Jiuzhu stopped immediately, trying to refresh his mind?
When he heard footsteps behind him, the first person the Prince of Chen thought of was Jiuzhu. He turned around and smiled, "I guessed it was you." He glanced at Xiangshen who was following Jiuzhu and asked, "Did you come from my mother?"
"My mother said that there are too many people in the Moon Palace right now and they are gossiping. She was afraid that I would be bored, so she let me out for a walk." Jiuzhu felt that maybe her mother thought that the concubines spoke in a roundabout way and was afraid that she would follow suit, so she found an excuse to kick her out to play by herself.
"Princess." When the other officials saw Jiuzhu, they bowed to her.
"I don't mean to bother you, sirs. Please forgive me." Jiuzhu turned aside and returned the greeting, winking at Ming Jingzhou: "Father, you guys discuss matters, I will step aside for now."
"Princess, please don't be shy. We were just chatting for a while and didn't discuss any political matters." An official said, "But the prince may be more tired recently. Please take good care of him."
"Hmm?" Jiuzhu looked at Prince Chen in confusion, and finally turned his gaze to Ming Jingzhou: "Father, what happened?"
"Your Majesty promised that as long as Your Highness can recite the "Nongsangji" within five days, the court will allow you to have a special examination." Ming Jingzhou was silent for a moment: "You are in the palace, make more fish head soup for Your Highness."
Jiuzhu couldn't help but say, "Maybe the emperor didn't want to hold an additional special examination anyway."
Several officials looked sideways when they heard this.
Coincidentally, they also had the same suspicion.
"Father, I read a story that said fish only have a few moments of memory." Jiuzhu thought for a moment and said, "Are you sure that drinking fish head soup can improve your brain?"
"Drinking pigeon soup, pigeons can find their way home even if they fly thousands of miles. This shows that pigeons have good memories." An official said, "Add wolfberry and ginseng to it. It nourishes the body, replenishes qi, improves essence and improves eyesight. Just drink this."
"My Lords, why don't we let His Highness go back to read books now?" Ming Jingzhou was worried that these officials would ask his daughter to discuss how to stew pigeon soup, so he said, "If you are worried, I can explain the contents of the book to His Highness in the next few days.
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"Thank you, Lord Lao Ming." They looked at Prince Chen, "Your Highness should also return to Qilin Palace as soon as possible."
Hurry back and memorize it!
"Goodbye." The Prince led Jiuzhu away. Ming Jingzhou did not follow them. He bowed and said, "Ming also takes his leave."
Several officials gathered together and whispered, "What do you think? Could this be a show put on by His Majesty and Prince Chen?"
"I had suspected this at first, but it wasn't until His Majesty asked the Prince to recite the Agricultural and Mulberry Records within five days that I knew it was no longer a show."
"What do you mean?"
"That's the Prince who doesn't like to study. I've given lectures to several princes before, but the Prince couldn't even recite the Thousand Character Classic." The official shook his sleeves and said, "Besides, considering how much Your Majesty values the Prince, why would you need to put on a show for us? What's the point?"
"That makes sense." Several people nodded, then frowned even more tightly: "Then this is troublesome."
"What's the trouble?"
"How can the Prince of Chen, who is unwilling to memorize the Thousand Character Classic, memorize the Agricultural and Mulberry Records?"
"Don't even mention King Chen, even you can do it?"
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu pulled the sleeve of the King of Chen, turned his head and looked around, making sure that the officials could not hear their conversation, and asked in a low voice: "Do you really want to recite "Nongsangji"?"
"A gentleman's promise is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold. I have made a promise in front of so many officials, so of course I must keep it." The Prince looked relaxed, not like someone who was going to endorse something. "Will you go to the Queen Mother's place for dinner tonight?"
"What if... I can't recite it...?" Jiuzhu asked in a very small voice.
"Tsk." Prince Chen stretched out his finger and poked her forehead: "Do you have so little confidence in your Highness?"
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu covered his forehead and said, "You like poking my forehead more and more now."
"Did it hurt?" Prince Chen took her hand away and said with a smile, "Look at this forehead, it's smooth and round, so beautiful."
After saying that, he held her face, bent down and kissed her gently at the place he had just poked, and nodded with satisfaction: "It feels sweet and soft when kissed, what a good forehead."
"Your Highness, my master used a similar tone to you when he was picking melons." Jiuzhu snorted and strode forward with her skirt lifted.
"Don't go, don't go." Prince Chen stretched out his hands to hold her waist and pulled her into his arms: "Whose melon is as cute as your little head?"
"Hmph!" Jiuzhu turned her head away and didn't look at him.
"Ming Xiaozhu, why do I feel..." Prince Chen looked down at her: "After we got married, you are not as gentle to me as before?"
"Really?" Jiuzhu denied it flatly: "That's not the case."
"As expected, a man is a flower before marriage, but becomes a piece of tofu dregs in the eyes of his wife after marriage." Prince Chen sighed: "Not only did he become a piece of tofu dregs in the eyes of his wife, but he was also suspected by her... ugh."
Jiuzhu stretched out her hand to cover Prince Chen's mouth: "Your Highness, Aunt Xiangjun is still here, don't talk nonsense."
"Please do as you please, my Lord and Princess. Just pretend that I don't exist." Xiangshen covered her eyes and smiled, "I didn't see or hear anything."
"After five days, you will know how talented your Highness is." Prince Chen took Jiuzhu's hand away and kissed her palm: "Let's go and have dinner with mother first."
Jiuzhu saw Prince Chen walking forward proudly, and she started to chase him. After she had taken only two steps, Prince Chen suddenly turned around, picked her up and walked away.
"You have to carry my princess with you at all times so that I can eat." He lowered his head and chuckled at Jiuzhu. The palace maids and eunuchs passing by turned around and avoided them, not daring to watch the prince and the princess showing their affection.
Xiangjun and Chunfen looked at each other and smiled.
After paying their respects to Empress Su, the concubines walked out of the gate of Mingyue Palace in twos and threes.
"Deep in the inner court, who is laughing and frolicking outside the Mingyue Palace?" Princess Roude's biological mother, Concubine Zhang, frowned. The moment she looked towards the door, her frown relaxed at the fastest speed, and because it relaxed too quickly, her facial features were almost distorted.
"The relationship between Prince Chen and Princess Consort is really good." Lu Zhaoyi looked at Concubine Zhang with a smile: "Is that right?"
"Yes, that's right." Concubine Zhang only hated herself for speaking too quickly. Others did not dare to laugh and joke in Mingyue Palace, but Prince Chen was the son of Empress Su, so naturally he was treated differently from others.
She looked at the couple walking in hand in hand. She didn't know what Princess Chen said, but Prince Chen held her face with his hands and rubbed it a few times, which made Princess Chen chase him and hit him.
The head maid of Mingyue Palace who was following behind the two saw them laughing and not only did not stop them, but smiled peacefully instead.
It seems that the queen is very satisfied with her daughter-in-law.
Zhang felt unhappy when she recalled how her daughter had visited the Ming family with gifts in order to plead for her son-in-law's family, but had hit a snag with Princess Chen.
Her daughter has not been able to return to the princess's mansion yet, and her son-in-law and his family are being kept under strict surveillance by the Jinwu Guards because they were implicated in the assassination of the fourth prince.
As a princess of the emperor, it was a joke that she had to bow her head and ask for help from the daughter of a court official.
If it weren't for the support of Queen Su and Prince Chen, what would Ming Jiuzhu be?
At this moment, she noticed Ming Jiuzhu suddenly raised her head and looked straight at her. Being stared at by such a pair of black and white eyes, Zhang felt a little guilty and moved her legs and took a step back.
What's wrong with Ming Jiuzhu? She looks at people with such evil eyes.
"What are you looking at?" Seeing that Jiuzhu was no longer chasing him, Prince Chen turned around and went back.
"I caught you!" When he approached, Jiuzhu grabbed his sleeve and said with a smile: "Your Highness, does this count as inviting you into a treasury?"
"This is like Jiang Taigong fishing, whoever wants to take the bait will do so." The King of Chen sighed, "There is no bait on your hook, and I am hooked too."
He raised his head and glanced at the concubines standing on the steps, and said with a sigh: "Are you looking at them?"
"Yeah." Jiuzhu let go of Prince Chen's sleeves and smoothed out the wrinkles: "A lady looked at me in a strange way."
"Ignore them." Prince Chen led her forward.
"Your Highness Prince Chen." The concubines spread out to the left and right, making way for the steps.
"Hmm." Prince Chen nodded slightly, his eyes swept over Concubine Zhang. Was the person Ming Xiaozhu was looking at just now her?
Concubine Zhang felt guilty when being looked at by Prince Chen, and she lowered her head even lower.
The Prince of Chen could deny face to her daughter at the banquet, and he could also deny face to her in this kind of occasion.
Fortunately, Prince Chen just glanced at her casually without saying anything, and took Princess Chen into the main hall of Mingyue Palace.
"Ladies, please take care." Xiangshen stood at the bottom of the steps and knelt down to salute the concubines: "I respectfully send you off, ladies."
The ladies came to their senses, quickly smiled, and hurried out.
"Empress Zhang." Xiangshen called her.
Zhangpin's shoulders trembled, and she turned to look at Xiangshen, almost unable to hold back her smile: "Aunt Xiangshen, what else can I do for you?"
"Your sachet fell." Xiangshen picked up the sachet, walked to Zhangpin, and presented it to her with both hands: "Please be careful next time."
"Thank you." Zhang Pin took the sachet and left in a hurry.
Xiang Xian looked at her hurried back, turned back to the side hall, took out an identical sachet from her sleeve, cut it open with scissors, fanned it gently with her hand, and smelled the medicinal fragrance inside. Her face turned cold: "There is indeed something wrong with this sachet."
"Put away the sachet and the things inside. I will go and report to Her Majesty." Xiangxian strode to the main hall. Seeing that there was no one else in the hall except the prince and the princess, she spoke directly, "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the sachet on Concubine Zhang."
Su Hou, who was talking to Jiuzhu, smiled a little and asked, "What's going on?"
"It was thanks to the princess's reminder that I discovered something was wrong."
"Me?" Jiuzhu was surprised: "When did this happen?"
"Do you remember what the princess said when I accompanied her out of the main hall just now?"
Jiuzhu thought for a while and said, "I mean... it has a very strange smell, like the intoxicating flower."
"Yes, it is the Intoxicating Flower." Xiangshen nodded: "Just now, I cut open Zhang Concubine's sachet and found that there was not only the Intoxicating Flower inside, but also some unknown medicinal effects. It's a pity that my medical skills are not good enough to distinguish the things inside."
"The sachet on Concubine Zhang was distributed to each palace by the Palace Department. The fabric and pattern are the same. Even if it was replaced by someone, it would be difficult to detect." Empress Su raised her eyebrows and said, "Report this to His Majesty, and go to the Imperial Hospital to ask for the imperial physician who is good at making medicine. By the way..."
"Call Concubine Zhang back as well." Empress Su took a sip of tea and said, "I suspect she has poisonous things in there, more than just one sachet."
Jiuzhu was puzzled: "Why would someone plot against Concubine Zhang?"
"I wasn't plotting against Concubine Zhang, I was plotting against you." Empress Su looked at her and said, "Concubine Zhang is narrow-minded and very protective of her children. You have offended Princess Roude before. With her personality, she will have trouble with you sooner or later."
"These medicines are all poison. When she quarrels with you and dies inexplicably, you will be the biggest suspect." Empress Su lowered her eyes and sneered, "If this plan succeeds, not only will we be in trouble, but the Fourth Prince will also be dragged into it."
"We would suspect that all this was planned by the Fourth Prince?" Jiuzhu suddenly realized, "Because my father revealed the evidence of the Fourth Prince's biological mother and the Zheng family's crimes?"
"Oh, these people have such dirty hearts."
Prince Chen turned his head to look at her. She was able to figure out all the interests involved and draw inferences from them in such a short time. She was quite smart.
"Mother." Jiuzhu became excited: "I think we should not only invite Concubine Zhang but also invite the Fourth Prince. It will be more lively with more people."
What a lively scene! This is forcing the fourth brother to prove his innocence.
"Ming Xiaozhu, ah Ming Xiaozhu, I didn't expect that you actually have bad water hidden in your stomach." Prince Chen stretched out his hand and pulled her tender cheek: "But, I like it."
"Your Highness, I just don't want the other princes to think that the Queen is unfair." Jiuzhu said seriously: "The Queen is the legitimate mother of all the princes. As a mother, I want to uphold justice for my children. What's wrong with that?"
"No problem, Jiuzhu is right." Empress Su smiled and said, "Someone, go and invite Concubine Zhang and the Fourth Prince."
"Empress Zhang, please stay." Halfway through her journey, Zhang was stopped by the eunuch of Mingyue Palace: "The Empress has ordered that you return to Mingyue Palace immediately."
The concubines who were traveling with her quickly stepped back, fearing that the Empress would also ask them to go back.
"Eunuch, I wonder why the Queen wants me to go back?" Concubine Zhang could no longer laugh.
"I don't know either, but you will know once you go there."
Concubine Zhang wanted to cry but had no tears. The last person who was called away by Empress Su was Zheng Lanyin, and now grass had grown on her grave.
Her feet trembled: "I will go right away."
She looked back at the sisters she was on good terms with, and now they all stood a few steps away from her, fearing that they would be implicated by her.
Bah! Such things as love and righteousness are all lies.
Yun Yanze was even more confused than Concubine Zhang. Su had been the favorite in the harem for many years and seldom invited the princes and princesses to Mingyue Palace. She and the princes and princesses had always maintained a state of not interfering with each other.
What does it mean that the eunuch in charge of Mingyue Palace was specially sent to invite him today?
"Your Highness." Sun Caiyao said, "I will go with you."
The Queen is a woman, and it would be inappropriate for Your Highness to go there alone.
The eunuch in charge of Mingyue Palace did not stop him, but bent down and made a gesture of invitation: "Fourth Prince, Fourth Prince's Consort, please follow me."
As the couple walked to the door of the main hall, they heard a woman's sharp voice coming from inside.
"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with me. I know nothing about it!"
Sun Caiyao's face suddenly changed. What happened?
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