Chapter 62: CH 53.1

The crowd expected to see a long bearded, bearded, shining, respected old man but instead the door opened and a drunken young man came tumbling in from outside.

Noble Consort Hui said with a giggle: “Is this the famous physician of Jiangnan?”

Ye Tianshi slowly raised his head, he had a very handsome face, not like a famous physician but like a popular opera singer, he looked like a singing butterfly. He looked at Noble Consort Hui as if he had drunk too much wine and then at Consort Xian and at the court ladies around him and finally at Wei Yingluo's face.

“Ye Tianshi!” Hongli frowned, “Zhen asked you to treat the patient, what are you looking at instead of the patient?”

“Your Majesty forgive me.” I don't know if he was talking drunk or sincere but he laughed and said, “This room is full of flowers (beautiful girls perhaps?), it is full of awing structures, I am dumbfounded!”

Hongli's face immediately turned sour.

Wei Yingluo did not expect this famous Jiangnan physician to be so desperate, he was afraid that he would be dragged out by Hongli and beheaded in the next moment, so he carried Little Brother over to him and said: “Please ask Dr. Ye to see Little Brother!”

“Oh, oh, yes, yes.” Ye Tianshi responded cheerfully, looking more and more like a drunkard.

Only when his gaze fell on Little Brother, the debauchery was immediately gone, even the drift in his gaze was instantly removed and he became clear and bright.

After a long time, he made the diagnosis: “Little Brother has jaundice.”

“Impossible!” Noble Consort Hui exclaimed at once, “This Palace Mistress has seen jaundice in a child but never one with golden pupils!”

Ye Tianshi glanced at her and said indifferently: “That's because Niangniang has lived in the palace for so long, she's ignorant.”

Noble Consort Hui was trembling with anger, she shot a glare at the Imperial Physician, who could not help but come forward and say: “We Imperial Physicians are not ignorant, usually jaundice in children only appears on the face, neck and extremities, have we ever seen it spread to the pupils?”

“The jaundice you describe is congenital, even if left untreated, it will recover on its own in seven days. But Little Brother's jaundice is pathological, it is often associated with a severe stagnation of maternal bile path…” Seeing the disbelief on the faces of the people, Ye Tianshi simply smiled and said, “This way I'll prescribe a remedy to remove the yellow from Little Brother's body in just half a month! If not, the Emperor can take away this head on my head!”

If a man dares to put his own head on the line, he must be sure of ten percent.

Noble Consort Hui's face was hard, Wei Yingluo was relieved, clutched Little Brother in his arms and said: “This is over...”

No, it's not over yet.

“This humble woman Greets his Holiness Emperor!”

Consort Chun suddenly came in from outside, followed by two eunuchs, one behind the other, carrying a stretcher, on which was a recently dead body.

“Ah!” Noble Consort Hui rushed to cover her eyes with her sleeve, unable to look away.

Consort Chun stopped and laughed at her: “Noble Consort Niangniang is not afraid when she kills a man, why is she afraid when he saw a corpse?”

Hearing her words, Noble Consort Hui lowered her sleeve and said: “Consort Chun, what do you mean?”

“Noble Consort Niangniang.” Consort Chun turned her body to the side, leaving the stretcher behind her and pointing to the body on top, said, “Do you recognise this man?”

Noble Consort Hui only glanced at corpse for a moment, before pulling back and saying: “No.”

“This man is the Mongolian cook of the Imperial Tea Kitchen.” Consort Chun stared at her, “The same man who makes the food for Noble Lady Yu.”

With these words, she clapped her hands and a court lady entered from outside carrying a food box, Consort Chun removes the lid, pointing to the layers of scones inside: “The food this cook cooks, this humble woman has also ordered it to be brought!”

“Huh? Let's see.” Ye Tianshi came forward, picked up a scone and looked at it and finally to the amazement of the crowd, passed it to his mouth and took a bite.

Aren't you afraid of poison? The crowd shouted in their hearts.

Ye Tianshi puffs out his cheeks and said as he chews: “Soba, beef, lamb...”

With a grunt, he swallows the contents of his mouth, then looked at the crowd and said: “Apart from these scones, what else does that Noble Lady Yu like to eat?”

“Sugar cakes.” This was Wei Yingluo's reply, the Changchun Palace was close to the Yonghe Palace, she was often sent by the Empress to visit Noble Lady Yu and was sometimes left with a meal, so naturally she knew what Noble Lady Yu liked to eat, “all kinds of sugar cakes and what she liked to eat. “all kinds of sugar cakes, hardly any main meals.”

“I get it, I get it!” Ye Tianshi slapped his thighs together, “I see where Little Brother's illness came from!”

“Oh?” Hongli looked at him and said, “Tell me more.”

“Your Majesty, nothing should be overdone, too much medicine is poison, so is food.” Ye Tianshi replied, “For example, these sugar cakes and meat pies, you can eat one a day but not two meals a day for months on end, that is too much!”

“Physician Ye, what you mean is...” Wei Yingluo asked tentatively, “Fifth Prince was born yellow because of the overdose of scones and sugar cakes?”

If it is as he said, then this is not a natural disaster but a man made one.