When Jinzhong arrived at Yikun Palace, it was already three quarters past midnight. Ruyi and the Yikun Palace servants who were not on duty had already gone to bed.

Jinzhong woke up a young eunuch who was taking a nap and asked him, "Where is your eunuch Sanbao?"

The young eunuch knew that Jinzhong was the chief eunuch who served the emperor, so he stood up quickly and said, "Eunuch Jinzhong, Eunuch Sanbao is not on duty tonight. He has already gone to bed. I wonder why Eunuch Jinzhong is here?"

Jinzhong was a little embarrassed and said, "General Manager Li Yu sent me to tell you something. Who is serving the Empress now? Is it Aunt Rong Pei?"

The young eunuch said, "No, it is Aunt Lingzhi who is on duty."

Jinzhong said: "Then please go find her."

The young eunuch called Lingzhi out softly, and Jinzhong said, "I have something important to report to the Empress, but I can't disturb her. Why don't I ask Miss Lingzhi to pass it on for me?"

When Lingzhi came out, she was still half asleep. When she heard Jinzhong asking her to wake up the Queen, she was so startled that she didn't dare to even say so.

"The Queen has already gone to bed. I dare not disturb her!"

Jinzhong was not from the Yikun Palace, and he could not go to the Queen's bedroom to wake her up. After thinking for a while, he said, "Then you go and tell Aunt Rongpei. It will be the same if I tell her."

Unexpectedly, Lingzhi was so scared that she shook her head like a rattle when she heard it, "No, no, Aunt Rong Pei has a bad temper. Anyone who dares to wake her up will be slapped in the face. I dare not offend her!"

Lingzhi, as the senior palace maid beside the Queen, did not dare to wake up Rong Pei, and the eunuch on duty was even more afraid to go, so the situation was deadlocked for a while.

Jinzhong was so happy that he didn't even bother to report. He just stayed outside the Yikun Palace pretending to be anxious.

Li Yu waited and waited but no one from Yikun Palace came. He was so anxious that he kept looking around outside the palace gate.

At daybreak, Rong Pei got up to help Ruyi wash up, but found that Lingzhi was not in the bedroom. She went out to look for her and saw Lingzhi standing outside the palace.

Rong Pei was immediately furious. She strode out and without waiting for Lingzhi to explain the situation, she slapped Lingzhi in the face in front of Jinzhong and the eunuch on duty!

"Lingzhi, what's wrong with you? Instead of serving the Queen in the bedroom, you ran outside the palace to talk to the eunuch. Are you getting wild because of your age? If so, I will expel you from the palace on behalf of the Queen!"

Lingzhi felt extremely aggrieved and was about to explain the reason to Rongpei, but Rongpei thought that Lingzhi was disobedient and wanted to talk back to her, so she raised her arm to slap Lingzhi again.

When Jinzhong saw Lingzhi being beaten, he felt as if he saw Yanwan who had been bullied in Qixiang Palace, and he stopped Rongpei.

Rong Pei had just woken up in the morning, and her mind was not yet fully clear. She did not expect that there would be outsiders in Yikun Palace. She only felt that someone dared to stop her from punishing the Yikun Palace people, and that person's hand was so strong that it seemed as if he wanted to break her arm.

He immediately shouted angrily: "Which ignorant eunuch dares to stop me from teaching Lingzhi a lesson! If you don't let go, you'll have to watch out for yourself!"

Jinzhong said in a deep voice: "Aunt Rongpei is so arrogant, she beats people in front of me like this?"

Rong Pei looked up and found that it was Jinzhong who was there. Rong Pei resented Jinzhong for pushing her and making her lose face in front of the other ladies in the palace.

She asked unhappily, "I am the head maid of Yikun Palace. I am in charge of all the maids and eunuchs in Yikun Palace. Although Eunuch Jinzhong is from the Yangxin Palace, he cannot interfere in the affairs of Yikun Palace! What is Eunuch Jinzhong doing here so early?"

Jinzhong withdrew his hand and snorted coldly, "I am not interested in your affairs in Yikun Palace. My master, Li Yu, the chief steward, asked me to report to the Empress that the Emperor summoned Li Changzai to sleep with him last night."

Rong Pei knew what happened yesterday and knew that Li Yu sent Jinzhong to report something. Coincidentally, the shouting outside the palace alarmed Ruyi, and Ruyi asked someone to come out to check.

When Rong Pei saw Ruyi wake up, she hurried in to serve her. Before leaving, she gave Lingzhi a fierce look. Jinzhong asked softly, "Is Miss Lingzhi okay?"

Lingzhi was beaten again in public. She was angry and ashamed. She held back her tears and shook her head.

Jinzhong said: "I will explain this to the Queen Mother on your behalf. I'm sure the Queen Mother will make the decision for you after hearing this."

Jinzhong went into the palace to pay his respects, "Your servant greets Her Majesty the Queen! I am sorry for disturbing Her Majesty the Queen, please forgive me!"

Ruyi had already known what happened from Rongpei, but she didn't care. She just asked Jinzhong, "Did the emperor summon Li Changzai again last night?"

Jinzhong said: "Yes, not only Li Changzai, but also the other three in her palace. My master saw that the situation was not good, and immediately sent a servant to Yikun Palace to report to the Queen Mother, but..."

Summoning Li Changzai to sleep with him wasn't enough, so he summoned three more people?!

Ruyi was immediately furious when she heard this. She stood up and scolded, "Why did Li Yu send you to report such a big thing to me at this time? Rongpei, bring a bowl of sobering soup and we will send it to the emperor immediately!"

Ruyi urgently summoned Jiang Yubin, and took Rong Pei and a group of people with her, and went to Li Changzai's bedroom in a mighty force.

After a ridiculous night, the emperor and the four maids were resting in the bedroom when they suddenly heard a voice from outside the door: The queen has arrived!

The emperor woke up in a daze, knowing that he had gone too far last night. The queen was a person who liked to argue. Knowing that he had favored four women at once, she was afraid that she would come to question him, so she stayed in her bedroom and kept silent.

Li Chang woke the other three from their sleep and hurriedly dressed and came out to pay their respects.

"Your Majesty, the Queen!"

When Ruyi saw several people hurriedly walking out of the bedroom and buttoning their clothes, she knew what had happened last night.

"Li Changzai, I heard that you presented deer blood wine to the emperor? The emperor often summoned you to sleep with him because of this, right?"

Li Changzai stole a glance at the Queen's angry expression and replied cautiously, "I heard that deer blood can nourish the body and strengthen the bones. I thought the Emperor might like it, so I found some high-quality deer blood and wine from outside the palace to make it."

Ruyi asked, "In order to win the emperor's favor, you don't care about the emperor's health? Concubine Li, what crime should you be punished for?"

Li Changzai could not bear the charge of harming the dragon's body, so she knelt down and bowed her head to explain.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I have absolutely no such intention! I have already asked the imperial physician, and he said that as long as deer blood wine is taken properly, it will not harm the dragon's body. Our Qing Dynasty also has the tradition of taking deer blood, so I..."

Ruyi thought that Li Changzai was making excuses, and before she could finish her words, she angrily said, "Do you mean to say that I deliberately wronged you? First, you didn't care about the emperor's health, and second, you indulged the emperor in such a reckless behavior."

"Rong Pei, teach these daring people a lesson!"

Rong Pei agreed, handed the things he was holding to Sanbao next to him, rolled up his sleeves, and slapped the four people left and right with a loud sound.

The four people were beaten so hard that their cheeks were red and swollen and they felt dizzy!

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