The Empress Dowager’s palace also learned of this matter at this time.
“Go find the Emperor quickly.”
The Empress Dowager was worried that Princess Minghua and the Emperor would quarrel. As people get older and approach the end of their lives, they only hope that their loved ones will be harmonious. She did not want to see the father and daughter become estranged.
After all, the Emperor only has one daughter.
Because of Gui Fei’s outburst, the Empress Dowager arrived earlier than Princess Minghua, even though she was riding in a sedan chair.
“Your Majesty, you’re confused!!” The Empress Dowager pressed her head.
“Even if you don’t care about the monk, you should care about the Buddha. No matter how many wrong things Gui Fei has done, Your Majesty shouldn’t just depose her. You can demote her, but you can’t make her a deposed consort. You can also have someone keep her in check or put her under palace arrest. There are so many other ways to deal with her. Why did you have to depose her? What do you expect Minghua to think?”
The Empress Dowager grew angrier as she spoke.
The Emperor quickly helped her sit down.
“Mother, I have my reasons. Regarding Xu Shi…”
Upon hearing the name Xu Shi, the Empress Dowager’s face grew even colder, and her disgust for Xu Lingyi reached its peak.
“The Xu family has indeed raised a fine daughter, so alluring and bewitching to the Emperor. I intend to invite Mrs. Xu into the palace and ask her how she disciplined her daughter to raise such a shameless child. Ever since Xu Shi entered the palace, Your Majesty has been bewitched. Now, you are even hurting the Princess’s heart for the sake of a mere Xu Shi. Is this Xu Shi some kind of reincarnated demon? So seductive and alluring, she has none of the demeanor one would expect from a noble lady. She is more like a woman from a brothel.”
The Emperor frowned, about to explain, when a commotion broke out outside the palace.
“Let me in! I want to see my father!! I’d like to see who dares to stop me, you lowly servants! Get out!”
The Emperor was in even more trouble when Princess Minghua arrived, causing another uproar.
“Let the Princess in.”
“Father!” Princess Minghua knelt down immediately, her face covered in tears.
“Father, I know that Mother did something wrong.”
Princess Minghua never expected that her father would find out what her mother had done so quickly.
Even though her mother was in charge of palace affairs, it seemed that nothing in the harem could escape the Emperor’s eyes if he wanted to investigate.
“But, Father, Mother was just confused for a moment. She already knew that she was wrong. Please, Father, don’t depose Mother, okay?”
Princess Minghua was indeed very angry at first. On the way, she had already planned to have a big fight with her father to vent her anger. Her father had always doted on her, and she had never been afraid of the Emperor.
But, on the way, she realized that her father was, after all, the emperor. If she made a scene, he might get even angrier and wouldn’t be able to rescind the decree.
For her mother’s sake, she had to show weakness at this moment and could not act as recklessly as before.
Her father was probably in a bad mood right now and was very angry with her mother. For her mother’s sake, she had to control her temper.
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Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152