HCB Chapter 260 Hailan
Chapter 260 Hailan
"Even if I die, I want them to die together."
What Wei Yanwan said before she left made Hai Lan feel fortunate. Fortunately, Wei Yanwan still allowed her to be with Ruyi. If she didn't allow her to be with Ruyi, how would she apologize to Ruyi and admit her mistake?
Hai Lan was actually already very cold. The porridge that the jailer brought to her had already gone cold while Wei Yanwan was talking to them.
Hai Lan looked back and saw Ruyi in tears.
Ruyi sat on the ground, leaning against Lao Men, supporting herself with her hands on her eyes.
Hai Lan was extremely distressed. She knelt in front of Ruyi, holding the bowl of porridge with more rice water.
"Sister, it's not that I don't want to tell you about Ling Yunche's death by slow slicing, it's that I can't bear to tell you.
Sister, you and Ling Yunche are already like this. If I tell you the truth about his death, I’m afraid you won’t be able to bear it.
I can't lose your sister."
Ruyi had been well taken care of by Hailan during her days in the Ministry of Punishment. She had plenty of energy, so she turned around and turned her head away, refusing to pay any attention to Hailan.
In contrast, Hai Lan said every day that she was not hungry and gave her porridge and rice to Ruyi. It seemed a bit difficult for her to catch up with Ruyi.
Hai Lan crawled on her knees with difficulty to catch up with Ruyi, but as soon as Hai Lan got close, Ruyi immediately changed direction. After doing this several times, Hai Lan's movements became slower and slower.
Hailan felt that her body was feverish, but in fact she had caught a cold. There was no shortage of doctors in the Ministry of Punishment, but the emperor never wanted to see any imperial physicians for them. The emperor also left them in the Ministry of Punishment to fend for themselves.
Hai Lan didn't dare to let Ruyi worry about her. She didn't dare to tell Ruyi when she had a fever, but just endured it secretly.
But today she really couldn't hold on any longer.
Hailan had to put down the porridge in her hand.
Seeing this, Ruyi glanced at Hailan coldly.
I thought that Hailanduo was sincerely admitting his mistake, but after a while he couldn't even hold the porridge.
Ruyi's stomach rumbled. Fortunately, she had her back to Hailan, who was sobbing and didn't notice her embarrassment.
Ruyi's tears suddenly stopped because of her change of mind.
Ruyi swallowed her saliva as she looked at the porridge that was right in front of her but she couldn't get it directly.
When I looked at Hailan again, she was still kneeling and crying, as if she was extremely wronged.
Ruyi looked back in disgust.
He shouted to the prison boss outside.
"Prison boss, we are done eating. Please take this porridge away."
Ruyi really didn't understand why Hailan didn't continue to bring her porridge. She simply thought of this idea. She didn't believe that if she called the prison warden over, Hailan would ignore her.
As soon as Ruyi said that, the jailer appeared. He was also surprised that Ruyi, who usually ate quickly, didn't eat today.
The jailer took one look at the dazed Hai Lan and seemed to have an idea.
He didn't care whether Hailan was sick or not. He just thought about the idea he had proposed to Hailan a long time ago, and who knows, it might come true today.
The jailer didn't even bother calling the drowsy Hai Lan, but hurriedly asked someone to bring out the porridge.
The noise of the guard opening the door to take the porridge startled Hailan, who could barely lift her eyelids. Hailan was puzzled as to why her porridge was taken away.
Hailan hugged the guard's legs.
"Why take it away? We haven't eaten yet."
The guard said to Hailan speechlessly:
"It's not me who came to get it. It was her who said she didn't want to eat it anymore. Go ask her."
The guard kicked Hailan away, carried the porridge out, and poured the porridge and the bowl and chopsticks into a bucket beside him, then walked away without even looking back.
Even the guards would not like such a bland thing.
The prison boss was quite satisfied with the guard's behavior.
He smiled at Hailan who fell to the ground and couldn't get up:
"Concubine Yu, it's still early. Please think about what I said."
The jailer looked at Hailan with lustful eyes. In his heart, he had already thought about what to do if he succeeded.
Hailan was already ill, and the kick from the guard was not light, so Hailan gradually passed out.
Ruyi looked at Hailan lying motionless on the ground. She had no intention of helping her up and just moved her to a pile of grass nearby.
The pile of grass was not big, just enough for one person to sleep on.
Originally, they both shared some. Hai Lan said that Ruyi had been imprisoned in Yikun Palace for three years, so it was natural to take care of Ruyi's health. Ruyi did not refuse.
Just with Hyland Road:
"Okay, Hailan, if you feel cold every day, come and sleep with me. With you around, I won't feel cold either."
The reason why Ruyi wasn't cold wasn't because of Hailan, but because of the pile of straw that Hailan gave her.
Ruyi told Hailan to come over if she felt cold, but Ruyi always slept very well and Hailan didn't want to be disturbed. Occasionally, Hailan was really cold and wanted to get closer, but Ruyi had to stand half of the way there.
Once, Hai Lan tried to take down the prayer flags on the haystack, intending to squeeze in with Ruyi.
Ruyi was half asleep and half awake, looking at Hailan and said:
"Hai Lan, don't work for too long at night."
Hailan felt very embarrassed holding the prayer flag in her hands. She had to make the prayer flag when she was cold and sleepy.
Hailan trembled for a long time before she put on the needle and thread. Then she saw Ruyi stretching lazily and said:
"Hai Lan, put the prayer flags you made on the haystack. Prayer flags are sacred things and cannot be thrown on the ground."
Hailan said yes and no longer had the intention of moving the prayer flags to squeeze in with Ruyi.
The haystack gradually became Ruyi's exclusive property. She even joked with Hailan when she was already shaking from the cold:
"Hai Lan, you are in better health than me. Without the hay you gave me, I don't know if I could survive this winter."
Hai Lan was so cold that tears came to her eyes. Ruyi smiled and comforted Hai Lan.
"It's okay, Hailan. As long as we're together, everything will be fine. Don't worry, I'm not cold anymore. I'm fine."
Hai Lan was woken up by the cold a quarter of an hour later. She saw Ruyi sleeping with her back to her. She looked at Ruyi's figure in her heart and burst into tears.
Her sister fell asleep like this. No, her sister hasn't eaten a single bite of food yet.
Hailan struggled to get up and looked outside. The jailer was already waiting for her like a wolf.
The jailer was about to speak, but Hai Lan pointed to the side, signaling him not to alarm Ruyi.
The prison boss was about to achieve what he had always dreamed of, so he listened to Hai Lan obediently, smiled and deliberately said loudly:
"Master Yu, you guys refused to give us anything today and wasted the food. Come with me, I want to settle the score with you.
Do you want to go, or should she go?"
Hai Lan naturally didn't want Ruyi to go, and the jailer didn't want Ruyi to go either, he just said it on purpose for Ruyi to hear.
Ruyi heard the sound of the prison door being opened and closed again.
Ruyi listened to the footsteps going away and hurriedly got up. Although she felt a little dizzy when she got up, she really shouldn't have missed her meal.
Ruyi was confused and didn't know what Hailan was doing with the prison boss.
She didn't want to care, but when she saw that the prison boss hadn't had time to lock the cell door, she subconsciously took a step forward and quietly followed Hailan and the prison boss.
Hailan was dazed and her body could not support itself, so the jailer grabbed her.
There was a lustful gleam in his eyes.
"Hey, Master Yu, you better be careful."
The jailer started moving his hands and feet while talking, Hailan tried to dodge, Ruyi saw it clearly from behind. Ruyi couldn't stand it anymore.
shouted:
"Hai Lan, what are you planning to do? You are the emperor's concubine."
Hai Lan really didn't expect Ruyi to follow her out, and she struggled frantically to break free from the prison boss's molestation.
"Sister, it's not like that. The prison boss just asked me to..."
"Okay, Hailan, don't explain. You've already done this with him, what else is there to explain? I didn't expect Hailan that you are such a person.
How could you betray the emperor?
You will be the emperor's man until you die."
Ruyi was so angry that she took a few quick steps and pulled Hailan over.
"You come with me. I knew that one day you would commit yourself to someone like this. I shouldn't have saved you when the emperor used force on you."
Hailan's face suddenly turned red.
Hai Lan was just an embroiderer in the palace. One day, she was embroidering and passed by a room. Hongli came out from nowhere and took her alive when he was drunk.
It was a brutal demand.
It was Hailan's scar that was difficult to talk about, and Ruyi revealed it nakedly.
Ruyi didn't care about shame or not. She continued:
“If I had known you were like this, I shouldn’t have begged the Emperor to accept you.
It was also my bad luck. I had a quarrel with the emperor that day. I want the emperor to sleep in the same room with whoever he wants, and I really didn't want the emperor to meet you.
I had thoughts that I shouldn’t have had.”
Ruyi kept muttering about her dissatisfaction.
She really regretted that the emperor spoke a few more words to Langya that day, and Ruyi was jealous to death. When the emperor was having dinner with her, she was full of resentment and dissatisfaction.
The emperor enjoyed Ruyi's jealousy at first, and was even willing to favor her alone. But at that time, Fucha and Langya were pregnant, so the emperor naturally had to take them into consideration.
After talking for just a cup of tea, Ruyi became extremely jealous and said many things about how she was not as good as Fucha, and how she was not as good as Fucha. She also told the emperor not to come to have dinner with her and to go to Fucha instead.
No matter how the emperor tried to persuade Ruyi, she still wouldn't give in. This made the emperor so angry that he drank a few more glasses of wine. Ruyi was so angry that she snatched the emperor's wine glass, thinking that the emperor was just being perfunctory with her, so she angrily said that the emperor could sleep with someone else if he liked her.
The emperor was really drunk and angry, so he got up and left.
By the time Ruyi found the emperor in the mansion, the emperor had already bullied Hai Lan.
Ruyi also regretted saying the wrong thing at that time, and the emperor looked at Ruyi with grievance.
“Ruyi, you know, I spent the first night with you, and I don’t want to do this to her.
Who told you to be angry with me?
I didn’t look for anyone else in the mansion because I was afraid you would be unhappy.”
Ruyi pouted helplessly.
"Brother Hongli, I know you're having a hard time, and I also know that I shouldn't have argued with you."
The emperor saw this and took Ruyi into his arms. The two reconciled. When Hailan saw this, the emperor had already left. Only Ruyi came in and said to Hailan, who was huddled in the chair:
"You have been wronged, but the prince is not an irresponsible person. You stay with me first, and I will ask the prince to give you a status in a few days.
In fact, logically speaking, if you serve the prince, you should belong to the prince, but you can only leave it aside for now."
At that time, Hai Lan felt that Ruyi was simply a ball of light.
But after hearing Ruyi's words just now, Hai Lan realized that the source of her misfortune in life was actually Ruyi.
"Sister, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, that day I had an argument with you, that's when I..."
Hailan found it unbelievable, but she couldn't ask. She felt pain all over her body and couldn't open her eyelids.
Ruyi pulled her back into the prison and threw her hand away.
"Yes. That day the prince was drunk, and I was kind enough to help you get a status.
Actually, the prince had originally intended to give you a title that day, but I thought it was not appropriate for you to have one at that time, so I stopped him from doing so. It was several months later that you were given a title."
Hai Lan looked at Ruyi in disbelief.
If she had been given the status of a concubine after the emperor forced her upon her that day, she would not have been always laughed at by Jin Yuyan and the others. They all laughed at her for being deflowered but not being accepted by the prince.
This ridicule accompanied almost the first half of her life. If it were not for saving Ruyi, Hai Lan did not want to face the emperor. The emperor was simply the source of her nightmare.
Now Hai Lan suddenly realized that the credit for her becoming the emperor's woman was due to Ruyi, but the fault also lay with Ruyi.
Hailan couldn't accept this result for a while. She wanted to be with Ruyi because she was the only one who didn't say anything bad about her.
It turns out that Ruyi was not unwilling to speak, but knew clearly what was going on, and regarded promoting Hailan as her virtue.
"Hai Lan, even though I cannot forgive you now, I still have to warn you not to do anything that would insult the Emperor."
"Oh my, I don't like what you said. What do you think happened between me and Concubine Yu? I just heard that Concubine Yu is an expert in embroidery.
My daughter likes these little things and wants Concubine Yu to embroider a handkerchief for her. What do you think happened between Concubine Yu and me?"
The jailer had been following the two of them to watch the fun, and when he heard that Ruyi was going to slander him, he refused to agree.
The jailer spat a handful of melon seed shells onto the ground.
"Bah! Coveting the emperor's concubines is a capital crime. Can I make such a mistake for such a person?"
What the jailer said was beyond Ruyi's expectations. Ruyi failed to persuade him and just stiffened her neck and said nothing.
Seeing her like this, the jailer felt sorry for Hailan.
"You are lucky. The food and things you use every day are all bought by her. The good things are all for you. You should at least be nicer to her."
"We are all women, why bother making things difficult for women?"
"You don't trust Concubine Yu at all. She was just embroidering something. You said that about her. You and Ling Yunche already have a son. She never said a single bad thing about you."
"And you, you wouldn't even leave her a place to sleep."
The jailer saw all of Hailan's efforts and couldn't bear it any longer, so he told Ruyi everything.
Ruyi was so angry that she snorted coldly.
"Hai Lan, you said you had no personal relationship with him, how could he speak for you like this if there was no personal relationship?
We are both in prison, and I am the same as you. How can you still blame me?"
Hailan stammered and said nothing. She felt very complicated. She felt that she had never felt that Ruyi was so strange.
Hailan couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground.
The jailer knew that the handkerchief was gone, so he didn't bother to look at the two of them and walked out.
Hailan lay on the ground and looked at Ruyi.
But Ruyi was angry and refused to look at her.
I just turned over and continued to sleep.
Hailan felt that time was passing for a very long time, a very long time, and she was very tired. She could not open her eyes.
She wanted to argue, but it was difficult. She wanted to ask Ruyi if she had treated her as a good sister over the years.
But she really couldn't speak.
The night was very long and Ruyi did not fall asleep either. She glanced at Hailan from time to time and saw that she was still motionless.
Ruyi felt uncomfortable. Normally, Hailan would have come to apologize to her. Why didn't she come this time?
Ruyi was very angry and thought that even if Hailan admitted her mistake this time, she would have to leave Hailan alone for a few days.
Thinking of this, Ruyi gradually fell asleep, but she didn't sleep well. Finally, when dawn came, Ruyi couldn't stand it anymore.
Get up and take a look at Hailan
But she found that Hailan's eyes were staring at her.
She was a little annoyed and wanted to talk to Hailan, but as soon as she stood up, Hailan fell straight to the ground.
Ruyi went forward to try, and stepped back in fear.