I Am This Type of Woman - Chapter 2

 "Count, I just saw the servants of Marquis Jing Ting fu outside the door."

"What do they want to do now?" When Count Zhongping heard the three words "Marquis Jing Ting", he couldn't help but have a headache. The thing he regretted the most in his life was that he lost his mind and got engaged to Marquis Jing Ting fu. Now, the people of Marquis Jing Ting fu came to find trouble with his family every two or three days. If it was a family that cared about face, everyone would not make a fuss on the surface for the sake of face. However, the people of Marquis Jing Ting fu were not like this. Ban Huai would go against him in court whenever he had nothing to do. His son would also come to find trouble for Qi Lin from time to time. Sometimes, he would even hit people.

"I don't know," the manservant who came to report shook his head blankly. "He's just squatting not far from our door. He hasn't done anything."

"This family, from the master to the servants, all have brain problems," Count Zhongping said unhappily. "Let them be. Do they dare to come to our fu?"

The manservant thought silently. Two years ago, didn't Marquis Jing Ting bring a group of manservants to smash their door? This matter had been brought to the attention of His Majesty. In the end, Marquis Jing Ting had a mother who was Great Elder Princess. Marquis Jing Ting was let go after a few words of reprimand from His Majesty. Their Count was so angry that he couldn't get out of bed for more than half a month.

In Count Zhongping's eyes, Marquis Jing Ting was a rare prodigy that was hard to find in the entire capital. Absurd, capricious, and shameless. Both father and son were the same. Relying on their relationship with the Imperial Family, they spent their days playing with cats and dogs. He had lived for decades, but he had never seen such a shameless pair of father and son.

Both father and son were the same. How good could their daughter be?

A ridiculous family!

Count Zhongping was cursing Marquis Jing Ting and his son in his heart when the housekeeper hurriedly ran in.

"Count, something has happened!"

The noblewomen and daughters in the capital had a new topic to talk about. Count Zhongping's di second son was riding on a horse when he inexplicably fell off. His eyes just happened to hit a rock and were damaged. He didn't fall to the ground, he didn't fall to the ground, he didn't fall to the ground and lost an eye. What kind of luck was this?

A busybody suddenly thought of something. Four years ago, he was engaged to the Jing Ting Marquis fu's Xiang Jun. Although the marriage didn't go through, it was still considered a period of time. Could it be that this Xiang Jun was the culprit? Otherwise, how could a noble young master who was skilled in horsemanship fall off his horse in such an inexplicable manner?

When a person was certain of something, he would cut off the middle logic and directly give a simple and crude conclusion.

For example, Ban Xiang Jun Kefu.

Two years ago, the two families had clearly broken off the engagement. Count Zhongping fu was also preparing to re-engage Xie Qilin. Now that something had happened to Xie Qilin, there were still people who put the blame on Ban Xiang Jun.

"I'm so angry, I'm so angry." Ban Heng came back from outside and angrily paced around the house. "These people are really talking nonsense. Xie Xianshui broke his eyes. What does it have to do with my sister? It wasn't my sister who pushed him off. What culprit? He isn't my sister's husband. They are really shameless. "

"The people of the world are all ignorant." Ban Heng was wearing a complicated and exquisite dress with a new palace flower on his head. He walked into his younger brother's courtyard under the escort of the servant girls. "What they care about is not the truth, but someone they can gossip about. If you get angry because of what these idiots say, it will be a waste."

"Who am I doing this for?" Ban Heng sat down on a chair and waved the servants in the room away. He swallowed and said, "Your dream … has come true."

Ban Heng sat down beside him and held his chin with one hand. He sighed and said, "Five years later, you won't be the heir anymore."

"Then you won't be the Xiang Jun anymore." Ban Heng glanced at the gold and silver jewelry on his sister's body. "What do you think we should do?"

The siblings looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Good girl." Ban Huai walked in with a face full of sweat and a large pile of paintings in his hands. "Who do you think is more likely to be that person?"

The four members of the Ban Family all knew who that person was, but they did not dare to say it.

"This is the current Minister of the Right, Shi Chonghai." Ban Huai opened the painting and pointed at the thin and small old man on it. He said, "This person comes from a poor family and looks very loyal to His Majesty. But you can never know a person's heart. Could it be him?"

"It's not this old man." Ban Heng glanced at him and shook his head. "That person isn't that ugly."

"You can't even remember what his parents look like in your dreams." Ban Heng asked curiously. "How do you know he's good-looking?"

"You men will never understand a woman's intuition." Ban Huai raised his eyelids. "Next."

"This is the current Minister of the Left, Yan Hui. He often goes against His Majesty."

"No."

"Minister Magistrate Zhou Bingan?"

"That's not it."

"The Ministry of War?"

After looking through more than half of the paintings, Ban Heng only had one action from beginning to end. That was to shake his head, continuously shake his head.

"This is already one of the more powerful officials in the court." Ban Huai looked at the paintings that had been thrown all over the ground, a troubled expression on his face. "The wang ye and junwang of the Imperial House are all members of the Jiang Family, so they definitely aren't. Who else could it be?"

Ban Heng casually opened a painting. On it was a very young man with a jade crown and brocade robes. He looked especially elegant.

"Wrong, wrong." Ban Huai snatched the painting from her hand. "This is an unmarried man from another fu. He accidentally mixed in."

"Father, don't think about this one." Ban Heng did not stop Ban Huai from snatching the painting. "How many women in Jing are eyeing him? How troublesome would it be to find such a husband."

"Can't I use him as a reference?" Ban Huai chuckled. "Don't you like good-looking men? This one definitely meets your standards."

"When I think about how we'll have to live a difficult and difficult life in five years, even the most good-looking man won't be able to move my heart." Ban Heng leaned on the table with a sullen expression. "In any case, I won't be able to get married in five years."

Ban Heng patted her back with a pained expression. "Jie, you should go to another manor and raise a few male pets. Life is short. You should enjoy yourself while you can."

In any case, there were many princesses and county lords who raised male pets.

Ban Heng did not want to pay attention to him. There were many good-looking men in the world, but there were very few who were good-looking and had a good temperament. However, these kinds of men usually had status. Even if they didn't have status, they would be taken away by the princesses and junzhu.

How could she get her turn? Seeing that Ban Heng was not in a good mood, Ban Heng decided to tell her some of Xie Qilin's bad luck to make her happy. "When Xie Qilin was carried home, I heard that half of his face was smeared with blood. That scene was simply tsk tsk tsk. A heartless man like him should end up like that."

"His eyes were damaged. His appearance must have been affected too. What a pity." Ban Heng sighed faintly. Her slender and fair fingers tapped on the table. "But it was a good fall!"

"I've had enough of this lunatic for a long time. He ran away with a woman from the brothel. After he was caught, every time he saw me, he would put on a disgusting expression. He really thought that I wouldn't marry anyone but him. If he was so shameless, why didn't he ask to marry a princess?"

"Because his status isn't high enough." Ban Heng professionally pulled down his sister. "Although his family has a title, he was born in a poor family. How could the royal princess like him?"

"This kind of man that the royal family doesn't like turned around and broke off the engagement with me for a woman from the brothel. Is it very shameful to say such a thing?" Ban Si rolled his eyes at Ban Heng in annoyance. "Forget it. Anyway, we will be stripped of our titles by the new emperor sooner or later. Right now, we should eat and drink and think of a way to secretly buy some properties. Let's enjoy it for as long as we can."

There was wine today, there was wine today, and they could enjoy the glory for another year. Anyway, with their family's little brains, they couldn't think of any good ideas.

"You are right." Ban Huai nodded in agreement. "I'll go buy the antique fan I saw last time. In the past, your mother wouldn't let me, but now she shouldn't have any objections."

Anyway, their family had so much money. If they didn't use it now, they wouldn't have a chance to use it if their house was raided.

As expected, this time, when Ban Huai went to ask for money from Madam Yin, Madam Yin agreed without hesitation. She even gave him an extra two thousand taels of silver. She told him to buy anything that girls wanted for their daughter.

The people of Jing City suddenly realized that Marquis Jing Ting had become rich recently. Marquis Jing Ting didn't even blink when he bought any rare antiques or things that were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. Everyone knew that Marquis Jing Ting was an extremely absurd person. The only people he was afraid of were two women. One was his mother, Great Elder Princess De Ning, and the other was his wife, Madam Yin. The amount of silver he usually carried with him never exceeded five hundred taels of silver.

Now that he had suddenly become so generous and extravagant, people couldn't help but suspect that there was a problem in the relationship between Marquis Jing Ting and Madam Yin. Madam Yin couldn't control him anymore.

On this day, Princess An Le held a chrysanthemum banquet and invited many of the noble ladies and daughters of Jing City. As the granddaughter of Great Elder Princess, Ban Yun was naturally invited as well.

Ban Yun always had a lively temperament. Because it was only in these kinds of occasions where there were many people, that her beautiful clothes and accessories could be seen by more people. However, she also had a face that made many women jealous. Although many women said behind her back that her appearance was gaudy and vulgar, that she was only beautiful but was an idiot on the inside, and so on.

Ban Yun accepted this very well. Although these women looked down on her beautiful clothes and looked down on her for being beautiful and brainless, the envy and jealousy in their eyes couldn't be concealed.

She just liked it when these people were obviously very jealous, but still stubbornly pretended to look down on her.

As long as she thought of those pairs of eyes filled with envy and hatred, she would be able to eat an extra bowl of rice.

"When a woman wants to show off, it's not that the heavier the gold, the better it is. It's that the more exquisite the item, the more valuable it is. Other women usually don't bear to take out the things they keep at the bottom of their chests, but I can wear it and throw it around for fun. That's showing off. "Ban Yun drew a beautiful peony on her forehead and looked at it in the mirror with satisfaction. She said to the yahuan behind her," No matter how I look, this kind of flower suits me the best. "

Nowadays, flowers like plum blossoms and green lotuses were popular. Flowers like peach blossoms and peonies were often laughed at as tacky by the rich young ladies, but she, Ban Yun, was such a tacky person.

Peonies were so good. They were noble and beautiful. How could those dry plum blossoms compare?

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Translator : adDR