coobybook Chapter 130 Witch
Chapter 130 Witch
Xie Zhichan had been talking to the empress dowager for a while and was almost thirsty. When she heard these words, she felt liberated. She stood up and walked towards the garden on her own initiative.
I walked onto the cobblestone path in the garden, thought this was the place, and knelt down with my knees bent.
Empress Dowager Cao was having a headache, and if she didn't kneel down, it would be difficult for her to escape.
But it doesn't matter. This kneeling will not be in vain. She will eventually ask the Cao family to get the interest back.
It was okay at first, just a little pain in the knee. She has a very good pain tolerance, so this little pain did not bother her.
It’s just that the sun above our heads is a little too strong, after all, it’s summer.
After kneeling for half an hour, I was sweating all over, blood was gradually flowing out from under my knees, and the pain intensified several times.
Xie Zhichan had no choice but to find a painkiller from the space, and using his sleeve as a cover, he inserted the needle into his thigh and pushed the medicine in.
After a moment, she knelt on the gravel road like a wooden man. Although the blood on her knees was flowing more and more, she didn't feel any pain at all.
"Who is that person? She looks so amazing! She doesn't seem to feel any pain at all!"
Suddenly, a light female voice was heard in the garden. From her innocent voice, it seemed that she was not able to feel any of the sufferings of the world.
Xie Zhichan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a girl dressed in palace clothes standing behind a bush, with only her shoulders showing. Her face was rosy and delicate, like a doll.
She was just wondering about this person's identity when she heard a young palace maid say, "Third Princess, that is the Crown Prince's Consort, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Wei's Mansion."
It turns out that this is the third princess who was the most favored by Emperor Jingde and was adopted in the Queen's palace since childhood. She looks so well-behaved, no wonder she is the most favored daughter of Emperor Jingde.
Xie Zhichan heard the Third Princess' voice again and said, "I see her legs are bleeding, but her face doesn't show any pain at all - No! I have to go and give advice to my mother, and ask her to hand the person over to me. I will make sure she gets a good beating."
The little maid said, "The princess's method of punishing people is the most powerful. The queen will definitely like the princess's idea."
The voices and footsteps of the two people were all heading towards the palace.
Xie Zhichan suddenly felt disillusioned. Was this a combination of an angel and a devil? Today was probably her Mercury retrograde day. This Third Princess sounded like someone who was not easy to mess with.
It turned out that Pei Yi did not tell Xie Zhichan that the third princess was one of his own, so Xie Zhichan only knew that the third princess was the one born to Concubine Hui and raised by the queen since childhood.
The third princess was named Li Youzhi. Concubine Hui had suffered from infertility for many years. When she saw that Emperor Jingde had taken a closer look at a beautiful young maid in her palace, she came up with the idea of using her as a surrogate mother to bear a child and then keeping the child.
Concubine Hui secretly asked a young palace maid to have sex with Emperor Jingde on her behalf, and she actually got pregnant the first time. From then on, she pretended to be pregnant in her own palace, fooling everyone in the palace and making Emperor Jingde favor her for a while.
When Li Youzhi was born, the Kyoto capital had been experiencing strong winds and heavy rain for several days and then stopped. There was even a rainbow hanging high above the imperial palace. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory said that this princess was a lucky star for the Jin Dynasty, so Emperor Jingde doted on her infinitely.
When she was only three months old, and no one knew what mistake Concubine Hui had made, Emperor Jingde adopted the third princess into the Queen's palace on the grounds that Concubine Hui was not suitable to raise a princess.
Li Youzhi grew up gradually. She was beautiful and had both the nobility of a royal family and the spirit of a young girl. She was a person favored by God.
He is also the freest person in this palace.
She walked into Empress Dowager Cao's Xuande Hall. Before she arrived, her voice came first: "Grandmother, Queen Mother, San'er is here to pay his respects to you. I heard that you invited some interesting people to the palace, but why didn't you invite me?"
After hearing this carefree voice, Empress Dowager Cao felt herself relax a lot. She said with a smile, "San'er is here? You are already sixteen years old, and your father is already looking for a prince consort for you. Why are you still acting like a naughty monkey, so jumpy and only thinking about having fun?"
Li Youzhi smiled as he walked up to Empress Dowager Cao, took her hand and said with a smile, "Grandmother, does that mean that San'er is no longer your granddaughter now that she is sixteen years old?"
Empress Dowager Cao scratched her nose and said with a smile, "No matter how old you are, you are the granddaughter of the Imperial Grandmother."
Li Youzhi said, "In that case, no matter how old Youzhi is, he has the confidence to be a monkey."
Empress Dowager Cao and the Queen both laughed.
Li Youzhi glanced at Xie Zhichan in the garden and said, "Grandmother, Mother, I saw that the Crown Prince's wife of Prince Yan was kneeling outside and bleeding, but she didn't say a word. She must not feel any pain. Grandmother, your way of punishing people is not okay! If it were me, I would definitely make her wail!"
When the two heard what Li Youzhi said, they couldn't help but look towards the yard. Seeing that Xie Zhichan really didn't seem to be in any pain, they felt a sense of anger in their hearts that they couldn't swallow.
Empress Cao's headache, which had just eased, started to hurt again. She looked at Li Youzhi and asked, "San'er, do you have any good ideas?"
Li Youzhi said, "Grandmother, can you hand the person over to me? San'er has read about an interesting criminal law in an ancient book recently, and I really want to try it out."
The queen looked at Li Youzhi and said, "Have you read some nonsense books again?" But her tone was very doting.
Li Youzhi said cheerfully, "It's an ancient book of punishments. There are many ways to torture people. One of them is to insert tiny bamboo sticks into people's fingers, from the fingers to the heart. The wound is not big, but it is extremely painful. How fun."
When she said "how fun it is", it seemed as if she was sincerely praising and admiring how good it was.
When Queen Mother Cao heard that the wound was small, she immediately became interested and said, "In that case, go and bring your tools so that we can see how effective it is."
Li Youzhi immediately said with a stern face: "Grandmother, Mother, I heard that the Crown Prince's Consort is the favorite of the Crown Prince of Yan. If San'er tortures her in broad daylight like this and Pei Yi reports it to my father, San'er will be punished again. Besides, how can San'er be satisfied if he tries this trick on her?"
As if she had suddenly thought of a good idea, she smiled and said, "Why not let San'er take it back to Yunmeng Palace and let San'er play with it slowly?"
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Cao and the Queen felt that there was some truth to it. If the Crown Prince's Consort of Prince Yan's Mansion was tortured in Shoukang Palace, it would be difficult for Prince Yan's Mansion to explain. However, if something happened in the Third Princess' Palace, it could be said that it was just the result of children's ignorance and mischief.
Queen Mother Cao nodded and said, "In that case, you can take the person with you. Just remember one thing, it can only be a hidden injury, so that no one can see it, and don't play too much."
Li Youzhi thanked him and said, "It's still the Imperial Grandmother who loves San'er."
Then he happily took the little palace maid out of Xuande Hall again.
Li Youzhi walked up to Xie Zhichan, circled around her, and said with disdain in his voice, "Are you Pei Yi's Crown Prince's Consort? I don't think you look that good, you look skinny and skinny, and your touch isn't as good as my mother's."
Xie Zhichan was a little surprised when he heard the third princess talking about her mother, as if she was just an old acquaintance.
I heard her lamenting again: "My mother is so pitiful, even though she has such a good touch, she still cannot get the mercy of my father. Now she is in the cold palace, suffering in the wind and rain. It shows that it is useless for a woman to be beautiful. Don't you think so, Crown Prince's Concubine?"
She suddenly lowered her head and came closer. When Xie Zhichan heard the tone in which she spoke of her mother, he felt that she was a little witch who was both good and evil.
She said, "I dare not interfere with the nobles in the palace."
Li Youzhi suddenly laughed and said, "My mother is no longer a noble lady. She can't even keep up with the foot-washing maids in my palace. But a woman who can win over a man's heart is the most useful. Princess, I want to see if you have won over Prince Pei's heart? Hehe."
After that, he ordered the two eunuchs behind him, "Help the Crown Prince's Consort up and take her to my Yunmeng Palace."