Chapter 196: Sisters
"Sister, it's smoking."
Wei Hanyan poked out a head, and in her arms, she was holding a small burden.
Chu Yi looked confused.
The door was open, and Chu saw that not far behind Wei Hanyan, April showed a helpless expression, and there were several guards in civilian clothes who were secretly protecting her.
Obviously, this Hanyan princess thought that she had deceived everyone and secretly came to find her "sister", but in fact, April and Kongheji followed her, afraid that she would be unfavorable to Chu Yi.
Chu Yi was just about to sit up, but Wei Hanyan had already walked quickly to her side.
She put the little burden on the bed, pressed Chu Yi's shoulders with both hands, and pressed Chu Yi back into the quilt: "Sister is lying down, you don't have to get up!"
Chu Yi looked at April and signaled with his eyes that they didn't need to worry.
"Why are you here?" She asked softly.
Wei Hanyan glanced around, and April and the others had no choice but to bow their heads to Chu Yi and hide silently.
She was sure that there were only two people in the room, she and Chu Yi went back to the door, closed the door, and sat down next to Chu Yi again.
"Sister, you slept for so long yesterday, did your father send someone to draw your blood again, you have to rest well." Wei Hanyan said in a low voice, his pale golden eyes full of sadness.
Chu Yi's pupils shrank: "Father, draw my blood?"
Chu Yi's fingertips curled, and through Wei Hanyan's last sentence, she understood why Wei Rudai had to leave the Jin Kingdom with all her heart in the first place - the old Jin Emperor actually sent someone to regularly draw her blood, and the Jin royal family regarded her as an infinite amount of panacea!
Wei Rudai is the princess of the Jin Kingdom, the daughter of the old Jin Emperor! He couldn't bear it.
Chu Yi suddenly realized that although Wei Hanyan was like a teenage girl now, she had memories of her girlhood, that is, she could still ask about some things through her.
Wei Hanyan nodded, stretched out a finger, and carefully touched Chu Yi's arm, and said in a low and sad tone: "It would be nice if Hanyan was also the blood of the emperor."
"Why? Do you want to be poisonous even if you have smoke?"
Wei Hanyan's pale face showed a touch of crimson, and he replied softly: "In that case, Hanyan draws blood for my sister, and my sister won't be in pain."
Chu Yi was stunned, and his throat suddenly became sour.
Although Wei Hanyan is now at an age where she can be her mother, she only looks at her eyes and is distressed and serious about her innocence and immaculateness - she really regards herself as Wei Rudai.
Chu Yi had no doubt that if Wei Hanyan was carrying the imperial blood, he would definitely draw blood on behalf of his sister.
"You...... What are you doing with your baggage?" She asked in a low voice, her voice a little choked.
"That's right! Hanyan almost forgot to get down to business!"
Wei Hanyan slapped his head and remembered.
Her complexion changed slightly, and she glanced at the door nervously, before she solemnly put the small burden she brought into Chu Yi's arms, and her tone was a little eager.
"Sister, go quickly, the farther you go, the better! Leave Jiangcheng, and even leave the Jin Kingdom. This, here is some gold and silver that Hanyan has saved on weekdays, sister, you can take it and leave, if you don't leave, it's too late!"
Chu Yi lowered his head and gently flipped through the baggage, there were indeed some gold and silver jewelry in it.
"But ......"
"Sister, you believe me, if you don't leave, you will definitely die," Wei Hanyan saw her hesitating, her voice was even dyed with a layer of crying, and she was extremely anxious, "I, I don't want you to die."
Her eyes were too serious, as if Chu Yi would die if she didn't leave quickly.
Chu Yi settled down, lowered his eyes, and said according to Wei Rudai's situation back then: "Don't worry about Hanyan, it's just that blood is drawn, I'm used to it, and my father has to keep me alive to keep drawing blood, he won't let me die."
"No, it's not like that, sister, they'...... It's not just about drawing blood."
Wei Hanyan's tears splashed down on the back of Chu Yi's hand one by one, hot and hot, her pale golden eyes were wide open, and her eyes were full of fear that penetrated into the bones.
"Sister, do you know what I saw the other day......
What did she see?
Chu Yi couldn't help but hold his breath.
She knew that what Wei Hanyan was going to say next was probably the truth about Wei Rudai's escape from the Jin Kingdom.
"What do you see?" She raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes for Wei Hanyan, just like a sister treating her sister.
Wei Hanyan said: "I saw that the eldest princess's daughter, Lord Anle, died, and she was killed by Qingrong and her father, they ...... Ahh
She only said one sentence, and suddenly she screamed, and fell to the edge of the bed with her head in her hands, unable to speak.
The eldest princess?
This title should be the aunt of the old Jin Emperor, the elder of Wei Rudai and Wei Hanyan's maternal ancestors, and although she has not heard of any Anle County Lord, according to her generation, it is their aunt.
Wei Yuanshan said that imperial blood is only available to princesses, and there is only one princess in each generation of the Jin Kingdom, and the old Jin Emperor has no sisters.
Therefore, Chu Yi guessed that the eldest princess was the royal blood princess of the previous generation, but why did Wei Hanyan say that he saw her daughter killed......
"It hurts, sister, why does my head hurt so much......
Wei Hanyan curled up in Chu Yi's arms in pain, her pretty face was also distorted, she was sweating profusely, and her face was as pale as paper.
There were some broken images in her mind that she had never experienced before, but there were so many of them that they blurred the scene she had seen a few days ago.
Chu Yi could only hold her in his arms, whisper comfortingly, and patting her on the back.
Wei Hanyan suddenly pushed Chu Yi away, found the water bowl on the ground, and retched.
After a moment, she raised her head, her bloodshot eyes filled with disappointment and despair: "I saw them put the Lord of Anle to death with a thousand knives, and poured her blood on a bell...... Only...... It's like the bell that fell out of my sister's arms in the morning."
Chu Yi knew that she was talking about the soul bell, she was terrified, as if she understood, that soul bell might be able to have a certain connection with the imperial blood!
"Sister, do you remember Lord Anle, last summer, she made peach blossom soup for us to eat, and let us call her aunt."
Wei Hanyan was afraid that Chu Yi would not believe it, and added.
Her voice trembled, once again remembering what she had seen a few days ago.
"After I heard that Qingrong killed my aunt, I said to my aunt that this is the final outcome of every generation of imperial blood, and your mother is the same.
Sister, the eldest princess died like this, my aunt is only thirty years old, she is not even the blood of the emperor, but she is also dead, she is dead, and the next one is you, sister!"
Chu Yi still got up and poured a glass of water for Wei Hanyan.
Wei Hanyan took the water, drank it all in one gulp before wiping his tears, and held the warm tea cup in his palm, trying to warm his palm.
"Sister, I don't want you to die." She cried.
Chu Yi asked, "Hanyan, how old are you?"
Wei Hanyan was stunned for a moment, and replied obediently: "Hanyan is twelve years old and has grown up, sister, don't worry, even if you leave, Hanyan can take care of herself."
Chu Yi blinked, and a tear fell.
"Sister, why are you crying?" Wei Hanyan hurriedly wiped Chu Yi's tears, and his movements were extremely gentle, "Is it too painful to draw blood, sister, don't be afraid......
"I can't go, my father said before, let me marry Qingrong in two years, and I will be his wife in the future, how can he kill his wife, Hanyan, you don't have to worry about me." Chu Yi substituted himself into Wei Rudai and said in a low voice.
Wei Hanyan shook his head sadly: "But the eldest princess is also the wife of the previous generation of high priests!"
Chu Yi's body stiffened.
She understood everything.
"Sister, you go." Wei Hanyan looked at Chu Yi, his golden eyes with tears in the glimmer like solidified amber, and said firmly and seriously.
"I'll marry Qingrong for you."
It turned out that the reason why Wei Rudai wanted to flee the Jin Kingdom back then was because
In order to know what Wei Hanyan said.
According to what Wei Yuanshan said, and then calculated according to age, half a year later, Wei Rudai made the old Jin Emperor dizzy, completely broke with the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, and wandered the rivers and lakes ever since.
And Wei Hanyan stood up and said that he would marry Qingrong instead of his sister.
She clearly knew that the Priest's Mansion was a demon cave, and as a princess of the royal family, even if it was not the royal blood, she might face the end of being cut by a thousand knives;
She also knew that Qingrong was a devil, and her father only used his daughter as "medicine".
But she still decided to marry Qingrong, because only in this way can the Jin royal family have a substitute, for the sake of her own face, she will not hunt down Wei Rudai, and her sister can gain real freedom.
Everyone thought that Wei Hanyan was greedy for vanity, and he did not hesitate to slander and frame his sister, just to marry the high priest and become the priest's wife.
But she was only thirteen years old that year.
It's not sisters fighting, it's not turning against each other, and it's not two women fighting for a husband.
Everything Wei Hanyan did was just a sister to protect her sister.
Chu Yi remembered that in the dark room the day before yesterday, Wei Hanyan saw himself, and his godless eyes seemed to have a light suddenly.
She said, "Sister, are you here, are you here to save me?"
In her heart, she may have always believed that her sister would one day come back to save her.
Chu Yi held Wei Hanyan in his arms, in fact, Wei Hanyan was taller than herself, but these days she had been tortured in the dark room to the point of being skinny, just like herself in her previous life.
She also saw a few silver wisps of her sideburns, but Wei Hanyan was only thirty-two years old this year.
"Okay, I'll go, but I don't want you to marry Qingrong for me, I'll go and ask my father again, and we still have the emperor's brother......" Chu Yi guessed Wei Hanyan's original words, gently comforting.
As soon as she lowered her head, she happened to see Wei Hanyan's increasingly firm and stubborn golden eyes.
Chu Yi's heart was sour and astringent, she knew that Wei Hanyan at this time had already decided to marry her sister.
She later really married Qingrong, and from the age of sixteen to thirty-two, half of her life was spent with a man she didn't love at all, and even feared and resented.
In those sixteen years, when did Wei Hanyan miss his sister?
When the news of Wei Rudai's death reached the Jin Kingdom nine years ago, was she grief-stricken?
Is there a moment when Wei Hanyan remembers the sisters' childhood, and will miss the days when they were in the Jin Kingdom.
Chu Yi didn't know.
But she knew that Wei Hanyan had never regretted everything she had done.
Even if she is a younger sister, even if she is just a little girl, even if she does it all over again, she will choose to use her own strength to protect her sister.
"Ah Yi!"
The door opened suddenly, and Xiao Yan rushed in in a hurry, his eyes faintly flickering with anxiety.
"Wei Yuanshan, why are you here?"
Wei Hanyan was still shrunk in Chu Yi's arms, she secretly hid the little burden behind her, and asked innocently.
Her eldest brother has always preferred her sister and dislikes herself, but she doesn't mind because she also likes her sister more than her eldest brother.
She never expected Wei Yuanshan to save her sister, because he was also a man, maybe he would be no different from those stinky men in the future, and he would hurt his sister.
Wei Hanyan saw April and the others behind Xiao Yan, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.
And for some reason, after she woke up yesterday, she didn't like these male guards near her even more.
Xiao Yan didn't expect Wei Hanyan to be there, and this aunt, whose consciousness suddenly became a cardamom girl, actually held Chu Yi and didn't let go.
He frowned, "Why are you here?"
"I, why can't I be here, this is my sister's room, I'm here to find my sister." Wei Hanyan said confidently, and his demeanor became more and more childish.
If it weren't for the red eyes and a somewhat hoarse voice, Chu Yi wouldn't have been sure that she was really crying and letting herself go quickly.
"I promise what you say
Already," Chu Yi put the little burden back into her arms and comforted her gently, "But this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, with smoke, you can go and prepare again."
Wei Hanyan let go of the arm that was holding Chu Yi, and checked his burden, thoughtfully.
Also, her sister is the princess of the Great Jin Dynasty, Jin Zhi Yuye, if she leaves the Jin Kingdom, how can that little silver be enough, she has to prepare some.
"Okay, then sister, you can rest well."
She glared at Xiao Yan before leaving.
Xiao Yan frowned and saw Wei Hanyan, who was originally his aunt but had to call his imperial brother, to leave, and asked, "What did she just come to do?" And what did you promise her?"
"I didn't promise, I promised in the name of your mother."
Chu Yi took a deep breath and looked into Xiao Yan's eyes.
"When Wei Hanyan married Qingrong, she was not greedy for vanity, let alone hating her sister, she just wanted to save Wei Rudai."
She told Xiao Yan what Wei Hanyan said, and also determined from Xiao Yan's mouth that the eldest princess was indeed the imperial blood princess of Wei Rudai's previous generation, as early as when the old Jin Emperor was still young, she died in her thirties, and her daughter Changle County Lord also died twenty years ago.
And Wei Hanyan's current memory is just stuck in the time when the county lord of Changle died twenty years ago.
She had forgotten all the tortures she had experienced in the darkroom, but she still remembered telling her sister to run away.
Through time calculation, Chu Yi completely believed what Wei Hanyan said: The eldest princess died like this.
The final fate of the princess who bears the blood of the emperor is to be cut by a thousand knives.
She involuntarily lowered her head and looked at the soul bell in her palm.
What does this bell do?