Every step is a camp

  Stunned in the chaos, her sensitive face threw open the scissors and muttered to herself, looking at the crowd: "It's not me, it's not me, you have to believe I didn't."

  "What's wrong with you, hurry up and help the princess up!" Cui Zhu shouted beside her, and several maids nearby immediately helped Ou Ruolan up.

  "Call...call General over." Ouro Lan's face was deathly pale, and she leaned weakly against the maid behind her.

  "Hurry! How are you, Princess? I'll go and ask the imperial physician to come." Cui Zhu pressed down Ou Ruolan's hand and turned around to leave.

  Her face calm, she stared at Ouluan, suddenly feeling that all of this was a conspiracy. First, she had been punished to kneel in the hall, then Fenghe was bound and seriously injured, and now Ouluan and her maid were putting on an act of self-inflicted suffering!

  Her face was no longer panicked, she calmly stood up and waited for the next scene.

  Pan Yu Yang was invited to the small courtyard, and along the way, the little maid had already described what they saw. Regardless of whether Yan'er really did such a thing or not, Ou Ruolan would not let Yan'er off. Pan Yu Yang quickly arrived at the room.

  "Hubby..." Orlan didn't move, she just weakly called out to Pan Yueyang.

  "First, help the princess back to her room to rest." Pan Yu Yang looked at the messy room, Yan Er standing in the middle, ceramic shards on the floor, a table overturned on one side, and a pair of scissors not far from Ou Ruo Lan. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and calmly opened them again.

  "Husband, Yu Lan is fine." It's clear that he wants to side with this cheap woman, and no matter what he says, he can't leave.

  Pan Yu Yang wanted to say something else, but Cui Zhu's distant shouting interrupted him.

  "Princess, princess, I've already called for the imperial physician." Cui Zhu panted heavily as she followed behind the imperial physician who was carrying a medicine box.

  The imperial physician didn't say much and directly took the princess's pulse in the hall. He wrote out a few prescriptions to calm her nerves and then withdrew.

  Ou Ruolan was very satisfied. The effect of Cui Zhu's quick thinking was really good, and it wasn't a waste to spoil this girl.

  "Get this place cleaned up and send someone over to wait on her." Pan Yu Yang looked at Yan Er, who had been coldly silent since he entered the room.

  "Husband, wait." Youlan couldn't let go of such a good opportunity.

  "What more can you want? Yan'er is now pregnant, this matter doesn't need to be made a fuss about." Pan Yuanyang was wholeheartedly protecting Yan'er.

  "I will go back to the palace immediately and report this to the Emperor!" Oulan was furious, Pan Yuanyang was clearly biased towards Yan'er. The bamboo beside her wanted to speak up but seeing Pan Yuanyang's sharp gaze, she only moved her lips without saying anything to help Oulan.

  "I am willing to accept punishment, I only ask that the princess can spare Fenghe, her face is still recovering from injuries and cannot be expelled from the mansion." Yan'er directly knelt on the ground, determined to save Fenghe.

  "What's going on? You get up and talk." Is there still something about Fenghe? I didn't even notice that Fenghe wasn't in the room when I came in.

  Her face was still on the ground, her belly slightly bulging: "Fenghe was expelled from the house, Yan'er only asked the princess to show mercy and let Fenghe stay in the house to recover from his injuries, not to marry him off, Yan'er was willing to be a slave and serve the princess's great kindness." Yan'er suddenly kowtowed to the ground.

  "Alright, I agree to your request." Ouro Lan surprisingly understood the situation and even helped Yan'er up from his knees. Her goal had been achieved, and Yan'er voluntarily became a slave. Even if her husband wanted to protect Yan'er, he probably wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

  "Absolutely not!" Pan Yu Yang glared at her, she was clearly putting herself in a position to be tormented by Ou Ruolan from now on. Which daughter in the palace didn't have deep schemes?

  "Thanks for your concern, Princess." Yan'er deliberately ignored Pan Yueyang's existence and didn't even look at him.

  "I'm very tired today, husband, let's go back and rest with Ruo Lan." The first sentence was said to the people present, while the second sentence was said looking at Pan Yueyang.

  Pan Yu Yang kicked away the scissors at his feet in anger and left, he was furious that Yan Ruo Xue did not accept his protection and insisted on sending herself to Ouyang Lan's side for the sake of that Feng He's servant, didn't this woman care about the child she was carrying with him?

  Ou Ruolan smiled eerily: "Little sister, from now on you won't be living here anymore, move to the lower quarters."

  "What about Fenghe?" Yan'er couldn't bear to neglect Fenghe.

  "You're really annoying. Fine, bring that ugly woman back with me." Ouro Lan waved her hand impatiently, and Cui Zhu immediately came over to support herself.

  Ou Roulan took two steps, then seemed to think of something and turned back to look at the still stunned servants: "You all remember, she is a slave just like you, here there is only one mistress, me. Don't let me see anything that I shouldn't, now disperse."

  Just after dinner, Pan Yueyang received an imperial edict, ordering him to enter the palace. Unaware of Emperor Xuan's intentions, Pan Yueyang had no choice but to obey and head to the palace. Before leaving, he called for Shan Yunji to give some instructions, then immediately set off from the military headquarters.

  The next morning, Yan'er and Fenghe were taken away from their small courtyard by an old woman and brought to Yunlu Courtyard. The two couldn't help but feel anxious, as Ou Ruolan had them under her close watch, which was another form of torture...

  Fenghe, I'll make the bed first, you rest first.

  "Madam, the servants' quarters are not comparable to the masters' bedrooms. I'll take care of this myself." Feng He's clean face was a lifesaver.

  "It's okay, I can do it." Yan'er smiled, thinking that she was also one of those who hadn't had a hard life for many days. Now the two were dependent on each other for survival in the general's mansion, and she herself had to learn to do something too.

  "You two, stop dawdling and come out to do the laundry. If it's not done, there will be no dinner." A little girl rushed in at the door, calling out urgently, then slipped away like she was avoiding a plague.

  The two of them exchanged a glance and smiled: "Let's go, Fenghe."

  Yan'er secretly felt fortunate that they only had to wash a mountain of clothes today, and Ou Ruolan was actually being quite kind to herself.

  "Madam, I'll go." Feng He grabbed the water bucket and did the physically demanding task of fetching water, which he was still more skilled at than Yan Er.

  "Fenghe, from now on don't call me madam, I'm not any madam, just call me by my name." Yan'er didn't follow Fenghe to fetch water, indeed she could only make a mess with this task.

  "But madam..." Fenghe was about to say something when Yanyu interrupted her.

  "We must think of living well and not be called 'Mrs.' anything!" In such a difficult environment, Fenghe and I can only rely on each other for survival.

  Fenghe didn't say anything, but just smiled at Yan'er.

  From a distance, the housekeeper brought someone over to Yan'er and her group: "Mrs. Yan, this is the doctor that General has invited for you..." Sun Yunji wiped his forehead.

  "Thank you, Guan Jia, I don't need these." Yan Er's voice was clear and cold.

  "Madam......" Isn't this making things difficult for yourself? Chunyunji gazed pitifully at Fenghe.

  "Husband... Yan'er, let the doctor take a look, it's all for the best, don't waste General's kindness." Fenghe pulled Yan'er and walked into the house.

  Yan'er smiled slightly and stopped in her tracks: "I really have a lot of things to do, Housekeeper, no need for General to worry about it." Without looking at anyone else, Yan'er directly saw the guest off.

  Duan Yunji reluctantly took the doctor back, all the way thinking that he should have prepared a few doses of calming medicine first, and let Feng He take them. If there was an emergency, they wouldn't be so flustered.

  Yan'er sat on the small stool with some effort, after all, her body was almost four months old, and it was inevitable that she would feel uncomfortable sitting for a long time. She rubbed her sore waist, and by now it was almost dark. She and Fenghe had been washing clothes all day, without even having time to drink water. When she turned around, there were still half of the clothes left unwashed, Yan'er frowned.

  "Yan'er, if you're tired, go take a nap in the house. I'll do these." Feng He had already gotten used to not calling Yan'er "wife" after an afternoon.

  "Fenghe, I'll go to the kitchen and see if there's any leftover food." The two of them had been washing clothes all day and hadn't eaten dinner yet.

  Pan Yu Yang was currently in the imperial palace, her eyelid suddenly twitched! She didn't know why she felt uneasy.

  Before Fenghe could speak, a voice came from outside the small courtyard: "Princess, be careful, there's water everywhere upstairs."

  Ou Ruolan smiled at the two women washing clothes, and Yan's face looked at Ou Ruolan's changing face, which was faster than flipping a book, and couldn't help but take a step back: "What? Is this palace so scary?" Yan's reaction made her very pleased.

  "Hasn't she come to pay her respects yet?" The green bamboo fox's pretentious and intimidating demeanor was truly detestable.

  "It's all right." Orlene pushed at the hairpin on her head and looked at Yaner.

  Fenghe stood in front of Yan'er, deeply afraid that Ouyulan would play another trick in front of them. This princess was really sinister.

  "Don't be afraid, I just came to see how my sister from the past is doing." Ouro Lan beckoned with her hand, and the four eunuchs behind her stood up in a row.

  "What are you going to do?" Feng He looked coldly at the four eunuchs, one of whom was still holding a bowl of black liquid medicine, and a bad premonition rose in her heart.

  Ou Ruolan didn't get angry with Fenghe's unreasonable outburst, but instead glanced sideways at the clothes that had just been washed and hung on the rope.

  "Come on, you guys! Hurry up!" Cui Zhu stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at Yan Er.

  "What are you doing! This is the General's Mansion!" Feng He died to protect her in front of Yan'er, a eunuch grabbed and threw her aside.

  "Ah!" Xiang'er's face was pressed down by two eunuchs, kneeling on the ground, her body fell to her knees too quickly and her kneecaps hit the ground hard. Another eunuch quickly pried open Xiang'er's mouth.

  Her face was tightly watched by the eunuchs who were pinching her cheeks, and black medicine was poured into her mouth. She coughed violently, but the eunuchs did not let go, continuing to pour the medicine: "Mmm..." The bitter taste made her struggle and shake her body.

  "This is an abortion medicine, sister should drink it cleanly." Ouro Lan spoke slowly and steadily with her eyes fixed on Yaner drinking the medicine.

  "No! The mistress is carrying the general's child, you can't do this!" Fenghe struggled free from the eunuch and was about to rush up and knock over the bowl of abortifacient when Cui Zhu suddenly appeared in front of her.

  "Hmph!" She carelessly pushed open a windscreen, only to find that behind it was the well where she and Yan'er washed clothes and fetched water...

  Plop...

  Ou Roulan and Cui Zhu were both stunned... Cui Zhu hastily waved her hand: "Princess, I...I didn't mean to kill her, Princess, what should we do?" Cui Zhu stared at the rope still swaying over the well, oh dear, she had only pushed that ugly girl a little, who knew it would actually push her into the well.

  "Shut up!" Ou Ruolan's calm phoenix eyes stood upright: "Don't you hurry to feed me the medicine!" Ou Ruolan looked at several eunuchs in a panic.

  Her face struggled desperately towards the well: "Wind... uh...". A large mouthful of medicine was forcibly poured into her belly.

  Several eunuchs opened the well, and Yuanyuan crawled to the edge of the well: "Fenghe——Feng——He." The well only echoed with her own cries, without any response. Yuanyuan turned her head angrily to look at Ouyulan: "You guys hurry up and go save her, hurry up for her!"

  "You all saw that, I was just walking in the garden today because I was bored, and I never heard any shouting." Ouluan stepped back a few steps, but her heart was actually very afraid. She glared at Cui Zhu: "Don't you hurry up and leave!" After speaking, she turned around and left this secluded courtyard.