Chapter 202 Temperament
Chapter 202 Temperament
The eaves of the palace are covered with white, and another winter has arrived.
The sound of footsteps on the piled up new snow was like the sound of broken jade.
"Your Highness, the Fifth Prince, if you continue to harm the flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden, I will not take you out.
Concubine Zhi doesn't like to go out. Your Highness, do you think you can go out without me and Qingxue following you? The Concubine will not agree."
Seeing that the little man was about to stretch out his hand to bend the branch again, the plum blossom couldn't help but threaten him.
When the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang heard Meihua's words, his round eyes instantly widened.
"You bastard, you are just a small servant, how dare you threaten me? It's just a few flowers and trees. I am the prince of Dayong. What can I do if you touch them?
Come, please pick these green plums for me. I will take them back to present to my mother."
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang, who was wearing a furry fox fur felt hat and dressed in round clothes, raised his childish and cute face and gave the order in a haughty manner.
When the palace servants heard the order from the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang, they seemed very hesitant.
They looked left and right, trying to shirk responsibility with their eyes, not daring to take any action rashly, and were all caught in a dilemma.
Concubine Zhi is kind and doesn't like to care about things.
But the fifth prince she gave birth to was a little devil and was extremely difficult to serve.
The reason they didn't dare to pick the green plums was not because of Aunt Plum Blossom, but because the flowers and trees in the imperial garden really could not be moved. What's more, the Fifth Prince asked them to pick the rare double-petaled green-calyx plums.
If it's the common white plum, red plum, and winter plum, which bloom in large patches throughout a whole garden in winter, it's not a big problem if a few branches are missing.
However, this patch of green plum blossoms is a new variety cultivated by Lin Hengshu this year, and only five plants survived.
Recently, empresses, princes and princesses from various palaces often come here to admire the green plum blossoms. The green plum blossoms are just a little sparse, and they can be discovered as soon as they leave. The palace maids and eunuchs who pick the flowers will definitely have to go to the Ye Ting.
His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince is young and ignorant, and the ones who will be punished will only be the palace servants and eunuchs who did not know how to advise the young master.
But the Fifth Prince is not someone who is easy to offend. He doesn't care whether you have your own difficulties or whether the flower can be picked. He only knows that he did not get what he wanted and the palace servants disobeyed his orders.
Meihua dared to threaten the Fifth Prince because she was the close maid of Concubine Zhi Fu Mengli. She and the head palace maid Qingxue were both favored by Concubine Zhi and were deeply trusted by Concubine Zhi.
Meihua was not usually responsible for serving the Fifth Prince. She worked under the nose of Concubine Zhi. She was not afraid of the Fifth Prince's annoying tactics, but they were miserable.
I can't tell whether it is more painful to be punished by the Fifth Prince or to go to the Yunting Palace. Now it's not right to break the throne, and it's not right to break the throne either.
"Why don't you take action yet? Don't you intend to take me seriously?"
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang stood on the white marble steps, raised his little face and asked with a smile.
That innocent and lovely childish smile made them extremely frightened.
"Reporting to His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, our hesitation is not an attempt to disobey you.
But we servants were thinking that since the green plums you asked us to pick were to be given to Concubine Zhi as a gift to show your filial piety, then these green plums must not be damaged in any way.
No matter how careful we are when we pick flowers with our bare hands, there will definitely be some flaws on the branches. Besides, how can the green plums we pick have the same love and care as the ones you picked with your own hands?
Why don't you enjoy the flowers here first, Your Highness the Fifth Prince? I can run fast, and when I get the scissors back from the Jade Hall, you can use them to cut the green plums, wouldn't that be more appropriate?"
A palace servant came out and gave earnest advice.
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang hesitated for a moment and was about to agree when he suddenly saw the palace servants and eunuchs looking relieved. He said in a somewhat vicious tone:
"Kneel down. Don't try to fool me just because I'm young."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Mingzhang slapped the palace maid in the face with his small hand.
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