usatvline Chapter 89 An Unreasonable Request
Chapter 89 An Unreasonable Request
Chapter 89 089 An Unreasonable Request
When Ye Yanxun's voice came from outside, Ye Pianran's expression changed drastically. She instinctively raised her hand to cover Chunyu Yang's mouth, then turned her head to coldly look at the tightly closed door inside, her beautiful eyes filled with barely suppressed hatred. Only after the two maids outside had dismissed Ye Yanxun and their footsteps faded into the distance did her tense body relax, and she let out a long breath.
“The person is gone. Miss Ye, can you please let me go?” Chunyu Yang asked.
Feeling the warm breath on her palm, Ye Pianran realized that she had been tightly covering his mouth. She quickly withdrew her hand as if burned by fire, her pretty face turning completely red.
"Who is this person?" Chunyu Yang asked in a low voice, his gaze lingering on her face.
Ye Pianran's heat subsided slightly, and she said calmly, "He is my elder brother, Ye Yanxun. The prince has also met him, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet."
Chunyu Yang did know that Marquis Anshi had a beloved illegitimate son, but he never expected that they would be so at odds in private. No wonder that on the day in Qionglin Garden, when she was in danger several times, Ye Yanxun never came out to protect her in the slightest.
"Anyone who discovers the Prince's whereabouts in this Marquis's residence can be involved, but it absolutely cannot be him," Ye Pianran said coldly. Otherwise, who knows what kind of conspiracies and traps await their Lanxin Courtyard!
"Why?" For the first time, Chunyu Yang was interested in getting to the bottom of something, even though he knew it was her family matter and he shouldn't interfere too much.
"Your Highness may not know, but my mother's illness isn't an illness at all; she's been poisoned by a slow-acting, rare poison," Ye Pianran said bitterly. "This poison gradually seeps into the body with use, corroding the internal organs, blood, and vital energy, eventually causing the person to vomit blood and die, beyond any hope of recovery. Although I can't obtain evidence that someone else poisoned her, I know that he is definitely involved in this matter!"
“Poisoning one’s mother is a capital offense,” Chunyu Yang said in a deep voice, his brows furrowed.
"Murder?" Ye Pianran sneered. "His birth mother was someone else. In his eyes, my mother was nothing more than a stumbling block that needed to be gotten out as soon as possible! He served my mother faithfully for thirteen years, but he probably never cared about her at all!"
Seeing Chunyu Yang frown and remain silent, Ye Pianran assumed he didn't like hearing such family secrets. For some reason, she felt a pang of sadness and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm so sorry to have Your Highness see such family scandals."
In fact, Chunyu Yang didn't care about adding shame to family matters. Who doesn't have some secrets in their house? Before he was made a king and moved out of the palace, he had seen far more dirty tricks inside the palace walls. The poison in Gongsun Yuan's body was what he cared about most, and it was also one of the reasons why he agreed to stay.
"Has your mother's poison been cured?" he asked.
Ye Pianran said, "I've recovered, and my body is gradually returning to normal."
"Who solved it? And how did they solve it?" Chunyu Yang's eyes darkened as he pressed for an answer.
"I was the one who cured it. The method of detoxification is too mysterious, and I'm afraid it's inconvenient to tell Your Highness," Ye Pianran said apologetically.
Chunyu Yang's expression turned serious, and he said solemnly, "Miss Ye, I have a favor to ask, and I hope you can lend a hand."
His pleading attitude struck Ye Pianran as odd: "Your Highness, there's no need for such formalities. Just speak plainly."
“I would like to ask Miss Ye to detoxify my mother,” Chunyu Yang said. “Her condition is extremely similar to your mother’s. We have consulted countless imperial physicians and tried countless prescriptions, but her health has not improved at all. At first, I thought it was because she had caught a cold and her constitution had deteriorated, but I only recently learned that she must have been poisoned.”
"How could this be!" Ye Pianran was utterly shocked. She never imagined that there was another person in the world who had been poisoned by the same poison as her mother! But how could this be? She was 100% certain that the poison Gongsun Yuan had been poisoned by was from Ye Yingrou, but was Ye Yingrou really that capable of reaching into the inner palace and manipulating events?
"Your Highness, how long has Consort Xian been 'ill'?" Ye Pianran asked with an unusually serious expression.
“It has been four months so far,” Chunyu Yang said.
Four months isn't too long; two bottles of spiritual spring water should be enough to completely cure her. Chunyu Yang was her savior, and his intervention in rescuing Consort Zhuang was perfectly understandable, but…
However, she possessed a strange spatial dimension, within which a spiritual spring could not only cleanse the body of impurities but also accelerate wound healing, making one immune to all diseases—something she absolutely could not reveal. Furthermore, she had personally witnessed Gongsun Yuan vomiting black blood when she underwent detoxification, and as one of the four consorts, Consort Zhuang held a noble status. If anything went wrong, and she couldn't explain, she would likely face utter destruction.
"To be honest, Your Highness, I do have the ability to cure this poison, and I am willing to help you. However, I must stay by your side at all times during the detoxification process. But I am not yet a physician in the Imperial Hospital, and I am afraid I can't even enter the inner palace. How can I possibly detoxify Consort Xian?" Ye Pianran said with considerable difficulty.
Chunyu Yang hadn't thought of that. He pondered for a while and said, "Before the beginning of winter, Father will definitely go to Xingzhou hunting grounds for an autumn hunt. At that time, princes and ministers of the fifth rank and above in the palace will definitely accompany the emperor. If I can persuade Mother to go with him, that would be a good opportunity to detoxify."
Autumn hunt? Yes, in his previous life, Ye Yanxun went on an autumn hunt in Xingzhou with Marquis Anshi after the autumn imperial examination. After returning, he became the heir apparent of Marquis Anshi and truly secured his position in the Marquis's mansion. That's why Xu Pingyue was able to return to the Marquis's mansion and become his second wife after Gongsun Yuan's death.
Perhaps in the previous life, it wasn't just Ye Yanxun who went to Xingzhou; Ye Yingrou probably went as well. Otherwise, why would Chunyu Jing come to the Marquis's mansion to marry her immediately after she became the legitimate daughter?
Autumn hunting. This is indeed a good opportunity.
A deep, dark glint flashed in Ye Pianran's eyes: "Alright, when the time comes, I will definitely find a way to go to Xingzhou and personally detoxify Consort Xian."
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"...The eldest young lady got up at Chenshi (7-9 AM), went to Madam's room to pay her respects at Chenshi 2:45 AM, played with the young master for a while, and then returned to her own room. She never came out again, and entrusted Lingyi and Sister Lingshu with everything..."
Inside the Hejing Courtyard, Jasmine knelt before Ye Yanxun, meticulously reporting her discoveries. Ye Yanxun toyed with two peach pits in his hands, his gaze extremely deep.
"Is this all you've observed these past two days? It seems I can't have too high expectations of you."
Jasmine's face turned pale instantly, and her body began to tremble.
Seeing this, Youhe reminded Jasmine, "Don't just talk about the past two days. Before the young master returned to the manor, did anything strange happen to the young lady?"
“This…” Jasmine frowned in distress, pondered for a while, and then suddenly opened her eyes wide: “That’s right! I remember now! Once, when I was sent by the madam to deliver fresh fruit to Miss, as I turned to leave, I seemed to hear a man’s voice coming from Miss’s room!”
Ye Yanxun's expression changed, and he stood up with a sharp look in his eyes: "A man's voice? Are you sure?"
"Although the sound was fleeting, I heard it very clearly. I just thought that the young lady was punishing the servants, so I didn't think too much about it..." Jasmine said.
If Ye Pianran really was hiding a man in the house, then that would explain why she'd been staying inside all this time. Ha, who would have thought this girl, while breaking off her engagement with Ouyang Shaoyu, was secretly flirting with other men? She really does live up to the rumors—a woman who can't stand loneliness and is promiscuous.
A wicked plan suddenly formed in his mind. He sent Jasmine away and said to Youhe, "Youhe, go to Aunt Song's courtyard and tell her that it's time for her to repay this young master."
"Yes!"
Youhe bowed and accepted the order, then turned and quickly walked outside. A moment later, she returned to Hejing Courtyard with Aunt Song. Upon seeing Ye Yanxun, Aunt Song's expressionless face immediately contorted into a forced smile, and she said:
"It's been a while since I last saw you, young master, you've become even more handsome and dashing, hehe."
Ye Yanxun was too lazy to waste words with her and went straight to the point: "I wonder if Aunt Song still remembers the promise she made to me a few days ago?"
Aunt Song naturally remembered that after the last Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Ye Yanxun was ordered to investigate the coachman, and she had come to him to ask him to give false testimony. She immediately said, "Of course I remember. I was able to get away with it thanks to the young master's help. I just don't know how the young master wants me to repay him this time?"
"Now there is an excellent opportunity for Consort Song to snatch back the seal of the Marquis's mansion, but the process is quite dangerous. It all depends on whether Consort Song dares to do it," Ye Yanxun said calmly.
Upon hearing that she could reclaim the palm seal, Aunt Song's eyes lit up: "What opportunity?"
Ye Yanxun whispered a few words to her, and the more Aunt Song listened, the deeper her smile became. After listening, she immediately clapped her hands and said, "Young Master is indeed well-read and has a very good idea! With this method, Lanxin Courtyard will never be able to turn things around!"
Ye Yanxun smiled warmly: "It all depends on Aunt Song."