Chapter 574 Temper
Let the ladies say thank you?
Although the pretty maid still had a smile on her face, her eyes were filled with contempt. However, there were many people gathered around to watch the fun.
She was not stupid and knew that these people were eloquent. Even if she could defeat them by arguing, it would not do much good for the young lady.
So he bowed with a smile on his face, turned around and took out two ingots of silver, handed them to Daji and said, "Thank you for helping me get the kite. This silver is a reward for you."
Daji glanced at Bai Shanbao and didn't move.
The pretty maid's expression froze for a moment. After glancing at the smiling Manbao and Bai Shanbao, she smiled again and said, "This is a thank-you gift from my young lady."
Bai Shanbao then nodded slightly.
Daji then reached out to take it, returned the greeting and stepped back.
Manbao smiled and put the kite in her hand, and kindly reminded her: "My beautiful sister, please be careful when flying kites next time. Don't let it fly away again. Even if it flies away, if someone picks it up, you must tell them in a nice way. Who would whip you the moment they meet you?"
Manbao said, "We are small and have good tempers. What if we meet someone with a bad temper and a fight breaks out?"
The girl holding the whip gnashed her teeth, and the pretty maid's face froze slightly, but seeing that everyone around them agreed, she held back her anger and smiled in response, "The young lady is right. When we get back, I will definitely teach her a lesson."
Manbao then let go of her hand and left.
The pretty maid watched them walk away with an unchanged smile on her face. She glanced at the girl who was cracking the whip, turned around and took the kite back to report.
The girl who was cracking the whip shuddered and followed with a pale face.
The young men looked at Manbao and the other two in amazement and whispered, "You are so brave! They are from the Yizhou Palace."
"So what?" Manbao said, "We didn't do anything wrong."
"You're saying this about them, aren't you afraid they'll take revenge on you later?" Qi Jue said, "The King of Yizhou doesn't claim to have the final say in Yizhou City, but no one in the city would offend him over such trivial matters."
"When they whipped me but didn't hit me, I had already offended them. Whatever, I've offended them. At worst, I can just go home." Manbao was very open-minded. "It's not like I have to stay in Yizhou."
Qi Jue nodded, "That does make sense."
Bai Shanbao turned around and said to Manbao, "Don't worry, they don't dare. They are just a few servants."
Bai Shanbao was right, they really didn't dare.
The young princess of the Yizhou Palace disliked the large number of people on the hill, so she had someone take a good spot and set up a tent early on.
Earlier, she had seen the servants not only lose the argument but also be criticized by so many people. She was unhappy and had taken the people back to the tent first. When she saw Qiu Man coming back with the kite, she snorted and asked, "Is it solved?"
"Yes," Qiu Man didn't dare tell her those irritating words. She just handed over the kite and said, "Give them a reward of twenty taels of silver and send them off."
The young princess had no idea how expensive twenty taels of silver was. It didn't sound like much anyway, so she sneered and said, "Untouchables are untouchables. They're just after money. Where's Qiu Ye?"
"He's kneeling outside."
"Tell her to go back home and take twenty lashes. She just went to get a kite, but she ended up bringing disgrace upon Qixia Mountain." She glanced at the kite offered to her and waved it to the ground. "It's just a filthy kite. If it's lost, I can just make another one. But you went to ask for it back. If you could get it back, it would be fine. But you refused to give it back and embarrassed me. If it wasn't given by my mother, I would have to..."
"Princess..."
The little princess finally stopped talking, waved her hand and sneered, "Take this kite down and burn it. Don't let me see it again."
"Yes." Qiu Man handed the kite to the other maids to take down. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the little princess picking up a whip from the shelf nearby. She was startled and hurried forward to stop her, "Princess, Miss, isn't this matter over?"
"What did you say?" the young princess said unhappily. "Just now, you said there were too many people watching, so you wouldn't let me do anything. Now the crowd has dispersed, and they've walked a long way away, and you still won't let me go and give them a few whips?"
"Princess, times have changed. Have you forgotten the prince's instructions?" Qiu Man said, "Some nobles may be in Yizhou recently. We must act with caution. Just take the kite back. Why bother showing it off to a bunch of young men?"
The young princess pulled her hand away, but found it was not free. She glared at Qiu Man and asked, "We are just a few poor people. I can only hit you a few times. Who can do anything to me?"
"My Lady, they may not be poor. Judging from their attire, they look more like scholars. These days are the examination days for the prefectural academy, so perhaps they were brought here by students taking the exams. It's never a good idea to make enemies hastily."
"They are just a bunch of poor scholars. How can they compare to my father?" The little princess said angrily: "Qiu Man, are you my servant or theirs?"
Qiu Man lowered her head and knelt. "I am naturally the princess's servant. That is why I must advise the princess. Princess, if you leave now, the prince will find out later..."
The little princess was so angry that she dropped her whip, kicked the table behind her, and shouted angrily: "Go home! I don't want to play anymore!"
Qiu Man lowered her head and replied "yes".
Manbao and the other two had already walked back to the grass they occupied and exchanged addresses with Qi Jue and others, agreeing to play together again when they have time in the future.
Although Qi Jue and the other seven teenagers still insisted that their kites were ugly, strangely, they didn't hate them as much now.
So he generously told the three of them the address and name of their academy.
However, Qi Jue felt that even if they didn't say it, the three of them would always be able to find it, after all, their teacher and the other teacher happened to be brothers.
The three of them should know that it only takes a sentence.
Mr. Zhuang didn't know that they had a conflict with others. When he saw the two groups merge into one and the two groups came back talking and laughing, he and Huang Chuan looked at each other and smiled, and became happy.
Next, the two groups will play together.
Zhou Silang had been flying the kite for half a day and his hands were almost cramping. When he saw them coming back, he immediately returned the kite to them and lay paralyzed, unable to move.
Manbao and his friends played for a long time and fought with kites for a long time. Finally, at the urging of Mr. Zhuang, they reluctantly put away the kites and said goodbye to Qi Jue and the others.
The seven boys said, "To be honest, your kites are really ugly."
Manbao: "We won."
Seven teenagers: "The cut is not good, is it because you didn't draw it well?"
Bai Shanbao: "Our kites fly higher than yours."
Seven teenagers: "The color is even more unrefined. It wasn't pretty to begin with, and you painted it even worse."
Bai Erlang: "We make our kites ourselves, from the frame to the canvas to the kite string. The kites you buy won't fly better than ours."
The ten people successfully tore apart the friendship that had been so hard to stick together. Everyone snorted at each other and followed their husbands back home.
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(End of this chapter)
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