"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Qingluan asked cautiously.
"If I'm not mistaken, she should send someone to invite the Emperor. You need to go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and stall that person." In a short time, she had already come up with a solution.
"Yes," Qingluan replied, and quickly ran out the door, not daring to delay in any way.
News of Qi Leiyinyu's fainting spread like wildfire, and the palace was immediately abuzz with discussion. Apart from the few people from Khorchin, everyone else was saying bad things about Hailanzhu.
Hailanzhu knew, of course, that Qilei Yinyu had revealed this information herself. This time was different from the last; the palace maids and eunuchs of Guanju Palace had all seen it. Hailanzhu was speechless and could only retaliate in kind.
"Take him to the side hall," Hailanzhu instructed.
“Yes, ma’am…” The eunuch obeyed the order and led Qi Leiyinyu to the soft couch in the side hall.
Seeing Qi Leiyin lying motionless, Hailanzhu's lips curled up slightly. "The concubine has only fainted temporarily. I have a folk remedy for sudden fainting, so there's no need to trouble the imperial physician."
Qi Leiyinyu also had personal maids, but since it was Consort Chen who gave the orders, how could they dare to disobey?
So, under Hailanzhu's arrangement, they had no choice but to go to the storeroom and retrieve the silver needles.
Looking at the silver needle, which was about half the size of her palm, Hailanzhu nodded in satisfaction.
She asked the system telepathically: "Which acupoints cause extreme pain when needled, yet have no harmful effects on the body?"
The system replied: Acupoints at the extremities are generally more painful.
But she didn't understand any of this, and asked again: "Put it simply, I don't understand."
The system replied helplessly: "It's about fingers and toes."
"Oh!" Hailanzhu responded thoughtfully, and then directly pricked Qilei Yinyu's finger with a needle.
She stabbed him accurately, and Qi Leiyinyu's fingers contracted slightly from the stimulation, but she didn't let out a terrible scream, nor did she even open her eyes.
"Damn Hailanzhu, how could she treat me like this? Wait until the Emperor sees your true colors, then let's see if he still likes you." Qi Leiyinyu thought to herself. At this moment, she was enduring the excruciating pain, gritting her teeth as she suffered the piercing agony from her fingers. The pain made her face turn deathly pale, and cold sweat beaded on her forehead.
"You're quite tolerant," Hailanzhu said mockingly, before inserting several more needles.
The ten fingers are connected to the heart, and Qi Leiyinyu could no longer hold back and cried out. She could not wait for Huang Taiji to arrive.
Hailanzhu smiled and said, "Sister, you've finally woken up. You scared me half to death."
"It's all my fault." Qi Leiyinyu quickly got up, suppressing the hatred in her heart, and said with a faint smile, "I've made Your Majesty worry."
Hailanzhu was secretly delighted; this was exactly the effect she wanted. However, she appeared moved and said, "You're really silly. Is my forgiveness really that important?"
"Of course." Qi Leiyinyu replied immediately, "When Keshan left, he kept instructing me to follow your wishes. It was my fault that I was jealous and... Your Majesty is magnanimous and will forgive me. I will never dare to do it again from now on."
She was sobbing, with glistening tears in the corners of her eyes, looking utterly pitiful, which made her appear even more so to everyone else.
"Don't be like that. Since you know you're wrong and can correct your mistakes, then I will forgive you," Hailanzhu said hypocritically.
"Your Highness..." Qi Leiyinyu immediately smiled, as if it were a happy thing.
She left the bed, went straight to the table, picked up the tea that had just been poured, knelt down and said, "Please, Your Highness, drink this cup of tea, as a sign that you will not hold it against me." Her eyes, which kept darting around, looked just like those of a thieving mouse.
Hailanzhu coldly stared at the steaming cup of tea. Since she knew that Qilei Yinyu had ill intentions, how could she possibly accept his gift? So she deliberately made a feint.
Qi Leiyinyu thought Hailanzhu was going to take her tea, and was overjoyed. She quickly let go of her hand, and the scalding tea flowed from her palm to her wrist.
She was too nervous to see clearly that Hailanzhu's hand stopped an inch away from the teacup.
"Your Majesty, how could you do this? Even if you don't forgive me, you shouldn't have splashed tea on me!" Qi Leiyinyu said painfully, clutching the scalded area. Because her head was lowered, she didn't see that Hailanzhu's hand was supporting her forehead.
She thought to herself: If only the Emperor were here, but it doesn't matter. There are so many palace maids to witness this. Even if Hailanzhu had a hundred mouths, she couldn't explain herself clearly.
Hailanzhu sneered: "I didn't even touch the teacup. You're really good at making false accusations. Are you really trying to apologize to me?"
Qi Leiyinyu raised her head, tears streaming down her face: "Your Majesty, Consort Chen, if you say that I am slandering you, then I am slandering you. I have no way to defend myself."
This is as if Hailanzhu, in her high position, oppressed others.
Looking at that pretentious face, Hailanzhu felt nauseous, but she didn't argue with him. Instead, she said, "Fine, let me tell you what these palace maids have to say!"
So he randomly pointed to a palace maid, who happened to be a person from Qi Lei Yin Yu's palace.
The palace maid said fearfully, "Your Highness, Consort Chen was only touching the hair ornament on her head and... did not touch the teacup."
"You didn't touch it?" Qi Leiyinyu couldn't believe it. In her mind, she had always thought that Hailanzhu had touched her teacup, which was why she deliberately let go.
"I was going to accept the tea, but the hair ornament got stuck in my hair, so I pulled it off," Hailanzhu explained clearly.
Qi Leiyinyu looked around and noticed that her personal maid was silent, so she knew that what Hailanzhu said was true.
"This..." Qi Leiyinyu was a little flustered. Now she was like a mute, unable to say what she wanted to say.
"Heh..." Hailanzhu scoffed, "Not only did you fail to frame me, but you also got hurt for nothing. You've lost both your wife and your army."
After speaking, her face turned serious again, and she said sternly to all the palace maids in the hall, "All of you, leave. The concubine does not know etiquette. As Consort Chen, it is my duty to teach her a lesson. Otherwise, if this continues, it will be the Emperor who will lose face."
"yes."
Upon hearing this, the palace maid dared not say anything more and bowed repeatedly before retreating. Only Qi Lei Yin Yu's personal maid lingered, hesitating.
"What? Do you also want me to discipline you?" Hailanzhu glanced at the palace maid, her tone icy.
“This servant is of lowly status and is unworthy of Your Highness’s instruction.”
"Since you already know, why don't you retreat quickly?" Hailanzhu gradually lost her patience.
"yes."
Left with no other option, the palace maid had to turn and leave.
Qi Leiyinyu watched her departing figure, her lips trembling inexplicably.
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