"Your Highness, I dare not. Please just say so if you wish to punish me." Xiao Shunzi trembled with fear.
Bin'er also looked puzzled.
"Get up," Consort Shu said calmly, patting Mu Qianqian in her arms. "I have something to ask you."
Xiao Shunzi got up from the ground, still somewhat unable to believe his ears.
"Who else is in your family?" Consort Shu asked casually, pretending to be nonchalant.
"At home..." Xiao Shunzi said tremblingly, "Everyone in my family is gone, except for my older sister."
Why is Consort Shu suddenly asking about his family at this time?
They're not going to execute his entire family, are they?
"Where is your sister now?" Consort Shu continued to ask.
Xiao Shunzi was stunned, then knelt down and kowtowed several times.
"Your Highness, please spare my life!"
“I have a hard life. I lost my parents when I was three years old and have been living with my sister.”
"My sister is just a woman. I hope that Your Highness will be lenient and spare my sister."
"This servant will serve you like an ox or a horse for the rest of my life to repay the great kindness and virtue of Consort Shu."
Consort Shu: ...
"When did I say I wanted to harm your sister?" Consort Shu frowned. "I'm asking you this precisely because I want to save her. Do you believe me?"
Xiao Shunzi was taken aback for a moment: "This servant is willing."
After instructing Xiao Shunzi on what to do, Consort Shu sent a letter to the General's Mansion, explaining the details of the matter to her father, General Lu.
General Lu's face turned ashen with anger upon seeing the letter.
That's unbelievable.
He himself risked his life for the Yuan Kingdom, even sacrificing his own eldest son, Lu Zhaolin…
As a result, his own daughter was bullied by the daughter of the Prefect of Shuntian Prefecture in the palace.
General Lu was so angry that his hands trembled.
Following Consort Shu's instructions, he secretly sent people to protect Xiao Shunzi's older sister.
Everything is ready.
Xiao Shunzi was covered in chicken blood.
To make it look more realistic.
He even rolled around a few times in the backyard.
She was filthy and disheveled, and locked in the room next to the midwife's.
Seeing his miserable state, the midwife's lips curled into a sly smile.
The footsteps at the door faded into the distance.
Xiao Shunzi grabbed the midwife by the neck like a madman: "Tell me! Why did you frame me?"
The midwife, gasping for breath from being choked, cried out, "Young...Eunuch Shunzi, please calm down...I...I just couldn't bear the torture...that's why..."
"You can't withstand the torture, so you're going to frame me?" Xiao Shunzi glared angrily: "Fine, fine, you want me to die, then let's die together."
"No..." The midwife was choking and couldn't breathe, feeling like she was about to die: "Eunuch Xiaoshunzi, let's talk this out, you...you let go of me first!"
Xiao Shunzi only let go of the midwife when he saw that she was really not going to make it.
Although it was just acting, he was genuinely angry.
This midwife has wronged him for no reason.
Fortunately, Consort Shu believed in him; otherwise, he would have truly died without a burial place and would have implicated his own sister.
For a fleeting moment.
He really wanted to strangle her.
The midwife coughed violently for a while before finally calming down: "Eunuch Xiao Shunzi, even if you strangle me, it won't do any good. Consort Shu won't believe it."
"Hmph." Xiao Shunzi grumbled.
Seeing that he remained silent, the midwife looked around and leaned closer, saying, "Are you really willing to live in this palace every day in fear, not knowing when you might lose your head?"
"Heh," Xiao Shunzi sneered.
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