Hearing this, the queen was slightly stunned, and something flashed in her eyes.

But there was no explanation, just a helpless and bitter smile.

"My queen is indeed the most considerate and dignified queen. Not only does she worry about my harem and arrange concubines for me, but now she even has to worry about the backyards of my subjects."

"What about next time? Will we have to worry about the lives of ordinary people?"

"thump!"

The queen knelt down heavily.

Nanny Hu just happened to be leading the palace maids in with breakfast.

Seeing the queen kneeling on the ground, everyone who had not yet stepped into the house knelt down at the door.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I had no other intention. It was just that Li Ge accidentally mentioned her relationship with Prince Mu to me."

"I am also an experienced person. I can see from her eyes that she is in love with Prince Mu."

"Li Ge is the only child left in the Ji family, and I feel sorry for her. I thought that if I help this child, maybe Lord Ji and his son can rest in peace."

"If the emperor wants to punish me, I am willing to accept it. But I beg the emperor not to let Li Ge leave Prince Mu. She... is suffering too much."

Emperor Wen of Zhou said nothing, just looked at her gloomily.

The queen didn't even dare to raise her head. She just knelt there, looking like she was willing to accept the punishment.

"Your Majesty, but... the Crown Prince's Consort can't tolerate Li Ge?" After a while, the Queen asked softly and tentatively.

"It is also because I was not thoughtful enough. I only cared about Li Ge's feelings and didn't consider Prince Mu's wife. She and Prince Mu were newly married not long ago, and they are in love with each other."

"It's all my fault. Later, I will go to Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion to apologize to the Crown Prince's wife."

"Madam, how can this be allowed!" Madam Hu said anxiously, "Miss Ji entered the Marquis' Mansion yesterday, but it was the Crown Prince's Consort who gave her approval!"

"How can she say one thing to your face and another behind your back? The old lady and the wife of Marquis Dingyuan also agreed to it at the time! How could they..."

"Shut up!" The Queen interrupted Madam Hu, "Who allowed you to talk about others behind their backs? Punish yourself by slapping yourself in the face!"

"Even if your Majesty wants to take my life, I will still speak this fair word on your behalf!" Madam Hu kowtowed heavily, "Your Majesty, you can't blame your Majesty for this!"

"Yesterday, when the Queen took Miss Ji to the Marquis' Mansion, she did not mean to make Miss Ji a concubine of Prince Mu. It was Second Madam Mu who said that Miss Ji's father and brother were both gone, and Miss Ji had no one to take care of her."

"And since you have feelings for Master Mu, why not let Master Mu take care of Miss Ji."

"It was also agreed by the Crown Prince's Consort. Even the courtyard where Miss Li lives was chosen by the wife of Marquis Dingyuan. From what I have seen, the old lady, the Marquis' wife, and the Crown Prince's Consort all like Miss Li very much!"

"The Queen only kept Miss Ji in the Marquis' Mansion after she saw that they all agreed."

"How come they turned around and put the blame on the queen! This is really too much! How can they be like this!"

Aunt Hu looked angry and gnashed her teeth.

"I understand." Emperor Wen of Zhou responded indifferently, "Queen, please get up."

This time, he did not personally help her up, but just glanced at her calmly, "Since the matter has been settled, Dingyuan Marquis's Mansion cannot regret it. So let it be!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." With the help of Nanny Hu, the Queen stood up.

"I have something else to do, so I won't have dinner with the Queen." After saying that, he walked away.

He didn't even look at the queen again.

The queen just stood there in a daze, watching the emperor leave and completely disappear from her sight.

"Xu Zhimiao!" She squeezed out these three words from between her teeth, which was enough to show her anger at the moment.

The gentle expression on her face was gone, leaving only gnashing hatred and even twisted anger. "I underestimated you! You are indeed Ruan Lijin's daughter! You are just as annoying as Ruan Lijin!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down," Madam Hu tried to comfort her kindly, "She is just a prince's consort. How can she cause any trouble? This time, she just took advantage of us."

"If you want to deal with her, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Your Majesty, don't be anxious or angry. Not to mention that there is also Ruan Lizi who wants her life, even Madam Mu II wants to kill her now."

"And Xu Panyue must also hate Xiu. Oh, yes! Now there are the concubines and mother and son of Prince Rong. It can be said that there are too many people who want Xu Zhimiao dead now."

"Your Majesty, there is no need for you to take action! You just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight! Oh, no! Even Xu Zhimiao, she is not even a tiger! At most, she is just a trapped wild boar. It all depends on who will kill her."

The queen took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and slowly raised the corners of her lips into a smug sneer, "You're right! There are too many people who want Xu Zhimiao dead."

"Just like how many people wanted Ruan Lijin dead back then! Ruan Lijin won't live long, and her daughter won't live long either!"

"There is no need for me to take action. Someone will get rid of her for me!"

"Send someone to pass a message to Ruan Lizi, telling her that I am very dissatisfied with her! Let her handle it herself!"

"Yes!" Madam Hu nodded repeatedly.

……

Xu Mansion

Xu Panyue returned home with only her personal maid Bai Lu and her wet nurse Ge Mama who had followed her to the Marquis's mansion.

At this moment, he was in Ruan Lizi's Mingxiang Pavilion, complaining about his troubles.

"Mom, they are too bullying!" Xu Panyue cried miserably and aggrievedly, tears falling one by one, "I don't want them to have an easy life!"

"Yue'er, it's too late to say this now!" Ruan Lizi looked at her with a distressed look on her face, "When you insisted on changing the bridal sedan, your father was against it."

"Look at Xu Zhimiao now. How well is her life after marrying Mu Shaochen? She is spoiled to the sky by everyone in the first house."

"Originally, all of this should have been yours! What on earth did you want in the first place? Why did you have to marry Mu Yiwen?"

Ruan Lizi couldn't understand this. But Xu Panyue said confidently that the second wife of the Mu family would definitely replace the first wife and become the Marquis of Dingyuan.

But now...where is there even a shadow of hope?

But she sacrificed her own reputation.

"Mom, do you know? Yesterday the Queen stuffed a woman into Mu Shaochen's backyard." Xu Panyue said with a gloating look on her face, "So now, Xu Zhimiao is the same as me. There is also a woman competing with her for men and favors."

"I want to see what else she can do to make Mu Shaochen favor her!"

These words were mostly her way of comforting herself.

After all, because Xu Zhimiao agreed to let Ji Lige enter the mansion, Mu Shaochen had a big fight with her for the first time in history.

"Mom, if Xu Zhimiao's face was disfigured, would Mu Shaochen still like her? Or, if she was not clean and slept with another man, would Mu Shaochen still want her?"

Xu Panyue gave a sinister sneer and spoke like a ghost.

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