Mu Ci looked at Mallow as he spoke, and slowly opened his lips: "As a slave, you did not serve well enough, and the emperor suddenly became angry. Your crime is unforgivable. Come, take Mallow, and give you fifty punishments with a cane!"
After she gave this order, the guards around the emperor definitely didn't move, but there were people around Mu Ci.
As soon as Ningxiang heard Mu Ci's order, she immediately stepped forward to capture the mallow.
Mallow stood timidly next to the emperor and weakly asked for help: "Your Majesty..."
Dugu Liancheng glanced at Mu Ci coldly: "Who dares to touch my people?!"
Ningxiang also looked at Mu Ci, wondering how the empress would end this.
The emperor is an emperor, and although the empress has a noble status, she is obviously more powerful than the emperor.
The empress and the emperor were in head-to-head confrontation, and it was undoubtedly an egg against a stone.
"Okay, the emperor's people will stay in mourning." Mu Ci was very talkative.
She stood up, went to Wu Meiren, and grabbed one of Wu Meiren's hands: "No one can touch the people the Ai family wants to save!"
When the chamberlain escorting Wu Meiren saw this, he didn't know what to do and subconsciously looked at the emperor.
Dugu Liancheng pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.
Mu Ci stepped forward and snatched Wu Meiren from the hand of the chamberlain. She was about to take Wu Meiren away when she heard Dugu Liancheng say: "The Queen Mother can protect the person I want to kill for a while, but not for a lifetime!"
When Mu Ci heard this, he looked back and smiled: "That's easy to say! If there is something wrong with the person the Ai family wants to protect, the Ai family will use Li Yu and Mallow to pay for the burial!"
The eyes of Dugu Liancheng and Mu Ci crossed in the air, and they refused to give in to each other.
Wu Meiren was so frightened that her legs were weak, and she was worried that she might not be able to save her life after escaping this disaster.
In the end, Mu Ci took Wu Meiren back to Yong'an Palace.
"It is my concubine who is dragging down the empress." Wu Meiren smiled bitterly.
Seeing that she was in shock, Mu Ci comforted her softly: "It's obviously the Ai family that has dragged you down. You can live peacefully in Yong'an Palace for now, and when the emperor forgets about you, it won't be too late for you to go back. The Ai family has many enemies, and the Ai family is protecting you like this today.
If I stick to you, I'm afraid it will bring disaster to you."
Originally, she didn't want people to know that she was close to Wu Meiren, but Dugu Liancheng suddenly showed up like this today. If he really wanted to punish Wu Meiren, it would be okay.
But what she suspected was that Dugu Liancheng knew that she had a close relationship with Wu Meiren, but still used this method to make her willing to expose Wu Meiren, her ally.
Dugu Liancheng probably did it on purpose. He knew that she would not let Wu Meiren suffer and ignore it. The emperor was deliberately making things difficult for her and causing trouble for her.
She didn't want to offend Dugu Liancheng before, so she went along with him in everything. This time, Dugu Liancheng still hasn't calmed down for more than a month. It's rare for an emperor to be so narrow-minded.
If she had known that she would meet Dugu Liancheng, she should not have left Yong'an Palace today.
It's fine now. I've dragged down Mei Wu. I'm afraid Wu Meiren's life in the palace will be very difficult in the future, right?
The only way she could think of was to let Wu Meiren stay in Yong'an Palace temporarily. No matter how long someone stretched his hand, he couldn't reach into Yong'an Palace.
But can she protect Wu Meiren for the rest of her life?
The saddest thing is that she feels that this matter is not over yet. If the emperor deliberately wants to make things difficult for her, there will definitely be further consequences.
The emperor's methods should not be underestimated.
Mu Ci's worries are not unreasonable.
In the afternoon of that day, Li Yu came to Yong'an Palace to read out the imperial edict, and asked Wu Meiren to enter Yanfu Palace to serve her.
Wu Meiren accepted the order tremblingly, her legs trembling as if something happened.
She didn't believe that the emperor who wanted her life in the morning suddenly fell in love with her in the afternoon and asked her to go to Yanfu Palace to serve her. The emperor clearly wanted to take the opportunity to torture her.
Seeing Wu Meiren's cowardice, Mu Ci felt sorry for her but also felt helpless.
Before that, she was still thinking that the emperor would have something to say or a cheap move, but the result came so quickly.
She called Li Yu aside: "Do you know what the emperor wants to do?"
Li Yu seemed to be in a difficult position and hesitated to speak.
Seeing this, Mu Ci said impatiently: "Don't play tricks on the Ai family. If you tell the truth, the emperor will definitely understand you."
Li Yu sneered and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Mu Ci: "Your Majesty is wise. But the emperor did not communicate with the slave. The slave just saw something scary. The emperor asked the slave to prepare a wooden board filled with iron nails, as if it were made of iron nails.
It’s here to punish you by kneeling down…”
He said and looked at Mu Ci quietly.
The Queen Mother is a smart person and should know the purpose of the emperor's move.
Mu Ci took a deep breath.
She finally understood that Dugu Liancheng was forcing her to bow to him. He also knew that Wu Meiren was her weakness, and he also knew that she would not let Wu Meiren suffer the injustice in vain.
At this time, she must go to Yanfu Palace. In order to prevent the emperor from murdering Wu Meiren, she had to stay in Yanfu Palace.
"That's all, the Ai family will come with you." Mu Ciyu waved her palm, pretending not to see the dazzling smile on Li Yu's face: "Let's go."
"Yes, empress, I will lead the way." Li Yu smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.
He knew that the empress was smart and that the emperor knew all the thoughts of the emperor. How could the empress have someone he cared about in the palace? If the empress had no weaknesses, the emperor would really have nothing to do with her.
In this way, Mu Ci "escorted" Wu Meiren to Yanfu Palace.
Because Wu Meiren had to serve in front of the emperor, Mallow could not be put to great use, but was sent out of the Nuan Pavilion.
Mu Ci was afraid that the emperor would come up with some vicious way to kill Wu Meiren, so he could only keep an eye on the person and follow the emperor at all times.
After all, wherever Miss Wu is, she will follow her.
As for the wooden board filled with iron nails that Li Yu mentioned, she saw it, placed in the most conspicuous position, and the wooden board was large, not only could people kneel on it, but also people could lie on it.
Dugu Liancheng, the tyrant, really thought of such a vicious change.
In the past, she could read medical books to pass the time, but this time there were no medical books, so she was bored and had nothing to do. After thinking for a moment, she raised her voice and said, "Mallow, go find some needles and thread."
Being so passive all the time is not the answer. You have to find a way to calm the emperor down.
The emperor seemed to like the sachet she made last time. The worst she could do was make another one to see if he would accept it.
Mallow agreed and quickly brought over everything Mu Ci asked for.
Mu Ci began to embroider the sachet because she felt that in order for Wu Meiren to live a good life in the future, she could no longer vent her anger on the emperor.
Dugu Liancheng is the emperor, he wants to save face, and coupled with his unpredictability, she will never get much benefit from a head-on confrontation with the emperor.
It was impossible for Dugu Liancheng to bow his head first. She was in Dugu Liancheng's harem. Only if she bowed her head first could the emperor calm down.
"Wu Meiren, the Ai family doesn't know how to embroider mandarin ducks. Come over and help the Ai family." Mu Ci struggled for a long time, but still didn't know where to start, so she simply said to Wu Meiren, who was waiting in front of the emperor tremblingly.
