Jiuzhu felt that Princess Qi might have some huge misunderstanding about her. She just accidentally glanced at Prince Qi before they left. The way the Princess looked at her seemed to think that she would eat Prince Qi.
When she left, she even wanted to use her petite body to cover Prince Qi tightly.
She is a serious person who grew up in a Taoist temple and does not eat human flesh.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu rubbed her sleepy eyes, put aside the Princess's misunderstanding of her, and said to Prince Chen: "I will take you out now."
"Forget it." Prince Chen looked at her, who was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. "Go back and wash up and go to bed early. I'll go by myself."
"No, I promised to take you to the door." Jiuzhu walked in front of the King of Chen and turned to look at him: "Let's go."
"Slow down, there are stairs ahead." When Prince Chen saw her standing at the stairs, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve: "Okay, okay, I'll let you carry me."
If I really fall, it would be troublesome if I cried in front of him.
"Your Highness." Xiang Juan asked Concubine Su in a low voice, "Do you want me to go and see His Highness off?"
"Do you think the lantern hanging above your head is bright?" Concubine Su asked her.
"Bright." Xiangjuan nodded.
"It's bright now." Concubine Su stretched lazily and said, "Let's go back to sleep."
Why bother with young people's affairs?
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu was sobered up by the cold wind outside the palace gate: "Be careful on the road."
"Don't worry." Prince Chen glanced at the sedan chair that had been waiting outside and said, "Go back to sleep."
"Yeah." Jiuzhu looked at the prince who smiled at her and smiled back at him.
After watching His Highness get on the sedan chair and leave, Jiuzhu leaned against the palace gate, staring at the lanterns under the palace eaves in a daze.
At first, she just wanted His Highness and His Majesty to be well together, and asked for nothing else.
But now, why would she be angry with such a good prince?
Prince Chen sat on the sedan chair and looked back. The girl at the palace gate was still there.
After a few breaths, he couldn't help but look back again, the girl was still standing there motionless.
"Stop." He looked at the rising night fog, jumped off the sedan chair, and strode back.
"Your Highness?" Jiuzhu stared blankly at the Prince who was standing in front of her again, and her eyes gradually came back to her senses: "Why are you back?"
The silly look of the girl softened the heart of Prince Chen: "Go back to bed early. I will pick you up to play in Zhangliu Palace tomorrow morning."
He was only away for one night, but the little girl was so worried and anxious. There was really nothing we could do with her.
Jiuzhu looked at her blankly.
"Go back." Prince Chen crossed his arms over his chest and said, "I will leave after I see you climb the stairs."
Jiuzhu turned and walked towards the palace gate. After taking two steps, she turned back and saw the prince was still standing there.
She was afraid that His Highness would stand there, so she lifted her skirt, took small steps, ran all the way to the stairs, and then turned to look at the door.
"I'm leaving." Prince Chen waved his hand casually, turned around and took a step, then turned his head to look at her: "Don't stand here in a daze, go back to sleep immediately, do you understand?"
Jiuzhu nodded.
Prince Chen smiled with satisfaction, and his black cloak drew a graceful arc in the night.
If you are so clingy now, won’t you become his little tail after we get married?
"Your Highness." The eunuch bowed and asked the Prince of Chen who was sitting on the sedan chair: "Are we going back to the Sixth Palace now?"
“No.” Prince Chen looked in the direction of Taiyang Palace. Taiyang Palace was not far from Mingyue Palace. He could even see that the candlelight in the main hall of Taiyang Palace was still burning. “Go to Taiyang Palace. This prince wants to see my father.”
After reviewing the last memorial, Emperor Longfeng was just about to say that he wanted to go to Mingyue Palace, but then he remembered that his beloved concubine wanted to play with the little girl from the Ming family in the next two days and didn't want him to disturb her. So he sighed and decided to sleep on his cold dragon bed.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Chen requests an audience."
"Du Qing wants to see me?" Emperor Longfeng was puzzled. He came to see him so late. Did he have a conflict with his brothers?
"Let him in quickly." Emperor Longfeng thought for a moment and said to Liu Zhongbao, "Ask the palace maid to clean up the side hall. Prince Chen will sleep here tonight."
The distance from Taiyang Palace to Zhangliu Palace is not short.
"Yes." Liu Zhongbao accepted the order and withdrew. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, it seemed that only Concubine Su and His Royal Highness Prince Chen had stayed overnight in the Taiyang Palace.
To the surprise of Emperor Longfeng, after his son came in, he neither complained nor asked him for money. Instead, he took the initiative to talk about Hongwen Academy and the snow disaster in Youzhou.
Although some of his ideas were still a little childish, Emperor Longfeng was still very happy to see that his son, who was usually only interested in eating, drinking and having fun, finally started to care about serious matters.
Even if a pile of memorials were brought to him now, he could review them one by one overnight.
"The Minister of Justice is old and has petitioned to retire three times. Who do you think will take over this position after he retires?"
"Minister Chen of the Ministry of Personnel, although he likes to bang his head against the wall and die when he disagrees with something, he is fair and upright by nature. It is still very suitable for him to manage the Ministry of Justice."
The Ministry of Justice is in charge of the country's criminal law policies, and the position of Shangshu is not open to anyone except a fair and upright person.
"If he is transferred to the Ministry of Justice, what will happen to the Ministry of Personnel?" Emperor Longfeng continued to ask.
"Your Majesty has forgotten someone." Prince Chen felt that there was someone who was very suitable for the position of Minister of Personnel.
"Who?" Emperor Longfeng looked at his son with a smile.
"Ming Jinghai." Prince Chen coughed dryly and said, "This son is not asking for an official position on behalf of the Ming family, but Ming Jinghai is indeed the most suitable candidate."
"Very good." Emperor Longfeng looked at Prince Chen with satisfaction: "As a superior, you must know how to know people and assign them to the right positions. Common tailors know how to tailor clothes according to their body shapes, but the king is the tailor of all the people in the world. If you make a mistake in sewing, the people will suffer. It's good that you can think from their personal abilities and personalities."
He took two appointment letters and handed them to Prince Chen.
The Prince of Chen opened them and saw one appointing Chen Zhixing as the Minister of Punishments, and the other appointing Ming Jinghai as the Minister of Personnel.
"You have made great progress recently." After finishing the business, Emperor Longfeng relaxed: "If I had known that an engagement would help you make progress, I should have let you marry a wife earlier."
"You can't just marry a wife whenever you want." Prince Chen touched his nose and said, "My son has no interest in other girls in the capital."
"Oh?" Emperor Longfeng looked at him with a half-smile: "It seems that it is the daughter of the Ming family that makes you look at her differently?"
This time, facing Emperor Longfeng's ridicule, Prince Chen rarely refuted.
"That little girl from the Ming family, she was raised to be too innocent and naive. She believes everything I say and dares to eat anything I ask her to. I even suspect that she wouldn't be able to tell even if someone outside mocked her." Although he spoke with disdain, Prince Chen's expression became more and more gentle: "With my father and mother protecting me, it doesn't matter if I acted a little ridiculous in the past. But I can't let such an innocent girl marry me and be hurt by other people's rumors, and finally lose her innocence and happiness."
"When I think about it, I feel... I can't bear it." He sighed while holding a cup of calming tea: "At least after she becomes my son's princess, others won't think she married the wrong person when they see her."
Whenever he thought about Ming Xiaozhu's happy smile, which might disappear little by little, he felt confused and upset.
"She must have everything that other princesses have." Prince Chen drank a sip of tea. Although they were not married yet, he had already thought about how Ming Xiaozhu would get along with his sisters-in-law in the future: "She must have everything that others don't have."
"It's not easy to do this." Emperor Longfeng smiled: "If you want to become a prince praised by many people, you have a lot to learn. Aren't you afraid of being tired?"
"Of course I am afraid." Prince Chen sighed, "But as a grown man, I cannot let a naive and happy little girl become lifeless and depressed after marrying me."
"At least... try." He opened the lid of the tea, picked up the cup and took a big sip, as if he had made up his mind: "Please teach me, father."
"Do you like the little girl from the Ming family very much?" Emperor Longfeng asked casually.
"What do you mean by like?" The Prince of Chen picked up the teacup and continued to drink, only to find that he had already drunk up all the tea: "My son, this is... a man's responsibility."
Emperor Longfeng smiled and did not expose his son's thin masculine lies.
A man is willing to do things he was unwilling to do before for a woman. If it is not for love, then is it for the sake of being a good person and doing good things?
"Yes." Emperor Longfeng nodded: "My son should certainly shoulder the responsibilities of a man."
He took out a thick stack of books and placed it in front of Prince Chen.
"Father, what is this?"
"History books." Emperor Longfeng smiled. "The future generations will learn from history. The sorrows of the past generations will be the teachers for the future generations. Only in this way can we avoid repeating the same mistakes."
"But..." Prince Chen flipped open one of the books and showed the contents to Emperor Longfeng: "What you gave me is the Chronicles of the Emperors."
"Well, most emperors were princes before they ascended the throne." Emperor Longfeng patted Prince Chen on the shoulder: "I believe my son, you will definitely learn a lot from this."
Prince Chen looked at him suspiciously, serious?
Emperor Longfeng nodded and said, "Although it is hard and tiring, I believe in you and you are the best."
Finally, Prince Chen went to the side hall of Taiyang Palace holding a thick stack of history books. Even in his dreams, there was a pile of books threatening him. If he didn't read well, they would bully Ming the pig and make her cry.
The next morning, Prince Chen woke up from his dream and said to Liu Zhongbao who was waiting outside the tent: "Eunuch Liu, ask someone to come in and help me change my clothes."
"Your Highness, it's still early. Do you want to sleep a little longer?" Liu Zhongbao was a little surprised. Your Highness actually got up so early today?
"I'm not going to sleep anymore." Prince Chen got up from the bed and put his feet into his boots: "I'm going to Mingyue Palace later."
Liu Zhongbao and other young eunuchs came in and helped him wash.
"Your Highness, His Majesty sent an imperial decree to the harem today." Liu Zhongbao helped Prince Chen comb his hair. "Concubine Ning of Lanxu Palace made a serious mistake, but considering her giving birth to the prince, His Majesty only revoked her title, demoted her to a beauty, and moved her to Qianyi Pavilion."
Qianyi Pavilion is the place that is regarded as the cold palace in the harem.
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows. Is his mother so quick to act?
"His Majesty also said that if Your Highness has any doubts, you can follow me to the Dragon Guard dungeon." Liu Zhongbao fixed the jade crown for the Prince of Chen and stepped aside with a smile: "Your Highness may be interested in some things."
He pulled out a thick stack of papers from his bosom and presented it to the Prince of Chen: "Your Majesty has read the contents here, and the Imperial Concubine has also read them."
Prince Chen took it from Liu Zhongbao but did not open it immediately: "Why did you give it to me?"
"Your Majesty said that Your Highness has grown up." Liu Zhongbao smiled: "The first thing a father needs to do for his son who wants to grow up is not to hide anything."
Prince Chen opened it and saw that it contained densely packed internal information of the Dragon Guard, secrets of the royal family throughout the ages, some deployments of royal spies, and...
He closed it suddenly, took a deep breath, and looked up at Liu Zhongbao who was smiling the whole time.
This is not a father hiding something from his son, this is clearly forcing things to happen!
Is this something a prince who isn't married yet should see? !
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