Nanny Liu was almost dragged in front of the Queen by Yingxue.

"Greetings to the Queen!" Matron Liu's voice was trembling.

At this time, the sedan chair had not yet left and stopped at the gate of Zhonghe Hall. Xia Miaoyuan and the eighth prince were sitting in the sedan chair.

Xia Miaoyuan lifted the small curtain on the side curiously and looked at Madam Liu.

This nanny looked like someone who was difficult to get along with. Thinking back to the look in her eyes when she looked at the Eighth Prince at the palace banquet, she couldn't even hide her disdain.

The Eighth Prince was alone in the lilac forest, being bullied by Feng Manman and Liang Zhirou for so long, yet this nanny didn't even notice. She must have been sneaky.

As Xia Miaoyuan was thinking about this, she heard the Queen ask, "Madam Liu, the Eighth Prince left the table. Why didn't you follow him closely?"

Nanny Liu hurriedly explained, "I followed the Eighth Prince at first, but later he said he wanted to be alone for a while, so I left."

【Is this fooling a fool? 】

Even if the Eighth Prince really wanted to be alone for a while, as a personal attendant, I wouldn't be too far away.

【What's more, the Eighth Prince is just a child under six years old.】

If he were a responsible person, he would definitely stay nearby and would not go far.

If she had truly fulfilled her duties to the Eighth Prince, Eighth Brother wouldn't have suffered the fate she has today.

The queen listened to her daughter's heartfelt words and nodded secretly.

The Eighth Prince's mind flashed back to what Nanny Liu did to him after he left the table, and he bit his lip in hatred.

He took a deep breath and shouted, "You're talking nonsense!"

When Aunt Liu heard the familiar voice, her face was startled.

The eighth prince lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and walked out. His eyes on his tender little face were sharp as he stared at Madam Liu, making Madam Liu shudder.

"Mother! Madam Liu has been treating me badly ever since she came with me. She's been nicer in front of Madam Lu, but when she's away from Madam Lu, she never even looks at me kindly."

The eighth prince spoke clearly to the queen, and the queen nodded at him, indicating that he could speak freely.

"Neglect, indifference, and cold words are common."

"When I'm thirsty, I ask her for a drink of water, but she's too lazy to give it to me and just tells me to bear it."

Nanny Liu knelt on the ground and trembled. "Your Highness, the Eighth Prince, you are so young, please don't talk nonsense!"

"Empress, I am wronged!"

The Queen glared at Matron Liu fiercely, and she immediately lowered her head in fear.

Sang Qi stepped forward and unceremoniously kicked Madam Liu's buttocks, shouting, "Madam Liu, the Queen and the Eighth Prince are the masters, and you are the slave. When the masters are speaking, you have no right to interrupt!"

"Speak only when I ask you. If you don't speak up, be careful or the Queen will cut off your tongue!"

Nanny Liu nodded hurriedly.

The Queen gave the Eighth Prince a look, and he continued, "After I left the banquet today, she followed me out, but once we were outside the palace and alone, she started mocking me, saying I was a prince who had lost his power and asking me to be quiet and not cause her any more trouble."

"She said that if I caused trouble for her, she would have plenty of ways to deal with me."

"You old bastard! How despicable! You flatter the powerful and look down on the weak. How dare you treat Eighth Brother like this?"

Even if the palace people were snobbish, how could an old woman in her sixties be so cold-blooded towards a child? Xia Miaoyuan felt a tightness in his chest.

"I was already very sad when I heard about Mother's story. Hearing her say this made me even sadder..."

The eighth prince's eyes turned red again.

The Queen held the Eighth Prince in her arms with a distressed look on her face, and said softly, "My dear child, you have suffered. It is your fault."

The Queen looked at Madam Liu coldly and asked, "Madam Liu, you are not the madam that the Eighth Prince has been with since he was a child, right?"

Madam Liu said in a trembling voice, "This old servant was sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to serve the Eighth Prince a few days ago."

Hearing this, the queen suddenly realized that after Concubine Li was convicted, the nanny who used to serve the Eighth Prince must have been sent away.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a new nanny to Concubine Lu's palace to serve the Eighth Prince.

The eighth prince lost the protection of his biological mother and became a powerless master in the palace. Nanny Liu was sarcastic and snobbish, and she must be extremely unwilling to take this job.

So, he took out his anger on the Eighth Prince.

If it weren't for what Matron Liu did today, the two companions would never have had the chance to bully the Eighth Prince.

Thinking of this, the Queen said coldly: "Madame Liu committed an insubordination and failed to take good care of the prince, causing him to get into trouble."

"Give him a hundred lashes of the cane! Drive him out of the palace!"

When Madam Liu heard the punishment, she was so frightened that she cried out and fainted.

[Mother is so powerful!] Xia Miaoyuan excitedly jumped down from the sedan chair.

[After a hundred lashes, even if he doesn't die, he will be crippled! ]

[Madame Liu, this vicious old woman, truly deserves her evil deeds!]

If it weren't for the old woman's bad behavior, Xiao Ba wouldn't have been bullied by the two evil women.

After dealing with Nanny Liu, Xia Miaoyuan and the Eighth Prince got back into the sedan chair and were escorted back to Kunning Palace by Yingxue.

The queen calmed down and returned to the palace banquet.

Emperor Mingxi felt relieved when he saw the empress return.

The Duke of Protectorate Feng and Liang Chaozong and his wife secretly sent followers to search outside the palace, but there was no sign of their daughter at all. They were almost going crazy with anxiety.

The queen looked at the panicked expressions of the two families coldly and whispered a few words to Emperor Mingxi.

In the afternoon, after the palace banquet ended, the guests dispersed one after another.

Emperor Mingxi had already secretly sent a message to the Feng family and the two families of the Duke of Protector of the Country and went to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

In the main hall of the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the Duke of Huguo and his son Feng Shulai, Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse stood uneasily in the hall.

Xia Zhengqi and the queen came slowly and sat in the main seat.

The four of them saluted the emperor and empress in unison.

After the ceremony, the emperor and empress said nothing, and the hall fell into dead silence.

The four of them became even more uneasy and looked at each other, at a loss as to what to do.

They bravely raised their eyes to peek at the emperor and empress, only to see that both of them looked very ugly, especially Emperor Mingxi, whose face was frighteningly gloomy.

After a long while, the Duke of Huguo spoke first, "I wonder why the Emperor and Empress summoned us here?"

Xia Zhengqi looked at the four of them coldly and said in a deep voice, "You all came to the palace banquet today, but have you seen your families?"

When the four heard this, their hearts skipped a beat.

"My little granddaughter left the table midway and has not been found yet." The Duke of Protectorate looked solemn.

"Jinse's little daughter Zhirou left the table at the same time as the granddaughter of the Protector of the Country, and she has not been found yet." Yao Jinse's voice was timid and seemed a little pitiful.