"How did this happen?" After treating Ying Yue's wound, Doctor Huang shook his head in disagreement. "It's getting worse. Girl, what's wrong with you? If he didn't recuperate properly after being injured, he would make things worse.”
" I didn't do it willingly…" After seeing Yuan Jun's sharp gaze, he swallowed his words.
"Fortunately, I didn't drag it down. Otherwise, it wouldn't be strange if this leg was crippled.”Sigh! He had never seen a patient who did not cherish himself so much. "I say, girl, if you want to be a cripple, then do your best to ruin your feet! It's useless for me to treat you anymore. Farewell.”Doctor Huang didn't sympathize with her at all.
"Men, send the doctor out." After Yuan Jun sent the servants away, he came to the bed and looked down at her.
What…what was he doing? "You, what do you want?"
He didn't move or say anything.
"If…if you're alright, can you please leave? I need to rest."
He shook his head. "Sigh!"
Sigh? Sigh what sigh? She, who was in so much pain, didn't even make a sound. What was the Eldest Young Master sighing for? "Why are you sighing? What did I do to you?" She admitted that she was a little rude, had a bad temper, and spoke a little rudely, but she wasn't like this today. She only dared to be so impudent because she saw that he didn't care... Wait, could it be that she hit that child and made him realize the importance of disciplining her?
Stroking his chin, Yuan Jun stared at her feet thoughtfully.
Feeling uncomfortable under his gaze, Ying Yue awkwardly put her feet into the quilt and deliberately moved her body. "Have you finished reading?" She was a little angry.
He shook his head again. "Not yet."
"Then go and see someone else."
"So generous?"
"What does it have to do with me?" She sneered and said something that went against her conscience.
Sister Yin Zheng said that she liked him, she didn't forget. However, it was impossible for him to like her, so she did not plan to be honest about this matter. She would keep it as her secret, a memento of her arrival in the capital, a memory that would remain in her heart forever.
Once, she was by the side of the person she liked. That was enough. She didn't dare to accept things that were far beyond her status.
"None of your business?" She actually acted like she was so insignificant? Yuan Jun's heart instantly turned dark.
Why? He did not know.
Since a long time ago, he had been used to facing outsiders with a carefree smile. It had been a long time since he had a strong desire to get something. He thought that there would no longer be anyone in this world who could touch his heart.
Why did she appear?
Ying Yue's appearance had disrupted his life, but he couldn't let her go. She hated seeing him, but he insisted on appearing in front of her every day. She didn't want him to touch her, but he loved to take advantage of her. His goal was to get her used to his existence.
He had never played this kind of game where she ran and he chased after her. He did not want to play it either. Because in his eyes, this was not a game.
However, how long could this kind of life last? He could use his sister to make her stay last time, but what about next time? Orika was about to marry, so what excuse could he find to keep her by his side?
"How long are you going to stand here?" Looking at Yuan Jun who was deep in thought, Ying Yue was almost obsessed. In order not to lose control, he could only put on a stern face and pretend to be fierce.
Finally waking up from his self-questioning, he glanced at her ankle that was tucked under the blanket and said,""In order to prevent today's incident from happening again, you are not allowed to get out of bed before you recover.”
What was that? "What did you say?"
"You're not allowed to get out of bed for the time being."
"How, how could there be such a thing?" She shouted angrily, and the gentle feelings that she had quietly revealed just now were instantly burned away, leaving not even a speck of dust. " This is too much, you can't-" She shouted and wanted to get off the bed and chase after Yuan Junli, who was about to leave the room, but she was shocked by his turn of head.
"You can't get off the bed!" Every word was like a nail that nailed her to the bed, making her unable to take a step forward and just watch him leave.
Damn it, damn it, damn it! Ying Yue angrily pounded the quilt, cursing in her heart.
After a while, she mumbled to herself as she climbed back into bed and lay down unwillingly.
He had a good sleep.
Ying Yue didn't know how long she had slept, but her rumbling stomach told her that it was time to wake up.
Before she opened her eyes, she had already sensed the presence of someone beside her. Who was it? Moon Weaving? Sister Yinzheng? Or him?
She opened her eyes and looked to the side. She found Ning Fujin sitting beside her pillow and looking at her. Behind him stood the silver rabbit. "You're awake. How's your body?"
Looking at her smile, Ying Yue was obviously disappointed. "I'm fine. I'll have to trouble the Fujin to visit me. Ying Yue is very grateful.”She sat up and returned a smile to Ning Fujin. Although that little brat was evil, his mother was really a good person.
"It's all Tao Ying's fault. I'll teach him a lesson when I get back.”Frowning, Ning Fujin had a headache whenever he thought of his naughty and mischievous son.
Yes, yes, yes! He should be taught a lesson! Although she agreed with him, Ying Yue still smiled and didn't say anything.
However, the silver rabbit spoke up." In that case, Fujin, the silver rabbit will go back to the palace to prepare for the family punishment. What do you think?"”
Once again, Ying Yue became extremely interested in this servant girl.
He had never seen a girl like this…so interesting!
"No, no need! Silver Rabbit, I can do this myself when I get back.”Ning Fujin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Right, Miss Ying Yue, I don't think you're from the capital…May I ask what your surname is? Where are you from? Who is there in the family?"
This Fujin…seemed to be very interested in her? "My surname is Wang and I live in Yangzhou. But my father passed away half a year ago…"
She remembered her father's last words. Did he want her to come to the capital just to let her meet Yuan Jun?
She was thinking nonsense again! Sigh! Ying Yue hurriedly swept away the absurd thoughts in her mind.
" Is that so..." Hearing her say this, Ning Fujin revealed a slightly disappointed expression. "To tell you the truth, I have a sister who looks very much like you, but she disappeared before I got married.”
Huh? Would Ning Fujin suspect that she was her sister? "Fujin, I'm not…"
"I know you're not. It's just that you two really look alike.”Ning Fujin smiled slightly, but there was unconcealable bitterness and sadness in his smile. "She's dead. She was buried three months ago.”She still remembered three months ago, when someone came to inform her that her sister had been found, the whole family was pleasantly surprised and happy, and when they met, they were shocked and mourned by a cold corpse. It was as if they had been sent from the Western Paradise to the two extremes of Avici Hell.
" Oh…" How pitiful. Ying Yue finally remembered the surprise that flashed across her face when she first saw her. "I'm sorry."
Ning Fujin blinked away the tears in his eyes and shook his head. "It's alright. However…I have a presumptuous request that I hope you can agree to…"
"Please speak."
"Ever since my sister died, my mother was devastated and refused to accept this fact. Now, his consciousness is a little chaotic…"
"You want me to pretend to be your sister and go back to visit her?”
"No, I want you to tell my mother that my sister is already dead.”Of course, she also knew that her mother would definitely mistake Ying Yue for her younger sister, but rather than letting Ying Yue help to deceive and comfort her, it was better to let her mother see the truth as soon as possible. Otherwise, it would be endless. "Please promise me, okay? Just tell me what you want. As long as I can give it to you, I won't be stingy!”
Ying Yue understood that the living were more important than the dead. However, since Ning Fujin said so…she had something that she was very interested in. "Really? Then I won't be polite with you."
"Please speak."
Ying Yue smiled and pointed at the silver rabbit,"Can you please give me the silver rabbit?"
After a while, Ning Fujin left Ying Yue's bedroom and went to tell Yuan Jun the plan.
The silver rabbit was still in the room.
"Why did Young Lady ask the Fujin for the silver rabbit?”Their eyes met. The silver rabbit didn't look like a servant at all. Instead, it was calm and composed.
Because I think you're very interesting." She didn't intend to treat the silver rabbit as a servant. She was just a sparrow living in a golden cage. She was not of noble birth. She had no need and no right to order others around.
Interesting? "Then why didn't Young Lady ask Furen for a monkey?”He was much more interesting than her.
Hahaha! It was indeed fun. "Why did you become the Fujin's maid?”
"My parents are servants of the Ning Imperial Residence, so naturally, I am also a servant girl of the Ning Imperial Residence. It was just that he had accumulated more virtue in his previous life, so he was able to follow the Fujin.”She explained calmly.
"Then I'm afraid you'll have to suffer in the future.”Ying Yue looked at her with a smile in her eyes. "After a while, after Prince Ping and Sister Yin Zheng get married, I will have to return to Yangzhou to live the life of a commoner. At that time, you will have to follow me, we will have to return to my hometown to rely on each other.”
"What do you mean?"
"When that time comes, I will no longer be an honored guest of the Rong Estate, and you will no longer be a servant of the Ning Estate. The two of us will only be commoners, and no one will serve us.”
Commoners. The silver rabbit's eyes lit up at this word, though it was only for a moment.
"Is that so? Didn't you ask me to come here just to serve you?”
"I'm not some rich young lady. I don't serve others, and I don't want others to serve me, understand?”
"Then what should I do?" She only knew how to be a servant girl, how to serve her master, and how to do her job well, although sometimes she didn't do it very well.
"After we return to Yangzhou, you will do whatever I do. Cooking, washing, sweeping, and planting vegetables are two people's work. You won't have time to serve me!”Ying Yue saw her as a sister and asked Ning Fujin for her for this reason.
The silver rabbit had inexplicably hit on her taste.
After a moment of silence, the expression on the silver rabbit's face changed. The last thing that flashed past was pure joy. "I understand."
"Know what?" Yuan Jun stepped into the room with an unhappy expression. The anger in his eyes and the tense lines on his face made it clear that he was angry.
What now? "This is between me and the silver rabbit, you don't need to know.”
"Is that so?" He approached the bed, his anger deep. "Silver Rabbit, you go down first."
"I am the young miss 'servant girl." It was the first rule of a good servant to only listen to his master's orders. Her current master was Ying Yue. No one else could order her around.
Holding back her laughter, Ying Yue nodded at the silver rabbit who was "loyal to her master". "Go out for a walk first."
Once the silver rabbit left, Yuan Jun immediately flew into a rage.""I heard from Ning Fujin that you're going to stay at her maiden home for a period of time?”Other than anger, there were also some invisible scars in his eyes. Did she really want to escape from him?
"That's right! But I don't know where her family is.”
"She's the young lady of the Minister of Revenue!”Yuan Jun believed that this had nothing to do with being close friends at first sight or having a good chat. Moreover, that silver rabbit had inexplicably become her servant girl! There must be a reason for this, but Ning Fujin had casually mentioned that he would bring Ying Yue back to her mother's house for a short stay. He had also held back on the rest of his words, so he decided to ask her. "Isn't it good to live here?"
"Very good!" Why did he suddenly ask that?
"Then why did you suddenly want to stay in the Minister's residence?”
"Ning Fujin invited me!"
"You went just because she invited you?"
"What does it matter?" She looked at him strangely, not understanding why he was so angry. "Anyway, we're both staying. Isn't it the same where we live? What's wrong with having a chance to go out for a walk?”
He had nothing to say. "King Ping's wedding is in eight days. Aren't you going?”
"I will go! Wasn't the Minister's Residence in the capital? I'll ask Ning Fujin to bring me there.”She found him more and more baffling.
"And then?" He chased after her relentlessly.
And then? "Then what?"
"What about after the wedding? Where are you going?" His expression was twisted and ferocious, as if he was ready to bite her to death the moment she mentioned the Minister's Manor or Prince Ning's Manor.
Ying Yue retreated back into the bed in fear and looked at him warily. "Of course, I want to go home! Where else would he go? You're so strange."
Seeing her retreat, Yuan Jun calmed down a little. Towards her, his reaction was always too much, exceeding his expectations. "That's good."
He had taken the liberty to treat the home she had mentioned as the residence of Prince Rong. His eyes were filled with pride and joy, causing him to miss the shock and disappointment that had appeared on her face.
He…He heard that she was going back to Yangzhou…Was he that happy?
She told herself not to care too much about him.
She tried hard, but she could not do it.
"Mother, I brought a guest to see you.”Ning Fujin walked to the window and gently held the hand of the minister's wife, who was sitting in front of the window with a blank expression.
"Guest?" The minister's wife muttered.
"Yeah!" Ning Fujin used his eyes to signal Ying Yue to come to the Minister's wife's side and said,"Mother, this is Miss Ying Yue. She's specially come to visit you.”
The Minister's wife slowly turned her head. Her originally dull expression turned red with excitement when she saw Ying Yue. She grabbed Ying Yue's hand tightly.
"You, you're Lan 'er! My daughter! Mother knew you weren't dead…Look at you! A girl wandering outside for so long, what kind of behavior was that? Go back to your room and wash up first. I'll ask the kitchen to prepare your favorite dishes for you. You must be hungry, right? My Lan 'er is finally back…"
Listening to the Minister's wife's incoherent screams, Ying Yue finally understood how serious she was. "Madam, you're mistaken. I'm not Miss Yunlan. My name is Ying Yue…"
"Yunlan, you're talking nonsense again!”The Minister's wife stared at Ying Yue reproachfully. "Go! Hurry up and tidy up. I'm going to the kitchen to tell them to prepare the dishes!”
"Madam!" She had been entrusted with the responsibility to lift the veil in front of the Minister's wife and let her face reality again. "Look carefully, I'm not Miss Yunlan. She's dead, dead!”
After being stunned for a while, the minister's wife shook her head. "Why would a good person say that she died? Touch it yourself. Your hand is still warm. How does it look like a cold dead person?”
"That's why I said I'm not Miss Yunlan.”Too bad, she had never been very patient.
"You're not Yunlan?" The Minister's wife stared blankly at Ying Yue. "Then who are you?"
"My name is Ying Yue." That was great! There was finally some progress.
The Minister's wife was silent for a while, and the words she said made Ying Yue almost bang her head against a pillar.
"Ying Yue…do you think the name Yunlan is not good enough? So he changed it? It doesn't matter. It's good that you're back. It doesn't matter what your name is. I said Yunlan…No, Ying Yue…"
She, she was really going crazy!
"Madam, you keep saying that I'm Miss Yunlan. Can you tell me what characteristics Miss Yunlan has?”There must be some characteristics that Yun Lan had but she didn't!
The minister's wife pondered for a while and said a little reproachfully,""Why are you asking mother about this? Have you forgotten?"
"Mother, just say it!" Ning Fujin also chimed in.
"Hmm…you have a jade pendant around your neck. Your father put it on for you when you were one year old…"
Ying Yue slightly pulled open her collar, revealing nothing. "I don't have a jade pendant."
"You lost it!" The minister's wife said it matter-of-factly. " Also, when you were playing with your Sister Yunhua when you were young, you accidentally tripped over a rock and fell, leaving a scar on your forehead…"
Ying Yue immediately lifted the bangs on her forehead. "I don't have any scars."
The minister's wife's expression began to become a little frightened. "Also, there's a small cinnabar birthmark behind your ear! This definitely couldn't be wrong! It won't happen!"
Turning around, Ying Yue pushed her hair aside and showed the back of her ear to the Minister's wife. "I don't have the cinnabar birthmark you mentioned.”
The minister's wife seemed to have suffered a great shock as she staggered back a few steps, her entire body trembling. "You…you're not Yunlan…who are you…who are you?”
Ah! That was great. "I'm Ying Yue, a guest of the residence.”
"Ying Yue…what about Yun Lan? Where's my Yunlan?"
"She…is dead."
Turning her head away, Ying Yue's heart ached because of the sharp cries of the Minister's wife. A thought flashed through her mind like lightning. She suddenly wished, wished to see Yuan Jun.
After a while, the crying gradually stopped. The Minister's wife finally calmed down and let Ning Fujin and the servant girls help her to the bed to rest. " Yunhua…" She called out to Ning Fujin, who was secretly wiping his tears.
Ning Fujin hurriedly moved closer to the pillow. "Mother, what instructions do you have?"
"Bring…bring that girl over, let me take a look again…"
Ying Yue heard this and quickly walked to the bedside. "Madam."
The Minister's wife reached out her withered hand and held Ying Yue. " Your name is Ying Yue…not my Yun Lan…" Her weak voice made one's heart ache.
"Yes, I am Ying Yue, not Yun Lan.”
" Yunlan is dead. She died three months ago…" She closed her eyes and tears flowed out. " Why…Why did this happen…"
She did not know either. However, Ying Yue allowed the Minister's wife to hold her hand and accompany her in mourning for her daughter's death.
Being separated from one's loved ones was the greatest pain and the greatest test for a living person.
Ying Yue couldn't help but think of the wedding that was only four days away.
After that day, she would have to face her separation. Leaving Zhi Yue, leaving Big Sister Yin Zheng, leaving the capital that he had lived in for several months.
He also left Yuan Jun.
Pain was inevitable, loneliness was unavoidable, and sadness was unavoidable. However, what should come would come, and what should go would go. The former was like the day of separation, while the latter was the short and shallow fate between her and Yuan Jun.
She shouldn't have asked for too much. However, this trip to Shangjing had made her lose the calm heart she had in her hometown. He wanted more and more things, but he was willing to pay less.
She lowered her head and looked at the Minister's wife's exhausted face. The scars of pain on her body made her unable to help but feel sad.
Now that things had come to this, she only hoped that she wouldn't be too reluctant to let go.#
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