Chapter 77 Flower Viewing Banquet
"Your Majesty, are you really going to drive me away?"
Jiang Shuyi looked up at Pei Yan without blinking, her round eyes clean and clear, and after the initial disbelief, they turned into a sadness that was not sure whether it was true or not.
Pei Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her for a moment, then uttered an inaudible "hmm".
Jiang Shuyi's eyelashes trembled slightly. She lay on his legs, grabbed the tassel of the brocade sachet on his waist, and played with it while saying, "Your Majesty said that I am not your concubine's plaything, but I am indeed your concubine's plaything. The day before yesterday, your Majesty was in a whim and almost tortured me to death. I couldn't help but shrink back a little and wanted to go back to the palace to hide, but after only one day, I missed your Majesty so much that I had nightmares. Today, I would rather be tortured again and come to accompany your Majesty, but your Majesty wanted to drive me away because he had enough the day before and didn't need me anymore."
There were several palace servants standing in the hall at this time, and they all gasped when they heard the words.
Is this something they can listen to?
Cheng Shouzhong subconsciously looked at Fang Chu, the meaning in his eyes was very clear, have you led the queen astray?
Fang Chu responded with a look that said, "It has nothing to do with me."
Pei Yan was silent for a long time.
After all, he still had to save some face, so he looked up at Cheng Shouzhong, who immediately understood and led all the palace servants to retreat.
When only the emperor and his concubine were left in the palace, Pei Yan looked at the innocent Jiang Shuyi and asked in a deep voice, "Are you almost broken?"
Jiang Shuyi nodded vigorously and said, "I felt sore in my waist and legs all day yesterday. I was very uncomfortable."
Pei Yan asked again: "Are you feeling better now?"
Jiang Shuyi was about to agree, but when she saw the gloom in his eyes, she had a bad feeling.
She swallowed, stood up and took two steps back, holding on to her dignity, and admonished righteously: "Your Majesty is a wise ruler, you should not indulge in beauty!"
Pei Yan looked at her expressionlessly: "Do you want to go to the inner hall by yourself, or do you want me to carry you there?"
......
Jiang Shuyi didn't know how things turned out like this.
She nestled in Pei Yan's arms, her breathing not yet completely calmed down. She bit her lips and wanted to cry but couldn't.
Pei Yan saw through what she was going to do and reminded her: "I didn't torture you this time, I just wanted to make you happy. If you cry again, I will let you cry enough."
Jiang Shuyi immediately suppressed the cry that was about to brew and looked at him guiltily.
Pei Yan really took her feelings into consideration this time. Jiang Shuyi originally thought that she would be "punished" for being jealous of him, but she didn't feel "punished" at all, only...
She was afraid that Pei Yan would not feel relieved, so she tried to cry hard.
Pei Yan gently stroked her cheek, speaking in an indulgent tone: "Except when you make me angry, when have I ever tortured you? Even if I was mad at you, I wouldn't have the heart to make you feel uncomfortable for days on end."
Jiang Shuyi hummed twice in a coquettish manner at first, then when she realized something, she became nervous again.
Pei Yan seems to be angry today too. He will not appease her first and then continue to make her feel uncomfortable in a few days!"
"So you don't have to hide from me, got it?"
Jiang Shuyi looked up suddenly and finally understood Pei Yan's intention.
He really took my words to heart and was worried that I was afraid of him and hiding from him, so he treated her like a "servant" today.
Jiang Shuyi felt a little sour in the tip of her nose. She hugged Pei Yan tightly and muttered softly, "I will not hide from Your Majesty. I like Your Majesty the most. In my heart, Concubine Miao and Concubine Feng are sisters and friends, but Your Majesty is as important to me as my father, a father who is a hundred times better than my biological father."
Pei Yan:......
"Filial piety comes first among all virtues, so in my heart, no one can surpass Your Majesty!"
Pei Yan covered her mouth: "Shut up."
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The crimes of Wen Huan and other members of the Wen family have been fully investigated.
This alone is already too numerous to list and the crime is unforgivable.
All of Wen Huan's twelve sons were sentenced to death, and the rest of his family members were sentenced to death if they were guilty, and exiled if they were innocent.
In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the flower viewing banquet.
In the past, it was presided over by the Empress Dowager and the Queen. However, now that the Empress Dowager is ill due to matters concerning her mother's family, she is unable to show up, so the Queen is the only one in charge.
Jiang Shuyi was always the center of attention at such times. The officials' wives took turns complimenting her, and all the nice words they said were never the same.
She only needed to appreciate the flowers and listen happily, bending her lips or frowning her eyebrows from time to time, and the people around her would know to change the topic and say what she liked to hear.
"Hey, isn't that the Empress's sister? What's going on?"
When Jiang Shuyi heard this, she subconsciously thought that Jiang Wanqing was making trouble again. She looked in the direction the lady pointed and found that it was her fifth sister born to her stepmother.
Her clothes were all wet. She squatted behind a cluster of peonies, sobbing.
Jiang Shuyi is five years younger than her. When Jiang Xianrong entered the Eastern Palace at the age of fourteen, she was only nine years old. The two did not have much sisterhood, but they also had no hatred.
She thought about it and walked forward with the group. When Jiang Xianrong heard the noise and raised her tearful eyes, she asked in confusion, "Why are you crying? Where is your mother?"
Jiang Xianrong was startled by them and quickly stood up. She wiped her tears and bowed, "Greetings to the Queen. I lost my mother and accidentally bumped into the Princess while looking for her. I was pushed into the lotus pond."
Jiang Shuyi looked at her, who was dripping with water from head to toe, and her face darkened.
It’s not that she has a very good relationship with Jiang Xianrong, but she is her sister after all. To use an inappropriate phrase, you have to look at the owner before beating the dog. If Jiang Xianrong is forced to appear in public with a wet body like this, she will be hit in the face.
"Which princess has such a bad temper?" Jiang Shuyi asked angrily, wanting to see if she could afford to provoke her.
Jiang Xianrong didn't recognize her either. She just heard the other party's servant call her "Her Royal Highness the Princess" and sobbed as she recalled: "She was a princess who was dressed very gorgeously, with two large golden hairpins on her head and golden gourd earrings on her ears."
Jiang Shuyi was not familiar with Pei Yan's sisters and could not tell who they were. Mrs. Guo Zhenxiong beside her smiled and said, "It must be Princess Tong'an. She loves gold the most. I went to the princess's mansion once, and the floor of the bedroom was paved with gold."
Jiang Shuyi remembered this person. She was the daughter of a concubine of the previous emperor. The reason why she remembered her among the dozen or so princesses was because she always asked Pei Yan for money.
Pei Yan never gave it to her, and always replied that the princess' salary was enough for her.
He couldn't even get the money, which showed that there was no brotherly love between them. Jiang Shuyi couldn't afford to offend him!
She first ordered Yuzhu to take Jiang Xianrong to her bedroom and change her into clean clothes, and then she led everyone to search the garden for Princess Tong'an.
Finally found it in a waterside pavilion.
Princess Tong'an was talking to several officials and their wives. When she heard the maid quietly reminding her that Concubine Jiang was coming, she raised her eyes lazily and snorted coldly, "She's here, so why should I go to greet her? I'm my brother's sister, and she's just his concubine. I'm waiting for her to come and pay her respects to me!"
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