When Concubine Ming was asked this by the Queen Mother, she was immediately choked up. She turned her eyes to the side and said unnaturally: "Aunt, didn't you disagree? At the beginning, I said I wanted freedom, but you didn't give me freedom at all..."
When Ming Fei mentioned these things, her eyes turned red, and it was obvious that she still resented the Queen Mother.
However, the Queen Mother did not have the intention of controlling Concubine Ming. Seeing that Nanny Xi had brought Qiao Yuange over, she lowered her voice and said, "I will give it a try to see if these two have an affair!"
These words were spoken harshly, and Ming Fei immediately felt a chill on her back. Seeing Qiao Yuange walking in with his head lowered, she felt that Qiao Yuange was going to be finished.
Qiao Yuange knelt on the ground as soon as he walked in. The empress dowager tapped the table lightly with her fingers. The overwhelming aura made Qiao Yuange feel like his back was sweating.
"Qiao Yuange, have you got any useful information in the past few days in Taixing Palace?"
The Queen Mother still asked the same question as last time.
"To reply to the Queen Mother, not yet."
Qiao Yuange's tongue was stiff as he wondered how the Queen Mother would punish him if he said this.
When Empress Dowager Wu Ran heard this, she laughed. Her smile was like that of a witch, making people's scalps tingle.
"It seems that you haven't done what I told you to do before. Tell me, should I give you another chance?"
The Queen Mother asked softly, and her tone was surprisingly kind, but Qiao Yuange knew that the Queen Mother was a smiling tiger.
"Empress Dowager, I have tried my best to hope that the emperor can have breakfast with Miss Fang Yuan and Concubine Ming, but the emperor is still unwilling to do so. I am just a little girl, how can the emperor listen to me?"
Qiao Yuange wondered if the Queen Mother had something wrong with her brain.
Empress Dowager Ruoyu just disliked Qiao Yuange and could have just killed her. After all, she was just a maid and her death was not a pity.
Why did the Queen Mother find so many excuses? Qiao Yuange felt that there was no need for that.
"I asked you to collect news about the emperor, but you got nothing. I asked you to help Concubine Ming and Fang Yuan compete for favors, but you couldn't do it. It seems that you won't cry until you see the coffin. Come, bring the torture instruments."
Before the Queen Mother finished her words, two palace maids came with two whips and handed them to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother did not move the whip, but just gave Ming Fei a look and said to her, "Go and find Fang Yuan. I am old and not in good health, so you two can do it."
Qiao Yuange paused. Fang Yuan had already walked in from outside. After hearing this, she walked over without hesitation, took the whip, and stood in front of Qiao Yuange.
Ming Fei looked down at the whip, then at Qiao Yuange, and suddenly felt unhappy. She thought that it was the appearance of Qiao Yuange that made her realize that the emperor could be so good to women. She felt unbalanced.
She also took the whip, walked in front of Qiao Yuange, waved the whip, and said, "I'm sorry."
After he finished speaking, the whip fell directly on Qiao Yuange.
At that moment, Qiao Yuange felt as if his body was suddenly torn apart, and the pain spread throughout his body, piercing his heart!
Qiao Yuange immediately let out an "ah" and sweat started to drip down his forehead.
She thought she had thick skin and strong muscles, and she could withstand most physical attacks.
But this time, she felt that Ming Fei wanted to beat her to death!
Then the second blow came. Fang Yuan next to her gritted her teeth, and the whip fell like raindrops.
Qiao Yuange subconsciously tried to hide, her mouth emitting uncontrollable shrieks. All she could hear in her ears was the muffled sound of the whip hitting her body, as well as the silence in the main hall and her shrieks, which filled her ears and made them buzz.
She felt pain at every stroke from the beginning, and in the end her whole body felt like it was falling apart.
She simply couldn't care about those little details, and at the beginning, she could still hold back from running around. But after her body was beaten to pieces, she couldn't care less and dragged herself around to crawl.
But the more she resisted, the stronger the whip became, until she passed out.
The Queen Mother watched Qiao Yuange hiding in the corner, but her face did not show much expression. Instead, she quietly drank tea from the cup. Looking at Qiao Yuange, she glanced at the corner of her mouth slightly, as if she felt that this was what Qiao Yuange deserved.
But the Queen Mother didn't know that this had already been seen by the gentleman on the beam.
After Qiao Yuange fainted, Ming Fei and Fang Yuan had not stopped their actions.
At this moment, a cold man's voice came from the door: "Stop!"
Everyone was shocked, and no one spoke in the main hall after that. Everyone watched Ming Fei and Fang Yuan torturing Qiao Yuange. On the one hand, they felt scared and distressed, but on the other hand, they could actually feel a kind of perverted pleasure.
But the sudden appearance of the man's voice made these people lose their courage.
Before everyone could react, the man quickly walked up to them, squatted on the ground, and picked up the unconscious Qiao Yuange who was lying on the ground.
He exerted force and held Qiao Yuange in his arms, then slowly stood up. He didn't even bother to look at Concubine Luo Ming and Fang Yuan, but just stared at the Queen Mother with bloodshot eyes.
"What are you doing?"
The emperor's voice was like the November wind, harshly scratching the empress dowager's face.
The Queen Mother saw that the Emperor's expression had changed, and she immediately smiled. She took a sip from the teacup in her hand and said, "What am I doing? I'm teaching a maid a lesson. What? Your Majesty, are you feeling sorry for her?"
Compared to the previous emperor who always cried and peed his butt and wanted to die, the empress dowager and all the women in the harem thought that the emperor was actually a coward who would run away when encountering problems.
But the Queen Mother felt more and more that the Emperor was not a coward at all, but just too disdainful to argue with her.
The last time the emperor was seen with such a cold and almost explosive attitude was when the empress dowager targeted Qiao Yuange.
The Emperor had only spoken to the Empress Dowager in a bad tone twice, and both times happened to be because of Qiao Yuange.
It seems that what the Queen Mother wanted to confirm has been confirmed.
"Empress Dowager, please do not involve more innocent people in the matter between you and me. You know very well that Qiao Yuange is innocent."
The emperor said calmly.
The Queen Mother sneered, without even raising her eyes, and just looked at the ground, as if she was thinking about something. Then she said indifferently, "Your Majesty, why are you helping her speak up without thinking about it? If she knew about her father's affairs, would she forgive you?"
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