Pei Yi frowned slightly. He subconsciously felt that if the goddess Dan Feng mentioned could heal his damaged spine, she should have done so when she treated him in the carriage.

But now, Mr. Ye said that he had no way out. Bai Yixian was nowhere to be found, and this female doctor was the only glimmer of hope he could grasp in his desperate situation.

He would not allow himself to become a useless person until the northern border was pacified.

He would rather be beheaded by the enemy's sword than become a useless person with a disabled lower body and could only hide at home and wait for death.

A general who cannot go to the battlefield is useless.

He said to Danfeng, "Describe the appearance of the female doctor who treated me in the carriage that day." He then looked at Hua Manxi and said, "Manxi, draw her."

Hua Manxi was not good at martial arts, but was very good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and many other tricks. He was even very good at drawing portraits. While studying at the Imperial College, he worked part-time as a wanted poster painter for the Dali Temple, and helped the Dali Temple capture several extremely vicious criminals.

He then walked to the table, took out a pen and paper, ground some ink himself, and followed Dan Feng's description, drawing the face shape, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth one by one.

After Dan Feng finished speaking, Hua Manxi also stopped writing.

The paper showed a girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a face that blended charm and innocence, which was attractive enough even for a man who had seen countless beauties in the world.

Dan Feng saw the portrait on the paper and praised, "It's her! She is the goddess from that day! It turns out that the goddess is so beautiful."

He was only concerned with his master's illness that day and had no mood to care about anything else, let alone the time to appreciate the beauty of a woman.

Ye Guici frowned when he saw the woman in the portrait and said, "Such a young girl, can she really have the medical skills to bring the dead back to life? My master is also a gifted person in medicine. His hair turned completely white before he reached the pinnacle of medical skills."

Hua Manxi also fell silent.

If such a young and beautiful girl had such outstanding medical skills, she must have been famous all over the world. How could they be so clueless?

Pei Yi said calmly: "Let's find the person first. Danfeng, take the portrait and secretly investigate the identity of this female doctor in the capital and the suburbs."

Although he was in such a hurry that Dan Feng forgot to ask the goddess' name and address, and he didn't see any ornaments on her body that could represent her identity, but that road could only lead to Kyoto. If he looked for her in Kyoto and the suburbs, he should be able to get some information.

After the matter was agreed upon, Dan Feng immediately told Pei Yi: "Master, the goddess originally said that you would wake up in three days, but I was careless and someone in the mansion added a drug to your medicine, so you have been in a coma for ten days."

Pei Yi rubbed his brows and said, "The only person who doesn't want me to wake up too soon is Lin. But she doesn't dare to take my life yet. She just wants me to stay awake for a short time so that my father will be anxious. I am in this state now, and it is not appropriate for the Prince of Yan's Mansion to have another disturbance. Besides, Song Ge'er is too young to distinguish right from wrong. If we deal with Lin now, Song Ge'er will definitely be resentful. You should investigate and collect all the evidence. It will not be too late to deal with it when the time is right in the future."

Dan Feng had no choice but to agree.

At this time, someone came to the palace to convey the emperor's oral instructions, saying that the emperor heard that Prince Pei was seriously injured and could not recover, and was very worried. He specially rewarded Prince Pei with a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and two ginsengs, hoping that Prince Pei would rest assured and recover soon.

The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict had honey on his lips. After delivering the oral order, he exaggerated how worried the emperor was and how he had lost his appetite. To people's ears, it seemed as if the one in trouble was not the emperor's ministers, but his own son.

Seeing that Pei Yi had woken up, he smiled and said that the emperor should be able to have a good meal now.

Pei Yi asked Mr. Ye to collect the medicinal herbs, and asked Dan Feng to give the eunuch a small purse as a reward, and then sent him back.

After the eunuch left, Dan Feng was immediately angry for his master: "Master, the one who wanted to kill you was obviously the chief of the guards of the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace. This must have been done by the Crown Prince! Now that you are awake, let's go to the palace to file a complaint! We must get revenge! What's the use of sending Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng! They can't cure my paralysis--"

Pei Yi has not woken up these days, and he dare not take charge of the affairs of Queshan.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the room fell into silence and no one responded to him.

It was at this time that Fan Xingyang rushed in. He was seriously injured in Queshan and had been recuperating at home for the past few days. Today, he heard the servant report that Old Ye had returned, and thinking that the general should have woken up, he rushed to Prince Yan's Mansion.

Seeing that Pei Yi had indeed woken up, his anxious heart finally found its backbone, and he began to talk more: "Since the general is awake, come with me to the palace. Even if Zhen Gui's body has been left to rot, his sword and the Eastern Palace jade token on his body are still there. Let's go to the palace and confront the prince in front of the emperor and see what the prince has to say!"

Pei Yi and Hua Manxi remained silent. Mr. Ye always focused on treating patients and did not participate in their discussions, so he also remained silent.

Dan Feng noticed something and asked, "Master, don't you want to seek justice for yourself?"

Pei Yi was silent for a moment before he said, "The emperor is acting like this today. I'm afraid he has realized that this was done by the crown prince, but he will not punish the crown prince."

Fan Xingyang said angrily, "Why? We almost all died in Queshan. Do we have to suffer in silence?"

Hua Manxi glanced at Pei Yi and saw that he was weak and didn't want him to talk too much, so she spoke for him, "The emperor suffered from the power of the Empress Dowager's mother's family, the Cao family. He was forced to marry Cao's daughter as the queen and make Cao's legitimate son the crown prince. But how could an emperor be convinced when he was forced to this? Therefore, he deliberately supported the He family and put a knife on Cao's neck to remind them not to play too much, or he would be unhappy and lose everything.

Although the emperor disliked the Cao family, as long as the Cao family was willing to sit safely in the position of a minister, he was willing to let the prince succeed to the throne smoothly to avoid turmoil in the country and prevent him from becoming an unworthy descendant of the Li family. Therefore, although he supported the second prince to threaten the prince's position, he would not let the prince's reputation be tarnished.

Because of the factional disputes, hundreds of secret guards were sent to assassinate the important official who had just pacified the northern border. This might be enough to make the court voice the need to depose the crown prince.

Therefore, even if His Majesty knew about this, he would pretend not to know, and even use force to settle the matter. Therefore, we can only accept this grievance secretly and say that we encountered bandits. "

The matter is actually very simple. If the current emperor intends to promote the current situation, he will not deliberately suppress the prince's face and destroy this balance for the sake of a minister's affairs.

Pei Yi is the eldest son of the Prince of Yan's Mansion. He has to guess the royal intentions and think ten steps ahead in order to save the lives of everyone in the Prince of Yan's Mansion. This is a skill he has to practice since birth.

Hua Manxi could figure this out, but she had to tear Fan Xingyang's mind apart and explain it to him before he could understand.

He stamped his feet in anger: "Hey! I still prefer to stay in the northern border. At least it won't be so frustrating to kill Turkic barbarians on the battlefield!"

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