The emperor glared at them angrily.
The princes and princesses lowered their heads in embarrassment, mainly because it was too oppressive to be around their father, and since they were not Juanjuan, they could not get his father's favor, so sitting here was like sitting on pins and needles.
"Okay, okay, let's all go down." The emperor waved his hand and let them all go down.
After exiting the Qianqing Palace, the princes seemed to be alive again.
Glancing at the sixth prince who was still kneeling outside the palace gate, the second prince was gloating and full of curiosity.
"Brother Imperial, do you know why the Sixth Imperial Brother made Father Emperor angry?"
After all, besides Xiao Jiu, he loves Xiao Liu the most.
Besides, although Xiaoliu is young, he is the best at pretending to be innocent. He pretends to be innocent and cute in front of the emperor, but in private, relying on the emperor's love and his background as a concubine, he is so arrogant and domineering that several other princes have long been unhappy with him.
The prince smiled lightly and said, "Father's affairs are not something we can speculate on."
The second prince looked at his indifferent expression and curled his lips in disdain.
You are the only one who can pretend.
The third princess was not interested in what the sixth prince was punished for, she was curious. Why does the father treat this little girl so differently?
"Brother Emperor, my father is too kind to this little girl. Even the Nine Emperor Sisters can't compare to her."
The prince, Xiaoba and Xiaojiu have the same mother-in-law. The third princess said this because she wanted to see the prince's attitude.
"Father must have his own ideas."
The third princess curled her lips and said to herself that it was really boring, so she said nothing more.
The key is that the Ninth Princess doesn't care and plays with Juan Juan happily.
But Juanjuan...she was not in the mood to play at all!
Several princes accompanied Juan Juan for a symbolic walk around the imperial garden, and then returned to his palace impatiently.
Only the prince and the ninth princess were still with her.
A vague smell of blood floated in the air. Juan Juan's sense of taste was very sensitive and she smelled it all at once. She pointed to the place where the smell of blood was the strongest and said, "Go there~"
The prince remembered that Taiye Lake was over there.
The scenery there is pleasant, and it is early spring now, and the willow trees have sprouted buds, so it should be a good place to enjoy the scenery.
So he took the two little girls there.
Next to Taiye Lake, a young eunuch looked panicked, looking left and right. Perhaps he was too nervous and didn't even notice the prince walking behind him.
"Which palace are you from? What are you doing here?"
It can be seen that the little eunuch was startled by the prince's sudden voice.
He knelt down quickly, his face turned pale with fright, "Slave, slave..."
He stammered for a long time without saying anything. The prince waved his hand, "Forget it, you can go back."
Hearing this, the eunuch was not as happy as he imagined. On the contrary, he looked even more disgusting. He wanted to cry or not. It was extremely ugly.
"You slave, why don't you leave when I ask you to?"
It wasn't until the guards next to the prince scolded him that the young eunuch hesitated and left reluctantly.
[This eunuch is so strange. He smells of blood, and he seemed to be watching the wind just now. 】
By the Taiye Lake, several eunuchs carried two big stones, and took out two thick and long ropes, tied up the palace maid with a straw sweep, and prepared to throw her into the lake.
"What are you doing?!"
The prince walked to Taiye Lake and saw this scene, and asked with a frown.
The eunuchs were startled, turned around and saw the prince, and became even more frightened.
"Sui Feng, let's see what's wrapped in the straw mat."
The guard beside the prince knelt down and lifted up the straw mat, revealing three unrecognizable palace maids.
He reached out and touched the palace lady's nose, "Your Highness, two of them are still alive."
The three maids had whip wounds all over their bodies and their clothes were torn.
"Which palace are you from, and you are so cruel?"
The few young eunuchs hesitated and said nothing, and the prince's voice also sounded a little sullen.
Suifeng put his sword against their necks, and these little eunuchs finally took action.
"Your Highness, please calm down. The servants are from the imperial concubine's palace. These maids angered the imperial concubine and were ordered to be executed."
It’s the imperial concubine again.
Juan Juan looked at the three little girls and then at Taiye Lake.
Several fish heads suddenly appeared on the edge of the lake, and they rushed to the shore.
Everyone was shocked when they saw this surprising scene. Only Juan Juan could hear what the fish were chirping.
"Look, it's a little koi!"
"Why is she in a human's arms? Humans are all bad people. Come down quickly!"
"Yes, humans are bad. They throw their own kind into the lake every now and then!"
"There are now more than a dozen human corpses piled in the lake."
Juan Juan looked at the green and calm Taiye Lake in surprise. He couldn't believe that there were so many corpses thrown under such a beautiful lake.
"Didn't you lie to me?" She tilted her head and asked silently.
Her voice could not be heard by humans. In the eyes of the prince, she just opened her mouth and yawned.
"Of course I'm not lying to you. If you don't believe it, just come down and take a look and you'll know."
"Yes, yes, come down quickly, little koi."
Juanjuan shook his head, "It's too cold, I won't go down."
"You are a fish, why are you afraid of the cold?"
Of course, Juan Juan can't go down anymore. She can eat a lot of delicious food now and has a family she loves very much. It's much better than when she was cooking fish.
The guard Sui Feng looked at the three palace maids, "Your Highness, what should we do if these two are still alive?"
"Take her back for treatment. I want to see where they offended the imperial concubine."
In addition, several eunuchs were also controlled and sent to the queen.
After the queen learned about this, she directly asked someone to check the list of maids in the Imperial Concubine Palace, and then found that in recent years, she had been looking for various reasons to move maids to Xianfu Palace. There were twenty or thirty maids in total for so long. All suddenly disappeared.
Because the imperial concubine was in confinement, the queen had no choice but to report to the emperor to handle the matter.
If it were in the past, he would not even look at such a trivial matter, and would even shelve such a matter and not pursue it out of preference for the imperial concubine.
But after all, today is different from the past. The emperor waved his hand and said two words to the queen: "Thorough investigation!"
The imperial concubine was still thinking about how to regain her favor in Xianfu Palace, but the next second the queen barged in with someone.
But Juan Juan has left the palace now, so he can't see this scene.
It was not until two days later that I heard that the favored concubine was suddenly demoted and moved out of Xianfu Palace. The sixth prince was also scolded by the emperor for a trivial matter and was grounded for three months.
Such a big thing was enough to affect the previous dynasty. It is said that Master Wen cried bitterly in the court hall and begged for mercy for his daughter, but the emperor did not relent at all and even let Master Wen kneel down to the court whenever he wanted.
Almost everyone realized that the trend in the court was about to change.
