"The Queen Mother is here!"
With one announcement, everyone knelt down to greet him.
Huo Zhiyu helped the Queen Mother sit down: "Grandma, why are you here?"
The Queen Mother sighed softly, "I just woke up and heard about this." She turned to ask Huo Wuyou, "Wuyou, how is your injury?"
Huo Wuyou smiled comfortingly: "Don't worry, Grandma, it's just a minor injury. I've already taken medicine, so it's fine."
The Queen Mother sighed again: "Xue family girl, how are you?"
Xue Zhiyi was a little worried that the Queen Mother would vent her anger on Huo Wuyou because of his injury, so she just lowered her eyes and said, "Your Majesty, I am grateful to the Marquis for saving me. Zhiyi is fine. I am deeply grateful."
Fortunately, the Queen Mother did not blame them, but just asked everyone to sit down without formalities.
Ge Yuanhui felt guilty, and before Huo Wuyou could speak, he knelt down and confessed his guilt to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, it is because Yuanhui did not discipline his subordinates strictly that such a thing happened. I hope that the Queen Mother will punish him severely, otherwise Yuanhui will feel extremely guilty."
The Queen Mother naturally knew what had happened. Her old eyes looked at Fu Rongxin and then fell on Ge Yuanhui again.
Her voice was still kind: "Yuan Hui, even the female officials around me make mistakes sometimes. If it was unintentional, why do you blame yourself so much?"
Ge Yuanhui's tearful eyes froze for a moment.
The Queen Mother said, "It's just that this incident today did hurt Wuyou and the girl from the Xue family. You should apologize to them sincerely."
Everyone was irritated: Could it be that the Queen Mother was supporting Ge Yuanhui? It was no wonder. What was the other person's status? And what was her status? Duke Dingguo commanded a large army, so who would blame his only daughter for this?
With such a big step forward, how could Ge Yuanhui dare to object? He just said yes, then stood up and bowed three times to Xue Zhiyi and Huo Wuyou. "Today, Yuanhui failed to teach strictly, and the servants around him made mistakes, which almost caused a disaster. Tomorrow, Yuanhui will prepare the best medicine for the wounds and personally send it to your house."
It would be fine if she just apologized to Marquis Lin'an, but who the hell does she, Xue Zhiyi, think she is to accept her gift!
Ge Yuanhui was so humiliated that he almost trembled.
Xue Zhiyi knew that the Queen Mother needed to maintain a balance in certain matters.
The situation in Huajing is so complicated that even the Queen Mother cannot arbitrarily deal with the Imperial Concubine, or the people of Prince Gong's faction, just because of her grandson, let alone vent her anger for Xue Zhiyi.
She just lowered her eyes and said, "Miss Ge, don't mind."
No one knew what Huo Wuyou was thinking. He just sat there and accepted the greeting without saying a word.
"Okay, okay." The Queen Mother took Ge Yuanhui's hand and said, "Now that you've apologized, this matter will be over."
Ge Yuanhui touched the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief and was pulled by the empress dowager to sit beside her.
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother changed the subject: "The only ones who should be punished are those who have made mistakes. How can I let you take the punishment for them?"
The look of grievance on Ge Yuanhui's face froze.
The empress dowager just looked at her with a smile, without even giving Chai Yue a glance, but Chai Yue understood what she meant. She waved her hand, and several eunuchs came up and dragged away the maid who had just taken the blame.
Ge Yuanhui felt as if his spine was filled with ice, chilling him to the bone...
"Queen Dowager, please spare me... Queen Dowager, please spare me! Miss! Miss, please save this servant! Please save this servant!"
The maid kept screaming, but Chai Yue didn't ask anyone to stop her, and just let her scream... until she was dragged out of everyone's sight.
They could no longer see the maid, but the sound of the club hitting her, as well as her terrifying and heartbreaking pleas for mercy and screams, still crawled into their ears like crawling insects.
Until the sound gradually weakened until it disappeared completely...
Some timid ladies couldn't help vomiting, and two of them even fainted.
Ge Yuanhui's face turned paler and paler until it was completely bloodless.
She knew that this was the Queen Mother warning her.
Seeing Shen Qingtang's eyes red with fear, Xue Zhiyi pulled her hand, which was shaking and cold to the bone.
Xue Zhiyi looked at the empress dowager's smiling eyes and felt a chill down his spine.
Perhaps it was the Queen Mother’s kindness that sometimes made people forget that she was a woman who had fought in the harem for decades before helping her son ascend the throne. How could she be a weak person?
Her many considerations prevented her from directly attacking the person who hurt her grandson, but that didn't mean she couldn't punish him in other ways.
This matter is settled.
Fu Rongxin shrank her body and knelt on the ground, feeling fortunate that the Queen Mother had forgotten about her.
She repeatedly comforted herself in her heart: The Queen Mother will die in two years, it's okay, it's okay...
But when he looked up, he was face to face with Ge Yuanhui.
The tears on that face were still wet, and Fu Rongxin saw a strong murderous intent in those eyes... How could Ge Yuanhui allow herself to be a knife to others? She had a grudge against Ge Yuanhui today.
When did Ge Yuanhui die in his previous life?
It's over. It seems like Ge Yuanhui can still live for quite a while...
…
It was getting late, the banquet was over, and everyone dispersed.
Xue Zhiyi and Shen Qingtang were traveling together for a while, and Shen Qingtang got into Xue Zhiyi's carriage without saying a word.
She looked at Xue Zhiyi, wanting to say something but stopping herself, then covered her face with a gloomy look and screamed like a fly.
After venting his anger, he pouted and asked Xue Zhiyi: "Zhiyi, do you like the Marquis of Lin'an?"
When she said this, she looked aggrieved, sad, and a little shy, with her cheeks flushed.
Seeing her like this, Xue Zhiyi blinked guiltily: "I am engaged."
"Really?" Shen Qingtang's eyes lit up.
"Really?" Xue Zhiyi complained first, "He teased me."
"Ah!?" Shen Qingtang felt as if something had shattered in his mind: "He...how could he be like this?"
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