When the Eighth Prince reached this point, his tone was already very difficult, he choked and could not continue.
Xia Miaoyuan's mind flashed with the image of the two vicious women insulting the Eighth Prince while stabbing him with hairpins, and his heart ached.
Her hands trembled slightly as she walked up to the Eighth Prince and looked him over.
"Eighth brother, did they prick you?"
"Where is it stuck? Tell me!"
The Eighth Prince choked and said, "The back..."
At this moment, the queen felt a chill down her spine. Although there were many dirty ways to punish people in the palace, this was the first time in her life that she had seen such a young girl using such vicious means to bully a five-year-old child.
Xia Miaoyuan tried to unbutton the eighth prince's clothes with shaking hands, but because he was too excited, he didn't even unbutton the clothes. The queen also walked up to the eighth prince and unbuttoned his clothes with her own hands.
The eighth prince's outer robe was taken off, and the queen immediately asked him to turn around.
Xia Miaoyuan was stunned by the horrifying scene before him.
I saw that the originally white inner garment was now stained with blood.
Although each bloodstain was small in size, there were dozens of them on the back, densely packed together, which was quite shocking.
"You!" The queen pointed at the two companions with gritted teeth, her eyes seemed to be able to spit fire.
When Liang Zhirou and Feng Manman saw that their crime was exposed, they were so frightened that they trembled all over and lowered their heads.
[Oh my god, oh my god, Xiao Ba is injured so badly! ]
[Are you still human? Calling you beasts is an insult to animals.]
[You two are bad guys! Born bad guys!]
Xia Miaoyuan was both distressed and angry, and tears were already streaming down her face.
"Eighth brother, where else, where else?"
The Eighth Prince whispered, "And the thighs, and the stomach, they kicked..."
Upon hearing this, the Queen immediately ordered Nanny Li to carry the Eighth Prince to the inner room to help check him.
After a while, Nanny Li finished the examination and came out with red eyes.
"Your Majesty, I've checked. The Eighth Prince has bruises of all sizes on his stomach, buttocks, and thighs! There are at least a dozen! They must have been caused by being kicked."
Nanny Li's voice trembled a little, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Nanny Li was a middle-aged woman who loved children very much. She hated to see children suffer. Now, seeing the Eighth Prince being bullied to this extent, she felt very sad.
The queen felt her heart pounding like thunder and her face flushed. "How dare you!"
"Bullying the prince and abusing the dragon heir!"
"How dare you talk nonsense about the harem!"
Liang Zhirou and Feng Manman were already shaking with fear.
They never expected that things would turn out like this.
At the palace banquet today, the Emperor announced the affairs of the Empress Dowager and Lipin. They heard their family members discussing it secretly and speculated that Lipin's failure had implicated the Empress Dowager in spreading rumors, which led to this outcome.
Both families relied on the Empress Dowager in the palace. Now that the Empress Dowager was completely imprisoned, not only did they lose a support, but they were also likely to be affected by it.
Therefore, Liang Zhirou and Feng Manman hated Concubine Li very much. Now that Concubine Li was sent to the cold palace, they took out their anger on the Eighth Prince.
I originally thought that I could take advantage of the fact that the Eighth Prince was alone and give him a good beating to vent my anger, and then scare him again so that he wouldn't dare to say anything.
Furthermore, the Eighth Prince has lost his power now, and even the maids who serve him order him around and don't care about him. Even if the Eighth Prince has the courage to complain, he will have nowhere to turn to.
They never expected that the three-and-a-half-year-old Princess Anguo and the kind-hearted queen would support the eighth prince so much.
The direction of things was getting further and further away from their expectations, so far that it frightened them.
The Queen shouted, "Sang Qi, Ying Xue, take them both back to the Palace of Heavenly Purity first!"
Sang Qi and Ying Xue led a few palace maids and tied up the two companions in no time.
"Queen, spare my life!"
"Her Majesty, have mercy!"
Liang Zhirou and Feng Manman screamed desperately, their faces covered with snot and tears.
The queen did not punish them on the spot, but instead tied them up and took them to the Qianqing Palace, which was a very dangerous signal.
In other words, the queen felt that this matter was too serious and wanted to report it to the emperor for further action.
The two companions were so frightened that they collapsed and shouted at the top of their lungs.
Sang Qi decisively found two rags and stuffed them into the mouths of his two study companions.
Now, they could neither struggle nor speak.
Soon, Yingxue had another sedan chair brought, stuffed the two of them in, and told the sedan bearers to carry them directly to the Qianqing Palace.
On the other side, in the Shanglinyuan Hall, Emperor Mingxi, Kezun, the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess and others saw that Xia Miaoyuan, the Queen and the Eighth Prince had been gone for a long time and had not returned yet. They thought something had happened and felt a little anxious.
In the guest seats below, the Protector of the Country Feng family, as well as Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse and his wife, were very anxious when they saw that their daughter had been away for a long time and did not return. Without caring about anything else, they secretly sent their followers to look for her around.
In the Zhonghe Hall, the Queen arranged for the two companions to be sent to the Qianqing Palace, and also arranged a sedan chair to send the Eighth Prince and Xia Miaoyuan back to the Kunning Palace.
The eighth prince was injured and frightened, and could no longer return to the palace banquet. As for Xia Miaoyuan, he had also suffered a great shock just now.
The Queen wanted Li Ma and others to send the two children back to rest.
Just as the sedan chair was about to leave Zhonghe Hall, a woman's voice reached his ears.
"Your Highness! Your Highness! Where have you been?"
Xia Miaoyuan lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and saw that it was Nanny Liu who was currently serving the Eighth Prince.
"Madame Liu, what are you doing?" Yingxue walked up to Madame Liu and asked.
Nanny Liu, sweat dripping from her forehead, asked anxiously, "Miss Yingxue, have you ever met the Eighth Prince?"
"Just now he said he wanted to be alone for a while, so I went for a walk nearby. But when I came back to look for the Eighth Prince, he was gone!"
Yingxue snorted contemptuously: "Among the maids who serve the princes and princesses personally, there are actually people like you?!"
"To be so careless and sneaky, isn't it like you're playing with the royal heir?"
Yingxue's next sentence was spoken with a very serious tone.
Madam Liu took two steps back as if by reflex, muttering, "Miss Yingxue has wronged this old slave."
Before Nanny Liu could try to argue, the Queen stood inside the Zhonghe Hall door and gestured to Yingxue.
Yingxue immediately grabbed Madam Liu by the back of her collar and dragged her towards the Zhonghe Hall, "Let's go! The Empress wants to ask you a question!"
When Madam Liu heard the Queen's name, she was so frightened that her legs went weak and she almost fell down.
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