CH 2.3

Seventh Ji: “Third Ji, I also gave Yang Weitian a horse. Have you listed this too?”

Ji Yunxi: “? You never told me. When did you give it?”

Seventh Ji said leisurely: “Maybe last year.”

Ji Yunxi wondered: “Don’t you hate him very much?”

Seventh Ji: “I indeed hate him but who let you have blind eyes? I really think you two will get married. Then he will still be my brother-in-law, right?”

Ji Yunxi looked back attentively: “I will list it.”

Seventh Ji suddenly became enthusiastic and laughed: “I will let the housekeeper come.”

Ji Yunxi thought about the extravagance of her several elder brothers at home and asked again: “Did you give anything else?”

“No.” Seventh Ji emphasized, “I really hate him.”

“Alright.” Ji Yunxi looked at Ji Mingxi, “Eldest Brother, how about you?”

Ji Mingxi didn’t want to make things difficult for the other party: “Just forget it.”

“Eldest Brother.” Ji Yunxi softened her voice.

Ji Mingxi was defeated in an instant: “I gave away a few collections of precious paintings…”

Ji Yunxi: “List it.”

Ji Mingxi: “But…”

Ji Yunxi: “Eldest Brother, I remember you told us before that one shouldn’t take what one shouldn’t take. If one takes it, it can easily lead to trouble. Therefore, I am helping the Yang family too.”

It’s all crooked reasoning, but it does make sense when one is to think about it.

Ji Mingxi: “That is also true. Then, I also gave a few good calligraphy to Yang Shilang.”

After Seventh Ji explained a few words to the housekeeper who came in, he said again: “By the way, that Old Six also gave a lot of good wine. The others also gave a lot of things.”

Ji Yunxi picked up the tea cup and took a sip: “Alright. List them all.”

The young man who came to help with the housekeeper heard the words, and asked boldly: “Master, Seventh Master and Third Miss. This small servant had given things to the Yang family too, and also gave their steward a few bunches of candied haws. Does it need to be listed too?”

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Three days later, on the seventh day of November in the 21st year of Prosperity and Blessing, there was a heavy snowfall.

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The Li family hosted a banquet in a courtyard of their side house called Jingya Courtyard and invited all the young masters and ladies of the capital to come.

Snowflakes fell silently on the branches and bushes, stretching out a piece of bright white.

The plum blossoms in the yard are in full bloom, striving for wonders and beauty that doesn’t lose to the gentle and graceful day in spring.

Ji Yunxi wore a satin skirt with hundreds of butterflies and flowers embroidered on it, and a large cloak of the same color made of fine fox hair.

The jewelry pieces worn all over her body are very exquisite. The finest rouge gives out the face of a wealthy flower, overwhelming the countless plum blossoms in this courtyard.

The Seventh Master of the Ji’s family, Ji Mingshuang, accompanied her by the side.

Unlike his younger sister, he always thinks that this kind of clothes are too cumbersome. He only wore a plain white shirt. Moreover, martial arts practitioners are not afraid of the cold. He didn’t even wear a cloak.

But that face was too provocative, and the young ladies who are grouped in twos and threes shyly turns their glances away.

In the entire Dayu Dynasty, no man can compete with Ji Mingshuang in terms of appearance.

Neither can women.

Everyone agrees that although Ji Yunxi is beautiful, her beauty is too luxurious and vulgar. On the contrary, she lacked her brother’s gorgeous appearance.

On this, Ji Yunxi herself admitted it too.

She is a layman.

The good looks that her parents gratuitously gave her, has also been tinged with some of the smelly profits-before-everything mentality.