In this chapter, the Queen's servant, a country girl, tells the Queen that she was wronged by her maidservant. The Queen, she says, is "favored by the gods," so how could she lose her temper and quarrel with such a lowly servant? The Queen tells the servant to take care of her injuries, but the servant says she didn't do anything wrong, and the Queen turns around and accuses her of lying. The servant says that the Queen made a mistake when she failed to discipline her subordinates, and that she will report the matter to the Empress Dowager. She says the Queen framed her for no reason but that in the end, it was still her fault. She asks the Queen if she knows what she has done wrong, to which the Queen replies, "Do you know what you have done wrong?" The Queen says she's fine, but that she still doesn't understand why she punished the servant. In the future, he says, it will be the Queen who will rule over all of the palace officials, and not the Queen. He says that if the Queen can't manage one of her
In this chapter, the Queen's servant, a country girl, tells the Queen that she was wronged by her maidservant. The Queen, she says, is "favored by the gods," so how could she lose her temper and quarrel with such a lowly servant? The Queen tells the servant to take care of her injuries, but the servant says she didn't do anything wrong, and the Queen turns around and accuses her of lying. The servant says that the Queen made a mistake when she failed to discipline her subordinates, and that she will report the matter to the Empress Dowager. She says the Queen framed her for no reason but that in the end, it was still her fault. She asks the Queen if she knows what she has done wrong, to which the Queen replies, "Do you know what you have done wrong?" The Queen says she's fine, but that she still doesn't understand why she punished the servant. In the future, he says, it will be the Queen who will rule over all of the palace officials, and not the Queen. He says that if the Queen can't manage one of her