I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 716 - Chapter 716 Palace Banquet (2)

Chapter 716: Palace Banquet (2) Chapter 716: Palace Banquet (2) Editor: Atlas Studios Before the banquet even started, Qi Haoran brought Little Bear around the venue and received countless praises and greetings.

Previously, they had only held a palace banquet during the new year.

That time, because of their frugality, the palace banquet was not grand.

Be it officials or their families, things were kept very simple.

However, this Mid-Autumn Festival banquet doubled as a welcome banquet for the envoys of Dali.

In addition, it would not be long before the conferment of Consort Xian and the Crown Prince.

Therefore, the Emperor and the Empress were no longer as frugal as before, and this banquet was much more grand than before.

After the conferment of Consort Xian, the selection rounds of consorts would soon begin.

Those families with eligible daughters were tempted.

Therefore, not only did they dress their daughters up beautifully for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, but they also tidied themselves up very well.

Since there would be many young ladies waiting to be married at the banquet, there would naturally be young masters from various families who had yet to be engaged.

Everyone was dressed very grandly and adorned with plenty of extravagant accessories.

Everyone’s hearts ached when they gave the little prince a greeting gift.

The key was that Qi Haoran was too smug.

Even if the little prince was really cute, it could not erase the effect of the flaunting smile on Qi Haoran’s face.

However, everyone saw that Qi Haoran had specially carried Little Bear to look for Grand Tutor Lu.

With Little Bear in his arms, he asked Grand Tutor Lu, “aEUR| Does my little heir look like a mute and a fool?” Everyone pricked up their ears and waited for Grand Tutor Lu’s answer.

Grand Tutor Lu said, “Of course, the little prince is not a fool or a mute.

That was just nonsense spouted from a brat’s mouth in an argument between kids.

I hope Prince Rong doesn’t take it to heart.” Qi Haoran snorted and said, “Then the next time my son quarrels with your grandson, can we also call him a tortoise?

Anyway, it’s all just nonsense when arguing.

Grand Tutor Lu, as the Crown Prince’s Grand Tutor and also the Imperial Academy’s director, you of all people should know how to educate others.

Children have to be taught from a young age, especially by practicing what one preachesaEUR|” Everyone looked at Grand Tutor Lu’s pale face and instantly felt comfortable.

They felt that the greeting gift they had given the kid earlier on was worth it.

Rong Xuan shook his head and turned to Fan Zijin.

“There’s no need to be fearful of the Lu family anymore.

Do you still have to do this?

After all, it’s just young kids playing around.” The Lu family’s reputation had been falling rapidly recently, but the other party’s gaze was firmly captured by Qi Haoran.

When he was free, he had to pay attention to Consort Xian and the Crown Prince and did not notice it.

However, as a bystander who was most wary of aristocratic families, Rong Xuan naturally saw the situation very clearly.

A cold glint flashed across Fan Zijin’s eyes.

“Who said I’m doing this for Little Bear?

Since the Lu family dares to cause trouble for us openly and covertly, they should bear the consequences.” Clearly, he already knew that the Lu family and the other aristocratic families had teamed up to embarrass Qi Xiuyuan.

Rong Xuan raised an eyebrow and looked at Qi Haoran as he asked uncertainly, “Haoran?” Fan Zijin snorted and sneered.

“If not for his instructions, how could my men travel freely in the regions?

Who in Great Qi doesn’t know that Eldest Cousin raised Haoran like a son?

Not to mention the regional officials, even you and Minister Yan have to be polite to himaEUR|” Rong Xuan sighed.

“Haoran has also grown up.” For the past few days, he had not revealed any traces of his knowledge of this.

Everyone thought that he was just fooling around with the Lu family and only embarrassed them to avenge his son’s insults.

However, from the looks of it, he had actually joined forces with Fan Zijin to restrain the Lu family and the other aristocratic families.

Perhaps it was not a coincidence that the Emperor and Empress said those words back then.

Now that the Lu family, the Wang family, and the Zheng family were doing their own things, no one noticed what Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin were doing in private.

However, if their alliance was still around, how could Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin have hidden it from them?

Fan Zijin said, “That’s a separate matter.

Little Bear’s matter isn’t a big deal; it’s just young kids fighting and Haoran didn’t even want to interfere in the first place.

He would’ve let the matter go after teaching Lu Jie a lesson and reminding him to teach his son well.

If Ah Ling hadn’t mentioned it, we wouldn’t have known that they had the guts to dig a hole for His Majesty.” Fan Zijin sneered.

“Back in the north, even when Haoran and I were still civilians, we already couldn’t stand to see Eldest Cousin being bullied.

Now that he has become the Emperor, he’s being bullied instead.

If it weren’t for the fact that Sister-in-law Rong didn’t behave abnormally, I would’ve thought that Brother Rong had been replaced.” Despite his gentle and refined appearance, back then, he had often led Fan Zijin and Qi Haoran to dig pits for those who bullied Qi Xiuyuan.

There was a wicked side to him.

Seeing that he was filled with resentment, Rong Xuan said with a smile, “As you said, this is not the north, and His Majesty is no longer a general of the north, but the Emperor.

Previously if we lost, we could at most just go to the battlefield and perhaps win it back.

Failing which, we could just go home and farm.

But things are different now.

If we lose, you, I, Haoran, and our entire clans will cease to exist.

Our ambitions will become a joke.” Rong Xuan looked at Fan Siwen and raised his chin.

“Just like you and him, you can’t just cut off ties so easily.

All these years, it’s not that you don’t have a better solution, but why is it you did nothing?

Instead, you dragged it out so much that you almost harmed yourself?” Fan Zijin’s expression turned cold.

With a sigh, Rong Xuan said, “Interpersonal relationships aren’t just about knowing how to conduct oneself in society; the most important aspect is emotion.

People can’t fully grasp this, so they create ways to navigate society.

If one truly understood it, who would need these social conventions?

One could simply become a monk.

His Majesty often asked me to pay attention to you, to give you advice when you’re depressed or get yourself into a dead end.” “Why didn’t His Majesty ask me to pay attention to Haoran?

Because although that kid is a troublemaker, most of the time, he only causes outsiders trouble.

No matter how big the trouble he causes, he has reason on his side.

As long as we work together, we can always overcome it.

But you’re different.

You’re too smart and prone to overthinking.

Even when you’re injured, you tell no one and choose to lick your wounds yourself.

Once something happens, it’ll either destroy the people close to you or yourself.

His Majesty often told me that among the three brothers, he’s most worried about you.

On the other hand, with Ah Ling by his side, there’s a limit to the amount of damage that Haoran can cause.” Fan Zijin lowered his head in silence.

Rong Xuan took a sip of tea and stopped talking about this topic.

Instead, he pointed at Madam Xia and said, “Even if she has selfish motives, her feelings for you are not fake.

If you don’t act as you ought to, one day you will regret it.

His Majesty pities you and can’t bear to criticize you.

However, I have to remind you that the trees long for peace but the wind will never cease.

Don’t wait until things can’t be salvaged before regretting it.” Fan Zijin’s expression changed as he looked at his mother, who was sitting in a seat below allocated to the families of fourth-grade officials.

Fan Zijin always blamed Madam Xia for not toughening up in front of Fan Siwen.

She always ranked him, her son, beneath her husband.

In order to please her husband, she even put her son in a disadvantageous position.

But wasn’t he the same?

If he could just make up his mind to throw Fan Siwen into the abyss, rendering him unable to ask Madam Xia to do anything for him, she naturally wouldn’t have to make a choice again.

Consequently, she would no longer abandon him and choose Fan Siwen.

But why?

Fan Zijin could not help but wonder why he had to cut off his own path of retreat to obtain the motherly love he rightfully deserved.

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