Qi Changyi was forced to kneel on the ground, his mouth blocked by a white cloth ball. He could only raise his eyes and look angrily at Qi Yirou.
He never holds a grudge against anyone, Qi Yirou is the first one.
This place seems to be behind a rockery, where few people come, but you can still smell the fragrance coming from the imperial garden in front.
Qi Yiro glanced at the maid beside her, and the maid rolled up her sleeves, walked to the kneeling person, raised her hand and gave him a loud slap in the face.
Qi Changyi's head tilted to one side after being hit. He looked at Qi Yirou with a squinting look in his eyes.
"Hehe, look at you, this idiot can even glare at people, it's really strange." Qi Yiro said with her arms folded.
The maid raised her hand and slapped her twice again. Her fair cheek was immediately swollen with five finger marks, and the white cloth ball stuffing her mouth was also stained with blood.
Qi Yirou watched all this coldly, and the resentment in her heart dissipated a little. "I don't have to embarrass you. As long as you kneel down and kowtow to me twice to admit your fault, and then go to the emperor to admit your guilt, I will plead for you in front of the emperor."
Qi Changyi lowered his eyes and said nothing, blood slowly flowing from the corner of his mouth.
Qi Yirou thought he knew he was wrong, so she waved her hand and ordered the servant to release the clamp, and walked to his side herself.
"Come on, kowtow, finish as soon as possible so that you can go with me to see the emperor... ah!"
Accompanied by Qi Yirou's shrill scream, the servants around her had not yet reacted to what was happening. They only saw the person kneeling on the ground suddenly rush forward with his body bent like an arrow.
Qi Yirou was hit in the abdomen and fell directly onto the rockery. She was in so much pain that she knelt on the ground for a long time and couldn't straighten up.
After Qi Changyi bumped into her, he fell to the side and curled up on the ground.
Qi Yirou's anger had almost subsided, but now it burned directly to her head, making her eyes red with anger.
"No one has ever dared to talk back to me like this! You ungrateful bastard! Come, smash his mouth and scratch his face. I'm going to throw him into the lotus pond to feed the fish!"
Several servants lifted Qi Changyi up again. The maid looked at him fiercely and slapped him five times in the face, until her palms became numb.
Before she could withdraw her hand, a black figure suddenly jumped down from the top of the rockery, grabbed her wrist and gently applied force, and a crisp sound of bone cracking was heard.
The man in black was still not satisfied. Before the maid could even open her mouth to scream, he slapped her onto the rockery. Not only was her wrist broken, but all the bones in her body were probably shattered.
All these actions happened so quickly that the people present didn't have time to run away or scream. They were all slapped onto the rockery one after another by the palm wind, their bones broken and they became limp and dizzy.
Chengfeng withdrew his palm with cold eyes, but Qi Yiru was nowhere to be seen. She took advantage of this opportunity to sneak away without a sound.
There were footsteps coming from behind the rockery. The emperor, Pei Zheng, Amul and his subordinates, as well as many palace maids and eunuchs were all standing outside the rockery.
The group had just reached this sparsely populated area and were about to turn back, but Pei Zheng led everyone to continue forward, and as a result, they heard a noise coming from behind the rockery.
The emperor felt that it was embarrassing to see the noisy and unruly behavior in his own imperial garden in front of foreign envoys, so he ordered Pei Zheng to order people to ruthlessly deal with those who were playing around behind the rockery.
Chengfeng indeed obeyed the imperial edict without mercy.
There was nothing else except a small figure lying lifeless on the ground and the culprit who escaped secretly.
Cheng Feng came out and reported, "Your Majesty, everything has been handled, but one person just escaped..."
Amul couldn't help but laughed out loud.
The emperor's face became even more embarrassed. "Find him! Whoever it is, punish him severely after you find him! How can you be so ignorant of etiquette and break the rules in this palace!"
Chengfeng followed orders to chase after them, and Amul also bowed and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let Amul do his part as well?"
After saying this, without waiting for the emperor's response, Amul followed Chengfeng to capture the "fugitive".
Pei Zheng watched his disappearing figure without saying a word.
He was not just trying to help out, he was clearly just trying to get involved and find a way to embarrass the emperor.
Bad taste.
The emperor waved his sleeves, his face turned pale, and took Amul's subordinates to the pavilion nearby to wait.
Pei Zheng walked into the rockery alone. When he saw the little white ball lying on the ground motionless, his heart skipped a beat.
He went forward to help the little guy up. The five finger marks were clearly visible on the fair little face, and there was blood from the torn wound at the corner of the mouth, and some dirt on it.
Pei Zheng gently brushed away the dirt with his fingers and touched the wound. Qi Changyi frowned and hissed, then slowly opened his eyes. The moment he saw Pei Zheng clearly, his eyes turned red.
"Brother Pei..."
"How did you get hurt?" Pei Zheng gently wiped the corner of his mouth with his robe, "Third Princess?"
"Well..." Qi Changyi's nose felt sore in grievance, "But, I, I also bumped into her. She, she wanted to push me off the stone stairs today. Just now, just now...hiss..."
Perhaps Pei Zheng hurt him, and he gasped softly.
Pei Zheng stopped his hand movements, touched the corner of his mouth lovingly, then moved his lips and tongue closer. He did not put his lips into Hongyan's mouth, but licked the scar on the corner of his mouth very lightly and quickly, and tasted the taste of blood and rust in his mouth.
"Does it still hurt?"
Qi Changyi was stunned for a moment, shook his head, nodded, and shook his head again.
Pei Zheng raised his finger, and Chengfeng suddenly appeared from behind the rockery.
Chengfeng just said that he was going to look for the "fugitive", but he actually didn't go. So the best option is to leave the "fugitive" to Amul.
"Send the person back, come back quickly, and don't let anyone get caught."
Chengfeng nodded, took Qi Changyi from Pei Zheng's arms, and held him carefully, his body stiff as if he was holding his master's baby.
After Qi Changyi was taken away by Chengfeng, Pei Zheng waited for a moment before walking towards the pavilion.
From a distance, one could see that Amul had returned to the pavilion and was sitting leisurely on the stone bench, while the emperor's face turned blue and red.
The one kneeling in the center of the pavilion was the third princess Qi Yiru who had just run away in shame.
But now her face was full of pain, and she was kneeling on the ground, holding her left knee with cold sweat dripping down her face.
After Pei Zheng walked into the pavilion, Cheng Feng followed him back, saluted to the emperor, and stood aside.
"Your Majesty, I'm really sorry. I didn't know this person was the third princess of the Celestial Empire." Amul said with a smile.
"I was too anxious to catch someone just now, and I accidentally kicked the princess' kneecap and broke it. Your Majesty, the people of the Celestial Empire say that ignorance is not a crime. Besides, I am here to help you, Your Majesty. You are magnanimous and will not punish me, right?"