In the corridor, the atmosphere was a little stagnant for a moment.
Xiao Zheng, who always had a smile on his face, threw the wine glass in his hand, and the glass rolled off the table and onto the ground.
He looked at Princess Anyang and Wan Jinlan with a bad expression, and his eyes moved around, including Xiao Minghuan.
Xiao Zheng raised his hands and overturned the table in front of him, and the fruit and snack plates on the table fell to the ground.
"You know she's not good at speaking, yet you still gang up on her. What's going on? Do you think my Guangling Palace has fallen on hard times and look down on me?"
This sudden change really caught everyone off guard.
Xiao Zheng changed his expression immediately and even overturned the table. His face was flushed and his expression did not look very clear.
Seeing Xiao Zheng approaching with a cold face, Zhou Shi'an stood up and blocked Princess Anyang's way. "Your Highness, you are wrong. It was clearly Princess Kangning who initiated the dispute. If you do something on the first day, you should think about the fifteenth..."
Zhou Shi'an tried to reason with Xiao Zheng in a righteous manner, but Xiao Zheng refused to listen. With a wave of his hand, he easily pushed Zhou Shi'an into the water.
Zhou Shi'an couldn't swim and was struggling in the pool. Xiao Minghuan hurriedly asked his servants to go into the water to rescue him.
Princess Anyang said angrily, "Are you taking this opportunity to act crazy while drunk?" She picked up the wine glass on the table, drank it all, then drew the whip from her waist and whipped Xiao Zheng.
Anyang was naturally sensible. He didn't whip the man's face or head, but hit him on the waist, and the force was not strong enough.
Princess Kangning was very moved by Xiao Zheng's act of venting her anger, and joined the battle without hesitation, pulling at Princess Anyang's bun.
Wan Jinlan originally wanted to maintain her dignity and decorum in front of so many people, but the chaos before her did not allow it. She could not be timid in today's situation, and she could not let Anyang suffer, so she rolled up her sleeves and went forward.
Two hours later, in Ci'an Palace.
The Queen Mother and the King of Qi looked at the people kneeling below and didn't know what to say.
Zhou Shian and Xiao Zheng, who had fallen into the water, were still wet and looked a little disheveled.
Wan Jinlan cried out in her heart, wondering if the bun she had recombed in the carriage would look neat now.
This is also the case with Xiao Zheng. Even though he couldn't win, he still went to the palace to complain. Is this a glorious thing?
Also, why is Xiao Feng in Ci'an Palace now?
Her reputation, her face...
Wan Jinlan lowered his head and seemed to be kneeling upright, but he wished he could hide himself underground.
"Grandmother, you have to take charge of this for me. Princess Anyang and Wan Jia Jinlan are working together to bully my grandson's Crown Prince Consort. I drank some wine and couldn't help myself, so I took action."
Anyang was still arrogant, even though his clothes were a little messy and his hair was askew. "Grandmother, don't listen to his nonsense. It was clearly Princess Kangning who bullied Sister Jinlan first, and she even brought up the Emperor's uncle's marriage."
Anyang was also smart. She knew to bring up the uncle of Qi so that the Queen Mother would not be so angry with them.
The Queen Mother looked worried, "Alright, Zheng'er, drink less alcohol in the future, and stay at home for a month after returning home."
"Anyang, you too, are so grown up and yet you still act up all day long. I will also punish you by confining you to the Imperial Farm for a month and making you copy Buddhist scriptures for an hour every day."
It seems fair that both sides were punished with 50 lashes each.
Wan Jinlan lowered her head, waiting for her punishment, but she didn't expect that the Empress Dowager didn't punish her at all.
After everyone left, the Queen Mother glanced at Xiao Feng and said, "I thought she was a steady person, but I didn't expect she has some childish tendencies."
Xiao Feng remained noncommittal. "Young and lively, my son thinks it's good."
The Queen Mother nodded and said, "You are not a talkative person. If the future princess is also dull, taciturn, and well-behaved, I will be worried."
"Don't worry, mother. I've been doing fine on my own for so many years."
Xiao Feng had a cold expression on his face. The Queen Mother almost opened her mouth but in the end, she couldn't say a word.
"It's getting late, my son has left the palace."
After Xiao Feng's tall figure disappeared in the hall, the Queen Mother's eyelids drooped and she sighed deeply, "After all these years, he still blames me."
Nanny Li soothed him, "Compared to the past, the fact that the prince has been able to stay in Ci'an Palace for so long shows that the relationship between the queen and the prince has eased somewhat. After all, they are mother and son, and things will definitely get better in the future. It's not easy to untie the knot in the heart, but there's a long way to go, so take it slow."
The Empress Dowager had some hidden worries in her heart, but she was not in a position to express them aloud. She sat there, exuding a heavy air of dejection. As Nanny Li looked at her, she felt a little sad.
Although Wan Jinlan was not punished by the Empress Dowager in the palace, he was still taught a lesson by his grandmother when he returned to the farm.
What Wan Jinlan couldn't understand was why Xiao Zheng had changed so much. When he was young in the palace, he was still a reasonable person.
The next day, the old lady took her to Prince Guangling's farm outside the capital.
If her granddaughter had lost the fight, the old lady would not enter the Guangling Palace, but her granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law won. Xiao Zheng was whipped and fell into the water, so all proper etiquette must be observed.
Prince Guangling has been ill for half a year and his condition has not improved. Instead, it has been getting worse. He has been recuperating in a farm outside the capital for more than a month.
When I saw Princess Guangling again, she still received guests in the same tone, sarcastic, with a look of disdain, a contemptuous tone, and occasionally even said sarcastic words.
Even the old lady, who was an expert in cultivating her qi, was so angry that she couldn't eat after returning home.
Prince Guangling was bedridden, and his wife said she was afraid that the illness would spread, so she did not invite the prince out to meet guests.
It can be said that the old lady was very unhappy during this trip to the prince's villa.
The old lady went in and out of various mansions in the capital and attended countless banquets. Among the ladies she interacted with, none of them was as uncouth and lacked manners as the Princess of Guangling.
"Grandma, please calm down. Princess Guangling's family was convicted, and her only daughter was married off to Youzhou. Now, even if she offends all the powerful people in Kyoto, she won't care. It's not worth it for Grandma to be angry with her."
The old lady suddenly understood why her granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law had fought with the people from Guangling Palace yesterday.
If it were her, a few decades younger, and she met someone like Princess Guangling, she would probably fight with her and even scratch her face.
Everything in the Guangling Palace is abnormal.
The old lady made up her mind that she would never visit the Prince of Guangling's Mansion unless it was necessary.
There were many people in the capital who shared the same view as the old lady, all of whom were so angry at Princess Guangling's attitude that they no longer wanted to visit the palace. In the past few months in Kyoto, Princess Guangling's "bad reputation" had spread far and wide.
After dinner that evening, Wan Jinlan was enjoying the breeze in the corridor when the maid from the villa came to announce, "Miss, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi has brought a big dog here, saying that he has sent it to entertain you."
Wan Jinlan's eyes lit up and he straightened up, "Where is it?"
This is Kyoto, not comparable to Yangzhou. Even if she wants to play with Diandian, she has to be cautious.
Xiao Feng really surprised her. She had thought that he would think of her as a brave and aggressive person after the fight that day, but she didn't expect that he would send Diandian to her to cheer her up.
It seems that he really doesn't care about what happened before.
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