Nan Mohao looked down at him coldly, but did not speak.

"Did Xiang Shangshu oversleep at home?" Jiu Rao spoke casually, her voice was as clear as cold water, "You can be late in the early dynasty, and there is no imperial power in your eyes at all, right?" ”

When the words fell, Xiang Shangshu, who was completely unprepared, suddenly raised his head and looked at a girl sitting on the dragon chair.

Girl?

On the dragon chair?!

Xiang Shangshu's heart sank, and he immediately kowtowed: "Minister...... The minister should die, the minister didn't see Your Majesty, please forgive Your Majesty! ”

Sitting on the dragon chair, the girl who looked like she was only eight or nine years old......

Who else could there be but Her Majesty the Younger Empress today?

Xiang Nan hit her last night...... She is now in the temple, and her injuries should not be serious......

This thought flashed through his mind, and Xiang Shangshu couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope.

"I came to the palace today, so that you Aiqing can get to know me." Jiu Rao casually picked her lips and smiled lightly, then stretched out her hand and stood up with the back of Tianshu's hand, "I saw blood from the whip I received last night, and my shoulder still hurts badly, like a knife cut, so I can't stay here for a long time." If you have anything to do, just tell the regent directly, and I will go back to the palace to rest first. ”

After speaking, she took Tianshu's hand and left the apse with graceful steps like lotus flowers.

However, when these words fell, they were like a basin of ice water poured on their heads, which suddenly extinguished the little hope that had just been born in Xiang Shangshu's heart, and made him feel a chill in his bones.

I was whipped last night and I saw blood.

My shoulder still hurts terribly.

Like a knife cut.

No, these words are heard in Xiang Shangshu's ears word by word, and they are really like a knife.

Fear takes root in my heart.

"Your Majesty!" He looked up, but only saw the girl's slender and petite back, and shouted hoarsely, "Your Majesty, there is no way for the ministers to teach their children, please ask Your Majesty to confess!" Xiang Nan didn't mean to offend His Majesty, begging Your Majesty to be clear! Your Majesty—"

The girl's petite back quickly disappeared from sight.

No one spoke in the hall, and everyone was silent.

Only Xiang Shangshu's voice begging for mercy echoed clearly, making the ministers deeply feel the fear in his heart.

and, the trepidation in the hearts of all of them.

Unexpectedly, I thought of that sentence, the Emperor of Destiny.

Her Majesty the Little Empress is only nine years old, and today is her first day in the court, and her first appearance in front of the ministers.

Just said a few words and left.

But with just a few words, he only sat on the dragon chair for a while, and he didn't even have half a cup of tea, but the ministers felt a sense of imperial majesty accompanied by a cold breath from their bones.

is not inferior to her mother in the slightest, but it is completely different from the tolerant and peaceful former empress.

Such an empress......

Today, she briefly showed up and told her ministers that she was beaten by her own courtiers.

It hurts.

She was angry.

She asked the courtiers to look up at her face and know her, because the words "those who do not know are not guilty" do not absolve all crimes.

A thought faintly arose in the hearts of the ministers.

Xiang Nan came back from the border this time, was it already destined that his fate would change significantly?

Is the scenery of the Xiang family already destined to be a flash in the pan?

At this time, the ministers were far from thinking that what was waiting for the Xiang family was not just the crime of whipping the Son of Heaven.

Soon after, there will be a storm of impeachment and incriminating evidence, so that the Xiang family has no room to turn over.