Chapter 86 From then on, the king no longer held court early

Not long after lunch on the second day, Roufeng carefully entered the room carrying a cup of cold tea. Xi Helan lay leisurely on the beauty couch with her eyes closed. Two little palace maids knelt beside her, first applying ointment on her swollen cheeks, and then gently rubbing the ointment with peeled eggs.

Roufeng glanced at the palace clock on the table beside her, put the cold tea on the small table next to Xi Helan, and said softly: "Master, yesterday Concubine Gao asked you to go to Changle Palace in the afternoon..."

Xi Helan felt hateful when she thought of this. She opened her eyes with a "swish". Her gaze was as sharp as a knife and shot straight at Roufeng with extreme coldness. She stretched out her hand and swept the teacup on the table to the ground. It broke into pieces with a "bang", and the cold tea splashed all over Roufeng.

The two little palace maids were so frightened that they trembled all over. They knelt on the ground and held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

"I said I won't go, do you not understand or are you deaf!" Xi Helan said fiercely, pulling the wound at the corner of her mouth. She couldn't help but hissed, covered her cheek and gritted her teeth, "I don't believe that there is no law in this harem."

After that, she turned to look at Roufeng and asked coldly, "I asked you to send someone to secretly deliver a letter to the emperor, the queen, and the queen mother. How is it going?"

"I sent people out early in the morning, but there is still no news..." Roufeng nodded when she heard that. Halfway through her words, she secretly looked up at Xi Helan's face and stammered anxiously, "Master, the noble concubine Gao in the harem is not afraid to touch the empress dowager, the queen and the emperor. She can be said to be able to cover the sky with one hand. In addition, the noble concubine Gao's father and brother are the emperor's capable men. She has always been willful and reckless in the harem. Although she has been somewhat restrained because of General Gao's handover of power, it is not very rational for you to confront the noble concubine directly."

Especially with your status and family background, they are not worth mentioning at all, Roufeng added slowly in her heart.

"How dare you, you dog slave, teach me a lesson? Who gave you the courage?" Xi Helan was so angry that she stared at Roufeng's eyes and said fiercely, "Gao Baoxi is just a social scum who bullies others by taking advantage of her power. The more you are afraid of her and the more you are wary of her, the more you are indulging her in being more domineering and arrogant. Don't compare me with those stupid women in the harem who dare not speak out. They don't dare to report her, but I do! This time, I will make her pay the price!"

"My lord, what everyone is afraid of is not Concubine Gao, but..." The Gao family and the emperor who are backing her up behind the scenes.

Seeing her usually calm and rational master become so radical and angry, Roufeng anxiously crawled to Xihelan on her knees, grabbed her clothes and tried to persuade her to think twice. However, Xihelan was so angry that she could not listen to anything. She just kicked Roufeng away and interrupted coldly: "Get out of here, I don't want to see you now!"

The kick hit Roufeng's chest hard, and she instantly became mute and her face turned pale. Hearing Xi Helan's cold voice, she covered her aching chest and barely got up and retreated.

After Roufeng disappeared, Xihelan closed her eyes and lay back on the couch. The two little palace maids hurriedly stood up tremblingly and continued to massage.

Xi Helan fell asleep in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly heard a bustling noise coming from the courtyard. She frowned slightly and opened her eyes. She ordered the maid beside her in an impatient and cold voice, "Go and see what's going on. Who is making so much noise outside?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a few strange servants pushing and shoving several palace maids from her palace. She was startled and immediately sat up straight, staring at the servants and said coldly: "Who are you? How dare you trespass into Xilan Palace? Let my people go, otherwise-"

"What else, Lady Lan?" Just then, a familiar and arrogant voice came from outside the house.

Xi Helan turned her head to look at the person who came in. It was Xiangtan, the senior palace maid beside Gao Baoxi. She walked in leisurely with a sneer on her face: "Lady Lan, you are so brave that you dare to challenge my queen's bottom line. I think you are tired of living!"

As she spoke, she glanced at the palace maids kneeling on the ground, and kicked one of them to the ground at Xi Helan's feet. She continued arrogantly, "I tell you, in this harem, as long as my queen doesn't allow it, none of your dog slaves will be able to pass on the news."

Xi Helan was so angry that her whole body was shaking. Her almond-shaped eyes were full of hatred. She narrowed her eyes, emphasized her tone to give herself courage, and scolded in a stern voice: "You are just a little palace maid. Even if you serve the imperial concubine, you are at most a powerful watchdog. I am the noble lady Lan, who was personally appointed by the emperor. I am the master of Xilan Palace. So who gave you the qualifications? How dare you, a servant, come to me and boss me around?"

Xiangtan was filled with rage. She was indeed just a palace maid, but everyone in the harem gave her some respect. Even the concubines would flatter her by calling her "Miss Xiangtan". But this little foreign nobleman who had no favor and no background dared to insult her and call her a watchdog!

She couldn't swallow this humiliation. If she, Xiangtan, didn't teach this foreign princess a lesson, wouldn't anyone in the harem dare to trample on her in the future?

Xiangtan's lips curled up into a cold smile, with a chilling light in his eyes: "It seems that the ten slaps yesterday were too light. Lady Lan has not learned to control her mouth."

As she said that, she asked the old woman to grab Xi Helan from the couch and bring her in front of her. She clamped her arms tightly and tried to force her to kneel on the ground. Xi Helan struggled hard, standing straight with her feet and refusing to obey. The old woman gritted her teeth and kicked her knees hard twice. Her legs went numb and she knelt down with a plop.

Xiangtan smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to grab her hair and pulled it hard, saying: "Oh my, Lady Lan, why are you kneeling down to a servant like me? I am so embarrassed."

Xi Helan's scalp was numb with pain and she was so angry that she wanted to cut off the hand that was holding her hair with a knife.

Bitch! How dare such a slave, who is worse than pigs and dogs, treat her like this!

An uncontrollable rage surged up from Xi Helan's heart. She stared at Xiang Tan viciously with her red eyes, as if she was going to eat her the next moment. She gritted her teeth hard, and a broken voice came out from between her teeth: "Hello, you are fine."

"Still being stubborn." Xiangtan smiled coldly, raised his hand and slapped her a dozen times, only stopping when she felt dizzy and tears were streaming. He turned his head to look at the maids and said, "Go ahead, do it, do you remember what the queen asked you to do?"

A maid brought an embroidered stool from the side and said with a smile: "Miss Xiangtan, please sit down, and leave the rest to us. This cold palace has been for decades, and we have countless ways to torture people. We guarantee that not even a trace will be left." After that, she smiled and said, "Just ask Miss Xiangtan to say a few good words to the maids in front of the imperial concubine."

Xiangtan raised his eyebrows proudly and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely get some benefits after this is done."

Then, a shrill humming sound was heard from the inner room of the bedroom of Xilan Palace. The sound was muffled but like deafening thunder, striking heavily on everyone's heart, making them shudder and break out in cold sweats. The hairs all over their bodies stood up and went straight to their foreheads. It was really terrifying.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiangtan finally left with his men in a grand manner. Before leaving, he specifically instructed Roufeng to take good care of Concubine Lan and remember to report to Changle Palace in five days.

Roufeng responded tremblingly. After the people disappeared, she hurriedly took a few palace maids to the inner room. As soon as they entered the room, they were so scared that their legs almost went weak, and they walked over tremblingly.

In the inner room, Xi Helan was breathing out more than breathing in, and was tied to a wooden chair, dying. Beside her was a basin of water and a thick pile of sorghum paper, and the ground was also covered with wet sorghum paper. She looked at the roof with lifeless eyes, and her pretty face was wet and full of deathly paleness. She was only wearing a bellyband and underpants, and her exposed skin was covered with a layer of shiny honey. If you look closely, you will find that the ground and the legs of the chair are covered with dense ants.

Roufeng covered her mouth and almost couldn't help vomiting. Such a cruel punishment was actually used.

One of these two punishments is called "Gai Bo", which means first covering the person's face with a piece of paper and then wet it, making it stick tightly to the face, and then sticking another wet piece of paper on the face, one after another, until the person suffocates to death. The other is called "Yit Bite", which is to cover the person's body with honey, and then pour ants and other sweet-loving insects on the person and let them gnaw on the person. Some even drill into the body through the ears, nose and other places, causing extremely itchy and uncomfortable until the person is devoured by the ants and ants to death.

It's creepy and sends chills down my spine.

Roufeng had always known about these two punishments, but this was the first time she had seen them with her own eyes. This scene made her scalp tingle and she felt like vomiting.

She glanced at her lifeless master, suppressed the discomfort in her heart, stepped forward to untie the rope, and ordered the palace maid to prepare water for Xi Helan to bathe. Xi Helan let Roufeng move around like a corpse.

This matter quickly spread to the ears of the concubines in the palaces. Everyone was terrified after hearing it. They had always known that Concubine Gao was arrogant and domineering, doing whatever she wanted, but they didn't expect her to be so bold. It was really chilling.

The most important thing is, they all knew about this, how could the emperor, the empress and the queen mother not know about it?

It seems that Concubine Gao's tyranny and cruelty are still within the range that those in power can tolerate.

Everyone thought so, but they didn't know that the empress dowager was fasting and chanting Buddhist scriptures all day long, and didn't care about worldly affairs. This shocking news was blocked by someone. Jiang Zhen originally wanted to take care of it, but when he thought of the emperor's instructions to him yesterday, he finally chose to turn a deaf ear and dumb. As for Xie Fei, he hoped that Gao Baoxi and Xi Helan would fight each other so that he could benefit from it, so he was happy to pretend that he didn't know.

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In the past five days, Xi Helan has become silent. Apart from eating and sleeping, she stays in her bedroom alone in a daze. Roufeng is worried that she is mentally traumatized, so she specially asks the imperial physician for a consultation. The imperial physician only says that she is too frightened and asks her to take good care of herself.

After taking the medicine for three days, Xi Helan felt much better. On the sixth day, after lunch, she took two palace maids, Roufeng and Wenqing, to Changle Palace. The imperial concubine did not see her at all and only asked Xiangtan to receive her.

Xiangtan looked at her pale little face and smiled triumphantly. He ordered people to prepare ice cubes and other things in the yard, and let her stand in the sun to make 300 servings of shaved ice.

Xi Helan agreed obediently. The sun was shining brightly in the afternoon. The scorching sun baked her skin, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down her forehead continuously.

Roufeng stood beside her and looked at her with heartache, but Xihelan seemed to be unable to feel her gaze and just numbly knocked on the ice with the tool.

However, no one knew that beneath her numb expression, there was deep hatred flowing in her eyes.

A servant woman! Sandalwood! Gao Baoxi!

She will not let any of those who bullied her go!

The author has something to say: ??Xi Helan: I will not let you go even if I become a ghost!

Xie Fei: You are not welcome in my underworld:)

(I finally caught up with it in the last minute, and almost didn’t get the little red flower~~~)