Yan Tingyue swaggered all the way to Yonghe Palace.
The Imperial Concubine was leaning on the beauty couch, looking gloomy. Yan Tingyue pinched herself hard, then rushed over with tears streaming down her face: "Aunt Hui! Aunt Hui, please save Tingyue!"
The Imperial Concubine said calmly: "Don't be in a hurry, take your time."
She cried and complained that Yan Chengyuan and the old prince were unreasonable and unkind, and begged the imperial concubine to release her from house arrest...
The Imperial Concubine just sat there quietly, listening to her venting her dissatisfaction with her grandfather, father and family, as if everyone in the world had wronged her... The Imperial Concubine's expression gradually became strange.
Several palace maids nearby came forward to persuade them, but Linlang flicked her sleeves and spilled a cup of tea on Yan Tingyue.
Linlang knelt down and apologized: "I'm sorry, it's my fault for being clumsy."
The Imperial Concubine's voice trembled slightly: "Take her downstairs to change her clothes."
Linlang hurriedly took her downstairs, asked someone to bring water for her to bathe, and also asked someone to help her re-tie her hair and change her clothes.
After serving her, Linlang turned around and left. The Imperial Concubine looked at her quietly. Linlang knelt down and said, "Madam, I have checked her. There is no red mole on her body, not even on her belly button."
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The Imperial Concubine closed her eyes slightly: "Can you see clearly?"
"Look carefully," Linlang said softly, "I guarantee it with my life."
The Imperial Concubine nodded, and suddenly felt weak all over: "Send it out."
Over there, Yan Tingyue was thinking that she must ask the Royal Concubine to give her a few more things this time so that she could take them back to shock the people in the mansion, and maybe even go out and let those villains have a look... Who knew that she was sent out of the palace right after she changed her clothes, without even seeing the other party.
Immediately, the eunuch of Yonghe Palace went to see the second wife Meng Min and summoned her into the palace.
In fact, the Imperial Concubine and Meng Min look very similar, but the Imperial Concubine has a slightly pointed chin, which makes her more charming, while Meng Min has an oval face, which makes her look more majestic.
But living in a place changes one's spirit, and nourishing one's body changes one's body. The imperial concubine has been favored for twenty years, and her whole person is like the moonlight in the sky, gorgeous and elegant. Her momentum is no longer comparable to Meng Min.
The two of them had always been close, but this time, the Imperial Concubine watched Madam Meng pay her respects without saying a word, until Madam Meng could no longer hold on and swayed for a moment, then she slowly asked, "Where did you take my Tingyue?"
Madam Meng's face suddenly turned pale.
She slowly raised her head and looked at her. The Imperial Concubine stared at her silently. Meng Min finally knelt down slowly, tears welling up in her eyes: "Your Majesty, please forgive me..."
She sobbed and told what happened in Qinzhou that year.
The more the imperial concubine listened, the more shocked she became. She didn't know what to say: "How could you be so foolish! You actually did something like this to confuse the royal bloodline! Don't you want to die?!"
Mrs. Meng smiled bitterly.
She whispered, "My queen, my Tingyue is gone. My heart feels like it's been cut by a knife... But the old princess loved her since she was a child and urged her to go back like crazy. Her health is not good, so how dare we tell her that Tingyue is gone? What if... what if something happens to her, how are we going to deal with it?"
The Imperial Concubine said angrily: "Then why don't you find a fake one? No wonder, no wonder you don't like her..."
"Yes," Mrs. Meng said with a bitter smile, "I don't like her. I really can't like her. When I see her, I think of my Tingyue... How can I like her?"
She took a long breath and said, "Not only that, do you know where the Second Master found this child?"
She paused and said, "It was in a bandit's den. There was a group of bandits entrenched on Wuji Mountain, so the Second Master wanted to get rid of them. When he went there, he found that the bandit leader was cutting off women's skin to make human skin lanterns..."
She couldn't help but vomit, and the imperial concubine also frowned.
Madam Meng said, "Our Second Master has always hated evil, you know that. Naturally, he killed them all... The bandit leader was her biological father."
She sighed, "I do feel a little uncomfortable, but then I think about it. The child was less than three years old at the time. No matter how vicious those people were, the child was innocent after all... After I brought her back, I also raised her with care and took good care of her. Even now, when I talk about those days, I have a clear conscience."
"Who knows... who knows that some things are really in our bones."
"I once saw a maid in her room walking in an abnormal way. When I asked her, I learned that she was dissatisfied with the soup at lunch, so she pushed the bowl to the ground, breaking the porcelain pieces all over the floor. She then asked the maid to walk back and forth barefoot on the porcelain pieces several times..."
"I was very unhappy with her cruelty, so I patiently taught her a lesson and gave her a nanny, thinking she had turned the tables and nothing seemed to be wrong. But one day, the Second Master and I accidentally went over there and saw someone guarding outside. When she saw us, she was so scared that her legs went limp. The Second Master stopped her on the spot, and when we went in, we saw that she was beating the maid's thigh with a whip..."
Using a thin whip to whip the thigh is a method used in the palace to force confessions. It is extremely painful but leaves no scars...
Madam Meng smiled bitterly and said, "She was less than eight years old at the time, and no one had ever told her this. In order to avoid my control, she came up with this method without any guidance. She would rather spend a lot of effort to torture people... I felt at the time that this child could not be changed."
The Imperial Concubine was shocked and said, "This is too... too..."
She started to speak twice, but each time she was unable to continue.
Madam Meng said, "Later, when the Second Master saw that I really didn't care about her anymore, he told me that when the bandit leader was cutting the human skin lantern, the child, who was less than three years old, was clapping and cheering beside him..."
The Imperial Concubine was startled for a moment, and felt cold all over her body.
While the two women were having a secret conversation in the palace, Yan Chengyuan had just received an oral order from Emperor Ming Yan.
The imperial edict ordered him to see the emperor immediately, but he did not even have time to give instructions. He just hurriedly wrote a letter to the deputy commander and left Chang'an city on horseback.
At this time, the emperor had arrived in Suzhou, settled down, and summoned Du Qisheng to pay a visit.
Emperor Ming Yan saw Tang Shiyue whispering with Gu Jiuxing and called them over to ask. She told Gu Jiuxing to tell her if Du Keyong came.
Emperor Mingyan asked her, "What do you want?"
Tang Shiyue smiled and said, "I don't have to do anything! I just need to show up in front of him and let him know that I am the Lady of Enfu County who has been very popular recently, and he will be so angry that he will die... If he already knows, I will ask Manager Gu for help and act out 'The Holy Favor of Youlong', which will also scare him to death."
She felt good just thinking about it: "For this kind of person, all you need to do is live better than him, which is the greatest revenge on him. I like the way he can't stand me but can't get rid of me."
Emperor Ming Yan nodded at her and said, "You don't study hard, but you talk in a set way. I heard that you criticized the prince for the Huo family. What kind of inertial thinking..."
Tang Shiyue's eyes widened: "Why does the prince tell you everything?"
Emperor Mingyan laughed: "Okay, tell me, what is inertial thinking?"
Tang Shiyue smiled and said, "That's easy. I'll tell the emperor a story."
She said, "There was a mute who wanted to buy some nails, so he went to the shop and made a sign to the clerk."
She held up a finger and made a hammering gesture with her other hand: "The guy knew it at a glance, and then brought him a hammer. The mute shook his head, and the guy understood that he wanted to buy nails."
"At this time, a blind man came and wanted to buy a pair of scissors. What do you think the blind man would do?"
Emperor Mingyan frowned, and then Tang Shiyue pointed at a eunuch at random, "What do you say?"
The eunuch said, "I know, a blind man would definitely do this." He stretched out his index and middle fingers and made the gesture of cutting something with a pair of scissors.
Tang Shiyue pointed at him and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is inertial thinking."
Emperor Mingyan was stunned for a moment before he finally understood. He smiled and shook his head. The eunuch was still confused and said with a smile: "Madam, I don't understand. Madam, can you please teach me?"
Tang Shiyue laughed and said, "If a blind man wants to buy a pair of scissors, why doesn't he just open his mouth and say 'I want to buy a pair of scissors'? Why does he need to make gestures?"
The eunuch was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized.
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