Chapter 61 Complaint
After staying for a while, they returned to the capital before the sun set.
Seeing Shen Shixu return to the Shen Mansion, Xiao Jinyi and his group quickly entered the palace and went straight to the imperial study.
Emperor Wu'an, who was processing memorials, listened to Quan Xi's report that Prince Xiaoyao, Mr. Baili, Prince Jing and Princess Huimin had come together.
Upon hearing this, Emperor Wu An put down the memorial in his hand and said, "They came together? This is rare. There must be something important that brought these people together. Call them in quickly!"
"Yes, I will go right away."
Quan Xi, holding a whisk in his hand, respectfully invited Xiao Jinyi and his party in. The first thing Xiao Jiayi did when she came in was to lift up her skirt, bend her knees and kneel down.
Then she started to cry softly, and her crying scared Emperor Wu An. He has two daughters, but neither of them is weak-willed.
Princess Qingyang Xiao Jiayun is gentle and generous. She is steady in her work and likes poetry and books. She can easily calm down when doing things. She is a quiet woman who never cries easily.
Princess Huimin Xiao Jiayi was more lively than her sister. She was a restless child who liked riding horses and playing tricks on people. But because she was the youngest child in the entire palace, everyone spoiled her. She grew up under the love of her brothers and sisters and never cried.
So when he saw Xiao Jiayi crying so pitifully, Emperor Wu An felt strange at first, and then became angry. Who on earth made his daughter cry?
Emperor Wu An stood up from his chair, came to the kneeling Xiao Jiayi, and helped her up from the ground.
She took the handkerchief handed to her by Quan Xi and wiped her tears. At this time, Emperor Wu An did not have any dignity of an emperor, he was just a father who loved his daughter.
"Why are you crying so pitifully? Look at you, you've become like a little cat. Tell father who bullied you? Father, teach him a lesson!"
As Emperor Wu An spoke, his eyes glanced at Xiao Jinyi and Xiao Lie. They had the guts to provoke the princess and even made her cry. No one else would dare to do that, only their family members.
And they just came in together, so there's no guarantee that they weren't here to apologize.
Seeing the suspicious look of Emperor Wu'an, uncle and nephew Xiao Jinyi and Xiao Lie were speechless. They were not children anymore, how could they still bully their sister/niece!
When Xiao Jiayi heard Emperor Wu An's question, she stopped crying. She took a handkerchief to wipe the tears off her face, then looked at Emperor Wu An with red and swollen eyes and said, "Father, I was almost plotted to death. If I hadn't happened to meet Lord Shen Shixu who heard his voice, and if I hadn't had my uncle, Mr. Baili, and my fifth brother to help me, I would have found a rope to hang myself."
Emperor Wu An saw that what she said was so serious and even related to Shen Shixu, so he asked anxiously: "What happened?!"
Xiao Jinyi stood up and said to the angry and anxious Emperor Wu An: "Father, we still need to let Mother and Consort Shu know about this matter. Why not wait until they arrive and then tell them together!"
Before coming, Xiao Jinyi ordered someone to call Queen Lin and Concubine Shu, who should be here soon.
Sure enough, the next second someone announced that the Queen and Concubine Shu had arrived. Emperor Wu An quickly asked someone to come in. Seeing that both of them had arrived, he lowered his head and asked Xiao Jiayi again.
"Now that everyone is here, we can finally talk!"
When Concubine Shu heard from the messenger that His Royal Highness Prince Jing invited her to the imperial study, saying that he had something important to say about Xiao Jiayi, she hurried over.
On the way, she met the Queen. When she heard that the Queen was also called by Prince Jing to discuss Xiao Jiayi's matter, this made Shufei even more scared. What on earth had happened that had to be discussed in the Imperial Study?
Concubine Shu was very nervous all the way. After she entered the imperial study and paid her respects to the emperor, she saw Xiao Jiayi standing obediently beside Emperor Wu'an. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, as long as she was okay.
Then she saw her eyes were red and swollen from crying, which made Concubine Shu feel heartbroken.
Queen Lin also saw it. She loved the two princesses very much and felt very distressed to see Xiao Jiayi crying so miserably.
"Why did Jiayi cry so hard? Her eyes are swollen. The emperor didn't even bother to ask someone to bring medicine. Her eyes must be uncomfortable from crying so hard."
When Xiao Jiayi heard the Queen's concern, she bowed to express her gratitude, "Thank you for your concern, Mother. However, I am fine. I will be fine tomorrow after a good night's sleep."
When Queen Lin heard her words, she did not really ignore it. Instead, she ordered the maid beside her to go to her palace and get some ointment for the swelling.
Concubine Shu had already grabbed Xiao Jiayi's hand distressedly, frowned and asked: "You have never been a crybaby, why are you crying so hard today, who bullied you?"
Seeing that everyone who should have come had arrived, Xiao Jiayi opened up and told him about how he was invited out of the palace by the Li family, how he had a conflict with Zhiye in the garment store, how he ran into Shen Shixu and heard his thoughts, and how he knew he was being plotted against. After Xiao Jinyi and the others learned about it, they came to find him, and they discussed and decided to take advantage of the situation and told him everything about how they caught the thief and took the dirty tricks.
While she was saying this, the ointment that Queen Lin ordered to be brought back was also taken back, but no one took care of it for a while.
After hearing what Xiao Jiayi said, Concubine Shu felt a black screen in front of her eyes and the whole world started spinning. She could vaguely hear someone calling her, but in the end she could hear nothing and fainted.
Upon seeing this, Empress Lin quickly ordered someone to call the imperial physician over, and then asked the nanny beside her to help Xiao Jiayi help Concubine Shu sit down on the chair.
After examining her, the imperial physician took out silver needles and gave Concubine Shu a few injections. After a while, Concubine Shu woke up and started crying.
She cried so sadly that she didn't care about her image. Her snot and tears mixed together and ruined the makeup that the palace maid had put on for her in the morning.
Everyone understood her sadness, and no one wanted to laugh at Concubine Shu. Seeing Concubine Shu crying so sadly, Empress Lin understood why she was upset, and half-embraced her in her arms, not caring that her palace dress was stained by her tears.
Concubine Shu cried sadly in the Queen's arms. She could never have imagined that her mother's family would plot against her own daughter in this way.
Sacrificing herself was not enough, she also wanted to sacrifice her own daughter, which made Concubine Shu hate the Li family.
In her early years, she did not want to marry into the royal family, but the Li family used the rise and fall of the family and the years of cultivation to force her into the palace. She was timid and never dared to use any means to compete for favor. Because of this, Emperor Wu'an and the Queen thought she was honest and obedient, so they protected her a little, allowing her to safely become one of the four concubines and have a daughter.
She was already satisfied, but the Li family was obviously not satisfied. They still wanted the glory of the Li family to continue, so they set their sights on Xiao Jiayi.
Concubine Shu could be forgiven for anything except this one thing: no one could touch her daughter.
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