"What are you fighting for?" Prince Chen dragged the man back and said, "How can a little girl like you fight against a few grown men?"
Jiuzhu leaped forward a few steps and pulled the back of the collar out of the hands of the Prince: "Don't pull me!"
Bending down and picking up a large wooden stick from the ground, Jiuzhu lifted the hem of her skirt and rushed out with great momentum.
The soft little white rabbit turns into a biting steel-toothed rabbit.
Prince Chen looked at her marching alone with the imposing pace of a mighty army, and leaned lazily against the tree trunk.
"Your Highness." An attendant who was hiding in the dark came up to him and said, "What...what should we do?"
"What else can we do?" The Prince of Chen saw that the little girl was only a few steps away from the men who were gossiping. "Go and help fight. You all have brains and eyes, but you don't know how to use them?"
When Jiuzhu approached the three men, they were still talking loudly.
"In terms of talent and virtue, His Royal Highness Prince Qi is still admirable." The man in green said loudly: "What is there to be afraid of? Prince Chen is ignorant and moody..."
"Ouch!" Before he could finish his words, he felt a piercing pain in his back. Someone was attacking him from behind!
"Who is so bold!" He jumped up in pain and turned around to see a pretty girl with tender skin holding a big wooden stick in her hand.
"You, woman, have no reason or fate, why ..."
"I told you not to talk bad about others behind their backs!" Jiuzhu picked up a wooden stick and started hitting him. The stick passed through the air, making a terrible sound of breaking through the air.
The men who were beaten were so scared that they rolled and crawled. One of them reacted and tried to grab the stick from Jiuzhu's hand, but she hit him on the thigh.
Men don't shed tears easily, but they don't shed tears until it hurts.
"Whose mad woman is this? She is so disrespectful to society. If that's the case, we will not follow the etiquette of a gentleman!"
After saying that, the three men surrounded Jiuzhu in the middle and raised their hands, ready to let her know what it meant that men are the gods and women are weak.
However, the next moment, the three of them were kicked away like stones thrown out by someone.
The three men were lying on the ground, wailing. It turned out that the crazy woman had brought a group of helpers with her. Is it a martial virtue for a group of people to beat up three weak scholars?
"Three grown men are bullying a weak woman." Several men dressed in costumes stepped forward, picked up three people with one hand, and said in a stern voice: "You are the people of our dynasty, but you dare to criticize the royal family. What crime should you be punished for?!"
After saying this, without waiting for the three men to retort, he beat them until they cried for their parents, then took out a rope and tied them together: "Come with my brothers to the government office."
Jiuzhu saw these people coming in a hurry and then leaving in a hurry with the people in their arms. He looked around blankly with a wooden stick in his hand.
"What are you daydreaming about?" The King of Chen took the stick from Jiuzhu's hand, and seeing that she was unable to react, he threw the stick on the ground: "You started fighting over a disagreement, and you hit a scholar. Aren't you afraid of their mouths?"
"What kind of scholars are they?" Jiuzhu put down his sleeves. "A gentleman is harmonious but different. Today is a day to look far and wide. There are many people coming and going. They are talking so high and making such broad arguments, criticizing others. It is simply a disgrace to scholars."
Prince Chen laughed in an ambiguous tone. These scholars were not stupid. They did it on purpose for others to hear them.
"Did you know that the King of Qi will come to climb Feixia Mountain today?"
"Hmm?" Jiuzhu nodded: "I saw him at the foot of the mountain, so what?"
Prince Chen: “…”
This girl doesn't look very smart.
"They are talking to the King of Qi, or to the people around him." The King of Chen is an impatient man, but he is in a good mood today and is willing to talk to this little girl with a dull mind. "Let's leave now while there are few people around and no one has noticed that you beat someone up."
"They said bad things about His Royal Highness Prince Chen, but I can't beat them to death." Jiuzhu adjusted her hairpin and complained softly, "They just want to please Prince Qi, why do they bully His Royal Highness Prince Chen?"
Bullying?
The little girl's tone was so aggrieved that if he hadn't been the person involved, he would have almost believed that he was a poor little person who was often bullied.
"The guy who helped me fight just now, was he one of your men?"
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows and nodded: "You help me pick dogwood branches, and I help you call people to fight. Isn't it fair?"
"It's not very fair." Jiuzhu thought about it carefully and said, "I think I'm getting the upper hand."
"It's okay. I'm a grown man, I won't bother with you about such trivial matters." Prince Chen looked around, and no one came yet: "Who is your elder?"
The elders in this family are really generous. They dared to let such a brave little girl come alone to pick dogwood.
"My father's last name is Ming." After the other party asked someone to help him fight, Jiuzhu classified him as a "good guy with a sense of loyalty" and was not afraid of him knowing his last name.
"Ming?" The smile on Prince Chen's face froze, and he looked Jiuzhu up and down: "You are Ming Jingzhou, the Minister of Rites... the apple of His Excellency's eye?"
This was the first time in Prince Chen's life that he addressed Ming Jingzhou so politely.
"Do you also know my father?" Jiuzhu looked at King Chen with sparkling eyes.
"Somewhat familiar."
Acquaintance is acquaintance, what does it mean to be slightly acquainted? Since coming to the capital, Jiuzhu has found that his cognitive ability cannot keep up with the speaking level of the people in the capital.
"No wonder you were so angry just now, it turns out you were protecting your fiancé." Prince Chen was silent for a moment: "Next time you want to fight, don't do it yourself."
Having lived in a Taoist temple since childhood, Jiuzhu is very ignorant about love between men and women. When talking about marriage, she does not act like a little girl: "Your Highness Prince Chen is a good man. What does it have to do with whether he is my fiancé or not?"
Prince Chen: “…”
Only the rustling wind blowing through the mountains could understand his mood at the moment.
"Miss, Miss!" Chunfen ran over with her skirt lifted up and looked at her nervously: "There was a noise over here just now. It is said that there were a few drunken scholars making trouble. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Jiuzhu winked at King Chen, signaling him not to say what he had just said.
"I have picked all the dogwood my mother asked me to pick." Jiuzhu grabbed Chunfen's hand and said, "Sister Chunfen, let's go back."
The person has been beaten, and what we need to do now is to escape from the scene as quickly as possible.
"Okay." Chunfen hung the shawl on Jiuzhu's arm, bowed to King Chen, took Jiuzhu's hand, and left the forest.
Prince Chen walked to the dogwood tree, bent down and picked up the dogwood branch that Jiuzhu had picked for him, thought for a moment, and dragged it back to the palace.
"Such a big branch of dogwood." Concubine Su looked at the dogwood branch in the floor-standing vase. It was rare that her son, who usually forgot to bring back even a piece of paper, would bring her a dogwood branch on the Double Ninth Festival. "It looks quite fresh."
"How can it not be fresh?" Prince Chen lazily leaned against the couch, "This is picked by your future daughter-in-law herself climbing up the tree."
"Have you met Jiuzhu?" Concubine Su looked at Prince Chen.
"Hmm." Prince Chen lowered his eyelids, and Concubine Su Gui could not see the emotion in his eyes.
"I think this girl is good." Knowing that her son was lukewarm about this marriage, Concubine Su couldn't help but speak up for the young lady from the Ming family: "She looks like someone who is easy to get along with."
"It looks like a symbol." Prince Chen nodded.
It means that the brain looks like it is not working well.
After her son left, Concubine Su Gui asked the maid beside her in confusion: "Does Du Qing like this attitude or dislike it?"
"My Lady, it's a good thing that the Fifth Prince doesn't dislike Miss Ming." The maid comforted Concubine Su Gui: "A few days ago, the Fifth Prince frowned when he mentioned marriage. Today, I took a closer look and found that the Fifth Prince was in a good mood."
Knowing that the maid said this to comfort herself, Concubine Su sighed and blamed His Majesty for not knowing how to raise a child and turning her son into such a dandy boy.
As soon as Prince Chen came out of Mingyue Palace, he met Prince Qi who came to the palace to pay his respects.
"Fifth brother." Prince Qi looked at Prince Chen's dark brocade robe with red patterns. Among his brothers, except the fifth brother, no one would wear such ostentatious clothes.
The prince stopped and looked at him.
"I heard that my fifth brother's attendants arrested several scholars and brought them to the government office today?" Prince Qi sighed, "The autumn exam is coming soon, and it is not easy to study hard for ten years. If it is not a big deal, my fifth brother would have spared them."
"It's really not a big deal. They just praised you, my fourth brother, for your talent and virtue, and insulted me for being ignorant and moody." Prince Chen raised his eyebrows: "My fourth brother is kind-hearted. Just send someone to release them."
The gentle smile on King Qi's face froze slightly.
Although it is true that the fifth brother is uneducated and unskilled, as an elder brother, he absolutely cannot admit it.
"Fourth brother, just go and release them. I will not pursue the matter any further." Prince Chen shook his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, raised his chin slightly, and strode away under the gaze of Prince Qi and the attendants of Prince Qi's palace.
The Prince's attendants followed their master's example and only glanced at the attendants in Prince Qi's mansion out of the corner of their eyes.
The attendants in Prince Qi's palace were so angry that their faces turned red, but they dared not say much.
Who allowed the Prince of Chen to have a favored mother? The prince is noble because of his mother, and no one in the palace can afford to offend her.
"Your Highness." The attendant looked at King Qi worriedly.
The King of Qi raised his hand slightly to stop him from continuing: "Those scholars discussed the right and wrong of the royal family and alienated the relationship between me and my fifth brother. They should be severely punished."
The wind blew up the corners of his robe, but it could not cause even a ripple in his eyes.
Since the Double Ninth Festival, the number of invitations sent to the Ming family has increased. Some invite Shen and Jiuzhu to appreciate chrysanthemums, some invite them to eat crabs, and some invite them to drink tea.
There is no shortage of cunning people in the capital. They don't like the Prince's usual behavior, but they dare not offend Concubine Su and her son. The daughter of the Ming family is about to marry into the Prince's mansion. Whether it is true or false, as long as it is an important gathering among the female family members, the younger generation of the family will arrange to personally deliver the invitation to the Ming family.
Shen declined most of these gatherings until the Sun family sent an invitation to a tea party.
The auspicious wedding date for Miss Sun and King Qi was set on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month. It was now late September, and there was only a little over a month left until Miss Sun's wedding.
As a family of scholars with a history of several hundred years, the prestige of the Sun family in the hearts of scholars is self-evident. The Ming family has only established its status in recent years, relying on two top scholars and one third scholar. Compared with the Sun family, it lacks some foundation.
The King of Qi already had a reputation for being a virtuous man, and when he married the daughter of the Sun family, he became even more powerful and was even more respected.
Shen took the invitation and turned to look at her daughter who was happily eating snacks and drinking from the teacup. She gently wiped her daughter's mouth with her finger.
"Thank you, mother." Jiuzhu smiled sweetly at Shen.
Shen gently covered her chest.
What emperor, prince Chen, and grandson's daughter? None of them are good!
On the day of the tea-tasting banquet, the female family members dressed up in their best clothes and arrived at Sun's house early, wearing different flowers to flatter Sun Caiyao.
"Mrs. Shen is here."
The laughter suddenly became weaker, and the smile on Sun Caiyao's face faded a little. She looked towards the door and saw Ming Jiuzhu next to Mrs. Shen.
The green eyebrows are like distant mountains, and the red cherry blossoms dot the delicate lips.
"Mrs. Shen, Hello."
"This must be your daughter, she has eyes that can see the stars and bones that are as white as snow, a rare beauty."
The female relatives who were originally flattering her turned around and surrounded Shen's mother and daughter.
Sun Caiyao pursed her lips.
These people privately looked down on Prince Chen for his eccentric behavior and lack of knowledge, but when it came to trying to please the future Princess Chen, no one was left out.
She stood up and took the initiative to walk towards Ming Jiuzhu.
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