bookrebus Chapter 521 Why are you the only one who can eat it?
Chapter 521 Why are you the only one who can eat it?
Bai Wanwan swallowed her saliva, and Gu Sinian sat next to her and picked up a piece for her.
There was a boy of six or seven years old standing nearby. He grabbed the whole plate of roast suckling pig with both hands and put it in his arms. The grease on his brocade clothes was stained.
He raised his rosy little face and shouted to the guests:
"Are you a country bumpkin, and are you worthy of eating my food? This pig was sent as tribute from the outskirts of the Great Wall. It grew up drinking snow water and eating ginseng.
They use lychee wood to roast them, the skin is as crispy as a biscuit, and the meat is so tender that you can squeeze out the juice!
Bai Wanwan curled her lips and smiled:
"Look at the way you eat, you're like a pig, aren't you full yet?
Even if this suckling pig belongs to you, with so many guests here today, why are you the only one who can eat it?"
The young man was so angry that he kicked over the stool next to him, rushed to her, and asked fiercely: "Who are you? You are so brave!"
Bai Wanwan stood up suddenly and shouted, "I am Princess An Ning!"
The young man was stunned for a moment and said disdainfully:
"Princess An Ning? I've never even heard of her! Damn girl, come here!
I think you are interesting, so you can stay in my princess's mansion as a maid from now on!"
Someone murmured quietly, "This is the eldest princess's favorite youngest son. Even the princes in the palace give him some respect. Princess An Ning is probably going to suffer..."
The guests at the banquet were whispering to each other, some of them hunched their necks and lowered their voices:
"This little bully has been pampered by the princess since he was little. Last year, he overturned the imperial censor's sedan chair in the street, and he didn't even receive a punishment afterwards.
Who dares to provoke him? If you really offend him, you will suffer in the future. "
"Who says it's not?" The old man sitting next to me shook his head and sighed, his hand holding the teacup trembling slightly.
"Princess An Ning is from the countryside after all, she doesn't know the depth of the waters in Bianjing.
Just wait and see! This little ancestor is going to let her know what the sky is high and the earth is thick. "
The little bully glared at Bai Wanwan and reached out to grab her face.
Gu Sinian took a sudden step forward and stretched out his hand to stop her: "Stop! Don't touch her with your dirty hands!"
The little bully stumbled when he was stopped, and he jumped up in anger: "Where did you come from? If you know what's good for you, get out of here now, or I'll make you crawl out today!"
Gu Sinian's face was cold, and his voice was like ice:
"They say the princess's family has strict upbringing, so how could they raise someone as unruly as you?
If you snatch food in the street and bully women, aren't you afraid of being laughed at if it gets out?"
The little bully's face flushed red, and he picked up the wine jug on the table and threw it at him: "Don't try to pressure me with your moral principles! Whoever stops me today will have a quarrel with the Princess's Mansion!"
The onlookers were so frightened that they hid back, fearing that they would be implicated.
A cold light flashed in Gu Sinian's eyes, and he suddenly swung his fist with a strong wind, hitting the little bully's cheek with a "bang".
The little bully stumbled and fell onto the Persian rug, covering his swollen face with his eyes wide open as he said, "You...you're crazy!"
"Who did it!" Shen Mingyue rushed in.
She rushed to her brother's side and glared at Gu Sinian fiercely: "The Eighteenth Prince is so great? My brother has been treated like a precious treasure since he was a child. Even the Queen Mother couldn't bear to touch him. How dare you do that!"
In just half a cup of tea, hurried footsteps were heard outside the screen.
The eldest princess' eyes widened. She pulled the slumped little bully into her arms, her trembling fingertips stroking the bruises on his face. Her eyes instantly bloodshot, "Who is so audacious as to dare to touch this precious treasure of mine?"
The little bully cried, "Mom, it hurts, he hit me... wuwuwu... it hurts so much."
Gu Sinian looked at the eldest princess and said, "He went too far. He actually dared to ask the princess to be his slave."
The eldest princess stood up with a whoosh, and her jewel-studded skirt swept over the fruit plate beside her.
She pointed at Bai Wanwan and said:
"My son wants a slave, why can't a mere princess be one?
I will immediately go to the palace to find the Queen Mother and insist that Princess Ning'an be allowed to enter our princess's mansion and serve as a maid for my son!"
The guests around were too afraid to make a sound. Someone secretly winked at Bai Wanwan, asking her to admit her mistake quickly.
But Bai Wanwan stood there, biting her lip, and refused to utter a word of surrender.
The eldest princess sneered and said, "Okay, I'll go to the palace now, and you can just wait to be kept in the princess's mansion!"
Gu Sinian whispered:
“This eldest princess is simply a crazy woman.
Wanwan, don't be afraid, I will go to the palace now. She will go to ask the Queen Mother for help, and I will go to ask my father for help."
Bai Wanwan nodded, and Shen Mingyue looked at Bai Wanwan with a half-smile and said:
"Don't look at my little brother, he's so small, the Queen Mother is afraid he'll fall if he holds him!
What he loved most was to discipline those who refused to obey him. Once upon a time, there was a maid who talked back to him, so he locked her up in the woodshed and fed her with mice for three days.
There was even a maidservant who was fed to a Tibetan mastiff because she was not honest. Little girl, you better be careful."
She deliberately dragged out the last word, hoping to see Bai Wanwan's frightened look, but Bai Wanwan said with a half-smile: "Rats? Rats are my favorite, they're so furry. Don't you like rats?"
Shen Mingyue sneered and said, "Don't be so stubborn. You'll be in trouble when my mother comes back."
Gu Sinian didn't even bother to eat and went straight back to the palace. After returning to the palace, he went straight to the imperial study and said, "Father..."
Qi Guangheng looked at him and said, "Si Nian, what happened? Why are you so flustered?"
Gu Sinian recounted the entire incident and said, "The eldest princess has taken her people to the Empress Dowager's palace and is insisting that Wanwan serve as a slave to that little bully!"
Qi Guangheng raised his hand and gently waved his folding fan, then spoke slowly:
“I know you have a good relationship with Wanwan.
But that little tyrant is the eldest princess's darling, and the queen mother dotes on him beyond measure."
Qi Guangheng paused slightly, a flash of memory flashed in his eyes, and then he continued:
"Three months ago, he pushed the prince of Pingyuan Marquis's mansion into the lotus pond. It was freezing cold, and when he was pulled out, he was so cold he could barely speak.
I thought the Queen Mother would punish him severely, but not only did she not punish him, she also gave him the night-shining pearl that she had treasured for many years and which was a tribute from the Western Regions.
Just because that little bully muttered that the beads were pretty.
If we want to intervene in this matter now, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven."
"But Father..."
Qi Guangheng sighed and stared at Gu Sinian:
"Si Nian, let me be honest with you, the Queen Mother is not my biological mother at all, and I feel very uncomfortable being the Emperor.
He may look powerful on the surface, but he has no real power and cannot defeat her at all.
Whenever the Queen Mother spoke, I didn't even have a chance to refute her.
In this situation, we can only keep our tail between our legs, hide if we can, and endure if we can."
Gu Sinian grabbed Qi Guangheng's sleeve and said, "Are we just going to let them bully Wanwan like this?"
Qi Siheng pulled back his sleeves, straightened his wrinkled bright yellow dragon-patterned brocade robe, and sighed:
"Don't worry, although that little bully is domineering, he is not a fool without measure.
Wanwan is clever and can always turn danger into safety."