"Ban Han." As soon as Jiang Luo saw Ban Han, he felt uncomfortable all over. Last time when they were hunting in the suburbs of the capital, Ban Han had pretended to be crazy and caused him to suffer a loss. He hadn't been able to swallow this anger. Now that he saw Ban Han's smiling face, he felt the anger in his chest rise.
"Your Highness," Ban Huai saw that Jiang Luo's expression wasn't quite right. He stood in front of Ban Han and bowed to Jiang Luo.
"Marquis of Jingting," Jiang Luo sneered and looked at Ban Huai with disdain. "I heard that when the Duke Of Jingting was alive, his archery skills could shoot a willow leaf from a hundred paces away. This prince is very much looking forward to it. I don't know if the Marquis of Jingting could give me a few pointers."
The palace servants all around fell silent. Who in the court didn't know that the Marquis of Jingting wasn't good at horseback archery? His Highness, the Second Prince, was almost openly mocking the Marquis of Jingting for being incompetent. They only hated themselves for having ears and for being here to serve today.
"Don't make fun of me, Second Prince. Who in the capital doesn't know that I can't carry a shoulder, can't use my hands, and can't use either literature or martial arts. If you want me to teach you how to eat, drink, and play, it's fine, but I'll skip archery." Ban Huai had lived to this age and had heard ridicule from others. He had even heard words even harsher than the Second Prince's. Therefore, the Second Prince's ridicule didn't affect him at all. "However, if Your Highness really likes archery, my daughter has the style of my father. You can ask her instead of me."
Other people modestly called his son 'my son', but Ban Huai took a different approach and called his daughter 'my daughter'. He was just short of bluntly saying that although his daughter was a girl, she was more than enough to teach him, a prince, archery.
The Second Prince sneered: "Princess Fule is naturally not inferior to men. She can make all the men in the world feel ashamed of their inferiority and retreat."
He was using the fact that Ban Han's engagement was broken off. But was Ban Han the type to suffer losses?
In fact, Ban Yu admired the Second Prince quite a bit. Every time he suffered at her hands, he would not learn his lesson. Instead, he would run to her and talk bad. This time, it was even worse. He even mocked her father. How could she tolerate this?
Of course, she couldn't tolerate it!
"Your Highness, I know that you don't like me.... I have no objection to you mocking me... But why did you insult my father?" Ban Yu grabbed the Second Prince's sleeve. Her voice was trembling, her expression was aggrieved, and her eyes were red. "As the saying goes, if the monarch is humiliated, the minister will die. If the father humiliates the son, it means that I am guilty. I will admit my guilt. Why do you treat my father like this?
............................... He was surprised. Ban Han looked so charming. How could she be so strong? What did she eat to grow up?
"I don't want to talk to you. You come with me to His Majesty..." Ban Han pulled. The Second Prince staggered and was dragged into the palace by Ban Han.
"Good girl, don't!" Ban Huai seemed to have just reacted. He turned around and tried to grab Ban Yu, but he suddenly lost his footing and fell to the ground. By the time the palace servants helped him up, there was no sign of Princess Fu Le and the second prince. They had already been dragged into the palace.
Jiang Luo didn't react until Ban Han dragged him into the palace. He scolded in a low voice: "Ban Han, you're crazy!" After saying that, he pushed Ban Ti with his hand, causing Ban Ti to stagger backwards. After knocking over a fine porcelain long-necked vase, Ban Ti fell to the ground.
No, he didn't use so much strength...
...... He looked up. Sure enough, he saw that his father and his benevolent elder brother didn't look right.
"Cousin." The Crown Prince was stunned. He wanted to help Ban Han up, but he remembered that men and women shouldn't touch each other. Fortunately, the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace were smart. They hurried forward to help Ban Han up. They even cleaned up the broken porcelain on the ground.
Ban Han's skin was soft. A light scratch from a nail could leave a red mark. Her arm knocked over the vase. Her left arm suddenly became red and swollen. It looked very scary.
The Emperor and the Crown Prince didn't want to stare at the girl's arm. But just a glance was enough to make them feel that the injury was scary.
"What are you waiting for? Go get the imperial physician." Emperor Yunqing glared at the eunuchs in the room. He didn't even look at Jiang Luo. "Little girl, sit down first. Don't move your arm. It won't be good if you hurt your bones."
Men, especially adult men with high status, had always been reluctant to see beautiful girls get hurt. It had nothing to do with the feelings between men and women. It had to do with their inner thoughts of dominating.
"Father, elder brother, she bumped into the vase herself. It has nothing to do with me." Jiang Luo felt that there was something wrong with the way everyone in the hall looked at him. Even though these palace maids and eunuchs all kept their heads lowered, he could still feel that their attitudes toward him were completely different from their attitudes toward his older brother.
"Shut up!" No matter how much Emperor Yunqing favored his son, he couldn't accept his son's violent personality. If it was just a palace maid, it would be fine. But this was his cousin, his grandaunt's granddaughter.
He personally conferred the title of Commandery Princess. She was injured in the Great Moon Palace, and the one who hurt her was his son. If this spread out, how would the courtiers view the imperial family? How would the scholars judge him?
Emperor Yunqing already felt guilty toward the Princess Royal. In addition, the Princess Royal had never made any excessive demands of him. Although his cousin Ban Huai was foppish, he hadn't caused him any big trouble. As for Ban Han, his niece, he really liked her. Seeing her injured like this, his heart ached.
"Imperial Father, she, she …" The second prince's entire body was covered in blood and he couldn't speak clearly. Everyone saw that he had pushed Ban Yu. "Please believe this son. This son really didn't push her so hard. She bumped into it herself."
"Second brother!" The Crown Prince saw that Ban Han had lowered his head and was trying hard not to cry. He spoke to Jiang Luo sternly. "Cousin is a woman. How can you treat her like this?"
"How? She pushed me?" Jiang Luo almost couldn't breathe. He snorted. "Don't put on airs in front of me. I don't need you to educate me!"
Emperor Yunqing was about to get angry when Ban Huai ran in from outside.
"Your Majesty!" After Ban Huai entered, he lowered his head and apologized to Emperor Yunqing. "Your Majesty, I didn't teach my daughter well. I let her disturb Your Majesty. Please forgive me."
Seeing Ban Huai's panicked and guilty expression, Emperor Yunqing and the Crown Prince were a bit embarrassed. Their family had pushed a delicate little girl, and her father had come in to apologize. This was really …
Emperor Yunqing hadn't been so embarrassed in a long time. He turned his head and saw Ban Han looking at him with wide eyes. His embarrassment turned into anger and he rushed at Jiang Luo. "Where did all the etiquette and morals you learned all these years go?! Why aren't you apologizing to Huahua?! "
If he could swear at this moment, Jiang Luo would definitely swear. But obviously, he couldn't. He could only straighten his neck and stare fiercely at Ban Han without saying a word.
"Aiyo, my good girl, what happened to your hand?!" Ban Huai saw that Ban Han's wrist was red and bruised. His voice changed. "Does it hurt? Did you hurt your bones?"
Emperor Yunqing glanced at the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince walked over to Ban Huai, who was circling around his cousin. "Marquis, it's my fault. I didn't stop my second brother …"
"Second Prince?!" Ban Huai turned his head and stared at Jiang Luo. His expression kept changing. Finally, his shoulders slumped. He said to Emperor Yunqing, "Your Majesty, I'm incompetent. I've been incompetent since I was young. I've brought shame to the royal family. The second prince doesn't like me and my daughter. It's my fault. It has nothing to do with the second prince. My daughter wasn't careful when she was walking and bumped her arm. I'll take her back for treatment. "
Emperor Yunqing knew that Ban Huai said this to protect his second son's reputation. He couldn't help but remember when he was young. One year, he accidentally broke something that his father liked. At that time, his father already had the intention of dethroning the Crown Prince, so he was very afraid. He didn't expect his cousin, Ban Huai, to take the blame for him.
Later, he thanked Ban Huai. Ban Huai said that it was fine if he was reprimanded, as long as he, the Crown Prince, was fine.
So many years had passed. Ban Huai never mentioned the past, and he gradually forgot about it. But today, when he heard Ban Huai say this, he suddenly remembered that afternoon when Ban Huai took the blame for him.
"Cousin, you don't blame him, but I have to punish him," Emperor Yunqing said to the second prince with a heavy expression, "Since you didn't learn proper etiquette, go back to the palace and copy books. Don't leave the palace before the New Year."
As an adult prince, he had to copy books and learn proper etiquette. For a prince, this was a slap to his face.
The second prince almost went crazy with anger. Between him and Ban Han, who was his father's child?!
The Ban Family father and daughter left the palace under the guilty gazes of the Emperor and the Crown Prince. When they returned to the Ban Family, Ban Han shook his arm, sweeping away the grievance and pity from before. He drank the tea that Ban Heng had personally poured for him and said, "If Jiang Luo wasn't a prince, I would have found someone to put a gunnysack over his head and beat him to death."
The Yin Clan brought over a box of ointment. As he applied the ointment for Ban Han, he said, "Your arm is already bruised, and you're still thinking about this?"
He didn't know who this girl got her skin from. It was white and tender, and a light touch would leave a mark. If she was pampered like this, it would be fine. But what would happen after five years?
"That's not right. Father, sister, you two made such a scene. Why are you still helping Jiang Luo cover it up?" Ban Heng looked at Ban Yu in confusion. With his sister's personality of taking revenge, if she couldn't take revenge, she would hold a grudge for the rest of her life. She didn't seem like someone who would repay evil with good.
"There are no secrets in the palace." The Yin Clan put down the ointment and sneered, "Unless we kill everyone in the Great Moon Palace, this matter will spread out sooner or later."
The second prince had been making more and more trouble recently. Those who supported the Crown Prince couldn't sit still. How could they miss such a good opportunity to use against him?
In the face of power, what did the brothers of the imperial family count for?
Ban Heng sucked in a breath of cold air, "Then the Emperor won't suspect that we did it, right?"
"Didn't we just say that your sister accidentally fell when we asked the imperial doctor to treat her?" The Yin Clan said calmly, "Since it was an accident on our side, the rest has nothing to do with us."
In the mansion of Cheng Anbo, the steward changed a cup of tea for Rong Xia. Thinking that the Earl had been reading for a long time, the steward said, "Earl, I just heard a rumor about the second prince outside."
"What rumor?" Rong Xia didn't raise his head. This prince had always been restless, so it wasn't strange for him to spread some news.
"It's said that the second prince broke Princess Fule's arm at the gate of the Great Moon Palace."
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