Xiao Shaoke was about two years older than the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin, but it was not until Xiao Yuanjin started to learn that the empress dowager remembered that she still had Xiao Shaoke, so she sent him to the Southern Study as well.
She would not be as mean as Empress Xiao Lu to bully a child who knew nothing and had done nothing, but her disregard for Xiao Shaoke gave her relatives and servants the confidence and courage to bully Xiao Shaoke.
In the original book, although Xiao Shaoke barely survived to adulthood under the Empress Dowager's watchful eye, he hated those with the surname Lu because he had never been treated well.
"Well, is there anything here that can be used?" Yu Zizhen pondered in his mind as he listened.
Don’t underestimate the love and hate of children. It is precisely because children are innocent and weak that their love and hate will be more lasting and intense.
Thinking about these things in his mind, Yu Zizhen brought Yaoguang to the outside of the palace on time.
Just like yesterday, the two of them walked to the South Study.
At this time, in the Southern Study, the palace room specially used for the princes and their companions to study, Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong, who always appeared on time, unexpectedly showed up early for the first time.
They made some changes in the palace, waiting for the newly arrived bumpkin, their new classmate Yu Zizhen, to arrive, so that they could give him a warning that he would never forget, so that he would never be able to raise his head in front of them again.
Thinking of that scene, Wan Jingrong couldn't contain his excitement. His eyes lit up as he instructed the servant he brought with him, "Keep a close eye on him. If you see that kid, signal me immediately!"
The servant chuckled and tiptoed to look around the corner of the corridor, "Don't worry, young master. I'll keep an eye on him for you."
Lu Heng sat next to Wan Jingrong, enjoying the various snacks carefully prepared by the family's cook. Seeing Wan Jingrong dancing with joy, looking so energetic that he had no idea where to vent his energy, he swallowed the snack in his mouth and reminded him, "Be more restrained. Don't let your behavior make him alert before he even enters the house."
Upon hearing this, Wan Jingrong hurriedly warned his servants, "Brother Heng is right. You should all restrain yourself!"
The servant nodded rapidly, and soon he concealed the unnecessary expression on his face.
They thought that they could catch Yu Zizhen off guard in this way, but they didn't know that Yu Zizhen actually had a built-in cheat.
With the system as her ear, helping her monitor the surrounding environment, Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong's little actions were not at all concealed from her.
She gave Yaoguang a few simple instructions, then met the gaze of Wan Jingrong's servant and slowly turned around the corridor.
As soon as Wan Jingrong's servant saw her, he immediately made a gesture to his master, thinking that he was very secretive.
After receiving the secret signal, Wan Jingrong rushed to the door and placed an inkstone filled with ink on the half-open door.
To the battle-hardened Yu Zizhen, this certainly seemed like a small prank. However, if this "prank" happened to a real seven-year-old child, imagine that after being doused from head to toe in ink, he was mercilessly mocked by his new classmates. I think the child would have some psychological trauma left behind.
Thinking of this, Yu Zizhen made up his mind to teach the two naughty kids in the house a lesson.
She pretended to know nothing and reached out to push the door, then when the inkstone on the door fell because of her action, she quickly jumped up, raised her hand, and before the inkstone fell down, she hit the inkstone straight out like a volleyball.
The inkstone shook and some ink spilled out. Yu Zizhen withdrew his hand in time, so the ink did not splash onto his sleeves.
The inkstone that she hit like a volleyball flew away at lightning speed and headed straight for the pillar behind Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong who were gloating over her in the study room as she retracted her hand.
Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong looked frightened at first, then relieved. However, just when they were halfway relieved, the inkstone that brushed past Wan Jingrong's left ear and Lu Heng's right ear and flew diagonally through the gap between their heads was shattered into pieces after hitting a pillar.
As the inkstone shattered, the ink inside immediately poured over the two people below.
Yu Zizhen exclaimed in a fake voice, "Oh my God - you two guys, get out of the way -"
The two of them had actually been dodging in a panic before she opened her mouth, but unfortunately they were too close and had been completely unprepared, so they were still splashed with ink all over their bodies.
Wan Jingrong was so angry that he raised his hand and shot out a piece of silver that he had prepared long ago.
With a slight sound, Yu Zizhen, who had already walked into the house, had a high-backed chair that they had placed on the beam in advance fall on his head.
Things in the palace were made of very solid materials, and this high-back chair was no exception. If Yu Zizhen failed to dodge and was hit by the heavy and solid high-back chair, then she would not just be embarrassed.
If she's lucky, she'll probably just get hit on the head and bleed. If she's unlucky, she might even be turned into a fool or die on the spot.
This has completely gone beyond the level of a prank, and the intention can be said to be extremely vicious.
Realizing this, Yu Zizhen immediately decided that she would make a big deal out of this matter until the two naughty kids couldn't handle it themselves.
She rolled on the ground to avoid the high-backed chair, then jumped up and stood up, crying loudly, "Wuwawawa - Father, save me - someone wants to kill me - Wuwawawa - I have only been in the capital for a few days - I don't want to stay in the capital anymore - Wuwawawa - I want to go home - I want to go home - Wuwawawa -"
When Yu Zizhen cried, Yaoguang, who was guarding the palace gate, immediately rushed in. Like a small animal with its fur standing on end, she jumped in front of Yu Zizhen and glared at Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong fiercely in a protective posture.
Yu Zizhen was afraid that she would forget his previous instructions and impulsively attack Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong, so he quietly pulled her and whispered, "Cry."
Yaoguang was so obedient that upon hearing that, she immediately started howling with Yu Zizhen as if they were competing with each other.
The two children were competing with each other in speaking louder and louder. Although it was just thunder without rain, the noise was really scary.
Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong were stunned by their crying. Others who heard the sound, including Zhou Wenyong, the Hanlin Academy scholar who was responsible for teaching them this morning, and Xiao Shaoke, Xiao Yuanjin, Fan Zhongming and Yang Shixian who arrived a step late, were all staring at the four people in the classroom in shock.
The fallen chair, the broken inkstone, and the ink on Lu Heng and Wan Jingrong's bodies, these obvious traces silently told those who came later what had happened here before.
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