"What are you fighting for?" Prince Chen dragged the man back and said, "How can a little girl like you fight against several grown men?"
Jiuzhu took a few steps forward and pulled the back of her collar out of Chen Wang's hands: "Don't pull me!"
Bending down and picking up a big wooden stick from the ground, Jiuzhu lifted the hem of her skirt and rushed out aggressively.
The soft little white rabbit turns into a biting steel-toothed rabbit.
Prince Chen looked at her walking out with the momentum of a mighty army, and leaned lazily against the tree trunk.
"Your Highness." An attendant who was hiding in the dark came up to him and said, "What...what should we do?"
"What else can we do?" Prince Chen saw that the little girl was only a few steps away from the gossiping men. "Go and help fight. You all have brains and eyes, but you don't know how to use them?"
The three men were still talking loudly when Jiuzhu approached them.
"In terms of talent and virtue, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi is still admirable." The man in green said loudly: "What is there to be afraid of? The Prince of Chen is ignorant and moody..."
"Ouch!" Before he could finish his words, he felt a piercing pain in his back. Someone was attacking him from behind!
"Who is so bold!" He jumped up in pain and turned around to see a fair-skinned and pretty girl holding a big wooden stick in her hand.
"You woman, for no reason, why..."
"I told you not to talk bad about others behind their backs!" Jiuzhu picked up a wooden stick, raised it up and started hitting. The stick passed through the air, making a terrible sound of breaking through the air.
The men who were beaten were so scared that they rolled and crawled. One of the men reacted and tried to snatch the stick from Jiuzhu's hand, but she hit him on the thigh.
Men don't shed tears easily, but they do cry when it hurts.
"Whose crazy woman is this? How disrespectful! If that's the case, we won't follow the etiquette of a gentleman!"
After saying that, the three men surrounded Jiuzhu in the middle and raised their hands, ready to let her know what it means that men are the gods and women are fragile.
However, the next moment, the three of them were kicked away like stones thrown out by someone.
Three people were lying on the ground, wailing. It turned out that this crazy woman had brought a group of helpers with her. A group of people beat up three scholars who were powerless. Is this a moral code of martial arts?
"Three grown men are bullying a weak woman." Several men dressed in tight clothes stepped forward, picked up the three people with one hand, and said in a solemn voice: "You are the people of our dynasty, but you are making irresponsible remarks about the royal family. What crime should you be punished for?!"
After saying that, without waiting for the three men to retort, he beat them until they cried for their parents, then took out a rope and tied them together: "Come with my brothers to the government office."
Jiuzhu saw these people coming in a hurry and then leaving in a hurry with the people in their arms, and looked around blankly with a wooden stick in his hand.
"What are you daydreaming about?" Prince Chen took the stick from Jiuzhu's hand, and seeing that she was unable to react, he threw the stick on the ground: "You started fighting over a disagreement, and you hit a scholar. Aren't you afraid of their mouths?"
"What kind of scholars are they?" Jiuzhu put down his sleeves. "A gentleman should be harmonious but different. Today is a day to climb high and see far, and there are many people coming and going. They are talking nonsense and criticizing others. It is simply a disgrace to scholars."
The Prince of Chen laughed in an ambiguous tone. These scholars were not stupid. They meant for people to hear them.
"Did you know that the King of Qi will come to Feixia Mountain to climb today?"
"Hmm?" Jiuzhu nodded: "I saw him at the foot of the mountain, so what?"
Prince Chen: “…”
This girl doesn't look very smart.
"They are talking to the King of Qi, or to the people around him." The King of Chen is an impatient man, but he is in a good mood today and is willing to talk to this little girl with a dull mind. "Let's go now while there are few people around and no one has noticed that you hit someone."
"They said bad things about His Royal Highness Prince Chen, but I can't kill them." Jiuzhu adjusted the hairpin beside her temples and complained in a low voice: "They just want to please the King of Qi, why do they bully His Royal Highness Prince Chen."
Bully?
The little girl's tone was so aggrieved that if he hadn't been the person involved, he would have almost believed that he was a poor little kid who was often bullied.
"Were the people who helped me fight just now your men?"
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows and nodded: "You help me pick dogwood branches, and I help you call people to fight. Isn't that fair?"
"It's not very fair." Jiuzhu thought about it carefully: "I seem to have the advantage."
"It's okay. I'm a grown man, I won't bother with you about such a small matter." Prince Chen looked around, and no one came yet: "Who is your elder?"
The elders of this family are really generous. They dare to let such a brave little girl come alone to pick dogwood.
"My father's last name is Ming." After the other party asked others to help him fight, Jiuzhu classified him as a "good man with loyalty" and was not afraid of him knowing his last name.
"Ming?" The smile on Prince Chen's face froze, and he looked Jiuzhu up and down: "You are Ming Jingzhou, the Minister of Rites... the apple of his lord's eye?"
This was the first time in Prince Chen's life that he addressed Ming Jingzhou so politely.
"Do you know my father too?" Jiuzhu looked at King Chen with sparkling eyes.
"Somewhat familiar."
Knowing each other is knowing each other, what does it mean to be slightly acquainted? Ever since coming to the capital, Jiuzhu has discovered that his cognitive ability cannot keep up with the speaking level of the people in the capital.
"No wonder you were so angry just now, it turns out you were protecting your fiancé." Prince Chen was silent for a moment: "Next time you want to fight, don't do it yourself."
Having lived in a Taoist temple since she was a child, Jiuzhu was very ignorant about love affairs between men and women. When it came to marriage, she did not act like a little girl: "Your Highness Prince Chen is a good man. What does it have to do with whether he is my fiancé or not?"
Prince Chen: “…”
Only the rustling wind blowing through the mountains could understand his mood at the moment.
"Miss, Miss!" Chunfen ran over with her skirt lifted up and looked at her nervously: "There was a noise here just now. It is said that a few drunk scholars were making trouble. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Jiuzhu winked at King Chen, signaling him not to say what he had just said.
"I have picked all the dogwood my mother asked me to pick." Jiuzhu grabbed Chunfen's hand and said, "Sister Chunfen, let's go back."
The person has been beaten, and what we need to do now is to escape from the scene as quickly as possible.
"Okay." Chunfen hung the shawl on Jiuzhu's arm, bowed to King Chen, took Jiuzhu's hand, and left the forest.
Prince Chen walked to the dogwood tree he had just seen, bent down to pick up the dogwood branch that Jiuzhu had picked for him, thought for a moment, and then dragged it back to the palace.
"Such a big branch of dogwood." Concubine Su looked at the dogwood branch in the floor-standing vase. It was rare that her son, who usually forgot to bring back even a piece of paper, would bring her a dogwood branch on the Double Ninth Festival. "It looks quite fresh."
"How can it not be fresh?" Prince Chen lazily leaned against the couch and said, "This is picked by your future daughter-in-law herself after climbing up the tree."
"Did you meet Jiuzhu?" Concubine Su looked at Prince Chen.
"Yeah." Prince Chen lowered his eyelids, and Concubine Su could not see the emotion in his eyes.
"I think this girl is good." Knowing that her son was not very enthusiastic about this marriage, Concubine Su couldn't help but speak up for the young lady from the Ming family: "She seems to be easy to get along with."
"The appearance is indeed iconic." Prince Chen nodded.
It just looks like his brain isn't working very well.
After her son left, Concubine Su asked the maid beside her in confusion: "Does Du Qing like or dislike this attitude?"
"My Lady, it's a good thing that the Fifth Prince doesn't dislike Miss Ming." The maid comforted Concubine Su: "A few days ago, the Fifth Prince frowned when he mentioned marriage. Today, I took a closer look and found that the Fifth Prince was in a good mood."
Knowing that the maid said this to comfort herself, Concubine Su sighed and blamed His Majesty for not knowing how to raise a child and raising her son to have such a dandy character.
As soon as Prince Chen came out of Mingyue Palace, he met Prince Qi who came to the palace to pay his respects.
"Fifth brother." King Qi looked at the dark brocade robe with red patterns on King Chen. Among the brothers, except the fifth brother, no one would wear such ostentatious clothes.
Prince Chen stopped and looked at him.
"I heard that my fifth brother's attendants arrested a few scholars and brought them to the government office today?" The King of Qi sighed, "The autumn examination is approaching, and it is not easy to study hard for ten years. If it is not a big deal, my fifth brother will spare them."
"It's really not a big deal. They just praised you, Fourth Brother, for your talent and virtue, and insulted me for being ignorant and moody." Prince Chen raised his eyebrows: "Fourth Brother is kind-hearted, just send someone to release them."
The gentle smile on King Qi's face froze slightly.
Although it is true that his fifth brother is uneducated, as the eldest brother, he absolutely cannot admit it.
“Fourth brother, just go and release them. I will never pursue the matter any further.” Prince Chen flicked his sleeves and put his hands behind his back. He raised his chin slightly and strode away under the gaze of Prince Qi and his entourage.
The Prince's attendants imitated their master's behavior and only glanced at the attendants in Prince Qi's palace out of the corner of their eyes.
The attendant at Prince Qi's palace was so angry that his face turned red, but he dared not say much.
Who made the Prince of Chen have a favored mother? The son is honored by his mother, and no one in the palace can afford to offend him.
"Your Highness." The attendant looked at the King of Qi worriedly.
The King of Qi raised his hand slightly to stop him from continuing: "Those scholars discussed the right and wrong of the royal family and alienated the relationship between the King and my fifth brother. They should be severely punished."
The wind blew up the corners of his robe, but could not cause any ripples in his eyes.
Since the Double Ninth Festival, more invitations have been sent to the Ming family. Some invited Shen and Jiuzhu to appreciate chrysanthemums, some invited them to eat crabs, and some invited them to drink tea.
There is no shortage of cunning people in the capital. They don't like the Prince's usual behavior, but they dare not offend Concubine Su and her son. The daughter of the Ming family is about to marry into the Prince Chen's Mansion. Regardless of whether it is sincere or false, as long as it is an important gathering among the female family members, the younger generation of the family will arrange to personally deliver the invitation to the Ming family.
Shen declined most of these gatherings until the Sun family sent an invitation to a tea party.
The auspicious wedding date for Miss Sun and King Qi has been set for the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is now late September, and there is only a little over a month left until Miss Sun's wedding.
As a scholarly family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, the Sun family's prestige in the hearts of scholars is self-evident. The Ming family has established its status in recent years by relying on two top scholars and one third place scholar. Compared with the Sun family, they are still lacking some foundation.
The King of Qi already had a reputation for being virtuous, and when he married the daughter of the Sun family, he was even more powerful and was even more respected.
Shen took the invitation and turned to look at her daughter who was happily eating snacks and drinking tea from the cup. She gently wiped her daughter's mouth with a handkerchief.
"Thank you, mother." Jiuzhu smiled sweetly at Shen.
Shen gently covered her chest.
What emperor, prince Chen, and daughter of the Sun family, none of them are good!
On the day of the tea-tasting banquet, the female relatives dressed up in their best clothes and arrived at the Sun family early, wearing different flowers to flatter Sun Caiyao.
“Mrs. Shen is here.”
The laughter suddenly weakened, and the smile on Sun Caiyao's face faded a little. She looked at the door intently and saw Ming Jiuzhu next to Madam Shen.
The green eyebrows are like distant mountains, and the red cherries dot the delicate lips.
"Mrs. Shen, Hello."
"This must be your daughter, she has eyes that can see the stars and bones that are as white as snow, what a rare beauty."
The female relatives who were originally flattering her turned around and gathered around Shen's mother and daughter.
Sun Caiyao pursed her lips.
These people privately looked down on Prince Chen for his eccentric behavior and lack of knowledge, but when it came to trying to please the future Princess Chen, no one was left behind.
She stood up and walked towards Ming Jiuzhu.
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