Chapter 194 Chapter 194 The Fifth Prince
The scene was silent.
Everyone stared at this scene in amazement, completely forgetting how to react.
If the scholars present just now were still angry about the Fifth Prince's obvious humiliation of Fu Wenxiao, then now seeing him fall like this, all they were left with was worry, and a faint sense of gloating.
"Your Highness!"
"Fifth Brother!"
The people present screamed, Prince Yingguo and Princess Fuhui quickly stood up to check, and the guards around hurried over to help the fifth prince up.
But the Fifth Prince was so heavy that he lay on the ground like a dead pig. The guards had some difficulty helping him up and could only help him sit up. When they saw his face, everyone was speechless.
The fifth prince fell badly this time because the chair suddenly cracked and he was caught off guard and fell down. Because he was too fat, the center of gravity of his body was forward, causing his face to hit the ground directly.
Not only did my nose bleed instantly, but I also knocked out a tooth.
He spat, and a bloody tooth appeared, and then he just sat there in a daze.
The Prince of England said immediately: "Quickly stop the bleeding, His Highness!"
“Why don’t you help your master up and send him to get treated!” Princess Fuhui also shouted.
The guards around him hurriedly stopped the fifth prince's nosebleed, carried him up, and sent him to a nearby room for treatment.
The candidates and their wives who were left behind looked at each other, many of them with worried expressions on their faces.
Although the Fifth Prince had bad intentions, he was a prince of the royal family after all. Now that he had made a fool of himself in public and fell like that, I'm afraid he would not let it go and would retaliate against them.
They were successful candidates in the imperial examinations, so they were naturally not afraid of the Fifth Prince, but they were also afraid that he was reckless and might do something bad.
Someone said: "What are you afraid of? There are so many of us here, can they retaliate against us?"
"That's right. He fell down by himself just now. It has nothing to do with us."
"With the Fifth Prince's current position... it's common for the chair to be unable to bear the weight. Even if he wants to blame someone, he can't blame anyone else, right?"
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Even so, everyone was still worried, and many even wanted to give up and leave this place for fear of bringing disaster upon themselves.
But before they could consider whether to leave or not, the guards around the Fifth Prince came over and said arrogantly that the Fifth Prince suspected someone was trying to harm him, and no one was allowed to leave until the matter was investigated thoroughly.
A group of scholars were so angry that their faces turned red.
Although they were not royal relatives, they were scholars with achievements. How could they bear such humiliation?
This calligraphy and painting meeting was organized by a scholar from Jiangnan, and the royal relatives were not invited. It was the Fifth Prince and others who came uninvited and intentionally humiliated others. It was obvious that the Fifth Prince was in the wrong first, but he accused them of framing him.
This sounds like an excuse.
Some people even left on the spot in anger.
The Fifth Prince's guards tried to stop him, but the scholar was not afraid at all and said in a cold voice, "If His Highness the Fifth Prince thinks that I want to harm him, he can ask him to produce evidence! If there is no evidence, I would rather give up my fame and honor and go to the court to get my name heard!"
These words were spoken in a very serious manner. Xiao was a guard beside the Fifth Prince, so he did not dare to stop him.
Putting aside the question of whether the Fifth Prince was really murdered, if this scholar were to beat the drum in excitement and alert the saint in the palace, the first one to suffer would definitely be the Fifth Prince.
The guards didn't dare to stop him and could only stand there.
Fortunately, Prince Yingguo and Princess Fuhui came over together, comforted them with gentle words, and expressed their sincere apologies to all the candidates.
"We came here uninvited, and we hope you will forgive us for disturbing you." The Duke of England said apologetically, "I am really sorry for disturbing your interest. All your expenses here today will be paid by me, which can be regarded as a way to calm you down."
Then he called the manager of the garden and told him to treat them well.
In the end, everyone did not leave. After all, Prince Yingguo and Princess Fuhui had come out in person to apologize, so naturally they had to give them some face.
It’s just that the atmosphere is not as warm as before.
Especially when they learned that the Fifth Prince had not left yet, they had no intention of holding a calligraphy and painting meeting, and decided to leave as soon as the Fifth Prince and others left.
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In the other wing, the fifth prince finally cleaned up the mess on his body with the help of servants.
His nosebleed had stopped, but the tip of his nose was still red and swollen, showing that he had fallen quite hard. There was also a cut on his forehead, which was also very red and swollen.
These are nothing, what makes him most angry is...
The fifth prince was furious and said, "Fu Xiao is indeed a nasty guy. Every time I meet him, nothing good happens!"
As he spoke, his broken front teeth were exposed, and his words seemed to leak air.
Princess Fuhui reminded: "Fifth brother, please don't talk. If you talk, your teeth will be exposed. Fix your teeth first."
The Prince of England wisely did not say a word. He sat there, lowering his eyes slightly to hide the boredom in his eyes.
He had never had a good impression of the Fifth Prince. Of all the Saint's princes, the Fifth Prince was the worst. He was fat, stupid, incompetent, and arrogant...
It is really hard to imagine how a saint could have such a prince.
A man like the Fifth Prince, if he were not a prince, would have been killed countless times for the stupid things he had done.
It is precisely because of his stupidity that people are too lazy to even deal with him. After all, who would bother with a fool?
Just like this calligraphy and painting meeting, as soon as he arrived, he asked by name to meet the top scholar of Nanjun Province, and even compared the beauty of a successful candidate with his concubine, humiliating scholars in public. How could those successful candidates let it go?
Those scholars had no idea what grudges he had with Fu Wenxiao. In their opinion, the Fifth Prince had come here today deliberately to cause trouble. He was humiliating not only Fu Wenxiao, but all the scholars present.
Scholars have the sharpest tongues, and it is very unwise to offend these people.
The Prince of England actually didn't want to get involved, but he came here with the Fifth Prince this time. If he didn't appease these scholars, he would be implicated.
He felt a little regretful and thought he shouldn't have come here.
Even if you want to find out about Fu Xiao's situation, there is no need to find such a time.
The fifth prince said angrily: "It's all Fu Xiao's fault. If it weren't for Fu Xiao, how could this prince have fallen like this?"
"Fifth brother, this has nothing to do with Fu Xiao, right?" Princess Fuhui said, "Didn't you break the chair because you were too fat? Fifth brother, you should lose weight. If you keep getting fatter, the next thing that gets broken won't be the chair, but the bed in your house."
The veins on the Fifth Prince's forehead throbbed, and he shouted angrily, "Fuhui!"
He hates it most when people call him fat.
In fact, the fifth prince was not fat when he was young, at most he just had a little flesh, and the saint even praised him for being plump and cute. But he couldn't control his appetite, especially after leaving the palace and building his own residence, no one was watching him, so he ate as much as he wanted, and finally became what he is now.
Princess Fuhui was not afraid of him and said, "Fifth brother, it's useless to yell at me. You are obviously a fat pig, and you don't allow others to say it?" Seeing that he looked unhappy, she said, "You are not going to hit me, are you? If you dare to touch me, I will go back and tell my father!"
Hearing this, the Fifth Prince's clenched fists gradually loosened.
This little girl Fuhui is deeply doted on by the emperor's father. She is obviously of marriageable age, but because she doesn't want to get married, her father doesn't force her and lets her indulge herself until she is in her twenties. He even allows her to find a lover in private and says that he will wait for next year's palace examination to choose a talented young man as her husband.
Which man would like a woman who has a lover? It's not like she is born a lowly person who likes to cuckold herself.
The fifth prince swallowed his anger and said sarcastically, "Why, you still haven't given up on Fu Xiao and are actually defending him?"
He had a look of disdain on his face. If she was really so devoted to Fu Xiao, she wouldn't have not even looked at him after Fu Xiao got into trouble that year, but instead sought to have fun with a lover.
Princess Fuhui said frankly, "I really haven't given up. He is so handsome." Then she smiled and said, "I didn't expect that after a few years, Fu Xiao is still so handsome and charming. He is indeed a rare handsome man in the world."
It is well known that Princess Fuhui likes handsome men. She prefers any man who is good-looking.
This time, he came here specially because he heard from the Third Prince that Fu Xiao would appear.
But she didn't intend to do anything. Instead, the Fifth Prince was so impatient that he made trouble in public and almost offended those scholars. He was really as stupid as a pig.
Princess Fuhui also complained to him: "Fifth brother, if you don't have brains, don't be so impulsive. You almost offended those scholars before, which affected my reputation. I don't want to be hated by them..."
The fifth prince was disdainful: "What is your reputation? A reputation for finding a man?"
Princess Fuhui didn't care. "You men can find women, so what's wrong with us women finding men?"
"How shameless!"
"What did you say? Say it again? I'm going to tell my father that you called his daughter shameless!"
"Don't tell Father anything!"
"I'll tell you!"
The Prince of England sat there drinking tea silently, pretending not to hear the childish quarrel between the prince and princess.
Noticing that they were getting more and more outrageous, he said, "Your Highnesses, please stop arguing. Should we leave now?"
The status of the Prince of England is not ordinary, so the Fifth Prince and Princess Fuhui still give him some face.
The Fifth Prince was somewhat unwilling to just leave like that, and Princess Fuhui was also a little itchy, so they decided to continue looking for those scholars and see Fu Wenxiao again.
Princess Fuhui said: "Fu Xiao is now called Fu Wenxiao, which is a nice name."
The fifth prince sneered and said in a sarcastic tone, "Don't even think about it. I heard that he married a country girl in the south... I never thought that Fu Xiao would end up like this, marrying an unknown wife. That country girl must be very ugly. I don't know what kind of taste he has. I heard that she is a big eater, a glutton!"
Princess Fuhui was surprised, "He really got married?" Then she sighed, "What a pity."
If nothing had happened to the Fu family back then, she would actually like to marry Fu Xiao.
Fu Xiao has top-notch looks, outstanding family background, great talent, and is also a popular figure around the saint... How many women in the capital see him as their ideal husband and dream of marrying him.
"Besides, what does it have to do with you if he's a glutton?" Princess Fuhui glanced at him, "Aren't you a glutton yourself?" How could he have the nerve to say that about others?
The fifth prince said angrily, "How dare you compare me with a lowly country girl?"
"That's Fu Xiao's wife. If you say that about her, be careful or Fu Xiao might hit you one day." Princess Fuhui reminded him.
Hearing this, the Fifth Prince's fat body trembled, but he still said, "Am I afraid of him?"
Having said that, he lowered his voice a lot and finally closed his mouth silently.
For the princes in the palace, the name Fu Xiao is a nightmare. It seems that his existence is just to highlight how mediocre these princes are and how disappointed their fathers are.
They even heard the saint sigh more than once that Fu Xiao was the child who was most like him.
How could a son of a princess be admired by the emperor for looking like him?
No matter how much Fu Xiao resembles him, he is only the son of a princess, not a prince.
Although they understood this truth, they were still wary and resentful of the emperor's reliance on Fu Xiao, and the princes wished he would disappear.
The Fifth Prince also lived under Fu Xiao's shadow a lot. Once, he killed a palace maid and was caught by Fu Xiao. Fu Xiao had the Fifth Prince dragged out and beat him up in the snow himself.
The Fifth Prince was so severely beaten that he hated Fu Xiao.
What made him even more upset was that when the saint heard about this afterwards, he didn't say a word against Fu Xiao. Instead, he praised Fu Xiao for doing a good job.
How could he not hate Fu Xiao?
When he saw Fu Xiao in trouble, he was the first to applaud. When he heard that Fu Xiao would appear here, he also hurried over, just to humiliate Fu Xiao in public.
Now Fu Xiao is just a scholar from the south. He is not the son of the Duke of Zhenguo, nor is he the commander of the Imperial City. As a prince, can't I touch him?
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When the scholars heard that the Fifth Prince and his companions were leaving, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and came to see them off.
Fu Wenxiao was also among them.
The Fifth Prince and others stared at Fu Wenxiao in the crowd.
With so many people around, he can still be spotted at a glance. It seems that no matter where he is or what situation he is in, his charm cannot be concealed.
Princess Fuhui's cheeks blushed slightly. She just liked handsome men. Over the years, she had met many handsome men, but none of them could compare to Fu Xiao's face, which was really too handsome.
Seeing that face, the fifth prince couldn't help but yelled, "Fu..."
Suddenly, his body went numb and he fell down again with a thud.
Maybe it was because he was too fat. Every time he fell, it was very serious. This time he broke a tooth, and his speech was lisp even worse.
Everyone around was shocked. Why did the Fifth Prince always fall?
Just now, when he fell while sitting on a chair, he could blame the chair, but now he fell even when standing. Could it be that there is something wrong with his body? However, since he is so fat, it is normal for him to have problems.
Princess Fuhui and Prince Yingguo were also confused and quickly asked someone to help the Fifth Prince up.
Seeing the Fifth Prince's nose bleeding violently, Princess Fuhui was worried that he might get hurt, so she said, "All right, send the Fifth Prince back quickly and ask an imperial physician to take a look at him."
The guards were also worried that if something happened to the Fifth Prince they would be punished, so they dared not stay. Several strong guards carried the Fifth Prince away quickly.
Princess Fuhui and Prince Yingguo also left in a hurry.
Seeing these nobles leave, the scholars in the garden finally felt relieved and said goodbye and left as well.
After saying goodbye to Mr. Wang and his wife, Yu Li and Fu Wenxiao left in a carriage.
On the way, Fu Wenxiao looked at Yu Li, took her hand, and couldn't help but smile: "A Li, thank you so much for the time being."
"Thank me for what?" Yu Li said, "I didn't do anything."
Fu Wenxiao felt soft-hearted when he saw her pretending to be calm, and said with a smile, "Well, A-Li didn't do anything."
He knew she was protecting herself.
Even though she was not there, he was not afraid of the Fifth Prince. If the Fifth Prince really wanted to come upon him, he also had a way to deal with him.
Yu Li coughed lightly, then asked him: "Does the Fifth Prince have a grudge against you?"
"Yes, there is a grudge." Fu Wenxiao said calmly, "He likes to abuse palace maids. I saw him once before. He killed a palace maid, so I beat him up myself..."
"Good fight!" Yu Li said, feeling a little regretful, "If I had known I would have made him fall harder."
Better to break a leg.
Fu Wenxiao leaned against the wall of the car and smiled at her.
Yu Li reacted and said confidently: "I did it, so what? I didn't bully the weak."
The existence of genetic warriors is to protect humanity, not to destroy it, and she has always kept this in mind.
Fu Wenxiao pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on her shoulder, and said in a soft voice: "Well, A-Li doesn't bully the weak, and the fifth prince is not weak."
"Of course he is bullying the weak!"
Yu Li frowned. Originally, she had no feelings towards the Fifth Prince, but now that she heard that he liked to abuse people, she couldn't help but feel disgusted.
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