"What?" Princess Rongfu glanced at Su Li, her eyes tinged with subtle jealousy, her tone brimming with threats. "You want to excuse her?"

The noble ladies were silent.

The maid who walked to Pei Mingyue's side stopped what she was doing and waited for Princess Rongfu's instructions.

Su Li stood up and bowed, then said calmly, "I dare not. But Princess, you may not know that my husband, Pei Ji, is the junior apprentice of Miss Pei San's uncle. According to seniority, she should call Pei Ji "Uncle Master." Therefore, Pei Ji is not an outsider to Miss Pei San. It is not against the rules of the family for Miss Pei San to discuss her own uncle."

In aristocratic families, any man who has no connection with the family is considered an outsider. It is actually reasonable to say that Pei Ji is not an outsider based on his relationship with Pei Chuan. After all, the Great Jin Kingdom respects teachers and values ​​filial piety. Pei Ji and Pei Chuan studied under the same master, so their relationship as brothers cannot be easily ignored. Pei Ji can certainly be regarded as Pei Mingyue's formal uncle.

Princess Rongfu stared at Su Li for a long time. Her words were reasonable and well-founded. According to what she said, it would be untenable for her to teach Pei Mingyue a lesson now.

Oh!

This country woman is smarter and braver than the girls from aristocratic families. I underestimated her before.

She smiled meaningfully and said, "I didn't know Madam Pei was so sharp-tongued."

Su Li pretended not to understand what she meant and just said, "Princess, you are so kind."

The maid beside Pei Mingyue received a signal from Princess Rongfu and respectfully returned behind her.

Pei Mingyue couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. If she was really slapped in the face in public, she was afraid that her Ningyuan Marquisate would lose face. In fact, she still couldn't understand why Princess Rongfu suddenly targeted her. In the past, when she attended banquets, everyone joked like this, and she had never seen the princess act like this.

Thinking of her mother's instructions, she couldn't help but look at Su Li worriedly. Su Li had offended the princess because of her, and she didn't know if...

Seeing that she still hadn't succeeded in teaching Pei Mingyue a lesson even after all this, Zhang Ruying was so angry that her face turned green.

The noble ladies found it incredible.

Princess Rongfu was born with a lucky star destiny and has done many good deeds that benefited the people over the years. She enjoys a great reputation among the people, and the people only regard her as a kind and loving lucky star princess.

But in fact, only people from their aristocratic family knew that the princess's true character was domineering and overbearing. No one among them, the noble ladies of the aristocratic family, dared to provoke her easily, especially someone like Madam Pei, who rejected her opinion, which had never happened before.

Of course, I heard from the elders in my family that a noble lady did this many years ago, but later she fell into the water and died.

Everyone secretly speculated that it was the work of Princess Rongfu, but speculation was just speculation, and the noble lady's family did not pursue the matter, simply saying it was an accident. Who knew the truth?

Anyway, from then on, many elders from aristocratic families would warn their daughters not to offend Princess Rongfu when interacting with her.

Now they are a little confused. Why does Madam Pei have such confidence? Is she ignorant and fearless, or is she really on good terms with the princess?

Princess Rongfu paused, then continued, "Madam Pei, do you know why I made an exception and invited you to the banquet?"

Of course Su Li knew about it. He just wanted to use all kinds of threats and intimidation to force her to divorce Pei Ji on her own initiative.

In the original novel, she treated the original owner and the original heroine in the same way, but she was unsuccessful.

The original owner had a kind heart. The most vicious thing she could think of was beating and exploiting her like her mother-in-law did. She never imagined that Princess Rongfu could be so vicious as to burn her and her two children to death. She also loved Pei Ji wholeheartedly, so she would not be forced by her to divorce Pei Ji.

But the heroine in the original novel is not afraid of her at all.

But she knew it was one thing, but she couldn't just say it out loud. She just said, "Your Highness is stupid, so please explain it to me, Princess."

"The Emperor values ​​Lord Pei very much. I am of the same mind as the Emperor and should also take care of Madam Pei."

Su Li would never believe such nonsense, and said calmly, "Thank you, Princess."

Princess Rongfu continued, "Master Pei is highly valued by our father, and his future is bound to be limitless. As his wife, you must not hold him back and expose him to ridicule. As Miss Zhang Er said, Madam Pei comes from the countryside and is unfamiliar with many rules and etiquette, which could lead to her being impolite on important occasions. I have already spoken to our father, and I will be sending a nanny from the Princess's residence to the Champion's residence to teach Madam Pei proper etiquette."

Oh!

Su Li sneered. No matter how much the emperor valued Pei Ji, he would not care about his inner house. Princess Rongfu, on the other hand, would act on her own.

But the emperor's order is hard to disobey. Princess Rongfu has already told the emperor about sending a tutor, isn't she trying to make it impossible for her to refuse?

She wanted to see what tricks she was going to play, so she readily responded, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, and thank you, Princess, for your care..."

Princess Rongfu tilted her head and called out, "Madam Kong."

Then, a woman of about forty years old with a mean look came in from outside the pavilion and said respectfully, "This old servant greets the princess. Long live the princess."

Princess Rongfu instructed: "Madam Kong, when you go to the No. 1 Scholar's Mansion, you must teach Madam Pei well."

"I obey your command."

Then he walked up to Su Li and bowed, "Mrs. Pei."

Su Li nodded: "Mrs. Kong, thank you for your help."

Only then did Madam Kong retreat behind Su Li, pushing Xiao Wu aside and acting like a nanny in charge.

Everyone was stunned. What was going on? Was Princess Rongfu and Madam Pei's relationship simply because the Emperor valued Master Pei? The princess's attitude was truly strange, but they couldn't quite put their finger on it. For a moment, the atmosphere was eerily quiet.

Princess Rongfu seemed to have lost interest in admiring the flowers and said lazily, "It's getting late. Let's end today's banquet. Let's all go..."

There were too many unexpected things happening at the banquet today, and the ladies had lost interest. After hearing the princess' words, they all said goodbye and left.

"Ayue, I have something to tell you later."

After leaving Ningxiang Villa, Wang Tingyi said goodbye to the two of them and left in her own carriage. Su Li asked Xiaowu and Xiao Ye to take Nanny Kong back to the house first, while she got in Pei Mingyue's carriage.

In the carriage, Pei Mingyue spoke first: "A Li, I'm afraid you have offended Princess Rongfu today for my sake..."

Su Li sighed and said, "It's not just me who has offended Princess Rongfu, you too."

"Me?" Pei Mingyue frowned, puzzled. "To be honest, I don't know what I did to offend her. She suddenly targeted me. Could it be because I said something about Zhang Ruying? Is she standing up for Zhang Ruying?"

Su Li shook her head. Zhang Ruying was just a dog to her. She would only blame her for not doing things well. How could she stand up for her? "Because of Pei Ji."