Chapter 103 Making a scene
Fangpin looked at Zhao Hai in disbelief: "How could it be? He was clearly beaten by the people from Zhaohua Palace."
Xuanyuan Ling's expression turned cold. "Just now I asked you who beat you, and you said you didn't know, and only said it was related to Zhaohua Palace. I made the decision for you and asked Zhao Hai to interrogate him. Now that servant says he doesn't know, but you keep saying that he asked Zhaohua Palace to beat him, Concubine Fang, are you deliberately accusing Zhaohua Palace? You are so bold to deceive the emperor in front of me."
Fangpin didn't expect the situation to turn around so quickly, and she didn't know how to explain herself for a moment. After all, she was wrong first and felt guilty. Xuanyuan Ling suddenly put pressure on her. How could Fangpin not be afraid of his majesty as an emperor?
Fangpin knelt on the ground suddenly: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, I dare not deceive you."
At this point, Fangpin couldn't let the emperor get really angry with her for a servant, so she quickly said aggrievedly: "I was also deceived by that servant. It's my fault that I didn't know people well. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Just now he pretended to be pitiful and innocent to please others, but now he is being deceived again.
"Yes." Xuanyuan Ling said: "Since you were deceived by me, such a wicked slave should not stay by your side. Zhao Hai, I will punish you with thirty strokes of the cane."
He looked at the Third Prince again and said, "The servants around the Third Prince are too negligent. Ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pick a few sensible ones and have them watch when he is caned. If this happens again, there is no need to report to me. I will just cane him to death."
Zhao Hai agreed.
Concubine Fang never expected that the situation would change so quickly. She had just made a complaint, but now it turned out like this. After thinking about it, this person was a servant of hers. The emperor might be afraid that such a person would lead the third prince astray, so he reacted so strongly.
Xuanyuan Ling turned around and went out and asked, "What's going on in Zhaohua Palace?"
Although Zhao Hai had just reported it like that, he still had to investigate the details of the matter.
However, Concubine Fang is the biological mother of the Third Prince after all, so even if she looks down on him, she has to avoid speaking of him.
"I heard that Concubine Fang and Concubine Xi had some friction, so the eunuch wanted to please Concubine Fang, so when he went to the imperial kitchen to get food, he snatched a dish of sweet and sour fish and beat up the servant of Zhaohua Palace. The eunuch of Zhaohua Palace did not fight back on the spot, but the eunuch who beat him up was beaten with a club and thrown into the cesspool last night."
This means that it has nothing to do with the masters on either side, it is purely the servants acting on their own initiative.
Xuanyuan Ling heard this and asked again: "What friction?"
Zhao Hai didn't expect the emperor would ask this. Well, he was still thinking about the one in Zhaohua Palace. Concubine Xi was really amazing. She made the emperor think about her to this extent. He didn't want to say it, but the emperor asked. So, Concubine Fang, you just wish yourself good luck.
"It was said that when Concubine Xi came to pay her respects, she glanced at Concubine Li's belly a few times, and asked Concubine Fang to tell her about it, so the Empress reprimanded Concubine Fang."
When Xuanyuan Ling heard that there was no one who didn't know what was going on, his tone suddenly changed: "You are a restless thing."
Zhao Hai thought to himself, of course not. You don’t even know how to be shy. She’s just favored and can’t have children. You’ve given birth to a prince, so what does it have to do with you? You’re still so disgusting. Aren’t you sick?
"Go to Zhaohua Palace." He paused and said, "Go and get the set of ornaments that Xijiang sent as tribute earlier."
Xuanyuan Ling went all the way to Zhaohua Palace. Chen Qing hadn't received any news yet. When he really saw Xuanyuan Ling coming, he also saw Zhao Hai coming in with a box.
Shen Qing saw that this dog emperor hadn't come for several days, and suddenly came to the door and sent gifts? It wasn't long ago that he sent the night pearl. It wouldn't be a sudden gift for no reason, right?
I don't know the reason, and besides, Fangpin's incident just happened, so she'd better keep a low profile.
She did not show much joy at the moment, and just paid her respects to Xuanyuan Ling in a normal way.
Xuanyuan Ling frowned. What's wrong? She was usually happy to see him coming, but today she clearly saw him bringing something, and she was not happy at all?
He glanced at Zhao Hai, and Zhao Hai put the box in front of Chen Qing. Chen Qing didn't ask what it was, but just looked at Xuanyuan Ling and lowered his head again. Zhao Hai thought to himself, oh, this Concubine Xi really made Concubine Fang feel uncomfortable?
Zhao Hai introduced: "This is a tribute from Western Xinjiang. It is exquisitely crafted. It is said to be the only one in the world. The emperor specially ordered me to bring it to you."
Shen Qing did not even look at the unique ornaments in the box, and did not even seem to be curious: "I just got a box of night-shining pearls from the emperor."
It seems like he wants to refuse, but it also seems like he doesn't want to refuse.
This little thing would never speak like this under normal circumstances, and it really made Fangpin, who was restless, feel uncomfortable.
At first, Xuanyuan Ling asked the imperial physician to keep it secret for the time being, but when word got out from Concubine Yu, Xuanyuan Ling felt that Shen Qing would inevitably know about it. However, she was well-behaved and never cried in front of him. After she got her revenge that day, the matter was never mentioned again. She seemed to be very happy during the New Year. After all, the longer time went by, the less this matter mattered in her heart.
But she was unexpectedly exposed by Concubine Fang. Wouldn't that just open her wounds again?
Xuanyuan Ling was angry with Fangpin just now, and now when he saw Chen Qing, this anger really turned into disgust. He was stabbing people's scars and had a sinister heart.
Xuanyuan Ling reached out to pull Shen Qing: "I know you are wronged. I have punished the servants around her. Now the Third Prince is about to have a hundred-day banquet. I can't punish her. After the Third Prince's hundred-day banquet, I will ask her to reflect on her mistakes behind closed doors."
Shen Qing blinked twice before she realized that she was talking about Fangpin. Punishing Fangpin's servants? And also confining them to reflect on their mistakes?
So Concubine Fang went to Xuanyuan Ling to complain?
So he must know the whole story, not just the food snatching incident, right? The cause must have been the rude words of Concubine Fang in Fengyi Palace? This thing was sent to comfort her because she was upset knowing that she couldn't have children.
After figuring this out, Shen Qing felt that, well, it seemed like she could make a fuss. She couldn't have children anymore, and it would be abnormal if she didn't make a fuss.
Chen Qing seemed to have let Xuanyuan Ling poke into the secret in his heart. He wanted to say it but couldn't. In the end, he grabbed Xuanyuan Ling and dragged him into the house.
Xuanyuan Ling was used to it. After all, he would not mind if things were discussed in the room, even if they were a little unruly.
Sure enough, as soon as Shen Qing arrived in the room, she said to Xuanyuan Ling: "She is the biological mother of the Third Prince. I cannot be a mother in the future. How can I compare to her? How can I ask her to be confined? The emperor should focus on Concubine Fang, and... and Concubine Li, she also has a child now."
Xuanyuan Ling knew it was just an angry remark, but she was clearly very upset, yet she still remembered the rules and didn't make a scene outside.
It's really heartbreaking.
Just as she was feeling distressed, Shen Qing seemed to be in great pain: "After all, I can't give birth, so why is Your Majesty here? There are other people in the palace who are not pregnant, Your Majesty can go find them."
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