Chapter 66 My Sister is Cowardly
In the first month of the seventh year of Zhaoqing, it snowed heavily in Chang'an.
Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest.
Many people said that the snow was good.
Pei Shu also thought that the snow was falling at great convenience, as it could just cover the bloodstains in the yard.
In Minghui Palace, Pei Shu and Dongyue were drinking warm wine in the bedroom.
Both of their hands were frozen blue.
There's no other way. It's going to be hard to bury the body and deal with the blood in such cold weather.
The two of them were busy for a long time, cleaning everything up, changing clothes, and finally they were able to sit down and drink tea.
The master and servant looked calm as if nothing had happened before, and they were just enjoying the snow in the hall.
Dongyue held a bowl of warm wine and kept looking at Pei Shu.
She never knew that Pei Shu, who looked weak and gentle, could kill people so steadily.
Dongyue thought Pei Shu would at least ask her in surprise how she knew martial arts.
But Pei Shu's first words were to calmly instruct her:
"First, hide the body in the wine cellar in the backyard so no one sees it."
Dongyue had been in Minghui Palace for half a year. She only knew that there was a deep pit under the old locust tree where many boxes were buried. She had no idea that there was a wine cellar under the corner of the backyard wall.
The wine cellar was actually just a very large and deep pit, and there were actually two jars of wine in it.
Dongyue took out the wine, buried the body, and covered it tightly with soil.
The wine was locust flower wine brewed by Pei Shu herself. It tasted sweet and had the fragrance of locust flowers.
The master and servant drank a glass of wine.
Dongyue spoke first:
"Did your Majesty know that I knew Kung Fu?"
Pei Shu leaned against the table on the couch, her cheeks flushed from drinking.
"You are very strong, and you walk very fast without making any sound, and—"
Dongyue: “And what?”
Pei Shu lowered her head and touched Chujiu, then laughed:
"And I clearly deliberately made you do a lot of work, but you didn't shirk at all and even came up to me."
Dong Yue: "Then why didn't your Majesty kill me? Aren't you afraid that I'm a spy sent by another palace?"
Pei Shu: "I tried you, but you don't know it."
Pei Shu hugged Chujiu again:
"Now you can tell me, who sent you to protect us mother and child?"
Dong Yue put down the wine in his hand, walked to Pei Shu's bed and knelt down, looking solemn:
"It was Miss Pei Er who sent me into the palace."
Pei Shu raised her eyelashes: "Xuan'er?"
"Miss Pei is my benefactor. When I was young, my family suffered misfortune and was harmed by evil people. The government stood by and watched, and the neighbors dared not help. It was a benefactor who passed by and took me in and avenged me."
"I am willing to work like a slave to repay this kindness."
Dongyue clasped his hands in front of him, recalling the scene from several years ago.
She remembered that winter, she wiped her tears and said to Pei Xuan that she was willing to work like a slave.
Pei Xuan smiled and wiped her tears, saying to her:
"With your tiny body, why would you be a beast of burden? You'd be better off being a mouse."
After the funny thing, Pei Xuan looked a little lonely again:
"If you really want to repay me, you can do me a favor."
"What's up?"
"My sister is married to a powerful man. I'm worried about her, but I can't see her. If you can go and take care of her, at least she'll have someone she can trust."
Dongyue was young at that time and was very confused when she heard:
"Your sister married into a powerful family. Isn't that a good thing? What's there to worry about?"
The moon was bright that night, casting a soft glow on Pei Xuan's face.
Dongyue clearly saw that the female hero who helped her kill her enemy in broad daylight had red eyes.
"My sister smiled on her wedding day, but I know she cried every night before her wedding.
My sister is good at music, chess, poetry, and painting, but she's more timid than me. So at that time, I would always cling to her to sleep with me every night, so that she could hug me if she wanted to cry at night.
"After she got married, we couldn't see her anymore. If she hid and cried at night, I couldn't hug her."
"You are a bit like me when we were little. If you are willing to go to my sister and keep her company, and if you see her crying at night, you can help me hold her."
Dong Yue nodded vigorously: "I am willing to help you hold your sister."
Later, Dongyue found out that the powerful husband's family that Pei Xuan mentioned was actually the emperor's family.
Dongyue was sent to the palace and started as a lowly maid, and had no contact with the favored Concubine Hui.
Not to mention hugging someone and crying at night.
Dongyue waited patiently for an opportunity, and this wait lasted for several years.
During these few years, Pei Shu went from being a favorite concubine to an ignored imperial concubine.
It is far away from the emperor, but much closer to little palace maids like Dongyue.
Everyone else avoided the tasks in Minghui Palace, but Dongyue stepped forward and took the initiative to tell the nanny in charge that she was willing to serve.
However, after Dongyue came to Minghui Palace, she never saw Pei Shu cry. She was not at all like what Pei Xuan had described.
She even suspected that she had the wrong person.
But today, when Dong Yue saw the decisiveness in Pei Shu's eyes when she killed someone, she vaguely saw Pei Xuan's temperament many years ago.
"knew."
Pei Shu's voice still sounded calm.
But her hand that was caressing Chujiu was shaking uncontrollably.
She knew that Dongyue was telling the truth.
Her younger sister, who has been carefree since childhood, is actually the most delicate and soft-hearted child in the family.
Before entering the palace, she cried every night, but halfway through her crying, Xuan'er would hold a pillow and knock on her door:
"Sister, I want to sleep with you."
Xuan'er would squeeze into her quilt and pester her to tell stories.
Xuan'er's hands and feet were very warm, and she clung to her like a spoiled child and said:
"I serve as a warm stove for my elder sister, and she tells me stories."
"good."
Pei Shu was telling a story to her sister, and her sister fell asleep, and she started to cry.
Then she hugged her sister's warm body and sobbed softly.
On so many cold nights, her tears flowed like a river, but there was a ray of sunshine in her arms.
She thought her sister didn't know.
But it turned out that Xuan'er knew everything, and even wanted to send someone to her so long ago.
Pei Shu's eye sockets were swollen and painful, as if a flood had accumulated.
But she no longer cries.
Tears are useless in this quagmire-like palace.
Pei Shu raised her white neck and smiled slowly at Dong Yue:
"Dongyue, my sister has loved playing with fire and watching fireworks since she was a child."
"Tonight, we're going to have a fireworks display."
That night.
A big fire broke out in the side hall of Myeonghye Palace.
The fire was blazing.
It was said that the foolish Pei Shu and her son were playing with fireworks in the palace and burned down the side hall.
Fortunately, the mother and son were not hurt.
The only one who did not escape was the eunuch Xiao Quanzi.
They were all burned to charred corpses in the fire.
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