Chapter 88: Seeing Xie Siqi Again
A few months later, Jiang Yuyan met Princess Baoyue Xie Siqi who had returned from her retreat outside the imperial study.
She must have just come out after greeting everyone. Xie Siqi was standing on the steps looking down at the legendary saint, her eyes full of scrutiny and ridicule.
Jiang Yuyan calmly looked at this enemy whom she hadn't seen for a long time. Thinking of the scene that night when her face was hit by countless swords and knives, her heart beat faster.
Xie Siqi walked closer to her. The attendant beside her had already spoken first, "Who is here? Why don't you greet the princess?"
Jiang Yuyan curled her lips and said calmly, "I am the Holy Maiden of the Lingshu Clan. I am now staying in the palace as a female doctor. Your Majesty has allowed me to see the Holy Emperor without kneeling. I'm sure the princess won't mind these empty formalities from a commoner..."
Xie Siqi sneered, leaned close to Jiang Yuyan's ear, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Do you know what happened to the last woman who opposed me?"
Jiang Yuyan lowered her eyes slightly and clenched her fists in her sleeves. "I don't know."
"I cut her face a total of 749 times. She looked like neither a human nor a ghost. She became the laughing stock of the whole capital." Xie Siqi smiled sinisterly.
Jiang Yuyan grabbed her wrist. Xie Siqi struggled but failed to break free, and her face changed slightly.
Jiang Yuyan's expression was inexplicable. "Princess, are you talking about Madam Jiang?"
Xie Siqi seemed to hear a series of tiny bell sounds, and then she saw that the saint's face had changed into that of Jiang, whose face was covered in blood, like a female ghost demanding her life, which was extremely horrifying.
Xie Siqi couldn't help but scream. The guards beside her also stepped forward and shouted, "How dare you! Let the princess go!"
Jiang Yuyan stared at Xie Siqi intently for a moment, then shook off her wrist and said gloomily, "Princess, you've done too many bad things. Be careful of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night..."
After saying that, he walked away.
Xie Siqi was so angry that she stamped her feet and roared, "You!! Ah!!"
Jiang Yuyan was in a bad mood, and after staying in the imperial study for a while, she left with an excuse. She thought of the scene just now. She didn't expect that the princess was still so eccentric after two years of seclusion. Some people seemed to never learn if they were not taught a lesson...
After a few days, news spread in the palace that the third princess had nightmares and had not slept for two days. She was irritable and crazy, and she beat and scolded many servants. She also invited monks and Taoists to perform rituals, causing chaos and confusion.
Another monk from Guanyue Temple came to file a complaint with the emperor, saying that the princess had beaten and scolded monks at will during her retreat, and even attempted to rape a beautiful monk, which was extremely disrespectful in front of the Buddha.
Emperor Sheng Yuan was so angry that he felt dizzy and his head spun. He dropped the imperial inkstone and fainted on the spot.
Fortunately, there was the female doctor Jiang Yuyan, who pressed the emperor's Ren Zhong acupoint and fed him wake-up pills.
This woke him up.
Emperor Sheng Yuan seemed to have lost all his energy and spirit. He held Jiang Yuyan's hand and sighed, "I thought her temper would be restrained after two years of meditation in Guanyue Temple, but I didn't expect it to get worse. Tell me, why is my daughter not as obedient and sensible as the Saint?"
"Your Majesty, the princess is still young." Jiang Yuyan advised.
"Young, young! Ahem, she is not younger than you!" Emperor Sheng Yuan coughed twice excitedly.
"I heard that the princess has nightmares every night, but is she scared by something?" Jiang Yuyan said slowly.
Emperor Sheng Yuan remembered the palace maid's report that the princess had been calling out in the palace, saying that she had seen Jiang. His heart sank.
He closed his eyes in anger and grief, and said in a sad voice: "You will suffer for what you have done!"
The next day, Emperor Sheng Yuan issued an imperial decree to confine the princess in Zhilan Palace, and no one was allowed to visit her.
When Concubine Jia found out, she burst into tears, and Emperor Sheng Yuan chased her to the imperial study as soon as he left the court.
Jiang Yuyan sat beside him calmly.
"Your Majesty, Qi'er has never suffered such hardship before! How could you bear it?"
Emperor Sheng Yuan was already in low spirits, and now he was even more impatient, "A loving mother often spoils her son! Why don't you ask her what good things she has done!"
Concubine Jia cried, "They are just useless monks, not even as good as a strand of my Qi'er's hair. How can Your Majesty listen to them?"
"Shut up! What kind of place is Guanyue Temple? It's the imperial temple of Dayue! You did such a thing in front of the Buddha, aren't you afraid of the Buddha's punishment?"
Concubine Jia was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty..."
Emperor Sheng Yuan looked cold, "Your Highness, if you have this much time, why don't you go back and recite more scriptures..."
Concubine Jia was crying, and she looked at the emperor and the calm Jiang Yuyan with her cloudy eyes. She ignored her brother's warning and said hatefully, "Now that you have this vixen, you are always looking down on us mother and daughter!"
Emperor Sheng Yuan's face turned dark almost instantly, and his head was buzzing. He thought that for this rebellious girl, he had to humble himself in front of court officials many times and lost face, and now he was being criticized like this!
"My Lady, do you know what you are saying?!"
Emperor Sheng Yuan held onto a corner of the imperial desk, his face livid. "If you can't figure it out, go back and reflect on it. When you figure it out, come back and report back to me!"
Concubine Jia did not dare to blame the emperor. She just glared at Jiang Yuyan angrily and left angrily.
Over in Zhilan Palace, the princess's angry curses could be heard from time to time. At night, she seemed to be frightened again, and her screams and cries were endless.
Upon hearing this, Emperor Sheng Yuan was so angry that he fainted and his spirit became visibly weak. Fortunately, Jiang Yuyan made soup and medicine for him and counseled him, and he gradually got better...
"Are you relieved?" Shen Yi asked when he left the palace.
"Not really. Such a stupid opponent is really boring." Jiang Yuyan said angrily, "It's ridiculous that I fell for her trick in the first place..."
Shen Yi smiled: "It's just that Madam is kind by nature."
Jiang Yuyan glanced at him and said, "Unfortunately, the laws of this country dictate that no matter what mistakes these high-ranking people make, they will not be seriously injured. It's not just Xie Siqi who is bad, the root of her is bad. If it were me... I would..."
Jiang Yuyan's mind was filled with a series of legal provisions and supervisory systems. She made a rough outline that night. However, it was not until Emperor Jiawen came to power that some of them were implemented...
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After Princess Baoyue was confined for half a month, I don't know if Concubine Jia listened to someone's advice, but she actually wore plain clothes and took off her hairpin to apologize, with a sad face and sincere words, and finally took out the princess's childhood swaddling clothes...
Emperor Sheng Yuan was moved for a moment, as if he had recalled the old days. After all, there was some affection between them. Two days later, he ordered the princess to be released from confinement and sent back to the princess's residence. She even stayed in Yiyue Palace for several days...
After hearing this, Jiang Yuyan raised her lips in a mocking arc, "This Imperial Concubine Jia has a master by her side..."
But her battle with them has just begun...
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