"The Queen actually knows that it's already late?" Emperor Yuanwu was disappointed.

The queen laughed awkwardly: "It was my negligence."

"Speak." Emperor Yuanwu turned his head and looked at Concubine Zhen.

"Yes..." Concubine Zhen was embarrassed: "Yes...I accidentally bumped into the Queen, Your Majesty, please don't ask."

Concubine Zhen kowtowed in embarrassment.

Emperor Yuanwu didn't seem to want to let her go at all: "Speak!"

Concubine Zhen was so frightened that she trembled. She raised her eyes and glanced at the Queen: "Yes...it was the Queen who said...that Sister Shufei used the Seventh Princess to win favor every day, and pestered you to go to Qiluan Garden every day...No...you can't treat everyone equally."

Emperor Yuanwu cleared his throat coldly, scaring everyone in the room so much that they all knelt on the ground.

"Is this true?" Emperor Yuanwu turned to look at the empress who was kneeling beside him.

“Your Majesty…” The corners of the Queen’s lips trembled: “Your Majesty… ...”

Even if the queen didn't admit it.

Emperor Yuanwu already had the answer in his heart.

He once again set his sights on Concubine Shu: "Which palace maid was the one who delivered clothes to Concubine Zhen that day?"

"It's Ling'er. I have already asked someone to take her out of the palace." Ying'er responded.

"Transmit!" Emperor Yuanwu sat up straight.

"Long live the emperor." Ling'er knelt on the ground in fear: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I know I was wrong. Am I innocent?"

"Then what have you done wrong? Why are you being wronged?" Emperor Yuanwu asked coldly.

"That day, Concubine Shu asked me to bring an umbrella and a cloak to Concubine Zhen. Concubine Shu was afraid that Concubine Zhen would catch a cold, so she asked me to choose one made of the best and thickest material." Ling'er told everything.

When Zhenpin heard Ling'er's words, her eyes flashed.

"I just walked out of Qiluan Garden with my clothes when I ran into Aunt Wenhui." Ling'er said this in a low voice that only she could hear, and she didn't dare to continue: "Aunt Wenhui..."

"Just say it. As long as you are telling the truth, I don't think anyone dares to blame you!" Emperor Yuanwu said sternly.

"Aunt Wenhui said..." Ling'er's voice trembled with fear: "Aunt Wenhui said that Concubine Zhen was punished by the Empress, and sending her things at this time was just... intentionally making things difficult for the Empress, so... those things... were... all taken away by Aunt Wenhui, and the rest of the servants really don't know anything."

The queen's face turned pale and blue, and she knelt limply on the ground: "Your Majesty, I really don't know anything!"

Wen Hui knelt on the ground crying: "Your Majesty, this was all my idea. The Empress really doesn't know anything. If you want to punish someone, just punish me."

"Take Wenhui away, give her fifty lashes of the cane, and send her to the laundry department." Emperor Yuanwu said sternly, "Give Ling'er thirty lashes of the cane."

"Your Majesty." The Queen's heart skipped a beat. "Wenhui has been with me since she was a child. Even if she has done something wrong, please forgive her for her hard work even though she has no merits. Fifty strokes of the cane will kill her, right? Even if she survives, she will become disabled. Please have mercy on her, Your Majesty."

The queen knelt on the ground and kowtowed one after another.

"So you feel pain too." Emperor Yuanwu said leisurely, "When you punished Huipin, did you ever think that kneeling on the gravel road in the Imperial Garden for an afternoon would make your knees rotten?"

Listening to Emperor Yuanwu's words.

Concubine Zhen's eyes were filled with sadness.

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