bestfiction Chapter 211 Is This an Order?
Chapter 211 Is This an Order?
Chu Mingzheng turned around and sat down, tapping the bed lightly: "What medicine?"
Ru Shu got up and hurriedly gathered the medicine residue in her arms: "I don't know."
Chu Mingzheng's eyes shifted slightly.
Ruying fell to her knees and said, "I don't know either."
Chu Mingzheng said coldly: "This lowly slave betrayed his master and plotted to murder the prince. Drag him out and chop him off."
"Wait!" Lu Mingyang grabbed Chu Mingzheng's arm, but at this moment, she didn't dare to tell the truth: "Your Highness, is there any misunderstanding?"
No one responded to her words, and Chu Mingzheng said angrily, "What are you standing there for?"
Zheng Hao, who was standing outside the door with a hunched back, brought people into the house to ask for help.
Lu Mingyang got out of bed to save them, but suddenly, someone grabbed his wrist. Lu Mingyang said anxiously, "They don't know, they really don't know. They're only twelve years old, what do they know!"
"So you know!"
Finally unable to deceive himself any longer, Chu Mingzheng turned over and pressed Lu Mingyang on the bed, his eyes full of pain.
Seeing that Ruying and Rushu were about to be dragged out, Lu Mingyang kicked Chu Mingzheng in the chest and took the opportunity to jump off the bed to grab them.
The princess is only wearing her underwear, who dares to touch her?
Lu Mingyang successfully drove Zheng Hao and the others out of the room and bolted it. Turning back, he was met with a pair of angry eyes. Lu Mingyang banged his head against the door, with no way to escape.
Chu Mingzheng pressed Lu Mingyang's hands against the door and asked aggrievedly, "I'm in so much pain, can't you see?"
Lu Mingyang was stunned by the incompatible words.
Chu Mingzheng leaned over and kissed her madly.
"Uh, uh..."
With a bang, the lacquer tray exploded above Chu Mingzheng's head. Chu Mingzheng turned around and saw Ruying retreating with the broken tray in her arms, her legs trembling.
"You, you, you can't bully the princess..."
"How dare you!" Lu Mingyang was so anxious that he grabbed Chu Mingzheng's hands and begged for mercy: "Your Highness, they are ignorant. Please forgive them."
Chu Mingzheng stared at the girl in front of him in a daze. He only had eyes for her, but she only had eyes for the two little maids.
After a long time without a response, Lu Mingyang angrily said, "You knew it was my order, why did you kill them? Because they obeyed me? If that's the case, why didn't you just kill me?"
Chu Mingzheng's face was full of doubts, and after a long while he managed to utter, "Get out."
"princess……"
"princess……"
The two little girls refused to leave and continued to look at Chu Mingzheng warily.
"Get out of here!" Lu Mingyang knew that he had let the two of them go, and quickly moved away.
The door closed again. Chu Mingzheng held up his beloved face and said in a trembling voice, "Am I not good to you? Why did you kill our child?"
Lu Mingyang frowned: "Where did the child come from?"
"Don't you know how many bowls of medicine you've drunk? I work so hard every day, and yet, you've killed my children one after another. Is there any mother in the world as cruel as you?"
"No!" Lu Mingyang was speechless: "Your Highness, do you have any common sense? That child is not you..."
"I'm asking you why!" Chu Mingzheng suppressed his anger.
Lu Mingyang shuddered and looked away stubbornly.
"Okay!" Chu Mingzheng gritted his teeth and coaxed, "If you say you know you're wrong and you won't drink that kind of thing again, I'll reluctantly forgive you."
It seemed like a great grace from heaven.
Lu Mingyang sneered: "Is it an order? Your Highness's order, I naturally dare not disobey. If not, I say no."
Chu Mingzheng pulled Lu Mingyang away, slammed the door and left.
In the East Warm Pavilion, Qin Miao stood in the yard, pacing back and forth anxiously.
Mudan came trotting back with the news: "My lady, His Highness has confined the princess to her room and forbade anyone to bring her food. He said he would unlock her house when she starves to death."
"Really!" Qin Miao covered her mouth excitedly.
"Congratulations, girl, after all the hard work comes happiness."
Now that the princess is dead, my daughter will be the mistress of the palace. After some time, I will ask the empress dowager for an order, and my daughter will be the rightful mistress.
The more the nurse thought about it, the happier she became. She helped Qin Miao into the house to dress up, "When His Highness comes back from court, he will definitely take the girl to see the princess off outside the city."
A maid stood outside the door and said, "Madam, Jin from the laundry room is here."
In the East Warm Pavilion, Qin Miao did not allow the servants to call her concubine, and required everyone to call her "Empress".
Huan Jin stepped into the room, knelt down and kowtowed, "Congratulations, Your Majesty."
Qin Miao turned her head and looked over, saying, "Seeing that you are quite smart, you will stay in the East Warm Pavilion and be a second-class maid."
Only second class?
Huan Jin looked up and kowtowed again: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Looking up again, Huan Jin saw a hint of navy blue clothing.
Zheng Hao stood outside the door and saluted, "Concubine, the maid in the laundry room called Jin to spread rumors and slander the princess. His Highness ordered the servants to take her away and find a quiet place to beat her to death!"
After saying that, he waved his hand and two young eunuchs dragged Huan Jin out.
Zheng Hao saluted Qin Miao again and said, "His Highness has ordered that anyone who gossips will be beaten to death immediately. Please also ask Concubine to control the servants in the East Warm Pavilion."
The jade hairpin in Qin Miao's hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
……
The main courtyard was locked. Lu Mingyang lay on the bed, staring blankly at Hong Shanhu, which he could not give away. He woke up and fell asleep, and woke up again.
Ruying and Rushu sat on the steps at the door, feeling anxious.
Ruying asked, "Your Highness, you won't really want to starve the princess to death, will you?"
Ru Shu said: "No way, His Highness likes the princess so much."
"But I heard that His Highness was so angry that he beat someone to death!"
The rustling sound of birds interrupted the conversation. They looked in the direction of the sound and saw Zheng Hao outside the crack of the door.
Zheng Hao waved his hand and said, "You two, persuade the princess to go and apologize to His Highness."
Ruying asked, "How is the princess going?"
Zheng Hao said disdainfully: "Tell me, I have someone waiting here."
After all the persuasion lasted until evening, the two girls still had no good news.
Inside the study, Chu Mingzheng looked at the cold food, called Zheng Hao in, and asked, "Is there any movement in the main courtyard?"
Zheng Hao shook his head.
"Nothing to eat?" Chu Mingzheng asked again.
Zheng Hao shook his head again.
"Starve to death, Zheng Hao!"
Hearing the angry voice, Zheng Hao was so scared that he knelt down and begged for mercy. He saw His Highness get up and go to the inner room, and then he realized that what His Highness said was not "Starve Zheng Hao to death", but "Starve to death is just right".
He looked at the closed door and walked out. These two people were really more stubborn than the other.
The next day, there was still no movement in the main courtyard. Chu Mingzheng looked at the table full of food, motionless.
Those were the princess's favorite dishes and desserts. Zheng Hao felt a little sorry for His Highness when he saw them. He really couldn't understand the princess's behavior, but he also racked his brains to find a way out for His Highness.
"The princess is young and likes to stick with you. She is just worried that you will ignore her after she becomes pregnant."
Chu Mingzheng glared at him, "Ask yourself if you believe this."
Zheng Hao slapped himself in the face with a cry of "ouch" and asked worriedly, "Will the princess faint from hunger?"