Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 123: Traveling through the Prince's Mansion 02

The emperor waved Guan Zhaoshan away, walked down the jade steps, and came to Gu Li, "Li Bao?"

"Yeah, Uncle Jiuzhang, have you seen my mother?" Gu Li raised her sleeve to wipe away her tears, as if she had just seen the emperor clearly, "Hey, Uncle Jiuzhang, why do you have a beard?"

"How outrageous!" the eunuch Li Zhong scolded.

Gu Li was frightened and shrank back, not daring to speak. She just looked at the emperor with a pair of tearful eyes, aggrieved.

The emperor frowned. Gu Li's words and actions were very strange. He asked, "Who bullied you?"

Gu Li pouted, stretched out a finger, turned around and pointed at Liu Baijiao who was standing there in a daze.

Everyone followed the emperor's gaze and shot towards Liu Baijiao. It was as if Liu Baijiao was pinned to the ground as if shot by thousands of arrows. His legs were so weak that he was about to kneel on the ground.

Gu Li tilted her head and pointed her finger at the table where she had just eaten. "Hey, where is the woman in green clothes?"

Liu Baijiao managed to keep himself steady. When he heard that the person Gu Li was looking for was Cui He, he bit the soft flesh on his cheek tightly, feeling that today might not end well.

Cuihe, who was wearing a green dress, was blocked by the table. She knelt on the ground and trembled like a sieve. Her forehead hit the stone bricks. She only hated herself for being jealous of that brainless cousin.

He is simply mentally ill and wants to kill someone!

But now she was too scared to think, so she could only kneel lower as much as possible to reduce her presence.

I hope the prince can help her out of consideration for their relationship.

The emperor only glanced over there, and the chief eunuch Li Zhong stepped forward and asked Liu Baijiao, "Prince Yongping, who is that woman?"

Liu Baijiao glanced at Cuihe who was kneeling and speechless, and replied: "It's Gu Li's maid, Cuihe."

All those who came to attend today's palace banquet were, except for the royal family members, ministers above the third rank and their families. Only female family members were allowed to bring one maid, and the rest of the servants were left outside the palace.

A prince of a county cannot bring a maid to the palace banquet, so Cui He must have been brought in by Gu Li.

Liu Bojiao believed that his cousin would understand what he meant.

But Gu Li didn't want to understand. She frowned and turned to look at the emperor. She covered her mouth with her hands and whispered, "Uncle Jiuzhang, that woman is not my maid. Just because I saw her holding hands with him, she pushed me and hit my head. She also pinched me."

As Gu Li spoke, she raised her hand to roll up her sleeves to show the emperor her arms, but it was winter and she was wearing too many clothes, so she didn't roll them up.

The emperor held down her restless hands and looked at Li Zhong standing beside him.

Li Zhong winked at the two young eunuchs below, and they immediately went to drag Cui He, who had already been frightened silly.

Cui He was at a loss, and looked at Liu Baijiao pleadingly in fear.

She spent so much energy to please the prince, and used the many sexual skills she learned in later life to win his favor. The prince once hugged her and said that she was his favorite.

He will love the one who is dearest to him.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, please save me." Cui He begged in a low voice.

However, Liu Baijiao didn't even look at her.

"Bai Jiao, who is that woman?" The emperor looked at Liu Bai Jiao again with inviolable dignity and asked solemnly.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at Liu Baijiao.

Liu Baijiao knelt down with a thud, "Uncle Huang! I----"

Before anyone could hear Liu Baijiao's answer, there was a thud and Gu Li fell to the ground without any warning.

Everyone turned their heads in unison and saw the emperor squatting down to help Gu Li up. "Someone, call the imperial physician!"

As soon as Gu Li fainted, she was quickly carried to a side hall by palace servants, and the imperial physician also hurried over.

The palace banquet ended prematurely and unexpectedly.

Everyone reluctantly left the hall one by one. The rustling wind and snow outside could not stop everyone from hearing the gossip they had just seen.

A young lady leaned against her mother and asked in a low voice: "Mother, who was that lady just now? She was so brave."

The elegantly dressed woman patted her daughter's hand and said, "You were so bold that you almost got beheaded by the Royal Guards. You should learn from this and don't bring disaster to your family."

"But my daughter thinks that the emperor doesn't seem to do anything to her and seems to be very partial to her."

The woman stopped talking. She also realized something was wrong and kept wondering which family in the capital had the surname Gu.

But after thinking about it, I still have no impression.

The surname Gu is quite rare. The only thing I remember about it is that there was a scholar who won the imperial examination in the imperial examination more than ten years ago and his surname seemed to be Gu.

But later on, no one heard anything about this Tanhua scholar in the capital again. He was probably sent to work as an official in some other place.

The person being talked about was currently lying in a side hall where a fire was burning in the ground. The imperial physician felt his pulse and left.

"Your Majesty, the lady is fine. She only has some superficial injuries. The wounds will heal in a week with some medicine."

The emperor, who was sitting at the table with a cold face, looked at the kneeling Liu Baijiao and asked, "Has Gu Li always been childish?"

Liu Baijiao: "Your Majesty, she was fine before coming to the banquet. I don't know why she suddenly became mentally ill."

The emperor looked at the imperial physician unhappily. The imperial physician lowered his body a little more, thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness has hit your head. There is only a small bump on your head. If it is just a wound on the head, the problem can be either serious or minor."

"You mean she's got a brain injury?"

Gu Li, lying on the bed, ignored the outside speculation. She closed her eyes and sorted out her original memories.

Speaking of Gu Li's life experience, it is really hard to describe. She was just the daughter of a local fifth-rank official, but she dared to shout loudly at the palace banquet and was not punished by the emperor.

It all started with Gu Li’s grandmother’s generation.

Empress Dowager Qi, Qi Mingyu, was born in the Mansion of Marquis Zhenbei. When she was not yet the empress dowager but only the concubine of the previous emperor, Emperor Liu Yong was just a naughty five-year-old prince.

In order to consolidate the power of her mother's family for her own use, Concubine Shu held a flower-viewing banquet at the royal villa on the occasion of her mother's fiftieth birthday.

Gu Li's aunt, who married far away in the south of the Yangtze River and was Gu Li's grandmother, also came to celebrate her mother's birthday. Along with her aunt came Shufei's cousin Zhang Xiaolan.

The villa is very big and there are many people attending the banquet.

The fifth prince disappeared without a trace when he wasn't paying attention. Someone lured the prince to the lake and took the opportunity to push him into the cold water.

Just when the fifth prince gradually lost the strength to struggle and was about to sink to the bottom of the water, someone jumped into the lake to save him.

Zhang Xiaolan pushed the fifth prince onto the shore, but she herself sank to the bottom of the lake. When she was salvaged, she was already dead.

Zhang Xiaolan died. Shufei's aunt fainted from crying and was carried back, leaving Zhang Xiaolan's two daughters crying loudly there.

The older one is four years old and her name is Jiang Yun; the younger one is just one year old and doesn’t even have a real name yet.