On the tenth day of July, Luoyang Imperial City.

The moon is white and clouds are light, and the Yining Palace at night is as bright as the daytime.

In an elegant hall room, Concubine Lan bowed her head and knelt on the ground, and behind her, all the palace servants under her were kneeling down.

She no longer remembers how long she had been kneeling here. She felt that her knees were no longer her own. However, the cold eyes of the woman in the main seat made her dare not relax at all. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to hold on. The stuffy summer night aggravated her torment, and sweat kept sliding down her cheeks and hit the ground ticking.

The queen was wearing a pearly and jewelry, casually fiddling with her pure gold armor inlaid with green jade, and glancing at the woman who was shaking on the ground, shaking her body, almost unable to support her: "Concubine Lan Jie, are you still unwilling to ask?"

Concubine Lan bowed to the ground and kowtowed, raised her head to defend herself: "Empress, I have no instructed my subordinates to steal. Please give me a glimpse!"

"It seems that I shouldn't feel sorry for you. Only by using torture can you admit it?"

"Empress..."

The queen sat upright: "Come."

At this moment, Concubine Shu quickly entered the hall, attracted the queen's gaze, and interrupted her punishment. Concubine Shu lowered her eyebrows and gave her a blessing: "I wish the queen and I will be happy forever."

The queen narrowed her eyes and said, "Princess Shu, do you still know you want to come and receive the punishment?"

Concubine Shu calmed down and bowed her head: "I don't know what the mistake I made, which made the Empress unhappy. Please tell me."

The queen proudly raised her head: "I heard that the palace has frequent palaces in recent days, and it is causing serious investigations. I don't think this thief came from Yining Palace?"

She looked at Concubine Lan Jie with a cold aftertaste. Concubine Shu saw behind Concubine Lan Jie, her eunuch in charge was lying on the ground and was shaking. Just before his hands on the ground, a blue cloth bag was opened and spread on the ground, with some colorful fine and soft pieces piled up on it, including necklaces, earrings, jade bracelets, hairpins, and some exquisitely embroidered silk handkerchiefs.

Concubine Shu instantly realized what was going on and smiled calmly: "Empress, there must be some misunderstandings in this."

"What other misunderstandings can you get when you get the stolen stolen?" The queen raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Concubine Lan can't control her eunuchs and privately smuggled the royal property out of the palace to sell. This is theft!"

"Empress!" Concubine Lan Jie could not bear her stern expression, so she hurriedly told the truth, "Miss Concubine, three years after her concubine entered the palace, only one mother was left in the family. A few days ago, my mother suddenly became seriously ill and urgently needed silver. The concubine just wanted to raise money to treat her mother at home, so she asked someone to sell some jewelry, and she had no intention of stealing."

Concubine Shu looked full of pity, and the queen sneered: "Concubine Lan Jie, please take a closer look. Which one of the items here was not rewarded by the emperor? Do you dare to sell the royal family's rewards privately? Are you despising the emperor?"

Concubine Lan Jie shrank her head: "I don't dare..."

Concubine Shu advised: "Empress, you just think about Concubine Lan Jie's filial piety. Forgive her this time, she did not intend to violate the palace ban."

"Forgive her, what's the law in the harem? Where is the majesty of this palace?" The queen glared at her coldly, "There was such a scandal of rooster crowing and dog thieves in Yining Palace. You are the lord of the palace, and it is hard to blame!"

Concubine Shu was scolded and kept silent. She thought clearly in her heart that the queen must have made her eyeliner stare at the Xigong Gardens, just waiting to seize their handle.

"If the palace does not regulate the atmosphere in this palace today, it will definitely be effective in the future, and there will be no peace in the harem." The queen was majestic and continued the previous interrupted edict, "Comeone came and punished this stolen eunuch into the violent room and killed him. Concubine Lan Jie did not obey the chaotic rules and stole the palace property without authorization. She was imprisoned on the Punishment Office and was severely interrogated, and when would she explain the crime clearly and come out again."

The little eunuch begged for mercy, and Concubine Lan Jie's face was pale. Concubine Shu was stunned. They all knew that once the concubines and palace servants entered the Criminal Office would inevitably be tortured. Even if they could save their lives, it would be like taking away a layer of skin.

Concubine Shu resolutely knelt down: "Empress, the concubine of the West Palace is wrong. Concubine Saki, who assisted in the six palaces, should investigate the matter personally and explain it to the empress. The concubine begged the empress to beg her to plead for a period of time, and first confine her Concubine Lan Jie to face the wall and think about her mistakes. When the emperor and Concubine Saki return to the palace, they will be punished after asking for the relationship."

"What? I am in charge of the Phoenix Seal and can't deal with a sixth-grade concubine?" The queen couldn't see her delaying plan. When she saw her picking up Saki to suppress her, she was even more angry. "Shu Guipin, don't forget that no matter how honored and favored Saki, she was only a assistant to the Six Palaces, and this palace was the lord of the harem!"

Concubine Shu was shocked to make her speechless and calmed down: "The Empress calmed down, but the concubine had no intention of despising her."

The queen's eyes were cold and she cut her into tears: "Concubine Shu, Saki, who is not in the palace when she is on patrol, the West Six Palaces will be the highest in the position. Without Saki, you will let the people of the West Six Palace cause such a big disaster? It really disappoints me."

Concubine Shu bowed to her devoutly: "Yes, I know my mistake, but I am punished by the Empress."

"You just copy the palace rules and learn how to control yourself and the inferior concubines in your palace."

"Be careful to obey the imperial edict."

The queen once again despised the woman who made a direct mistake and was even more heartless than before: "Concubine Lan must be punished to be the Criminal Office and taken away!"

Concubine Lan Jie kept crying and said, "Empress...you spare me...Empress..."

The eunuch dragged Concubine Lan Jie and her palace servants down. Concubine Shu could only watch all this, but she could do nothing.

The queen, who won a great victory today, finally stood up from her seat with satisfaction, supported by Nanzhi, and passed by the kneeling Concubine Shu, who was deliberately stopping for a moment, looked at her with a cold look before leaving.

The queen and her party had just stepped out of Yining Palace. Lin Zhaoyi from Yuxiu Palace ran in anxiously and threw herself beside Concubine Shu to support her: "Concubine Concubine, what should I do? We have to rescue Concubine Lan as soon as possible!"

Concubine Shu frowned: "The queen has been patient for too long. As soon as Sister Saki leaves, she really attacks our Nishiguchi..."

The situation was critical, so she hurriedly took Lin Zhaoyi back to her main hall, wrote a letter quickly, and asked her subordinates to send it out of the palace overnight, and must be quickly sent to Yichuan County and handed it to Saki, so that she could know the current situation of the Nishiguchi Palace.

But before the eunuch could walk out of the palace gate of the West Palace, the letter was intercepted by the queen's men.

"You actually want to go and bring reinforcements?" In Fengzao Palace, the queen held the handwritten letter from Concubine Shu. Looking at the words on the letter, she felt anxious and unspeakable. She smiled bitingly, "Far-water cannot save the near fire."

As she said that, she handed the letter close to the candlelight and watched it be swallowed by the flames bit by bit.

On the other side of the candlestick, Minfei, who was quietly watching this scene, was also crawling all over the corner of her mouth.
Chapter completed!