Although I met the Zheng family with a bad mind, buying clothes and jewelry was still very pleasant. Even when the sixth brother paid the bill, his hands trembled slightly.
"Sister." Ming Cunfu touched his half-empty purse and said to Jiuzhu, "Go to the carriage and wait for me first, and I'll go to the bookstore opposite to buy some books."
"Okay." Jiuzhu touched the newly bought hairpin on her temples and nodded in a good mood.
Seeing the smile on his sister's face, Ming Cunfu began to reflect on whether he was too stingy. It's good that his sister is happy, how can he feel sorry for Yinzi.
"I'll be back soon." Ming Cunfu instructed the Spring Equinox: "Take care of Miss."
"Brother, don't worry, I will definitely wait for you in the carriage." Jiuzhu waved her hand: "You can pick up your books with peace of mind."
"Then I'll go back."
The carriage was parked outside the clothing store. Jiuzhu had just walked to the carriage when she heard a woman screaming.
"Bug, worm."
"It jumped on my clothes, get rid of it!"
Seeing that the woman was so frightened, Jiuzhu kept shaking her sleeves, stepped forward quickly, and caught the bug on the woman's sleeves.
"Don't be afraid, girl, it's just a cricket." Jiuzhu hid the cricket behind her, not letting the woman continue to look at it, lest she continue to be afraid.
"Thank you." The panic on the woman's face faded away, and after thanking Jiuzhu, she hurriedly climbed into her carriage.
"Little girl, that's the victorious general of my family."
Jiuzhu looked back at the door of the ready-to-wear shop. The purple-robed gentleman she had seen before, holding a cricket cage in her hand, was looking at her with a smile.
"yours?"
"Naturally." The purple-robed son spread out his palms, "Well, this kind of thing that escapes from the master is still left to my master to handle."
"Oh." Jiuzhu trotted to him and put the cricket in the man's slightly pale palm.
I saw this "General Changsheng" squirming hard twice in the palm of the purple-robed son, and he didn't move at all.
"That..." Jiu Zhu silently took a step back, secretly looked at the expression of the Zipao Young Master, and then took a small step back: "Maybe I was inattentive just now, and I used a little more strength."
In order to increase the authenticity of her statement, she used her thumb and index finger to compare the distance between her fingernails: "It's really only a little bit."
The purple-robed son raised his eyebrows slightly, and threw the body of "General Chang Sheng" into the cricket cage. One of the attendants behind him quickly took over the cage, and the other one handed over a clean brocade handkerchief.
Jiu Zhu saw that the other party was slowly wiping his hands with a handkerchief, and took out a piece of silver in his purse. After thinking about it, I felt that the piece of silver was a little bigger, so I threw it back into my purse and continued to dig it. Finally, I found a smaller grain of silver. I quickly stepped forward and stuffed it into the palm of the purple-robed gentleman. A few steps away from him.
"What a big piece of silver." The two fingers twisted the silver grains smaller than the fingernails, and the purple-robed son sighed: "The girl is so generous."
Jiuzhu was also reluctant to take silver particles, but who told her to go out without a copper plate.
"Small idea." Holding back her distress, Jiu Zhu turned her head away from looking at the silver nuggets on her fingertips: "This is the funeral expenses for Cricket."
The hand of the purple-robed son who was holding the cricket cage with the attendant was trembling slightly. But he is a dedicated servant of the palace, and he must not show any emotions before the master speaks.
"Okay." The purple-robed son put the broken silver grains into his waist at will: "According to the girl's wishes, I will definitely let General Chang Sheng be buried in a glorious way."
"That..." Jiuzhu apologized to the purple-robed son Fushen, "I'm sorry."
Although it wasn't intentional, the cricket was indeed pinched to death by her accidentally.
It's her fault that she sees little in the world, and she doesn't know that people in the capital will keep crickets as pets.
"That's all." The purple-robed son got on his horse and took the whip from his attendant: "It's a thing that will die."
He raised his horsewhip and was about to leave, but suddenly turned to look at the golden branches and flower hairpins beside the beaded temples: "Which girl are you, I have never seen you before."
Jiu Zhu Wu's eyes looked at the purple-robed son, and with small steps, he retreated to the side of his carriage.
What's the matter with the boys in the capital, who are the girls' names when they disagree
Noticing the little girl's movements, the Zipao son tutted softly, this little girl raised by someone is so innocent. When you get married in the future, will you not be bullied into a bun by your in-laws
Jiu Zhu saw that the Zipao Young Master was also looking at her with the look of "the rabbit is about to be grilled", and then she waved the whip and left, finally making sure of one thing.
The problem is not her, but the whole capital.
"Sister." Ming Cunfu came over with a few books: "Let's go, let's go home."
"Um."
Sitting in the carriage, Jiuzhu clutched her purse and felt distressed: "Sixth brother, I accidentally crushed someone else's cricket to death just now and paid for the funeral expenses."
"What kind of cricket?" Ming Cunfu knew that there were some playboys in the capital who liked to raise crickets and enjoyed fighting crickets.
"The master calls it General Changsheng."
"What?" Ming Cunfu, who was still lazily at first, sat upright in an instant: "General Chang Sheng?"
In the entire capital, apart from the ridiculous King Chen, who would dare to give a cricket such a name
"How much, how much?" He swallowed his dry throat.
"I lost such a big piece of silver." Jiuzhu stretched out her little finger, half the distance from her fingernail.
Ming Cunfu breathed a sigh of relief in an instant, it was so cheap, it was definitely not King Chen's victorious general.
According to legend, King Chen spent nearly 100 gold to buy a cricket and named it General Changsheng. If it is really the cricket of His Highness, the little silver on my sister's body may only be enough to bury a few legs of the cricket.
A few days later, Jiuzhu was drinking tea with her mother at home when she saw her father walk in with a solemn expression.
"What happened?" Shen shi asked casually.
"It's all trivial matters in the court." Ming Jingzhou forced a smile, took two sips of the tea in front of Shen's, "Someone played in the court today and wanted His Majesty to establish a heir. King Huai and King Qi were the loudest."
"Where's Your Majesty?" Shen shi took a piece of cake and handed it to Ming Jingzhou.
"Your Majesty is furious." Ming Jingzhou sat down at the table, ate the cake with the residual tea, and turned to look at his daughter.
Jiuzhu looked at him suspiciously.
"Alas." Ming Jingzhou sighed.
Other princes were recommended, but the daughter's fiancé, who was hated by civil officials and disliked military generals, was not recommended.
"What's the matter?" Jiuzhu reached out and patted Ming Jingzhou's back lightly: "Is it the prince recommended by your father, and His Majesty is not satisfied?"
Ming Jingzhou shook his head silently, if that's the case, he wouldn't sigh anymore.
"Didn't you say that Your Majesty is only fifty and one now?" Jiuzhu didn't understand why the courtiers were so eager to let the emperor establish a reserve. This is to those folks who pointed to the energetic elders and said, I think you will die sooner or later. What is the difference if the property is divided in advance
Ming Jingzhou nodded.
"Your Majesty's spirit is shining, the country is your companion, all the people return to their hearts, and even the order to deploy troops is in your hands." Jiuzhu looked at Ming Jingzhou puzzled: "What is the benefit to Your Majesty by establishing the reserve so early?"
"But now that several princes have grown up, His Majesty favors Concubine Su, and I'm afraid that even Jiangshan will be taken away by this mother and son."
"It's your majesty's son, why can't King Chen..."
Shen shi put a piece of halva in Jiuzhu's mouth and whispered, "Jiuzhu is good, don't talk about court affairs."
Jiuzhu bit the crispy candy so much that she could talk about King Huai, the king of Qi, but why couldn't she talk about King Chen
Thinking that even a child would dare to say that the imperial concubine is a demon concubine, Jiu Zhu felt uncomfortable. Niangniang and King Chen are so kind, how can they resist the exclusion of these people in the capital
"King Chen's actions are very absurd." Mentioning his future son-in-law, Ming Jingzhou had several more wrinkles on his forehead: "It is said that the Prince of Pingyuan made him unhappy a few days ago, and he led people into the school to copy books. ."
"What's wrong with copying books?" Shen shi was a little surprised. King Chen's method of cleaning up people this time was gentler than before.
"He let the young boy Zheng Wangnan went to start the first class."
It's hard to say whether this method is strict or not, but it must be extremely insulting.
"That must be Zheng Wangnan's extreme actions, which is why King Chen does this." Jiu Zhu said firmly: "King Chen is gentle and kind, and he will definitely not punish people for no reason."
Shen shi and Ming Jingzhou looked at Jiuzhu together.
Girl, do you have any twisted and bizarre misunderstandings about King Chen's character
"That Zheng Wangnan, I saw my daughter last time she went out with Sixth Brother." Jiu Zhu repeated the story, "He laughed at the cheesy style of hairpin I chose, and wanted to ask me which family I belonged to."
"I suspect," she rubbed her chin with a deep expression and wisdom in her eyes: "He wanted to find out which family I belonged to, in order to make fun of our whole family."
"Nonsense, what kind of jewelry does a man know?" Shen shi was determined to not tolerate it, who said that the daughter she had finally found was not good: "This kind of ignorant man should be sent to the children's Kaimeng class.
"Ma'am, it's Class A."
That is, the youngest Kaimeng class.
"Is this... other children influenced by him?" She remembered a child of a distant relative who was in the Mengjia Class for the children.
No one's children are precious, don't be spoiled by Zheng Wangnan.
"It doesn't have to be like this..." Ming Jingzhou coughed dryly, turned the subject off, and turned to ask Jiuzhu: "Jiuzhu, where did you hear that His Royal Highness King Chen... is gentle and kind?"
Why are there such outrageous rumors in the capital
"Isn't that true?"
Ming Jingzhou: "…"
This rumor is far from the truth.
Fortunately, at least not the gap between the ends of the earth.
In fact, half of the words "His Royal Highness King Chen is gentle and kind" are still true.
For example, the four words "His Royal Highness King Chen".