Chapter 138 Patience
Jiang Shuyi stood there for a long time without hearing any movement from Pei Yan. She turned her head and saw him looking at her with deep eyes.
She wondered, "Your Majesty?"
Pei Yan stroked the snow-white cotton towel in his hand, thinking: "Jiang Shuyi, I'm wondering when I spoiled you to this extent, so that you can confidently ask me to serve you."
Jiang Shuyi thought for a moment, then squatted down in front of Pei Yan and looked up at him: "Your Majesty, are you going to settle the score? Your Majesty, are you not going to continue to indulge me?"
It seems like he is looking forward to it.
Pei Yan couldn't help but wonder, if he said yes, would Jiang Shuyi be able to run away with him with peace of mind?
A few days ago, I was still crying while listening to the lines “Like the swallows on the beam, we see each other year after year”, and now I am looking forward to parting with him.
Pei Yan naturally wouldn't do as she wished.
"How can you wipe it while standing? Bring a small stool over here and sit in front of me."
Jiang Shuyi was very obedient and moved when told to.
In the past, as long as she didn't make any mistakes, she would definitely order the palace servants to do these things and was too lazy to endure any fatigue.
He thought he was hiding it well, but in fact there were flaws everywhere.
Pei Yan wrapped her thick black hair in a cotton towel and absorbed the moisture bit by bit. He moved slowly and methodically, wrapping one strand dry before moving on to another.
"Your Majesty, I remember reading a storybook before."
Pei Yan saw Jiang Shuyi's fingers gently tugging at the fabric above her knees, which was a little movement due to her nervousness.
He calmly said, "What book?"
Jiang Shuyi's tone was normal: "The woman in the book had to leave her husband because of some helpless reasons, so she deliberately made her husband angry, hoping that her husband would forget her as soon as possible. If Your Majesty were her husband, would you think she was right to do so?"
Jiang Shuyi didn't want to do this, but people are different. If Pei Yan thinks this can relieve his sadness...
"Why did she leave her husband?"
"Ah?" Jiang Shuyi didn't expect Pei Yan to ask instead of answering. She wanted to turn around but he held her head and reminded her, "You haven't finished wiping yet."
Jiang Shuyi said "oh" obediently and continued to pull her clothes: "Because she and her husband can't be together. Their horoscopes are incompatible. If they are together, they are doomed to end badly!"
Her hair was pulled in pain, she covered her scalp and turned to glare at Pei Yan.
Pei Yan smiled gently and said, "It was just a mistake."
Jiang Shuyi was in no mood to care about that at the moment. She turned around and asked Pei Yan to continue wiping. Then she asked hurriedly, "Your Majesty hasn't answered what I said yet. Was what the woman did right?"
Pei Yan said calmly: "She is leaving her husband because of some unfounded evil words. If I were her husband, I would punish her severely."
Jiang Shuyi was glad that she had her back to him, otherwise her momentary guilty conscience would have been noticed.
She groaned, "My husband is gentle, so he doesn't want to punish his wife."
And it's not nonsense...
Jiang Shuyi didn't dare to argue too much. After all, Pei Yan was smart. If she took a script too seriously, he would definitely become suspicious.
Pei Yan had almost dried her wet hair, except for a little dampness that could not be removed.
He took the comb handed to him by the palace maid and combed Jiang Shuyi's hair: "Am I not gentle enough to you? As a king, I condescend to serve you like this. How gentle do you want me to be?"
Jiang Shuyi was about to accuse him of not being gentle sometimes, but Pei Yan seemed to know what she was thinking and whispered in her ear first: "Sometimes you are fierce, but it's also your own fault. Are you going to blame me now?"
Jiang Shuyi had no way to defend herself, and her ears immediately turned red. She turned around and snatched the comb from Pei Yan's hand, said with a red face, "Your Majesty, I don't need your help," and ran to the outer hall to let the palace maids serve her.
*
After drying her hair and returning to the bedroom, Jiang Shuyi saw Pei Yan opening up the lucky bag.
Her heart tightened, and then she remembered that the note had been thrown back to Yanqing Temple, so she breathed a sigh of relief, but she still walked forward nervously, looking at the cotton ball on the ground and asked: "Your Majesty, why did you destroy the lucky bag?"
Pei Yan smiled and said, "Someone told me today that there was something in here, but I didn't find it."
Jiang Shuyi's breath of relief was lifted up again. Her heart was beating like a drum. She looked at Pei Yan in shock: "What, what? Who said that?"
Did Fangchu betray her? That's why she didn't come to serve him today?
Pei Yan took a pair of golden scissors from Jiang Shuyi's embroidery basket and cut the silk skin of the lucky bag, or rather, cut it into pieces, and said calmly: "Jinpin came to the imperial study to ask for an audience today. She told me that she found something strange in your lucky bag last time. When you opened it, it was a note. She suspected that you had secretly exchanged it with someone outside the palace, so she came to report it."
Jiang Shuyi breathed a sigh of relief again.
Fortunately, Concubine Jin didn’t know what was written on the note.
She quickly explained: "Your Majesty, the note contained auspicious words, and I threw it away after reading it. Besides, this lucky bag was originally given to me by Your Majesty, so how could it be a private gift?"
Pei Yan laughed without any warmth.
If there was no big incident, how could Jiang Shuyi explain it at this moment? She would definitely be furious and clamor to punish Concubine Jin who was looking for trouble, and it would be difficult to stop her.
Jiang Shuyi vaguely sensed something was wrong again: "Your Majesty, is this what makes you angry? No wonder you were so lukewarm today. Why didn't you ask me earlier? Why did you hold it in until now and vent your anger by cutting this thing?"
Pei Yan continued to cut the red cloth into pieces the size of a fingernail, with a slight smile on his face: "I wanted to ask you when I came back, but you complained that I had left you for too long and that you felt bad, so I didn't mention it, and then I forgot about it. I just remembered it when I saw this lucky bag in your clothes."
"It has nothing to do with you anyway. I shouldn't have brought this dirty thing to you, so I want to destroy it myself."
Jiang Shuyi said quickly, "I think this lucky bag is useful, so I put it close to my body. If Your Majesty thinks that things outside the palace are dirty, just throw it away."
Pei Yan said "hmm", threw the tattered remains of brocade on the ground, and then called the palace servants to come in and clean up.
Jiang Shuyi was about to clean up her sewing basket, but Pei Yan stopped her: "Throw away the scissors too, they're dirty."
She was speechless, but still let the palace maid take him out.
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Jiang Shuyi clearly felt that Pei Yan was a little strange recently.
For example, he would occasionally stare at her quietly, and he used to be not used to bathing with her, but now he not only has to bathe with her, but also has to help her...
For example, now, Pei Yan placed four small brocade boxes on the table on the kang, inside which were the golden handcuffs that had locked her up once before, and he held her in his arms and looked at them: "This time there are four pairs, one for each hand and foot, are you happy?"
Jiang Shuyi: ...
Should she be happy?
Jiang Shuyi had suspected that Pei Yan had noticed something, so she carefully tested him: "After the Dragon Boat Festival banquet, can I go out of the palace and visit Yanqing Temple? I want to have a face-to-face meeting with Taoist Wu and ask him to agree to help me clear my name."
She carefully observed Pei Yan's expression, and Pei Yan smiled with gentle indulgence: "Okay, if you can't convince me, I'll think of another way."
He didn't look suspicious at all.
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