"What book?" King Chen glanced at the walnut kernels that were piled into small hills, picked up two walnut kernels and threw them into his mouth, and approached them curiously.
Jiuzhu moved to the side and made an open space for King Chen to sit: "I don't know, I didn't open it, there are only two villains on the book cover."
King Chen didn't take it seriously, and summoned the palace maid and eunuch to serve the two of them to wash.
The palace people tidied up the beds, and the two sat side by side to soak their feet together, even the foot soaking basins were next to each other. King Chen turned to look at Jiuzhu's basin, stretched out his wet feet, and placed them on Jiuzhu's instep.
"Your Highness?" Jiu Zhu turned to look at him.
"I'll try the water temperature on your side."
It turns out that the little girl's instep is much more tender and softer than a man's.
"There's no difference, it's all the same." Jiu Zhu imitated King Chen and put her feet into his basin. King Chen's raised toes scratched her feet.
"Itching." She raised her feet, Jiuzhu wiped her feet, and climbed onto the bed: "Your Highness, this bed is really big."
King Chen touched his nose uncomfortably, and waved away all the palace servants in the house: "This is the bed the two of us sleep on, of course it's big."
Yun Duqing, relax, this is your princess, who will eat and sleep together in the future.
"His Royal Highness." Jiu Zhu sat cross-legged and picked up the little book that he threw aside: "His Royal Highness, throw the book aside."
"Why is there a book on the bed?" King Chen took the book. Will the servants of the Qilin Palace handle errands? Who would be interested in reading books on their wedding day
He sat cross-legged like Jiuzhu, casually opened the book, stared at the content on the screen, and did not respond for a long time.
"His Royal Highness, what is painted on it?" Jiuzhu stuck her head out curiously.
"It's not suitable for a little girl to read." King Chen covered her head with his hands, and closed the book stiffly: "There's nothing to see."
"There's nothing to see, you can show it to me too." That's how people are, the more people close to them are not allowed to see things, the more they want to have a second look.
"What are you looking at, are you sleepy after a day's work today?" King Chen hurriedly threw the book under the bed, pressed Jiuzhu on the bed, and pulled the quilt to cover himself with her: "Sleep."
"Sleepy." Jiuzhu stretched her head out of the quilt, grabbed the edge of the quilt with both hands, and whispered, "But I can't sleep."
"Why?" King Chen hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand from the quilt and pressed the quilt behind Jiuzhu, lest the cold wind would blow in and make her back cold.
"I have slept alone since I was a child, and it was the first time I squeezed a quilt with others, so I was not used to it." Jiu Zhu glanced at King Chen: "But don't worry, Your Highness, I sleep very well. Master said, I lie down at night. What posture is it, what posture is it when you wake up in the morning, you can be obedient."
Seeing her timid expression, King Chen sighed and lifted the quilt to get out of bed.
"Your Highness, where are you going?" Jiu Zhu grabbed his wrist.
"Go to the cupboard and take a quilt out." King Chen looked down at her hand and yawned, "Lie down and sleep well."
"No need." Jiuzhu dragged King Chen back into the quilt, and King Chen found that he was a little unable to struggle.
"I'm not used to it now, it should be fine to sleep a few more nights." Jiuzhu patted the quilt on the two of them: "The couple should lie down together."
King Chen didn't tell her that the prince and his concubine had their own courtyards, and they didn't live in the same courtyard every day.
Her eyes are clean and innocent, and she is ignorant and pure in matters of men and women. King Chen's heart is struggling fiercely between beasts and beasts.
"His Royal Highness." Jiuzhu stretched out her arms and hugged his neck, her voice soft: "Go to sleep."
King Chen took a deep breath: "Are you sure you want to hug and sleep?"
"Isn't the wedding night just to be hugged to sleep?" Jiuzhu puzzled: "Is it wrong?"
"Before you got married, the nurturing nanny sent by the Ministry of Rites told you that?"
Jiuzhu recalled carefully: "Mammy said that some things are for other people to learn, and the maiden treats me like a daughter. If there is anything you don't understand after the wedding, His Highness will teach me."
That really treats you like a daughter-in-law. I am a cheap son-in-law picked up from outside.
"Where did Mammy say something wrong?" The smile on Jiuzhu's face gradually disappeared, and she released the hand that was on King Chen's neck.
"She's right." King Chen sighed in the bottom of his heart, and hugged her whole body into his arms: "Go to sleep, I will teach you slowly every night in the future."
As for today...
Seeing the girl's charming face regaining her smile, he might as well be a beast for the time being.
In less than two sticks of incense, the girl who said she couldn't sleep was already breathing evenly and fell asleep.
King Chen moved the arm that was being pressed by her. The story of sleeping with his arm on his arm all night in the storybook was false. After a while, his arm started to go numb.
Carefully pumping his arm, seeing the girl frowning uncomfortably, he immediately gave up the struggle.
Looking at the dragon and phoenix embroidered patterns on the bed canopy, he leaned over and gently kissed her forehead, and slowly fell asleep.
When he woke up the next morning, he was lying on the edge of the bed, Jiuzhu was reclining on the bed, his head resting on his chest, occupying most of the bed.
He bent his arms, very good, not broken, and can be used normally.
It was already bright outside the window, and King Chen stretched out Jiuzhu's hand outside the quilt and gently stuffed it into the quilt.
Although he only occupied a small and half of the big bed, he still didn't want to get up on this peaceful morning.
Outside the door, the warm water held in the hands of the palace maid and eunuch has been changed back and forth several times, and no one dared to make a sound.
"Miss Spring Equinox." The head of the eunuch of the Qilin Palace walked to the side and asked the Spring Equinox in a low voice, "I don't know what taboos the princess has on weekdays. I also ask the girl to give some pointers. The younger ones will serve you in the future, and you will be able to please the masters."
After yesterday's wedding, who didn't know that the prince valued the princess, and all the palace staff in the Qilin Palace were worried, for fear of making the princess dissatisfied.
"Eunuch Yang, don't worry. When the princess was at her parents' house, she was very gentle. As long as everyone worked hard and didn't violate the palace rules, how could the princess be willing to punish everyone." The Spring Equinox smiled politely. The eldest maid, all the palace servants of the Qilin Palace, must respect her.
"Yes, yes, the girl is right, we are all loyal and dedicated people." In just a few words, Director Yang knew that the Spring Equinox girl beside the princess was not a fool.
After nearly half an hour, there was finally a movement in the room. Manager Yang and Spring Equinox politely walked to the door and asked each other to enter the door.
Finally, with satisfied smiles, the two stepped into the door at the same time.
"Congratulations to Wang Ye and Wang Fei on their wedding."
"Let's all get up." King Chen's expression was rare and gentle, and he said to everyone, "The servants of the Qilin Palace all receive an extra two months' salary.
He saw the Spring Equinox standing next to Director Yang, and knew that she was the eldest maid of Jiuzhu's dowry maid: "The Spring Equinox is the valet beside the princess, and she will act according to the rules of a first-class maid in the future. Yang Yiduo, you go to the palace today. Let's make a trip, register the Spring Equinox girl as a sixth-rank female official, and bring back the waist badge."
"Little obeys." Yang Yiduo glanced at the vernal equinox with admiration, and it was good to follow the right master. In a blink of an eye, he changed from a servant girl in the servant's house to a sixth-grade female official. He entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and he is still a sixth-grade female official. Product Manager.
"My servant, thank your Highness for your kindness." Of course, the Spring Equinox understood what a sixth-grade female official represented, and bowed down to King Chen.
"You are the maidservant of the princess. If you don't have an official rank in the inner court, others will look down on the princess." King Chen made no secret that he gave her a female official rank, just to hold Gao Jiuzhu's intentions: "There is no need to thank this king, and serve me well. The princess is enough."
"Yes." Spring Equinox glanced at the bed tent, saw the young lady's figure moving, and whispered: "My lord, when the princess wakes up, she doesn't like too many people to wait on her."
"Yang Yiduo will stay with you, the others will step back." King Chen straightened his sleeves, opened the bed tent and sat on the edge of the bed. Seeing Jiuzhu sitting sleepily holding the quilt, he reached out and squeezed her cheek: "woke up?"
"His Royal Highness?" Jiu Zhu slowly recovered from the unfamiliar environment. She tilted her head and stared at King Chen. She and His Highness are now a family.
"Drink some honey water." King Chen took the honey water from Yang Yiduo and fed it to Jiuzhu's mouth: "Open your mouth."
Jiu Zhu obediently took two sips and asked inexplicably, "Your Highness, when did I fall asleep last night?"
"Do you still drink?" King Chen didn't really want to answer this question.
Jiuzhu shook her head.
"After the two incense sticks you said couldn't sleep." King Chen handed the cup to Yang Yiduo, and stretched out his hand to poke her on the forehead: "Liar."
"Usually when I lie on the bed, I can fall asleep with just a stick of incense." Jiu Zhu looked away with a guilty conscience: "So the two sticks of incense are barely able to fall asleep."
King Chen looked at her with a half-smile, "Really?"
"Yeah!" Jiuzhu nodded vigorously to prove the truth of what she said.
The Spring Equinox lowered her head and held back her laughter. Usually, the lady fell asleep while lying on the bed, so it was not a lie.
"Okay, this king believes you." King Chen chuckled lightly: "Get up and eat, and I'll take you to see your father and mother later, and then go for a walk with your four brothers."
He rubbed his two fingers: "There should be something good to take."
Jiuzhu suddenly came to the spirit: "Okay."
On the first day of the wedding, Jiuzhu deliberately dressed up. The eight-tailed Chaoyang Phoenix hairpin in the middle of the bun was exquisite and gorgeous, and Jiuzhu actually suppressed it.
"Phoenix with peony." King Chen drew a blooming peony between her eyebrows and nodded with satisfaction.
"Princess is really a mysterious girl, with a beautiful appearance." Yang Yiduo flattered: "The peony flower that Your Highness painted is just right, the two of you standing together, that is a pair made in heaven. Looking at the entire capital, except for His Majesty and the Empress. , the two of them are incomparably more compatible."
"That's a good point." King Chen threw the painting Huadian's pen to Yang Yiduo: "There is a reward."
The palace servants of the Qilin Palace are more discerning than those of the Zhangliu Palace.
"Our princess is indeed the Nine Heavens Fairy who descended to the mortal world." King Chen took Jiuzhu's hand, raised his eyebrows and asked Yang Yiduo, "Do you know why she has worked so hard to descend to the mortal world?"
Yang Yiduo shook his head.
"Of course it's to meet this king." King Chen gave a high-spirited laugh, picked out a shawl and put it on Jiuzhu: "Ming Xiaozhu, come with me."
In Mingyue Palace, Empress Su absentmindedly finished her breakfast, and Emperor Longfeng put food to her mouth, but she did not respond.
"Meidai." Emperor Longfeng smiled: "Du Qing likes to sleep late, how can he get up so early?"
"Today is different from the past." Empress Su pushed away Emperor Longfeng's hand: "I don't know if they saw the book I let them put under their pillows."
"Hey, I want them to see it, but I don't want them to see it." Su Housu held her cheeks in her hand: "When I entered the backyard of the palace, I was only so big as a pearl."
"In my eyes, you are the same as in previous years." Emperor Longfeng said quickly: "You got up early in the morning, and you didn't even use your meals well, so eat some more."
"I don't eat, I have no appetite." Queen Su pushed his hand away again: "No matter what is in front of me now, I have no appetite."
"Then I'll send someone to urge Du Qing..."
"What are you urging!" Queen Su raised her voice: "No one is allowed to disturb them. You, the father and emperor, don't understand the rules at all."
Emperor Longfeng didn't dare to speak anymore, he silently picked up the bowl to drink porridge.
"Your Majesty, your majesty, the prince and princess are here."
"Let them in." Queen Su stood up and motioned for Xiangxian to take out the gift she had prepared.
"Father, Queen Mother, where are you going to eat?" King Chen led Jiuzhu into the door, glanced at the breakfast on the table that had not been removed, and said with a smile, "My son and the princess have come to greet you, and I beg the father and queen to accept us. bye."
"Wait for the ground to get cold, my daughter's knees can't get cold." Empress Su asked the palace servant to take the futon and put it in front of Jiuzhu.
King Chen looked at the empty floor in front of him and hesitated.
Doesn't the prince deserve to have a futon
Jiu Zhu moved the futon to the middle, and pulled King Chen to kneel on the big futon with him.
"Father, please have some tea." Jiuzhu picked up the tea and held it above her head.
"Okay." Emperor Longfeng took a sip of the tea, picked up a few house deeds and put them in Jiuzhu's hand: "I have nothing to give you, this is the hot spring villa and Bieyuan under my private name. After making up time, I will go to these places to live for two days.”
"Thank you, Father."
King Chen glanced at the title deed: "Father, this hot spring village, my son also likes it."
"It's no use if you like it, it's your wife's now." Emperor Longfeng smiled: "You used to be here with me, and you took away a few things?"
"His Royal Highness, it's okay." Jiu Zhu whispered in King Chen's ear: "What's mine is yours."
"Empress mother, please drink tea." The house deed was handed over to King Chen for storage, and Jiuzhu served tea to Queen Su.
"Okay, okay." Su Hou even said a few okays, took a big sip of tea, bent down and helped her up with his own hands: "Come, sit and talk."
"Niangniang." Fragrant Silk handed the tray to Queen Su, signaling her not to forget these gifts.
"I almost forgot." Empress Su rubbed her temples and said with a smile, "Your father gave you the title deed, and I will send you a few shops in the city, a set of three-in-one courtyard houses. If Du Qing dares to anger you in the future , you move to a courtyard house. Remember, men can't get used to it."
"Cough, cough." King Chen glanced at Queen Su, dear mother, please make it clear that I am your biological son, not your son-in-law.
"If your throat is dry, let the kitchen cook you a cup of Chuanbei Sydney cream." Queen Su gave him a disgusting look: "Don't stop me from talking to Jiuzhu."
King Chen: "..."
He walked to Emperor Longfeng and sat down, and Emperor Longfeng patted him on the shoulder.
Son, after getting married, a man should learn from the weeds under the wall, be strong and tenacious.
"You just arrived in the palace, if there is anything you are not used to, come and tell me." Empress Su said to Jiuzhu: "You are the imperial concubine, and there are not so many rules when you leave the palace. On weekdays, let Du Qing accompany you outside the palace. Walk."
"Niangniang." Jiuzhu couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness is very kind to me."
"Why are you called Niangniang again?"
"Queen Mother." Jiuzhu blushed.
"Lunch is here for me." Queen Su was happy: "I let the kitchen cook your favorite dishes, and I will go to Zhang Liugong in the afternoon to see my brother and sister-in-law."
Jiuzhu nodded, she looked at Queen Su, and then at King Chen who was sitting with His Majesty, her brows were full of smiles.
In Zhangliu Palace, several princes were sitting in the courtyard, staring at each other, until the sun was shining in the sky, and someone from Mingyue Palace sent someone to say that the emperor and the queen would stay with King Chen and Princess Chen for lunch, and the husband and wife would come to visit them in the afternoon.
"Huh." An Wang breathed a sigh of relief, his straight back collapsed instantly, and stood up slowly: "I'll go back to the house first, and I'll play chess with my brothers in the afternoon."
A game of chess was messed up, but it was just to show the fifth brother. Now that the fifth brother can't come, they are not interested in pretending.
King Huai swept all the pieces on the chessboard into the chess box, black, black and white mixed together in a mess.
"Big brother." King Jing glanced at the chess piece and smiled bitterly: "Brother is going back to the house first."
King Huai waved his hand and motioned for him to leave quickly.
"Big brother." Yun Yanze took out a chess piece from the chess box and placed it in the middle of the chessboard: "Brother, I will accompany you to play."
King Huai raised his eyelids to look at him, and sneered: "Fourth brother has a deep mind. As a big brother, I can't beat you."
"I've already lost everything." Yun Yanze changed the chess pieces: "It's not surprising that Big Brother doesn't want to play chess with me. Unfortunately, Fifth Brother doesn't like to play chess, otherwise Big Brother can compare with him. Let's see who has the highest chess move."
"The fourth brother's statement is not good." King Huai picked up the chess piece and threw it into the chess box: "The fifth brother is different from us, he doesn't need to play chess."
Yun Yanze laughed inexplicably, everyone was a chess player, why was Yun Duqing an accident
"Don't be unhappy. In this life, people don't want to believe in fate, but they have to accept it." King Huai didn't like this kind-hearted younger brother: "Also, fourth brother, have you ever heard a folk story? "
Yun Yanze looked at him calmly.
"It is said that there was an old man in a certain village who hated cats and dogs very much. Every time he saw them, he would throw stones at them. One day, a cat scratched his hand while he was not paying attention. A few days later, the old man suddenly looked Insane, he bites people when he sees them, and he is afraid when he encounters water. People all over the world say that this is what he got for bullying cats and dogs." Wang Huai smiled and asked in a low voice, "Fourth brother, do you know what kind of disease this is?"
Yun Yanze shook his head with a light smile: "Did Big Brother know?"
"This disease is called mad cat disease." Wang Huai lowered his voice: "It is said that people with this disease can see the tragic death of various cats every day, and they will die without peace. Fourth brother, are you afraid? "
Yuan Yanze picked up the tea on the table and took a sip: "Those with a clear conscience are naturally not afraid."
"Heh." King Huai sneered, "Fourth brother is right." After speaking, he turned around and went back to his yard.
Reaching out and grabbing a handful of chess pieces, Yun Yanze sprinkled all the chess pieces on the chessboard and touched his wrist.
"nonsense."
Wide sleeves swept away, and countless chess pieces fell to the ground.
"It's dawn." Ming Jiyuan was lying on the fence and said to Ming Cunfu on the other side of the fence, "I don't know if Jiuzhu was wronged."
"Third brother, you've been talking about it all morning." Ming Cunfu was leaning against the wall at the end of his breath, and wanted to say, if it really doesn't work, you should marry a daughter-in-law and take care of him.
But thinking of the strength of the third brother, he didn't dare to say it.
"The people in the palace have deep thoughts and say one sentence and three sentences. She has four concubines on top of her, and she doesn't know if they can get along well." Ming Jiyuan squeezed the wall hard: "There are also those palace people, Jiuzhu has a pure and good nature. Will the people follow the yang and the yin?"
"Third brother, don't pinch it, we will be deducted from the monthly salary if you pinch it!" Ming Cunfu used his milk-feeding strength to break Ming Jiyuan's wrist: "Of the five princes in the palace, only King Chen is the Dizi, the servants in the palace, how dare you treat your sister yang and yin. You have forgotten the character of King Chen, with him, who would dare to bully our family Jiuzhu?"
"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on men, and King Chen can't always follow Jiuzhu's side, and there are those conspiracies..."
"Third brother, you have been with Jiuzhu for a short time, so maybe you don't know her well enough." Ming Cunfu's face turned red, and he still hadn't opened Ming Jiyuan's hand: "Don't look at our Jiuzhu, who is usually cute and naive, but she is smart at critical moments. ."
Ming Jiyuan let go of his grip on the wall, and Ming Cunfu almost fell into a big somersault: "Wait two days later, when my sister returns to the door, ask her again if she is used to living in the palace."
"You forgot." Ming Jiyuan's tone was low: "Jiuzhu is a royal wife, and there is no rule of going back three days after getting married."
Ming Cunfu was stunned, and when he heard this sentence, he suddenly felt the heartache that his sister had married and was not in Ming's house.
Can't even go back to the door
He was silent for a moment: "Maybe... Maybe His Highness will accompany her back?"
King Chen even came to welcome his relatives, and perhaps he could make an exception for his sister when it came to returning home.
"Even if King Chen is willing, don't your Majesty and the Empress have any opinions?"
"Jiuzhu said that Concubine... Empress Su likes her very much." Ming Cunfu still held a glimmer of hope: "I don't think it will be for her."
"Many mothers-in-law treat their daughters-in-law differently before and after marriage." Ming Jiyuan patted the fence again, but this time Ming Cunfu didn't have time to stop it.
After a bang, a large piece was missing from the wall.
Ming Cunfu quickly took a few steps back, proving with practical actions that this matter had nothing to do with him.
Ming Jiyuan glanced at Ming Cunfu with disappointment. Even Ming Cunfu would leave him to protect himself at a critical moment. How hypocritical would the brotherhood of the princes in the palace be
"Third brother, it's not because my younger brother doesn't want to share weal and woe with you, it's mainly because I really have no money." Ming Cunfu explained as he ran: "If the silver is deducted, I don't even have enough money to buy rouge gouache for my fiancee."
Seeing the sixth brother who could not even climb over the wall on weekdays, but now walks like a fly, Ming Jiyuan sighed: "People's hearts."
"Eldest son." A young servant came hurriedly, he glanced at the wall with a missing corner, and took a few big steps back: "There is a wandering Taoist outside, who said that he was entrusted by the two masters of the young lady, for the young lady. Come here as a wedding present."
"Hurry up, please." Ming Jiyuan came back to his senses and strode out: "Serve the tea, don't neglect it."
He walked quickly to the main hall, and saw a middle-aged female Taoist priest with a wooden hairpin and a blue Taoist robe sitting in the room, she bowed and said, "Junior Ming Jiyuan, the elder brother of Jiuzhu, I don't know the long fairy is coming. , there is rudeness, please forgive me."
"Young Master Ming is very polite." The female Taoist gave a salute, and took out a wooden box from the package she was carrying: "The poor road passed through the capital, and was entrusted by the two Taoists to give this thing to the Ming family. Fortunately, I did not humiliate my life. , Mr. Ming, please accept it."
"Thank you, Daoist Master." Ming Jiyuan saw that Daoist Master put down his things and was ready to leave, and quickly said: "Daoist priest has worked hard all the way, it is better to stay in a humble house for a few days, and when Jiuzhu returns, I will thank you in person."
"We are outsiders, gather and disperse, and do not force anything." The Taoist priest smiled: "If Young Master Ming sincerely thanks you, you might as well go to the Sanqing Statue and light a scented stick and give half a bowl of Shemi for the beggar. It's your merit."
"The Daoist does not want to stay here, and the younger generation does not dare to force it. Please also ask the Daoist to leave the immortal name, so that the younger generation can explain the whole story to the younger sister."
"Old Dao is Xianyun, and he is also a wild crane, and the taboo is just a code name. You don't need to be obsessed." The Daoist smiled casually: "Although you can tell Miss Ming what happened today, she has a relationship with Daofa and will understand. "
Ming Jiyuan's heart skipped a beat, is he related to Dao Fa
"Young master, don't think too much." The Taoist priest seemed to see through his thoughts: "Those who are at ease are all related to Taoism. Miss Ming is a transparent person."
She stretched out her hand and patted the wooden box lightly: "It's just this thing, I also ask the young master to hand it over to Miss Ming in person."