Chapter 7 I don't want Yu'er anymore...
Cining Palace.
The young eunuch kneeling on the ground trembled as he repeated what he had heard on the long street: "...Qiu promised to say this, and I dare not add or subtract a single word."
Queen Mother Wen sat on the bed with a slightly sick look on her face. She coughed twice and looked at Pei Yan, who was still wearing his court robes. She smiled bitterly and said, "Yan'er, are you going to let me be humiliated by your favorite concubine like this?"
Pei Yan smiled slightly: "My Queen Mother, you are joking. How can Qiu be considered my favorite concubine when she first entered the palace?"
"You know very well who she relies on behind the scenes." Empress Dowager Wen couldn't help but become a little impatient.
Pei Yan took the medicine bowl from Wei Ma, lowered his eyes, and stirred it gently with a jade spoon, his tone seemed to be really puzzled: "Who is it?"
Queen Mother Wen knew that she couldn't give him a riddle, so she could only hold her breath and say bluntly: "Of course it's Concubine Jiang!"
Pei Yan smiled.
He did not raise his eyes, and said in a gentle voice: "Jiang Fei is very well-behaved, and she is not acquainted with Qiu Ying. Mother, think carefully, does this matter have anything to do with her?"
Empress Dowager Wen lost her temper and said angrily, "How can it be irrelevant? That Qiu is just a concubine. She dared not offend me even if she had two heads. She was clearly instructed by Concubine Jiang! Who is behind Concubine Jiang? Will the emperor ask me again?"
Pei Yan's smile faded slightly, he raised his narrow eyes, and asked in an ambiguous tone: "According to your guess, is there me standing behind Concubine Jiang?"
Empress Dowager Wen was choked for a moment.
She looked at her adopted son, who was as gentle as jade and as bright as the moon, and for some reason she felt timid.
Could it be that he really instructed Concubine Jiang to do it?
Empress Dowager Wen recalled that when Chen'er was alive, she was indeed extremely partial and a little too harsh on Pei Yan.
But that is also human nature. Who can treat biological children and adopted children equally?
Later, Chen'er passed away unexpectedly, leaving Pei Yan as the only son left, and he treated him like his own son...
"Yan'er, you, you..."
Empress Dowager Wen was a little speechless. She looked at Pei Yan with a hint of vigilance in her eyes that she herself did not even notice.
Pei Yan smiled again, signaled the palace servant to bring a stool, sat down beside the bed, and personally scooped a spoonful of medicine to feed it to Empress Dowager Wen's lips.
"It's time to take the medicine, mother."
Obviously, this medicine was brewed in her own palace, so there was no way it could go wrong. But for some reason, when Pei Yan fed it to Empress Dowager Wen, she felt as if there was poison in it.
She tilted her head back and stammered, "I, I don't want to take medicine now..."
Pei Yan frowned, and Queen Mother Wen felt nervous. However, he finally withdrew his hand, handed the medicine bowl back to the palace servant, and sighed softly: "Then don't drink it for now. Queen Mother knows that your son has always been very filial."
The corners of Empress Dowager Wen's mouth twitched.
"I know what the Queen Mother said about Qiu Da Ying."
Pei Yan stood up and said in a slightly serious tone: "Qiu promised to offend my mother in this way. She is really not worthy of entering the palace as a concubine. I will order her to be beaten with 20 sticks in front of everyone in the six palaces tomorrow, and then banished to the cold palace. Does my mother feel relieved?"
Empress Dowager Wen was stunned.
This punishment is really severe.
She could still survive if banished to the cold palace, but if she was beaten with twenty sticks and thrown in there again, with no one to treat her, and the wounds festering, she would probably die.
Empress Dowager Wen now felt that she had been overthinking it. Her Yan'er was indeed very filial.
She smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I've gotten my revenge. One more thing, Yao'er is my youngest niece. You need to take better care of her when she enters the palace this time. Why not tonight..."
Before Empress Dowager Wen finished her words, Eunuch Cheng suddenly came in and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, there is news from Zhaoyang Palace that Concubine Jiang is not feeling well. Your Majesty, please go and visit her."
Empress Dowager Wen was immediately furious: "You feel unwell? Yan'er is the emperor, not the imperial physician! Can you get better just by seeing her?"
Pei Yan was silent for a moment, his face darkening: "Perhaps she is seriously ill. I saw that she didn't look well last night. I still need to go and see her to feel at ease."
As he spoke, he bowed and said, "Take care of yourself, mother. I will come to visit you another day."
Empress Dowager Wen watched Pei Yan leave like this, and she was so angry that she pounded the bed and shouted to the palace servants: "Jiang Shuyi is clearly imitating me to pretend to be sick, how can Yan'er not see it!"
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When Pei Yan walked into the bedroom of Zhaoyang Palace, he smelled the bitter smell of medicine.
There was no sound behind the screen. Yuzhu came out with an empty medicine bowl. When she saw him, she knelt down immediately and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
Pei Yan glanced at the medicine bowl and asked, "What medicine is it?"
Yuzhu was worried. "It's a tranquilizer. After the queen came back from Kunning Palace, she suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. She was restless and cried and said she wanted to see Your Majesty. I sent someone to the Qianqing Palace and learned that Your Majesty was in Cining Palace taking care of the Queen Mother and should be busy for a while. So I helped the queen drink the tranquilizer. Now the queen has just fallen asleep."
Pei Yan said nothing, walked around the screen, lifted the bead curtain and walked into the inner room.
He saw a woman with her black hair dishevelled, curled up with her eyes closed, facing him on the bed with the gauze curtain half drawn. A soft silk quilt was draped over her body, revealing half of her delicate shoulders.
There were still traces of tears on her fair cheeks, her delicate eyebrows were slightly frowned, and her bare hands hung by the edge of the couch, grasping at the air, making her look like a weak lamb that had lost its way.
Pei Yan stared at her for a few moments before slowly walking over.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
The person on the bed suddenly called out uneasily, and her thick eyelashes trembled slightly.
It was as if she knew he was coming, but couldn't wake up.
Pei Yan thought for a moment, leaned down slightly, and whispered in her ear: "I am here, wake up by yourself, otherwise I will leave."
Jiang Shuyi smelled a familiar scent while half asleep and half awake, but the sedative was taking effect and she felt very sleepy and wanted to fall asleep immediately.
But she soon heard the man threatening her again.
He said he was leaving...
Jiang Shuyi felt so aggrieved, thinking back to when he first imprisoned her in Zhaoyang Palace, he said he would stay with her forever!
She was so angry that she shook off her sleepiness and opened her eyes suddenly.
What caught my eye was Pei Yan's face, which looked as handsome as a god.
A faint smile seemed to appear in his eyes, but it disappeared in an instant, and then he asked gently, "Why did you wake up?"
Jiang Shuyi stared at him blankly for a few seconds, then suddenly raised her hand and grabbed the sleeve of the robe embroidered with a golden dragon: "I just heard Your Majesty say that he was leaving."
The tone was one of righteous complaint and questioning.
Pei Yan lowered his eyes and looked at his sleeves that were held in her hand and became wrinkled, and a strange feeling flashed through his mind.
Although Jiang Shuyi was occasionally unruly in front of him, she was polite most of the time.
For example, now, she should greet him and should not be so presumptuous.
While Pei Yan was suspicious, Jiang Shuyi had already knelt up, hugged his waist tightly, buried her face in his chest, and her voice suddenly became very weak: "Don't leave, I only have Your Majesty. If Your Majesty doesn't want me anymore, then grant me death!"
There is only him.
Pei Yan hesitated for a long time whether to scold her for being insolent, but in the end, because of this sentence, he chose to indulge her.
He must have suffered some injustice in Kunning Palace, which caused him to lose his composure for a moment.
He raised his hand and gently stroked the top of Jiang Shuyi's head, soothing her gently: "When did I ever say I didn't want you? Besides, you still have Yu'er and your sister, so you shouldn't say such suicidal words."
It would have been fine if we didn't mention them. After hearing about these two people, Jiang Shuyi felt even more uncomfortable and hugged Pei Yan even tighter.
She knew that she shouldn't be willful and behave too abnormally now, so as not to arouse suspicion and maybe even lose favor.
But she couldn't help it.
In her previous life, she had a younger sister and a son, so it didn't matter if Pei Yan didn't love her that much. But in this life, Jiang Shuyi knew that her sister was heartless and her son was ruthless, and apart from Pei Yan, she had no other close relatives to rely on.
"I don't want Yu'er, nor do I want my sister anymore. Your Majesty, please love me more in the future, okay?"
After she said this with a choked voice, she couldn't help but tremble and sob.
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