Chapter 131: Back Road
Pei Yan kept his word and did not chase her away. He just let her sit on him and continued to review the memorials.
Jiang Shuyi pretended to cry for a while, but then she felt bored and slowly stopped.
"Is this true? Your Majesty is not so cruel, is he?"
She began to show some signs of giving in. She raised her face from Pei Yan's arms and looked at him pitifully with tears in her eyes.
Pei Yan read the memorial seriously and ignored her.
Jiang Shuyi rubbed her lips, choked with sobs and whispered: "I was wrong. Your Majesty is unparalleled in his heroic spirit and has extraordinary talents. I will not talk nonsense next time."
Pei Yan's expression remained unchanged: "Well, I have to finish the punishment this time."
Jiang Shuyi felt very aggrieved: "How could your Majesty be willing to do this? Your Majesty must not like me."
Pei Yan interrupted her mercilessly before she could finish her words: "If you keep talking nonsense like this, I'll add another day."
Jiang Shuyi first tried to pester him, but when she realized it was useless, she became unhappy: "Okay, I was planning to go to Zhaoyang Palace tonight to sleep. I was worried that Your Majesty would miss me, but now that Your Majesty has said so, I can rest assured and will not come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!"
Pei Yan paused and finally looked at her: "Why do you want to go back to Zhaoyang Palace?"
Jiang Shuyi fiddled with his tangled collar: "I want to see if the little ghost will still have nightmares after being chopped to death by me. If he still has nightmares after leaving Your Majesty, then the Taoist priest is a fraud!"
Pei Yan felt a little relieved. At least Jiang Shuyi wasn't so stupid that she would realize belatedly that she had been deceived.
"If that's the case, I will definitely bring him into the palace, have him beaten up first, and then force him to catch the ghost himself!"
Pei Yan:......
After realizing they have been cheated, they will take the initiative to be cheated again.
Pei Yan had been very busy with government affairs recently, so he did not stop Jiang Shuyi from staying in Zhaoyang Palace for one night. He only instructed Fang Chu that if Jiang Shuyi woke up in the middle of the night again, she should be brought to the Qianqing Palace immediately.
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In a blink of an eye, the night deepened.
Jiang Shuyi only ate half a bowl of lotus seed and lily porridge in the evening, and then dismissed the palace servants, leaving only Yuzhu and Fangchu.
She first took Fangchu's hand and asked sincerely, "Do you still need to report to His Majesty what I am doing now?"
Fang Chu smiled helplessly: "If your majesty asks, I will not dare to lie to you."
Jiang Shuyi bit her lip, pinched her hand and shook it, saying softly: "Is it not okay for me to be nice to you? Sister, you obviously helped me today..."
Fang Chu finally understood why His Majesty doted on the Queen so much. Even as a woman, she couldn't stand it when such a beautiful woman was being so soft and coquettish.
"Don't worry, Madam. I know my limits." Fang Chu comforted her and then said, "But His Majesty is sincere to you. If there are any problems that are difficult to solve, I think it's okay to tell His Majesty."
Jiang Shuyi knew that Pei Yan treated her sincerely, so she couldn't speak her pain.
She already believed 99% of what Wu Jianshan said, but if she told Pei Yan, he would either not believe it and think that Taoist Wu had ulterior motives and would throw him to the Ministry of Justice and beat him to death; or even if he believed it, he would never allow her to leave and would only lock her up in the Palace of Heavenly Purity and keep her under strict guard, and then plan how to leave her a way out after his early death.
Jiang Shuyi felt uncomfortable when she thought of this. She nodded twice perfunctorily and asked Fang Chu, "What do you want? You are so good to me, I will reward you."
Fang Chu hesitated for a moment, then knelt down in front of Jiang Shuyi and said, "My lady, I want to leave the palace."
Jiang Shuyi was surprised: "You have such a high status in the palace, almost on par with Cheng Shouzhong. In two years, His Majesty and I will definitely find a good marriage for you. Why are you thinking of leaving the palace now?"
But she doesn't want to marry a man here.
Fang Chu knew that the Empress could not understand. In the eyes of the Empress, it was a great blessing for her, a daughter of a commoner, to become a maid in the imperial court and to have her arranged marriage by the Emperor. There was nothing wrong with this, it was just the limitation of the times.
"To be honest with you, Your Majesty, my family used to make a living by selling spices, and I love this business. My lifelong wish is to open a spice shop and become the shopkeeper. Previously, my parents forced me to marry a man of bad character, so I entered the palace to avoid it. Now that I have Your Majesty's support, I want to leave the palace and fulfill my long-cherished wish."
Jiang Shuyi understood that everyone has their own aspirations and that they cannot be forced: "Okay, I will mention it to His Majesty."
If she really wanted to leave, she would arrange an escape route for the two maids before leaving.
Jiang Shuyi helped Fangchu up and looked at Yuzhu again: "She is about to leave the palace. I beg one of them, and I beg both of them. Why don't you leave the palace like her? I will find a good husband for you, give you money, and be yours..."
She couldn't say the word "backer" because she might not be able to protect her anymore, so she changed her words and said, "You and Fangchu are both in the capital, so you can have someone to look after you."
Yuzhu heard something was wrong, and immediately knelt down, grabbed the hem of the queen's skirt, and looked up in panic: "My queen, did I do something wrong? Why did you suddenly want to chase me away?"
Jiang Shuyi smiled: "You are very good. I was thinking that since you will have to leave the palace sooner or later, it is better to leave earlier. Isn't it a good thing to serve fewer people for a few years?"
Yuzhu usually kept her emotions to herself, but now she panicked and shook her head with tears in her eyes: "No, I am a servant of the Jiang family. I was born to serve others, and my children should also serve others. If the queen doesn't let me serve, I don't know how to live at all..."
"Nonsense." Jiang Shuyi scolded her, feeling a little sour in her chest.
Yes, unlike Fangchu who grew up in the market, Yuzhu was born in the Jiang Mansion. Her parents were also slaves in the Jiang Mansion. If Jiang Shuyi had not entered the palace, she should have married a boy with good character and good looks when she was old enough, and the child she gave birth to would still be working in the Jiang Mansion. Such a life would be unbearable for an ambitious person like Jinzhu, but for an indifferent person like Yuzhu, it was peaceful and stable.
After all, the current emperor is kind and merciful, and my father, who prides himself on being upright, follows suit and is very lenient to the servants in the household, never beating or scolding them.
If she gets married, she will be free again, but if her husband is not good enough and squanders all the dowry she gave to Yuzhu, Jiang Shuyi will not be around and there will be no one to support Yuzhu. How will she survive?
Jiang Shuyi didn't know what way out she should come up with for Yuzhu.
When I looked up, I suddenly remembered the evil deeds that I had long forgotten.
"Yuzhu, go and serve the little prince."
Jiang Shuyi's eyes sparkled: "Remember to coax him, be gentle and kind, and then persuade him to be a good person from time to time."
Pei Yu was the most susceptible to this. In his previous life, he was completely bewitched by his "kind" aunt.
Yuzhu burst into tears: "Why did the queen suddenly not want me......"
If Her Majesty has to ask her to take care of the little prince, Yuzhu will have no choice but to do so. But the little prince is obviously fine and Her Majesty doesn't like him.
Jiang Shuyi sighed, "I hate him, but after all, I gave birth to him, and I can't suffer in vain without any reward. If you can win his heart, he will be filial to me for your sake. If it's someone else, I won't feel at ease!"
Even though Yuzhu felt something was wrong, she still kowtowed with tears in her eyes: "I will remember your majesty's orders."
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