Just as the two were hesitating whether to go in, the princess's carriage arrived behind them. She stepped forward and said with a smile, "You've come too! Come on in!"
"Princess, we are just about to go in. Please go first!" Tian Yu said politely.
"Let me push Brother Xingyun." The princess smiled and tried to push Li Xingyun inside.
"Let me do it," Tian Yu said with a smile. After spending a few days with this princess, they had become quite familiar with each other. She used to call him Doctor Li, but now she calls him Brother Xingyun. Tian Yu could only give her a thumbs up for her social skills!
"You don't need to push, just let Xiao Wu push." After Li Xingyun finished speaking, Xiao Wu pushed Li Xingyun inside.
"Didn't the Marquis come with you?" the princess asked, looking around.
"He has something to attend to and will arrive later." Tian Yu was puzzled. Didn't the princess always call Zhao Moyan "brother"? Why did she change it?
"This is the Tang family's academy. Is Brother Xingyun alright?" the princess whispered in Tian Yu's ear.
"I don't know either. I should have known better than to let him come."
"I heard that Tang Wanying, the eldest daughter of the Tang family, has also come."
"Really? I haven't met her yet. I've heard she's a talented woman and very beautiful."
"It's alright! Anyway, not as pretty as us," the princess said with a smile.
“Yeah! I think so too.” Tian Yu felt that they were becoming more and more like-minded.
After they finished speaking, they both laughed. When Tian Yu saw Li Xingyun looking back at them, she instantly felt that she was too heartless. How could she be in the mood to gossip at a time like this? Her own brother was still injured. Looking at the princess beside her, she didn't know whether she was shy or aggrieved and lowered her head. Please forgive a woman's love for gossip. It was really uncontrollable!
From the moment they entered the courtyard, many people pointed and whispered about them. When they encountered them, Tian Yu could only nod and smile. Fang Jue and Tang Wenli came out to greet them and led them to the backyard. Everyone had already gathered in small groups, chatting and discussing. Tang Wenli stopped everyone and introduced Tian Yu. In this scene, Tian Yu looked at the way everyone was looking at her, tried her best to smile, and bowed to everyone.
"I've heard that Mr. Tian is an excellent poet. Would you be so kind as to compose a poem on the spot to add to the merriment?"
"Indeed! Recently, Mr. Tian's excellent poems have been all over the market, which we greatly admire. Today, we are fortunate to see them in person. Mr. Tian, please!"
Tian Yu raised an eyebrow at the two young men who were speaking, and explained with a smile, "I am just a woman, and I dare not compare myself with you talented gentlemen. It was just luck, luck!"
"Is Mr. Tian being modest, or does he think we're not good enough?"
Looking at the aggressive group in the crowd, Tian Yu thought to herself that they were unworthy of the attention. What kind of people were they? They started making things difficult as soon as they walked in. But she still smiled and said, "Humility is a virtue. People should be humble and cautious. Didn't your mother teach you that?!"
"You!" The men glared angrily.
Seeing that the situation was turning bad, Tang Wenli spoke up to stop it, saying, "Alright! Everyone! Please sit down and rest for a bit, let Mr. Tian have some tea, and we'll discuss this later!"
The princess, who had originally wanted to speak up to stop her, suppressed a laugh and gave Tian Yu a thumbs up. Tian Yu continued to smile at everyone, as if she had never said those words at all!
"Mr. Tian, Brother Li, please!" Fang Jue led them away from the crowd.
Tian Yu then found a secluded spot to sit down. Before she could even taste her tea, Li Weiwei and her two older brothers, Li Li and Li Tong, entered. Everyone stood up to greet them. Tian Yu sat in the corner, observing carefully, and noticed that the treatment was indeed different. Everyone greeted her respectfully with smiles. The three who had been difficult earlier were even more attentive. In contrast, only a few seemingly poor scholars, dressed less elegantly, were polite to her and genuinely bowed. The others just watched with amusement.
Princesses are of noble status, so naturally no one dared to be disrespectful and sit in the seat of honor. Li Weiwei and her brother sat down right next to the princess. When Li Weiwei saw Tian Yu in the crowd, she followed her two brothers and sat down arrogantly with a disdainful look. Tian Yu almost laughed. These ancient people are really interesting. Seeing Li Weiwei's two brothers bowing to the princess, Tian Yu suddenly wondered why, given the Li family's power, they didn't marry the princess! But it was just a fleeting thought. Li Li, Li Weiwei's eldest brother, actually nodded and smiled at them. Tian Yu instantly snapped out of her thoughts, holding her teacup in one hand, and raised an eyebrow at Li Xingyun, asking, "Do you know each other?"
"I don't know him!"
"Then who did he smile at?" Tian Yu looked around again. There were only the two of them sitting there, no one else.
"have no idea!"
"You all share the surname Li, don't you recognize each other?"
“There are plenty of people with the surname Li, do you expect me to know them all?” Li Xingyun said.
"Never mind what I said." Tian Yu picked up a pastry from the table, took a bite, nodded, and continued, "Hmm! This pastry is pretty good, it's about 70-80% accurate. You should try it!"
"No!"
As they were talking, another pair of beautiful women arrived. They were truly pleasing to the eye. The man didn't possess Zhao Moyan's jade-like temperament, nor the stunning beauty of Prince Wu, and certainly not Li Xingyun's scholarly air. But standing next to the beauty beside him, they were a sight to behold. He had a subtle scholarly air, gentle and refined. The woman beside him was even more ethereal, breathtakingly beautiful. Tian Yu was so surprised that she dropped the pastry in her hand, her mouth slightly agape. She reached out and patted Li Xingyun beside her, saying, "Wow! Brother! Look! There are such beautiful women in the world. If I were a man, I would definitely win her over. Hey! Do you think the man beside her is her brother or her husband?"
After speaking for a while without receiving a response from Li Xingyun, Tian Yu turned to look at him. Li Xingyun was looking straight ahead, expressionless. Tian Yu then glanced at the beautiful woman and noticed that she was also looking in their direction. This look made Tian Yu instantly understand, and she swallowed the tea in her mouth, saying, "She is the eldest daughter of the Tang family, Tang Wanying!?"
Li Xingyun remained silent, lowered his head, picked up his teacup, and drank his tea, no longer looking at the eldest daughter of the Tang family. Tian Yu had already understood everything. She took a bite of her pastry and said, "No wonder you can't forget her. No one can forget such a beauty. Even I, a woman, want to get to know her, let alone you men. Brother! If you really can't let go, we'll snatch her back, how about that?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's over between her and me a long time ago," Li Xingyun said, tapping Tian Yu on the head.
"Really!? What a pity that such a beautiful sister-in-law is gone!"
"Tian Yu, don't talk nonsense! This is the Tang family!"
"Got it! Don't worry, no one heard us. If you feel uncomfortable, we'll leave now."
"I'm fine. Don't you always tell me to let go of the past? Why do you keep trying to make me run away halfway today?"
"My right eyelid has been twitching lately, and I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen, so it's better to avoid it as soon as possible."
"If you leave now, won't people think that you, Mr. Tian, are a coward with no real reputation?"
"I don't care, turtles are fine too, they live long lives!"
Li Xingyun was completely speechless. If she was considered loyal, she'd betray anyone in a dangerous situation—Zhao Moyan must have been incredibly unlucky. But if she wasn't loyal, she always wanted to help others and was incredibly kind, willing to go to great lengths for her friends!
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