sjar Chapter 370 The handle
Chapter 370 The handle
Princess Xiao's face turned pale and blue. She never expected that she would be scolded like this by a junior.
"You, you are so uneducated! In front of the Imperial Concubine..."
"I am uneducated? Who is uneducated, you or me?" Shang Ruoyi smashed the teacup on the table, splashing tea all over the table. "I know I'm telling you the truth. If you don't like it, just don't listen. There's no need to talk about the Imperial Concubine all day. I've been here for so long and have said so much, but the Imperial Concubine hasn't said anything yet. And you're making a scene here. If someone doesn't know, they would think that the master of this palace is you, Princess Xiao. We in the Dingguo Palace have always spoken with military exploits and never work like slaves for others."
"Alright." Concubine Zhao said coldly, "What are you arguing about? It's giving me a headache." She stroked her forehead and said coldly, "How could a junior like you be so disrespectful to your elders? Is this your rule?"
"My Lady, I like to speak directly and I don't like to keep my words to myself. The Emperor and His Majesty called my mother away, no doubt to show my power." Shang Ruoyi sneered, "But I am not afraid of others playing such tricks on me. The fact that our Dingguo Palace was able to return alive from the place of exile is probably not just due to the Emperor's grace! My Lady, I believe, knows this better than I do."
Concubine Zhao's face turned pale. She never expected that someone would dare to contradict herself.
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "I know what I am talking about. Where is the Imperial Concubine?"
"Someone come!" Concubine Zhao slammed the table in front of her fiercely and shouted angrily, "Catch her! Give her thirty lashes!"
Several guards stepped forward and were about to drag her away, but her eyes turned cold and her internal force burst out from her body. Before the guards could get close to her, they were knocked over by her powerful internal force.
"Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor! Protect the imperial concubine!"
Shang Ruoyi sat there and said in surprise, "What are you doing? Why are you lying on the ground?"
"You, you know martial arts?" Concubine Zhao was still in shock: "You want to murder me."
"My Lady, if I wanted to harm you, you wouldn't be sitting peacefully on the throne of the Lady."
She stood up, glanced at everyone, and said in a cold voice: "I don't care how you bullied my mother in the past, and I don't care how you framed the Dingguo Palace. After all, it's a thing of the past. But from now on, if you throw dirty water on the Dingguo Palace and bully the people of our Dingguo Palace again, don't blame me for being rude."
"Presumptuous! Presumptuous!"
"My Lady, this is my character. If you don't want to disturb your pregnancy, please try not to summon me again. Otherwise, if the baby in your belly is born too early, you will have a hard time explaining to the Emperor."
what?
How could she...
Concubine Zhao looked at her in shock, her heart pounding.
"You, you dare to curse the Imperial Concubine!"
As soon as Princess Xiao finished speaking, Concubine Zhao said coldly, "Shut up!" She looked at Shang Ruoyi and narrowed her eyes slightly, "I don't understand what you mean, but considering that you have just returned to Beijing and have not yet learned many rules, I will not pursue today's matter. You can go back now!"
"I'll take my leave." Shang Ruoyi smiled and turned to leave.
"Your Highness! How could you let her go?" Princess Xiao said anxiously, "If you want to deal with her again in the future, I'm afraid you won't have such a good opportunity."
Concubine Zhao looked at her leaving back and couldn't help feeling a lingering fear.
Impossible, absolutely impossible, how could she know without feeling my pulse? And when I was pregnant, the Ding Palace was still far away in the land of exile, how did she know?
Could it be possible that there are spies from Prince Ding's Palace in my Lanqing Palace?
Bixi, who had been beside her, noticed her mood swings and hurriedly asked, "Madam, are you feeling unwell?"
"I am tired today, you all go back!"
Princess Xiao was unwilling to accept this, but since Concubine Zhao had said so, she could only give up.
Shang Ruoyi came to Fengyi Palace, where the queen was teasing the little princess.
"I'm here." She didn't turn around and said softly, "I thought you were an honest person, but I didn't expect you to be so eloquent. Even Concubine Zhao and Princess Xiao, along with a group of ladies, are no match for you."
Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows slightly. The news spread so quickly. It seemed that although the Queen looked weak and powerless, she actually had spies all over the harem.
She looked at the slender figure, perhaps, there were more than just the harem.
"I am only good at speaking, but my words are just small tricks, not worth telling to outsiders."
"A little cleverness?" The Queen couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Openly using internal energy in Lanqing Palace, is this a little cleverness?"
"Brute force."
The queen looked at her and raised her eyebrows slightly: "A little cleverness plus brute force, I like it."
At this moment, the little princess in her arms suddenly burst into tears.
The queen held her and coaxed her for a long time but there was no improvement. She looked at Shang Ruoyi and said anxiously, "Don't you know medical skills? Come and take a look. What's wrong with the princess?"
Shang Ruoyi walked quickly forward, checked for a while, and couldn't help frowning.
"The princess has been crying a lot for a while now, sometimes for hours at a time." The nanny said with some concern, "The imperial physician came to see her several times, but there was no improvement."
Shang Ruoyi examined it for a long while, and her heart skipped a beat. She said coldly, "What a cruel method."
"what?"
"There is a silver needle in the princess' body."
"Silver needle? How is that possible?" The Queen quickly stepped forward and grabbed Shang Ruoyi's hand: "How could there be a silver needle in her body?"
Shang Ruoyi shook her head: "The silver needle was originally intended to kill her, but by chance, the silver needle did not penetrate into her vital parts, but was buried in her arm. Whenever she moved, the silver needle would roll with her movements, which was very painful."
The queen's face suddenly changed when she heard this: "Can this silver needle be taken out?"
Shang Ruoyi nodded and took out a dagger and a porcelain bottle from her arms.
"My lady, I need to cut a wound on the princess's arm and then remove the silver needle, but it won't be too painful."
The queen's heart was clenched. How could it not hurt to cut open her skin and take out the silver needle? But there was no other way at the moment.
"The princess is now in your hands."
Shang Ruoyi walked forward, held the princess's chubby little hand, and the pure energy in her body flowed into her body through her hand.
The little princess yawned and fell into a deep sleep.
She looked at her arm. A silver needle as long as a finger was embedded in her little arm.
She cut a tiny wound, and the energy in her palm gathered and went towards the silver needle. The silver needle swayed slightly, and the next moment, it was thrown out by a huge energy and stuck on a pillar not far away. There was still a drop of blood on the tail of the needle as it fell to the ground.