Jiuzhu felt that the Princess of Qi might have a huge misunderstanding of her. She just glanced at the Prince of Qi by accident before they left, and the Princess looked at her as if she thought she would eat the Prince of Qi.
When she left, she even wanted to use her petite body to cover Prince Qi tightly.
She is a serious person who grew up in a Taoist temple and does not eat people.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu rubbed her sleepy eyes, put aside the Princess's misunderstanding of her, and said to Prince Chen: "I will see you out now."
"Forget it." The Prince of Chen looked at her, who was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. "Go back early to wash up and go to bed. I will go alone."
"No, I promised to walk you to the door." Jiuzhu walked in front of the King of Chen and turned to look at him: "Let's go."
"Slow down, there are stairs ahead." When Prince Chen saw her standing at the edge of the stairs, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve: "Okay, okay, I'll let you carry me."
If I really fall, it would be troublesome if I cried in front of him.
"Your Highness." Xiang Xian asked Concubine Su in a low voice, "Do you want me to see His Highness off?"
"Do you think the lantern hanging above your head is bright?" Concubine Su asked her.
"Liang." Xiangshen nodded.
"It's bright now." Concubine Su stretched her waist lazily: "Let's go back to sleep."
Why bother with young people's affairs?
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu was sobered up by the cold wind outside the palace gate: "Be careful on the road."
"Don't worry." Prince Chen glanced at the sedan chair that had been waiting outside and said, "Go back to sleep."
"Yeah." Jiuzhu looked at the prince who was smiling at her and smiled back at him.
After watching His Highness get on the sedan chair and leave, Jiuzhu leaned against the palace gate, staring at the lanterns under the palace eaves in a daze.
At first, she just wanted His Highness and His Majesty to be well, and she asked for nothing else.
But now, why would she be angry with such a good prince?
Prince Chen sat on the sedan chair and looked back. The girl at the palace gate was still there.
After a few breaths, he couldn't help but look back again, the girl was still standing there motionless.
"Stop." He looked at the rising night mist, jumped off the sedan chair, and strode back.
"Your Highness?" Jiuzhu stared blankly at the Prince who was standing in front of her again, and her eyes gradually came back to her senses: "Why are you back?"
The silly look of the girl softened the heart of Prince Chen: "Go back to bed early. I will pick you up to play in Zhangliu Palace tomorrow morning."
He was only away for one night, but the little girl was already so anxious and worried. There was really nothing we could do about her.
Jiuzhu looked at her blankly.
"Go back." The Prince of Chen put his hands on his chest and said, "I will leave after I see you on the stairs."
Jiuzhu turned around and walked towards the palace gate. After taking two steps, she turned back and saw His Highness was still standing there.
She was afraid that His Highness would stand there all the time, so she lifted the hem of her skirt, took small steps, ran all the way to the steps, and then turned around to look at the door.
"I'm leaving." Prince Chen waved his hand casually, turned around and took a step, then turned his head to look at her: "Don't stand here in a daze, go back to sleep immediately, understand?"
Jiuzhu nodded.
Prince Chen smiled with satisfaction, and his black cloak drew a graceful arc in the night.
If you are so clingy now, won’t you become his little tail after you get married?
"Your Highness." The eunuch bowed and asked the Prince of Chen who was sitting on the sedan chair: "Are you going back to the Sixth Palace in Zhang now?"
“No.” Prince Chen looked in the direction of Taiyang Palace. Taiyang Palace was not far from Mingyue Palace. He could even see that the candles in the main hall of Taiyang Palace were still burning. “Go to Taiyang Palace. This prince wants to see my father.”
After reviewing the last memorial, Emperor Longfeng was about to say that he was going to Mingyue Palace, but then he remembered that his beloved concubine wanted to play with the little girl from the Ming family in the next two days and didn't want him to disturb her. So he could only sigh and decided to sleep on his cold dragon bed.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Chen requests an audience."
"Du Qing wants to see me?" Emperor Longfeng was puzzled. Why did he come to see him so late? Was he having a conflict with his brothers?
"Let him in quickly." Emperor Longfeng thought for a moment and said to Liu Zhongbao, "Ask the palace maids to clean up the side hall. Prince Chen will sleep here tonight."
The distance from Taiyang Palace to Zhangliu Palace is not short.
"Yes." Liu Zhongbao accepted the order and withdrew. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, it seemed that only Concubine Su and His Royal Highness Prince Chen had stayed overnight in the Taiyang Palace.
To Emperor Longfeng's surprise, after his son came in, he neither came to complain nor asked for money from him. Instead, he took the initiative to talk about Hongwen Academy and the snow disaster in Youzhou.
Although some of his ideas were still a little childish, Emperor Longfeng was still very happy to see that his son, who was usually only interested in eating, drinking and having fun, finally cared about serious matters.
Even now, if a pile of memorials were brought to him, he could review them one by one overnight.
"The Minister of Justice is old and has already petitioned to retire three times. Who do you think will take over this position after he retires?"
"Minister Chen of the Ministry of Personnel, although he likes to bang his head against the wall and complain when he disagrees with something, he is fair and upright by nature. It is still very suitable for him to manage the Ministry of Justice."
The Ministry of Justice is in charge of the criminal justice system throughout the country, and the position of Shangshu is not for anyone other than a fair and upright person to interfere.
"If he is transferred to the Ministry of Justice, what will happen to the Ministry of Personnel?" Emperor Longfeng continued to ask.
"Father forgot someone." Prince Chen felt that there was someone who was very suitable for the position of Minister of Personnel.
"Who?" Emperor Longfeng looked at his son with a smile.
"Ming Jinghai." Prince Chen coughed and said, "I am not asking for an official position on behalf of the Ming family, but Ming Jinghai is indeed the most suitable candidate."
"Very good." Emperor Longfeng looked at Prince Chen with satisfaction: "As a superior, you must know how to know people and assign them to the right positions. A common tailor knows how to tailor clothes according to their body shape, and the king is the tailor of all the people in the world. If there is a mistake in the sewing, the people will suffer. It is very good that you can think from their personal abilities and personalities."
He took two appointment letters and handed them to Prince Chen.
Prince Chen opened them and saw one appointing Chen Zhixing as the Minister of Punishments and the other appointing Ming Jinghai as the Minister of Personnel.
"You have made great progress recently." After finishing the business, Emperor Longfeng relaxed: "If I had known that a marriage contract would help you make progress, I should have let you get married earlier."
"You can't just marry a wife whenever you want." Prince Chen touched his nose and said, "My son has no interest in other girls in the capital."
"Oh?" Emperor Longfeng looked at him with a half-smile: "It seems that she is the daughter of the Ming family. Do you treat her differently?"
This time, facing the ridicule of Emperor Longfeng, Prince Chen rarely refuted.
"That little girl from the Ming family, she was raised to be too naive and cute. She believes everything I say and dares to eat anything I tell her to. I even suspect that she wouldn't be able to tell if someone outside was mocking her." Although he said all these words of disdain, Prince Chen's expression became gentler and gentler: "With my father and mother protecting me, it doesn't matter if I acted a little ridiculous in the past. But I can't let such a naive girl get hurt by other people's gossip after marrying me, and eventually lose her innocence and happiness."
"When I think about it, I feel... it's hard to bear." He sighed while holding a cup of calming tea: "At least after she becomes my son's princess, when others see her, they won't think she married the wrong person."
Whenever he thought about Ming Xiaozhu's happy smile disappearing a little, he felt confused and upset.
"She must have everything that other princesses have." Prince Chen drank a sip of tea. Although he had not yet married, he had already thought about how Ming Xiaozhu would get along with his sisters-in-law in the future: "She must have everything that others don't have."
"It's not easy to do all this." Emperor Longfeng smiled: "If you want to become a prince that many people admire, you have a lot to learn. Aren't you afraid of being tired?"
"Of course I am afraid." Prince Chen sighed, "But as a great master, I cannot let a naive and happy little girl become lifeless and depressed after marrying me."
"At least... try." He opened the lid of the tea, took a big sip from the cup, and seemed to have made up his mind: "Please teach me, father."
"Do you like the little girl from the Ming family very much?" Emperor Long Feng asked casually.
"What do you like?" The Prince picked up the teacup and continued to drink, only to find that he had already drunk up all the tea: "My son, this is... a man's responsibility."
Emperor Longfeng smiled and did not expose his son's thin masculine lies.
If a man is willing to do something he was once unwilling to do for a woman, if it is not for love, then is it for the sake of being a good person and doing good things?
"Yes." Emperor Longfeng nodded: "My son should certainly shoulder the responsibilities of a man."
He took out a thick stack of books and placed it in front of Prince Chen.
"Father, what is this?"
"History books." Emperor Longfeng smiled. "The later generations should learn from history. The sorrow of the predecessors is the teacher for the later generations. Only in this way can we avoid repeating the same mistakes."
"But..." Prince Chen flipped open one of the books and showed the contents to Emperor Longfeng: "What you gave me is the Emperor's Chronicle."
"Well, most emperors were also princes before they ascended the throne." Emperor Longfeng patted Prince Chen on the shoulder and said, "I believe my son will be able to understand a lot of truths from this."
Prince Chen looked at him suspiciously, really?
Emperor Long Feng nodded and said, "Although it is hard and tiring, I believe in you and you are the best."
Finally, Prince Chen went to the side hall of Taiyang Palace with a thick stack of history books. Even in his dreams, there was a pile of books threatening him. If he didn't read properly, they would bully Ming Xiaozhu and make her cry.
The next morning, Prince Chen woke up from his dream and said to Liu Zhongbao who was waiting outside the tent: "Eunuch Liu, ask someone to come in and help me change my clothes."
"Your Highness, it's still early. Do you want to sleep a little longer?" Liu Zhongbao was a little surprised. His Highness actually got up so early today?
"I'm not going to sleep anymore." Prince Chen got up from the bed and put his feet into his boots: "I'm going to Mingyue Palace later."
Liu Zhongbao and other young eunuchs came in and helped him wash up.
"Your Highness, His Majesty sent an imperial decree to the harem today." Liu Zhongbao was combing Prince Chen's hair. "Concubine Ning of Lanxu Palace committed a serious mistake, but considering her giving birth to a prince, His Majesty only removed her title, demoted her to a beauty, and moved her to Qianyi Pavilion."
Qianyi Pavilion, that is the place in the harem that is considered the cold palace.
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows. Why was his mother so quick to act?
"His Majesty also said that if Your Highness has any concerns, you can follow me to the Dragon Guard dungeon." Liu Zhongbao fixed the jade crown for the Prince of Chen and stepped aside with a smile: "Your Highness may be interested in some things."
He pulled out a thick stack of papers from his pocket and presented it to the Prince of Chen: "Your Majesty has read the contents here, and the Royal Concubine has also read them."
Prince Chen took it from Liu Zhongbao but did not open it immediately: "Why did you give it to me?"
"Your Majesty said that Your Highness has grown up." Liu Zhongbao smiled: "The first thing a father needs to do for his son who wants to grow up is to not hide it."
The Prince of Chen opened it and saw that it was filled with internal information about the Dragon Guard, secrets of the royal family throughout the ages, some royal spy deployments, and...
He closed it suddenly, took a deep breath, and looked up at Liu Zhongbao who was smiling the whole time.
How could this be a father not hiding something from his son? This is clearly forcing the issue!
Is this something a prince who hasn't even married yet should be looking at?!
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