“What are you doing?” Yun Fenghuang drove out Yuan Lianniang’s maids as soon as she entered Ning Bi Hall. Auntie Zhu wanted to stay there, but she was questioned, “Are you worried about me or Her Highness?” Then, Yun Fenghuang forcefully kept Auntie Zhu out.

At this time, Yun Fenghuang played with her fingers, ordering her trusted attendants, “Both of you, hurry up and serve Jie Yu Yue to copy scriptures, will you?”

“Yes!” Xi Le and Xi Jing obeyed her order and walked to the bed. Without saying a word, they dragged Yuan Lianniang, who was still stunned, down the bed. “Rub-a-dub.” Yuan Lianniang hit the footrest. Yun Fenghuang couldn’t bear it and twisted her face to the side. Judging from the sound, it must be very achy… Well, at least Yun Fenghuang wasn’t the one who suffered the pain!

The corner of her mouth was slightly hooked, and she pretended to reprimand, “Don’t you know how to serve? Don’t you know that Jie Yu Yue is the sweetheart of His Majesty and the pearl on the palm of Queen Mother of Mercy? You’ll be punished by me later!”

“I am wrong, My Lady.” Xi Le also lowered her head and pretended to admit her mistakes, “Please forgive me, Gui Ren!”

“Since you apologize sincerely, I forgive you this time.” Yun Fenghuang nodded seriously, “Jie Yu Yue has always been soft-hearted. I’m sure she couldn’t bear to punish you. If I insist to punish you, Jie Yu Yue would not be happy.”

Yuan Lianniang looked at her surprisedly, “Such a bitch… How dare Ji Lingzi send you to supervise me?!!”

“Slap her!” Yun Fenghuang lifted her chin and narrowed her eyes. “You cursed Her Highness and the hostesses of all the palaces, even including Noble Consort Gui who is pregnant! You are with the most heinous guilt, but Her Highness only degraded you to be Jie Yu. She couldn’t be more benevolent! As a result, you don’t feel grateful, but call Her Highness’s name directly and speak rudely! I don’t know whether it’s only you who are misbehaving in your family, or all the people of Yuan’s Family in Fuyang County are like you?!”

During the talk, Xi Le and Xi Jing had pressed Yuan Lianniang, and slapped her a few times!

Both of them were originally the maids of Yan Fu Palace, and they had no awe but only aversion towards the people of Hu Zhu Palace. At this time, they slapped her without any hesitation. Not to mention feeling afraid, Xi Jing even exhausted her strength to slap Yuan Lianniang, trying to vent her anger for being belittled by Yun Fenghuang before.

“You dare to slap me?!” Yuan Lianniang was a famous cruelhearted woman in the Imperial Harem, but she was actually a delicate woman who could be pushed down easily. She was not an opponent of Xi Le and Xi Jing when both of them joined together. She tried to revolt, but was kicked by Xi Jing and fell down on the footrest, hysterically shouting, “You…”

Yun Fenghuang frowned, “You what? From the moment you woke up to the present, how much time has passed? Hurry to copy the scriptures! Are you going to deliberately neglect Her Highness’s imperial decree?!”

She threw the ink brush and paper in front of her and almost hit Yuan Lianniang’s face. “Hurry up to copy! If you don’t finish copying them today, I don’t think you will have a meal! Anyway, giving the frenzied things you’ve done, you should have no face to have the meal if you still have a little bit sense of shame!”

Speaking of this, she let Xi Jing go outside and tell Auntie Zhu and others, “Tell them to make the meal more delicious and richer. Just tell them what you want to eat.”

It didn’t matter if Yuan Lianniang would have a meal or not, but she and the two maids would not miss the opportunity to have a delicious meal in the hostess’ palace for free.

After all, Yun Fenghuang hadn’t seen Emperor Chunjia in the past two days, so she couldn’t eat well or sleep well… She couldn’t have a delicious meal by taking advantage of the Emperor, and her meal assigned in accordance with her current grade was really a bit insipid…

She was happy that she took over the work as a supervisor now, because she could punish Yuan Lianniang and enjoy Yuan Lianniang’s delicious food. Yun Fenghuang suddenly didn’t want to betray the Empress somehow. Although she was not easy to be served, the benefits were great!

Of course, she only thought of it and didn’t intend to practice it…

“… Copying scriptures?” Yuan Lianniang gazed at her bitterly and viciously, then she suddenly sneered, “You are dreaming! You really think you are able to do whatever you want when I am in trouble momentarily?!”

“You don’t want to copy?” Yun Fenghuang was not angry when she heard this. She smiled and picked up a stack of colorful papers beside her hand. She drew out one paper randomly, took a glance at it and nodded. “Jie Yu, since you don’t want to copy scriptures right now, then both of you, serve our lady to wash her face!”

Xi Le and Xi Jing glanced at each other, tacitly saying, “Yes!”

Yuan Lianniang sneered and said, “What the hell you are! Do those who serve you deserve to serve me?”

Then she was pressed on the footrest by Xi Jing–Before she was able to scream, Xi Le had already held a silver plate filled with water from the shelf not far away and placed it in front of her.

The two maids worked together to press Yuan Lianniang’s head in the plate!

At first, she struggled hard, but Xi Le and Xi Jing had already been guarded. They pressed her head tightly, and gradually Yuan Lianniang didn’t struggle much.

She was dizzy and didn’t know how long it was. Suddenly, she was pulled out of the plate, and breathed subconsciously and greedily. After a while, before she could curse in rage, she was pressed into the plate again!

After several times, Yuan Lianniang was already paralyzed. When she was dragged out of the plate again, her eyes were scattered, her face was blue and purple, and she couldn’t even speak.

“The efforts of the concubines in the Imperial Harem are really in vain!” Yun Fenghuang brushed the stack of colored papers and sighed, “It’s a pity that everyone in the palace tried to send so many suggestions to me, but they are useless at all.”

Seeing Yuan Lianniang looking at her hand in a trance, she smiled and leaned over, handing the colored papers to Yuan Lianniang’s hand, “All of these were sent by other concubines particularly after they learned that I were instructed to urge you to copy scriptures when you are still grounded. Oh, in addition, there are many clothes, jewelry, embroidered products, food and the like… Because they covered too much space, I specially ordered my maids to send them back to Xi Xing Building and leave Jie Yu some peace.”

Yuan Lianniang froze for a moment and then trembled to pick up a piece of paper, which was a light pink colored paper with patterns of fortune clouds on the bottom. It was also stained with the fragrance of lignum aquilariae resinatum. Above it were some short sentences in regular script and small characters. At the beginning, there were some greeting words, then there were words about some experience and thoughts to Yun Fenghuang as a supervisor, and the central idea was how to insult Yuan Lianniang without leaving any evidence.

In the end, there were some words, saying that a batch of clothing and jewelry were provided with the colored paper as the congratulation gifts for Yun Fenghuang’s promotion to be Gui Ren… Whether the words were meant to congratulate Yun Fenghuang’s promotion or had other implied meanings, everyone could have different interpretations.

Yun Fenghuang supported her cheek with one hand and looked at the changes of Yuan Lianniang’s expression. She saw that the hostess was stunned first, and then was hopping mad, but a moment later, she became desolate.

She threw the colored paper on the ground and said tiredly, “Now that I am at the mercy of you, what else can I say?”

“You’ve gone so far by now.” Yun Fenghuang chuckled and waved her hand, letting Xi Le and Xi Jing go out to act as doorkeepers. Then she said in lengthened sounds, “Do you still think we are the ones who harm you?”

Yuan Lianniang sneered, “What subtle words and evasions do you want to say now, bitch?”

Yun Fenghuang smiled, and immediately slapped her to the ground!

“Did you think that I couldn’t do anything to you without Xi Jing and Xi Le?” Yun Fenghuang didn’t look at her but slowly pulled out her handkerchief to wipe her hands with a smile, “So many concubines in the Imperial Harem strive to be the first to hit you when you are down, and even no one sympathizes with you… It is rare to be a person like you, Jie Yu.”

She said slowly, “It can be seen how powerful Queen Mother Yuan and His Majesty are to protect you for such a long time!”

Yuan Lianniang lay on the ground for a while, covering her face, and then slowly climbed up. She only felt a rusty smell between her lips and teeth and was super angry. She almost put up a desperate fight with Yun Fenghuang… Hearing what Yun Fenghuang said suddenly, she stunned for a while, and then sneered, “I wondered what you wanted to do after you ordered the maids to go out? It turns out that you want to drive a trust wedge among me, Mother and His Majesty?!”

Before Yun Fenghuang spoke, Yuan Lianniang said again, “You want to say that why didn’t Mother and His Majesty come over to make a siege when I suffered this time? Huh, since Ms. Ji sent Consort Xin to search the palace with you, couldn’t they make full preparation to prevent Mother and His Majesty from coming over?! This kind of thing happened once when I had a miscarriage before. I’m clearer about the truth than you!”

Seeing her jeering expression, Yun Fenghuang hooked her mouth and said, “Who told you I’m going to talk about this? I want to talk about the day I joined the Imperial Harem.”

Yuan Lianniang sneered, “Oh?”

“Don’t you think that His Majesty arrived very coincidentally that day?” Yun Fenghuang laughed faintly, “I thought it was the arrangement of my nominal sister, Noble Consort Shu, but then I beat about the bush and found that she didn’t even know about that… Then Jie Yu, please think of this, why did His Majesty arrive so coincidentally that day?”

“Do you want to say that His Majesty went there for you?” Yuan Lianniang even laughed because of super anger. “Who the hell do you think you are? A noble girl from a noble family? You don’t even worth the care of His Majesty!”

Yuan Lianniang thought of that day. Emperor Chunjia went to the Ancestral Temple to worship according to the rules, praying to the ancestors for the prosperity of his heirs. After he came back, he did not follow the rule to go to Yan Fu Palace to meet the Empress, but came to Hu Zhu Palace to see her!

It was understandable. He knew her wayward temper. So many newcomers joined the Imperial Harem, and in particular, a little goblin was also arranged in Hu Zhu Palace. Couldn’t she be sad or upset?

So, even if the Empress would be displeased, he still came to see her…

Although he had never been in power so far, he was sincere and honest to her.

Although she would doubt him when she was angry, how could she not know whether he cared about her or not?!

Yuan Lianniang was disdainful in her heart, but she heard Yun Fenghuang laughing slightly, “Ah, Jie Yu, it turns out that you also know that His Majesty only cares about the concubines from a noble family? So, Jie Yu, what the hell do you think you are? Why did His Majesty stoop to compromise and repeatedly offend Empress Dowager, Queen Mother of Honor and the Empress for you all these years? Do you really worth his efforts?”

“No need to be more bark than bite.” Yuan Lianniang looked at her, “I know exactly what is going on!”

“You don’t know!” Yun Fenghuang shook her head. “If you know, you wouldn’t have gone so far. His Majesty was the son of the Princedom’s concubine. In order to let him inherit the title of Princedom, Queen Mother of Mercy made painstaking efforts! Yuan’s Family in Fuyang County might help her a lot, so in return, you were chosen as the fiancée of His Majesty, and made a marriage contract with him. Therefore, it was reasonable that you were nobler than other legitimate daughters of Yuan’s Family in your tribe and were particularly favored by the elders.”

“But!”

She narrowed her eyes and looked at the Yuan Lianniang whose clothes and makeup were in a mess, sneering, “But although pampering is okay, it seems that Yuan’s Family in Fu Yang County was too silly to allow you to be unclear with the things every girls from noble families were supposed to know!”

“My family is not as noble as Yuan’s Family, and I am also a pearl in the palm of my family. However, my mother and brothers took care of me and I was taught by my tutor and studied hard since childhood!”

“You were a princess-to-be at that time. Your family was so shortsighted to believe that relying on the past sentiments, no matter how foolish and stupid you would be when you grew up, His Majesty would always endure your bad temper and never detest you for that? Is this an engagement or a feud?”

Yuan Lianniang sneered, “You’re such a precious backstabber who can only intrigue against others. You know nothing!”

Her blue and pale face showed pride, “His Majesty likes me! Even if all of you think I’m arrogant, foolish and stupid… Does it matter? His Majesty only likes me!!!”

“Yeah, His Majesty really likes you.” Yun Fenghuang didn’t agree with her in her heart, but she echoed, “But that won’t do any good. Both of you are about to fall… You two are going to die together and be a pair of mandarin ducks! I don’t know If he will still like you when he thinks that he was originally the supreme emperor, but was encumbered by you to such end?”

“…?!” Yuan Lianniang was suddenly dull, and asked blankly, “What… what did you say?!”