Part 1 - The Double / Marriage of the Di Daughter

☆ Chapter 042 Seeing the Word

Hearing Jiang Li's words, Jiang Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, and didn't know what to say at this moment.

The girl in front of him had grown into a graceful young lady. She looked even more slender and delicate than Jiang Youyao, and her eyes and eyebrows looked more like himself. When Jiang Li was sent to the nunnery, she was only seven years old and still a chubby little girl. Eight years passed quickly, turning the chubby little girl into a beautiful young lady, but also obliterating the last trace of familiarity.

Jiang Yuanbai felt strange.

He missed Jiang Li's eight years, so that in his memory, Jiang Li was still the ignorant, wilful and spoiled child. When the child stood in front of him, with her eyes clearly divided into black and white, and calmly put forward her request, Jiang Yuanbai didn't know how to respond.

He said, "Do you know what you are talking about? You have never been educated, how can you keep up with the lessons of Mingyi Hall..."

"Father, I am also your daughter." Jiang Li interrupted him, "We are both your daughters, my third sister can go to Mingyi Hall, but I can only learn some superficial principles from the teacher invited from outside. Father, you are not fair."

Jiang Yuanbai was speechless again. He looked at Jiang Li, and suddenly his mind emerged that he had two daughters before Ji Shuran entered the house. The eldest daughter was a concubine's daughter, and she was a little dull. Jiang Li was his legitimate daughter, born round and cute. At that time, he felt very sorry for Ye Zhenzhen's desperate efforts to give birth to Jiang Li, and often held Jiang Li and let Jiang Li ride on his neck to play.

There was some family happiness. But later Jiang Li went too far, and those father-daughter relationships were wiped out. But today, in front of him, Jiang Yuanbai looked at Jiang Li, and for some reason he thought of those past events again. The words "Father, what you did is unfair" suddenly made him feel sour.

At some point, Jiang Yuanbai himself had forgotten that he had another daughter. He spoiled Jiang Youyao like a jewel in his palm, but treated his other daughter very distantly. Jiang Li did not fight or compete, but just stood in front of him, watching his calm narration, which made Jiang Yuanbai feel guilty.

Jiang Li saw this little bit of guilt, and she felt relieved.

She had long discovered that Jiang Yuanbai did have father-daughter relationship with Miss Jiang Er. On the day Miss Jiang Er returned home, Jiang Yuanbai's eyes clearly showed some concern. It is true that Jiang Yuanbai is not a good father, but Ji Shuran must have contributed a lot to this. She did not have any feelings for Jiang Yuanbai, but she was willing to take advantage of Jiang Yuanbai's guilt and show harmony on the surface.

If she had made a long speech, saying how bad Jiang Yuanbai was to her, Jiang Yuanbai might not have been touched. On the contrary, it was because she said it so calmly that Jiang Yuanbai would think more deeply.

"Li'er, you are not suitable to go to Mingyi Hall now." After a long time, Jiang Yuanbai said. Although he refused, his tone was much softer.

"The reason why father didn't want me to go to Mingyi Hall is nothing more than fearing that people would point fingers behind my back and bring shame to the Jiang family. Father has good intentions, but has father ever thought about it? The current emperor praises women to go to school. Father, as the prime minister of the current dynasty and the head of the literati, let the legitimate daughter invite the teacher at home and not go to Mingyi Hall. Isn't it a slap in the face of the emperor?"

Jiang Yuanbai was stunned.

He was thinking about whether Jiang Li would be pointed out by others and the Jiang family would be shamed, but he forgot about Emperor Hong Xiao.

"That's the first reason. Secondly, father, we have four daughters in the Jiang family. Except for the third sister, the fourth sister and the fifth sister have all entered Mingyi Hall. I have to stay at home. First, it's unfair, and second, it's more obvious. People are like this. If you show it to others openly, others will not talk about it. The more you hide it, the more others will explore it. Father thought that if you hide me in the mansion, others will not talk about me. Wrong, the more they talk about it, the more they like it."

When Jiang Li said all this, she didn't have any special emotions, as if she was talking about other people's family affairs. But in Jiang Yuanbo's ears, it made sense. What's more, Jiang Yuanxing, the third room, asked someone to send gifts to send Jiang Yu'e and Jiang Yuyan to Mingyi Hall, not to mention their first room.

"Father," Jiang Li lowered her eyes, "I was wrong in the past. However, no one is perfect, and it is a great mistake to know the mistakes but not to correct them. I was young and ignorant, but now that I am older, I naturally understand the truth. I have not had my mother to teach me since I was a child. If I take a wrong step, do I have to pay for it for my whole life? I am willing, but I am the daughter of the Jiang family, and I don't want to be a burden to the Jiang family."

The sentence "I have not had my mother to teach me since I was a child" hit Jiang Yuanbai's heart at once. He trembled and said, "Li'er, but you..."

"Father, I did learn calligraphy in the nunnery in Qingcheng Mountain. I know that my father is the prime minister of the dynasty, and I can't be an ordinary person who laughs at me. So, I asked the literate little master in the nunnery to teach me to read and write. Although I don't write well, I have read all the enlightenment books and can write a lot of words."

She suddenly walked to the table, moved the word ‘Jing’ that Jiang Yuanbai had just written aside, and re-laid the paper. Jiang Li's action made Jiang Yuanbai startled, and he subconsciously looked at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li lifted her sleeves and slowly ground the ink. Her wrists were slender and her movements were gentle, which gave her a special sense of beauty and was pleasing to the eye. It was as if she had done this countless times and it was very natural.

After grinding the ink, she picked up the pen and dipped it in ink before she began to write. While writing, she whispered, "Father, although Mingyi Hall is a school, I can also make friends with many people in it. As long as I don't make mistakes in it, it will always be beneficial to the Jiang family to make friends with many people. My last name is Jiang, and I always hope that the Jiang family will get better and better."

She wrote differently from Jiang Yuanbai. Jiang Yuanbai wrote slowly and deeply, and it took a long time to write a stroke. Jiang Li was different. She looked gentle and kind, but when she wrote, she had a fighting spirit in her. It was like a soldier holding a knife, about to rush to the battlefield and fight until dawn.

Jiang Yuanbai looked at Jiang Li's profile. She was an elegant beauty, graceful as jade, but murderous and heroic.

After a pause, Jiang Li put away the pen, very swiftly, put it aside, and said, "It's done."

Jiang Yuanbo looked up and was shocked at first glance.

The characters are extremely beautiful and powerful. Such handwriting requires at least ten years of hard work. It is many times better than Jiang Youyao's handwriting. The characters are not the hairpin-shaped small regular script that women often use, but are open and closed, square and straight.

The squareness has power, and the straightness shows sharpness.

The characters are like the person, and she is an upright, open-minded and tenacious person.

Jiang Yuanbai looked at the girl in front of him like a stranger. Jiang Li looked at him with a smile and asked, "Do you agree to let me go to Mingyi Hall now, father?"

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Ali: My calligraphy is 100 points [smile]

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