A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

Chapter 63: Come and come, I can't keep a princess away

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Yun Yanze stood under the high palace wall, he looked at Yun Duqing and Ming Jiuzhu in the distance, Ye Feng brought their laughter, not even the sound of firecrackers could cover up their happiness.

The joys and sorrows of the world are always like this

He sat down along the wall and looked up at the fireworks exploding in the sky, his mind was blank.

These gorgeous fireworks buried his mother's death, but he didn't even have the courage to see her last.

"Yanze, you must study hard and become the best prince."

"You have to be obedient, then your royal father will like you."

"Yanze, you are all your mother's hope. You want to become the crown prince and the most honorable man in Dacheng."

"I hate it, I hate it..."

The sound of the firecrackers had stopped, and when he recovered, Yun Duqing had already left, Ming Jiuzhu was carrying a palace lantern in his hand, followed by a few palace maids and eunuchs.

"County Lord, there seems to be someone over there."

A eunuch found him: "Xia slave go and have a look."

"Don't go." Jiuzhu stopped the little eunuch, she looked at the blurred figure under the wall, it was a decent tenderness for them not to disturb people who were alone on this kind of reunion night: "Let's go, don't want anyone else. to disturb."

Watching the girl leave with the eunuch, Yun Yanze stood up, looked up at the fireworks that were still blooming in the sky, and turned to blend into the night.

In the Qianyi Pavilion, Zheng Lanyin held the white silk in his hand and looked at the fireworks flickering outside the window. He was still unwilling, but the eunuchs Dali didn't care about it. They dragged her and wrapped the white silk around her neck.

She stretched out her hand to pull Bai Ling in fear, crying with tears and tears, how could she still have the grace and dignity of the past.

"Zheng Meiren." An eunuch said with a yin and yang anger: "Let's go on the road, if you continue to struggle like this, you will be implicated in the fourth prince."

"Who of you dares to kill me, I am the biological mother of the fourth prince!" Zheng Lanyin seemed to have finally found the confidence: "You despicable dog slaves, no one can touch me."

Being scolded as a dog slave, Eunuch Vigor was not angry. He and the other eunuch exerted force in their hands and strangled Bai Ling fiercely. Seeing that Zheng Lanyin was struggling less and less, he sneered: "I just forgot to tell the beauty. , the emperor not only cut off all the titles of the fourth prince, but will also bring the noble concubine to worship the ancestors tomorrow, and canonize the noble concubine as the queen of the middle palace!"

Zheng Lanyin opened her eyes wide, struggled desperately twice, and took her last breath with her eyes open.

"I still want to take the fourth prince as a gold medal to avoid death. With such a grandfather and biological mother, the fourth prince is really unlucky." Eunuch Dali tried Zheng Lanyin's breath: "Dead, take it with you."

"Father-in-law, father-in-law." Bai Shao rushed into the house, took out the money on his body, and stuffed it into the hands of the eunuch Dali: "I beg your father-in-law for a moment, and allow the slaves to tidy up the appearance of the master."

Eunuch Dali tossed the money in his hand twice, and said with a half-smile, "You are a loyal servant, go ahead."

"Thank you for the father-in-laws." Bai Shaochao blessed them, and then walked towards Zheng Lanyin's corpse.

Eunuch Dali sneered, what was the difference between the female officer in charge of the high-ranking woman in the past and the Reservoir Dogs now

Ming Jingzhou and Shen shi waited outside Suzaku's door for a while before they saw their daughter running towards them with small steps, followed by a few cautious and respectful little eunuchs with lanterns behind them.

"Be careful, don't fall." Shen shi stretched out his hand to support Jiuzhu, smelled the faint smell of fireworks and firecrackers on her body, and asked her to sit beside her: "Have you had a good time with His Royal Highness Chen?"

Seeing her daughter nodding, Shen shi was not surprised at all, it was indeed King Chen who delayed her daughter's departure from the palace.

"Sit down, let's go home." Shen shi lowered the curtain, blocking the sight of the little eunuchs outside.

The wheels rolled on the road, making a screeching sound. Jiuzhu remembered what happened at the New Year's banquet, and couldn't help but ask Ming Jingzhou: "Father, why did the fourth prince's grandfather's family commit so many serious crimes with his mother, and so many people plead for the fourth prince?"

"They are not interceding for the fourth prince, but for their own future." Ming Jingzhou did not deliberately lie to his daughter because she was young: "In your opinion, how is the fourth prince?"

Jiuzhu shook her head: "He has a good appearance, he moves forward and retreats in moderation, he is polite and disciplined, and he is a handsome gentleman, but I don't like him."

"Because you recognized the manager of the Zheng family who harmed you?"

"No." Jiuzhu continued to shake her head: "I thought he was a little strange when I first saw him."

Although she herself doesn't know why.

"In one's life, there will always be one or two people who don't like it, or who are unforgettable." Shen rubbed her daughter's head: "Don't worry about such trivial things, those who like it should be closer , if you don't like it, stay away from him, and you don't need to embarrass yourself."

Jiuzhu smiled: "My daughter knows."

Sometimes, if you don't meet the eye, you can't force it.

"In the eyes of those adults, the fourth prince abides by etiquette, has a benevolent character, and attaches great importance to civil servants. For civil servants, this is the best candidate for the emperor." Ming Jingzhou smiled vaguely: "King Huai and the generals are getting close. , King An, King Jing, mediocre, King Chen's character..."

Jiuzhu looked up at him.

"King Chen has an egoistic personality and is not controlled by the civil servants." In the eyes of his daughter, Ming Jingzhou changed "domineering" to a euphemistic "self". He knew the thoughts of some civil servants, but he was only loyal to His Majesty. What kind of abacus, even if he knew it in his heart, he did not intend to participate.

"So they don't really respect the fourth prince, but because they think... he is suitable?"

"Maybe the fourth prince just wants them to think that he is the most suitable candidate." Ming Jingzhou answered his daughter's question: "As long as people live, they will inevitably have selfishness."

He, too.

Jiu Zhu was silent for a moment: "But if the fourth prince's nature is not what they imagined, they won't regret it?"

"Jiuzhu knows that there was such an emperor in history. When he was young, he was modest in his words and deeds, modest and benevolent, not close to women, diligent and thrifty, and his words and deeds were perfect. However, when he ascended the throne as the emperor, he began to make great efforts to build a large number of people. Namei, cruel and ruthless?"

"Then... what happened?"

"The country is subjugated." Ming Jingzhou saw his daughter was stunned by what he said: "I don't forget the past, the teacher of the future, what Dacheng needs is a real benevolent and wise monarch like His Majesty, not a hypocrite. madman."

"Father thinks that the Fourth Prince is such a person?"

"I don't know." Ming Jingzhou smiled: "But I know that my daughter doesn't like him."

Jiuzhu's eyes widened, does it matter whether she likes it or not

"What?" Ming Jingzhou looked at her.

"It's nothing, I just think..." Jiuzhu took a breath: "Would it be a bit sloppy?"

"No." Ming Jingzhou smiled: "This is what a father should do."

The most important thing is that His Majesty is young and strong, and it is not time to find an heir.

Jiuzhu rubbed her face, is this the happiness of being unconditionally trusted by her father

She opened the curtain of the carriage window, and there were night stalls that had not been cleaned up, children gathered to play with firecrackers, and a lion dancer with a lion dance head in his arms, sitting by the stall eating noodles .

In the world of fireworks, they enjoyed this quiet New Year's Eve.

Prosperity is not easy to come by, why do some people fail to see these people who are running for their lives for their own selfishness

"Master, Zheng Lanyin is gone."

"Dead? Well, she should have died long ago."

"Before she died, Your Majesty went to see her."

"Your majesty is like this. Her heart is like a mirror, but she cares about her old feelings. If it wasn't for her poisoning of the king's side concubine and the horse farm's plot against the king, it would have been found out that your majesty would not have let her die in such an unseemly manner."

There are many ways to make a woman die silently and violently in the palace, but His Majesty personally issued the imperial edict that Zheng Lanyin be killed.

The imperial decree is to be transcribed into the library and passed down to future generations for hundreds of years.

"The majesty who can take care of the old love, give her such an embarrassing ending, it shows how stupid she has committed. It would have been better if King Chen died at that time, but in the end, King Chen did not die. The suspicion of several princes is increasing. You say, is she a waste?"

"Master, what should we do now?"

"Wait, of course."

"The temptation of the throne is so great, and there will always be people who will lose their minds for this position."

"However, when Ming Jiuzhu and King Chen get married, King Chen's chances of winning will be even better."

"marry?"

sneer.

"It is said that a husband and wife are of the same mind, and their profits cut off the money, but what if this husband and wife became a grudge?"

In the fourteenth year of Longfeng, on the first day of the first lunar month, Emperor Longfeng brought his concubine Su to worship the ancestral temple and sang the sacrificial text.

Although there were opponents in the previous dynasty, Emperor Longfeng resolutely did not change, and set the grand ceremony on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The harem, which had been without a master for 14 years, finally ushered in the first queen during the Longfeng period.

On the day when the imperial list that established the post was posted, Jiuzhu was locked in the yard and learned the wedding ceremony with the maid sent by the Ministry of Rites.

There are strict rules on where to walk a few steps, what kind of salute to perform, and even step on the left and right. As the daughter of the Minister of Rites, Jiuzhu worked hard to learn so as not to embarrass her father.

"The manner of the county chief's salute is really beautiful." The grandmother praised: "You are the fastest and best of all the princesses who learn the rules."

Jiuzhu didn't quite believe this sentence.

Since the first day of the first month of the first lunar month when His Majesty took the empress to worship her ancestors, Jiuzhu found that the attitudes of many people around her had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Go out to play with the ladies, let her decide what tea to drink, and what snacks to eat.

Going out to buy things, shopkeepers can't wait to sell half to give away.

There are more invitations than snowflakes handed to the house every day, and almost every invitation will state that my mother will take her to participate.

Even those princess princesses called her "sister" affectionately when they saw her, and their enthusiasm was so frightening.

"Miss." The Spring Equinox came in with a letter of invitation: "The letter of invitation sent by Princess Roude."

"Princess Roude?" Jiuzhu thought about it carefully: "Is that the princess who stabbed the fourth prince from the house of the concubine's uncle?"

Equinox nodded: "It's her."

"What is she doing here?" Jiuzhu flipped through the post: "Now that the princesses live in the palace, it's not easy to leave the palace once, so why waste time with me?"

"Then, have you seen her?" Spring Equinox saw the young lady with a light expression on her face, guessing that she might not like the princess very much.

"See you." Jiuzhu sighed: "I've come here, I can't keep a princess out of the house."

"Miss... don't you like this princess very much?"

"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded and said confidently: "I heard that this princess once made His Highness angry in public."

Equinox: "… "

Isn't it because King Chen made Princess Roude shameless in public