Hearing Concubine Duan's determined words, the palace maid Shaoyao didn't say much, and silently beat her legs for a while. Suddenly she remembered the fragrance of pear blossoms in the garden that disturbed Concubine Duan's good mood, and asked hesitantly: "Your Majesty,
What should I do with the pear blossoms in the garden?"
When the pear blossoms were mentioned, Concubine Duan became even more angry. She angrily smashed the half-drunk rock sugar bird's nest in her hand, causing all the palace maids and eunuchs to turn pale with fright and kneel down one after another.
"Your Majesty, please calm down..."
Concubine Duan stood up, looked coldly at the palace maids and eunuchs kneeling in front of her, and scolded sternly: "It's all you stupid slaves who planted pear blossoms in my garden. Tell me, do you mean to let me?"
The one who made a fool of himself in front of those lucky ladies?"
"Your Majesty, I forgive you, but I really don't have the courage..." The maids and eunuchs kowtowed repeatedly and replied tremblingly, their voices trembling with fear.
Who doesn’t know that because the little palace maid angered Concubine Duan, she was beaten up by Concubine Duan and thrown into the well?
They don't want to follow in the footsteps of that palace maid!
However, Concubine Duan's expression did not improve because of the begging for mercy from these slaves. She snorted coldly and said: "Everyone knows that the deposed queen likes pear flowers the most. You actually know this and still plant them in my garden."
Shang Lihua, I think you want to go down and accompany the deposed queen and be her slave underground, right?"
"Concubine Duan, my servants (maids) are loyal to you with all their hearts, and they will never dare to have second thoughts!" When the palace ladies and eunuchs kneeling in front of Concubine Duan heard what Concubine Duan said, their faces turned pale with fright, and they said
Concubine Duan kowtowed vigorously to prove her loyalty. She didn't even notice that her forehead was stained with blood. She was afraid that if Concubine Duan gave an order, all of them would go down to be buried with the deceased queen!
"Your Majesty, this is also the gardener's fault. I think it's better to punish the gardeners in the garden..." the palace maid Shaoyao suggested in a low voice in Concubine Duan's ear.
Concubine Duan nodded, waved to the palace maids and eunuchs who were kowtowing in front of them and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you chop down all the pear trees in the garden for me?"
The palace maids and eunuchs breathed a sigh of relief to save their lives, stood up in fear, and took the order to leave.
Concubine Duan originally planned to directly deal with the gardeners who dared to plant pear blossoms in her garden, but she thought that today was her son's full moon and it would be unlucky to see blood, so she gave up and ordered those gardeners to be beaten fifty times.
A big board is used to show punishment.
After all the tossing, Concubine Duan was exhausted, but the fifth prince started to cry at this time. Concubine Duan could only order her nanny to bring the fifth prince, and she coaxed him for a long time before the fifth prince stopped crying and closed his eyes again.
Close your eyes and fall asleep.
Concubine Duan let the fifth prince be taken away by her mother again, her hand touched the purse tied to the fifth prince, she untied the purse, put it in her hand and looked at it carefully.
"I didn't expect that Wei Zijin could be such an outstanding embroiderer!" Now that she had some free time, Concubine Duan looked at the pattern on the purse carefully and felt that the embroiderer looked familiar.
"It seems that Mrs. Shangshu is hiding something secretly!" When the palace maid Shaoyao said this, she said with a smile: "I see that Mrs. Shangshu has not said anything today, but she is as well-informed and knowledgeable as the Prime Minister's wife.