"Why are you looking at me so stupidly?" Prince Chen lay on the windowsill, nonchalant, like a cat basking in the sun: "I haven't seen you for a few days, how come you don't recognize me so quickly?"
He touched his face. It wasn't the vulgar face that he had forgotten after seeing it.
Jiuzhu shook her head: "I haven't forgotten."
"Oh." Prince Chen suddenly realized: "So you were stunned by my face."
Jiuzhu: “…”
People in Beijing are so thick-skinned.
"Come up quickly." Prince Chen waved to Jiuzhu, "It's a bit tiring for me to talk to you with my head down."
Jiuzhu rubbed her neck. She tilted her head back to talk, which also hurt her neck.
There were no other guests upstairs, and Jiuzhu looked around in confusion.
"Don't look anymore. There are no other guests except you and me." The Prince of Chen tapped the table with his knuckles, and someone brought various hairpins and jewelry and placed them on the table for Jiuzhu to choose from.
Chunfen, who was following Jiuzhu, secretly took a deep breath. Did this store bring out all the good stuff that had been hidden in the bottom of the box?
"Pick whatever you like." Prince Chen glanced at the table: "Although the quality is a little poor, the style is still acceptable."
Jiuzhu glanced at the shopkeeper who was standing next to him with his head bent, returned the silver peanut to him, and whispered to him with her hands covering her face: "It looks like it's very expensive."
Prince Chen dragged the carved round stool under his butt towards Jiuzhu and asked in a low voice, imitating her: "Not enough money?"
"It's enough." Jiuzhu held her purse as if it were her favorite thing: "I can't bear to spend it."
Prince Chen originally thought that the Ming family did not value their daughter who had just returned to Beijing and were reluctant to spend money on her, but he did not expect this to be the reason.
As the future princess of the King of Chen, why should I be stingy with money?
"Don't worry, this shop has cheap stuff." Prince Chen picked up a brocade and pointed it at Jiuzhu's head: "I'm familiar with the boss, let him give you a cheaper price."
Jiuzhu looked at King Chen with suspicion, she suspected that he was an agent of the store.
As soon as he saw her expression, Prince Chen knew that she must be thinking wildly: "What do you mean by that look?"
Covering her eyes with her hands, Jiuzhu shook her head: "I didn't think of anything."
Prince Chen: “…”
This is what it means to be deceiving.
Reaching out and pulling her dangling braid, Prince Chen inserted the hairpin into Jiuzhu's hair with one hand. The glittering golden hairpin looked like wild grass growing on a rockery, without any aesthetic appeal at all.
"This is a gift from me. You don't have to spend any money on it."
"I don't want it." Jiuzhu pulled the weeds off the rockery... No, that's not right. She took the gold hairpin out of her hair and put it back on the tray: "You can't just accept a hairpin given by a boy."
What's wrong with accepting a hairpin given by a fiancée?
Is Prince Chen the type of person who would compromise if others say no?
No, he is not.
So he poked two nails into Jiuzhu's hair.
Jiuzhu stared and pulled out both "grasses".
"Don't move, little girl." The overbearing prince Yun Duqing grabbed a hairpin and snorted at Jiuzhu.
"Don't do that." Jiuzhu quickly covered her hair, stood up and hid in the corner, her voice soft and aggressive with a Lingzhou accent: "If you do that again, I will beat you up."
"What are you doing?" A gentle yet puzzled male voice sounded. Jiuzhu covered her hair bun and turned her head to look. King Qi, wearing a light brocade robe, was standing on the stairs. His handsome face was filled with confusion and his brows were slightly wrinkled.
"Greetings, His Royal Highness Prince Qi." Jiuzhu released his hand and bowed deeply.
Prince Qi stepped into the room, glanced at the scattered hairpins, armlets and other items on the tray, picked up a coral red plum hairpin on the table, and looked at Prince Chen.
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows, walked to Jiuzhu's side, and when Jiuzhu wasn't paying attention, he straightened the crooked tassel hairpin in her hair: "It's rare to see Fourth Brother here."
"Are you a prince too?" Jiuzhu asked in a low voice.
"Yeah." The Prince quickly poked a pin in his hand into Jiuzhu's hair bun, flicked the golden butterfly on the pin with his finger, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, isn't it a coincidence?"
The little girl looks confused and not very smart. She covers her head with her hands, which makes her look cute and adorable.
Watching the two of them whispering with their heads lowered, their heads almost touching, the Prince of Qi put the hairpin back in its place and said, "My brother is getting married soon, so the mansion naturally needs to prepare some things that a woman would need."
After saying this, he did not wait for the response from Prince Chen. He turned around and saw Prince Chen still trying to put a hairpin into Miss Ming's head. Miss Ming covered her hair and stared at Prince Chen with her big eyes.
"Put it on."
"I don't want to." Jiuzhu took a step back: "You are the prince, I can't beat you. But I can... I can ask others to beat you."
"Oh?" Prince Chen wanted to reach out and poke Jiuzhu's face, but he held back.
"My fiancé is Prince Chen, he's super, super, super, super nice." Jiuzhu straightened her back: "I'll let him beat you."
The three are very easy to say. Prince Chen laughed at first, but seeing the seriousness in the little girl's eyes, he put down the hairpin in his hand: "Okay, okay, it's my fault."
"I know you mean well and want to give me something." Jiuzhu took the golden butterfly hairpin off her hair. "The capital is prosperous, and people can do whatever they want without too many restrictions. However, in Lingzhou, only family members, elders, close friends and husbands can give women hairpins. Although I am a person from the capital, I grew up in Lingzhou. It would be inappropriate for me to accept the hairpin given by you, my lord."
In the few times they met, Prince Chen rarely saw such a serious expression on Jiuzhu's face. He looked at Jiuzhu's eyebrows and eyes carefully, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Little girl from the Ming family, do you know my title?"
Jiuzhu shook her head.
"I was born in the 23rd year of Xian De. My father named me Du Qing, which means that even if there are all kinds of sufferings in the world, a beloved son can help them and not suffer any pain." Yun Du Qing put his hands behind his back and spoke in a rare gentle tone: "When I was fifteen, I was promoted to king and given the title of Chen."
Jiuzhu stared at him blankly. The autumn wind blew across the windowsill and rang the bronze bell under the eaves.
"Whether it's the rules of the capital or the customs of Lingzhou, I have never given other little girls jewelry." Seeing that Jiuzhu was still staring at him blankly, the Prince of Chen took the golden butterfly hairpin that Jiuzhu had taken off and put it back on Jiuzhu: "The wings of this golden butterfly are as thin as cicada wings, and they are just right for the little girl."
This time, Jiuzhu did not take off her hairpin.
"Look, you've been struggling to put it on for so long. It would have saved you a lot of trouble if you had let me put it on you earlier." Yun Duqing stretched out his finger and gently poked Jiuzhu's forehead. He couldn't help but poked it again, and the butterfly wings in his hair danced gently.
Jiuzhu covered her forehead and tilted her head to look at him: "Are you really the Prince...His Highness?"
"Is there anyone in the entire capital who dares to pretend to be the Prince of Chen?" Yun Duqing touched his chin and said, "My mother's birthday will be in a few days. My father will hold a banquet in the palace. Remember to come with Madam Shen."
"You really are the Prince of Chen." Jiuzhu looked at Yun Duqing, and suddenly a brilliant smile appeared on her face: "That's great."
At that time, he was a kind-hearted fairy boy. Now, he is still a good man who does not get angry when others say bad things about him, and will ask others to help her fight when he sees her fighting.
"Why, are you happy?" Seeing Jiuzhu smiling happily, Prince Chen couldn't help but smile too.
"Yeah, I'm happy."
How could I not be happy when I met him again after eight years and learned that he and Concubine Su were doing well?
well.
Prince Chen looked at Jiuzhu's white and tender face. This innocent and naive character was a pity that the person she was going to marry in the future was him. If she married someone else...
Unconsciously frowning, he turned to look at King Qi: "Fourth brother is still here?"
The King of Qi put the selected jewelry into the box and said slowly, "Fifth brother, have you chosen?"
"It would be better to let a woman come along when choosing jewelry for her." The Prince of Chen lowered his eyelids and said casually, "If she doesn't like it, wouldn't it be a waste of her kindness?"
"Really?" Prince Qi glanced at the hairpins on the tray that were chosen by Prince Chen but refused to be worn by Ming Jiuzhu: "Miss Ming doesn't seem to like the ones chosen by Fifth Brother?"
"No." Jiuzhu said, "Your Highness Prince Chen has a discerning eye and a refined taste for beauty. I like every piece he chooses. It's just that I couldn't bear to see Your Highness spend more money, so I reluctantly refused."
No one can question His Royal Highness Prince Chen's aesthetic taste, not even his brother.
A discerning eye?
The prince of Qi stopped holding the hairpin, looked at Jiuzhu with his beautiful eyes, then smiled gracefully and nodded to her: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood."
"It's okay." Prince Chen took a step forward and stood in front of Jiuzhu: "I have a broad mind and won't care about such a small matter."
"Your Highness." A middle-aged man in dark blue clothes with a scar on his chin walked upstairs. He seemed to have not expected that there were other people. He bowed to the Prince of Chen without even looking at Jiuzhu behind him. He walked up to the Prince of Qi and said with a bow, "Your Highness is seriously ill."
"I understand." The King of Qi put down the jewelry box, signaled his attendant to settle the bill, turned around and hurriedly left the jewelry shop with the middle-aged man.
"Miss, Miss?" Chunfen saw King Qi leave, and Jiuzhu did not greet him. Fortunately, King Qi left in a hurry and did not notice the lady's impoliteness: "What's wrong with you?"
Jiuzhu shook her head slowly: "What is the identity of the middle-aged man who just came?"
"Look at his attire, he looks like a servant from the Marquis of Pingyuan's mansion or the Prince of Qi's mansion." Chunfen thought for a moment and said, "Since he can come to deliver a message, he must be a close confidant of the master."
Noticing that the young lady's face was a little pale, Chunfen touched Jiuzhu's hand and found that her palm was a little cold: "Young lady, please wait a moment. I will go to the carriage to get your cloak."
"I'm not cold..."
Before she finished her words, a large dark cloak was draped over her body.
"Put it on." Seeing the cloak sliding down, Prince Chen reached out to pull the straps up, and then twisted them around the belt, successfully tying the straps... into a knot.
spring equinox:"……"
Tying a cloak is a difficult task, which is really difficult for His Royal Highness the Prince who has a group of servants.
Pretending not to notice the knot he had tied, "My mother's birthday is coming up soon, so don't freeze it out."
If she can't go to the birthday party at that time, when the news gets out, people will think that this girl and her mother are not getting along.
It is said that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is the most difficult in the world. He doesn't want to worry about this before getting married.
The man's cloak was a little too long for Jiuzhu. She looked down at the cloak that was dragging on the ground and pulled it up.
"Oh." Jiuzhu nodded obediently.
Prince Chen: “…”
At this time, shouldn't I take the opportunity to ask him about Mother's preferences so that I can prepare a birthday gift that will suit Mother's wishes?
Oh what?
Can you be more careful?!
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