Mind Reading: The Road to Dominance of the Group’s Pet Princess

Concubine Xian swung her palms high, obviously out of anger and wanted to teach Concubine De a lesson.

As the daughter of a military commander, Concubine De had no martial arts practice, but she reacted quickly. She held Concubine Xian's wrist with one hand and slapped her with her backhand.

Snapped!

There was a crisp sound, and there were five fingerprints on Concubine Xian's face. Her head was hit to the other side, and her fair and tender face was red and swollen.

"You, you dare to hit me!" Concubine Xian covered her cheek with a look of shock.

Concubine De nodded calmly and said: "Concubine Xian, please remember that those who hit others will always be hit. I am the daughter of a military commander, and my reaction ability is faster than ordinary people."

"No, Concubine Xian wanted to hit me, but my hand struck back on its own."

Concubine Xian's face turned red. She was actually beaten by Du Ruoxin in front of everyone. How would she gain a foothold in the palace in the future?

This matter must not be let go like this, she will have to make Du Ruoxin pay a heavy price.

Before she could instruct the palace people to take down the concubine, she saw a bright yellow figure in the corner of her eye, and she turned her eyes.

He fell directly to the ground and cried sadly: "Why did Sister De Concubine push me? I heard that the palace people found something suspicious in Jinghong Hall, and I was worried that I had wronged Sister De Concubine, so I came to care about it."

"Even if my sister is stupid and doesn't speak well, you and I are equals. Sister De Fei can't hit anyone!"

The beauty sat on the ground wiping her tears, and the crystal tears flowed down the side of the charming girl's face. Combined with her pitiful expression, she really looked like a pitiful little girl who had been bullied.

"Sister, I know that Du Guogong's palace is now powerful, while the Marquis's palace is declining day by day, but you and I are both His Majesty's concubines, so we should live in harmony."

Concubine Xian kept talking word by word. Although the words she spat out did not explicitly accuse her, the meaning contained in her words was obvious.

Concubine De ignored her and greeted the Empress Dowager and Emperor Shun one by one.

After standing up, she looked solemn and replied: "Concubine Xian's words are very unorganized. She cut off the beginning and end of the incident and distorted the facts of the incident."

"Whether the items found in Jinghong Hall are the filth of the previous dynasty is naturally decided by Your Majesty and the Queen Mother. After Concubine Xian came, she first intimidated the people in my palace, and ordered them to rob the things, and then attacked me first. ."

"Tai Hou, Your Majesty, if I hadn't reacted quickly, I would have been beaten now. I am guilty. I should not have beaten Concubine Xian." Concubine De knelt down to plead guilty.

Emperor Shun helped the person up, looked at Concubine Xian with cold eyes, and said: "What crime is my concubine guilty of? She is not guilty of self-defense. I and the Queen Mother can see clearly that Concubine Xian was the one who made the first move."

"Concubine Xian, do you know your guilt?"

Concubine Xian raised her head sharply. What crime did she have? She was the one who was beaten!

So what if she was the one who struck first? She didn't hit anyone, right?

But when she saw the cold light in Emperor Shun's eyes clearly, her heart froze and she didn't dare to argue, lowering her head and saying nothing.

"Ah, the Buddhist scriptures copied by the concubine for her son!" Nalan Yunsheng exclaimed, picking up a page of Buddhist scriptures soaked in water with his little hand.

"Concubine, wasn't this Buddhist scripture buried under the rockery? Why was it dug out and damaged?"

The little girl's pink lips tightened in grievance, and she whispered: "This is a Buddhist scripture that my mother has copied for a long time, specifically to pray for her children."

Everyone's eyes fell on the tray in Mingchun's hand. The order of the Buddhist scriptures on the tray was obviously chaotic. The Buddhist scriptures were stained with dust and there were footprints. The top few were soaked with water and were obviously unusable.

The Queen Mother touched Nalan Yunsheng's little head and knew that a lot of things had happened to this child some time ago. This Buddhist sutra was most likely copied by Concubine De as a loving mother to pray for her.

"This is a prayer for blessings. Why do you want to bury Buddhist scriptures under the rockery? There must be something weird." Concubine Xian said timidly.

Concubine De glanced at her, and Nanny Mi raised the corners of her mouth, amused by the thoughts that came to her mind.

In her opinion, the current behavior of Concubine De and Concubine Xian was very similar to that of the dignified lady who controlled the overall situation and the restless concubine who was pretentious and had secret troubles.

Concubine De: "This rockery was moved from the temple. I heard that eminent monks chanted sutras under the rockery every day. Over time, the rockery became illuminated and had magical effects."

"The Duke's Mansion donates sesame oil money to the temple every year, so the abbot of the temple gives a small rockery to the Duke's Mansion. Because the concubine cannot leave the palace to pray for Sheng'er, he can only choose this compromise method and send the copied The Buddhist scriptures are buried under the rockery.”

"As for my concubine beating up Concubine Xian, it is out of self-protection. When we marry and obey our husband, all the honors and favors you and I receive are bestowed upon you by Your Majesty. What does this have to do with the mansion where you and I were born?"

"My concubine is not a faceless person. How can I see someone coming and not do anything about it?"

"Yes, what Concubine Ai said makes sense." Emperor Shun stood directly on Concubine De's side.

The Queen Mother ignored Concubine Xian's ugly expression and directly asked Eunuch Ming, "How is the investigation going?"

"Going back to the Queen Mother, there is nothing unusual in Concubine De's palace. Now only Concubine Xian's palace has not been searched. I just went to Hui'an Palace, but the empress was unwell and closed the palace door, so I came to Concubine De's palace instead. ."

Concubine Xian opened her mouth to defend herself, but the Queen Mother looked at her lightly, as if she could see through all her little thoughts.

Concubine Xian felt like her throat was blocked by thousands of cotton, making it impossible for her to defend herself.

"No, it's impossible. My father-in-law, have you searched carefully to see if there is anything you missed?" Concubine Xian braced herself as it concerned her own interests.

"Is Concubine Xian teaching people from the Ai family how to do things?" The Queen Mother was displeased.

A young eunuch had already reported to her what had just happened. Concubine Xian's performance was too obvious. She suspected that Concubine Xian had directed and acted in this matter.

Perhaps according to Concubine Xian's plan, the cloth bag dug out from under the rockery contained other things.

"I don't dare." Concubine Xian was panicked. The contents of the cloth bag were changed. Did Concubine De find out?

Liu Meiren had not done enough to nourish her energy, and a look of panic appeared on her face. Thinking of the terrible guess, she had been secretly glancing at Concubine Xian, hoping to return to the palace as soon as possible.

"Concubine Xian is feeling comfortable now. Can you go to Hui'an Palace to search?" Eunuch Ming asked with a smile.

Concubine Xian sensed something was wrong at this time and knew that things had changed. Now that Concubine De had discovered the filthy thing, she would definitely fight back.

Now I can only hope that Concubine De has not found out about her.

Liu Meiren whispered: "Empress."

The woman's sixth sense told her that people must not search Hui'an Palace, otherwise something bad will happen.

She never thought that Concubine Xian would be unable to get off the tiger and would have to let Eunuch Ming go search her.

There was filth in the palace. The entire palace was searched except Hui'an Palace, but nothing was found. So this filth obviously came from Hui'an Palace!

When the time comes, it will be yellow mud falling off the crotch, which is either shit or shit.

This kind of specious rumor without evidence is the most difficult to deal with. She must not bear this kind of stain.

Must search Huian Palace!

To put it bluntly, she wouldn't be afraid even if something was found. She was not the only one living in Hui'an Palace, and there was a ready-made scapegoat around her!

Liu Meiren's body was cold. Why did Concubine Xian look at her like that just now?

"Mother, please don't." Liu Meiren begged with eyes.

Concubine Xian waved her sleeve out of Liu Meiren's hand and said with a smile: "Hui'an Palace will naturally search for it. I'll invite you here."

A large group of people followed. Emperor Shun looked at his unhappy daughter and whispered: "Yun Sheng, don't be sad. Father will prepare another Buddhist scripture for you. When the time comes, we will bury it under the rockery ourselves." Pray for Yun Sheng."

It's not that Nalan Yunsheng was unhappy because of this, the main reason was that she felt that she had not helped much in this matter. If Concubine De had not found out in time, Concubine De's reputation would have been stained once she was successfully framed by Concubine Xian.

Nalan Yunsheng nodded, but his mood was still unhappy. He thought that with his father's favor, the three of them, mother and son, could live peacefully in the harem, but he didn't expect that they would still be targeted by Concubine Xian.

Would things be different if the mother-in-law took that position?

Concubine De didn't know what her daughter was thinking. She saw Concubine Xian's look at Liu Meiren and knew that she would probably have to get rid of Liu Meiren this time.

The palace people in Hui'an Palace looked frightened when they saw Eunuch Ming leading people to search the palace.

The eldest maid next to Concubine Xian stepped forward and directed the palace attendants to line up. After a while, palace attendants brought up brocade boxes one by one.

Eunuch Ming didn't dare to present it to his master rashly, so he opened it and took a look. His brows were furrowed and his eyes were full of disgust.

"What's in it?" Grandma Mi asked.

Ming Gonggong ordered people to open the boxes one by one, and saw that the boxes contained silver needles, barbed whips, coarse salt, sharp-edged knives and other items.

The Queen Mother turned away and waved for someone to close the box.

The people present were all high-ranking people in the palace. How could they not know that these were private means of dealing with the palace people.

Concubine Xian's hands shook and her pupils trembled. She had ordered people to lock up these things. How could they be found out?

Despite the unkind looks from Emperor Shun and the Queen Mother, she lowered her head and did not dare to look at them.

No one is a fool, and her behavior is to acquiesce in these things.

The corner of Concubine De's mouth curled up slightly. She had heard about Concubine Xian's methods of dealing with the palace people, but she had no position to stop her.

This matter was kept in her mind. Concubine Xian framed her, and it was incestuous, so of course she had to show something.

She ordered people to put these things into Hui'an Palace. They were not the torture tools that Concubine Xian used to torture the palace people every day. They were because Concubine Xian did not dare to distinguish them carefully in fear.

As long as she misses the opportunity to explain, the matter is safe.

Sure enough, Concubine Xian felt guilty.

Eunuch Ming whispered: "Everyone, please be alert and search carefully."

After saying that, he walked to the people of Hui'an Palace, casually pulled over two thin eunuchs, rolled up their sleeves, and saw large and small wounds on their arms.

The two eunuchs kept looking at Concubine Xian with frightened eyes, and their bodies couldn't stop trembling.

As they were both eunuchs, Eunuch Ming could empathize more with the two of them. He clenched his fists tightly and wanted to ask if the lives of these slaves were at stake!

Taking a deep breath, he was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly noticed an eunuch looking towards an ancient tree in the courtyard.

His heart moved and he ordered two eunuchs to check the ancient tree.

As time passed, Hui'an Palace had been searched, and no filth from the previous dynasty was found.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the young eunuchs who were searching the ancient tree. The two eunuchs were sweating heavily on their heads. They dug many holes around the ancient tree, but found nothing.

Nalan Yunsheng stared at the ancient tree for a moment, then suddenly said, "What is that?"

Looking along Nalan Yunsheng's line of sight, several people still didn't notice it. Eunuch Ming looked at the height of the seventh princess and knelt down decisively. His eyes suddenly lowered a lot, and he happened to see a small small one among the branches and leaves of the ancient tree. entrance of the cave.

"You guys go up the tree, there is a hole in the tree."

Emperor Shun and Concubine De looked down at their daughter, then at the kneeling Eunuch Ming, and looked at each other without laughing, turning their heads slightly.

The Queen Mother had a big smile on her face. Seeing the angry look on her little granddaughter's face, she smiled and said: "Haha, the weather is nice today, haha, it's really interesting."

Aunt Mi smiled and nodded, little princess, don’t be surprised, the old slave didn’t do it on purpose.

Nalan Yunsheng: Did I say a word before my lawyer came?

She glared at Emperor Shun fiercely, her father was the most exaggerated, and her body was shaking with laughter.

hum ╯^╰

Concubine De lowered her lips and touched her daughter's head to express comfort.

[You scumbag dad is evil, you laugh at my height, I will never be with you again. ]

[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuori, it’s better for you, mother. Mother, Tie Tie. ]

Emperor Shun laughed so hard that he trembled and his body froze. What's the matter? Why don't you just settle with him? Concubine De also laughed just now.

Why do you just say that he is bad? Looking sideways, there is no smile on the corner of De Fei's mouth. Instead, she is rubbing the little girl's head with a gentle look on her face.

Emperor Shun: Very good. I never thought you were such a beloved concubine.

A guard flew up the tree and took out a bundle from the tree hole. He opened the bundle and presented it in front of the Queen Mother and Emperor Shun.

The Queen Mother's eyes were full of anger, "Concubine Xian, do you know your guilt for hiding the filth of the former dynasty!"

Concubine Xian fell to her knees and kowtowed.

"My concubine was lax in her discipline and failed to keep an eye on Liu Meiren. She made a big mistake. Please punish her."

Liu Meiren's body softened and she looked at Concubine Xian in shock.

Concubine Xian turned her head back and said, "Why do you dare to do this? Why don't you apologize to the Queen Mother?"

Liu Meiren wanted to cry out that she was wronged, but Concubine Xian's lips moved slightly and she made a family lip shape.

Liu Meiren dug her nails into her flesh, knowing that she was finished.

He pressed his forehead hard to the ground and said plaintively: "I know I'm guilty."

Concubine Xian was shocked, and she wanted to put the blame on Liu Meiren as well. Just when she was about to open her mouth, the Queen Mother said: "Concubine Xian wants to say something, but you have to think it over carefully before saying it."

After hearing the Queen Mother's knocking words, Concubine Xian finally closed her mouth.

After all, this matter was a harem matter, and the Queen Mother dealt with it directly: "Liu Meiren stripped off her palace robe, abolished her title, and was thrown into the cold palace."

"As the lord of a palace, Concubine Xian had improper restraint and treated the palace people harshly. She was fined three years' salary, stripped of her titles, and grounded for half a year."

After giving the order, he looked at Emperor Shun beside him and asked, "Does your Majesty have any objections to this handling?"

"It's all up to the queen mother to make the decision." Emperor Shun replied, as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around.