Gu Yanran walked in front of Shen Qingqiu, looking a bit arrogant.
The palace walls were covered with yellow tiles, purple pillars and golden beams. Palace maids and guards would pass by from time to time, and they would bow to Gu Yanran and her group when they saw them.
She brought Shen Qingqiu to the palace to choose a study partner, so naturally they had to meet Empress Pei first. Before that, she wanted to make Shen Qingqiu look ridiculous! "This is a different time. Once you enter the palace, it's not like the streets." After a bit of pretense, Gu Yanran took out a sandalwood box and handed it to Shen Qingqiu, "Give this to the Empress when you meet her later, don't look so poor!"
"What's in there?"
Shen Qingqiu did not take over, his eyes fell on the exquisite sandalwood box.
"Why don't you just open it and take a look yourself?" Gu Yanran replied unhappily.
There were several young ladies from official families traveling with them, and they couldn't help but speak up when they saw this.
"Yanran is really kind-hearted. She prepared a gift for you in advance. How come you can't even say thank you? Why are you putting on such a big show for whom?"
You have to know that those who can walk with Gu Yanran are not easy to deal with.
Shen Qingqiu looked at them with a pair of dark eyes and his voice was dull.
"Don't put such a big hat on me!"
Who knows what evil intentions Gu Yanran has. Giving gifts to Queen Pei is a small matter. But if Gu Yanran picks up taboo objects and presents them in her name, then this matter could be a big deal or a small one.
She originally entered the palace to choose a study companion, and she didn't want to cause trouble.
"Why don't you reach out and take it?" Gu Yanran frowned, already dissatisfied, "I'm thinking of you with good intentions, you don't think I want to hurt you, do you?"
Shen Qingqiu raised his eyebrows, wanting to see what Gu Yanran had prepared.
He reached out and opened the sandalwood box, revealing the inkstone inside.
Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but pick it up and looked at it, then asked suspiciously, "What's the point of giving me a Duan Inkstone?"
When the ladies saw Shen Qingqiu's ignorant look, they all tried to hold back their laughter.
Gu Yanran was the first to speak up and attack her.
"Shen Qingqiu, you can't be illiterate, right?"
She looked at Shen Qingqiu mockingly with undisguised contempt in her eyes, then took out another box she had prepared.
"Pen, ink, paper and inkstone are the four treasures of the study. Since you are entering the palace to select a study partner, you must show your sincerity to the Empress."
Shen Qingqiu glanced at the pens in Gu Yanran's box, then looked at the Duan inkstone, with a half-smile in his face.
"After sending it out, do you still need to demonstrate how to use it?"
If you want to give a gift, give a set. I'm afraid Gu Yanran will just say some nice polite words.
“I forgot that you don’t know how to do anything!” Gu Yanran gritted her teeth secretly, walked forward with a smile, and immediately started grinding for Shen Qingqiu to see, “Look, this is how you grind—”
Before she finished her words, her hands suddenly trembled, and the ink stained Shen Qingqiu's skirt, making her look miserable for a moment.
"Oh, how careless." Gu Yanran shook her hands and said arrogantly, "Where in the palace are there any clothes for you to change into? But you look good with this dirty dress."
The ladies were grinning from ear to ear.
"Look at her dress! How can she be worthy of such a formal occasion? If she insists on going to see the Empress, I think she is shameless and shameless. Hahaha!"
"Oh, she is shameless, unlike us, haven't you all seen that? This girl has never seen the world and doesn't know etiquette, we should not get close to her, lest we get embarrassed!"
All of a sudden, all the ladies stepped aside, and Gu Yanran also stayed far away from Shen Qingqiu, all with a bit of ridicule in their eyes.
Shen Qingqiu only glanced at the hem of her skirt that was stained with a large patch of ink, and ignored the sarcasm of these young ladies.
It's just that Shen Qingqiu ignored it, but some people couldn't stand it anymore.
“I saw it with my own eyes just now, it was you!” A chubby fleshy finger pointed at Gu Yanran, and the people around him spoke up for Shen Qingqiu, “You deliberately splashed the ink on her. You can say it was an accident, but it was clearly intentional!”
When had Gu Yanran ever had someone point at her nose and talk to her like that? She looked over with her almond-shaped eyes and saw a chubby girl showing off in front of her. There was no maid behind her, so she was probably a bastard daughter from a side branch. Now she didn't take the girl seriously at all.
"Where did this fat girl come from? She looks like a pig with a pig's head and brain. She's as disgusting as a dead fat pig!"
Gu Yanran sneered, looking at the chubby girl as if she were a dirty thing, her eyes full of disgust.
As if she was going to vomit in the next second if she looked at the girl for one more second, she quickly looked away and didn't even look at the girl.
Many ladies had disgust flashing in their eyes. You know, in Dayan, thinness has always been considered beautiful. The girl in front of them was bloated, with a fat head and big ears, just like a pig. I don’t know if it was her weight that gave her the courage to stand up for Shen Qingqiu? “Stop meddling in other people’s business. You look as fat as a pig, and you still have the nerve to come out and let people laugh at you?”
"Humph, they say clothes make the man, gold makes the Buddha. I think you look so tacky in all the gold and silver that it's unbearable to look at. It must have taken a lot of fabric to make a custom dress!"
"Going out for a walk is just like walking a pig. Imagine a pig running out of a pigsty, isn't it like this? Hahahaha, it's hilarious!"
The ladies all focused their malicious gazes on the chubby girl, and most of them made fun of and mocked the girl's figure.
Crack! With a crisp sound, it turned out that Shen Qingqiu ran to the side and broke the branch. She held a long piece of branch that was several fingers thick in her hand and glanced over with cold eyes.
"Better to be a well-educated and polite lady! When you are mocking others, you can say all kinds of dirty words? You always pick on the weak, do you really think I, Shen Qingqiu, am easy to bully?"
She glanced towards the girl, her chubby body suddenly trembled, tears welled up in her eyes, she looked aggrieved and ashamed.
Since this chubby girl was willing to stand up and speak for her just now, she definitely couldn't let Gu Yanran and those other ladies bully her.
Gu Yanran looked at the branch in Shen Qingqiu's hand with some fear, but she was proud and arrogant, so she stiffened her neck and faced Shen Qingqiu.
"The inkstone was carefully selected as a gift for you, and I was the one who brought you to the palace to choose a study partner. It would be fine if you didn't repay me, but you are biting back. How can you be so petty? How did we bully you?"
Shen Qingqiu patted the hem of her skirt at this time, with a meaningful look in her eyes.
Even without Shen Qingqiu saying it, Gu Yanran knew what it meant.
His face immediately turned black! "Are you blaming me for not holding the ink firmly and accidentally spilling ink on you?"
The fat girl stood up at this time, her face red, she mustered up her courage, and was a little indignant.
"You're still trying to make excuses! It was obviously you who did it on purpose, I saw it all! When you were grinding the ink, you were aiming to pour it on her, and you're still adding insult to injury!"
Shen Qingqiu pointed at the ink stain on the dress and sneered even more: "Let's take a step back. Even if I don't care about my dress getting dirty, I'm afraid I'll have to invite a few tutors from the palace to teach you what politeness and manners are, right?"
They originally wanted to bully Shen Qingqiu, but Shen Qingqiu taught them a lesson in a serious manner. Gu Yanran and the others were very angry.
But there was no reason, and they couldn't do anything to Shen Qingqiu. They couldn't just beat and scold him and let it go.
Naturally, this anger must be taken out on the victim! Gu Yanran was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She glanced at the pond behind her and couldn't help but come up with a plan.
"I've already told you that I was careless, why are you still holding on to it? You and I are Gu family members, why are you talking so harshly?"
Shen Qingqiu didn't buy it. How much of a person is Gu Yanran? Didn't she have an idea? "You can say black is white. Could it be that I am blind and slandered you?"
The fat girl was stunned for a moment after hearing what Gu Yanran said. Regardless of whether the person she helped out today was related to Gu Yanran, the fat girl also couldn't stand Gu Yanran's style of doing things.
What's more, the people being bullied are the ones who are willing to stand up and speak for her.
When her maid comes, she will teach this ignorant Gu Yanran a lesson! "Anyone with eyes can see that you are a fat pig!" The more Gu Yanran looked at the girl's fat body, the more she felt it was particularly annoying. "You are so ugly, why do you come out to embarrass yourself?"
"If I were you, I would stay at home and not go out, so as not to make people feel disgusted when seeing me."
"You're so fat that you don't even dare to look in the mirror when you wake up, right? Come to think of it, it's useless to look in the mirror. You're still as fat as a pig!"
Several ladies who were on good terms with Gu Yanran naturally joined in making fun of the fat girl.
Gu Yanran's eyes turned, and she walked forward with a malicious smile, stretched out her hand and pinched the fat girl's flesh.
"Let me see if this meat is real fat!"
The fat girl's eyes turned red from being pinched, and the ridicule and mockery of the ladies echoed in her ears. She looked at the fat on her body, and suddenly her throat seemed to be blocked and she couldn't utter a word.
"How can there be people in this world who are as fat as pigs? If I were this fat, I would just kill myself by hitting my head against a wall."
The laughter continued, and Gu Yanran took out all her anger on the fat girl. She pinched her quite hard, and soon red marks appeared.
She joined forces with a few of her friends, and each of them pinched the fat girl, and gradually they surrounded the fat girl to the edge of the pond.
"You are so fat, don't you feel inferior to live in this world?"
The fat girl looked a little dazed, especially when she saw the slender figures of the ladies. She couldn't tell whether she was envious or inferior.
Gu Yanran winked at a lady next to her, who immediately understood and poked the fat girl with her hand to ridicule her.
"You fat, ugly pig, you must be respectful and polite to us when you see us from now on. Do you hear me?"
The fat girl was poked and took several steps back. Before she could stand firmly, someone pushed her and her body suddenly lost weight and fell backwards.
The fat girl's eyes widened in horror.
There is a pond behind her!
She is so fat, if she falls into it, the splash will be huge, which will make people laugh out loud!
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