"Since you were not here, I never opened this box." Ming Jiyuan put the old wooden box in Jiuzhu's hand. "I asked the Taoist priest for her Dharma name, but she refused to tell me. I asked her to let me stay at her house temporarily, but she refused to do so either. She just said that we are destined to meet and to part, and there is no need to force it. She also said that if you ask, you will understand."
"My two masters and I have lived in the mountains for a long time. There are few pilgrims in the Taoist temple, but occasionally there are monks passing by and staying overnight." Jiuzhu touched the wooden box, her eyes full of cherishment: "They come and go freely, and they don't like to leave their names out of pity for the elderly and the weak. It must be that the two masters knew that this Taoist priest was going to pass by the capital, so they asked her to deliver the things."
After bidding farewell to her parents, Jiuzhu got on the carriage. When the carriage had gone a long way, she opened the window curtain and looked back. She could still see the Ming family members standing at the door looking over here.
"Don't be sad. I'm here and can always take you home." Prince Chen took out the red envelope and purse he got today and put them in Jiuzhu's hand.
"Your Highness, why are you giving these to me?" Jiuzhu looked at him puzzled.
"It is only natural that your husband's money should be handed over to your wife for safekeeping." Prince Chen touched his nose awkwardly: "My foxes... guards and study companions, etc., all do this after I get married."
"If Your Highness wants to use the silver in the future, just tell me." Jiuzhu put the silver in her pocket.
"You can't just give money to a man if he wants it." Prince Chen coughed a few times, "What if I take the money and spend it recklessly? Don't you know what to do?"
"But if Your Highness is happy with the money, it is worth spending. Money is something outside of one's body, Your Highness is the most important." Jiuzhu thought for a moment and added, "It would be even better if Your Highness would not lie to me."
The little minter who had picked up the smallest grain of silver to pay for the cricket's funeral, actually said that money is external to one's body and the most important thing for him is to be happy spending money?
How much does this silly Ming Xiaozhu care about him?
"You, you." Prince Chen let out a long sigh. Fortunately, she married him. If she married anyone else, she would be bullied.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu put the wooden box on his knees: "I want to see the gift that Master sent."
"You see." Prince Chen stood up and prepared to get out of the carriage: "I'll ask the coachman to make the carriage more stable."
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu reached out and pulled him back: "Sit down and watch with me."
"Okay." Prince Chen was slightly stunned, and moved towards Jiuzhu, sitting next to her: "What good things did the two masters give us?"
When it comes to climbing up the ladder, the Prince of Chen is an expert at it.
Jiuzhu carefully opened the lid of the box, and found several palm-sized small boxes neatly placed inside.
Prince Chen thought, how many gifts have been prepared?
I opened the first box and found six bottles of medicine inside.
The second, third, and fourth boxes are all medicines, but with different efficacy.
There are detoxification pills, hemostatic pills, cold-preventing powders, heat-removing cough medicines and other medicines.
"Little pig, are your two masters miraculous doctors in the world?" Prince Chen looked at the boxes of pills. The various medicinal aromas mixed together had a pungent smell.
"I don't know. The Taoist temple I live in is poor and I don't have money to buy medicine. If I'm sick, the second master would go to the mountain to pick some herbs and boil them into medicine." Jiuzhu carefully recalled every moment with the two masters: "But the first master often said that the second master was a quack. I can live well only because of my good physique."
Prince Chen was silent for a moment: "What did your father-in-law and mother-in-law think back then? Why didn't they find a good Taoist temple to foster you?"
Jiuzhu smiled: "Although the Taoist temple is poor, the two masters are very kind to me."
She picked up the wooden box at the bottom, opened it and saw two letters and two silver hairpins inside.
Two silver hairpins, with similar designs, but one for men and one for women.
Jiuzhu stared at the women's silver hairpin in a daze for a long time without saying a word.
"What's wrong?" Prince Chen saw that she looked uncertain and put his hand on her shoulder: "Jiuzhu?"
"The silver hairpin I left in the Huaxi River was also of this style, but much smaller than this one." Jiuzhu handed the silver hairpin to Prince Chen: "Your Highness, help me put it on."
Prince Chen put the silver hairpin on her and said, "It looks very nice."
"Really?" Jiuzhu reached out and touched the nail.
"When have I ever lied to you?" He took off his hair crown, picked up another men's silver hairpin, and fixed his hair: "This must have been given to me by my master. We are a couple."
The silver hairpin was not luxurious, but when he wore it in his hair, it seemed to have a bit more royal dignity.
Good-looking people can make objects look extremely beautiful.
There were two letters, one written by the eldest master and the other by the second master. Neither of them was a talkative person. They introduced the properties of various medicinal flavors in just a few words, explaining that they were short of money and the pair of lotus hairpins were a wedding gift for them.
[The mountain is quiet and peaceful. Your second master and I do not like outsiders to visit us. You do not need to send money and clothes often in the future. Since you left, the temple's expenses have dropped dramatically...]
Are the two words "驟減" a bit of an exaggeration?
Jiuzhu's bitter and longing feelings were shattered by these two words, leaving only half of them.
【Parting is human nature. If you can't bear to leave Master, you can write to me every Mid-Autumn Festival Eve. The moon is always round and rises every day. Even if we are thousands of miles apart, the scenery is the same.】
Jiuzhu sniffed. She knew that the two masters were not the type to like crowds. It was only because they raised her that the Taoist temple became much more lively.
She read the letter from the first master word by word, and then opened the letter from the second master.
【Once a teacher, always a teacher. We treat you as both a teacher and a mother. In the past few months, your great master has been chanting a sutra for you in front of the Three Pure Ones statues, hoping that you are safe. Two months ago, he also chanted a sutra for your future husband. You and the King of Chen were originally thousands of miles apart, but in the end, your marriage was destined by heaven, which should be a blessing.】
[The pills that the master prepares for you are all good medicines for curing diseases. You must trust the master's medical skills.]
After reading the two masters' letters over and over again, Jiuzhu blinked, put the letters away carefully, and said to King Chen, "Your Highness, the two masters said that our marriage was destined by heaven."
"My father is the emperor, and the imperial decree he issued for our marriage is indeed a marriage destined by heaven." Although he was a million miles away from the two masters, Prince Chen still chose to flatter them: "The two masters are really experts, they can even calculate this."
"The medicine that Master made must be a rare treasure in the world." Prince Chen put the medicine away and said solemnly, "I must keep it well."
Jiuzhu: “…”
She didn't know whether he was a master or not, but the dishes cooked by the Second Master were particularly unpalatable, and the herbs he boiled were also very bitter. However, looking at His Highness's serious expression, Jiuzhu didn't want to hit him, so she nodded and said, "Well, put it away."
No matter how effective the pills were, they were Master's gift, so how could she bear to throw them away carelessly?
The couple had just put away the gift boxes when they heard people arguing outside the carriage. The argument was very intense, and they vaguely mentioned words like prince and dandy.
Jiuzhu curiously stuck her head out of the carriage window and saw several young men in gorgeous clothes arguing under the stone lion next to the gate of Jingzhaoyin. Among them, the man in a brown brocade robe had a big bruise on his forehead and looked extremely angry.
"Yun Qirong, don't think I'm afraid of you just because you have more people!" The man in the brown brocade robe covered his forehead and cursed: "Don't use the title of Yu's front guard to scare people every day. Everyone knows that you got such a real position by being a lackey for the King of Chen."
"What's wrong with being the king's lackey?" Yun Qirong rolled up his sleeves and said, "You want to be one, but are you qualified?"
Yu Jian, who was not on duty today and happened to pass by them, said: "..."
For some reason I had the illusion that I was being scolded too.
"I can't be the one, but can you still continue to be the lackey of the Prince of Chen?" The man in brown brocade robe didn't dare to scold the Prince of Chen, but only dared to point at Yun Qirong's nose and scold: "Your Highness the Prince of Chen hasn't been with you for a long time, right?"
"You know nothing. If it weren't for His Royal Highness Prince Chen, would we brothers go to Hongwen Academy to deliver books?" Yun Qirong sneered mysteriously and puffed out his chest: "How can a rubbish like you on the edge of the royal family understand what we, the Prince Chen's confidants, do for His Royal Highness?"
"Many of those students are the pillars of our future. As a distant relative of the royal family, you not only don't treat them well, but also want to humiliate them with dirty means. How can you do such a thing that is worse than that of an animal?" Yun Qirong knew that one should be high-profile when doing good things and keep silent when doing bad things: "Although we are dandies who are looked down upon by others, we have learned the greatness of scholars and the difficulties of scholars under the teachings of His Royal Highness Prince Chen, so we respect them and yearn for them. We must stop your behavior of bullying scholars."
The common people who saw the excitement immediately realized that it was the nobleman who was bullying the powerless scholar, and several other noblemen who were on good terms with the Prince of Chen stopped him, which led to the quarrel in the street.
"You are working for His Royal Highness Prince Chen?" The young man in brown brocade clothes seemed to have heard a huge joke: "You said you are working for His Royal Highness Prince Chen, so you are working for Prince Chen? Who would let you, such a playboy, do things for me?"
Yu Jian frowned. Although Yun Qirong and his group were idle on weekdays, they never bullied men or women. What this person said was a bit too much.
"Why? Are you dissatisfied with me asking them to do things?" Prince Chen got off the carriage and said, "Do I need you to teach me how to do things?"
"What the hell are you?!"
"Prince Chen, Prince Chen." The young man in brown brocade robes changed color when he saw Prince Chen. He quickly put down his hand that was covering his forehead and bowed deeply: "I spoke out of turn. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
"Your Highness!" Yun Qirong and his companions smiled brightly when they saw Prince Chen appear. "Your Highness, we have already completed all the tasks you arranged for us today. However, we encountered an ignorant person at the gate of Hongwen College."
After saying this, he did not hesitate to compliment her: "Your Highness, the silver hairpin you are wearing today is really exquisite and unique."
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows and tilted his chin slightly: "This was given to me by the princess elders."
The young man in brown brocade clothes shook his neck and said, "Your Highness, this is all a misunderstanding. Please listen to my explanation."
"Shut up, I don't want to hear you." Prince Chen returned to the carriage and helped Jiuzhu down: "Qirong, you go ahead and talk."
Yun Qirong noticed that the princess had a silver hairpin in her hair that was similar to the one worn by His Highness. He lowered his head and quickly recounted the entire story. The originally simple matter, under his vivid description, became like an invincible bully bullying a poor scholar like a cat, and everyone who heard it was furious.
Jiuzhu glanced at the shoes of the young man in brown brocade clothes. Some people in the capital city had a really strange hobby of having their shoes licked all the time.
"Qi Rong, give him a silver coin." The Prince touched his sleeves and was about to take out a silver coin to give to the man in brown brocade clothes, but suddenly remembered that he had given all his money to Jiuzhu. He turned his head and looked at Yun Qi Rong: "Now let him take off his shoes and walk back barefoot."
A man without money needs to know how to adapt.
On the importance of having money under your command.
"If someone soils your shoes, you should ask him to pay you a gift and apologize, buy you new shoes, or wash them for you. That's all right," Prince Chen said calmly, "but asking someone to kneel down and lick your shoes is bullying."
"That's enough." The Prince raised his chin and said, "I am too lazy to talk to you anymore. Go back barefoot now. I will send someone to follow you. Don't be lazy."
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