Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Chapter 491: Kneeling for a Whole Day

While the brother and sister were quarreling, Shen Wantang had already stood up and left with the maid.

From a distance, she saw Prince Ning and Princess Ning coming out, one of them scolding Xiao Qingyuan while the other was coaxing Xiao Qingxi.

All the way back to Wutong Garden, Shen Wantang could still hear Xiao Qingxi's screaming and crying, and it was estimated that the noise would not stop for a while.

She raised her hand, looked at the blood oozing from the scratched palm, and told Du Juan: "Bring the ointment."

Du Juan then noticed that her palm was scratched, and she exclaimed, "Princess, you are injured, why didn't you say anything!"

As she spoke, she quickly took the ointment and applied it on her.

Qin Xin felt distressed and angry: "The prince is too much. He pushed you for no reason. There is a first come first served rule in marriage. It was obviously you who married in first. Liu Nanshi wanted to steal your position as the legal wife, but the prince blamed all the mistakes on you!"

There was no expression on Shen Wantang's face, and she didn't care about the injury on her hand. She even hoped that Xiao Qingyuan would injure her as badly as possible, so that no one would doubt her and only sympathize with her.

Everything was going as she expected. The foreplay had been completed and the climax was about to begin.

"Qin Xin, send a message to Lin Rou Xin early tomorrow morning and tell her that if Xiao Qingxi returns to the Huo family, she must find a way to drive him back."

Qin Xin couldn't understand: "Ah? Princess, why? She is clearly targeting you and making things difficult for you. Do you still want her to live in the palace?"

"She doesn't live in the palace. Who will remind the prince all the time that the woman he loves is dead?"

Qin Xin found it even harder to understand: "Crown Prince Consort, if she keeps reminding the Crown Prince of this, the Crown Prince will be on the verge of madness every day, which is not good for you either. When the Crown Prince gets mad, he always likes to take it out on you first."

"It doesn't matter, let him go crazy." She was still afraid that he might not go crazy!

Qin Xin had no choice but to nod and agree: "Yes, I understand. I will go to the Huo family tomorrow."

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Early the next morning, people came to the palace, and a group of people from Prince Xuanning's mansion entered the palace.

Xiao Qingxi had a bruised face and nose, and Xiao Qingyuan's eyes were red. The two ignored each other and each got in a carriage and followed Prince Ning and Princess Ning into the palace.

Shen Wantang naturally wanted to go too.

After entering the palace, the three of them were punished to kneel outside the palace, while Prince Ning and Princess Ning were severely scolded by the emperor inside the palace.

After the emperor finished scolding them, the couple was called by the empress dowager to be reprimanded again.

Shen Wantang and the other two knelt outside the hall from early morning to sunset.

For the first time, Shen Wantang experienced the pain that Gu Qianhan had suffered when he was punished to kneel. This was simply torture on earth!

No wonder the Queen was so heartbroken the last time Gu Qianhan was punished to kneel that she even wanted to call Princess Ning into the palace to scold her. It turns out that this is really hard to bear, and she even has the urge to die.

The severe pain spread from the knee to the calf, and then from the calf to the whole body. At first it was just painful, then it started to feel numb, and then I felt unbearable dizziness and nausea.

I was thirsty and hungry, but I couldn't eat, nor could I satisfy my three urgent needs. I had to hold it in and endure everything.

By the time the kneeling punishment was over, Shen Wantang could no longer stand up.

On the way back to Prince Ning's Mansion, Princess Ning had been scolded all day, but she had no time to scold Xiao Qingyuan and Xiao Qingxi. She rubbed their legs with great heartache, and anxiously asked Shen Wantang for an ointment to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

Shen Wantang shook her head weakly: "Mother, I came out in a hurry this time, and I don't have any medicine with me."

Princess Ning was a little disappointed. She touched her son's face and then her daughter's forehead and said, "You have suffered a lot. Let's go home now. I will apply medicine to you as soon as we get back. The pain will go away after applying the medicine."

Xiao Qingxi lay on her and cried, "Isn't it just that Liu Nanshi died? Why is the emperor so cruel to us? Is my father's face not as important as that of Elder Liu? Elder Liu complained and we have to be punished. What's the logic? The emperor should just let Elder Liu be the emperor!"

Princess Ning immediately covered her mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Haven't you been punished enough today? Go back to the Huo family in the next two days, and don't go back to the palace. This way, even if something happens, no one can find fault with you."

Xiao Qingxi nodded: "I understand."

After consoling her daughter, Princess Ning tried to coax her son. Seeing that her son refused to say a word, she burst into tears: "My Yuan'er, can you please say a word? Are you trying to scare me to death?"

Xiao Qingyuan still didn't say anything, so Princess Ning had to personally bring him the tea and feed it to him. When she saw that he swallowed it, she was overjoyed and immediately took some snacks and stuffed them into his mouth.

After feeding this, she hurried to feed her daughter.

Shen Wantang sat in the corner, watching her mother-in-law taking good care of her two children and completely forgetting about her as the daughter-in-law. She pulled the corners of her lips and licked her cracked lips.

The mother-in-law is just a mother-in-law, and the daughter-in-law can only be a daughter-in-law forever. If she wants to have such a mother, it is impossible to achieve it by getting married. The only way is to be reborn.

After returning to Prince Ning's mansion, Princess Ning finally remembered her: "Tang'er, you should also go back to Wutong Garden and apply some medicine on your wounds. Remember to ask someone to send the best ointment to Yuan'er and Xi'er. One for each of you. Don't leave anyone without any. Got it?"

Shen Wantang whispered, "Yes."

He specifically told her not to miss anyone. Was he afraid that she would bear a grudge against Xiao Qingxi and not send her the medicine?

I was really overthinking it. How could she do such a stupid thing?

Of course she can do a good job of superficial work.

After returning to Wutong Garden, Shen Wantang drank some hot tea and ate a few cakes. The intense burning pain in her stomach subsided a little, and she told Du Juan, "Go get two bottles of bone and blood paste and give them to Madam Chai. Have her send them back to the deceased and Xiao Qingxi."

Nanny Chai took the medicine and went to deliver it immediately.

After a while, she came back and reported: "Princess, the medicine has been delivered, but..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that the two bottles of medicine were thrown directly to the ground by the two masters and smashed."

Shen Wantang's expression did not change at all: "Okay, I understand."

Qin Xin was indignant: "The Crown Prince's Consort shouldn't have sent them medicine. They don't know what's good for them! Your medicine was made with rare medicinal materials with great care and effort. It's extremely effective. It's wasted on them!"

Shen Wantang said calmly, "So, I didn't ask Du Juan to get the good ones. I just took two bottles that had long lost their effectiveness."

Qin Xin was startled: "Didn't you take the good ones?"

Du Juan nodded: "No, the Crown Prince's Consort doesn't have any bone and blood ointment, so when the Crown Prince's Consort said it, I knew what it meant."

Qin Xin felt much better: "Well done, that's the way to do it!"

Du Juan lowered her head again to apply medicine to Shen Wantang's knees. As she did so, she couldn't help but feel distressed: "Both of your legs are so swollen and purple. I'm afraid you won't be able to walk tomorrow! Princess, how long have you been kneeling?"

Shen Wantang smiled bitterly: "I entered the palace early in the morning and began kneeling until dark."