The queen's eyes turned slightly: "How is Huaiyue doing lately?"
"Reporting to the Queen, Princess Huaiyue behaved quite well."
"Then let her go back first." The queen raised her hand to straighten the phoenix hairpin on her head, and spoke dignifiedly and gracefully, "The Jiang family's daughter will continue to stay in the palace and keep company with the fifth princess."
Jiang Qian looked downcast and desperate: "Yes."
"Jinyue is not young anymore, it's time to discuss marriage." The queen suddenly thought of something and looked at Rong Jinyue thoughtfully, "I have been busy recently, Ah Cai."
Ah Cai responded: "My servant is here."
"Select the men of suitable age in the capital and prepare a list for me." The Queen ordered, "I am thinking about finding a consort for the fifth princess."
Rong Jinyue shook her head slowly and looked at the queen in disbelief. A flash of anger flashed in her eyes, but she suppressed it.
After kowtowing again and saluting, she said: "Reporting to the Empress, my mother and concubine are ill. It is a great unfilial piety for my son and minister not to attend to her illness. I would never dare to discuss the marriage at this juncture. I hope the Empress will learn from this."
"Fifth Princess." The nun who was kneeling behind her straightened up and stared at her with a frown, "If the Queen has not asked you, you cannot answer without permission. This is disrespectful."
Rong Jinyue's face changed slightly and she lowered her head: "I know my mistake, and I beg the Queen to forgive me."
"I am your aunt, and I am offering you a marriage, but you are allowed to refuse?" The queen's eyes showed a bit of coldness, "It seems that the fifth princess has not realized her identity yet."
Rong Jinyue's face turned pale, and she had no choice but to admit her mistake again: "I know my mistake, and I beg the Queen to forgive me."
"Old slave deserves to die." The nun behind him quickly apologized, "Old slave must teach the fifth princess more strictly and never let what happened today happen again."
"Let's add another month to the training period." The queen said next, her voice indifferent, as if she was deciding an insignificant matter, "I can't wait in front of your mother and concubine anyway, so I just learn the rules. "
Rong Jinyue's face turned pale and she was frozen on the ground, unable to react.
One more month?
Thinking of how she felt during the past month when she was taught the rules by the nuns, Rong Jinyue felt that life could only be described as worse than death. Four nuns took turns to be on duty.
There is a day nanny during the day, and a night nanny at night.
When you get up early to salute, eat, dress, walk, sit down, and speak, each of them must be carried out in accordance with the three obediences and four virtues in the book. You must not violate what is strictly prohibited by the palace rules. You must follow what is required in the "Guild Instructions", and go to bed at night. The rules and sleeping postures must be stipulated.
Some of the nuns were extremely strict and perverted.
If there is even the slightest mistake in all the above regulations, the cane will be beaten down mercilessly. If the back is not straight, the back will be hit. If the hand is not stable, the hands will be hit. The kneeling posture is not standard and the legs will be hit. At the end of the day, the body will be scarred.
She gets up before dawn every morning and doesn't go to bed until midnight after training at night. Old injuries on her body are never healed and new ones are added to her body. She can't endure such a hell-like day for a day. One month is like a year, and two months are full of new injuries. There is no hope.
She felt that when she was learning the rules under her mama, she was not like a princess at all, but like the lowest slave in the palace, who was beaten, scolded and shouted at at will.
But Rong Jinyue was holding back her breath.
She didn't want to beg the queen for mercy anymore, and she even knew that the queen was deliberately trying to trouble her.
And all of this has something to do with Chu Yunfei.
She can endure it, but if she can't, she will endure it to the death.
The resentment towards her father, the Nine Emperor Brothers, and the hatred towards Chu Yunfei have been supporting her to endure it.
She didn't believe that those unruly slaves really dared to beat her to death.
As long as she doesn't die, as long as she is still breathing, she will definitely make life worse than death for these unruly slaves in the future, and make the Queen and Chu Yunfei pay the due price.
Rong Jinyue was quickly taken away by her grandmother, with Jiang Qian following behind her.
Princess Huaiyue bowed respectfully to the Queen and thanked her: "Thank you, Queen, for your teaching. I will be a good person after I return home. I will control my words and deeds from now on and will never do anything that I shouldn't do again."
The queen said calmly: "I hope you will remember the lesson."
Rong Huaiyue glanced at Chu Yunfei timidly, then lowered her head: "I have offended the princess many times in the past. Huaiyue is here to apologize to the princess. Thank you to the princess for being willing to forgive me."
"It's all because of Queen Mother's tolerance." Chu Yunfei said, "Just thank Queen Mother."
"Yes." Rong Huaiyue kowtowed again and said, "Thank you very much, Queen. I will take my leave."
After she left, the queen lay tiredly on the phoenix couch: "There are few women in the palace who are everlastingly favored, and there will never always be a family that remains standing. Gu Guifei has done everything right in these years, and she never thought about it. One day, her children will live a life worse than death because of her involvement."
Chu Yunfei was silent and closed his eyes.
At that moment, she once again truly realized how important power was.
Rong Jinyue, the fifth princess who was once extremely arrogant and domineering, has the most noble status and the most domineering temperament among all the princesses.
However, the arrogance and prominence of the past compared with the humbleness and abjection of today is really an irony.
If the master is favored, all the slaves around him can show off their power. The master is in desolation, and the emperor's biological daughter has no hope of living a comfortable life.
You see, the Queen has been idle for more than twenty years, and now that she has regained power, Rong Jinyue can only kneel on the ground like an insect, not daring to resist at all.
This was a small punishment given by the empress who was kind-hearted and hated Concubine Gu. If it were a more ruthless person, the power in charge of the harem would be to kill many concubines and slaves in the harem.
Anyone who is disrespectful or provocative will be beaten to death with a stick.
Chu Yunfei looked down at his hands.
Power is very important, so she and Rong Cang will definitely get it.
Not only does she want to gain power, but she also wants to hold on to it forever. She wants to protect her child and never let him suffer what Rong Cang once suffered.
And these can only be achieved by being in a high position and holding great power, otherwise there will be many people waiting to tear them into pieces at any time.
The days passed.
The Lin Qianqiu Banquet was getting closer and closer, and the palace began to get busy.
Chu Yunfei was peacefully raising her baby, and the queen asked her not to do anything but eat well and sleep well every day.
The harem was preparing for the Queen's Qianqiu Banquet, but the ministers of the former dynasty were becoming more and more uneasy every day, because more and more discounts were sent from Jizhou, Shuozhou and Liancheng at high speed, and the emperor's face became uglier every day.
The ministers went to court every day with trepidation.
In addition to memorials, there are also account books, rosters and files piled up on the imperial case, as if indicating that a shocking case is about to come like a storm.
