Chapter 177: Confession
The voice was low and hoarse, with a thick sense of anger, but it still sounded familiar.
Jing Xuan heard this reprimand and immediately looked up, and sure enough, he saw Jing Yu who was walking quickly not far away, different from the previous gentle jade, at this moment his handsome face had a rare gloom, and even his eyes were a lot sharper.
"Jing Xuan, Miss Ye is the princess chosen by this king, and she is the object of her father's decree to marry, are you denying your father's vision with such words? Also, no matter whether she is a shallow learner or not, this king is pleased with her, and this king's princess, it's not your turn to talk nonsense! ”
Jing Xuan's heart chilled slightly when she heard this, after all, she had never seen her gentle and jade-like Three Emperor Brotherhood show such a side, and even reprimanded her in public, making her lose face!
Ye Qingyu heard such words of maintenance, raised her eyes slightly, and sure enough, she saw the handsome boy walking towards her in a purple dress.
He must have come in a hurry, there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, his handsome face was full of worry, and his starry eyes were full of guilt and affection.
When he was still a few steps away from him, he looked at Ye Qingyu, who had no intention of being hurt at all, and then asked in an anxious and worried voice:
"Ah Yu, are you okay?"
For some reason, looking at the straight and slender figure walking towards her, Ye Qingyu actually felt a little secure in her heart, she seemed to have been touched by her heartstrings, no longer deliberately kept her distance, subconsciously shook her head, and said with a slight smile:
"I'm fine, why are you here?"
Jing Yu obviously felt very guilty for the person he cherished was in such a situation, and when he felt that Ye Qingyu's attitude had softened a lot, he directly ignored the surprised gazes of everyone present, and naturally took the hand of the woman next to him, and gently and sincerely apologized:
"Ah Yu, I'm sorry to let you suffer these injustices and criticisms because of me, because I came a little late to attend the court meeting!"
"This tea party is just set up by an inconsequential vassal and elegant person, if you don't want to participate, let's go first!"
It is not easy for Jing Yu to make such a reaction, after all, to do so is to blatantly maintain a straw bag, if it is spread out, even if it will not take half a day, Jing Yu, the first son in the world, will become the laughing stock of the entire Shengjing City.
But even so, he was reluctant to let her be in the midst of the storm maelstrom.
This friendship, she admitted!
So, just when Jing Yu was about to take Ye Qingyu to leave this tea party for her directly, the woman who actually had many vests enough to amaze the world clapped his hands, a pair of eyes as bright as stars moved slightly, and smiled confidently in his ear:
"Don't worry, I can handle it."
"If you leave like this, I really don't deserve to be Your Royal Highness King Ling, your future princess!"
"No matter how I say it, I can't let us become the laughing stock of the whole world~"
Ye Qingyu's voice was small but domineering, and when she saw the confident and frivolous eyes of the person in front of her, Jing Yu nodded clearly, not doubting whether her words were true.
Jing Yu turned forward, sat on the position that had been vacant, regained his gentle appearance, glanced at the angry and frightened Princess Changle, and said in a cool voice:
"Jing Xuan, do you know what's wrong?"
As His Majesty's favorite princess, Jing Xuan has always been the same, and her actions are even more unscrupulous, and now it is the first time that she has been reprimanded so coldly, and she immediately turned red in her eyes after being wronged, and began to say without a sense of the overall situation:
"This princess is right!"
"Third Emperor Brother, the Imperial Sister is also for your own good, a useless princess like Ye Qingyu, what are you marrying her?"
"You know Lu-"
The words came to an abrupt end here, and Lu Xueying, who was about to go crazy looking at everything that was happening in front of her, hurriedly interrupted the words of the princess who was about to pull her in, and said in a round field:
"Her Royal Highness the princess said the wrong thing for a while, and please don't blame your highness, today's princess held a tea party for the sake of elegance."
"Because Miss Ye is not literate and uneducated, Her Royal Highness the Princess is also kind, I hope that Miss Ye can learn a thing or two, don't lose Your Highness."
Lu Xueying's words are much more level and scheming than Jing Xuan's rude and willful princess, and her words not only maintain Jing Xuan's majesty as a princess, but also quietly turn around the contradiction just now.
Of course, although this sound decent, he is still belittling Ye Qingyu intentionally or unintentionally.
If you look closely, the narrow eyes of this seemingly gentle and dignified Miss Lu hide a lingering hatred, dark and crazy.
Ye Qingyu raised her noble and brilliant eyes slightly, looked at the Miss Lu who was pretending to be very noble and elegant, smiled leisurely, and retorted unhurriedly:
"Miss Lu's words are not right, even though Miss Ben is not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, but Miss Ben dares to admit the facts, unlike some people who live very hypocritically, how many of you present have such courage?"
"Of course, judging that Miss Ben is not well-versed in literature and ink and does not understand elegance just by this matter is a bit too far-fetched, right?"
"Besides, Miss Ben admits this with a clear conscience, can it be that just because of these princesses, Her Royal Highnesses and even most of the people present, can they wantonly laugh at and hurt me?"
"Can I become Princess Ling, do I rely on this standard?"
"Or if you are not proficient in this elegant thing, you can only be ridiculed and humiliated by you?"
The voice questioned, the momentum was compelling, and just when everyone was impressed by this mysterious Miss Ye, she continued to say in a firm tone that defied the world's condemnation:
"Although Qing Yu is not talented, he really doesn't have the time and energy to focus on the elegant things in Her Royal Highness the princess and even in your mouth, and she is not good at elegant literature, but even if she lives a secular life, Qing Yu thinks that only elegance can be regarded as a noble status in this world!"
Ye Qingyu didn't speak, as soon as she spoke, she really hit the nail on the head, and her confident and decisive words shocked everyone who thought she was quiet and weak and didn't dare to resist.
Jing Xuan and Jing Yu are half-siblings, this relationship is superficial, she originally invited Jing Yu to come so that he could see Ye Qingyu's embarrassed appearance so that he could change his mind and seek a chance for his good friend Lu Xueying.
Just when Ye Qingyu blew herself up that she had no talent, she thought that her goal had been achieved, but what she never expected was-
Even her brother, who is famous all over the world, not only did she not regret it when she heard the truth, but she also defended it everywhere and reprimanded her in public!
How could she endure this?
Jing Xuan took the lead in asking, making it clear that she wanted to test Ye Qingyu's ability, and almost instantly, everyone's eyes fell on this unknown lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Seeing that he was already in the limelight, Ye Qingyu couldn't get off the stage without speaking, so he got up unhurriedly and said generously:
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Royal Highness the Princess, this tea ceremony, I really don't know anything, but today's tea of Her Royal Highness the Princess is indeed a good tea, and it tastes very sweet, thank you Your Highness for your kindness."
The young ladies and sons of these families are all pretending to be very talented in front of people, but now Ye Qingyu not only did not pretend, but actually admitted his shortcomings so frankly, for a while, everyone couldn't help but be surprised when they heard this.
Of course, the astonishment was followed by varying degrees of contempt and contempt.
After all, after this family celebrity, if you don't even know anything about the tea ceremony, it's really a bit vulgar!
Ye Qingyu's words were frank and free, but it was precisely her admitting that she was insufficient, so that the already ill-intentioned princess Jing Xuan said with some disappointment:
"I see, that's really a pity, of course, Jiangzhou is not Shengjing City after all, Miss Ye will inevitably have restrictions in all aspects there, and it is reasonable not to be proficient in the tea ceremony."
Although she is showing her understanding on the surface, as long as you are not a fool, you can hear the ridicule in these words, Jing Xuan and Lu Xueying have a very good personal relationship, this time it is to deliberately make things difficult for Ye Qingyu, and before the words are over, she immediately said:
"However, Jiangzhou is also a rich place, with developed commerce and trade, but I don't know what Miss Ye has learned in the ten years in Jiangzhou? Miss Ye didn't know that the tea party held by Miss Gongzi of our Kyoto family, everyone had to show off their talents. ”
"Or piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or poetry and songs, I don't know what Miss Ye is good at, why don't you win a jackpot for today's tea party carefully prepared by the princess?"
Where there are people, there are comparisons, and the same is true of Shengjing City, which is in the center of the entire Dayong, and now this tea party is already a trend of comparison, and it is inevitable that Ye Qingyu, who has been in the whirlpool of rumors since his first return, will be targeted.
After all, in this solidified class, it is really unacceptable to suddenly appear a country girl like Ye Qingyu who has nothing to do with her body!
So, after Jing Xuan asked, almost everyone present waited eagerly for Ye Qingyu to react, of course, a large part of them were there to watch the joke.
However, it did not live up to the expectations of these people, and when everyone was looking at her, she smiled calmly and said very frankly and naturally:
"Thanks to Her Royal Highness the Princess, today is the first tea party that Ye Qingyu has participated in when she first entered Kyoto, I really don't know that there is such a charter, and I haven't prepared any talents."
"Of course, don't hide it from Her Royal Highness the Princess, Qingyu grew up in a vulgar place, and she is really a shallow learner, so whether it is piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or poetry and songs, none of them are good at it, which makes you laugh!"
After Ye Qingyu finished speaking, the audience fell into a deathly silence.
This tea party of tasting famous tea and exchanging talents on the bright side is actually a non-standard gathering used by upper-class celebrities to compare entertainment, so even if the people who come here really have no ink, they will not openly put it on the surface.
After all, once you don't have any strengths that you can use to show off, you will become the object of contempt and contempt for everyone.
As the saying goes, this is a shame, but it is a family's face.
After Ye Qingyu said the fact that he didn't know anything in such a grand manner, everyone in the audience was extremely shocked, and more people sighed stupidly for such an act that was tantamount to suicide.
Of course, this was followed by more mocking and contemptuous glances.
Although Ye Qingyu's openness made many people who thought they were superior feel self-satisfied by despising people who were inferior to themselves, they failed to hide from the really smart people.
At the same moment, Lu Xueying, who had been watching Ye Qingyu all the time, also flashed a trace of confusion in her eyes.
Because she always felt that in those dark eyes, there was a peerless elegance that was not willing to be mediocre.
How could someone who could be valued by His Royal Highness King Ling be so simple?
Lu Xueying was suspicious but didn't notice anything unusual, so she simply let Jing Xuan, who had made the arrow of attack, continue to speak and sneer:
"Yes, Princess Ben didn't know that the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion was so frank, all these years, couldn't it be that Miss Ye was busy making a living all day long, so she didn't know anything, right?"
"Prime Minister Ye Cheng is the head of a hundred officials, as the eldest lady of Ye Mansion, if she is not good at piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, won't she make the world laugh?"
Jing Xuan was used by Lu Xueying without knowing it, and naturally she would not let go easily if she was able to trample Ye Qingyu under her feet this time, seeing that this incompetent reputation was about to spread out, she pretended to be pretending to say again:
"Although Miss Ye has a frank personality, she should always think about the family, so let's do it, there are many gentlemen and grandmothers here who are familiar with these, after today's tea party, this princess will send someone to the Ye Mansion, Miss Ye is talented, study hard, and she will definitely be able to make a splash!"
As soon as Jing Xuan said this, it was clear that she was openly humiliating Ye Qingyu, the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who gave the wall to her shoulders, but seeing that Ye Qingyu looked leisurely and unmoved, she couldn't help but add a fire:
"Miss Ye shouldn't refuse the kindness of this princess, after all, if Miss Ye doesn't know anything about this elegant thing, how will she be the princess's royal sister-in-law in the future?"
"The incompetent lady who peeps at the basket and the first son who is famous all over the world, how do you look at it, why don't they match?"
"In the future position of Princess Ling, if Miss Ye can't do it, she can retire from the army and let Xian!"
After this series of words, it really tore apart the face and humiliation of Ye Qingyu, who had just arrived, but even after hearing such vicious words, she still sat there calmly, unmoved by a smile.
Just when the princess of Changle finally finished speaking and was about to see how Ye Qingyu answered, a cold reprimand suddenly came:.
"Presumptuous, Jing Xuan, who allowed you to humiliate the princess of this king like this?"