After the salute, without waiting for the emperor to ask her why she came to see her, and why she brought the eldest princess in, Yu Zizhen had already started to complain single-handedly.

She looked at the restrained and timid Xiao Yuanjiu with a sympathetic expression, "Your Majesty, the eldest princess was beaten and injured by the grandmother who served her, please save her quickly, she is really pitiful." ”

As soon as Yu Zizhen said this, the emperor and all the courtiers present frowned uncontrollably.

Xiao Yuanjiu, who has been looking at people's eyes for a long time, is very sensitive to other people's emotional changes, and she subconsciously hid behind Yu Zizhen.

Seeing this, Yu Zizhen became more and more determined to clean up those palace people.

She said to the emperor: "Your Majesty please send someone to examine the eldest princess's injury." ”

Thinking about the fact that there are few credible people around the emperor, the most important thing is that there may not be women among these people, Yu Zizhen then added, "The minister's female guard Yaoguang also came over, and the minister asked His Majesty to allow Yaoguang to enter the palace, follow closely and protect and appease the eldest princess throughout the process." ”

The emperor bowed his head slightly with a serious face, "Yes." ”

After a pause, he said again: "Go to Aunt Xuanrong Xuan to the main hall of the south study." ”

The main hall of the south study is very large, in addition to the emperor's usual review and discussion with the courtiers, there are also small rooms for the emperor to drink tea and eat snacks, and a spacious bedroom for the emperor to occasionally stay here.

The bedroom was empty at this time, and the emperor just wanted Aunt Rong Xuan to go there to examine the eldest princess's injury.

This is the first time that the emperor has made a decision directly without looking at the faces of the courtiers, but whether it is Fan Ting, the grandfather of Fan Zhongming, who wants to become a minister, or Lu Tong, the head of the Lu family who has become a minister, he has not jumped out to reject the emperor's decision.

It's not that they are in awe of the emperor, the mascot who has no real power, but they all know one thing, that is, they must not put contempt and neglect of people in the imperial family on the table.

In fact, not only the immediate family members of the Lu family, including Lu Tong, who directly controlled the entire palace, but also other important ministers of Daqi to varying degrees also knew that the people in the imperial family, including the emperor, were in a difficult situation.

In this palace, not only does the emperor have no real power, no freedom, no privacy, but even his children are playing what is called miserable and miserable.

The eldest prince was poisoned and became a cripple, although the second prince and the eldest princess were in good health, they were the same as the royal brother Xiao Shaoke, and they were bullied and tortured in private.

Everyone knows that this is not only because the palace is firmly held in the palm of the hands of the two generations of women of the Lu family, but also because the Da Lu family has always held great power and has the ability to intervene in the government at any time.

It is not that there are no important ministers who are loyal to the royal family, and the Qingliu line, headed by Yang Shixian's grandfather Yang Zhengde, is very loyal to the royal family.

But what can they do? They don't have that long hands, they can't reach into the palace, they can't protect these children.

Of course, they can also impeach the big and small Lu clans, but the problem is that even if they are impeached, the big and small Lu clans will at most be guilty of negligence under the rule of lax governance, and they will not be able to solve any problems at all.

And these royal children who offended the big and small Lu clans because of this will be bullied and tortured even more severely, and they may even die because of it.

To protect these children, they can only pretend that they don't know anything.

But now, the well-known stunned young man in the capital - Yu Zizhen, the prince of Zhenbei, spread this matter directly under the sun.

She proposed that a reliable palace person should examine the eldest princess's injuries, and she would also send her female guard Yaoguang to "protect and appease the eldest princess throughout the process".

If it were someone else, Lu Tong might try to suppress people with power and continue to bury this matter under the water, but now he is facing Yu Zizhen, a hateful guy who is not polite to their Lu clan at all by virtue of his identity as the prince of Zhenbei.

Lu Tong is also an old fox, and in the blink of an eye, he has already foreseen what kind of strong backlash he will encounter if he crushes people with power.

Instead of asking Yu Zizhen to give him a section of the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descending at that time, he might as well wait and see what happens, and then take the initiative to severely punish those palace people who are responsible for serving the eldest princess.

As for his daughter, Xiao Lu, it was not she who hurt the eldest princess anyway, and she was at most accused of being lax with the royal family.

Not to mention that this crime made Xiao Lu's muscles and bones, Xiao Lu's not even a single hair would fall out because of it.

Lu Tong was as steady as an old dog, but Yu Zizhen's classmates all rushed over in a hurry as soon as possible.

The eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin, Fang Huaiying, and Yang Shi were first afraid that Yu Zizhen would get into trouble, Chen Hushan, Fan Zhongming, and Wei Heng wanted to take the opportunity to spy on some news, and Lu Heng, Wan Jingrong, and Wu Mingyu were worried that the big and small Lu families would be implicated.

As for Xiao Shaoke and the second prince, these two are completely following the crowd, in order to avoid being unsociable.

Several people hurriedly took leave with Mr., and then regardless of whether Mr. agreed or not, they all rushed to the door of the main hall of the south study.

After the little eunuch guarding the door passed on his behalf, the emperor said with a headache, "Let them all go back to my lesson!" ”

No matter how lively it is, these bear children are not afraid of falling into the big pit dug by others one day.

However, the reason why a bear child is a bear child is that the disobedience factor in the body must be very active.

So soon, the little eunuch turned back in, and told the emperor with a bitter face that none of the children outside the door would go back properly.

The emperor was lucky, and was about to put two cruel words, but the eldest princess, Aunt Rong Xuan, and Yaoguang walked out together.

Aunt Rong Xuan, who was called over temporarily, walked in front of the emperor, and then saluted respectfully, "Back to Your Majesty, the eldest princess has countless finger prints and bruises on her body that have been pinched out, pierced, and twisted out, and these traces are still deep and shallow, which are obviously caused by long-term abuse. ”

When the report was announced, her voice was no longer as calm as it used to be, but rarely with a little trill.

When the emperor heard this, he couldn't help but smack his heart, he knew that Xiao Lu was jealous and unreasonable when he was stingy, so in order to prevent Xiao Lu from hurting the women and children in the palace because of her inexplicable jealousy, the emperor had been living an ascetic life.

Except for the big and small Lu clans who asked him to sleep with a woman under the banner of opening up branches for the royal family, he usually wouldn't even touch the edge of the harem.

He endured his blood instinct as a father, and tried not to show his love and concern for the second prince and the eldest princess in front of others, and even if he wanted to look at them a few times, he could only take the opportunity of every palace banquet to look at them casually. (End of chapter)