The wind on the mountain was so strong that Ming Zhenyu could not sit still, so he had to walk down the mountain with his neck stretched out.
"Ms. Zhenyu." Jiuzhu opened the curtain and glanced at Ming Zhenyu's messy hair. "It's windy on the mountain. Let's talk in the carriage."
Knowing that the wind was strong, why did you let her wait on the mountain for so long?
Ming Zhenyu said gloomily, "No, I'm afraid I'll die in your carriage without anyone knowing."
"This is a desolate place. Even if you are not in the carriage, if you lose your life, no one will know." Shen Ying said: "Your Lingzhou Ming family has been greedy and afraid of death for generations."
"If I don't return in two hours, my brother will report to the police." Ming Zhenyu calmed herself down and said, "I advise you not to have any other thoughts."
"Your brother is a poor scholar, what can he do?" Shen Ying deliberately threatened: "Ming Zhenyu, just say whatever you want to say, don't do these tricks."
"Don't think that we have no support in the capital." Ming Zhenyu didn't know whether what Shen Ying said was true or not. She trembled and said, "I have a benefactor who knows the prince in the palace. If anything happens to us, your family will not be able to escape suspicion."
"It's okay." Jiuzhu continued with a smile: "My husband is a powerful prince, I'm not afraid."
"You, you, you..." Ming Zhenyu took a few steps back and looked at Shen Ying and Jiuzhu with eyes full of fear and regret. She shouldn't have chosen to meet the mother and daughter in the suburbs.
Looking at Ming Zhenyu like this, Shen Ying suddenly felt bored. Sometimes people's stupidity and badness can appear at the same time.
Endless greed can easily make people lose their sense of right and wrong and become stupid and bloated.
If the Lingzhou Ming family had any shame, they would not have the face to meet them. But not only did they not feel ashamed, they even resented the Jingcheng Ming family.
"Ming Jiuzhu, if the King knew your identity and origin, would he still protect you?" In a hurry, Ming Zhenyu threw out the last life-saving talisman: "In order to let you marry into the royal family, your family concealed the fact that you have been wandering among the people for more than ten years. Who knows whether you had a little lover before returning to Beijing, and whether you had an affair with other men?"
"Is this the secret you're talking about?" Shen Ying seemed to hear a joke: "My Ming family is full of loyal and brave people, why would we use such means to seek glory and wealth?"
They concealed their daughter's past only because they didn't want her to suffer gossips from others. Moreover, when His Majesty was interested in marrying into the Ming family, they reported the matter to His Majesty. How could it be said that they were deceiving the emperor?
"Whether it is deceiving the emperor or not is up to your majesty to decide." Shen Ying said in a cold and hard voice: "If the prince is suspicious of Jiuzhu because of such a trivial matter, the Ming family is willing to ask our daughter to divorce the royal family."
"You are just being stubborn in front of me." Ming Zhenyu was completely panicked. She shook her head and denied it: "It's impossible. How could the royal family allow a woman who was raised outside since childhood to be the prince's consort?"
"Because her last name is Ming, she has the blood of the Ming family in Beijing, and she possesses the best qualities of the Ming and Shen families." Shen Ying got off the carriage, raised her chin slightly and looked at her: "You don't even know what Beijing is like, how can you know the thoughts of the royal family. Don't think that you can understand the royal family's thoughts just by reading a few books about the royal family."
"You from the Lingzhou Ming family can't even pass the exam to become a lifter, yet you are worrying about the royal family first." Shen Ying chuckled. Although the laugh was meaningless, Ming Zhenyu heard infinite ridicule in it.
She was laughing at the decline of the Lingzhou Ming family, at their inexperience, at their incompetence, she was laughing at everything about them.
Jiuzhu didn't dare to say a word while sitting in the carriage. Her mother, who always smiled gently at all times and in all places, was so angry that no one dared to mess with her.
Ever since she met His Highness, she had never thought that His Highness would mind her past. Was it shameful to grow up in a Taoist temple?
At first, she approached His Highness just to give, without thinking about getting anything in return.
Master said that expecting too much will only make people feel afraid.
The one who has no desires is the most powerful.
Jiuzhu lay on the window frame of the carriage and couldn't help wondering, is she still free of desires and wants now?
The sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance. Jiuzhu looked sideways and a smile spread across her face.
The white horse and purple robe, just a glimpse of the figure will make people think of a noble and proud man.
Behind him, there were guards with swords on horseback, showing off their unbridled and vivid looks that made it impossible to take your eyes away.
"Jiuzhu." Seeing Jiuzhu lying by the car window, the King of Chen dismounted from his horse, walked to the window and looked at her: "Come."
He stretched out his hands to her: "Jump out, I'll catch you."
"Okay." Jiuzhu stepped on the seat, climbed out of the window, and jumped into the arms of the Prince of Chen. The Prince of Chen caught her steadily, turned around and saluted Shen Ying: "Du Qing has met the mother-in-law."
"Hello, Your Highness." Shen Ying returned the greeting and asked with a smile, "Why are you here, Your Highness?"
"I'm here to take Jiuzhu back to the palace. I heard from the servants in your mansion that you guys came to Changfengpo, so I came to take a look." Prince Chen took the cloaks handed over by the dragon guards, gave one to Shen Ying, and shook the other one out and put it on Jiuzhu: "It's windy here, are you and my mother-in-law here... to enjoy the scenery?"
This desolate countryside, with plain scenery and no beautiful landscape, really does not have anything to see.
"Since the old friend invited me, I and Jiuzhu have no choice but to go." Shen Ying returned to her usual gentle demeanor: "Thank you for taking this trip, Your Highness."
Old person?
Only then did Prince Chen notice Ming Zhenyu standing opposite his mother-in-law. Wasn't this the imposter?
"Are you done talking?" Prince Chen asked Jiuzhu in a low voice.
"It's over...right?" Jiuzhu adjusted the straps of her cloak, raised her head and asked Ming Zhenyu: "The benefactor you mentioned just now, is he the one who saved you in the Huaxi River?"
Ming Zhenyu looked at Jiuzhu warily: "How do you know?"
Jiuzhu continued to ask: "Are you sure that he really saved you back then?"
"Of course." Ming Zhenyu avoided her gaze: "Could I have mistaken my benefactor?"
"Oh." Jiuzhu nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
What does oh mean?
Ming Zhenyu's heart was in turmoil, but she tried to act natural so as to avoid being noticed by Shen Ying and her daughter.
In fear and panic, she looked at Prince Chen: "Do you know that your princess was not fostered by the Ming family at all, but was wandering among the people with an unknown past?"
Shen Ying looked at Ming Zhenyu, with a look of crazy excitement on her face.
This idiot actually said it out loud.
Since Jiuzhu came to the capital, she has been living under the Emperor's watchful eyes. His Majesty and the Empress must know her character. The people of Dacheng are open-minded and are not so harsh on women. In the royal family genealogy, there are even princes who take widows as their principal wives. Why does Ming Zhenyu think that such a small matter will affect a woman's life?
The Prince's expression did not change. He just lowered his head and looked deeply at Jiuzhu, then glanced at Ming Zhenyu with a haughty look: "What does it have to do with you?"
"Have you never suspected that she might have had an affair with other men before coming to Beijing?" Seeing that his words did not bring the desired effect, Ming Zhenyu was anxious: "You are a prince, you have all kinds of women, why do you need such a woman of unknown origin?"
Prince Chen frowned and remained silent.
Ming Zhenyu was delighted. As expected, there is no man in the world who doesn't care about a woman's past.
"What are you still standing there for? Arrest this woman who slanders the royal family and throw her into jail." Under the "patient teaching" of his father and father-in-law, he had already memorized the Dacheng Code by heart.
A mature man should know how to use the law to protect the princess.
"What?" Ming Zhenyu widened her eyes in disbelief. How could this Prince Chen, with his handsome eyebrows and bright eyes, act so carelessly?
"Yes!" The dragon guard took the order and quickly tied up Ming Zhenyu and stuffed something in her mouth without even a glance.
"Next time you meet a lunatic like this, don't waste your words on her." Prince Chen turned to look at Jiuzhu and said, "We are members of the royal family, so we should behave in a more arrogant and cool manner."
"Is this kind of person worthy of talking to you?" When Prince Chen saw that Jiuzhu didn't say anything, he carried her to the horse's back, then he climbed on the horse himself and held her in his arms: "Let's send my mother-in-law back home first, and then go back to the palace."
The girl leaned in his arms, even the bun on her head looked particularly cute. He held her in his arms again and rested his chin on her head.
"Ming Xiaozhu."
"Um?"
"Don't let your imagination run wild. Your Highness really loves you."
The horse stretched its legs, lowered its head and nibbled on the grass by the roadside, looking extremely leisurely.
Everything is peaceful and beautiful.
Shen Ying glanced at her daughter and Prince Chen on horseback, then bent down and returned to the carriage.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten Ming Zhenyu, or no one cared about her.
Ming Jisi squatted at the city gate waiting for his sister to come back. It wasn't that he was a brother who cared about his sister, but he was eager to know how many benefits his sister had asked for from the Ming family in the capital.
After waiting for about an hour, he saw his sister being tied up by a group of sword-wielding guards and brought into the city gate. It was unknown what these guards said to the gate guards, who suddenly changed their expressions and let her go without even asking any questions.
Seeing his sister looking over here, he quickly hid behind a small stall, fearing that the guards would take him away.
His father was right, women can't accomplish anything, and he got into big trouble after just a short time out. He turned around and ran away, hiding in the yard before he could calm down.
No, if his sister got into trouble, it would affect his participation in the imperial examination, so he had to find a way to get her out.
Ming Jiyuan was leaving his post at the Dali Temple when he saw Prince Chen riding on horseback with his sister. The guards behind them seemed to be tying someone up. "Prince, Jiuzhu, what's going on?"
"It's far away." Shen Ying in the carriage lifted the curtain and said, "Let's talk about it when we get back."
"Yes." Ming Jiyuan glanced at the tied-up woman and quickly looked away.
Shen Ying asked him to go far away?
Is he Ming Jiyuan?
Ming Zhenyu buried her head even lower to prevent Ming Jiyuan from seeing her face clearly.
The person she hated the most was not Shen Ying or Ming Jingzhou, but Ming Jiyuan.
It was he who made her realize that there are sisters in this world who don't have to give in to their brothers, and who don't have to do everything according to their brothers' wishes.
But on the day she was driven back to Lingzhou, he looked at her with hatred.
[Your family lost my sister! You will be punished. ]
[You are not my sister. My sister would not impersonate someone else.]
Who made the Ming family in the capital city have power and status? If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. What's wrong with her?
Jiuzhu, who was on horseback, suddenly turned his head and looked at the teahouse next to him.
"What's wrong?"
"It's the Fourth Prince."
Prince Chen raised his head and saw Yun Yanze sitting by the window on the second floor.
He was wearing black and seemed to be surprised that Jiuzhu would notice him. After a moment's pause, he smiled and nodded at them.
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