Chapter 33: Faking Death and Leaving the Palace
Ye Wanhe looked at the young palace maids beside her and said, "Can you do me a favor?"
"Aunt, please tell me."
Ye Wanhe said, "Help me guard outside. I have something to say to the Crown Prince's Consort."
Several young palace maids responded and went out the door.
Ye Wanhe held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "Princess, please don't treat me as your sister anymore. Just think of me as a maid in the palace."
Yun Xiangye said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, I know I was wrong. It's all my fault. I am sorry for you. I don't know how to ask for your forgiveness. Please don't disown me as your sister. In Chang'an City, besides Nuonuo and Run'er, you are the only one I have."
Ye Wanhe said slowly: "I don't blame you for my punishment. In the end, it's not your fault. I was confused. After seeing you a few days ago, I forgot the supremacy of the imperial power, the difference between master and servant, and the distinction between high and low. Since I am a servant of the Eastern Palace, there is no longer any talk of relatives, only the distinction between master and servant and high and low."
Yun Xiangye shook her head and said, "Sister..."
Ye Wanhe held Yun Xiangye's hand tightly and said, "Remember, don't call me sister anymore in the future. Just call me Aunt Ye."
Yun Xiangye had tears in her eyes and a sore throat. She took out the medicine from her bosom and said, "This is the medicine the princess gave me. I'll apply it to you first."
Yun Xiangye carefully checked Ye Wanhe's wound, but when she saw the bloody wound, she was still surprised. Her eyes were full of tears, and the blood and flesh were even more creepy.
Yun Xiangye took the medicine, and she didn't dare to touch Ye Wanhe's wound at all.
After a long time, she slowly and gently applied the medicine to Ye Wanhe.
Ye Wanhe gritted her teeth and endured the pain, saying, "Princess, I'll apply the medicine myself. This Chang'an City is not our Fangqiao Town. You must be careful and cautious in the future. You know the difference between superiors and subordinates. You are the Prince of Ning's Consort, and I am a servant. You shouldn't apply the medicine to me."
Yun Xiangye lowered her eyes and cried: "Since even family members have to follow the rules of hierarchy in Chang'an City, why don't we stay in Chang'an City? Sister, let's find a way to escape from Chang'an City together."
Ye Wanhe said: "If I escape from Chang'an City, the nine clans of the Ye family will suffer. You should just treat it as if your cousin has died in the palace. I am no longer your sister..."
Yun Xiangye bit her lower lip, slapped herself on the face, and said in a sobbing voice: "It's all my fault. When you recover from your injury, you can also give me ten or twenty strokes of the board. But sister, don't say that you are no longer my sister."
Ye Wanhe looked at Yun Xiangye distressedly and said, "Stop hitting yourself. I really don't blame you for letting me get hit. You hit yourself, which makes me uncomfortable."
Ye Wanhe looked at Yun Xiangye's red eyes and said, "Princess, I don't allow you to call me sister because we must distinguish between the superior and the inferior. If one day the Crown Princess enters the palace, and you call her cousin and me sister, wouldn't that make me equal to the Crown Princess?"
Yun Xiangye bit her lip and said, "Then I would rather divorce Gu Yan. In this way, the Crown Princess will not be my cousin's wife. I only want you, sister."
Ye Wanhe sighed softly, reached out to wipe Yun Xiangye's tears, and said softly: "What kind of stupid things are you talking about?"
Yun Xiangye cried sadly: "Sister."
Ye Wanhe whispered, "How can you cry like this in the palace? Stop crying, it will be bad if someone picks a fight with you."
After hearing what Ye Wanhe said, Yun Xiangye knew that she couldn't cry.
But the more she wiped away her tears, the more she cried, and the harder she cried.
What kind of life did Sister He live in the palace? Even after being beaten with ten boards and suffering such severe pain, she was still concerned about the taboo and could not cry in the palace without shedding tears.
She should have been a pampered daughter in the family. Although she was not rich, she should not have suffered like this.
Ye Wanhe wiped Yun Xiangye's tears and said, "Don't cry, live a good life outside the palace for your sister. I will be imprisoned in this deep palace for the rest of my life, but you are different. If you live well with Nuonuo and her daughter outside, I will be happy too."
Yun Xiangye bit her lower lip and looked at Ye Wanhe's pale lips, feeling more and more guilty.
Ye Wanhe looked at the sky outside and said, "Let's get out of the palace quickly, so as not to run into His Highness."
"elder sister……"
"Let's go. I have thick skin and flesh. These ten blows will not hurt me. I will be fully recovered in ten days or half a month."
After Yun Xiangye put down the medicine, she seemed to have all her strength drained away before she left the East Palace.
Yun Xiangye walked out of the East Palace gate but did not get on the carriage.
Instead, he walked slowly by himself, and the sky gradually darkened...
This was the first time that Yun Xiangye felt the majesty of the imperial power, so majesty that even her own cousin could no longer call her sister.
"Yellow leaves."
When Gu Yan saw Yun Xiangye walking on the street, he walked up to her and hugged her in his arms.
It was not yet completely dark when Gu Yan saw the red and swollen fingerprints on her body. "Who hit you?"
"Who hit me?"
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan in front of her and said with tears in her eyes, "I beat him myself."
Gu Yan was stunned for a moment, "It's fine if you hit me, but why are you hitting yourself?"
Yun Xiangye shed tears and said, "I am the one who hurt my sister. I deserve to be beaten. I am the one who should be beaten."
Yun Xiangye said, raising her hand to hit herself again. Gu Yan hurriedly held Yun Xiangye's hand and said, "Aunt Ye asked me to tell you not to feel guilty. This matter has nothing to do with you in the end."
"How can it have nothing to do with me?" Yun Xiangye raised his voice, "It's all my fault. I've caused my sister to be like this."
Gu Yan comforted Yun Xiangye and said, "Aunt Ye said she doesn't blame you. You feel so guilty and hit yourself, I'm sure Aunt Ye will feel bad too."
Yun Xiangye was crying, maybe because she was crying so hard, or maybe because she had just recovered from an illness, she staggered and fainted in Gu Yan's arms.
Gu Yan looked at Yun Xiangye in his arms, and hurriedly felt her pulse, pressing her acupoints and saying, "Xiangye."
Yun Xiangye woke up after a while. She reached out and held Gu Yan's hand and said, "Help me, help me rescue my sister, my husband, I beg you, my sister shouldn't suffer so much in the palace."
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye calling him husband for the first time in a long time, and whispered, "Let's talk about it when we get back to the princess's mansion."
Yun Xiangye followed Gu Yan back to Qingfeng Garden. The maids had already prepared dinner, but Yun Xiangye had no appetite at all. She looked at Gu Yan.
After Gu Yan asked the maids to leave, he looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "It's not that there is no way to get Sister out of the palace. I know of a drug that can make you appear dead. After taking it, your acupoints will be sealed and you will be like a real death. After three days, you can take the antidote to revive yourself. My grandmother used this drug to make you appear dead."
Yun Xiangye said: "Fake death?"
Gu Yan said: "After the palace maid dies, she will be immediately sent to the graveyard over there. We can go to the graveyard to cure sister's pain and give her the antidote, and she will be able to leave the palace smoothly."
Yun Xiangye asked again: "Will this fake death drug be harmful to the human body?"
Gu Yan said confidently: "No, my grandmother was pregnant with my mother when she took the fake death drug. My mother is so old now, there is no harm, it's just..."
Gu Yan's voice became smaller and smaller as he continued, "But only my mother has this drug for faking death, and this is a crime of deceiving the emperor."
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