As soon as she returned to the palace, Hanna suddenly raised the hand holding the maid and looked at the sticky bloodstains on it. She said angrily, "Disgusting, truly a cheap maid, even the blood is dirty. Someone, strip her and give her forty lashes."
The maid was so terrified that her courage was utterly destroyed. She wailed, "Empress, spare my life... Empress, spare my life..."
The whip in Hanna's palace is woven from leather strips, extremely tough, and although it looks light when it lands on the body, it can tear the skin and flesh open. Even three to five lashes are unbearable, let alone being stripped and receiving forty lashes. She would likely die before the forty lashes were complete!
However, Hanna was in a fit of rage and wanted to vent her anger on her, so how could she spare her? Therefore, she glared and shouted, "When the master wants you dead, you have to die. How dare you plead with me? Someone, add forty more lashes, beat her to death!"
