When Shen walked into his daughter's yard, he saw Jiuzhu bent down to play with snow, with white snow on her head and body covered in white.

Seeing her come in, Jiuzhu raised her head and grinned at her, and the snow on her head fell: "Mother."

"It's snowing so heavily, why are you squatting outside?" She quickly walked to Jiuzhu and wiped off the snow on her daughter's hair and body with heartache: "Is it cold?"

"It's not cold." Jiuzhu sniffed, "It's fun."

"There is these cold snow, what's the matter..." Shen Shi swallowed it suddenly. She took out her handkerchief and wiped Jiuzhu's fingertips red from the cold: "What's the point of playing alone? Mom plays with you."

She forgot that it almost never snows heavily in the winter in Lingzhou. The snow that people in the capital have long been tired of, but for Jiuzhu, it is a different scenery.

"Spring Equinox, pick up a thick cloak for the lady." Shen bent down and squatted like Jiuzhu: "When my mother was a child, the snowmen she piled were the best among all the sisters."

"Really?" Jiuzhu widened her eyes: "Mom, please pile one for me."

"You wait." Shen took off the jade bracelet on his wrist and began to build a snowman for Jiuzhu.

Jiuzhu helped Shen shovel snow from time to time and took stones. The snow was filled with her running footprints. Shen raised her head and looked at her daughter's jumping back, with a gentle smile between her eyebrows and eyes.

"Mother." Jiuzhu ran to Shen, spread out her palms that were frozen red, and there were a few dark stones inside: "This one is used to make eyes for the snowman."

Eight small stones were covered with snow water melted by body temperature.

"Okay." Shen took the stone and pressed the eyes of the four snowmen.

"Mother." Jiuzhu squatted beside Shen, holding her face in both hands, and asked curiously: "Does my brother look a little more like you or a little like my father?"

"He looks like your grandfather." Shen thought for a while: "Your personality is always with your father. When he returns to Beijing, he will definitely be very happy to see you."

"My daughter heard from her father that His Majesty has issued a transfer order to ask her brother to return to Beijing." Jiuzhu wiped the snowflakes on Shen's shoulder with her handkerchief: "I don't know if it will be difficult for my brother to go back because of the snow on his way back?"

"It's not that fast." Shen smiled: "He has to wait for the newly sent officials in the court to take over your brother's position before he can leave. Calculate the days, even if the journey is faster, it will be after the New Year, so you don't have to worry about him."

Since Jiuzhu recovered her, Ming Zhiyuan often sent things and sent letters back, and the letter was full of concern for Jiuzhu.

"I hope my brother can come back soon." Jiuzhu picked a plum blossom and placed it on the head of a snowman representing Ming Jiyuan.

Shen smiled and stuffed a hand heater into her cold red hands: "It will take two more days to snow, so now you can go for breakfast first."

Jiuzhu noticed that there was snow in Shen's hair, and nodded quickly: "Okay."

"Where are you, mother and daughter?" Ming Jingzhou sat in the dining hall and looked up and saw his wife and daughter walking in with snow all over. He quickly asked the maid to take off his cloaks for them: "Go to the kitchen to bring two bowls of ginger soup, and let the lady and the lady drink it."

"Don't be so fussy." Shen pulled Jiuzhu down and ordered his servants to have a meal: "It's just a snowman with his daughter."

"Why don't you ask me to join me?" Ming Jingzhou scooped two bowls of hot soup and put it in front of the two: "Warm the stomach first."

"It's rare that my husband will take a break today. Is it not good to let you sleep for a while?" Shen picked up the soup and took a few sips, turned to Jiuzhu and said, "After using the morning food, go and change the winter clothes that the embroiderer made for you a few days ago."

"Okay." Jiuzhu immediately agreed, and it would be more appropriate to go to see His Highness in new clothes: "Mother, I want to go out later."

"The snow is so heavy, where are you going?" Shen looked at the snow that was getting heavier and heavier outside the window.

"My daughter wants to go to Prince Chen's Mansion." Jiuzhu explained, afraid that her parents would worry, "I will only go for a short while."

After the maids brought the meal and ginger soup, Shen raised his hand and asked the servants who were serving to leave the dining room, and then he said, "Jiuzhu, my mother has never asked you carefully, what do you think of King Chen?"

"Your Highness is very good." Jiuzhu drank half a bowl of ginger soup in one breath. The strange spicy taste made her frown slightly: "Why did my mother ask this?"

"I was just a little surprised that Jiuzhu actually likes King Chen so much." Shen raised his hand and gently wiped Jiuzhu's mouth with a handkerchief: "I had never seen him before you got engaged to King Chen. Where did you know him?"

The hand that wiped the corner of her mouth was gentle and warm. Jiuzhu lowered her head and looked at the bowl of ginger soup: "Daughter... I met His Highness Chen a long time ago."

Shen and Ming Jingzhou looked at their daughter in shock: "What did you say?"

Looking at her parents' shocked look, Jiuzhu remembered what she said to her when the Imperial Concubine and His Highness Chen left.

"When someone wants to kill you as a child, it means you have accidentally learned a secret that you don't even know."

"It was fate that my son saved you. For him, it was just a small task. But if you don't want to get involved in the storm in the future, you can't mention this matter again. There is no airtight wall in the world. Only by making the killer think you are dead can you get complete peace. Many secrets will bring disaster."

"As a child, living well and growing up well is to repay kindness."

"If you have the opportunity to go to the capital in the future, you must remember that it is a place without secrets. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just remember this sentence firmly."

"Eight years ago, my daughter went to Lingzhou City to buy things. She saw the Imperial Concubine and His Highness Chen taking money to the begging old people and children." Jiuzhu lowered her head and hugged the bowl, and whispered: "At that time, my daughter only felt that the Imperial Concubine was as beautiful as a fairy descending to the earth, and His Highness Chen was like a fairy boy in front of the throne of the immortal. It was not until that day that the Imperial Concubine summoned her daughter to the palace that I realized that the fairy boy and the fairy boy I had seen a few years ago were the Imperial Concubine and the King Chen."

"Eight years ago..." Ming Jingzhou recalled that eight years ago, the emperor went south and did stay in Lingzhou for a few days, and the ones accompanied him were Concubine Su and his son.

If he had accompanied him to the south eight years ago, how good would it be if he met Jiuzhu in Lingzhou City. Then he would have been able to pick Jiuzhu up early and no longer suffer from separation.

"It turns out that when we Jiuzhu was so young, we liked good-looking people." Shen smiled gently: "When you go out later, remember to bring your handheld stove and don't be frozen."

"Thank you, mother." Jiuzhu nodded happily: "I will definitely take good care of myself."

Shen looked at her daughter with gentle eyes almost dripping from water.

"Madam." Back at the main courtyard, Ming Jingzhou poured hot tea for Shen: "The snow outside is so heavy, don't worry our daughter goes out?"

"As long as she is happy, it is better than anything else." Shen held the teacup, "I would rather she marry into the palace with beautiful expectations for King Chen than she would disappoint her early."

"Life is short, and one more day of happiness is a blessing."

"Mrs. I'm right." Ming Jingzhou bowed and said, "I'll listen to the wife for my husband."

It is snowy and there are few pedestrians on the streets, so when two carriages meet, they are particularly conspicuous.

Jiuzhu lifted the curtain of the carriage and faced Sun Caiyao, who also lifted the curtain, with all eyes.

"Miss Sun." Jiuzhu was in a good mood. Seeing that she knew someone she knew, she smiled sweetly at her.

"My Miss Ming." When she saw Ming Jiuzhu's first glance, Sun Caiyao's hand holding the curtain shook slightly: "It's so heavy snow, where are you going?"

"Go to visit Prince Chen's Mansion." Jiuzhu did not hide her plans, "Where will Miss Sun go?"

"Go to the countryside to burn incense."

Jiuzhu found that Sun Caiyao's cheeks were a little white. She didn't know if it was frozen or because of powder. However, it was so devout that she had to go to the countryside to burn incense.

It seems that not only the empress in the palace has a sincere heart towards the gods in the sky, but also the daughters of the aristocratic families in the capital, they are not too willing to give in.

"The road is slippery, please be careful when Miss Sun." Jiuzhu raised her hand and signaled the groom to drive the car aside and asked Sun Caiyao to go first.

"No, no." Sun Caiyao said quickly as if she was irritated: "Please go first with Miss Ming."

Now that she saw Ming Jiuzhu, she was scared and did not dare to offend her at all.

Unexpectedly, Sun Caiyao had such a big reaction, Jiuzhu was stunned. The lady of the Sun family rushed to the suburbs to burn incense. What's the problem with asking her to go there first?

While she was stunned, the Sun family carriage had already avoided it.

"Miss Ming, please." Han Feng slapped Sun Caiyao's face with snowflakes, and she tried her best to squeeze out a smile at Jiuzhu.

"Then... I'll go there first?" Jiuzhu vaguely felt that Miss Sun seemed a little afraid of her.

"Thank you Miss Sun." Putting down the curtain, Jiuzhu touched her face. Could it be that she had done something too much to Sun Caiyao that made the other party afraid of being like that?

Forget it, many people in the capital are a bit strange when doing things. She is a normal person and cannot care about them.

Watching the carriage Ming Jiuzhu was riding away, Sun Caiyao realized that her hand holding the curtain had been frozen to the point of losing consciousness.

"Sister Sun." Zheng Zhen walked out of the shop next to her in a thick cloak: "Ming Jiuzhu has the support of the imperial concubine, do you even want to avoid her sharpness?"

Sun Caiyao touched the handwarmer into her arms: "What does Miss Zheng mean?"

Zheng Zhen sneered and said sarcastically: "Now, how many people in the capital dare to let her Ming Jiuzhu avoid her?"

Looking at Zheng Zhen who was so sarcastic, Sun Caiyao remembered the reprimand of the Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion by Concubine Su not long ago.

No wonder Zheng Zhen’s words were so sour. There were indeed few people who could let Princess Chen avoid traveling on the street. Not everyone was as brainless as the Marquis of Pingyuan. As for what kind of thought Zheng Zhen was thinking about King Qi, she could see clearly.

No woman would like a woman who is thoughtful about her fiancé. Such simple and rough provocation methods will not be fooled.

"Ms. Zheng is really good at joking." Sun Caiyao smiled: "Miss Ming originally asked me to go first, but I volunteered to let Miss Ming's carriage go first. What's the problem?"

"It's just a respectful person, I'll be more than ten feet." Sun Caiyao chuckled: "Miss Zheng, do you think so?"

Zheng Zhen pondered for a moment: "Are you laughing at me?"

Sun Caiyao continued to smile: "Ms. Zheng really knows how to think about it."

"I am the cousin of His Highness King Qi. How dare you laugh at me?" Zheng Zhen said angrily: "You have the ability to laugh at me. If you have the ability, don't avoid Ming Jiuzhu's carriage!"

Sun Caiyao slowly spoke: "Miss Ming is innocent and kind, beautiful and cute, and looks so nice. I just hate that she is not her biological sister. I am very happy to let her go first, so why should I let her avoid it?"

Look, is this idiot talking about human words? Which smart person will offend Concubine Su and King Chen, who are favored by the emperor?

What's more, a cruel woman like Ming Jiuzhu must not provoke her if she has nothing to do.
Chapter completed!