Chapter 364: Degrading the Imperial Concubine Concubine

Ru was like a happy little bird, flapping her wings and "flying" out.

"Your Majesty, I... Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

She followed the etiquette of the Great Yan Dynasty and saluted the emperor like all the concubines in the harem, hoping that he would see a different side of her.

Who knew that the emperor just glanced at her indifferently and asked perfunctorily: "Get up! Are you used to everything in the palace?"

Concubine Ru nodded: "This is the first time I am so close to the emperor. I am very happy. There is nothing I am not used to."

The emperor nodded and turned to walk behind her. Concubine Ru followed: "Your Majesty, aren't you here to see me? Where are you going?"

Wang Dequan turned around and raised his hand to stop her: "Concubine Ru, the emperor is going to see the second princess. You go back first!"

Concubine Ru thought to herself that after seeing the second princess, he would have to come to see her, so she ran away with a happy mood.

She had to go back quickly to tell the palace servants to arrange good wine and food. Today she must send herself to the emperor.

"Princess, this material is so beautiful. I heard that velvet snow-glossy satin is very rare and only the Imperial Concubine has it!"

The second princess sat at the top, glancing at the envious palace maid, and took a sip of fragrant tea before saying, "Do you like it?"

The palace maid hurriedly said, "I dare not. This is a reward from the Imperial Concubine to Your Highness. I am shortsighted and have never seen such a good thing. It's really not..."

"If you like it, then this princess will reward you."

"Ah?" The palace

maid didn't come back to her senses for a moment, but after hearing what the second princess said clearly, she knelt on the ground with a plop: "Princess, this is a reward from the master. Only a princess like you can wear it. I... I don't have any..."

"Why can't a slave wear it?"

The second princess chuckled: "Before the Imperial Concubine was favored by my father, she was just a little noble in Xihe Palace. Her biological mother was a dancer in Ruyang Prince's Mansion and was taken into the mansion by Minister Jiang. Wasn't she a slave of her legitimate sister at that time? It was only because she was favored by my father that she changed from a slave to a master. Now no one mentions her past identity. It's just a few pieces of cloth, and it's not worthy for her to reward this princess. This princess thinks that the things she rewards are just right for you servants."

Her mother was the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Cheng's Mansion, so her status was naturally noble. Her grandfather was a first-class duke. As long as the Duke of Cheng's Mansion did not fall, she would have a backer in the future.

But Jiang Xinyue ruined all this.

She ignored the care she had shown her mother in the past and their friendship as playmates, and was determined to kill her mother, even the Duke Cheng's Mansion was not spared.

Yes!

Her mother did something wrong, but why did everyone think she deserved death and couldn't give her another chance to reform?

Xuan'er was not in a clear mind and asked to enter the Fengxian Palace, leaving her alone in the deep palace, without even anyone to cry to.

The hatred in her heart became deeper and deeper.

The old nanny beside the second princess also laughed: "Princess, you are right. In terms of birth, you are the one who is honored with wealth. She was born to a servant. On what basis should you be rewarded? It’s all because of the emperor, but who is the emperor? He is your father. She is not worthy of saying the word "reward" to you!"

"Is this what you think of the Imperial Concubine?"

Outside the open carved door, the emperor suddenly walked out from behind with a gloomy face: "The Imperial Concubine is kind-hearted. It would be fine if you are not grateful, but even a mere servant can dare to question the identity of the Imperial Concubine. Shen Mingzhu, have you learned all the palace rules and etiquette?"

The second princess did not expect that her father would hear her words that belittled Jiang Xinyue. She was so scared that she stood up from the chair and knelt on the ground, her eyes blurred with tears.

"Then father, please tell me, how should I face the murderer of my mother?"

She used tears to fight back the emperor's anger: "I have grown up to my teens, and I didn't grow up in vain. Father is busy with all kinds of affairs and has no time to take care of me and my brother. It was my mother who taught us and raised us. No matter if she is guilty of heinous crimes or full of evil, she is my mother! She is the mother who raised me since I was a child! My son and Xuan'er both trust Empress Zhen so much, why is it her? Why is it her?"

It was she who broke the balance of the harem and took away the favor that originally belonged to my mother, forcing her to please Jiang Xinyue in order to win the love of my father.

Listening to her desperate roars, Emperor Xuanwu felt that Concubine De deserved to die.

If it weren't for her greed, the Second Princess and the Third Prince wouldn't have ended up like this.

"That's all your mother's fault, no one else can be blamed."

The emperor looked at the Second Princess with a clear eye: "After your mother faked her death, she wanted to sneak attack the Imperial Concubine and kill her, but was eventually killed by the crazy Xiao Ronghua. I never thought that you could blame the Imperial Concubine for this. Do you think your mother is innocent only when the Imperial Concubine dies?" No

matter what the emperor said, the Second Princess always believed that her mother was not guilty of death, and it was all Jiang Xinyue's conspiracy.

But in front of the emperor, she couldn't show it, and could only cry and show weakness: "Father, I don't want to... I don't want to, but as long as I think that my mother's death is related to Empress Zhen, I can't help but feel hatred, I... I'm so sad."

The emperor didn't have many children, and he loved the few that were left.

If it weren't for the children, Concubine De would have been deposed long ago, and he wouldn't have waited until she took action against Jiang Xinyue to deal with her.

The second princess burst into tears, and the emperor felt distressed, but he was still somewhat rational: "Only narrow-minded people will always put the blame on others, Mingzhu...you should learn from your eldest sister."

The second princess bit her lower lip: "Mingzhu...Mingzhu knows. I'm sorry, father, I know I was wrong, and I will never speak ill of Empress Zhen again next time."

The emperor nodded: "It would be best if you can change." If you

can't change, anyway, if the princess doesn't get married at the age, she will be released from the palace to build a mansion.

By then, she will not be bothered by her, and she and Yue'er will have nothing to do with each other.

The second princess bowed her head: "Father, I want to go out to study, please allow me."

She lowered her eyes: "I am narrow-minded because all I have seen and known is the palace. I want to go out and take a look, broaden my mind, okay?"

Locked in this palace, it will always be the world of the imperial concubine, and no one can fight her.

Her world should be outside the palace.

No matter how long Jiang Xinyue's hands are, it is impossible for them to reach outside the palace.

She can't break out from the inside, she has to surround from the outside.

"This old nanny can't stay with you anymore."

The emperor signaled Tang Shiliang to take her out. "Father will send you a nanny later. You are already a teenage girl. Don't let a servant lead you around anymore."