After a while, Gu Qilan said in a deep voice: "Take good care of the Queen."
After saying this, Gu Qilan turned and walked out of the palace. Looking at the concubines in front of him, who were all worried and frightened, his face was cold and he said in a deep voice, "Where is the beast who offended the queen?"
Hearing this, Song Qu, who was waiting on the side, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the cat has been caught."
As he spoke, Song Qu signaled a young eunuch behind him to bring the white cat up.
The young eunuch received the signal and walked forward with Snowball, whose limbs were tied, bowed.
Snowball's limbs were tied up, and he was struggling hard to break free, but it was all in vain. He could only scream in fear.
Gu Qilan glanced at Xueqiu indifferently with a cold gaze, his expression unchanged: "Is there anything wrong?"
He was asking Song Qu if the cat had been drugged or something.
Song Qu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I've had someone check it out. There's nothing wrong with the cat. I guess it's probably in heat, so it suddenly jumped up and hit the Empress."
Hearing this, Gu Qilan's expression became even gloomier. He instantly shot a cold gaze towards Concubine Xin and angrily said, "Concubine Xin, you've raised such a beast!"
Concubine Xin's face was filled with fear. She looked at the emperor helplessly and stammered, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please forgive me. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't expect Snowball to suddenly go crazy and hit the Empress. Your Majesty, please forgive me."
Gu Qilan snorted coldly, no longer paying attention to Concubine Xin's feeble defense, and ordered in a deep voice: "Come here, deal with this beast. The beast raised by Concubine Xin has committed a serious crime. It is truly unforgivable. He shall be demoted to a noble!"
Gu Qilan said this with a cold gaze towards the others: "You all surrounded the Queen, yet you still caused her to be offended, resulting in a disaster. You will each be fined half a year's salary. Go to Baohua Palace and chant sutras and pray for the Queen and the deceased heir for three days!"
As soon as the emperor finished speaking, the concubines outside the palace wailed in their hearts. The punishment had no effect on some concubines of high rank, but it was hell for those concubines of low rank who were not favored and had to rely on monthly salaries to make a living.
And it is not easy to go to Baohua Hall to chant Buddhist scriptures and pray for blessings. Although it is only three days, it starts at Maoshi and ends at Xushi (5 am to 7 pm), seven hours a day. Except for meal time, you have to kneel in Baohua Hall to chant Buddhist scriptures.
It is equivalent to being punished by kneeling for three days, but there is a cushion and you are also given time to eat and sleep.
But it’s also very hard to endure.
Concubine Xin's heart was at its lowest point. She was first punished by not being able to see her own son, and now she was demoted to a noble lady.
It was not just a simple demotion of two ranks. She had been named Concubine Xin since the emperor ascended the throne. She had been accustomed to the life of luxury for so many years. Suddenly, she was demoted from one of the four concubines in the palace to a noble lady, and the psychological gap was even greater.
Moreover, concubines below the rank of concubine cannot raise children on their own, unless they give birth to a daughter and no one takes her away. She can only raise the child by herself. She was also hoping that when the emperor was in a better mood, she would ask him not to separate her and Chenghui.
Now that she has been demoted to a noble lady, it is even more impossible for her Chenghui to return to her side.
Concubine Xin seemed to have lost her soul in an instant, her hands and feet began to become weak, and she shouted to the emperor at the top of her lungs, but the emperor obviously had no patience to listen to her cries.
With a frown, Song Qu tactfully ordered the palace servants to take Concubine Xin away and have the cat that had caused the trouble caught and dealt with.
At this moment, a clear female voice came: "Wait!"
Ning Yuxi looked at Snowball, whose limbs were tied and who was struggling desperately and crying miserably. Snowball didn't know what he was about to face, but he was very sensitive and seemed to realize that the current situation was not good, so he kept struggling desperately.
As soon as Ning Yuxi finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on her in an instant.
Another extremely intense gaze also fell on her. Ning Yuxi raised her head and looked at Gu Qilan: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."
Gu Qilan was silent for a moment, then said, "You say."
Ning Yuxi gathered her thoughts and said, "Your Majesty, I would like to ask what kind of fragrance the incense on the Empress's clothes is."
Listening to Ning Yuxi's incoherent words, everyone was puzzled. Gu Qilan even frowned slightly and said, "Why are you asking this?"
Ning Yuxi did not answer the emperor's words. She didn't want to say it before she figured it out. She met the emperor's gaze with a firm look.
Seeing this, Gu Qilan felt a little hesitant. In the past, if someone said something so incoherent at this time without explaining it clearly, he would simply ignore it.
However, he had been with Concubine Yi for a long time, and he believed that Concubine Yi would not say something nonsense at this time. She must have a purpose for saying these things.
Gu Qilan thought about it again and again, and said calmly: "Song Qu."
Song Qu received the emperor's signal and bowed to Ning Yuxi and said, "Replying to Concubine Yi, the incense on the Empress's clothes was newly given to her by the Emperor. The Empress has recently been unable to bear the smell of the incense used to fumigate her clothes.
The Emperor then had a new incense developed for the Empress. If I remember correctly, the incense was made by Qing Yihua."
It is indeed Qingyihua!
When the Queen was knocked down and helped into the palace, the concubines followed her in. She saw that Snowball was in a very abnormal condition.
He was extremely manic, his muscles were tense, and his body was always in a state of readiness for battle.
It was at this time that Ning Yuxi suddenly thought of the characteristics of the Qimi flower recorded in the book, because she remembered that the book said that some animals smelled the fragrance of the Qimi flower and then smelled the fragrance of the Qingyi flower or the Yuhuan flower.
It will make its body excited and mentally uncomfortable, and it will desperately try to kill the fragrance of another flower.
Looking at Snowball's condition at that time and the way he rushed towards the Queen desperately, Ning Yuxi suddenly thought of this characteristic of the Qimi Flower recorded in the book.
She didn't think of it at the time, but it came to her mind after seeing that scene.
Combining what she had heard before, Ning Yuxi wondered if this was what she thought, that Concubine Xin had mentioned the incense burner that had been used to compliment the Queen's new clothes.
Now, after listening to what Song Qu said, it seemed that her guess was correct. Snowball suddenly went crazy and pounced on the Queen, not because of any sexual desire, but because of the scent of those two flowers!
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