The villagers only then learned that Yao Ru was so skilled in medicine because he had a father who was even more proficient...

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Time flew like an arrow, and suddenly it was May.

The blazing sun scorched the earth like fire, the grass curled beneath the heat, and people seemed to be on the verge of emitting smoke from the tops of their heads as they walked on the ground.

The summer cicadas tirelessly called out from the big trees outside the hamlet, over and over again, and at night, the frogs by the creek croaked incessantly...

Inside the Yangxin Restaurant, it was extremely stifling. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Yuan Shangyi longed for everything outside.

The cicadas’ cries, the frogs, the stream, the blossoming locust flowers...

In the evening when Doctor Yao came over to diagnose, he suddenly looked up at the young boy standing beside the doctor.

"Yansheng, can cicadas fly?"

The twelve-year-old Jin Yansheng had been sent to Doctor Yao’s medical hut by Xiaoman to do odd jobs, and in her private thoughts, she also wanted him to learn some skills from Doctor Yao, so that he could later take the right path and heal the world and save people...

Doctor Yao happily agreed, and usually took him at his side.

But Yansheng was strictly controlled by his father at the Feng Family, had a strong sense of hierarchy, and when he went to Taiping Garden and Yangxin Restaurant, he didn’t dare to raise his head or look directly at the Princess or the Young Emperor.

Suddenly hearing the Young Emperor asking him, he subconsciously looked up, meeting Yuan Shangyi’s gaze directly...

It was then that he realized.

The Young Emperor wasn’t scary at all.

He was so small, such a tiny child...

But he was the Emperor.

Everyone had to respect him, be afraid of him.

Yansheng also couldn’t understand why, but his lips moved weakly, and faintly from his mouth popped out two words.

"Can fly."

The Female Historian frowned when she saw this.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shangyi asked again, "Then, do frogs grow in water or on land?"

Yansheng replied, "In water. They can also jump to land."

"Do frogs have wings?"

"No."

"Why do cicadas never fly into my courtyard?"

Yansheng pondered for a moment.

"Your Majesty is the Emperor, cicadas are afraid of you."

He originally intended to flatter the Young Emperor, as that’s how his father spoke to their owners back in the Feng Residence.

Who would have thought that after hearing this, the already frail and pale face of the Young Emperor seemed to show an even heavier sign of illness.

It took a good while before he said, "So even cicadas are afraid of the Emperor..."

Doctor Yao watched for a moment, smiled as he left the prescription, and took Yansheng to leave.

As he stepped over the threshold, he looked back.

Sure enough, he saw Yuan Shangyi’s gaze following them...

"He is a pitiful child." In Feng Yun’s study, Yao Ru presented the medical records, his mind repeatedly flashing with the image of the Young Emperor’s eyes, and he couldn’t help but sigh.

"Without parents by his side, the people around him hushing and deceiving just to keep him from crying and being troublesome, so they can report that all is well, no one cares whether he is happy or unhappy, joyful or miserable..."

He shook his head.

Such days, noble as the Emperor might be, what good are they?

Feng Yun looked down carefully at the medical records, and only after a while did she look up.

"His condition never fully improves, what is the reason?"

Yao Ru’s eyebrows sunk, "This child has been afflicted with illness since a young age, not old in years but suffering a longstanding illness, he still needs to be slowly nursed... But being cooped up in the courtyard all day is not conducive to his recovery, he also needs to come out and move around, to heal the body one must also soothe the heart."

Feng Yun pondered for a moment, put down the medical record.

"Since it is called Yangxin Restaurant, it should naturally focus on nourishing the heart."

The two discussed Yuan Shangyi’s condition for a moment, and as Doctor Yao was leaving, he told Feng Yun.

"The Princess’s health is indeed much improved now, today the Lord of Pingyuan County even asked me to relay a message, saying after a few days he will bring His Highness to play in the hamlet..."

Feng Yun smiled without saying a word.

This had always been Puyang Yi’s idea.

She wanted her mother to spend more time with her.

Yao Ru looked deep, hesitating, "The Princess has also probed me several times..."

"Probed you about what?"

"About whether there is any news from the King, asked what my wife thinks about her, in my humble opinion, Her Highness seems somewhat uneasy..."

Always worrying about when Pei Jue will seek retribution from her after autumn, how can the Princess be at ease?

Feng Yun smiled, "Then let her be worried."

She herself, was also anxious, wasn’t she?

It’s been so long since the great victory in the northwest, the damn man had not sent a single word to her, has he forgotten that he has a wife here?

Feng Yun had not written to him either.

He was on campaign, without a fixed location.

She didn’t want to appear overly longing and worried, lest he become distracted with unnecessary thoughts and affect his resolve...

Forget it.

She would settle accounts with him when he returned from the campaign.

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The next day was another clear and bright day.

Despite the lovely weather, Yangxin Restaurant was filled with trepidation.

The Young Emperor refused to take his medicine anymore, lying on the couch complaining of a headache, unwilling to get up or eat, no matter how the Female Historian and Dong Bai coaxed him, he would not say much.