The next banquet began, and the Jiang family also found the most famous opera troupe in Beijing today.

It is really pleasant to eat while listening to opera.

The plays performed by this troupe are a bit different from usual ones, quite fresh.

The play "Five Daughters Paying Homage to Their Parents" is being performed on the stage right now. By the way, the script of this play was written by Bai Wanwan!

I didn't expect to catch it today, and this play is about filial piety. It was probably specially ordered by Mrs. Jiang, who wanted to make things difficult for Jiang Mingzhu.

Bai Wanwan took Jiang Mingzhu's hand and asked softly, "Sister Mingzhu, don't you feel bad?"

Jiang Mingzhu shook her head slightly and said with a wry smile:

“My grandmother told me before she died that my mother didn’t have much affection for me.

For so many years, they haven't even come to see me, as if they don't have a daughter like me.

Even when my grandmother passed away, they didn't care. I have long given up on such heartless family.

What's more, if I stay in the Jiang family all the time, I will definitely be controlled by others, and then I will get married blindly, which is not what I want at all.

What I want to do most is to go back to the village and grow my own things. Whether or not I am a daughter of the Jiang family is not important to me."

Bai Wanwan looked at her and said:

"Sister Jiang, you are really amazing!

I just want to ask if you have somewhere to go. I have so many farms that I can’t manage them all.”

Jiang Mingzhu said gracefully:

"Of course there is no problem, I am very good at managing a farm.

I am also homeless now. As long as you are willing to take me in, I will help you take care of all the farms."

Jiang Mingyue was truly homeless, and her farm belonged to the Jiang family, so naturally she had to return it.

Jiang Shuying glanced at her sideways and said in a long voice:

"I'm afraid our sister has been in the countryside for too long and has forgotten all the rules.

"Every young lady has never touched water, but you're the only one who's always thinking about digging the soil and farming. Don't you think it's embarrassing to have calluses on your hands?"

"That's right, at the last banquet, she didn't even know how to place her chopsticks." The girl from the Li family next to her covered her mouth and laughed, "I heard that when she first came to the capital, she would touch the glass lamps she saw and even asked if they were stars picked from the sky!"

Everyone burst into laughter. Some people murmured that it sounded unfashionable, while others shook their heads and sighed, saying, "He was raised in the countryside after all, he doesn't know anything."

Jiang Mingyue bit her lips, tears welled up in her eyes, and her nails almost dug into her palms.

Bai Wanwan said with a half-smile:

"So what if you're from the countryside? So what if you deal with the land? Do you think you're so great just because you can play music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?

Speaking of the father of the current emperor, he was the one who really came out of the mud and struggled to make his way.

In the early years, there was a severe drought in the world, crops died, and people were so hungry that they had to eat tree bark.

At that time, the old emperor carried a hoe and dug canals day and night, and led the villagers to dig wells for water.

He knew that only if the land was well cultivated could people survive.

After the old emperor ascended the throne, he always said that food is the most important thing for the people. There were also several vegetable plots in the palace, and he would go there to turn the soil and apply fertilizer whenever he had time.

What hung in the imperial study were not calligraphy or paintings, but maps of the harvests in various places. He knew better than the local county magistrate which county was suffering from a locust plague and which township had blocked canals.

Everyone said he was the "peasant emperor", but it was this peasant who ensured that the common people had food in their bowls and cotton in their clothes.

How dare you look down on country people?"

Mrs. Wang stood up and said:

"This little girl said it very well! When the late emperor was alive, he always said that without the people who worked hard in the fields, how could we live in such a magnificent mansion?

Without those people bending over to plant rice, how could we have white rice to eat?

These two girls are young but they remember all this. But you, on the other hand, look down on farmers just because you wear gold and silver?

When you’re hungry someday, I’ll see if you can still smile!

The ladies around also echoed, "That's right! Who doesn't have a farm? If there really were no farmers, we'd all be living on dirt."

Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she was shaking:

"Jiang Mingzhu, please stop embarrassing yourself in our house. Didn't you say you don't want to rely on the Jiang family?

So what are you doing here? You are just a dog in Bai Wanwan's house. I want to see how she treats you. "

Bai Wanwan stood up and said:

"Mrs. Jiang's words are really interesting. Who is staying here? What is there in your Jiang family that is worth us staying here for?

Sister Mingzhu, let’s go now.”

After saying that, he took Jiang Mingzhu out. As soon as Jiang Mingzhu got into the carriage, tears welled up in her eyes: "Sister, I'm really sorry. I feel so depressed."

Bai Wanwan quickly handed over a hot towel and said, "Sister, they don't understand how good you are. Don't be sad. It's not worth getting angry at people like them."

Jiang Mingzhu cried heartbreakingly: "I... I just don't understand why I am always the one who is abandoned? Why?"

Bai Wanwan directly hugged her into his arms and said:

"No! Don't you still have me, sister?

I actually really like the tomatoes my sister makes. They are so delicious and the sweetest tomatoes I have ever tasted. "

"Really? Wanwan, you're really nice. I just feel like I'm useless. I can't do anything except farming, accounting, and weaving."

"Oh my god! Sister, you are really amazing! How do you know so many things? You don't have the opportunity to learn in the countryside, so how about this?

You can come with me to the Princess's Mansion now, and follow me in learning what I learn every day," Bai Wanwan said.

Jiang Mingzhu wiped her tears and said, "This...this isn't good, right?"

"Hey! What's wrong with it? If I say it's okay, then it's okay. We are good sisters now. We share the good and the bad." Bai Wanwan took Jiang Mingzhu's hand and went straight into the princess's mansion.

Then I heard Shen Tao's scolding from behind:

"Bai Wanwan, are you still a human being?

I went out in your carriage, but you ran away, leaving me alone in the Jiang Mansion.

Are you itching for trouble? Do you still know who you are?

Jiang Mingzhu was so scared that she hid behind Bai Wanwan and asked, "What does he want to do?"

Bai Wanwan glared at Shen Tao coldly and said, "Are you still a man? I was bullied like this in the Jiang Mansion, and you didn't say a word."

Shen Tao coughed and said:

"Don't you know who's bullying whom? Look at your posture. Who wouldn't be scared when you stand there?

Besides, didn’t Mrs. Wang speak up for you later? Do you think she spoke up for you for no reason?

Bai Wanwan looked at him and asked, "How come this Madam Wang knows you?"

Shen Tao coughed and said, "She doesn't know me, but she knows the Eighteenth Prince. Her Lord Wang is very close to Gu Sinian."

Bai Wanwan said, "You mean Brother Si Nian is helping me tonight?"

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