eurekapd Chapter 572: I wonder what the King of Zhenbei has to offer?
Chapter 572: I wonder what the King of Zhenbei has to offer?
The emperor snorted coldly and looked angry.
"Everyone in the room has testified, and you're still trying to argue!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the room, except Song Yuntang, knelt down.
Zhuang Zihan even crawled on the ground, enduring the pain in the back of her feet.
I was so scared that my heart was trembling.
The emperor looked at her coldly.
"Tell me! Why do you want to harm the Princess of Le'an?"
"Concubine..."
While Zhuang Zihan was still hesitating and thinking about his words, the emperor shouted again, "I want to hear the truth!"
Zhuang Zihan had never been treated like this before, and she was so scared that she cried and kowtowed.
"Before I entered the palace, I had some conflicts with the Princess of Le'an. I just wanted to teach her a lesson. I didn't expect that the Princess would fall so easily."
The queen frowned and looked at her.
"The Princess of Le'an is now over six months pregnant and is naturally heavier. Even if you expected her not to fall, you shouldn't joke with her like this. Concubine Zhuang is not a child anymore. Do you think this is child's play?"
Zhuang Zihan was lying on the ground.
"Your Majesty, forgive me."
Li Junyao rubbed the ring on his thumb.
"Since you have done something wrong, you must be punished..."
The palace maid beside her kowtowed to Li Junyao.
"Your Majesty, the imperial physician has just diagnosed that you are over a month pregnant. Now that you have injured your foot, it can be considered a punishment. Please, Your Majesty, forgive me for the sake of the little prince in your belly."
After the words were spoken, the expressions on the faces of the people in the room varied.
Li Junyao was not sure whether what the palace maid said was true or false. He obviously didn't want Zhuang Zihan to get pregnant. He looked in the direction of the imperial physician.
The imperial physician noticed Li Junyao's gaze and bowed to him.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Lady Zhuang is indeed over a month pregnant."
As soon as the imperial physician finished speaking, Zhuang Zihan observed Li Junyao's expression intently, but did not see any sign of joy on his face.
Her heart, like the emperor's expression, gradually grew colder.
Li Junyao was silent for a moment before speaking.
"Even though Concubine Zhuang is pregnant, she is narrow-minded and intended to harm the County Master and her unborn child first. Such actions are cruel and ruthless, and she is unworthy of being the Master of Yonghe Palace."
"I now order Consort Zhuang to move out of Yonghe Palace. Considering her pregnancy and her merits and faults, her title will remain unchanged for now."
After a pause, he looked at Fan Chihai.
"Let Concubine Zhuang move to Jingyixuan."
Fan Chihai bowed and replied, "Yes, I will ask someone to take care of it right away."
Jingyixuan is the courtyard in the palace closest to the cold palace, and it is even farther away from the Yangxin Palace. If you really move there, it will be equivalent to falling out of favor.
Zhuang Zihan hugged the emperor's legs and cried for mercy.
"Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, and I will never do it again. Please forgive me for the sake of our past friendship!"
Seeing that the emperor's expression remained unchanged, she turned to the queen and pleaded for mercy.
"Empress, please help me. I really know I was wrong."
The queen looked at her coldly.
"Now that things have come to this, it's all my sister's fault. I can only say one thing to her: take care of yourself in the future."
As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his hand and Zhuang Zihan was carried out of the house by the eunuchs.
Song Yuntang watched everything that had just happened coldly.
They say emperors are ruthless.
Maybe they were still very close to each other the night before, but the next day they would forget all about the friendship and send the person to a place like the cold palace, never to have any contact with each other until they die.
However, she did not feel any sympathy for Zhuang Zihan.
As the Queen said, she brought this upon herself.
After dealing with Zhuang Zihan without changing his expression, Li Junyao looked at Song Yuntang again.
"Is the Princess of Le'an satisfied with this handling?"
Song Yuntang bowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for giving me justice."
Li Junyao raised his leg and walked towards the door.
"I still have memorials to review, so I won't stay here any longer. I'll have Fan Chihai take the county lady's reward to the Xu residence tomorrow when he takes you back."
Song Yuntang turned around and bowed again towards the emperor's back.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
……
After the emperor left, the empress arranged the follow-up matters of Yihua Palace and left with a group of concubines. Song Yuntang, under the arrangement of Nanny Su, lived in a side hall of Yihua Palace.
Although it was not the first time to stay in the palace.
My mood must be different this time compared to last time.
Last time I felt nervous, uneasy and suspicious, but this time it was much calmer, except that I missed Hao Ting a little and was concerned about Xu Qingye's injury.
The next day, Song Yuntang got up early.
After breakfast, he went to say goodbye to Concubine Rong.
Concubine Rong looked at her.
"Are you so impatient to leave? I won't eat you."
Song Yuntang smiled, walked to the cradle, bent down to check on the little princess in the cradle. Although the baby was smaller than a full-term baby, she was in good health.
If you take good care of it, it will become strong.
It's not a big problem.
"Now that Your Majesty has a princess, she should be able to understand the feelings of a mother. Naturally, I am also thinking about my children at home."
Concubine Rong lay on her side, her eyes swept over the princess in the cradle, and her expression softened a little.
"I heard that Lord Xu was injured. Is he okay?"
Song Yuntang stood up straight.
"I lost a lot of blood the night before yesterday. I'm afraid I'll need to recuperate for a while."
Concubine Rong looked at her and said, "Didn't His Majesty grant him three months of leave? With you helping him recuperate, I think he'll recover soon."
Song Yuntang smiled faintly.
"That would be great." She bowed to Concubine Rong. "Your Majesty and the Princess are both fine now. I'll have to go back soon. Goodbye."
Concubine Rong didn't keep her either.
"Madam Su, take the gifts and go see the county lady off."
"Yes, your Majesty," Madam Su said, making a gesture of invitation. "County Lady, the sedan chair is already waiting outside. I will personally escort you out of the palace."
"Thank you."
Song Yuntang nodded slightly and walked out with Nanny Su.
After leaving Yihua Palace in a sedan chair and getting away from the harem, when passing through an alley, they met a team of guards who were escorting Li Chixiao towards them.
Song Yuntang had seen him before, so he naturally remembered him.
But now that he was a prisoner, there was no need to worry about him anymore, so he ignored him and continued to sit in the sedan chair without saying a word.
At first, because they were far apart, Li Chixiao did not recognize Song Yuntang.
However, the guards knew that anyone who was qualified to leave the palace in a sedan chair must be of extraordinary status, so they hurriedly escorted Li Chixiao to the side, lowered their heads and waited for the sedan chair to pass by.
It was not until the sedan chair passed by that Li Chixiao suddenly looked up and saw the face of the woman in the sedan chair clearly, and then he remembered who she was.
"stop!"
Hearing this command suddenly, the eunuchs stopped subconsciously.
Song Yuntang raised his eyelids and looked sideways.
With my current status and confidence, I no longer feel any fear when facing him again.
"I wonder what the King of Zhenbei has to offer?"