She pointed at Ye Songyan again, "That's your fourth cousin, right?"
Hua Fushu also looked towards the court, looking for Ye Zelin. He saw him wearing a sky-blue round-necked robe, his hair neatly tied up with a white jade hairpin, his face handsome and gentle as jade. A woman in a plum-green dress rode a horse to Ye Zelin's side and said something that made Ye Zelin laugh.
Hua Fushu felt quite unhappy. He pointed at the woman in plum green clothes and said to Lu Tianyun, "Tianyun, who is she?"
Lu Tianyun also looked at the woman Hua Fushu pointed at and said, "She is Yan Xijun, the younger sister of the Princess of Zheng."
The plum-colored, green-dressed woman turned around, allowing Hua Fushu to see her features clearly. He smiled and said, "That's what she looks like. Not as pretty as Sanqiao and Bisi."
Lu Tianyun couldn't help but laugh, Bisi snickered, and Sanqiao poked Hua Fushu's back and warned her, "Miss, be careful of your words."
Hua Fushu suddenly realized that Yan Xijun was from a royal family after all, and it was not something that she, a mere merchant's daughter, could discuss. If Princess Zheng heard about it, she would be severely punished. So she shut up and did not comment on Yan Xijun anymore.
She looked around casually and soon noticed the girl beside Ye Songyan. The girl was wearing a snow-blue dress, with a beautiful face, a charming smile, and beautiful eyes. So she asked Lu Tianyun.
Lu Tianyun said, "That is the eldest daughter of Prince Qinghe, Princess Yurong."
Hua Fushu nodded and asked several more girls. Lu Tianyun patiently introduced them to her one by one.
Hua Fushu looked around and saw that the ladies from various families had beautiful makeup and were wearing clothes that were either simple and elegant or gorgeous. The ladies were either laughing or dignified, each with her own characteristics, and they were a beautiful sight in the club.
She thought of a word to describe these noble ladies: colorful and beautiful, they were like blooming flowers.
The ball game hosted by Princess Anguo is divided into the first half and the second half. Each half adopts a best-of-three system. Within the specified time, the team with the most goals in each game wins.
The sound of drums and music started, and the players of the two teams dispersed to their respective fields. The emcee of the game lit a stick of incense and inserted it into the blue and white cloud pattern incense burner on the table.
A servant shouted loudly: "The prize for this round is a white jade phoenix hairpin! The game begins!"
The wooden hammer in his hand struck the gong, making a loud noise.
As the sound fell, the host threw a ball into the court, and almost at the same time, the players of the yellow team and the red team rode their horses.
Ye Zelin caught the ball with his club, and the ball flew in the air, drawing an elegant arc.
Yan Xijun galloped on her horse and swung the club to pass the ball to Ye Songyan. Ye Songyan wanted to catch the ball, but it was intercepted by the girl from the Wu family of the red team. Princess Yurong went to grab the ball. The eldest girl from the Shui family of the red team passed the ball to her younger sister Shui Lingling first. Shui Lingling was about to score a goal, but the ball was intercepted by Ling Zhihengli from the yellow team.
Shui Lingling was annoyed and rode her horse to grab the ball. Ye Songyan swung the club and scored the ball into the red team's goal.
The boy beating the gong shouted, "The yellow team scores a goal, and they win a point!"
The players on the yellow team all had smiles on their faces, while the players on the red team all looked disappointed.
People around the stadium and in the seats cheered, and the musicians beat drums to applaud them. Amid the cheers, two servants raised a yellow flag.
Several people were standing on the edge of the court, jumping for joy. Ruhuan looked at Ye Zelin and shouted, "Fourth brother, you're awesome! Team Yellow is awesome!"
Ye Zelin looked at them and smiled faintly.
Side and Douzhi shouted along with Ruhuan.
Zhao Yinong wore a cross-collared skirt in the same color as Yang Fei's, and her makeup was delicate, which made her look quite pretty. When she saw Ye Zelin looking at her, she covered her face with a round fan embroidered with a colorful phoenix and a red jade handle, which added a bit of shyness to her beauty.
Seeing this, Ruhuan giggled, but Zhao Yinong became even more shy. She covered half of her face with a round fan and secretly glanced at Ye Zelin, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
Ye Zelin hurriedly looked away, looking a little flustered. Zhao Yinong's face darkened, but suddenly her excitement ignited, thinking that Ye Zelin was just shy.
Ye Zelin looked into the distance and saw Hua Fushu, wearing a ruby-blue shirt and an apricot-yellow skirt, chatting and laughing with Miss Yun from the Shangshu Ling family. It was unclear what they were talking about, but Hua Fushu burst into laughter, and even the gentle and dignified Miss Yun couldn't help but chuckle.
Suddenly, the ball flew from the air, and Ye Zelin rode his horse to grab the ball from the girl from the Wu family.
Hua Fushu told Lu Tianyun a joke, and not only did she burst into laughter, but Sanqiao and Bisi couldn't help laughing as well.
Lu Tianyun asked Hua Fushu to tell another one, and Sanqiao and Bisi also agreed. Hua Fushu nodded hurriedly and told another joke. This joke was much funnier than the previous one. The four of them laughed so hard that their mouths couldn't stop, affecting the seats behind Lu Tianyun.
Two young men sat at the table, one of them dressed in dark blue brocade. He stood up, lifted the bamboo curtain, looked at Hua Fushu with dissatisfaction, and said unhappily, "Young lady, don't you know what it means to be a daughter?"
Hua Fushu's laughter stopped abruptly, and he looked at that person. Lu Tianyun looked back and recognized the young man in brocade clothes. He hurriedly apologized, "Mr. Zhao, I'm so sorry. Sorry, let's keep our voices down."
Hua Fushu looked at the young man surnamed Zhao and asked Lu Tianyun, "Who is he?"
Lu Tianyun said, "He is General Zhao Yan's eldest son, Zhao Ciyuan."
Being called uneducated, Hua Fushu was filled with anger. He pointed at the young man in brocade clothes and asked, "Mr. Zhao, what are you talking about? Say it again if you dare!"
The young man in brocade clothes glanced at Hua Fushu with disdain, lowered the bamboo curtain, brushed his sleeves and sat down.
Hua Fushu stood up and wanted to beat up the young man in brocade clothes, but Sanqiao quickly grabbed her and forced her to sit back down. Lu Tianyun tried to persuade her kindly and poured her another cup of tea.
Hua Fushu drank some tea and ate a piece of pastry, and finally he calmed down a little. He watched the game with Lu Tianyun.
The red team conceded goals repeatedly, while the yellow team scored goals time and time again, and the score gap between the two teams widened.
Zhao Ciyuan, the young man in brocade clothes, looked at the court and said to another young man, "Zichen, women are naturally inferior to men. It's just a game of ball, and the outcome is clear. The girls from the Shui and Wu families are so skilled that the empress praised them, but they couldn't even touch the club of the second son of the Ye family."
Another young man laughed and said, "If you ask me, this woman is born useless. She is not even half as good as us men."
"What the two gentlemen said is very true!" Hua Fushu slowly put down the teacup.
Zhao Ciyuan and the young man named Zichen were slightly startled, and looked at Hua Fushu through the bamboo curtain.
Hua Fushu poured a cup of tea and held it in his hand, listening to her slowly speak: "Fu Hao was a woman who helped Wu Ding drive out the Tartars and expand the territory. In the past, Princess Pingyang Zhao held a tasseled spear and led the women's army to perform unparalleled feats for her father and brother and the previous dynasty. The eldest princess sacrificed herself in exchange for fifty years of peace between Song and Liao. If you men have the ability, why not go into battle and kill the enemy yourself? Why sacrifice us women? In my opinion, saying that women are inferior to men is a lie. It's all said by you men who look down on us women. We women are never worse than you men. Your men were born by us women. If you two think women are inferior to men, why don't you give birth to a child and try it out."
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