Chapter 556 Chu Ruohan is tearing her face off!
The face of the old Princess Yong had turned from ashen blue to the color of liver.
She was almost choked by Chu Ruohan's soft yet firm, heart-piercing words. She pointed at Chu Ruohan's hand, which was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
"You...you...are simply making up stories! It's disrespectful!"
"Civile?" Chu Ruohan finally chuckled.
"When the princess speaks of being refined, doesn't she mean watching her own child embroiled in a scandal, yet instead of considering how to educate him, she rushes to drag an innocent family into the scandal to whitewash the situation?"
"You!" The old Princess Yong looked as if she had been slapped hard in the face, and all the blood drained from her face.
The scandal of the brother and sister of Prince Yong's Mansion was an unspoken secret among the upper class in the capital, but no one dared to speak it out in front of her.
Chu Ruohan is tearing her face off!
"That's enough."
Su Wan glanced at the pale-faced old Princess Yong, then looked at Chu Ruohan with a cold expression, and frowned slightly.
"Today is the Begonia Banquet. It's a rare occasion for everyone to get together. Please don't ruin the harmony over trivial matters."
She turned to the old Princess Yong and said, "Your Highness is also tired. Why don't you go to the side hall and rest for a while?"
Even though Princess Yong was extremely unwilling, she did not dare to go against the Queen's wishes.
He could only glare at Chu Ruohan fiercely, and fled with the help of the maid.
The storm seemed to have subsided.
Su Wan took Chu Ruohan's hand and whispered, "Sister Ruohan, why are you doing this?"
Chu Ruohan lowered her eyes, looked at her daughter's still angry face, reached out and pinched her cheeks which were round from anger.
"Some people, if you respect them a little, they will think they can bully you a whole lot. If I don't make things clear, I don't know how many unpleasant words will be waiting for Qingchen in the future."
She raised her head and met Su Wan's gaze with a calm expression, "Besides, everything I said was true, not just angry words."
Su Wan looked at her, and the emotion in his eyes finally turned into a sigh.
She knew that Chu Ruohan was still the same Chu Ruohan.
She appears gentle on the outside, but is tougher than anyone else on the inside. Once she makes up her mind, even ten oxen can't change her mind.
On the side, the prince, who had been watching the whole process silently, now had more than just admiration in his big obsidian eyes.
He looked at Gu Qingchen, who was protected in his mother's arms but still dared to bare his teeth at him, and then looked at Chu Ruohan, who spoke sharply and made Princess Yong unable to fight back.
For the first time in his little head, he developed a new perception of "reverence" towards the creature "woman", other than "Queen Mother".
A Begonia banquet ended in a bad mood.
After the crowd dispersed, Su Wan did not let Chu Ruohan leave, but asked the palace servants to lead her back to the previous side hall.
Xuan Ge'er was temporarily taken somewhere else to rest. In the side hall, only Chu Ruohan, Su Wan, and Gu Qingchen, who still had his neck stiff and looked unconvinced, were left.
Chu Ruohan took a deep breath, pressed Gu Qingchen's shoulders, and asked her to kneel down.
"I, your humble servant, failed to teach my daughter well. I offended the Crown Prince and disrupted the banquet. Please, Queen, punish me."
Gu Qingchen bent his knees, but still refused to lower his head, muttering softly: "He pushed me first!"
Chu Ruohan was so angry that she raised her hands, but in the end she couldn't bear to hit him.
Su Wan hurried forward and helped Chu Ruohan up personally.
"Sister Ruohan, why has it come to this between you and me?"
She sighed, bent down again, pulled up Gu Qingchen who was kneeling stubbornly, and brushed the dust off her knees.
Su Wan did not speak harshly. Instead, she took Qingchen's hand and spoke in a voice as gentle as a spring breeze.
"Qingchen, tell me why you hit the Crown Prince?"
Gu Qingchen looked at her, seemingly not expecting the Queen to be so gentle. His arrogance subsided a little, but he was still righteous.
"He tried to steal my butterfly and pushed me!"
Su Wan nodded, listened carefully, and then slowly said: "If you hit him and he cried, would you be happy?"
Gu Qingchen was stunned, thought about it, and shook his head.
"He started crying, and the palace maids and eunuchs surrounded him. No one played with me anymore, and it wasn't fun at all."
Su Wan smiled and touched her head.
"That's right. The Crown Prince is the heir apparent, the future emperor. He might not mind if you hit him today, but what will others think?"
"They will think you are naughty, that your mother didn't teach you well, and they may even think that the entire Zhenguo Mansion is arrogant and domineering."
"You let your mother be criticized in public for you today. Do you think you did the right thing?"
These words made Gu Qingchen's face turn red and white. She secretly glanced at her mother's tense profile, finally lowered her head, and spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito.
"I...I was wrong."
Chu Ruohan felt relieved.
Su Wan comforted Qingchen and asked the palace maid to take her downstairs to have some snacks. They were the only two left in the palace.
"Look at you, still so polite." Su Wan sat down again and poured a cup of tea for Chu Ruohan personally, with a hint of helplessness in his tone.
"This child's temperament is very much like the Duke's. He is fearless."
Chu Ruohan took the tea and whispered, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
"It's not a trouble at all." Su Wan shook her head. She picked up the teacup and looked at the rising tea mist. Her eyes became a little distant.
She suddenly whispered, "The prince has been calm and composed since he was young. Everyone in the palace flatters him and obeys him, which has actually made him lose his childishness."
"After Qingchen's outburst today, he actually felt it was new. He cried and even told me that Qingchen's fists were powerful."
As Su Wan spoke, a smile played on her lips as if she remembered something funny.
But the smile gradually faded, and she looked at Chu Ruohan with an indescribable meaning in her eyes.
"Sister Ruohan, I won't say those polite words between you and me."
Her voice was low and serious, so that only the two of them could hear it.
"But with Qingchen's personality, if he enters the palace in the future..."
Before he finished speaking, it was like a huge rock, crashing into Chu Ruohan's heart.
Chu Ruohan's hand holding the teacup suddenly tightened, and her heart skipped a beat!
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