Chapter 4: The Different Narlan Xianuo

  "I don't know, Your Majesty. You are the mistress of the harem, I ask for your guidance." Nalan Xianyu also dispensed with the formalities and directly asked back.

  The queen took a deep breath and said: "Thirty lashes with a heavy rod."

  Thirty big boards, a weak and frail woman, thirty big boards later, what's the difference between this and beheading her directly? Only added suffering.

  Nalan Xixi nodded and said: "Your son understands."

  She turned around and said to the surrounding guards: "Didn't you hear? The princess has spoken, thirty lashes with a stick."

  The guards around looked at the queen, the queen weakly waved her sleeves, they pulled up the already paralyzed and stunned You Ran, walking out of the door. She stared at the queen in shock, then looked at Nalan Xianuo.

  It wasn't until then that she realized what she was about to face. In the courtyard, mournful cries for help pierced the sky. "Milady! Milady, save me!"

  The queen's face turned pale, but within an hour, two of her trusted palace maids were killed, one of whom was even given the order by herself. However, she couldn't say anything to Nalan Xinnuo, as their power also relied on the emperor's authority.

  When her power conflicted with the interests of the imperial family, she was insignificant. Nalan Xixi also grasped this point and dared to kill Youlan without any scruples. She is a fearless person, but she is not a reckless one.

  However, if she doesn't say anything, where is the dignity of this empress? The empress calmed down and said slowly: "Xī Nuò, the palace knows that this time the emperor's concubine selection has made you feel uncomfortable, but the body and skin are given by parents, don't wrong yourself."

  Upon hearing this, the palace maids and eunuchs all slightly changed color, wanting to laugh but not daring to. Now the entire country of Fengyun knows that the two beautiful princesses are about to be married off to the country of Luotian, becoming empresses of the Luotian emperor, while only the plain-looking little princess was eliminated.

  This became a joke among the common people after dinner, and the emperor also felt that he couldn't save face, so he sent someone out to spread rumors saying that Nalan Xingde's body was not good, and she couldn't marry far away.

  Nalan Xinnuo secretly sneered in her heart, how did such a stupid woman manage to hold onto the position of Empress? She actually liked to hurt others with her words just like that dog slave of hers. This kind of childish behavior was truly laughable and pitiful.

  "The princess said that she had heard that the life in the harem of Luotian Kingdom was not as good as that of Yunyun, and many empresses did not end well. She hoped that her two sisters could take care of themselves and not harm their own bodies, which were given to them by their parents."

  The queen is a woman, she is also a mother. As a mother, the most heart-wrenching thing is to see her own children get hurt. The marriage of her two princesses has already pained her so much that she fell ill several times and barely recovered.

  Nalan Xixi also knew about this weakness, huh, no wonder she was the one who wanted to provoke first.

  The queen heard this and suddenly her eyes turned red, tears fell one after another, and she couldn't stop them. Her whole body trembled, and she couldn't say a word.

  "Moreover, I think what Your Majesty said is very reasonable. Although this time I was lucky enough to be eliminated, after all, I couldn't neglect myself. As summer is approaching, there are many mosquitoes in my palace. I've taken a liking to a courtyard in the Western Palace, I wonder if Your Majesty would be willing to let me temporarily move in to avoid the mosquitoes, and then move back to the Cold Palace after the summer has passed."

  As soon as he finished speaking, a faint sound of gasping for air could be heard throughout the room.

  This Nalan Xinnuo! She killed the imperial concubine who was closest to the empress, and then used her hand to kill a second one. But what's even more infuriating is that with just a few words, she managed to hurt the empress once again!

  She's at it again! Using loopholes in the Empress's words to ask for things?! This is even more ruthless than a bandit!

  At this moment, if the queen does not agree, her image as a motherly figure to the world will be ruined. Moreover, it was she who just said that Nalan Xinnuo should not treat herself unfairly.

  But if she agreed, it would be a big loss. Everyone knew that Nalan Xianyu was referring to the imperial concubine's summer resort, where the empress would go to escape the heat every year!

  "Your Majesty?" Nalan Xixi raised her eyes, looking forward at the trembling empress who couldn't utter a word, and lightly called out to her with a slight smile.

  "Almost..." The queen closed her eyes and took a deep breath of air, she was almost suffocating.

  Since the incident with the imperial meal, all the concubines, palace maids and eunuchs in the harem showed her great respect and deference.

  Those imperial concubines saw her and hastily greeted her before escaping like they were avoiding a ghost. Most importantly, the Imperial Kitchen no longer dared to be sloppy with her meals, every day was a feast of delicacies from land and sea.

  Her height has increased by a whole head compared to before, and her figure looks even more slender and elegant. However, that ordinary and unremarkable face of hers seems somewhat mismatched with her beautiful physique.

  In the palace of the Second Princess, Yuan Yue was sweeping the floor when her broom was suddenly snatched away from her hand. When she looked up, the broom had already flown into the air and disappeared in an instant.

  Behind her, Nalan Xinnuo stood alone in a light outfit, cold and still. She hastily knelt down: "I've seen the princess."

  Nalan Xixi nodded slightly and stood up with a gentle smile. "Please come sit over here, Princess."

  As she spoke, she walked to one side, turned into a small garden, and went to the stone table and stool. She carefully wiped off the dust on the stone stool, stepped back, and said respectfully: "Please sit down, princess."

  Yuè is a palace maid who thoroughly understands the rules of the palace. Every move she makes is in accordance with etiquette, and Nalan Xingde has grown accustomed to it.

  She sat down and calmly said: "Sit."

  A brief and concise word, with an unyielding arrogance and overbearing tone. Yuan Yue hesitated for a moment before respectfully nodding her head and sitting down beside him.

  "Do you know when the princess's wedding day has been set?" Nalan Xianuo asked coldly.

  He bowed his head and replied respectfully: "I will report back to the princess, it will be in three days."

  Suddenly, Nalan Xianyu's eyes glanced forward, and someone was approaching. Judging from the footsteps, it was a woman.

  As expected, before long, an old woman with a ferocious face came rushing towards Yuan Yue, her waist twisted in anger. When Yuan Yue saw her, his expression suddenly turned tense and his body began to tremble slightly.

  "You ignorant little brat! How dare you slack off here?!" She completely ignored Nalan Xinnuo beside her, because she had hardly ever seen Nalan Xinnuo.

  She rushed over and pinched Wan Yue's ear, pulling him over. Wan Yue cried out in pain immediately.

  "Let her go."

  The cold voice made Nainai's movements stop abruptly, she turned her head and looked towards the source of the sound.

  An ordinary face, a simple white dress, although with signs of growth, still an underage little girl, don't know which palace's small palace maid, seeing her not standing up is one thing, but actually daring to say what makes her let go of the railing?!

  "Which palace are you from?" The wet nurse asked with a high tone. The Second Princess was the eldest daughter of the Empress and also the most beloved daughter of the Emperor, and her relationship with the wet nurse was very close, so in this harem, whoever saw her had to show three points of courtesy.

  "The Cold Palace." Her palace had no name, it was just an abandoned palace, abandoned to the point that even the plaque was gone.

  Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean you haven't heard of it. The imperial concubine Youlan, who was brought from the palace by the empress, and the empress were indeed like sisters, holding half of the power in the harem.

  Nalan Xinnuo didn't even take her seriously, and with one move, she killed her. Not to mention that the Empress couldn't investigate further, what's worse is that Princess Xinnuo took advantage of the situation and used the Empress's hands to kill You Ran as well.

  Such means, such ruthlessness, even the battle-hardened Empress Dowager had no way to deal with it, and didn't even dare to seek revenge! Nalan Xinnuo's image in the harem was almost deified.

  Everyone knows that if anyone offends Nalan Xianuo, her name will be crossed out from the Book of Life and Death by Yan Wangye.

  The wet nurse's eyes widened in shock, she suddenly let go of her hands and knelt down on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly. "Princess spare my life... Princess spare my life! This old slave has eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai, deserving of death, begging the princess to forgive this old slave..."

  Nalan Xixi suddenly curled up the corners of her mouth, she was originally a cold and proud person, usually with little expression, smiling once was rare, those who had seen her smile remembered that if she smiled, then someone must be in trouble, most likely unable to escape death.

  "Go back." Narlan Xizuo's tone was calm and determined.

  The wet nurse stared at her in horror, her eyes filled with an unwavering apathy and a thick murderous aura that was like a black whirlpool sucking her in, making one's hair stand on end.

  Her face turned even paler, and she was so shocked that she couldn't utter a word. It was as if she had been sentenced to death and was on her way to the execution ground, with overwhelming fear and despair almost suffocating her heart.

  The eunuch beside her was already trembling, this was an order that brooked no discussion. She slowly walked closer to the wet nurse, but hesitated and did not make a move, she didn't know how to carry it out, or rather, she suddenly feared having to take this person's life with her own hands.

  She turned her head back in fear and glanced at Nalan Xixi, who seemed to be smiling but not quite. "Do you want me to teach you?"

  Upon hearing this, the wet nurse was like a person who had just escaped from the hands of death that were choking her throat. She immediately came to and grabbed onto Ruan Yu's hand, pulling it towards her ear. "Ruan Yu, please, I beg of you, punish me, I was wrong, I beg of you, for my life, quickly come back!"

  She certainly knew that if it was Wanyue, she might still have a way out, but if it was Nalan Xinnuo... then she would definitely not live to see the next hour.

  She gritted her teeth and started to forcibly tear at her ear, the earring was ripped out of her earlobe, a gash was torn open on her earlobe, blood flowed nonstop, she let out a painful scream.

  The palace maids who rushed over upon hearing the noise, however, let out a shriek and retreated like a tide after seeing Nalan Xinnuo and the wet nurse's miserable state. The one sitting there was not human, but a terrifying demon that would make one's heart turn cold with fear.

  Yuan Yue looked at the nanny's face covered in blood and tears, as well as her painful and distorted expression, and finally couldn't bear it. He turned around and knelt down on the ground. "Princess, princess please spare her, Yuan Yue is unharmed..."

  "Spare her?" Nalan Xianyu suddenly smiled. "Spare her, and tomorrow you will die at her hands."

  The old woman's face was already covered in blood as she stared at her in shock, her meaning being...