"Ming Sangong." Prince Chen jumped off his horse, walked to Ming Jiyuan, and enthusiastically put his hand on his shoulder: "It's been a long time since we last met. Ming Sangong is still as elegant and graceful as ever."
"Your Highness." Ming Jiyuan turned slightly and bowed to the Prince of Chen: "Your Highness, I greet you."
Retracting his hand, Prince Chen smiled and said, "Third Young Master has not been back to the capital for a long time, so he may not be familiar with the capital. It just so happens that I am going to visit your house today, why don't we go together?"
"Your Highness, you are joking." Ming Jiyuan turned around and supported himself with one hand, sitting on the carriage. "I am returning home. Your Highness, you are visiting my humble home. Moreover, I am of low rank and my words are not taken seriously, so how can I let Your Highness accompany me?"
He noticed that the Prince of Chen was wearing a light-colored brocade robe today, which made him look low-key and restrained, with the demeanor of a handsome young man.
However, what came to mind was the Prince of Chen in a gorgeous purple robe, looking unrestrained and ostentatious.
"Ming San Gongzi is young and promising, and he is an honest official. When a good official like you returns to the capital, I am willing to welcome you." Prince Chen made a gesture of invitation: "Please."
"Sir." The book boy looked at Ming Jiyuan in embarrassment. Should they leave or not?
Ming Jiyuan looked at the smiling Prince Chen, bowed to him, and turned around and said, "Let's go."
The capital city was much more lively than where he worked, but Ming Jiyuan was eager to return home at the moment. He had no intention of enjoying the scenery of the capital city. He just wanted to return home early and reunite with his family.
Ming Jiyuan lifted the curtain a little and observed Prince Chen who was riding a horse beside him. Compared to two years ago, Prince Chen looks much more mature and stable, and even his arrogant dressing style seems to have changed.
He didn't believe that the appearance of Prince Chen was a coincidence. There weren't so many coincidences in the world.
He also didn't believe that the high and mighty prince would be so courteous and attentive to a lowly minister just because of a marriage contract.
There is no closeness between people without reason, there must be a purpose.
What does Prince Chen want from the Ming family?
"Miss, the messenger said that the young master is back." Chunfen walked quickly to Jiuzhu and said, "I think he must be almost home by now."
"Brother is back?" Jiuzhu stood up and turned around: "Send someone to inform father and mother, and ask the servants to prepare clean clothes and hot water, and, and in the kitchen..."
"Don't worry, young lady. I'm here." Chunfen saw that the young lady was nervous and concerned, so he smiled and pushed her to the door: "You go to the door and wait for the young master first, and leave the rest to us."
Jiuzhu pulled her sleeves and stood at the gate nervously. When she saw a carriage passing by, she took a quick look. When she found that it was not her, she looked away in disappointment.
"Ming little pig." Prince Chen saw Jiuzhu looking out the gate from afar. He patted his horse, quickened his pace to come to her side, and looked at her with a smile on his face while sitting on the horse's back.
"Your Highness, why did you leave the palace?" Seeing Prince Chen, Jiuzhu's nervousness disappeared by half. She moved to the side to prevent the horse from blocking her view.
"Why are you hiding?" Seeing her like this, Prince Chen teased her deliberately: "You don't want to see me, huh?"
"Your Highness, please stop making trouble." Jiuzhu touched the King's mount and stretched his neck to look around: "I..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw a carriage parked not far from her, and a young man in a green shirt and a crown tied with a jade hairpin got out of the carriage.
They had never met before, but just from this one glance, Jiuzhu could be sure that this person was the brother who wrote to her every month.
The young man walked quickly to Jiuzhu, wanting to reach out and touch the top of her head, but restrained himself and took his trembling hand back: "Is it... Jiuzhu?"
Jiuzhu nodded heavily.
"You're so big now." Ming Jiyuan's voice choked with sobs. He opened his arms and wanted to hug the girl, but was afraid that his sudden enthusiasm would scare her.
He still remembers his sister when she was just born, a small and soft ball. He held her in his arms. She didn't cry or make a fuss. She opened her big eyes and looked at him curiously.
After his sister was sent away, he heard a child crying and thought it was his sister crying.
He thought that as long as he returned to the capital, he would be able to see his sister again. I never thought that this separation would last for seventeen years.
Just as he was stunned, the girl threw herself into his arms.
"elder brother."
Hearing the word "brother", Ming Jiyuan's eyes suddenly turned red and he hugged the girl with trembling hands.
That year, he watched his sister being sent away, and finally at this moment, they were reunited.
Prince Chen got off his horse and asked the dragon guards to take his horse away. He leaned against the stone lion and said nothing.
He saw Ming Jingzhou and Shen's carriage coming back from a distance, smiled, turned around and prepared to leave.
"Your Highness."
Someone grabbed his sleeve, and he turned around to look at Jiuzhu, whose eyes were red, and took out a handkerchief to wipe her face: "Your family is reunited today, I will come to see you in a few days."
"After a few days?" Jiuzhu sniffed, and her red nose looked extremely pitiful.
"Three days." Prince Chen looked at the tears on her eyelashes and said, "Come in three days."
Jiuzhu nodded, and the hand that was pulling on his sleeve loosened, but did not let go completely.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for sending me back. If you don't mind, please come to my humble home for a cup of tea." Ming Jiyuan saw his sister grabbing Prince Chen's sleeve and bowing to him gracefully.
"I don't mind." Prince Chen smiled at Jiuzhu, then looked up at Ming Jiyuan: "Thank you for the invitation, Third Young Master."
Just as he finished speaking, the carriage of the Ming couple arrived. He looked at the excited family of four and the small piece of clothes that Jiuzhu was holding, and waited patiently by the side.
He won't leave until he finishes drinking the Ming family's tea today.
A man, a real man. If you agree to someone's request for tea, you must do it.
The family returned to the main house. Shen glanced at Prince Chen, who was sitting next to her daughter and drinking tea silently, and then looked at Ming Jingzhou in confusion.
The emperor has said that princes and princesses are not allowed to leave the palace easily. Such a big palace can't even contain Prince Chen's legs?
"Your Highness." Ming Jingzhou said, "I wonder why Your Highness came to my house?"
"Nothing." Prince Chen smiled: "The Third Young Master invited me to your house for tea. I thought we would be a family soon, so how could I refuse the Third Young Master's sincere invitation?"
The couple turned their heads and looked at Ming Jiyuan.
Ming Jiyuan: “…”
In fact, it's not very sincere, it's just a few polite words.
He smiled: "If your Highness is busy, you don't have to worry about me."
Go, go quickly.
"Third Young Master may not know that recently, all of us princes and princesses have been very idle and have nothing to do." At this point, Prince Chen bowed to Ming Jingzhou and said, "Fortunately, with your teachings, I have learned a lot."
Ming Jingzhou stood up and saluted in return: "Your Highness, your words are very kind."
Teachings?
Ming Jiyuan's doubts deepened. In the past month, he had been anxious to return to the capital, and communication was inconvenient, so he didn't know what major events had taken place in the capital.
My father has always been reluctant to get too close to these adult princes, so why would he teach Prince Chen anything?
But no one could answer his doubts. He looked at Prince Chen who seemed to have some substance in his questions and answers with his father, and couldn't help but wonder, could it be that Prince Chen really had a change of character?
Not long after, people started sending gifts one after another, saying they were congratulating him on his return to Beijing.
He did not receive such a gift when he left Beijing to take up a post in another place.
How long have I been back today and the young masters from various families have already sent me gifts?
Almost everyone who came to give a gift did not forget to convey their master's thoughts and feelings towards him, as if each of them had a deep friendship with him.
Glancing at the smiling Prince Chen, Ming Jiyuan understood where these people's enthusiasm came from.
He was welcomed to the Ming family from the city gate by Prince Chen himself. Prince Chen was praising the Ming family.
But in this way, in the eyes of others, the Ming family and Prince Chen became one. He frowned slightly, and just as he was about to seriously think about Prince Chen's intention, he saw Prince Chen push the melon seeds he had been peeling for half a day in front of his sister.
The younger sister cut the melon seeds into two, took half and gave the other half to the Prince of Chen. While the younger sister wasn't paying attention, the Prince of Chen put some into the younger sister's pile of melon seeds.
He was slightly startled, and a ridiculous and absurd idea came into his mind.
Maybe Prince Chen doesn't want anything but to please his sister?
"Jiyuan, you just came back, go take a bath, change into clean clothes and relax." Ming Jingzhou stood up, "I'll take you to the yard to see if there's anything wrong."
"Jiuzhu." He looked at his daughter who was eating melon seeds and said, "Sit with your mother and His Highness for a while. I will be back soon."
"Okay, father." Jiuzhu nodded and put the melon seeds in his hand back into the plate.
After leaving the main courtyard, Ming Jiyuan asked Ming Jingzhou: "Father, His Majesty wants to enthrone Concubine Su as the queen, is it true?"
Ming Jingzhou nodded: "A lot of things have happened in the capital in the past six months, and it is impossible to describe them all in a few words. Now you just need to work hard in the Dali Temple. Your uncle and I will take care of the rest."
"What does the Prince of Chen mean?" Ming Jiyuan frowned. "Today, as soon as I returned to the capital, I met the Prince of Chen. I don't believe this is a coincidence."
"Don't say bad things about Prince Chen in front of your sister in the future." Ming Jingzhou looked back, as if he was afraid that his daughter would follow him out: "Your sister will be angry with you."
"My sister...is attracted to His Royal Highness Prince Chen?"
"It's better for her to marry someone she loves than to watch her marry someone she doesn't like." Ming Jingzhou patted his son's shoulder and said with relief, "I haven't seen him for two years. He's become much stronger."
"Father." Ming Jiyuan couldn't get over the fact that his sister was about to get married: "Prince Chen has an outspoken personality. I'm afraid that my sister will be wronged after marrying him."
"But the imperial decree has been issued. Can we let her not marry?" Ming Jingzhou raised his eyebrows. "Besides, why do you think the Prince of Chen chose the day you returned to the capital to guard the city gate?"
"Why?" Ming Jiyuan's eyes gradually darkened: "He wants to use our Ming family?"
"Do you think... with Prince Chen's personality, he would do such a thing?" Ming Jingzhou shook his head: "It is impossible for a prince who has been favored by His Majesty since childhood to do such a thing."
To Prince Chen, the world belongs to the emperor, and he is the emperor's most beloved son, which means that everyone in the world will bow their heads before him.
"You." Ming Jingzhou looked at him with pity: "Even your sixth brother has a fiancée, but you still don't have someone who understands your feelings. There is a reason for that."
Ming Jiyuan: “?”
Why do you start personal attacks over a disagreement?
"For some things, put aside your prejudice and look at them with your heart." Ming Jingzhou smiled: "You will understand."
"Also, Prince Chen and Concubine Su are your sister's saviors."
"Benefactor?" Ming Jiyuan asked in confusion, "Father, what's going on?"
This capital city no longer seemed to be the capital city in his memory. Everything had become strange.
Just like he had never imagined that Prince Chen would become his brother-in-law.
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