"presumptuous!"
The guard spoke coldly.
At the sound of "How dare you!", the girl's legs went weak involuntarily.
She wiped the rain from her face, still unwilling to give up: "Who exactly are you?"
Yuan Yao sat on his horse, looking down at her: "The daughter of the Ninth Prince, Yuan Yao."
Her sweet, childlike voice was especially penetrating in the rain.
The surrounding people were the first to react: "Princess! Princess Yuan Yao has arrived!"
As they spoke, many people were about to kneel down and kowtow.
The news has spread far and wide among the people these past two days.
The daughter of the nine thousand-year-old, Princess Yuan Yao, brought a lot of grain and medicine to the people of Huai River.
Many of them had received a share of the prepared medicinal broth!
They had already drunk the porridge made from the grain brought by the princess.
If there's anyone in the Huai River region who hasn't heard of Princess Yuan Yao, it's only the wealthy merchants in the city...
These wealthy merchants had stockpiled grain and medicine at home long ago. As soon as the floodwaters receded, they stayed at home all day, afraid of catching the plague...
"Thump!"
The woman in the dark red dress was already kneeling in the water, holding a handkerchief, and pretending to wipe away tears: "Your Highness, I beg Your Highness to do justice for this humble woman!"
This woman is the one who just said that those who came after her should be buried with her...
Yuan Yao looked down at her: "Why are you blocking the way here?"
The woman wiped her eyes and cried out in a high-pitched voice, "Little princess, you don't know, this Zhao woman is a poisonous woman!"
A while ago, we both took a liking to a piece of cloth. I got there first and took it. Ever since then, she's held a grudge against me...
Tonight, taking advantage of the darkness and heavy rain, she crashed into my carriage, trying to extort money from me..."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Lady Green Robe, soaked to the bone, was helped over by her daughter. She angrily scolded, "I'm in a hurry to get on my way, but you let your carriage block the road!"
It's dark and raining heavily, you must be trying to use this opportunity to run me over!
"Injustice!" the woman in red cried out. "Princess, I am a law-abiding citizen. I have never even stepped on an ant since I was a child. How could I dare to take someone's life?"
As she spoke, she started crying again.
Yuan Yao was extremely annoyed.
She had no desire to get involved in the conflicts between the women.
However, right now, many residents in the city are still stuck in traffic...
Yuan Yao lowered his eyelids and said, "You are a law-abiding citizen, you wouldn't dare to take someone's life?"
The woman in red, holding a soaked handkerchief, delicately wiped her cheeks: "Your Highness is so discerning, will you help this humble woman seek justice..."
Seeking justice?
Yuan Yao looked at her and asked, "Just now, who said that we should block them here and that no one in the city who hasn't come out should live?"
The woman shuddered.
Yuan Yao then asked, "And who said that everyone who comes after you will be buried with you?"
The woman was so frightened that her whole body went limp.
Yuan Yao turned his head and ordered the guards, "Slap him."
"Smack!"
A slap landed on the woman in the red dress across her face.
Because she was kneeling, the woman absorbed a lot of force; she didn't fly away, but several of her teeth were knocked out.
Yuan Yao looked at her and said, "This slap is for the people you blocked behind."
The woman, with blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, stared in disbelief at the little figure on horseback.
Her ears were ringing, and she couldn't hear anything at all.
The little girl's mouth moved slightly, and the man holding her slapped her again.
The woman didn't even try to dodge; she was slapped and thrown into the floodwaters.
Before falling into the water, she could vaguely make out from the little figure's lip movements that it was saying, "This slap is for myself."
You have committed treason and dared to make me die with you; this is what you deserve…
The woman fell into the water and didn't get up for a long time.
This person can't just drown like this.
Yuan Yao looked at the terrified servants: "Aren't you going to help your mistress up?"
The servants trembled and hurriedly went to rescue the woman in red...
Upon seeing this, the woman in green, already shivering from the cold, trembled even more violently, her voice becoming slurred: "It was I who was blinded by anger and failed to recognize your greatness, that led me to speak so disrespectfully to the princess..."
"Please, Your Highness, spare this humble woman!"
As she knelt down, her daughter beside her cried out, "Princess, my mother was just too angry, that's why she said those things to you."
Princess, please be magnanimous and don't hold it against my mother..."
After saying this, the mother and daughter kowtowed together.
At this moment, a young and alluring woman approached, holding an umbrella, and curtsied: "Your Highness, my lady has a fiery temper. You have already punished her, so please forgive her?"
"Who needs your fake kindness?" The girl in the light red dress turned around and glared angrily, "If you hadn't hooked my father and urged him to hurry, the carriage would have crashed into us!"
The alluring woman frowned slightly: "Oh dear, my lady, I'm carrying your little brother in my belly."
Keep your voice down, lest you frighten the only young master of the Zhao family…
Hearing the concubine mention the unborn child in her womb, Miss Zhao's eyes reddened with anger, and she could only silently shed tears.
That's fine.
Unexpectedly, the concubine smiled faintly, held up her umbrella, and said to Yuan Yao, "Princess, please forgive me. I am pregnant and am unable to perform the proper etiquette."
Surely the princess is kind-hearted and wouldn't make things difficult for a pregnant woman?
green tea!
Yuan Yao was extremely disgusted.
She sat on horseback, looking at Zhao's concubine: "Did you urge the carriage to move?"
The concubine curtsied and said, "I was afraid of delaying the people behind us, which is why I urged my sister and the coachman."
Upon hearing this, Miss Zhao angrily retorted, "Who is your sister? My mother would never have a vixen like you!"
Upon hearing this, the concubine frowned slightly and said aggrievedly, "Miss, I only wanted to step forward and say a few words in her defense because I saw that my sister had lost a tooth and her appearance was disheveled..."
"Shut up!" Yuan Yao interrupted Zhao's concubine in a childish voice: "You are pregnant, so I won't let the guards punish you. However, tonight's events are all because of you."
Your mistress had a conflict with someone because of you, yet you spread rumors and belittled her in your words, making her a laughingstock.
"This princess thinks you're no better than me!"
The concubine's smile froze on her face, her complexion alternating between pale and red.
The concubine bit her lip, on the verge of tears.
Yuan Yao sneered and asked in a childish voice, "What, you're putting on such a wronged look because you think I, the princess, have bullied you?"
The concubine bit her lip hard and lowered her head, saying, "This servant dares not..."
"You wouldn't dare?" Yuan Yao said, "I understand. You mean I did bully you."
"Then come here and come with me to the Ninth Prince to reason with him."
Go see the Ninth Prince?
That ruthless, bloodthirsty eunuch?
She's afraid she'll go in sideways and come out upright...
"Thump!"
The concubine's legs went weak, and she knelt in the water, kowtowing desperately: "Princess, I was wrong! I shouldn't have been disrespectful to you, Princess. Please, please forgive me..."
Yuan Yao looked down at her and said, "You're pregnant, and you're kneeling before me like this. If the baby is lost, wouldn't that be my fault?"
"You'd better get up and come with me to see His Majesty."
"This lowly concubine is not pregnant!" The concubine kowtowed desperately, "Please, Your Highness, forgive this lowly concubine, this lowly concubine was wrong..."
Not pregnant?
Yuan Yao raised her small eyebrows.
At this moment, the woman in green screamed in anger and lunged at the concubine: "You wicked woman, you faked your pregnancy and deceived the whole household!"
These past few days, you've made my life miserable just because you're pregnant with a boy!
Soon, the two were wrestling.
In the end, the concubine lost, and her face was scratched raw...
Yuan Yao withdrew her gaze and said, "These two carriages are now unusable."
Cut the ropes, push the carriage to the side of the road, and clear the way.
"Princess! Wait a minute! This humble woman has another complaint to file!"
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