Chapter 12: The Fierce Battle with the Princess!

  The maid A was very satisfied to lick the corner of her mouth: "I heard it from Housekeeper Cheng Da Ge... our Second Young Master can use chicken buttocks to paint."

  "Ahh?!" Cold sweat suddenly dripped down from my forehead. A terrible scene appeared in my mind... I was evilly laughing, holding a very angry live chicken, dipping its butt into ink and then taking it out to paint a scene of "Clearing Up the Riverside Scene"... It's too terrifying, I'm not a pervert, nor am I that kind of neurotic performance artist.

  "Really? I heard from Liu Auntie in the kitchen that our Second Young Master has got hysteria and needs to drink symbol water made from burning the tail feathers of a domestic fowl to be effective, so every day Big Brother Fang Cheng goes to pluck the feathers for Second Young Master..."

  "I think what Housekeeper Zhang said is right, he said Young Master is......" The two little maidservants munched on pastry and chattered quietly...

  "What are you doing?!" Furious, what kind of people are you, turning a passionate and excellent young man into this?!

  Emerging from behind the tree, he put on an expression of being well-read and talented, just wanting to explain to the two maids that I invented the pen using bird feathers so that scholars of the Tang Dynasty could write with ease.

  "Two... two... two..." A little maid, as if she had seen a ghost, pointed at me stuttering "two" non-stop, with a small mouth still hanging with pastry foam, her originally rosy face turned green and then red again.

  "Second Master..." She spat out two front teeth, and I kindly finished her sentence for her.

  "Ah!......" In the midst of shrill screams, the two girls scattered in all directions like birds and beasts. When I came to from the bewildering cries, all that was left on the ground was half a cookie with a crescent-shaped bite taken out of it...

  Forget it, with a helpless wave of my sleeve, sigh, I couldn't even take away a piece of cloud. Let these little girls gossip if they want to... It's not like I can grab a big stick and run around the house hitting little girls to vent my frustration. Back in my room, I should practice writing more complex characters with that goose feather pen instead. When I go out, I shouldn't be showing off with simplified characters, right? Otherwise, won't I have to explain to the old master again that I'm possessed by Cang Jie, the ancestor of Chinese characters?

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  "Second Master, Second Master..." It was rare to hear Green Butterfly call me in such a hurried tone, and I couldn't help but pause, putting down the pen in my hand.

  "Second Master, Princess He Pu has come to see you... She's already in the front hall." Green Butterfly held the needle and thread to mend the torn sleeve of my changshan. The day I wore it to attend a banquet at the Cheng manor, somehow a piece was torn off.

  "He Pu?" The expression on Li Yu's face that night immediately flashed in his mind. "What is she doing here? Didn't Li Ke, the Wu Wang, come?" It was strange, the last two times Xiao Jie didn't even want to enter the door, and today the sun hadn't risen from the west either...

  "I didn't see King Wu, the princess only said she was looking for you..." Green Butterfly placed the needlework basket beside the low couch.

  "Oh..." I stood up and stretched my back. "Princess, be careful." Hmm, why is the housekeeper's voice coming from outside my door?

  Black hair, willow eyebrows, a pair of eyes like cut water with a hint of a smile in them, staring at me standing still in horse stance keeping my body upright.

  "Hey... what is Second Young Master Fang doing?..." Li Yu stared at me in a daze.

  "Exercise... hehehe, exercise the body... this is called leading the body upwards." I quickly made a gesture and then stopped.

  Li Yu ignored me and instead turned his head to stare at my house with a silly expression, saying "You can go down now."

  She walked a few steps into the house, turned her head to glance outside, and saw House Uncle stumbling away before saying: "Oh, exercising, I thought Young Master of House Fu was practicing frog jumping..." She covered her small mouth and burst out laughing. Green Butterfly knelt on one side, her little face red with anger, her eyes welling up with tears, daring to laugh at me, humph... wait till no one's around to deal with you.

  Green Butterfly

  "I am in..."

  "Let me offer our respected princess a cup of tea." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he bowed to the little loli with a friendly smile: "I don't know what brings you to my humble abode, Your Highness."

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  "Can't you just come and take a look around?" She blinked her big eyes slyly, looking around my room. "Hmm, I really didn't expect it, but you're actually diligent too?" Li Yu said with a light smile when she saw the inkstone on my desk.

  "Of course, youth is the best time for learning...". He spoke without thinking.

  "Really?..." Little Li Yu pretended to be an adult, picked up the book on my desk and flipped through it from east to west. Suddenly her eyes lit up: "What's this?" That damned upgraded chicken feather: a shiny white goose quill pen was too eye-catching...

  Goose down...

  Li Huan gave me a sideways glance, ignoring me, and looked at the white paper I was writing on: "You're using a goose feather to write?"

  Quickly snatched the pen back: "Shh... speak softly, if my dad finds out I'm still using this thing, I'll definitely get beaten by the old man." The old man hasn't mentioned it since he took away a dozen of my chicken feather pens, but who knows when he's in a bad mood, he'll take it out on me, his unfilial son.

  "Is that so? ...Then you first tell me why use... goose feathers to write." Li Yu was very curious, and took the pen back again, putting it behind him.

  I really want to scold this little woman, forget it, take a deep breath, I'm very polite: "Because it's faster to write with it."

  "Really?..." Li Yu looked at me with half-belief and half-doubt, picked up the goose feather pen and examined it carefully: "It's so hard, how can you write with it, you're cheating me!"

  "Even if I tell you the truth, you'll still think it's a lie," glared at this little girl, snatched the pen and wrote "Fang Jun" in less than two seconds. This is what speed looks like. It's strange, why don't I have any sense of reverence or humility when facing royalty? Has my nerve grown too thick due to transmigration?

  "Hmm..." Li Fu hummed softly, dipped the goose feather pen I made in some ink, and brushed it on the white paper... What character is this? Li Fu? It doesn't seem quite right. No matter how you look at it, it looks like Li Xi, and it's all crooked and uneven.

  Li Shu's face turned as red as an eggplant, it was hilarious. "Don't laugh!" Li Shu glared at me, I nodded sympathetically, but unfortunately, my mouth couldn't be closed.

  "Don't laugh! You little brat..." Li Yu forgot the princess's elegant demeanor and threatened me with a menacing grin.

  "Alright, no more laughing... Please wait a moment, Your Highness... Haha... Seeing this girl's embarrassed and awkward appearance, seeing the crooked and twisted characters she wrote on the white paper, it's even worse than what my brother wrote that day. It's probably at the level of when I was in kindergarten for three days, not bad."

  "Fang Yi'ai! If you dare laugh again, I'll...I'll tell Uncle Fang that you're using a goose feather as a pen, disgracing the literary world..."

  "Hmm..." Suppressing a smile, he nodded very seriously: "Alright, I won't laugh."

  Li Yu's face was still red, but it had faded a bit. He lowered his head to look at the words he had written, then glanced at the words I had written next to him. "Let's have a competition..."

  "Compared to what?" I was a bit confused, what am I comparing with you? Compare heads? Weight or chest muscles... uh... forget it, we never bully women.

  "I'll use this, you use your goose feather, let's see who writes faster and better!" Li Fu proudly raised his head, holding up a wolf hair brush, his pointed chin held high, looking very confident.

  "Is it really necessary?"

  "You don't dare to compare? That can only mean that this brush of yours is useless..." Li Yu's provocative gaze fell on me.

  "Alright, alright, I won't collect from you this little girl. You probably don't know that Lord Ma has three eyes." Furious! How dare this little girl provoke me, a master of hard pen calligraphy?

  The green butterfly was very quick and soon took out a flat inkstone from the bookcase, poured in clear water, and after a few strokes, all the preparations were done.

  Li Yu raised an eyebrow: "Is that all? Young Master Fang..." It's very stimulating, and I'd be happy to strike this servant girl again. I stretched out my index finger: "One incense stick of time."

  "Agreed!"

  "Give you fifty words..." stretched out five fingers in front of Li Yu and swayed them, very showy, intentionally.

  "Ah!" Li Yu's pretty face twisted in anger, but in front of Green Butterfly, she still maintained her princess demeanor. A vein on her forehead throbbed: "Fine, if whoever loses..."

  I spread out my hands: "Go ahead and say it, anyway I won't lose."

  "Good... you think you're so great, don't get too cocky. If you lose, you'll have to stand on the street and shout three times that I, Fang Yilai, am an idiot... no, three times is too easy for you, shout for as long as it takes to burn a whole incense stick."

  "What if you lose?" Ignoring her vicious curse, I remained expressionless, unless I cut off both my hands now, it's definitely me who wins, this skill was practiced by copying notes in college.

  "If I lose... " Li Yu's eyes rolled around and suddenly he smiled: "Do with me as you please!"

  "Haha!..." I laughed triumphantly for a moment, then froze... The Emperor's daughter, how dare you dispose of me?

  "You're cruel, little girl!" I clenched my fist at this little hussy. Just as I was about to storm out the door. "What's wrong, Young Master Fang is going to retreat in disarray from a mere woman's provocation?"

  Stinky girl, get out of my way, avoid me, and now you're really sticking with me, aren't you?

  "Alright, I'd like to see how our princess is going to beat me..." My eyes gleamed like a hawk's, my heart was as cold as iron, my footsteps were steady and unhurried, killing intent emanating from me, my right palm formed a knife-like shape: "Please!" Green Butterfly used the fire starter to ignite the incense just in time, the duel began!

  To be honest, Li Yu's calligraphy is really good, beautiful small regular script. Her focused expression is much more beautiful than her previous look. After stretching and exercising her hands, she took a sip of tea and walked to the desk, where Li Yu had only written the tenth character. Got it, I've won for sure...

  "Fifty words are enough... Fang Xiaozhi, you just wait and cry... " Li Yu's pen moved swiftly, his mouth not forgetting to mock me.

  Concentrate, take a deep breath, lift the pen, brush brush brush brush brush...

  The incense ash fell into the censer, and with one pillar of incense finished, I put down my pen and looked up to see Li's face almost touching the tip of my nose. The pretty face so close, the two red lips slightly parted, exhaling a faint sweet scent that kept drilling into my nostrils. Her eyes stared straight at me, her gaze flickering with something, but it was too close, I couldn't make out what it was, and I didn't dare move: "What do you want to do?"

  Li Yu didn't say a word, but seemed to notice that his posture was a bit off, his face slightly red, he took half a step back, still staring at me deadpan, as if wanting to embroider a flower on my face.

  "Cough, cough, cough..." Hurriedly reminding the little loli in front of me, I have tuberculosis and it can be transmitted through the air.

  "Your face is red!" Li Yu announced with great delight.

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  "Why are you blushing?" Li Yu seemed to want to continue the topic, but I sternly refused: "Don't change the subject, say, how many words have you written?" Green Butterfly this girl is laughing at what? Glared at her, no effect... failed.

  "Don't mention it, by the way, how did you manage to... write so much all at once, although your handwriting is a bit ugly." Li Yu seems to have gotten amnesia? I think she's got compulsive amnesia. Forget it, no point in arguing with this little girl who doesn't keep her word.

  "Little sister, admit defeat?" Let's get straight to the point.

  Li Yu smiled at me very innocently: "I... don't know what Young Master Fang wants me to do?" The delicate, pinkish-red complexion, under the sunlight shining into the room at an angle, became even more charming. Her watery eyes sparkled with a hint of mischief, her full lips and white teeth gleaming together, and her loose hair hanging down in front of her slender black eyebrows... was too alluring, making me both angry and drooling at the same time, she's simply a seductress who can bring ruin to a country.

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