Chapter 252, Noblewoman Xue

When the two arrived at Longhua Palace,

the ground was in a mess. The emperor sat silently in the corner, not daring to look up.

In front of him, the queen mother pointed at him and kept saying something.

The queen?

Xia Wanwan glanced and found that the queen had red eyes and was sitting behind a screen separated from the emperor. Xia Siheng and Liu Wan were silently accompanying her.

Xia Qianlin's nose was slightly sour. He took his sister Wanwan to the queen and put his hand on his mother's knees. "Mother."

The queen hugged him and smiled, "Mother is fine."

After that, the mother and son looked at the emperor who was sitting in the corner with his head down and being scolded.

Xia Wanwan put her thumb in her mouth and looked at Liu Wan with a puzzled look on her face, "What happened?"

Liu Wan picked her up and rubbed her little head, "Hush, tell me later."

Several people watched the emperor being scolded.

The Queen Mother was furious. She put her hands on her hips and cursed, "She has repaid you with money for all her kindness in the past. If you really feel sorry for her for having no place to live, just give her two shops, which will be enough for her to live on for the rest of her life. Why do you insist on bringing her into the palace?"

"Mother, I did the same at the beginning, but she was alone with her son outside, and the orphan and widow were in danger of being defiled."

"If she was not good-looking, it would be fine, but she is so weak and beautiful, so many people have bad intentions towards her. Outside the palace, can I protect her for a while, or can I protect her forever?"

The Emperor's tone was full of helplessness. His ears were red, because the Queen Mother pulled them.

The bruises on his face were caused by the Ninth Prince.

The Queen Mother tried to persuade him to stop fighting at first.

Later, the situation was out of control, and the queen simply kicked him twice in the chaos.

Why is he so annoying?

"Well, you said you couldn't protect her outside the palace, and now that she's brought into the palace, we didn't say anything."

"But you actually allowed her to provoke the queen! The queen is the mother of a country, how can she allow a villain to offend her! As the emperor, you have repeatedly protected her!" The queen mother

became more and more angry, and slapped the emperor on the head again.

Originally, the queen didn't care about Concubine Xue provoking the queen.

But Concubine Xue ran to the emperor and cried, saying that she didn't know the rules and bumped into the queen, and she was afraid of death.

So the emperor arranged for her to live in another palace, far away from the queen's palace.

She was too far away to come to pay her respects every day, and sometimes she didn't even come.

On the pretext of replenishing her body, she asked the emperor for the tonic specially for the empress. The golden bird's nest was not available to ordinary concubines except the empress!

Concubine Xue also aroused the emperor's guilt by saying that she had never seen it in the countryside, so the emperor took away the gilded purple peony flower that the empress personally took care of and loved the most.

But the empress could still tolerate these.

But at the flower-viewing banquet of the concubines in the harem some time ago, Concubine Xue's son, the newly recognized eleventh prince, was so arrogant that he dared to attack the prince. Fortunately, the people around the prince had martial arts skills, so the prince only had some skin broken.

The empress could no longer tolerate it and punished Concubine Xue and her son.

The Empress and Concubine Xue had a complete falling out.

But the Emperor wanted the Empress to lift Concubine Xue's house arrest, so the couple had a cold war for several days.

Today, everyone was supposed to have a good meal together, and no one would mention that matter.

But after Wanwan left, someone from Concubine Xue's palace came to report that Concubine Xue was crying and clamoring to take her son to commit suicide, and begged the Emperor to go and see.

The Emperor wanted to go, but was stopped by the Empress Dowager.

Then the matter was made clear, and the Empress Dowager had to make the decision for the Empress.

The Emperor asked Xia Siheng if he did anything wrong, but was beaten by Xia Siheng.

People outside the palace thought that His Majesty and the Empress had a fight, and hurried to report to the Prince.

What we see is the scene after the Emperor was beaten.

He said sadly, "I don't know what's going on. Every time I see Lady Xue, I always feel sorry for her."

"When I was on a secret tour, I was chased by an assassin. It was Lady Xue who saved me with her life. When I had a high fever in the middle of the night, it was she who saved me with her innocence..."

"Later, I was rescued and her whereabouts were unknown."

"I didn't know she was pregnant, nor did I know that she had raised a child alone in the countryside for seven years."

"If it weren't for a child who blocked my sedan chair while I was on a tour some time ago and took my token, she might have died of illness."

"Mother, I am well-dressed in the palace, but she has to live on wild vegetables. She insisted on giving birth to my child. Both mother and child are helpless and have suffered a lot."

"I'm sorry for them. I'll give her whatever she wants to make up for my mistakes."

When the emperor mentioned that past event, he felt a wave of guilt.

It made him feel a dull pain in his heart.

Especially, whenever he saw Lady Xue, she just stood there and did nothing. The emperor couldn't help himself and felt very sad. He

loved and cared for her.

He loved her and loved her family, so he loved her son a little more.

He didn't expect that he almost hurt the prince.

The queen kept holding on to this matter, which made him even more upset.

"Humph, you want to make up for her, why do you want to hurt the Empress?"

"Emperor! Remember this! No matter how much you owe that woman, the Empress is your legal wife and the mother of the country! And the Crown Prince is the future Crown Prince. If they dare to have any evil thoughts again, don't blame me for taking action myself!"

The Empress Dowager was able to survive the palace fight, she is definitely not a kind-hearted person.

But now that she is old, she is relieved to let the Empress take care of the harem.

Now that she is no longer in charge, even an orphan girl of unknown origin dares to provoke the Empress again and again.

If it weren't for the Emperor's protection, how dare she be so rampant.

The Empress Dowager can't stand it anymore!

"Mother, I know I was wrong. I will not visit her again. Mother... spare their lives. That child is a royal heir after all."

The emperor lowered his head and grabbed the hem of the empress dowager's skirt.

The empress dowager shook off his hand and called the nanny beside her,

"Go and tell her that the emperor will not visit her. If she is stubborn and wants to die, you should give her white silk and poisoned wine and let her choose!"

"I want to see if she has the courage to die!"