CH 52.1

“Bury the bastard, right here!” 

“Yes, Niangniang!”

“Woah woah!” 

“No, Noble Consort Niangniang, No!” Noble Lady Yu struggled desperately but could not free herself from the hands of the two eunuchs and watched as her child was carried upside down by one leg, like a chicken to the slaughter to the flower bed. 

The jasmine flowers in the flower bed were roughly shovelled away, leaving a large black hole and the poor boy was left in the hole, with dirt poured on him in every direction. 

Mingyu and the rest of the court were afraid of getting into trouble, their mouths were sewn shut and they dared not speak out. Noble Lady Yu, who could not bear to see her child buried in life, sobbed so hard that she fainted. 

“Wake her up!” Noble Consort Hui said with a sneer, “This Palace Mistress will see for herself, what happens to those who fight against this Palace Mistress!” 

WOW! 

Cold well water splashed on Noble Lady Yu's face, she woke up, her eyes still dazed and when she saw what was happening before her, she realised that what had happened before was not a nightmare but a reality that was happening before her eyes. 

“Niangniang!” Noble Lady Yu struggled to her knees and said, “Please, let my child go, he is not a demon!” 

Her humble and miserable appearance was reflected in Noble Consort Hui's eyes, Noble Consort Hui's face showed a hint of pleasure, he said to her in a condescending manner: “On the day of the Lychee Feast, weren't you so proud and now you're begging me?”

With a gesture of her eyes, the two eunuchs let go of her hands, freed, Noble Lady Yu immediately crawled at her feet like a dog, kowtowing to her desperately: “Noble Consort Niangniang, I may have offended you but Little Brother is innocent, he has done nothing wrong, please, do with me what you will, let him live! I beg you, I beg you, I beg you!” 

Noble Consort Hui, however, only smiled at her, did not say yes, did not say no. 

The sound of the eunuch shovelling, shovel after shovel, the Little Brother still crying, one after the other, Noble Lady Yu's heart grew cold, she no longer prayed to Noble Consort Hui but threw herself on her own child, with her own hands, her own back, with her own hands, with her own back, with her own hands. With her own hands, her own back, her frail body to shield him from the mud, not to let anyone else hurt him anymore. 

“Well, that's mother and son.” Noble Consort Hui laughed contemptuously, “In that case, let's send you both on your way... What are you waiting for? Do it!” 

The palace men winced and had to revive their shovels, throwing handfuls of dirt on the two. 

As the mother and son were about to be buried alive and a furious voice rang out. 

“Stop!!!” 

Noble Consort Hui turned her head to look at them and laughed coldly: “You have come at last, someone, this woman is interfering with this Palace Mistress' treatment of the demons, she must be in league with them, what are you waiting for, take her down!”

“Noble Consort Niangniang!” Wei Yingluo, with a box in her arms, walked quickly, looked angrily at Noble Consort Hui, “This is the Changchun Palace, not your Chuxiu Palace, you can't do anything here!! And you-”

Wei Yingluo looked around the palace, her eyes fixed on the face of Mingyu at the head and frowned: “The Empress Niangniang, when she left, what did she tell you to do? When the Empress Niangniang left, what did she say, if anything happens to Noble Lady Yu and the Fifth Prince, none of us will survive!” 

People are subservient, especially the palace staff, they have been subservients for so long that they gradually lose their own ideas, they only do what they are told, not many of them have the courage to make decisions. Now that Wei Yingluo had spoken, it was as if they had a backbone, no longer flying around like headless flies, they all rushed to the pit as if relieved, some grabbed the shovel from the eunuchs, some reached out to pull Noble Lady Yu from the pit, some kept slapping the mud from her body. 

Noble Consort Hui was furious at this and said: “What are you doing, you're all rebelling against your superiors!” 

The crowd looked at Yingluo with some fear.