Chapter 1514
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"You two! How dare you?!" Emperor Wu bellowed. "How dare you?!"
"Your Majesty, please don't be angry —"
Mrs Dugu and Mrs Zuo kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"How dare you do this to me right under my nose! How dare you ask me to forgive you? Never! "Emperor Wu was already angry, and he took the opportunity to vent his anger.
"Take them out and flog them 20 times!" Emperor Wu gave the order.
WHAT?!
Everyone was dumbfounded!
So were Mrs Dugu and Mrs Zuo.
That wasn't possible!
Normally, the Emperor would only punish his subjects. He would almost never punish the family members of his subjects, not to mention such a simple and crude method of humiliation like flogging!
One had to know that beating someone with a wooden plank required the person's pants to be pulled down!
"No —"
Mrs Dugu and Mrs Zuo blanched and almost fainted.
If they were beaten, would they still have any dignity in the future?
"No — no — Your Majesty, please don't kill me —" Mrs Zuo threw her arms around Emperor Wu's thigh in tears. "Your Majesty, please don't kill me. I won't do it again. I won't do it again —"
That was such a horrible punishment!
Empress Dugu came as well, and she didn't look happy either.
Mrs Dugu was her sister-in-law, and Mrs Zuo was her sister. If they were flogged, Empress Dugu would lose all her dignity.
"Your Majesty, please don't be angry —"
Empress Dugu pleaded in a hurry.
Empress Dugu laid out the facts and tried to reason with Emperor Wu. She cried so hard that tears streamed down her cheeks …
"Your Majesty, you really can't flog them. Even if you have to, you can't do it to them. They have to live a good life …"
Emperor Wu calmed down a little, but only a little.
Emperor Wu said, "Can't do it to them? Very well! Flog Zuo Ming and Dugu Wangwo 50 times each! Now! "
WHAT?!
Everyone was dumbfounded!
"How can we do that?"
"How can we do that?"
"Your Majesty, you can't, you can't —"
Mrs Zuo looked desperate. If Zuo Ming found out that she was the reason for the flogging, he would hate her!
That was exactly what Mrs Dugu was thinking.
However, Emperor Wu wasn't going to let them off the hook that easily.
Poor Master Zuo and Dugu. Right now, they were watching Feng Wu, Feng Xun, and Xuan Yi play with their hands behind their backs.
Master Zuo's expression was solemn as he said disdainfully, "This Feng Wu is shallow and too impetuous. No wonder Brother Feng doesn't like her. This girl is simply too good at attracting trouble."
Lord Linghu faintly nodded. "That's true. A family with such a daughter is bound to bring disaster."
Master Zuo said, "A wife should be a virtuous one. Only our wives are virtuous. A virtuous wife, within three generations …"
However, before Master Zuo could finish his sentence, a group of people approached aggressively from not far away.
The leader was the Chief Butler.
"Chief Steward, where are you going?"
As the Head Supervisor of the Imperial Palace, the Head Supervisor had some dignity. Even someone like Zuo Ming would address him respectfully when he saw him.
However, the Chief Steward, who was always smiling, had a rare serious look on his face at this moment.
The team behind him was even more murderous.
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