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Inside Fengyi Palace, the sound of court canes continued.
Wanruo's back was covered with bloody marks from the stick, her face was pale, and the blood oozing from the corners of her lips made her look seductive, and she could no longer make a sound.
The old nanny checked her breathing and quickly ran back to the palace: "Your Majesty, your breathing is weak and you don't look well. If you beat her again, I'm afraid she will really die."
The queen pressed her temples and closed her eyes: "How many strokes of the cane?"
"Thirty-seven sticks."
"Useless thing." The queen sneered.
Jiang Xuejun's eyes couldn't hide the viciousness: "Isn't it too easy to let her go like this? She should be beaten with fifty sticks to show her majesty!"
The Queen glanced at him coldly: "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking."
Jiang Xuejun's eyes flashed.
"I'll beat her up today to teach Xie Xianyu a lesson and to vent your anger. But if you dare to ruin my plans, I won't forgive you!"
"I was wrong." Jiang Xuejun hurriedly admitted her mistake.
"Right now, King Xuan's position as Crown Prince is of paramount importance! If any of you dare to ruin King Xuan's plans, or my plans, I will make sure you die a death even more uglier than Xu Wanruo's!"
Chen Qinghan responded with a stiff expression.
She glanced at Wanruo, who was beaten and covered in blood outside the hall and was dragged out, and her hands clenched in her sleeves.
She went to the side hall to make tea for the queen, and looked up to signal Cai Lian.
Cai Lian hesitated and didn't move. Her eyes tightened. "Go quickly."
Cai Lian then hurried out, finding an excuse to go to the toilet, and went around to the side hall. She stuffed some silver into a young eunuch's pocket and said, "Please go out and tell Master Su Yansu that there's something going on in Fengyi Palace."
When the young eunuch saw the silver, his eyes immediately lit up: "No problem."
Although there are strict rules inside and outside the palace, the palace servants have their own ways to pass on information.
An hour later, a young eunuch came to Su Yan's mansion.
Su Yanru's official rank was not high enough to attend the palace banquet, so he did not go to the palace that day. There was nothing to do in the government office on New Year's Eve, so he listened to music in Yunxia Tower.
He doesn't like places that are too quiet and idle, and always looks for lively places to stay.
"Sir! Sir!" A servant hurriedly climbed up the stairs.
Su Yan was lying on a recliner, listening to music at ease. He opened his eyes when he heard the noise and asked lazily, "What's going on? What's the big fuss? How could something happen in the government office during the New Year's holiday?"
"It's not the government office, it's the palace!" The servant lowered his voice and said, "Just now, a young eunuch from the palace came to tell me that it was Miss Cai Lian who brought the news personally."
Su Yan's face changed when he heard this, and he sat up straight: "What's wrong with her?"
Su Yan naturally recognized Cai Lian and Chen Qinghan's personal maid. Since Cai Lian could find him, something big must have happened.
"It is said that something happened in Fengyi Palace."
"Fengyi Palace?"
Su Yan thought carefully for a while, and suddenly woke up: "Did Xu Wanruo not leave the palace?!"
Fu Xian follows Xu Wanruo all the time. Xie Xianyu asks him to keep an eye on her all the time, but Fu Xian just came and said that the Queen kept her in the palace for medical treatment and she couldn't come out for the time being.
"It's bad!" Su Yan's face suddenly changed and he hurried downstairs.
But when he went downstairs, he found that it was dark outside. The palace gate was locked and he could no longer enter the palace.
"Go to Prince Qi's mansion immediately and ask him to find a way to enter the palace!"
"yes!"
The servant ran away immediately. Su Yan was suddenly overwhelmed. He ran back and forth twice before he got on his horse and headed out of the city.
On the official road, a galloping black horse came galloping in the wind. The man on the horse was wearing a black cloak and had his ponytail tied high.
He has always been a gentleman with a clean and upright demeanor, but now he has a bit of the spirit of the underworld.
Even as it grew darker, he did not slow down. The army would take another five days to reach the capital, but he had promised to come back to spend New Year's Eve with her, so he secretly went ahead.
I can just get home before the New Year comes. I don’t know if she has the patience to stay up all night because of her lazy nature. I’m afraid she will fall asleep after only half an hour.
He was full of thoughts and was almost reaching the capital when he suddenly saw a fast horse coming towards him in the distance.
He immediately became alert, slowed down, and gripped the long sword on his horse tightly.
When the man approached, he drew his sword swiftly and pointed it at the man's neck.
"It's me!" Su Yan was panting and sweating profusely.
Before he could ask him what was wrong, Su Yan said anxiously: "Xu Wanruo was left in Fengyi Palace by the Queen, and she hasn't come out yet!"
Xie Xianyu's expression suddenly changed: "What did you say?!"
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