Chapter 186 Extra: Pei Yu (V)
Such a big commotion naturally alarmed the queen.
Queen Shen intended to get close to Pei Yu, but on the one hand, His Majesty was afraid that she would seduce Jiang Shuyi's child for her own use, so he hinted and warned her, and on the other hand, Pei Yu's personality was unpredictable and unfriendly, so Queen Shen gave up.
So now that two princes and Jiang Shuyi's niece were in front of her, she just felt a headache and didn't want to care about anything. She ordered the palace servants to call Concubine Jiang over and then dropped the responsibility.
"One is your son and the other is your niece. What do you think we should do?"
Pei Yu didn't know what he was expecting.
He lowered his head, but could still feel his mother's eyes on him, and his hands hanging at his sides clenched unconsciously.
He really wanted to see what his mother looked like when she looked at him.
But he didn't dare to look up, for fear of disturbing that sight.
However, even though he was so careful, the gaze still left him.
"I will take Li Rong back and let her mother teach him a lesson. As for the other two... the Queen is also my mother, so please deal with them as you wish. I have to go play Cuju, so I really don't have time to take care of these things."
The mother's smiling voice sounded like a sharp knife, stabbing Pei Yu's heart.
He could no longer listen to what the Queen said to his mother. He just felt cold all over and his bones ached.
My mother left soon.
Queen Shen rubbed her forehead and said something to calm things down: "Sun Shouxi was rude, so he will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane and expelled from the palace and will never be used again. As for Yi'er and Yu'er, you two are brothers, so don't quarrel over a servant. You still have to be harmonious in the future, understand?"
After Pei Yu left the hall, he wandered around like a ghost, not knowing where to go.
At this moment, clusters of gorgeous fireworks exploded in the sky.
He raised his head, then lowered it again. The palace servants following him did not dare to breathe.
If Yue Miao were here, she would definitely rack her brains to find ways to comfort him.
Even if it's useless.
Several young men from aristocratic families who wanted to curry favor with him came up to him with a smile and started chatting with him.
Pei Yu said nothing and walked silently towards the waterside pavilion.
Yue Miao was still kneeling there.
Just as he reached the gate of the waterside pavilion, a palace servant suddenly rushed over, lost his composure, knelt down and cried, "Second Prince, the Imperial Concubine suddenly fainted! The imperial physician said she is no longer breathing!"
What......
Pei Yu just felt his head go numb.
He turned around blankly and asked the palace attendant softly, "Which imperial concubine?"
"Which other imperial concubine in the palace is your Highness's mother?"
Pei Yu heard the palace servant say this.
His feet felt weak and his hands were cold. He wanted to turn around and look for his mother, but he couldn't control himself and fell to the ground.
Pei Yi seemed to hear that the originally joyful atmosphere at the palace banquet had disappeared, and everyone's steps became disorderly and panicked.
He lay on the ground, clenched his scraped palms, and burst into tears for the first time.
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The second month after my mother passed away, my father also passed away.
Although there were two princes, the emperor's father appointed Pei Shen, a member of the royal family, as the crown prince.
The court, especially the new officials, secretly speculated that maybe His Majesty was infertile and these two princes were used to deceive people and were not of royal blood, so this was the case...
For a moment, everyone's attitude towards Pei Yi and Pei Yu plummeted.
Pei Yi was a person who could remain calm no matter where he was. Moreover, the new emperor did not treat them badly. He allocated a prince's mansion to them, and all rewards and salaries were exactly according to the specifications.
However, Pei Yu's temper became more violent.
Both my mother and father are dead.
Not only that, on the day he left the palace, Yue Miao actually secretly begged the new emperor to stay in the palace and not come out with him.
Pei Yu was deserted by his friends and relatives, and he no longer had anyone close to him. Moreover, he was being slandered and insulted by a bunch of damned things.
At a banquet, he pushed the talkative son of the Duke of Wei into the water and held his head to drown him; he also sneaked into the mansion of Marquis Xuanping in the middle of the night and set fire to his family's ancestral hall.
Isn't it slandering others for not being born by their parents? He burns their ancestors for eighteen generations into ashes.
The Duke of Wei and the Marquis of Xuanping cried and complained during the morning court session.
The new emperor had no choice but to summon Pei Yu into the palace.
"Prince Yu, what are you going to do? Their son was rude, you could have reported it to me. As a prince of the royal family, how can you do such a thing?"
Pei Yu had not kneeled since he entered the hall. At this moment, he raised his head, like a poisonous snake with the upper half of its body sticking out, staring at the person on the throne with a sinister look.
Pei Shen inherited the throne of the previous emperor and showed a certain degree of tolerance and leniency towards the previous emperor's own children.
He asked in a friendly tone: "Are you dissatisfied with me? Feel free to speak frankly, I——"
"Give Yue Miao back to me."
Pei Shen was stunned, and Pei Yu repeated fiercely: "Give my slave back, or I will burn down the Qianqing Palace!"
The chief steward in front of the emperor scolded him, "How insolent!" Pei Shen waved his hand and asked, "Is the one Prince Yu talking about Yue Miao who is serving in front of the emperor now?"
A cold light suddenly appeared in Pei Yu's eyes.
The Imperial Housekeeper quickly replied, "Yes, Miss Yue Miao was originally serving His Royal Highness Prince Yu. Later, when Prince Yu left the palace, Yue Miao came to ask Your Majesty to keep her in the palace. Your Majesty saw that she was tortured beyond recognition, so he ordered her to stay."
Pei Shen nodded and looked at Pei Yu again: "Although you are a prince, you can't go too far. Yue Miao has only served you for a year, and there is not a single piece of good flesh on her body. You pinched and abused her, and punished her to kneel and keep vigil every night, causing her leg disease. If the censor knew about these things, he would also report you."
Punch her and abuse her?
Make her kneel and keep vigil every night?
Pei Yu clenched his fists in silence, then laughed in anger and asked word by word, "Did Yue Miao tell you this?"
Pei Shen was intimidating without being angry: "Why, do you still want to take revenge on her?"
"I don't believe it."
Pei Yu raised his head: "Unless Your Majesty lets Yue Miao come out and tell me in person, I will let her go."
Pei Shen looked down at him in silence for a while, and finally turned his head and said, "Go and call Yue Miao over to confront Prince Yu in court."
Not long after the Imperial Steward left, Yue Miao was brought into the palace.
Knowing that it was Pei Yu who wanted to see her, Yue Miao felt a little guilty. Although she pretended to be calm, her tightly clenched hands still exposed her panic.
She walked to the center of the hall and knelt down. She did not dare to look at Pei Yu, as if she was deeply afraid of him. She knelt down towards the throne, but before she kowtowed, a hand grabbed her wrist.
"When did I abuse you? Every time I punished you, you were the first to anger me!"
Pei Yu's voice was trembling with anger. Yue Miao gasped in pain, tears in her eyes: "Your Highness, please let me go!"
Pei Yu insisted on not letting go, but when he saw Yue Miao was sweating from the pain, he felt something was wrong. He pulled her sleeve down and his pupils suddenly shrank.
Yue Miao's forearms were covered with purple pinch marks of varying depths. It was obvious that they had been there for some time and had not yet completely disappeared.
He was stunned for a moment, but after seeing Yue Miao's slightly guilty look, he quickly understood.
"You are so afraid of pain that you actually do this to yourself in order to frame me..."
Pei Yu's voice became tense, and finally he laughed grimly and closed his eyes.
"Okay, okay."
He threw the trembling Yue Miao away, looked at her gloomily and said, "Just wait, Yue Miao, I will take you back sooner or later. I will really take revenge on you for the things you framed me for. If you dare to betray me, you will end up with neither life nor death."
Pei Shen couldn't bear it any longer and scolded: "Okay, Prince Yu, you are not allowed to make trouble again."
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