Qin Manor!
After returning to the courtyard, Qin Yu began to smash things!
She smashed all the vases, jewelry, and bronze mirrors in the side room!
"Ah... why, why!" Qin Yu couldn't accept the outcome of tonight, and was now exposed!
"Miss, don't be like this. All the beauties and official ladies were driven out of the palace tonight! This is not something we can decide! Besides, the Emperor didn't choose anyone else, did he?"
As soon as Qiu'er finished speaking, she was slapped hard across the face!
"Miss!" Qiu'er cried aggrievedly!
"What are you crying for? I haven't cried, so what right do you have to cry? You bitch!" Qin Yu, unable to control her anger, slapped Qiu'er again.
At this moment, Qin Yu found everyone irritating!
Tonight was a wasted effort!
Her beautiful imaginings were dashed again!
Perhaps because the commotion was too loud, Qin Yuanzhang also came to the courtyard at this moment!
"Bang!" The door was kicked open by Qin Yuanzhang, with Min Shi, who looked worried, and Zhang Shi, who was watching the drama, behind him!
"Yu'er, what's wrong? What happened?" Min Shi nervously approached Qin Yu. Seeing the mess on the ground, she glared fiercely at Qiu'er and said, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and clean the room!"
"Yes, Madam!" Qiu'er, looking wronged, quickly began to tidy up the room!
Unexpectedly, a word from Qiu'er displeased Qin Yuanzhang greatly!
"What did you just call her?" Qin Yuanzhang pointed at Min Shi and turned to ask Qiu'er!
"Madam!" Qiu'er replied softly!
"Madam? Does she deserve to be my wife? She is just a concubine! How can she be Madam?" Qin Yuanzhang questioned Min Shi with a look, "What exactly is going on? Give me an explanation!"
Min Shi's palms were sweating.
She recalled that a few days ago, Qin Yuanzhang had said he would elevate her to the position of an equal wife, so she privately ordered the maids and servants to address her as Madam.
Who would have thought that now, with the position of equal wife out of reach, Qin Yuanzhang had become increasingly displeased with her!
"My Lord, didn't you tell me a few days ago that you would elevate me to be an equal wife? I was so happy at the time that I mentioned it to the people serving me, and they got used to calling me Madam later!" Min Shi was nervous. Qin Yuanzhang had become increasingly difficult to please in recent days!
"My only wife is Sisi, and even though she is no longer alive, it is not your place to replace her!"
Min Shi lowered her head and said, "Yes, my Lord!"
Seeing Min Shi quiet down, Qin Yuanzhang looked at Qin Yu and said, "Why are you acting crazy in the middle of the night?"
Qin Yuanzhang's voice was stern and impactful! Qin Yu shivered from fright!
"Father... Father, your daughter knows her mistake, please forgive your daughter this time?" While speaking, Qin Yu moved behind Min Shi!
"What exactly happened? Tell me honestly?" Qin Yuanzhang pressed on!
"Father, your daughter was just in a bad mood and couldn't control herself for a moment!"
Seeing that Qin Yu would not confess, Qin Yuanzhang turned to Min Shi and said, "Do I need to ask again?"
Min Shi knew she couldn't hide it any longer!
If she said she didn't know, Qin Yuanzhang would certainly not believe her!
Min Shi glanced at Qin Yu, patted her hand as a comfort, and then confessed everything that had happened at the palace tonight!
After listening!
Qin Yuanzhang frowned.
"So you're throwing a tantrum at home just because you weren't chosen by the Emperor?"
"Father, your daughter dares not do it again!" Qin Yu let go of Min Shi, walked up to Qin Yuanzhang, and knelt down, tears streaming down her face, "Your daughter is just angry at her own uselessness for not being able to enter the palace smoothly, and thus cannot help Father in the future!"
As soon as she said this, Qin Yuanzhang's expression improved significantly!
"You entered the palace tonight to serve the Emperor, and to get a respectable status to help Father?"
Qin Yu nodded. "Yes, Father and Mother worked hard to raise your daughter. Now that your daughter has grown up, she wants to repay Father and Mother!"
"Thinking that if I could enter the palace tonight and be favored by the Emperor, and then be smoothly enfeoffed as a concubine or imperial concubine, your daughter would have entered the harem. If she were to be more successful and bear the Emperor a child, perhaps she could even contend for the title of Noble Consort in the future. At that time, Father could hold his head high in court!"
"My Lord, Yu'er's actions were a bit excessive this time, but it was all for the sake of our Qin family!" Min Shi chimed in to support her.
Qin Yuanzhang sighed, then helped Qin Yu up. "Alright, Father does not blame you. You are a good child. Don't be like this in the future!"
"Your daughter was just too upset and acted foolishly, that's why she did this! Your daughter won't do it again!"
Qin Yuanzhang nodded with relief!
Zhang Shi, standing on the side, chuckled. "Oh my! What a deep father-daughter affection! No matter how deep the affection... didn't she still do bad things? My Lord, you are truly magnanimous!"
Zhang Shi looked at the messy room and kicked at the ground casually.
Then she picked up a jade bangle. Unfortunately, it was already broken!
"Oh my, isn't this the emerald bangle that My Lord gave to the third young lady as a betrothal gift last year? How did it get broken like this? I don't remember incorrectly, this emerald bangle seemed to have cost My Lord three thousand taels? Tsk tsk... what a shame!"
Seeing the broken jade bangle, Qin Yuanzhang's hard-won good mood exploded again!
He turned back!
Just as he was about to get angry, Qin Yu spoke first, "Father, this emerald bangle actually broke a few days ago! Your daughter was very heartbroken. Even though it was broken, she was reluctant to throw it away, precisely because it was a gift from Father. I didn't expect that Third Concubine would misunderstand today!"
After Qin Yu finished speaking, her eyes flickered towards the maid Qiu'er not far away.
Qiu'er immediately understood, gritted her teeth, and could only take the blame. "My Lord, this is all this servant's fault. When this servant was cleaning the room, she accidentally broke Miss's emerald bangle. Please don't be angry with Miss!" Qiu'er closed her eyes sadly, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed earnestly to Qin Yuanzhang!
Qin Yu exclaimed in surprise, "Qiu'er, what are you talking about? You didn't mean to! I don't blame you for this!"
"Miss, Qiu'er accepts the mistakes she made. I hope My Lord will not hold Miss accountable!"
Upon hearing that it was Qiu'er who broke it, Qin Yuanzhang's expression improved slightly!
Unfortunately, Zhang Shi was looking for trouble!
Then she picked up a golden hairpin, but unfortunately, all the pearl flowers on the hairpin were damaged!
"This golden hairpin looks very valuable, but it's a pity it can't be sold anymore, the pearl flowers are all damaged! I remember this was a gift from My Lord to the third young lady a few months ago when she won the title of talented woman, wasn't it?"
Qin Yu was about to step forward to explain, when Zhang Shi said again, "Look! What is that?"
Zhang Shi took a few steps and picked up a pair of ruby earrings from under the wooden stool!
"Heavens! Aren't these the ruby earrings that Second Concubine bought from the most expensive gold shop in the capital this spring? I heard that these earrings are worth seven thousand taels!"
After that, Zhang Shi continued to pick up more rare treasures from the ground!
Each one was worth a thousand or three thousand taels!
Adding them all up, the items Qin Yu had smashed were worth over fifty thousand taels!
Although Qin Yu still wanted to argue, and Min Shi wanted to step forward to stop Zhang Shi's exaggerated actions, all of it was in vain!
Even if Qin Yuanzhang was foolish, he knew what was going on now!