"Since you were not here, I never opened this box." Ming Jiyuan put the ancient wooden box in Jiuzhu's hand: "I asked the Taoist priest her Dharma name, but she didn't want to tell me. I asked her to let me stay at her house temporarily, but she didn't want to either. She just said that we are destined to meet and we should not force it. She also said that if you ask, you will understand."
"My two masters and I have lived in the mountains for a long time. There are few visitors in the Taoist temple, but occasionally there are monks passing by and staying overnight." Jiuzhu touched the wooden box, his eyes full of love: "They come and go freely, sympathize with the elderly and the weak, but don't like to leave their names. The two masters must have known that this Taoist priest was going to pass by the capital, so they asked her to deliver the things."
After bidding farewell to her parents, Jiuzhu got on the carriage. When the carriage had gone a long way, she lifted the curtain and looked back. She could still see the Ming family members standing at the door looking over here.
"Don't be sad. I'm here and can always take you home." Prince Chen took out the red envelope and purse he got today and put them in Jiuzhu's hand.
"Your Highness, why are you giving these to me?" Jiuzhu looked at him puzzled.
"It is only natural that your husband's money should be handed over to your wife for safekeeping." Prince Chen touched his nose awkwardly: "My foxes... guards and study companions, etc., all do this after they get married."
"If Your Highness needs to use the silver in the future, just tell me." Jiuzhu put the silver in his pocket.
"You can't just give money to a man if he wants it." Prince Chen coughed dryly and said, "What if I take the money and spend it recklessly? What will you do?"
"But if His Highness is happy with the money, then it is worth it. Money is something outside of one's body, and His Highness is the most important." Jiuzhu thought for a moment and added, "It would be even better if His Highness would not lie to me."
The stingy guy who had paid for the cricket's funeral expenses by picking up the smallest grain of silver actually said that money is external to the body and that the most important thing for him is to spend money happily?
How much does this silly little Ming pig care about him?
"You, you." Prince Chen sighed deeply. Fortunately, she married him. If she married someone else, she would be bullied.
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu placed the wooden box on his knees: "I want to see the gift that Master sent."
"You see." Prince Chen stood up and prepared to get out of the carriage: "I'll ask the coachman to drive the carriage more steadily."
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu reached out and pulled him back: "Sit down and watch with me."
"Okay." Prince Chen was slightly stunned, and moved towards Jiuzhu, sitting next to her: "What good things did the two masters give us?"
When it comes to climbing up a pole, the Prince of Chen is an expert at it.
Jiuzhu carefully opened the lid of the box, and inside were several palm-sized small boxes neatly placed.
Prince Chen thought to himself, how many gifts have been prepared?
I opened the first box and found six bottles of medicine inside.
The second, third, and fourth boxes are all medicines, but they have different efficacy.
There are detoxifying pills, hemostatic pills, anti-cold powder, heat-removing cough medicine and other medicines.
"Little pig, are your two masters miracle doctors?" Prince Chen looked at the boxes of pills. The aroma of various medicines mixed together had a pungent smell.
"I don't know. The Taoist temple I live in is poor and we don't have money to buy medicine. If I get sick, the second master will go to the mountain to pick some herbs and boil them into medicine." Jiuzhu carefully recalled every detail of being with the two masters: "But the first master often said that the second master was a quack doctor. I can live well only because of my good physique."
Prince Chen was silent for a moment: "What did your father-in-law and mother-in-law think back then? Why didn't they find a good Taoist temple for you to stay in?"
Jiuzhu smiled: "Although the Taoist temple is poor, the two masters are very kind to me."
She picked up the wooden box at the bottom, opened it and saw two letters and two silver hairpins inside.
Two silver hairpins, with similar designs, but one for men and one for women.
Jiuzhu stared at the woman's silver hairpin in a daze for a long time without saying anything.
"What's wrong?" Prince Chen saw that she looked uncertain and put his arm around her shoulders: "Jiuzhu?"
"The silver hairpin I left in Huaxi River back then was also of the same style, but much smaller than this one." Jiuzhu handed the silver hairpin to Prince Chen: "Your Highness, help me put it on."
Prince Chen put the silver hairpin on her and said, "It looks very nice."
"Really?" Jiuzhu reached out and touched the hairpin.
"When have I ever lied to you?" He took off his hair crown, picked up another men's silver hairpin, and fixed his hair: "This must have been given to me by my master. We are a couple."
The silver hairpin was not luxurious, but when he wore it in his hair, it seemed to have a bit more royal nobility.
Good-looking people can make objects look extremely beautiful.
There were two letters, one written by the eldest master and the other by the second master. Both of them were not the verbose type. They briefly introduced the characteristics of various medicinal flavors and explained that they were short of money, and the pair of lotus hairpins were a wedding gift for them.
[The mountains are quiet and peaceful. Your Second Master and I do not like outsiders to visit us. There is no need to send money and clothes here often in the future. Since you left, the temple's expenses have dropped dramatically...】
Are the words "sharp decrease" a bit of an exaggeration?
Jiuzhu's bitter and longing feelings were reduced to half by these two words.
[Parting is a normal parting for all human beings. If you can’t bear to leave your master, you can just write to him on the Mid-Autumn Festival Eve every year. The moon is always round and rises every day. Even if we are thousands of miles apart, the scenery is the same. 】
Jiuzhu sniffed. She knew that the two masters were not the type to like lively places, but the Taoist temple became much more lively because they raised her.
She read the letter from her first master word by word and opened the letter from her second master.
[Once a teacher, always a teacher.] We treat you as both a teacher and a mother. Over the past few months, your master has been chanting sutras for you in front of the Three Pure Ones statues at the headquarters, hoping that you will be safe. Two months ago, I added another one for your future husband. You and the Prince of Chen were originally thousands of miles apart, but in the end your marriage was destined by heaven. This is a blessing. 】
[The pills that your master prepares for you are all good medicines for curing diseases. You must believe in your master’s medical skills. 】
After reading the two masters' letters over and over again, Jiuzhu blinked, put the letter away carefully, and said to Prince Chen, "Your Highness, the two masters said that our marriage was destined by heaven."
"My father is the emperor. The imperial decree he issued for our marriage is indeed a marriage predestined by heaven." Although he was a million miles away from the two masters, the prince still chose to flatter them: "The two masters are really masters. They can even calculate this."
"The medicine that Master made must be a rare and good thing in the world." Prince Chen put the medicine away and said solemnly: "I must keep it well."
Jiuzhu: “…”
She didn’t know whether he was a master or not, but the dishes cooked by the second master were extremely unpalatable, and the boiled herbs were also very bitter. But seeing His Highness's serious expression, Jiuzhu didn't want to discourage him, so he nodded and said, "Well, put it away."
No matter what the efficacy of the pill is, it is the master's gift, so how could she bear to put it away randomly?
Just as the couple put away the gift boxes, they heard people arguing outside the carriage. The argument was very intense, and they vaguely mentioned words like prince and dandy.
Jiuzhu curiously stuck her head out of the carriage window and saw several young men in gorgeous clothes arguing under the stone lions next to the gate of Jingzhao Yin. Among them, the man in a brown brocade robe had a big bruise on his forehead and looked extremely angry.
“Yun Qirong, don’t think I’m afraid of you just because you have more people!” The man in the brown brocade robe covered his forehead and cursed, “Don’t use the title of the imperial guard to scare people every day. Everyone knows that you got such a real position by being a lackey for the prince.”
"What's wrong with being the king's lackey?" Yun Qirong rolled up his sleeves: "You want to be one, but are you qualified?"
Yu Jian, who was not on duty today and happened to pass by them, said: "..."
For some reason I had the illusion that I was being scolded as well.
"I can't be the one, but can you still continue to be the lackey of the Prince of Chen?" The man in brown brocade robe didn't dare to scold the Prince of Chen, but only dared to point at Yun Qirong's nose and scold: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Chen hasn't been with you for a long time, right?"
"You know nothing. If it weren't for His Royal Highness Prince Chen, would we brothers go to Hongwen College to deliver books?" Yun Qirong sneered mysteriously and puffed out his chest: "How could a useless person like you, who is on the edge of the royal family, understand what we, the Prince Chen's confidants, do for His Royal Highness?"
"Many of those students are the future pillars of our Dacheng. As a distant relative of the royal family, you not only don't treat them well, but also want to humiliate them with vulgar means. How can you do such a thing that is worse than that of an animal?" Yun Qirong knows that when doing good things, you should be high-profile, and when doing bad things, you should not say a word: "Although we are dandies who are looked down upon by others, we have learned the greatness of scholars and the difficulties of scholars under the teachings of His Royal Highness Prince Chen, so we respect them and yearn for them. We must stop your behavior of bullying scholars."
The people who were watching the commotion immediately realized that it was the noble young man who was bullying the powerless scholar, and that several other noble young men who were on good terms with the Prince of Chen stopped him, which led to the quarrel in the street.
"You are working for His Royal Highness Prince Chen?" The young man in brown brocade clothes seemed to have heard a huge joke: "You said you are working for His Royal Highness Prince Chen, so you are working for Prince Chen? Who would let you do things for a playboy like you?"
Yu Jian frowned. Although Yun Qirong and his group were idle on weekdays, they never bullied men or women. What this person said was a bit too much.
"What? Are you dissatisfied with the work I asked you to do?" Prince Chen got off the carriage and said, "Do I need you to teach me how to do things?"
"What the hell are you?!"
"Prince Chen, Prince Chen." The young man in brown brocade clothes changed color when he saw Prince Chen. He quickly put down his hand that was covering his forehead and bowed deeply: "I spoke out of turn. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
"Your Highness!" Yun Qirong and his group smiled brightly when they saw Prince Chen appear. "Your Highness, we have already completed all the tasks you arranged for us today. However, we encountered an ignorant person at the gate of Hongwen College."
After saying this, he couldn't help but praise: "Your Highness, the silver hairpin you are wearing today is really exquisite and unique."
Prince Chen raised his eyebrows and tilted his chin slightly: "This was given to me by the elder Princess."
The young man in brown brocade clothes shook his neck and said, "Your Highness, this is all a misunderstanding. Please listen to my explanation."
"Shut up, I don't want to hear you." Prince Chen returned to the carriage and helped Jiuzhu down: "Qi Rong, you speak."
Yun Qirong noticed that the princess had a silver hairpin in her hair that was similar to the one his highness had. He lowered his head and quickly recounted the entire cause and effect of the incident. What was originally a simple matter, under his vivid description, became like an invincible bully bullying a poor scholar like a cat. Everyone who heard it was angry.
Jiuzhu glanced at the shoes of the young man in brown brocade clothes. Some people in the capital city had a really weird hobby of having their shoes licked all the time.
"Qi Rong, give him a silver ingot." Prince Chen touched his sleeves and was about to take out a silver ingot to give to the man in brown brocade clothes. Suddenly, he remembered that he had given all his money to Jiuzhu. He turned his head and looked at Yun Qi Rong: "Now let him take off his shoes and walk back barefoot."
A man without money needs to know how to adapt.
On the importance of having money under your command.
"If someone dirty your shoes, you should ask him to apologize, buy you new shoes or wash them for you." Prince Chen said calmly, "But asking someone to kneel down and lick your shoes is bullying."
"That's enough." Prince Chen raised his chin and said, "I don't want to waste my time talking to you. Just go back barefoot now. I'll send someone to follow you. Don't be lazy."
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