Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

103. Punishment

Translator: Antonia

A flicker of disbelief crossed Zhao Zheng’s eyes. She murmured crazily, as if she couldn’t believe it was an order from Old Master Zhao, “Tell me! From whom did you take bribes? Is it Du Chuxuan? You should all talk nonsense to me! You ungrateful cheap sluts!”

The maid standing there instantly felt restless. She had been Zhao Zheng’s close maid all the time. It was alright if she put on airs and was being ill-mannered privately. But now, with palace nannies standing right next to her, the Zhao family would be entirely wiped out for several times if such disrespectful words were passed on to the Empress.

“Nannies, obviously, our lady hasn’t wakened up from last night’s nightmare. Please don’t take it as an offend.” The maid was clever and quickly took out some silver and tired to tuck it into the hands of the nannies. However, things didn’t go as she hoped. The nannies just took a glance at the silver and didn’t even reached out their hands.

If nothing had happened to Miss. Zhao, everyone would only show admiration to her for her loyalty and contribution, as the marriage princess, to the country. However, after the scene she had made last night, the whole imperial city had known that she was a woman who committed adultery before marriage.

Zhao Zheng’s reputation was already ruined, and but for the last thing she could do, she would have long been thrown to the imperial temple outside the city. How was it possible for her to put on frills here? The nanny snorted, “I never saw a person so sober in her nightmare. I’ve seen with my own eyes that Miss. Zhao—”

She paused, deciding not to keep the several innocent maids in suspense, her voice becoming cold and overbearing, “She is going to marry off as a princess, and we’re here on Her Majesty’s order to teach her etiquettes, so if Miss. Zhao really has some sickness of a nightmare, of course I should report to Her Majesty and send for imperial doctors.”

The maid gasped and started to shake bodily in fear. It wasn’t because she was too timid. She had followed around Zhao Zheng to all kinds of occasions. However, it this was reported to Her Majesty by the two nannies, whom even Old Master Zhao had showed a good deal of respect to yesterday, her lady would be really screwed!

How could Zhao Zheng fail to understand what the nanny meant? Her eyes cooled down at once, “How dare you old servant to put on airs in front of me?! Come and take the two nannies out for beating! Do not let the bold servants bully their lady ever again!” She found the words weren’t enough to take the anger out and picked up a pillow and threw at the nanny.

The throwing was like fueling the fire with hot oil. Instantly, the temperature in the room plummeted. The nanny meant just to deter. After all, Miss. Zhao would soon leave on marriage, and what the nannies needed to do was finishing their work well. But now, obviously, Miss. Zhao’s words went too far.

Where did the nannies come from? They were the Empress’s people who had never heard such a humiliating word from Her Majesty! While at this moment, this Miss. Zhao not only call Her Highness right by the name but also implicated that she was ill-educated by Her Majesty. How could the nannies take the words peacefully?

“What a well-bred lady! Since Her Majesty has granted us the right to discipline, we are eligible to punish you when you display improper acts and words!” A piercing light shot out of the nanny’s eyes, “I’m just pondering is it more decent that you take the punishment yourself or do you need some force?”

“Ha! How dare you servant to discipline me?! You’re in my Zhao Mansion and should know that the family has great contribution of supporting the late emperor, let alone our ancestors’ tremendous contribution to this country as early as the founding of Shenglan. Who are you old thing to come to discipline me? What the hell!”

Zhao Zheng still had an acute headache and couldn’t bring herself to calm down. Yesterday, she had laid out so many plans and hadn’t done anything to carry them out yet, when there had come the shocking reverse. Now what she needed most was to meet her mother or grandfather and asked them to figure a solution for her.

Seeing that Miss. Zhao was no different from a vulgar crazy woman, both the nannies had a flash of impatience in their eyes and instantly gave a look to a male servant. The male servants had received Old Master Zhao’s order to obey the two nannies and felt hard to decide.

However hard it was, they understood the situation well and had to pretend not to have seen the wrath in Zhao Zheng’s eyes, step forward and press her down in a kneeling position. After all, the two nannies represented the Empress, and it was their right to let Zhao Zheng kneel on the floor, not to mention that the floor was paved with thick carpets.

Zhao Zheng was forcibly pressed on the floor by two male servants and hated it so that she only wished to take up a saber and cut the two dogs into pieces, “Are your eyes eaten by dogs? Here, I’m the master! You bold servants! I’ll tell mother and sell you out to be the lowest servants forever!”

What she was saying was increasingly not like what a lady should say. The two nannies found it more and more unbearable to the ear. Considering that she would be married off in two days and that if they really taught her the etiquettes of a palatial princess by rules, Zhao Zheng would be unable to stand up, they had only to have her mouth shut up.

Du Chuxuan felt so refreshed when he woke up in the morning. He felt next to him and found the sheet not very warm. At this hour, Yuxing Tianrui should be walking back from the morning session, so he just got up and put on his clothes, ready to enjoy the breakfast. He just stood up, when Dongxiang jovially shouted from outside.

“Your Highness! Your Highness! Are you awake?” His voice wasn’t low. Although the whole East Palace only dwelled two masters, Yuxing Tianrui and Du Chuxuan, there were many hidden guards on the sides. By shouting so loud, was he afraid that others didn’t know that his master usually slept until noon?

Du Chuxuan roasted inwardly and worrying that if he continued to shout, the imperial guards would come to see what was going on, hurriedly let him in.

Sigh. When the subordinate was too stupid, he had to bear everything himself.