After Feng Ming left, the entire study was still immersed in the terrifying atmosphere he left behind.
Feng Yu stood beside Feng Yi, his face turning pale and blue, looking very ugly. The two positions he had originally arranged to humiliate others had now become his own humiliation.
He stood there for a long time without moving, his body seemed to have turned into stone.
Yu Yuxian knew that he shouldn't act on his emotions, but he couldn't suppress his inner impulse. He came down from the hall, slowly walked to the dim corner, moved out the other intact chair, and placed it in an empty seat in the first row.
"Please sit here." She patted Feng Yu's shoulder gently.
The emperor only let Feng Yi sit in Feng Yu's original seat, and did not say that Feng Yu could not sit in the empty seats next to him. She could not bear to watch him suffer humiliation.
Feng Yu's eyes were slightly red, as if she was very moved, and her voice was hoarse: "Thank you, Mr.
After he sat down, his three study companions sat around him, with fear still on their faces.
"Continue studying." Yu Yuxian shook his sleeves, and the sound of reading rang out one after another in the classroom, slowly dispersing the high-pressure atmosphere left by Feng Ming.
Feng Yu's embarrassment was finally relieved.
Zhuang Li smiled playfully in his heart: "This woman treats Feng Yu with great affection and loyalty."
"Master, fuck her!" 7480 instigated.
Zhuang Li responded calmly, then laid out various stationery items.
"Help me grind the ink." He ordered as a matter of course.
"Hey." Feng Yi quickly poured some water into the inkstone and ground the ink obediently, not considering himself as a superior prince of a royal palace.
"Alright." After a moment, Zhuang Li waved his hand and instructed, "Study hard. Although you don't need to be a master of both civil and military skills, you must understand the truth, distinguish right from wrong, and know good from evil."
"I know." Feng Yi picked up the book and began to read while shaking his head.
Zhuang Li spread out a piece of rice paper and carefully sketched a portrait with a goat's hair brush.
Yu Yuxian, sitting in the classroom, also read silently from a book, occasionally looking up to see how the students were doing. As the saying goes, "Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clearer," so she set aside half an hour every day for everyone to read.
Her eyes swept over everyone, and would eventually stop at Feng Yu's handsome face. Feng Yu would occasionally look up, meet her gaze, and then smile softly.
At this time, Yu Yuxian would lower his head pretending to be indifferent, but little bubbles of excitement would appear in his heart.
There was a secretive and sweet atmosphere between the two of them.
But soon, Yu Yuxian's attention was drawn to someone else. Everyone was reading, except Zhuang Li, who was scribbling on a piece of paper. Feng Yi, sitting next to him, craned his neck to look at him, then covered his mouth with his hands and smiled furtively.
The two of them must be playing some tricks!
Yu Yuxian immediately walked towards them, and when she got closer, she bent down to take a look. She was suddenly struck by lightning. Zhuang Li had actually drawn a miniature portrait of her with her hair in a bun, a golden hairpin, and a red flower ornament. It was so lifelike and vivid.
This outfit was both Yu Yuxian's dream and her nightmare. She couldn't suppress the panic that surged up in her at that moment and screamed, "Zhuang Li, what are you doing?"
Zhuang Li raised his head and said with a half-smile, "Sir, not only do you look like a woman, but you even sound like one. When you yell, your voice is thinner than a eunuch's."
This was another thunderbolt that struck Yu Yuxian. She quickly swallowed the scolding she felt, fearing that her emotions would lose control and she would be unable to disguise her male voice.
Before she could react, Zhuang Li had already held up the small statue for everyone to see, and asked with a grin, "Do you think the master looks like a woman?"
Zhuang Li's painting skills are very impressive. With just a few strokes, he perfectly reproduced Yu Yuxian's female appearance on paper. She also looked like this when she secretly wore women's clothes at home.
Everyone burst into laughter, and looked at Yu Yuxian with frivolous and teasing eyes.
At this moment, Yu Yuxian felt as if she had been stripped naked and exposed to the public. The shame and anger in her heart were simply indescribable. She rushed towards Zhuang Li like an angry lion, snatched the small portrait and tore it into pieces. Her face flushed crimson and her features became increasingly ferocious.
"Why are you so anxious? Are you really a woman?" Zhuang Li spread out his hands and said another provocative question.
In a rage, Yu Yuxian wanted to tear this man to pieces.
Feng Yu said coldly: "Enough, stop talking. Do you think you are right to insult the teacher?"
Zhuang Li glanced at him with a smile, then looked at Yu Yuxian meaningfully, and then sat down casually.
In the past, Feng Yu would have thought of killing the person if he had been provoked like this. But now, he was helpless against Zhuang Li because he knew that the emperor was looking for someone like him to teach him a lesson. The more arrogant Zhuang Li was, the more satisfied the emperor would be.
The emperor summoned these two people to the study to tell all his adopted sons - I can promote anyone to a high position, and I can also bring anyone to the bottom of the valley. You guys are nothing.
Without absolute power and status, one must endure arbitrary manipulation and humiliation. This was Feng Yu's situation when he faced Feng Ming. He suppressed his resentment and shook his head, asking Yu Yuxian to keep the peace.
What else could Yu Yuxian do besides keep the peace? She bent down, silently gathered the fragments into a pile, took them outside, and ordered the eunuchs to burn them.
Turning back to the study, she couldn't help but feel a shudder of fear when she met Zhuang Li's half-smile. She felt as if he had discovered something.
This thought pierced Yu Yuxian's heart like a poisonous sting. After she sat down, she felt a chill down her spine. When she touched her clothes, she found they were already soaked with sweat.
Even when facing the emperor, she had never felt such fear.
Yu Yuxian didn't know how she managed to get through the following hours. She felt like the students below were secretly observing her, talking about her, and even doubting her. As soon as the bell rang, she ran out of the study room as if escaping.
The next two classes were taught by two gray-haired scholars. They knew Feng Yi and Zhuang Li's level of knowledge very well, so they didn't ask any questions in class or assign any homework that was too advanced.
"In this case, the days in the study room will be quite easy." Feng Yi said cheerfully after class.
"That may not be the case." Zhuang Li smiled mysteriously.
Feng Yi was about to ask further questions when the fourth class began. Yu Yuxian, who had calmed down and changed her clothes, walked in and began to teach the Analects. After explaining the key points, she pointed at Feng Yi and said, "Answer my question: What is the meaning of the Way of Heaven?"
Feng Yi pointed at the tip of his nose, his face full of confusion. Was this person deliberately trying to make things difficult for him? Who in the capital didn't know that Prince Ping had never read a single day?
Zhuang Li, who was still flipping through a local chronicle, raised his head and looked towards the hall, with a gleam in his dark eyes.
"This woman is really impatient and gets angered so easily." He sneered in his heart.
7480 asked curiously, "Master, why did you anger her?"
"Of course I angered her so that I could summon my guardian beast." Zhuang Li lowered his head, hiding his smiling eyes.
"What guardian beast?" 7480 was confused.
At this moment, Yu Yuxian raised his ruler and said coldly, "You can't even answer such a simple question. You deserve to be punished! Zhuang Li, hold out your hand!"
This is going to be a slap on the palm of your hand.
Feng Yi became even more confused, and took the initiative to extend his palm over, complaining: "It's my fault that I can't answer. Why are you punishing my cousin? Come on, come on, hit me quickly."
Yu Yuxian ignored him completely, staring intently at Zhuang Li and ordering again: "Stretch out your hand and hit him ten times! If the master answers incorrectly, the tutor will be punished. This is the rule!"
"You blame others for your own mistakes. What kind of rule is this? Is this what you learned in the study room?" Feng Yi's cheeks turned red with anger.
Yet, everyone was laughing and chuckling, waiting to see the show, not a single word of justice being said. This was exactly what they had learned in the upper study. As the most respected people in the Great Yan State, how could they be wrong?
Zhuang Li slowly raised his head and asked seriously, "Are you sure you want to hit me?"
"If you make a mistake, you will be beaten. This is only natural!" Yu Yuxian said with a serious face, as if he was doing his job.
Zhuang Li spread out his palms, with a half-smile: "Don't regret hitting you."
These words were like a drop of water falling into a frying pan, causing Yu Yuxian's already restless heart to explode. The pain of being humiliated and the fear of being exposed surged into his heart once again, eventually brewing into the flames of revenge.
She had made up her mind long before class started. She must find a reason to smash Zhuang Li's hand to pieces. Let's see how he can paint in the future!
"Are you threatening me? Do you understand the importance of respecting teachers and the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues?" Yu Yuxian raised the ruler high and then brought it down heavily. With just one blow, the palm of Zhuang Li's hand became red and swollen, but there were still nine more blows to come.
7480 yelled in frustration, "Fuck him! She really hit me! Is she sick?"
"She's not sick, it's just her personality. In her previous life, Xiaohui only managed to uncover the truth, and before she could get close to the truth, Yu Yuxian couldn't wait to poison her. But she actually had a thousand ways to cover up the truth. Seeing that Xiaohui hadn't died for a long time, she even untied her belt and took the initiative. This shows how cruel, impulsive and irritable she is. If the Lord God hadn't given her a cheat, someone like her wouldn't survive more than two episodes in this drama."
In just a few words, Zhuang Li was hit three times with a ruler, and his palms were red, swollen, and broken, and bleeding.
He looked straight at Yu Yuxian, his face showing pain, but with a hint of sneer at the corner of his mouth.
Feng Yi was so angry that he reached out to grab Yu Yuxian's ruler, but Feng Yu held his shoulders and tied his hands behind his back.
Just then, the door of the study was pushed open with a dull creaking sound.
Zhuang Li chuckled in his heart: "My guardian beast is here."
7480 looked back and was immediately embarrassed. It turned out that the guardian beast was referring to this henpecked creature.
After Feng Ming returned to the Yangxin Palace, he took out the note and studied it over and over again, but he could not figure out what it meant. He was reluctant to show the note to others, so he kept this worry in his heart and could not find peace.
Unable to bear it any longer, he returned to the study room again, only to encounter this scene.
"Do you want me to hit you a few times with the palm of my hand?" He strode forward and grabbed the ruler that Yu Yuxian held high.
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