Chapter 61 Do you have to be next to me?
Jiang Shuyi returned to the Qianqing Palace just before noon.
Pei Yan was having lunch. When he saw her coming back, he ordered the palace servants to bring another set of bowls and chopsticks. He said calmly, "I thought you would have lunch somewhere else."
Jiang Shuyi took a seat at the bottom and said, "I don't want to go anywhere else. Your Majesty, the food here is the best!"
"So it's for food." Pei Yan looked at her and said sympathetically, "I will build a small kitchen for your Zhaoyang Palace someday and send my imperial kitchen there to save you the trouble of running around."
Jiang Shuyi suddenly became aggrieved: "Your Majesty said that you would not chase me away..."
Pei Yan knew that she was just being nice, so he curled his lips slightly and said, "Enjoy your meal. I won't chase you away."
After lunch, Pei Yan still had some memorials to review, so Jiang Shuyi diligently helped him grind the ink: "Your Majesty, do you know what I have done today?"
Pei Yan felt that she had forgotten the pain after her wound healed.
When he saw that he had indulged her, he forgot about the fact that he had disturbed his official duties and was locked up in the inner hall.
He couldn't bear to make her sad, so he asked at the same time, "What did you do?"
Jiang Shuyi was very excited: "I am so powerful in Kunning Palace. I scolded Concubine Jin and Concubine Qian who wanted to take advantage of my confinement to add insult to injury. They wanted to deny it at first, but I was speechless after hearing a few words and could only admit my fault!"
Pei Yan was silent for a rare moment, wanting to say something, but in the end he praised, "Majestic."
Jiang Shuyi's words were somewhat tentative. If Pei Yan was angry, she would stop talking. If he was not angry, she would continue talking.
She had offended too many people today. Instead of letting others accuse her of being domineering in front of Pei Yan, she might as well confess it herself.
"And what about Concubine Shu? She wanted to help Concubine Jin and Concubine Qian bully me. I have the support of His Majesty, how could she bully me? I used reason and emotion to make Concubine Shu speechless. Isn't that amazing?"
Pei Yan: “…Yeah.”
Jiang Shuyi moved closer to Pei Yan and snorted softly in a delicate voice, "The Queen is the same. She doesn't care when others bully me. When I suppress others, she scolds me. I talk back to her. The Queen can't argue with her and goes back to the inner palace in anger."
Pei Yan finally stopped writing, looked up at her, and called out, "Jiang Shuyi."
Jiang Shuyi stood up straight nervously in an instant, thinking to herself that it was not good, she really pissed off Pei Yan.
However, Pei Yan just sighed and said helplessly: "You are arrogant because of your favor outside, I just pretended that I didn't know. You have to tell me this, do you want me to punish you?"
Jiang Shuyi's eyes suddenly lit up.
Does Pei Yan mean to turn a blind eye to all the bad things she did? !
She saw that Pei Yan was indeed not angry at all, and was immediately overjoyed. She put down the ink block and hugged Pei Yan, looking at him with curved eyebrows and eyes: "I like your majesty very much! So I want to tell you everything!"
Pei Yan could still accept this explanation.
He smiled and rebuked: "You always hug me, how disrespectful."
This time, Jiang Shuyi played the role of spoiled child to the fullest. Not only did she not let go, she also acted like a spoiled brat and said, "Your Majesty, please stop reviewing the memorials here and go to the low table over there. I want to rest my head on your Majesty's legs..."
Pei Yan's smile did not diminish, but his tone was somewhat indescribable: "Why do you have to stay close to me like a cat?"
Jiang Shuyi was delighted and spoke kindly to him without hesitation: "I love Your Majesty and cannot leave him for even a moment!"
Pei Yan seemed helpless and had to agree after her constant persuasion.
*
Cheng Lu handled the matter fairly well. Two days later, when Jiang Shuyi went to Kunning Palace again, she heard a commotion inside. When she went in, she saw Jiang Wanqing kneeling on the ground crying.
Queen Shen had a stern face. When she saw Jiang Shuyi slowly walking in, she immediately said unhappily, "Jiang Fei, your sister said that her food was deducted. It was all your instruction. Is she right?"
Jiang Shuyi walked to her chair and sat down, glancing at Jiang Wanqing, who lowered her head guiltily. It was unknown what she was thinking about, and she glared at her aggrievedly.
Jiang Shuyi lightly withdrew her gaze and adjusted the hairpin on her head: "If the Queen continues to interrogate me without knowing right or wrong, I will not come here again."
Queen Shen glared at her: "I can't even ask you a question now, right?"
Jiang Shuyi refused to give in: "Just ask me questions, why are you so cold-faced as if you were interrogating a thief? If Your Majesty has already determined that I was the one who did it, there is no point in me arguing!"
The concubines couldn't help but say in their hearts that the Queen never had a cold face.
Queen Shen's chest heaved with anger: "This is outrageous! If you are so disobedient to me, why did you come here!"
Jiang Shuyi changed her attitude again, sitting up straight and saying seriously: "Because your majesty is wise and kind, he taught me not to be arrogant because of your favor, and to respect you. I think it makes sense, so I will come to pay my respects to you often in the future."
Queen Shen didn't believe that His Majesty could say such a thing. Jiang Shuyi herself had nothing to do, so she thought it would be enough to piss her off.
She simply ignored Jiang Shuyi and said to Jiang Wanqing, "Why are they deducting from you? Why don't the Ministry of Internal Affairs deduct from others? Is it because you are too troublesome on a daily basis, relying on the fact that you are Concubine Jiang's sister, asking for this and that, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no choice but to deduct from your share?"
Jiang Wanqing couldn't believe what she heard.
She was shocked and said, "How could the Queen accuse me like this? I have been doing my duty since I entered the palace and have never asked for anything more..."
Concubine Rou laughed and said, "That's nonsense. The clothes you wore when you stopped me and Concubine Jiang the other day were made of material that was not suitable for someone of your position."
Jiang Wanqing immediately retorted: "That was given to me by my sister before she entered the palace!"
Concubine Rou said "Oh" meaningfully: "Empress Jiang loves you so much that she is willing to give you such good things, so how could she deduct your share?"
Unable to answer Jiang Wanqing, Miao Wangshu coughed and continued, "It's just a small amount of kindness and a small amount of hatred."
Feng Yiyue was much more straightforward, and cursed indignantly: "You ungrateful person."
Jiang Wanqing could feel the gazes of the people in the hall casting at her, either in amusement or with contempt.
Her face was burning, and she couldn't help but explain: "Sister used to be nice to me, but her attitude changed drastically after I entered the palace. That day..."
"Okay."
Queen Shen was impatient to be interrupted, frowned at Jiang Wanqing and said, "You don't seem like someone who can suffer a loss, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not deduct people's food for no reason. I know about this matter, and I will ask someone to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ask whether you have really been wronged or have other intentions."
Jiang Wanqing had never suffered such an injustice!
In the past, even if sisters had a quarrel with each other at home, they had to talk things out in front of their stepmother. Who would have thought that the queen, the master of the six palaces and the mother of the country, could say such words!
She looked at her mistress, Concubine Shu, with red eyes.
Concubine Xue shook her head. Jiang Wanqing realized that this meant that she should stop talking, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it.
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