so His Majesty couldn't use the medicine even if he wanted to.
"That's why Her Majesty the Empress was able to survive despite losing so much blood during childbirth," Aunt Cui whispered.
Ye Yunshu was completely dumbfounded.
No wonder the old gentleman said that his mother almost risked her life to give birth to the twins.
But those pills...
Ye Yunshu knew all too well what such pills meant to an emperor.
A miraculous recovery...
Her father did not hesitate to give her mother that medicine.
Could other emperors have done this?
Her father actually did it; no wonder even the old gentleman said that her father was a good husband.
But later...
"You mean my father only had three pills, but he gave one to my mother! He only has two left!" Ye Yunshu muttered to herself.
Aunt Cui shook her head.
"No! To be precise, all three pills have been used, and His Majesty has none left."
Otherwise, Your Highness…
Ye Yunshu...
"Father doesn't have any left?"
Ye Yunshu could hardly believe it.
She understood her father less and less!
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