As Jiang Wanmeng was beaten to the point where she couldn't even cry, the only sound left in the cold plum garden was the "pa pa pa" sound of people slapping her face.
Before Jiang Wanmeng was about to faint, Tian An stopped the nanny who was slapping her, looked at Yaoyao and said, "Yaoyao, let her learn a lesson. Let's call it a day!"
Yaoyao looked at Jiang Wanmeng's face, which was almost swollen like a pig's head, and said politely, "Then listen to Sister An An!"
She turned around and said to Jiang Wanmeng with a cold face, "Since Sister An An pleaded for you today, I will temporarily forgive you. You should reflect on it when you go back. If there is a next time, I will not forgive you easily."
After saying that, she pulled Tian An around the crowd and prepared to go back. They had been out for long enough.
After being beaten, Jiang Wanmeng became much more obedient. She knelt on the ground and waited for Tian An and the others to leave before being helped up by the maid.
Seeing her being beaten like this, Yonglin felt uneasy. He said a few words of comfort and then found an excuse to slip away.
Jiang Wanmeng just stood there, watching the people gradually go away. The hatred in her eyes seemed to be real. Her poisonous eyes stared at Tian An, Yaoyao, and even Yonglin.
"Miss, let's go back..." The maid who was supporting her was interrupted by a slap before she could finish her words.
Her face was so swollen that she couldn't speak. She could only stare viciously at the maids and slap them in the face one after another.
If the master gets beaten, it means the maid is incompetent, and the incompetent must accept the punishment.
The maids had to endure the beatings, no matter how much pain they felt, and dared not say a word, let alone fight back. The "slap, slap, slap" sound of slapping could be heard again in the Plum Garden. After a long while, the creepy sound stopped until Jiang Wanmeng fell to the ground exhausted from beating people.
She struggled to squeeze out the word "return". A maid was a little slow to react, and was greeted by Jiang Wanmeng's strong pinch, as if she seemed to be twisting off a piece of her flesh.
When the maidservant was about to burst into tears, she let go, covered her face with a silk scarf, and let the maidservants support her as she walked out of the plum garden.
The Plum Garden returned to tranquility once again, leaving only a messy patch of snow. Fortunately, snowflakes began to fall again, and soon, they would cover everything.
Yaoyao kept complaining along the way, "It's all Yonglin and that Jiang guy's fault. The plum branches I picked for my mother are now useless."
The plum branches she had picked were all in bloom. She thought Tian An was in danger, so she ran in a hurry. Half of the petals on the plum branches had fallen off, and they looked like bald chickens. They were definitely not suitable for the queen to put in a vase.
Tian An pointed at the plum branch in Deng Xue's arms and comforted her, "I have more here! You can use mine later."
Tian An broke off flower buds, which were not easy to fall off. When Deng Xue was fighting just now, he carefully placed them on the ground to protect them, and they are still intact now.
Yaoyao looked at the plum branches in Deng Xue's hand and breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you, Sister An An. It's a good thing you picked these, otherwise Mother would have waited in vain."
After returning, the two found a beautiful vase, put the plum vase in it, and then happily carried it to the queen's bedroom.
The two of them were laughing all the way, and only when they entered the house did they find that the emperor was there too.
After performing the proper ceremony, Yaoyao held the plum vase and presented it to the queen as a treasure.
After resting, the queen was in good spirits. She looked at the plum vase and jokingly said, "Is this plum vase decorated by Yaoyao? It looks much better than before."
Yaoyao touched her nose and chuckled, "Mother is indeed discerning. This was done by Sister An An. You don't know me! How could I possibly have such skill?"
She doesn't know how to distinguish between beautiful and ugly flowers when arranging them in a vase. She just stuffs the flowers she thinks are pretty into the vase until there is no more room.
There are only three plum branches in the vase in front of him, two of which are buds about to bloom picked by Tian An, and one is a fully opened plum branch picked by Yaoyao.
Yaoyao picked a plum branch, and many petals had fallen off. The only one she used to put in the vase was the one she had picked before and threw to Deng Xue because she looked down on it.
Tian An took a long time to pick out a usable one, and then trimmed it before putting it in the bottle.
The three plum branches are staggered in height and complement each other. They are neither cumbersome nor monotonous, and are pleasing to the eye.
Even the emperor nodded and praised him.
Seeing that the emperor seemed in a good mood, Yaoyao took advantage of everyone's attention being on the plum branches and told him what happened in the plum garden.
Seeing this, Tian An apologized first, "It's all An An's fault. I shouldn't have broken the branches of the plum tree. I angered Princess Yonglin and caused Miss Jiang to get beaten."
Although she felt that she was not wrong, she was the cause of the incident and it happened on someone else's territory, so she still had to express a polite apology.
Sure enough, the queen saw that she was humble and reasonable, and spoke up for her without thinking, "How can I blame you? It's just a plum branch. The concubines in the palace always let the palace maids pick plums to enjoy every day!"
Not to mention that you were personally appointed as a county lady by the emperor, even if the palace servants went to pick plum branches, Yonglin could not speak rudely without knowing the truth.
This seems to be directed at you, but I always feel that you are implicated by me." She glared at the emperor.
The entire palace knows that Tian An is her savior. Yonglin's behavior towards Tian An today seems to be directed at Tian An, but in fact it is probably directed at her. I don't know whether it is Yonglin's intention or Concubine Jiang's intention.
The emperor was glared at by the empress in front of the younger generation and coughed awkwardly twice. How could he not know what the empress was thinking? He would never let her suffer any injustice.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Yonglin is not young anymore, but she's still so unruly. We should ask the Queen to find a nanny to teach her the proper manners, so she doesn't get scorned by her husband's family and tarnish the reputation of the royal princess."
After a pause, he added, "Don't let her wander around until she learns the rules."
This is a disguised form of house arrest.
Yonglin made a mistake, and Concubine Jiang, her biological mother, was naturally also to blame.
The emperor said without hesitation, "Noble Concubine Jiang has failed to educate her daughter properly. She has cultivated Yonglin into such a bad temper. While Yonglin is learning the rules, she should stay in the court and palace and reflect on herself. She will come out when Yonglin has learned her lesson."
As for the culprit Jiang Wanmeng, the emperor waved his hand and ordered someone to escort Jiang Wanmeng out of the palace personally. He also went to the Jiang family to give an oral order, canceling her qualification to enter the palace in the future.
It’s better for this kind of troublemaker to not come and harm the princesses in the palace.
In this way, Concubine Jiang, who was implicated by her daughter, was inexplicably confined to her house. By the time she reacted, the palace doors were sealed.
Looking at the governess who was stuffed in and Yonglin who looked guilty, she was so angry that she wanted to beat up this good-for-nothing with her own hands.
Jiang Wanmeng, who had been beaten and was about to go to the empress dowager to cry, had just reached the gate of the empress dowager's palace when she was packed up and taken out of the palace by the palace servants who had rushed over.
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