"Ming Xiaozhu, there's something wrong with the way you look at me. Do you think I'm drunk?"
"Your Highness is now elegant and clear-headed, how could he be drunk?" Jiuzhu denied it flatly and gently tickled his palm with her fingers.
"Okay." Prince Chen looked down at the two people's holding hands and followed Jiuzhu obediently, only muttering occasionally, feeling bothered about not being able to bask in the moonlight.
"Sister Chunfen." Jiuzhu whispered in Chunfen's ear: "Thank you for your help, sister."
Chunfen smiled and said, "Please rest assured, Princess. I will definitely get this done." After that, he bowed to Prince Chen and Jiuzhu and walked away quickly.
"Your Highness, shall we go back in a sedan chair?"
"I won't ride in the sedan chair." Prince Chen shook his head slowly, his slightly red cheeks showing a bit of the stubbornness that is unique to young men.
"Okay, we won't sit down." Jiuzhu did not let go of Prince Chen's hand. The palace maids and eunuchs holding lanterns walked silently beside the two of them, with their heads down and not daring to speak.
"Ming Xiaozhu." His fingers were tightly intertwined with hers, and they were infinitely lingering: "I am very happy."
"Um?"
Prince Chen laughed, a laugh that was a little...satisfied and silly: "I am very happy to marry you."
"You looked very pretty wearing the hairpin that day." His smile was a little more proud: "I was also cute when I told Zheng Wangnan that I was tacky."
"It turns out that His Highness was in the store at that time." Jiuzhu recalled the first time she went shopping on the streets of the capital with her sixth brother. When they were choosing jewelry, the eldest son of the Zheng family said something like the twined hairpins were tacky.
"I remember that day, His Highness was wearing a purple robe." Jiuzhu smiled: "His Highness's appearance made everything pale in comparison."
He came riding on a white horse, becoming the most beautiful scenery on the street.
But at that time, she didn't know that this handsome young man was the benefactor she had been looking for for a long time.
"So in your eyes, I am the most beautiful?"
Jiuzhu nodded: "Your Highness is the most beautiful and the best."
A big, happy smile appeared on Prince Chen's face.
"Come up." Prince Chen suddenly bent down: "I'll carry you."
“Your Highness…” Jiuzhu did not move.
"You still suspect I'm drunk?"
My dear prince, you are really drunk.
Jiuzhu lay on King Chen's back: "I'm just worried about tiring you out."
"You weigh only a few taels, how can you tire me out?" Prince Chen was drunk, but his hand held Jiuzhu tightly.
Jiuzhu even felt that even if His Highness fell, he would use his body to protect her.
"I regret it very much." The wind blew Prince Chen's robe, and his voice became ethereal.
"When we first met, I shouldn't have let you leave alone." The night and the wine make it easy for people to say what is hidden in their hearts.
"I should carry you back to the capital like I am doing now. Dress you in the most beautiful clothes and wear the best jewelry." She was so distressed that she almost burst out: "As long as I am here, no one will dare to let you suffer the slightest injustice."
Jiuzhu rested her head on his shoulder and listened quietly to him describing all the beautiful ideas.
"The cold cakes in East City are the best, and the noodles in West City are the best..."
She smiled with the corners of her mouth raised, closed her eyes and listened to his voice, the sound of the wind.
A moon lamp was hung at the gate of Qilin Palace.
Prince Chen stood at the door with Jiuzhu on his back, looking up at the full moon on the eaves of the door: "What is that?"
"That's the moon I gave to Your Highness." Jiuzhu got off his back and pulled him to sit on the steps under the eaves of the door: "Your Highness wants to bask in the moonlight, I'll accompany you."
The full moon swayed gently, and their shadows intertwined to form a round ball.
"No, I don't want the moon." The drunken Prince Chen leaned his head on Jiuzhu's shoulder.
"What does your highness want?" Jiuzhu tilted her shoulders slightly to let him lean on her more comfortably.
"I want……"
"You who accompany me to bask in the moonlight."
The moon was creaking and shaking, and Prince Chen leaned against Jiuzhu and slowly fell asleep. Jiuzhu looked at his peaceful sleeping face and chuckled.
"OK."
It was late at night. When Xiangjuan arrived at Qilin Palace, Prince Chen had already fallen asleep.
"Aunt Xiangjuan." Jiuzhu walked out of the house with her thick black hair loose. "It's so late, thank you for taking this trip."
"The Queen heard that the princes had been drinking, so she asked me to come and take a look."
His Highness seldom gets drunk. In the past, whenever he drank, Her Majesty would always send someone around to watch him. But today, when she came to Qilin Palace, she suddenly remembered that if His Highness drinks again in the future, Her Majesty would not have to worry.
His Highness is already the princess's man, and the princess will take care of him.
"Your Highness has gone to bed." Jiuzhu smiled and lowered her voice, "Your Highness looks very well behaved after being drunk."
good?
What misunderstanding did the princess have about His Highness?
Even though she was the Queen's personal maid, she couldn't go against her conscience and praise Prince Chen for being well behaved, but Princess Chen did it.
"I feel relieved that the princess will take care of His Highness." Xiang Juan saw that Jiuzhu had removed her makeup and stood up to say goodbye: "I will leave without disturbing Your Highness and the princess."
"It's late at night, please be careful, aunt." Jiuzhu picked up a lantern and brought the scented silk to the palace gate, and called two eunuchs to accompany her.
Xiangjuan felt very happy. As a palace maid, she was not worthy of being sent to the door by the princess herself.
She has been in the palace for many years, and can more or less tell whether people are sincere or just pretending.
The princess was genuinely worried that she would be unsafe on the way to Mingyue Palace.
"Princess, this lamp at the door really looks like the moon." She looked up and noticed the round moon lamp under the eaves of the door. "When Your Highness was imprisoned in the Qiandi Palace, he was only six or seven years old. The house was stuffy and hot on summer nights. In order to coax Your Highness to cool off in the yard, the Queen Mother said that as long as he basked in the moon more, the Moon Lady would bless him."
"Look at me, talking about things that happened more than ten years ago again." Xiang Juan smiled apologetically: "Princess, please go back and rest. I'll take my leave."
"Take care, auntie." Jiuzhu handed the lantern in her hand to Xiangjuan: "It's hard to walk on the road in the dark, auntie, take the lantern with you."
Xiangjuan did not refuse. She carried the lantern and walked away with the two eunuchs that Jiuzhu had arranged to escort her.
"Someone come here." Jiuzhu looked up at the full moon lantern and said, "Take down the lantern and hang it outside the bedroom of His Highness and I."
May the Moon Lady always bless Your Highness.
Outside Jingzhao Prefecture, Du Qingke slowly walked out of the gate.
He was still wearing the clothes he had worn the day he was brought into Jingzhao Prefecture. The brocade robe was wrinkled on his body and had an unpleasant, sour smell.
Fortunately, it was night time and no one could see his plight.
"Master." The servants of the Du family who were waiting outside saw him coming out and hurriedly took him to the car.
Sitting in the carriage, Du Qingke, who had been patient for a long time, looked gloomy.
Everything that those idiots from aristocratic families did has now been uncovered.
If he had known that these people were so stupid, he should not have gotten so close to them just for the things in their families.
Fortunately, he already has the connections of these idiots under his control, so they are no longer of any use.
Thinking of the suffering he had endured in prison these days, he took off his dirty outer robe and said, "Prince An, Prince Chen!"
Especially Prince Chen, his lackeys seemed to have clairvoyance and destroyed the plans of several noble families to sow discord.
If he had never trusted those idiots and had not participated in anything they did, he would probably not have been able to leave the gate of Jingzhao Prefecture.
Even though the person managed to escape successfully, he still had to pay a fine of one hundred taels of silver. The prefect of Jingzhao showed no mercy to the head of the aristocratic family.
"Who is sitting in the carriage? The Jinwu Guards are on night patrol. Please cooperate with us to check."
Jinwu Guard?
Du Qingke lifted the carriage curtain: "It's me."
He recognized at a glance that the other party was the Jinwu Guard who had taken them to Jingzhao Prefecture that day.
Who is it?
Yu Jian heard the other party's tone was full of confidence, as if he was sure that their Jinwu Guards could recognize him.
But……
Who is this middle-aged man with disheveled hair, wrinkled clothes and dusty shoes?
"Who are you?" Yu Jian stared at the messy beard on the other person's chin for a moment, then bowed and said, "Please hand over your identity token."
"My name is Du Qingke." Du Qingke handed over the identity token.
"Oh." Yu Jian said in a long voice, nodding repeatedly: "I was saying, why do you look a little familiar."
The head of the Du family, who was so graceful and elegant a few days ago, has become like this after being locked up in jail for just a few days?
From this we can see that no matter how elegant and graceful one is, one cannot do without the people around him to serve him.
"Master Du, please." Yu Jian returned the identity token to Du Qingke and rode aside on his horse.
"Thank you." Du Qingke looked at the jade slip deeply and let down the curtain.
Yu Jian raised his eyebrows. What did Du Qingke’s look just now mean?
Holding a grudge?
"Du Qingke has been released, but where are the other family heads?" Yu Jian asked the people behind him.
"The two who abducted decent women and beat people to death were sentenced to death by beheading. The others were sentenced to exile. As for Du Qingke, he was not involved and Jingzhao Prefecture did not find any evidence linking him, so they let him go."
"But the prefect sentenced him to a fine of one hundred taels of silver because he knew about it but did not report it."
That's one hundred taels of silver, not one hundred copper coins.
Do those things really have nothing to do with Du Qingke?
Yu Jian didn't believe it.
But the government office is a place that relies on evidence. Even if everyone knows that Du Qingke is suspicious, without evidence, the government office can do nothing to him.
"I heard that Du Qingke is the uncle of the Third Prince's wife. Boss, we sent him to the government office a few days ago. Will he retaliate against us?"
"What are you afraid of? It wasn't us who sent him to the government office. It was Prince Chen and Prince An." When mentioning Prince Chen, Yu Jian had a subtle sense of trust: "Does he dare to take revenge on the two princes?"
"He doesn't dare to touch the two princes, but he dares to touch us."
Yu Jian: “…”
If I could become a lackey of Prince Chen's Mansion, I wouldn't have to worry about Du Qingke's revenge.
The verdicts of several heads of aristocratic families, because they involve death penalty, have to be submitted to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, who will make the final decision.
The Ministry of Justice did not even allow room for discussion and directly stamped its seal, agreeing to the Jingzhao Prefecture's verdict.
There was some discussion at the Dali Temple, but it was all directed at cursing the heads of these aristocratic families.
"After all, your ancestors were prominent, how could they do such a ridiculous thing?"
"They even kept young girls in captivity. How could such a beast be exiled?"
"I also think that this family head should be sentenced to death by beheading."
After some discussion, one more name was added to the beheading list.
"Brother Jiyuan." An official flipped open the confession transcript of the victim and brought it to Ming Jiyuan: "The person who saved this woman's life was actually Princess Chen."
"What?" Ming Jiyuan took the file and started flipping through it.
[The woman wanted to commit suicide on the cliff, but Princess Chen couldn't bear it and stretched out her arms to save her. 】
"The Princess of Chen had a sense of justice and saved the poor woman's life." The official sighed, "In order to prevent the woman from being severely punished, the Prince of Chen also arranged for a doctor to save the life of the assassinated head of the family. He really had good intentions."
If the head of the family dies before the verdict is issued, according to the Dacheng law, the murderer must pay with his life.
His Royal Highness Prince Chen is more humane than everyone imagines.
"My sister is petite and weak, I never thought she would have such divine power in a critical situation."
The Ming family are all weak and gentle!
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