Ji Changying reached out and clamped the other person's hand without thinking: "If you have something to say, talk it over. This is no joke."

She saw that the two men were not very old and it was not a life-and-death feud, so they would not use such harsh means, right?

This flowerpot looks like it weighs several kilograms. If it really falls down, it might be a matter of life or death.

Zhang Leyao struggled to break free but failed, and looked at her angrily: "Let go!"

Ji Changying grabbed the flowerpot and put it on the ground: "Such beautiful flowers, wouldn't it be a shame if they were broken?"

When the girls around saw her snatch the flowerpot, their expressions relaxed and they looked at her with some curiosity.

When the girl in blue saw someone speaking up for her, she quickly shrank behind Ji Changying and made faces at Zhang Leyao. Her smug look made Zhang Leyao's eyes spit fire.

Zhang Leyao was furious: "Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to me like that?"

She was so angry that she just wanted to vent her anger on someone, so she raised her hand and was about to hit Ji Changying in the face.

Seeing her action, Ji Changying's face turned cold and he slapped her hand away.

He strode to where the knife was placed and pulled it out.

The girls around them who had just relaxed gasped: "What are you doing? Calm down!"

Someone stepped forward and tried to stop her, but she gently pushed him away.

She walked up to Zhang Leyao with a knife in her hand and forcefully stuffed it into her hand.

He grabbed the girl in blue clothes next to him and said, "I'm nothing. You want to kill me, don't you? A flowerpot is no match for a knife. Come on! Cut her neck, use some force! One cut and the body will be torn apart. Blood will splatter three feet away. It's really exciting."

"If you don't have enough strength, it will be terrible! The neck is cut in half and the other half is still on the body. The person will not die immediately. Only blood will keep gushing out like a fountain. The person will lie on the ground twitching constantly, waiting to die."

The girls around her all looked at her in horror, and Zhang Leyao's hand holding the knife was shaking.

Just imagining that scene in my mind is a bit too much to bear.

Kou Yunyi was so frightened that his face turned pale. He stood there crying loudly: "Are you sick? I provoke you, and you actually instigated Zhang Leyao to kill me!"

Zhang Leyao also reacted, screamed in fear and quickly threw away the knife in his hand.

The knife hit the ground with a crisp sound of "clang".

The two men looked no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, and it was a bit funny to see them standing there shivering.

Ji Changying was overjoyed.

He is so courageous and yet so impulsive.

She turned around, found a place to sit down and leisurely ate the pastries on it.

Zhang Leyao and Kou Yunyi were both stunned.

No one has ever been able to offend both of them at the same time and still remain so calm!

Zhang Leyao raised her face like a proud golden peacock, strode up to Ji Changying, and swept the plate of cakes that Ji Changying was eating to the ground with her hand: "Who are your parents? Tell me their names!"

Ji Changying held a piece of cloud cake in her hand and looked at Zhang Leyao calmly: "You are wasting food."

Zhang Leyao curled her lips: "So what? You haven't told me who your parents are!"

The conversation between the two was completely on different channels. Ji Changying didn't want to pay attention to her and bent down to pick up the pastries on the ground.

Seeing that she ignored her, Zhang Leyao was furious. She stepped on the cake that Ji Changying was about to pick up and twisted it maliciously with her foot: "I'm asking you a question! Are you mute?"

As she said this, she reached out and pushed Ji Changying.

Although Kou Yunyi was somewhat resentful of Ji Changying for pulling her neck and having it chopped, she also disagreed with Zhang Leyao's behavior. She frowned and said, "Zhang Leyao, you're going too far!"

Everyone who could attend this banquet naturally knew Zhang Leyao's identity. She was the jewel in the crown of Liangzhou Governor Zhang Juzheng. Except for Kou Yunyi's father, Captain Kou, who was slightly better off, the other families were not as well-off as Zhang Leyao.

Although there are many girls who dislike Zhang Leyao.

But they would not offend Zhang Leyao for a stranger.

Ji Changying reached out and grabbed Zhang Leyao's wrist, then bent her arm behind her. Zhang Leyao's face turned pale: "Let go!"

"I've tolerated you for a long time. Do you deserve a beating?" Ji Changying said as he twisted her wrist even harder.

"You deserve a beating! If you don't let me go, I'll have my dad put you in jail!"

Zhang Leyao screamed in pain and became even more angry.

Ji Changying raised her foot and kicked her in the knee. Zhang Leyao fell to her knees. "Pick up the things for me!"

"I won't pick it up!"

Zhang Leyao turned her head and glared at her fiercely. She tried to grab Ji Changying with her other hand, but she grabbed her wrist.

Ji Changying exerted a little force on her hand, and Zhang Leyao felt that her wrist was about to break.

"I see you only care about eating and not about being beaten. I'll count to three. If you don't pick it up, I'll break your hands. I mean what I say!"

Ji Changying's tone was flat, but Zhang Leyao actually heard a hint of seriousness in it, and felt a chill on her back for a moment.

"one!"

"two!"

···

Before she could count to three, Zhang Leyao couldn't bear the severe pain in her wrist anymore and burst into tears.

She reached out to pick up the cakes on the ground while crying.

The others almost dropped their jaws in shock.

Even Kou Yunyi, who had been arguing with Zhang Leyao, seemed to be meeting Zhang Leyao for the first time.

She picked up all the cloud cakes and put them on the plate while crying, and only then did Ji Changying let her go.

Zhang Leyao stood up, covering her arm and looking at her: "You stinky beggar! Just wait!"

She turned around and went out crying to complain.

Several girls who were friends with her gritted their teeth and followed her.

There were also some who stood aside and watched coldly, waiting for the show to unfold.

Some others stood aside and looked at Ji Changying curiously: "What's your name?"

Feeling the goodwill released by the other party, Ji Changying smiled back without hesitation: "My name is Ji Changying."

Kou Yunyi pulled a round-faced girl to sit next to her: "My name is Kou Yunyi, and her name is Jiang Fengshi."

"My name is Wang Yingxue..."

The girls didn't think there was anything wrong with Ji Changying's actions. They sat beside her and started discussing what had happened today.

Princess Ping holds a winter banquet every year to select outstanding flower species to be presented to Kyoto as tribute, because the emperor loves all kinds of flowers.

As the saying goes, everyone in the Dali Dynasty, from concubines in the palace to ordinary people, liked to grow flowers.

In order to express their filial piety, the princes would collect flower seeds from all over the country and bring them to Beijing every year at the end of the year.

Although King Ping was not favored, he still had to show due respect.

I don't know who spread the news this year, but it was said that this year's banquet had another purpose, which was to select a concubine for the prince.

That's why the ladies of each family dressed up and brought their daughters of marriageable age to show their support.