Chapter 496 - Show Her Ability, and Match Point by Point (1/2)

“Go and get someone to pa.s.s the news to Ling Rui’er,” Mo Xuetong ordered with cold eyes.

The King Yan’s Manor had a person going there, and she went there on behalf of the King Xuan’s Manor. How could no one of the King Chu’s Manor go there? No one could put himself out of it. Since it was a fight for the throne, the livelier, the better. She wanted to give the Empress more room to exert.

Since the Empress wanted to make things big, it was of course better to make things as big and chaos as possible.

Mo Xuetong didn’t stay long. When Mo Ye contacted Mo Feng and explained what was going on, Mo Xuetong took Mo Yu and Mo Ye to the palace, to prevent the Empress taking it as an excuse to scold her. She asked Mo Lan to be in charge of the manor for the time being. If Feng Yuran came back, she could get in touch with Feng Yue around him.

In the s.p.a.cious, grand hall of the Tianfeng Palace, the Empress was expressionless, sitting high above. You Yue’e had arrived and was kneeling in front of the Empress, sobbing, while telling something in a sad voice. She should be sad, but when Mo Xuetong came in, she looked up at her with hatred. The Empress ordered a maid to take You Yue’e aside and to sit down.

Mo Xuetong stepped forward and knelt down to salute the Empress.

The Empress did not immediately ask her to get up, from the top down to look at her lightly. After a while, she quietly asked, “Consort Xuan, I hear you’re not feeling well these days. What’s wrong with you? If you need any medicine, just let me know. You are young, but you must take good care of yourself, or it will do harm to your child in the future. That would be bad.”

What she said was very polite, but she didn’t mean to let Mo Xuetong up.

The Empress meant to humiliate her.

With King Yan in a series of events, the n.o.ble Empress finally could not sit idly by. Even though she was trying not to lose her temper, her seemingly calm eyes were burning with anger.

Mo Xuetong smiled, without revealing any emotion on her face. She said to the Empress in a soft, grateful voice, “I am quite well, thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. I just feel a little weak sometimes. Nothing serious. I just need to recuperate. I don’t need precious medicine. Ordinary medicines are okay, and they are prepared in the manor.”

Was she kidding? How dared she use the Empress’ medicine?

“It’s hard for you. I heard that all the women in King Xuan’s Manor’s back yard were released recently. So many women are difficult to manage. It’s a good thing King Xuan hasn’t been fooling around these days and ordering people to take women into your manor,” uttered the Empress, with a contemptuous smile on her lips.

On the one hand, she was saying that King Xuan’s Manor’s back yard was a mess, and Mo Xuetong, King Xuan’s wife, lacked management skills! On the other hand, she was saying that Feng Yuran didn’t act like a prince, and he hadn’t done anything serious.

Even now, the Empress had not forgotten to vilify her and Feng Yuran. Mo Xuetong laughed in her heart, but she looked more respectful on the surface. “Your Majesty, you are right. Looking at this yard full of women, I felt tired for a moment. Fortunately, I only have to manage a manor, unlike you, who had to manage all the women in the palace. That must be more exhausting.”

The edge in her words stiffened the Empress’s smile and made her eyes seethe with anger.

Yan Miao, who was beside her, immediately reached out and pulled at her sleeve. She took deep breaths to control her anger.

“I heard that the people who went to King Yan’s Manor to make trouble were from the Mo Manor, right?” The topic changed. She stared at Mo Xuetong, and the smile on her face suddenly turned cold.

Sitting beside, You Yue’e was wearing a sad look, but a proud smile appeared on the half face that was covered with her handkerchief. She was relieved to learn that the Empress would handle the matter. The Empress was firmly on Feng Yulei’s side. It seemed that she would be fine today. She was nervous for nothing.

The Empress wanted to blame Mo Xuetong for the trouble at the King Yan’s Manor. Her partiality was too direct. Apparently, the Empress thought Mo Xuetong was a weak girl and tried to bully her. She raised her eyes slightly and looked sideways at You Yue’e. Then she lifted the corner of her mouth, and smiled blankly. “Your Majesty, I don’t know what you mean.”

“How dare you, Consort Xuan! For the sake of your personal resentment, you deliberately let the people of the Mo Manor make a scene. Not only did they beat Consort Yan, but they also startled King Yan. Do you know the penalty?” Under the instruction of the Empress, a nanny standing beside her stepped forward and shouted at Mo Xuetong.

She blamed it all on Mo Xuetong.

As the Empress looked at Mo Xuetong kneeling on the ground, a trace of malicious look flashed in her eyes. She did not believe that she could not suppress a girl under 15 years old. She was the master of the harem. The harem and even all the women of Great Qin were under her. Wouldn’t a consort whose parents’ family could not help her give in to her?

If Mo Xuetong gave in a little, it could all be put on her. If she said Mo Xuetong was doing something in it, and would not care about the honor of the royal family, even if the Emperor was protecting King Xuan, he would not be able to protect Mo Xuetong.

“Your Majesty, I don’t know what you mean. Are you satisfied if I am wronged by King Yan’s Manor? I know that you brought up King Yan. He is more like your own son, and King Xuan can’t be compared with him in your heart,” Mo Xuetong said with a sneer, her eyes sharp, with a mocking smile on her lips.

In order to protect King Yan, the Empress spoke such words in front of the people in the hall, regardless of her dignity. Mo Xuetong was not a person who could stand being bullied. She couldn’t confess. If she confessed, the Empress would have reason to beat her to death here.

She spoke in a very direct manner and the Empress’ face turned red. She did not expect that Mo Xuetong, who always looked delicate and gentle, would say such a thing against her. For a moment anger spread across her face. Before the nanny spoke, she snapped, “Is that how you talk to me, Consort Xuan?”

“Your Majesty, how do you think I ought to speak to you? King Yan has wronged me, so I can only bear it and be wronged to death, right? My sister died for no reason at all. Can’t her mother go to ask Consort Yan and cry? Can the Emperor’s son disregard human life? In the palace, those who have done harm to others are forgiven; but I, who have lost a relative, have been falsely accused and made to kneel on the ground. Your Majesty, I will go to His Majesty to defend myself. If His Majesty also thinks I am guilty, I am willing to hang myself in the palace.”