Chapter 1136 Block
Li Yunfeng was momentarily shocked by the cruelty in her eyes. Manbao resisted the urge to push her to the ground. Instead, he turned to look at Bai Erlang who was stunned beside him and asked, "Why don't you leave quickly?"
Yin Huo immediately reached out and pulled Bai Erlang away.
The fifth prince quickly pulled the sixth prince away.
Li Yunfeng finally came to her senses and shouted, "Stop! You, you are so bold! How dare you insult my father, the king, Li Mingda, and Li Changyu? Insulting the royal family is a serious crime. We are family, okay?"
Manbao grabbed her hand and pulled her back. She saw someone coming towards them from a distance, so she twisted her hand. Li Yunfeng screamed in pain, but finally she no longer had the energy to yell at Bai Erlang.
Seeing that Bai Erlang and the others had already walked away, Manbao pushed her forward, making her retreat several steps. Then, with a stern face, he said, "Princess Yunfeng, you're right. If you complain to the Queen Mother, whether true or false, she will punish me. But I'm telling you, I'll be punished. The worst that can happen is that I won't enter the palace anymore. Even the Queen Mother can't kill me. But you, for someone like me, have offended the entire royal family and earned a reputation as a tyrant. I don't know who is ultimately at the expense."
Li Yunfeng rolled up her sleeves and saw her wrists were all red. Furious, she pointed at Zhou Man's nose and cursed, "How dare you hit me! And even insult my father? What's true and what's false? Li Mingda, you heard and saw everything just now. Was I the one being overbearing, or was she being unruly?"
Mingda frowned and said, "Cousin, if you hadn't provoked her, her junior brother wouldn't have said such irresponsible words. In my opinion, we should just let this matter go."
Li Yunfeng shouted, "No!"
"Then let's have a fight," Manbao stepped forward and said, "There's no need to wait for whips or swords, just roll up your sleeves and come. I don't mind being smaller or shorter than you, let's just have a fight. Whether we win or lose, we'll forget about it. Whoever brings it up again will be a real old dog."
Li Yunfeng sneered, "Why should I listen to you?"
Chang Yu didn't understand why it was she and Li Yunfeng who had made the promise to fight, but in the end, they were the ones who had to fight. However, she was on Zhou Man's side, so she chimed in, "They're still royals. Just tell me whether you want to fight or not. If you want to complain, go now. The Empress Dowager is waiting in the main hall."
Mingda opened his mouth to stop her, but Li Yunfeng also fell silent and did not go immediately.
Chang Yu sneered and said, "It seems you are not stupid. The court officials are here now, and my father, the emperor, and my mother are here too. If you get into a conflict with a commoner, the emperor's grandmother might think it is Zhou Man's fault, but others may not think so."
"Today in the hall there are not only ministers from the court, but also the heads of various clans. Once your reputation is ruined, who will dare to marry you?"
Li Yunfeng glared at Changyu hatefully.
Changyu glared back without showing any weakness.
She was about the same age as Li Yunfeng. Children of the royal family got married early, and her sisters were all married when they were fourteen or fifteen years old.
The Queen Mother felt sorry for them and kept them for two more years. Nowadays, the age of marriage in folk culture is getting older and older, but no matter how old they are, they still have to start preparing for marriage at their age, and they can get married after two more years of preparation.
She and Li Yunfeng were only a few months apart in age, and they got married almost the same time, so Li Yunfeng would definitely be worried too if she was worried.
The emperor's daughter also worries about getting married. The world is not decided by the emperor alone. If he wants to marry his daughter, he has to ask her if she is willing. Otherwise, she would have said that she wants to marry Yang Heshu long ago.
If the emperor's daughter is like this, the prince's daughter will only have a harder time than her.
So she was certain that Li Yunfeng wanted to file a complaint, but she would file it privately and would not dare to file it in the main hall.
She thought that she should just get through today and worry about tomorrow's affairs tomorrow.
Mingda didn't think so. She believed that if things like this were delayed, the consequences would only become more dangerous if they were left unchecked. So she stepped forward and said, "You don't have to fight to decide the outcome. Why don't you choose something else? You're girls after all. Can't we be more polite?"
Li Yunfeng said, "Then let's play polo. The day after tomorrow, we'll go to the East Suburbs Horse Farm. You and I will play a game. Whoever loses will kneel down before the other and then slap the other person fifty times in front of him."
Manbao said angrily, "I don't know how to play polo, and your bet is obviously dishonest. I wouldn't mind if you slap yourself in the face if you lose, but I don't believe your family won't come and cause trouble for me later. What's the point of such a bet?"
Li Yunfeng said, "If I say I can't do it, then I won't do it."
Manbao: "I don't trust your family. If you say you can't do it, then it can't happen. Can you still be the boss of your parents?"
Li Yunfeng said angrily: "My father and mother are both radiant and bright..."
"Puchi..." A sneer sounded, and Ji Hao stood not far from them, shaking the grass roots in his hand. Seeing them looking over, he bowed to Princess Mingda and Princess Changyu, then raised his lip and said to Li Yunfeng, "This is really the biggest joke of the year."
Li Yunfeng was furious at the repeated insults to her parents. She pointed at Ji Hao and asked, "Who are you?"
Ji Hao rolled his eyes at her and said, "You have such a bad memory. Who was it that came to my house and pretended to see me last year? You don't recognize him now?"
Mingda and Changyu were both stunned and turned to look at Li Yunfeng.
The Fifth Prince, who had been silently watching this side from a pavilion in the distance and had repeatedly asked palace servants to sneak over carefully to eavesdrop on their conversation and then come back to report, was also stunned.
He couldn't help but turn his head to ask Bai Erlang, who had a very sour face, "Why do you all say that about the emperor's uncle? The emperor's uncle... uh, is he not good?"
Bai Jilang snorted.
The Sixth Prince was dissatisfied, "What's your attitude? My Fifth Brother is asking you a question."
"This hum is not directed at your fifth brother, why are you angry?"
The Sixth Prince said, "That's against my uncle, so it's not allowed."
The fifth prince also felt that it was not right for him to do so. After all, he and his uncle were family. What Bai Erlang and the others had said just now could indeed be considered an insult to the royal family.
Bai Erlang said angrily, "I didn't tell a lie. It's written in the book that it's more important to guard against the people's mouths than to guard against the river. I'm just an ordinary citizen, and you can't allow me to tell the truth? Do you want to kill everyone who curses the King of Yizhou? If you do that, you'll probably have to massacre half of the people in Yizhou."
The Fifth and Sixth Princes opened their mouths wide. Even Yin Huo was surprised. "Does the King of Yizhou have such a bad reputation in Yizhou?"
Bai Erlang thought of Bai Shan, still kneeling not far from the King of Yizhou, recording his daily life. He didn't have the fortitude of Bai Shan and Man Bao, and his eyes were red with anger. He snorted and said, "The year we first entered Yizhou City to study, during the Dragon Boat Festival, someone assassinated the King of Yizhou in the street because of the breach of the Jianwei Weir. Do you think he had a bad reputation?"
(End of this chapter)
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