"Aunt Huang, do you think I should hold a party?"
Gu Yuyan was relieved that Princess Jingyi hadn't recognized her. Touching the silver on the table, she suddenly thought, "I'm going to invite all those young ladies from the official families here and let them see that I'm different now."
"When the time comes, I'll take the opportunity to promote some medicinal food. What do you think, Aunt Huang?"
It's said that the little girl is very perceptive and can draw inferences from one example. Jiang Li nodded, "Okay, the palace banquet is coming soon, you can take the opportunity of the Autumn Banquet to surprise everyone, I think it's great. After all, a large banquet like this is very expensive, we have to learn how to get in on the fun, understand?"
Gu Yuyan kept nodding her head. Auntie Huang was really amazing. She had learned a lot from her!
“A-choo——”
The emperor had just finished reviewing the memorials when he couldn't help but sneeze loudly.
Seeing the saliva on the memorial, he glanced at it with disdain, closed the memorial in his hand and threw it to the ground, "What kind of nonsense is this!"
The eunuch raised his eyebrows and glanced at the ground. Tsk, Prime Minister Qin is not doing well lately. Why does he always make the emperor angry?
"Your Majesty, the weather is about to get colder. In my opinion, when Princess Jingling arrives at the Imperial Hospital for duty, I should ask her to take your pulse. What do you think?"
"Let Qin Yu take care of trivial matters like keeping the pulse safe. If I keep bothering Jiang Li, the second brother will think I'm Zhou Paopi and blame them for everything."
"Look at what you said, Your Majesty. Everyone in the court, civil and military, doesn't want to do more for Your Majesty. How can this be called trouble?"
The eunuch continued talking while adding hot tea. He could only sigh in his heart that the couple of Prince Jingling were really valued by the emperor.
I have to remind my subordinates later that they should be more cautious when Princess Jingling enters the palace in the future. Don't be careless and offend people without knowing it.
"Alright, you're the only one who knows how to flatter me. Speaking of Jiang Li, I remember the Autumn Banquet is coming soon. Last time, the Queen said that Jiang Li would be in charge of arranging the food for the banquet. Remember to instruct the imperial chefs to learn something. It would be a blessing for them to learn some medicinal cuisine from Princess Jingling."
"Yes, I understand."
Seeing that the emperor was still frowning, the eunuch asked again, "Does the emperor have any other instructions?"
Pulling out a blank imperial edict, the emperor realized that his own private vault didn't seem to have much left. "Didn't I hear the second son mention that Jiang Li's herbal medicine shop was opening today?"
The eldest eunuch nodded and said, "Yes, I heard that the herbal medicine shop is run by Princess Jingling and the Ninth Princess together. Now our Ninth Princess is very powerful."
When the eunuch said the last sentence, he was still a little hesitant, but when he saw that the emperor had no reaction, he felt relieved.
Xiaojiu... The emperor thought of his daughter who was very different from his last impression and sighed silently. Jiang Li is really a good person.
He never suspected that Jiang Li was trying to please him on purpose. After all, if Jiang Li really wanted to please him, she shouldn't have brought the Ninth Princess with her. That girl hadn't been close to him, her father, for a long time since she grew up.
On the other hand, the fifth and sixth brothers would make something for him from time to time.
Thinking of this, the emperor waved his hand and wrote a few more words on the imperial edict, "Find someone to send this to the medicinal food shop."
Sending an imperial edict over there would help boost their confidence. More importantly, this way, they wouldn't have to dig through private vaults for rewards, saving money and gaining face—killing two birds with one stone!
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Medicinal food shop.
After Princess Jingyi and her group left, almost a long time passed, but the hustle and bustle outside the door did not diminish at all.
"Duang~"
"Make way, make way."
Upon hearing that an imperial edict had come from the palace, everyone on the second floor rushed to the door.
"Eunuch Sun."
Jiang Li recognized him, because he was the one who read out the imperial edict granting the marriage last time.
"Princess." Eunuch Sun first bowed, then saluted the Ninth Princess. Then, upon seeing the General's wife, the Princess of Yong'an, and Princess Xian'er, he couldn't help but sigh that the Princess was truly a delight.
Thinking of this, he wanted to do his best to save face for the princess. After coughing twice, he deliberately raised his voice and said, "The emperor has issued an order. Please accept it, princess."
Upon hearing this, everyone knelt on the ground.
Since the last time, Eunuch Sun has become accustomed to reading the imperial edict in public, and cleared his throat again.
"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, decrees: I have heard that the Imperial Hospital Supervisor, Princess Jingling, has opened a medicinal food shop to promote the health of the people. I am delighted. Therefore, I grant you two plaques inscribed with my own handwriting. I decree this."
"Your Majesty, I accept your command and thank you."
Jiang Li had never expected that the Emperor would actually announce her identity as the Imperial Hospital Supervisor in front of everyone. Apart from those in the court, no one else was aware of this.
Hearing this, the people kneeling on the ground thought to themselves that it was no wonder that the emperor had come in person to watch Jiang Li's competition with the doctor from Medicine King Valley last time.
It turns out that Jiang Li is not only the Princess of Jingling, she also has her own official position.
The Imperial Hospital Supervisor, wouldn't that mean he's as high-ranking as the Imperial Hospital Director?!
After receiving the imperial edict, he asked Bai Zhi to give Eunuch Sun a reward of silver, and then sent someone to take the plaque.
Seeing the plaques inscribed with "Spring Blessings, Summer Peace" and "Autumn Peace, Winter Happiness", he quickly had them hung in the inner room, one on each side. From then on, every customer who came to the store would be able to see them as soon as they entered.
Tsk tsk, this is the imperial calligraphy, plus her grandfather's inscription, her herbal medicine shop will surely attract many students. It seems that she has to prepare some herbal medicine recipes for clearing the liver and improving eyesight in advance.
As soon as Eunuch Sun and his group left, the servants lined up immediately found someone to pass on a message to their master.
Especially those wealthy businessmen, when they learned that Jiang Li was actually from the Imperial Hospital, they thought that the medicinal food the emperor ate was also arranged by her.
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