"The more severe the punishment you impose, the more it shows that you care about them. Otherwise, you would just kick them out, so why bother punishing them."
While Lu Jiuniang was talking, she helped Xu Nuo comb her hair in a lively style, decorated with a few pearl hair accessories, giving it a girlish vibe.
Xu Nuo looked at herself in the mirror expressionlessly, turned around suddenly, grabbed Lu Jiuniang's hand, and said, "Sister Jiu, I was really angry yesterday, not because they did something stupid, but because they did it before they did it." How can I not think about the consequences... In the final analysis, I don't teach enough."
She was so angry!
Chuntang, who was very angry, had lost her reputation because of a man, and she was angry that she couldn't find a good husband for Chuntang because of this.
No matter how powerful she was, she couldn't hide something like this in public.
And regardless of whether the Qian family was justified or not, they would not let their sons admit their mistakes and apologize for a maid.
"Liu Niang, they were sent to you to serve you after being taught well. They were not taught by you. Don't blame yourself." Lu Jiuniang's hand was a little painful from being held by Xu, but she still held it back and sat down. Beside her, there was a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were sincere and determined.
"I won't blame myself, but what I did yesterday, apart from punishing them to make them remember, has another purpose." Xu Nuo's eyes that had always been dull and dull became gleaming, "spread the news about my severe punishment of the two of them."
Lu Jiuniang was stunned and was about to ask why, but when she saw the cunning look in Xu Nuo's eyes, she suddenly understood her intention.
Qian Jiajuro and that Liu family are going to be in trouble!
She knelt down and sat up, holding Xu Nuo's shoulders, no longer serious, and said with a smile: "You elf, it's useless for me to worry so much, you actually have the intention to set a trap for others!"
Xu Nuo pretended to be aggrieved and said, "Sister Ninth, just because I set someone up doesn't mean I'm not sad or angry. Your persuasion is also extremely important to me."
Lu Jiuniang knelt down and straightened the broken hair on her forehead. She looked like I don't believe you and hummed: "Tell me about it."
"The purpose of punishing Chun Tang yesterday was to let others, especially the people in the Duke's Mansion, know my actions and attitudes. Aunt Twenty-One had the same idea as mine and gave me great convenience." Xu Nuo peeled off a piece. Half of the orange was stuffed into his mouth, and the other half was stuffed into Lu Jiuniang's mouth.
"How come it coincides with each other?" Lu Jiuniang did not swallow it directly, but took the orange in her hand, peeled it off one by one, and put it in her mouth.
"Yesterday I went to Yingcheng Yuan. As soon as I entered the house, I found that the maid my aunt brought with me was not the one she was used to. This maid was extremely polite, but when she listened to me, she listened attentively. It can be seen that she was deliberately taking notes. What I said. I looked at the maid and then at my aunt. When I saw her smiling happily, I knew that she had brought an informer here on purpose. I guessed that this maid was the person arranged by Concubine Sun to be with my aunt, so I angrily told the story. Let’s tell the whole story. In this way, Concubine Sun will know that I don’t know about Chun Tang and Qian Zhao, so I will pick it out myself, and also tell her Qian Zhao and Liu’s evil deeds.”
Xu Nuo said with a smile.
Lu Jiuniang suddenly understood and sighed: "Aunt Twenty-One is really smart, so why do you ask me to enlighten you?"
Xu Nuo chuckled and said, "A strict person like my aunt must do her best since she is acting. There are really countless twists and turns in her belly. It's wonderful."
"Taifei Sun will probably not punish Liu anymore, but Qian Julang can't escape a punishment." Lu Jiuniang reasoned.
"I think so too, but I still have another gift to give them, especially the one who vowed to protect Chun Tang for the rest of her life, but she refused to stand up when she was being scolded so hard that she couldn't hold her head up. She didn't even say a word. For those who don’t want to speak for her, I have already thought of a gift for him.”
Xu Nuo narrowed his eyes with laughter and had a wicked smile on his face.
Sure enough, a few days later, Concubine Sun found a reason to ban Qian Zhao for a full month and did not punish Liu anymore.
In December, the queen invited some ladies from the capital to enter the palace as usual and selected a team to perform Cuju on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
Only two or three times a year, the queen would invite ladies from various palaces to the palace on such a large scale. It would not be a great honor to come to this occasion, but it would be embarrassing if they were not invited.
This list has rarely changed over the years, and those who were invited last year will undoubtedly be invited this year as well.
Mrs. Liu had already prepared the large sleeves and hair accessories she would wear when entering the palace. Unexpectedly, all the ladies who had been to the Duke's Mansion last year were invited, except her.
In disbelief, she asked her maid to check, and even asked the eunuchs in the palace for questioning.
The answer I got was that she was indeed not on that list.
Did she do something to offend the queen? So her name was removed!
But no matter how she thought about it, she couldn't imagine how she had offended the queen or any member of the royal family.
The last lady to be removed from this list had her family exiled to a barbaric land years ago, and more than half of her family starved to death.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu felt uneasy in Ruirui, and finally decided to ask Concubine Sun for help.
Concubine Sun was telling a story to her great-great-grandson. After hearing Mrs. Liu’s question, she asked her nanny to take her great-great-grandson out. She put away her smile and said, “Ms. Liu, what are you worried about?”
Ms. Liu knelt down beside Mrs. Sun and whispered her worries.
Hearing this, Concubine Sun patted the table at hand and said: "The son of my Qian family will not do those stupid things, nor will he be exiled. As the wife of the Qian family, you must have this confidence. Ruolian has this confidence." It’s all gone, and you really shouldn’t enter the palace, lest you lose the face of the Duke’s Palace!”
Concubine Sun hates people at home being suspicious the most.
Since Wende gave the two Zhejiang and thirteen states to Song Taizu, he never thought about becoming king again, let alone had any evil intentions towards the Zhao family.
The sons of the Qian family have understood this meaning since they were young, and will convey it to their respective wives after they get married.
Mrs. Liu was thinking wildly and even came to her to ask, could it be that she thought the Qian family was planning something and was discovered by the emperor, so she was not on the queen's list. Did the emperor want to exile the Qian family to the north of Saibei?
Seeing Mrs. Liu's frightened look, Mrs. Sun became angrier and angrier, waving her hand and saying, "Get out."
Mrs. Liu didn't expect the concubine to react like this. On the way back, she clasped her hands together, eyes dull, and bumped into pillars several times.
Liu was removed from the list by the Queen because when she promised to come to the palace to order tea, she told her what happened to her maid and that she was not worthy of being a maid, but she did not say which wealthy family she belonged to. The Queen curiously asked her, but she insisted that she could not tell. Don't ruin other people's reputations.
The queen smiled and said, "If you really didn't want to ruin that person's reputation, you wouldn't have told me about it. Since you're afraid of trouble coming from your mouth, I'll check it out myself and help you. Thanks." The tea you ordered."
The Queen is a smart person and can see through the idea of a promise with just one look. Since Xu Nuo told her, she wanted to use her power to punish that person.
"The saint is smart, but I am like a transparent person here. Please excuse me." Xu Nuo bowed and thanked her. In the end, she did not say who she wanted to do to whom, but the queen understood everything she thought.
As for Qian Zhao, after the confinement ended, he could no longer contact anyone. Every time he went to visit friends, he was turned away. A few days later, he found that he couldn't even find anyone to drink with.
For a person who likes to make friends, this is really the most painful thing.
Qian Zhao was isolated and helpless in Bianjing, with no one to talk to and drink with, so he decided to return to Hangzhou.
Not long after returning home, I was told that there was a marriage planned since childhood.
Xu Nuo carefully selected the woman for this marriage for a long time, got to know the family, and only decided happily after seeing the portrait of the lady in the family.
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The next chapter will begin to be divided into volumes. (To be continued.) m.
