Chapter 7
The students who participated in the fight filed out one after another, and Zhu Mingji followed them out.
Mr. Song hurriedly followed Zhu Mingji and asked, "Where is the prince going? Class is about to start."
Zhu Mingji: "I also fought, so if they want to punish me, of course I should be punished as well."
He didn't want to be criticized and be seen as a villain who relied on the power of the palace to do things without taking responsibility.
"I didn't expect that the prince is so responsible at such a young age," Mr. Song watched the students kneel in front of the statue of Confucius, and then returned to the classroom to teach the students.
In front of the statue of Confucius, Zhang Xihua deliberately chose a place with shade from trees to kneel down, and Zhu Mingji also knelt down next to her.
Zhu Mingji and Zhang Xihua have had many fights in the past, and Zhang Xihua always had the upper hand.
In fact, Zhang Xihua is thinner and shorter than him, but when Zhang Xihua fights, he has a clever way of using a little force to defeat a great force.
Moreover, he was holding back when he hit Zhang Xihua, but Zhang Xihua beat him with all his might.
After kneeling for a while, Zhang Xihua had completely calmed down.
She regretted every time she fought with Zhu Mingji. Zhu Mingji was just a little brat. Why should she bother with this little brat?
But every time Zhu Mingji provoked her, she couldn't help it.
No matter, she won anyway. She beat the future Emperor of the Ming Dynasty many times.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xihua couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips slightly.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhu Mingji asked with a frown.
Zhang Xihua rolled his eyes at him and asked, "Why are you peeking at me?"
"I didn't peek at you." Zhu Mingji snorted coldly and turned his head to the other side.
"Bullshit, you didn't peek at me, how do you know I was laughing?" Zhang Xihua snorted coldly, not admitting defeat, and his snort was even louder than Zhu Mingji's.
"I am looking at you openly. Do you understand what openly means? I am not afraid of you finding out at all. I am not humble at all. I am using my two eyes to look at your pretty face." Zhu Mingji was too self-righteous.
Zhang Xihua: “…”
The tone of voice of a certain prince is always so righteous that it's uncanny, and some of his expressions are not suitable for his age, such as "a pretty little face".
"You know what you said later was a bit vulgar? Who did you learn these words from?" Zhang Xihua said.
Zhu Mingji: "One time I slept between my father and mother, but when I woke up in the middle of the night I found myself sleeping on the outermost side, and my father, who had been sleeping on the outermost side, had taken my place. I heard my father say that my mother's face was quite pretty. I also heard my mother cry because of what he said, saying, 'You starving ghost, be gentler.' I knew that was the kind of thing someone would say when they were angry and crying."
Zhang Xihua: “…”
A kid as young as Zhu Mingji is so naive. At an age when he knows nothing, he meets an adult like her who knows everything.
Considering that Zhu Mingji was a little idiot, Zhang Xihua didn't bother with him. He first apologized to him and then told him a lot of funny jokes.
Zhu Mingji also felt a little embarrassed and said "I'm sorry" in a low voice.
"What? What did you say just now?" Zhang Xihua teased him deliberately.
"You are just a little deaf person. It doesn't matter if you can't hear." Zhu Mingji became angry again.
"Actually, there is one thing I have been hiding from you for a long time. When I was three years old, I had a high fever. After I recovered, I completely lost hearing in my left ear. You knelt on my left and spoke in such a low voice that I really couldn't hear you. You are a little deaf." Zhang Xihua lied without thinking.
Zhu Mingji felt extremely guilty.
I really deserve to die. Why did I poke Xi Ge'er in such a sore spot?
"Hahahaha...hahaha..." Zhang Xihua couldn't help laughing out loud, "I'm not deaf, but you are indeed a little fool."
Zhu Mingji was so angry at her that he almost vomited blood, and was about to punch Zhang Xihua on the shoulder.
Zhang Xihua turned around and bent down to avoid Zhu Mingji's punch.
Zhu Mingji was furious. He grabbed Zhang Xihua's left hand and bit her wrist hard.
Zhang Xihua shook her wrist in pain, but his sharp teeth cut into her skin and she could smell the blood.
After Zhu Mingji let go, Zhang Xihua saw a deep bloody tooth mark on the inside of his left wrist. It would definitely leave a scar.
"You son of a bitch, this scar will stay on my wrist forever."
"If you scold me again, I'll bite you on the face."
Zhu Mingji looked at Zhang Xihua's angry expression with great satisfaction.
Zhang Xihua: "I'm breaking up with you! I'm breaking up with you!"
She tore the hem of her robe hard and threw the torn piece of cloth to Zhu Minji.
"This is tearing the robe and breaking the righteousness."
Zhu Mingji stared at her blankly, tears welling up in his eyes. He said aggrievedly, "Can't you take a joke? I've known you for so long."
"We have been enemies for a long time, so why should we part ways?" Zhang Xihua said heartlessly.
Zhu Mingji felt extremely aggrieved and burst into tears.
The other kneeling students all looked in their direction.
Even Mr. Song in the classroom rushed over to inquire.
Zhu Mingji held up the piece of cloth to show Mr. Song, crying and saying, "Xi Ge'er doesn't want to be friends with me anymore... Wuuuuu... Xi Ge'er will ignore me from now on... Wuuuuu... Xi Ge'er wants to be friends with someone else... Wuuuuu..."
Zhu Mingji's crying sounded like a teapot boiling water.
Zhang Xihua crossed his arms, looking as if it had nothing to do with him, but he did not forget to rub salt into Zhu Mingji's wounds.
"I've never considered you a friend. I only cared about you because of my godmother. I just wanted to be friends with Chen Ang, Xu Pingzhi, and Jiang Yang. If you say one more irrelevant word to me in the future, my mouth will be rotten and my tongue will be broken and my throat will smoke—"
"Brother Xi, please stop saying things that hurt people's hearts." Mr. Song quickly covered Zhang Xihua's chattering mouth with his hand.
Zhu Mingji cried even louder and more heartbrokenly. He pointed at Chen Ang, Xu Pingzhi, Jiang Yang, and others who were good friends with Zhang Xihua, and said, "I'm going to tell my father to expel you all from Taiping Prefecture. You all move your families to Yazhou. No one is allowed to be friends with Xige'er."
Yazhou is far away from the Central Plains and is a "deserted place" where criminals who have committed serious crimes are exiled. Once you go to Yazhou, there is no way back.
Chen Ang, Xu Pingzhi, Jiang Yang and others who suffered this unexpected disaster hurriedly knelt on the ground and confessed their crimes to Zhu Mingji.
Zhang Xihua pulled off Mr. Song's hand that was covering her mouth, and leaned on Mr. Song's arms, hugging his waist and said, "Then I will be with Mr. Song."
Zhu Mingji: "I asked my father to banish Mr. Song to Yazhou as well."
Mr. Song: “…”
His ancestors had lived a peaceful life in Taiping Prefecture. Why was he going to leave his hometown and become a savage in Yazhou just because these two little ancestors were angry?
Zhang Xihua hugged the statue of Confucius and said, "Then I would rather be with the statue of Confucius than with someone as heartless, shameless, and unreasonable as you."
Zhu Mingji said to the servants standing by, "Throw the statue of Confucius into the river."
"You can't throw it away, Your Highness. This is a statue of the Great Sage." Mr. Song knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Mingji.
The servants had been ordered to work together to move the statue of Confucius.
The other teachers in the school heard the noise here and knew that Zhu Mingji had ordered to throw away the statue of Confucius. They all knelt down and begged Zhu Mingji to revoke the order. The other students also knelt down and begged.
Zhang Xihua understood the significance of this statue of Confucius to these scholars. At that moment, she felt the oppression of imperial power for the first time.
Even though Zhu Mingji was only a five-year-old child, his royal family made the angry words he said become golden words that no one could disobey.
Zhang Xihua took the cloth back from Zhu Mingji and said, "We are still friends."
Zhu Mingji told the servants not to throw away the statue of Confucius.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Mr. Song was afraid that these two little guys would cause trouble again, so he didn't punish them and let them go back to the classroom for class.
After the calligraphy class, Zhu Mingji asked a maid to sew the cloth back onto Zhang Xihua's robe, and ordered the servant to invite a doctor to check the wound on Zhang Xihua's wrist that he had bitten.
Zhu Mingji didn't know why, but sometimes he hated Zhang Xihua so much, but when Zhang Xihua said that she didn't want to be friends with him anymore, he felt it was a pity to lose such a lively and popular friend like Zhang Xihua.
When Zhang Xihua returned home from school that day, Old Master Zhang only scolded him verbally.
However, Mrs. Jiang asked Zhang Xihua to lie on a spring stool and personally hit Zhang Xihua's buttocks ten times with a stick. Each stroke only hurt the skin and flesh without breaking the bones.
Three of the wooden sticks Zhang Xihua was biting broke because of the unbearable pain.
"Brother Xi, don't blame your mother for being cruel. She just wants you to learn a lesson. Even if the young master of the Xiang Palace treats you like a brother, you can't just turn against him. His last name is Zhu. Is yours too?"
Madam Jiang knew that Prince Xiang and his wife would not punish their little daughter for committing rebellion, because Prince Xiang and his wife thought their little daughter was a lovable child and could not bear to punish her.
But what about the future? If the youngest daughter loses the favor of Prince Xiang and his wife, they will bring up old scores, and the Zhang family will be punished for their daughter's willfulness.
"Mother, I won't make such a mistake again in the future." Zhang Xihua was in so much pain that she could no longer feel the existence of her buttocks. Fortunately, that place was dead flesh, and she would be fine after resting for a while.
The next day, Zhang Xihua went to school and had to stand to listen to the class. Every time her butt touched the stool, she screamed in pain.
She was also embarrassed to stand there and block the view of the students behind her, so she asked someone to move her desk to the last row.
Zhu Mingji, the person sitting in front of her and who had caused her trouble, also ordered someone to move his desk to the second to last row, in front of Zhang Xihua's desk.
This time, Zhu Mingji did not laugh at Zhang Xihua's miserable appearance, but gave Zhang Xihua a bottle of the imperial top-grade golden medicine.
However, Zhang Xihua returned the bottle of gold medicine to Zhu Mingji.
"It's unlucky to send me medicine. I got beaten up because of you. If you want to make it up to me, just don't mess with me anymore."
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