Xie Junxi immediately acted like a spoiled child: "It's still my mother who loves me."

"Why, I don't love you?"

Xiao Yan was peeling grapes and talking at the same time.

Xie Junxi rolled his eyes. "Why are you feeling sorry for me? If you felt sorry for me, you should have taught those nagging old men in Chao a lesson. They're always looking at me with bad intentions. If everyone hadn't said that our eyes look alike, I'd have doubted whether I was your son at all."

"What nonsense." Tang Ning reached out and patted her.

Xiao Yan wasn't annoyed. He simply placed the peeled grapes in a white porcelain lotus cup and said calmly, "What do you know? I'm just training you."

Xie Junxi rolled his eyes without hesitation and sneered at his father's words.

Isn't it because she secretly took her mother out of the palace to play for three months last year without him? She just took her mother to have a drink, watch the young men dancing, and was taken by her great aunt to appreciate the handsome men in Zuozhou, but her father has been holding a grudge against her until now.

Not only did she try every possible way to trip up her great aunt, but now she was even deliberately making fun of her.

Miser!

A vengeful person!

snort!

Tang Ning felt a bit amused and helpless when he saw the father and daughter couldn't stand each other. It was obvious that when Xiao Yan was a child, he liked to hold A Yao and coax her as his darling, and A Yao was also very attached to him as her father, but why did they become "incompatible" now that they grew up?

The palace maid brought some water. Xie Junxi took a handkerchief to wash his face, and then drank a bowl of sour plum soup. Only then did the heat on his face subside and his face regain its former fair complexion.

Tang Ning saw her put down the bowl and said, "Your father and I heard that you beat and killed two servants today? And you also gave that kid from the Cao family two whips?"

Xie Junxi said calmly, "They have evil intentions and deserve to be killed. As for Cao Yu, I not only gave him two lashes, but he will also be beaten when he returns. With Master's temper, he will probably break his legs."

The two servants were serving in her palace. They accepted favors from others and kept telling her that her younger brother would take away her current honor after he was born, that her father would favor the prince and take back his preferential treatment for her, and that her younger brother would not be able to tolerate her when he grew up, and that there would be no place for her in the court.

He has evil intentions and sows discord, so he deserves to be killed.

That Cao Yu was an even more foolish guy. He was instigated by someone to come and tell her to find a way to abort the queen's fetus before her brother was born, and he even told her in a sly way that the Cao family could help her.

She only gave him two lashes, which was already a bargain for him.

If he hadn't known that the other people in the Cao family didn't have such thoughts, and was afraid that Cao Yu's words would get out and implicate his master, his fate today would not be any better than those two servants.

Xie Junxi whipped Cao Yu so hard that blood came out of his mouth. Afterwards, she asked her eunuch to take someone to personally send the unconscious Cao Yu back to the Cao family, and told his master Cao Dejiang everything he said without missing a word.

I guess Cao Yu is either dead or half-crippled by now.

Xiao Yan laughed upon hearing this and said, "You are quite decisive. I was worried that you would be soft-hearted. You killed the chicken to scare the monkey today, and those voices will be quieter in the future."

"What needs to be said must be said. Some people only remember the food and not the beating."

Xie Junxi curled his lips and said, "Those old-fashioned people in the court have always been dissatisfied with your valuing of me. If it hadn't hurt them, they would have insisted on you adopting their son. Now that we finally have another prince, it would be strange if they would just stop."

"As for those relatives and princes who were hoping that you would change your mind one day, there is no hope now. How can they expect us to be quiet?"

Ever since the news of the Queen Mother's pregnancy came out, she has been listening to eight hundred rounds of sowing discord in a day. Now that the outside world doesn't even know the gender of the fetus in her belly, she can't stand it anymore. Once the baby is born, you can imagine how "lively" it will be.

As Xie Junxi spoke, he couldn't help but glare at his father. "Come on, what are you doing? Can't you be more careful? You could have had your brother a few years earlier or later, but you had to choose this time."