The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 472: A Different Way to Celebrate Birthday

It was not surprising that Ye Jingsheng had such thoughts, because he felt that the reason why the eldest princess sent the invitation to Ye Wenyan was entirely to humiliate Ye Wenyan. Who knows what tricks she had thought of to deal with Ye Wenyan at the banquet!

He also happened to have a grudge against Ye Wenyan, so he didn't expect Ye Wushuang to do anything. As long as she did nothing and just showed that she was not the same kind of person as Ye Wenyan, she would definitely be favored by the eldest princess. After all, the eldest princess hated the eldest branch of the Ye family to the core, and she would look at anyone who had a grudge against the eldest branch differently.

This proves the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so Ye Wushuang should be the eldest princess's friend.

At midnight, Ye Wenyan was getting ready for bed. Ji Rong brought a bowl of warm soup into the room and said to her, "My mother said that I had a cold body when I was a child, and I drank this soup to cure it. These days, I have been following the master, and I feel that the master's body is really too cold, so I tried to make a bowl of it. Master, please try it. If it works, I will make it for you every day in the future."

Ye Wenyan took it and tasted it. It tasted good. But whether her body was warm or cold was not something that could be solved by a bowl of soup. But she couldn't tell Ji Rong about this, and she didn't want to disappoint the girl's kindness, so she nodded, "Then make it every night! This soup is quite delicious."

Ji Rong was very happy, "Master, as long as you like to drink, I will make it for you every night. By the way, Master, my brother came over just now and said that he has been keeping an eye on the old lady and the second house recently. Everything is still the same as before, without much change or progress. Even in private, the second house talks about some things very vaguely and never says anything clearly. Including Xichun, who is now keeping his mouth shut and doesn't even talk nonsense in his dreams. My brother asked if it is necessary to continue keeping an eye on them?"

Ye Wenyan thought about it and shook his head, "No need to keep an eye on it, just withdraw! I have basically found out everything, now I am just considering how to make these things public, or do it in private."

Ji Rong asked her quietly, "My lady, what Xichun did with the Second Master and the Second Madam, is it related to the old general and the great general? If you haven't figured out how to deal with the Second Master, you might as well kill Xichun first."

Ye Wenyan had never explicitly told his subordinates about the murder of Fu Shi's brother by the old lady of the Ye family and the second branch, but he had never deliberately concealed it. Including the several times when he tortured the old lady, everyone followed suit.

So even if she didn't say some things, the girls under her were not fools. They had guessed most of the things by now. At least they must know that the old general was killed by the old lady, and the great general was murdered by the second master's family.

Everyone was waiting to see how Ye Wenyan would take revenge. Ye Wenyan herself was also thinking over and over again how to take revenge and preserve the reputation of the Ye family, so that General Ye, who had endured so many years, would not be destroyed by her in one day. "Wait a little longer!" she said, "I can always think of a better way. I also need to know what Xiao Shubai meant by what he said to my mother before my father died. She is at the end of her rope now, and I don't think she can hold on for much longer."

The plan was withdrawn, and the secret guards that had been borrowed from the Prince Ren's Mansion had long been returned. Ye Wenyan no longer needed to monitor the second house. As she said, everything that should be known was already known, and it was useless to monitor what was not known.

Now she had to consider how to kill this family, and make the original owner happy, and not lose face for the Ye family. After all, General Ye had endured it for so many years, whether it was because of the favor of the Jiang family or because he felt that the Ye family could not afford to lose this person, he endured it anyway. The original owner had endured it, so how could she tear off this layer of face again.

The next day, a grand banquet was held to celebrate the eldest princess Quan Qianluo’s 33rd birthday.

Quan Qianluo was a princess who was married off to a foreign country, and was married to Qiuhu, who was overthrown by Northern Qi. Even her husband died at the hands of General Ye Jinggui, and her child could not be saved. This led to her great hatred for both Northern Qi and Ye Jinggui.

When the late emperor was alive, he always felt that the person he had let down the most in his life was his daughter, so he tried his best to compensate her. Not only did he choose a husband for her, but he also turned a blind eye to her hatred for the Ye family.

Unexpectedly, the husband she chose later also died, and the late emperor felt even more sorry for his daughter. He didn't know how to make up for his debt, so he built the princess's mansion extremely luxuriously, and held banquets for Quan Qianluo every New Year to make her happy. He also asked all the royal relatives and nobles in the inner city of Lin'an to go to the princess's mansion to coax her, flatter her, say what she liked to hear, and give her the gifts she liked.

Every year on Quan Qianluo's birthday, the banquet was even more impressive. In addition, the princess's mansion was large enough, so the size of the eldest princess' birthday banquet was not much different from that of the palace banquet. In short, such a banquet was a grand event for the entire inner city of Lin'an. Everyone would feel proud to receive an invitation from the eldest princess, and would also prepare expensive gifts for the eldest princess. Because they knew that although the previous emperor was gone, based on the royal family's debt to the eldest princess, the new emperor would listen to the words of this imperial sister. So as long as you can be on good terms with the eldest princess, it is equivalent to having a life-saving talisman.

Of course, there is another benefit, that is, more people participate than palace banquets, and the scope of the invitations is wider than that of palace banquets. Officials below the third rank are not allowed to enter the palace, but the invitations to the eldest princess' birthday banquet are sent to all the official residences in the inner city of Lin'an. As long as they are officials in Beijing, no matter how big or small their official positions are, they will be invited.

This made the wives of officials below the third rank very excited. This was a great opportunity to make friends. Not only could they chat with the wives and daughters of high-ranking officials, but they could even find a good marriage for their children.

Therefore, from another perspective, the eldest princess’ birthday banquet is also a blind date conference in disguise.

Of course, the invitations to the birthday banquet were not sent out without any selection. Families that were particularly disliked by the princess, such as the Ye family, would never be invited. But this year was an exception. Many people had heard that Ye Wenyan would attend the banquet, and some people had heard that the invitation was sent by the princess's attendant, and that the fourth young lady of the Ye family was to be invited.

Someone analyzed, "The Ye family is different now. The general that the eldest princess hated the most is dead, and the remaining family can no longer lead troops to fight. In addition, the fourth Miss Ye is a miracle doctor. Not only did she cure the emperor's throat, she also made great contributions during the earth dragon's turnaround. The eldest princess probably wants to use this to ease the relationship with the Ye family!"

Some people disagreed: "How can it be eased? The relationship between the Princess's Mansion and the General's Mansion has become so bad that every year at the Princess's birthday banquet, they would recall the past and curse General Ye. One year, they even held a ceremony to wish General Ye dead on the battlefield. They had several people perform a heaven-sacrificing dance, saying that after the dance, the general would have no chance of survival."

"That's useless! It happened many years ago, and General Ye is still alive and well. He didn't die on the battlefield, but died of illness at home. The Ye family knew that the heaven sacrifice was just a joke, so they didn't bother with her. But the relationship between the two families is really too bad, and I don't think it can be eased."

"It's impossible to ease the situation. With the eldest princess's temper, how could she let the Ye family go just because someone died? If that were the case, she wouldn't have set off firecrackers at the gate of the mansion for three consecutive days when the general passed away."

The news that Ye Wenyan was going to attend the banquet was discussed by people all day long. Until the afternoon, when Ye Wenyan was dressed and ready to go to the banquet, Ji Duo hurried in and said to her, "Master, something strange has happened in the Princess's Mansion again this year."

Ye Wenyan was stunned. "What's going on? Are you talking about my father?"

Ji Duo was so angry that he told Ye Wenyan, "Not only did they talk about the general, the princess actually asked someone to make a scarecrow, put armor on it, wrote the general's name on it, and knelt at the gate of the mansion to welcome the guests."

"What?" Before Ye Wenyan could respond, Zhuier got angry first, "Then the princess is sick, right? The general is a national hero, how can she be trampled on like this? Is there no one to take care of this matter?"

Ji Duo shook his head. "No one is in charge for now. I don't know if the emperor will take care of it after the news reaches the palace."

"If he doesn't care, I'll just beat him to death! He doesn't even have this much awareness, what kind of emperor is he!" Zhuier was furious and scolded whoever she caught. Quan Qingcheng had rarely been treated as an emperor in front of her, and now he was even more classified as the eldest princess's group. "Why are all the Quan family members like this! They are not the same, right? Yes, it must be like this. I remember that on the night of the New Year's Eve palace banquet, the eldest princess seemed to protect Quan Qingcheng in her words and deeds. I guess they must be of one mind."

The little girl became more and more angry as she spoke, "Miss, you are really nice to him for nothing!"

Ye Wenyan did not comment on this. She just asked Ji Duo: "Does my mother know about this?"

Ji Duo shook his head, "I didn't report it to the Madam." She breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't tell her yet, and also warn everyone in the mansion to keep their mouths shut. Whoever dares to tell this to my mother will have their tongue cut off, no matter who it is!"

"Don't worry, master. I will keep an eye on it myself." Ji Duo took the order and turned to leave the house.

Zhuier was still angry and kept scolding Quan Qingcheng for being an ungrateful person. Ji Rong advised her, "My brother has already said that the news has not yet reached the palace, and the emperor doesn't know about it yet. Zhuier, it's too early for you to scold him. Besides, even if he knows, what can he do? When the late emperor was alive, he let the princess do whatever she wanted. A few years ago, at her birthday banquet, she performed a ritual in public to curse the general to die in battle, but the late emperor didn't say anything!"

"The late emperor is the late emperor, and Quan Qingcheng is Quan Qingcheng. I have no control over the late emperor, but if Quan Qingcheng indulges the eldest princess like his father did, I will definitely turn against him!"

Ji Rong wanted to say that he was the emperor, how could he care about a little maid like you? In the end, she didn't have the heart to dampen Zhuier's momentum, so she turned to Ye Wenyan and said, "Master, why don't we not go? She has done such a thing, why should we go to celebrate her birthday?" Ye Wenyan shook his head, "We still have to go, but for this birthday, we have to celebrate it in a different way!"