During the period of national mourning, no banquets were allowed, and bright clothes were not allowed to be worn. No rich lady from Chang'an would come to buy clothes at this time, and the business of the Five-Color Embroidery Workshop also declined.
However, Yun Xiangye can go to the East Palace more often when she has time to visit Xiao Yuer.
The baby in the cradle doesn't know that his mother is no longer in the East Palace. Little Yu'er likes Nuonuo very much. Whenever Yun Xiangye brings Nuonuo with her, little Yu'er loves to crawl to Nuonuo and laughs at whatever Nuonuo plays.
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, not knowing 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 His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, hurried in and wanted to take Yu'er away.
Yun Xiangye asked, "Eunuch Li, what's going on?"
Li Quan sighed softly and said, "I'm afraid His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dying."
Yun Xiangye hurriedly followed Li Quan, who was holding Yu'er, into the bedroom.
As soon as she entered the bedroom, Yun Xiangye walked to Gu Yan's side. 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 what he had done to his sister, 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, please prepare for the funeral..."
Empress Wei continued to cry, "No, no... Go and ask the eldest 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 Empress, "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 softly at Empress Wei and said, "Sister-in-law, please trust my medical skills. I guarantee that Yun'er will survive."
Seeing this, His Majesty advised Queen Wei, "Let's go first."
Queen Wei had no choice but to 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 didn't even have the strength to open the envelope. Seeing this, Gu Yan stepped forward to open the envelope for Zhao Yun and showed him the contents of the letter.
Zhao Yun opened his eyes and tightly grasped the letter that Gu Yan handed him. He held the letter 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 so long. I heard that Your Highness was bedridden because of me and was dying. I was very sad. 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 as he said, "This is my uncle's imitation 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 helplessly as the dagger entered her stomach..."
Xie Zhixuan said, "The dagger piercing her abdomen wouldn't have killed her. She died so quickly because she took a drug that caused her to fake her death, which caused her to immediately commit suicide."
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 acupuncture points. "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 drug to fake her death."
Zhao Yun clutched 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.
I never thought you would be so sad, so I specially sent someone to rush over to catch up with her. After she learned that you were seriously ill, she didn't want to return and only wanted to write you this letter.
Zhao Yun clenched the letter paper in his hand and forced himself to get up, but he was too weak to do so because he had not eaten much in the past few days.
Xie Zhixuan fetched the medicinal food from the side and fed Zhao Yun the 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 keep you going. Even a strong body can't get better overnight."
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've recovered."
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 softly and said, "How can you rush off to look for Wanhe in your current state? Get some rest first."
Zhao Yun closed his eyes and said, "Are you guys lying to me... You're lying to me..."
Gu Yan said, "Your Highness, if I'm lying to you, you can find out if you go to the imperial mausoleum and see if there's a corpse in the coffin."
Zhao Yun said to Gu Yan, "Help me and go with me to the imperial mausoleum."
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