in2ebook Chapter 115: Yanhua Palace produces talented people
Chapter 115: Yanhua Palace produces talented people
Chapter 115: Yanhua Palace produces talented people
Ye Wenyan seemed to sense something and looked back, just in time to see the pair of eyes that Empress Dowager Li was staring at her.
She didn't care, she raised her hand and greeted him: "Look, I didn't lie! Queen Mother, please think twice!"
Empress Dowager Li really had to think twice. Ten female guards died in front of her eyes in the blink of an eye. She only knew that General Ye had taught his fourth granddaughter some martial arts, but they were just fancy moves. They were fine for street fights, but if she met a real master, she wouldn't be able to get through in three moves.
However, she was wrong. The Fourth Miss Ye was not just a show-off. She was clearly an expert among experts. The ones who couldn't get past her with three moves were not Ye Wenyan, but the female guards that the Li family had worked so hard to train.
Ye Wenyan left, swaggering away with Zhuier and Lian Shi. Empress Dowager Li took a deep breath and ordered Baochan: "Collect the bodies! Find a way to transport them out of the palace, and remember not to let anyone in the East Palace see them."
Outside the Yong'an Palace, Lian Shi stamped on the jade bricks under his feet and asked Zhuier, "Does the jade fit your taste? If so, pick up a few more. I think the jade bricks in the Yong'an Palace are of good quality, better than the jade bricks used in other palaces."
Zhuier didn't say anything, with a very strange expression on her face. Ye Wenyan looked at her for a while, then quickly realized what was going on and immediately took two steps back.
As soon as he took these two steps back, Zhuier vomited with a "wow".
Everyone passing by in the palace looked over here, and Lian Shi was a little slow in dodging, and got his shoes splashed with water.
He did not care about his own image anymore, and hurried to help Zhuier smooth his back, while shouting to the palace servants passing by: "Hurry up and get some water and a towel!" The eunuchs in purple were a very special existence in the Northern Qi Imperial Palace. Although there were no explicit rules, people also understood that the eunuchs in purple clothes had a higher status than others, and even the masters in the harem had to give them some face.
Immediately, a maid came with water and a towel. Zhuier was vomiting so much that her intestines were about to come out. Ye Wenyan was laughing at her, "Why are you so frightened? You saw people dying outside the city last time. That time, many more people were killed than this time, but you were fine. What happened this time?"
Zhuier finally finished vomiting, and quickly rinsed her mouth and wiped her shoes. Lian Shi tried to dodge but failed, so he just let her do it. Only after she finished all these things did she calm down a little, and then she said to Ye Wenyan: "Miss, how can it be the same? Last time you killed him, this time I killed him, watching others kill and killing with your own hands, that's not the same feeling. Ugh..."
This time Lian Shi avoided it a little, but the palace servants rushed forward to serve him, and occasionally said a few words to Lian Shi. Finally, he vomited everything, and the three of them thanked the palace servants who came to help. Ye Wenyan also gave them rewards, and then they got on the sedan chair and prepared to return to Yanhua Palace.
After all this, many people recognized her. After all, the witch of the Ye family was too famous, and the fourth lady of the Ye family was too beautiful. In addition, because of the old general, the fourth lady of the Ye family was a frequent visitor of the palace, so many people recognized her.
So these palace servants started to figure out something. Wasn’t it said that Fourth Miss Ye was missing? Why did she suddenly appear in the palace, accompanied by the eunuchs from Yanhua Palace?
Some people also recalled another rumor, saying that the Fourth Miss Ye was not missing at all, but took a detour on the way back to Beijing and went to have tea with His Royal Highness Prince Chen. As for why she wanted to have tea with His Royal Highness Prince Chen, that was another story.
The sedan chair moved steadily on the jade tile floor of the palace. Ye Wenyan leaned against the window and asked Lian Shi, "Do you think I'm too cruel? Although Zhuier beat them, I ordered them to do it, and when I knocked them down, they were already dead."
Lian Shi said quickly, "Not cruel at all! Miss Fourth, please don't think so. This is how we should treat the Queen Mother Xigong. We really don't need to be polite to her at all."
"Well, you're welcome." Ye Wenyan said, "I have a grudge against her, but I'm not cruel enough to kill those female guards. After all, they were just used by others and became the tools of the Queen Mother of the West Palace to kill people. So I actually have pity for people like them. If it weren't for the poison on their swords, which killed me with every move, I wouldn't have let Zhuier kill them. So, don't be too ruthless in everything you do, and leave a way out for us to meet again in the future. They wanted to kill me and didn't even plan to leave me a chance to live, so how could I show them mercy and let them go?"
Zhuier recovered and nodded repeatedly: "Miss is right, we must not be soft-hearted when dealing with our enemies. Being kind to them is being cruel to ourselves."
Ye Wenyan lifted the curtain and looked at her: "When did I teach you this?"
Zhuier answered, "It was on the night of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month when I carried my young lady on my back and she said it while lying on my back. I remember every word she said." The little girl stopped talking and looked ahead for a while with a confused expression. After a while, she said, "Young lady, look at that person walking towards us. Is he the Prince Chen whom we met that night?"
Ye Wenyan exclaimed "Huh", leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, saw a man coming towards him not far ahead. He was wearing a moon-white robe against the white jade ground, and he looked tall and slender, and he looked cold and aloof.
"Stop the sedan." She shouted, then bent over and walked out of the sedan. The man opposite seemed to be stunned when he saw her, then he quickened his pace and walked in front of her.
Ye Wenyan bowed earnestly and said, "Your servant greets His Highness the Fourth Prince. Thank you for saving my life that night."
Quan Qinghua looked at the woman carefully and soon found that she looked very much like her late father, especially her eyebrows and eyes. It was almost obvious that she was the daughter of General Ye Jinggui. It is said that daughters resemble their fathers, and it seems to be true.
"No need to thank me." He spoke in a dull voice, "Your father was my teacher. I have been away from home for many years and have never reported to you. Now I am finally back, but my teacher is gone." He couldn't help but sigh in his heart as he thought of the past. "Now it is widely rumored in the capital that the fourth daughter of the first-rank general's mansion has been lost. Have you thought about how to deal with it?"
Ye Wenyan tilted her head and thought for a while, "What to deal with? Reputation?" She laughed, "Your Highness is far away in another country, and may not know how I have been through these years, but you should have heard that I was thrown out to the suburbs on my wedding day. So my reputation has been ruined a long time ago. Besides, when has my reputation in Lin'an City ever been good? It's really meaningless for them to bring this up. Not to mention that I don't care, even if people in the city hear it, I'm afraid they will just laugh it off, and at most add one more sentence: When has the witch of the Ye family ever been good."
Quan Qinghua listened to her talk like this. Just now he thought that this girl was very similar to her father, but now he felt that they were really not similar. In his memory, his teacher was a somewhat old-fashioned person who strictly followed the rules and etiquette and was also conservative in educating his children. If his teacher was still alive, he would not know if he would beat his daughter for not caring about her reputation.
He probably wouldn't fight her, after all, he knew what his daughter had been taught. Since he could safely hand his daughter over to General Ye, he must have been prepared to accept reality.
So he nodded, "That's good, I just heard it and mentioned it, just don't take it to heart."
Ye Wenyan thought for a moment and then said, "Fourth Prince just said that my father had a mastership with you, but I don't remember it at all."
Quan Qinghua told her, "Because I used to go to the camp to listen to the teacher's teachings on military tactics, I didn't have much contact with the Ye Mansion. But your father didn't mention it to you at all?"
She tried to recall the memories left by the original owner. After a while, she shook her head and told the truth: "I rarely spent time with my father. He often followed my grandfather to fight outside. Later, when my grandfather was old, he fought many battles for him. Even when he was not fighting, he was mostly stationed outside. Even if he returned to Beijing, he usually lived in the camp outside Beijing. All in all, he could only be at home for two or three months at most throughout the year. I only remember that he loved my mother very much. My eldest brother always said that he would leave the rare days when my father came home to my mother more often, so that we would not disturb him too much. But my grandfather treated me very well. As long as he was at home, he would talk to me every day, teach me kung fu, and take me to the street to eat delicious food."
She thought of the past, even though it was the past of the original owner, and she couldn't help but laugh.
The winter sun shines into her smiling eyes, and you can see sparkling sparks.
Quan Qinghua smiled, which was rare, but only for a moment, and then returned to his cold expression.
"I'm leaving now." Ye Wenyan said, "Although I don't know how I can help Your Highness, the Fourth Prince, I still say that if there is anything you can do with me, please let me know."
Quan Qinghua still shook her head, "I have said that your father is my teacher, you should just think of it as me repaying my teacher." But she didn't think so, "Father is my father, I am me, I don't like to owe favors to others, so if I don't repay this favor, I'm afraid I will always feel it in my heart, which is very uncomfortable." She bowed to him again, "Fourth Prince, goodbye."
He watched her leave and get on the sedan chair again, accompanied by Lian Shi. He then recalled the night when he sent her to the gate of the palace and was stopped by the imperial guards. The maid of the Fourth Miss Ye held up a bell and asked to go to Yanhua Palace.
The Emperor's Soul-Breaking Bell, that was the first time he saw the real thing. What was the fate of the teacher's daughter?
Ye Wenyan returned to Yanhua Palace and described to the Emperor in a vivid and emotional way how Empress Dowager Li spoke to the fourth young lady.
It was not until this moment that Ye Wenyan discovered Lian Shi’s special ability: good memory.
He really had a good memory, because he could recite every word that Queen Mother Li said word for word, and not only could he recite it, but he could also imitate the tone and expression of the time. She couldn't help but sigh: "Yanhua Palace has produced talents!"