Chapter 46 He also knows a little bit of martial arts.
The little dumpling hit the nail on the head, and Xie Yubin's face turned dark, but the few idiots beside him still tried to argue for him.
Li Cheng covered his head and retorted, "You're talking nonsense! Who said our Crown Prince is inferior to him? What use is it for a cripple to carry a heavy load well? Ah!"
Before Li Cheng could finish speaking, a small stone suddenly hit him on the head. It wasn't very hard, but it struck him right between the eyebrows.
Li Cheng covered his forehead, about to curse, but upon closer inspection, he saw it was Sheng Shengdi and swallowed the words: "Princess, how could you do this!"
Sheng Sheng blinked and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, my hand slipped. I'm still just a child, Young Master Li won't hold a grudge against a child, will he?"
Li Cheng was speechless with frustration: "No, no..."
Xie Yunsheng is a princess, and she is currently enjoying great influence; she cannot be easily offended.
They cornered Xie Yunwen during the break, and class was about to start. Xie Yubin was afraid that if they dragged this out any longer, things would escalate.
Xie Yubin knew that Li Cheng was a "naive" person, and irritably sent him to the back.
Xie Yubin smiled and said, "Princess, we have no ill intentions. After all, we are cousins with His Highness. What bad intentions could I possibly have?"
After saying that, Xie Yubin turned around and waved to the three of them: "Let's go!"
As he passed Xie Yunwen, he threatened him, "You're lucky this time. get out of class ended at noon. Let's see if she's still there."
Xie Yunwen's eyes were deep, and his jaw tightened.
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Xie Yubin paused in his steps.
With her hands on her hips, Sheng Sheng said, "Who said you could leave?"
Xie Yubin frowned and narrowed his eyes.
"What were you planning to do to him if I hadn't come?"
Li Cheng, quick to speak, immediately chimed in, "Tch, of course we'll humiliate him like before!"
"Oh, how exactly are you humiliating me?"
Sheng Sheng laughed, looking suddenly happy. Her dimples reappeared on her cheeks, and she moved closer to him, staring at him with her big, watery eyes.
Li Cheng was caught off guard by the onslaught and dazzled by the sweet smile. He thought the little princess was genuinely interested and blurted out, "Well, he's a prince after all, so we won't humiliate him too much. Doesn't he like reading those books? I'm going to snatch his books away, throw them on the ground, and stomp on them!"
Xie Yunwen's hand trembled slightly as he stroked Xiaobai's body, as if a long-standing scar had been reopened.
Li Cheng continued,
"At this point, Qin Xiang will pull him off the wheelchair, and Ye Zhongshu will kick it away. He's a cripple, and without the wheelchair he can't move. We'll watch him struggle to crawl back to the wheelchair! Hahahaha!"
After Li Cheng finished speaking, he laughed heartily, as if he had thoroughly enjoyed himself.
During this time, not only Xie Yubin, but also Ye Zhongshu and Qin Xiang, two careless people, sensed something was wrong and kept telling him to shut up.
But Li Cheng seemed to have suddenly become possessed, and once he started talking, he became so engrossed that he forgot everything else and just kept babbling on and on, blurting everything out in one go.
The little dumpling just listened to him finish speaking.
After Li Cheng finished speaking, he covered his mouth in horror: "I, what did I say! I didn't say anything!"
Xie Yubin sighed, rubbing his forehead.
Just when everyone thought the little dumpling would get angry, she simply said calmly,
"Apologize to my fourth brother." Sheng Sheng pointed at Xie Yubin and gestured towards the boy in the wheelchair.
Xie Yubin pointed to himself incredulously: "Me? Apologize to him?"
"Not just you, but all of you also need to apologize to him!"
The little dumpling ran up to Xie Yunwen and grabbed his hand: "Fourth brother, don't be afraid, I'll stand up for you!"
Xie Yunwen quietly watched their clasped hands, her heart pounding.
This is the first time someone has said they want to stand up for him.
He has had no feeling in his legs since birth and has spent his entire life in a wheelchair.
His mother, Consort Liang, resented him for his crippled legs, which destined him to be ineligible for the throne, and for the fact that he was therefore deprived of the Emperor's care and favor. Consort Liang was also the only concubine who had an heir but was not a consort.
He was a cripple, the least favored prince, a disabled person who was bullied and had no ability to fight back.
His father ignored him, his mother didn't love him, and no one could stand up for him. Because of his legs, his title as a prince seemed to have vanished.
Yet, despite his young age, he possessed astonishing talent, excelling in poetry, lyrics, and prose. Even the Grand Tutor remarked that if he remained healthy, he would undoubtedly achieve great things in the future.
A promising prince will inevitably attract everyone's attention and patronage.
However, he was a prince with a leg disability.
He was used to it; a disabled prince was destined to be no match for a healthy young master from a noble family.
He could only silently endure being bullied, but fortunately, his status as a prince prevented those people from going too far.
But this little bundle of milk, who looked like she hadn't been weaned yet, held his hand and said, "I'll stand up for you."
Xie Yunwen's Adam's apple bobbed, unable to speak.
"What? Apologize? No way! Apologize to him? What about our Prince?!"
Li Cheng shouted loudly at Sheng Sheng, his spittle almost landing on Sheng Sheng's face.
Zijuan frowned, stepped forward, and said coldly, "Young Master Li, please watch your words. First, the Fourth Prince is a prince, and your disrespect towards him is an act of insubordination. According to palace rules, at best, you will be punished with a beating. At worst, if your words were to get out… Second, our Princess is of noble birth, and your rudeness towards her shows that you don't respect our Second Prince and the Imperial Concubine!"
The little dumpling puffed out its chest in perfect cooperation, like a proud little peacock: "Look, my Zijuan has already tried to reason with you all in a good mood, or are you all just not smart enough to understand reason?"
The little dumpling thought for a moment, then pointed to the old cat and the old fish behind it who were carrying knives.
"If you gentlemen don't understand reasoning, my Uncle Cat and Uncle Fish do know a little bit about martial arts!"
As if to prove Xiao Tuanzi's words, Lao Mao and Lao Yu drew their swords with a "whoosh" and shone them at the group. The silver light reflected from the swords startled Li Cheng and the others.
Li Cheng fell silent, pointing at Sheng Sheng repeatedly with his hand, then lowering it, then pointing at her again.
Finally, Li Chengwei said to Xie Yubin with a wronged expression, "Your Highness, please say something!"
After weighing the options, Xie Yubin realized he really couldn't go head-to-head with this little dumpling.
Xie Yubin nodded with a smile, but how much of that smile was actually laced with resentment was anyone's guess.
"Okay, apologize."
Li Cheng: "Huh?"
Xie Yubin: "Apologize now!"
The group of people dared not speak out in anger and stammered an apology.
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