Prince Chen was strolling in the racecourse, leading his pony at a pace slower than usual.
"Your Highness." The steward of the stable came up to him flatteringly and said, "I am here to help you lead the horses. How can you do such rough and tiring work?"
"Do I need you to teach me how to do things?" Prince Chen waved his hand impatiently, "Stay aside and don't bother me."
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu gradually got used to riding on horseback: "It's okay to let someone else lead the horse."
"Can someone else lead the horse and make you feel more at ease than me?"
Jiuzhu shook his head.
"That's it." Prince Chen touched the pony's neck and said, "How can these servants lead the horses with the same care as me?"
It was the first time in her life that a little girl was holding a horse for someone, and she dared to be disgusted?
Small steward: "..."
Look, is this human language? Even if they have a hundred courages, they would not dare to be careless.
After failing to flatter the emperor, the steward tactfully stepped aside.
A colleague whispered sarcastically, "I told you not to join in the fun, but you refused to listen."
"If we go, we'll be disliked. If we don't go, we're afraid of making the noble unhappy." The steward couldn't bear it and retorted stubbornly: "If His Royal Highness Prince Chen dislikes our poor service, we will be the ones to suffer in the end, right?"
"Do you know who the noble person on the horse is?" The colleague whispered mysteriously in the steward's ear: "That is the daughter of the Ming family, the future Princess Chen."
He has no foresight and deserves to have stayed in the horse farm for so many years without getting promoted.
After strolling around the stables for a few laps, Prince Chen stopped and handed his hand to Jiuzhu: "Come down."
Jiuzhu: “…”
Horse riding is fun.
"This is your first time riding a horse, so you shouldn't ride for too long, otherwise your legs will hurt." The Prince of Chen lifted Jiuzhu up and he lifted her down the same way.
"Oh." Jiuzhu glanced at the pony, stood on the ground and nodded obediently.
"I'll bring you here to play next time." Seeing Jiuzhu's reluctant look, Prince Chen spoke faster than his brain: "I'll go with you to pick a little white horse now."
Tsk, this little girl is so troublesome. I’m afraid she’ll be unhappy but I have to coax her.
The ponies in the stables were originally raised to make the royal children happy. The Prince of Chen had no interest in this kind of short and stocky horse before, but today he had the rare opportunity to go to the short and stocky horse circle to choose a horse, and he immediately fell in love with a chubby, furry pony as white as snow.
"Your Highness has good eyesight. This horse is a dwarf horse presented by Chizhou. It is cute and lovely, and is very popular with the ladies." The steward, who had failed to flatter the horse just now, personally stepped forward to put the reins on the horse and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness. We will send the horse to your palace later."
"No need, just send it to Minister Ming's house." Prince Chen gently pulled the small strands of hair on Jiuzhu's temples: "The little white horse you like."
“Yes, yes.” Jiuzhu nodded repeatedly, his eyes fixed on the little white horse: “Thank you, Your Highness.”
He said thank you, Your Highness, but his eyes were looking at the horse.
Haha, woman.
He wanted to pull her hair hard, but was afraid of bullying the little girl to tears. Prince Chen sighed resignedly, "Let's go. I'll take you home."
To prevent the Ming family from thinking that he had abducted their daughter.
"Your Highness." Before getting on the carriage, Jiuzhu took off the brocade bag hanging from her waist and put it in the hands of the Prince of Chen: "This amulet has been worshipped in front of the statue for many days and is blessed by the Golden Light Mantra every day. May it protect your Highness with peace and good luck, and keep you safe from all evil."
"Is this... your return gift to me?" Prince Chen looked at the small sachet, which still had a faint scent of incense.
Jiuzhu smiled, shook her head and nodded. This amulet was placed before the statue of the god with her own hands when she was eight years old. She recited the Golden Light Mantra every day until the day she went to Beijing, when she took it down from the tribute table.
The capital city was too big, and she didn’t know when she would be able to meet her benefactor again, so she kept it in her house. It was not until the day she recognized the King that she kept the amulet with her so that she could give it to him the next time they met.
Master said, among all living beings, Heaven’s way is inaction, the way of nature follows nature, and life and death are all determined by oneself, not by God. It’s just that if you are sincere, everything will go as you wish.
"Then I'll accept it." Putting the brocade bag into his arms, Prince Chen got on his horse and said, "Let's go. I'll take you home."
He was still a little worried about letting her go back alone in the carriage. It was not because he liked to meddle in other people's affairs, but he was mainly worried that the girl might be abducted by bad people because of her poor brain.
The carriage was of princely specifications, spacious and luxurious. Jiuzhu leaned on the window and tilted her head to look at Prince Chen who was riding on horseback.
When Prince Chen looked at her for the first time, she was looking at him.
The second time he looked at her, she was still looking at him.
The third time, he couldn't help but ask, "Why do you keep looking at me? Do you think I am more handsome than Pan An or more beautiful than a jade?"
"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded: "Your Highness is beautiful."
Even if an immortal came down to earth, it would be no more than this.
The Prince turned away and stopped looking at Jiuzhu.
This, this little girl is really not reserved at all.
In Mingyue Palace, Concubine Su looked at her son who came to eat dinner and said to Emperor Longfeng beside her: "It seems that the future Yue family did not invite him to dinner."
Emperor Longfeng smiled faintly and shook his head.
"I am just sending the little girl home on the way, why should I have dinner?" Prince Chen waved away the maid who was serving him food, picked up the chopsticks and picked up the food himself: "As a prince, if I eat at a foreign minister's house, people will think I care too much about their family after the news gets out."
"Oh?" Emperor Longfeng scooped the soup himself and placed it in front of Concubine Su. After Concubine Su fed him a spoonful of soup, he looked up at Prince Chen and said, "I thought that you had a good impression of Miss Ming because you led her horse and chose horses for her this afternoon."
"She is only fifteen or sixteen years old, she doesn't know anything, how can she feel good or bad." Prince Chen continued to put food into his bowl: "Now that she is here, we can't just leave her aside. If I make her cry, I will have to comfort her, it will be troublesome."
"I have seen Miss Ming before. She doesn't seem like a crybaby." Concubine Su glanced at her son's bowl and said, "Du Qing, didn't you hate this dish in the past?"
The Prince of Chen then noticed what he had just picked up. He closed his eyes and stuffed the food into his mouth, forcing himself to remain calm and saying, "The past is the past. Men are fickle."
After finishing his meal, Prince Chen stood up and said, "Father, Majesty, I will take my leave."
Concubine Su sighed: "Du Qing's temper is really worrying."
Emperor Longfeng kept his head down while eating and did not respond. When a woman complained about her child's shortcomings, a man only needed to listen quietly or find reasons to praise the child, but he must not agree with her, otherwise he would be the only one who would suffer the consequences.
With Du Qing's usual personality, when has he ever cared whether a girl would cry or not? When he saw a crying woman, he would be annoyed if he even looked at her for even a second, let alone comfort her.
As expected, the people who understand men best are always men.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." A eunuch hurried in, his face pale.
"What's the matter?" Emperor Longfeng put down his chopsticks.
The eunuch knelt on the ground, his whole body trembling with fear: "The Minister of the Imperial Household Department urgently reported that several tribute horses that had just arrived at the horse farm suddenly went crazy for some unknown reason, biting and trampling on each other, and died suddenly an hour ago."
The smile on Emperor Longfeng's face suddenly disappeared without a trace: "Are you talking about the royal horse farm that my son went to this afternoon?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch trembled even more, but he did not dare to hide it: "These horses are the fierce horses selected by His Royal Highness Prince Chen. His Royal Highness was supposed to go to the stables to train horses today, but he met Miss Ming on the way and accompanied her to ride horses and choose horses, so this matter was delayed."
The Prince of Chen did not like help from others when training horses, and no one dared to imagine what would have happened if it had not happened to be delayed.
"Investigate." Emperor Longfeng's face was gloomy, and his eyes were full of murderous intent: "Pass on my order, the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice will thoroughly investigate the matter of the Royal Horse Farm, and no suspicious person will be let go!"
"Did something big happen today?" Sun Caiyao didn't sleep well the whole night. She remembered that in her dream, the news of Prince Chen's death came out at this time.
"No." Seeing Sun Caiyao's haggard face, the maid asked worriedly, "Miss, did you not sleep well last night?"
"Did nothing really happen?!" Sun Caiyao kept asking.
"I, I have never heard of it." The maid was frightened by Sun Caiyao's appearance: "Miss, don't worry, I will go and find out right away."
“No need.” Sun Caiyao shook her head in a daze, “No need…”
Was that dream false?
Prince Chen will not die, and Prince Qi will not become the most prominent among the princes?
No, no, no, if the dream was false, why would Ming Jiuzhu appear?
Something must be wrong. Yes, there must have been an accident somewhere!
"Miss." A maid ran into the room: "Something big has happened."
"Hurry up and tell me!" Sun Caiyao accidentally knocked over the rouge box, and the red liquid splattered on the floor, as red as blood.
"A batch of tribute horses that were just presented suddenly died, which angered His Majesty, who ordered a thorough investigation." The maid lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "According to rumors, there was a horse in this batch that the prince liked, but he was delayed by other things halfway and didn't ride it. His Majesty must be so angry because of this."
Sun Caiyao's forehead was buzzing.
So that’s how it is. So that’s how it is…
Something happened at the royal stables. Except for Prince Chen, the other adult princes were very nervous, fearing that they would be implicated. The timid ones didn't even leave the house.
Even Ming Cunfu, who was devoted to reading the books of sages, knew about this. He walked into his uncle's house and stepped into the main courtyard, and saw his cousin walking in the yard with a big white dog.
"When did you get a dog?" Ming Cunfu casually praised, "Its fur is bright and it looks very energetic."
"Sixth brother, this is not a dog, it's a little white horse." Jiuzhu led the horse to Ming Cunfu and let him see it more clearly. "Look, how cute it is."
Ming Cunfu looked at this fluffy and soft horse that looked almost like a puppy, and for a moment he didn't know how to start talking.
What kind of serious horse looks so cowardly?
"Look...it's quite cute. Where did my sister get that from?" I still have to praise it. I have to pick out the advantages of the little animal that my sister likes and praise it.
"His Royal Highness Prince Chen gave it to me." Jiuzhu bent down and hugged the little white horse's neck, rubbing its ears affectionately.
It was obvious that Jiuzhu liked this horse very much. Ming Cunfu said insincerely: "Your Highness Prince Chen is really considerate to others."
Bah, he rides a Ferghana horse, but he gives them a dwarf horse, what a mess it has become!
"Your Highness is super nice!"
Ming Cunfu was silent again, and only calmed down after a long time: "Why did the King of Chen give you a horse?"
My sister obviously doesn't know how to ride a horse.
"His Highness invited me to the royal stables, and I told him I liked little white horses, so he picked out the cutest one." Jiuzhu touched the pony's head, and the pony obediently let her touch it.
"Royal Stables?" Ming Cunfu's expression changed. "When did you and His Highness go to the Royal Stables?"
"Yesterday afternoon." Jiuzhu saw that Ming Cunfu looked a little strange: "What's wrong?"
"No wonder His Majesty is so angry..." Ming Cunfu was just about to explain to Jiuzhu when he heard the doorman come to report that the chief eunuch Liu Zhongbao was visiting with gifts on the emperor's orders.
Liu Zhongbao, the eunuch beside His Majesty? This eunuch hasn't run errands for a long time.
Ming Cunfu's heart tightened: "Open the main gate to welcome him, and quickly ask Third Aunt to take charge of the situation."
Jiuzhu and Ming Cunfu looked at each other, handed the pony to the servants, tidied their clothes and went outside to welcome the guests.
Ming Cunfu followed Jiuzhu and was very worried. Such a big thing happened at the horse farm. He wondered if his sister would be implicated?
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