The main hall of Zheng Palace.

Gong Zishang knelt dejectedly on the wooden floor facing the main seat. A yellow jade servant stood beside her holding a sword, staring at Gong Zishang, not allowing her to be lazy and sit back.

Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng came in. The yellow jade servant looked over sharply, and his gaze stayed on Zhang Xueming's face for a little too long, in return for a sinister gaze from Gong Yuanzheng.

The other party obviously didn't stare at Zhang Xueming for so long just because of her appearance. After the greetings, he simply called her "Mr. Zheng" and "Ms. Zhao" and stopped talking. His deliberate disregard and inexplicable arrogance made Gong Yuanzheng look gloomy.

Zhang Xueming squeezed Gong Yuanzheng's hand, went over and put the cloak on Gong Zishang, then took a thick blue silk cushion handed to him by Qingzhi and let Gong Zishang lie on it.

Gong Zishang immediately shook off her depressed look, and began to beam with joy again: "Zhao Zhao is still someone who cares about his sister~"

The yellow jade attendant tried to stop him, but Zhang Xueming just laughed. Qing Zhi then stepped forward to salute him with a respectful attitude and a calm tone, "May I ask this jade attendant, did Elder Hua and Elder Xue say that the Shang Palace's substitute Palace Master is not allowed to wear more clothes? Why don't you just catch up with the elders and ask them clearly?"

The other party choked and silently withdrew his outstretched hand.

Finally, someone can teach this rigid and inhumane Huang Yushi a lesson! Gong Zishang was very happy. Seeing Qing Zhi put two more cushions next to her, she asked curiously, "What is this for? Is there someone else who was punished like me? Who is it? Could it be Gong Ziyu and Jin Fan?"

She turned around to look at the palace entrance, her face full of anticipation.

Gong Yuanzheng snorted coldly: "Stop dreaming, no one from Yu Palace will come tonight."

"Oh~ That's probably because Gong Ziyu was busy taking care of Old Zhiren and Madam Wu Ji, and Jin Fan was also delayed." Gong Zishang withdrew his gaze disappointedly, but did not forget to help Gong Ziyu fill in the blanks.

Gong Yuanzheng did not expose her, but just looked at her meaningfully.

Ever since Lao Zhiren suffered a stroke and Madam Wu Ji was bedridden, the rumor that Gong Ziyu was drunk all day long had spread throughout the palace, and martial law had not been able to stop the spread of gossip. Gong Yuanzheng didn't believe that Gong Zishang hadn't heard about it until now.

Gong Zishang avoided his gaze and looked down at the wood grain on the floor.

At noon, the martial law was lifted at the palace gates, and the Shang Palace was also lifted. As usual, she went to the guard camp to look for Jin Fan, but she didn't find him. Then she learned about the recent events from other guards. Yu Gong seemed to be blessed by the god of bad luck, and Gong Ziyu was unable to recover. Jin Fan stayed in Yu Gong to guard Gong Ziyu these days.

She was going to go to Yu Palace, but someone from Shang Palace came to ask her to go back, saying that Miss Zhao from Zheng Palace had sent something to her and would not leave until she got it...

Gong Zishang was thinking when he saw Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng standing in front of the two empty cushions. He couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Zhao Zhao, don't tell me that you and Gong Yuanzheng were punished. The elders left a long time ago. They didn't even meet you two tonight."

"It has nothing to do with the elders. Ayuan and I asked for help late at night, and my elder sister came from the Shang Palace to help without fear of danger. My elder sister was punished, so Ayuan and I should be punished together." Zhang Xueming lifted his clothes and knelt beside her, and Gong Yuanzheng also knelt beside Zhang Xueming.

When Gong Zishang saw that the two of them were serious, he felt warm in his heart and his nose felt a little sore.

Although she and Gong Ziyu were good friends, they often broke the family rules and were called to the elders' council to be punished, but they would flee when the disaster struck, and whoever escaped would be the one. There was no such thing as someone who remembered her kindness and rushed to accompany the punishment even if he was not punished.

Gong Zishang said seriously, "Don't mess around. The elders punished me because I was reckless. I dared to bring out something that had not been tested, and even implicated Hua Gongzi... I was not thoughtful enough about this matter. What does it have to do with you two?"

She was serious for less than three seconds, then she giggled again: "You two should hurry up and get up. Are you both scared tonight? Look at that little face, it's so white that you don't even need to put on powder. Oh, it's really whiter than snow and frost."

"…"Sai Xue Qi Shuang" is used to describe a cold and severe expression, not to describe a pale face." Gong Yuanzheng's mouth twitched, "Big sister, please don't use it carelessly."

"Hey, naughty brother, the only thing you've learned in school is to sabotage others, right? You can't take it literally?" Gong Zishang realized belatedly that the two of them had changed their way of addressing her. She was stunned for a moment, then smiled and made jokes, trying to send them to rest.

Zhang Xueming asked, "How long do you have to kneel, big sister?"

Gong Zishang looked at the incense burner in the corner, only one-sixth of the incense had been put in, and sighed: "Wait until that stick of incense is burned out, and then add another stick. You can get up only after all the incense is burned out."

Zhang Xueming said, "Qingzhi, it's too cold here. Have someone bring the fumigation cage and screen over. Otherwise, the two palace masters will get sick from the cold. Some people who think they are superior to the former palace masters are to blame. I'm afraid that when my brother comes back, he won't be able to resist asking him to kneel down as well."

"Yes, Miss Zhao." Qing Zhi glanced at Huang Yushi, whose expression was distorted with frustration but who dared not respond, and cursed inwardly, "You deserve it."

Gong Yuanzheng also said, "Oh, big sister hasn't learned martial arts yet. She must be hungry after walking for such a long time. Have someone bring some midnight snacks over. Big sister should kneel down to reflect on her sins, so it's not easy to do anything. It's the same if someone feeds her. Oh, also bring some hot tea and snacks for me and Zhao Zhao. We're not full either."

The Huang Yu servant was dumbfounded.

But if he wants to be reasonable, Zheng Gong has no pressure in a two-on-one fight, and he doesn't even bother to talk to him. He can crush him just by sending out a maid.

If he didn't want to reason, even if Zhang Xueming couldn't be as powerful as he was last night when he broke into the Elders' Council, couldn't she complain to Xin Zhiren? He dared to take advantage of the situation and use force against the two people in the Zheng Palace who had just experienced life and death. He was committing a crime of insubordination. Xin Zhiren killed him on the spot. What could the Elders' Council do?

He could only watch as a group of guards and servants came in carrying things, and under Qing Zhi's command, they turned the place where the three people were into a warm and comfortable little world. Everyone looked at him unfriendly.

While the yellow jade servant's attention was on others, Jin Miao moved to the corner, quickly cut off the incense stick, put the remaining incense away, replaced it with the prepared one that looked the same but burned twice as fast, lit it with a fire stick, and walked out among the crowd as if nothing had happened.

When Gong Shangjiao came back, he saw that the main hall with the door open was brightly lit, and a large multi-panel screen blocked the view of people outside from the hall. The thick fabric did not allow for good light transmission, so he could only vaguely see someone on the other side of the screen, but could not tell what they were doing.

"Women are more careful after all." Gong Shangjiao praised. He just didn't like arguing with the elders over trivial matters, not that he agreed with their approach.

Although it's a punishment, the Acting Palace Master is also the master of a palace, and she's an unmarried woman. To make her kneel in the main hall with the door open for everyone to see, how ridiculous!

But there seemed to be more than one person kneeling behind the screen, and there were faint voices of people talking?

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