Chapter 42: See the Words
Hearing Jiang Li say this, Jiang Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, not knowing what expression he should have 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 had passed, and the chubby little girl had become a beautiful young woman, but the last trace of familiarity had also been obliterated.

Jiang Yuanbo felt strange.

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

He said: "Do you know what you are talking about? You have never been enlightened, 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, but my third sister can go to Mingyi Hall, while I can only learn some superficial principles from the teachers invited from outside. Father, what you are doing is unfair."

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

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

At some point, Jiang Yuanbai himself had forgotten that he had another daughter. He doted on Jiang Youyao like a precious jewel in his palm, but treated his other daughter with extreme distance. Jiang Li did not fight for him, but just stood in front of him, watching him calmly narrate, which made Jiang Yuanbai feel guilty.

Jiang Li saw this bit of guilt and felt relieved.

She had long discovered that Jiang Yuanbai was not completely devoid of father-daughter affection for the second young lady Jiang. On the day when the second young lady Jiang returned home, Jiang Yuanbai's eyes clearly showed some concern. It is true that Jiang Yuanbai was not a good father, but Ji Shuran must have contributed a lot to this. She had no feelings for Jiang Yuanbai either, but she was willing to take advantage of Jiang Yuanbai's guilt and appear to be harmonious.

If she had gone on for a long time, constantly talking about how bad Jiang Yuanbai had been to her, Jiang Yuanbai might not have been moved. Instead, when she spoke calmly like this, Jiang Yuanbai would think more deeply.

"Li'er, it's not suitable for you to go to Mingyi Hall now." After a long time, Jiang Yuanbai said. Although it was a refusal, his tone was much gentler.

"Father didn't want me to go to Mingyi Hall because he was afraid that people would point fingers at me behind my back and bring shame to the Jiang family. Father has good intentions, but has he ever thought about this? The current emperor praises women for going to school. Father is the chief minister and the head of the literati, but he lets his daughter stay at home to invite a teacher instead of going to Mingyi Hall. Isn't this a slap in the emperor's face?"

Jiang Yuanbai was stunned.

He was so focused on whether Jiang Li would be pointed out and the Jiang family would be humiliated that 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. But I have to stay at home. Firstly, it's unfair, and secondly, it makes things more obvious. Human nature is like this. If you show it to others openly, others will not bother to comment. The more you hide something, the more others will explore it. Father thought that if you hide me in the mansion, others will not talk about me. It's wrong. The more this happens, the more they will talk about it."

When Jiang Li said all this, she didn't have any special emotions, as if she was talking about someone else's family. But to Jiang Yuanbo's ears, it seemed very reasonable. 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 at the beginning. However, no one is perfect, and it is a great mistake not to correct mistakes. I was young and ignorant, but now that I am older, I naturally understand the truth. I have no 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 words "I have no mother to teach me since I was young" immediately hit Jiang Yuanbai's heart. He trembled and said, "Li'er, but you..."

"Father, I did learn calligraphy in the nunnery in Qingcheng Mountain. I knew my father was the prime minister of the dynasty, and I couldn't be an ignorant person. So I asked the literate young master in the nunnery to teach me how to read and write. Although my writing is not good, I have read all the enlightenment books and can write quite a few words."

She suddenly walked to the table, moved the word "静" that Jiang Yuanbai had just written aside, and re-laid the paper. Jiang Yuanbai was startled by Jiang Li's action, and 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 the ink before she began to write. As she wrote, she whispered, "Father, although Mingyi Hall is a school, I can make many friends there. As long as I don't make mistakes there, making many friends will always be beneficial to the Jiang family. My last name is Jiang, and I always hope that the Jiang family will get better and better."

She and Jiang Yuanbo write differently. Jiang Yuanbo writes slowly and profoundly, and takes a long time to write each stroke. Jiang Li is different. She looks gentle and kind, but when she writes, there is a fighting spirit in her. It's 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, as graceful as jade, but also full of murderous aura and heroism.

After pausing for a moment, Jiang Li put away the pen in a very cool motion, and put it aside before saying, "Okay."

Jiang Yuanbai looked up and was shocked at first sight.

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

There is strength in the squareness and sharpness in the straightness.

You can tell a lot about a person by his handwriting, and he is an upright, open-minded and tenacious person.

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

　Ali: My calligraphy is 100 points [smile]
　　
　
(End of this chapter)