Prince Huai hated cats and dogs. When he went out, he found a cat with a broken leg lying at the gate of his yard. Without thinking, he picked up the cat with two fingers and prepared to throw it out of Zhangliu Palace.
He noticed a little girl sitting in the outer courtyard. Looking closely, he found it was Yun Duqing's fiancée, who was staring at the cat in his hand with burning eyes.
The wound on the cat's leg has nothing to do with him!
His grip loosened, the cat fell to the ground, limped away, and finally hid behind the stone table where Jiuzhu was sitting.
"Your Highness Prince Huai." Jiuzhu was afraid of stepping on the cat, so she stood up a little slower than usual.
"No need to be so polite." Prince Huai thought for a moment and added, "I don't know where this cat came from. I wonder if Lord Ming County recognizes this cat?"
Jiuzhu shook her head and looked down at the shivering cat. The cat was soft and chubby, with fluffy, clean and shiny fur. There was a circle of fur on its neck that looked a little crooked, probably because the collar it usually wore had fallen off.
"Your Highness, this cat looks frightened." Jiuzhu bent down, reached out his hand and tentatively touched its head. Seeing that it did not resist, he continued to touch its head gently. When it let down its guard, he picked it up from the ground and put it on his lap.
"One leg is broken, and the other leg is fractured." Looking at the dried blood on the kitten's legs, Jiuzhu pursed her lips, looking a little unhappy. This was man-made.
While Prince Huai asked the eunuch to call Doctor Yu, he was thinking seriously: if he said now that the cat was injured and it had nothing to do with him, would people think he was trying to cover up something?
"What time is it now?" Startled by the cat's scream, Prince Chen stretched his body and asked the eunuch beside him, "Is the Lord of Ming County not here yet?"
The little eunuch shook his head.
He frowned immediately. In the past two days, Ming Xiaozhu would come to play with him after breakfast. Why was there no sign of him so late today?
Putting the book down, he stood up and walked towards the outer courtyard, where he saw several palace maids and eunuchs from Zhangliu Palace surrounding Ming Xiaozhu beside the stone table, and some were trying to reach out to her knees.
"What are you doing?" He walked quickly behind Jiuzhu and said, "Everyone, step back. Who told you to be rude to the county lord?"
"Your Highness?" Jiuzhu looked up, with an innocent look on her face: "Why did you come out?"
"I heard the cat meowing, so I came out to take a look." Prince Chen absolutely refused to admit that he came out on purpose to find her.
"Is it this cat?" Jiuzhu pointed at the cat on his knees.
"It's so fat, is it a cat or a pig?" The King of Chen then noticed that there was a fat ball of hair on Jiuzhu's knees and reached out to touch its head.
"Your Highness, be careful." Jiuzhu reached out and grabbed the Prince's wrist: "This cat is injured and seems to be very resistant to men approaching it. I'm afraid it will hurt your hand."
"It turns out that it is still a lustful cat." The King of Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at the cat. Hearing that it was injured, he did not bother with it and sat down next to Jiuzhu: "Have you found out whose cat it is?"
"I've asked the maid to send someone to ask." Jiuzhu gently soothed the kitten's emotions: "Your Highness, the injuries on the kitten's body seem to be... man-made."
Prince Chen frowned. He imitated Jiuzhu's gesture of petting the kitten, and petted Jiuzhu's head. He changed the subject: "When we find the cat's owner, I will accompany you to send the cat back."
The owner must love the cat very much to be able to raise it so well.
The maid in the Prince of Qi's courtyard hurried out of the courtyard, and when she saw the cat held by Jiuzhu, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the eunuch behind her and said, "Go and tell the Princess that the cat has been found."
"The cat was raised by my fourth brother's wife?" Prince Huai, who was worried that he would be suspected of being a "cat abuser", he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Princess Qi was looking for a cat.
The yard where my fourth brother lives is adjacent to his, so maybe the cat ran to the gate of his yard by itself.
"Your Highness, this cat crawled into our yard last night. The Princess guessed that it was raised by another noble, and was afraid that it would get lost, so she asked the servants to watch it. We will help it find its owner at dawn today." The maid saw that Prince Huai looked upset, so she asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong with this cat?"
She walked up to Jiuzhu, bowed to King Chen and Jiuzhu, and was about to bend down to pick up the cat when she discovered that the cat was injured. She exclaimed, "Why is the cat injured?"
Without thinking, she turned her head and looked at Prince Huai.
The other palace maids and eunuchs also turned their heads to look at him.
"Look at what I do. It has nothing to do with me." Prince Huai said unhappily, "It was squatting at the gate when I left the house this morning."
The palace maids and eunuchs dared not say a word. Everyone who had served Prince Huai knew that he hated furry cats and dogs.
Prince Huai: “…”
What do the looks of these palace ladies mean?
The Prince of Chen put his hands on his chest, watching the scene with a smile on his face. When the kitten wasn't paying attention, he secretly touched its furry head.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu looked at him helplessly: "The wound caused by the cat's paw will be very painful."
"Since you're holding it, I think it's quite well behaved." Prince Chen coughed dryly and retracted his hand.
"Doctor Yu is here."
Someone shouted and saved Prince Huai from his embarrassment. He was in a dilemma, unable to leave or stay. Who could have thought that he, a prince, would be troubled by a cat in the end?
Doctor Yu walked into the yard and saw the cat being held by Lord Ming, with His Royal Highness Prince Chen sitting beside them. He thought the cat was raised by the two of them, so he was particularly careful when treating the cat's injuries and finally gave it the best medicine for bruises and sprains.
However, he was somewhat confused. Looking at the expressions of His Royal Highness Prince Chen and Lord Ming County, they did not seem to be taking their anger out on the cat. How did the cat get injured like this?
After wrapping the two injured legs with gauze, Doctor Yu said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness and the County Master, cats and dogs have strong healing abilities, and they will heal well if you take good care of them for a period of time. However, the wounds cannot be exposed to water, and you cannot bathe them during this period, and you also need to be careful about what they eat."
"Thank you, sir." Jiuzhu thanked Doctor Yu.
"You are too polite, County Lord." Doctor Yu smiled and said, "Doctors are kind-hearted."
The same goes for cats.
"Meow~" The kitten had gauze tangled around its legs. It felt very uncomfortable and wanted to tear the gauze with its teeth.
Upon seeing this, Doctor Yu asked the palace maid to get a small bamboo circle and use it to circle the kitten's head to prevent it from biting its legs.
"Stupid." Prince Chen laughed at the cat mercilessly.
"It looks... a little stupid." Jiuzhu looked at it carefully for a few times and nodded: "But stupidity is also cute."
"Yeah." While the kitten couldn't scratch or bite him, Prince Chen gently touched the cat's head: "Stupid, but cute." After saying that, he glanced at Jiuzhu.
Jiuzhu: “…”
The cat is stupid, so what is your Highness looking at her for?
Behind the courtyard gate, Sun Caiyao looked at Prince Chen and Ming Jiuzhu who were talking and laughing in the yard, and stood at the door without going out.
"Princess, why don't you go and take a look?" The palace maid looked at her in confusion.
“No.” Sun Caiyao shook her head: “With County Lord Ming here, she will help the cat find its owner.”
The maid whispered, "It was you who found this cat last night. Why did you give her the chance to be a good person?"
"What does it matter?" Sun Caiyao smiled, "It's just a cat."
She was just confused. The cat was fine when she found it last night, but why was it injured today? Which servant was so bold to do this, or was it Prince Huai...
"Caiyao." Yun Yanze walked to Sun Caiyao's side and looked at the people in the yard: "What are you looking at?"
"Your Highness, are you awake?" Sun Caiyao reached out and held his arm: "I didn't see anything. Your Highness, you are not well yet. I will go back with you."
"No problem." Yun Yanze held Sun Caiyao's wrist and took her hand away from his arm: "Let's go and take a look."
"Your Highness..." Sun Caiyao looked at Ming Jiuzhu who was sitting at the stone table and didn't want Yun Yanze to pass by.
"What's wrong?" Yun Yanze turned his head and looked at her tenderly, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
"It's okay." Sun Caiyao forced a smile and followed Yun Yanze.
Did she want to tell His Highness that she suspected Ming Jiuzhu was destined to defeat him and hoped he would stay away from her?
Not to mention that His Highness didn't believe it, even she herself felt that she was going crazy.
"Your Highness, County Lord, the cat's owner has been found." A female official from Mingyue Palace strode into the courtyard. "I just sent someone to ask. An old concubine from Jing'an Palace lost her cat last night. She was so worried that she fell ill this morning. I heard from the palace maids in Jing'an Palace about the cat's appearance. It's not much different from this one. It should be this one."
"That's great." Jiuzhu handed the cat to the maid in Prince Qi's courtyard: "Please give the cat to the princess. I hope she will send someone to deliver the cat to the old princess as soon as possible."
Sun Caiyao walked up to the palace maid and reached out to touch the cat's head. Unexpectedly, the cat made a slightly ferocious cry at her: "Meow!"
She withdrew her hand awkwardly and smiled at Jiuzhu: "Don't bother two masters with one thing. The county master helped it heal its wounds, and it has developed feelings for you. Please bear with me and return it to the old concubine."
The cat seemed to dislike her approaching. It barked several times in succession and stretched out its claws to cling to her desperately, not caring even though its claws were injured.
Prince Chen picked up the cat by its hindquarters with one hand and put it in his arm: "Ming Xiaozhu, let's go and send the cat off."
He was afraid that if the cat continued to howl, it would break the reattached leg by itself.
The little cat, which had just been pawing at the sky and the earth, was surprisingly well behaved when lying in the Prince's arms. It even wanted to rub its head against the Prince's arms, but it had a bamboo ring around its neck and couldn't squeeze in.
"Your Highness, this cat seems to like you very much." Jiuzhu touched the cat's head and soothed its emotions.
"That's right." Prince Chen raised his chin slightly: "My charm is endless."
"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded. It was only natural for a kind-hearted boy like His Highness to be liked by cats and dogs.
Prince Huai was sufficiently enraged by the evil intentions. It was really a case of one person daring to speak and the other daring to believe.
How dare Yun Duqing say that he is infinitely charming?
What about the face?
Did he step on your toes?
After Yun Duqing and the young lady from the Ming family left with the palace maids and eunuchs, Prince Huai turned his head to look at Sun Caiyao and said in a sinister tone, "I heard that your sister-in-law kindly took in this cat last night, but it wanted to bite you. A beast is a beast, and it can't tell the good from the bad, don't you think?"
"Brother, my wife is very timid. Don't joke with her. She will take it seriously." Yun Yanze held Sun Caiyao's hand and smiled faintly at Prince Huai: "Please understand, brother."
Prince Huai sneered, "Oh, really?"
"Then tell me, who hurt the cat?" He raised his eyebrows. "It's a pity that cats can't speak, so they can only be bullied by some beasts in human form."
"But as a human being..." Prince Huai pointed to the sky and said, "God is watching what you do. There will be retribution."
"Brother is right." Yun Yanze had a subtle expression. He smiled as he covered the wound on his chest, as if mocking King Huai: "Brother also hopes that retribution will come."
Prince Huai: “…”
What does this action and this expression mean?
The palace maid and eunuch in front suspected that he was abusing cats?
Now Yun Yanze suspects that he sent assassins to hurt him?
Is this a mistake?!
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