Yun Xiangye, Gu Jingyu and Lin Boyan were chatting on the deck, gazing at the scenery of the lake.
Hearing some noise below, they saw the two sisters Fu Qianran and Fu Anran coming onto the deck.
Fu Anran chuckled and said, "Princess Jingyu, how come you have the leisure to invite me to come for a boat ride on the lake today?"
Gu Jingyu smiled faintly and said, "There are no outsiders on this pleasure boat. I'll be frank with you. I didn't invite you here. It was my cousin who wanted to invite you here."
Fu Anran clenched his handkerchief and chuckled softly, saying, "Mr. Xie, if you want to ask me out, just say so directly. Why bother asking you to come and ask me out? It's really 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 followed Fu Qianran's gaze and looked down, only to see that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had also arrived.
Lin Bolan looked at Fu Qianran, and Yun Xiangye was also looking at Lin Bolan. 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 of Xiangjun."
Fu Anran asked, "Prince Zhao Rui of Xiang?"
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 embarrassed.
Fu Qianran went to the bottom of the pleasure boat to greet the Crown Prince, "Your Highness."
Zhao Yun looked at Fu Qianran and nodded slightly, saying in a calm tone, "Yeah."
Fu Qianran chuckled and said, "Your Highness, I just saw a chessboard in this pleasure boat. I wonder if Your Highness could teach me a game."
Ye Wanhe, who was standing behind Zhao Yun, stared at Yun Xiangye on the deck.
Zhao Yun met Ye Wanhe's gaze and said, "You don't have to wait on 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 choosing 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."
Gu Jingyu took Fu Anran's hand and said, "I'll go with you to see the Prince of Xiang."
Fu Anran said, "I'm not familiar with the Prince of Xiang."
Gu Jingyu chuckled and said, "Now that we know each other, we're 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 beside 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, "My period has only been two days, but the pain has subsided. Are the prince's men on their way?"
Yun Xiangye said, "They have already gone. They brought carrier pigeons with them. Once they see my uncle and aunt, they will send a message back."
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 Shang Palace Bureau will come out of the palace this month. Could you please do me a favor and let these palace embroiderers come to my embroidery workshop?"
Ye Wanhe said, "I can't help you with this. I'm no longer the head maid of the Eastern Palace. I'm just a junior maid without a rank. I can no longer move around the palace freely under the pretext of serving His Highness as a head maid."
Yun Xiangye was still unaware of this. "You are no longer the head maid of the Eastern Palace? Why?"
Ye Wanhe chuckled and said, "Nothing. It's not like I'm free anymore. His Highness's wedding is only two months away. If I were still the Chief Maid of the Eastern Palace, I wouldn't be free at all right now."
Yun Xiangye took a deep breath, and, fearing that someone might be listening, she spoke in Yongxing dialect, "Your Highness is unwilling to give you a name, and now he's even refusing you an official position. You really should find a way to fake your own death and escape..."
Ye Wanhe also spoke in the broken Yongxing City dialect, "Faking one's own 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's wedding, everyone in the Eastern Palace will definitely find it unlucky, and you will definitely be able to hide it 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 over ten years, and yet I'm seasick. Ugh!"
Ye Wanhe retched again, and after a while she calmed 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 and get the boat to the shore. You should get off and rest first."
Ye Wanhe reached out and quickly grasped Yun Xiangye's wrist, saying, "Don't upset the masters for my sake. I'll just go sit in the room 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 to sit down and rest.
Ye Wanhe lay down in the room and felt a little better, but the pain in her lower abdomen began to come again.
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