The servants carrying the saddlebags quickened their pace.
While passing by the Imperial Garden.
Consort Shu saw a person kneeling on the pebble path in the Imperial Garden from afar.
I initially thought it was a palace maid who had done something wrong and was being punished by her master by kneeling.
Upon closer inspection.
"Consort Zhen?" Consort Shu hurriedly ordered her sedan chair to stop. "What's wrong?"
Consort Zhen's eyes were red. She looked up in the direction of the voice and saw that it was Consort Shu.
The tears that had been welling up in her eyes finally fell uncontrollably.
"Sister." Consort Shu cried, her shoulders trembling.
"Why are you doing this? What happened?" Consort Shu asked in surprise.
Consort Zhen remained silent, tears streaming down her face.
Consort Shu looked up at the sky and said, "It looks like it's about to rain, and you..."
"Sister, please go back quickly, don't let the Seventh Princess get wet." Consort Zhen was even more heartbroken: "I did something wrong and offended the Empress. She punished me to kneel in the Imperial Garden for five hours. There is still one hour left. Sister, please go back quickly, don't worry about me."
"This..." Consort Shu frowned.
Although she really wanted to help Consort Zhen.
But this was a punishment from the Empress.
If she were to plead with Emperor Yuanwu, it would certainly make her appear as if she were deliberately stirring up trouble.
She and the Empress had always been at odds.
It's not really a matter of discord.
It was simply because Emperor Yuanwu did not have many children.
When we first entered the palace, no one had children, everyone was nice to each other, and no one thought anything of it.
But at this moment.
As the children grow up one by one.
Each of them had their own thoughts.
Who wouldn't want their child to achieve a better academic record?
There can only be one crown prince.
It wasn't that she wanted to fight for it.
I'm afraid that if she doesn't fight for it, she'll be seen as a stumbling block and uprooted.
"Then I'll go to the palace to fetch an umbrella and a cloak for my sister," Consort Shu said softly. "She mustn't get wet in the rain and catch a cold."
"Thank you, sister."
Before Consort Zhen could finish speaking...
Large raindrops pelted down one after another, creating a vast beaded curtain that blurred the view between heaven and earth.
Consort Shu was worried that Mu Qianqian would get wet.
He shielded her head with his arm and jogged back to Qiluan Garden.
The rain came down quickly and heavily, and the uneven cobblestone road was soon soaked, forming small puddles.
Large raindrops fell to the ground, creating tiny splashes.
"This rain is really heavy. Quickly fetch a basin of hot water. The Seventh Princess's hair is all wet." Bin'er instructed the servants while helping Mu Qianqian change her clothes.
"Your Majesty," Xiao Shunzi handed Consort Shu a hot towel, "Your Majesty, please wipe yourself down quickly. You've just finished your postpartum confinement period, and your body hasn't fully recovered yet. Be careful not to catch a cold."
Consort Shu took the towel: "Go quickly to my wardrobe and find a thick cloak and an umbrella, and have the new Ling'er deliver them to me."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Ling'er hurriedly grabbed her umbrella and ran towards the Imperial Garden, clutching her clothes.
She had only run a few steps.
I ran into Wen Hui.
"Greetings to Aunt Wenhui," Ling'er said, bowing.
"What are you rushing off to?" Wen Hui glanced at the thing in her hand.
"Replying to Aunt Wenhui, Consort Shu instructed me to deliver clothes and an umbrella to Consort Zhen," Ling'er answered truthfully.
"What a huge order." Wen Hui's eyes darted around. "Do you know that Consort Zhen is being punished? It was Her Majesty the Empress who made her kneel in the Imperial Garden. And you went to deliver an umbrella to her at this time. Are you deliberately going against Her Majesty the Empress?"
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