A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

"Zhuzhu." Uncle Ming raised his wide sleeves and poured a cup of tea for King Chen: "His Royal Highness King Chen is here today to discuss something with his uncle, look..."

"Uncle, it's important to do business, please talk to His Royal Highness slowly." Jiuzhu stood up: "I'll go get some snacks."

"Sister." When Ming Cun chased out of the hospital, he saw Jiuzhu skilfully jumping over the fence, raising her sleeves and covering her face with her sleeves, sighing.

"Little young master." The servant walked behind him: "Master said, let you go to the study and take out a few military books written by him."

"The Book of War?" Ming Cunfu had a bad premonition in his heart. Could it be that what my father said was something he wrote himself?

"Did the master say, which military books are they?"

"Master said, the books in the grid on the fifth and third from the left."

Really those things.

Ming Cunfu went to his father's bookshelf, found the box on the left, fifth, upper third, took out all the books inside, patted the dust on it, and the flying dust made him cough again and again.

"Is this borrowing a book for His Highness to read, or throwing it in junk?" Ming Cunfu was worried that one day his father would be sent to the frontier again because he offended King Chen.

He took down a carved wooden book box from the shelf next to him. After putting the books in the box, he squeezed the box to the fullest, which seemed to be a bit of a collector's book.

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When he came to the yard with the book in his arms, the stone table was already filled with melons and fruits, and the little cousin was holding a teapot to pour tea for King Chen, and King Chen was peeling oranges in his hand. I broke a piece and handed it to my little cousin's mouth.

"Father, my son has brought the book." Ming Cunfu put down the book and took the teapot from his little cousin: "Your Highness, please use tea."

King Chen glanced at Ming Cunfu, put the orange that was handed to Jiuzhu's mouth into her hand, and turned to ask Ming Jinghai, "Master Ming, is Linglang planning to take the imperial examination?"

Ming Jinghai nodded.

"A scholar's time is as precious as gold. Young Master Ming doesn't have to accompany him here." King Chen lowered his head and peeled the whole orange, and stuffed all the pulp into Jiuzhu: "Master Ming, go and study the book first."

In the end, Ming Cunfu was driven back to the study. He touched the silver note on his body, looked at the wall through the window, rolled up his sleeves and climbed out of the window.

Although it is indecent for a scholar to climb the window and the wall, for the woman he likes, there is no need to pay too much attention.

"Master!" The little servant hurried into the yard: "The young master broke his leg!"

"What's the matter?" Ming Jinghai usually dislikes his son, but at this moment his body has stood up honestly and walked to the servant in a few steps.

"Young master climbed the fence, accidentally slipped and fell."

"The bones are dislocated, the old man has already broken the bones back for him." The imperial doctor wrapped Ming Cunfu with a bandage and washed his hands: "Don't worry, Master Ming, there is nothing serious about Ling Lang, just that he can't move around recently, so he needs to rest at home for a while. ."

"Hey, sir." Ming Jinghai personally sent the imperial doctor out of the room door, and asked the housekeeper to send the imperial doctor out before he sighed. Young people today are too weak.

King Chen didn't expect that Ming Jinghai's son would be injured when he stepped into the gate of Ming Jinghai's house for the first time. Silently glanced at Ming Jinghai, Ming Xiaozhu's uncle, does he have any ignorant superstitions, in case he suspects that it is his...

"It's very promising, even climbing a wall can fall to the leg." Ming Jinghai walked back to the house, scolded mercilessly, and covered Ming Cunfu with a quilt: "Even the dog raised by Jiuzhu, They can jump out of our yard."

Ming Cunfu: "..."

It's not a dog, it's Jiuzhu's favorite little white horse, and it can't jump over the wall.

King Chen silently picked up the heavy book box, stood up and said, "Master Ming, take good care of Ling Lang, this king will leave first."

If you leave early, Ming Jinghai must not feel that all this is his fault.

Readers love to think too much, and they must be careful.

"His Royal Highness, I'll take you off." Jiu Zhu stood up.

"Jiuzhu, wait." Ming Cunfu stretched out his hand from under the quilt and stubbornly grabbed Jiuzhu's sleeve: "Do your sixth brother a small favor."

Jiuzhu turned to look at Ming Cunfu, and King Chen also stopped.

"Sixth brother, if you have something for me to do, just say it." Jiuzhu liked Ming Cunfu very much. On the way back to Beijing from Lingzhou, Ming Cunfu took care of her with all his heart. Worrying that she would not adapt when she returned home, she told her about the people in the family, the grass and trees in the family, and the thoughts of her family for her every day.

"It's not a big deal." Ming Cunfu felt a little embarrassed in front of his father and the outsider, King Chen, and took out a collection of poems from under his pillow: "A few days ago, the girl from the Zhou family was looking for this collection of poems, and it happened that I Here is it, I was going to send it today, but who knows it will hurt my leg. You help me run a trip and send the poetry collection to Miss Zhou. "

"No problem." Jiuzhu shoved the poetry collection into her arms: "I'll send it now."

"Also, Miss Zhou is not in the mansion, but at Qingyun Tea House." Ming Cunfu took out the forty-two silver bills that had not been warmed up in his arms, and then took out the twenty-two month silver bills that he had saved for a month. : "You accompany Miss Zhou to choose jewelry. If you like it, you can buy it. This money... Sixth brother is out."

"Thank you sixth brother." Jiuzhu took the purse containing the silver, and when she went to get the silver ticket, she found that she had not pulled it.

"Take it and spend it as you like, especially if Miss Zhou likes it, you must buy it for her, don't save me money." Ming Cunfu let go and closed his eyes: "Go ahead."

"OK."

Jiuzhu put the bank note and purse away: "Sixth brother is really generous."

In response to her, only Ming Cunfu silently pulled the quilt to his face.

"I have forty taels on me, and the sixth brother gave sixty taels, adding up to one hundred taels." Jiu Zhu clutched her heavy purse, and stepped out of the gate with unusually brisk steps.

Chen Wang, who was following behind her, snorted softly, and after only one hundred taels, he forgot about him. Could it be that he couldn't even compare one hundred taels of silver?

"So happy?" Quickening his pace and walking to Jiuzhu's side, King Chen put his arms around his chest: "This king is gone."

"Mmmm." Jiuzhu smiled and nodded, "His Royal Highness walk slowly."

"What else do you want to tell this king?" King Chen took two steps slowly and looked back at Jiuzhu.

"Ah?" Jiuzhu looked at King Chen blankly: "What?"

"It's nothing." King Chen got on his horse and said, "Have some fun with the little sisters, this king has returned to the Ministry of Rites."

Women are all little liars. In the past, it was said that His Royal Highness King Chen was the best, but now that there are 100 taels and little sisters, he is unwilling to even say a few words to him.

Humph, he's a big man, and he's too lazy to chat with the little girl, so it's easier to say a few words less.

Jiu Zhu held her purse, looked at the dust splashed by the horse's hooves, and waved to the distant King Chen.

King Chen turned his head to look at her waving arm, raised his whip and swung it perfunctorily, and disappeared on the street corner.

"His Royal Highness seems to be a little unhappy." Jiuzhu frowned: "Could it be that the Ministry of Rites' affairs are too heavy?"

After touching the collection of poems in her arms, let's go and help the sixth brother to be a messenger first, but because she is procrastinating, Sister Zhou cannot doubt the sixth brother's affection for her.

When she came to the tea house, Jiuzhu saw Zhou Xiao looking towards the door at a glance.

"Sister Zhou." She walked all the way in a hurry, ran to Zhou Xiao and panted slightly: "I kept you waiting for a long time."

Zhou Xiao glanced behind her, and the smile on her face was a little lonely: "Sit down and drink some tea, why are you running in such a hurry without bringing your maid out?"

"I came out today to help the sixth brother run errands." Jiuzhu took out the poetry collection and handed it to Zhou Xiao: "The sixth brother heard that you were looking for this poetry collection, and ran all over most of the bookstores in the city, and finally found it. "

As a younger sister, beautify the process of helping your brother find books, it must not be considered a lie.

Zhou Xiao opened the poetry collection and glanced at it, and smiled shyly: "It's such a trivial matter, why do you need to come all the way here."

"Originally, I didn't need to run this trip." Jiuzhu drank tea: "Sixth brother won't let me tell you, but I don't think this kind of thing can't be hidden. This morning, sixth brother accidentally fell his leg, the imperial doctor told me to He rested at home for a few days, so he pulled me by the sleeve and told me to send the poetry collection to my sister."

"He was injured?" Zhou Xiao threw the poetry collection aside, grabbed Jiuzhu's hand and asked, "How is the injury, what does the imperial doctor say?"

"Sister, don't worry, it's just that the bones are dislocated, the imperial doctor has already helped him take it back." Jiuzhu patted the back of Zhou Xiao's hand quickly, and patted the purse Ming Cunfu gave her: "Before going out, Brother Six specially asked I, take you to buy things, he gave me all the money, if you don't spend it, I can't explain it to the sixth brother when you go back."

After hearing that Cunfu was fine, Zhou Xiao's complexion gradually recovered, but he was no longer interested in buying things.

"Good sister, you should accompany me." Jiuzhu took her arm: "If you don't spend it, I can't spend it with you. Today is just a waste of time. Have pity on me."

"Okay, I can't let my sister suffer." Zhou Xiao was amused by Jiuzhu: "Then let's go."

She carefully put the poetry collection into her arms before leaving the teahouse hand in hand with Jiuzhu.

Jiuzhu squinted and smiled when she saw this, and dragged Zhou Xiao into a jewelry store.

"It took so much energy to put people in the palace of Chen Wang, now you tell me, Qing Yun Du doesn't need any spices?"

"Master, my subordinates and others did not expect that King Chen would suddenly change his hobby and throw all the spices in the house. Could it be that he got the news ahead of time to make such a move?"

"What do you mean, there are ghosts among you?"

"The master misunderstood. What the subordinates meant was that our people found the people of King Qi in the palace of King Chen."

"Could it be that Yun Yanze secretly helped Yun Duqing?"

"Subordinates feel that it is not impossible."

"I remember that Yun Yanze is going to inspect an official's mansion today. If a family member suddenly violently injures someone, what are the chances of injuring him?"

"My sister is so beautiful wearing this bracelet." Jiuzhu and Zhou Xiao walked out of the jewelry store: "It's a pity that I saw such a beautiful scenery, and I wonder if the sixth brother would envy me?"

"Don't laugh at me, your marriage with His Royal Highness King Chen will be on the second day of the second month of the new year." Zhou Xiao pinched Jiuzhu's tender face: "Who will laugh at that time?"

"What's so funny about marriage?" Jiuzhu asked inexplicably, "It's a happy thing for two people you like to live together."

Her eyes are clean, like lake water that has never been polluted. When she mentions the word "like", there is no desire or distraction, only pure happiness and innocence.

Zhou Xiao was stunned, for a while, he didn't know what to say.

"There is a snack seller in front." Jiuzhu released Zhou Xiao's arm: "Sister Zhou, wait, I'll go buy some."

Zhou Xiao stood there and saw that Jiuzhu had tasted the taste, bought several different kinds of food, and finally bundled up a large bag.

"Why did you buy so much food, can you finish it?" Zhou Xiao asked suspiciously.

"It's not for me to eat." Jiuzhu held the oiled paper bag wrapped with snacks: "This is for His Royal Highness and father. They have many colleagues in the Ministry of Rites. If we share it together, there is not much. Ah, I Remember, Uncle Zhou is also an official of the Ministry of Rites, right?"

"Especially Your Highness, he is a junior in the Ministry of Rites, and sharing meals with the adults can promote mutual affection." Jiu Zhu explained seriously: "Master said that no matter how high or low one is, one cannot be a loner. There are all kinds of abilities, and if there is no one around to support, it will not be possible.”

Zhou Xiao nodded and was silent for a moment: "Your master must be a learned person."

"Maybe." Recalling how the two masters were lazy with each other because they didn't wash the dishes, Jiuzhu's tone was a little uncertain.

In their view, there are no books to read. Usually, when the master teaches her to write, she always writes on the sand table.

Don't ask why, just because they are too poor and need to save paper and ink.

There were cries and begging for mercy in the distance, and Jiuzhu asked Zhou Xiao, "Sister, have you heard the crying of women and children?"

"Don't go there." Zhou Xiao grabbed her: "There is a criminal official's house over there, which is being searched."

Yesterday, Ming Jinghai just returned to Beijing, and today the official was confiscated. Anyone can guess that this official must have colluded with officials from other places and did harm to the people.

The black face is well-deserved, and as long as the corrupt officials he finds out, it will not end well in the end.

"The house raider?" Jiuzhu became even more curious. She has grown up so much and has never seen the house raider before: "Sister, can we stand from a distance and have a look?"

"Okay." Zhou Xiao couldn't admit it, but he was actually a little curious.

As a human being, I like to watch the fun, what kind of bad thoughts?

It is not surprising to the people of the capital to raid their homes. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, I don’t know how many corrupt officials have been arrested. Anyway, the life of the common people is getting better and better, and the bad officials are getting fewer and fewer.

The guards were surrounded by the door, and the common people did not dare to get too close, so everyone huddled in the corner to watch the fun.

"Who is that young gentleman standing at the door? He looks really handsome."

"The hair crown he wears even has gems embedded in it. It's really rich."

"Don't talk nonsense, that is the famous virtuous prince, His Royal Highness King Qi."

"Is that the lord who also suppressed bandits and tested for the champion?"

"It was King Chen who was admitted to the top spot and donated a lot of money to the academy. Are you from the capital? You can't even tell the difference?"

"Then King Chen even donated money to the top spot in the Bandit Suppression Examination. Why did Prince Xiande become the King of Qi? Is it because His Majesty is partial to King Qi?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you don't want to die?!"

"My lord, 612,000 taels of silver and jade jewelry were found in the Wang's house. This is a rough statistical record, and the specific number will need to be counted slowly." The officials of the Ministry of households presented the inspection register to King Qi.

King Qi's expression darkened slightly: "As an official of the imperial court, it is really hateful to corrupt so many silver taels!"

The officials of the Ministry of Household did not dare to speak, because this Lord Wang was the uncle of Princess Roude's concubine, and could barely have a relationship with the royal family.

If it weren't for this, I'm afraid Lord Wang would not have been so bold to collude with officials from other places and do things out of their heads.

In any case like this, a large number of cases will be involved from top to bottom, in case the royals are involved...

"Continue to investigate." The direction of the Qi Dynasty's palace handed over: "Before this king set off, the father and the emperor ordered that no matter who was involved in this case, they would be severely punished."

"His Royal Highness, in the Wang family's back house, there are still infants who are less than a month old, look at this..."

"The old woman and the child are detained separately." King Qi glanced at the baby who was being held in his arms and kept crying, and left a love for the concubine of Roude: "Detain the mother and the child together."

"Yes, the lower official understands." The official turned around and conveyed the prince's meaning to the lower official.

Looking at these shackled and anxious people, King Qi thought of his childhood. At that time, he and his mother-in-law were locked in a small courtyard, and the mother-in-law often sat in the house crying and muttering some regrets.

Later, the mother-in-law stopped crying, and would often take out meat and snacks, and let him hide in the house to eat.

The mother-in-law told him that it was secretly brought into the backyard by the uncle, and that the uncle had a way to save them out.

The mother-in-law never told him that the uncle had any way to save them out, because not long after, there was an incident of rebelling against the king and forcing the palace. There was blood in the palace, countless princes were involved, and in the end the winner became his father.

Later, in the palace, when he asked about it, the concubine's face suddenly became very ugly. Since then, he has never asked again.

He didn't like watching women cry, just like he didn't like the two years he was imprisoned in the palace when he was young.

"My lord, my lord." When a woman in shackles saw him looking over, she kowtowed repeatedly: "I beg your lord to be gracious, my child is sick. Please have pity on him and give him some medicine."

The woman knocked so hard that after a while, blood came out of her forehead. Blood ran down her eyes, both hideous and pitiful.

King Qi looked at this scene with indifference in his heart. However, in front of everyone's eyes, he had to put on a benevolent appearance and walked towards the woman who was kowtowing.

"Jiuzhu, help me with the hairpin, it was squeezed crooked."

Nine beads?

When he was two steps away from the woman, King Qi heard a familiar name and suddenly stopped and turned to look at the crowd watching the excitement.

At this moment, the woman who was still kowtow suddenly put her mouth on her sleeve and picked up a

A sharp blade slammed into King Qi.

King Qi took a step back subconsciously, and the sharp blade that was going to cut his throat only cut through his chest.

The blood quickly stained his shirt, he looked down at the injured chest, and tapped the wound with his fingertips. The feeling of pain quickly spread to his brain the moment he touched the blood.

"Protect the king!"

The people watching the lively people were stunned by this sudden change, afraid of being implicated by the assassins, and the Guards took them into the prison, and suddenly lost the mood to watch the lively, and turned around and ran away.

There is still a chance to watch it again in the future. If you are suspected of being an assassin, it is not worthwhile to be caught in prison.

"Hi." Seeing that King Qi's chest was mostly red with blood, Jiu Zhu took a deep breath and whispered to Zhou Xiao, "That female family member doesn't look like an ordinary person."

Don't even think about it, ordinary people can kowtow with their hands and feet tied?

Is King Qi an idiot who can't find such obvious loopholes?

"Don't talk, let's go." Zhou Xiao dragged Jiuzhu and was about to run.

"Wait a minute, two people, who are you?" The janitorial guards saw that the people watching the lively were running about the same, and there were two girls in brocade clothes on the spot, and they quickly stopped in front of them.

"These two girls are the daughters of Zhou Shilang and Ming Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, so you mustn't be rude." King Qi clutched the wound on his chest, his face pale: "Miss Zhou, girl Ming, this place is dangerous, please leave early."

Jiuzhu glanced at the female relative who assassinated King Qi. She lay on the ground, not moving, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive.

Suddenly, she thought of something, raised the skirt and ran.

"Sister Ming, where are you going?" Zhou Xiao chased after two steps.

"I'm worried that His Royal Highness is also in danger, so go to the Ministry of Rites first." Jiu Zhu hurriedly left a sentence, the man had already run far away, but he never let go of the snack he was carrying.

King Qi looked at Ming Jiuzhu, who was running with no image on the street, and frowned while covering his wound.

"My lord, you go to the yard to lie down and rest first, the imperial doctor will come soon." The deputy commander of the Guards was so frightened that his face was pale, and he was trembling even when he spoke.

"It's okay, only the flesh is injured, and it doesn't reach the inner abdomen, so don't worry about it, General." With the support of the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, King Qi lay down on the soft couch temporarily prepared in the inner courtyard.

Hearing the panicked voices all around, he narrowed his eyes. Who is the good brother who plotted against him today?

Or is it some concubine in the palace who wants to share the troubles for her son?

"His Royal Highness!" As soon as King Chen walked out of the gate of the Ministry of Rites, he saw Jiuzhu and rushed in front of him, as fast as a gust of wind.

Jiuzhu pulled him behind the gate of the official office, and then looked around nervously: "Your Highness, the guards of the Ministry of Rites are very powerful, right?"

"Of course, these guards were carefully selected by Long Yingwei." Seeing her running out of breath, her cheeks were flushed, and her forehead was covered in sweat, King Chen took out a handkerchief and wiped her forehead, pretending to be Disgusted: "How do you make yourself look like this?"

Didn't you go to the little sister with money in the morning and didn't even want to say a word to him?

Now that you know you've come to find him?

"When I came, I ran in a hurry, it's fine." Jiuzhu shook her head: "Your Highness, listen to me first, when you go out in the future, you must bring a good guard, and don't approach unidentified people alone, the capital is too dangerous. "

Hearing that Jiuzhu's tone was wrong, King Chen tucked the dirty handkerchief into his sleeve, turned around and asked himself to fetch a dry cloth from his attendant: "What happened?"

"I just came out after buying jewelry with Sister Zhou. I joined the fun and watched the house for a while. I didn't expect that King Qi was slashed on the chest and bleed a lot." Jiu Zhu said in a hurried tone: "He is the prince, you are also the prince, in case the bad guy What if I want to hurt you too?"

"You came from the Wang's house?!" King Chen raised his voice, "You ran all the way from the Wang's house to the Ministry of Rites?"

Jiuzhu blinked and looked at him puzzled: "What, what's wrong?"

Ask him what happened?

It takes more than half an hour to go from the Wang family to the Ministry of Rites, even by carriage.

She ran so far on two legs just to tell him this?

"I'm relieved to see that His Highness is all right." Jiuzhu put the oiled paper bag into King Chen's hand: "These snacks, His Highness will share them with colleagues. I tasted them before I bought them, and they all tasted good."

"Ming Jiuzhu." King Chen stretched out his hand and gently wiped the dust beside her cheek with his fingertips, his voice was gentle and soft: "Are you a little fool?"??w??, please keep in mind:,