"What kind of respect is this?" Jing Guiren followed the Empress Dowager again, acting domineering.
"In order to highlight your diligence, I have no choice but to be lazy." Ye Qingmian did not directly answer Jing Guiren's words, but said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth.
"Hmph..." Jing Guiren snorted coldly and said nothing, but he was thinking in his heart, "Let's see how the Empress Dowager will deal with you later, haha
"I wonder what the Queen Mother is doing when she moves to Qingchen Palace?" Ye Qingmian asked coldly
"Hmph, do you have the nerve to ask?" The Queen Mother snorted coldly, and then said to the maid next to her, "Caiyun, let Concubine Ye see the good things she has done."
"Yes" the palace maid named Caiyun replied respectfully.
Ye Qingmian found it hard to understand. He didn't seem to have done anything today. Why...
"Take a good look, is this right?" The Empress Dowager pointed at a painting that Caiyun had just spread out.
Ye Qingmian was a little stunned. The person in the painting had slightly exposed shoulders, a calm face, and clear eyes. It was clearly her, but she remembered that she had never asked anyone else to paint her portrait.
"This is in the harem. Are you secretly having sex with others?" the Queen Mother asked very sternly.
Ye Qingmian stood there steadily, without explaining, looking into the eyes of the Empress Dowager, with a smile on her lips.
"Why don't you speak? Do you have nothing to say?" the Queen Mother continued.
"I don't understand what you mean, and I don't know where this painting came from."
Ye Qingmian honestly said that she did not know that this painting was actually given to her by Nan Fengyu just now, but she always thought it was a pig...
"Don't think that if you don't recognize the Aijia, there's nothing you can do about it."
There was a hint of viciousness in the corner of the Queen Mother's eyes, and she said to Caiyun, "Caiyun, come up and slap me on the face, hit her hard until she tells the truth."
The Empress Dowager looked at Ye Qingmian arrogantly, but Ye Qingmian was not afraid and asked coldly: "What qualifications do you have to hit me?"
"Qualifications? Just because I am the Queen Mother, and you are just a concubine, and because I am your elder, but you don't know how high the sky is and how high the earth is."
The Empress Dowager's voice was in her eyes, and then she said to Caiyun, "You still attack, do you think you also want to be beaten?"
"I obey," Caiyun said pitifully. She walked up to Ye Qingmian and stretched out her palm. When she was about to hit him, she was grabbed by Ye Qingmian.