Of course, Xiao Yao's comics could not escape the fate of being watched by King Jing's family of four. Xiuzhu could only say sorry to Xiao Yao silently in her heart.
King Jing was becoming increasingly interested in Xiao Yao and increasingly satisfied with her. He was even considering adopting her as his goddaughter if his son changed his mind. However, judging by his observations, his son was already deeply involved and the possibility of a sudden change of heart was unlikely. It was just that he was still somewhat confused and unsure of his true feelings.
"Mrs. Xiao is such a jerk. Ping'an and I are friends. How could she be angry over such a small thing? Xiuzhu, Miss Xiao must be very sad!" Yun Ruonan asked with concern.
"I didn't realize this, but Miss Xiao said that if she makes the old lady angry again, she will probably be kicked out of the house. Then this box of jewels will come in handy. She will take the jewels and live outside Kyoto." Xiuzhu also felt that Xiao Yao was joking. Even if she wanted to leave, the old marquis would follow her.
"She's so naughty." Yun Yichen rubbed his temples a few times. He was really annoyed by this little girl. She even had the nerve to tell others about such an embarrassing incident of being scolded. What's even more excessive is that she even added a limerick. How big is her heart! I'm going to worry about it in the future.
What was he worried about? And for what reason? Yun Yichen had been thinking about this a lot lately, especially about Xiao Yao, which had left him feeling completely bewildered. This experience and feeling was so different. Something seemed to be about to surface, but he was too embarrassed to explore it. However, he was certain that all of this was related to Xiao Yao.
Could it be that because Mu Fengwu was about to get married and his cousin was also engaged, he had also started to have such thoughts? But how old was the little girl? The one who could make him feel something should be at least a teenage girl, how could she be a child!
Yun Yichen began to search his memory for information about girls he knew. After searching for a long time, he realized that except for Xiao Yao, other girls, no matter how old they were or what their personalities were, were like clouds passing through the sky in his mind. He had no impression of them and left no trace.
"Why are you worried? The one who is going to marry her in the future should be worried. Let's put it nicely, we are just relatives. If we look more clearly, we are not even relatives. Why worry about her?" King Jing suppressed his smile and said indifferently. His son was already thirteen years old. When would he understand his feelings?
"A few days ago, the Princess of Qi mentioned Achen and Ping'an in front of me. Mrs. Xiao and I stopped her from talking right then. This person really said whatever she wanted to say. It's too much." Yin Qianhua mentioned the matter casually.
"What are you talking about my brother and Ping An?" Yun Ruonan, who still didn't understand the meaning of Yin Qianhua's words, looked up and asked for an explanation.
Yun Yichen's face suddenly turned red. He twisted his body as if sitting on pins and needles, trying hard to stay calm, but he couldn't calm down no matter what.
King Jing took advantage of his wife and daughter's inattention and turned his head to chuckle for a moment, then said righteously, "Aren't they just fooling around? Our family is nothing, how can the Xiao family be worthy of us? Achen must marry a princess from a foreign country, the eldest daughter or granddaughter of a prominent family, a virtuous, noble and generous woman from a famous family. Ping An is simply not suitable.
If anyone says this again, tell me and I will publicly announce that the Xiao family's granddaughter is not qualified to be the daughter-in-law of the Jing Palace. We look down on her."
"You..." Yin Qianhua looked at her husband in astonishment. He had never spoken like this before.
"Father, how can you say that about Ping An!" Yun Ruonan was so angry that her eyes turned red, but she couldn't get angry at all, because the other person was her father!
"No...that's not right! We should give face to the Buddha, we should...we should also save some face for the old man." Yun Yichen found an excuse full of loopholes and stammered to try to convince his father and himself.
King Jing was about to give up after his son didn't respond to such strong medicine, but then he came up with an idea to test his son.
"Achen gave Miss He a severe lesson, and father wants to reuse Lord He in the future! In order to ease the relationship between the two families, it is better to let Achen marry..." Before King Jing finished speaking, Yun Yichen jumped out to object, and this time he was much more decisive.
"My son will not marry her. No."
"How about granting me the position of concubine?"
"No, my son doesn't want any concubines."
"Then what kind of princess do you want to marry?"
"I..." There was only one person's name in his heart, and only one person's shadow in his brain. How could he say this? Yun Yichen's mind was in a state of chaos and he was stunned there. After a long time, he squeezed out three dry words: "I don't know."
"My son has never thought about this. What's the point of asking him?" Yin Qianhua didn't know what was wrong with her husband today. What he said and did were so unexpected.
King Jing, watching his wife, who was unaware of the truth and still fiercely defending her son, finally realized that being unintelligent was hereditary. A few years later, when he saw his future daughter-in-law, who was even more unintelligent, he truly understood the meaning of "not being from the same family, not being able to enter the same house."
A few days later, except for Yuan Yutong and her daughter who were not at home and Princess Xiyue who was pregnant and unable to go out, the rest of the women in the Xiao family all dressed up to attend the Liu family's birthday banquet. The wives and grandma of the Liu family were also very enthusiastic.
Everything was going very smoothly, Xiao Yao thought. But at the banquet, a long-lost figure appeared, breaking the peaceful and joyful atmosphere.
"The Xiao family is really different now. I wonder which nobleman they hooked up with after getting rid of the Fang family. Let me see, the little girl has grown up well and is qualified to be a noble concubine. No wonder they broke off the engagement with the Fang family back then. They must have despised the Fang family's low social status!" Yu Xianrong, who had her hair tied up in a bun and was dressed in a way that was obviously inferior to the noble ladies in Kyoto, spoke harshly and slandered the Xiao family and Xiao Yao with a poisonous look in her eyes.
"Miss Yu, that's not right. I should call you Mrs. Cao now. What right do you have to say such things? What do these things have to do with a child? Do you have any basis for ruining other people's reputation so viciously?" Tong Mingyu hugged Xiao Yao. She wanted to go up and fight with Yu Xianrong. Which mother would allow others to throw dirty water on her own children!
"It's clear that you took advantage of your power to bully others and broke off the engagement first. You were unwilling to let other people's granddaughter marry into the Xiao family, but you were also reluctant to let your own granddaughter marry into the family. You used tricks to force the Fang family to sign an unequal agreement. You still claim to be upright and honest, with a clean family tradition, but you are kidding me!" Yu Xianrong was eager to say all the vicious words to vent her dissatisfaction.
There really are such coincidences in the world. She married a local governor in Xuzhou, whose wife had just died. Every day, she not only had to deal with the children left by her husband's ex-wife, but also had to fight with the concubines in the courtyard. Thinking of her luxurious life in Kyoto, how could she not blame the Xiao family!
Coincidentally, at this time, she met Fang Qinglian, who also married into the family and became a sister-in-law. After the two got to know each other, they quickly found a common topic, the Xiao family.
Fang Qinglian's exaggerated descriptions cast the Xiao family as treacherous and disdainful of the poor, and Yu Xianrong incorporated her own imagination. The two of them had lived under the same roof for several years, and they had already completely blackened the Xiao family. All they needed was an opportunity to spread the word.
Now the opportunity has come. The governor that Yu Xianrong married is a distant relative of the Liu family. Yu Xianrong knew this and asked to return to Kyoto to attend the banquet and seek revenge on the Xiao family. She never expected that she would meet the Xiao family at the first banquet she attended after returning.
"Mrs. Xiao, what's wrong with you?" A lady sitting with Qin shouted.
Tong Mingyu and Xiao Yao looked back at the same time and saw Qin who had fainted and Li Jiaoying and Li Xueyan, her aunt and niece, who were frantically standing beside her.
"Mrs. Cao, you must be responsible for what you said today. Defamation and slander of court officials will be investigated. I hope you can be so confident when someone comes to see you next time." Xiao Yao threw a word to Yu Xianrong and ran towards Qin.
"You're so sharp-tongued, you'll never get married. Even if you do, you'll be a concubine." If you asked Yu Xianrong who she hated the most, it was of course the Xiao family. And among the Xiao family, she hated Old Marquis Xiao and Xiao Yao the most. How could she easily let go of someone who repeatedly ruined her plans?
"You..." Tong Mingyu looked at Yu Xianrong with angry eyes. She now had someone she hated the most.
"Mother, please don't be angry, and Madam Cao, please rest assured. No matter what happens in the future, at least I won't do something as shameless as stopping someone's carriage in the street, and I won't marry far away and then come back to help my family incur hatred. I don't know what your parents and husband will think of you after today, but I wish you good luck!"
Xiao Yao wasn't angry with her! She just wanted to know how Lord Yu, whose official career was already declining, would feel when he knew his daughter had made a great enemy for him; how would a local official feel when he knew his wife not only couldn't help him, but also offended the Northern Jin Junma, Tianyu Zhongyong Hou.
"Don't... don't talk nonsense." Yu Xianrong, whose face had changed, stammered.
"Someone, please send Madam Cao out. Our family temple is too small to house a statue of her." A lady in charge of the Liu family quickly stated her position after realizing what was happening. Of course, she knew what to choose between the Xiao family and Yu Xianrong.
"I do have an invitation. Is this how your Liu family treats guests?" Yu Xianrong certainly didn't want to be kicked out. It was too embarrassing.
"You are a guest, and the Xiao family is even more so. You are provoking us without reason. Is this what guests who come to celebrate a birthday should do? You clearly want to embarrass our Liu family and make the whole of Kyoto laugh at us. We can't welcome such guests." Mrs. Liu accused Yu Xianrong harshly. It was the Xiao family who was wronged in today's incident, and it was the Liu family who was embarrassed. So no matter what Yu Xianrong's current identity is, she is already the common enemy of the Liu and Xiao families.
At this time, Qin was placed in the backyard and the doctor had also examined her. The old man and his wife of the Liu family were by her bedside, and they apologized to Tong Mingyu and kept comforting Xiao Yao.
Xiao Yao was very glad that she came from another time and space. If she were a native lady from a noble family, she would be very sad even if she didn't faint from crying!
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