Chapter 137 Someone must have deceived and threatened her.
When Jiang Shuyi woke up, Pei Yan was gone. She didn't care at first, but when he didn't come back until the evening, she became a little uneasy.
Fang Chu also called in sick today, and Cheng Fu was on duty. He had a sullen face and was taciturn, and kept repeating that Pei Yan was still handling government affairs.
Seeing that it was already time for dinner, Pei Yan had not returned yet. Jiang Shuyi could no longer bear it and questioned Cheng Fu: "Your Majesty, why are you meeting your subjects at this time? Don't those subjects have to go home for dinner?"
Cheng Fu said sternly: "Your Majesty, eating is not more important than state affairs."
"Where will they sleep tonight? The palace gates will be locked soon! Are they going to sleep with His Majesty, creating a good story between the ruler and his subjects?!"
After Jiang Shuyi finished her fierce roar, she saw Cheng Fu's face change. She was just feeling relieved that she had convinced him and was planning to go to the imperial study to find Pei Yan. However, when she turned around, she saw the real owner standing quietly at the door of the palace.
Pei Yan saw her turn around, and a smile appeared on his expressionless face. He held out his hand for her to come over and said, "I only came back a little late, why are you so angry?"
Jiang Shuyi felt so wronged.
She quickly ran two steps and threw herself into Pei Yan's arms, hugged his waist, raised her head and accused in disbelief: "A moment? Your Majesty said it was a moment? It's dark now, doesn't your Majesty know that I will be worried?"
"I thought you wouldn't worry."
Pei Yan finished speaking, and seeing Jiang Shuyi glaring at him with resentment, he laughed and hugged her: "I'm in the palace, I won't get lost, what are you worried about?"
"Who knows?" Jiang Shuyi snorted and turned away deliberately, "What if His Majesty left the palace with another concubine without telling me? I can't know!"
"I can't do such a thing."
Pei Yan's tone was not very good, but Jiang Shuyi was not listening carefully at the moment.
She thought that she couldn't bear to be away from Pei Yan for even a day, and that after leaving with Taoist Wu, she would never see him again in this life. How miserable it would be.
She hugged Pei Yan tightly, choking up as she expressed her sadness: "Your Majesty doesn't know that without you coming back, I am like a child abandoned by my parents at home. I can only hope and hope, but my heart is always hanging. Only when Your Majesty comes back, my heart is finally at peace..."
Pei Yan's heart tightened slightly.
He lowered his head and looked at Jiang Shuyi tenderly: "Can you change the analogy? Why do you always want to be my mother or let me be your father?"
Jiang Shuyi felt even more upset. She clutched his collar with her five fingers, trying not to cry. "Your Majesty, I blame you for not doing a good job as a teacher. I still don't know how to make any other analogies..."
"Then let's eat first." Pei Yan patted her, as if he didn't notice her somewhat broken mood, and said slowly: "I will teach you after the meal."
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Jiang Shuyi had trouble swallowing her food.
Before today, she was only sad and reluctant to leave Pei Yan, but now she felt even more desolate.
Thinking about the countless evenings in the future when she would be alone like she was just now, watching the setting sun spread over the empty courtyard, with no one to hold her gently and comfort her anymore, Jiang Shuyi felt as if her throat was choked and she couldn't swallow anything.
Afraid that Pei Yan would notice something, Jiang Shuyi could only force herself to eat.
When she picked up another piece of fish, the jade chopsticks in her hand were suddenly blocked by another pair of slightly longer ivory chopsticks.
She looked up and looked at Pei Yan blankly.
Pei Yan said calmly: "We have eaten enough today. Drink a glass of iced watermelon juice and go take a bath."
Jiang Shuyi loves to drink iced watermelon juice in summer, but because watermelon is cold in nature and adding ice is not good for the body, Pei Yan always forbids her from eating too much, especially at night.
Today is strange.
But she would love to not have to eat.
Jiang Shuyi propped up her chin and watched Pei Yan eat his meal slowly without blinking. When Cheng Shouzhong brought the watermelon juice, she drank half of it and put it down, looking at Pei Yan obediently: "Your Majesty, I listened to you and didn't drink too much."
Pei Yan's hand holding the chopsticks paused.
It's really like a child about to leave home, listening to his parents for the last time.
"Go take a bath."
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Yuzhu was sent away and Fangchu was also not there. The other palace maids in the Qianqing Palace were very well-behaved and no one dared to talk to Jiang Shuyi.
She was not used to being served by these people. After taking a bath, she calmed down a little and went straight back to the bedroom with her wet, thick black hair loose.
Handing the towel to Pei Yan, Jiang Shuyi stood with her back to him, and said in a submissive but commanding tone: "Your Majesty, wipe me."
Pei Yan held the white towel and looked at her back as she stood in front of him.
Different from the thinness when she first entered the East Palace, because Pei Yan did not like people to eat less, Jiang Shuyi had been taken care of by him in the past few years and became slender but not thin, with well-proportioned body and graceful figure.
Applying ointment every day, soaking in flower petals, and nourishing with food, she becomes like a delicate and fragrant flower, blooming brilliantly and incomparably delicate.
But she was tired of the good life and wanted to go out and experience the ups and downs of life.
Pei Yan only realized now that her small brain had hidden many things from him.
How could she be involved with a Taoist priest who was far away?
After entering the Eastern Palace, Jiang Shuyi's every move was under the surveillance of the royal family, so it could only be when she was at the Jiang family.
In the Jiang family, Jiang Shuyi's closest servant is Jinzhu.
So Pei Yan sent secret guards to thoroughly investigate the Jiang family, and at the same time ordered the torture of Jin Zhu, who was sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs after Jiang Wanqing's death.
Jin Zhu's statements before and after being tortured were consistent. Jiang Shuyi's temperament changed drastically one day three months ago. She began to distance herself from her, Jiang Wanqing, and even the little prince. He was willing to sacrifice his life for his sister and son before. It was really weird, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit.
Apart from this, I don’t know what Taoist priests are.
Yuzhu only explained that the Third Miss was not sincere to the Empress, which was why the Empress distanced herself from her, and she did not deny Jinzhu's other words.
Therefore, everything Jiang Shuyi said before was false.
It was not that she had been at odds with her sister at home and had no ill intentions in allowing Jiang Wanqing into the palace. Instead, she sincerely wanted her sister to be a concubine. But somehow, she changed her mind overnight.
Pei Yan still remembered that in early spring of this year, she had a nightmare one night when she was serving the emperor. She cursed her son and sister and begged for forgiveness.
It was from then on that Jiang Shuyi began to rely more and more on him.
Pei Yan thought about catching Wu Jianshan and torturing him. What could be quicker than asking the only two people involved? But with Wu Jianshan's tenacious character, if he would rather die than confess, or commit suicide, Pei Yan would be completely helpless and would never be able to get to the truth in his lifetime.
After all, he couldn't possibly torture Jiang Shuyi.
When she cried and looked at him with tears in her eyes, he couldn't bear to give up anything and just wanted to hug her and comfort her.
Besides, what did Jiang Shuyi do wrong?
Even if I had kept it from him, even if I didn't know if she was planning to run away, hadn't I been suffering these past few days? I didn't know how many times my eyes had turned red, and when I cuddled up to him and touched him, I didn't know how sad I felt in my heart.
Someone must have deceived and threatened her.
The torment of these few days can be regarded as a punishment for her disobedience.
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