Taking two steps closer, Taoye realized that the two people here were not fighting at all.
"Bold, how dare you hide when I teach you a lesson from this princess!"
Mingyue held a riding crop in her hand and glared angrily at the young man in red robe standing aside with the back of his hand in his arms.
"If I don't hide, will I be waiting for you to hit me?"
The young man in red robe looked impatient.
If Brother Pei hadn't called him, he would have snatched the whip away.
"I can slap whoever I want, princess!"
Ming Yue, who was already going crazy, swung the whip randomly again. Perhaps the force was too strong, and the whip slipped away.
The man in red robe just dodged easily.
The whip went straight towards Rong Jiu and Tao Ye behind them.
"Brother Ajiu!"
Only then did Mingyue see the people behind her and exclaimed.
The whip wind was in her ears. Taoye closed her eyes and subconsciously raised her hands and tilted her head.
There was no pain in his body or hands. When he put down his hand, he saw that the fifth young master was actually holding the whip in his hand.
"Brother Ajiu..."
"Fifth brother, are you okay?"
The boy in red robe moved faster than Mingyue, and arrived in front of Rong Jiu in a few steps. He touched the back of his head with his right hand and asked something, but his eyes glanced elsewhere, looking guilty.
"Brother Ajiu, the whip didn't hit you. I didn't see you coming just now..."
"I'm fine!"
Rong Jiu looked at Mingyue's anxious look, comforted her out of habit, and threw the whip on the ground.
"Come over and have a meal!"
Rong Jiu glanced at the red-robed boy next to him.
The boy in red robe touched the back of his head again, walked to his seat and sat down.
Although male and female students can eat in the same place during autumn hunting, there are still some differences, with men on the left and women on the right.
On the women's side, Mingyue is the leader, and the rest are arranged according to the official positions of their father and brother.
The men's side is not so clearly organized. After all, in addition to the aristocratic children of Shengjing, there are also many tributes from prefectures and counties in Shouyang Academy.
The status of most of these tributes was not comparable to that of the high-ranking noble families in Shengjing. However, in order to show their love for talents, the Dongyu royal family once said that the students studying in the Royal Academy were all talents in the court and had equal status before entering the officialdom.
But as the saying goes, where there are people, there will be strife, let alone in Shengjing, where the powerful gather.
"Go away, do you deserve to sit here?"
Tao Ye knelt down with Rong Jiu, and just as she picked up the silver jug to pour wine, she was hit by a heavy object on her back.
He leaned forward, poured out the wine from the flask, and felt a burning pain on the back of his hand. Coupled with the pain from being hit on his back, a sweet cry escaped his mouth.
Rong Jiuhan took off the wine bottle from the little maid's hand with a face, and looked behind him. The little maid's back was wet, and a celadon wine glass fell upside down next to the mat.
"I'm sorry, girl, are you okay?"
The wine glass thrown on Tao Ye's back belonged to the man in plain robe, but it was thrown by the man in purple robe next to him.
It was the man in plain robe who apologized.
As for the man in purple robe next to him, he looked disapproving.
"none……"
The apology on the man's face was very sincere, and he did not throw the wine glass himself. Taoye wanted to say that nothing happened, but then he thought that outside, he was just a thing of his master, and it was his master who had the final say whether anything happened. He didn't continue to speak.
"I'm so sorry!"
The man in plain robe bowed deeply to the peach leaf again.
Except for the servants of the Duke's Mansion, Taoye had never been saluted like this by any other man, and she was a little surprised on her face.
"Fifth Young Master..."
Taoye called the person next to her gently.
"Hands hurt?"
Rong Jiu glanced at Tao Ye's hand.
"Still hurts in your back?"
Taoye hesitated for a moment when asked, and then the low voice of questioning around her started again.
Princess Mingyue was sitting diagonally opposite. Taoye didn't want to stand out, so she knelt straight and said softly: "It doesn't hurt! I'm fine, my slave!"
This time he knelt straight and distanced himself from Rong Jiu.
"My maid is fine. Even if something happens, it has nothing to do with you!"
Rong Jiu glanced at the little maid, then stood up and said to the man in plain robes.
The strange thing is that Taoye actually heard a bit of gentleness in the fifth young master's tone.
"Chu Yi Zhuo thanks Young Master Rong Wu Haihan! I'm rude!"
The man in plain robes bowed his hands as a courtesy, which is the etiquette among students.
Rong Jiu also returned the gift.
"Are you done blabbering? Let's go now. I'm still waiting for dinner!"
As the two of them went back and forth, the man in purple robe first showed a little disbelief on his face, and then he urged the man in plain robe impatiently.
"Master Sun..."
Chu Yi's face turned cold and he was about to speak when the person opposite him suddenly fell towards him. In surprise, he quickly moved aside and the man in purple robe fell solidly to the ground.
"Who...who dares to do something to me!"
The man in purple robe had his back turned to someone, and he didn't know who had touched it. He endured the pain and tried to get up. When he was halfway up, he was stepped back again.
His chest hit the ground again, and he immediately screamed out.
"Don't you want to know who this young master is? You'll know if you look back!"
A contemptuous joking sound came from behind, and the purple-robed man was severely stepped on the ground by the foot on his back. He couldn't even lift his head, let alone look back.
"Young Master Gu, please don't do it. It's just a misunderstanding. Don't hurt the harmony of the students!"
Seeing this, the leaders couldn't sit still.
They were all sent by Aki Shou Academy to take care of these students this time, and because of their status as teachers, they sat at the table.
"Misunderstanding? Let him first tell you what the misunderstanding is?"
The man in red robe nodded with approval. The three academy gentlemen were about to relax their tone, but they didn't expect the young ancestor to follow him again.
This little ancestor is the youngest son of Yongning Houfu, the uncle of the current dynasty. Naturally, the gentlemen do not want to offend him openly.
But the sister of the young master of the Sun family at her feet is the fourth prince's daughter, and her status in the fourth prince's mansion is second only to the prince's concubine.
The academy is not a quiet place, and they are well aware of the overt and covert fights between the prince and the fourth prince in the court.
Originally, they saw that a tribute from a prefecture and county was being embarrassed and accidentally injured a maid, so they deliberately ignored it. Later, they saw the fifth young master of the Rong family getting up. If it was just a verbal quarrel, a few of them would have been able to sit still.
Unexpectedly, this little ancestor also got involved.
"Perhaps the sweet-scented osmanthus is particularly intoxicating today, and Master Sun is so happy after taking a few sips!"
One of them had to rack his brains to persuade him. No matter what, they couldn't let Mr. Gu San beat someone up right under their noses!
"Yes, yes, this year's sweet-scented osmanthus drunkenness is really good!"
The other two people also echoed.
"It turns out that I like this sweet-scented osmanthus drunkenness. I just had to say no earlier..."
This time, the three learned the lesson and did not relax their tone. Instead, they opened their mouths to continue persuading, but were interrupted before the words could be spoken.
