Chapter 144: Different from before
Jiang Shuyi considered the feasibility of recognizing the young county lady and then leaving the palace.
Since she has already acknowledged her, even if her adoptive mother runs away, she still has the status as the adopted daughter of the imperial concubine. Even if the little county lady is sent back to the princess's mansion after she leaves, the Grand Princess of Weiguo will have no choice but to raise her well.
Having made up her mind, at night, Jiang Shuyi searched the inner hall for the four brocade boxes that Pei Yan had asked her to look at several times in the past few days, and hid them under the bed.
When Pei Yan came back from handling government affairs in the outer hall, she sat beside the bed and looked at him obediently.
Pei Yan sensed some ill intentions.
He didn't go over, but stood beside the table, took a sip of the herbal tea on it, and looked at Jiang Shuyi calmly: "What are you going to do?"
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were as clear as autumn water, and she looked over with affection: "Your Majesty, come here first..."
"I won't go."
Pei Yan knew what she wanted to do. It was simply that the Dragon Boat Festival palace banquet was over, and she wanted to leave the palace to go to Yanqing Temple to meet that old thief, and then plan to escape.
She acted like this because she was afraid that he would change his mind and not allow her to leave the palace.
Pei Yan's face was calm, but his heart was filled with evil. He slowly stroked the wall of the cup and said, "Just tell me what you want to do."
Jiang Shuyi looked at him shyly and embarrassedly, and her voice was like a small hook scratching the heart: "Your Majesty, if you don't come over, I can't say anything..."
Pei Yan looked at her gently curled fingers, nervously pinching her belt, and finally closed his eyes and put down the white porcelain teacup in his hand.
When Jiang Shuyi saw Pei Yan coming, she turned around to take out the four small brocade boxes hidden in the quilt.
After placing them on the bed, they were opened one by one.
When Pei Yan saw the four pairs of golden shackles inside, he suddenly clenched his hands behind his back.
He moved Jiang Shuyi back to her face and asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Shuyi pulled him to sit down beside the bed, stretched out her wrist to him, and then raised her innocent face: "Your Majesty lets me watch these every day, isn't this what you mean?"
Pei Yan looked at her half arm, which was as white as a lotus root, and his face darkened: "What do I mean? Jiang Shuyi, do you really think you know what I mean?"
Did he like locking her up? He just couldn't stand her rebelliousness and warned her in advance.
"How could I not know?"
Jiang Shuyi was confident and a little aggrieved: "Your Majesty has been sullen these days, but he smiled gently when he showed me these things. Isn't it because he wanted me to play with him? I listen to you. Isn't it okay for me to play with you today?"
After Jiang Shuyi finished speaking, she saw Pei Yan's gaze on her became even more gloomy.
......
Even though she had something to ask for, Jiang Shuyi couldn't stand being tormented like this.
When the golden shackles were finally removed, Jiang Shuyi lay powerlessly on the bed, looking at her red and swollen wrists in front of her, feeling the same pain in her ankles, and tears could not stop falling.
Pei Yan knew that there was no way he could go to the Imperial Pond. Not only would he be unable to stand, but his ankles and wrists would also hurt if they got wet. So he let down the bed curtains and ordered the palace maids to bring in some water.
After the palace maid left, he came over, picked up Jiang Shuyi, and helped her wash.
However, Jiang Shuyi struggled to get out with tears in her eyes, her voice still trembling: "Don't touch me!"
Pei Yan paused at the resistance in her voice.
He lowered his eyes and saw Jiang Shuyi's almond-shaped eyes, which were full of tears and confusion, and she seemed not to have recovered yet.
Pei Yan knew that he was very angry just now when he saw that she was willing to tie herself up in shackles in order to escape from him.
But he is not the kind of person who would be controlled by his emotions. If he really reached the point where he could not control his anger, he would not touch Jiang Shuyi.
So even though he was a little fierce this time, it was also within his limits in the past, so there was no need to let her look like that.
After a long silence, Pei Yan pushed her sweat-soaked hair behind her ears, leaned over and explained in a low voice: "I'm not too sad."
Jiang Shuyi shed two lines of tears instantly because of his words.
She tilted her head to look at the bronze lamp in the room. The candlelight shattered in her misty almond eyes and fell down her cheeks. "Your Majesty is punishing me. I can feel it. It's different from before..."
Whether it was the restraints on her wrists and ankles, or the lack of any words of comfort during the process, her hands and feet hurt, and she cried and begged him not to do this, but he just let her suffer in silence...
Pei Yan did not deny it. He gently stroked her cheek with his thumb, his eyes dim and unclear: "You asked for punishment, you can't blame me."
Jiang Shuyi smiled bitterly: "But I am doing this for the pleasure of Your Majesty."
The more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt. The more she thought about it, the more desolate she felt. She silently shed tears: "I think Your Majesty likes this. In order to please Your Majesty, you let Your Majesty lock me up. But Your Majesty, don't you care about my feelings at all? In Your Majesty's eyes, am I just a plaything?"
Pei Yan didn't care about who was whose plaything. He couldn't bear to see Jiang Shuyi's expression, so he picked her up despite her struggle, let Jiang Shuyi sit on his lap, and pressed her head into his arms.
When he could no longer see her pitiful expression, Pei Yan asked in a calm voice: "Why do you want to make me happy? What are you going to do after making me happy?"
Jiang Shuyi was furious when she heard his tone. She bit his chest, and felt his tenseness. She bit for a long time before letting go and cried, "Does your majesty have any other plans to please you? You still ask me what I want to do? What can I do, your majesty?"
Suddenly, Jiang Shuyi paused, and remembered that she seemed to be trying to please him with a purpose...
One was to propose to take the little county princess as his adopted daughter, and the other was to take advantage of his good mood to mention that he would leave the palace to go to Yanqing Temple in a few days.
But Pei Yan didn't know this.
So Jiang Shuyi paused for a moment and continued to cry with a clear conscience.
Pei Yan was only wearing pajamas, so it would naturally hurt if she bit him so fiercely.
I don’t know if it’s the pain of being bitten or the pain in my heart.
Jiang Shuyi's mournful cries made it impossible for Pei Yan to bring charges against her.
"Okay, just think of it as me slandering you. When you really make a mistake, I can punish you less."
Jiang Shuyi was crying so hard that she didn't hear anything. When she came to her senses, she had already been taken away to be washed.
Thinking of the important matter, Jiang Shuyi stopped making a fuss and sobbed for a while. When she was put back on the bed, she whispered awkwardly: "I have made up my mind. I want the little county lady to be my adopted daughter."
Pei Yan paused as he stood up.
He placed his hands on Jiang Shuyi's sides and looked at her intently.
Jiang Shuyi sniffed: "I feel that the little county lady is quite pitiful and should have a conscience. Anyway, the palace servants of Wenhua Palace are taking care of two princes, and taking care of a little county lady is also taking care of her. It's not a big deal."
Pei Yan keenly grasped the meaning of her words: "You don't want to raise it? You want to send it to Wenhua Palace to be raised?"
Jiang Shuyi remembered that she was still angry, and said modestly: "Well, I don't like children, and I don't even raise my own children. I took the little county lady as my adopted daughter just because I didn't want to see them separated. I just put her in my name and raise her in Wenhua Palace for a while, so that outsiders know that she is my adopted daughter. After that, I can find a random reason to send her away, and they can still be reunited."
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