Chapter 64 Kind Teacher and Strict Father
Jiang Shuyi quickly came back to her senses and shook her head.
"How is that possible! Your Majesty did it for me, and I still think that Your Majesty is incompetent and inhumane. Wouldn't that make me an ungrateful person?"
Because she was confused as to why he would ask such a question, her eyes widened slightly as she answered.
Pei Yan lowered his eyes and carefully studied her expression, his smile gradually deepening. Finally, he gently pinched her cheek and coaxed her, "Then don't worry about your sister. If she makes you angry again, tell me, okay?"
Jiang Shuyi nodded before she realized something. She asked in disbelief and excitement, "Your Majesty, are you really going to kill someone for me?"
In the past life, they had been together for ten years. Pei Yan had done the most unruly thing for her, but it was just to cover up her crime. How long has it been in this life? !
Pei Yan smiled without answering, turned around and walked forward.
Jiang Shuyi quickly caught up with him and tugged at his sleeve, trying to suppress the upturned corners of her lips, but she couldn't help the joy in her voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is this true? Do you love me so much now?"
Pei Yan still didn't say anything, and walked slowly with his hands behind his back.
Jiang Shuyi assumed that he had agreed, and immediately began to think: "Does that mean I can tell His Majesty whatever bad things I want to do in the future? Will Your Majesty help me? No, I don't need to do bad things. If someone bullies me, I can just tell Your Majesty!"
Pei Yan sighed: "Jiang Shuyi, do you know what it means to confess without being asked?"
Jiang Shuyi was still happy: "I don't know."
"You are confessing without being beaten." Pei Yan said in a gentle tone: "You have done a lot of bad things behind my back before."
Jiang Shuyi choked for a moment, then coughed lightly, stole a glance at Pei Yan's expression, and seeing that he was not angry, she said, "Well, it's not much... Your Majesty will not punish me, right?"
Pei Yan looked calm and said, "I didn't hear anything. If you confess again, I will punish you."
Jiang Shuyi immediately swallowed her words back.
She understood that even if Pei Yan doted on her to the point of losing his bottom line, due to his upright nature, he still couldn't bear to hear about his favoritism.
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After the emperor and his wife finished touring the Imperial Garden and returned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Cheng Shouzhong came to report: "The eldest prince is outside the palace asking to see you."
Jiang Shuyi was practicing calligraphy. Pei Yan had some free time these days, so he went back to his old job as a teacher, teaching her to read articles or asking her to copy his calligraphy.
When she heard the words "eldest prince", Jiang Shuyi paused with her pen tip, and the ink fell on the copybook, leaving a black stain.
Pei Yan took a look, and Jiang Shuyi was about to ask if she should avoid it, when she heard him say mercilessly: "This one needs to come again."
Jiang Shuyi's mouth drooped.
Pei Yan calmly said: "It was you who took the Book of Songs and begged me to read it again. I agreed, and I will be responsible for you."
Jiang Shuyi pretended to be wronged and lay on her small table: "Then Your Majesty can't be a kind teacher?"
Pei Yan was helpless: "I am already very merciful. When I was a child, I wrote badly and was punished with a stick."
Jiang Shuyi was curious: "Really? I've seen operas in which the princes made mistakes and their companions were punished instead."
"All of them were punished." Pei Yan explained gently, "Father has many children and cannot take care of them all, so he ordered the teachers to teach them strictly. Third brother was naughty. Once, Master Wei beat him until his hands were swollen and bleeding. Mother reported it to Father. Father not only did not blame Master Wei, but praised him lavishly and rewarded him with 100 taels of gold."
Jiang Shuyi looked at Pei Yan with a smile: "Then considering your Majesty's temperament, you should have never been beaten, right?"
Pei Yan smiled and said, "At that time, another teacher was jealous of Wei Taifu and wanted to imitate his behavior to please my father. However, he did not have Wei Taifu's upright and fearless heart. The princes in the harem all had biological mothers, so he did not dare to punish them too much, fearing that my father would listen to my pillow talk and find that I had no biological mother and my third brother excluded me everywhere, so he would nitpick my homework every day. After all, I was still a child and did not do it perfectly. One day, I fell asleep in class and was caught by him."
Jiang Shuyi's heart began to tense up with nervousness.
Pei Yan paused, lowered his eyes and looked at his outstretched right hand: "My hand is more seriously injured than that of my third brother. He brought me to my father to seek credit. Fortunately, my father was not stupid. He saw through his thoughts, scolded him, expelled him from the palace, and never allowed him to be a teacher to the princes again."
Jiang Shuyi felt relieved but still felt unsatisfied, so she said angrily, "Just drive him out? If it's your Majesty's child, I will do everything I can to kill this treacherous villain!"
Cheng Shouzhong's eyelids twitched when he heard this. What kind of words were these? Even if the queen dared to say it, she wouldn't dare to listen!
Pei Yan was silent for a moment, then said, "Jiang Shuyi, I know you are speaking up for me, but you can't mess up the moral principles. If you continue to talk nonsense like this, I will really punish you."
Jiang Shuyi was not afraid either. She stood up and walked to Pei Yan, grabbed his hand and kneaded it, and said sincerely: "I am distressed, so distressed that I want to be a mother. To be honest with Your Majesty, I have thought about being the mother of your aunt before."
That's what she said and what she thought.
Instead of spending all her energy raising Pei Yu, why not let Pei Yan be reborn as her son? He would be smart and filial, and she wouldn't have to worry about him for the rest of his life. Instead, she could let her aunt be reborn as her daughter, and she would be a carefree princess who would not be sold by her parents and would not suffer the torture of being a concubine.
Pei Yan: "...Please sit back down. I will let Pei Yi in."
Jiang Shuyi then remembered that there was someone outside.
It was this prince who fought with her to the end in her previous life. Jiang Shuyi had always thought that he was naughty and mischievous and not worth worrying about. However, since the death of Concubine Xue Shufei, Pei Yi's personality changed. He became extremely patient and could show respect towards her, the tacit enemy who killed his mother. No matter how she provoked him, he would accept it and not disobey her at all.
As a result, Jiang Shuyi had nothing to say when she wanted to complain to Pei Yan. She could only make false accusations out of thin air. She was afraid of being exposed, but she couldn't make too many false accusations.
When she died in the end, Pei Yi was still alive. After Jiang Wanqing went mad and strangled her, it was not known whether she also killed Pei Yu. If she did, Pei Yi, as the only prince, really survived.
Jiang Shuyi's desk was a little shorter, and was below Pei Yidonggang. When Pei Yi was brought in and was about to pay his respects, he was stunned when he saw her.
Pei Yan asked him, "Where are your manners?"
Different from his kindness towards his concubines and officials, Pei Yan was very strict with his offspring, both in his past and present lives, and never smiled at them.
Jiang Shuyi saw Pei Yi was frightened by his father's expressionless face. He quickly knelt down and respectfully greeted Pei Yan. Then he looked at her and timidly whispered, "Greetings to Concubine Jiang."
In her previous life, Jiang Shuyi was hostile to him because she wanted to win the throne for her son. Now, she thinks he is nothing special, but he is the son of her enemy, so she cannot like him.
Pei Yan asked again: "What are you doing here?"
Pei Yi's eyes turned red when he heard this. He pinched the corner of his clothes and whispered, "I don't want to move to Wenhua Palace. I beg you not to let me leave my mother..."
Jiang Shuyi immediately looked at Pei Yan, observing whether he had any mercy.
Pei Yan did not comment, but just looked at Pei Yi: "Did your mother ask you to come, or do you want to disobey my order?"
Pei Yi dared not say that he wanted to disobey his father and admit that it was his mother who instigated him. But when the words came to his lips, he thought that his father might punish his mother again, so he quickly swallowed them back.
Intimidated by his father's gaze, Pei Yi was in a dilemma, not knowing what to answer. He could not help but tremble. After hearing the sound of his father slamming the table, he was so frightened that he opened his mouth and started crying.
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