Chapter 111: Incompatible
"so what?"
Jiang Shuyi looked at her in confusion: "The Queen knew that she had no hope of gaining favor, so she wanted to support a docile concubine, and she happened to choose me. Is this something that is worthy of my being touched?"
Shen Suzhen looked up at her and said, "I know you are resentful of the fact that I punished you when you were favored, but I really did it for your own good. Exclusive favor will lead to resentment. Do you think that if I hadn't suppressed you for so many years, you would be so safe?"
Jiang Shuyi pulled the corner of her lips and wanted to say something, but seeing her kneeling like this, she said with a click of the tongue, "Your Majesty, please get up first. If someone sees you kneeling before me, it will really bring trouble to me."
"I will no longer be the queen soon."
As soon as Shen Suzhen finished speaking, she suddenly pulled out the hairpin, and a strand of hair lost its restraint and scattered. The sharp light from the tip of the hairpin scared Jiang Shuyi.
She took three steps back in an instant, only to see Shen Suzhen holding the hairpin against her neck.
Jiang Shuyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he realized what Shen Suzhen had just said.
"Why?" Jiang Shuyi asked in confusion and shock.
"Jiang Shuyi, His Majesty hinted to me that I should give up the position of Queen." Shen Suzhen's eyes were rarely red, she looked at her with tears in her eyes, choking: "I will give it to you..."
Jiang Shuyi was stunned.
After thinking about something, I suddenly realized it.
That day Pei Yan did mention that he wanted to make her the queen.
Although she refused, Pei Yan did not agree. Perhaps he had already made up his mind and just informed her.
Jiang Shuyi hesitated for a moment, and seeing Shen Suzhen's miserable appearance, she still walked up to her, squatted down, and said seriously: “This concubine does not want to be the queen, your majesty.”
From beginning to end in her previous life, Queen Shen had never plotted to harm her except for her harsh words. Even when Jiang Wanqing and Pei Yu exposed her, Queen Shen tried to suppress it. It was when Jiang Shuyi was identified by her own son that she collapsed and admitted her crime in public.
Jiang Shuyi certainly knew that Shen Suzhen did that not for her, but because she was afraid of having to explain to Pei Yan. But helping was helping after all, and Jiang Shuyi didn't want the position of queen, so there was no need to deliberately take away Shen Suzhen's life.
Shen Suzhen was stunned for a moment, and then two lines of tears fell.
"Jiang Shuyi, I am different from you..."
She put down the hand holding the hairpin and smiled bitterly: "I have been the eldest daughter in the family since I was young. My parents are both indecisive and my brothers and sisters are still young. I have to take care of the whole family. My father also asks me for advice when he encounters any problems outside. They have always relied on me, and still do until now, so I can't let anything happen to me. If I am deposed, they will be in a state of panic all day long, and other noble families will look down on them. If something happens to them, I will never forgive myself for the rest of my life."
Shen Suzhen has always been very particular about rules, but at this time, even her self-proclaimed behavior was messed up.
Jiang Shuyi was gloating, but also a little reluctant: "Okay, Queen, I have already said that I don't covet your position, why are you still playing miserable? I won't fall for it. If you continue, I will go back and tell His Majesty that I have to take the position of Queen."
"You really don't want to sit in the back seat?"
Shen Suzhen held back her tears and looked at her suspiciously, as if blaming her for not telling the truth until now: "If you hadn't mentioned it, how would His Majesty have thought of taking my throne?"
Jiang Shuyi immediately frowned, feeling that the bit of pity she had just felt wasted.
She stood up and sneered, "So that's what the Queen thought, that's why she came to act so pretentiously towards me today!"
Queen Shen was choking on her words. Jiang Shuyi adjusted her hairpin and glanced at her. "It's not that I am deliberately showing off your favor. Your Majesty once taught me to read Zhuangzi sentence by sentence. An owl caught a rotten mouse, and a young phoenix passed by it. It looked up and said it was frightened. Your Majesty, you are now that old owl. You think the position of queen is so rare. You work hard all day long. You have wrinkles before you are thirty. When your brothers and sisters from your mother's family saw you again, didn't they call you aunt?"
In the past, Queen Shen would have been furious at her insolence, but today she breathed a sigh of relief, finally realizing that Jiang Shuyi really did not covet her position as queen.
She stopped kneeling and stood up. After wiping her tears, she said to Jiang Shuyi seriously, "My lord concubine, your personality is indeed not suitable for being a queen. You should explain it to His Majesty today to avoid any misunderstandings."
Jiang Shuyi laughed angrily: "Your Majesty is really good at changing your face. I won't tell you. I won't tell you. Being a queen is also very interesting. I want to do it!"
Queen Shen frowned: "There are tens of thousands of palace servants in the imperial city, not just you concubines. They also need the management and control of the Central Palace. If there is any damage in the palace, or if the Queen Mother or the concubines have any illness, the Central Palace has to take care of it. How can you do it?"
"Try it first and see if you can do it or not."
Jiang Shuyi was furious and glared at her: "Your Majesty is selfish, and you always claim to be thinking about me. You say that if it weren't for your suppression over the years, I wouldn't be safe. You are really flattering yourself. I have been safe until today, all thanks to your Majesty's protection. If I only relied on you, I would have died a hundred times!"
Without waiting for Queen Shen to say anything else, Jiang Shuyi walked straight out of the side hall.
She and Shen Suzhen are just incompatible!
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After Pei Yan finished discussing the flood issue, she returned to the Qianqing Palace and saw Jiang Shuyi waiting for her obediently in the outer hall.
In the past, he would have asked her to come over and help him change his clothes, but now he couldn't bear to do so.
After that serious illness, Pei Yan saw that she had become much more fragile, like fragile glass or easily dispersed colorful clouds, and needed careful care to last long.
This feeling went deep into his bones, as if he had lost her once before without knowing it.
"Your Majesty." Cheng Fu, who stayed in the Palace of Heavenly Purity today, began to report: "Today, the Imperial Concubine did not listen to the advice of our servants and insisted on leaving the Palace of Heavenly Purity. She met the Empress. The two ladies said something in the side hall and did not allow our servants to approach. I did not hear it."
Pei Yan now understood why Jiang Shuyi was so well-behaved today.
Made a mistake again.
He looked at Jiang Shuyi quietly.
Jiang Shuyi's mouth drooped, and she said pitifully: "I feel so bored staying in the palace, so I want to go out for a walk. I know I was wrong, how will Your Majesty punish me?"
"I won't punish you."
Pei Yan handed the dragon robe he had taken off to Cheng Shouzhong, and when Jiang Shuyi laughed, he said in a gentle tone: "But if you do it again, I will punish your servant."
The corners of Jiang Shuyi's mouth drooped again.
Pei Yan glanced at Fangchu and Yuzhu. Because Jiang Shuyi was ill, he had summoned her maidservants to serve her. However, the Qianqing Palace would not keep servants except the emperor's confidants. Pei Yan had originally thought of sending them away in a few days, but now it seemed that they would be of some use. "You can be ignorant, but they cannot be ignorant. If they do not advise the master well, it is a dereliction of duty. I will let the Ministry of Punishment punish them according to the crime."
Yuzhu hurriedly lowered her head, and Fangchu also lowered her head, but she sighed deeply in her heart, feeling that her good retirement days were completely gone with the arrival of Empress Jiang, so it would be better to find an opportunity to leave the palace as soon as possible.
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