"I remember that you and the Fourth Prince were somewhat close friends?" Ming Jingzhou answered without asking, "Have you had any correspondence in the past two years?"
"It's not that we have any friendship, but the King of Qi read a few of my articles and said that my son is very talented." Ming Jiyuan thought about his past with the King of Qi: "My son didn't dare to take it seriously. He went to the tea parties held by the King of Qi a few times, but he didn't do anything else."
"Then do you know that after you left the capital, the King of Qi once said in public that you were his confidant and that reading ten of your articles was better than reading ten years of books?"
"Isn't that nonsense?" Ming Jiyuan had been working in the north for two years. He had been in contact with the local people frequently, so his accent was slightly affected. He was anxious and spoke with an accent: "I'm not a fool. Why would I be a close friend of an adult prince? Do you think it's not enough trouble?"
Ming Jingzhou glanced at him and said, "Straighten your tongue and speak Mandarin."
"Father, I don't have that much friendship with Prince Qi." Ming Jiyuan pulled his sleeves and said, "I know that none of these princes have good intentions. They all have bad intentions."
"Okay, don't be angry, just have less contact with him in the future." Ming Jingzhou saw him pulling his sleeves: "Pull your sleeves back to me. Remember, when we Ming family members go out, we are all elegant and cultured people, do you understand?"
Ming Jiyuan took two deep breaths and said, "Father, tell me how Prince Chen and Concubine Su saved my sister."
"When your mother and I found out the truth, you were already on your way home. We didn't tell you because we were afraid that the letter you wrote would be stolen and cause trouble." Ming Jinghai talked about what happened in Jiuzhu's childhood.
When he talked about Jiuzhu being tied up hand and foot by Zheng family servants and pushed into the cold river water, Ming Jiyuan couldn't bear it anymore and punched the rockery with his fist, causing a large piece of rockery to fall to the ground.
"The Zheng family is so cruel!" Ming Jiyuan gritted his teeth and said, "I will make them pay the price."
"You came back too late. The Zheng family has been thrown into prison. The head of the Zheng family has been sentenced to beheading. Adult men and women have been exiled, and all descendants have been enslaved." Ming Jingzhou glanced at the broken rockery stones on the ground and said, "Control your temper. I told you a long time ago that we scholars must be mature and stable. I won't get angry if others get angry, and I won't take the place of others if they get angry to death. In addition, the cost of repairing the rockery will be deducted from your salary next month."
"Father, why are you moving so quickly?" Ming Jiyuan bent down and picked up the broken rockery stones on the ground, trying to push them back. Unfortunately, the broken rockery stones were like broken bowls and could not be put back together.
"It's not just my achievement." Ming Jingzhou laughed sarcastically, "When I just started investigating the Zheng family, several forces brought evidence to me. There are many people in this capital who want to bring bad luck to the Fourth Prince's maternal family."
There are many people in the capital who praise the Fourth Prince as a virtuous king, but there are also many people who take advantage of his misfortune.
"The Zheng family is finished. The fourth prince's mother was sentenced to death, and the fourth prince was stripped of all his titles." Ming Jingzhou put his hands behind his back and walked towards the East Courtyard with his son: "Jiyuan, the moment Jiuzhu becomes the Prince of Chen's fiancée, our Ming family can no longer stay out of it."
"unless……"
Unless they give up their daughter Jiuzhu and let her marry Prince Chen, the Ming family will not interfere no matter what happens.
"No." Ming Jiyuan knew what his father was going to say, and interrupted without thinking: "Father, we have already lost our sister once, and now our family is finally reunited. We can't do this to her!"
Ming Jingzhou looked at him.
"Back then we had nothing, not even Jiuzhu." Ming Jiyuan's eyes were red again: "Now we have Jiuzhu, even if we become penniless like we were back then, there is nothing to be afraid of."
"Is this your decision?" When Ming Jingzhou didn't smile, no one could see through his thoughts.
"Yes." Ming Jiyuan nodded.
"But you are still very young now." Ming Jingzhou chuckled: "If you want to support your sister, then learn from me and your uncle how to be an official and how to be a person."
"Your Highness." Shen asked Prince Chen, "I wonder if Your Highness has any dietary restrictions?"
"I am not picky, any is fine." Prince Chen lied with his eyes closed.
It was Jiuzhu who started to talk about several of her favorite dishes. Shen looked at her daughter and Prince Chen with a smile on her face. How could she not know when Jiuzhu started to like these dishes?
"Okay, I'll go and ask the kitchen to prepare these dishes." She stood up and walked out the door: "Jiuzhu, accompany His Highness for a walk around the mansion."
"Okay." Jiuzhu agreed happily, stood up and pulled the sleeve of the King of Chen: "Your Highness, I will take you to see the little white horse."
Prince Chen remembered the dog-like horse. If he remembered correctly, that horse was the one he gave to Jiuzhu.
If he hadn't chosen the little white horse for her that day, he might have ridden that crazy horse.
"Ming Xiaozhu." He called her.
"Hmm?" Jiuzhu turned around and looked at him.
"Tell me..." He held her hand: "Are you the bride sent to me by the god of Huaxi River?"
"Impossible." Jiuzhu shook her head: "Master said that there is no river god in Huaxi River, and river gods are all liars."
Why is it not raining? It means the river god has been angered and we need to offer sacrifices.
The continuous heavy rain must have angered the river god, so we still have to offer sacrifices.
These are all tricks used by fake fortune-tellers and fake practitioners to deceive people, but they have harmed many people.
Prince Chen: “…”
Okay, I don’t think we can continue chatting today.
"Although there is no river god in Huaxi River, Your Highness is a fairy boy who has descended to the earth." Jiuzhu looked at him with a smile: "If it weren't for Your Highness, I would have been buried in the belly of fish in Huaxi River long ago, how could I still be alive?"
"Pfft, pfft, pfft, children speak without restraint, good luck." Prince Chen interrupted her: "What kind of fate is this? It's unlucky to say such things in the first month of the year."
Jiuzhu wanted to tell King Chen that she didn't have to be so particular when she was with her master. But when she saw his serious look, she swallowed all the words back: "Then what should I say?"
"Let's say...live a long life and everything goes well." Prince Chen thought for a moment, coughed, and turned his head away from Jiuzhu: "May we live happily ever after and grow old together, that's also fine."
He glanced secretly at the girl. In eighteen days, they would be married.
"Didn't someone else tell us that?" Jiuzhu looked at him.
"We bless ourselves, what's the problem?" Prince Chen asked back, "Have you never thought about it?"
"I have never thought of leaving His Highness." Jiuzhu said as a matter of course: "When I chose to leave Lingzhou and come to the capital, there were only two reasons. One was to see my family, and the other was to find His Highness to repay his kindness."
"Then have you ever thought about what to do if you can't find me, or if I'm no longer in the capital?"
"I don't know." Jiuzhu shook his head honestly: "Because I have already found His Highness."
The assumption does not exist, so there is no need to consider it at all.
"I should repay you for saving my life with my body." Prince Chen laughed with an ambiguous meaning, bent down to look Jiuzhu in the eye, "Ming Xiaozhu, don't forget what you said today for the rest of your life."
Jiuzhu carefully recalled what she had said to His Highness today. It seemed that she had said too much: "Everything?"
"Everything." Prince Chen nodded, especially the sentence that he never thought of leaving.
"Okay." Jiuzhu nodded. She would try her best to write down everything that happened and said today.
After Ming Jiyuan took a bath and changed into clean clothes, he came out and saw his sister walking in the yard with a big white dog, and Prince Chen followed beside her. The two of them leaned their heads very close to each other, and Prince Chen leaned his whole body to accommodate his sister's height, which was neither graceful nor comfortable.
He didn't understand. Why should he just walk? Why should he maintain such an uncomfortable posture?
"Brother." Jiuzhu saw him and waved at him. The Prince of Chen, whose body was crooked like a twist, stood up straight in an instant and became the high and mighty His Majesty the Prince of Chen again.
"Sister, are you walking the dog?" Ming Jiyuan walked up to the two of them and glanced at the big white dog.
"Brother, this is a horse, not a dog." Jiuzhu touched the pony, "Take a closer look."
"It turns out to be a dwarf horse. It looks so cute." Ming Jiyuan reached out to touch the pony. The horse let him touch it obediently and was very docile.
"This was given to me by His Highness a few months ago." Hearing her brother praising her pony for being so cute, Jiuzhu smiled even more happily.
Ming Jiyuan turned his head to look at Prince Chen, who smiled friendly at his future uncle.
"Jiuzhu." Two trembling hands stretched out from the other side of the wall with difficulty. After struggling for a long time, the owner of the hands finally climbed over from the other side of the wall: "I heard that the third brother is back, so I came to see him."
"Sixth brother." Ming Jiyuan looked at Ming Cunfu, who was struggling to climb over the wall, in surprise: "Why are you climbing over the wall too?"
In the past, my sixth brother was so gentle that he would straighten his clothes before climbing a wall or even going down the stairs. So what earth-shaking changes had taken place in the family during his absence?
"Everyone in my family can climb. I can't be better than my sister." Ming Cunfu sat on the wall and panted, "Third brother, come and give me a hand."
"You're just cleaning up useless stuff all day long." Ming Jiyuan stepped forward and helped his youngest cousin down from the wall with one hand: "You just said that your sister also climbed the wall?"
He turned his head to look at Jiuzhu. Jiuzhu smiled embarrassedly and shrank behind Prince Chen.
"It's okay. You can climb the wall, which means you are in good health." Ming Jiyuan smiled and said, "Little girl, move more, and you will live longer."
He turned his head and glared at Ming Cunfu. How could you, as her cousin, teach your sister like this while he is not at home?
Ming Cunfu: “…”
If he said that he learned how to climb walls from Jiuzhu, would his third cousin believe it?
"Your Highness, Miss, and two young masters, lunch is ready." Chunfen walked into the lively courtyard and said, "Please come to the front hall to eat."
The maid led the little white horse away, and Jiuzhu reached out and grabbed the sleeve of Prince Chen: "Your Highness, let's go."
Ming Cunfu felt that the way his sister led Prince Chen was quite similar to the way she led the little white horse.
After lunch, Jiuzhu saw that her father and brother had something to discuss, so she simply decided to accompany Prince Chen back to the palace.
Ming Cunfu thought silently, the Prince of Chen is such a big man, and he is followed by a group of dragon guards. In the whole capital, except for His Majesty, the safest place is around him.
But Jiuzhu didn't think so. Ever since the New Year's Eve banquet, she felt that there were many evil people in the capital, and anyone could harm her prince.
Prince Chen rode his horse and walked side by side with Jiuzhu on the street. He also bought Jiuzhu some toys that the little girl liked.
"Greetings to His Royal Highness Prince Chen." Several young men in fine clothes passed by and greeted the Prince with a smile, "Your Highness, you came at the right time today. We just saw a particularly powerful rooster in the chicken farm. Its crown was like red jade, its claws were like eagle feet, and it was very powerful..."
"What rooster?" The Prince of Chen interrupted them expressionlessly: "As descendants of the royal family, why do you keep thinking about these useless things?"
"Your Highness, it's not a rooster, it's a fighting chicken..."
"What chicken fighting? This king doesn't know how to fight chicken." The king looked at Jiuzhu, his expression helpless and sad: "These distant cousins of this king are idle all day long, which makes me worry about them."
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