Chapter 198 Extra: If Pei Yan was reborn (7)
Pei Yan stared at Jiang Shuyi for a while, and when she was a little nervous, he said calmly: "Since you have a stomachache, just lie down."
Jiang Shuyi breathed a sigh of relief and immediately lay down obediently.
Pei Yan ordered the imperial physician and others to leave, then he placed his palm on her slightly flat belly.
"Didn't you have a good lunch?"
Jiang Shuyi was so busy planning to pretend to be sick that she had no appetite at all.
She coughed weakly and said weakly: "My stomach hurts and I can't eat..."
Pei Yan said "hmm".
He rubbed it gently twice: "Does it hurt here?"
Jiang Shuyi nodded repeatedly, but she looked at Pei Yan without blinking, with a look of dependence and secret joy: "Yeah, it hurts."
Pei Yan pretended not to notice and moved down again: "Does it hurt here too?"
Jiang Shuyi hummed: "Yes."
Pei Yan put his hand on her leg: "Logically, it should hurt here too."
Jiang Shuyi suddenly looked as if she was in unbearable pain: "Hiss, it hurts so much!"
Pei Yan nodded thoughtfully and withdrew his hand.
"The pain goes from the stomach to the legs. This is a serious illness."
Jiang Shuyi looked pitiful. She grabbed his hand and put it back on her belly, signaling him not to stop rubbing it: "What should I do..."
Pei Yan gently rubbed her skin and said seriously, "It's not difficult to cure. There was a eunuch in the palace who had this disease before, and he only needed acupuncture to recover."
Jiang Shuyi's body stiffened for a moment.
Needle, acupuncture?
A flashing silver needle tip appeared in her mind, and she suggested nervously: "I, I think just taking the medicine will be enough..."
Pei Yan shook his head and rejected it mercilessly: "No, this disease is serious and can only be cured by acupuncture."
Jiang Shuyi swallowed, saw that His Highness had made up his mind, and closed his eyes as if he was ready to die.
It’s just an acupuncture treatment, just do it!
If only His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could spend more time with her.
Pei Yan continued slowly, "Prick the area where it hurts. For a case like yours, we'll start from the stomach and move to the thigh, with a needle every finger width. Only when the needles are densely packed together can it be effective."
Jiang Shuyi opened her eyes in disbelief.
She looked at the gentle and smiling Crown Prince, her lips trembling slightly: "Your Highness... Are you not going to keep me?"
Pei Yan smiled softly and said, "Yes, that's why I need to treat you well."
Jiang Shuyi was about to cry.
She held Pei Yan's hand tightly, her voice already filled with tears, and she threw a tantrum: "I don't want treatment! I don't want treatment! Your Highness, Prince Brother! I don't want to be stabbed like a hedgehog!"
It was the first time that Pei Yan heard her call him brother.
He thought about it and was willing to take on this role before Jiang Shuyi came of age.
Pei Yan soothed her gently, "Don't worry, it won't hurt much. It's better than the pain you're in now, right? I'll call the doctor in right now."
As he was about to get up, Jiang Shuyi was frightened and quickly sat up, hugged his waist, and cried and confessed: "I'm not sick, I'm not! I was pretending!"
After saying this, she burst into tears, as if she had suffered a great injustice and was frightened.
Pei Yan felt the little person on his body trembling with tears, but he resisted the urge to comfort her. After all, this trend should not be allowed to continue. He waited until her crying gradually subsided before turning around and pulling her away with his shoulders stern.
He looked down at the little girl with bright red eyes and asked calmly, "Why did you lie to me like this?"
Jiang Shuyi hadn't recovered yet, sniffing and trembling, as if she was very sad: "I, I miss His Highness. His Highness has been ignoring me recently. I guess His Highness has another sister outside and doesn't like me anymore..."
The little girl felt aggrieved and kept shedding tears, as if she had really been abandoned.
Pei Yan sat on the bedside and looked at Jiang Shuyi: "So you pretended to be sick, wanting me to come and see you and feel sorry for you?"
Jiang Shuyi uttered "hmm" very faintly.
Pei Yan patiently guided her: "If I don't love you anymore, what's the point of you pretending to be sick? It will only make me feel annoyed and throw you out of the East Palace."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were suddenly filled with grievance and fear.
Pei Yan reached out and touched her messy hair, and sighed: "But I love you, so if you pretend to be sick, it will make me worried and distressed."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were filled with hope again, and she whispered tentatively, "So His Highness won't abandon me, right?"
Pei Yan's tone was gentle and affectionate, like a loving mother: "I will always want you."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes turned red again.
Her father was like a dead man. She could not see him except during festivals. After her aunt left, her mother was so strict...
God knows how much she wants a kind and gentle elder!
Jiang Shuyi sat up straighter, and with tears in her eyes, she admitted her mistake: "Brother Crown Prince, I know I was wrong, and I will never make you worry again!"
The name changes so quickly.
Pei Yan had indulged her even when she grew up and behaved like a spoiled child, so he wouldn't bother with an ignorant child.
"I am also wrong. I shouldn't have been away from you for such a long time."
Pei Yan thought of his previous life.
During the last year that Jiang Shuyi was imprisoned in Zhaoyang Palace by him, she had some mental problems because she had no contact with outsiders for a long time and he was the only one she could rely on.
Just because he had something urgent to do and didn't go back to accompany her one day, she cut her wrists and committed suicide in the palace.
That's why Pei Yan decided to release her.
What happened next...
Pei Yan closed his eyes, his heart aching, and he couldn't bear to think about it anymore.
"Brother Prince?"
Seeing him suddenly absent-minded, Jiang Shuyi called out to him in confusion.
Pei Yan finally came back to his senses, lowered his eyes to look at the living little girl in front of him, and the pain in his heart eased a little.
"You're bound to be bored when you're alone in the East Palace."
His tone was gentle, but he reached out and held Jiang Shuyi in his arms, stroking the back of her head again and again, not knowing whether he was comforting the little girl or comforting himself: "I've been too busy lately, why don't you go to Wenhua Hall and listen to the lectures with the princesses and princes, so that you can be playmates with each other, okay?"
Jiang Shuyi doesn't have a good impression of the school.
She learned embroidery with her sisters. Although she looked clever, her hands were clumsy and she learned slower than the other sisters. She was often scolded and punished by the female teacher, and her sisters also laughed at her.
"I will probably live in the Forbidden City for a long time in the future and won't come back to the East Palace often. I can take care of you in Wenhua Palace."
Jiang Shuyi was about to say "no" but then she took a turn and said, "I do!"
As long as I can see more of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is like a brother and a father to me, I will just attend the classes!
*
Pei Yan knew that the human relationships in the palace were extremely complicated.
But his father is about to fall ill, and as the crown prince regent, he will handle government affairs in the Qianqing Palace and serve his father, so it will be difficult for him to have time to return to the Eastern Palace often.
How can Jiang Shuyi survive alone when she is so dependent on him now?
There are currently six princes and princesses of school age in the palace. Pei Yan knows their personalities very well. Some are easy to get along with, while others are difficult.
He first called over the lively Ninth Princess and Tenth Brother. Both of them had good personalities. When Pei Yan told them that Jiang Shuyi was very pitiful, they promised without hesitation that they would take good care of this little sister.
The Sixth Princess has a somewhat spoiled personality.
Pei Yan was afraid that Jiang Shuyi would suffer a loss, so he asked Cheng Fu and several skilled palace maids to serve her, just in case.
Emperor Jiahe soon fell ill.
Among the current princes, the eldest prince is impatient and frivolous, brave but not wise, the second and third princes died young, the fourth prince is mediocre in ability and timid, the fifth prince died in infancy, and the princes after the seventh prince are still young.
Only the crown prince, though young, is intelligent, docile and obedient, making him the most useful.
Emperor Jiahe did not think how serious his sudden illness would be, so he ordered the crown prince to temporarily supervise the country and live in the palace.
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