Chapter 50 Underwear
This is the first time Pei Yan has come back so late since Jiang Shuyi moved into the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
The candles had already been lit in the hall. He entered the hall, but did not see any familiar figures. When he came back, he saw a savings box on the table. One piece of each cake in the box had been eaten, leaving only one piece.
Pei Yan retracted his gaze and asked Fang Chu who was standing beside him: "Is Concubine Jiang asleep?"
Fang Chu smiled and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty has been waiting for His Majesty since the afternoon, and only went to the bedroom to rest when she was really too sleepy to hold on any longer."
Pei Yan didn't say anything. Since Jiang Shuyi didn't wait for him, he was not in a hurry to see her. He went to the back hall to take a bath and change clothes first.
After bathing and changing into loose pajamas, Pei Yan entered the inner hall damp and wet.
The bronze branch lamps illuminate the room very brightly.
On the wide dragon bed, Jiang Shuyi curled up herself and lay on the outside, where Pei Yan usually slept, holding a bunch of clothes tightly in her arms.
Pei Yan paused and walked forward.
The clothes look familiar.
He sat down on the bed, picked up a little, and after seeing the dragon cloud pattern, he confirmed that it was his inner garment.
Pei Yan was silent for a moment when he remembered that Jiang Shuyi had asked him for underwear, saying that it smelled like his scent and that she wanted to hold him in her arms while sleeping.
He thought that his character was somewhat different from that of ordinary people, but he did not expect that Jiang Shuyi was even worse.
Pei Yan wanted to take off his underwear, which naturally woke up Jiang Shuyi.
"His Majesty?"
Jiang Shuyi opened her eyes and saw Pei Yan, and called out to him in a daze.
Pei Yan's face was gentle, and he seemed a little puzzled as he asked, "What are you doing, lying in my place, holding my clothes."
Jiang Shuyi came back to her senses and remembered what she was doing before going to bed. She was suddenly so embarrassed that her cheeks turned hot. She tried to snatch her clothes back silently.
Pei Yan didn't let go and chuckled: "Jiang Shuyi, this is my dress."
Jiang Shuyi also held on and pulled hard, and Pei Yan saw that her ears were alarmingly red.
He didn't think much about it at first.
"Princess Jiang, I ask you to let go. This is my will."
I wasn't ashamed when I asked him for clothes last time, so why should I be ashamed now?
Jiang Shuyi used to be horrified when Pei Yan changed her name, but she felt normal when he called her by her rank. However, after spending a few days together in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, her reaction was completely reversed.
She doesn't mind being called by her name now, but she feels a little uneasy when being called by her rank.
Seeing Pei Yan's expression fade, Jiang Shuyi didn't dare to continue to be in a stalemate. She silently let go of his hand, then turned over to face the wall and covered her head with the quilt.
Pei Yan withdrew his gaze from Jiang Shuyi and looked at the inner garment in his hand.
Wrinkled, the top is wrinkled from being hugged, and the bottom...
Pei Yan was very smart since childhood and was able to see the big picture of many things.
He closed his eyes and tried to remain calm.
"I have only been away from you for one day."
After a pause, Pei Yan added: "One day, I was with you last night."
Jiang Shuyi was unable to utter a word and clutched the edge of the quilt tightly.
Pei Yan looked at her knuckles that turned white from exerting so much force, and asked curiously, "Were you like this before? When I didn't summon you to sleep with me."
Jiang Shuyi was so ashamed and angry that she replied in a muffled voice: "No!"
Pei Yan thought about it and agreed, because she didn’t have her own clothes before.
He suggested: "If you accidentally have such thoughts again, you can try copying Buddhist scriptures."
Jiang Shuyi couldn't help it and begged in the quilt: "Stop talking..."
Pei Yan felt that she was about to cry, so he finally held back his words of instruction.
He originally had something important to discuss with her. In three days, as long as Wen Huan and the army left the capital, Pei Yan would not have to worry about anything anymore and could lift Jiang Shuyi's house arrest and let her go back.
But now that things are like this, I don’t know if she is willing to leave.
Jiang Shuyi covered her head and did not move, as if she wanted to suffocate herself in the quilt.
Pei Yan placed his wrinkled underwear, which he could never wear again, on the low table beside the bed, and then got on the couch.
Jiang Shuyi felt someone hugging her from behind and subconsciously tried to break free.
"Don't move."
Jiang Shuyi didn't move.
"Isn't that what you thought?" Pei Yan's gentle voice sounded beside his ears, with a hint of smile: "I can't bear to see you suffer."
Jiang Shuyi just wanted to die.
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As the army was about to set out, Pei Yan was busy for the past three days.
However, every time he left, he never forgot to place a copy of the Qingxin Sutra on the flower table facing the bed.
Jiang Shuyi: ...
She was bored and wanted to go out.
Ever since Feng Yiyue broke into the Palace of Heavenly Purity that day, Jiang Shu always asked about her and Miao Wangshu's recent situation. Fang Chu and the eunuchs of the Cheng family said that everything was fine and there was no need to worry. However, Jiang Shuyi was a little skeptical, fearing that Pei Yan had instructed them to report good news and not bad news.
After all, Pei Yan had been sleeping with me all this time and had not summoned Wen Yao. It was very likely that I had injured her face when I slapped her that day, and she completely fell out of favor because of her disfigurement.
With such a deep hatred, how could Wen Yao let it go? If she couldn't find herself to take revenge on, how could she let Wangshu Yiyue and the others go easily?
So on the third day, when Pei Yan came home late, Jiang Shuyi threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.
Pei Yan lowered his eyes, smiled and rubbed her hair: "How shameful."
Cheng Shouzhong and others lowered their heads and pretended to be dead as usual.
Jiang Shuyi didn't care about decorum or not, she raised her head and said softly, "Your Majesty, can you carry me into the inner hall?"
Looking into her dark and lustrous eyes, Pei Yan sighed helplessly and picked her up sideways.
After putting her on the bed in the inner hall, Pei Yan took the scriptures off the incense table opposite and placed them in a bookcase out of reach.
When he came back and saw Jiang Shuyi waiting for him eagerly, like a child who had been hungry all day and was waiting to be fed, he said carefully: "I have to send the army to the battle tomorrow, so I need to rest early tonight."
Disappointment suddenly appeared on Jiang Shuyi's face.
She was really disappointed. She had hoped that after sleeping with Pei Yan, she could persuade him to agree to let her secretly visit Miao Wangshu tomorrow, but it didn't work out tonight.
Pei Yan will not be blinded by lust when faced with important matters.
"I will not release the scriptures tomorrow, you...I agree."
Jiang Shuyi looked at him in confusion for a while before she understood what he meant and her face immediately turned red with shame and anger.
Who does Pei Yan think she is!
She became angry and bolder. She glared at Pei Yan, then turned over on the bed with her back facing him.
Pei Yan chuckled.
He didn't take it seriously at first, but after taking a shower and turning off the lights when going to bed, Jiang Shuyi refused to let him hug her, and Pei Yan realized that she was really angry.
"Jiang Shuyi."
Jiang Shuyi's ears twitched.
Pei Yan just called her once and said nothing else.
The hall fell into silence. Jiang Shuyi suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if there was an inexplicable sense of oppression, forcing her to ask Pei Yan what was wrong, or just snuggle into his arms.
Jiang Shuyi tried to hold back, but in the end she couldn't hold back anymore. She turned over to face Pei Yan and broke the silence angrily: "I want to become a nun!"
Pei Yan agreed in a gentle tone: "Okay, I will give orders. From tomorrow on, you are not allowed to have any meat in your meals, and you don't need to be given fancy clothes and jewelry."
Jiang Shuyi realized he was joking, so she leaned into his arms and complained aggrievedly, "Your Majesty, you don't love me anymore~"
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