Yun Yanze woke up from his sleep. He opened his eyes and looked at the quiet house: "Someone come."
"Your Highness." The eunuch walked to the bedside: "Are you awake?"
"Where is the princess?" He held the eunuch's hand and got down from the bed. Every step he took caused pain all over his body, but his upbringing did not allow him to do anything indecent, not even to frown.
"The Princess..." The young eunuch hesitated and did not dare to speak.
"What's wrong?" Yun Yanze put on his outer robe: "Did someone embarrass her?"
"No." The young eunuch explained, "Someone from Lanxu Palace just came to talk to the Princess of the County. After she heard what she said, her face didn't look good, so she went to find His Royal Highness the Prince of Chen."
The people around her mother were looking for Cai Yao, so why did she want to go look for Yun Duqing?
"I'll go and take a look."
"Your Highness, your injury has not healed yet, so you should not move around too much."
Yun Yanze coughed a few times and said, "It's okay. Fifth brother has a quick temper and I'm afraid Caiyao will be unhappy with him."
The young eunuch hurriedly helped him put on his clothes, and together with another eunuch, he helped the prince out of the yard. As the group walked outside Prince Chen's courtyard, they heard the voice of the Princess.
"I won't leave until my fifth brother comes to see me."
The eunuchs lowered their heads quickly, not daring to look at Prince Qi's expression.
Yun Yanze looked at Sun Caiyao's back calmly and coughed slightly, "Caiyao."
"Your Highness?" Hearing Yun Yanze's voice, Sun Caiyao quickly came back to her senses, looking a little flustered: "Why are you here?"
Yun Yanze smiled slightly: "I woke up and saw that you were not in the room. I was worried that you were wronged, so I came out to check."
Sun Caiyao felt a pang in her heart. His Highness must have come to see her because he was afraid that she would be wronged outside.
Although the Palace Department did not dare to withhold the prince's food, clothing and expenses, ever since he was demoted to a prince, the palace servants always looked at him strangely. She was afraid that the prince would feel uncomfortable, so she had been hiding it well.
"You are the prince, and I am the prince's consort. Who dares to let me suffer injustice?" Sun Caiyao walked to Yun Yanze and said softly, "Your wound has not healed yet, so you can't be exposed to the wind. Let's go back."
"Don't you want to see your fifth brother?" Yun Yanze took her hand and said, "I'll take you there."
"It's okay. No need." Sun Caiyao shook her head. She was afraid that His Highness would get anxious and angry if he knew about Concubine Ning's matter, which would worsen the wound that had not yet healed. "Nothing is more important than Your Highness resting."
"Really?" Yun Yanze smiled slightly: "Cai Yao is so nice to me."
"I am your highness's wife. If I don't treat you well, who should I treat well?" Sun Caiyao's fingers were intertwined with Yun Yanze's fingers, her eyes full of tenderness.
"Then let's go back." Yun Yanze glanced at the gate and saw a lamp swaying on the treetops. He stopped and asked, "What is that?"
"I heard from my fifth brother that it was a shark gauze lantern." Sun Caiyao lowered her eyelids: "I heard that he prepared it specially for Princess Ming."
"Caiyao likes it too?" Yun Yanze looked at her.
"It's a waste of money, and it's useless except for looking good." Sun Caiyao glanced at the lamp and said, "I don't like it."
Yun Yanze smiled and said nothing.
"Your Highness, you are still smiling."
"I am laughing at you. I don't have any dimples."
"I'm really getting angry and don't want to play with you."
"Hey, don't go." Prince Chen caught up with Jiuzhu who was walking out with her skirt lifted up: "You don't want the Jiaoshadeng anymore?"
Jiuzhu stopped, turned her head and looked at the shark gauze lantern in Prince Chen's hand without saying a word.
"Hmph!" She turned her head and looked at the sky.
"Little girl, why is your temper getting worse and worse?" Prince Chen walked to her side, spread out her palm, and put the lamp handle in her palm: "Hold it well, I will definitely not tease you again."
No wonder people always say that girls cannot be coaxed, the more they are coaxed, the worse their temper becomes.
"I didn't." Jiuzhu held the lamp and lowered his head guiltily.
"Nothing?" Prince Chen asked her.
No... my temper is getting worse and worse.
It should be... no, right?
Jiuzhu carefully recalled the details of her interactions with His Highness, her head lowered lower, unable to believe that she actually got angry over such a small matter.
No wonder the masters said that the feng shui of the capital is bad. It seems to be true. Even her temper has become worse.
"Are you not angry anymore?" Prince Chen poked the little girl who lowered her head.
"I'm not angry." Jiuzhu kicked the ground lightly with her toes to hide her guilty conscience.
"If you are not angry, smile at me, otherwise I won't believe it." Prince Chen bent down and looked Jiuzhu in the eye: "Come on, smile."
Jiuzhu looked at His Royal Highness Prince Chen who suddenly approached her, looking into his deep and beautiful eyes, with only one thought in her mind.
Your Highness has beautiful eyes and a beautiful nose. It seems like everything about him is beautiful.
"Ming Xiaozhu?"
"Um?"
"Are you in a daze again?" Prince Chen stretched out his finger and gently poked her forehead with it: "Come on, smile."
Jiuzhu raised the corner of his mouth and smiled obediently.
Prince Chen turned his head suddenly and said, "Oh my God, how could the Ming family raise such a stupid girl?"
It's so stupid that the only way to make people feel at ease is to put it in your pocket and keep it well.
He took a deep breath and felt in his pouch: "Open your mouth."
Jiuzhu opened her mouth obediently, and there was a mint candy in her mouth.
"Mint is cool in nature. It will be more comfortable if you hold it in your mouth." Prince Chen looked at Jiuzhu's hair with some regret. The flying fairy bun she had combed today was too delicate. It would not look good if it was messed up. Otherwise, he would want to rub her head.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Jiuzhu became happy again.
Prince Chen laughed secretly in his heart, knowing that this little girl was easy to coax.
He turned his head to look at the courtyard gate and frowned. How long has Yun Yanze been standing here?
What's wrong with him? He already has a princess, and why is he standing at the gate of his yard, peeking at what he is doing with his fiancée?
"Fourth brother, fourth sister-in-law." Prince Chen took a step forward and hid Jiuzhu behind him: "You two are standing here... enjoying the scenery?"
"The scenery of your yard is pleasant. I accidentally looked at it a few more times. Please forgive me." Yun Yanze clenched his hands into a fist, put it between his lips and coughed lightly.
He glanced at the bamboo-green corner of Yun Duqing's clothes that was exposed behind him, put down his hands, and laughed softly.
Ever since Yun Duqing got engaged to Ming Jiuzhu, his reputation among the civil officials is no longer so bad, and even his luck seems to have improved a lot.
The stories about overbearing princes circulating in the capital made many ordinary people believe them to be true. When they mentioned Prince Chen, they thought that he was just like in the stories, with a generous personality, good at both civil and military affairs, and with a beautiful girl who was deeply in love with him.
"It's okay. I also think that the scenery of my yard is very nice." Prince Chen raised his eyebrows: "But Fourth Brother's wound has not healed yet, so it's better to go back early. After you recover, it won't be too late to enjoy it slowly."
"Thank you for your reminder, Fifth Brother. I will take good care of myself." Yun Yanze smiled faintly: "County Lady Ming, when did you enter the palace?"
Sun Caiyao turned her head to glance at Yun Yanze. Even though Ming Jiuzhu was different from in the dream and was not with His Highness, His Highness always seemed to notice her.
"Your Highness, I entered the palace today." Jiuzhu leaned half of her body out from behind King Chen, bowed to Yun Yanze, and then shrank back.
"Fourth brother." Prince Chen said with a fake smile: "You should go back to your own courtyard to recuperate."
"Goodbye." Yun Yanze held Sun Caiyao's hand and said, "Caiyao, let's go."
Sun Caiyao glanced at Prince Chen, then at Yun Yanze, but in the end she said nothing and left with Yun Yanze.
"Does the Princess have anything to say?"
"Things that are not said are not important." Prince Chen looked at Jiuzhu's hand, moved his fingers, and finally retracted them into his sleeve obediently.
"I asked the kitchen to prepare a dinner that is neither spicy nor hot. After dinner, I will take you back to Mingyue Palace." He handed the small bottle of medicine to Jiuzhu: "Don't forget to put a pill in your mouth before going to bed at night. The wound in your mouth will be healed tomorrow morning."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Jiuzhu held the medicine bottle, feeling more and more guilty.
Ming Jiuzhu, Ming Jiuzhu, His Royal Highness Prince Chen has even thought about what she will eat in the evening, and you are still angry with such a little fairy. Don’t you feel guilty?
After dinner at Zhangliu Palace, night had already fallen. Jiuzhu walked out the door and saw the lights on in the yard. She opened her mouth and exclaimed, "So beautiful."
"Let's go and take a look at the outer courtyard." Prince Chen helped Jiuzhu hold her shark silk lantern and took her to the bluestone road in the outer courtyard.
The dim lights, the floating lanterns on the winding water, and the palace maids standing in neat rows holding glass lanterns, everything is so beautiful that it seems like you have strayed into a fairyland.
Jiuzhu was reluctant to blink and didn't know where to look.
Prince Chen looked at Ming Jiuzhu under the candlelight in the night and stood patiently beside her.
She gave him all the money she had saved, and he could only give her a world of lights and lights.
"Does it look good?" he asked.
"It looks good." Jiuzhu nodded slowly. She pulled his sleeve and said, "Did Your Highness prepare this especially for me?"
The Prince of Chen was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Hmm"
"Thank you, Your Highness." Jiuzhu looked up at the lights on the treetops: "This is the most beautiful light I have ever seen."
"Is this the most beautiful one?" Prince Chen smiled and said, "In the future, I will give you a better-looking lantern."
Jiuzhu looked at him and smiled, and all the stars in the Milky Way jumped into her eyes.
Prince Chen watched with her for a long time, until the night wind gradually grew stronger, and then he spoke: "Let's go, I'll take you back."
Jiuzhu hurriedly followed him.
Although the lights were bright, she followed him without hesitation.
Sun Caiyao stood in the dark, waiting for Prince Chen and Ming Jiuzhu to leave before she walked under the lamp and said to the palace maid behind her: "Let's go."
No matter what the reason, as a daughter-in-law, she had to go to Mingyue Palace to plead for her mother.
The palace is quiet, but not scary. Instead, there is an indescribable sense of peace. The palace lanterns stretched Prince Chen's shadow long, and Jiuzhu stepped on his shadow, as if there was a small tail behind him.
Suddenly, Prince Chen stopped and turned to look at Jiuzhu: "The road ahead is dark, hold my sleeve."
"Oh." She reached out and gently grabbed his sleeve.
The shadows of the two people were stretched together, and finally merged into a black mass on the palace wall, making it impossible to tell who was who.
Arriving at the gate of Mingyue Palace, Jiuzhu let go of her hand and pulled at her wrinkled sleeves: "Your Highness, I'm here."
"Yes." Prince Chen put his hands behind his back and said, "You go in."
As soon as Jiuzhu stepped into the door, she heard Aunt Xiangjuan say, "It's been so many years, I don't know if I can find the little girl from back then."
Jiuzhu turned her head and looked behind her. His Royal Highness Prince Chen had not left yet. She suddenly turned around, walked over to him, and grabbed his sleeve again.
"Aunt Xiangjuan, who are you looking for?" She grabbed Prince Chen's sleeve with her right hand, held onto the door frame with her left hand, and leaned over to ask Xiangjuan.
"The county lady is back?" Xiang Juan walked in front of Jiuzhu and saw His Royal Highness Prince Chen standing behind her. She bowed to the two of them and whispered, "Eight years ago, His Royal Highness rescued a little girl who fell into the water in Lingzhou. The Queen wants to find her."
"Is it important for the Queen and His Highness to find her?"
Xiang Juan nodded: "Your Majesty has asked His Majesty to let the Dragon Guard go to Lingzhou to find her. I hope Your Majesty can get what she wants."
But the world is so big, and I don’t know when I will find that little girl.
Jiuzhu's grip on Prince Chen's sleeve tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again: "Actually, there's no need to look for it."
Prince Chen turned his head to look at her, then held her slightly trembling hand through his sleeve and held it in his palm.
"I know where she is."
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