The queen's hair was covered with pearls and hair ornaments, but in panic she lost all her composure and her hair jingled.
However, the people from the Imperial Household Department did not listen to her orders at all and arrested the people anyway.
"I tell you to stop!"
The Queen angrily shouted, "Wang Quan, what are you going to do? Are you going to rebel?"
"I am the mistress of this harem after all. If you don't even take me seriously, aren't you afraid that I will take you down too?"
Wang Quan then pretended to bow respectfully to the Queen and said, "Your Majesty, I am only following your orders."
"Although you are the master of the harem, I still obey your majesty's orders, because your majesty is the master of this great Chu, right?"
"Please don't make things difficult for me."
Queen: "Is this palace embarrassing you?"
"Now you want to arrest most of the palace servants. Who is making things difficult for whom?"
"I'm asking you, what crime did these people commit? Why are they suddenly coming here to arrest them all?"
"Did anyone in this palace violate the Heavenly Law or something?"
"You are deliberately trying to make an enemy of me!"
The king merely pretended to be afraid of the queen's anger.
There was always a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
He raised his head and stared intently at the Queen, answering word by word: "Your Majesty, you have wronged me."
"I am also following your Majesty's orders to purge those servants in your palace who are spreading evil and misleading the people, who are unable to serve you properly, and who only know how to lead you astray."
"Please don't let down His Majesty's kindness."
The Queen stepped back in shock.
"Your Majesty?"
Since he is the Emperor of Chu, there is no way for him to stop him.
But how could she be willing?
Moreover, the Emperor of Chu had never treated her like this before. Today, he was repeatedly trying to humiliate the Queen, and the Queen really couldn't accept it for the time being.
"What exactly does your majesty mean? Is there some misunderstanding here?!"
"They have all followed me for many years. It's impossible..."
Wang Quan: "These servants in your palace don't know the rules. They've been running around all day and have even run to the vicinity of Your Majesty's Qianyuan Palace."
"If it wasn't Your Majesty's deliberate instructions, then they must have disobeyed the Master's daily instructions to do something that would damage Your Majesty's reputation, right?"
"After all, if you hadn't dared to go to His Majesty's palace to inquire about the news, how would you have known that the Princess of Yue had entered the palace?"
"Your Majesty secretly summoned the Princess of Yue to the palace to discuss the matter of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yue being on the battlefield. No one else in the palace except those in Qianyuan Palace was supposed to know this news."
"And yet, Your Majesty, the people in your palace were able to precisely intercept the Princess of Yue on her way out of the palace. Eunuch Ji, did you not wrongly accuse me of this?"
"Your Majesty, your information is so powerful, isn't it because the people in your palace are all disobedient and reckless, ruining your reputation!"
"These slaves all deserve to die!"
"Now they're even spreading gossip about the Princess of Yue and Your Majesty."
"His Majesty said that if any more gossip about the Princess of Yue gets out, it will chill the hearts of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yue, who is still suppressing the rebels outside the city. That's why he wants to deal with this matter thoroughly to show His Majesty's attitude of wanting to be a wise monarch."
"Empress, His Majesty has saved your face by doing this. After all, he hasn't summoned you to question him personally."
"What do you think?"
"Take everyone away!"
Wang Quan waved his hand and left with most of the palace maids in the Queen's palace.
The Queen shouted in vain, "Wang Quan! You eunuch, how dare you humiliate me like this!"
"Come to the Japanese Palace, and I will never let you go!"
After Wang Quan left, the queen fell to the ground.
"His Majesty--"
She pinched her palms, her heart filled with hatred.
"You have such a hateful heart—"
It was the sudden appearance of Li Wu and his wife, these two untouchables, that changed everything!
"Someone come."
"Send another letter back to my brother!"
The next day, Li Qingluo woke up early to hear Madam Zheng say, "Miss, we caught two big rats last night."
Li Qingluo: "What big rat?"
Nanny Zheng blinked mysteriously, "The big rat from the Yongning Marquis's mansion."
Li Qingluo paused in putting on her clothes.
"The Queen?"
"It seems she can no longer hold back."
"How stupid."
Her son is the crown prince.
She is the queen.
Although the crown prince was driven off the throne just one day after he ascended the throne, the Emperor of Chu did not vent his anger on the crown prince because of this.
Doesn’t this reveal his attitude?
It is only a matter of time before the prince ascends the throne.
Could it be that the King of Chu has other useful sons?
They just need to wait for the right opportunity to be the final winner. Wouldn't it be nice to take this opportunity to win over court officials and win the hearts of the people?
I don't know what happened in the harem yesterday when I left. They must have felt that Duan Rongshi and I were in the way, so they even dared to come to the Nangong Mansion to spy.
"Where are the people?"
"Last night, he was caught by Killer Fourteen and Killer Twenty, and his throat was slit. It looked like he was looking for the main courtyard, but he ran into them before he even got there."
Li Qingluo: "Throw the body quietly back to the Yongning Marquis' Mansion."
"If they dare to come again, kill them one by one. If they come in pairs, kill them both."
"No matter how many people come, they will never return. Understand?"
Madam Zheng nodded excitedly, "I understand."
After Li Qingluo had breakfast, he went to see Xuan Cang again.
"Brother, are you feeling better today?"
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