After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 5: Praising People is Strange and Unique

The cicadas were chirping in the summer. I was slightly sweaty after walking all the way back from my in-laws' house, but it became cooler once I arrived at Yuhui Garden. The ice in the house never went out.

Just for the sake of this room full of ice, Rong Peilan felt that marrying this man was worth it.

Prince Ji had long lost his impatience and grabbed the remaining red dates on the table and threw them into his mouth.

Rong Peilan had just sat down when the group of well-trained maids from that morning came in with food.

She found that Prince Ji loved to eat meat, and there were several meat dishes on the table.

"Aren't you full? Come and eat." Ji Shizi had already picked up the chopsticks and turned around to see her surprised expression.

While eating a big piece of meat, Ji Shizi added, "I lose my appetite when eating with those irrelevant people. Every time I eat with them, I always have to eat a few more bites. So I don't see them very often."

If she had been in the flower hall just now, she could have eaten a few more bites, but after putting down her chopsticks, she no longer wanted to eat.

Rong Peilan shook her head and said, "No, if I eat now, I won't be able to eat at noon."

Ji Yunzhang looked up at her and took a sip of tea to clear his throat.

"Since we are already married, there are some things that need to be made clear."

"Please speak, my lord."

"As for me, I have a bad reputation and am not good at literature or martial arts. If you want to urge me to pass the imperial examination and seek a better future, I can tell you now that it won't work."

"You will be your young lady, and I will be my prince. We can live a peaceful life if we respect each other."

"If my mother asks you to urge me, just let it go in one ear and out the other."

Only four words came to Rong Peilan's mind: eat and wait for death.

"What if mother blames me?" Her worry was not unreasonable. The prince was very cool, and she didn't want to bear the blame.

However, Shizi Ji curled his lips and said, "That's your business."

Rong Peilan was speechless. No wonder the marquis's wife had to lower herself to marry him. Which daughter of a noble family would be willing to be bullied by such a living ancestor?

Could it be that her good cousin had found out about some ridiculous thing the prince had done and that was why she pushed her out right before getting into the bridal sedan?
"Your Highness just doesn't want your mother to lecture you anymore. Actually, this isn't a difficult matter to handle. It depends on what result you want."

Rong Peilan chuckled and adjusted her dress.

What a joke! She has already suffered for others since she married into the family, why should she suffer more and be scolded?

"Oh?" Ji Yunzhang became interested and leaned forward to get closer to her across the table. "Tell me about it."

Rong Peilan looked at Prince Ji, who was looking across the table and listening attentively, and could not help but raise her round fan to cover her lips and chuckle.

He really looks like her silly little brother who was playing tricks and didn't want to go to school.

She also leaned forward and whispered in his ear. The fan in her hand covered half of her face, so it was impossible to see what she was saying.

Liuyan stood by the door with his hands clasped. Seeing the two people talking quietly together, the bitterness in his heart quietly spread.

In just one day, the new lady had already taken the position beside the prince that originally belonged to her.

After hearing this, Prince Ji looked like, "Are you kidding me?"

Rong Peilan gently waved her round fan and said, "Why not give it a try?"

Prince Ji frowned, hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the study now!"

After saying that, he threw down his chopsticks and dragged Rong Peilan to the study. When he passed Liuyan, he said, "No one should come near the study."

"Yes." Looking at the two people walking away, Liuyan felt as bitter as if he had swallowed a handful of lotus seeds.

The study room in Yuhuiyuan was not far from the new house and was spacious and bright. Rong Peilan found something wrong as soon as she came in. The study room was very new, as if no one had ever used it.

There are so many books on the bookshelf. Any book you pick up is a good book, obviously carefully selected.

Ji Shizi picked up the pen from the pen holder. He was still a little unconvinced, "Can you really imitate my handwriting?"

Rong Peilan put down the book and said, "Why not give it a try? How do you know I can't do it if you haven't tried yet?"

Her father was a rebellious scholar. She read a lot of books with her father. Although she had no other skills, she was good at reading and writing. It was she who taught her younger brother Rong Lingkuan.

Zhong thought that Rong Peilan had no clothes or jewelry, so she prepared to have someone measure her and make clothes for her. But when she arrived at Yuhui Garden, she found that there was no sound of piano or laughter in the garden.

So unusual.

When she found the study, she saw her son and daughter-in-law standing side by side at the desk, writing together.

Zhong resisted the urge to cry. The inkstone in the study was a birthday gift for him when he was ten years old. It has been almost ten years and he still hasn't used it up.

She tried everything she could to get him to sit in the study, but she didn't expect that this daughter-in-law, who had only been in the family for a day, could do it so easily.

It seems that Mr. Akashi's daughter really has some abilities.

Zhong left quietly. She had better write a letter to tell the Marquis the great news.

As soon as she stepped back, her daughter-in-law, who she thought was capable, looked up.

Rong Peilan tilted her head to look at Prince Ji who was writing seriously and smiled slightly.

I have to admit that although Prince Ji doesn't like reading, he does have good handwriting.

I guess he got beaten a lot when he was young because of this handwriting.

"I've finished writing. Let's see how you imitate it." Prince Ji exhaled and threw the finished paper to Rong Peilan.

According to what she said, he needed to write more different words for her so that she could imitate his writing habits and understand him better.

Rong Peilan handed him the words she had just written and asked, "Prince, take a look. Are you satisfied?"

I can't say they are exactly the same, but they are at least 80% similar.

Prince Ji's breathing became disordered when he looked at Rong Peilan's handwriting. "You only wrote it for less than an hour, and it's so similar!"

Back then, for his calligraphy, his mother beat him until more than a dozen canes were broken before he could write like this.

She had achieved his several years of hard work in just one hour. In front of her, his reading and writing looked like a fool. Prince Ji became more and more depressed.

Rong Peilan looked at Prince Ji, who looked like an eggplant hit by frost, and smiled slightly, "Prince, why do you compare your own shortcomings with the strengths of others?"

"When it comes to writing, at least for now, I still have no rivals. When it comes to fighting, the prince is the best in Yanjing City."

Prince Ji, "..."

Rong Peilan continued, "I also have a younger brother who likes to read, but he likes to read miscellaneous books, all kinds of strange stories, natural history, and water science. He has a deep understanding of them, but he has no interest in the imperial examination essays of this dynasty or writing poems and lyrics."

"If that's the case, since I'm not as good at studying as I am and not as good at fighting as you, wouldn't that make me even more useless?"

At the end, she added seriously, "My handwriting is not as good as yours."

Ji Shizi, "...You are praising people in a unique way."

Rong Lingkuan, who was at Xie's house, sneezed twice violently, and the article on water control strategy he had just written was covered with saliva.

(End of this chapter)