sbdcsierra Chapter 105 Karma
Chapter 105 Karma
The Emperor and Concubine Gao both had blank expressions on their faces. Only Empress Fucha sighed, turned her head and said to the Emperor:
"Your Majesty, it is natural for a concubine to want to stand out in the selection. If you don't like her, just give her a flower and let her leave the palace. How can she face others in the future?"
Wu Ya Qingdai knelt on the ground, hitting her forehead against the ground repeatedly, making a "dong dong dong" sound.
Her posture at this moment was exactly the same as Jixiang's before.
But at that time she never let Jixiang go, and the emperor was unwilling to let her go.
"I have already issued a clear ban on foot binding for Han army flag ladies. But in this selection, there are definitely more than one or two people with bound feet!"
The emperor's voice was extremely cold, with a hint of chill, as if it could freeze the entire palace.
His eyes swept over the pale and trembling beauties, his eyes filled with disappointment and anger.
These women of the Han army banner actually ignored his ban and still chose to bind their feet to please others.
What made him even more angry was that even the Uya family, a family that was supposed to maintain the Manchu tradition, had begun to learn this extravagant and decadent lifestyle.
Pan Yunu was a famous evil concubine in history, while Xiao Baojuan was a foolish and incompetent monarch.
Now Wuya Qingdai is actually imitating their behavior. Is she trying to emulate Pan Yunu to confuse the king and disrupt the government?
The emperor's anger grew stronger. If such a woman entered the palace, it would surely cause countless disputes and bring trouble to the court.
Therefore, he decided not only to expel Wuya Qingdai from the palace, but also to severely punish her father as a warning to others.
When Wu Ya Qingdai heard the emperor's words, her face instantly turned as pale as paper.
She stared at the emperor with wide eyes in horror, her lips trembling as if she wanted to say something but no sound came out.
Her heart was filled with despair and fear, her legs were weak and she could hardly stand.
"No, no!" Wu Ya Qing Dai finally came to her senses. She quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong! Please forgive me! This is all my fault. Please let my father go."
Her tears rolled down like beads from a broken string, soaking her skirt. However, the emperor was not moved by her plea.
At this moment, two strong eunuchs came from behind Wuya Qingdai. They stretched out their strong arms, clamped Wuya Qingdai's arms tightly like iron clamps, and dragged her out with force.
Wuya Qingdai struggled hard, trying to break free from the restraints, but her strength was far inferior to that of the two eunuchs.
"Your Majesty! Please don't! I know I was wrong! Please forgive me and my father." Wuya Qingdai cried out loudly, her voice was extremely miserable. Her face was full of tear marks, her hair was messy, and she looked extremely embarrassed.
"Oh, that's right. It was that slave girl, the slave girl beside the Queen, who harmed me! It wasn't me. It wasn't me who came up with the idea of applying perfume powder to the soles of the shoes..."
Wu Ya Qing Dai suddenly remembered the hateful maid, and a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes. She finally realized that it might be Wei Ying Luo who framed her and put her in such a predicament, but it was too late for her to speak now, and she still couldn't remember Wei Ying Luo's name.
Lest she make a scene or bring up the Empress indiscriminately and disturb the Emperor, a eunuch beside her stretched out his large hand like a palm-leaf fan and covered her mouth with it.
Five fingers blocked her voice and also cut off her last chance of survival.
The emperor and the empress sat at the top and did not hear Wuya Qingdai mention the empress.
Instead, it was Concubine Gao, who was sitting below, who heard it and her expression changed instantly.
Concubine Gao originally wanted to use this opportunity to attack Empress Fucha, but thinking of the emperor's current expression and the fact that her previous plans had failed, she resisted the urge, waved to Zhilan beside her, and whispered to her to stop Wuya Qingdai later.
"Woo..."
The low whimpering sound gradually drifted away and disappeared, leaving only two lotus-like marks on the ground.
"Someone, clean the floor quickly." The emperor said with a cold face and without a trace of emotion.
"Oh, um...does it look like Sister Wuya?"
In the selection area of the Imperial Garden, many beauties were waiting to be called.
The previous few ladies had just entered the attic when they came out holding the gift flowers. But after Wu Ya Qing Dai entered, she did not show up for a long time.
Everyone was filled with envy and jealousy, and whispered to each other privately, speculating that Wu Ya Qingdai might have won the emperor's favor.
Unexpectedly, the door suddenly opened and two eunuchs came out dragging a woman with disheveled hair.
"How could such a crazy woman be Sister Wu Ya..." Some people raised questions and rebuttals.
"But, what she was wearing were clearly Sister Wu Ya's clothes..." Someone pointed out the key point sharply.
“It hurts so much, it hurts so much…” the disheveled-haired woman cried. The voice she made was undoubtedly Wu Ya Qingdai’s, “My feet, my feet…”
Without the protection of shoes, the skin on the soles of the feet suffered. The pair of snow-white feet without shoes dragged on the ground, leaving no lotus mark as before, but two lines of blood rubbed out by the stones.
The bloodstains stretched out in winding curves, moving slowly as her body moved, like two blood-red, twisting and wriggling snakes.
"Bitch, you're the one who killed me!" Wu Ya Qing Dai suddenly let out a shrill cry, "Even if I become a ghost, I will never let you go!"
The ladies were so frightened by the scene before them that they fell silent. No one dared to speak for a long time.
Especially Lu Wanwan, who was timid by nature, leaned on Nalan Chunxue tightly, holding her sleeves tightly with both hands, and asked in a trembling voice:
"How terrible! What on earth did she do wrong that the Emperor would punish her so harshly?"
Nalan Chunxue stared at the eye-catching bloodstain on the ground, pondered for a moment, and suddenly lowered his voice and said:
"Could it be because the Emperor doesn't like the shoes she's wearing?"
"How could that be?" Lu Wanwan covered her cherry lips with her hands and asked in surprise.
"Lotus blossoms at every step. It's so novel and unique. How could the emperor not like it?"
"How can we, who have just entered the palace, know clearly the emperor's likes and preferences?" Nalan Chunxue's voice was low and solemn.
"However, what about that little maid just now? She serves the queen, maybe she knows something about the inside story?"
"Are you talking about the beautiful little palace maid from before?" Lu Wanwan seemed to have a good impression of her and subconsciously defended her.
"She is just an ordinary palace maid. How could she know something that even we don't know?"
"That's true." Nalan Chunxue also felt that her previous thoughts were not very reliable.
What these concubines didn't know was even impossible for a little palace maid to understand.
It is more likely that Wuya Qingdai was unlucky and wore a pair of shoes that disgusted the emperor.
But what if the palace maid knew?