Prince Chen was strolling around the racecourse, leading his pony at a pace slower than usual.
"Your Highness." The steward of the stable came up to him flatteringly and said, "I am here to lead the horses for you. How can you do such rough and tiring work?"
"Do I need you to teach me how to do things?" Prince Chen waved his hands impatiently, "Stay aside and don't bother me."
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu gradually got used to riding on the horse: "It's okay to let someone else lead the horse."
"Can someone else lead the horse and make you feel more at ease than me?"
Jiuzhu shook her head.
"That's it." The Prince touched the pony's neck and said, "How can these servants lead horses with the same care as I do?"
It was the first time in her life that someone was leading a horse, and the little girl dared to complain?
Small steward: "..."
Look, is this what human beings say? Even if they have a hundred courages, they still dare not be careless.
After his attempt to flatter failed, the steward tactfully stepped aside.
A colleague said in a low voice with a sinister tone: "I told you not to join in the fun, but you refused to listen."
"If we go, we'll be disliked. If we don't go, we're afraid of making the noble unhappy." The steward couldn't bear it and retorted stubbornly: "If His Royal Highness Prince Chen dislikes us for not serving him well, won't we be the ones to suffer in the end?"
"Do you know who the noble person on the horse is?" The colleague whispered mysteriously in the steward's ear: "That is the daughter of the Ming family, the future Princess Chen."
He has no foresight and deserves to have stayed in the horse farm for so many years without getting promoted.
After strolling around the horse farm for a few laps, the King of Chen stopped and handed his hand to Jiuzhu: "Come down."
Jiuzhu: “…”
Riding a horse is fun.
"This is your first time riding a horse, so you shouldn't ride for too long, otherwise your legs will hurt." The Prince of Chen lifted Jiuzhu down in the same way he lifted her up.
"Oh." Jiuzhu glanced at the pony, stood on the ground and nodded obediently.
"I'll bring you here to play next time." Seeing Jiuzhu's reluctant look, Prince Chen spoke faster than his brain: "I'll go with you to pick a little white horse now."
Tsk, the little girl is really troublesome. I am afraid that she will be unhappy but I still have to coax her.
The ponies in the stables were originally raised to amuse the royal children. The prince had no interest in these short and stocky horses before, but today, he had a rare opportunity to go to the pony circle to choose a horse, and he immediately fell in love with a chubby, furry pony as white as snow.
"Your Highness has good eyesight. This kind of horse is a dwarf horse presented by Chizhou. It is cute and adorable, and is very popular with the ladies." The steward, who had failed to flatter the horse just now, personally stepped forward to put the reins on the horse and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness. We will send the horse to your palace later."
"No need, just send it to Minister Ming's house." Prince Chen gently pulled the small strands of hair on Jiuzhu's temples: "The little white horse you like."
"Yes, yes." Jiuzhu nodded repeatedly, staring at the little white horse: "Thank you, Your Highness."
He said thank you, Your Highness, but his eyes were on the horse.
Haha, woman.
He wanted to pull her hair hard, but was afraid of bullying the little girl to tears. Prince Chen sighed resignedly and said, "Let's go. I'll take you home."
To prevent the Ming family from thinking that he had abducted the Ming family's daughter.
"Your Highness." Before getting on the carriage, Jiuzhu took off the golden bag hanging from her waist and put it in the hands of the Prince of Chen: "This amulet has been worshipped in front of the statue for many days and is blessed by the Golden Light Mantra every day. May it protect your Highness with peace and good fortune and keep you safe from all evil."
"Is this... your return gift to me?" Prince Chen looked at the small sachet, which still had a faint scent of incense.
Jiuzhu smiled, shook her head and nodded. This amulet was placed before the statue of the god with her own hands when she was eight years old. She chanted the Golden Light Mantra every day until the day she went to Beijing, when she took it down from the offering table.
The capital was too big, and she didn't know when she would meet her benefactor again, so she kept the amulet in her house. It was not until she recognized the King that day that she carried the amulet with her, so that she could give it to him the next time they met.
Master said that among all living beings, the way of heaven is inaction, the way of nature follows nature, and life and death are up to oneself, not God. It is just that if you are sincere, your heart will be filled with hope, and everything will go as you wish.
"Then I'll take it." Putting the golden bag into his arms, the Prince climbed on his horse and said, "Let's go. I'll take you home."
He was still a little worried about letting her go back alone in the carriage. It wasn't that he didn't like to meddle in other people's business, but he was mainly worried that the little girl was not very smart and would be kidnapped by bad people.
The carriage was built to the specifications of a prince, spacious and luxurious. Jiuzhu leaned on the window and tilted her head to look at the Prince riding on the horse.
When Prince Chen looked at her for the first time, she was looking at him.
The second time he looked at her, she was still looking at him.
The third time, he couldn't help asking, "Why are you looking at me? Do you think I am as handsome as Pan An or more beautiful than Guan Yu?"
"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded: "Your Highness is beautiful."
Even if an immortal came down to earth, it would be no more than this.
Prince Chen turned away and stopped looking at Jiuzhu.
This little girl is really not reserved at all.
In Mingyue Palace, Concubine Su Gui looked at her son who had come to eat dinner and said to Emperor Longfeng beside her, "It seems that the Yue family will not invite him to dinner in the future."
Emperor Longfeng smiled faintly and shook his head.
"I am just sending the little girl home on the way. Why should I have dinner?" Prince Chen waved away the maid who was serving him food and picked up the chopsticks to pick up the food himself. "As a prince, if I eat at a foreign minister's house, people will think I care too much about their family after the news gets out."
"Oh?" Emperor Longfeng scooped the soup himself and placed it in front of Concubine Su. After Concubine Su fed him a spoonful of soup, he looked up at Prince Chen and said, "I thought that you had a good impression of Miss Ming because you led the horse for her and helped her choose the horse this afternoon."
"She's only fifteen or sixteen years old, she doesn't know anything, how can she have any feelings for me?" Prince Chen continued to put food into his bowl. "Now that she's here, I can't just leave her alone. If I make her cry, I'll have to bother to comfort her, how troublesome."
"I have seen Miss Ming before. She doesn't seem like a crybaby." Concubine Su glanced at her son's bowl and said, "Du Qing, didn't you dislike this dish in the past?"
The Prince of Chen then realized what he had just caught. He closed his eyes and stuffed the thing into his mouth, forcing himself to calm down and said, "The past is the past. Men are fickle."
After finishing his meal, Prince Chen stood up and said, "Father, Mother, I will take my leave."
Concubine Su sighed: "Du Qing's temper is really worrying."
Emperor Long Feng lowered his head while eating and did not respond. When a woman complained about the child's shortcomings, the man only needed to listen quietly or find reasons to praise the child a few words, but he must not agree with her, otherwise the man would be the only one who would suffer the consequences.
With Du Qing's usual personality, when has he ever cared whether a girl would cry or not? When he saw a crying girl, he would not even bother to look at her, let alone comfort her.
As expected, the people who understand men best are always men.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." A eunuch hurried in, his face pale.
"What's the matter?" Emperor Longfeng put down his chopsticks.
The eunuch knelt on the ground, his whole body trembling with fear: "The Minister of the Imperial Household Department has urgently reported that several tribute horses that had just arrived at the stable suddenly became crazy for unknown reasons, biting and trampling on each other, and died suddenly an hour ago."
The smile on Emperor Long Feng's face suddenly disappeared without a trace: "Are you talking about the Royal Stables that my son visited this afternoon?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch trembled even more violently, but he dared not hide it: "These horses are the fierce horses that His Royal Highness Prince Chen has chosen. His Royal Highness was supposed to go to the stables to train horses today, but he happened to meet Miss Ming on the way and accompanied her to ride horses and choose horses, so he delayed this matter."
The prince did not like help from others when training horses, and no one dared to think about what would have happened if he had not happened to be delayed.
"Investigate." Emperor Longfeng's face was gloomy, and his eyes were full of murderous intent: "Pass on my order, have the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice thoroughly investigate the matter of the Royal Horse Farm, and never let any suspicious person go!"
"What big thing happened today?" Sun Caiyao did not sleep well the whole night. She remembered that in her dream, the news of Prince Chen's death came out at this time.
"No." Seeing Sun Caiyao's haggard face, the maid asked worriedly, "Miss, did you not sleep well last night?"
"Did nothing really happen?!" Sun Caiyao kept asking.
"I, I have never heard of it." The maid was frightened by Sun Caiyao's appearance: "Miss, don't worry, I will go and find out now."
“No thanks.” Sun Caiyao shook her head in a daze, “No thanks…”
Could that dream be false?
Prince Chen will not die, and Prince Qi will not become the most powerful among the princes?
No, no, no, if the dream was fake, why would Ming Jiuzhu appear?
Something must have gone wrong. Yes, something must have gone wrong!
"Miss." A maid ran into the house: "Something big has happened."
"Hurry up and tell me!" Sun Caiyao accidentally knocked over the rouge box, and the rouge splashed on the floor, as red as blood.
"A batch of tribute horses that had just been presented suddenly died, angering His Majesty, who ordered a thorough investigation." The maid lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "According to rumors, one of the horses in this batch was favored by the prince, but he was delayed by other things halfway and did not ride it. His Majesty must be so angry because of this."
Sun Caiyao's head was buzzing.
So that's it, so that's it...
Something happened at the Royal Stables. Except for Prince Chen, the other adult princes were very nervous, fearing that they would be implicated. Those who were less courageous did not even leave the house.
Even Ming Cunfu, who was devoted to reading sage books, knew about this. When he walked into his uncle's house and entered the main courtyard, he saw his cousin walking in the yard with a big white dog.
"When did you get the dog?" Ming Cunfu casually praised, "Its fur is bright and it looks very energetic."
"Sixth brother, this is not a dog, it's a little white horse." Jiuzhu led the horse to Ming Cunfu so that he could see it more clearly. "Look, how cute it is."
Ming Cunfu looked at the horse with soft fur that looked almost like a puppy, and for a moment he didn't know how to start talking.
What kind of serious horse looks like this?
"Look...it's quite cute. Where did my sister get it from?" I still have to praise it. If it's a little animal that my sister likes, I have to pick out the advantages and praise it.
"His Royal Highness Prince Chen gave it to me." Jiuzhu bent down and hugged the little white horse's neck, rubbing its ears affectionately.
It was obvious that Jiuzhu liked this horse very much. Ming Cunfu said insincerely, "Your Highness Prince Chen is really considerate to others."
Bah, you ride a precious horse, but you give them a short-legged horse, what a mess!
"Your Highness is super nice!"
Ming Cunfu was silent again, and only calmed down after a long time: "Why would the King of Chen give you a horse?"
My sister obviously can't ride a horse.
"His Highness invited me to the royal stables, and I said I liked little white horses, so he picked out the cutest one." Jiuzhu touched the pony's head, and the pony obediently let her touch it.
"Royal Stables?" Ming Cunfu's expression changed. "When did you and His Highness go to the Royal Stables?"
"Yesterday afternoon." Jiuzhu saw that Ming Cunfu looked a little upset and asked, "What happened?"
"No wonder His Majesty is so angry..." Ming Cunfu was about to explain to Jiuzhu when he heard the doorman come to report that the chief eunuch Liu Zhongbao was here to pay a visit with gifts on the emperor's orders.
The Grand Eunuch Liu Zhongbao who is by your Majesty's side? This chief eunuch hasn't run errands for a long time.
Ming Cunfu's heart tightened: "Open the main gate to welcome them, and quickly go and invite the third aunt to take charge of the situation."
Jiuzhu and Ming Cunfu looked at each other, handed the pony to the servant, tidied their clothes and went outside to welcome the guests.
Ming Cunfu followed Jiuzhu and was very worried. Such a big thing happened at the racecourse, he wondered if his sister would be implicated?
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