Jiang Lanyue?
What is she doing here?
Could it be that you came to check on her condition?
Possibly!
The Empress Dowager would never lower herself to visit her.
Therefore, sending Jiang Lanyue is the best choice!
Danqing stroked Yuan Yao's still slightly damp hair and said to the little eunuch, "Go and tell Princess Lan Yue that the princess is seriously ill and is currently taking a medicinal bath. She is not yet awake and cannot receive guests. Please ask her to go back."
The young eunuch responded and trotted out.
Danqing looked down at the dense bloodstains on Yuan Yao's calves and knees, and said with heartache, "Princess Lan Yue, how can you have the face to come to Qianhua Palace after harming the princess like this?"
At such a young age, he already knows how to scatter pebbles and then make people kneel on them.
How vicious!
Yuan Yao chuckled lightly: "According to my guess, Jiang Lanyue might become the scapegoat for the Empress Dowager's punishment of me kneeling."
Taking the blame?
A hint of doubt appeared in Danqing's eyes.
Yuan Yao looked at Danqing: "Last night, so many people saw me kneeling outside the Empress Dowager's palace. I suppose this matter has spread beyond just the palace?"
Danqing nodded: "Yesterday, the Vice Minister of Works led a group of people, including imperial guards, eunuchs, and several officials from the Ministry of Works."
I heard that this morning, when the officials went to the palace to report for duty, the news spread. Afterwards, they went to Si Shi Chun to buy desserts and discussed the matter again...
Now, not only those in the palace and aristocratic families, but even the common people on the streets know that the princess knelt in the pouring rain for an hour before the Empress Dowager yesterday.
"点卯" means to clock in for work.
The emperor disliked attending court.
In the past, the daily small court assemblies were presided over by the Ninth Prince, while the emperor only appeared once a month at the grand court assembly, in the middle and at the end of the month.
With the Emperor gone, these officials felt more relaxed and started gossiping.
Yuan Yao said, "It doesn't matter, let them talk and spread whatever they want."
Anyway, I did kneel for that long last night.
Danqing nodded.
Just then, the young eunuch from before came to deliver a message: "Princess, Princess Lan Yue said that she was very upset because she couldn't see you today. She even cried, and I couldn't comfort her."
"You cried?"
Yuan Yao looked up and met Dan Qing's gaze.
Danqing's forehead veins bulged slightly: "This Princess Lanyue! She's only relying on the Emperor's absence!"
She came to Qianhua Palace crying; people might think Qianhua Palace had done something to her.
That's right!
Yuan Yao also strongly agreed.
She was truly helpless when it came to Jiang Lanyue, this weak and innocent girl... no, she was more like a green tea b*tch.
However, she couldn't just let Jiang Lanyue leave Qianhua Palace in tears.
We have to make Jiang Lanyue leave with a smile!
Yuan Yao lowered her voice and said a few words to Dan Qing.
Danqing first frowned, but soon her eyebrows relaxed and even the corners of her mouth turned up.
Danqing said to the little eunuch, "Go out and ask Princess Lanyue to wait in the side hall. Tell her that the princess's medicinal bath is almost ready and she will be here soon."
The young eunuch acknowledged and left again.
Danqing then summoned a young palace maid and asked her to fetch some things.
Yuan Yao's hair was almost dry.
Danqing dressed her and, fearing she would catch a cold, tied on a thin cloak.
If Yuan Yao hadn't resisted, she would have even wanted to get her a cloak to wear, preferably covering her head completely as well...
A young palace maid entered carrying a tray: "Sister Danqing, these are the things you asked us to prepare."
"Put it on the dressing table," Danqing said.
The tray contained rouge and face powder.
Yuan Yao glanced at it and then sniffed the smell.
Although the emperor loved beauty, he disliked the vulgar, powdery smell of the palace maids around him.
The palace servants of Qianhua Palace only dared to use rouge and face powder with extremely light scents.
Yu'er, who makes desserts, usually uses rouge and face powder that has almost no scent, and she only dares to apply it when she's not making tea or desserts...
Danqing dismissed the maid and rolled up her sleeves: "This servant will apply makeup for the princess."
Yuan Yao nodded.
The master and servant fiddled around inside the hall for a while.
After a cup of tea.
Yuan Yao opened her eyes and looked at the person in the bronze mirror.
In the bronze mirror, the little figure's lips were pale and cracked, his face was deathly pale, and there were some abnormal bluish-red spots at the corners of his eyes, as if he had been running a high fever for a long time.
He looked sickly.
Involuntarily, the image of Yun Chan came to mind.
Xiao Bie is physically weak. How does she usually behave?
Oh, I've got it!
She raised her small hand to her lips, frowning, "Ahem..."
Danqing pursed her lips and smiled, "The princess has captured six or seven parts of Prince Yun's sickly appearance."
"Does it look like it?" Yuan Yao asked.
Danqing nodded: "It looks just like it!"
It's so similar!
Yuan Yao was relieved.
She made Danqing put on the clothes that had been fumigated with burning Chinese medicine for a while.
Now, she's practically a walking medicine cabinet, sickly and weak.
Danqing smiled and said, "Princess, let me carry you."
“Mm!” Yuan Yao nodded.
Jiang Lanyue had drunk two cups of tea, and as the eunuch was refilling her third cup, footsteps finally sounded outside the side hall.
Along with the footsteps came coughs.
Yuan Yao was still outside the hall when she began her performance: "Cough cough... cough..."
Danqing said with concern, "Princess, please bear with it a little longer. Coughing too much will hurt your throat."
“Cough cough…Okay…” Yuan Yao replied.
Jiang Lanyue pinched her palm, and her eyes reddened.
She stood up and called out from afar, "Sister Yao'er..."
The tragic heroine is back again.
Yuan Yao nestled in Dan Qing's arms: "Princess Lan Yue?"
His voice was somewhat hoarse.
With tears in her eyes, Jiang Lanyue looked Yuan Yao up and down.
His eyes were red with a hint of blue, his gaze was listless and dull, his face was pale, his lips were chapped, and he looked utterly listless.
He looks sickly now, at least he's not as annoying as he used to be!
Jiang Lanyue smiled slightly before saying through her tears, "My sister has suffered so much. Are you feeling any better today?"
As she spoke, she was about to walk towards Yuan Yao.
At this moment, Danqing said, "Princess, my princess is seriously ill and has a fever."
The princess is frail; we mustn't let the princess pass on her illness.
Passing through illness?
Upon hearing this, Jiang Lanyue took a few steps back.
Yuan Yao said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you for coming to see Yao'er, Princess. Please have a seat."
Jiang Lanyue responded and sat back down in the chair she had just been sitting in.
Danqing said, "Someone, please refill the princess's tea."
Jiang Lanyue quickly whispered, "No need..."
She's already drunk two big glasses!
I remember the last time I visited Qianhua Palace, Yuan Yao had a lot of desserts sent over and placed on the table.
Today, however, they only gave her tea...
She drank so much that her stomach was full.
After symbolically wiping the corner of her eye, Jiang Lanyue twisted her handkerchief, bit her lip, and said in a pitiful, tearful voice, "Sister Yao'er, are you blaming Yue'er in your heart?"
This time when I returned to Beijing, you and I became much more distant.
In the past, you used to call me Sister Lan Yue...
"Did Yue'er do something wrong and make her younger sister angry?"
Yuan Yao: "???"
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