Chapter 787 You should be relieved.
Several doctors took turns examining Shang Ruyi's pulse, and after discussing the matter for a long time, they still came to the same conclusion. One of them, perhaps too timid, could only say tactfully, "Your Highness, please forgive us. Our medical skills are not good enough, and we dare not make any rash judgments. Please summon the officials in the palace to diagnose the Princess Consort so that we can be at ease."
Yuwen Ye glanced at him, and at that moment Shang Ruyi gently pulled down her sleeve and said, "Your Highness, please don't make things difficult for them anymore."
Yuwen Ye looked down at her, and Shang Ruyi calmly said, "I know what I'm doing. I'm really fine. I just got a little irritated by the smoke, and my throat—"
At this point, he coughed.
Her cough startled everyone, causing their expressions to change.
Yuwen Ye stopped talking and hurriedly sat down next to her, reaching out to protect her. Shang Ruyi barely stopped coughing and turned to him, saying, "I'll drink some more water and I'll be fine."
Yuwen Ye immediately picked up the water glass on the table, which had already cooled down a bit, and brought it to her lips.
In front of everyone, such excessive intimacy made Shang Ruyi blush a little, but she thought that since she had "survived a great calamity," probably no one would care. Besides, she really had "survived a great calamity," so she shamelessly took a sip from his hand, then another. The slightly cool water moistened her entire mouth, and after sliding down her throat, it swept away the previous dryness and pain. She felt much better, and then put down the cup and said to Yuwen Ye, "Let them go and give it to Tai—go up there and take a look."
Yuwen Ye looked up at the staircase leading to the second floor and said in a low voice, "Someone is treating her, don't worry."
After saying that, he said, "You may all leave."
The doctors seemed to have walked around the gates of Yama's palace before finally letting out a sigh of relief. They hurriedly kowtowed to His Highness Prince Qin and Princess Qin, and then carefully withdrew from the lecture hall.
Once they left, Yuwen Ye looked down at Shang Ruyi in his arms. He had only had time to wet a handkerchief and wipe the dust off her face, but it still didn't look very clean and made her look even more disheveled. He subconsciously reached out to wipe the black dust off one side of her cheek, but as soon as he moved, he felt the person next to him move as well.
It was Master Xinzheng, who was standing to the side, who immediately turned his back.
Shang Ruyi's face also turned a little red, but fortunately her face wasn't very clean so it wasn't noticeable. She quickly reached out and wiped it off, then said with a wry smile, "I finally managed to come out, and I'm already in such a mess."
Yuwen Ye withdrew his hand and said in a deep voice, "By the way, you still haven't told me how you knew there was a tunnel under that blanket?"
"Someone told me that."
"Someone told you? Who was it?"
“Good boy.”
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Yuwen Ye was greatly surprised, but after thinking about it again, he seemed to understand. Shang Ruyi said, "This child once told me in casual conversation that when he was a monk at Dayan Temple, he was so hungry that he stole a basket of steamed buns. He was chased and beaten by the kitchen monks, so he hid in a small building not far from the kitchen. Later, when he had nowhere else to hide, he discovered an entrance under the floor in a corner. Underneath that is the underground palace of Dayan Temple."
Yuwen Ye took a deep breath: "Is that so?"
Shang Ruyi nodded and smiled, "If he hadn't broken the lock on this side of the exit beforehand, we wouldn't have been able to get out so easily."
After saying that, she looked at Master Xinzheng standing to the side and said, "The abbot should know, right?"
Master Xinzheng immediately stepped forward, kowtowed, and begged for forgiveness, saying, "Your Highness is right. Dayan Temple has been built for hundreds of years and once experienced Emperor Wu's persecution of Buddhism. At that time, in order to protect the scriptures and Buddha statues, an underground palace was indeed dug beneath the Sutra Repository and the Lecture Hall. Later, that underground palace was never used again, and this humble monk sealed the tunnel. I never expected that Your Highness would be able to be safe this time. It is truly a great fortune. May Buddha have mercy, Amitabha!"
Yuwen Ye coldly replied, "If you were a merciful Buddha, such a thing wouldn't have happened!"
Upon hearing this, Master Xinzheng was already terrified and fell to his knees with a thud: "Your Highness, please forgive me! Your Highness, spare my life!"
Shang Ruyi hurriedly said, "Your Highness—"
In fact, from the moment she met Yuwen Ye, although she hadn't been hurt, she had been pretending to be calm, speaking softly and smiling, all to appease him. She could sense Yuwen Ye's anger after his fear, and she was afraid that if he couldn't control his temper, all the monks in the temple would suffer!
Seeing that the little girl in his arms was not frightened by the fire, but rather startled by him, Yuwen Ye fell silent.
The veins on his forehead throbbed. After a long silence, he finally gritted his teeth, suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice, "I will explain this matter to you in detail after I have investigated it thoroughly. Now, you may leave and clear up the people and affairs outside."
This statement, at least for the moment, saved Xinzheng and the monks of Dayan Temple!
Master Xinzheng immediately kowtowed to express his gratitude, then stood up and walked out shakily. Just before he reached the door, he tripped over the threshold and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, the young monk Jianzhen outside caught him.
Shang Ruyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, I heard footsteps overhead again.
Both of them looked up at the same time. The two doctors who had just been sent to the second floor to examine Empress Dowager Jiang came down. As soon as they saw Prince Qin and Princess Consort, they immediately stepped forward to kowtow and pay their respects. Yuwen Ye asked, "How is the patient?"
One of the doctors said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the old lady is fine."
"Oh? You're not injured?"
"No, he was just a little frightened. He needs some calming and soothing herbal medicine to regulate his mind and body. After resting for a few more days, he will recover."
Yuwen Ye was silent for a moment, then said, "Alright, you may leave."
The two hurriedly bowed and withdrew.
Hearing their words, Shang Ruyi breathed a long sigh of relief, as if a weight had finally been lifted from her heart. After the two left, she turned to Yuwen Ye and said solemnly, "Now, you should be relieved."
"...!"
Yuwen Ye frowned slightly.
From the moment he saw Shang Ruyi at the entrance of the lecture hall, as if she had escaped death, he had felt that Shang Ruyi seemed to have something to say, but she had been holding back. At first, Yuwen Ye thought that she was unwell, but after several diagnoses and observations of her expression and movements, he thought that she should be fine. Yuwen Ye then thought that something had gone wrong during her escape, but now it seemed that there was nothing unusual.
And only now did she seem to be truly about to speak.
Yuwen Ye asked, "How is it?"
Shang Ruyi said, "I'm fine, and the Empress Dowager is fine too. You should be relieved."
Yuwen Ye looked at her: "What do you want to say?"
Shang Ruyi took a deep breath and said to him, "I need you to set off immediately, catch up with the Emperor's carriage, and stop him from seeing Jiang Chongen!"
Yuwen Ye's heart sank. Looking at Shang Ruyi's increasingly anxious expression, he sensed something was wrong and asked in a deep voice, "What happened?"
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