Chapter 136 Discovery
Then don't sleep.
The tent was opened again, Pei Yan got off the bed, threw the Nine-Linked Rings, the exquisite ball, and several volumes of storybooks in the inner hall onto the bed, and said to Jiang Shuyi who looked puzzled: "Play, play until dawn, I will accompany you."
Jiang Shuyi: ...
She pulled Pei Yan's sleeve, looked up and said eagerly: "I'm tired of playing with these."
"Keep playing even if you get tired of it."
Pei Yan looked down at her expressionlessly: "Don't you like to make trouble? Then I will play with you."
......
Jiang Shuyi wanted to annoy Pei Yan so much that he would ignore her, but the opposite happened. The result of annoyance to Pei Yan was that he had to "play" with her all night.
Jiang Shuyi was sleepy and wanted to sleep, but was woken up to continue playing.
"Go to sleep..."
She lay on Pei Yan's legs, her voice pitiful, and she looked at him sleepily with half-closed eyes.
Pei Yan pinched her jaw and said calmly: "I just wanted to sleep too. What did you say? You said you wanted to play for another half an hour, so let's play for another half an hour now."
Jiang Shuyi was so upset that she almost couldn't even cry.
It will be dawn in half an hour!
If she doesn't sleep, she can make up for it during the day, but Pei Yan still has to go to court and handle government affairs.
Jiang Shuyi was so sleepy that her head was nodding. Her thoughts were drifting away as she thought about it. She wanted to lie on Pei Yan and continue sleeping, but was pulled up by her shoulders.
"Is it not okay that I was wrong?" Jiang Shuyi could no longer hold on and could only beg for mercy weakly.
Pei Yan saw that she was really unable to open her eyes, so he let her lie on his legs and asked calmly: "Will you make such a fuss next time?"
"Stop making trouble..."
After hearing these three words as thin as a mosquito, Jiang Shuyi fell asleep completely, with her pink lips still slightly open.
Pei Yan looked at the clock and saw that it was already past the hour of Yin.
He definitely couldn't sleep, so he sighed, moved Jiang Shuyi from his legs to between the pillows, covered her with the quilt, then got up from the bed and called Cheng Shouzhong to prepare strong tea to refresh himself so that he wouldn't feel sleepy when he went to court.
*
Jiang Shuyi slept until noon before waking up. She turned over in a daze and touched someone.
Feeling the familiar touch, she moved closer and squinted for a while before opening her sleepy eyes. Sure enough, she saw Pei Yan sleeping with his eyes closed outside.
The sun was at its zenith and the room was bright, it was obviously getting late.
Jiang Shuyi propped herself up and gently touched Pei Yan's face, her eyes full of affection and guilt.
He must have been extremely sleepy. Clearly a very perceptive person, he did not wake up even when being stared at and caressed like that. His breathing was still shallow and his face was calm.
"I wouldn't have made a fuss if I had known..."
Jiang Shuyi murmured with regret. If they really had to separate, she didn't want to do something like in the storybooks, deliberately doing something to make Pei Yan sad in the hope that he would forget her as soon as possible.
She felt that doing so would only make her loved one sad in advance.
Jiang Shuyi sniffed him, kissed him gently, and then lay on Pei Yan's chest, holding onto his clothes and continued to sleep.
After her breathing gradually stabilized, Pei Yan opened his eyes and looked down at her face with a flickering light in his eyes.
*
When Fang Chu was brought to the Ministry of Punishment, he already realized that something was wrong.
Especially seeing Yuzhu again.
The imperial guards who captured her locked her and Yuzhu in the same cell.
Yuzhu was a little confused at first, but when she saw Fangchu coming in, her heart suddenly tightened and she hurried forward to ask, "Sister Fangchu, why are you here too? Did something happen to the queen?"
Both of them served the Empress closely, and they were locked up at the same time. It could only be that something happened to the Empress!
Fangchu comforted Yuzhu: "Don't get excited, the Queen has always been by His Majesty's side, nothing will happen."
Yuzhu tightly grasped Fangchu's arm: "What if it angered His Majesty? You are serving in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, don't you know why?"
Fang Chu was helpless: "If His Majesty is offended, He will definitely attack the Queen immediately. Why arrest us? We must have done something wrong. We will know later. You can't just lock us up."
The purpose of locking them up was simply to hear what they would say and whether they were going to collude in testimony. Fang Chu knew that walls must have ears, and there was really nothing to collude in testimony, so he withdrew his hand and found a place covered with straw to sit down.
Yuzhu was very anxious, but Fangchu was calm and looked around.
This was her first time entering the prison here. It was pretty much as she had imagined, with old walls dotted with dark red and many horrific torture instruments hanging on them. Opposite the iron-barred door was another cell where curled up a eunuch, who was covered in bruises and dying after being tortured.
The threat is obvious.
Fang Chu felt relieved. Since he was just threatening them, he probably didn't intend to torture them.
They were silent for less than a quarter of an hour when they heard footsteps coming this way. The eunuch from the Ministry of Punishment came in front, bent down and opened the prison door, and then Cheng Shouzhong carefully led His Majesty in.
Fangchu and Yuzhu immediately stood up and knelt on the ground: "Your servants pay their respects to Your Majesty!"
Pei Yan glanced at them, and Cheng Shouzhong changed his previous friendly attitude towards them and said coldly: "Fang Chu, His Majesty has been very kind to you, how dare you betray the Lord?"
Fang Chu kowtowed hurriedly, her tone terrified and fearful: "Your Majesty, please understand. I would never betray you even if I die!"
Pei Yan didn't say much, he just asked coldly: "Why is Concubine Jiang acting strange recently?"
"You better think about your reply!" Cheng Shouzhong's voice became shrill, and he threatened sinisterly: "If you dare to say you don't know and evade His Majesty, you will be tortured by all the instruments here!"
Yuzhu was about to say "I don't know" but quickly held back her words.
But she really didn't know. On weekdays, it was Fang Chu who served in the Qianqing Palace, and she was guarding the Zhaoyang Palace. That day, when the empress came back to sleep, she suddenly asked her to serve the little prince. Yuzhu felt something was strange, but was also confused.
As expected, Fang Chu sighed silently in his heart.
She lowered her head, but finally answered: "Your Majesty, the Queen started to feel unwell after seeing the note in the lucky bag."
Pei Yan frowned: "What note?"
"It was a note with "Two Lives as a Human" written on it. It was hidden in the lucky bag that His Majesty gave to the Empress. When Concubine Jin snatched the lucky bag from the Empress, she took it out. The Empress was a little distracted when she saw it, and later asked His Majesty where he got it from. The last time Taoist Wu came into the palace to exorcise the evil spirits for the Empress, he was alone with the Empress in the hall for a while. I don't know what they talked about. After the Empress came out, she seemed to have cried. After that, she was a little depressed and planned a way out for me and Yuzhu. I think Taoist Wu must have threatened the Empress, and the Empress dared not speak."
Fang Chu was reluctant to say it before because before coming here, he watched a movie in which the heroine accidentally revealed to the master that another concubine had a secret meeting with someone, and that concubine was skinned alive.
She had nightmares for several nights because of this plot, so even though she knew that His Majesty doted on the Empress, she still did not dare to trust the men of this era, for fear that if she told the truth, it would lead to an irreparable tragedy.
But she was still timid after all. When His Majesty had already seen the clues, she did not have the courage to hide the truth for the Empress. She also wanted to live, and even if she could not live, she did not want to die too painfully.
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