diskusbooks Chapter 154 3 His Royal Highnesses and 2 Young Masters
Chapter 154 3 His Royal Highnesses and 2 Young Masters
Chapter 154 The Third Prince and the Second Young Master
Ye Wenyan was really impressed with this fifth sister today. Even Feng Zhaolian said, "This little girl of yours is quite courageous. Although she looks timid, the things that timid people can do are not timid at all!"
Quan Qingcheng got angry when he heard Ye Chulian's words. How dare Ye Lao Er hit his sister's mother? Who gave him the courage?
So he shouted, "General Ye Er has never been to the battlefield. The court kept a position for him in the army for the sake of the old general and General Jing Gui. Not only is he ungrateful, he even dared to hit someone? The eldest lady is General Jing Gui's surviving daughter, a first-rank imperial official conferred by the court, yet he could beat her up. How can the Qibei court want such a general?"
Quan Qingcheng spoke righteously and took a deep breath to make himself more confident. "Thank you, old lady, for providing evidence. Madam Ye, please release the second general! When the court resumes on the fifth day of the new year, I will take away his general rank."
The old lady was shocked. She just wanted to marry Ye Wenyan to the Fourth Prince, so why did the Emperor want to remove her son from his official position in the end? How did things develop to this point?
She was so anxious that she shouted, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please think twice!" After shouting twice, she found that the emperor ignored her, so she turned to the regent for help - "Please ask my uncle, the regent, to make a decision for my son!"
Ye Wenyan slammed his chopsticks on the table a few more times, "Grandma, what you said is not right. Why should the regent make this decision? A general without military power can be dismissed if he is dismissed. If the regent is involved in such matters, then his vision is too narrow."
She spoke these words slowly and in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, just like a casual chat. But her eyes were slightly raised, looking directly at the Regent, her gaze was cold and fierce, and one corner of her lips was raised evilly. Even the Regent frowned and even wanted to avoid her gaze. But he couldn't avoid it. If he avoided it at this time, he would lose.
So he also spoke up and replied, "Miss Ye Si is indeed very eloquent."
Ye Wenyan smiled, "Thank you for the compliment. This is just the beginning! We still have a long way to go in the future!"
The Regent stopped talking, and the old lady became more and more panicked. She suddenly realized that she could no longer expect to gain anything from this palace banquet. The more she expected, the more she would lose. What she should consider now is how to minimize the losses.
So he stopped worrying about whether his son could become a general or not. He just wanted to settle the matter as quickly as possible and move on from this incident.
Then Madam Ye said again: "I am confused. These are family matters."
The eldest princess, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up and said sternly, "Just go home and take care of your family affairs. Why are you making such a fuss? Are you teasing our royal family? In the eyes of you, the Ye family, are the royal family so easy to fool? Don't say that the royal family bullied you. It's really that Madam Ye didn't put herself in the right position. The royal family is the royal family, and the Ye family is the Ye family. The royal family is not a place for the Ye family to handle their family affairs. Even if the old general were still alive, he would not treat himself as an outsider like this."
If she hadn't suddenly spoken, Ye Wenyan would have almost forgotten the existence of this princess. He had seen her several times before, and each time he saw the princess drinking alone, so he didn't pay much attention to her. But now, perhaps because she had drunk a little too much, she wanted to get involved in this mess.
Old Madam Ye felt so embarrassed by what she said, but she didn't dare to defend herself any more. What's more, the eldest princess had always held a grudge against the Ye family. If she said a few more words and angered the eldest princess, the situation would be even worse.
So the old lady had no choice but to bow her head and say, "It's all my fault. Please calm down, Princess."
The princess snorted coldly and stood up. Perhaps she had drunk a little too much, and she staggered as soon as she stood up. Fortunately, the maid beside her supported her, so she did not lose her status. With the help of the maid, she staggered out of the table and came to the middle of the hall. She turned around twice and looked towards the Ye family again.
His eyes swept past the others without stopping, but went straight to Ye Wenyan - "I heard that you have great medical skills and can make the mute speak. I want to ask you, with such medical skills, why didn't you save the late emperor?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked towards Ye Wenyan.
Yes, with such superb medical skills, if it had been used earlier, could the late emperor have held on a little longer?
Mu frowned and stepped in front of Ye Wenyan. She was about to speak, but Ye Wenyan had already spoken. "The princess's question really hit the nail on the head. To be honest, I was going to save him, and with my medical skills, as long as I took action, even if the late emperor was not completely cured, he could still live to the age of sixty. The reason why I didn't save him was because I got married that day, but the Sixth Prince broke off the engagement, and as a result, I died once and my body was thrown into the wilderness. So, when the late emperor was dying, I was lying in the snow outside the city, his life or death unknown, and I didn't have the ability to save him even if I wanted to." When she said this, she looked at the Sixth Prince and the Queen Mother Li, and finally, her eyes fell back on Old Lady Ye: "Alas, grandmother, look at what you did. If you hadn't married my third sister on the day of my wedding, if my second uncle and second aunt hadn't instructed my third sister to get pregnant before marriage, and if the Sixth Prince hadn't held a wedding to bring good luck, I would have cured her, and the late emperor wouldn't have died."
Old Madam Ye was really frightened this time, and blurted out, "What does it have to do with me?" After saying that, she immediately looked at Empress Dowager Li.
Empress Dowager Li frowned and said, "Why are you looking at me? You can't take good care of your own granddaughter, so I can take care of her for you?"
Madam Ye was disappointed. She knew that it was impossible for Empress Dowager Li to admit in front of so many people that she and the two of them had planned to change the marriage. She would not admit that it was because Empress Dowager Li felt that the eldest son of the Ye family had military merits, and the Mu family was from a family of military generals, and coupled with Ye Wenyan's temperament, she could not control herself, so she chose Ye Hongzhuang.
Since Empress Dowager Li refused to acknowledge it, she had to acknowledge it herself, but how could she acknowledge it? The blame for the death of the previous emperor was too heavy for her to bear! The princess listened to Ye Wenyan's words, then looked at Madam Ye who was kneeling on the ground and shivering, and snorted again: "Humph! You are such a silver tongue!"
Ye Wenyan nodded, "Thank you for the compliment, Princess."
At this time, Yun Chen of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory stepped forward and walked around Old Madam Ye twice. Then he said loudly, "No wonder the sky showed that there was an evil spirit blocking the Emperor Dragon from returning to the sun on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. So this is what happened!"
Old Madam Ye’s face turned pale. It turned out that she was not only a demon, but also a vicious demon. Yun Chen would not stop until he had talked her to death!
She regretted it more and more, and began to curse herself for what was wrong with her, for having to bring up the matter between the Fourth Prince and Ye Wenyan. Didn't she want to give up before at the palace gate? Why did she become impulsive again after drinking two glasses of wine? Drinking really ruined things!
The scene was awkward for a while, Quan Qingcheng did not speak, because the old lady was the wife of General Ye after all, even if he talked so much tonight, he could not execute the old lady for any crime. The old general still had so many old subordinates, and even many military commanders were in this banquet hall. Although he had not said anything, he knew that it was because things had not yet developed to the point of no return. Once he wanted to deal with Old Lady Ye, whether it was based on the original marriage exchange or the evil things Yunchen said, someone would definitely jump out and talk to him about the military merits of the Ye family.
He didn't want to lose this person, but he felt that this old lady had repeatedly harmed his sister Wen Yan, so he couldn't just let it go. So he wanted to pass on the blame, so he asked the regent: "What does the emperor's uncle think about this matter? It ruined the sixth brother's wedding, and dumped the body of the fourth lady, the genius doctor, in the wilderness. In addition, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory saw an evil spirit when observing the stars. This matter... Haha, I am young and have not yet taken power, so I can't make any decisions. So I have to ask the emperor's uncle for a decision on this matter."
Old Madam Ye was sweating profusely, her heart was in a knot, she only knew that her life and death depended on the regent's thought, and she regretted why she had to make things difficult for Ye Wenyan today. If she couldn't go back home to do something, what was she doing at the palace banquet? However, it was too late to regret, things had come to this point, and she could no longer control it.
The regent was outwitted by Quan Qingcheng, and he was very unhappy. He did not answer Quan Qingcheng immediately, but looked at the guests below. He swept his eyes over General Ye's old subordinates and saw that they did not react excessively. They were all sitting quietly, and did not even look at Madam Ye. So he made a plan in his mind.
Should we insure this or not?
It doesn’t matter if it’s an old lady, but if it hurts the morale of the three armies, it will be no small matter.
The parties were all in a stalemate. Suddenly, the Third Prince spoke up and said loudly, "It was said before that the eldest lady of the Ye family was the surviving daughter of General Jinggui. So, how can the old lady forget about the old general's feelings? She is also the surviving daughter of General Ye, and General Ye's military achievements are much higher than General Jinggui's. Your Majesty, please don't let the old general feel disappointed!"
Before Quan Qingcheng could speak, the Regent rushed to take over the conversation: "What do you think, Third Prince?"
"I think that the old lady is just old, so sometimes she doesn't think things through. As for the matter of the evil star, why not let the old lady go back home and avoid it, and don't go out during the first month of the year. Over time, the evil will be gone. What do you think?"
Few of the guests expressed their opinions, and everything was left to the Emperor and the Regent to decide.
The Regent waited for the Emperor to speak first, and the Emperor waited for the Regent to speak first, so the atmosphere remained awkward.
The Third Prince was a little unhappy, and under the influence of alcohol, he slammed the table and said, "What do you mean? Do you really have to make things difficult for an old lady?"
At this time, someone remembered a rumor in the market. It was said that the Third Prince had a very close relationship with the Second Young Master of the First-Rank General's Mansion. Even when the Second Young Master was sent to the martial arts world to learn martial arts when he was young, the Third Prince helped find the master.
Now that the Third Prince has spoken on behalf of Old Madam Ye, he must be doing it for the sake of the Second Young Master's face, right?