Concubine Su knew that among these princes and princesses, except for her own children, no one was sincerely congratulating her on her birthday.
After they finished their formalities, she waved her hand for them to leave so as not to embarrass each other.
"Du Qing, take Jiuzhu for a walk so that she can get familiar with the palace." Concubine Su stood up and said, "The other ladies are still waiting for me to go back. I will go back to Mingyue Palace first."
According to the rules of the harem, other concubines in the palace still wanted Mingyue Palace to pay their respects to her.
"Farewell, Her Majesty." The princes and princesses hurriedly bowed and bid farewell, showing the utmost respect.
Concubine Su Gui supported Xiangshen's hand and stood up. When she walked past Prince Chen, she glanced at him and said, "Take good care of Jiuzhu."
Prince Chen bowed and said, "I will do my job, please rest assured, mother."
Concubine Su: "..."
After hearing what he said, she felt a little uneasy. She patted the back of Jiuzhu's hand before leaving Feifeng Palace.
The other princes and princesses saw this scene and had different thoughts in their minds, but the looks they gave Jiuzhu became more friendly.
"The autumn scenery is just right today, why don't we take a walk in Yu Garden together?" A princess asked, "Miss Jiuzhu, have you ever been to Yu Garden?"
Jiuzhu did not answer. She turned her head to look at King Chen, as if she only wanted to listen to his opinion.
Prince Chen smiled. It seemed that he was not stupid. He knew who was trustworthy in a crowded situation.
"Do you want to go and have a look?" asked the Prince.
Jiuzhu nodded, still a little curious.
"The golden camellia in Yu Garden is in full bloom. I will take you to see it." Prince Chen turned his head and looked at his other brothers and sisters. "The little girl is shy by nature and doesn't like crowds. I will just accompany her. You can do whatever you want."
shy?
Prince Qi glanced at Ming Jiuzhu, who was standing next to Prince Chen without saying anything, and nodded slightly: "Fifth brother and Miss Ming, please feel free to do as you please."
Hearing what he said, Ming Jiuzhu didn't even look at him. Her bright eyes just looked at Yun Duqing, as if she was looking at the only bright candle in the darkness.
"Let's go." After taking two steps, King Chen retreated to Jiuzhu's side and silently stretched out his arm.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Jiuzhu lifted her skirt with one hand and placed the other on Prince Chen's arm, then carefully stepped over the threshold of Feifeng Palace.
King Qi looked at the door. The sunlight shone on the two of them, shining brightly. He slowly closed his eyes.
The sun is shining brightly and can easily hurt your eyes.
"Fourth brother." Prince Huai looked at Prince Qi with a half-smile: "From what I've seen, fifth brother and Miss Ming have a pretty good relationship."
"They are an engaged couple. It is a blessing that they live in harmony after marriage." King Qi said slowly: "If the fifth brother knew that the eldest brother cared about him so much, he would definitely be very happy."
"I just don't know which ambitious person was responsible for the incident at the royal stable. Fortunately, it was discovered in time and no disaster occurred. What if my father or the royal bloodline was accidentally hurt..." Prince Huai glanced at his brothers and sisters present, laughed eerily, and strode out of the Feifeng Palace.
The other princes and princesses looked up at the sky and pretended not to hear the sharp words between the two.
What does it have to do with them if the eldest and the fourth are arguing?
garden.
Jiuzhu felt the cold wind of late autumn and looked at the golden camellia hanging on the branches, and couldn't help shivering.
"Still looking?" Prince Chen took the cloak from the attendant, shook it open and put it on Jiuzhu.
Jiuzhu shook her head repeatedly.
Although the garden is beautiful, the wind is too cold.
Seeing Jiuzhu hunching her neck, Prince Chen helped her put on her cape, unable to suppress the smile on his face: "When I was little, I didn't want to study and insisted on coming to Yu Garden to play..."
"What happened next?"
"Later, like you, I was blown back by the wind."
"Why didn't you tell me just now, Your Highness?" Jiuzhu secretly kicked the pebble at her feet, pretending that she was not angry at all.
"If I had told you just now, you would have misunderstood that I was unwilling to accompany you." Prince Chen saw the stone that was kicked away hit the rockery and fell into the chrysanthemum cluster, and it bounced stubbornly.
"Hearing is deceiving, seeing is believing." Putting away the smile on his face, the Prince of Chen said seriously: "The Yu Garden in spring is the most beautiful. We can take a leisurely stroll there then."
"If Your Highness told me, I would believe it." With the cloak, Jiuzhu was no longer so cold. She bent down and wanted to pick two golden camellia flowers.
Prince Chen took it off and placed it in her palm.
The girl's palms are white and tender, and the golden flowers lying in her palms are particularly lovely.
"What do you believe?" He stretched out his finger and tapped Jiuzhu's forehead. The King of Chen sneered and said, "Don't believe anyone's words easily."
"Then I don't trust everyone." Jiuzhu covered her forehead and stared at King Chen with wide eyes.
"Hehe." Prince Chen looked up at the sky: "You are still young, there are many things you don't understand."
"But I know that His Highness and His Majesty are good people, that's enough." Jiuzhu put the golden camellia into the pouch on her waist: "What others do has nothing to do with me, and I don't care."
Prince Chen looked at Jiuzhu and suddenly smiled.
"What are you laughing at, Your Highness?" Jiuzhu looked at him in confusion.
"It's a cool autumn day with abundant fruits." Prince Chen reached out and brushed away the fallen leaves from Jiuzhu's hair.
A crisp autumn day?
Jiuzhu wrapped her cloak tightly around her body, it was obviously the cold wind that caused the leaves to fall.
As soon as the two returned to Mingyue Palace, people around Emperor Longfeng came to find Prince Chen and said that His Majesty had summoned him.
"You can play as you like. No one here dares to upset you." After helping Jiuzhu take off her cloak, the Prince of Chen had a headache when he looked at the girls in the garden. "I might come back with my father before noon."
Sun Caiyao and other noble ladies had already seen Prince Chen bringing Miss Ming back.
One young lady whispered to her companion, "I didn't expect that the Prince of Chen, with his personality, would be so nice to Miss Ming."
"Look over there." The companion secretly pointed to the west: "Minister Ming's wife is also there."
Whether the Prince of Chen's action was truly considerate or just for the sake of impressing the wife of Minister Ming, only he himself knew.
Who among the royal family doesn't know how to act?
After seeing Prince Chen leave, another female official from Mingyue Palace came to greet Ming Jiuzhu. Sun Caiyao couldn't help but start to wonder whether Concubine Su and her son were really satisfied with her, or did they want to win over the three brothers of the Ming family?
Ming Jiuzhu rushed to Mingyue Palace early today. Was it her own initiative or was it approved by the Ming family?
No, it's impossible. With the character of the Ming family, it is absolutely impossible for them to get close to such an ignorant, arrogant and domineering prince.
One Ming Jiuzhu does not represent anything. The most honorable chair in Cheng State will definitely belong to His Royal Highness Prince Qi in the future.
"Ms. Ming." The court lady of Mingyue Palace found Jiuzhu and led her to sit at the stone table behind the rockery. She replaced her cup with fresh tea and snacks and gave her a big bow: "Thank you for coming to the palace early today to celebrate the Queen's birthday. The Queen is very happy today."
"It's Her Majesty's birthday, and I should come early to congratulate you." Jiuzhu had met this female official in Mingyue Palace, so she invited her to have tea with her.
"I dare not." The female official quickly declined: "I have an unreasonable request today, please help me, young lady."
"You are too polite, aunt. I am of low status and I am afraid I can't be of any help to you." Jiuzhu looked at the female official in surprise. How could she help?
"Miss, you misunderstood." The female official quickly explained, "We sisters are grateful for your care over the years, so we embroidered a birthday picture for you. However, the palace has strict rules and regulations, and servants are of low status, so we dare not present the birthday picture to you, so please present it on your behalf."
The female official took out an embroidery wrapped in an embroidery handkerchief from her arms and opened it in front of Zhen Jiuzhu.
"What a wonderful craft." Jiuzhu was attracted by the embroidery and exclaimed: "The aunts are so amazing."
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, young lady." The female official wrapped the embroidery with a handkerchief and held it in front of Jiuzhu with both hands: "Young lady, please fulfill our sincere wish for you, my lady."
Jiuzhu took the wrapped embroidery and said, "Okay."
"Thank you, young lady." The female official looked at Jiuzhu with gratitude and wanted to pay her respects, but was stopped by Jiuzhu.
"Aunt, you don't have to do this." Jiuzhu smiled innocently, "The aunts' kindness to the queen is really touching. I will send it to you now."
"Then there is Miss Lao."
The female official watched Ming Jiuzhu leave with the embroidery and slowly lowered her head, hiding all emotions in her eyes.
"Be careful with your hands and feet, don't break anything."
Xiang Jun was checking the guest list in her hand. She turned around and saw Miss Ming hiding in the corner, waving at her mysteriously.
She put down the list and walked towards Jiuzhu: "Miss Ming, what can I do for you?"
"Something is wrong." Jiuzhu pulled Xiangshen a few steps towards the wall. After making sure that no one else noticed what she and Xiangshen were doing, she squatted down against the wall and took something out of her sleeve.
Seeing Miss Ming squatting on the ground, Xiang Ju hesitated for a moment, then squatted down like her: "What is this?"
"Aunt Xiangshen, I may be too suspicious. If there is anything wrong, please help me say a few good words to the queen so that she won't be angry with me." Jiuzhu opened the embroidery: "Someone just gave me the embroidery and asked me to pass it on to the queen."
After Xiangshen saw what was embroidered, her expression changed: "Who gave it to the young lady?"
"She's an aunt from Mingyue Palace." When Jiuzhu saw Xiangjun's expression, she knew she had guessed right.
"I just find it strange. Even though the palace has strict rules, with the Queen's gentle and kind nature, she would not be angry if she knew that people around her embroidered a birthday picture for her." Jiuzhu rolled up the embroidery. "When I was a child, I did good things and waited for them to praise me. I would never give up such a good opportunity to others."
How could she, who is so smart, fall for such a stupid trick?
Trying to trick her into harming the Empress? No way!
No windows either!
"Yes, Her Majesty is gentle and kind, how could she bear to punish her servants." Xiang Jun took a breath slowly. As early as two months ago, Qin Tianjian had calculated that there would be a catastrophe around Her Majesty's birthday, and there must be no images of immortals riding horses in the bedroom.
But what is embroidered on this picture is the fairy guarding Pegasus to celebrate the birthday.
If Miss Ming presented the birthday embroidery to the Empress in front of everyone, the consequences would be disastrous...
Tear it up!
Xiang Jun came to her senses and saw Miss Ming tearing the embroidery into two halves with her bare hands. She seemed to think that she had not torn it thoroughly enough, so she shook the embroidery again and exerted force with her hands a few times. The embroidery turned into tattered pieces of cloth, which she stepped on and crushed hard in the mud.
Looking at the deep mud puddle under Miss Ming's feet, Xiangjun fell silent.
"Aunt, it's okay now." Jiuzhu smiled at Xiangshencanlan.
"Ah..." Xiangshen found that her voice seemed a little hoarse. She moved her legs and tried to stay as far away from the pit as possible.
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