After a stick of incense, Emperor Mingwen hurried over, looked around with a cold face, and asked in a deep voice: "What on earth is going on?"

"Your Majesty, shortly after my concubine had a miscarriage, she felt bored staying in the palace, so she invited Prince Xiao to go for a walk in the back garden. Unexpectedly, Princess Xiao suddenly went crazy and actually pushed my concubine into the water."

Concubine Xia threw herself into Emperor Mingwen's arms and cried softly, looking frightened. Emperor Mingwen glanced sideways at Chu Yunning, implying inquiry. Chu Yunning's scalp was numb at the sight. Fortunately, Emperor Mingwen

His eyes quickly moved away.

She suddenly felt that Emperor Mingwen knew everything.

"Princess Xiao, is this possible?" Emperor Mingwen asked Li Shanshan in a deep voice.

Li Shanshan's face turned pale, and she was so frightened that she knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I have been wronged, and I never recommended the imperial concubine..."

"You didn't push me, did I jump down myself?" Concubine Xia raised her head from Emperor Mingwen's arms and asked with an unhappy look on her face.

Li Shanshan was speechless when asked, how could she, a noble concubine, wrongly accuse Princess Xiao? There was no mutual interest between the two.

Concubine Xia insisted that Li Shanshan was ill, and she did something crazy but did not dare to admit it. The two couldn't argue. Emperor Mingwen suddenly looked at Chu Yunning with a smile but not a smile: "Whether Princess Xiao is ill, let Chu Shanggong

Won’t you know it just by looking at it?”

Hearing this, Li Shanshan's heart sank. Somehow she knew that Chu Yunning would never let her go easily.

"Your Majesty, my wife is in good health and there is no need for Chu Shanggong to take action personally."

Chu Yunning raised her eyebrows, glanced at the shivering Li Shanshan, and curled her lips: "Actually, there is no need to look. Princess Xiao just fell ill, and everyone present saw it."

"Chu Yunning, you are talking nonsense!" Li Shanshan jumped up and scolded Chu Yunning: "Don't fool the emperor here, it's obvious that you are deliberately irritating me."

Chu Yunning shrugged at Emperor Mingwen, as if he was sick.

"Presumptuous!" Emperor Mingwen shouted coldly, which frightened Li Shanshan so much that she hid behind Prince Xiao.

Emperor Mingwen looked past Li Shanshan and landed on Prince Xiao, and asked angrily: "Prince Xiao, what do you say about this?"

"Brother, there must be a misunderstanding." King Xiao believed that what he saw with his own eyes was that Li Shanshan did not push the imperial concubine down. King Xiao turned to look at Chu Yunning: "Chu Shanggong, you can't tell lies because of personal grudges.

, Princess, she is not sick."

"How does Prince Xiao know that Princess Xiao is not sick? You have only been married for more than ten days. Do you know what kind of character Princess Xiao has in her boudoir? Do you know whether she takes medicine at home?"

Chu Yunning's successive questions made King Xiao stunned for a moment. He didn't know what to say and swallowed nervously.

"My lord, I am an innocent and good girl who married into the palace. I have never deceived the palace. You must make the decision for me." Li Shanshan saw that the situation was wrong. No matter how stupid she was, she knew that the situation was not good for her.

Chu Yunning sneered: "Prince Xiao doesn't know the princess, how can he know about his daughter's family?"

"You!" Li Shanshan was forced to panic and almost yelled at Chu Yunning. Whatever she said now was wrong and wrong. She was so angry that she couldn't refute. She could only place all her hopes on Xiao.

Wang, I hope Xiao Wang will help her out of consideration for the relationship between husband and wife.

"Chu Yunning, you are messing around!" Prince Xiao clenched his fists tightly, wondering why he had never noticed that Chu Yunning was so sharp-tongued before.

hateful!

"Prince Xiao, sometimes what you see with your own eyes may not be the truth. How can you be sure whether Princess Xiao said something vicious to irritate Concubine Xia?" Chu Yunning said.

The original owner was devastated when he lost his child. He finally recovered a little bit, but was driven crazy by Ye Yan'er and framed him for imprisonment. In total, Prince Xiao owed the original owner two lives.

Ye Yaner's death has been settled, and there is also Prince Xiao.

"Chu Yunning, this is the palace, not a place for you to run wild. It's not your turn to question me here!" King Xiao said through gritted teeth.

"Your Majesty, I think what Chu Shanggong said is right. You must make the decision for me." Concubine Xia was nestled in Emperor Mingwen's arms, crying so pitifully that it made people feel pitiful.

Emperor Mingwen patted Concubine Xia on the shoulder and raised his voice: "Come here, I will punish Concubine Xiao below and hit her twenty times with a cane, as a warning to others!"

"Your Majesty!" Li Shanshan was extremely unwilling. She had not made any mistakes, so why should she be beaten? If word spread, she would be laughed to death.

Li Shanshan said unconvinced: "My wife did not recommend the imperial concubine. The emperor cannot punish my wife indiscriminately."

"Your Majesty, I didn't want to say it originally, but now I have to say it." Concubine Xia directly asked the palace maid to take out a hundred thousand taels of silver notes and put them on the table. When she saw the banknotes, Li Shanshan was dumbfounded and her heart beat rapidly:

"Your Majesty, you!"

"Your Majesty, these silver notes were given to me by Princess Xiao. She wanted me to blow my pillow in your ears and promote Shilang Li."

The one hundred thousand taels of silver notes were used to buy Chu Yunning's life, but Concubine Xia couldn't say this, so she could only find other reasons.

"Among all the princesses, only Princess Xiao has a low background. Therefore, Princess Xiao has a low self-esteem and wants my concubine to help me, but I refused because I didn't want to cause trouble to the emperor. Unexpectedly, Princess Xiao became very angry."

Concubine Xia asked the palace maid to return the silver note to Li Shanshan.

Li Shanshan held the banknote in her hand, her face was burning, and her mind was racing, trying to find a suitable reason to refute.

"Drag him out and beat him fifty times with a cane!" Emperor Mingwen shouted angrily.

Prince Xiao could only watch helplessly as Li Shanshan was dragged away. After a long time, he walked away angrily, but Emperor Mingwen didn't care.

If it weren't for the sake of his mother's compatriots, King Xiao would have died countless times due to his behavior.

"Chu Shanggong, is Concubine Xia's health in serious condition?" Emperor Mingwen quickly changed his face and put on a very gentle look to comfort Concubine Xia. Concubine Xia was very helpful, and she leaned in Emperor Mingwen's arms like a little bird.

If Chu Yunning had not known Emperor Mingwen to a certain extent, he would have been deceived by this affectionate expression. He put away his expression, cleared his throat and said: "Back to the emperor, Concubine Xia was frightened and caught a cold again. Her body and

I'm psychologically hurt at the same time. If someone comforts me all the time, maybe I can get better as soon as possible."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Yunning could even feel that the sight above her head became hot, as if it was going to burn through her.

"Then the emperor should spend more time with his concubines." Concubine Xia climbed onto Emperor Mingwen's shoulders as if she were weak and boneless, twisting her waist to act coquettishly.

Emperor Mingwen smiled slightly at Chu Yunning. His smile was a little cold, but Chu Yunning pretended not to see it.

"I'm not going anywhere these days. I'm just staying here to recuperate with my beloved concubine. Chu Shang Palace, you must do your best to take care of your concubine's body. You are not allowed to make any mistakes. You must do everything yourself and let others do it. I

Don’t worry.”

mean!

Chu Yunning cursed silently in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face: "I will fulfill my mission and will do my best to take care of the noble concubine."

At this time, the guards came to report that Princess Xiao had fainted before finishing playing with the boards. She didn't know what to do. Emperor Mingwen waved his hand and said: "I'll ask Chu Shang Palace to supervise. Fifty boards, not a single one is missing."

"yes!"

Li Shansa lay dying on the bench. Looking at the bench, Chu Yunning thought of the original owner again, and felt an unreasonable anger in her heart.

Prince Xiao stood motionless beside her. He only raised his head and looked at her when he heard the noise, with a complicated look on his face.

"The Emperor has an order. Not one of the fifty boards will be missing. Keep fighting!" Although Chu Yunning and Li Shanshan had no deep grudges or grudges, the other party wanted his own life!

She considered herself not a kind person, so Chu Yunning had no intention of showing any favor and watched helplessly as the guard's board fell on Li Shanshan's back.

She had been beaten like this before, with blood dripping from her eyes, and no one interceded for her.

"Chu Yunning, you are so cruel!" Prince Xiao said a few words through his teeth, looking at her as if he were a stranger.

Chu Yunning looked sideways at Prince Xiao and smiled sarcastically: "Prince Xiao has a noble status, how could he know about the overt and covert fights between the women in the back house? I was wronged like this before. Compared with it, now it is nothing.

.”

"Do you hate me?" Prince Xiao's tone contained surprise and a bit of surprise.

Chu Yunning couldn't help but frown.

"Are you regretful or are you jealous, so you deliberately targeted Li Shanshan?" Prince Xiao couldn't wait to ask.

Looking at Wang Xiao's sincere and confident expression, Chu Yunning seemed to be looking at a fool, wishing he could reach out and pry open Wang Xiao's head to have a look.

"If you regret it, I can ask my mother to marry you, and we can get back together, and I can marry you again in a glorious way."

"Your Majesty!" Li Shanshan was knocked unconscious and then woke up. When she opened her eyes, she heard these words. She frowned and looked at Chu Yunning unwillingly. She suddenly vomited a large mouthful of blood: "Ugh!"

Prince Xiao looked at Li Shanshan condescendingly, with undisguised disgust in his eyes. In his eyes, marrying Li Shanshan was just a temporary passion, without any emotion at all. He had never even touched Li Shanshan.

Such changes in eyes were captured by Chu Yunning. Once upon a time, Prince Xiao also looked at him this way. He was filled with Ye Yan'er and hated everything about him.

It's ridiculous to think about it now. In King Xiao's eyes, the less you can get, the better it is.

"Chu Yunning!" Prince Xiao stretched out his hand and held Chu Yunning's shoulder. He was going crazy. He went to Danqiong Garden every day, and his mind was filled with Chu Yunning's face. Every frown and smile was engraved in his mind.

, even though Chu Yunning had done many unjust things, Prince Xiao just missed her.

"Snapped!"

Chu Yunning slapped Prince Xiao without hesitation, struggled back two steps, and said sternly: "My lord, please respect yourself!"

This slap made Xiao Wang wake up a lot, and he covered his face in confusion.

"I gave up on you six years ago. If it weren't for Beibei, I would never have let you go so easily. How could I be with a man who has the hatred of killing my son?"

Although she was not the original owner, her hatred was no less than that of the original owner. The child she had worked so hard to conceive for ten months was killed, and the child's biological father was also involved. She would rather be alone for the rest of her life than accept Prince Xiao.

King Xiao was suddenly shocked.

"Prince Xiao, it has been impossible between you and me for a long time. It will not be possible in this life or the next life. Please take care of yourself!"

Chu Yunning bypassed Prince Xiao and looked at the guard on the side: "How many sticks are there?"

"Back to Chu Shanggong, it's already forty-six sticks."

"Keep hitting me, hit me hard!" Chu Yunning raised his chin and ordered in a cold voice. He watched helplessly as the board fell heavily on Li Shanshan's back, and knocked Li Shanshan unconscious immediately. There were blood stains on her lower body along the

Her skirt splashed onto the ground bit by bit.
To be continued...