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Flattery(1/2)

The street was bustling with pedestrians. King Chen looked at the lively teahouse and walked in. After walking two steps, he turned around and saw Jiuzhu standing outside the door without following: "What's wrong?"

Jiuzhu shook her head: "Nothing."

She slowly moved her small steps and followed King Chen in a daze.

King Chen looked at her with a smile, suddenly reached out and held her wrist, and pulled the person upstairs.

"Your Highness." Jiuzhu walked obediently beside him and whispered: "There are many female guests upstairs..."

"It's okay, I don't care about these things." Walking upstairs, King Chen heard the cheers of some women. He lifted the bead curtain and saw many female guests sitting inside. Several male guests were caught between a bunch of women, and his face was full of hopelessness.

Zhou Shucheng was one of them. He looked at his energetic sister and sighed a long time. He was shocked when he turned his head. Why did King Chen come here?

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

"Wait a little longer." Zhou Xiao was unmoved: "The domineering prince will come to suppress the bandits and save the beauty soon!"

"I saw the domineering prince holding a nine-foot spear in his hand and rushing into the bandit's nest on a horse. In an instant, sand and stones flew away, and the sun and the moon were gone!"

A woman's cheers came from the audience. Zhou Shucheng silently covered his face with his hands, and he no longer dared to look at King Chen's face.

"The bandit was impressed by the prince's heroic figure, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, as if it were a dog who fell into the water."

When the female guests heard that the domineering prince saved the weak woman in the woodshed and disappeared into the darkness in the moonlight, they excitedly began to give rewards.

Looking at these crazy female guests, King Chen turned his head to look at Jiuzhu, pulled her to sit down at the empty table behind, and quickly ordered the waiter to bring melons and fruits and snacks.

"Come on, listen while eating." King Chen pushed the snacks to Jiuzhu and teased: "Where is the prince who went to suppress the bandits alone, unless his mind was full of paste."

Jiuzhu's hand shaking with the snacks and quietly shrank back.

"Why don't you eat?" King Chen saw her take her hand back and changed her snacks: "Don't like it?"

"Another part, another part!"

A generous female guest threw a piece of gold on the stage. The female husband glanced at the shining gold, picked up the tea and sipped it a few times: "Since all the guests are so enthusiastic, I will continue to tell you the story of the domineering prince who suppressed bandits and returned to Beijing and received long live commendation."

The plot is getting more and more exciting. A female guest from the audience whispered: "I don't know what the real King Chen looks like. Unfortunately, the princes and nobles cannot approach it easily, otherwise I will definitely take a good look."

When King Chen heard this, what does the domineering prince in this story have to do with him?

"Your Highness, my daughter also thinks these stories are meaningless." Jiuzhu pulled King Chen's sleeve: "Why don't we go back first?"

"Wait first." King Chen broke a pear with his bare hands and gave it to Jiuzhu half. Thinking that the meaning of splitting pears was not good, he stuffed the other half into her hands and sneered: "I want to hear how ridiculous the story of this domineering prince is."

Jiuzhu bit her left hand and then her right hand, her mouth was stuffed with her mouth. She secretly looked at the expression on King Chen's face and began to think about what she should do if Your Highness was angry.

"The domineering prince took the golden hairpin of the long live reward and rode a horse to the lady's house. The lady's father promised that as long as he successfully suppressed the bandits, he would marry his daughter."

"Ha." King Chen sneered. Which minister in the court dared to treat the prince with this attitude?

Someone likes such a messy story?

"You guys tell me, did King Chen give his fiancée golden hairpin?"

"I've given it, I've heard of it. Not long ago, King Chen bought a lot of gold and silver jewelry in the Golden Painting Building and sent it to the Ming Shilang Mansion."

"real?"

"Of course it's true. My aunt is working in the Golden House. She usually receives female guests. When she comes back, she tells us that King Chen is very generous and bought a lot of jewelry for his fiancée."

Hearing the female guests' low conversation, King Chen turned his head to look at Jiuzhu, and Jiuzhu lowered her head and ate the pear silently.

At the end of the story, the guests left the teahouse one after another. King Chen sat on the wooden chair, wrapped his hands around his chest, looked at the female gentleman who bent down to pick up silver on the stage, and lowered his head to take out a handkerchief from his sleeve.

"The students have seen the prince." The guests dispersed, and Zhou Shucheng was not able to hide anymore, so he could only grit his teeth and salute King Chen.

When he handed the handkerchief to Jiuzhu, King Chen looked at Zhou Shucheng and saw that he was wearing the clothes of an Imperial College student, frowned slightly. Why did even scholars with thick eyebrows and big eyes like to listen to such messy stories?

"Today, I accompanied my sister to the teahouse to listen to books. I never thought I would meet the prince." Zhou Shucheng didn't know how King Chen viewed him, but at this critical moment, he still had to leave himself clear: "Your Majesty, are you here to listen to books?"

King Chen asked back: "Do you think I like someone who likes to listen to such stories?"

Zhou Shucheng was silent.

Are you like this? Aren't you here?

"Sister Ming." Zhou Xiao packed up his things, turned around and saw Jiuzhu and King Chen. His expression changed slightly. After saluting King Chen, he asked Jiuzhu in a low voice: "When did sister come?"

The point is, has King Chen heard the story told by the female gentleman?

Jiuzhu pinched King Chen's handkerchief and whispered: "The female gentleman talks about the king... When the prince killed the bandit leader, we came over."

Zhou Xiao gave Jiuzhu a look, so why didn’t the prince take the people away quickly while he didn’t react?

Jiuzhu cheered up: "Your Highness, you have finished listening to the story, we..."

"Girl, is it you?!" The female husband walked towards Jiuzhu with a purse full of rewards and smiled on her face: "I haven't seen the girl for several days, and I haven't had the chance to thank you very much."

King Chen turned his head to look at Jiuzhu. Jiuzhu 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 have given more and more rewards. Now the storytellers in the streets and alleys have followed me." The female gentleman saluted Jiuzhu: "Thank you, my girl, for helping you point out a way to make money."

Jiuzhu was not confident: "I just asked you to tell more of his stories, and these stories are not what I told."

"Miss, I am kind. I have pointed out the way to make money for those of us who are asking for food. "The female lady is extremely grateful to Jiuzhu. "If the girl wants to hear any story next time, I will tell you, and tell you according to your preferences."

"No, no need." Jiuzhu didn't dare to look at King Chen's face: "You go and do it first, I have to deal with some things."

The female husband glanced at the handsome man beside Jiuzhu and showed an understanding smile: "I won't disturb the girl anymore. Please feel free to say goodbye to me."

The female husband left tactfully, and Zhou Xiao looked at Jiuzhu worriedly. Zhou Shucheng did not dare to disturb King Chen and pulled her away forcibly.

"Stop the outside and don't let others come in." King Chen raised his head and asked the guards to guard outside. The attendants looked at each other and bowed and retreated outside the pearl curtain.

Knock, knock, knock.

King Chen gently tapped the table with his index finger, looking at Jiuzhu who was so arrogant that he didn't dare to come out: "Come on, sit and talk."

"Your Highness, my daughter didn't mean it, and I didn't expect things to develop like this." Her watery eyes blinked at King Chen: "Don't be angry with me, okay?"

Seeing her look pitiful, King Chen laughed unhappily: "Tell me first, what's going on?"

"It was caused by a sunny morning..."

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

"I went to the teahouse to listen to the book and found that the female husband told me that the beautiful king was in a way that was meant to be a bad king, so I didn't let her tell me." Thinking of the money spent that day, Jiuzhu felt a slight pain in her heart: "In order to get the female husband to change the story, she spent two months a month, two months."

"How much does it cost per month?" Seeing that she felt so distressed, King Chen was a little curious.

Jiuzhu stretched out two fingers.

"Two hundred taels?" King Chen tskated, which showed that Jingzhou was an honest official, and it seemed that it was true.

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

Twenty taels are already a lot. In the past, she and her masters couldn't spend so much in a year.

Twenty taels?

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

No wonder he only paid a piece of broken silver for his general as funeral expenses. It turned out that he was too poor.

"In the story, the beautiful prince is good everywhere. He said the evil prince so badly, it is obvious that there are bad people deliberately smearing Your Highness." Jiuzhu Chao whispered: "Your prince is so good, why should you let the bad people smear you?"

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

"Although there is a little bit of pain, as long as no one says bad things about Your Highness, it's still a good deal." Speaking of this, Jiuzhu lowered her head guiltily: "It's just that the minister didn't expect that the story would become more and more outrageous..."

Facing such a pitiful face, who can bear to blame?

Is this Ming Xiaozhu’s fault?

It was clearly the fault of those storytellers. What bad intentions could Ming Xiaozhu have? He just wanted to protect him.

"It's just a story. The domineering prince is the domineering prince. Anyway, he didn't say that he was this." King Chen raised his eyebrows: "Next time I encounter such a thing, there is no need to pay for it. I just report my name to see who dares not listen to you."

Jiuzhu shook her head: "Your Highness, it's not good for this. A storyteller is just making a living. If I bring out your name, it will only make her feel anxious, restless day and night, and spend the rest of her life in fear."

King Chen stood up and said, "Let's go."

“Where to go?”

"Send you back."

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of the Ming Shilang Mansion. Jiuzhu walked off the carriage and looked up at the King Chen riding on the horse, showing a bright smile.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I just thought it would be great to meet Your Highness." Her eyes were clear and clear, and her pupils were the clear reflection of King Chen.

"Your Highness is not only gentle and kind, but also tolerant and generous." Jiuzhu tilted her head: "Your Highness is really a god descending to earth, right?"

Because of her, so many messy stories of domineering princes emerged in the capital, Your Highness never blamed her. If it weren't for the gods descending to earth, how could it be so gentle?

King Chen looked at the serious girl, and his ears were instantly red.

Are women who grew up in Lingzhou so sticky when they speak?

This king is stubborn and strong, what does it have to do with gentleness and kindness?

"What does the little girl know?" He rubbed his somewhat hot ears: "Go home early to avoid worrying Zun Ling Ci."
To be continued...
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