Chapter 322 – The Imperial Decree (2)

When Ye Zhen and Old Madam Lu returned to the Lu Mansion they spoke nothing about the news of her becoming (or about to become) a princess. After all, the imperial edict hadn’t been passed yet, it wouldn’t do good for them to get everybody’s hopes up for nothing should something untoward happen.

However, Ye Zhen still secretly told Pei Shi.

Pei Shi was happy and sad at the same time. She didn’t know whether or not this daughter that she had held so carefully in the palm of her hand from the time of her birth would drift away from her after becoming a princess. “Yaoyao, you are fortunate.”

Ye Zhen grabbed her arm and said, “Mother, no matter what I become in the future, you will always be my mother. ”

Pei Shi’s heart immediately melted into a puddle. “Don’t continue going to the academy after you become a princess.”

“I want to go. In two days, I also want to attend the examination,” Ye Zhen said cheerily. Unknowingly, she had already fallen in love with medicine. She thought that it was great that she could save people with her medical skills. Though she had become a princess, and her status was now different, but what difference did that make? It was just an imperial edict. There was a possibility that she might no longer be a princess one day.

She wanted to learn medicine and be as skilled as Mister Chen. Then, at that time, no matter what stood against her, she would have the confidence to face it.

Pei Shi furrowed her brows in distaste. “What, are there any princesses who have also become imperial physicians? ”

“But there have been empresses in the past dynasties that have left the comforts of the palace to cure people,” Ye Zhen countered.

“You…you… you.” Pei Shi looked at her daughter helplessly, “Since when did you get so many big ideas? It is