Chapter 171 No matter who comes, we have to finish the smoking
Eunuch Li's heart trembled. He looked away and shouted, "The Emperor has ordered Ye Qianning and Prime Minister Gao to come to the palace immediately."
Old Gu looked a little solemn. It was already late at night. Why did the emperor summon them to the palace?
Zhan Yi lowered his eyes. This kid came to the Prime Minister's Mansion in such a high profile that the Emperor must have been alarmed long ago, but why did he only summon someone to the palace now?
"Your humble servant...wants to go to the palace...to sue her, to sue Marquis Xiang Ming..." Prime Minister Gao crawled towards Eunuch Li.
The bloody mess was so painful that Eunuch Li felt pain just looking at it.
"Come, help the Prime Minister up." said Eunuch Li.
The young eunuch at the back hurried forward.
"Wait." Ye Qianning said.
Eunuch Li looked over and said, "Miss Xiang, the Emperor has summoned you to the palace immediately. There is no time to lose. Please come with me."
"I will leave naturally after I finish the work. Please wait for a moment, sir." Ye Qianning had no intention of giving up.
"I...I want to go to the palace to see the emperor." Prime Minister Gao shouted.
"If Miss Xiang is late and the emperor blames me, I cannot bear the consequences," said Eunuch Li.
Ye Qianning looked at him coldly: "You can't bear it, but I can. Just wait!"
Eunuch Li was stunned. It was true that a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.
"How many times did you whip Fourth Wife?" Ye Qianning asked the guards coldly.
"Four... forty-one lashes." The guard replied.
Forty-one lashes?
Everyone present was surprised. They thought it was just a beating, but they didn't expect it to be forty-one lashes. How could he survive after being whipped like that?
No wonder the little girl was so angry.
"How many whips has Prime Minister Gao received now?" she asked again.
"Six lashes."
"There are still thirty-five lashes left. Keep whipping. Not even one less."
The guard pursed his lips and whipped Prime Minister Gao again, whipping him to the bone.
"Ah...Eunuch Li..."
"My husband... Eunuch Li... We need to see the emperor... Eunuch Li is disobeying the emperor's order..." Mrs. Gao cried until she almost died.
“Help…ah…”
One sound after another reached everyone's ears.
Eunuch Li had never expected that a baby would dare to ignore the emperor's order: "If Miss Xiang continues to hit someone, someone will die."
"The Prime Minister's life is life, but my Fourth Wife's life is not life?"
"But……"
"No buts. No matter who comes, he will be whipped once for forty-one times. Whether he survives or not depends on his luck." Ye Qianning interrupted coldly.
"This... Miss Xiang, he is the prime minister after all, and only the emperor can decide his life and death." Eunuch Li did not expect the child to be so stubborn.
"Your Majesty, please be reasonable. Prime Minister Gao sent someone to assassinate me, and I can ignore it, but he hurt my closest relatives, and I cannot forgive him. Even if I die, I will get my Fourth Wife back." Ye Qianning's face was cold, and he added in a bitter voice, "Everyone has a bottom line, and my family is my bottom line."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent except for the sounds of whips and screams.
Are family members the bottom line?
Mr. Gu was a little confused, but suddenly he understood. When the little girl was assassinated in Loushan, he should have known that it was someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion. He didn't take action because he didn't care.
When he returned to the general's mansion on his day off and saw that the old woman was covered in wounds, he must have been angry. Forty-one lashes! His old bones probably couldn't even withstand twenty lashes.
Come to think of it, he was a little envious.
If he was beaten like this, those people in the Gu family would not be so brave as to rush to the Prime Minister's Mansion to kill him.
Zhan Yi also saw clearly that it was not that the little girl was cruel, but that the Prime Minister's Mansion had gone to a level that she could not tolerate.
(End of this chapter)
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