The Prime Minister was stunned, and his fiery heart suddenly felt as if a basin of cold water was poured on him, freezing him to the bone.
Looking at the Xu family members with different expressions, Eunuch Li Quan was very contemptuous. Xu Jinyi was in the Yangxin Palace these days, and there were two eunuchs in charge of serving him, and he was one of them.
He more or less understood the Queen's situation in the Xu Mansion.
Seeing the ugly faces of the people in the Xu Mansion, Eunuch Li Quan smiled and presented the imperial edict with both hands.
"Congratulations, my Lord! Your family has a new queen. Your days of prosperity are not far off. Please accept my order."
The Prime Minister twitched his lips, and finally realized that what Wu said was right.
Otherwise, why would the emperor suddenly target him and dislike him for no reason at all?
No one knows when this daughter became the emperor.
He took the imperial edict with an unclear expression: "Thank you for your help, eunuch."
However, the eunuch didn't give him any face at all. Instead, he looked at Xu Youran coldly and asked, "Who was the one who just addressed the Queen by her name and spoke so rudely?"
Wu was startled: "Please calm down, sir. I am ignorant and I hope you will forgive me."
Eunuch Li Quan, however, didn't even look at Wu, but instead called out to the two guards: "Give twenty lashes to anyone who offends the Empress."
Xu Youran's pupils shrank sharply. She raised her head, but before she could react, she was taken down by the guards.
Minister Xu quickly took out a handful of silver from his purse and handed it all over.
"Eunuch, please be kind. My daughter is weak. I will use this little money to buy you and the guards some tea."
In the past few days, the emperor's attitude towards the empress made Li Quan very clear about what to do.
He refused to accept any money from Prime Minister Xu.
Mrs. Wu thought it was too little, so she quickly handed him the silver she had on her.
"Today, your daughter offended the Empress. If I don't punish her severely, I will not be able to bear the consequences if the Emperor blames me."
The guards over there had already pressed the struggling Xu Youran onto the bench.
"Dad, please save me, Dad."
Xu Youran was scared. She was afraid that if she was hit with twenty boards, she would lose her life.
Mrs. Wu was even more worried: "You know my daughter is the niece of the Imperial Concubine. If you hit her with this stick, the Imperial Concubine will not let you go."
Seeing that soft tactics didn't work, Wu resorted to hard tactics and directly gave the title of Imperial Concubine to him.
Eunuch Li Quan snorted in his heart, not to mention that he would not be blamed if he hit someone today.
I'm afraid the emperor will reward him if he finds out.
Before leaving, the emperor instructed that if anyone in the palace dared to disrespect the empress, they could be executed first and reported to the emperor later.
No matter who it is, no one will be spared.
Of course, the emperor also ordered that as long as his life was not harmed, he should stay and be played with by the empress.
"If you offend the Empress, you will be punished. Even if the Imperial Concubine is here, no one should be spared from the beating."
"beat!"
At Eunuch Li Quan's command, the two guards raised the board high up without hesitation and dropped it heavily.
"ah……!"
The two guards were very fierce. Because it was cold, Xu Youran wore a lot of clothes.
The two guards actually lifted up her thick cloak and beat her.
As the boards fell one after another, Xu Youran felt so much pain that her heart was broken and tears came out.
He clenched the wooden bench beneath him with his stiff hands and screamed.
It was freezing cold and there were few people on the street, but they were attracted by Xu Youran's call.
Now everyone knew that Xu Youran had offended the newly appointed Queen.
Xu Youran screamed so miserably that Wu couldn't stop crying, but she didn't dare to go forward.
I hated Xu Jinyi to the extreme.
How could she not understand that this was Xu Jinyi's revenge? If she stepped forward, she was afraid that she would be caught by Xu Jinyi and punished again.
Prime Minister Xu looked at the carriage and already knew that the person sitting inside was Xu Jinyi.
Through the screen window, Xu Jinyi of course saw her father's eyes.
The corners of her lips curled up, and she opened her red lips slightly: "Mianmian, help me get out of the car."
Seeing Xu Jinyi coming out, Eunuch Li Quan was the first to kneel down: "Your servant pays homage to the Empress, may the Empress be well and safe."
All the people from the Xu family and the audience knelt down.
"Everyone, please stand up."
Everyone just thought that the newly crowned queen had a nice voice, so they stood up and took a sneak peek.
Everyone gasped.
"hiss!"
Not everyone can look directly at the queen's face. Fearing that they would suffer the same fate as Xu Youran, the audience lowered their heads.
Hearing this surprised voice, everyone raised their heads and there was an uproar at the scene.
Everyone's eyes were drawn to the graceful and elegant Queen standing there, and even though they knew it was rude, they couldn't look away.
However, some aunties who didn't quite understand the rules started to talk: "That must be the eldest daughter of the Xu family, the legitimate daughter born to the first wife."
"She was so beautiful, like a fairy, how come she was said to be ugly?"
"The backyards of wealthy families are very complicated. I'm afraid the queen will have to endure it."
Upon hearing the sound, Eunuch Li Quan raised his foot and wanted to walk over and scold these unruly people.
Xu Jinyi raised his hand: "No problem."
Everyone seemed to be shocked by Xu Jinyi's beauty, and many of them stared at her with their mouths wide open in delusion.
"This queen is so beautiful! I feel like all the adjectives in the world are not good enough for her."
"Even a glance at her would be a disgrace to the fairy."
Not only outsiders looked at him in a daze, even Prime Minister Xu and Mrs. Wu were shocked by Xu Jinyi.
They knew that she was extremely beautiful, but they didn't expect that after dressing up and wearing gorgeous clothes, she would be so stunningly beautiful.
Impacting people's hearts.
That rosy and tender face, that extremely delicate features, all radiate light.
The twenty strokes of the cane were quickly completed. Xu Youran's face turned pale, with dense beads of cold sweat on his forehead. He forced himself to look at Xu Jinyi.
Looking at Xu Jinyi, who was extremely valuable and admired by others, he once again felt that things were out of control.
She didn't understand why he suddenly changed after being a punching bag for so many years.
When did things start to become different?
Before passing out, Xu Youran was still thinking about this question in her mind.
"Of course!"
Wu screamed and ran over. Bright red blood soaked through Xu Youran's dress and dripped onto the snow-white ground.
The plum blossoms formed are very beautiful.
Xu Jinyi watched this scene coldly, feeling only that it was very gratifying.
Prime Minister Xu looked at his daughter who was soaring into the sky, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something to ease the situation, but he didn't know what to say.
When Xu Jinyi looked at him, for some reason, Prime Minister Xu subconsciously avoided her gaze, not daring to meet her eyes that seemed to see through people's hearts.
Then he realized that he was his father, and even though she was the queen now, he was still her father.
There is no reason for a father to be afraid of his daughter, but there is no reason for a father and daughter to have any overnight hatred.
Besides, those things were done by Wu, and had nothing to do with him.
Showing what he thought was a kind smile, Prime Minister Xu said, "Yier, you've been in the palace these past few days. I must have been worried sick about you."
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