Your Highness's Beloved Medical-skilled Princess

Chapter 117 The Staff

"Wipe my sweat first!" Retired Emperor said in a commanding tone.

Yuan Qingling took out her handkerchief and wiped his sweat while saying, "You must be tired,

your grace. Take a rest and drink something!"

"I'm almost done. Just a few details left," Retired Emperor took a glimpse at her and said, "I think

you shouldn't dress like a man earlier when you wanted to take down Lord Huiding. If you really didn't

care about your reputation, you should've caught his attention as Princess Chu. Seduce

him even."

"I can't see the difference. He had already known who I was."

"Yeah, he knew who you were, but he pretended that he didn't! If he had killed you, no one

would have known it was him! No one had seen you with him! However, if you have made contact with

him as Princess Chu, he wouldn't dare to do anything to you because if you had died, people would

have accused him of it."

Yuan Qingling was speechless.

"You have to think about the consequences before doing anything, including the worst-case scenario.

You have to take someone down with you if something worse happens."

"I never heard of somethings as wise as this, your grace! I can't thank you enough," Yuan Qingling said

solemnly. Retired Emperor was right. She had put herself in danger. If it weren't for Dooby and his

friend, she would have died for nothing.

"You have to bear those words in mind, my Lady. You are the first one that his grace explained

something like that," Servant Chang reminded. That was some dark royal tactic.

"Yeah, I know," Yuan Qingling nodded and got even closer to Retired Emperor because she knew

he was the most powerful man that she could rely on in the palace.

"OK, you can go home now. Our conversation is slowing me down!" Retired Emperor pushed away

Yuan Qingling's head and said, "I surmise you have to go to Yu Wenhuai's mansion tomorrow, and you

must prepare for it? Just go and do your thing!"

"You really know everything, don't you!" Yuan Qingling gasped. She had come straight to his

palace after meeting Emperor Mingyuan. She hadn't seen anyone bringing the news to Retired

Emperor on the way!

"It's easy to guess. A few days have passed since you, and Princess Qi had the fight. If Emperor

Mingyuan had the intention to get to the bottom of it, he would've done it earlier. He summoned you

today! That means he was up to something. And you are not all useless. You have that strange medical

skill. He hadn't asked you at first because he didn't want to ruin your reputation if you failed in curing Yu

Wenhuai. But he was running out of patience. As a father, he couldn't bear something bad happening

to his boy," Retired Emperor explained with a deep sigh.

‘Why could he be this smart? If he were the current king, the Chu family wouldn't dare to be such a

pain in the ass!' Yuan Qingling thought.

"When can I have this staff?" Yuan Qingling asked eagerly.

"I have to ask them to bring it to you as a royal gift! No one will pay attention to a staff unless it is given

by the king," Retired King answered patiently. After saying that, he turned around and continued with

his carvings. Yuan Qingling noticed a long thin chisel. She had never seen something like that before.

"Right, right!" Yuan Qingling giggled.

She was curious about the chisel. Just when she was about to reach out and touch it, Retired King

glared at her and warned, "Don't touch it! It's my precious! Leave my palace now!"

Yuan Qingling was stressed when she had been summoned to the Royal Workroom by Emperor

Mingyuan, but after talking to Retired Emperor, she regained her strength. It was reassuring to know

someone as powerful as Retired King got her back.

At the same time, Queen Lu heard Emperor Mingyuan order all the imperial doctors who were in Yu

Wenhuai palace to retreat and asked Yuan Qingling to cure his son.

She smashed everything she could smash in her palace. After that, she rushed to the Royal Workroom

and cried her lung out, and begged Emperor to allow her son in his mansion.

Emperor Mingyuan was always petrified by women's tears. Thus he waved his hand while nodding,

"OK, I allow it."

Queen Lu stopped crying immediately, and a stern look appeared on her face. She thanked Emperor

Mingyuan and left the room.

Mu Ru answered, "Will Queen Lu get in the way of Princess Chu's treating process?"

"Of course she will," Emperor Mingyuan replied.

"Then why are did you allow her to go there, your grace?"

Emperor Mingyuan looked at Mu Ru and shook his head while saying, "You would never understand."

"Yes, I'm not as smart as you. Please tell me the answer, your grace."

Emperor Mingyuan didn't answer his question. He couldn't explain things about women to a eunuch.

Yu Wenhao was waiting anxiously in his palace for Yuan Qingling. The servants in his palace had told

him Yuan Qingling had been summoned to the imperial palace because of the lake incident. Just when

Yu Wenhao was thinking about going into the palace, Yuan Qingling came back.

"The Emperor asked me to cure Yu Wenhuai," Yuan Qingling said to him the moment she saw him.

"Are you sure you can cure him?" Yu Wenhao asked with shock.

"Nope." Yuan Qingling shook her head.

"If you are not sure about this, you don't have to go." Content is © by NôvelDrama.Org.

Yuan Qingling sat down and drank a glass of water, and answered, "No, I have to. I don't have a

choice. You know your father more than anyone. If I disobey him, he can chop my head off!"

"You are exaggerating! He wouldn't go that far!"

"Yeah, you are right!" Yuan Qingling noticed the worrying look on her face and tried to cheer him up,

"You don't have to worry too much about it. I think the Emperor won't really punish me even if I failed."

"I'm not worried. I was afraid that you would screw up in there. What if you made a mistake, give him

the wrong medicine or something like that. It could be dangerous. If you are sure that you can cure him,

I support it. But if you don't know what would happen, just don't go."

Yuan Qingling put down the glass and glared at him. "Is it illegal to say something nice to me?"

"You sure you don't know what is happening to Yu Wenhuai?"

"It's complicated. I have to check him out myself."

"I think you will need me there," Yu Wenhao stressed. He said it in a commanding tone. Yuan

Qingling realized he wasn't asking her for permission.

"You have work tomorrow. I will bring Nurse Xi with me," Yuan Qingling shook her head and answered.

"I'm going," Yu Wenhao repeated angrily.

She stood up and walked out of the room with her hands on her back. And all of a sudden she stopped,

looked back, and said coldly, "The Retired Emperor said he would give me a gift."

"What? Why?"

"I don't know. But it had a name. He said it's called a husband-discipline-staff. He said I could hit you

with it without a reason!" Yuan Qingling chirped and strode out of the room with a big smile.

Yu Wenhao froze for a few seconds! ‘What is happening? Retired Emperor was really my grandfather?'

he wondered.

Later that day, the staff came.

It was slightly different from the staff she had seen earlier. It was dark red, smooth and a dragon was

carved around it. The dragon that was carved on the staff looked like it was flying over the clouds. Yuan

Qingling saw three words, The Royal Staff.

The staff was heavy. It looked harder than other walking sticks.

"Do you know what kind of wood is it made of?" Yuan Qingling asked.

Nurse Xi took a glimpse at it and answered, "I think it is made of iron birch."