Chapter 107 Aunt
Palace of Heavenly Purity.
When Jiang Shuyi rushed in, Pei Yan was wearing a loose plain robe he wore during his illness, sitting on a soft couch reading memorials.
She ran over and hugged him tightly without saying a word.
Cheng Shouzhong chased in breathlessly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me, I just couldn't stop you!"
Pei Yan looked down at Jiang Shuyi who was clinging to him, frowned slightly, and said helplessly: "Can't you wait for two days? Why are you so clingy to me?"
Jiang Shuyi didn't say anything, nor did she act like a spoiled child. She just hugged him tighter, wishing she could bury herself in him.
Pei Yan felt something was wrong.
He put the memorial aside, held Jiang Shuyi's shoulders and pulled her away a little.
She didn't cry, but her crying was even more heartbreaking, with panic in her eyes, like a young animal that had just left the nest and was chased by wild beasts, and had to flee back because of the great fear and injustice.
"What's wrong?" Pei Yan's tone became heavy, and he asked her, "Tell me what happened."
Jiang Shuyi looked up at him with trembling eyes, her fingers tightly grasping his sleeves: "Your Majesty, Jiang Wanqing wants to kill me..."
At this time, a palace maid came in and said that Yuzhu was outside asking to see her.
Jiang Shuyi ran too fast just now and left her behind.
Pei Yan didn't care. He just lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Shuyi, and continued to ask: "Tell me what happened specifically."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were red, and the death of her previous life came to her lips but she swallowed it back. She just repeated and told Pei Yan firmly: "Jiang Wanqing just said that she wanted to kill me. She wanted to kill me. She would really kill me..."
Pei Yan stared at her for a few breaths, and seeing her fear and trembling, he took her back into his arms and told Cheng Shouzhong, "Let Yuzhu come in."
Cheng Shouzhong responded quickly.
Jiang Shuyi nestled in Pei Yan's arms, finally feeling safe and at ease, and couldn't help crying softly.
Yuzhu was worried that something might happen to the Empress, or she still had sisterly feelings for the Third Miss, so she didn't tell His Majesty that, and that's why she followed into the Qianqing Palace.
She knelt in the middle of the hall and reported everything that had just happened word by word. Finally, she begged His Majesty to punish Jiang Da Ying, otherwise the Queen's safety would be in danger.
Pei Yan kept stroking Jiang Shuyi's back, letting her cry and vent. After listening to Yuzhu's report, he lowered his head to confirm with her: "Is what your servant said correct?"
Jiang Shuyi cried and nodded repeatedly in his arms.
Pei Yan's expression was very calm. After patting her gently for a while, he told Yuzhu to leave.
"Jiang Shuyi, I will accompany you for the next two days, you don't have to be afraid."
He lowered his head and whispered softly in her ear, "After these two days, I will take care of everything."
Jiang Shuyi stopped crying instantly and looked at Pei Yan with tearful eyes.
She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but Pei Yan, with a smile on his face, asked her what she wanted for lunch.
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Jiang Shuyi had a premonition.
She didn't dare run outside and stayed in her bedroom in the Palace of Heavenly Purity every day, waiting for the solution Pei Yan had promised.
The next night, she dreamed of her aunt for the first time.
This was the first time since her rebirth that the aunt was still the same as she was before, with a beautiful face, gentle and easy-going. She was not like her stepmother who only treated her children harshly, nor was she like other aunts who always instigated their children to help them win favor.
Jiang Shuyi saw her standing in the familiar courtyard and smiled as she shouted that it was time for dinner.
"Haven't you finished the sewing your mother asked you to do? Come here, let your aunt help you."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were a little red.
My aunt is very well-behaved and in private she always calls my stepmother "mother".
She walked over and wanted to hug her aunt, but because she knew it was a dream, she was afraid that her aunt would disappear if she touched her.
The aunt took her and walked into the house, saying with great interest: "Today your father was praised by his superiors, and he was very happy. He added a steamed fish to the dinner for each courtyard. I know you like to eat fish, so I'll leave the whole fish for you, okay?"
Jiang Shuyi followed her aunt into the house.
The other person sitting next to the table made her stop abruptly and be startled.
It was Jiang Wanqing, who was wearing exactly the same clothes as the one she wore when she threatened her that day.
Seeing that she was not leaving, the aunt followed her gaze and teased with a smile: "Why, you don't recognize your sister?"
Jiang Shuyi turned her head to look at her aunt, her eyelashes fluttered twice, and she asked softly, "Aunt, are you here to persuade me not to kill my sister?"
The aunt in the dream must not have heard her words, and smiled and said to herself: "Your sister is still young, she can't eat fish, she won't snatch it from you."
As she said that, she went to set the table.
Jiang Shuyi knew that she couldn't hear, but she still chased after her, asking persistently and aggrievedly: "What if she grows up and can snatch it away? What will my aunt do? How should we divide a fish?"
The aunt lowered her head and fiddled with the dishes: "Even if she grows up, she can't snatch things from her sister. I brought her into this world. If she wants to snatch things, she can snatch them from me. I will give them to her even if I starve to death. But Ah Shu didn't choose to be my sister. There's no reason for me to compromise myself to accommodate her, right?"
Jiang Shuyi opened her eyes wide in surprise and tried to grab her aunt's hand, but it slipped through her fingers. She asked anxiously, "Aunt, can you hear me? Aunt!"
The aunt looked up at her, with a faint smile in her gentle eyes: "Ah Shu, it's my fault. I left too early. I'm sorry for you. Don't be sad. I will teach your sister well in the future."
Jiang Shuyi sensed something and cried as she tried to hug her aunt, who she couldn't hold at all. In the end, she had to watch her disappear like a breeze or a ray of morning sun...
"Auntie!"
She suddenly opened her eyes, covered in cold sweat.
The sky was still dark, and a light was left on in the Qianqing Palace. There was no breeze or sunshine in the tent, only the candlelight in the warm dusk.
"Did you dream about your aunt?"
Pei Yan's voice came from behind her, and then she was embraced by a pair of arms and fell into a warm chest.
Jiang Shuyi met Pei Yan's lowered eyes, her heart pounding, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She said to Pei Yan in a hurry: "Your Majesty! Can you say a few words to my aunt?"
Pei Yan was silent for a moment: "What do you mean? Which direction?"
Jiang Shuyi didn't know either and was so anxious that she wanted to cry.
Pei Yan looked at Jiang Shuyi and stretched out his hand to pinch her face: "Thank you, mother-in-law, for giving birth to Ah Shu. I will treat her well. If I am mean to her occasionally, it is what she wants. It has nothing to do with me."
Jiang Shuyi was so angry that she wanted to cry this time.
"That's how you say things to your mother-in-law! Shameless!"
Pei Yan laughed.
He did not believe in the existence of ghosts or spirits in heaven.
Jiang Shuyi was just troubled by her sister's affairs, so she dreamed of her biological mother at night.
He said this just to comfort her and let her not get too deeply involved in a dream.
Jiang Shuyi was obviously still a little upset, and she cried in his arms: "Your Majesty, can I leave the palace again in a few days to go to Yanqing Temple to pay homage to my aunt?"
Pei Yan paused and said, "Okay, I'll accompany you."
"I want to perform a ritual for my aunt, but I don't know her birth date, her hometown, or even her name. I only know that her surname is Gu, and she was sold to my father because her family was poor..."
Pei Yan thought of his biological mother.
He also didn't know her name. The files in the palace only recorded her surname, the year and place when she was introduced into the palace, how she was initially a dancer and later favored by the emperor, the year she was promoted, the year she gave birth to a prince, and the year she died.
But Pei Yan's biological mother never appeared in his dreams.
Because he never needed to be weak enough to miss his mother who died for his father.
"Go to sleep. It's only past midnight. If you want to know these, I can help you check them."
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