After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 19

Li Lingyue's carriage and horses had just arrived at Fengyang Pavilion, when a little maid who was about her age stood outside the door and sobbed.

Seeing the princess coming back, the little maid quickly wiped her tears, ran up and knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed to her:

"Princess, I beg you, please save the servant girl, she is about to be beaten to death!"

Li Lingyue took a look, she knew this little palace lady, her name was Wang Gong'er, her mother, Mrs. Wang, was her nurse when she was young. When she was born, Mrs. Wang was recruited into the palace as a nurse.

After the breastfeeding period expires, according to the rules of the palace, the wet nurse has two choices, either get a sum of money to leave the palace on her own, or stay in the palace as a maid and receive money on a monthly basis.

Both Wang's husband and wife have passed away, and the mother and daughter are already alone and helpless. She has served Li Lingyue for meritorious service, and is also the princess' nurse. If she stays in the palace, she can enjoy higher treatment than ordinary maids and become a female official in the harem.

After weighing it over and over again, Wang asked Cui Daizhao, and agreed to bring his daughter into the palace. In the next few years, Fengyang Pavilion became the place where the mother and daughter settled down.

Li Lingyue liked this little palace lady very much. The little girl was cute and sweet, innocent and innocent. When she was still in her infancy, she was locked in the house by Mrs. Wang until she was three or four years old. step.

If she hadn't wandered around the palace servant's room once, this little girl would have been kept in captivity for many years.

Seeing that Wang Gong'er was crying with pear blossoms and rain, and her forehead was black and blue, Li Lingyue stepped forward to help her up, and comforted her:

"Okay, don't cry, don't worry, your mother won't die!"

"I beg the princess to save my mother!" Wang Gong'er knelt on the ground again crying.

Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, Li Lingyue could only squat down and said to Wang Gong'er playfully:
"Gong'er, this princess promised you yes, but we have something to say first, so don't hate me afterwards!"

The princess promised to save her mother, which is a great thing, how could she hold grudges?The little girl was very puzzled.

But human life is at stake, there is no room for her to think too much, so she quickly kowtowed in thanks.

Just like that, Li Lingyue and his group came to the courtyard of the palace servants, and they saw Zhao Shi sitting on a grand teacher's chair, with the palace maids and father-in-law standing on both sides of his lower head, and in the middle of the venue, a pretty woman was pressed on a bench, two The father-in-law picked up the punishment stick and was hitting the board. Every time he struck, a maid next to him would report the number of sticks.

Seeing the princess coming, Zhao Shi hurriedly got up and led all the maidservants in the courtyard to greet the princess.

Li Lingyue raised her hand, then sat on the Grand Master's chair, and asked Zhao Shi who was standing beside her:
"Zhao Shi, why do you want to blame Wang Shiguan?"

Zhao Shi bowed his body and replied truthfully: "Princess, Wang Shiguan stole money, the amount is huge, according to the palace rules, he needs to be punished with a stick!"

"You're talking nonsense, my mother won't steal!"

Wang Gong'er pointed at Zhao Shi to retort, she was eager to save her mother, and completely forgot that her rash behavior was disrespectful to the princess.

"Shut up! Kneel down!"

Wang, who was lying on the bench, yelled at her daughter, and Wang Gong'er knelt down in anger, with tears on her face again.

"Princess, please forgive me for not being able to salute you. The servant is guilty and willing to be punished!"

Li Lingyue's face darkened, and she said coldly to Mrs. Wang: "So, you admit that you stole?"

Wang's face was terrified, and he didn't speak for a long time. Zhao Shiliang showed his witness and stolen goods. Wang was so ashamed that he could only cry and beg:

"The servant was infatuated with ghosts for a while, so he became greedy for money. The servant knew that he was wrong. Please forgive me, the princess!"

"You bastard! You are my wet nurse. How have I treated you badly all these years? Now that I have done such a thing, what face do I have to forgive me?"

Seeing that Li Lingyue was angry, Wang felt very regretful and continued to beg. Wang Gong'er, who was kneeling on the ground, was so frightened that her little face turned pale, and she kowtowed and cried to help her mother.

"Master Zhao!" Li Lingyue called out.

"The maidservant is here!"

"How should the servant girl in the harem be punished for stealing?"

"Princess Hui, ordinary palace servants are punished with fifty rods, and female officials are punished with one more crime, and the rods are punished with one hundred!"

Li Lingyue smiled coldly, leaned back on the chair, and said without mercy: "Then what are you waiting for, keep beating!"

Zhao Shi hesitated for a moment, and said to Li Lingyue: "Princess, forgive me, the punishment given to Wang Shiguan just now by the servant is thirty sticks and three months' salary!"

Li Lingyue smiled at the corner of her mouth, and immediately understood Zhao Shi's intentions. She lightened Wang's punishment not because of her kindness, but because of the princess's reputation.

No matter how you say it, Wang is also her nurse. The grace of breastfeeding cannot be circumvented no matter what. In addition, the Tang Dynasty advocated filial piety. It would damage the reputation of the princess, so Zhao Shicai took it lightly, and there was nothing wrong with Wang's punishment.

But the problem is, now Li Lingyue quit.

She said loudly: "Master Zhao, I am very dissatisfied with your punishment! Even if she is my wet nurse? In Fengyang Pavilion, there is no sympathy!"

As he spoke, he glanced at all the people present, and said seriously: "I remember you all. From now on, anyone who dares to commit crimes behind my back will be punished severely. Do you hear me clearly?"

After saying that, all the people present knelt on the ground and obeyed in unison. Li Lingyue nodded in satisfaction. She just used Wang to establish her prestige as a princess, so that they would not feel that she was young and easy to fool.

After finishing everyone, she looked at Mrs. Wang again.

"Nurse Wang, this princess thinks that you have the kindness of breastfeeding me, so I won't beat you, but as a female official serving Fengyang Pavilion, it's fine if you don't set an example. How dare you fill your own pocket and guard yourself? Yang Pavilion can't accommodate you anymore, clean up and go to Yeting Palace to reflect on yourself!"

As soon as these words came out, it was worse than killing Wang Shi.

Li Lingyue's meaning was very clear, to expel the Wang family from Fengyang Pavilion, and send them to the Yeting Palace, where the servants of the low-ranking courts worked as coolies. The place is usually the place where the female relatives of the court's guilty officials are exiled, and the living conditions are extremely difficult.

Because of one theft, the normally smiling princess was so ruthless that she dispatched her to the Ye Ting Palace. Such a heavy punishment made all the servants in the palace terrified. , I am even more afraid of this princess.

"Princess!" Zhao Shi never thought that the matter would become such a big mess, and immediately knelt down to plead for Wang's:
"Please read that it was the first offense of Wang Shiguan, please forgive her this time, and ask the princess to forgive her!"

"Princess, please forgive me!" Everyone knelt down again.

With a "slap", Li Lingyue slapped the handrail, and the maidservants kneeling on the ground trembled:
"Whoever pleads for her again will be married to Ye Ting!"

After finishing speaking, Li Lingyue ignored everyone, got up and left.

When she passed by Wang Gong'er, she thought for a while, squatted down, stretched out her fingers and lifted the little girl's chin. The little face like a porcelain doll had already been crying pear blossoms with rain, and there was blood on her forehead. miserable.

Li Lingyue smiled and said to Wang Gong'er: "Look, this princess is right, I saved your mother, but you are going to hate me!"

Wang Gong'er shook his head lightly, there were endless tears in his eyes.

"Well, not bad! Not bad! There is resentment in his eyes but no hatred, he is a good seedling!"

Wang Gong'er's attitude made her very satisfied, and she immediately decided:

"From today onwards, you will be the princess's personal maid. When you take care of me, I will let your mother go back to Fengyang Pavilion!"

Before Wang Gong'er could speak, Mrs. Wang had already slipped to the ground and kowtowed:

"My servant thanked the princess for her kindness on behalf of my daughter!"

"mother!"

Wang Gong'er shouted at Wang Shi, who raised his forehead with a smile on his face, as if he had picked up a huge bargain.

(End of this chapter)