Liu Ruyi won the first prize, and she couldn't thank her enough.
"Your Majesty, my daughter-in-law is willing to perform a dance for His Majesty's entertainment."
Ning Chengzhi nodded politely, looked at Liu Ruyi, and thought that this girl is still not married at such an age.
Princess Danyang got married late at the age of sixteen. This girl is at least seventeen or eighteen years old, right
He secretly cursed in his heart, why did Concubine Li choose such a girl to perform first, Eunuch Chi bowed his head and whispered something in his ear, and he glared at Concubine Li.
"What a concubine Li! Knowing that I like Yufu, you deliberately let Yufu's opponent win the jackpot!"
He gritted his teeth at Eunuch Chi, and the latter said in relief: "Your Majesty, calm down, this Miss Liu has indeed offended the eldest princess, but it is not right. Look at the face of the eldest princess, why do you take such a person seriously?"
Ning Chengzhi looked at Yufu, and saw that she was casually watching Liu Ruyi's dance, drinking tea with her head down from time to time, without any fluctuation on her face.
He was relieved.
He called Eunuch Chi over again, "Concubine Li dares to act recklessly, don't let her come to my bedroom for the next month, I don't want to see her!"
Eunuch Chi bowed in response, and when he raised his head, he glanced at Concubine Li from the corner of his eyes, quite proud.
Concubine Li wanted to enter the imperial study a month ago, saying that she was the biggest master in the harem and no one could stop her. But at that time, Ning Chengzhi didn't want to see her, so Concubine Li scolded Eunuch Chi.
Today, this revenge is finally avenged.
Concubine Li didn't notice anything, instead she watched Liu Ruyi's dance complacently while observing Yu Fu's face.
Liu Ruyi's dance was unremarkable, the only thing to watch was the powerful movement when she flicked her water sleeves, and the water sleeves flew straight out like a sword, which attracted some applause.
She danced in the middle of the golden palace and heard the applause around her, she couldn't help being complacent, recalling that the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet was humiliated here that year, she wanted to seek justice.
Thinking about it this way, her sleeves shot straight at Yu Fufei, who raised his eyes to look at her without any intention of dodging.
Before the water sleeves reached the top of the jade armrest, the sound of swords and soldiers rang out from all sides, and countless people or weapons stood in front of her. When she raised her head, she saw white rags flying down from the sky.
That was Liu Ruyi's water sleeve that had been twisted into pieces.
Yin Shuo was the closest to Yufu, and when he realized something was wrong, he blocked him with his body. Gu Shubai kept paying attention to Yufu's side, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he threw a wine glass and knocked down the water sleeve.
Unexpectedly, Meng Fei, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who had been standing beside Ning Chengzhi to protect him, rushed up, because he was blocked by the wine glass, he originally wanted to split the water sleeve into two pieces, but he accidentally split it into pieces.
Liu Ruyi stood there stupidly, she couldn't dance with her sleeves broken, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.
Yin Shuo retreated to his seat, Meng Fei also retreated to Ning Chengzhi's side.
Yu Fu raised her eyes and glanced at Liu Ruyi, she was already in a bad mood tonight, she didn't want Liu Ruyi to be disrespectful to her back then, and dare to do it again today.
There was no kindness in her eyes.
Liu Ruyi was a little scared, thinking that Yufu was now the eldest princess, not the weak and bully little girl she used to be, so she turned her eyes to Concubine Li for help.
Concubine Li thought for a while and stood up slowly.
"How dare you lose your dignity in front of the imperial court, and almost hurt the eldest princess!"
Before she could speak, Ning Chengzhi jumped up and slapped the table to startle her, "Come here, drag this Liu Ruyi out for me, and beat her up fifty times!"
Liu Ruyi's knees softened, and she immediately fell to her knees, "Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, please forgive me! My daughter didn't do it on purpose!"
Concubine Li quickly sat down while no one was paying attention, pretending that she hadn't stood up to speak.
Liu Zhen hurriedly got up from her seat, and pleaded for her daughter, "Your Majesty, forgive me! She must not have offended the eldest princess on purpose, and the 50th board will kill someone, please forgive me!"
"snort."
Ning Chengzhi didn't even look at Liu Zhen, he just turned to Yu and asked, "What did the eldest princess say?"
Yu Fu was displeased with Liu Ruyi's offense, but he also knew what the punishment in the palace was, so if Liu Ruyi were to be punished, he might not be able to save his life.
Liu Ruyi is guilty and deserves to die.
She stood up and said, "Forget it, I am indeed not injured, so please forgive her, Your Majesty."
Ning Chengzhi was very unhappy when he heard this, "Although you are not injured, it is a fact that she lost her dignity in front of the imperial court. According to my will, I will give you a white silk!"
Liu Ruyi was so frightened that she passed out, and Liu Zhen also died.
Fifty boards still have a chance of survival, but Bai Ling has no chance at all!
Yu Fu didn't expect that his pleading would have the opposite effect. All the officials looked at Ning Chengzhi with both fear and disappointment.
How could their majesty be such a person, to kill the courtier's daughter because of such a trivial matter, wouldn't this chill the old minister's heart
The heat of the resplendent and resplendent hall dissipated and became cold. In the silence, only Liu Zhen kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Boom, boom.
Yu Fu couldn't bear it, "Although Miss Liu was disrespectful in front of the imperial court, it was because of the discord with me. Please forgive Miss Liu's life for my sake, Your Majesty."
What Ning Chengzhi was waiting for was her words.
"I really want to look at your face, but unfortunately you are only the eldest princess. If you are my queen, I will definitely not bear to show you this face."