Shi Feixian's hand tilted, and an ugly branch appeared on the plum blossom branch. She put down the brush and took a handkerchief from a maidservant to wipe her hands. She calmly said, "Today is supposed to be a small gathering between us sisters, so there's no need to bring up irrelevant people. Le Wen. "
"Yes, yes, who cares who he is, what does it have to do with us?" A noble lady who was attached to the Shi Family smiled and tried to smooth things over. "There's still two cups of tea's time left. If your painting isn't done by then, be careful of being punished."
"Aiya, which one of you took my brush? Where did my brush go?"
"Where's my paint?"
The noble ladies immediately panicked, as if they were really worried that they wouldn't be able to finish their paintings and would be punished.
A young lady who was standing in the corner rolled her eyes. Shi Feixian was pretending to be noble and virtuous, but who knew how much hatred she had in her heart? Who didn't know that she was interested in Cheng Anbo?
Even someone like her who had just entered the capital knew that she was interested in Cheng Anbo, so how could the others not know?
They were all just pretending not to know. If she had known that the gathering would be so boring, she wouldn't have come today.
It didn't matter if you thought you were as beautiful as a fairy or talented. If someone didn't like you, then so be it. You couldn't force them to marry you, right? If it was someone else, then so be it. But Cheng Anbo wasn't someone the Shi Family could casually bully.
"Miss Yao, what did you draw?" A young lady came over to take a look and asked in confusion. "A fighting chicken? Why did you draw this? "The strangest thing was that the chicken's feathers were a mess, as if it had been defeated in a fight.
"I just drew it for fun." Yao Ling's eyes were like two apricots, and she looked a little naive. "Don't you think this is quite interesting?"
Her companion shook her head in confusion. She was speechless at Yao Ling's strange sense of beauty.
Yao Ling was the youngest among them. Her father was the Minister of Revenue, Yao Peiji. So even though she had been raised in her maternal grandmother's house and had only recently returned to the capital, not many people dared to give her any attitude. In addition, Yao Peiji was an expert in painting, and Yao Ling had inherited some of his style, so even though she was only fourteen years old, she had already gained some fame in the capital.
"Flowers and grass are all dead things. What otherworldly and spiritual are all added by us mediocre people." Yao Ling added a few feathers that had fallen to the ground beside the fighting chicken. Instantly, the chicken became even more lively. "I love to draw living things, and I love to draw living people."
"Forget it, forget it. Your mouth is full of logic. I can't win against you in an argument."
Yao Ling smiled and didn't say anything else.
Shi Feixian tilted her head and glanced at Yao Ling. She lowered her eyes slightly to hide the gloominess in her eyes. She didn't know why, but she didn't really like this little girl from the Yao Family. Although Yao Ling was the legitimate daughter of the Yao Family, the way she spoke and acted was more like someone from the countryside, without the bearing of a noble family's daughter. If it wasn't for the fact that her father still needed Yao Peiji's support, she wouldn't be able to stay with this kind of person.
Because of her irritation, she couldn't help but draw a bit of it, so the plum blossoms that she drew appeared a bit dark.
Li Xiaoru, who was closer to Shi Feixian, hid to the side and secretly let the ink splash on the plum blossoms that she had drawn. Only after the ink didn't look as good did she secretly let out a sigh of relief.
"Caw!"
A fat sparrow suddenly fell from the forest. While the noble ladies were still in a daze, two guards ran out of the forest and picked up the sparrow from the ground.
The guards standing guard outside the pavilion vigilantly looked at the two men who had suddenly appeared, their hands on the hilts of their swords.
The atmosphere became very tense, until a familiar figure walked out. Only then did the guards outside the pavilion let out a sigh of relief.
"Did you see that? Little brat, I already said that your skills weren't good enough, but you still dared to argue with me. "Ban Han took the sparrow from the guard's hand and stuffed it to the child behind him." This is called accuracy, do you understand? If you don't aim accurately, you'll be beaten if you come out with something that can hurt people. "
After Li Xiaoru saw the little boy standing behind Ban Han, he threw down the brush and ran towards Ban Han.
"Greetings, Princess Fule." Li Xiaoru carefully stood in front of the little boy. "My younger brother is not sensible and has caused trouble for you, Your Highness."
"Isn't it causing trouble?" Ban Han put one hand on his waist. "This little brat was shooting everywhere with a slingshot and almost startled my horse. If I didn't react fast enough, I would have fallen off the horse."
"Ah?" Li Xiaoru looked at his younger brother in despair. Brother, what kind of bad luck did you have to provoke this demon?
"This little brat still has the nerve to say that he is a sharpshooter." Ban Han looked at Li Xiaoru proudly and stretched out his hand to poke his forehead. "Well, I've done it. You should fulfill your promise."
Li Wang was spoiled growing up in the Li family. He wanted the stars but not the moon. At this moment, he didn't say anything even when Ban Han poked him.
Li Xiaoru looked at his younger brother in surprise. What was going on?
After a long while, Li Wang mumbled softly, "Boss!"
"Louder, I can't hear you!" Ban Han crossed his arms and didn't feel guilty at all for bullying a child.
"Boss!" Li Wang came out from behind Li Xiaoru and stood in front of Ban Han with a red face. "I lost the bet. From now on, I'm your younger brother."
Li Xiaoru was speechless.
"Your Highness," Shi Feixian walked over, lowered his head and gently wiped Li Wang's forehead where Ban Han had poked him with a handkerchief. Then he curtsied to Ban Han. "Your Highness, Li Xiaoru is still young and ignorant. If there is any misunderstanding, I apologize on his behalf. Since he is still a child, please forgive him."
Li Wang glanced at Ban Han and saw that she didn't look well. So he moved to the side to keep a distance from Shi Feixian.
"A child?" Ban Han raised his eyebrows. "If he hurt someone with a slingshot today, would they not blame the Li family because he is a child?"
Li Xiaoru pinched the corner of his skirt and whispered, "Princess Fule is right."
Shi Feixian looked at Li Xiaoru with a sullen face and didn't say anything.
"I know Miss Shi is gentle and kind, but I'm teaching my younger brother now. How can it be considered bullying?" Ban Han pulled Li Wang to her side and raised her chin. "Come on, tell Miss Shi what the relationship between Big Sister and your younger brother is."
"As Big Sister's younger brother, I have to lead the horse, lift her skirt, and run errands for her. I have to do it regardless of rain or shine." Li Wang straightened his chest. "I'm a man. I will keep my word."
Li Xiaoru's heart was on the verge of breaking down. 'Little brother, don't think that this princess is a goddess just because she's pretty. She's someone who can come in third place just because she wants to. You're not even fully grown yet. How can you be a man?
But for some reason, Li Xiaoru didn't say a word against his younger brother when he first showed such a responsible look. Maybe in her heart, Ban Han wasn't a rude and unreasonable woman. Maybe … maybe it was a good thing for her younger brother to be bullied by her.
Shi Feixian originally wanted to speak for the Li siblings, but who knew that the older one was as timid as a mouse and the younger one was as stupid as a pig. It even made her lose face. She looked at the Li siblings and smiled faintly. "Since Li Langjun is willing to be bullied by Princess Ban, then I am meddling in other people's business."
"Big Sister is teaching her younger brother a lesson. How can that be considered bullying?" Ban Han didn't like to hear people's words that hid needles in cotton floss. Usually, she would directly refute them.
"No!" Li Wang shook his head honestly. "It's called training."
Shi Feixian's smile became cold. How did the Li family teach their children to be so insensible?
"Your Grace, why are you here?" Shi Feixian looked at the girls behind her. "Are you also interested in poetry and painting, Your Grace?"
Ban Han had made an appointment with Rong Xia to go to another village to see peacocks today. She didn't expect to meet this little kid who was shooting randomly with a slingshot on the way, so she showed him what a real slingshot was. At this moment, Rong Xia was still waiting for her outside the forest.
"Miss Shi, please don't make fun of me. Everyone here knows that I'm good at poetry, music, chess, calligraphy, and painting." Ban Hua dragged Li Wang back to Li Xiaoru and said, "I'll return this child to you. Go back and teach him well. Don't let him cause any trouble. If something really happens, it'll be too late for regrets."
"Thank you for your reminder, Your Grace." Li Xiaoru sincerely saluted Ban Han and thanked her. "When we go back, my family and I will teach him well."
"Okay, I've said what I wanted to say. I should go now." Ban Han turned around and just took two steps, Rong Xia came from outside. She thought that she had made Rong Xia wait for too long, so he came to find her. She felt a little guilty. It was a sin to make a beauty wait for her.
Of course, she automatically ignored the fact that she had made Rong Xia wait for her for less than an hour half a month ago.
No matter how beautiful a person was, he couldn't affect her beauty sleep. Besides this, she still felt pity for beauties.
Seeing Ban Han running towards him, Rong Xia was worried that she would trip on the newly grown bamboo shoots on the ground, so he quickened his pace and walked to Ban Han. "It's still early. We're not in a hurry."
Ban Han smiled at him.
"Earl Rong?" Shi Feixian looked at Rong Xia in shock, and then looked at Ban Han in front of him. He couldn't keep the smile on his face. He widened his eyes in horror, as if he didn't want to believe that everything in front of him was real.
"Miss Shi." Rong Xia greeted Shi Feixian with an indifferent expression. She lowered her head and looked at Ban Yu beside her. She smiled and said, "My fiancée and I have disturbed everyone's mood. Please forgive us. We will leave now."
"Fiancée … Ban Han?" Shi Feixian's fingernails dug into his flesh. He looked like he was crying and laughing at the same time, which looked very strange. "It turns out that Earl Rong's fiancée is Ban … Princess Fule. I don't know when they got married. I didn't know anything about it before."
"Why should you know about my marriage with Earl Rong?" Ban Han turned to look at her. "What does it have to do with you?"
Was he trying to steal her husband in front of her?
"I'm not asking you," Shi Feixian sneered. "Your Highness, you don't have to take it to heart."
Ban Han raised his eyebrows and looked at Shi Feixian as if he was looking at an idiot. "You're asking me when I got married to Earl Rong, but you say you're not asking me. Are you asking my fiancée in front of me?"
The noble ladies who were painting put down their brushes and looked curiously at the scene outside the pavilion.
"Da!" A drop of ink splashed on the paper, ruining the artistic conception of the painting. But Yao Ling didn't care at all. Her eyes were fixed on the painting as she looked outside in a daze.
What a beautiful person. The men and women she had seen before were all impure. Only the person in front of her was like the bright moon in the sky, a stunner in the world. If she could see this person often and paint for him, she wouldn't be willing to exchange it even if she was offered ten thousand taels of gold.
"Miss Yao, Miss Yao," The woman next to Yao Ling tugged on her sleeve. Seeing the dazed smile on her face, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
Oh no, she was most likely enchanted by Cheng Anbo again.
In ancient times, there was a saying that beautiful women were the source of trouble. This Cheng Anbo was simply a femme fatale. His status was noble, he was favored by the Emperor, his appearance was like jade, he was elegant and graceful, and he was respected by scholars.
How could a young girl like Miss Yao resist the attraction of such an outstanding person?
It was a pity that her husband already had a fiancée. If she continued to pester him, it would be too embarrassing.
The only thing she didn't expect was that Cheng Anbo's fiancée was Ban Han. This was really … really too inconceivable.
"Miss Shi," Rong Xia's smile disappeared and her tone was cold. "Princess Fule's words are this one's intentions."
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