Chapter 189: Pei Yu (VIII)
Pei Yu didn't know whether his brother's brain had been eaten by a dog.
He said impatiently: "I want to ask my brother, if I want to marry Yue Miao, is it too much of a compliment to her?"
Pei Yi frowned and tried hard to recall before he matched a certain palace maid with this somewhat familiar name.
"Who served you in the palace before? If you want to take her in, just take her in. You are already old enough anyway. Didn't His Majesty grant you a concubine a few days ago?"
Pei Yu was annoyed when he mentioned this: "Do you want it? I'll bring it to you. I don't know what's wrong with Pei Shen. He has to force women on me. Does he think everyone is as lustful as him? Is he going east today and west tomorrow?"
"Pei Yu!"
Pei Yu was too lazy to listen to his elder brother's lecture. He stood up, kicked the table and turned away.
After returning to the palace, Pei Yu called Qiu Ling, who lived in the same room with Yue Miao.
He asked with a straight face: "How is Yue Miao these days?"
Qiu Ling answered truthfully: "I lost my appetite the past two days, but I feel better today. I have already started sweeping the yard since I woke up this morning."
Pei Yu breathed a sigh of relief without even noticing it.
"Sweeping the yard? As expected, she is a servant who can't even sit still."
He said this with a look of disdain, and then ordered: "Anyway, she has rested enough, let her come to see me."
Not long after Qiu Ling left, she brought Yue Miao here.
Yue Miao stood at the door with her head down, neither saluting nor looking at Pei Yu.
Pei Yu rarely cared about it and waved: "Come here, I have something good to tell you."
The moon was still motionless.
Pei Yu was displeased: "Are you deaf?
Yue Miao raised her head numbly, met Pei Yu's strong and intimidating gaze, and walked forward like a puppet.
"Who are you showing this to?" Pei Yu was filled with rage. When she came closer, he grabbed her arm and pulled her into his arms. He stared at her with a terrifying expression and asked, "Did you feel wronged by sleeping with me? It was just the first time that I was a little reckless. Did it hurt more than the time I spanked you?"
Yue Miao smiled silently, turned her head away, and said sternly, "I dare not. It is my great honor that the prince is willing to use me to relieve my lust."
"Just so you know."
Pei Yu seemed unable to see her reluctance, and held her in his arms, gently kneading her calloused hands: "I have already handed a letter to Pei Shen, asking you to be my concubine. In two years, if you give birth to a prince for me, or a princess, I will have him appoint you as a concubine."
He felt that this was a great joyous event for a slave, and after he said this, he waited for her to thank him joyfully, just like when she was rewarded with a gold ingot ten years ago.
However, Yue Miao seemed not to understand. She was stunned for a long time and suddenly laughed ridiculously.
"You want me to be your concubine?"
She even forgot to call herself, and just felt it was unbelievable. She asked in surprise: "You tortured and humiliated me so much, treating me like a lowly inferior, why do you want me to bear children for you? Your Majesty, just treat me as a slave, so that I can still hope that if one day you marry a kind princess, you may be merciful and release me. Let me be a concubine and be trampled on by you for the rest of my life, and give birth to your children like a breeding dog. The dogs I give birth to will be inferior to those pure-blooded dogs. You might as well just kill me."
Pei Yu's breathing became more and more rapid as she spoke.
After ten years of experience on the battlefield, he had countless dead souls under his command and thought he had been able to suppress his violent temper. But now, he was easily forced out by Yue Miao's words.
"Say it again."
Pei Yu pinched Yue Miao's chin and forced her to look at him, with a cold and terrifying light flashing in his eyes.
Yue Miao swallowed, and her desire to survive brought her back from her sense of collapse.
"I have said so much, how can I remember it all?"
Her eyelashes trembled several times, which was a sign of fear.
Pei Yu moved his hand down, placed it on her neck, and then closed it and held it.
He could feel Yue Miao’s whole body stiffen immediately.
"I will ask you again, are you willing or not?"
Pei Yu's tone was contemptuous, but more frightening than when he was angry. Yue Miao felt that if she shook her head, he would strangle her to death immediately.
"Willing, willing..."
Nothing is more important than staying alive. Only by surviving can you have the chance to be free.
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Unlike the principal wife and concubines, there is no ceremony or ritual required for a prince to take a concubine.
If they were from outside, they would just be carried in a sedan chair through the side door. If they were servants in the mansion, it would be even simpler. They would just have to change their accommodation, clothes and jewelry, and then assign a few servants to them.
Ever since Yue Miao became Pei Yu's concubine, she has never had a single day of peace.
She had heard with her own ears that His Majesty had sex with the Empress in the palace before, and it seemed that it was mostly joyful, but when it came to her, it seemed that there was only pain.
Unlike being beaten with a stick, this kind of pain not only tortured her body, but also caused her to be repeatedly humiliated mentally.
She knew that if she didn't save herself, she would have to live like this for the rest of her life.
Even if Pei Yu despised her in the future, as a prince, he would never let go of the woman who had already gone through a clear path.
*
Pei Yu never celebrates his birthday.
He knew that his mother had a hard time giving birth to him and almost died, so she distanced herself from him, and his father also hated him because of this.
Therefore, his birthday every year is the most torturous and unpredictable day for him.
But he wanted to celebrate Yue Miao's birthday.
Yue Miao has been much more well-behaved in the past few days. She was always like a piece of wood before, making him feel like a woodpecker. Now she finally shows some response.
Pei Yu was never stingy with rewards and punishments. If he thought she deserved a reward, he would reward her.
He asked Yue Miao what she wanted. Yue Miao said she wanted to see Yue Xi. After all, they entered the palace together, and she wanted to know how Yue Xi was living after becoming a concubine.
This was not a reward at all. Pei Yu agreed to it so that Yuexi could persuade Yue Miao to know the current situation and stop quarreling with him.
After she took the carriage to Prince An's Mansion, Pei Yu began to prepare the banquet in the palace and took out the gorgeous headgear that he had ordered craftsmen to make half a month ago from the warehouse.
About an hour later, the attendant who went with Yue Miao came back and knelt down to report: "Your Majesty, Madam Yue is missing..."
The servant who was busy hanging up the colorful silks was suddenly startled because he heard a loud noise of cups and plates breaking into pieces.
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Yue Miao thought she was quite smart.
It’s not that she didn’t have other opportunities to escape, but it was inevitable that she would implicate her servants.
She herself was a slave, so how could she bear to implicate someone who was just as helpless as herself?
So Yue Miao asked the kind-hearted eldest prince for help, just like she had done before and escaped from the capital with his help.
The next priority was to sell the jewelry that he had secretly brought out, take the silver bills back to his hometown, pick up his mother, and then escape to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, far away from the capital and Yanzhou to spend the rest of his life.
Even though Pei Yu is a prince, he doesn't have any private soldiers. Can he go around the world to capture her?
Yue Miao felt very comfortable and felt she had never been so relaxed. After selling the jewelry she brought from the palace for two hundred taels of silver notes, she hired a carriage to return to her hometown in the countryside.
Five days later, we finally arrived.
Yue Miao jumped off the carriage, feeling very happy, and ran along the country path back to the familiar small courtyard. She shouted happily at the door: "Mother, I'm back!"
At the same time, he opened the door and saw the scene in the yard.
Pei Yu sat at the stone table, drinking tea slowly, exuding the noble and arrogant air of a noble family. Her mother, a woman with gray hair from working hard for half her life, was kneeling on the ground, shivering.
Yue Miao couldn't describe her feelings at that moment.
A shame a hundred times greater than the humiliation she had suffered herself, a surge of emotions surged up in her.
Her feet seemed to have taken root, and her whole body felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead, and her outstretched hand was frozen in mid-air.
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