After the zombies traveled through time, they were tricked by the villain into becoming a stepmother

"Your Majesty, I am willing to take the punishment on behalf of Chu Chi. Lord Chu must not be caned! If it is really not possible, you can double the punishment for me!"

As soon as Shen Mufeng finished speaking, Pei Changjing also tried his best to defend his uncle with a serious face.

"Father, Minister Chu is old and an important official in the court, how can he be caned in public?

If such an embarrassing incident gets out, how will Minister Chu be able to gain the support of the people in the court and help your father solve problems?

Please think twice, Father!"

Seeing that the emperor's brows were slightly frowned, he simply gritted his teeth and went for it.

"As Chu Chi's cousin, I also have the responsibility to teach and advise him. She was young and ignorant, and made such a mistake that she shouldn't have made. I, as her cousin who stood by and didn't advise her in time, am also to blame.

Father, I am willing to take the punishment on behalf of my cousin!"

He raised his head, his face looking as tragic as the whistling wind and the cold Yi River.

"Go ahead and hit me. I'm a man with thick skin and flesh. I can handle it!"

Chu Daidai couldn't understand what they meant by vying to be beaten. He stretched out his fingers to scratch his head for a while, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. Could it be that something good was going to happen that he didn't know about?

Chu Daidai, who never wanted to suffer any loss, didn't understand it clearly, but it didn't stop her from rushing to the front line to join in the fun.

"Then I too... um..."

"Chu Chu, don't say anything. Let's talk about it after we get home!"

Even though the other person was speaking in a low voice next to his ear, Chu Chi still glared at him hard.

Shen Xiaowu is so bold today that he dares to cover your Master Chu's mouth at every turn? Such a Shen Xiaowu with no sense of boundaries is really unacceptable!

The emperor who saw this scene again raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly at the two guys who were seeking death below.

"Since both of you are ready to sacrifice yourself, I can't stop you, right? Come on! Drag these two bastards away and give each of them thirty lashes of the cane. Wake up, both of you!"

The emperor's orders had the highest execution power, so His Royal Highness Prince Xuan, who was fine when he entered Qianyuan Hall just now, had to be carried back to the palace after he came out. Shen Mufeng's situation was a little better, after all, he was strong and powerful, and he could take a beating.

He had come to the palace to celebrate the birthday happily, but ended up causing a scene of chaos. Under the emperor's weird look, Minister Chu kowtowed and apologized, and took his naughty child out of the palace.

An ordinary palace banquet ended perfectly in this extraordinary and lively way.

Under the cover of night, the Cining Palace.

The Queen Mother rested her forehead with one hand, and sat there with her eyes closed to rest. That day, she listened to the Imperial Concubine Chen, the Princess Ning, and the Princess Ding arguing back and forth in her ears, which was so annoying that she had a headache.

"What exactly is going on? I was completely confused when I heard it during the day. How could someone come to the palace to celebrate a birthday? Which girl from the Chu family could beat up the Third Brother and his men?"

To be honest, when Concubine Zheng first came to her crying, the Empress Dowager didn't believe a word she said.

Everyone in the court knew that the Chu family was a family tradition of poetry and etiquette, and that they valued the Confucian style of a gentleman who spoke rather than fought. The men in the family were all polite and courteous, so how could they raise a girl who was so bold as to fight?

When it was later confirmed that this was true, the Queen Mother was so speechless that she could not express her feelings.

How dare a little girl from the Chu family fight against the royal family?

The key point is, they actually won?

This old lady, like her son, is a person who values ​​her reputation. In this situation where her own child failed to provoke and was beaten, she really couldn't bring herself to go and settle the score with him.

He forced himself to finish the birthday banquet, and after sending away everyone who should be sent away, he quickly invited the emperor over.

"Tell me, why did you beat Xiaoliu and Shen Erlang again? Have you forgotten how troublesome that old man in the Shen family is? You beat his beloved grandson for no reason. He might run to the palace to cry to the late emperor again."

"If he wants to cry, let him cry. If he really misses the late emperor, I can send him down to see him directly!"

Upon hearing this, the empress dowager knew that the emperor was in a bad mood. She opened her eyes with confusion and looked at her son's dark face, then gently moved her fingers twice towards the palace servants standing by and serving her.

After all the palace servants had left, the empress dowager asked with a suspicious look on her face, leaving only her and her son in the room.

"Emperor, what's wrong with you? I haven't seen you so angry for a long time. What difficult things have you encountered?"

The mother and son of the empress dowager and the emperor are different from other concubines and princes. They are used to relying on each other, fighting their way from being abandoned concubines in the cold palace to the throne of the empress dowager. Decades of mother-son affection have made the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager very close.

"…Mother."

The emperor turned the rosary in his hand anxiously, not sure whether he should express his doubts.

"What on earth is going on that would make you, the Emperor, so embarrassed? Tell me the answer."

To be honest, this old lady is very curious. If she doesn't figure out the matter, she might not be able to sleep at night.

"Ugh."

The emperor sighed.

The silly girl from the Chu family gave him a very strong sense of familiarity between her eyebrows. The emperor, who was always worried and well-informed, had a lot of melons. In one afternoon, he had a lot of dog blood in his mind, and he had a name and a surname in each of them.

"Mom, I don't know if what I'm thinking is right. Listen to me. The girl from the Chu family who beat up the third brother and his friends today looks very familiar to me, as if I've seen her somewhere before."

I thought there was some big news, but this is it?

The Queen Mother stretched out her fingers and pinched her temples, then continued the conversation without much interest.

"I heard from Princess Ding that the girl is the eldest daughter of the Gu family, and the daughter of Concubine Shu's sister. It makes sense that the niece looks like her aunt. What is there for you not to understand?"

Have you been eating all these melons for nothing?

The Queen Mother didn't say this directly, but it was clearly shown on her face. The Emperor saw that she didn't hear the point, so he could only sigh and make it clear.

"That girl doesn't look much like Concubine Shu. To be more precise, she doesn't look much like a member of the Chu family."

"Oh, like a member of the Gu family? If so, the girl is quite pretty. Let's not talk about Gu Chuanrong's knowledge and character for now, but he is much more handsome than you, the emperor, otherwise he would not have been able to seduce her away back then..."

Done!

The empress dowager reacted and stopped talking, then gave the emperor an embarrassed smile.