Chapter Fifty-Eight: Preliminary Advancement of the White Lotus

"You don't?" King Pingcheng sneered, "Did you say that there is a mother and no mother!"

"Not me, I didn't say! It's the palace maids who lie, they lie! It must have been Xu Manjiao who colluded with the palace maid to frame me!"

"You dare to quibble!"

The servant handed over the stick, and King Pingcheng took the stick and whipped it at her, scolding: "What ability does your sister have to collude with the palace maid to bully the saint!" The emperor said, next time, he will strip me of my throne and let me go back to Saibei to herd sheep, do you know you!"

Xu Tongjiao screamed and hugged her head to dodge around, embarrassed.

When Princess Pingcheng saw his ruthlessness, she hurriedly hugged his arm and cried:

"Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, T If you fight again, you'll die!"

"It's best to kill her bastard! I've raised her for so many years to murder my father!" King Pingcheng roared and shook her off, pointing at Xu Tongjiao, who was hugging her hair trembling in the corner, and shouted, "Tie her up for me!"

The subordinates didn't dare to disobey, and several maidservants hurriedly entered the house and grabbed Xu Tongjiao and tied her to the bench.

"Let go of me, let go of me!" Xu Tongjiao struggled desperately, and begged for mercy from King Pingcheng: "Father, father, I was wrong, you spare me!"

"Spare you? It's just that you're too pampered on weekdays, even if you don't know the height of the sky!" King Pingcheng sneered and threw the stick to the ground, "Hit me!" Hit hard!"

The subordinate lowered his head and cowered, the three girls have always held grudges, whoever picks up this stick will be the backstabber.

Seeing that they didn't dare to make a move, King Pingcheng was so angry that he kicked at one of them: "Why don't you do it yet!"

"Yes, yes......" a small guy shuddered and picked up the stick.

"Hit!"

At the sound of an order, the little guy raised his stick and fell down fiercely.

"Ah——!h

After a few boards, Xu Tongjiao wailed again and again: "Father, I was wrong, I really know that I was wrong father!" Father, spare your life!"

"Keep fighting!"

"Ah——!h

"You can't fight, you can't fight!" Princess Pingcheng knelt down with a thud, hugged King Pingcheng's sleeve and cried: "Lord, Tong'er has only received twenty slaps, her body is delicate, and if she fights again, she will die!" She's your daughter! Can you really bear to beat her to death?"

Seeing that King Pingcheng was unmoved, Princess Pingcheng hurriedly crawled over and hugged Xu Tongjiao and screamed: "Stop!" Stop! Stop fighting!"

Seeing her pressing on Xu Tongjiao, the subordinate didn't dare to make any more moves, and stood there helplessly.

Princess Pingcheng cried: "Lord, I only have one daughter, Tong'er, if you want to kill her, it is better to kill me first!"

King Pingcheng shook his sleeves angrily: "It's all what you are used to on weekdays!" So that she almost broke out of the catastrophe! If we don't punish her now, we will accompany our whole family sooner or later!"

Princess Pingcheng argued: "Lord, it is wrong for Tong'er to have a dispute in the palace today, but Man'er is not wrong!" A slap doesn't make a sound, even if the prince wants to be punished, he shouldn't only punish Tong'er alone!"

"What's the matter with Guan Man'er! On weekdays, Tong'er is arrogant and domineering, and she doesn't have to think about it to know that she must have deceived people too much to make this incident! Man'er has always been gentle and virtuous, how can she mess around!"

While they were arguing, a delicate voice came from outside the door.

"Father, what's the matter?"

This sound was like a needle in the sea, and suddenly the dispute in the ancestral hall quieted down.

Xu Manjiao held the door frame with one hand and covered her chest with the other, extremely weak and pitiful.

King Pingcheng was angry, and he didn't have a good face when he saw her: "Why did you come here?"

"My daughter just came back from the palace, and I heard that something happened to the ancestral hall, so I rushed over."

In the palace?

King Pingcheng hurriedly changed his expression and asked with concern, "Why did you only come back from the palace now?"

"Originally, I was going back, but Princess Yong'an woke up and sent someone to call me over and chatted for a while."

"Her Royal Highness is in good health, is she okay?"

Xu Manjiao smiled slightly: "It's okay anymore, it's just that the old illness was caused by the impatience before, and the imperial doctor said that it would be good to rest more." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." King Pingcheng breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "Then what does Her Royal Highness the princess say about today's events?"

"Father, rest assured, Her Royal Highness is not a narrow-minded person. If it weren't for the fact that my sister said too boldly before, which reminded Her Highness of the first queen's heartache, Her Royal Highness would not blame her sister. Xu Manjiao glanced at Xu Tongjiao, who had already fainted from the beating, and comforted with a gentle smile, "Your Highness is relieved now, and let her daughter go to the palace to chat with her in a few days." ”

"That's good, that's good." King Pingcheng put down his heart and hurriedly ordered, "Remember to accompany Her Royal Highness the princess well, and don't make Her Royal Highness unhappy." ”

"My daughter knows, Your Highness is not a difficult person to get along with, treat me very well, my father can rest assured." Xu Manjiao touched the hairpin on her head, "Your Highness saw that my bracelet had fallen, and specially gave me another hairpin." ”

Seeing this, King Pingcheng said again and again: "Okay, good!" That's good! That's great!" He clapped his hands with joy and said softly, "Man'er should go back to the room first, it's too chaotic here." ”

"Yes." Xu Manjiao walked to the door, turned around and said slowly, "Father, don't blame the third sister too much." Princess Yongan said to her daughter that today's incident was also because she was too impulsive because she missed her mother, and since she had already punished the third sister, then this matter would be considered in the past, and she would not care about it, so that the third sister could rest assured. ”

"Her Royal Highness the princess is kind and benevolent, but as a minister and a father, she can't easily forgive this great rebellion." King Pingcheng pointed at Xu Tongjiao and said coldly, "Send her back to the room, close her for three months, and don't go out!"

"Yes."

Xu Manjiao saw that the maids dragged Xu Tongjiao out with a stool, the corners of her mouth hooked slightly, saluted the two of them and left Pingcheng.

Princess Pingcheng fell to the ground, clutching her chest and crying bitterly.

King Pingcheng was upset when he listened: "What are you crying about!"

Princess Pingcheng complained: "Your Royal Highness has let go, and Tong'er has also been beaten by the board, why does the prince still punish her!"

"You know what a! The eldest princess forgive her, that is the eldest princess is generous and decent! But she didn't choose what to say! If I, the father, really let this matter go so lightly, then this King of Honesty doesn't have to do it!"

The other subordinates in the ancestral hall were scattered, and King Pingcheng sat on the ground and gasped: "Today, the Holy Lord directly sent someone from Dongchang to take me to the Chengqian Palace, which was cold for me for three hours, and then beat me again." He pointed to his bruised and swollen face, "You can see how angry the saint is in his heart by looking at my face, if I easily spare Tong'er, then how can I explain to the saint!"

Princess Pingcheng's heart tightened when she heard this: "Now that the whole capital knows about this, how can she discuss her marriage in the future?"