If not abolished

Chapter 211 Preference (1)

"Your servant greets the Crown Princess." Qingluan knelt down as soon as she came in.

"What are you doing, sister? It's such a great honor, Yunjin, why don't you help the concubine up?" The Crown Princess gave Yunjin a look.

Yunjin immediately went to help Qingluan up.

Qingluan was half-supported to stand up, and when she looked up she did not see the prince, and immediately knelt down again as if powerless.

"I am of humble status, so please, Princess Consort, let Your Highness come down and make the decision for me." Qingluan cried while holding a handkerchief.

"What are you doing? Get up first if you have anything to say." The Crown Princess still asked her to get up first.

When Qingluan saw the prince coming out, she said in a naughty way, "If your highness doesn't come out, I won't get up."

"How dare you! What do you think this place is? How can you make a scene here? Since you don't want to get up, just kneel down. What's the matter? You have to cry and make a fuss now. Don't you know what day it is today?" Seeing this, the Crown Princess didn't insist on letting her get up. Yun Jin had no choice but to let Qingluan go and return behind the Crown Princess.

"I..." Qingluan originally wanted to say it in front of the prince, just like last time, but the prince had not been seen for a long time. It was clear that the prince was at the princess's place yesterday and had not come out this morning. It was impossible that he had not heard such a loud noise.

Seeing that he was staring inside, how could the Crown Princess not know what she was planning? She replied reluctantly, "Since Concubine Qingluan doesn't intend to say anything, please leave. I have a lot of things to do today, so I won't keep you here. Yunjin, please send Concubine out." With that, the Crown Princess stood up.

Seeing that the Crown Princess was serious, Qingluan had no choice but to speak up immediately: "Please, Your Majesty, make the decision for me." Qingluan was about to cry as she spoke.

Seeing that she was finally willing to speak, the Crown Princess sat down again and asked, "What happened?"

"It's like this..." Qingluan recounted what happened, and immediately came to a conclusion after finishing her story: "Your Majesty, this girl must have accepted money and benefits from others, and then she did such a treacherous act. Your Majesty must interrogate her strictly to find out who is behind this..."

"Do you have any evidence for what you said?" the Crown Princess asked calmly after hearing this.

These were all Qingluan's own wild guesses. There was no evidence, so she thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, although I have no direct evidence to prove that she did it, she was the only one in my room at the time, and I would open my clothes every day to check them. They were intact during the day. How could there be a problem so early in the morning? She must have damaged them at night while I was drunk and asleep."

Seeing that she couldn't produce any evidence, the Crown Princess asked again, "In that case, did you bring the girl here?"

"Your servant greets the Crown Princess. Long live the Queen." The little palace maid stepped forward and kowtowed.

"You are the palace maid beside Concubine Qingluan. Were you the one serving Concubine Qingluan yesterday?"

"To answer your question, Your Majesty, it was indeed I who was the only one by the side of the Concubine last night. But after I returned yesterday, I changed the Concubine's clothes and did nothing else. Then I fell asleep, until this morning when the Concubine..." After the little palace maid arrived at Rouyi Palace, she calmed down a little and was no longer as flustered as before.

"Your Majesty, don't listen to her nonsense. No one who has done bad things will admit it." Qingluan naturally didn't believe it.

"Okay, you all insist on your own opinions, and I can't make a decision for the moment. The palace servants will be fined for half a year, and the concubine should not bother about it anymore." The Crown Princess didn't want to listen to their arguments anymore, so she made a decision directly.

"Is Her Majesty really going to let it go so easily? Maybe there is someone behind her directing her?" Qingluan saw that the Crown Princess wanted to let it go, so she spoke again.

Seeing that she was so persistent, the Crown Princess looked at her coldly, "What does Concubine Qingluan want? Are you going to torture her for being a piece of clothing?"

"If she keeps not telling the truth, that's not impossible?"

"That's enough. Let's just do it this way. Don't keep making trouble." The Crown Princess felt a headache. "Yun Jin, send the concubine out." The Crown Princess ordered them to leave.

"Please come in, Madam Concubine."

Qingluan was unwilling but couldn't persuade the Crown Princess, so she went out reluctantly.

The Crown Princess paused and was about to go see the Crown Prince.

Then Yun Jin ran in and said, "Crown Princess, something bad has happened. Concubine Guo and Concubine Qingluan are fighting."

"What?" The Crown Princess walked out in shock. "Why are the two of them fighting for no reason?"

Yun Jin hurriedly explained: "I had just sent the concubine out of the door, and the side concubine came towards us. I don't know what happened, but when the concubine saw the side concubine, she suddenly pounced on her and pulled her clothes..." Yun Jin thought of the scene just now. The incident happened suddenly, and the palace servants next to them didn't react for a while. When they were about to pull the two apart, the two had already wrestled together and couldn't be pulled apart.

So when the Crown Princess went out, what she saw was that the palace lady who had been dressed gorgeously just now had been pulled far away by the palace servants, her hairpins and rings scattered, her hair disheveled, but she still refused to give in.

"Needless to say, it must have been you who had someone do it. Don't think I don't know that you have been jealous of me from the beginning and you don't like me. You were afraid that I would be favored by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..." Qingluan couldn't hit anyone, but she still wouldn't give in.

Although Concubine Guo usually looks weak and timid, she is the daughter of a military general after all. When she gets angry, she is not easy to deal with.

"What are you talking about?" Concubine Guo felt a little uneasy, but she would not show it on the surface. She had no evidence anyway.

"Shut up, all of you. What are you doing? If His Majesty hears this, you will all be in trouble." The Crown Princess scolded.

The two stopped only after hearing His Majesty's words, especially Concubine Guo. She had not forgotten that it was His Majesty's words yesterday that prevented her from seeing the Crown Prince until now.

"Your Majesty, please be wise. I was walking peacefully just now, and she suddenly pounced on me and hit me. Look, my hands are scratched by her and bleeding." Concubine Guo said as she rolled up her sleeves. A long red mark came into view.

"Is Concubine Qingluan crazy?" the Crown Princess said after seeing this.

"Crown Princess, she is just a concubine, yet she treats me like this. Your Majesty, can you please stand up for me..." Concubine Guo said crying.

"Come here, I suspect that Concubine Qingluan has lost her mind. I will have her under strict supervision and will make a decision after the Crown Prince's birthday."

"Your Majesty, I am not crazy. Someone just framed me. It was her. It must be..." Qingluan kept talking when she was dragged away, but it didn't matter anymore. It didn't matter what the truth was.

After Qingluan was dragged away, the Crown Princess said to Concubine Guo, "You should also go back and ask the imperial physician to come and take a look. You don't need to come and pay your respects today."

"But..." Concubine Guo wanted to say something else, but the Crown Princess had already turned around. She looked down at her current appearance and decided to go back.

"This concubine Qingluan does seem a little abnormal. Your Majesty, what do you think is going on?" Yun Jin asked the Crown Princess after returning to the palace.

The Crown Princess shook her head, "It doesn't matter what the truth is."

When the Crown Princess returned to her room, the Crown Prince saw her and asked, "Why was there so much noise outside just now?"

The Crown Princess then told him everything that had happened that morning.

The prince frowned more and more as he listened, "Everyone is causing trouble. It seems that I will have a bad year again."

"Your Highness, stop talking. What are you talking about? People say that good times will come after bad times. Maybe everything will be fine," the Crown Princess said hastily to comfort him.

"No matter what the situation is, you are the only one by my side. The others all have their own plans. How can they be sincere?"

"Your Highness has spoken too highly of me. Sometimes I am selfish and jealous." The Crown Princess had no intention of creating a perfect personality in the Crown Prince's mind.

"You, if it were someone else, they would definitely say how magnanimous they are, but you..." The prince also knew that he had been quite cold to the Crown Princess since Guo entered the palace. "I know that I have been somewhat sorry for you in the past few years, but in my heart, you are different from them."

"I know this."

The couple was still talking when they heard Zhu Zhanji coming.