A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

The street was bustling with people, Wang Chen looked at the lively teahouse, raised his feet and walked in, took two steps, turned back to see Jiuzhu standing outside the door and did not follow: "What's wrong?"

Jiuzhu shook her head: "Nothing."

She slowly moved small steps and followed behind King Chen.

King Chen glanced at her with a half-smile, suddenly reached out to hold her wrist, and dragged the person upstairs.

"His Royal Highness." Jiu Zhu obediently walked beside him and whispered, "There are many female guests upstairs..."

"It doesn't matter, this king doesn't pay attention to this." Walking upstairs, King Chen heard some women's applause, he opened the bead curtain, and saw that there were many female guests sitting inside, only a few male guests Sandwiched between a bunch of women, his face is full of lovelessness.

Zhou Shucheng was one of them. He glanced at his energetic younger sister, sighed, turned his head, and was shocked. Why did King Chen come here?

He bent down and tried to cover himself with other guests: "Sister, let's go."

"Wait a minute." Zhou Xiao was unmoved: "It's time for the overbearing prince to slay the bandits and save the beauty!"

"I saw the overbearing prince holding a nine-foot spear and rushing into the bandit's den on horseback. In an instant, the sand and stones were flying, and the sun and the moon were dull!"

There was a woman's applause from the audience, Zhou Shucheng silently covered his face with his hands, and no longer dared to look at King Chen's face.

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"The bandits were convinced by the heroic appearance of the prince, and they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy again and again, like a stagnant dog."

Hearing that the overbearing prince rescued the weak girl in the firewood room, and disappeared into the dark night wearing the moonlight, the female guests started to give a reward in excitement.

Seeing these crazy female guests, King Chen turned his head to look at Jiu Zhu, pulled her to sit at the empty table behind him, and quickly ordered the waiter to bring melon and fruit snacks.

"Come on, eat and listen." King Chen pushed the dim sum in front of Jiuzhu and teased, "How can the king go alone to suppress the bandits, unless the mind is full of paste."

Jiuzhu's hand with the snack trembled, and she quietly shrank back.

"Why don't you eat it?" Seeing that she took her hand back, King Chen gave her a new set of snacks: "Don't you like it?"

"One more time, one more time!"

A wealthy female guest threw a grain of gold on the stage. The female gentleman glanced at the shining gold and took a few sips of tea: "Since all the guests are so enthusiastic, then I will continue to tell you the story of the overbearing prince who returned to Beijing to suppress the bandits and received the Long Live Award."

The story became more and more exciting, and a female guest in the audience whispered: "I don't know what the real King Chen looks like, but unfortunately the princes and nobles can't get close to it easily, otherwise I will definitely take a look."

After hearing this, King Chen, the domineering lord in this story, what does it have to do with him?

"His Royal Highness, the ministers and daughters also think these stories are meaningless." Jiuzhu tugged at King Chen's sleeve: "How about we go back first?"

"Wait first." King Chen broke a pear with his bare hands and gave half of it to Jiuzhu. Thinking that the meaning of the pear was not good, he put the other half into her hand and sneered: "This king should listen, this overbearing lord. How absurd the story is."

Jiu Zhu took a bite of the pear in her left hand, and another pear in her right hand, her mouth was stuffed to the brim, she secretly looked at the expression on King Chen's face, and began to think about what she would do if His Highness was angry.

"The overbearing prince took the golden hairpin given by Long Live, and rode to the young lady's house on horseback. The young lady's father promised that as long as he succeeded in suppressing the bandits, he would marry his daughter to him."

"Heh." King Chen sneered, which minister in the court dared to treat the prince with such an attitude?

How could someone like such a messy story?

"Tell me, did King Chen give his fiancee a golden hairpin?"

"I sent it, I sent it, I have heard about it. Not long ago, King Chen bought a lot of gold and silver jewelry in the Bajin Building, and they sent them to the Ming Shilang's mansion."

"real?"

"Of course it's true. My aunt works in Bajin Building and usually receives female guests. She came back and told us that King Chen was very generous and bought a lot of jewelry for his fiancee."

Hearing the whispered conversations of the female guests, King Chen tilted his head to look at Jiuzhu, who lowered her head and nibbled at the pear silently.

After the story ended, the guests left the restaurant one after another. King Chen sat on the wooden chair with his hands around his chest, looked at the lady on the stage who was bending over to collect the silver, lowered his head and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve.

"The students have seen the prince." After the guests dispersed, Zhou Shucheng couldn't hide any more, so he could only bite the bullet and bow to Prince Chen.

Handing the handkerchief to Jiuzhu, King Chen glanced at Zhou Shucheng and saw that he was wearing the clothes of a student from the Guozijian.

"I went to the teahouse with my sister to listen to the book today. I never thought I would meet the prince." Zhou Shucheng didn't know how Prince Chen thought of himself, but at this critical moment, he still had to leave himself alone: ​​"My prince, also came to listen to the book? "

King Chen asked back, "Do you think this king is someone who likes to hear stories like this?"

Zhou Shucheng was silent.

Like, aren't you here?

"Sister Ming." Zhou Xiao packed up his things, turned to see Jiuzhu and King Chen, his face changed slightly, after bowing to King Chen, he asked Jiuzhu in a low voice, "When did my sister come here?"

The point is, has King Chen heard the story told by Mrs.

Jiu Zhu held King Chen's handkerchief and whispered, "Mr. lady is talking about the king... When the king beheaded the bandit leader, we came here."

Zhou Xiao gave Jiuzhu a look, but before the prince didn't respond, he led someone to chase him away.

hurry up?

Jiuzhu cheered up: "Your Highness, after the story is over, we..."

"Girl, is that you?!" The lady was holding a purse full of rewards, and walked towards Jiuzhu with a smile on her face: "I haven't seen the girl for several days, and I didn't have a chance to thank you."

King Chen turned his head to look at Jiuzhu, who silently rubbed towards the door and was caught by him.

"Fortunately, I heard the girl's words last time. Since I told the story of the evil prince, the guests gave more and more money. Now the storytellers in Ten Streets and Eight Alleys have followed me." The lady saluted Jiuzhu: " Thank you girl for helping me point out a way to make money."

Jiuzhu's lack of confidence: "I just asked you to tell more of his stories. The content of these stories is not what I told."

"The girl is kind, and for those of us who are begging for food, you still don't take credit for pointing out the way to make money." The lady was very grateful to Jiuzhu, "If you want to hear any story next time, just tell me below, and I will follow you below. tell you your preferences."

"No, no need." Jiu Zhu didn't dare to look at King Chen's face: "You go to work first, I have some things to deal with."

The female gentleman glanced at the handsome man beside Jiuzhu, and showed an understanding smile: "Don't disturb the girl, girl, please feel free to say goodbye."

The lady left wisely, Zhou Xiao looked at Jiuzhu worriedly, Zhou Shucheng didn't dare to disturb King Chen, and pulled her away abruptly.

"Block the outside, don't let others in." King Chen raised his head and asked the guards to go outside to guard. The attendants glanced at each other, bowed and retreated outside the bead curtain.

Knock, knock, knock.

King Chen's index finger knuckles tapped on the table lightly, looking at Jiuzhu, who didn't dare to come out of the air: "Come, sit and talk."

"His Royal Highness, the minister and daughter didn't do it on purpose, and I didn't expect things to develop like this." Her watery eyes blinked at King Chen: "Don't be mad at me, okay?"

Seeing her pitiful appearance, King Chen laughed angrily: "You first

Tell me, what's going on? "

"It happened one sunny morning..."

King Chen reached out and poked at the head of her bag lightly: "Talk about the key points."

"I went to the teahouse to listen to the book, and found that what the lady said about the beautiful king and the evil king meant something, so I didn't let her tell it." Thinking of the money that was spent that day, Jiuzhu felt a pain in her heart: "In order to let the lady change the story, It took a full two months of monthly money, two months."

"How much is your monthly payment?" Seeing her distressed like this, King Chen was a little curious.

Jiuzhu stretched out two fingers.

"Two hundred taels?" King Chen clicked his tongue, indicating that Jingzhou was an honest official, which seemed to be true.

Jiuzhu's eyes widened: "How could there be so many, it's twenty taels."

Twenty taels is already a lot. In the Taoist temple before, she and the masters could not spend so much in a year.

Twenty two?

King Chen looked at Jiuzhu with pity, what kind of poor life is this little girl living?

No wonder he only paid a small piece of silver for the funeral expenses of his general. It turned out to be too poor.

"In the story, the beautiful prince is good in everything, and the evil prince is so bad. It's clear that there are bad people deliberately smearing His Highness." Jiu Zhuchao whispered: "Your Highness is so good, why should you allow the bad people to smear you?"

"So you spent all your money on changing the story?" King Chen looked at this girl with a bun and bun, and felt a little strange in his heart, he just wanted to poke her tender face again.

"Although I feel a little distressed, as long as no one speaks ill of His Highness, it's still a good deal." Speaking of which, Jiuzhu lowered her head guiltily: "It's just that the minister and daughter didn't expect that the story would become more and more outrageous... …”

Faced with such a pitiful face, who has the heart to blame?

Is this Ming Xiaozhu's fault?

It was clearly the fault of those storytellers, and it was clear that Xiao Zhu could have any bad intentions, he just wanted to protect him.

"It's just a story, the overbearing prince is the overbearing prince, anyway, he didn't name the prince." King Chen raised his eyebrows: "Next time I encounter this kind of thing, you don't need to pay for it, just report the name of this prince, Let's see who dares not to listen to you."

Jiuzhu shook her head: "His Royal Highness, it's not good. The storyteller is just asking for a living. If I move out of your name, it will only make her uneasy, restless day and night, and live in fear for the rest of her life."

King Chen stood up: "Let's go."

"Where?"

"Send you back."

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of Ming Shilang's mansion, Jiuzhu got off the carriage, looked up at King Chen on the horse, and showed a bright smile.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I just thought, it's nice to meet His Highness." Her eyes were clear and clear, and in her pupils was the clear reflection of King Chen.

"His Royal Highness is not only gentle and kind, but also tolerant and generous." Jiuzhu tilted her head: "Your Highness is really an immortal, right?"

Because of her, there were so many messy stories of domineering princes in the capital, and His Highness never blamed her. If it wasn't for a fairy, how could it be so gentle?

King Chen looked at the serious girl, and the tips of his ears instantly turned red.

Do women who grew up in Lingzhou speak so sticky?

What does this king have to do with being gentle and kind...

"What do you know, little girl." He rubbed his slightly hot ears: "Go home early, so as not to make Zun Lingci worry."

"Yeah." Jiuzhu nodded and turned to leave.

"Wait." King Chen took out a stack of silver bills from his arms and handed it to Jiuzhu: "Take it."

Jiuzhu is puzzled

Looking at her, "Your Highness?"

"If there is any story you want to hear in the future, you can change it as you want the storyteller to change it." Putting the silver note in Jiuzhu's hand, King Chen awkwardly looked up at the sky: "Take it and spend it as you like, this king has money."

Isn't it just some outrageous stories of domineering princes? The little girl likes to listen, so let her listen.

He is a big man, and he doesn't have to care about the yellow-haired girl.

Jiu Zhu took a deep breath when she saw the denomination of the top bank note.

Five hundred taels? !

She had never seen such a large denomination of silver notes!

"His Royal Highness." Jiu Zhu quickly put the money back into King Chen's hands: "This is too much money, I won't be able to sleep if I put it on my body."

In case it was lost or stolen, she could cry for three days and three nights.

"Promising." King Chen reluctantly got off his horse, turned over on his body, found a silver note with a denomination of 22, and a few pieces of silver, and handed it to Jiuzhu: "You must accept this money."

Seeing that Jiuzhu still wanted to refuse, he sternly said, "If I don't accept it again, I will be angry."

"His Royal Highness?" Ming Jingzhou saw a carriage parked in front of his house from a distance, and when he walked in, he found that it was his daughter and His Royal Highness King Chen.

Taking a closer look at what King Chen wanted to give to his daughter, it was actually a twenty-two silver bill, and a few pieces of silver that added up to less than four or five taels.

He looked at King Chen subtly, and his mood was very complicated.

The emperor loved King Chen very much, and from time to time he sent gifts to King Chen's mansion. King Chen was almost the richest of all the princes.

I didn't expect such a wealthy prince to be so stingy with girls.

King Chen noticed the look in Ming Jingzhou's eyes when he looked at him: "..."

He lived for twenty-one years, and for the first time he was suspected of being mean, and this man was also the father of the future princess.

"Father." Jiuzhu was very happy to see Ming Jingzhou: "Are you on duty?"

"Well." Ming Jingzhou bowed his hands to King Chen: "His Royal Highness is visiting, and the minister has lost his way to welcome him. Please come to the humble house for a cup of weak tea."

"No need." With a straight face, King Chen put the silver note and pieces of silver into Jiuzhu's hands: "This king has something to do in the palace, so I won't disturb Lord Ming."

"Respectfully send the prince." Ming Jingzhou smiled politely.

"His Royal Highness, wait." Jiuzhu was afraid that rejecting the money would make His Highness really angry, so she had to accept it. She took out the jade pendant in her purse: "Your jade pendant..."

"Give it to you." King Chen got on his horse and said to Jiuzhu: "Please ask the expert to open the jade pendant, you can hang it anywhere you want."

With this jade pendant, Ming Jingzhou should no longer suspect that he is mean to women?

Jiu Zhu watched King Chen and his guards ride away, and turned to see that his father was smiling in the direction of His Royal Highness's departure: "Father?"

"It's okay, go home with my father." Ming Jingzhou smiled and looked at the jade pendant in Jiuzhu's hand, put his hands behind his back, and entered the gate leisurely.

In Taiyang Palace, as soon as Emperor Longfeng put down his red pen, Liu Zhongbao walked in.

"Your Majesty, please see His Royal Highness King Chen."

"Let him in." Looking at the sky outside, Emperor Longfeng got up and took a few steps.

"My son-in-law pays respects to his father." King Chen walked into the hall and bowed in a big ceremony.

Such a regular gift, there must be something to ask for. Emperor Longfeng asked, "What happened outside?"

Did he dizzy the civil servants, or did he have a dispute with the generals?

"Royal father, my son has been studying hard at the Ministry of Rites recently. When did he cause trouble?" King Chen said confidently, "I just sent the girl from the Ming family back, and I felt emotional because of some things, and wanted to come and chat with the royal father.

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"Oh?" Emperor Longfeng raised his eyebrows.

"Ming Shilang has clean sleeves, and he is dedicated to the people. He also saves money on food and clothing." King Chen admired his face: "Such a style is admired by Erchen."

Emperor Longfeng waited patiently for the following.

"It's just that Miss Ming's is a delicate and tender little girl. She usually spends money on rouge gouache and hairpin jewelry. It's not right to be shy." King Chen looked at Emperor Longfeng: "Anyway, she is also your appointed future daughter-in-law. If you don't have a few taels of silver on your body, it's also a disgrace to our royal family, right?"

"I remember that you have a lot of money on your body..."

"Father's words are inappropriate. The Ming family girl and I are not yet married. I gave her a silver note, but she is not willing to spend it." King Chen coughed: "I mean, you can find a reason to give the Ming family a reason. Reward some gold and silver. If you come forward, it will be an upright matter, and no one can make irresponsible remarks."

"It seems that my son likes the girls of the Ming family very much."

"My son just doesn't want the future princess to lose our royal face." King Chen's ears were red with blood: "My father misunderstood."

"Forget it." Emperor Longfeng sighed: "Originally, I planned to reward the girl of the Ming family with a title for the sake of your attention to her. Since you don't have much affection for her, I will let it go. I will call tomorrow. Ming Jingzhou entered the palace and rewarded him with one hundred taels of gold, so that he had enough money to spend on his daughter's dowry."

Give Ming Xiaozhu a title?

King Chen hurriedly said: "Father, the mother and concubine love the Ming family girl very much. She will marry me sooner or later, and this title can also be given."

With the title, Ming Xiaozhu can receive a salary every month. Before marrying him, he doesn't need to feel distressed for dozens of taels of silver.

Speaking of the word "marriage", a crisp and numb itch rose in his heart.

"It's a title, and it can't be given easily." Emperor Longfeng shook his head: "I think again."

"It's just a small title, next to our Yun family.

Among the distant relatives, there are many women who have sealed the county head and the county head. King Chen thought for a while, took the tea from Liu Zhongbao's hand, and handed it over to Emperor Longfeng: "Or you can give Miss Ming a county magistrate, which is not ostentatious, but also considered decent. "

Looking at his son who nodded and bowed to his own family, Emperor Longfeng pretended to be embarrassed: "In this case, for the sake of your mother and concubine's love for the daughter of the Ming family, I will give her the title of county head."

"Many thanks to the royal father, the royal father is wise and martial, loyal, kind and forgiving, and loves the people like a son." King Chen patted his ass, and then walked over to the imperial case: "How about, my son will grind it for you now?"??w ??, please keep in mind:,