Concubine Zhao pointed at the leading eunuch and said, "Slap him eighty times! Do it yourself!"
"Yes, I obey your command!" The chief eunuch knelt down and started slapping himself in the face.
Concubine Zhao was too lazy to look at it. She turned around and entered the hall. Zhong Mingzheng glared at the chief eunuch with half of his face covered in blood, and hurriedly turned around and followed Concubine Zhao into the hall.
"Mother, please don't get angry and make yourself sick," Zhong Mingzheng was busy pouring tea for Concubine Zhao. He consoled her. "After all, Father didn't go to Concubine Shu, and it's okay to go to Jingren Palace. He's just a dead person anyway. It's not worth it for you to get so angry, mother..."
"What do you know?!" Concubine Zhao said in a low voice, gritting her teeth. "If he had gone to Concubine Shu, would I have been so angry? He is just a poor and broke man, why should I worry about him? But it has to be Jingren Palace, and that woman..."
Concubine Zhao didn't say anything else. She took off the golden armor one by one and threw it heavily on the small table. She clenched her fist tightly.
The emperor and empress were deeply in love, even though Empress Zhenxian Xu Siyao had passed away for 32 years. But His Majesty never forgot her. Although Concubine Zhao was the most favored by the emperor and the previous dynasty had a high voice to make her the empress, His Majesty still had no plan to make another empress. He even made the eldest prince Zhong Mingwei, born by Empress Zhenxian, the crown prince early on, which made Concubine Zhao, who had given birth to two princes in succession, angry. It happened that Empress Zhenxian's Jingren Palace was next to her Yanxi Palace. With Jingren Palace next to her, her Yanxi Palace, no matter how colorful and glittering it was, still looked shabby as a concubine's palace. Concubine Zhao naturally hated it.
"Mother, are you afraid that the emperor will show some mercy to the deposed crown prince because of the Empress?" Zhong Mingzheng's expression also became serious. "Mother, do you think the emperor will be soft-hearted?"
"Who knows? The deposed crown prince is the queen's only son," Concubine Zhao gritted her teeth and said, "No, the longer the night, the more trouble there is. We have to notify the people in Ningguta to take action, so that His Majesty won't be moved by his fatherly heart one day..."
"But mother, even if His Majesty has a kind heart, so what? The deposed crown prince is now a half-dead cripple. Even if he is acquitted and returns to the capital someday, can a paralytic still aspire to the throne?" Zhong Mingzheng disagreed with Concubine Zhao's excessive caution. "And if we act now, it's inevitable that our father will notice. If he gets angry, I'm afraid our lives will be difficult in the future."
Concubine Zhao was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Zhong Mingzheng: "Did you see the deposed crown prince become paralyzed with your own eyes?"
Zhong Mingzheng nodded and was about to speak when he saw Concubine Zhao's personal maid come in. Zhong Mingzheng was so busy that he kept silent and frowned at the maid: "What's the matter? Why are you rushing around so recklessly?"
"Your Highness, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me!" The maidservant was busy bowing and begging for forgiveness, while saying to Concubine Zhao, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Zhao is here, and he said he came to tell me a few words."
"Please invite Eunuch Zhao in quickly!" Concubine Zhao said hurriedly.
"Yes, I obey your command." The maid hurriedly retreated.
After a while, Zhao Ruhai came in. He smiled and bowed to Concubine Zhao and Zhong Mingzheng: "This old servant greets the queen and the third prince!"
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