The whole side hall of the prince's palace was in an uproar, and the maids coming and going were also in a panic.

"Are you recruiting or not?"

Concubine Jiang took a sip of the warm tea handed over by Chunxiang. The cold wind blew through her snow-white mink-collared cloak, and sporadic heat floated in the heater under her stool.

"Empress, I am wronged!"

Xia Ruyan knelt on the stone steps outside the palace, frozen into a numb stone statue, and her dry and cracked lips became increasingly pale.

"I beg your concubine, for the sake of Yan'er being pregnant with a child, please spare her!"

King Ying begged anxiously to Concubine Jiang, and when he was about to kneel down, Concubine Jiang snorted again: "Kneel down and try..."

Upon hearing Concubine Jiang's decisive tone, King Ying was stunned for a moment, so he gave up the idea of ​​kneeling down.

"You are a prince, but you kneel down to plead for mercy for a little concubine who has sinned a lot. Are your knees covered with dirt?"

"But the mother concubine! Yan'er is pregnant with the child's flesh and blood! Can you change the punishment, or give her a penalty first, and then punish her later when the disease is ripe and the body is gone?"

King Ying saw Xia Ruyan kneeling in the cold wind, looking worse and worse.

"What do you worry about her for? What you should be worrying about now is the one lying on the bed!"

Concubine Jiang glanced sideways at King Ying, and the fierce look in her eyes was even more intense than the aura of a sword.

"My child knows very well that Liangdi is already lying on the bed and is unconscious, but we can't let Xia Liangdi follow in the same footsteps! This would be a big mistake! I hope my mother and concubine will think twice! I hope my mother and concubine will be merciful!"

King Ying was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and his eyebrows were twisted into a knot.

"If she does it, it's not impossible to ask for mercy from me!"

The corners of Concubine Jiang's lips raised slightly, and her complexion turned from stern to soft.

"That's what happened. I've already said it twice! You really can't blame Yan'er for this!"

The fire in King Ying's heart was rising faintly, and he tried hard to suppress the anger in his chest.

"Haha... What do you know! If you don't teach her a lesson, do you really think that those clever little tricks will go unnoticed?"

Concubine Jiang's tone was fierce again, and her expression also sank a few points.

"oops…………"

Xia Ruyan suddenly shouted loudly, then burst into tears, her body tilted and fell to the side.

"My dear mother...the child is really unjust!"

"Hmph! How dare you quibble!"

Concubine Jiang showed a ruthless look on her face and gritted her teeth and said: "Today it seems that you really don't know how to praise me without fighting! Come here! Give me a hard fight and give me twenty!"

Several guards immediately ran up carrying long sticks and dragged Xia Ruyan's white lotus-like arms straight to the steps.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! My Majesty, please forgive me!"

Xia Ruyan was immediately frightened by this battle and cried to the ground, struggling more and more desperately to beg for mercy.

"Hmph...please spare your life..."

Before Jiang Guifei finished speaking, there was a sudden "pop!" and a golden lock of longevity rolled out of Xia Ruyan's body. Although the dull sound was not loud, it made Jiang Guifei hear it very clearly.

"stop!"

She raised her hand, and the guards on both sides stopped immediately.

"Seeing that you are pregnant with Liujia, you are very pitiful. I will spare your life for the time being! However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty cannot be escaped! As a punishment, you will come to Yifeng Palace tonight to work as a rough servant to serve me! Do you have it?

Complain?”

"Thank you, empress, for your kindness! Thank you, empress, for your kindness!"

Xia Ruyan immediately knelt down to thank her, and then finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Okay! Let's drive back to the palace!"

Concubine Jiang and her party finally walked away. Looking at her figure disappearing in the winding corridor, Xia Ruyan instantly rolled her eyes and fainted.

"Yan'er! Yan'er!......"

In her ears, only King Ying's voice was faintly rippling, far and near, near and far...

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"Master! What are you thinking about?"

Nianyuan staggered past King Ying's study with a pile of calligraphy and paintings that he had just packed up. He saw that he was in a daze, so he asked by the way.

"Nianyuan......"

King Ying stared at the white paper on the table for a long time and before he could put down his pen, he suddenly called him.

"What are your orders?"

Nianyuan stepped through the door, put down a bunch of paintings in his hand, and asked softly.

"Why do you think the imperial concubine is so targeted at Xia Liangdi? She is pressing every step of the way to kill her. Xia Liangdi has only been married into the palace not long ago!"

King Ying was still writing and staring blankly, looking like he had been thinking hard for a long time.

"Hey... How should I put it? I'll just tell you my own opinion! Although Xia Liangdi usually looks smart and sweet, she always gives people an indescribable feeling of hypocrisy. This feeling

I really can’t explain it, but it just gives people a domineering impression! Don’t take it to heart, it’s just a humble opinion of a slave!”

Nian Yuan bowed his hands and smiled.

"That's not right! Even so, it's not enough to make the imperial concubine have such a deep prejudice against her!"

Nianyuan laughed, patted his head and said: "Isn't this easy to explain? The person who understands women best in the world is a woman of the same type as her! When these two women of the same personality are in the same environment and face the same kind of

When things happen, they can easily see through each other at a glance! Including whether they are perfunctory, hypocritical, deceitful, etc..."

King Ying frowned: "Hiss... Nianyuan, what you said is really right! But how do you know this?"

"Well………………"

Nian Yuan suddenly suffered from embarrassment, and had no choice but to make up a random reason: "Sir! I don't know either. You'd better not take Nian Yuan's nonsense too seriously!"

"That's right! What you said does make sense! How come even your nonsense makes sense?"

King Ying raised his pen and put a pestle on the tip of his nose. Nianyuan was unprepared and could not close his eyes for a moment, and instantly pouted.

"My lord! Please stop making fun of me!"

He bowed his head in aggrieved manner and ran away.

"Could it be said that the mother and concubine targeted Xia Ruyan because their two sons have similar personalities, and that the mother and concubine pushed each other hard because they saw through her?"

King Ying fell into a difficult dilemma...

"Why did the concubine's treatment of her change completely after she saw the golden lock falling from her body? Could it be that..."

He stood up and looked out the window, staring blankly for a long time with his hands behind his back.

"Could it be... Is there something hidden in that golden lock?"

A look of astonishment appeared on Prince Ying's face as he suddenly realized: "That's right! It's that golden lock! It was that golden lock that made the concubine spare Xia Ruyan's life!"

He suddenly slapped his head and recalled the shape of the golden lock and the calligraphy and painting symbols engraved on it over and over again.

"Then what exactly is engraved on it? It happened so suddenly and so far apart, I really can't remember it!"

King Ying thought hard until dusk fell, but he still couldn't figure it out.

"It seems that I really can't remember it! I will definitely find an opportunity to explore that thing inside and out carefully!"

Thinking about it, he unknowingly walked out of the door. Along the winding corridor in front of the door, he gradually walked away...

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Chapter completed!