Xiao Linzi's face suddenly lit up with joy. He originally thought that he had fallen out of favor, but now he was no longer jealous and said sincerely, "Thank you, Grandpa Jinzhong."
Jinzhong felt around in his clothes for a while before pulling his hand out, letting him go, and patting him on the butt. "Go ahead and get your new outfit."
Xiao Linzi left with many thanks.
Cheng Ying just stood there in silence.
Jinzhong's eyes fell on him, and he tried to pull his hand with a smile, but Cheng Ying dodged him.
Jinzhong snorted coldly with a fake smile: "It's really hard to force you to do something. If you suffer enough in the future, you will come to us for help sooner or later."
From then on, Cheng Ying stayed in the Silijian to work under Jinzhong, the secretary of the Silijian. He was not officially transferred to the Silijian yet, and still lived in the Jingshifang dormitory at night.
After the incident with the golden beans, the people around him in the dormitory became more and more ostracized by him. Even the mattress was wet at night. Cheng Ying turned the mattress over and slept on the wet quilt for the whole night. Seeing that he just endured it, the people around him became more and more daring and planned to continue to punish him in other ways.
But when I returned to the dormitory at night, I found that everyone's quilts were wet and there was an unpleasant smell.
Everyone was furious and called the eunuch in charge to come and sue Cheng Ying without thinking of anything else.
But Cheng Ying's bedding was also wet. The eunuch in charge guessed the reason and was about to scold her and leave it at that, but he was called out by a young eunuch.
Cheng Ying recognized the pattern of the young eunuch's ornaments and her eyebrows drooped slightly.
Soon the eunuch in charge came in again and pointed out Cheng Ying from the entire cell. It was most likely that he was the one who did it. He was so cunning and treacherous at such a young age, bullying his fellow inmates. He had such a poor moral character, and if he committed trouble in front of a noble in the future, they would probably be blamed for not educating him properly.
After he finished speaking, he ordered Cheng Ying to be taken to the courtyard and punished with twenty lashes.
The whip fell, causing burning pain. After twenty lashes, there was no healthy spot on Cheng Ying's entire back. Blood and flesh were flying, and his skin was torn. His face was as pale as paper, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
Cheng Ying lay in the cell for two days. The whip wounds on her back continued to worsen due to the lack of medicine, and the infection of the wounds caused a high fever.
The other people in the cell pretended not to see it.
Cheng Ying was in a daze, thinking that it would be better to die like this, since he didn't want to live in this late hour anyway.
But the fever eventually subsided. It was Eunuch Jinzhong from the Imperial Household Department who sent him medicine.
After being able to get out of bed, Cheng Ying was called back to the Imperial Household Department. Jinzhong was still smiling, and while sipping tea, he said, "The lives of people in this palace have always been cheaper than grass. If it weren't for us protecting you, I'm afraid you would have lost your life at any time."
Seeing that Cheng Ying remained silent, Jinzhong was not angry, but just snorted and laughed: "You are really courageous."
It was more than a month after Cheng Ying's injury was completely healed, but Jinzhong still kept him in the Imperial Household Department and only asked him to do miscellaneous tasks without teaching him any skills.
Zhang Xiang, the young eunuch who threw golden beans in the cell, somehow managed to be transferred to the Imperial Household Department and was arranged to work under Wang Shun, the seal holder of the Imperial Household Department.
After getting familiar with the Imperial Household Department, Zhang Xiang found out about Jinzhong's little-known hobby, and everyone else in the cell knew about it. They began to exclude and ridicule Cheng Ying more and more, using endless little tricks to make trouble for Cheng Ying.
The malice of a teenager is always direct and vicious, and because he had the upper hand in the previous incident of splashing water on the couch, he became more and more fearless, even if it meant taking someone's life.
Silver needles were placed in shoes, clothes were soiled, and laxatives were placed in water. This happened every now and then. The eunuch in charge of the Jingshifang, with Jinzhong's instructions, just stood by and watched. It was useless to report it to him.
Cheng Ying thought, then no one would be happy.
That night, someone in the cell began to have abdominal pain and ran to the toilet again and again. A day later, the man was lying in bed almost dead. Zhang Xiang begged the eunuch in charge for mercy and invited a medical officer. However, the medical officer was unable to diagnose the symptoms and prescribed a prescription for diarrhea, but it was of no use.
What was even more terrifying was that on the second day, everyone in the cell began to suffer from abdominal pain one after another. The eunuch in charge was worried that it was an epidemic, so he did not dare to hide it and hurriedly reported it. Several people were moved out of the cell and thrown into a remote yard.
Several people nearly lost their lives due to abdominal pain, but fortunately their conditions gradually improved. However, they all lost their jobs and were hastily sent to work in the cold palace.
From then on, Cheng Ying found peace in her home.
Jinzhong seemed to be very clear about the matter of the dormitory. One day, he stared at Cheng Ying and said, "It was our family who underestimated you."
Cheng Ying did not have much peace for long, as Jinzhong was still coveting him. As a senior eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, he had his own ways to torment him, and he didn't even have to do anything.
Cheng Ying's life in the Imperial Household Department became increasingly difficult, as she was often punished by being forced to kneel and whipped.
One day, Jinzhong was slapped hard in the face for his inappropriate words in front of the Second Prince. After returning to the prison, he took his anger out on Cheng Ying. As Cheng Ying refused to obey him, Jinzhong lost his patience and attacked her without any determination, becoming quite ruthless and aiming to take Cheng Ying's life.
Tired of whipping, Jinzhong took out a burning incense stick from the incense burner and burned Cheng Ying's back with it. The stench of burnt flesh filled the room.
"You are tough, aren't you? Then stay tough, but don't ask for mercy. You won't be able to heal all these scars anyway."
"Ridiculous!" A voice suddenly came from outside the room. The man, wearing a green official uniform embroidered with white pheasants, walked into the room in two or three steps and asked, "Is this how you, the Imperial Household Department, torture people?"
Most of the people who come to Jinzhong's courtyard on weekdays are eunuchs. He is accustomed to disciplining the young eunuchs around him, and no one would offend him.
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