"Empress Zhu, you don't have to play tricks on me. I can come to your palace directly, so I must be very sure that Lian Huan has entered your Qingque Palace. She has not come out since entering your Qingque Palace, so I came to you to ask for her. What, do you still want to cheat? Do you think these eunuchs and maids in the palace are deaf and blind and can't even see a living person, right?"
Ah Man was extremely anxious when she saw Concubine Zhu like this, but she pretended to be indifferent. She sat on the chair opposite Concubine Zhu and spoke slowly.
The words were spoken slowly, but they seemed to cover Concubine Zhu like an invisible net.
Concubine Zhu looked a little panicked, but it was only for a moment before she regained her composure. She looked at Ah Man with a smile and said, "Princess Jiaoyang, are you trying to wrongly accuse me? Who says that those who saw your maid come to me are deaf and blind? Lian Huan really didn't come, really."
Concubine Zhu spoke with confidence, because she never let Lian Huan enter her bedroom. What Ah Man said just now must be a lie, so she was not afraid.
She couldn't beat her mother, but she really didn't take the little girl in front of her seriously.
She felt that Ah Man was too well protected by the Queen and was too young.
Just like now, if you want to deal with someone, you naturally have to keep him away from your own bedroom, otherwise you won’t be able to explain yourself even if you have a lot of mouths.
Concubine Zhu's pride and confidence did not escape Ah Man's eyes. She was already a little panicked in her heart. She was even sure that Lian Huan was really not in Qingque Palace.
What should she do then? She had already received news that Lian Huan was in trouble. She could even be sure that she was in Concubine Zhu's hands, but she was not in the Qingque Palace.
We can't even find the person, so there's no reason to raise an army to hold him accountable.
Ah Man looked at Concubine Zhu, who had a smug look on her face and was looking at her provocatively.
"Empress Zhu, you seem to have forgotten that what I, Princess Jiaoyang, am worst at is reason." Ah Man spoke to Concubine Zhu with a smile, but her smile was different from Concubine Zhu's. Her smile was complacent and arrogant.
"What? Lian Huan isn't here with me. Are you still going to force a confession out of me?"
Concubine Zhu looked at Ah Man's smile and was extremely panicked. She shouted fiercely, but Ah Man seemed not to hear her voice. She turned around and said to the palace maid behind her: "Go to Canyang Palace immediately and bring me the whip that the ancestor gave me."
The whip that the late emperor left to her before his death was a relic of Emperor Taizu. When the late emperor gave it to her, he said that this whip could be used to beat tyrants and corrupt officials.
Ah Man had never used this whip, but everyone in the palace was afraid of its existence. Even her father had joked many times that he was also under the supervision of Ah Man.
However, everyone thought that Ah Man would never take out the whip. After all, the one in power was her father, who loved and spoiled her. He was also a wise ruler, so he would naturally not be whipped. If she beat the treacherous ministers, it would seem like a slap in the face of her father. Which wise monarch would be surrounded by treacherous ministers
But no one expected that the whip would be used because of Concubine Zhu.
"Ah Man, you dare." When Concubine Zhu heard Ah Man mention the whip, she was already panicking. She knew exactly what it was. Even if she was beaten to death by the whip, she could only accept her fate. Even the emperor would not seek justice for her.
How could she..., how dare she...
"She's just a palace maid, is it worth it? If you used the whip of our ancestors, your father would not..."
"I'm beating you just for Father to see. I just want Father to see that the imperial concubine he trusts and relies on now is the evil concubine identified by our ancestor. I want to see if you can still bully others in this palace after being punished by our ancestor's whip."
Ah Man spoke with a smile, but everyone could hear the murderous intent in her words, as if she really wanted to kill Concubine Zhu.
(End of this chapter)