Chapter 40：

In fact, counting carefully, the masters of Fengzhao County and Yongle County are still one and a half years older than Ming Tan, and even though Ming Tan is married and has a bun, she still looks like a girl. Neither of them thought that she would suddenly Use the status of elders to suppress.

Of course, the most important thing is that the first emperor and Prince Min Cong have the same father and half mother, and King Yi and Emperor Chengkang are not from the same mother, and the queen mother is the successor of the first emperor. It couldn't be more reluctant, and this aunt and aunt's is really tight.

The two of them probably didn't come back to their senses, and they were taken down before they could argue.

Everyone was quiet for a while, and some people rushed to flatter Ming Tan, praising her for her good handling, safe and dignified, and her princess-like demeanor. joke.

Everyone in Beijing and Zhongzhong's officials and family members knew about that joke, and when it was mentioned a little, some people would smile knowingly.

There are also people who don't bury Fengzhao on the bright side, but sweetly boast that Ming Tan's peony-patterned clothes and the peony spring sleeping phoenix hairpin on her head complement her perfectly, and match her perfectly.

As for the owner of Yongle County, she was not in the capital before, and everyone knew little about her, but not everyone knew nothing about her.

Some people said that because of the empress dowager's favor, the princess of Yongle County has always been arrogant, arrogant, defiant, and lacks the restraint that a girl should have.

Hearing that she once got a glimpse of His Royal Highness Dingbei by chance, and fell in love with His Highness Dingbei at first sight, that's why she followed her father Beizheng without hesitation. In order to meet His Royal Highness, he pretended to enter the camp to disrupt military discipline. Knowing that the emperor and the empress wanted to choose a concubine for His Royal Highness Dingbei, they even cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves, begging Princess Wen Hui and the Queen Mother to plan for him. As for why the plan failed, it is unknown.

"This Yongle County Lord is so bold?"

"In order to see His Highness pretending to enter the camp to disrupt military discipline, how can a woman in the boudoir be so disrespectful and lose her composure? It's really appalling!"

"It's not uncommon for such a virtue to fail to become a princess. The prince is a member of the royal family and knows the etiquette. Naturally, he likes a lady from a well-known family who is knowledgeable and reasonable like the princess. How can I look down on such a frivolous look that is not self-respecting."

Ming Tan: "..."

The gaffe is appalling.

I was vaguely offended.

Feeling guilty after being praised, she hastily coughed twice to change the subject: "It's windy outside, everyone should go in first, Master Yuanming should give a lecture."

Ming Tan led the crowd back into the hall, and subconsciously glanced at Zhou Jingwan.

Zhou Jingwan understood, found an excuse to change clothes, and led the maid to the direction of the release pool.

Today is the Buddha Bathing Festival, and the Daxiangguo Temple is more lively than usual. Some people throw copper coins and fish food by the release pool, praying and praying, and children swim and laugh with the koi carp.

Zhou Jingwan found a shady place and waited quietly.

She didn't want a child chasing the spinning top to whip her, and ran madly to where she was. Because she lost herself in playing, the child didn't notice someone standing beside her, so she swung the whip rope and whipped her.

Zhou Jingwan couldn't dodge it in time, she was about to be whipped by the child, suddenly the sharp knife came out of its sheath, and with a flash of white light, she quickly cut off the whip rope that was about to hurt people.

The child was stunned for a while, staring at the neat whip rope at the end, then looked up at the tall man, and suddenly let out a "wow", and was so scared that he ran away crying without taking the top.

Zhou Jingwan was weak and timid at first, and while she was still in shock, she was disturbed by the cry of a child, her lips turned pale subconsciously, she covered her heart and took half a step back.

This Lu Dianshuai is too scary.

If there is a disagreement, they dance with swords and swords.

No wonder it has the reputation of stopping children from crying at night.

However, she still had to bend her knees, bit the bullet and saluted: "Thank you Lu Dianshuai."

"It's a small matter, Miss Jingwan doesn't need to be polite."

It was indeed a small matter, even if he thought about killing a lot of people, it was not a big deal to him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jingwan's back was a little stiff, and she didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at Lu Ting. In fact, she felt that the hostility of the man in front of her was a bit overwhelming just from a distance of ten feet.

After a long while, she plucked up her courage and asked in a soft voice: "Dare to ask Mr. Lu Dianshuai, have you ever heard of 'Zhuang Hui discusses fish'?"

Lu Ting glanced at the koi swimming in the release pond, and replied as gracefully as possible: "I heard a little."

Zhou Jingwan said again: "Zhuang said: 'minnows travel leisurely, which is the joy of fish.' Hui said: 'You are not a fish, how do you know the joy of fish?'"

Lu Ting's hearing stopped at this sentence, but Zhou Jingwan didn't finish, "Zhuang You said: 'You are not me, how do you know that I don't know the joy of fish? It is certainly not a fish, and the child does not know that the joy of fish is complete.'”

The passage that Zhou Jingwan recounted eloquently later became in Lu Ting's ears: "You are not me...the joy of the fish...I am not the son...not the fish...the joy of the fish..."

Without waiting for Lu Tingshun to understand, Zhou Jingwan took care of herself, lowered her eyes and said suddenly: "If Jingwan understands fish, you know that fish are not happy."

The side of the release pool was quiet, and the catkins were blown lightly by the wind.

Zhou Jingwan felt uneasy, and her hands were sweating from tension. She really didn't know if she would annoy this Marshal Lu by expressing her reluctance and displeasure so clearly.

Lu Ting was left speechless, he didn't understand what Zhou Jingwan wanted to say, he hesitated for a while before asking: "Then feed more fish food?"

Zhou Jingwan's lips turned paler, and her body was also a little crumbling.

Did he think that she would be happy if he put in more dowry? But what does this have to do with the betrothal gift? She, Zhou Jingwan, is so short-sighted and only wants to be rich and famous. Does she need to be so despised by him for nothing?

"Although fish are humble and small, they are living beings who think for themselves. If you are not happy, you would rather not eat rashly." Zhou Jingwan's voice was soft and trembling, her head was buried low, and tears rolled in her eyes. After speaking, she Bianfu said, "Jingwan still wants to listen to the master's lecture, so she can't stay longer. This intention has been decided. I hope Lu Dianshuai thinks twice."

"..."

What has been decided?

Looking at the back of Zhou Jingwan leaving in a hurry, Lu Ting suddenly asked the follower: "What did she mean by what she just said?"

The entourage replied honestly: "I don't know, the young lady of the Zhou family is worthy of being a young lady from a scholarly family, and she didn't understand a single word she said. But the small ones have been written down. Why don't you go back and ask the prince or Second Young Master Shu? "

Lu stopped and nodded.

The entourage wiped off his sweat, thinking distressedly, if my master really wanted to marry this young lady of the Zhou family in the future, the errands would be very difficult, and he might not even understand the orders.

But before he knew it, two hours had passed.

Princess Fengzhao and County Lord Yongle, who were punished to kneel, came out from the east and west sides of the small Buddhist hall respectively, and heard from the servants' ears what other people talked about each other after the two were taken away.

When they ran into each other outside the Buddhist hall for a while, it was naturally another burst of sarcasm—

"It is said that you don't distinguish between superiority and inferiority, and you have no rules or discipline. I can't imagine that you are really so unruly. You even sneaked into the military camp in disguise. Oh, you cried, made trouble, hanged yourself, and insisted on marrying King Dingbei Your Highness, it's so funny, if you really want to hang yourself, why are you still standing here, ignorant and shameless!" The moment Princess Fengzhao spoke, there was a strong smell of gunpowder.

Zhai Nianci was not to be outdone: "I am standing here because of the blessings of the Empress Dowager. But you, who know how to be superior and inferior, turned out to be the one who committed the following crimes against Princess Dingbei and the Empress, and was ordered by the Empress to think about her mistakes at home and not to go out. Ah. You know so well, why didn’t I see you make peony poems and fold peony flowers today?”

"you!"

"Also, so what if I didn't marry His Royal Highness Dingbei Wang, I have the protection of the Queen Mother, what kind of husband can I find? You are quite arrogant when you are happy, marrying Jiangyang Hou and others, You are not even worthy to carry shoes for the county chief!"

The previous defeat was originally due to Feng Zhaotai not playing cards according to common sense, and playing as he said. In terms of verbal skill, Zhai Nianci is probably going to win by a few points.

Moreover, Feng Zhao was indeed hit by Zhai Nianci's weakness at this moment, his eyes were staring straight, but he couldn't say anything to refute.

Seeing her like this, Zhai Nianci's mind became clearer, and he continued to poke her heart with a half-smile: "You don't have to blame me for not giving you face. After the matter of the late spring poetry meeting, who in the whole capital is willing to give it to you?" Face, I take you as a joke, you don't know it, do you?

"And I didn't make a joke about you. The person who made you a joke is very proud of himself, and he can still call himself your aunt. Not to mention that you won't even be worthy of carrying my shoes in the future, even if you are already She is not worthy to carry shoes for her, marry Jiang Yanghou again, tsk."

"Shut up!"

Feng Zhao was so angry that his hands were clenched white. He knew that Zhai Nianci was trying to provoke her on purpose, but he couldn't stop thinking along the lines:

The **** of the Ming family who is not worthy to lift her shoes is now the princess of Dingbei. How comfortable her life is, she dares to pretend to be Zhang Zhi in front of her wearing a peony on purpose.

However, as a princess, she was made the laughing stock of the whole capital by this slut. If not, her father, queen, mother and concubine would not necessarily marry her far away in Shuzhong, and make her a wife for the licentious Marquis of Jiangyang... Continuation.

She couldn't bear this tone at all, how could she bear it!

Feng Zhao turned around and was about to leave, but after walking a few steps, she suddenly turned her head and stared at Zhai Nianci sarcastically: "It's a joke, so what, it's not like she robbed the person I like. She robbed you and cried and made trouble three times." The person you love, who can't even get hanged, can still pretend to be your aunt, and you still have the face to flaunt the Queen Mother's banner. You really humiliated the Queen Mother and her old man. Just wait, let's go Watch!"

On the back mountain of Daxiangguo Temple, Ming Tan and Bai Minmin stayed with Zhou Jingwan after bathing in the Buddha and watching the ceremony.

"He really said that? Is there some misunderstanding?" Ming Tan was a little puzzled after hearing Zhou Jingwan's talk about the meeting between the two.

Zhou Jingwan choked with sobs: "Could there be any misunderstanding?"

Bai Minmin was extremely angry: "I've looked at this Lu Dianshuai in vain, he is so frivolous, I want to marry Jingwan with some dowry, who am I to offend!"

Zhou Jingwan seemed to have been greatly wronged, tears kept falling, and she stubbornly said "If he marries by force, he will kill himself". Ming Tan and Bai Minmin were quite worried after hearing this. She was already weak, so if she cried like this, she might have to pass out after crying for a while.

In fact, Ming Tan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't ask for a while, so he could only comfort him first: "Don't cry, there must be a way to resolve this matter, let's think about it together."

Bai Minmin echoed: "Yes, at worst, let A-tan go to ask His Highness, and once A-tan begs, His Highness has nothing to say."

Ming Tan: "..."

This is not the solution she said.

Her legs are still shaking now!