In the past, when I made mistakes, as long as I could be coquettish and stupid with my father, and as long as I could argue with my mother and deal with it flexibly, I would be able to turn big things into small things and small things.

Today, however, my father is still the same, but my mother seems to be extra strict. I also prepared a large number of rhetoric to intercede for Wei Huan, but when I saw my mother's face, I swallowed the prepared words again, answered in a low voice, and nodded to Shangguan Wan'er, my father saw that I was respectful to her, and slowly paced over, glanced at Wan'er up and down, raised his eyebrows, and said, "You are the newly sealed talent?"

Wan'er was standing, but when her father came, she knelt down, lowered her head, and said in a proper manner: "Concubine Shangguan Wan'er, see Your Majesty." ”

When my father heard this surname, he became more and more interested, and said with a smile: "Is it an official in Tianshui? ”

She answered carefully, but her mother stood up, stood in front of Wan'er, and said with a smile: "Her grandfather is the Shangguan Yi who persuaded His Majesty to abolish it in the past. ”

Father's face changed slightly, and he seemed to want to ask Wan'er something again, but then he only nodded indifferently and said, "Serve the queen well." ”

Wan'er touched her head to the ground, slowly got up, and retreated into the shadows as if she had never appeared.

I felt that the atmosphere between my father and mother was very weird, and I wanted to slip out, thinking of Wei Huan, so I knelt beside my mother in a regular manner, and lowered my head like Wan'er, my mother noticed it, reached out and patted me on the back of the head, and said to my father: "Didn't Your Majesty say that there was something? ”

The father pulled his mother with one hand, hugged her and said with a smile: "It's all at this time, no matter what happens, it's not as important as accompanying you." ”

Mother glanced at him, swept down the corner of her eyes, and gently said to me: "You still don't leave?"

Li Rui got up with a swish, and said as he retreated: "The minister retreats." Seeing that I didn't leave, I stopped again, and kept glancing at me, I looked at him and my parents, I was afraid that my mother was still angry, and I was afraid that my mother would really deal with Wei Huan in anger.

My mother squinted at me in my father's arms, and I relied on my young age, slowly crawled over, hugged her legs, put my face on her, and said slowly: "Wei Huan..."

The mother frowned and said, "Wei Huan lost his honor in front of the emperor, and the staff was twenty." ”

I was startled, and just as I begged for mercy, my mother said, "You go to prison, and when the beating is over, kneel with her, I won't call you, and you won't get up." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew my hand from my mother's lap, and my father coughed and urged me, "Why don't you go soon?"

I remembered something again, looked at my mother again, and called her: "Auntie..."

The mother took a deep breath and said, "Your two palace people, each with forty rods, are also your prisoners." He looked at Li Rui again and said, "Today, I will receive the rod with your Qianniuwei, and you will watch it yourself." ”

Li Rui unconsciously knelt down again, saluted his mother and said "yes", but he didn't dare to get up immediately, and his mother gently kicked me with her toes and said, "Don't get out yet." ”

I stuck out my tongue and went out with Li Rui before I went out of the palace, only to see Wan'er flash out of nowhere, and ordered my mother's order to the guards outside the door, and politely said to Li Rui: "Qianniuwei are all foreign ministers, there is a difference between inside and outside, it is better to ask the king to be imprisoned here, and the concubine will lead the princess to the inner court." ”

Li Rui said: "It's all up to talented people." "At this time, many people have brought the torture tools, the staff is more than three feet long, short and thick, the surface has been polished smooth and shiny, Li Rui took people to the front court, and Wan'er took me to a secluded place behind the Zichen Palace, Wei Huan and the two palace people knelt down, and everyone looked at me.

I was stunned for a moment, only to realize that they were waiting for me to announce the punishment, so I said, "Wei Huan will hit twenty, and you two will beat forty, let's fight." ”

The executioner's chamberlain had never seen such a willful execution, and after a moment of shock, he raised his arm and was stopped by me, but I saw that the three people with the staff were burly, and they could not be some uninteresting reckless men, afraid that they would not understand the subtlety of the execution, so they cleared their throats, made full momentum, and said: "The three you beat are all my people, you can see clearly." ”

The three people who were in charge of the torture looked at me, I looked at each other, and raised their arms again, and I saw that they were still holding the torture staff so high, and I was a little displeased, and I stopped them and said, "The three of them are all daughters, and they will all serve me in the future." ”

The faces of the three men were confused, they paused for a moment, and raised their arms for the third time, and I saw that they were still doing the same as before, and I was a little annoyed, and I walked up to them a few times, and said word by word: "They are my most valued attendants, and without them, I will not be able to eat, nor sleep well, if you dare to hurt them, I will immediately have someone beat you with my horsewhip." ”

Wan'er coughed lightly behind me, lifted my sleeve, and said, "Since Your Majesty has let the princess be imprisoned, we naturally know the meaning of Your Majesty, and the princess doesn't have to worry." ”

I whispered: "You see that they raised the torture rod so high and fell down like this, Wei Huan still has injuries on his body, how can he withstand such a beating?"

Wan'er said: "They are all old criminals, no matter how high or low they are, as long as they want to fight hard, they can naturally break their muscles and bones, and if they want to fight lightly, they will naturally be unscathed, and the princess doesn't have to worry." ”

I heard her say this, only reluctantly waved her hand, telling them to fight, who knew that the first staff listened to my two palace people snorted, I was about to ask people to stop, and was pulled by Wan'er, Wan'er said lightly: "Princess, but look at it." ”

I had to stand sullenly, seeing them hit down one stick after another, only five or six times, my two palace people were a little unable to support it, I couldn't bear it, I wanted to turn my head not to look, Wan'er said: "Your Majesty wants the princess to see, the princess still looks good." ”

I had no choice but to turn around again, and saw that the three five big and three thick chamberlains beat the three little girls to unstable shape, and it was easy to wait for the execution to be over, I walked over and looked, blood oozed from the clothes of the three people, and I was angry for a while, and immediately kicked the people around Wei Huan, and said viciously: "Didn't you tell you not to hit hard?"

The three attendants immediately knelt on the ground, but they only called "princess" in their mouths, and did not apologize for the crime, I was so angry that I kicked him twice, turned around to call someone to bring a horse whip, but was pulled by Wei Huan, Wei Huan shook my arm, and said softly: "This is the meaning of the queen of heaven, don't be strong." ”

I was stunned, and the three attendants took the opportunity to withdraw. Wan'er nodded to a few palace people on the side, and immediately someone brought me a futon and said to me, "Princess, forgive me." ”

I knelt on it, Wan'er saluted me, and led a group of palace people into the palace to resume my life, but I actually left the four of us here.

I only felt that the power of the sky was unpredictable, and I felt a little chill for no reason, and asked Wei Huan again: "Did you fight hard?" The two palace people were already in tears, and she didn't even shout, which was really amazing.

Wei Huan tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, "They know the measure very well, they are all flesh wounds, and they look ruthless, but they don't get in the way." ”

I sighed, knelt for a while, felt that my knees were sore, rubbed myself, and said, "A-Niang doesn't send anyone to watch, and I'm not afraid that we will be lazy." ”

Wei Huan said: "No one is watching, you dare to be lazy?"

I smirked and said, "Don't dare." After a while, he said: "It's really strange, A-Niang actually punished you for the crime of misdemeanor in front of the emperor, I see that you obviously know how to advance and retreat." ”

Wei Huan said: "Your Majesty is just looking for a reason, in fact, he is still blaming me for calculating you that day." ”

I hummed, and after a while, said, "The palace door is locked, and when the punishment is over, you can go to sleep with me." ”

Wei Huan said after a moment: "Hmm." ”

I saw that she was lukewarm, a little boring, but she was just kneeling like this, and she was too idle, so I said without words: "What reason did you think of to excuse you? ”

Wei Huan glanced at me and said, "Didn't you say that you want to find talents and let me enter the palace?"

I turned my head in surprise: "How do you know?"

Wei Huan's face changed color and said, "You won't really say that, right?"

I said, "What's wrong with that?"

Wei Huan took a deep breath and said, "The queen of heaven only expelled me from the palace, and you said that you want to let me enter the palace, isn't this clearly against the queen of heaven? Fortunately, you are her own daughter, if you are a minister, you may be killed at this time." ”

I laughed at her: "A-Niang has always respected the ministers, and even Rokuro and I have to be respectful when we see all the prime ministers, how can you kill the courtiers at will? ”

Wei Huan sneered: "You should say this to those who were killed." ”

I saw that she didn't look like she was making it up, so I grabbed her hand and asked, "You tell me clearly, when did my mother kill someone?"

Wei Huan suddenly sighed and straightened his body even higher. I quickly knelt on the futon, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be Wan'er coming out.

I thought she had come to wake me up, so I smiled at her and asked, "Is Aya A-Niang resting?" But she didn't answer me, but just came over with a cloak in her hand, carefully draped it over me, and said with an expressionless face: "It's cold at night, and the saint gives me a princess's clothes." ”

I looked at the beautiful cloak that had been warmed and smoked, and opened my mouth so that I could not say anything.