Jiuzhu stopped immediately, replenishing the brain and refreshing the mind?
When he heard footsteps behind him, the first person that came to his mind was Jiuzhu. He turned around and smiled, "I guessed it was you." He glanced at Xiangjuan who was following Jiuzhu and asked, "Did you come from my mother?"
"My queen mother said that there are too many people in the Moon Palace right now and they are all gossiping, and she was afraid that I would be bored, so she let me out for a walk." Jiuzhu felt that maybe her queen mother thought that the concubines' words were too roundabout and she was afraid that she would follow suit, so she found an excuse to drive her out and let her play alone.
"Princess." When the other officials saw Jiuzhu, they bowed to her.
"I didn't mean to disturb you, sirs. Please forgive me." Jiuzhu turned aside and returned the greeting, winking at Ming Jingzhou: "Father, you guys discuss matters, I will leave for now."
"Princess, there is no need to be shy. We were just chatting for a while and did not discuss any political affairs." An official said, "But the prince may be having a hard time recently. Please take good care of him, princess."
"Hmm?" Jiuzhu looked at Prince Chen in confusion, and finally turned his gaze to Ming Jingzhou: "Father, what happened?"
"His Majesty promised that as long as Your Highness can recite the "Nongsangji" within five days, the court will allow you to have a special examination." Ming Jingzhou was silent for a moment: "You should make more fish head soup for Your Highness in the palace."
Jiuzhu couldn't help but say, "Maybe the emperor didn't want to hold an additional special examination anyway."
Several officials looked sideways when they heard this.
Coincidentally, they also had the same suspicion.
"Father, I read a story that said fish only have a few memories." Jiuzhu thought for a moment and said, "Are you sure that drinking fish head soup can nourish the brain?"
"Drinking pigeon soup, pigeons can find their way home even if they fly thousands of miles, which shows that pigeons have good memory." An official said: "Add wolfberry and ginseng to it, it nourishes the body, replenishes qi, improves sperm quality and improves eyesight, just drink this."
"My Lords, why don't we let His Highness go back and read books now?" Ming Jingzhou was worried that these officials would ask his daughter to discuss how to stew pigeon soup, so he said, "If you are worried, I can explain the contents of the book to His Highness in the next few days.
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"Thank you, Lord Ming." They looked at Prince Chen and said, "Your Highness should also return to Qilin Palace as soon as possible."
Go back and memorize the book!
"Goodbye." Prince Chen led Jiuzhu away. Ming Jingzhou did not follow them. He bowed and said, "Ming also takes his leave."
Several officials gathered together and whispered, "What do you think? Could it be that His Majesty and Prince Chen are putting on a show for us?"
"I had suspected this at first, until His Majesty asked the Prince to recite the "Nongsangji" within five days. Then I knew it was not a show."
"What do you mean?"
"That's the Prince who doesn't like to study. I've given lectures to several princes, but the Prince was too lazy to even memorize the Thousand Character Classic." The official shook his sleeves and said, "Besides, considering how much Your Majesty values the Prince, why would you need to put on a show for us? What's the point?"
"That makes sense." Several people nodded, then frowned even more tightly: "This is going to be troublesome."
"Where's the trouble?"
"How can the Prince of Chen, who is unwilling to recite the Thousand Character Classic, recite the Agricultural and Sangri Records?"
"Don't even mention King Chen, even if it's you, can you do it?"
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu pulled the sleeve of the King of Chen, turned his head and looked around, making sure that the officials could not have heard their conversation, and asked in a low voice: "Do you really want to recite the "Nongsangji"?"
"A gentleman's promise is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold. I have made a promise in front of so many officials, so of course I must keep it." Prince Chen looked relaxed, not like someone who was going to endorse something. "Are you going to have dinner with the Queen Mother tonight?"
"What if... I can't recite it...?" Jiuzhu asked in a very small voice.
"Tsk." Prince Chen stretched out his finger and poked her forehead: "Do you have so little confidence in your Highness?"
"Your Highness." Jiuzhu covered her forehead and said, "You like poking my forehead more and more now."
"Did it hurt?" Prince Chen took her hand away and said with a smile, "Look at this forehead, it's smooth and round, so beautiful."
After saying that, he held her face, bent down and kissed her gently at the place he had poked just now, and nodded with satisfaction: "It feels sweet and soft when kissed, what a good forehead."
"Your Highness, my master used a similar tone to you when he picked melons." Jiuzhu snorted, lifted her skirt and strode forward.
"Don't go, don't go." Prince Chen put his arm around her waist and pulled her into his arms: "Whose melon is as cute as your little head?"
"Hmph!" Jiuzhu turned her head away and didn't look at him.
"Ming Xiaozhu, why do I feel that..." Prince Chen looked down at her: "After we got married, you are not as gentle to me as before?"
"Really?" Jiuzhu denied it flatly: "That's not the case."
"As expected, a man is a flower before marriage, but becomes a piece of tofu in the eyes of his wife after marriage." Prince Chen sighed: "Not only did he become a piece of tofu in the eyes of his wife, but he was also suspected by her... Woo."
Jiuzhu stretched out her hand to cover Prince Chen's mouth: "Your Highness, Aunt Xiangjuan is still here, don't talk nonsense."
"Please do as you please, my lord and princess. Just pretend that I don't exist." Xiang Juan covered her eyes and smiled, "I didn't see or hear anything."
"After five days, you will know how talented your Highness is." Prince Chen took Jiuzhu's hand away and kissed her palm: "Let's go and have dinner with mother first."
Seeing Prince Chen walking forward proudly, Jiuzhu started to chase him. But after she had taken only two steps, Prince Chen suddenly turned around, picked her up by the waist and walked away.
"You have to carry my princess with you at all times so that I can eat." He lowered his head and chuckled at Jiuzhu. The palace maids and eunuchs passing by turned around and avoided them, not daring to watch the prince and the princess showing their affection.
Xiangjuan and Chunfen looked at each other and smiled.
After paying their respects to Queen Su, the concubines walked out of the gate of Mingyue Palace in twos and threes.
"Who is laughing and playing outside the Mingyue Palace in the deep inner courtyard of the palace?" Princess Roude's biological mother, Concubine Zhang, frowned. The moment she looked towards the door, her frown spread out at the fastest speed, and because it spread out too quickly, it almost distorted her facial features.
"The relationship between Prince Chen and Princess Wang is really good." Concubine Lu smiled at Concubine Zhang and said, "Is that right?"
"Yes, that's right." Concubine Zhang only hated herself for speaking too quickly. Others did not dare to laugh in Mingyue Palace, but Prince Chen was the son of Empress Su, so naturally he was treated differently from others.
She looked at the couple who walked in hand in hand. She didn't know what Princess Chen said, but Prince Chen held her face with his hands and rubbed it a few times, which made Princess Chen chase him and hit him.
The head maid of Mingyue Palace who was following behind the two of them saw them laughing and not only did not stop them, but she smiled peacefully instead.
It seems that the queen is very satisfied with her daughter-in-law.
Zhang Concubine felt uncomfortable when she recalled how her daughter had visited the Ming family with gifts in order to plead for her son-in-law's family, but had been turned down by Princess Chen.
Her daughter has not been able to return to the princess's mansion yet, and her son-in-law and his family are being kept under strict surveillance by the Jinwu Guards because they were involved in the assassination of the fourth prince.
As a princess of the emperor, it was a joke for her to have to bow her head and ask for help from the daughter of a court official.
If it weren't for the support of Queen Su and Prince Chen, what would Ming Jiuzhu be?
At this moment, she noticed that Ming Jiuju suddenly raised her head and looked straight at her. Being stared at by such a pair of eyes that clearly distinguished between black and white, Zhang Pin felt a little guilty and moved her legs and took a step back.
What's wrong with Ming Jiuzhu? The way he looks at people is so evil.
"What are you looking at?" When Prince Chen saw that Jiuzhu was no longer chasing him, he turned around and went back.
"I caught you!" The moment he approached, Jiuzhu grabbed his sleeve and said with a smile: "Your Highness, does this count as inviting someone into a trap?"
"This is like Jiang Taigong fishing, those who are willing will take the bait." The King of Chen sighed: "There is no bait on your hook, but I took the bait too."
He looked up at the concubines standing on the steps and said with a sigh, "Are you looking at them?"
"Yeah." Jiuzhu let go of Prince Chen's sleeve and smoothed out the wrinkles: "One of the ladies looked at me in a strange way."
"Ignore them." Prince Chen led her forward.
"Your Highness." The concubines moved to the left and right and made way for the steps.
"Yeah." Prince Chen nodded slightly, his eyes swept over Concubine Zhang. Was the person Ming Xiaozhu was looking at just now her?
Concubine Zhang felt uneasy when Prince Chen looked at her, so she lowered her head even lower.
The Prince of Chen could deny her daughter’s face at the banquet, and he could also deny her face in this kind of occasion.
Fortunately, Prince Chen just glanced at her casually without saying anything, and then took Princess Chen into the main hall of Mingyue Palace.
"Ladies, take care." Xiang Juan stood at the bottom of the steps and knelt down to salute the concubines: "I respectfully send you off, ladies."
The ladies came to their senses, quickly smiled again, and hurried out.
"Empress Zhang." Xiangjuan called her.
Zhangpin's shoulders trembled, and she turned back to look at Xiangjuan, her smile almost unable to maintain: "Aunt Xiangjuan, is there anything else?"
"Your sachet fell." Xiang Juan picked up the sachet, walked to Zhang Bin, and handed it to her with both hands: "Please be careful next time."
"Thank you." Zhang Pin took the sachet and left in a hurry.
Xiang Juan looked at her hurried back, turned back to the side hall, took out an identical sachet from her sleeve, cut it open with scissors, fanned it with her hand, smelled the medicinal fragrance inside, and her face turned cold: "There is indeed something wrong with this sachet."
"Put away the sachet and the things inside. I will go and report to Her Majesty." Xiang Juan strode to the main hall. Seeing that there was no one else in the hall except the prince and the princess, she said directly, "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the sachet on Concubine Zhang."
Queen Su, who was talking to Jiuzhu, stopped smiling a little: "What's going on?"
"It was thanks to the princess's reminder that I discovered something was wrong."
"Me?" Jiuzhu was surprised: "When did this happen?"
"Do you remember what the princess said when I accompanied her out of the main hall just now?"
Jiuzhu thought for a while and said, "I said... there is a strange smell, like the intoxicating flower."
"Yes, it is the Intoxicating Flower." Xiang Juan nodded: "Just now, I cut open Zhangpin's sachet and found that there were not only Intoxicating Flowers, but also some unknown medicinal substances. It's a pity that my medical skills are not good enough to distinguish the contents."
"The sachet on Concubine Zhang was distributed to each palace by the Palace Department. The fabric and pattern are the same. Even if someone swapped it, it would be difficult to detect." Empress Su raised her eyebrows: "Report this to His Majesty, and go to the Imperial Hospital to ask the imperial physician who is good at making medicine. By the way..."
"Call Concubine Zhang back as well." Empress Su took a sip of tea and said, "I suspect she has something poisonous, and it's not just one sachet."
Jiuzhu was puzzled: "Why would someone plot against Zhangpin?"
"I'm not plotting against Concubine Zhang, I'm plotting against you." Empress Su looked at her and said, "Concubine Zhang is narrow-minded and very protective of her children. You have offended Princess Roude before. With her personality, she will have a quarrel with you sooner or later."
"These medicines are all poisons. When she quarrels with you and dies inexplicably, you will be the biggest suspect." Empress Su lowered her eyes and sneered, "If this plan succeeds, not only will we be in trouble, but the Fourth Prince will also be implicated."
"We suspect that all this was planned by the Fourth Prince?" Jiuzhu suddenly realized, "Because my father revealed the evidence of the Fourth Prince's biological mother and the Zheng family's crimes?"
"Oh my, these people have such dirty hearts."
Prince Chen turned his head to look at her. She was able to figure out all the interests involved in such a short time and draw inferences from one instance. She was quite smart.
"Mother." Jiuzhu became excited: "I think we should not only invite Concubine Zhang but also invite the Fourth Prince. It will be more lively with more people."
What a lively scene! This is forcing the fourth brother to prove his innocence.
"Ming Xiaozhu, Ming Xiaozhu, I didn't expect you to have such bad intentions." Prince Chen stretched out his hand and pulled her tender cheek: "But, I like it."
"Your Highness, I just don't want the other princes to think that the Queen is unfair." Jiuzhu said seriously: "The Queen is the legitimate mother of all the princes. As a mother, what's wrong with upholding justice for her children?"
"No problem, Jiuzhu is right." Empress Su smiled and said, "Come here, go and invite Concubine Zhang and the Fourth Prince."
"Empress Zhang, please stay." Halfway through the journey, Zhang was stopped by the eunuch of Mingyue Palace: "The Empress has ordered that you return to Mingyue Palace immediately."
The concubines who were traveling with her quickly stepped back, fearing that the Queen would also ask them to go back.
"Eunuch, I wonder why the Queen wants me to go back?" Concubine Zhang could no longer laugh.
"I don't know either, but you will know once you go there."
Concubine Zhang wanted to cry but had no tears. The last person who was called away alone by Empress Su was Zheng Lanyin, and now grass was growing on her grave.
Her feet trembled: "I will go right away."
She looked back at the sisters she was on good terms with, and now they all stood a few steps away from her, fearing that they would be implicated by her.
Pooh! What love and what righteousness are, they are all lies.
Yun Yanze was even more confused than Concubine Zhang. Su had been the favorite in the harem for many years and seldom invited the princes and princesses to Mingyue Palace. She and the princes and princesses had always maintained a state of not disturbing each other.
What does it mean that we specially sent the eunuch in charge of Mingyue Palace to invite him today?
"Your Highness." Sun Caiyao said, "I'll go with you."
Empress Su is a woman, and it would be inappropriate for Your Highness to go there alone.
The eunuch in charge of Mingyue Palace did not stop him, but bent down and made a gesture of invitation: "Fourth Prince, Fourth Prince's Consort, please follow me."
As the couple walked to the door of the main hall, they heard a woman's sharp voice coming from inside.
"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with me. I know nothing about it!"
Sun Caiyao's face suddenly changed. What happened?
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