"Concubine Wan!"
The Queen gnashed her teeth in anger and said, "Call Concubine Wan to me!"
Nanny Bai didn't hesitate and went to call for help. Concubine Wan soon came before the Queen and saluted her respectfully.
The Queen watched her sweep the tea set she had brought back to the ground, hitting Concubine Wan.
Concubine Wan shrank back, then pleaded innocently: "Your Majesty, please calm down!"
"Calm down? What is the identity of that Mei'e? She was just the one I kept in the palace to give to Prince Chen! How did she become the Emperor's woman through your hands?"
Concubine Wan looked up at the Empress, her face full of grievance. "Empress, I am wronged. I heard her say that she could sing and dance folk songs that could make all flowers pale in comparison, so I thought of going to see her, but who knew the Emperor would actually pass by."
"But the Queen doesn't matter! We can go tell the Emperor now that this woman is a woman from outside the palace! She's not a young girl. Her body is already unclean, so how can she be worthy of the Emperor's favor?"
Concubine Wan's words woke the queen up. Yes, she is just a woman, how can she be worthy of the emperor?
"Why don't you go and report to the Emperor?"
Concubine Wan kowtowed repeatedly: "Yes, I will go right away!"
After Concubine Wan got up, she got up in a hurry. The queen was originally very angry, but at this moment, her anger gradually subsided.
Concubine Wan left in a hurry, with only coldness in her eyes. Where was the fear she had at the beginning?
She looked at the maid beside her and ordered, "Slap me now!"
The maid looked at Concubine Wan in surprise: "Slave, slave, I dare not!"
She was about to kneel down, but Concubine Wan sternly said, "Hurry up!"
Afterwards, she arrived outside the emperor's southern study, and a palace attendant asked, "Concubine Wan, what do you want to see the emperor about? Do you need me to report to you?"
"No need, I can just wait here!"
Concubine Wan stood obediently aside and had no intention of going in.
It wasn't until dark that the emperor slowly came out. Seeing Concubine Wan, he was a little surprised: "Concubine Wan, why are you here?"
When Concubine Wan saw the emperor, she immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that Mei'e was a divorced woman from outside the palace and is no longer a virgin! Your Majesty, please do not favor her!"
Concubine Wan's words surprised the emperor greatly. He frowned and looked at her steadily, his eyes full of doubt.
"How could the Queen find a woman from such a family for me outside the palace? Where did you hear such nonsense?"
Concubine Wan knelt on the ground and gradually began to sob: "I am not talking nonsense, every word I said is true!"
The emperor heard the crying and found it very strange: "Why are you crying?"
Concubine Wan shook her head, not daring to say why she was crying. Her sobbing only became louder!
The emperor said displeasedly: "Speak quickly!"
Concubine Wan was shaking her head desperately. The emperor felt irritated and coldly ordered the palace maid kneeling behind Concubine Wan, "You speak!"
The palace maid shuddered when she was mentioned, and Concubine Wan immediately scolded her, "Don't talk nonsense!"
The emperor could not fail to see the trick. He said to the eunuch in displeasure: "Call Mei'e!"
Mei'e was soon taken to the southern study. Concubine Wan was kneeling on the ground. Unaware of the situation, Mei'e looked a little frightened and uneasy. She said, "Your Majesty."
The voice is soft and gentle, very pleasant to the ears.
"What did Concubine Wan say about you? You were married outside the palace and then divorced? I asked you to sleep with me today. Don't you know that lying about this is a serious crime?"
Mei'e looked at the emperor in surprise: "Mei'e is terrified. I don't know when Mei'e was married. Please let Your Majesty know!"
That look of astonishment and surprise, without any sign of lying, just seemed extremely innocent and pitiful.
The emperor frowned slightly, and the eunuch beside him suggested, "Your Majesty, there is a kind of clown sand made of geckos and cinnabar in the palace. Just apply it on her body and you will know whether she is innocent or not, and whether she is married!"
The emperor nodded, and the eunuch ordered the palace maid to do it.
Soon, the cinnabar was dotted on Mei'e's arm, but a little cinnabar soon appeared on her snow-white skin, and no matter how hard she rubbed it, it couldn't be wiped off...
Mei'e felt very aggrieved and said to the emperor, "I don't know how I have offended Concubine Wan. Why would Concubine Wan slander me like this? If the emperor had believed her, Mei'e would have been executed for deceiving the emperor by now!"
As she spoke, she sobbed in grievance, and her trembling body looked very pitiful.
"Concubine Wan, do you know what the punishment is for spreading rumors and deceiving me?"
As soon as the emperor said this majestic words, Concubine Wan immediately begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I am wronged, I..."
Concubine Wan seemed to want to say something, but her mind told her not to. It was the maid behind Concubine Wan who spoke up, "Your Majesty, please allow me to interrupt you. I know that Concubine Wan was forced to lie by the Queen!"
"Your Majesty, the Empress beat Concubine Wan today, blaming her for being nosy and calling Mei'e to the Imperial Garden, which is why Your Majesty met Mei'e. This is to let our Empress solve the incident she created."
"Shut up!" Concubine Wan shouted angrily, but when she scolded the palace maid, she raised her face. Under the bright candlelight in the hall, the five finger marks on her face were particularly eye-catching.
The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly. "This woman was left in the palace by the empress to learn palace etiquette. Isn't she the woman left for me? Why would I hit you for Mei'e?"
Concubine Wan lowered her head, terrified. She weakly replied, "This Mei'e was never prepared for the Emperor! She was intended by the Empress to be given to Prince Chen!"
The emperor finally understood why the queen was angry because he was going to favor this beautiful girl!
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