Rong Fei is not honored

The queen could no longer maintain her smile, "Ma Jia, I want to hear Concubine Zhang's reasons first, don't you understand?"

"Empress, it's not that I don't understand, but I don't have the patience to play a scene of sisters living in harmony in the palace with you. Why, Concubine Zhang has her own reasons, do I have to listen to her?"

Ji Nai looked at the Queen provocatively. For the first time, he no longer suppressed his resentment and dissatisfaction and showed his fangs to the Queen.

"Ma Jia, you are so insolent! It is because I, the queen, am too tolerant that you dare to disrespect me."

This was not only about Ji Nai, but also about Concubine Hui. Concubine Hui was very unhappy at that time. She stood up from her chair and said with a mocking face: "The Queen is tolerant? Have you forgotten what you have done?"

For a moment, the atmosphere in the palace fell into dead silence. No one expected that Ma Jia, who always showed a gentle face, would suddenly not give face to the queen. No one expected that Nara would actually say such words directly.

This can be considered an unspoken rule in the harem. No matter how fiercely they fight in private, they still have to be affectionate and affectionate when they meet, with the elder sister being older and the younger sister being younger.

You can make indirect accusations, you can be disrespectful, but you won't expose those secret activities. After all, no one has clean hands and feet. We are all the emperor's concubines, so we have to leave a way out for each other to maintain our dignity.

"Concubine Hui, what did you say?" The queen was extremely angry, but she calmed down instead, but her tone was grim and full of murderous intent.

Ji Nai secretly thought that it was not good. Concubine Hui had really angered the Queen. He was afraid that the Queen would really disregard the consequences today and torture himself and Nara.

Concubine Hui did not realize this, or maybe she did realize it but did not think that the Queen would really dare to do anything to her, so she continued to attack madly.

"What do you think I am talking about, Queen? Do you think that no one knows what you have done? Everyone is just pretending to be confused."

"Really? I really didn't know. My sisters all know what I did."

The queen looked at the concubines below, but unfortunately, except for Ji Nai and Concubine Hui, no one dared to meet the queen's eyes directly. When the queen looked at them, they all avoided them.

Concubine Hui cursed inwardly: "What a bunch of cowardly rats."

The Queen nodded in satisfaction, "Concubine Hui, you see, they don't know, which shows that you are the one who is slandering me. You are disrespectful to the Queen and should be punished with thirty strokes of the cane. But I will not argue with you. For Chengqing's sake, I will save your dignity and give you thirty slaps on the face instead."

(In the Qing Dynasty, caning required the person to take off their clothes, and the executioners were usually eunuchs. If a concubine was really caned, even if the beating was not severe and would not endanger her life, her innocence would be destroyed and she would not be able to survive.)

"you dare!"

The queen smiled, "I am in charge of the harem and have the responsibility to educate the concubines. You don't follow the rules, so I will give you a small punishment. This is the law of our ancestors. Even if His Majesty comes, I can't say anything."

What a light punishment! If the thirty slaps were really given, Concubine Hui would be nailed to the pillar of shame forever. Even if she was promoted in the future, she would no longer be respectable and would also bring trouble to her offspring.

In the future, any prince born to Concubine Hui would be easily attacked in the competition for the crown prince. People would say that their mother had been slapped in the face by the Empress Dowager, which showed that they had no rules and their sons would naturally have poor moral character.

By then, no one would care why Concubine Hui was beaten, because that was not important. What was important was that Concubine Hui was indeed punished.

Seeing that the Queen had already had Concubine Hui held down and was about to begin torturing her, Ji Nai could no longer sit still and hurried forward to stop her.

"May I ask, Your Majesty, what words of Concubine Hui have said that are disrespectful to you?"

"Ma Jia, I missed you. You were also one of the ones who were disrespectful to me just now. Come, take Ma Jia down as well."

The palace maids in Kunning Palace were ready to make a move, and when they were about to run into Ji Nai, Ji Nai shouted, "Let me see who dares! How come the Queen is confused, and you are also confused? Not only do you not stop the Queen from making mistakes, but you are also helping the tyrant to commit atrocities?"

This sound frightened the people, and taking advantage of the moment when the other party paused, Li Ma and Yu Sheng rushed forward to protect their master. But there were only two of them, and the other party was outnumbered, so how could they be a match?

"Hurry up and do it!" The words have been spoken. If she doesn't do it, how can she survive as the queen in the future? No one will take her words seriously.

"Concubine Hui just thinks you are biased. It's just that her words are not nice to hear. Why do you feel so guilty? If this is disrespectful to you, then in the future, will all the concubines in the palace be beaten and scolded by you?"

Li Ma and Yu Sheng tried their best to stop the servants of Kunning Palace from touching their master. Hearing Ji Nai's words, they secretly complained that their master was adding fuel to the fire. Why not bow your head first? It's better than suffering.

"Do you really think I'm confused and don't know what she meant?"

"Then what does the Queen think Concubine Hui means? Anyway, I don't know."

The queen was speechless. She couldn't say that Concubine Hui was mocking her for being vicious and implying that she had harmed many royal heirs. If she said this herself, it would only confirm her guilt.

Concubine Hui, who was pinned to the ground, regained her consciousness and shouted, "Concubine Zhang is unkind to the little princess, and I cannot bear to see it. So I am angry that the queen always sides with Concubine Zhang. How is she disrespectful?"

The queen hesitated a little. Since Concubine Hui had changed her mind, her reasons were no longer tenable. However, today was a great opportunity to strike a blow to the arrogance of Ma Jia and Nara. Only by killing the chicken to scare the monkey would the other concubines not dare to treat her badly in the future.

In just a moment, the queen made up her mind. "What a sweet-talking mouth you have. Since I have said that you are disrespectful, then you are wrong. What are you still standing there for? Do you need me to do it myself?"

Under the empress's urging, the palace servants in Kunning Palace worked even harder.

"How dare you! You better think clearly. This palace and Concubine Hui are both the prince's biological mothers. The Queen is unreasonably punishing her. As the Queen, she will be fine, but those of you who took action will definitely not live."

The people who were doing it hesitated, because they all knew that what Ma Jia said was not a threat, but they dared not disobey the Queen's order. So they kept moving their hands, but their strength was much reduced.

The hall was in chaos. A group of palace servants were holding down Concubine Hui who was kneeling on the ground and struggling desperately. Another group of palace servants wanted to catch Ji Nai, bypassing Nanny Li and Yu Sheng, but they always failed. It was a mess and it was really embarrassing.