Chen Ci took the brocade box with a smile on his face. "Your Highness has returned to the capital from Dingzhou, exhausted. I have been very rude by not preparing a generous gift to send to the Eastern Palace. I never thought that Your Highness would be so polite..."

Shen Ci's words stopped abruptly here, because she had already seen clearly what was in the box. Before she could react, Ling Shumo punched her in the right eye.

Shen Ci took a step back in panic. She looked at Ling Shumo with anger on her face, "What does your Highness mean by this? My brother...my brother, how did he become like this?"

Ling Shumo sneered, "You still have the nerve to ask me what I mean? I'm about to be wiped out of my family lineage by him."

Shen Ci's originally angry expression was completely interrupted by Ling Shumo's words "no descendants".

Everyone in the capital knew that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess was nearly 20 years old and had no daughters or sons, which made His Majesty and the Queen very worried. Anything involving the issue of the Eastern Palace's heirs was a matter of great importance to the family and the country.

Shi Qi explained, "Our virtuous prince of the Eastern Palace is already four months pregnant, but Shen Hean falsely accuses him of having an affair with someone, and uses a bowl of abortion pills to abort the 'bastard' in his belly.

Prince Xianjun begged him many times to wait until Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess returned before making a decision, but Shen Hean refused to listen and even wanted to beat Prince Xianjun to death.

The virtuous prince was now persecuted by him. Not only could he never get pregnant again, but he also ordered someone to break his lumbar vertebrae, so he would never be able to stand up in his lifetime.

Shen Hean's actions deserve death. Your Highness has come to ask for an explanation from the Shen family and General Shen.

Shen Ci's aura vanished at this moment. Knowing she was in the wrong, she put on a smile again, "Your Highness, this matter is all the fault of that bitch Shen He'an. But Shen He'an has already been executed by you. Even if I want to apologize to the virtuous prince, I can't kill him a second time."

Chen Ci's right eye was already surrounded by a bruise. Her face was filled with a smile, which made her look particularly ridiculous. "Chen He'an has harmed the health of the virtuous prince. As a sister, I have failed to educate my brother well. I really cannot deny my sin. I am willing to offer the virtuous prince five thousand taels of silver as an apology. I hope that Her Royal Highness can forgive my family."

Five thousand taels of silver was only the annual salary of a marquis. For the general's mansion, such a large amount of silver was already a huge loss.

Ling Shumo simply raised his hand and punched her in the left eye again. "I'll give you 10,000 taels of silver. I don't need you to have no descendants. I'll just break your waist. What do you think of this deal?"

After Ling Shumo finished speaking, without waiting for Shen Ci to agree or refuse, the guards who had been following her went up and controlled Shen Ci.

Ling Shumo took a small hammer and hit Shen Ci's shoulder hard. She was afraid that she would not break the bone in one hit, so she hit it several times in a row until the entire shoulder blade was broken. Only a thin layer of skin was left connecting the shoulder and arm. Then Ling Shumo threw the blood-stained hammer on the ground.

Shen Ci's face was twisted in pain, and she screamed heartbreakingly, "Your Highness, you broke my arm so openly. When I report this to His Majesty, I will definitely make you pay for it."

Shi Qi looked at Ling Shumo with great concern.

After all, Shen Ci was an official appointed by the court, and a meritorious official who had just made great military achievements. He was not like the men in the harem who could find any excuse to get away with death or life.

Ling Shumo's face showed no sign of panic. She even smiled lightly, feeling very happy. "Then you can go to the palace and file a complaint. No matter how angry the Queen Mother is, she can't kill me. But General Shen is different. You are on the rise in your official career, but you broke an arm and can no longer lift a sword. It's glorious for you to be canonized as the Great General of the Nation, but a general who can't fight on the battlefield will be torn down sooner or later."

Shen Ci's face turned pale. She knew very well that everything Ling Shumo said was true.

Ling Shumo slowly wiped the blood off her hands with a handkerchief. She said to Shi Qi, "Everything is done. You can go back to the East Palace now."

Shi Qi looked at Chen Ci twice with great hesitation before hurriedly following Ling Shumo's footsteps.

But she felt very strange in her heart.

Her Highness had made such a fuss in breaking into the General's Mansion. Based on her understanding of Her Highness, it was impossible for Her Highness to return home without causing a few murders in the General's Mansion. But now, Her Highness had only broken Shen Ci's arm, and she actually left so lightly.

As soon as Ling Shumo returned to the East Palace, she heard that General Chen Ci had entered the palace.

Not long after, the emperor asked the female official in charge to invite Ling Shumo to the palace.

Ling Shumo knelt on the white porcelain floor of the imperial study, and the emperor smashed a teacup on her forehead. "Ling Shumo, you are really lawless. Don't you know that I will hold a celebration banquet for General Shen in Changle Palace tomorrow? Now General Shen has a broken arm and his face was beaten like this by you. Do you want to cancel tomorrow's celebration banquet directly, or let Shen Ci go to Changle Palace in such a miserable state?"

The sharp porcelain fragment scratched Ling Shumo's forehead. Ling Shumo raised her hand to wipe the blood off her face. Her voice choked with sobs, she said, "I have already consulted the master of Lingyin Taoist Temple about the child that Lu Jinan is carrying. If the child is born, she will be my eldest daughter and the eldest granddaughter of the Queen Mother.

Poor son, my unborn daughter was brutally murdered by General Shen's evil, rotten-hearted brother. If this is the case, I can still sit quietly in the East Palace and not go to her general's mansion to seek justice for my eldest daughter. Am I still a human being?

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