If not abolished

Chapter 174 Anger

"Didn't you hear what I asked? What happened?" Seeing that they did not answer, the prince immediately asked again.

The maids looked at each other, and finally Qingluan's maid said out of fear of wasting time: "Your Highness, the concubine was called away by Concubine Guo more than half an hour ago, and she hasn't returned yet, so she rushed to the Crown Princess to save our concubine."

"Did Concubine Guo not tell anyone what the matter was when she called them over? And how can you be sure that Concubine Guo would harm your queen? What if your queen was just chatting with Concubine Guo and forgot the time?" The prince naturally would not believe the one-sided words of a palace maid.

"Your Highness, you don't know that ever since our queen got the title, Concubine Guo has been causing trouble for her every other day, so I said this..."

"Is everything you said true?" In the prince's heart, Concubine Guo had always been gentle and virtuous. Although she sometimes had a bad temper, she was completely a different person after hearing these descriptions now, which made him unbelievable.

"Every word I said is true. If Your Majesty does not believe me, you can follow me to Concubine Guo's palace now. If our queen is safe and sound, I am willing to accept any punishment." The maid said while bowing her head.

"Well, I will go with you. If I find out that you are suspected of slandering the imperial concubine, I will definitely not forgive you."

After saying that, the group went there together. Halfway through the journey, they happened to meet the Crown Princess who had hurried back.

"Your Highness, what's going on?" The Crown Princess was also surprised when she saw the Crown Prince.

"It's good that the Crown Princess is here, so let's go over and take a look. I'm sure you know what's going on." The Crown Prince looked at her and didn't say much, and just said that they should go together.

"Yes, I heard from the palace servants that Concubine Guo had called Concubine Qingluan over and had not released her yet, so I went over to take a look."

"I heard that Concubine Guo has been looking for trouble with Qingluan these days? Is this true?" The prince asked as he walked.

The Crown Princess considered for a moment and said, "I'm not trying to cause trouble on purpose. You know, this matter is indeed a little... She can't accept it for the time being, so it's inevitable that she has done some extreme things in the past few days. But before, they were all small things, not to such an outrageous extent."

"So what you mean is that she did do these things?" Although the prince did not care much about the affairs in the backyard, he was not completely ignorant of the fact that when it came to intrigue, women were no worse than the ministers in the court.

"It's all my fault. I didn't discipline the concubines well, and now I'm causing Your Highness trouble." The Crown Princess did not answer the Crown Prince's question, but took the responsibility directly.

"This has nothing to do with you. Okay, go and check it out quickly, hoping nothing really happens." The prince sighed.

The Crown Princess didn't say anything else until she arrived at Concubine Guo's palace.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess has arrived." The eunuch announced loudly.

When Concubine Guo and the others inside heard that the prince was coming, they were frightened and immediately panicked.

"Your Majesty, why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here?" Lanzhi was suddenly panicked.

"Why are you panicking? It's reasonable for you to come here." Concubine Guo was calm.

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess waited outside the door for a long time but no one came out, so they had to go in directly.

As soon as he entered, Concubine Guo threw herself into the prince's arms. Poor Zhu Gaochi, he could hardly stand steadily. If the prince's wife had not quickly supported him, he would have fallen down.

"What are you doing? Let me go. This is so disrespectful." After the prince stood firm, he immediately pulled her off him.

When Concubine Guo saw that it was almost time, she got off the prince.

"Your servant pays homage to the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess." Concubine Guo bowed.

"Get up." As he spoke, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess walked inside.

You don't know until you see it. When the prince and the princess entered, they saw Qingluan's face was swollen like a bun from being beaten.

The prince was so angry that he immediately turned around and asked angrily: "Guo, what's going on? What are you doing?"

"Your Highness, please listen to my explanation. I naturally have my reasons for doing this." It was the first time that Concubine Guo saw the prince so angry. He was not so fierce last time.

"Okay, I want to hear why you beat someone up like this."

The Crown Princess looked at Qingluan distressedly, "Hurry up, Concubine Qingluan, help her sit up."

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess sat at the top, while Concubine Guo and others knelt below.

"Tell me now what's going on?" the prince asked, suppressing his anger.

"Your Highness, today I originally wanted to call Qingluan to teach the palace maids how to comb their hair. You know, Qingluan used to comb hair well, but after she left, the others couldn't comb hair well, so I had to let her teach the palace maids. This doesn't count as a violation of palace rules, right?" Concubine Guo explained the cause.

"Since you were just combing his hair, why did you beat him like this?" the prince continued to ask.

"I need to ask Concubine Qingluan about this. When she was combing my hair, she deliberately tangled it and even combed all my hair off. I was so angry that I wanted to punish her. What do you think I did wrong? She is just a little concubine. How dare she harm me? Shouldn't she be punished?"

"Concubine Guo beat someone up just for a few strands of her hair. Concubine Guo may have forgotten that Qingluan is now a concubine, not a maid in your palace. What right do you have to beat or scold a concubine?" After hearing her explanation, the Crown Prince didn't even have time to speak. The Crown Princess couldn't help but speak out first, and then she realized that the Crown Prince was still there, "Your Highness, please forgive me. I couldn't help myself and overstepped my bounds."

"I understand. You were anxious at the moment. You are right. Guo is making a big deal out of nothing. She beat people like this for such a small matter." The prince naturally stood on the side of the crown princess.

Concubine Guo didn't expect that the Crown Princess would stand up and speak for Qingluan again this time, even though she clearly refused to see her last time.

"Your Highness, even if I have gone too far, I am still wronged in this matter," Concubine Guo said as she started crying.

"Why are you feeling wronged? Do you think I don't know? Ever since I gave Qingluan the title, you have been making trouble. Now you don't even take me and the Crown Princess seriously, and you beat and scold the concubines privately. Don't you know you are wrong?"

"I know I'm wrong. It's obviously all your Highness's fault. Why did your Highness bring Qingluan with you at that time, making everyone in the Eastern Palace laugh at me? Later, you even gave her a status and slapped me in the face again and again. Now it seems that I'm wrong. Your Highness, please tell me..." Concubine Guo expressed all the grievances in her heart at once.

"Are you saying that all this is my fault?" The prince didn't expect that Guo really meant it. Although he did feel a little guilty towards Guo at the beginning, he was thinking about how to compensate her. If it weren't for what happened today, he might have come to see her. Now, her words immediately consumed all the guilt in his heart. In this case, he doesn't have to worry about anything.

"Isn't it? Oh, no, there is also the Crown Princess. She deliberately placed Qingluan in my palace in order to take away my favor. Your Highness, don't be deceived by the Crown Princess. All of this was planned by the Crown Princess and Qingluan." Concubine Guo began to make random accusations.

"I think you've gone crazy. The Crown Princess has always been magnanimous and tolerant of you, but you keep pushing your feet on the ground. Do you really think I don't know anything?" The Crown Prince doted on her in the past and didn't care about these little things, but he didn't expect that he indulged her to the point of lawlessness.

"When Your Highness liked me before, You didn't think anything of it. Now you hate me, so these are bad things, right? Hahahaha. I understand," Concubine Guo looked at the Crown Princess again, "I know, it seems like you didn't intervene in this matter, but do you dare to swear that this matter has nothing to do with you? Do you dare?"

"I have never done anything wrong, so there is nothing I dare not do. Stop accusing me here." The Crown Princess said firmly.

"Okay, stop arguing. Concubine Guo has behaved improperly and is under house arrest in the palace. She is not allowed to come out without my order. Let the Crown Princess take care of Zhan Kai and the others first." The Crown Prince said and prepared to leave.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, you can't take Zhan Kai away from me, you can't..." When Concubine Guo heard that her son was going to be taken care of by the Crown Princess, she immediately pulled the Crown Prince's sleeve.

"With a mother like you, I really don't dare to leave Zhan Kai to you to take care of." After saying this, the prince flicked his sleeves and left.

The Crown Princess ordered someone to take Concubine Qingluan back home. "I have some excellent ointment. I'll send it to Concubine Qingluan later. Go back and have a good rest."

"Thank you, Princess."

The Crown Princess caught up with the Crown Prince and said, "Your Highness, you just said that Miss Guo was not well behaved, so she was confined. If this gets out, it will be bad. I think she is just too tired recently. It is better to tell others that she is not feeling well and needs to rest. This way, the children will not be too suspicious. What do you think?"

"You are very thoughtful. Let's do as you say. I'm sorry to bother you during this period of time."

"I understand."

Before long, the news of Concubine Guo spread throughout the Eastern Palace. Even Hu Shanxiang heard the news. She happened to be reading in the study with Zhu Zhanji.

"Your Highness, what do you think is going on?" Hu Shanxiang was both gossipy and curious.

Zhu Zhanji was practicing calligraphy and hadn't stopped writing yet. "I told you last time that you shouldn't be curious about these things. Oh, by the way, there is something I want to tell you."

"Ah, what's the matter?" Seeing that he didn't say anything, Hu Shanxiang didn't ask any more questions.

"Isn't Zhan Kai in Mother's palace now? Mother said she might not have time to take care of him, and asked if we have time to take care of him. What do you think?"

"What do you think, Your Highness? Can we help?" Hu Shanxiang didn't know enough about these things in the palace and was afraid that something might go wrong if she took it over.

"It's a matter between adults, it doesn't involve children. Zhanqi is very cute, but if you don't like children, forget it. It doesn't matter whether you help or not."

"Then agree to it."

"it is good."