Chapter 44 This is my confession
Pei Yan lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Shuyi, and ordered: "Let go."
Jiang Shuyi held on tighter.
She felt sour and uncomfortable in her heart, and begged with red eyes: "Your Majesty, I have already taken the initiative to plead guilty and accept the punishment. It won't be long before I will be tortured by the Queen Mother. It's hard to say whether I will live or die. Can you please not ignore me at this time? I can't stand it..."
Pei Yan looked at her in silence for a long time before speaking in a lukewarm tone: "You can't stand me ignoring you, and you can't stand me kneeling for less than a quarter of an hour, and you still dare to say that you take the blame. Do you expect me to accompany you when you are punished?"
Jiang Shuyi's eyes were filled with tears. What else could she do? She naturally didn't want to suffer at all, but since she was a child, there were few people who treated her sincerely. In her previous life, she could barely make up a hand with her sister and son. Now that these two were gone, she didn't want to lose any of the remaining ones.
She had no words to express her pain, so she could only hold Pei Yan's sleeve tightly and cry out to him, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Pei Yan closed his eyes.
It was obvious that Jiang Shuyi had been exceptionally well-behaved recently, and was more dependent and obedient to him than before, but he was repeatedly provoked.
"I was originally very happy with you today."
Pei Yan said this calmly without saying anything else. He took his robe sleeve from her hand and said, "Get up and have dinner."
When Jiang Shuyi was a child, she made mistakes that made her aunt angry. Whenever it was time for dinner, her aunt would tell her to eat with a stern face, which was to give her a way out after she had calmed down.
She originally thought that Pei Yan was the same, but gradually she discovered that this was not the case.
She wanted to pick up some food for Pei Yan. Although he did not refuse, he did not eat it either. He only took a few bites of the green stem rice, put down his chopsticks, and walked out of the hall with Cheng Shouzhong.
Jiang Shuyi hurriedly caught up with him, grabbed his clothes and asked, "Where are you going, Your Majesty?"
Pei Yan turned around and looked at her: "Is it your business to ask where I'm going?"
His expression was as gentle as ever, but he was just reminding her that she had overstepped her authority.
Jiang Shuyi took back her hand, looked at him anxiously and asked in a low voice: "Didn't your majesty say that you are not busy with government affairs today, so you can accompany me..."
"But now you've caused trouble again." Pei Yan said calmly, "If I don't go and calm things down for you, do I really have to watch you get punished to death?"
While Jiang Shuyi was still not reacting, he turned around and left.
Cheng Shouzhong hurriedly followed and signaled Cheng Shou to stay and serve.
When Jiang Shuyi came to her senses and wanted to chase him, it was too late.
To settle the matter for her? So he wasn't going to hand her over to the Queen Mother to deal with him?!
She suddenly turned her head to look at Cheng Shou, who was startled and quickly blocked the door, stumbling but dutifully saying, "Mother, you can't go out!"
Jiang Shuyi was speechless and asked him, "Where is the Azure Dragon Jade Pendant that Your Majesty gave me?"
Cheng Shou didn't even know which jade pendant he was awarded, and answered blankly, "I don't know."
"Can I look around in the Palace of Heavenly Purity?"
Cheng Shou didn't know either, but he was afraid that saying it would anger the queen, so he said, "If your majesty agrees, then we can do it. If your majesty doesn't agree, then we can't do it."
Jiang Shuyi: ...
After staring at each other for a while, Jiang Shuyi said weakly, "Call Fangchu over."
Cheng Shou felt relieved and immediately asked the palace servants to shout.
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Pei Yan returned to the Qianqing Palace only when night fell.
The outer hall was empty, with no one there except the eunuchs and palace maids standing there.
Cheng Shouzhong saw His Majesty glance towards the inner hall and immediately asked Cheng Shou, "Where is the queen?"
Cheng Shou answered honestly: "I don't know what Sister Fangchu and I were doing in the palace. We didn't even come out for dinner."
Seeing His Majesty's increasingly pale expression, Cheng Shouzhong glared at his godson.
Can't you be more tactful in your statement? His Majesty will be very angry if you speak so directly.
As expected, His Majesty said in a slightly cold voice: "Set the table again and call her out."
Cheng Shouzhong went there as requested, and soon came back with Fang Chu.
After Fangchu bowed, she smiled and said without waiting for His Majesty to ask, "Your Majesty, the Queen has been asking me all afternoon how she made Your Majesty angry and how to calm him down. I am presumptuous and have given you some ideas. The Queen is now waiting for Your Majesty in the palace."
Cheng Shouzhong watched His Majesty's expression immediately soften, and he was amazed in his heart.
Look at how perceptive and eloquent Fang Chu is. Then look at her own sons. The eldest is naive, the youngest is stupid, and only the second son is smart and almost killed himself.
When he came to his senses, His Majesty had already walked towards the bedroom.
Pei Yan imagined many possible scenarios.
Fang Chu was originally a low-ranking maid serving an unknown concubine in her father's palace. Because she was smart and clever, she was able to think of various ways to help her master win the emperor's favor, and thus she was promoted to a first-rank maid.
My father is fond of beauty and there are many beauties in the harem. Fang Chu was able to help her master stand out under such circumstances because most of her methods were extremely unconventional and creative.
Pei Yan was mentally prepared, so when he saw Jiang Shuyi dressed neatly and standing upright in the hall waiting for him, he first looked at her collar.
Fang Chu had personally drawn and designed many small clothes and pants, which were all the rage in the harem. Her father's concubines secretly imitated and copied them. Before Pei Yan decided to recruit her as his subordinate, he also looked at a few of her drawings.
The tattered clothes are not a sight to behold.
At this moment, Jiang Shuyi might be wearing those things.
Pei Yan's eyes darkened slightly, and his gaze inadvertently moved downwards. When he saw the belt around his waist, he paused.
The double-ear knot he had tied with his own hands this morning was still hanging intact, with no signs of having been untied or re-tied.
How did you get in there?
The next moment, Jiang Shuyi suddenly knelt down in front of him, holding up a piece of paper with densely written words in her hands, and said sincerely: "This is my confession, please read it, Your Majesty!"
"A confession? You guys spent so much time in there and this is all you wrote?!"
In the outer hall, Cheng Shouzhong almost dropped his jaw in shock after hearing Fang Chu's words. He shook his head and said, "Miss Fang Chu, are you really not afraid that His Majesty will beat you to death?"
Fang Chu smiled and said, "Your Majesty is a wise ruler. I have neither deceived you nor violated any taboos. How could I be beaten?"
Cheng Shouzhong was speechless. He had misunderstood Fang Chu's words just now, let alone His Majesty!
Fang Chu naturally knew about it, and was quite amused when thinking about the situation inside.
"Well, Eunuch Cheng, you don't know. As the saying goes in our hometown, 'one monkey, one way to tie it up'. The methods I taught the Concubine Tai are not suitable for Concubine Jiang."
Before Cheng Shouzhong could speak, Cheng Shou came over curiously and asked, "Sister Fangchu, tell me in detail."
Fang Chu was in a good mood at the moment, so she told him kindly, "The Queen Mother and the late emperor were not in love enough, so they could only use external things to help. But your Majesty and Queen Concubine Jiang are in love, so it's a natural thing. Even if you need to use some things to cheer them up, it should be the icing on the cake when they are in love. Now that the two are in a stalemate, it's better to talk it out first. Why do you have to do that kind of thing to blur it out?"
"Oh, oh, oh." Cheng Shouzhong waved his hands repeatedly: "Stop talking, it makes me feel embarrassed. You are a girl, and you are not ashamed to talk about this."
Fang Chu didn't take it seriously and retorted: "Eunuch Cheng, there's no need to embarrass me. We serve the master and have seen and heard everything. Did you close your eyes and plug your ears when you were on guard at night and changing the bed for His Majesty?"
"Oh, auntie, stop talking! I was the one who said the wrong thing, isn't that enough!"
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