I saw a walnut-sized purple crab in a white porcelain bowl. The crab shell was dark purple and the crab legs were light purple. The whole crab seemed to be carved from purple jade. It was indeed very cute.
"It's quite beautiful. I'll help the royal sister-in-law look for it." Princess Ningping is also a playful person, so she immediately rolled up her sleeves and turned over the rocks together.
After a search, Mingruo and Princess Ningping found nothing.
Mingruo held the bowl and sighed: "I have tried my best. It seems that you are destined to be single."
Si Haochen put a purple crab that was slightly larger than the crab in the bowl into the porcelain bowl: "Here."
"Hehe." Mingruo smiled with crooked eyebrows, "My husband is really awesome."
Si Haochen stretched out his hand to pull Mingruo up: "Go under the shade of the trees, it's the time when the sun is shining, so don't suffer from the heat."
"Okay." Mingruo was pulled by Si Haochen for a few steps before he remembered Princess Ningping, "Yu Ning, come here and have a rest. It's almost lunch time."
"Okay, okay." The little person in Princess Ningping's heart burst into tears. She felt that she was so redundant. What should I do?
As soon as the three of them sat down in the shade of the tree, Crown Prince Hong came over with a few guards: "Brother Nine Emperors, Sister-in-law Nine Emperors."
"Well, Tianhong, please sit down." Si Haochen had a good impression of his cousin.
Prince Hong sat down and began to lecture his sister: "If I tell you not to run around, you will run more happily... What should you do if you encounter danger?"
"There are a lot of people on the road today, how could there be any danger..." Princess Ningping turned her face away unconvinced.
Mingruo smiled and said, "You'd better sit in the carriage obediently. The sun is shining brightly in the afternoon, and it won't look good if you get tanned."
"Ah...how could I forget this!" Princess Ningping quickly covered her cheeks and asked the guards to drive her palace car over.
Seeing that his troubled sister was finally turning his back on the dark side, Prince Hong showed a grateful smile to Mingruo.
Lithospermum and Perilla quickly prepared lunch - Yangchun noodles and four exquisite cold dishes.
Ming Ruo invited Princess Ningping to have a meal in the carriage, and Si Haochen and Prince Hong set up a simple table under the shade of a tree.
Princess Ningping ate noodle soup outdoors for the first time and found it both novel and delicious: "Sister-in-law of the Nine Emperors, the food cooked by your maid is so delicious."
"As long as you like it." Mingruo asked casually, "Everyone who participated in the spring hunt must be returning to the imperial capital today. Why don't you see a convoy on the road?"
"They are either cute eldest ladies or soft old ladies. They can't walk very far and have to stop to rest. They walk in and out. If they can get into the city before dark, it will be fast."
"That's right." Mingruo nodded.
Princess Ningping lowered her voice and said, "I heard that the emperor has asked the Ministry of Rites to draft a decree to grant a marriage to the third prince and Princess Mingyu."
"Huh?" Mingruo was surprised. Didn't Emperor Danxu not want to see the third prince marry the eighth princess? But he soon figured it out - Emperor Danxu must have known that the third prince's leg was injured and there was no way to recover, so he
I gave them marriage with peace of mind.
Ming Ruo curved her lips into a sly smile. If she healed the third prince's leg, would Emperor Danxu be so angry that he passed away? I'm a little excited just thinking about it!
"It is said that the third prince's leg cannot be cured. Even if he can barely walk in the future, he will still be lame." Princess Ningping's voice was lowered, "Can Princess Mingyu be willing to marry a lame person?"
"She spent the night in the mountains with the third prince. Even if she didn't want to... there was no better choice." Her cheap imperial sister was very arrogant. Apart from the prince, she would not look down on anyone else.
Besides, when this incident didn't happen, no one except the third prince paid attention to her. If she didn't want to go back to Nanrong in despair, basically, she had to marry even if she didn't want to.
"Yeah." Princess Ningping's mood also became depressed.
Although I don't like Princess Mingyu, seeing her encounter such a thing makes me feel sad - as a member of the royal family, my life-long events cannot be decided by myself, nor can I be decided by my parents.
To that person in a high position, one's life is just a chess piece, placed wherever he sees fit.
"However, my eighth emperor sister often goes out to play with the third prince. The two of them should be in love with each other. She will definitely not dislike the third prince for his bad behavior." Mingruo felt that she could say such things against her will.
It has the potential to be a white lotus.
"That's right." Princess Ningping nodded, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone into the mountains with him..." Princess Ningping had a free and easy temperament, and she soon became happy again, "If I have someone I like, I will count him as his."
I won’t mind if my legs are bad, and the same must be true for Princess Mingyu.”
Mingruo liked Princess Ningping's temperament very much. She was not pretentious at all and just said what she wanted.
After having lunch, they were not in a hurry. Mingruo said that they should wait until noon, the sunniest time, before leaving. Everyone enjoyed the coolness in the shade of the trees. Lithospermum and Perilla made some noodles and gave them to the few accompanying them.
The guards were eating. Princess Ningping and Crown Prince Hong were talking to the side.
Mingruo stared at the two little crabs in the bowl: "We should give them two names."
Si Haochen pointed to the one Mingruo caught and said, "It's called Ruo'er."
"Hmph!" Mingruo immediately quit, "Then this one will be called Ah Chen."
Si Haochen saw the princess' angry expression and found it very interesting: "It is Ruo Zhu's 'Ruo'."
"It's the 'chen' of time!" Are you playing a word game? I'm not afraid!
"Yeah." Si Haochen nodded, "Very good."
Princess Ningping and Crown Prince Hong looked surprised: I'm afraid this is a fake Nine Emperor Brother.
A group of secret guards: The master and the princess are spreading dog food again, burp, it smells so good!
The carriage was ready to set off, and Princess Ninh Binh's palace carriage also arrived.
Princess Ningping found it boring to ride in a carriage alone, but when she saw Brother Jiuhuang's cold face, she didn't dare to blatantly come to 'rob' Jiuhuang's wife, and her eyes rolled around.
Mingruo thought this girl was very interesting: "Yu Ning, it's time to get in the car."
Princess Ningping grabbed Mingruo's sleeve, closed her eyes and said, "Sister-in-law of the Nine Emperors, please ride in the palace car with me."
"OK."
Princess Ningping suddenly opened her eyes: "Really?"
"Are you being polite and pretending to invite me?" Ming Ruoxiao asked.
"Of course not, I mean it sincerely." Princess Ningping took Mingruo's arm and got into the palace car.
Along the way, Princess Ninh Binh kept chatting about everything from interesting places around the capital, to which shop in the capital had delicious snacks, to which silver shop had good-looking jewelry...
"Sister-in-law of the Nine Emperors and I will go to Jian Mingxuan for afternoon tea some other day. Not only are the snacks there delicious, but the stories told by the storyteller are also very exciting. I have been telling the story of a monkey going to get scriptures these days, which is really interesting!"
