Princess Xiao's face turned pale and blue. She never expected that she would be scolded like this by a junior.
"You, you are so uneducated! In front of the Imperial Concubine..."
"I'm uneducated? Who of us is uneducated?" Shang Ruoyi smashed the teacup on the table, splashing tea all over the table. "I know I'm telling you the truth. If you don't like it, just don't listen. Don't bring up the Imperial Concubine. I've been here for so long and have said so much, but the Imperial Concubine hasn't said anything yet. And you're making a scene here. If you don't know, you think the queen of this palace is you, Princess Xiao. We in Dingguo Palace have always spoken based on our military exploits and never work like slaves for others."
"Alright." Concubine Zhao said coldly, "What are you arguing about? It's giving me a headache." She stroked her forehead and said coldly, "How could a junior like you be so disrespectful to your elders? Is this your rule?"
"My Lady, I like to speak directly and I don't like to keep my words to myself. The Emperor and His Majesty called my mother away, no doubt to show my power." Shang Ruoyi sneered, "But I am not afraid of others playing such tricks on me. The reason why we, the Prince Ding's Mansion, came back alive from exile is probably not just because of the Emperor's grace! My Lady, I believe, knows this better than I do."
Concubine Zhao's face turned pale. She never expected that someone would dare to contradict herself.
"Do you know what you are talking about?"
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "I know what I am talking about. Where is the Imperial Concubine?"
"Someone come!" Concubine Zhao slammed the table in front of her and shouted angrily, "Catch her! Give her thirty lashes!"
Several guards stepped forward and were about to drag her away, but her eyes turned cold and her internal force burst out from her body. Before the guards could get close to her, they were knocked over by her powerful internal force.
"Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor! Protect the imperial concubine!"
Shang Ruoyi sat there, looking surprised and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you lying on the bed?"
"You, you know martial arts?" Concubine Zhao was still in shock: "You want to murder me."
"My Lady, if I wanted to harm you, you wouldn't be sitting on the throne of the Lady."
She stood up, glanced at everyone, and said in a cold voice: "I don't care how you bullied my mother before, and I don't care how you framed the Dingguo Palace. After all, it's a thing of the past. But from now on, if you throw dirty water on the Dingguo Palace again and bully the people of our Dingguo Palace, don't blame me for being rude."
“How outrageous! How outrageous!”
"My Lady, this is my character. If you don't want to disturb your pregnancy, try not to summon me again. Otherwise, if the baby in your belly is born too early, it will be difficult for you to explain to the Emperor."
What?
How could she...
Concubine Zhao looked at her in shock, her heart pounding.
"You, you dare to curse the Imperial Concubine!"
As soon as Princess Xiao finished speaking, Concubine Zhao said coldly, "Shut up!" She looked at Shang Ruoyi and narrowed her eyes slightly, "I don't understand what you mean, but considering that you have just returned to Beijing and have not yet learned many rules, I will not pursue what happened today. You can go back now!"
"I'll take my leave." Shang Ruoyi smiled and turned to leave.
"Your Majesty! Why did you let her go?" Princess Xiao said anxiously, "If you want to deal with her again in the future, I'm afraid you won't have such a good opportunity."
Concubine Zhao looked at her leaving back and couldn't help feeling a lingering fear.
No way, absolutely not. How did she know without taking my pulse? Moreover, when she was pregnant, Prince Ding's palace was still far away in exile. How did she know?
Could it be possible that I, the Lanqing Palace, have secrets from Prince Ding's Palace?
Bixi, who had been beside her, noticed her mood swings and hurriedly asked, "Madam, are you feeling unwell?"
"I am tired today, you all go back!"
Princess Xiao was unwilling to give in, but since Concubine Zhao said so, she had no choice but to obey.
Shang Ruoyi came to Fengyi Palace, where the queen was teasing the little princess.
"I'm here." She didn't turn around and said softly, "I thought you were honest, but I didn't expect you to be so eloquent. Even Concubine Zhao and Princess Xiao and their ladies are no match for you."
Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows slightly, the news spread so quickly, it seemed that the Queen looked weak and powerless, but in fact she had spies everywhere in the harem.
She looked at the slender figure, perhaps, there were more than just the harem.
"I can only speak a little bit, but it's just some clever tricks, not worth telling to outsiders."
"A little cleverness?" The Queen couldn't help but laugh: "Openly using internal force in Lanqing Palace, is this a little cleverness?"
"Brute force."
The queen looked at her and raised her eyebrows slightly: "A little cleverness plus brute force, I like it."
At this moment, the little prince in her arms suddenly cried.
The queen held him and coaxed him for a long time but there was no improvement. She looked at Shang Ruoyi and said anxiously, "Don't you know medical skills? Come and take a look. What's wrong with the prince?"
Shang Ruoyi walked quickly forward, checked for a while, and couldn't help frowning.
"The prince has been crying frequently since some time ago, sometimes for hours." The nanny said with some concern, "The imperial physician came to see him several times, but there was no improvement."
Shang Ruoyi examined it for a long while, and her heart skipped a beat. She said coldly, "What a cruel method."
"What?"
"There is a silver needle in the prince's body."
"Silver needle? How could that be?" The Queen quickly stepped forward and grabbed Shang Ruoyi's hand: "How could there be a silver needle in her body?"
Shang Ruoyi shook her head: "The silver needle was originally intended to kill her, but due to some mishap, the silver needle did not penetrate her body, but was buried in her arm. Whenever she moved, the silver needle would roll with her movements, causing great pain."
The queen's face suddenly changed when she heard this: "Can you give me this silver needle?"
Shang Ruoyi nodded and took out a dagger and a porcelain bottle from her arms.
"My lady, I need to make a cut on your arm and then remove the silver needle, but it won't be too painful."
The queen's heart was gripped tightly. How could it not hurt to cut open her skin and take out the silver needle? But there is no other way right now.
"I'll leave it to you."
Shang Ruoyi walked forward, holding the father's chubby little hand, and the pure energy in his body flowed into her body through his hand.
The little prince yawned and fell into a deep sleep.
She looked at her arm. A silver needle as long as a finger was embedded in her little arm.
She cut a tiny wound, and the energy in her palm gathered and went towards the silver needle. The silver needle swayed slightly, and the next moment, it was thrown away by a huge energy and stuck on a pillar not far away. There was a drop of blood on the tail of the needle, which fell on the body.
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