Although they encountered the mentally challenged Zheng family, they still had a pleasant experience buying clothes and jewelry. However, when the sixth brother was paying, his hands were shaking slightly.
"Sister." Ming Cunfu touched his half-empty purse and said to Jiuzhu, "Go wait for me in the carriage. I'll go to the bookstore across the street to buy some books."
"Okay." Jiuzhu touched the newly bought hairpin on her temples and nodded in a good mood.
Looking at the smile on his sister's face, Mingcunfu began to reflect on whether he was too stingy. As long as his sister was happy, how could he feel sorry for her money?
"I'll be back soon." Ming Cunfu instructed Chunfen: "Take good care of the young lady."
"Don't worry, brother. I will definitely wait for you in the carriage." Jiuzhu waved her hand: "Just go pick the books."
"Then I'll be back soon."
The carriage was parked outside the clothing shop. As Jiuzhu walked up to the carriage, she heard a woman screaming.
"Bugs, bugs."
"It jumped onto my clothes, get rid of it!"
Seeing the woman pale with fear, Jiuzhu shook his sleeves constantly, walked quickly forward, and caught the insect on the woman's sleeve.
"Don't be afraid, girl. It's just a cricket." Jiuzhu hid the cricket behind her body, not letting the girl continue to look at it, so as to prevent her from continuing to be afraid.
"Thank you." The fear on the woman's face gradually disappeared. After thanking Jiuzhu, she hurriedly climbed into her own carriage.
"Little girl, that's our family's ever-victorious general."
Jiuzhu turned her head and looked towards the door of the clothing shop. The purple-robed young man she had met before was holding a cricket cage in his hand and looking at her with a smile.
"your?"
"Of course." The purple-robed young man spread out his palms, "Well, this kind of thing that betrayed its master and escaped should be handed over to me, its master, to deal with."
"Oh." Jiuzhu trotted up to him and put the cricket into the man's slightly white and tender palm.
The "ever-victorious general" struggled to move twice in the purple-robed young man's palm, and then became completely motionless.
"That..." Jiuzhu silently took a step back, secretly looked at the purple-robed young man's expression, and took another small step back: "Maybe I was not paying attention just now and used a little too much strength."
To make her words more real, she measured the distance between her thumb and index finger, the size of a fingernail: "It's really just that little bit."
The young man in purple robe raised his eyebrows slightly and threw the remains of the "Ever-Victorious General" into the cricket cage. An attendant following behind him quickly took over the cage, and another attendant handed over a clean silk handkerchief.
Seeing the other party slowly wiping his hands with a handkerchief, Jiuzhu rummaged in his purse and took out a piece of broken silver. After thinking for a while, he felt that the piece of silver was a bit too big, so he threw it back into his purse and continued to rummage around inside, and finally found a smaller silver grain. He quickly stepped forward and put it into the palm of the purple-robed young man, and then walked a few steps away from him as quickly as possible.
"What a big piece of silver." He twirled a piece of silver smaller than a fingernail between his fingers. The purple-robed young man sighed: "The girl is so generous."
Jiuzhu was reluctant to part with the silver particles, but who told her not to bring the copper coins with her when she went out?
"It's nothing." Jiuzhu suppressed her heartache and turned her head away from the silver grains on the other's fingertips: "This is for Cricket's funeral expenses."
The purple-robed attendant's hands were shaking slightly as he held the cricket cage. But he was a dedicated attendant in the palace, and he absolutely could not reveal any emotion before his master spoke.
"All right." The young man in purple robe casually put the silver coins into his waist: "According to the lady's wishes, I will definitely give the victorious general a grand funeral."
"Um..." Jiuzhu bowed to the purple-robed young man and apologized: "I'm sorry."
Although it was not intentional, she accidentally crushed the cricket to death.
It was her fault for not having seen enough of the world and not knowing that people in the capital would raise crickets as pets.
"Forget it." The young man in purple robes climbed onto his horse and took the whip from the attendant: "It's a thing that will die anyway."
He raised his whip and was about to leave, but suddenly turned around and looked at the golden hairpin on Jiuzhu's temples: "Who are you from? I have never seen you before."
Jiuzhu looked at the young man in purple robe with her dark eyes, and took small and slow steps to retreat to the side of her own carriage.
What's wrong with the boys in Beijing? They ask girls their names as soon as they disagree with something.
Noticing the little girl's actions, the young man in purple robe sighed. Who raised this little girl to be so naive? When she gets married in the future, won't she be bullied by her husband's family?
Jiuzhu saw the purple-robed young man looking at her with a look that said "a rabbit about to be roasted" before she whipped the horse and left, finally confirming one thing.
The problem isn't with her, it's with the entire capital.
"Sister." Ming Cunfu came over with a few books in his arms: "Let's go home."
"Um."
Sitting in the carriage, Jiuzhu held his purse in his hand and said with a sad face: "Sixth brother, I just accidentally killed someone's cricket and I have to pay for the funeral."
"What cricket?" Ming Cunfu knew that some playboys in the capital liked to raise crickets and enjoy fighting them.
"The master calls it the Victorious General."
"What?" Ming Cunfu, who was originally lazily, sat up straight in an instant: "The ever-victorious general?"
In the entire capital, apart from the ridiculous Prince Chen, who else would dare to give a cricket such a name?
"How much did you lose?" He swallowed his dry throat.
"I lost such a huge amount of silver." Jiuzhu stretched out her little finger and measured half the distance of the nail.
Ming Cunfu heaved a sigh of relief instantly. It was so easy, this must not be the undefeated general of Prince Chen.
It is said that the prince spent nearly a hundred gold coins to buy a cricket and named it the Ever-Victorious General. If it is really the cricket of this prince, the little money my sister has may only be enough to bury a few legs of the cricket.
A few days later, Jiuzhu was drinking tea with her mother at home when she saw her father walk in with a serious expression.
"What happened?" Shen asked casually.
"These are just some trivial matters in the court." Ming Jingzhou forced a smile and took two sips of the remaining tea in front of Shen. "Today, someone made a petition in the court, hoping that Your Majesty would appoint a crown prince. Prince Huai and Prince Qi were the most popular candidates."
"Where is His Majesty?" Shen took a piece of cake and handed it to Ming Jingzhou.
"His Majesty is furious." Ming Jingzhou sat down at the table, ate the cakes with the remaining tea, and turned to look at his daughter.
Jiuju looked at him in confusion.
"Oh." Ming Jingzhou sighed.
Other princes had people recommending them, but his daughter's fiancé was disliked by the civil officials and military generals, so no one recommended him.
"What's the matter?" Jiuzhu reached out and gently patted Ming Jingzhou's back: "Is it because His Majesty is not satisfied with the prince that you, father, recommended?"
Ming Jingzhou shook his head silently. If it were really just like this, he would not sigh.
"Didn't you say that Your Majesty is only fifty-one now?" Jiuzhu didn't understand why the court officials were in a hurry for the emperor to appoint a crown prince. What's the difference between this and those people in the society who point at energetic elders and say, "I think you will die sooner or later, so divide the property in advance?"
Ming Jingzhou nodded.
"Your Majesty is full of energy, the country is your companion, the people are loyal to you, and you even have the power to mobilize troops and issue orders." Jiuzhu looked at Ming Jingzhou in confusion: "What good will it do for Your Majesty to appoint a crown prince so early?"
"But now that the princes have all reached adulthood, Your Majesty favors Concubine Su. I'm afraid that even the kingdom will be taken away by this mother and son."
"They are all sons of His Majesty, why can't Prince Chen..."
Shen stuffed a piece of crispy candy into Jiuzhu's mouth and whispered, "Jiuzhu, be good and don't talk about court affairs."
Jiuzhu bit the candy with a crunching sound. She could talk about Prince Qi and Prince Huai, so why couldn't she talk about Prince Chen?
Jiuzhu felt upset when she thought that even a child dared to call the Royal Concubine a witch. The Royal Concubine and the Prince were so kind, how could they resist the exclusion of these people in the capital?
"The Prince's behavior is ridiculous." Speaking of his future son-in-law, Ming Jingzhou's forehead wrinkles increased a few more times: "It is said that the prince of Pingyuan Hou made him unhappy a few days ago, so he brought him into the school to copy books."
"What's wrong with copying books?" Shen was a little surprised. The way Prince Chen dealt with people this time was gentler than before.
"He asked Zheng Wangnan to go to the Children's Enlightenment Class A."
It is hard to say whether this method is severe or not, but it is definitely extremely insulting.
"That must be because Zheng Wangnan did something too extreme, which is why the King of Chen acted like this." Jiuzhu said firmly, "The King of Chen is gentle and kind, and he will definitely not punish someone without reason."
Shen and Ming Jingzhou looked at Jiuzhu at the same time.
My dear, what kind of bizarre misunderstandings do you have about the character of the Prince?
"My daughter met Zheng Wangnan last time when she went out with her sixth brother." Jiuzhu recounted the whole story. "He not only laughed at the tacky hairpin I chose, but also wanted to ask where I came from."
"I suspect," she stroked her chin, her expression profound and her eyes full of wisdom, "he wants to find out where I am from in order to make fun of our whole family."
"Nonsense, what does a man know about jewelry?" Shen was determined not to tolerate anyone saying that the daughter she had finally found was not good: "Such an ignorant man should be sent to a children's enlightenment class.
"Ma'am, it's Class A."
This is the enlightenment class for the youngest age.
"Well...are other children influenced by him?" She remembered that a distant relative's child was in the kindergarten's first-class class.
Everyone's children are precious, don't let Zheng Wangnan corrupt them.
"That's not necessary..." Ming Jingzhou coughed dryly, changed the subject, and turned to ask Jiuzhu: "Jiuzhu, where did you hear that His Royal Highness Prince Chen is... gentle and kind?"
Why are there such outrageous rumors in the capital?
"Isn't this true?"
Ming Jingzhou: “…”
This rumor is only a million miles away from the truth.
Fortunately, at least the gap is not as huge as the ends of the earth.
In fact, the statement "His Royal Highness Prince Chen is gentle and kind" is half true.
For example, the four words "Your Highness the Prince of Chen".
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