Chapter 2125: Prank on Bartulu (7)

However, even if she was unwilling, she could not resist the palace rules and the Queen Mother's decree. Therefore, under the attention of the people in the capital of Dayong, the two teaching aunts entered the Princess's Mansion and began to teach the 40-year-old Princess Gaoyang the rules.

Princess Gaoyang thought she was doing it secretly, and she never expected that the Queen Mother could find her. If she had known that the Queen Mother had such ability, she would not have done such a foolish thing even if she was pulled by a ghost. However, it was too late to regret it now.

She gritted her teeth and was tormented by the two teaching aunts for a month. She almost lost half her life. She went to the palace in person to plead guilty to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother spared her.

However, even if she was spared, she would be spared the death penalty, but she would not be able to escape the punishment of life. In the past, the Queen Mother had always taken good care of her for the sake of the late emperor. Now, after she made such a fuss, the Queen Mother became cold-hearted. She was not as affectionate to her in public and in private as before. She was unwilling to give her even the most basic face, and even too lazy to look at her. If it were not for the fact that she was the only legitimate sister of the late emperor, Queen Mother Wanyan would have punished her long ago. How could she allow her to continue to be the high and mighty Princess?

However, even if the Queen Mother did not punish her, her status in the aristocratic circle of the Great Yong Kingdom had already plummeted. If she had offended the Queen Mother and the Emperor, only a fool would continue to get close to them and offend the Emperor and the Queen Mother for them!

Princess Gaoyang became much more honest and less arrogant. She locked herself in the Princess Mansion and did not come out for several months. Later, it was the Empress Dowager who personally interceded for her on her birthday, and the Empress Dowager Wanyan spared her.

From then on, the arrogant Princess became low-key and restrained, not as arrogant and domineering as before. Even on her birthday, she did not set up a stage along the street or carry a basket to give gifts to the people as in previous years. She only invited some relatives and friends who usually walked around very close, and hastily set up a few tables at home.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager came forward to protect her, the Empress Dowager did not bother with her, and reluctantly came to the Princess's Mansion to celebrate her birthday. Her beloved daughter, Concubine Li De, also came back to celebrate with her, and another concubine's daughter also came back to celebrate her birthday.

This concubine was the daughter of Li Nai, the son-in-law, and Xiao, who was the woman whose legs were broken and whose appearance was destroyed by Gao Yang. When she first knew about the existence of Xiao and her daughter, she wanted to bring them back and beat them to death. Later, a maid next to her suggested that she should keep this concubine under her name and marry him to Murong Liuzun, who was likely to become the crown prince, as a concubine. When the contest between the King of Chu and Murong Liuzun was evenly matched in the future, she would marry her biological daughter to the winner and marry this concubine as a substitute to the loser. In this way, she would not break her promise and her precious daughter would get the best marriage.

Originally, she had betrothed her daughter to the King of Chu, who was most likely to ascend the throne of the crown prince. Unexpectedly, Queen Wanyan later adopted the ninth prince Murong Liuzun, born to Yang Cairen. As a result, Murong Liuzun, who was noble because of his mother, became the most powerful candidate for the crown prince. In order to let her precious daughter marry the future emperor, Princess Gaoyang swallowed her anger and did not attack the mother and daughter of the Xiao family at that time. Instead, she raised them well in the mansion until Murong Liuzun was named the crown prince. Her daughter Li Linger married Murong Liuzun instead of the concubine, and the concubine also married the King of Chu Murong Yuan instead of Li Linger.

Because of jealousy, she specially prepared a very thin dowry for the concubine, just to make her life difficult in her husband's family, and also found four charming maids for her to take with her, so that she could compete for her favor in the future when she arrived at the King of Chu's mansion.

After sending her two daughters off to marry, she asked Xiao's maid to steal a poem written by Xiao and let a servant take it as evidence to falsely accuse Xiao of having an affair with the servant.

Xiao had no way to defend herself, so she ordered her face to be destroyed, her legs broken, and she was thrown out of the house.

Li Nai, the son-in-law, knew that Xiao was framed, but he could do nothing about Gao Yang. He only pleaded for her in a low voice, which earned her a slap in the face and an order to beat Xiao violently and drag her to the street to be exposed to the public for her lewdness...

Of course, this is all in the past. Since she failed to frame the empress dowager and was taught a lesson by the empress dowager, she no longer dared to be so arrogant. She originally planned to discredit her concubine's daughter at this birthday banquet, but after what happened before, she no longer dared to act rashly, for fear that if the empress dowager got evidence of her, then even the grand empress dowager would not be able to protect her!

However, despite this, she still didn't give the concubine face in front of everyone. Because the concubine was not as exhausted as she hoped by the Chu Palace, but was full of energy and radiant. She was wearing the clothes of a princess, surrounded by servants and maids, and she sat under her without waiting for her to give her a seat. Was she worthy of it?