3280 Truly a Piece of Work

"You scoundrel!" Aunt Jing, an elder in the imperial palace, had never witnessed such insolent and rude behavior before. She was truly infuriated to the core.

"What's the matter?" The young Crown Princess stepped out, her eyes immediately falling upon Yuan Qionger, disheveled and weeping with a tear-stained face, looking as if someone here had bullied her and her daughter.

She frowned, looking coldly at Yuan Qionger and asking, "What are you doing?"

Upon seeing the young Crown Princess step out of the side room, Yuan Qionger quickly struggled with the child in her arms, incessantly crying out, "Crown Princess, Crown Princess, I beg you to save Eighth Miss's life, Crown Princess!"

The two young palace maids who were restraining her, hesitated to use full force because she was holding a child, and Yuan Qionger managed to break free with a struggle.

Yuan Qionger stumbled and fell to her knees at the young Crown Princess's feet, clutching the child and wailing, "Crown Princess, please show mercy and save Eighth Miss's life."

Qiaomu cast a cold glance at her, her eyes emanating a chilling frost that made Yuan Qionger shiver inexplicably.

The young Crown Princess's gaze was too cold, as if she were looking at a corpse.

Yuan Qionger instinctively hugged the infant in her arms tightly.

Eighth Miss Mu Rouxue, only twenty-odd months old since birth, cried loudly from being squeezed so tightly by Yuan Qionger.

"Pull her away!" the young Crown Princess commanded coldly.

Several rough servants rushed over. One of them grabbed Yuan Qionger by the collar and yanked her away from the young Crown Princess.

Yuan Qionger cried out in surprise, and the child in her arms was snatched away.

Her eyes immediately turned red, and she shrieked hysterically, "What are you doing? Are you trying to snatch a child in broad daylight?!"

She hadn't expected that the moment the young Crown Princess saw her, she would immediately order people to lay hands on her without a word.

Not only that, now they had directly snatched the child from her arms.

What was she trying to do?

Could she be trying to throw her Eighth Miss to her death?

At this thought, Yuan Qionger couldn't help but tremble all over, staring at Qiaomu with a terrified expression, as if Qiaomu were a venomous snake or a fierce beast!

"Crown Princess." An old nanny reached out and gently handed the child to Qiaomu.

Qiaomu looked down and saw the tiny person, whose face was already red from being squeezed tightly, and who was crying incessantly. Her mouth was wide open, desperately gasping for air from inhaling too much.

She gently rubbed the thick swaddling clothes twice, then effortlessly untied the bib around the child's neck, and pressed twice more. The child's cries finally gradually subsided.

Yuan Qionger's eyes widened in fury, and she shrieked, her face turning pale with anger, "Crown Princess, what are you doing?"

"Slap her mouth!"

The old nanny beside her immediately rolled up her sleeves, stepped forward two paces, and "smack!" a slap landed on Yuan Qionger's fair, tender face.

"Ah!" Yuan Qionger's body swayed, and she fell to the ground, her cheek burning with pain. Her left cheek immediately felt swollen.

Her pupils contracted slightly, and she furiously looked up towards Qiaomu.

She seemed utterly unable to comprehend why she had suddenly been hit.

"Caixiu, tell her why," Qiaomu said coldly.

Caixiu stepped forward and said sternly, "Lack of manners! Trespassing without the Crown Princess's summons is crime number one. Putting on an act and showing off in front of the Crown Princess is crime number two!"