King Huai hated cats and dogs. When he went out, he found a cat with a broken leg lying at the gate of his yard. Without thinking, he picked up the cat with two fingers and prepared to throw it out of Zhangliu Palace.
He noticed a little girl sitting in the outer courtyard. Looking closely, he found that it was Yun Duqing's fiancée, who was staring at the cat in his hand with burning eyes.
The injury on the cat's leg has nothing to do with him!
His grip loosened, the cat fell to the ground, limped away in panic, and finally hid behind the stone table where Jiuzhu was sitting.
"Your Highness Prince Huai." Jiuzhu was afraid of stepping on the cat, so she stood up a little slower than usual.
"No need to be so polite." Prince Huai thought for a moment and added, "I don't know where this cat came from. I wonder if Princess Ming knows this cat?"
Jiuzhu shook her head and looked down at the shivering cat. The cat was soft and chubby, with fluffy, clean and shiny fur. There was a circle of fur on its neck that looked a little crooked, probably because the collar it usually wore had fallen off.
"Your Highness, this cat looks frightened." Jiuzhu bent down, reached out his hand and tentatively touched its head. Seeing that it did not resist, he continued to touch its head gently. When it let down its guard, he picked it up from the ground and put it on his knees.
"One leg is broken, and the other is fractured." Looking at the dried blood on the kitten's legs, Jiuzhu pursed her lips, looking a little unhappy. This was caused by human beings.
While King Huai asked the eunuch to call the imperial physician, he was thinking seriously. If he said now that the cat was injured and it had nothing to do with him, would people think he was trying to cover up something?
"What time is it now?" Startled by the cat's scream, Prince Chen stretched his body and asked the eunuch beside him: "Is Princess Ming not here yet?"
The young eunuch shook his head.
He frowned immediately. In the past two days, Ming Xiaozhu always came to play with him after breakfast. Why was there no sign of him so late today?
Putting the book down, he stood up and walked towards the outer courtyard, where he saw several palace maids and eunuchs from the Zhangliu Palace surrounding Ming Xiaozhu by the stone table, and some of them were trying to put their hands on her knees.
"What are you doing?" He walked quickly behind Jiuzhu and said, "Everyone, step back. Who told you to be rude to the county lady?"
"Your Highness?" Jiuzhu looked up, her face full of innocence: "Why did you come out?"
"I heard a cat's meowing and came out to take a look." Prince Chen absolutely refused to admit that he came out specifically to find her.
"Is it this cat?" Jiuzhu pointed at the cat on his knees.
"It's so fat, is it a cat or a pig?" The King of Chen then noticed that there was a fat ball of fur on Jiuzhu's knee and reached out to touch its head.
"Your Highness, be careful." Jiuzhu reached out and grabbed the Prince's wrist: "This cat is injured and seems to be very resistant to men approaching it. I'm afraid it will scratch your hand."
"It turns out it's a lustful cat." The King of Chen narrowed his eyes at the cat. Hearing that it was injured, he didn't bother with it and sat down next to Jiuzhu: "Have you found out whose cat it is?"
"I've asked the maid to send someone to ask." Jiuzhu gently soothed the kitten's emotions: "Your Highness, the injuries on the kitten's body seem to be... man-made."
Prince Chen frowned. He imitated Jiuzhu's gesture of petting a kitten, and petted Jiuzhu's head, changing the subject: "When we find the cat's owner, I will accompany you to send the cat back."
The owner must love the cat very much to be able to raise it so well.
The maid in the Prince Qi's courtyard hurried out of the courtyard. Seeing the cat held by Jiuzhu, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the eunuch behind her and said, "Go and tell the Princess that the cat has been found."
"The cat is raised by my fourth brother's wife?" Prince Huai, who was worried that he would be suspected of being a "cat abuser," was relieved when he heard that Princess Qi was looking for a cat.
The yard where my fourth brother lives is adjacent to his yard, so maybe the cat ran to the gate of his yard by itself.
"Your Highness, this cat crawled into our courtyard last night. The Princess guessed that it was kept by another noble, and was afraid that it would get lost, so she asked the servants to watch it and help it find its owner at dawn today." The maid saw that King Huai looked uneasy, so she asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong with this cat?"
She walked up to Jiuzhu, bowed to King Chen and Jiuzhu, and was about to bend down to pick up the cat when she found that the cat was injured. She exclaimed, "Why is the cat injured?"
Without thinking, she turned her head and looked at King Huai.
The other palace maids and eunuchs also turned their heads to look at him.
"Look at what I do. It has nothing to do with me." King Huai said unhappily, "It was squatting at the gate of the courtyard when I left home this morning."
The palace maids and eunuchs didn't dare to speak. Those who had served Prince Huai knew that Prince Huai hated furry cats and dogs.
King Huai: “…”
What do the looks of these palace servants mean?
Prince Chen crossed his arms over his chest, watching the scene with a smile on his face. When the kitten wasn't paying attention, he secretly touched its furry head.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu looked at him helplessly: "The wound caused by a cat's scratch will be very painful."
"Since you're holding it, I think it's quite obedient." Prince Chen coughed dryly and retracted his hand.
"The royal doctor is here."
Someone shouted and saved King Huai from embarrassment. He is now in a dilemma, unable to leave or stay. Who could have thought that he, a prince, would end up being troubled by a cat.
The imperial physician walked into the yard and saw the cat being held by Princess Ming, with His Royal Highness Prince Chen sitting beside them. Thinking the cat was raised by the two of them, he paid extra attention when examining the cat's injuries, and finally gave it the best medicine for bruises and sprains.
However, he was somewhat confused. Looking at the expressions of His Royal Highness Prince Chen and Princess Ming, they did not seem to be taking their anger out on the cat, so how come the cat was injured like this?
After wrapping the two injured legs with gauze, the imperial physician said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness and the County Lady. Cats and dogs have strong healing abilities. They will be fine if you take good care of them for a while. But the wounds cannot get wet, and you cannot bathe them during this period. You also need to be more careful about what you eat."
"Thank you, sir." Jiuzhu thanked the imperial physician.
"You are too polite, my lady." The imperial physician smiled and said, "A doctor should be kind."
The same goes for cats.
"Meow~" The kitten had gauze wrapped around its legs and felt very uncomfortable. It wanted to tear the gauze with its teeth.
Upon seeing this, the imperial physician asked the palace maid to get a small bamboo circle and use it to circle the kitten's head so that it could not bite its legs.
"Stupid." The King laughed at the cat mercilessly.
"It looks... a little stupid." Jiuzhu looked at it carefully for a few times and nodded: "But stupidity is also cute."
"Yeah." While the kitten couldn't scratch or bite him, Prince Chen gently touched the cat's head again: "Stupid, but cute." After saying that, he glanced at Jiuzhu.
Jiuzhu: “…”
The cat is stupid, so what is your Highness looking at her for?
Behind the courtyard gate, Sun Caiyao looked at Prince Chen and Ming Jiuzhu who were talking and laughing in the yard, and stood at the door without going out.
"Princess, why don't you go over and take a look?" The maid looked at her in confusion.
“No.” Sun Caiyao shook her head: “With County Master Ming here, she will help the cat find its owner.”
The maid whispered, "It was obviously the cat you found last night, why did you give her the chance to be a good person?"
"What does it matter?" Sun Caiyao smiled, "It's just a cat."
She was just confused. When she found the cat last night, it was fine. How come it was injured today? Which daring servant did this, or was it King Huai...
"Caiyao." Yun Yanze walked to Sun Caiyao's side and looked at the people in the yard: "What are you looking at?"
"Your Highness, are you awake?" Sun Caiyao held his arm and said, "I didn't see anything. Your Highness, you are still not well. I will go back with you."
"No problem." Yun Yanze held Sun Caiyao's wrist and took her hand away from his arm: "Let's go and take a look."
"Your Highness..." Sun Caiyao looked at Ming Jiuzhu who was sitting at the stone table and didn't want Yun Yanze to go over.
"What's wrong?" Yun Yanze turned his head and looked at her gently, with some confusion in his eyes.
"It's okay." Sun Caiyao forced a smile and followed Yun Yanze.
Was she going to tell His Highness that she suspected Ming Jiuzhu had murdered him and hoped he would stay away from her?
Not to mention that His Highness didn't believe it, even she herself felt that she was going crazy.
"Your Highness, County Lady, we have found the cat's owner." A female official from Mingyue Palace strode into the courtyard. "I just sent someone to ask. An old concubine from Jing'an Palace lost her cat last night. She was so worried that she fell ill this morning. I heard from the palace servants at Jing'an Palace that the cat looked like this one. It's not much different from this one. It should be this one."
"That's great." Jiuzhu handed the cat to the maid in the Qi County Prince's courtyard: "Please give the cat to the County Prince's wife. I hope she will send someone to deliver the cat to the old concubine as soon as possible."
Sun Caiyao walked up to the palace maid and reached out her hand to touch the cat's head, but the cat made a slightly fierce cry at her: "Meow!"
She withdrew her hand awkwardly and smiled at Jiuzhu: "Don't bother two masters with one thing. The county lady helped it heal its wounds, and it has developed feelings for you. Please take the trouble to return it to the old concubine."
The cat seemed to dislike her approaching. It meowed several times in succession and stretched out its claws to scratch her desperately, not caring even if its claws were injured.
Prince Chen picked up the cat's skin with one hand and put it in his arm: "Ming Xiaozhu, let's go and send the cat away."
He was afraid that if the cat continued to meow, it would break its reattached leg by itself.
The little cat, which was scratching its claws as if it wanted to destroy the world just now, was surprisingly obedient in the arms of Prince Chen. It even wanted to rub its head against his arms, but unfortunately it had a bamboo ring around its neck and could not squeeze in.
"Your Highness, this cat seems to like you very much." Jiuzhu touched the cat's head and soothed it.
"That's right." Prince Chen raised his chin slightly: "My charm is infinite."
"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded. It was only natural that a kind-hearted little fairy boy like His Highness should be liked by cats and dogs.
King Huai was disgusted to death. It was really a case of one person daring to say it and the other daring to believe it.
How dare Yun Duqing say that he is so charming?
Where's the face?
Did he step on your feet?
After Yun Duqing and the young lady from the Ming family left with the palace maids and eunuchs, King Huai turned his head to look at Sun Caiyao and said sarcastically, "I heard that my sister-in-law was kind enough to take in this cat last night, but it wanted to bite you. Beasts are beasts, and they can't tell good from bad, don't you think?"
"Brother, my wife is very timid. Don't joke with her, or she will take it seriously." Yun Yanze held Sun Caiyao's hand and smiled faintly at King Huai: "Please understand, brother."
King Huai sneered, "Oh, really?"
"Then tell me, who hurt the cat?" He raised his eyebrows. "It's a pity that cats can't talk, so they can only be bullied by some beasts in human form."
"But as a human being..." King Huai pointed to the sky: "God is watching what you do, and there will be retribution."
"Brother is right." Yun Yanze had a subtle expression. He had a smile in his eyes and covered the wound on his chest, as if he was mocking King Huai: "Brother also hopes that retribution will come."
King Huai: “…”
What does this action and this expression mean?
The palace maids and eunuchs in front suspected that he was abusing the cat?
Now Yun Yanze suspects that he sent assassins to hurt him?
Are you kidding me? !
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