Chapter 153 Girl, Have a Pancake
Pei Yan woke up two days later.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty, are you awake? Oh, ancestor bless you, Your Majesty is finally awake!"
Cheng Shouzhong's excited voice with a tearful tone was heard in his ears. Pei Yan wanted to sit up, but the dull pain from the back of his head made him take a deep breath.
Seeing this, Cheng Shouzhong hurried over to support him: "Your Majesty, are you feeling unwell?"
Pei Yan recalled what happened before he fainted.
He rushed into the fire scene despite Cheng Fu's attempts to stop him, and heard a woman's cry for help on the second floor.
Pei Yan followed the sound without thinking.
There were several locked women trapped in the innermost room on the second floor, but Jiang Shuyi was not there.
He continued looking.
The fire was raging, and the sound of beams burning was in his ears. His mind was filled with the image of Jiang Shuyi huddled in the corner, trembling with fear.
I am already timid, afraid of water, darkness, and ghosts, and now I have to add the fear of fire.
Be afraid, it’s no big deal. He is the emperor and can make her never see the flames of fire for the rest of her life.
When it gets dark, they use the night-shining pearls presented by the prefect of Hainan for lighting. When it gets cold, they cover the entire hall with fox fur and light ground heating, so it can be warm without charcoal fire.
As long as Jiang Shuyi could throw herself into his arms safely and soundly in a moment, crying and complaining that he was late.
Why do I have to see what she and Wu Jianshan are going to do?
Pei Yan couldn't help but ask himself this again.
Does it matter what they are going to do? What if what Wu Jianshan said is true? Would he let Jiang Shuyi go through hardships and practice in order to live a few more years?
She was brought up to be so pampered that she couldn't even stand being a vegetarian for a few days. Even if he went to accompany her in her practice, she would cry out of grievance.
What Wu Jianshan said was false, which meant he had some plan against Jiang Shuyi, and he should not have allowed Jiang Shuyi to put herself in danger.
Jiang Shuyi has been so attached to him these past few days. She would desperately try to get into his arms at night, rub against him and kiss him when he is "asleep", and would say from time to time that she loves him very much...
The original enjoyment and pleasure turned into a sharp sword at this moment, making Pei Yan feel the heart-wrenching pain for the first time and regretful.
He listened to the crackling of the flames, which seemed to contain a faint cry for help, and he walked towards the fire again.
Cheng Fu and the secret guards knelt in front of him, holding his legs tightly, trying to stop him at all costs and begging him to calm down.
Pei Yan was very calm, very calm.
He felt that he was not angry, not panicked, and not trembling all over. He just wanted to save the person who was waiting for him.
Being stopped like this, he was about to yell in anger when the beam supporting the roof above his head suddenly burned and broke, falling down.
Pei Yan felt more and more calm, because at that time he could still think that if it weren't for these bastards blocking him, he would not have been hit.
Then there was no way to think about it anymore.
Now, looking at Cheng Shouzhong's red eyes from crying, Pei Yanxian sat up with great pain, looked at him and asked, "Is she alive?"
Cheng Shouzhong knew who the "she" His Majesty was talking about without asking. He did not follow him that day, and was almost scared to death when he saw His Majesty coming back in a sideways manner. After listening to Cheng Fu's account of what happened, he felt as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting.
He wiped his tears and reported truthfully: "The queen must still be alive. Commander Chu has already investigated thoroughly. It was the Earl of Anping who indulged himself in pleasure in there, but died of a stroke on the way. When the brothel girl saw that the Earl of Anping was dead, she knew that she would not survive either, so she thought of burning the building. The back building was used to receive guests and there was no one there during the day. She originally wanted to die with this filthy place, but she didn't know that there were more than a dozen girls locked up downstairs for the Earl of Anping's entertainment."
"Is Jiang Shuyi too injured to get out of bed?"
Pei Yan interrupted Cheng Shouzhong's nonsense. He just wanted to know how badly Jiang Shuyi was injured that she couldn't even come to guard him.
After Cheng Shouzhong choked, he knew that there was no way out, so he could only lower his head and answer: "Your Majesty, the queen has escaped from the capital. The queen's clothes are in the room next to the room she entered, and the secret passage has also been moved..."
Pei Yan felt relieved, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.
Good, that means there are no injuries.
Cheng Shouzhong hastily ordered the palace servants to call in the imperial physician who was waiting in the side hall, so that His Majesty would not faint again from anger.
"Where is she now? What did she do with Wu Jianshan? Send the secret guards to report to me."
After Pei Yan finished speaking, he saw Cheng Shouzhong's evasive eyes and felt his heart suddenly tighten.
He stared at Cheng Shouzhong, the pain in the back of his head seemed to drill into his heart, and his body could not support himself and swayed slightly.
Seeing that His Majesty seemed to be thinking the worse, Cheng Shouzhong had no choice but to kneel down and tell the truth: "The Empress escaped from another tunnel that the secret guards had not discovered. His Majesty was seriously injured and fainted. The Empress Dowager and the Empress were not trustworthy. The leader of the secret guards and Commander Chu wanted to protect the Emperor closely. By the time they remembered to order the Jingzhao Yin to search for the Imperial Concubine, the Empress had already disappeared. I'm afraid she had already left the city."
Pei Yan did not get angry, and looked at Cheng Shouzhong calmly: "The imperial concubine has been lost, where are the people who followed Wu Jianshan?"
Wu Jianshan left Beijing two days before Jiang Shuyi left the palace. The two of them were bound to meet outside the city, so even if these idiots lost Jiang Shuyi, they should be able to find her through Wu Jianshan.
Cheng Shouzhong was even more tearful: "The day the queen left the palace, Taoist Wu passed away in a dilapidated temple outside the city!"
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Traveling day and night, in two days, the carriage had traveled more than a hundred miles out of the capital.
In the carriage, Liu Wuniang tore off a large portion of the pancake and gave it to Jiang Shuyi, and advised: "Girl, please eat something. You didn't eat well last night. It's hard to travel. Your body can't bear it if you continue like this."
Jiang Shuyi raised her hand to knock away the broken cake and looked at her unkindly: "Let me go back, or my husband will cut you into pieces."
Liu Wuniang quickly picked up the cake.
She was afraid of being pursued, so she didn't steal much silver when she escaped. She hired a carriage and bought a little maid to serve the girl. So she didn't have much left, so she had to be frugal in eating and drinking.
"Girl, I don't care who you are. Taoist Wu said that I can only escape with you. Taoist Wu is a living god, he would not say this for no reason. If you are a good person, he is doing this for your own good. If you are a bad person, I will support you for the rest of your life and will not let you go out and do evil."
Jiang Shuyi was so angry that she felt chest tightness.
She found out she had been cheated yesterday. After coming out of the secret passage, Liu Wuniang took her to hide in a merchant's carriage and sneaked out of the city gate, saying that she would take her to find Taoist Wu. However, she ended up sitting in the stolen carriage for two days and didn't see Taoist Wu at all.
Under her questioning last night, Liu Wuniang finally told the truth. She was not going to take her to see Taoist Wu, but to take her back to her hometown!
Jiang Shuyi understood that she was a liar! She wanted to return to Beijing immediately, but she had been raised in the inner chamber since she was young, and after entering the palace, she had been clothed in fine clothes and fed with delicious food. When had she ever gone out alone? When she looked around, she was at a loss, and she couldn't even tell the directions of east, west, south, and north.
She could only threaten Liu Wuniang to send her back, but she could not reveal her identity. She said that her husband was a high-ranking official in the capital, and if he didn't send her back, Liu Wuniang's whole family would be implicated.
But it's obviously of no use.
Jiang Shuyi had no appetite. From last night till now, she hadn't eaten a single grain of rice for almost a whole day.
There was the sound of someone biting into a scone nearby. She couldn't help but take a look at the scone. Liu Wu Niang handed it back to her: "Do you want to eat it?"
Jiang Shuyi turned her face away in disdain: "I don't want to eat this kind of thing. I want to eat steamed sea bass and a bowl of bird's nest to nourish my body."
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. She might have been able to eat these things when she was a child, but after being honored in the palace for a long time, she would rather starve to death than eat the pancake that fell on the ground.
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