"Hey, Prince Hong is coming," someone shouted.

Seeing Prince Hong coming, many people followed to watch the fun. After all, the recent rumors in the capital were all about these two fools.

"How shameless, a seductive vixen." Zhou Liyao, who was standing next to Chen Yaqian, was so angry that she even said she had fox eyes.

The four girls who were watching the excitement upstairs also came downstairs. The noise here was really too loud.

"Princess Jiale is here." Someone spotted Miss Pan II.

"Princess, look how well-matched they are. They are truly a perfect match, a match made in heaven." Chen Yaqian looked at Prince Hong with a smile on her face and said to Miss Pan.

"She admitted that she is a vixen herself. How shameless." Zheng Wanran, the fifth daughter of Duke Yu, is the one with freckles on her face that cannot be covered even by two kilograms of flour. She has already thought of a thousand ways of revenge, but she has no way to implement them at the moment.

Then, everyone consciously made way for Miss Pan Er. Miss Pan Er enjoyed this kind of treatment very much. She walked towards Liu Jingcheng calmly, silently announcing to everyone that she was the woman who could stand by her cousin's side.

In the minds of Miao Xinyi and Miss Pan, they are cousins ​​and naturally have more priority than outsiders. Miao Xinyi's birth is too low and she dare not do it too obviously, but Miss Pan has no scruples at all. Her uncle is the emperor, her aunt is the queen, her mother is the eldest princess, and her father is the Duke of Dingguo. She is the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion and the Princess Jiale, who was personally conferred by the emperor. This status is only slightly lower than that of a princess, and she has the capital to do whatever she wants since she was a child.

"Cousin, didn't you say you would play the piano with me?" Liu Jingcheng was about to leave as he had things to do, but was pulled by Miss Pan's sleeve, making him a little unhappy.

Even if he didn't want to marry, he would never marry Miss Pan. The feud between him and the Queen was irreconcilable, but the time for revenge had not yet come.

The queen is the daughter of the Pan family, and the second Miss Pan is also the daughter of the Pan family. In his opinion, no one in the Pan family deserves to die.

Fourteen-year-old Miss Pan Er is essentially still a child, in her rebellious youth, and likes to go against others in everything. Because of her wealthy family and powerful people, being willful is her normal state of life. Seeing that Liu Jingcheng didn't want to pay attention to her, Miss Pan Er grabbed his sleeve and refused to let go, insisting that he play the piano with her.

Seeing Liu Jingcheng staring at Hua Xiyu, she felt uncomfortable and asked bluntly:

"You must be Miss Hua who came back from Shuiyue Temple." It is simply a daydream for a stupid woman to covet her cousin.

Not to mention that the imperial edict has not been issued yet, even if it has been issued, as long as it is what she wants, Daddy and Mommy can go to the palace to find Uncle, and the imperial edict can be changed.

"I'm Hua Xiyu." She took a step back. It's better to stay away from this kind of middle school boy.

"Why don't you bow to me when you see me?" Miss Pan looked at the girl wearing a veil arrogantly and reached out to take it off.

Hua Xiyu rolled her eyes at her and dodged to the side, avoiding the attack very easily. How could she let the veil she had just put on be taken off again?

Liu Jingcheng brushed away Miss Pan's hand unnoticeably and said, "Cousin, don't you want to play the piano?"

"Oh, Prince Xuan is protecting me now!"

"What if she's ugly after taking off the veil?" People who hadn't seen Hua Xiyu's true face before still thought that she was an ugly, talentless and immoral woman from Shuiyue Temple.

Someone immediately took over the conversation, "Didn't she say her skin was as white as cream?"

"It doesn't matter if you're ugly, as long as you're talented"

"Yes, yes, Miss Hua knows everything about astronomy and geography."

"Hahaha, not afraid of spraining your tongue"

Everyone automatically ignored the fact that she was extremely beautiful, mainly because Hua Xiyu put on the veil too quickly and many people did not see her true face.

Hearing these sarcastic words, Hua Xiyu didn't even bother to pay any attention. He was probably very angry just now. Although he couldn't avenge the humiliation of his fiancée now, he could still talk big for a while.

"You are really well-educated." Hua Hongming was so angry when he heard these people talking. He didn't understand how his sister had offended these people that they were targeting her like this.

"Why, Mr. Hua is also sure that your sister is a talented woman?"

"Whether it's true or not is none of your business." Hua Hongming was so angry that he almost died. He wished he had ten mouths to scold these people to death.

"Second brother, why bother arguing with others?" Hua Hongyan spoke out to stop him. There was no need to argue with outsiders about family matters.

"Hmph, my sister knows everything about astronomy and geography, and you're not convinced?" Hua Hongming shouted unconvincedly when he was scolded by his elder brother.

"I just don't accept it. How dare a woman who grew up in Shuiyue Temple call herself a talented woman? Then all my years of hard study would be a joke," Young Master Zhao raised his head provocatively at Hua Hongming with a look of contempt.

"Everyone, let's have a competition. The loser will slap himself in the face twenty times. How about that?" The speaker was the second son of the Fu family, the fiancé of the short and fat girl just now. He didn't want to vent his anger on behalf of his fiancée, but he felt embarrassed that his fiancée was so ugly that Miss Hua said so in public, so he wanted to vent his anger on his own behalf.

The second son of Fu and Hua Hongmin studied in the same academy. They seldom interacted with each other, but they were a little dissatisfied with each other. They were both second sons, but Fu was a concubine's son and Hua was a legitimate son. The second son of Fu's fiancée was the legitimate daughter of the An family. Although she was not very good-looking, she married into the Fu family as a lower-class man.

A bastard's son was able to marry a legitimate daughter. He was originally very proud of his marriage, but now it was so unbearable after being talked about like this. He was very angry.

When they heard about the competition, many people started to make a fuss. Originally, the Osmanthus Banquet was a party for men and women to get to know each other and choose a mate, so everyone recited poems, painted, and played the piano together, which were all forms of communication. Therefore, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones were all prepared long ago.

On the female guests' side, most of the enraged young ladies have sobered up and dared not move forward. They did not want to make trouble for themselves. But there were always some confused ones. If they didn't step on the woman who came back from Shuiyue Temple today, they would feel very uncomfortable. They were holding their breath in their hearts and couldn't let it out. How could they let it go?

"Hua Qianyu, don't you look like a vixen? What else can you do besides seducing men!" The one who spoke was Zheng Wanran, the fifth lady of the Duke of Yu's Mansion. She couldn't swallow the humiliation she had just received, and now she rushed up to find trouble, "Huh, of course I don't have those skills that you have. Now I want to compete with you in playing the piano." Naturally, there was a group of people following her. There was nothing she could do, as she had a high status, there would always be a group of supporters around her. She pointed at another girl, "The sixth lady of Minister Zhou's family wants to compete with you in painting. Do you dare?"

Hua Xiyu looked at them with a smile. They were all a group of lively and cute middle school students. The oldest should be no more than seventeen years old, which was the age when they were most competitive. But I am only 20 years old, also at the age when I refuse to admit defeat. Comparing these with my sister, wouldn't that be humiliating?

As for the zither, is there any ancient music that can compare with modern music? Any pop song can beat them in seconds. As for chess, even Lee Sedol can't beat Ah Fa Go, so how good could the ancients be? Not to mention books, computers have all the fonts you need, and paintings are even better. Nowadays, any painting teacher in a kindergarten class can be more shocking than the flat paintings of the ancients.

Chinese civilization has made no contribution to the world in art, and seemingly no contribution in science either, so in this regard, the ancients had nothing to be proud of.

As for poetry, songs and lyrics, the ancients were naturally much better at it. However, we have been familiar with the 300 Tang poems since childhood, and even if we can't write poems, we can recite them. Compared with these, Hua Xiyu really wants to laugh three times.

"Are you sure you want to compete with me in these?" Her disdainful eyes and tone made the girls feel uncomfortable, but no one cared at this time. The passion had been ignited, and if they didn't determine the winner at this time, it would be a waste of their youth.

"Yes, do you dare?" another girl who chased after him said aggressively.

"Okay, the loser will slap himself 20 times." Hua Xiyu kept looking at the girls with a smile. Should he praise them for being brave or courageous?

The crowd that was about to disperse gathered around again. Liu Jingcheng had finally shaken off Miss Pan's hand, but now she grabbed his sleeve again. He was very annoyed and said, "Cousin, please respect yourself."

He regretted the moment these words came out of his mouth. He just didn't want Hua Xiyu to misunderstand that he was having an affair with other women, and didn't want to be reminded of the past in the future.

Miss Pan ran away in shock. Liu Jingcheng didn't bother to care about her. He couldn't take back what he had said, so he just let it go.

At this time, more and more people gathered around, even the ladies no longer maintained their status and came forward one after another.

The boundary between men and women is a situation, and under the eyes of the public, no one cares about it. At this moment, some people surrounded Hua Hongming to compete, while others surrounded Hua Xiyu to see who was better. At this moment, the garden of Prince Xuan's Mansion was very lively.

Men's contempt for women is engraved in their genes. Although some women are called talented women, they are nothing in the eyes of men, especially men in the old times. It is not in their genes to believe that women can surpass men, so they are happy to watch women laugh, especially those talented women laugh.

Seeing the women gathered together to compete in playing the piano, the men also stopped and gathered around to watch the fun.

As the hostess, Princess Xuan held an osmanthus banquet every year, but this year seemed particularly different. She was chatting with the eldest princess very contentedly, glancing over from time to time at the young people in the garden, feeling infinite emotion in her heart. Then, she saw Miss Pan II running over crying.

"Oh, my child, what happened?" The eldest princess had only one daughter, and she was in so much pain that her eyes were red from crying. She was extremely distressed.

Miss Pan threw herself into her mother's arms and cried so hard that her shoulders shook.

"Mother, can you ask uncle to order my cousin and I to get engaged first? That Hua Xiyu is a vixen, she seduced my cousin."

If it was anything else, the princess would have agreed without even thinking about it, but for this matter, she had to think it over carefully. She naturally knew that her brother, the emperor, would never allow the marriage between the Prince's Mansion and the Pan family, and the queen would not agree to it either.

The tragic massacre of the Mei family was planned by his good husband, Duke Dingguo Pan Renhui, and the Queen's brother and sister. How could Liu Jingcheng possibly marry the daughter of the Pan family?

To make this happen, she had to find another way. Liu Jingcheng was the son-in-law she had been looking for since her daughter was born, and she would never allow this to fall through.

She loved her children very much and if she wanted to live a rich and prosperous life forever, she could only marry into the royal family again. Liu Jingcheng was the best choice.

The eldest prince, Prince Rui, is really stupid, the second prince died young, and the next is Liu Jingcheng, who is pretending to be stupid. She has known this for a long time, and only the queen would think that he is really stupid. The crown prince Liu Jingyu is destined to have countless concubines in the harem. She doesn't want her daughter to live a life of competing with others for men all her life. She herself grew up in the harem and knows all the dirty tricks in the harem.

Princess Jing'an thought over and over again in her mind. Her daughter would be of marriageable age in less than a year, and when she turned 15, she could talk about marriage. The daughter of the Pan family would have no trouble finding a husband, but whether she would marry well or not was another matter.

Now, if she wanted to capture Liu Jingcheng, she had to make it a fait accompli so that the emperor could not refuse. Thinking of this, she immediately came up with an idea.

She turned around and told the nanny beside her something. Her wet nurse was murdered and the murderer has not been found yet. The nanny who followed her now was not as considerate and helpful as the wet nurse.

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