Chapter 83: Miscarriage
Yun Xiangye, Gu Jingyu and Lin Boyan were chatting on the deck, looking at the scenery of the lake.
Hearing the noise below, they saw the two sisters Fu Qianran and Fu Anran coming up on deck.
Fu Anran chuckled and said, "Princess Jingyu, how come you have the leisure to invite me to go boating on the lake today?"
Gu Jingyu smiled faintly and said, "There are no outsiders on this pleasure boat. I'll be frank with you. It's not me who asked you to come here. It's my cousin who wanted to ask you out."
Fu Anran clenched his handkerchief and chuckled, "Mr. Xie, if you want to date me, just tell me directly. Why bother asking you to date me? It's embarrassing."
Lin Bolan listened to Fu Anran's words and glanced at Fu Qianran, but Fu Qianran didn't seem to pay attention here.
Lin Bolan looked down in the direction Fu Qianran was looking, and saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had also arrived.
Lin Bolan looked at Fu Qianran, Yun Xiangye was also looking at Lin Bolan, and Junior Sister Lin looked at Fu Qianran with a very strange look.
Gu Jingyu coughed lightly and said, "Sister Anran, it's not my cousin Xie, it's my cousin Wang Rui from Xiang County."
Fu Anran asked, "Xiang County Prince Zhao Rui?"
Gu Jingyu chuckled and said, "It's him. Cousin Rui has admired your beauty for a long time."
Fu Anran lowered her head and twisted the handkerchief in her hand, feeling a little shy and embarrassed.
Fu Qianran went to the lower part of the pleasure boat to greet the Crown Prince, "Your Highness."
Zhao Yun looked at Fu Qianran and just nodded slightly, saying in a light tone, "Yeah."
Fu Qianran smiled and said, "Your Highness, I just saw a chessboard in this pleasure boat. I wonder if Your Highness could teach me a game of chess."
Ye Wanhe, who was standing behind Zhao Yun, stared at Yun Xiangye on the deck.
Zhao Yun met Ye Wanhe's eyes and said, "You don't have to serve me."
Ye Wanhe responded: "Yes."
Ye Wanhe lowered her head and went to the deck.
She looked back and saw Fu Qianran and Zhao Yun sitting beside the chessboard. Outside the window was the beautiful scenery of the lake. The two of them were a perfect match. After all, she was the Crown Princess that the royal family had been selecting for a long time...
Yun Xiangye saw Ye Wanhe coming and stepped forward and said, "Sister."
Ye Wanhe bowed and saluted, "Crown Princess, Princess Jingyu, Miss Lin, and Miss Fu Er."
Gu Jingyu held Fu Anran's hand and said, "I'll go with you to see the Prince of Xiang."
Fu Anran said: "I am not familiar with the Prince of Xiang."
Gu Jingyu chuckled and said, "Now that we know each other, we are familiar with each other. Don't disturb Aunt Ye and my sister from talking."
Gu Jingyu took Fu Anran and Lin Bolan's hands to look for Zhao Rui.
Seeing Xiao Nuonuo next to Yun Xiangye, Ye Wanhe chuckled and held Xiao Nuonuo in her arms and asked, "Do you still recognize me?"
Xiao Nuonuo said: "Auntie!"
Ye Wanhe gently stroked her little face and said, "So cute, so smart."
Yun Xiangye looked at Ye Wanhe and said, "Sister, does your lower abdomen still hurt?"
Ye Wanhe chuckled and said, "It's only been two days since my period began, but it doesn't hurt anymore. Are the prince's people on their way?"
Yun Xiangye said, "They have gone. They brought carrier pigeons with them. Once they see my uncle and aunt, they will send a message back by carrier pigeon."
Ye Wanhe breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, "That's good."
From the deck, Yun Xiangye could see the Crown Prince and Fu Qianran playing chess below. She looked at Ye Wanhe and was relieved to see that there was no fluctuation in Ye Wanhe's eyes.
Yun Xiangye said, "Sister, my embroidery workshop is about to open. I heard that a group of embroiderers from the Shanggong Bureau will come out of the palace this month. Can you please do me a favor and let these embroiderers from the palace come to my embroidery workshop?"
Ye Wanhe said, "I can't help you with this. I'm no longer a maid in the Eastern Palace. I'm just a maid without a rank. I can no longer walk around the palace as I used to be a maid in the Imperial Palace, claiming to be serving His Highness."
Yun Xiangye didn't know about this yet, "You are not the head maid of the East Palace anymore? Why?"
Ye Wanhe chuckled and said, "Nothing. I have a lot of free time now that I am not the head maid. It's only two months before His Highness's wedding. If I were still the head maid of the East Palace, I would have no free time at all."
Yun Xiangye took a deep breath, and considering that there might be ears on the other side of the wall, he said in Yongxing dialect: "His Highness is unwilling to give you a name, and now he doesn't even want to give you an official position. You really should find a way to fake your death and escape..."
Ye Wanhe also spoke in the poor Yongxing City dialect: "Faking death is a crime of deceiving the emperor. I cannot implicate you. His Highness is not someone who can be easily fooled."
Yun Xiangye said, "If you fake your death on the day of His Highness' wedding, everyone in the East Palace will think it's unlucky, and it will be hidden from His Highness."
The pleasure boat left the dock and headed into the lake.
Ye Wanhe let go of Nuonuo in her hand and covered her lips with the back of her hand, but she still couldn't hide her nausea. She leaned on the railing of the pleasure boat and vomited.
Yun Xiangye hurried forward and patted Ye Wanhe's back, "Sister..."
Yun Xiangye took some warm tea from the side and handed it to Ye Wanhe for her to rinse her mouth.
Ye Wanhe rinsed her mouth with tea and said, "I haven't been on a boat for more than ten years, but I'm seasick. Ugh!"
Ye Wanhe retched again, and it took a while for her to calm down and said, "Fortunately, I grew up in a water town, but I also got seasick one day."
Yun Xiangye supported Ye Wanhe and said, "You can't be seasick like this. I'll go find Gu Yan to get the boat to the shore. You should get off the boat and rest first."
Ye Wanhe reached out and quickly grabbed Yun Xiangye's wrist and said, "Don't upset the masters for me. I'll just go to the room and sit for a while. After all, I grew up on a boat, so seasickness is only temporary."
Yun Xiangye helped Ye Wanhe to a side room and sat down to rest.
Ye Wanhe lay down in the side room and felt a little better, but waves of pain in her lower abdomen began to come again.
Seeing Ye Wanhe in pain, Xiao Nuonuo walked over to her and said, "Auntie, huhu."
Xiao Nuonuo was blowing on Ye Wanhe's belly.
Seeing this, Yun Xiangye hurried out of the room to look for Gu Jingyu.
The bow deck was even more lively.
When Gu Yan saw Yun Xiangye coming, he asked, "Have you finished talking with Aunt Ye? There is a small boat on this pleasure boat. How about we take a boat to go boating on the lake?"
Yun Xiangye ignored Gu Yan and walked straight to Gu Jingyu and said, "Jingyu, I need your help with something."
Gu Jingyu chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to be polite to me. Just tell me what you want to say."
Yun Xiangye held Gu Jingyu's hand and walked into the room. "My cousin is not feeling well. She has been having lower abdominal pain and is now vomiting due to seasickness. I would like you to take her pulse."
Gu Jingyu said, "I just happened to bring some silver needles with me today just in case I need them. If I get seasick or vomit, I can just get acupuncture."
Gu Jingyu followed Yun Xiangye into the cabin.
Seeing Gu Jingyu coming in, Ye Wanhe forced herself to stand up and said, "Princess Jingyu."
Yun Xiangye hurried over to support Ye Wanhe and said, "Sister, lie down and rest. Let Jingyu take your pulse."
Ye Wanhe whispered, "This is absolutely impossible. How can a noble princess like me take the pulse of a servant like me?"
Gu Jingyu said: "There is no distinction between high and low patients. My mother, a princess, treated the victims of the disaster. What's more, you are my sister-in-law's elder sister."
Yun Xiangye helped Ye Wanhe sit down and said, "Just relax and let Jingyu take your pulse."
Gu Jingyu put her hand on Ye Wanhe's pulse. Once she did, she looked up at Ye Wanhe in shock. "Aren't you the maidservant of the Crown Prince's cousin?"
Ye Wanhe responded in a low voice: "Yes."
Gu Jingyu hurriedly closed the door of the wing room and lowered her voice to say, "As the head maid of the Crown Prince, you should know the palace rules. How could you be pregnant? The pain in your lower abdomen right now means you have a miscarriage."
"Since you are my sister-in-law's cousin, are you over 25? If you are, I will help you keep your pregnancy, and you can leave the palace in March.
If you are under 25... you cannot give up the child. If you have a miscarriage, people will find out that you have violated the palace rules. I will go and ask the Queen Aunt, and she should be able to let you leave the palace.
But the guard who made you pregnant is really a piece of shit. He still won't stop even though you're pregnant!
This matter concerns your life. It is against the palace rules for a palace maid to be pregnant. It concerns both your life and the child's. This matter must be kept secret... No, you can't wait until March to leave the palace. Your pregnancy is unstable. You may have had a miscarriage. If you don't lie down and take care of the baby, you may have a miscarriage.
Tomorrow I will go to the Queen Aunt to ask you to leave the palace, so you can take good care of your pregnancy outside the palace."
Gu Jingyu spoke a lot at once. Seeing the fear in Ye Wanhe's eyes, she placed her trembling hand on her belly and said, "You don't have to be afraid. Although you have had a miscarriage and your period, my medical skills can still keep the baby safe."
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