This sentence obviously hit Concubine Gu's heart. Her expression changed, and she was choked to the point where she couldn't say a word.
"Mother Concubine." Princess Chen hurriedly came from outside the palace with a worried look on her face, "How is Jin Yue?"
After stepping into the palace door, she found that the Queen was also there. Princess Chen immediately adjusted her expression and saluted the Queen: "Daughter-in-law Jiang Ying, please see the Queen."
The queen's eyes fell on her and her voice was calm: "When did the rules in the palace become decorations? When the princess orders her wife to enter the palace, she doesn't even need to report?"
As soon as these words came out, Princess Chen's expression suddenly changed, and she quickly knelt down and explained: "My daughter-in-law heard that something happened to the fifth princess, and she was anxious. She was careless and forgot the rules. Please forgive me, the Queen."
"You are so anxious that you are negligent?" The queen smiled, but the smile did not reach her eyes. "It is your own fault that you are negligent. I am surprised that everyone on duty in the palace is just a decoration?"
Princess Chen's heart sank and she lowered her eyes and said nothing.
"The queen doesn't know. Princess Chen doesn't need to announce her intention to enter the palace. It's my concubine's wish." Concubine Gu explained, "Princess Chen is humble and submissive. She is considerate to me, my mother-in-law. She often comes to the palace to talk to me. I don't like it." Every time I reported trouble, I asked her to come directly.”
The queen smiled inexplicably, stood up and said, "The royal concubine and Princess Chen have a deep relationship with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. I really envy them."
"I don't dare."
"Without delaying the imperial concubine and the fifth princess to complain to the emperor, I will take my leave first."
The Queen raised her feet and walked out. She glanced at Princess Chen and the Fifth Princess calmly from the corner of her eye. She saw that Concubine Gu's partiality had been ingrained in her bones. She loved Princess Chen and the Fifth Princess as if they were treasures, but she treated the Princess and his wife as if they were treasures. Unabashed disgust.
What did Rong Cang do wrong to make her a mother without the slightest warmth?
Concubine Gu and Concubine Chen escorted her outside the palace. When the queen's figure disappeared from sight, Concubine Chen said thoughtfully: "Concubine, why did the queen come here suddenly today?"
"She came to stop me from killing the maid next to Gong Jinyue." Concubine Gu looked calm. She was very dissatisfied with the feeling of being suppressed by the queen. "She has been doing nothing all year round, but today the news is well-informed."
"Mother concubine." Rong Jinyue covered her face and choked with sobs, "My daughter hurts..."
Concubine Gu turned around and entered the palace, and ordered her nanny to bring some cooling and pain-relieving ointment: "I was so angry just now that I had a bad temper. Now tell me the truth about what happened."
Rong Jinyue's eyes turned red, and she spoke with sobs: "On a rare trip out of the palace, my daughter made an appointment with Jiang Qian, Dou Huiran and Rong Huaiyue to go shopping. I didn't expect... I didn't expect to meet Chu Yunfei on the street. My daughter said I said a few words to her, just because I was surprised that she actually had time to go shopping, but who would have thought...who would have thought that she would not let her go and quarreled with her daughter on the spot, and I didn't expect that..."
Thinking that Rong Cang deliberately sat in the carriage and heard all the disputes between them, Rong Jinyue was resentful and embarrassed, and said with a cry: "I didn't expect Brother Jiuhuang to be hiding in the carriage and heard his daughter and Chu Yunfei arguing, After I came out, I asked the maid to slap my mouth without saying anything... Wuwuwu, in public, with so many people watching, my daughter was completely embarrassed..."
When Concubine Gu heard that Rong Cang was actually sitting in the carriage, she couldn't help but clenched her armored hands, and her face was filled with anger: "You traitor! He only has his wife in his eyes, yet he was so cruel to his sister. The palace will not let them off lightly!"
Rong Jinyue was still crying, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, as if she had been wronged a lot.
Concubine Gu knew Jin Yue's temper, and she must have concealed something about her dispute with Chu Yunfei. She must have been the one who said the bad words first, but so what?
Which mother doesn't favor her own daughter, but instead loves an outsider?
In her heart, Rong Cang is a pure chess piece, a backing that will help her son ascend the throne in the future, while Chu Yunfei is not even a chess piece, her existence is only a stumbling block to destroy her plan.
Concubine Gu had long wanted to get rid of this stumbling block.
Some time ago, she heard that Rong Cang was making a fuss about divorcing his wife, so she gave up temporarily and just waited for him to divorce his wife and then marry Chu Yunjiao, so that the plan could go ahead as usual.
Unexpectedly, he got a beating as a result of divorcing his wife, and now he doesn't even dare to mention it.
What a useless piece of trash!
"Ninth brother is really cruel." Princess Chen frowned and looked at Rong Jinyue's face distressedly, "What girls care about most is their appearance. This face is so swollen, I don't know how many days it will take for it to completely disappear. It’s swollen, I’m afraid it will leave some marks after the swelling subsides…”
She didn't say it was okay, but when she did, Rong Jinyue cried even harder.
Concubine Gu sat on the chair with a cold face, getting angrier and angrier as she thought about it. Thinking that Rong Cang was now increasingly out of her control, she felt uneasy and anxious for no reason, making her eager to teach Rong Cang a lesson.
"Follow me to see the emperor." She stood up and walked out, her tone cold and biting, "I must ask Rong Cang, how did he become the emperor's brother? Is it possible that after marrying a daughter-in-law, even his mother and sister No more? His majesty, the King of War, is so majestic that he attacks his own sister. This is really an eye-opener for me!"
Rong Jinyue has always believed in her mother. In the past, even if she was indulgent and willful, her mother would always protect her, and she thought this time would be no exception.
So she followed her mother to see her father without hesitation.
Princess Chen calmed her down as she walked: "Stop crying, my father will definitely seek justice for you."
Concubine Gu took Rong Jinyue and Princess Chen towards the Qinzheng Palace, followed by a large number of palace ladies, full of momentum.
Emperor Mu had just come down from court and was meeting Qi Jin in the Qinzheng Hall. Hearing that Concubine Gu was anxiously asking for an audience, a chill flashed across his eyes and his tone was cold: "Let Concubine come in."
"Your Majesty," Qi Jin reminded him, "I still have something to say."
Emperor Mu tilted his head and said thoughtfully, "Say."
"Concubine Gu is here for the fifth princess." Qi Jin's tone was leisurely, with a sense of watching a good show, "I came to the palace just to tell my uncle about this."
Emperor Mu looked at him without saying a word.
"Today, the King of War went shopping with his wife to buy clothes on a whim. I guess this is the first time that the King of War goes shopping with his wife." Qi Jin smiled with interest, "No one would have thought that the cold and ruthless King of War would There will be such a soft and romantic side.”
Emperor Mu narrowed his eyes: "Long story short."
Qi Jin curled his lips: "They took a carriage to the street and met the fifth princess on the street. The fifth princess was accompanied by the daughter of Shangshu Dou, the second daughter of Prime Minister Jiang and the little princess of Prince Rong's palace. When the four of them saw Princess Zhan, they thought she was the only one. If you go out alone, if you catch the princess, you will be ridiculed."
Emperor Mu's face became colder a little bit: "Cynical?"
"Yes, I heard that the fifth princess still resented the fact that the imperial concubine and Princess Chen were reprimanded by the emperor at the family banquet, so she turned her anger on Princess Zhan." Qi Jin shrugged, "Prince Zhan must have argued with her a few times. When the fifth princess spoke, she ordered her maid to slap her mouth."
Emperor Mu's expression darkened, with a bit of disbelief and shock: "What did you say?"
