Although Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess arranged for people to take care of him and he didn't have to work in the fields himself, Pei Jiuyan really couldn't survive a day without the support and service of a large number of servants.
He looked up at Ling Shumo with tears in his eyes, his voice gentle and sad, "Your Highness, you promised my brother that you would take good care of me for him. I really can't live through this hardship anymore. I beg you to have mercy on me and take me in as your room."
Pei Jiuyan had also been taking Tianxian Baigu Powder for over a decade. Knowing he was beautiful, he acted like a beautiful woman in tears, "Your Highness has been so kind to me. I want to serve you and repay you on my behalf. Everything I have now was given by you. Only this body of mine still belongs to me. Only by giving myself to you can I repay your kindness in saving me and my father."
Ling Shumo pulled a handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to him, trying to soften her voice and agree with his reasoning. "You are now the descendant of a criminal. Even if I were to take you in, I would not risk bringing you back to the Eastern Palace. If anything I've done with you gets reported to His Majesty, he will undoubtedly punish me. If you find life difficult right now, I will immediately send more people to take care of you. But you can't even think of leaving Blackwater City."
Pei Jiuyan didn't take the handkerchief Ling Shumo handed him. He covered his face with his hands and sobbed softly, "Even if Your Highness sends more people to take care of me and my son, we can't go back to the life of luxury we once had. I can't go on living this way with no end in sight."
Ling Shumo personally helped him sit on a stool. Faced with this situation, she was truly troubled for a moment. Blackwater City was far away, and she could spare Pei Jiuyan and his son the hardship of labor. But if she took Pei Jiuyan back to the imperial capital, the risk would be too great.
Pei Jiuyan sat down for a long time before finally calming down, his voice still extremely soft. "In the past year since I came to Blackwater City, I often think of the time when my brother and I were still married in the imperial capital, when we talked and laughed together. It seems like that happy and warm scene happened just last night. Sometimes I want to tell my father about my brother's past, but he always gets very emotional and bursts into tears as soon as he hears my brother's name. Over time, all the words I want to say about my brother have to be kept in my heart."
Pei Jiuyan said this, as if suddenly remembering something, "If I could go to the imperial capital to meet Fengye, the servant who was closest to my brother, I wouldn't have to bottle up my memories of my brother in my heart. I could discuss this with him."
Pei Jiuyan didn't know Feng Ye was dead. He said this to show that he really wanted to return to the imperial capital. Ling Shumo's hand felt numb as if it had been electrocuted.
When she learned that Fengye had framed Jiang He, she was furious and ordered someone to beat Fengye to death.
Now, when she mentioned Fengye's death, she felt very guilty towards Pei Jiusheng. Fengye was Pei Jiusheng's most trusted attendant, serving him since childhood. In Pei Jiusheng's heart, his position was like that of a family member. Not only did she not treat Fengye well, but she also executed him.
Ling Shumo couldn't help but feel a strong sense of guilt in her heart. When she looked at Pei Jiuyan in front of her with tears on her face, she felt even more pity for him.
Although Pei Jiuyan didn't know what Ling Shumo was thinking about, he was sensitive to Ling Shumo's subtle emotional changes.
So, he pressed his body against Ling Shumo, as if he wanted to grow directly on her body, "Your Highness, I am not the kind of ignorant man. I dare not ask you to take me back to the imperial capital right now. I just hope that you can take me in now and let me get pregnant with your child.
This way, I will have hope in my heart and can stay in Blackwater City with my child peacefully. When Her Highness is ready, she can take me and my child back to the East Palace."
Ling Shumo gently pushed his body away. "I remember that Tianxian Baigu Powder can affect men's fertility..." She was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized what was happening and sighed softly. "Don't count on Divine Doctor Li to cure you. You're far away in Blackwater City and don't know the situation in the imperial capital. Some time ago, Divine Doctor Li angered the emperor and was sentenced to death."
Pei Jiuyan's eyes trembled slightly. He no longer cared about pretending to be pitiful. He was really sad and cried with his face covered. "What should I do? I am really fed up with my current poor life. Your Highness, I really can't live anymore..."
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frug
If the truly poor people saw him complaining about his current affluent life, they would think he was just whining. But Pei Jiu hated this kind of flower that was pampered in a greenhouse. He really couldn't stand the wind, frost, rain and snow in Blackwater City. He was so broken that he wanted to commit suicide by banging his head against the wall.
Pei Jiuyan suddenly stood up from his seat. He stared at the spotless white wall beside him, his eyes gradually becoming unfocused.
Ling Shumo was afraid that he would do something stupid, so she hugged his waist from behind and stopped him. "Pei Jiuyan, calm down. Divine Doctor Li is dead, but there are other doctors in this world who can bring people back to life. The princess I just married knows a Taoist priest with superb medical skills. I will write a letter and send it back to the East Palace as fast as I can. Please ask Taoist Chen to come and treat you."
Pei Jiuyan's pupils suddenly focused, and he turned around and hugged Ling Shumo, "Your Highness, I knew that a good person like you would not have the heart to reject my embrace, right?"
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