The night wind was swaying, and the lanterns were shining brightly. King Chen's eyes swept across the laughing people, and looked down at the girl beside him. He stretched out his hand to help her suppress the fluttering robes behind him: "I'll take you to try the Lantern Festival?"
"Okay." Jiuzhu nodded with a smile, as if she always nodded and said yes to his opinions.
"His Royal Highness." Hu Longwei reminded in a low voice: "My subordinates and others have already inquired, and there is a restaurant in front of the Lantern Festival that does a good job."
They are worried that the ingredients at the stalls outside are not safe.
Jiu Zhu retracted her gaze towards the stall, and pulled King Chen's sleeve: "Then let's go to that restaurant."
"Okay." King Chen took her hand and walked forward unhurriedly, passing the lantern shop that said that lanterns were not for sale, and Jiu Zhu found that the lamp hanging on the highest part was gone.
"What's wrong?" King Chen shook the lamp in his hand: "This lamp seems to be bought here?"
"His Royal Highness, I really bought it here."
When the store owner saw Jiu Zhu standing side by side with King Chen, he recognized her at a glance and smiled awkwardly at her.
Jiuzhu turned her head and whispered to King Chen, "When I asked the boss just now, he said he wouldn't sell it. How did you buy it, Your Highness?"
Chen Dynasty smiled mysteriously: "Guess what?"
Jiuzhu thought for a while: "Have you guessed all the riddles in his house?"
King Chen smiled and shook his head, holding Jiuzhu and continuing to walk forward.
"His Royal Highness." Jiuzhu was very curious about this matter: "You tell me."
"Add more money." King Chen endured a smile: "As long as you give enough money, a business owner like this will always be tempted."
Jiuzhu: "…"
It turned out to be such a simple and crude method.
"But, Your Highness, where did you get so much money?" Jiuzhu looked at him suspiciously: "Didn't Your Majesty say that the Empress will not subsidize you?"
"The father said that the mother and the queen would not subsidize me, but he didn't say that he could not subsidize me." King Chen chuckled: "He gave the money."
He didn't tell Jiu Zhu that he was rich too, maybe because... She was so cute that she was saving money for herself seriously.
"Your Majesty is quite..." Jiuzhu glanced at the Dragon Guard behind her: "It's quite a word."
Don't let the mother give the child money, but secretly put the money, isn't this a model of spoiling the child
Fortunately, His Royal Highness came down to earth as a fairy, and did not make himself crooked in a doting environment.
King Chen suppressed a smile: "Yeah, the royal father has always been a one-of-a-kind character."
Someone was selling flowers by the roadside, and King Chen took out some copper coins and bought a spring orchid and put it in the bun with nine beads.
The little spring orchid doesn't look very conspicuous, but when King Chen was wandering the street just now, he saw many men buying these things for the female relatives around him.
"Ming Xiaozhu."
"Huh?" Jiuzhu raised her head.
"The restaurant is here." King Chen smiled at the phoenix lantern hanging at the entrance of the restaurant.
"The dragon and the phoenix are auspicious, the five blessings come to the door, the perfection is perfect..." Jiuzhu looked at the names of the various Lantern Festivals on the sign: "The names are very particular."
"During the Lantern Festival, everyone is looking for auspiciousness." King Chen raised his head and saw King Huai and his wife sitting on the second floor.
"Fifth brother." King Huai leaned against the window and smiled at him: "Come up and sit."
King Chen asked Jiuzhu, "Are you going?"
Jiuzhu nodded: "His Royal Highness invites you, why can't your Highness not go."
King Chen looked at her and smiled, and led her upstairs.
Although there were many people tasting the Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival, there was no one else in the room where King Huai sat except him and Princess Huai.
King Chen pushed open the door and entered: "Big brother and sister-in-law have chosen a good place. The scenery here is just right, and you can see the beautiful scenery of the Lantern Festival."
Jiu Zhu saluted the two of them, and Princess Huai smiled and turned sideways to avoid them.
"Fifth brother, the county magistrate of Ming, please take a seat." King Huai smiled and invited the two to sit down: "The capital is so big that we can meet you by chance. This is also our fate."
The waiter brought the cooked Lantern Festival: "Dear guests, this is the Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang, please have a taste."
"Why is the dragon and the phoenix auspicious?" Jiuzhu asked curiously.
"The Lantern Festival in the bowl is made of two kinds of fillings, which complement each other, the mouth is not greasy, the lips and teeth are fragrant, and the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious." The waiter smiled and bowed: "I also wish the two of you love always, and life is sweeter than the Lantern Festival. "
"I can talk." King Chen took out a piece of silver and handed it to the waiter: "Go and bring some snacks."
"Okay, thank you sir." The waiter happily stepped back with the silver and carefully closed the door for them.
"Try what the stuffing inside tastes like?" King Chen brought the Lantern Festival to Jiuzhu.
"Fruit stuffing." Jiuzhu ate one and scooped up another: "It's still fruit stuffing."
"Didn't you say two kinds of stuffing?" King Chen picked up the spoon, picked up a Lantern Festival from the bowl of nine beads and ate it into his mouth.
"What does it taste like?" Jiu Zhu looked at him nervously.
King Chen put down the spoon and wiped the corners of his mouth: "Peanut and sesame stuffing."
King Huai glanced at the bowl of Lantern Festival next to him that no one paid attention to. This bowl of Lantern Festival is not suitable for Yun Duqing to eat or what? He has to take a spoon and scoop it into the main bowl of Ming County
"What kind of stuffing does Your Highness like to eat?" Jiuzhu asked.
"Let's all make a living." King Chen seemed to finally remember that he also had a bowl of Lantern Festival, and brought it over to him and put it in front of him: "Just begging for auspiciousness, I don't like to eat such sticky things on weekdays."
However, with the reputation of Longfeng Chengxiang, he could barely finish eating.
"His Royal Highness, look." Jiuzhu pointed out the window, the street full of lanterns, like beautiful galaxies, brilliant and splendid.
King Chen got up and walked to her side, and the night wind blew their hair.
"Isn't it beautiful?"
"Well." King Chen glanced at her sideways: "It's very beautiful."
Such a night, such a wind, and such a her.
It is the most beautiful Lantern Festival.
King Huai felt that it might be a wrong choice for him to invite the fifth brother and the Lord of Ming County to sit together.
"The higher you stand, the more beautiful the scenery." The waiter brought melon and fruit snacks up, and King Huai waved him out and said to King Chen, who was enjoying the scenery, "It's just that the wind is cold at the heights, fifth brother, have you ever thought about it? , let someone help you build high-rise buildings and read the beauty of the world."
King Chen smiled and sat back to his original position: "Big brother is joking, the whole world belongs to the emperor. As the children of the emperor, which high-rise building can't we go to? Why bother the people and waste money, and then build any high-rise buildings."
King Huai looked at King Chen: "The fifth brother is right, the whole world belongs to the emperor, and we are under the protection of the emperor, so naturally we can go anywhere."
Someone was hawking downstairs, and the shouts passed through the streets and reached Jiuzhu's ears. She was lying on the window lattice, looking at every passerby downstairs with interest.
Princess Huai observed the girl who had returned to Beijing for less than a year, and brought the cheese cake to her: "Ming County Lord, try this cheese cake."
"Thank you, Princess." Jiuzhu thanked her, bowed her head and used some snacks. She didn't ask her about anything in the palace, and she didn't take the initiative to get close to her.
Princess Huai was very strange, didn't Ming Jiuzhu think about what happened after marrying into the royal family
Even Sun Caiyao, before marrying the fourth prince, turned a corner to show her favor. A woman like Ming Jiuzhu who is in foster care and is not close to her family really has no worries at all
"Open your mouth." King Chen picked up a piece of Jiuzhu's favorite snack with his chopsticks and fed it to her mouth.
Jiuzhu ate the snack.
Princess Huai looked at the two people who were intimate, lowered her head and took a sip of the tea in front of her. When I was young, I had the preference of the people around me, so I naturally had no fear and feared nothing.
But men are fickle.
She turned her head to look at King Huai, pretending not to care about the concubines and concubines in the palace.
Zhang Liugong's courtyard is small, but there is only the prince and her in the courtyard. She no longer has to think about which woman the prince goes to, and she doesn't have to live with her.
Looking at the girl with a pure smile in front of her, Princess Huai felt a bit of pity in her heart, and a woman who married into the royal family could not tolerate naivety.
"The wedding of the fifth brother and the county magistrate of Ming is imminent. The eldest brother wishes the two of them a hundred years of good luck and prosperity." King Huai held up the teacup: "The fifth brother must drink a few more cups with the eldest brother."
King Chen picked up the teacup and smiled: "You shouldn't drink too much, just be happy."
"I had known that the fifth brother would be with the Lord of Ming County. We should make an appointment to stroll around together. There are so many people." King Huai said with a faint smile: "In previous years, the fifth brother did not like to join in this kind of fun, I thought Ming County The Lord will be with my family, so I don’t think much about it. I blame the elder brother for not being thoughtful and not taking care of you.”
King Chen raised his eyebrows and said bluntly, "Big brother is drinking tea today, why are you drunk?"
King Huai: "..."
He was so obvious to show his favor, did Yun Duqing really not understand, or did he pretend not to understand
"Brother and sister-in-law are spending the Lantern Festival together, why is my brother so disturbing?" King Chen chuckled: "If brother says that again, sister-in-law should be angry."
King Huai smiled heartily: "The fifth brother is serious, your sister-in-law has always been virtuous, why would you care about such a trivial matter?"
"My brother doesn't want to disturb the elder brother and sister-in-law, nor does he want others to disturb me and my fiancee." King Chen put down the teacup: "The Lantern Festival has run out, and we should leave."
You don't care about the feelings of your princess, I also care about the thoughts of my fiancee.
"Fifth brother." Princess Huai said softly: "The scenery upstairs is good, let the county magistrate sit for a while."
King Chen turned to look at Jiuzhu.
"I listened to His Highness." Jiuzhu said seriously, "Where else do you want to play, Your Highness?"
"I'll take you to a good place." King Chen stretched out his hand in front of her, Jiuzhu handed it to him, and stood up with the strength of King Chen's pulling her: "Where to?"
"You'll know when you go." King Chen walked to the door, and raised his chin lazily to King Huai and his wife: "Big brother and sister-in-law, farewell."
"Fifth brother, walk slowly." Wang Huai heard the footsteps of the two going downstairs, and the smile on his face faded: "Yun Duqing's character, I don't know who follows him, whether he slips his hands or not. "
"His Royal Highness." Princess Huai walked to the window sill and saw King Chen leading Ming Jiuzhu out of the restaurant, the two walked away talking and laughing in the hustle and bustle of the crowd, a smile appeared on the corners of their mouths: "The fifth brother and Ming County The feelings of the Lord are really good."
"Whether it's good or not, that's what happened." King Huai wasn't interested in this topic at all. "Three or five years later, it won't prevent other women from entering the palace. You women, don't think about this all day."
He glanced at the Lantern Festival bowl that King Chen had eaten: "Yoah, it's really rare for him to finish a bowl of Lantern Festival."
I remember when Yun Duqing was five years old, everyone sat at the table to eat Lantern Festival, only he didn't want to move the spoon, saying that Lantern Festival was sticky to his teeth and not delicious.
Since then, the Lantern Festival every year, the Lantern Festival in Yunduqing's bowl, has been replaced with other food, without exception.
"It seems that people can change." Wang Huai followed Princess Huai's line of sight and looked out the window, only to see a dense crowd.
"Let's go, go back to the palace."
I don't know if it's his delusion, but the fifth brother's speech now has become unfathomable.