Ye Qingxue was unaware of the specific details of her father's death.
She only remembered that it was an ordinary day when she was collecting wool with the people in the manor. Suddenly, a group of people broke into the Jingzhou manor. It turned out that the eunuch had come to announce the imperial decree, bestowing upon her the title of Princess of Ding.
On that same day, she learned of her father's death.
She desperately wanted to return to the Marquis's mansion to attend her father's funeral, but the people there wouldn't allow her to go back. All she knew was that her father had died from his injuries sustained while trying to save Prince Ding.
She was eight years old that year.
But now, Uncle Tan says that his father's injuries had improved, and even the imperial physicians asserted that his father would no longer be in danger of dying. Yet, his father died in the end, and his death was sudden.
If Ye Qingxue hadn't been persecuted by Madam Min and Ye Yabing, Uncle Tan's words wouldn't have made her think so much.
But she had already died once, and she knew that the battlefield was full of open attacks, and her father was so capable that he could dodge them.
The backyard of the Marquis's mansion was fraught with danger. How could a man as upright and courageous as my father have imagined that a hidden arrow in the backyard would cost him his life?
But the father is the glory of the entire Marquis's mansion. As long as the father is there, the glory will remain. No matter how much the people in the inner quarters of the Marquis's mansion hate the father, they would not be foolish enough to persecute him.
Father is the one who brings the greatest benefit to the entire Marquis's mansion. No one in the inner quarters of the mansion has a conflict of interest with Father, so who would want to kill him?!
Uncle Tan wiped away his snot and tears: "At the time of the incident, your father was protecting Prince Ding in his arms, using his back to defend against the enemy's attack. He was stabbed in the back, the long sword grazing his heart, and he had a high fever for several days."
"But he was in good health, and the imperial physician promptly removed the festering flesh from his body, so he pulled through and his high fever subsided. It was then that the imperial physician declared that he was out of danger."
"Your father is a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the savior of His Highness Prince Ding. The imperial physicians have been doing their best to treat his injuries and have not dared to slack off in the slightest. Your father's injuries are improving day by day..."
“But on a rainy day, your father suddenly developed a high fever that wouldn’t go down, and he passed away within two days.”
Uncle Tan wiped away another tear, "The imperial physician speculated that the pus inside might not have been thoroughly cleaned, causing the wound not to heal completely. The pus then quietly spread, and then..."
"The general had made great achievements in battle. His death saddened and angered the emperor. The imperial physician in charge of his treatment was stripped of his official position and banished from the capital. The remaining imperial physicians who assisted in the treatment were fined half a year's salary."
"It is said that the imperial physician who was banished from the capital committed suicide by taking medicine on the way."
He committed suicide? Ye Qingxue's brows furrowed even more.
She really didn't have a good impression of the people in the inner quarters of the Marquis's mansion, and Ye Qingxue couldn't help but make a bold assumption:
"If the father was killed by someone from the inner quarters of the Marquis's mansion, and the imperial physician in charge of treating the father believed that the father was out of danger and was convinced of this, and then the father died, then the imperial physician in charge would be shocked and would doubt his own medical skills."
"At this time, the imperial physician, who was deeply in doubt, was also dismissed from his post and banished from the capital. He was bound to be ridiculed by others, and his whole body collapsed. So he chose to commit suicide!"
"It's also possible that the imperial physician didn't commit suicide, but was murdered, in which case the secret of my father's death would never be known to anyone else!"
Of course, this is just her bold assumption.
After all, the people in the inner quarters of the Marquis's mansion had no motive to kill their father.
Moreover, the imperial physician's deduction was not without reason. It was possible that the pus-filled area had not been completely removed, leading to a second high fever that ultimately cost the father his life.
But a voice inside Ye Qingxue screamed frantically: "Your father was murdered! You must find out the truth and avenge him!!"
The people in the inner quarters of the Marquis's mansion killed her father, but for the time being, there seems to be no motive. Perhaps she just hasn't found the motive yet; maybe the motive is hidden in a shameful place.
"Uncle Tan, thank you for telling me all this, otherwise I would never have known how my father died!" Ye Qingxue said, her voice cold and her whole body radiating icy ferocity.
Uncle Tan couldn't help but take another look at her. Earlier, he had seen her sitting upright in the teahouse, listening to her own gossip as if it wasn't about her, and he thought she was so shameless that she had no sense of shame at all.
Seeing her full of ferocity, I couldn't help but feel shocked and surprised. She faintly exuded the same unstoppable momentum as her father when he charged into battle!
"What is the name of the imperial physician who was mainly responsible for treating my father? Uncle Tan, do you know where his hometown is?"
Uncle Tan answered instinctively, "The imperial physician's name is Feng Rui, and his hometown is Liangcheng."
"Okay, I understand."
Ye Qingxue's tone was serious, and her face was grim.
She continued, "I am Ye Xiaobai's daughter. Like father, like daughter, I will not disappoint my father. If Uncle Tan does not trust me, he can find out the whole truth when he goes out on the street tomorrow. As for the rest, I'm sorry I cannot tell you everything today!"
Ye Qingxue turned and left, cleanly and decisively.
Uncle Tan vaguely saw in her the decisive and authoritative style her father had when he was a general.
Uncle Tan slowly stood up from the ground, staring at her back, and couldn't help but wonder, "Is it really true that a tiger father has no dog daughter?"
Okay, he'll wait for tomorrow to come.
Although he didn't know how to break out of this self-destructive situation, the young woman's reputation was more important than her life, and in his view, this was a dead end!
Outside the alley, the street was still bustling with people and filled with noise, and the rumors about Ye Qingxue and Pan Heng's secret rendezvous all night continued to spread.
No matter when or where, the relationship between men and women is always the most attractive thing.
Even the Prince Yu and his wife, who were in the Prince Yu's mansion and whose hearts were filled with thoughts of their newly found daughter, heard about this.
"Absurd, utterly absurd!" The Prince Yu's mansion was furious. "That Miss Ye clearly stayed out all night to save our daughter, how did those vile people come up with the story of her having a secret rendezvous with another man all night?!"
Prince Yu was filled with righteous indignation. He chimed in, "Yes, those outside don't know the truth and are spreading nonsense. Do they know that such rumors will ruin Miss Ye's life?"
Princess Yu summoned the nanny and asked her to prepare her clothes and grooming. She also asked Prince Yu to change his clothes and grooming.
The Prince of Yu asked in bewilderment, "What is the Princess Consort trying to do?"
"What to do? Of course, to go to the palace! Explain everything to the Emperor, request that he personally commend Miss Ye, and let the world know what a heroine Miss Ye is!"
"She is our daughter's savior. I can't let her be ruined by rumors! I can't let her and her guards be unable to go home!"
Upon hearing this, Prince Yu thought it made sense and quickly said, "Very well, I will go change my clothes now and go to the palace with the Princess Consort to explain everything to my brother and ask him to reward Miss Ye."
Rumors circulated that the bandits who kidnapped Princess Rongqing were in cahoots with the Crown Prince, which enraged the court and the public. Therefore, the court took Princess Rongqing's disappearance very seriously.
When Princess Rongqing was rescued, Prince Yu immediately sent someone to the palace to inform the emperor.
But now that Ye Qingxue has been so slandered, the couple felt it necessary to go to the palace in person and, through the emperor's words, clear Ye Qingxue's name and give her the honor she deserved.
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