A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Caiyao opened the door and came out. The young eunuch looked extremely unhappy: "What took you so long? I told you not to stay in there too long."

Zhou Caiyao quickly took out a few more taels of silver and stuffed them into the young eunuch's hand: "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, I just felt a little uncomfortable in my stomach."

The young eunuch's expression gradually improved: "Alright, let's go, the banquet is about to end."

Not long after Zhou Caiyao returned to Zhu Anhe, Ling Shijiang also returned to his seat. Li Shuangwan curled the corners of her mouth coldly. It seemed that the fish had slowly taken the bait she had put out.

About a quarter of an hour later, Ling Shijiang stood up and said, "Everyone, enjoy your meal. I will be leaving first."

The others also stood up and left the palace.

There were eunuchs serving on the side who were responsible for escorting them out of the palace.

A young eunuch walked up to Li Shuangwan, lowered his head, and bowed his body: "Your Highness Prince Heng, Princess Heng, your servant will escort you two."

Li Shuangwan nodded slightly: "Thank you, eunuch."

The young eunuch stepped forward and helped Li Shuangwan up from his seat.

At the same time, Ling Yao helped the Queen into the Prince's East Palace.

Queen Jiang slapped him in the face and said, "Ling Yao, what are you up to today? You knew your brother's left hand was injured and he couldn't lift his strength, but you actually dared to embarrass him in public and let everyone know that your brother's hand was broken!"

Ling Yao's face was burning with pain, and he fell to his knees with a thud. The noise was so loud that the nanny following the Queen was so scared that she almost thought that the Third Prince's kneecap was broken.

"Mother, why do you always think about me like this? I don't, I don't!"

Queen Jiang sneered, "It's not why I miss you so much, but that's what you did. If you hadn't tripped Ling Xian, how could the wine glass in his hand fly out and hit your brother exactly where he was injured. Ling Yao, you come to tell me now that you didn't? Ha, do you believe it yourself when you say this?"

Ling Yao wiped the tears from his face fiercely and stood up. He was very tall, and when he stood up so straight, he was a head taller than Queen Jiang.

He looked down at Queen Jiang and said word by word, "Yes, I tripped Ling Xian, but so what? I just wanted to embarrass Ling Xian, and never thought of letting big brother's broken hand be discovered! Because father and you can't hide this matter. One day, all the officials will know about it and will jointly write a letter to abolish big brother's position as crown prince!"

"Ling Yao, you are so outrageous!"

Ling Yao sneered, "In order to prevent me from posing a threat to my elder brother, you have been on guard everywhere and calculated everything. You even planted spies around me, and you report everything to you, including what I ate, what I said, and which woman I favored at night. I am a human being, not your puppet!"

"Empress, I always wonder if I am your biological child!"

Queen Jiang was so angry that she slapped Ling Yao in the face again: "Ling Yao, don't forget, the Crown Prince is your brother from the same mother! You are a subject, and a subject should do his duty well!"

The slap in the face was so hard that a trace of blood appeared on the corner of Ling Yao's mouth. He seemed not to feel the pain. He poked the broken part with his tongue, snorted coldly, and strode away.

Queen Jiang shouted behind him, "Ling Yao, you rebellious son, stop right there!"

The confidant nanny advised: "My queen, please don't be angry. After all, the Third Prince is your biological son just like the Crown Prince. You are too harsh on the Third Prince."

Queen Jiang glared at him, "What do you know? In the past two hundred years of the Northern Jin Dynasty, there have been many cases of brothers fighting against each other for the throne. I just want him to remember that he is a minister and Ji'er is the king, so the minister must know his duty as a minister."

The trusted nanny sighed in her heart and stopped trying to persuade her. Ever since the third prince came of age, the queen had been increasingly worried about these words. She always felt that her younger son would seize the throne from her elder son. She had tried to persuade him countless times, but each time she was retorted by the queen with these words.

They are all her own sons, the queen is really going too far.

The eunuch guarding outside saw Ling Yao's cheeks swollen and said distressedly, "Your Highness, why did the Queen hit you again?"

Ling Yao turned around, glanced at the words "Eastern Palace" on the plaque, then walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

One day, he will make his mother regret it!

……

After Li Shuangwan left, Yizhu forced himself to give the medicine to Aunt Zhao.

Nanny Zhao's back was torn from being beaten, and she lay on the bed crying out in pain. No one came to serve her, and no doctor came to treat her. She was very surprised to see Yizhu pushing the door open with medicine and a basin.

Yizhu lifted the quilt and saw the bloody mess on Madam Zhao's back. She sighed softly and wrung out a handkerchief to clean her wound: "Madam Zhao, you are the princess's wet nurse and should be of the same mind as the princess. How could you be like this today?"

Nanny Zhao was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out on her forehead, but she knew that although her back looked seriously injured, it was actually just superficial injuries, which were specifically ordered by His Highness.

She wants to accept His Highness's favor.

But he said, "Did the princess ask you to come?"

"Who else could it be? The princess is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She can't bear to see you get hurt. Before entering the palace, she specifically asked me to take good care of you, saying that you raised her because of your milk, and she couldn't be angry with you. She also gave me this bottle of excellent golden medicine. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you watched the princess grow up. Don't you know what kind of character our princess is?"

Madam Zhao wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "I was bewildered. How could I be so foolish as to think that the princess was having an affair? I was deceived by someone."

She slapped herself hard and said, "I am such a piece of shit. Yizhu, you are a good person. I can't get up now, so please ask the princess to apologize for me."

As he spoke, he took out a jade bracelet from under the pillow and put it on Yizhu's hand: "This is a gift from the princess. I am old and it doesn't look good on me. I have been wanting to give it to you for a long time."

Yizhu took it and stuffed it into his sleeve, then continued to clean Zhao Ma's wound and apply medicine.

She spoke nicely to both sides, and half an hour later, when the medicine was applied, Nanny Zhao finally believed that Li Shuangwan really did it for the sake of her being a wet nurse, and she no longer cared about what happened in the morning.

After coming out of Nanny Zhao's room and returning to his own room, Yizhu seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He locked himself in the room for a long time without saying a word.

She couldn't understand why His Highness did this.

Her girl is so good, why does he look down on her? He even let a secret guard consummate the marriage on his behalf. This is really too much.

Fortunately, Mr. Gu Jiu is a good man, otherwise, how humiliated the girl would be.

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