Chapter 254, Show of Strength
Luoxue Palace.
The palace gates were closed, and there were bursts of crying that were getting louder and louder.
After the maid who went to report hurriedly came back, the woman's crying became quieter, and she asked in a low voice,
"How is it, has His Majesty come?"
The maid covered her red and swollen face and shook her head, looking embarrassed,
"I went to Longhua Palace to invite His Majesty, but I didn't expect that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ling were all there, as well as the Empress and the Ninth Prince. After I finished speaking, the Concubine Dowager scolded me for being unruly and asked someone to slap me in the face..."
"I don't want to hear this, where is the Emperor, has He come?" The grievances that had just made Noble Lady Xue cry to death were completely gone.
She let go of her son and stood up, her eyes full of eagerness and calculation.
"The Emperor wanted to come, but was stopped by the Empress Dowager." The maid lowered her head and continued.
Concubine Xue's face suddenly froze.
Because the Empress Dowager never cared about the affairs of the harem, she dared to take advantage of His Majesty's favor to act like a spoiled child. How did she alarm the Empress Dowager now?
She suddenly panicked and slapped the maid in the face, "Idiot, you went in to report when the Empress Dowager was there! If I am embarrassed by the Empress Dowager, I will beat you to death!"
The maid's cheeks were already red and swollen. She ran back and forth and was slapped in the face. Now she was slapped by Concubine Xue again. Tears welled up in her eyes and she hurriedly stepped back a few steps.
She whispered, "Didn't you say... No matter what, His Majesty must be informed that you want to commit suicide..."
"How dare you talk back!" Concubine Xue raised her hand and wanted to hit her again.
At this time, she heard the palace maid outside hurriedly shouting, "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, Your Majesty the Queen Mother, please stay, I will go and report..."
"Drag her away and slap her in the face!"
The majestic female voice ordered mercilessly, followed by a burst of crying for mercy.
Concubine Xue turned pale, gave a look to the palace maid beside her, raised the white silk in her hand, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
"I used to be free in the countryside, I could go wherever I wanted, and I raised the eleventh prince for His Majesty by picking wild vegetables. Now I'm under house arrest in the palace, and His Majesty doesn't care about us mother and son anymore. What's the point of us living..."
"If His Majesty has no affection for us mother and son anymore, then I would rather die with Xian'er..." After she
finished speaking, Xia Qianxian on the side ran over and hugged her, "Mother, mother, please don't abandon your son, wuwuwu..."
The mother and son struggled, hugged their heads and cried.
The Queen Mother Fang stepped in and saw this scene. A sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth, "What are you doing?"
"Greetings to the Queen Mother!" The palace maids knelt down in salute.
One of them replied, "Her Majesty, Concubine Xue was punished by the Empress, and she is depressed and can't get over it." The
Empress Dowager waved her hand, and the maid behind her immediately took action and dragged the maid away.
The maid scolded, "It is natural for the Empress to punish concubines. How can you, a maid, make up like this? Come, beat her with thirty sticks and throw her out of the palace!"
The maid cried for mercy, but was still dragged away by the maid to be punished.
This scene directly scared Concubine Xue who was still crying!
She hugged her son with tears in her eyes, and her back couldn't help but feel cold.
"Concubine Xue! Who taught you to be polite when you see the Empress Dowager?" Nanny Wei scolded.
"Come here, call the nanny who taught Concubine Xue to behave, and give them ten strokes of the cane each!"
Nanny Wei's voice was so stern that it was outrageous.
Concubine Xue wiped her tears in a hurry, stood up, and saluted the Queen Mother with sobs, "I pay my respects to the Queen Mother, and may the Queen Mother be well."
Her voice was a little trembling.
The Queen Mother punished several people around her and gave her a warning.
The visitor was not friendly! The
Queen Mother smiled, nodded, and said in a lukewarm tone, "Get up."
After that, she slowly walked to the main seat.
Lady Xue stood up tremblingly and pushed Xia Qianxian, "Hurry up and pay respects to your grandmother."
Xia Qianxian was so frightened that he couldn't speak for a while. He was stunned for a long time before he said, "Grandson pays respects to the grandmother!"
After that, he stood there without paying respects.
Wei Ma frowned, "Is this the etiquette of the eleventh prince? He has been in the palace for a while, but he still doesn't know how to pay respects? Who is his foster nanny! Catch them together and give them a beating!"
Xia Qianxian was so scared that he trembled all over.
He quickly knelt down in front of the queen mother. He didn't know how to pay respects, and the foster nanny couldn't control him at all.
So he could only kowtow to the Queen Mother and cry, "My grandson is here to see the Imperial Grandmother, please forgive me!" The Queen Mother
said to Wei Ma earnestly, "Ziwei, look at how you scared my good grandson."
Wei Ma lowered her head and admitted her fault, "Yes, I know I am wrong."
Xia Qianxian dared to raise her head to look at the Queen Mother. This Imperial Grandmother didn't seem to be very strict.
Lady Xue also breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the Queen Mother was not here to rub her. It was all because of that servant who acted on his own. ιΙйＧyuτΧＴ.Йet
"Okay, you don't have to be so polite. I will let Wei Ma go down to receive the punishment later. I am here to see you on behalf of the emperor. Lady Xue, I heard that you have been wandering outside with Xian'er for seven years. You have worked hard in these seven years." The Queen Mother suddenly smiled.
Very deep.
"Now that you have entered the palace, what's wrong? Are you threatening to commit suicide?" the Queen Mother asked.
Lady Xue was suddenly flattered, tears welled up in her eyes, she wanted to cry but couldn't.
"Thank you Queen Mother for your understanding. This matter has nothing to do with the Queen. It was because Xian'er was immature and didn't know the etiquette when he first entered the palace. He didn't recognize that he was the Crown Prince, so he offended the Crown Prince."
"The Queen punished me for not disciplining me strictly, and it was right. I felt bad because I was afraid that Your Majesty would no longer have feelings for me, so I didn't want to live. I didn't expect to disturb you..."
"It was because I was overthinking, not because of the Queen Sister's punishment of me. Please don't blame the Queen Sister."
After saying this,
the Queen Mother's eyes were full of contempt.
She thought it would be so difficult to deal with. The Queen
Mother smiled slowly and said, "If the Emperor didn't come today, and I didn't come either, would you really commit suicide with your child?"
"I was born with depression. I am confined to this Luoxue Palace all day long. It is inevitable that I will have thoughts of suicide. I love Your Majesty very much. If Your Majesty doesn't come to see me, I am afraid that one day, I will not be able to resist and commit suicide."
"Empress Dowager, I don't want to do that either. If I hadn't been confined, I wouldn't want to commit suicide..."
As Concubine Xue spoke, she covered her face and cried. She looked extremely weak and really pitiful.
The Queen Mother just listened to her crying quietly, and looked at her hand holding the handkerchief with a smile on her face.
Isn't it said that a country girl raised a child alone for seven years?
Why are those hands so white and slender, without any trace of rough work.
How come she doesn't have a cocoon, let alone a wound, after years of digging wild vegetables? She
is totally different from Wang Baochuan. The Queen Mother
seemed to understand something.
She smiled and said, "You mean, if this house arrest is not lifted, you will still be depressed, and then commit suicide with my grandson?"
A smile flashed across the eyes of Concubine Xue, and it seemed that the Queen Mother was going to help her.
She was going to make it worse.
"Yes, if this house arrest is not lifted, my heart disease will become more serious, and I feel that there is no point in living!"
"Okay, this is what you said!" The Queen Mother
suddenly stood up, her tone was much colder, she slowly raised her hand, and a nanny came in from outside the door holding a white silk and poisoned wine.
"This is white silk and poison wine, choose one!"