Chapter 20: How to be worthy of being the Crown Princess?
Gu Yan thought for a while before saying, "It should be about six years."
Yun Xiangye glared at Gu Yan angrily. Six years? My cousin actually took contraceptive pills for six years!
Gu Yan hurriedly said, "Xiang Ye, I will go and persuade His Highness not to let Aunt Ye take contraceptive pills anymore, but I'm sorry I can't do anything about your desire to get your cousin out of the East Palace."
Yun Xiangye stood up and said, "What a pair of cousins! They are both shameless people with beastly hearts!"
Gu Yan hurriedly covered Yun Xiangye's mouth, "You scold me, that's fine, but how dare you scold His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Do you want to lose your head?"
Yun Xiangye shook off Gu Yan's hand and said, "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is unwilling to give my sister the title of concubine, he might as well consider that my sister has been with him for so many years and preserve the master-servant relationship and let my sister leave the palace."
Gu Yan said: "For six years, even if it's just a dog, you'd be reluctant to let it go, let alone the person next to you. Compared to being a concubine, as the head maid of the East Palace, you can be by the side of His Highness at any time. Everyone in the palace will give Aunt Ye some face, which is not a bad thing.
And your Highness also likes Aunt Ye. Aunt Ye is the head maid in the East Palace, and your Highness will protect her well."
Yun Xiangye said, "Like? What you mean by like is that as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you make the woman you love a slave? If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is second only to the emperor and above everyone else, truly likes a woman, he will definitely overcome all difficulties to make her the Crown Princess."
Gu Yan frowned slightly and said, "Xiangye, are you confused? What is your cousin's identity? How can she be qualified to be the Crown Princess?"
Yun Xiangye frowned. She blurted out these words because she was too angry. She also knew in her heart that her sister's identity was definitely not worthy of being the Crown Princess.
But when these words came out of Gu Yan's mouth, she felt really uncomfortable.
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "Yes, my cousin is not worthy of being the Crown Princess, and I am not worthy of being your Prince Ning's Consort. Since you look down on me like this, it would be better for us to divorce as soon as possible."
Yun Xiangye saw that Gu Yan's face deserved a beating, so he raised his hand and was about to hit him, but this time Gu Yan had already dodged.
Gu Yan raised his hand and grasped Yun Xiangye's wrist and said, "I am different from your Highness. Your Highness's Crown Princess will be the Empress who rules the country in the future! It's not that I look down on you and your cousin's backgrounds, but the Empress who rules the country cannot be the daughter of a commoner from a small town merchant family."
Yun Xiangye said, "It's so funny. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks that her background doesn't make her fit to be the Crown Princess, but at the same time he can't bear to see her leave the palace. If he looks down on Sister He's background, why does he have to force her to stay in the palace?"
Gu Yan said: "This was done by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Why are you angry with me?"
Yun Xiangye said: "You are birds of a feather."
Gu Yan had a headache. "Yun Xiangye, I let you be unreasonable before, but now you want your cousin to be the Crown Princess. It is impossible in this life. Even if the Crown Princess is not Fu Qianran, the most talented woman in Chang'an who has been well-read since childhood, she will definitely not be a palace maid."
Yun Xiangye became more annoyed as she listened, "Do I want my cousin to be a crown princess? I want my cousin to leave the palace and reunite with my uncle and aunt!"
Gu Yan said with a headache: "You should rest earlier. You must be tired from traveling all the way, which is why you can't calm down these days."
Yun Xiangye also wanted to remain calm, but how could she remain calm when she saw her sister suffering so much grievance and helplessness?
I have suffered enough injustice myself, but I never expected that my sister, who grew up with me, would be bullied like this.
Yun Xiangye shed tears, knowing that Gu Yan didn't have her in his heart, but she didn't expect that he still looked down on her family so much.
Gu Yan walked forward and wiped Yun Xiangye's tears and said, "I will go to His Highness tomorrow and ask him not to give Aunt Ye the contraceptive pills anymore."
Yun Xiangye shook off Gu Yan's hand, "You don't have to be so sanctimonious and pretend to be kind."
After Yun Xiangye finished speaking, he opened the study door and returned to his own room.
Inside the room, four maids from the palace were waiting for Yun Xiangye to come back and give them names.
Yun Xiangye had no thoughts today and just asked Run'er to arrange for the four of them to stay first.
Yun Xiangye was alone in the room thinking about countermeasures, but after thinking over and over again, she still couldn't come up with a perfect plan.
Now I can only wait for the Queen Mother to get my cousin out of the Eastern Palace. Although this is not a good idea, it is the only hope to get my cousin to leave the Eastern Palace.
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At dinner time.
Zhao Yun looked at Queen Wei who came to the East Palace, and hurriedly stood up from the table and saluted, saying, "Mother."
Queen Wei glanced at Zhao Yun who was serving Ye Wanhe, and said slowly, "You all should go out."
Zhao Yun poured a cup of tea for Queen Wei and said, "How come you have time to come to my place today, mother?"
Empress Wei raised her eyes to look at Zhao Yun and said unhappily, "Since your father ascended the throne, I have been the only empress in the six palaces. I don't know how many officials in the previous dynasty had objections to this, and it took a lot of effort to calm down in the past few years. But you are so good. You haven't even taken a crown princess yet, but you've already got yourself a concubine?"
Queen Wei knew that her son, as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, would have control over the three palaces and six courtyards in the future.
However, one should not do to others what one does not want others to do to you. She asked for only one queen in the six palaces, and naturally, Empress Wei did not want her son's East Palace to have many wives and concubines.
Therefore, knowing that the Crown Princess was in mourning and could not enter the Eastern Palace, Empress Wei never arranged any concubines for the Eastern Palace over the years.
Zhao Yun asked, "Mother, where did this concubine come from?"
Queen Wei said coldly: "Ye Wanhe must leave the palace. A maid who seduces the master cannot stay in the East Palace any longer."
Zhao Yun frowned and said, "Mother, you think too highly of Ye Wanhe. How could she deceive the master? She is just a palace maid for the child's entertainment."
Queen Wei frowned, "You really don't have any feelings for Wan He?"
Zhao Yun answered quickly: "No."
Queen Wei said: "Since there is none, let her leave the palace."
Zhao Yun said, "I am already used to Wan He's service. If I change to another clumsy maid, it will not be as easy to use as Wan He. She is just a maid who is easy to order around. How can I have any other thoughts about her? Mother, you are worrying too much."
Queen Wei frowned. Now that the child had grown up, she didn't want to use her status as a mother and elder to suppress Zhao Yun.
"Just be clear in your mind. The news that you will marry the Crown Princess in April will be announced to the world in a few days."
Queen Wei left only these words and left the Eastern Palace.
When Queen Wei was about to leave, she saw Ye Wanhe standing outside the door. She sighed slightly, but in the end she didn't say anything to Ye Wanhe.
After Queen Wei left, Ye Wanhe still heard Zhao Yun's words in her ears: She was just a palace maid for fun.
Ye Wanhe concealed the thoughts in her eyes, walked into the room, and continued to serve Zhao Yun his meal.
After Zhao Yun took a sip of wine, he stood up and took Ye Wanhe into his arms: "Have you told your cousin that you will never leave the palace again in this life?"
Ye Wanhe said: "As long as the master does not drive me away, I will never leave the palace in my life."
Zhao Yun stared at Ye Wanhe's red lips and said, "Be good."
On the nanmu bed in the East Palace, the curtains were hanging down, and the shimmering light of the curtains reflected the candlelight in the room, which kept swaying for a long time before there was no movement.
Ye Wanhe leaned weakly on the man's shoulder, thinking of her parents who were far away in Jiangnan. They were probably looking forward to her returning home for a reunion next year.
It’s a pity that we will never, ever be able to celebrate the New Year reunion.
Ye Wanhe noticed the moisture around her eyes, and saw Zhao Yun stretched out his fingers to wipe away her tears, "You are almost twenty-five, what birthday gift do you want?"
"I want to leave the palace..."
Seeing Zhao Yun's face darken, Ye Wanhe hurriedly said, "I want to leave the palace for a day. I have been in Chang'an for many years, but I only saw the prosperity of Chang'an through the curtain on the first day I came to Chang'an. I want to go out of the palace with my cousin to visit Chang'an City and visit my cousin's little daughter. A two-year-old child should be very well-behaved and soft."
Zhao Yun smiled faintly and said, "Well, Nuonuo looks like a small glutinous rice ball carved out of jade. It's very cute, soft and sticky, and it's enviable."
Ye Wanhe rarely saw such tenderness in Zhao Yun's eyes, and smiled faintly: "The Crown Princess will soon enter the palace, and Your Highness may have a daughter next year."
Zhao Yun frowned slightly and said coldly: "Go outside to get some water to wash up. You will rest on the small couch in the outer room where you will be on night watch today."
Ye Wanhe didn't know why Zhao Yun was angry. She was used to Zhao Yun's mood swings in private. She stood up quickly and replied with a slightly hoarse voice, "Yes, Your Highness."
As she walked out of the bedroom door, a cold wind blew and Ye Wanhe couldn't help but shiver. This winter seemed to be particularly cold.
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