"Spare my life? How can your life be compared to the flowers that I have carefully cultivated? My flowers are dead? You still want to live? Beat me! Beat me hard! Beat me to death!"
Jing Lan had no intention of letting Zhao Zhi go. He cursed him with a cold face and gave another order.
The eunuch following behind him immediately pinned Zhao Zhi to the ground and beat him up.
Soon, Zhao Zhi was beaten black and blue, and wailed in pain.
Xiao Shuangbao hid aside and watched, thinking of the infatuated and silly palace maid who was killed by Zhao Zhi and Lin Pin. When she saw Zhao Zhi being beaten, she felt no sympathy at all.
"That's enough, little princess."
It was only after Zhongli Yu reminded him that Xiao Shuangbao reluctantly showed up.
"stop!"
She spoke in a baby voice with some reluctance.
When the eunuchs heard this and saw that it was her, they immediately stopped.
"Sister Shuangbao? Why are you here?"
When Jing Lan saw her appear, he pretended to meet her by chance and walked forward with a smile on his face.
"I was on my way to the martial arts training ground to find my master, and I took a detour here to see the plum blossoms. I didn't expect to stumble upon this scene. Fifth Prince, why are you bullying an innocent eunuch?"
Little Frost Treasure tilted his head and asked.
As she spoke, she ordered Chen Cao to go forward and help Zhao Zhi up.
Zhao Zhi felt pain all over his body.
Chen Cao deliberately touched his injured area, and he immediately cried out in pain again.
"This bastard ruined my flowers. Look, that camellia was specially cultivated by the flower garden craftsman. I wanted to give it to you, but who could have known that this bastard picked it and then smashed the pot!"
Jing Lan's tone was still filled with anger, and he looked at Zhao Zhi with eyes as cold as a knife, "That's why I had him beaten to death to commemorate this pot of flowers that died innocently because of him!"
His words were also a subtle mockery of Zhao Zhi for killing the young palace maid who was deeply in love with him.
However, Zhao Zhi didn't understand at all.
Seeing the most favored little princess in the palace appear and save him, he quickly begged for mercy: "Your Highness the Fifth Prince, little princess, I really didn't mean it. I didn't know that this pot of camellia was a gift from Your Highness to the little princess. I thought it was the kind that was displayed in the flower room every day and could be picked at will.
"If I knew, I wouldn't dare to do it even if I had a hundred courages!
"I really know I was wrong!
"Your Highness, please forgive me this time! I am willing to compensate you with another pot of the same flower!"
As Zhao Zhi said this, he knelt down and begged for mercy again.
Jing Lan frowned and asked, "This flower needs to be carefully cultivated by the gardener in the greenhouse. One pot costs more than five hundred taels of silver. You, a dog slave, can compensate me just by saying so?
"Where did you get so much money?"
Zhao Zhi heard that his tone meant he was letting him go, so he quickly said, "I have some savings, and I'm popular with people. If I borrow some money from someone, I'll be able to make ends meet.
"Please rest assured, Your Highness. Give me some time, and I will compensate you with a pot of flowers that are exactly the same!"
Jing Lan was not moved at all.
He still had a sullen face and said, "You want me to wait? You, a half-and-half-brother, are you worthy of me waiting? In my opinion, it would be better to just kill you and save trouble! Come on!"
Having said that, Jing Lan ordered the eunuchs to beat Zhao Zhi to death.
Zhao Zhi shuddered with fear.
"Brother Fifth Prince, please spare his life."
However, at this moment, Xiao Shuangbao grabbed his hand and begged for mercy for Zhao Zhi in a coquettish manner, "How can a pot of flowers compare to a human life? Let him go this time."
"Sister Shuangbao... well, since you plead for him, I will spare his life."
Jing Lan immediately relented.
He looked at Zhao Zhi with gloomy eyes and said, "You little slave, remember this: your life was saved by the little princess! If it weren't for her, you would be dead today!"
Zhao Zhi's neck shrank, and then he kowtowed to Xiao Shuangbao and thanked her, "Yes, yes! I thank Princess Lingfu for saving my life!"
What he didn't know was that as soon as he said this, the invisible promise between Xiao Shuangbao and the palace maid ghost who had been reincarnated disappeared in an instant.
Xiao Shuangbao's eyes were slightly cold.
She looked at Zhao Zhi and said, "Okay, you can go down."
"Yes, yes, I'll take my leave!"
Zhao Zhi didn't dare to stand up. He knelt and retreated until he reached the gate of the Imperial Garden. Then he quickly stood up, turned around and ran away.
As soon as he left.
The eldest prince and others also appeared.
"This Zhao Zhi is really handsome and elegant. No wonder Concubine Lin likes him."
The eldest prince said.
"He is not really a eunuch."
Si Liye followed up.
"You can see that too?"
The eldest prince raised an eyebrow.
Si Li Ye looked at him and said nothing.
The few people did not stay in the Imperial Garden for long and began to work on the second step of the plan.
Zhao Zhi acted like a servant in front of Xiao Shuangbao and the Fifth Prince, but as soon as he left the Imperial Garden, his face immediately turned gloomy. He gritted his teeth and cursed the Fifth Prince in secret, then returned to Cuiweiju.
At this time, Lin Pin was lazily getting up, waiting to wash her face with fresh flower petals.
But they found that Zhao Zhi not only returned empty-handed, but was also beaten with a bruised face and covered in footprints.
"What's wrong with you? You got yourself like this? What happened? Did you get into a fight?"
Lin Bin frowned, somewhat unwilling to look at Zhao Zhi's colorful face.
"I'm really unlucky today. All the flower petals I picked for the Queen are gone."
Zhao Zhi was filled with rage and recounted the entire incident, exaggerating, "Your Majesty, this Fifth Prince is truly a piece of shit. As soon as he heard I was your close friend, he insisted that Your Majesty had offended his mother and wanted to settle all the old and new grudges together.
"Your Majesty, it's nothing for me to be beaten, but I'm worried that the Fifth Prince will bear a grudge against you and won't let you go either."
Lin Bin's eyebrows jumped when she heard this.
She remembered that when she first entered the palace, she took advantage of Emperor Chengxuan's favor and snatched the emperor away from the fifth prince's mother, the former Concubine Su, twice.
Concubine Su even made trouble for her because of this and used some tricks to make her lose the opportunity to sleep with the emperor, until she was completely forgotten by Emperor Chengxuan.
It is a terrible thing for a woman in the harem to be forgotten by the emperor.
If she didn't have some family background and some means to protect herself, she would have been dead by now.
When Concubine Lin thought of what Concubine Su had done to her, she felt so angry that her teeth itched.
"What Fifth Prince? He's nothing but a motherless bastard! He dares to act wildly in front of me. Just wait and see how I deal with him!"
Linpin said angrily.
Zhao Zhi curled the corners of his mouth slightly.
"What is your Majesty going to do?"
He pretended to be worried and curious and asked, "Your Majesty, there is no need to dirty your hands for me. If you have anything to do, just tell me to do it."
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