The small stall owners on both sides of the street are shouting non-stop, and the soft sunlight is shining on people's faces. A carriage drove slowly on the road, and Zhuang Mingyue finally returned to the capital.

Zhuang Xingxing, who was waiting in the house for a long time, was very distressed when he saw Zhuang Mingyue's appearance. Her sister's originally round and smooth little face had become thin, and her pointed chin was distressing. The originally pink and moist mouth also became dry and chapped, and her body was even thinner more than once, and her clothes were wide and wide on her body, as if the wind could break her when it blew.

Zhuang Xingxing was distressed and angry, but fortunately, she had already sent someone to prepare the bath water and meals, Zhuang Mingyue smiled weakly and said, "Our star will take care of people." ”

Caiyun was arranged to pack up their clothes, and Caixia was calm, so she stayed to serve Zhuang Mingyue to bathe.

Caixia looked at her young lady's white and smooth carcass/body covered with scars, some were blue and purple, some were still bloody and blurry although they had been medicated, and some were scabbed and black.

Caixia couldn't help but shed tears, and murmured: "How can Miss endure this suffering, these scars...... It would be nice if I could take it for Miss......"

"Caixia, don't talk nonsense, you won't hurt if you're injured? Don't tell the star, let her know how to cry. Zhuang Mingyue said with a slight smile.

Zhuang Xingxing, who quietly came in to deliver clothes, happened to see Zhuang Mingyue's scars all over his body, hiding behind the screen and crying silently, the slender hand hanging beside him clenched, Zhuang Xingxing thought to himself, "Damn Holy Fire Sect, you treat my sister like this, I will definitely make you pay the price in the future!" Then he quietly put down his clothes and went out.

Sure enough, Zhuang Mingyue is a disaster-prone physique, and after only two days of recuperation in the house, she received an order from the queen to let her enter the palace to talk about herself.

"This queen, you have a nice talk, talk about yourself, maybe you want to call me to do it. Really, I can't help but ......" didn't wait for Zhuang Mingyue to continue thinking, and the words of her father-in-law who came made her have to stop thinking, "Then Miss Zhuang, go with the slaves, right?" ”

Zhuang Mingyue nodded and said, "There is Father-in-law Lao." Then he got into the carriage alone, only taking Caixia with him, for fear that Caiyun's out-of-the-box nature would cause trouble.

But it was said that the queen mother in the palace heard that her precious son Long Zhengning had disappeared on the battlefield, and that Long Yuanxiu not only restored the throne and received many rewards from the emperor, but also made one battle exploit after another on the battlefield. I even faintly heard that the emperor had the intention of establishing Long Yuan to become the crown prince, and he angrily smashed everything in the palace clean.

If it weren't for a few old ladies around her, the queen would have run to the emperor to question.

The queen was hating Long Yuanxiu here, and she heard that Zhuang Mingyue had returned to Beijing safely, although she was a little injured, but she also came back, didn't she?

Not only that, but recently even the emperor didn't come to her palace to eat much, and he cooked some snacks and pastries to send to the emperor, but the emperor left, but I heard that he didn't touch all the rewards to other concubines.

Thinking of this, the queen hated Long Yuanxiu and Zhuang Mingyue more and more, and kept cursing the two of them in her heart, and the queen herself was even more angry.

"Queen Mother, don't be angry with yourself, the emperor doesn't come to you, because he is afraid that when he sees you, he will think of His Royal Highness who disappeared on the battlefield

！ As for His Royal Highness...... "The grandmother beside her said respectfully.

"Swallow and spit out, say it quickly!" When the queen heard this, she yelled impatiently at the old woman.

"As for these two highnesses, the second highness is far away on the battlefield, and the queen mother can't touch it, but Zhuang Mingyue is still in this capital, right next to the queen mother!" After the old lady finished speaking, she stood quietly to the side, and raised the corners of her mouth when she saw the smug and inevitable light in the queen's eyes, revealing a malicious smile.

"Okay, pass on the decree of the palace, and order the eldest lady of the Zhuang family, Zhuang Mingyue, to come to the palace to accompany the palace to talk about herself!" The queen said with a smile.

Zhuang Mingyue sat in the carriage, thinking about the queen's intentions in her heart, and the uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense, this queen must not be well-intentioned.

Zhuang Mingyue and Caixia were about to enter the palace together, not wanting Caixia to be stopped. "The queen has a will, only Miss Zhuang is allowed to go alone."

Zhuang Mingyue frowned lightly and shook her head at Caixia, and entered the palace by herself.

"Meet the queen mother, I don't know what the queen mother ordered her courtiers to come this time?" Zhuang Mingyue saluted, knelt on the ground and asked respectfully.

The queen laughed softly, picked up the hot tea on the table and blew it, took a sip carefully, and then called the palace maid to coat her with dankou, as if she didn't see Zhuang Mingyue still kneeling on the ground.

After two teas, the queen seemed to find that Zhuang Mingyue was still kneeling on the ground, and hurriedly put the teacup on the table, never thinking that it was not stable, and the hot tea was all splashed on Zhuang Mingyue's green jade fingers, and suddenly turned red, and in some places instantly rose one after another red translucent blisters of different sizes.

The queen ordered someone to bring the ointment, and the hand hurt when she touched it, not to mention that I don't know what kind of ointment the queen took and applied it to the hot one, and the maid who applied the ointment to her didn't have a door, and she scratched a few blisters, and when she came into contact with the ointment, Zhuang Mingyue was already afraid of pain, and now her tears were about to come out.

The queen ordered someone to carry the chair again, and as soon as Zhuang Mingyue sat on it, she knew that there was something wrong with the chair, there seemed to be needles on the cushion, and there were some beads and other things.

The queen smiled softly, and said softly to Zhuang Mingyue: "Mingyue, how long have you not come to chat with the palace, do you know that Zhengning disappeared on the battlefield?" As he spoke, his eyes turned red, as if he was about to cry.

As soon as she heard the queen mention that Long Zhengning was missing on the battlefield, Zhuang Mingyue naturally understood that the queen, a hypocritical old woman, wanted to make Zhuang Mingyue angry! Zhuang Mingyue didn't dare to resist, how could she dare to resist? Long Yuanxiu is still far away on the battlefield, who knows if the queen will use the power of the court to poison Long Yuanxiu? Zhuang Mingyue didn't dare to think about it, and she didn't dare to gamble.

Zhuang Mingyue seemed to be startled, and hurriedly said to the queen: "Queen Mother, don't be sad, Your Highness is a prince, with the blessing of the emperor's dragon energy, Fu Daming will be fine, but he is temporarily missing." ”

"Temporarily missing? You say that you are good! That's my own son! My precious son! The queen shouted at Zhuang Mingyue out of control.

"Mother, calm down." The old lady on the side reminded in a whisper.

The queen took a deep breath, her mood stabilized a little, her eyes were still very red, and she shook her head at the grandmother.

After a while, the grandmother led a group of girls and mama fish

Penetrating in, holding all kinds of torture instruments in his hands.

When Zhuang Mingyue saw this battle, she naturally couldn't calm down, and got up and said to the queen mother: "Niangniang, what do you mean by this, do you plan to be angry with me?" ”

The leading grandmother shouted: "Presumptuous! Don't kneel yet! Dare to be disrespectful to the queen's mother, come on, plug her mouth! ”

How could Zhuang Mingyue wait for them to catch her, and she ran in the huge palace at the moment, but the door of the palace had already been locked, and her previous weak body had not recovered much, so she was pressed and knelt on the ground by a group of people after running a few steps.

Zhuang Mingyue knew that she couldn't hide, so she had to hold the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor and said, "Did the queen really think about it?" Do you really want to do this to me? Isn't Niang Niang afraid that the emperor knows? Isn't Niangniang afraid that the emperor will change his attitude towards Niangniang?"

Who knew that these words were the most heart-piercing for the queen, and at this time, she was picked out by Zhuang Mingyue's big stab, and she was stunned at the moment. For a while, he smiled bitterly, and for a while, he seemed to be talking to Long Zhengning, and for a while, he seemed to be complaining about the emperor's ruthlessness, and he forgot his old love when he had a new love.

Zhuang Mingyue struggled while thinking that this old woman was really too scary, like a madman. Just as he was thinking about how to escape or send a letter to think about it, he saw the queen glaring at him with red eyes, and said in a vicious voice: "It's all your fault!" It's all your fault and Long Yuanxiu! Execute me! ”

Zhuang Mingyue was sighing why he and Long Yuanxiu were lying down inexplicably, when her chin was pinched fiercely, she couldn't help but scream in pain, and she took the opportunity to be stuffed with a beautiful handkerchief in her mouth. Immediately, a heart-piercing pain came from her back, Zhuang Mingyue shivered in pain, and her whole little face wrinkled because of the pain.

And the queen looked at Zhuang Mingyue's stubborn expression that she was still not going to admit defeat when she was in pain, and suddenly remembered that she seemed to follow the emperor like this when she was young, but why has it changed now? Is it because you're getting old?

The queen looked at Zhuang Mingyue in a daze, young and beautiful is the best time in a woman's life, and there is Long Yuanxiu who likes her by her side, how happy! But herself, the emperor didn't come to see her anymore, and her most cherished and precious son also disappeared on the battlefield, so how could she not hate?

The queen sat on a luxurious chair, her eyes were empty, and she drank the dragon well before the rain with no match.

Zhuang Mingyue was already soaked in cold sweat, mixed with blood and sweat, Zhuang Mingyue bit the handkerchief in her mouth, as if she was treating it as a queen to vent her hatred, the beads of sweat on her forehead rolled down one after another, her delicate neck was straightened, and her green tendons were faintly exposed. The two lotus arms were grabbed by the powerful girl, and she didn't need to look to know that there were bruises everywhere.

The slender jade fingers were covered with torture instruments, and two girls each pulled the torture instruments fiercely, Zhuang Mingyue's fingers were red and swollen, trembling, but she didn't have the strength to break free.

The water-stained cowhide whip was also struck on the body, and the clothes were intact, but the pain was in the flesh and could not be seen.

Zhuang Mingyue's hair was messily stuck to her face, she hung her head weakly, she was almost fainting, but she was still holding her breath to prevent herself from falling, her pale little face was bloodless, and her cherry mouth was polished by a handkerchief.

No one noticed that outside the locked door, a palace maid lay on the crack of the door and saw everything, turned around and left lightly.