Harem Daily Life

Chapter 210 What do you mean I have an affair with Prince Yong?

Tao Yanyan came to Changchun Palace in a sedan chair, and saw Shu Fei and Zhao Cairen were there.

These two were the ones who had accompanied the Emperor on his southern tour. Tao Yanyan raised her eyebrows and paid her respects to the Empress Dowager.

"Tao Jieyu, Concubine Zhao said that you knew Prince Yong before you entered the palace?"

Tao Yanyan nodded: "Yes, I went to Beijing for the beauty contest before, and on the way I happened to see Prince Yong fall into the water, so I saved him. I guess we are acquainted. I wonder if there is any problem?" Tao Yanyan was very generous and did not hide anything.

Zhao Cairen asked: "Don't you know that if a man or a woman falls into the water, their chastity is lost? How can you still enter the capital to participate in the beauty pageant?"

Tao Yanyan looked at her and said, "Then, according to Lady Zhao, I am not qualified for the selection, but now I am a concubine. Do you want Your Majesty to send me out of the palace and demote me to a commoner?"

Zhao Cairen choked and said, "You have lost your innocence, and yet you still come to be your majesty's concubine. You have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, and you should...you should be treated as deceiving the emperor."

Tao Yanyan tilted his head and asked in confusion: "So it's not enough to send him out of the palace, he has to be punished? This is too bad for me. I should not have saved Prince Yong earlier."

Prince Yong, who had just walked to the door, said: "..."

Heartbroken!

Prince Yong walked in, greeted the Queen Mother first, and then said: "I don't know how I have offended Concubine Zhao, otherwise why doesn't Concubine Zhao want Concubine Tao to save my life?"

Zhao Cairen hurriedly explained: "No, no, it's not that I don't want the prince to be rescued. I just think...I think that after Tao Jieyu rescued people, she shouldn't enter the palace for the selection and deceive Your Majesty."

Prince Yong looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Queen Mother, Concubine Tao saved my life. She did not ask for anything in return, and I am grateful. I really don't understand why Concubine Zhao brought this up today to accuse Concubine Tao. Is she trying to smear Concubine Tao, or is she trying to harm me? I am really terrified."

Zhao Cairen panicked and said, "I, I didn't throw dirty water, it was really you, Prince Yong, and Concubine Tao who fell into the water together, you, you should have been together in the beginning..."

"Shut up!" the Queen Mother shouted angrily.

"You stupid fool, Concubine Tao saved my son, which was originally a good thing. You are so narrow-minded that you have such dirty thoughts. You say a good thing is a dirty thing, falsely accuse Concubine Tao of her kindness, and slander the relationship between the two of them. Come, slap her in the face twenty times, and beat her hard!"

Eunuch Qin winked at a sturdy maid, who stepped forward and slapped Concubine Zhao's pretty face.

"Pa pa pa pa", after twenty slaps, the only sounds in the whole hall were the crisp sounds of slaps and Zhao Cairen's cries for mercy.

Shu Fei put her hands in her sleeves and clenched them tightly.

After the beating, Zhao Cairen no longer looked like her original delicate self. Her face was swollen like a pig's head, and blood was oozing from the corners of her mouth.

She struggled to crawl to Shu Fei's feet and hugged Shu Fei's feet: "Su Fei, please be kind and save me."

Shu Fei kicked her hand away and said, "You said you had something to report to the Queen Mother, so I brought you here. I didn't expect you were talking about the affair between Concubine Tao and Prince Yong! Humph, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have been such a bad guy and brought you here to offend others!"

Tao Yanyan sneered, "Please be careful with your words, Madam Shufei. What do you mean I have an affair with Prince Yong? What is the affair? Madam Shufei is also a lady from a noble family. You must know the meaning of these two words, right? If you talk nonsense in front of the Queen Mother, you will be slapped in the face."

The Queen Mother also glared at Shu Fei.

Shu Fei hurriedly said, "What I said was not accurate. Concubine Tao only jumped into the water to save Prince Yong. This... in some places, it is indeed... hehe, only by getting married can the reputation of both parties be preserved."

Tao Yanyan glanced at her and said, "So Concubine Shu also thought so. However, the incident happened suddenly and I was only thinking about saving people. I completely forgot that I could marry that person after saving people. Oh, why am I so careless? If I had known there was such a plan, I would have..."

"What about you?" The Queen Mother glared at her and said, "You are so careless in doing things. You just do it without thinking about it. You don't even know that someone has caught you."

After saying that, she glared at Prince Yong again and said, "And you, when you were little, I told you to learn how to float on water, but you never listened. Look, you almost made Concubine Tao speechless."

The Queen Mother said one sentence each, and then turned to Concubine Shu, "You are pregnant, but you didn't stay in the palace to take care of your baby on a snowy day. Instead, you came here on New Year's Day with a black heart to make trouble for me, making me unhappy."

Shu Fei stood up and was about to kneel, but was stopped.

"Well, since you didn't know before, I can't blame you. However, Concubine Zhao falsely accused others and had evil intentions, so she was demoted to Liangyi, confined for three months, and fined for half a year. This matter ends here. If I hear any rumors about Prince Yong and Concubine Tao from somewhere else in the future, I will only hold Shufei and Zhao Liangyi accountable."

Shu Fei concealed her resentment, lowered her eyebrows and said: "Yes, I didn't know about it before, and I will never mention it again in the future."

Zhao Liangyi was like a fool. He could not expect that things would turn out like this. Shu Fei had clearly said before that the Queen Mother would definitely punish Concubine Tao!

After Shu Fei took her leave, Zhao Liangyi was also carried out by two palace maids, staggering.

The Queen Mother sighed, looked at the two people in front of her, and said to Prince Yong: "Tingye, at the beginning you didn't know the identity of Concubine Tao, and wanted to ask her to repay your kindness, but I didn't care. But now she and your brother have a good relationship, so don't think about it, and spend time with your princess."

Seeing the Queen Mother speak so bluntly, Prince Yong had no choice but to say, "Queen Mother, since I learned about Concubine Tao's identity and her feelings for my brother, I have really let it go. Please don't misunderstand me, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother thought to herself, you have been staring at me for several times since you came in, do you think I am blind?

However, since Prince Yong said he had let it go, the Queen Mother naturally would not pursue the matter any further.

"Okay, you don't need to pay attention to those two gossipers, just get along with each other as uncle and sister-in-law from now on. By the way, I was so angry with these two fools that I didn't have breakfast this morning. Tao Jieyu, go and cook some wontons, I'm hungry."

Tao Jieyu smiled and said, "Yes, how about winter bamboo shoots and fresh meat? This is the season for eating winter bamboo shoots."

The Queen Mother nodded and glanced at Prince Yong: "Prince Yong doesn't like chopped green onions, so there's no need to put green onions in his bowl."

Tao Yanyan took note and went to the kitchen. Prince Yong looked at her from behind. When he turned around, he was caught by the Queen Mother. She said, "Your Highness, your Highness was not looking at her."

The King of Yong was crying because of his own stupidity.

The Queen Mother rolled her eyes at him and said, "Come on, you've been lying since you were a kid, how could I not know that after watching you grow up?"

After that, he added earnestly: "You have no destiny with her, she has no interest in you, let it go!"

Prince Yong laughed at himself, thinking that his luck was still worse than his brother's. The throne was like this, and so were the people who wanted it.