Pregnant Before the Royal Marriage-Chapter 907 - : Seller seeks honor_1

Chapter 907: Chapter 907: Seller seeks honor_1

You have to admit, no matter where you are in the world, having support and strength is the ultimate truth.

Even in the Imperial Palace, this rule stands.

Even if he was mad enough to bite through his teeth, the Emperor had to stop the Crown Prince from interrogating Princess Ling’an.

However, it is still okay to interrogate a palace maid.

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But the problem was, this maid came from the Empress’s palace, and digging her out stirred up trouble, implicating the Empress as well.

Things had escalated.

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This is something the Emperor does not want to see.

He’s getting old, he doesn’t have the energy he used to have. He just wants the harem to be peaceful and to avoid making trouble for him, especially things that might cause him a headache.

If it involved the Empress, should he punish her or not?

If he didn’t, it just wouldn’t make sense.

But if he did, it could implicate the previous dynasty.

Just thinking about this situation irritates the Emperor.

Anyway, considering the mess this issue has evolved into, the best thing to do is to handle it delicately.

The Emperor looked at Jiang Ning with a bit of resentment and said, “This maid named Shuihua, since she was sent to the East Palace by the Empress, Princess Consort, it’s your duty and obligation to discipline her. Now that she is gossiping about and stirring up relationships of the masters, Princess Consort, you cannot escape from this involvement.”

Jiang Ning thought to herself, after all this talk, because you don’t want to implicate the Empress and dare not offend Prince of Wutong, you’re throwing all the blame on me.

Am I easy to bully?

“Your Majesty speaks wisely. Where I went wrong is that you sent Princess Ling’an to the East Palace as a slave, but I treated her as a master and instructed the palace maid to serve her. Those are all my faults,” Jiang Ning said sorrowfully.

The Emperor’s mouth twitched at the corners.

Jiang Ning used his own words against him.

What status does Princess Ling’an have in East Palace?

How did it become a problem of stirring up masters’ relationships?

The Emperor said coldly, “Anyway, it’s all this maid’s fault, guards, drag her down and reward her with sixty strokes!”

Sixty strokes, to a weak little palace maid, would undoubtedly mean death.

Shuihua was frightened to the point where her whole body was trembling, she kept knocking her head on the ground with such force that her forehead became bloody in an instant.

The ground was stained with a patch of red.

Jiang Ning frowned, saying, “If you continue like this, you won’t last till the court punishment; you will die first.”

Shuihua knew that most of the people present didn’t consider her a person, killing her would be just like stepping on an ant. If anyone did care about her life even a little bit, it would only be the Princess Consort.

Of course, she also understood that Princess Consort didn’t care about her as a person, but just didn’t like seeing such a scene.

Thinking this, Shuihua immediately crawled over to her, crying, “Princess Consort, please, please save me. I am willing to tell everything, I only ask you to spare my life.”

Jiang Ning replied, “Then speak. Repeat what you said before again in front of the Emperor.”

“Yes!” Shuihua quickly turned to the Emperor, “The eunuch Shi from Serene Phoenix Palace coerced and tempted me, asking me to say a few more words around Princess Ling’an. I didn’t want to, but Eunuch Shi threatened to ruin my family’s chance of entering the civil service. I truly had no choice… I didn’t really want to betray my master.”

The Emperor frowned, “A slave who betrays her master for her own gain, now even dares to implicate the Empress. Drag her away!”

“Don’t you dare!” Jiang Ning abruptly stopped them.

The Emperor looked at her with a hint of displeasure, “Jiang Ning, what are you trying to do?”

“Your Majesty, are you getting senile?” Jiang Ning was also enraged, “Shuihua has confessed, yet you still deny her words, all because you can’t bear to punish your Empress? If you were so reluctant, what were you doing earlier?”