If not abolished

Chapter 197 Justice (2)

The Crown Princess had just sat down when she saw the injuries on Zhu Zhanjun and the other man's faces. She looked at Concubine Li and asked, "Do you want to ask the imperial physician to come and take a look?"

Concubine Li glanced at her son and thought that she wanted to beat him up again even if she asked the imperial physician. She turned around and said, "Don't worry, Crown Princess. It looks scary, but it's just a minor skin injury. It's nothing serious. Let's wait until the matter is dealt with."

"Okay." The Crown Princess didn't say anything more.

It took about a cup of tea for the prince to arrive at noon.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." Everyone hurried out to welcome him.

"See His Highness the Crown Prince."

After the Crown Prince helped the Crown Princess up, he went in with his hands behind his back and did not let anyone else get up. Everyone had to wait for them to go in before they got up and went in on their own.

Because the prince did not allow them to stand up, they continued to kneel after entering.

The prince had heard what happened on the way. "I have heard it. You two really made me proud. Fighting in front of all the brothers and tutors is very good."

"Your Highness, please calm down. It has already happened. The main thing is how to deal with it. Sister Guo keeps saying that I was in cahoots with Concubine Li and that I was biased. Now that Your Highness is here, please administer justice." The Crown Princess said this while wiping away tears that might have existed or not with a handkerchief.

"What are you talking about? I thought you called me here because everything had been dealt with. What does Guo want to do?" The prince said, looking at Concubine Guo.

After hearing this, Concubine Guo panicked for a moment, but immediately said: "Your Highness doesn't know that the cause of this incident is actually related to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so I am afraid that the Crown Princess may be biased." Concubine Guo looked at the Crown Princess's pretense, and everyone would do that.

The prince was confused. Aren't Zhu Zhanjun and Zhu Zhanji two great families? How are they related to Zhu Zhanji?

"Sister Guo didn't say that just now. Why did you change your mind after His Highness came?" The Crown Princess asked in return.

Seeing this, Concubine Li kowtowed and said, "Your Highness, Crown Princess, please allow me to answer your questions. The cause of the incident was actually..." Concubine Li told the details of the incident again. "That's what happened. If you say that this incident has nothing to do with Your Highness, the Crown Prince, it was just a gift of a horse to Zhan Jun. The rest of the things are just Zhan Jun's ignorance..."

"I have said that the Crown Princess and Li are in cahoots. They have completely removed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and don't even care about their own son." Concubine Guo interrupted Concubine Li before she could finish her words.

"What evidence do you have to prove what you said, Concubine Guo?"

Seeing that she couldn't argue with him, Concubine Guo continued, "In short, all of this happened because of the horse sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hadn't sent it, none of this would have happened."

"You..." The Crown Princess was so angry that she didn't know what to say.

Finally, it was Concubine Li who said, "Concubine Guo, what you said, if one day the Crown Prince gives Zhanzhai a sword or a bow and arrow, and Zhanzhai uses these things to hurt others, will it still be your fault in the end?" After Concubine Li finished speaking, she immediately said to the Crown Prince, "Forgive me, your Highness. I was just making an analogy."

"I understand. What you said makes sense."

"Why didn't I realize that Concubine Li was so eloquent before? She really hid her skills very well." Concubine Guo said angrily.

"Enough, are you done yet? It was clearly Zhanqi who made the mistake, but you didn't let him correct it and kept blaming others. I really don't feel comfortable with you being with Zhanqi. Zhanqi is grown up now. He will go to Xisiso after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Crown Princess should make some arrangements for him. As for Guo, you don't have to visit him unless there is something else." The prince directly separated the mother and son.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, you can't do this. Zhan Kai is still so young, he can't leave me." Concubine Guo was frightened. She was under house arrest before and couldn't see her son. Now she was finally released, and in a few days, mother and son would be separated again. Her tears fell like pearls, and she knelt at the prince's feet and pulled at the corner of his clothes.

In the past, the prince would have felt a little distressed seeing her like this, but recently, the prince sometimes wondered where the kind and virtuous Guo had gone and why she had become so unfamiliar.

"No matter what you say today, I have already made up my mind. I still have things to do, and the rest will be handled by the Crown Princess. If anyone feels that someone is favored, they can make a big fuss and report it to His Majesty..." After the Crown Prince finished speaking, he forcefully pulled the corner of the clothes out of Concubine Guo's hand, and then walked out without looking back.

Concubine Guo was deflated. Her Majesty had always doted on Zhu Zhanji. If he knew about this, she would be in big trouble.

"Since His Highness has said so, I have no choice but to follow his orders. As for Zhanjun and Zhanqi, they will be punished for fighting. They will be required to copy the book fifty times and will not be allowed to leave the house until they have finished copying."

"Yes." During the whole process, neither of them spoke.