Chapter 89

  But for Little Phoenix Maiden, this was absolutely no big deal!

  What annoyed her was that her newly appointed emperor brother didn't even give her a famous sword.

  Fish Intestine Sword!

  A small and sharp sword that can be placed inside a fish's belly.

  Brave sword!

  What does the emperor mean by this?

  "Miss, you've been staring at this sword for so long, what's wrong?" Ever since Miss received this imperial sword, she had been inseparable from it, taking it out to admire it whenever she was free, who knows what she was thinking about?

  Actually, Little Phoenix's heart is like this: Emperor brother, give me the knife, you must give me the sword, this is simply a pearl casting in the dark!

  As for why she was recognized as the imperial sister by Emperor Renzong rather than being considered a adopted daughter by Empress Dowager, Little Phoenix had asked Master Taishi about this matter before.

  The teacher's response was "This meaning is different".

  As for how it's different, Tai Shifu let his daughter figure it out herself.

  After careful consideration, Xiaofeng suddenly realized that the Empress Dowager's adopted daughter was recognized by her, although nominally also the Emperor's sister, but what was important was that she was recognized by the Empress Dowager. As for the Emperor's own sister? That would be someone recognized by the Emperor himself first and foremost.

  Yes, the meaning is indeed different!

  The Empress Dowager may approve, but the Emperor may not necessarily agree.

  What the emperor acknowledges, the empress dowager generally also acknowledges. This is the subordinate relationship between parents and children.

  Although being either the empress dowager's adopted daughter or the emperor's imperial sister might not make a difference to Little Phoenix, it makes a big difference in other people's eyes.

  Lu Xiaofeng slowly drew out the Fish Intestine Sword, and the sunlight shone on its body, reflecting a cold and stern light. This was an ancient famous sword with too many stories to tell, although it couldn't speak, but it faithfully recorded all the past rights and wrongs, successes and failures.

  Xiao He was wiping the jade utensils in the Baibao Pavilion with a soft cloth when Miss suddenly drew her sword and, with a swift turn of her body, struck an extremely cool pose, stunning him.

  At that moment, she almost thought that the young lady was possessed by a martial arts master, that one sword move was really too impressive.

  Lu Xiaofeng raised an eyebrow at Yinger and smiled: "How's that? Cool or what?"

  As soon as these words came out, they immediately destroyed the feeling of being a ruthless and unparalleled master, turning from a serious play to an absurd drama.

  Xiaohe let out a "pu" sound and burst into laughter. "Miss, you're really too fond of being weird."

  Lu Xiaofeng's hand closed, and the sword was sheathed. With a flick of her wrist, the Fish Intestine Sword was returned to the table. If one had keen eyesight, they would be able to see that her technique was not that of an ordinary person without martial arts skills.

  Unfortunately, Xiaohe is not.

  "Xiaohe, how boring." Little Phoenix didn't look at Fish Intestine Sword and instead leaned on her hand with a bored expression, staring at the maid wiping the jade trees in the Baibao Pavilion. "Xiaohe, you spend all day wiping them, aren't you tired?"

  "Ah, I remember now, Miss said she also wants two more pairs of thousand-layer-soled shoes, I'll go make them."

  Lu Xiaofeng: "......" Xiaohe, you said to leave and then left. Isn't this also not giving me any face in front of your family's young lady? Can't you even give me a response?

  The little phoenix girl who was abandoned by the close eunuch, hung the fish intestine sword at her waist, and went down from the embroidery building without any purpose, walking randomly in the Taishi Mansion.

  Occasionally encountered maids and servants would also salute her with courtesy.

  Xiao Feng ignored them and continued on her own way.

  Then, unknowingly, he walked out of the Taishi Mansion and strolled onto the bustling streets.

  When someone is feeling depressed, it's absolutely necessary to go out for a walk.

  All sorts of things can be found on the street.

  However, if there was a beautifully dressed and adorned young lady leaning against an old tree by the wall, watching with great interest two rich young men who had collided with each other and were now quarreling not far away.

  This scene looks off no matter how you look at it.

  It was predictable that when Zhao Qiujie was left speechless by the other party and wanted to throw a punch, he accidentally caught sight of a terrifying creature out of the corner of his eye. His face turned white in an instant, and he turned around to run away.

  Good grief! It's his family's most fearsome elder sister-in-law!

  "Zhao Qiujie, stop right there."

  The young master of the Jing Shan Wang Fu, who had just run two steps away, stopped immediately as if he had received a command from a computer. He stiffly turned around and dryly greeted, "Yi Jie—" Although I was quarreling with him, I didn't lift the signboard of the Jing Shan Wang Fu.

  Lu Xiaofeng slowly walked over, stretched out his foot and kicked Zhao Qiujie to the side, saying to that arrogant young master who still had a self-righteous expression: "There are many people on the road, it's normal to occasionally bump into others, do you need to make such a big deal about it?"

  "Is it just a collision and saying sorry is enough?"

  "Oh no, what's wrong? Can't we just pretend nothing happened and walk away?"

  A slightly wealthy young master was choked and said, "How is this girl less reasonable than your younger brother?"

  Lu Xiaofeng's face was filled with astonishment, and he said in a tone of incomprehension: "So I misunderstood, sir. You're not planning to magnanimously forgive others, but rather you're plotting to swindle people by pretending to be injured. Indeed, my mental realm is no match for yours."

  The rich young master was choked again.

  Passersby covered their mouths and smiled secretly.

  "Qiu Jie, sister will teach you a lesson. There's a saying that any problem that can be solved with money isn't a problem at all. Why don't you just give them a few taels of silver and avoid standing in the middle of the road arguing like a fool?"

  That rich young master stared at Lu Xiaofeng as he took out a ten-tael ingot of silver from the golden and shiny pouch on his waist, his eyes wide with surprise.

  "Not enough?" Lu Xiaofeng's face showed a "you should have said so earlier" expression, and he pulled out another ingot.

  "Is that not enough?" Little Phoenix Maiden really showed her dissatisfaction, turning her head to say to someone, "You should also contribute a bit, I didn't bring any silver with me when I went out."

  Zhao Qiujie hastily took over the two silver ingots handed over by the guard and passed them on.

  "Forty taels of silver should be enough, young master. Don't you also know the principle of knowing when to stop while ahead?"

  Passersby have already started pointing and staring at the rich young master.

  The young master of the wealthy family somewhat awkwardly accepted the forty taels of silver.

  Just then, he heard the leader of the several officials walking towards this side say to the sister and brother: "Miss Lu, Young Master Wang, what's going on?"

  "Lu Niang" is nothing, but these three words "Little Prince Wang" are absolutely lethal.

  He actually blackmailed a young prince!

  "Is Patrol Officer Hu on his rounds today?" Little Phoenix asked with a hint of teasing.

  Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Yes, just in time."

  Lu Xiaofeng turned his head and looked at the rich young master, with a strange expression on his face: "Aren't you leaving? Do I have to invite you to dinner?"

  "Go, go." The rich young master hastily left in a flurry.

  Zhao Laijie said cautiously: "Yi Jie... can I go too?"

  Lu Xiaofeng smiled and looked at him, "It's been a while since we siblings met, might as well take the opportunity to improve our relationship, let's go."

  Zhan Zhao lowered his head and stifled a smile, looking at how she had scared this young prince.

  Zhao Qiujie followed the most terrifying sworn sister back to her private residence on that street in front of Kaifeng Prefecture.

  "Zhao Qiujie, are you an idiot?" As soon as Little Phoenix entered the room and sat down in a chair, she fired at him.

  Zhao Qiujie couldn't help but shiver.

  "I won't let you go out and cause trouble under the name of Jing Shan Wang Fu, and I also advise you to take a step back when things happen. But I didn't say that when you encounter unreasonable people, you must keep this way of doing things. Like today's pig head, you should have gone up and beaten him first, anyway he wants money."

  Zhao Qiujie: "......" Did he hear it wrong?

  The two guards following Jingyuan Wangfu stared in disbelief with wide eyes.

  "Did Sister Yi give him money?"

  "You want me to go up and hit him like a shrew?"

  Zhao Qiujie said in her heart: You weren't innocent before either, you've done things like a shrew.

  "And you two, how are you protecting the young master? With this kind of rascal like today, you just let him be so arrogant? Don't you know to directly show your royal identity and scare him off?"

  Zhan Zhao couldn't help but hum a tune outside the house, thinking to himself: You're almost there, don't lead the high-pressure pipe astray again.

  "Zhao Qiu Jie, what's growing on your neck is a head, not a pumpkin. You can be uneducated and uncultured, but at least you should be able to distinguish right from wrong, black from white. You should know some basic human nature, at the very least be able to tell if someone is being kind or malicious towards you, genuine or fake. Otherwise, have you fed your age to the dogs?"

  Zhao Qiujie's face turned red with embarrassment.

  "When that fat guy says 'you just plan to apologize like this' for the third time, directly show him your royal identity and give him a slap in the face. Tell him, 'I, the young master of the Wang family, am apologizing to you because I'm giving you face. If you don't want face, I'll still be kind enough to help you out.' This is the demeanor of the Zhao imperial clan, do you understand?"

  Zhao Qiujie: How does it feel like teaching him how to do bad things with a clear conscience?

  Zhan Zhao was so lazy that he didn't even bother to cough, and could only gaze up at the sky. The blue sky stretching out for thousands of miles was truly a rare good weather.

  Zhao Qiujie, who was quite entangled, led two guards away.

  The next day, early in the morning, his sworn sister, who was defined as the most terrifying creature in life, ran to the Jing Mountain Wang Fu, saying that she came to watch a play.

  Zhao Qiujie was perplexed.

  However, soon someone dispelled his confusion.

  Yesterday that slightly fat rich young master was led by his father to bring a pile of gold, silver and jewels to the Wang Mansion to apologize and make amends.

  It's really a good show!

  Zhao Qiujie seemed to understand something.

  What's important is who the object of malice is?

  Doing evil to good people will inevitably be punished, but if you make a little trouble for some not-so-good people, his sister-in-law seems to be delighted.

  The King of Jing Mountain happily accepted the compensation from the rich merchant's family and then the butler, with a smile on his face, politely sent them away.

  "Here, take it."

  "What?" Zhao Qiujie caught a book thrown by his sworn sister with a confused expression.

  "That guy has done a lot of wicked things over the years, take half of the silver he sent and do some good deeds with it, keep the rest for yourself, I reckon you can still get a good reputation out of it."

  Zhao Qiujie: Sister Yi, your efficiency is so high!

  "You first explain to me what's going on here and point out what's wrong with it."

  Zhao Qiujie took one look at his sworn sister's smiling face, and the sweat in his heart started to flow, he just knew that things weren't so simple.

  Jingshan Wangye and the queen hid outside to watch, Jingshan Wangye was actually very angry with this Pang girl before, beating his son into a pile of mud, things were definitely not going to be stirred up, but people were basically done for.

  It can be seen today that this is the meaning of reshaping rotten mud.

  However, miss, isn't your break a bit too long?

  Little Phoenix took the life story of the rich merchant's son as a model to help Zhao Qiujie, Little King Wang, rebuild his outlook on life. This is called using facts to speak, which has the most persuasive power.

  Even if you want to educate someone, you have to find the right person for the job. Since the right person is Lü Xiao Feng, he won't mind wasting some time on it.

  She returned to Beijing for a few days, heard that Zhao Qiujie was as obedient as a rabbit, and encountered the slightly fat rich young master again. She thought this was a good opportunity to try to re-educate him once more.

  That little booklet made Zhao Qiujie's heart sweat profusely, and the many unkind things written in it were truly too taken for granted by his former self, but now he no longer thought so.

  These days, when he stayed in the Wang Fu, his mother would often invite some storytellers to come to the mansion and tell him stories. He had heard many stories about various human relationships.

  His daughter also told him a lot of truth, and he gradually began to realize that he had been living too blindly in the past, not knowing the height of heaven and the thickness of earth.

  Now, Yijie told him that he has the pride of being a royal family member, and he should have such pride. When necessary, you can be proud to the point of being unaware of the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth, because some people just owe it!

  The royal family has the pride of the royal family, and the royal family also has the dignity that the royal family must maintain. There are some things that he must bear as a member of the royal family. As my sworn sister said, you have enjoyed the rights brought by the royal family, so you should undertake the corresponding obligations. This world is actually very fair.

  Water can carry a boat; water can also capsize a boat.

  And his younger brother said at that time that this was a perverse argument, so Second Sister would say that Father spoiled him but did not teach him, which is the father's fault.

  "Alright, let's stop here for today and continue tomorrow. I'm leaving, no need to see me off."

  Zhao Qiujie still respectfully sent her to the gate, he felt that his sworn sister was still terrifying, but this really was a reliable sister.

  She will beat you up and clean you out if you don't behave.

  If someone is not good to her, she won't be too polite to the other party either. Yesterday's matter, on the surface she seemed to have shown weakness and sold well, but in fact she had taken the upper hand, turned around and let the other party make a fool of themselves, losing both wife and soldiers.

  Zhao Qiujie thought - really very educated!