Chapter 203 Extra: If Pei Yan was reborn (12)
It was Jiang Shuyi's first time attending such a palace banquet, so she sat directly at the very top, overlooking all the ministers and female relatives in the hall.
She was not stage-shy. She looked around and found that everyone she saw would immediately lower their heads. She found this interesting and looked more enthusiastically.
Look up.
Oh, I bowed my head again.
Jiang Shuyi didn't stop until Pei Yan couldn't bear it anymore and called her name softly.
After the meal, you can move around freely.
When Pei Yan was talking with clan relatives and ministers, Jiang Shuyi felt bored and slipped away to hang out in a busy place.
Clusters of fireworks rose in the sky, illuminating people's faces with colorful lights.
Most of the time, it was a family gathering together, but my father’s rank was not high enough to come to the palace banquet. The Crown Prince said that he would let them enter the palace in a few days.
Jiang Shuyi missed her sister a little. Although she knew her sister was doing well through letters, she still couldn't feel at ease as if she saw her in person.
The only way she could do justice to her aunt's spirit in heaven was to take good care of her younger sister.
Thinking of her aunt, Jiang Shuyi felt a little depressed and immediately wanted to go to the Imperial River to release water lanterns.
I heard that water lanterns can be used to express grief and let my aunt hear my words.
When she reached the lotus pond, there was already a young girl there.
Jiang Shuyi saw that her face was calm as she looked at the river lanterns drifting with the waves, and it seemed that she was also missing someone.
When people are sad, they always want to find someone who shares the same pain as them.
Jiang Shuyi walked over quietly and whispered, "Did you make this river lantern yourself?"
The girl must have heard her footsteps a long time ago, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She just said calmly: "No, there are palace people on the other side of the river distributing water lanterns. Just go and get one."
Jiang Shuyi looked at her and felt an inexplicable familiarity in her heart.
She frowned and asked, "Who are you from?"
The girl looked back at her, saw her face, paused, stood up and bowed: "My surname is Miao, my father is the governor of Qingzhou, and I came to the capital a few years ago to visit my grandfather who was seriously ill. You must be the one sitting next to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at the palace banquet."
Jiang Shuyi nodded and returned the greeting: "Yes, do you recognize me?"
Miao Wangshu shook his head slightly: "Before today, I probably didn't recognize him."
Jiang Shuyi was a little disappointed. She thought she looked familiar and thought they had met before at some point.
She saw the river lanterns floating away in the river and asked, "Did you release those?"
Miao Wangshu: "...well, the girl just watched me put it there."
Only then did Jiang Shuyi realize what a stupid thing she had said.
Her cheeks blushed, and she quickly tried to change the subject: "I want to release it too!"
Miao Wangshu was silent for a moment, then took his somewhat willful sister to ask the palace servants for a river lantern.
The lotus-shaped lantern floated on the water. Jiang Shuyi closed her eyes and spoke devoutly and silently to her aunt.
Miao Wangshu stood beside her, his eyes also fixed on the end of the shimmering water.
It took Jiang Shuyi a long time to open her eyes. When she was about to stand up, her legs were sore from kneeling that she slipped and fell into the river.
She screamed in fright, but fortunately Miao Wangshu caught her before she fell.
"Be careful, sister."
Jiang Shuyi finally stood up, holding her chest with lingering fear. After a while, she remembered to thank her lifesaver and turned around and said, "Thank you, sister. I'll give you some jewelry and clothes!"
Miao Wangshu shook his head with little interest: "It's just a small favor."
At this moment, Cheng Shouzhong came over, sweating profusely, "Oh Miss Jiang, you scared me to death. Why did you run here in the blink of an eye? Go back quickly, His Highness is looking for you."
Jiang Shuyi said "Oh", turned around and smiled at Miao Wangshu, "Sister, I'm leaving now."
Miao Wangshu nodded and bowed again.
Jiang Shuyi followed Cheng Shouzhong back to Pei Yan.
Even though Pei Yan knew that he would not get lost in the palace, Jiang Shuyi's sudden disappearance still made him feel nervous.
Now that he saw that the little girl was intact, he was relieved and asked in a deep voice, "Where did you go?"
Jiang Shuyi told him the whole story about the encounter with her sister while releasing river lanterns.
Pei Yan was not interested in what playmates she had found. He just pinched her face and ordered, "Stay beside me and don't run around anymore."
Jiang Shuyi nodded obediently: "I know!"
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On the third day after the palace banquet, Jiang Shuyi met her parents in the East Palace.
"Why didn't Wanqing come?"
Jiang Shuyi now relies on the support of her brother, the Crown Prince, so she is no longer afraid of her father and stepmother, and asks them confidently and anxiously.
Dou and Jiang Weiqing looked at each other and sighed, "Your sister had a serious illness, and the doctors couldn't cure her. In the end, a wandering nun saved her. But the nun said that this disease can only be cured by becoming a nun. We were reluctant to let her go, but who knew that Wanqing fell ill again a few days later, and now she is still in a coma and can't enter the palace."
"What?!"
Jiang Shuyi was struck by lightning. She got so anxious that her eyes turned red. She stood up and ran out: "I want to see Wanqing!"
Cui Ping hurriedly stopped her and said, "Young lady, please wait and tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first."
Jiang Shuyi was also at a loss at this time. When she learned that Pei Yan was busy with government affairs today and was still in the imperial study, she insisted on going there regardless.
Dou glanced at her husband again, and Jiang Weiqing shook her head.
When Cuiping brought Jiang Shuyi to the imperial study, several ministers were discussing matters.
Jiang Shuyi knew that state affairs were urgent and should not be disturbed at this time, but when she heard the prince's voice through the door, she couldn't help crying.
She cried when she wanted to, bit her lips, squatted down, buried her head in her knees, and sobbed softly.
What should I do? My aunt passed away due to illness, and now my sister is going to be the same. Is it her destiny to have a shallow family relationship?
Jiang Shuyi cried so hard that she didn't even notice when the conversation in the hall stopped. It was not until she was covered with a cloak that she raised her head with tears in her eyes.
The prince had come out at some point and was looking down at her, his tone concerned: "What's wrong? You're crying like this. I don't have the heart to discuss government affairs with them anymore."
Jiang Shuyi hugged Pei Yan tightly, and her cloak slipped off, revealing her trembling shoulders: "My sister is dying, what should I do..."
Pei Yan seemed puzzled. He patted her back and asked softly, "What's going on? Don't worry. Tell me slowly."
So Jiang Shuyi cried and repeated her stepmother's words to Pei Yan.
"What should I do? What should I do? Will Wanqing abandon me like my aunt did? Your Highness, do you have a way? You can definitely save her!"
Pei Yan frowned: "How could such a thing happen? I will send a few doctors with excellent medical skills to cure your sister."
Jiang Shuyi nodded repeatedly with tears in her eyes.
"I also want to leave the palace and go see my sister, okay?"
Pei Yan nodded as if he understood the situation: "Of course, I will ask Cheng Shouzhong to prepare and send you out of the palace tomorrow. You stay with your sister and come back when she recovers."
Jiang Shuyi was so moved that she hugged him and sobbed, "Brother Prince is so kind..."
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