Chapter 232 Ye Wanhe is still alive
During the period of national mourning, no banquets were allowed, and bright clothes were not allowed to be worn. No rich girls in Chang'an would come to buy clothes at this time, and the business of the Five-Color Embroidery Workshop also slowed down.
However, Yun Xiangye can go to the East Palace more often to visit Xiao Yuer when she has time.
The baby who had just been taken out of the cradle didn't know that his mother was no longer in the East Palace. Little Yu'er liked Nuonuo very much. Whenever Yun Xiangye brought Nuonuo with her, little Yu'er loved to crawl to Nuonuo and would laugh at whatever Nuonuo played.
Nuonuo even specially took the rattle that she no longer played with and gave it to her younger brother Yuer.
Little Yuer had a lot of fun playing with Nuonuo.
Yun Xiangye watched the two of them playing, and didn't know where her sister was at the moment.
She had been traveling for seven days. If the merchant ship traveled faster, she should be able to reach Yongxing City in a month.
This is a quarter of the way there.
When Yun Xiangye was playing with Yu'er, she saw Li Quan, who was beside the Crown Prince, hurried in and wanted to take Yu'er away.
Yun Xiangye asked, "Eunuch Li, what happened?"
Li Quan sighed and said, "I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is going to die."
Yun Xiangye hurriedly followed Li Quan, who was holding Yu'er, to the bedroom.
As soon as she entered the bedroom, Yun Xiangye walked to the side of Gu Yan. Seeing the Crown Prince lying there, looking so haggard that he looked like a ghost, she realized for the first time that it was not only flowers, plants and trees that would wither, but people too.
Yun Xiangye originally hated his sister for what she had done, but when he saw this scene, he felt a little bit sorry for her.
The imperial physician beside him sighed and shook his head, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, prepare for the funeral..."
Queen Wei kept crying and said, "No, no... Go and ask the princess to come and see the prince!"
Xie Zhixuan came very quickly.
After checking Zhao Yun's pulse, Xie Zhixuan said to His Majesty and the Queen, "Yun'er can still be saved. You all should go out. Let Yan'er and Xiangye stay and help me."
Queen Wei asked, "Sister, is there anything we cannot see?"
Xie Zhixuan smiled at Queen Wei and said, "Sister-in-law, just trust my medical skills. I guarantee that Yun'er will survive."
Seeing this, His Majesty advised Queen Wei, "Let's go first."
Queen Wei could only follow His Majesty to the outside of the bedroom.
Xie Zhixuan looked at Zhao Yun lying on the sickbed, took out a piece of letter and said, "Here is your medicine."
Zhao Yun looked at the envelope handed to him by Xie Zhixuan very weakly, opened his mouth slightly, but no sound came out.
Zhao Yun no longer had the strength to open the envelope. Seeing this, Gu Yan stepped forward and opened the envelope for Zhao Yun, showing him the contents of the letter.
Zhao Yun opened his eyes and tightly grasped the letter paper that Gu Yan handed over. He held the letter paper tightly in his hand and said in a dry and hoarse voice: "This is Wan He's handwriting... Is she still alive?"
Zhao Yun looked at the words on the paper carefully.
"It's like seeing you in person. We haven't seen each other for a long time. I heard that Your Highness was bedridden and dying because of me. I was very upset. Wei Zhenzhu is dead, but Ye Wanhe is still alive. I hope Your Highness takes good care of himself and doesn't blame me."
Zhao Yun looked at the words on the paper and shed tears, saying, "This is my uncle's imitation of handwriting, right? My uncle can imitate other people's handwriting to perfection."
Xie Zhixuan said: "Your uncle can't write such ugly characters. Her handwriting is obviously that of my mother's apprentice. Her handwriting is not beautiful."
Zhao Yun said: "But I watched with my own eyes as the dagger entered her stomach..."
Xie Zhixuan said: "The dagger piercing her stomach wouldn't kill her. The reason she died so quickly was that she took a fake death drug and committed suicide immediately."
Zhao Yun glared at Gu Yan and Yun Xiangye behind Xie Zhixuan, "You two also know about this?"
Gu Yan lowered his head guiltily.
Zhao Yun was extremely angry and said, "Do you know what a crime it is to deceive the emperor... cough cough cough!"
Xie Zhixuan stepped forward and pressed Zhao Yun's acupoints, saying, "If you want to charge her with deceiving the emperor, you can do it for me. The day Ye Wanhe died, I knew she had used a fake death drug to die."
Zhao Yun held the letter tightly and said, "Aunt! Why do you treat me like this?"
Xie Zhixuan said: "Why don't you think about why you treat Ye Wanhe like this? Ye Wanhe made you a mute slave to retaliate against you, and she would rather commit suicide than leave you. You should know the reason.
I helped her leave because I thought that although you had feelings for her, they were not so deep. After all, you couldn't even accept her background. At most, you would feel uncomfortable for a while. It would be better to let Ye Wanhe be free.
But I never thought you would be so sad, so I specially asked someone to rush to catch up with her. After she learned that you were seriously ill, she didn't want to return, and only wanted to write this letter to you. "
Zhao Yun clenched the letter paper in his hand and tried to get up, but he was too weak to do so because he had not eaten much in the past few days.
Xie Zhixuan took the medicinal food from the side and fed Zhao Yun the medicinal porridge. "Don't get too excited. You haven't eaten a single bite of food in the past few days. You've been relying on ginseng soup to survive. Even a strong body can't get better all of a sudden."
Zhao Yun said: "Aunt, I want to find her..."
Xie Zhixuan said: "You should take good care of yourself. It won't be too late to go find her after you recover."
Zhao Yun said: "Seeing is believing. I don't know if you are still lying to me. I just want to see Wan He as soon as possible."
Xie Zhixuan sighed and said, "How can you rush to look for Wanhe in your current state? Have a good rest first."
Zhao Yun closed his eyes and said, "Are you guys lying to me... You are lying to me..."
Gu Yan said: "Your Highness, whether I have lied to you or not, you can find out if you go to the imperial mausoleum and see if there is a corpse in the coffin."
Zhao Yun said to Gu Yan: "Help me and go to the imperial mausoleum with me."
Gu Yan stepped forward and helped Zhao Yun up. After eating the medicinal porridge, Zhao Yun regained some strength and could at least stand steadily.
Gu Yan helped Zhao Yun out of the door. The Queen Mother and His Majesty outside saw this scene and were extremely happy, "Yun'er!"
Zhao Yun walked up to Queen Wei and said, "Mother, I am unfilial. I will take good care of myself in the future and will not worry you anymore."
Queen Wei chuckled and said, "Okay, that's good."
Zhao Yun followed Gu Yan into the Gu family's carriage.
It was not until Zhao Yun arrived at the imperial mausoleum and watched Gu Yan open the coffin lid and not see the corpse inside that he completely believed that Ye Wanhe was still alive.
After all, they would never dare to hide Ye Wanhe's body.
Zhao Yun frowned and looked at Gu Yan in front of him and said, "You always respond to Yun Xiangye's requests. You don't want to enter the court again in this life, right?"
Gu Yan said: "Your Highness, I didn't expect that you would even give up your life for a woman. Even if my mother didn't come today, I still wanted to tell you the truth."
Zhao Yun glared at Gu Yan and asked, "In your eyes, do Yun's words sound more like an imperial decree than mine?"
Gu Yan said: "Your Highness, I'm sorry, but I finally coaxed my wife back, and I really don't want to lose her again. After all, you have also tasted the pain of losing your beloved in the past few days..."
Zhao Yun snorted, "Yun Xiangye has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor time and again. He can be spared the death penalty, but he cannot be forgiven for his crime while alive."
Gu Yan knelt in front of Zhao Yun and said, "I am willing to take the blame for Yun Xiangye."
Zhao Yun said: "Although I have been dying these days, I have heard that someone in Chang'an City has changed his mind.
For the sake of our brotherhood, I did not want to deal with him personally while I was still alive. He has been stubborn and self-righteous since he was young. He is not worth worrying about. I believe that even if I am really gone, it will be difficult for him to become a big shot in the court. Now that I no longer want to die, I have to deal with him, but his identity makes it difficult..."
Gu Yan listened to what Zhao Yun said, raised his eyes and asked, "Is it Zhao Jing?"
Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Well, after the incident in Lizhou, I sent secret guards to the side of Wei Shao, the younger brother of Wei Jian, the governor of Lijiang. I knew that Wei Shao was close to some young masters in Chang'an City, but I didn't take it seriously. These few days, I was seriously ill, and his wolfish ambition was revealed. He actually wanted to win over Zhao Jing to seize the throne.
Zhao Jing had also been thinking about it these days. He and Wei Shao even told the Fu family that they wanted to marry Fu Anran as a concubine. As long as the Fu family was willing to help him ascend the throne, he would give Fu Anran the title of Imperial Noble Consort. Zhao Jing seemed to think that he could really be the king. "
Gu Yan said: "The rumors outside that are trying to sow discord among our Gu family were also spread by Zhao Jing. I thought he just resented me for taking Xiangye away, but I never thought he had other intentions."
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