Act like a spoiled child

Mingshen jumped up and rushed out.

He had just gone out for a walk by himself, so he knew how cold it was outside.Yuwen is a child of seven or eight years old. He looks mature in speaking, but he still doesn't understand anything inside. Even if he makes a mistake, it probably won't be a big mistake.

Let such a small girl kneel in the snow in the twelfth lunar month, it's no wonder that she doesn't freeze to something wrong!

Mingshen ran over in a hurry, and sure enough, he saw Yuwen kneeling in the snow from afar, crying while kneeling, and when he saw him, he called out "Brother Jianyin" aggrievedly, Mingshen saw that the little girl's face turned black with cold , quickly patted her head, and asked her what she did to annoy Yumin. stand up.

At this pull, Yuwen cried even more fiercely, and even the nanny who was with the little girl was startled, and wiped her tears to persuade him: "Master Ming, don't worry about it, your Majesty is angry and no one can persuade him." Yes, the more stubborn the more severe the punishment."

On the other side, when Cheng Yiduo saw him coming, he hurried over and told him in a low voice: "Your Majesty has been bored inside for a long time, Shen, go and persuade him."

Mingshen asked in a low voice: "Grandpa Cheng, what's going on? Today, the little highness had no problems when he went out with me, why did he annoy Brother Min by turning around?"

Cheng Yiduo looked at him: "That's what happened. Did Her Royal Highness take you outside the main hall? Did someone see it?"

"This..." Mingshen understood immediately, "Brother Min and I have to keep things a secret. It's really inappropriate for me and the princess to appear in front of the foreign ministers at the same time. It will damage the princess's reputation, and there is no guard accompanying me. It's too dangerous. In the final analysis, this matter is my fault, the princess is not wrong, I will go and talk to Brother Min."

"Oh, no!" Cheng Yiduo hesitated to speak, and after looking at him, he finally just sighed, "Then go in quickly."

Mingshen made a gesture to wait a moment, walked over to hug Yuwen, and coaxed: "Wenwen stop crying, let Maomao sleep with Wenwen tonight, okay? Kitten, you like it."

Yuwen buried her head in his arms and cried loudly: "I'm not a three-year-old anymore, you still use a kitten to coax me... I already know I was wrong, and he wants to punish me... Brother Huang is a tyrant! He is not a good emperor!"

Mammy broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately covered Yuwen's mouth. Yuwen cried stubbornly, and did not intend to let go.In terms of the word "stubborn", the two brothers and sisters are still exactly the same, Mingshen is a bit dumbfounded.

"The kitten has to sleep with me tonight." Mingshen was very patient, patted the little girl's back, "Stop crying, huh? Do you want the kitten to sleep with you, or do you want to kneel here as a punishment?" Woolen cloth?"

"Sleep." Yuwen sniffed.

Mingshen then pouted at Nanny, motioning for her to take Yuwen and take her away.Momo didn't dare to move, Mingshen looked at the lights in the hall, and said bravely: "It's okay, take her back."

Cheng Yiduo also hesitated: "Lord Ming, according to His Majesty's temper, he..."

Ming Shen said: "I'm married to Brother Min now, right? Although I don't know how long it will last, but now I am also a secret queen, right? The queen is equal to the emperor, I will exercise my power to let It should be okay for the little princess to rest after receiving the punishment, right?"

Cheng Yiduo looked at him and smiled: "Yes."

Mingshen couldn't read teasing or other meanings from his smile, as if Cheng Yiduo accepted his presumptuous behavior very calmly, this was the first time in more than ten years.

He couldn't control so much, after taking a deep breath, he walked into the hall.

Yumin sat alone beside the desk, the lotus flower dripping and ticking, mixed with the sound of the jade carving knife rubbing against the stone.

None of the palace people dared to get close to him, they were too scared to vent their breath.

When he has troubles, he cuts jade. This is a habit he has accumulated over the years. It can calm him down, or hide some dangerous auras. Sometimes he can stay awake for two days and nights, as if he is tireless.

In the past, he and Mingshen were short of money and everything, because they were deposed princes and could not be liked by their uncle, so no one dared to send things here. The people in the imperial dining room were crazy about money, so they only dared to sell some scraps and Feed them into the water, and a small bowl of minced meat bibimbap leftover from cats and dogs can be priced at ten taels.

Yumin once asked Cheng Yiduo to slowly sell all the relics left to him by his biological mother Qingyang, and later he and Mingshen went together to steal the imperial edicts accumulated in Tongjiku and the East Palace. When Yumin went to steal, Mingshen was there Give him a lookout from the outside, and he has never made a mistake.

According to the imperial decree, the rhinoceros horn axes for second-rank officials can be sold for 50 taels of silver, but the imperial decree for jade axes granted to princes, queens and first-rank officials cannot be sold because no one dares to take them.Mingshen likes to play, and often volunteers to help him destroy the corpse and remove any traces. When he gets the imperial decree of the jade scroll, he habitually throws it into the fire.

Throughout the year, there were thirty or forty jade scrolls backlogged in the palace of the two of them. When Yumin had nothing to do, he would often make small jade carvings with self-made tools, and even made a rough jade carving cock for Mingshen, which was later removed Mingshen was lost.

Yumin carves jade without redundant and cumbersome grinding machines, and does not need to dismantle jade sand. He just uses a Kunwu knife from Linglong to cut jade like wood. Blood.He was even more reticent when he was a teenager than he is now. From the perspective of outsiders, his behavior of silently carving jade is actually very creepy. There are always people who are constantly speculating whether he regards the slightly heavy jade in his hand as his own uncle's head, but He never said it.

Only Mingshen knows that Yumin doesn't think about those things, he just simply likes to do this thing.

Yumin once asked him: "Shen, if you and I can leave the Forbidden City in the future, are you willing to go away with me? Maybe I will become a jade craftsman, or I may be an apprentice helper."

Mingshen was a little unhappy, he asked: "Is there any food?"

Yumin looked at him quietly and smiled: "Yes. It's similar to here. We can't eat enough here, but we eat well. We may be full outside, but we may not eat well."

Mingshen pointed at his fingers and said aggrievedly: "Brother Min, I think it's about the same. If you want to go out, I will go out with you. But can we change the place, can we carve wood? Carving jade is too painful. , your hands are about to bleed again."

After thinking for a while, the little guy changed his mind and said, "Wood is also very hard. Is there any work that is softer? It's as soft as water. Brother Min, is there any work in the world that can carve water?"

He leaned over to bandage his bleeding fingers, and took his bloody fingertips into his mouth. The warm moisture made him ache.

Yumin told him: "No, water has no shape, no one would want a master sculptor who carves water."

Mingshen widened his eyes, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I want it, Brother Min, when I get rich, I'll hire you to help me carve water, you hire me to eat, we'll subsidize each other, okay? "

Yumin hooked him up.

Now that Mingshen was approaching, he found that there were various shapes of jade in front of Yumin, some of which had already begun to take shape, showing exquisite shapes, such as dogs, rabbits, etc., full of childishness, looking like Who is it a toy for?

Yu Min raised his head and glanced at him, Ming Shen just wanted to salute, but he was stunned by a ghost——that look seemed to have lost his spirit and anger, and for a moment, it was especially like the first time he saw him back then, like a stricken horse The wounded Lone Wolf showed a cold light, his eyes were vigilant and lonely, and he slowly slowed down after recognizing him.

He froze for a moment, then walked over and sat down next to Yumin, looked at the jade ornaments on the table, and at Yumin's tiger mouth that had been rubbed red, and hugged Yumin's hand without saying a word Start kneading.

Yumin has always disliked applying ointments, nor did he want to put on regular gloves, saying that it would affect the hand feel. For so many years, Mingshen always soaked a pot of sour grass leaves, dipped them in warm water to revive him, Under his meticulous care, Yumin didn't even have cocoons.

But he has only been gone for two short years, and Yumin's tiger's mouth has already worn out calluses.

He lowered his head, hugged Yumin's arm in his arms, gently rubbed the red spots with the fingers of both hands, and asked in a low voice while rubbing, "Is Brother Min making toys for the little princess?"

Yumin didn't speak, until Mingshen looked up at him, then he said softly: "It's for you."

Ming Shen was stunned.

Yumin said: "I started doing it two years ago. When you were young, you joked with me, saying that you would hire me to carve water when you have money. I thought about it. Water has no form, but the container has shape. I just made you a fountain plate, but I have been doing it piecemeal for two years, and when I have no free time, I only have a prototype."

Originally, Mingshen planned to follow the topic of the little princess—after coaxing Yumin for so many years, he knew the essence of it well, but this time Yumin didn't play cards according to common sense.

He rubbed his nose: "Thank you, brother Min. But these... just give Linglong to do it, you are very busy. This is not urgent, I promise I won't run away, you still have to hire me for dinner, I remember, You can't go back on your word."

Both of them still remembered the agreement when they pulled the hook back then, Yumin chuckled lightly and rubbed his head: "But I don't see how much you eat."

His complexion has slowed down a lot.

Ming Shen took the opportunity to ask: "Then won't Your Majesty make one for the little princess?"

Yumin was silent for a while and then said: "Don't do it, she is not as good as you."

Mingshen smiled: "How can you compare like this, Brother Min? The little princess also likes you very much, but she is still young, maybe sometimes she doesn't know the seriousness."

Mingshen knelt down and sat down neatly: "I was also at fault in this matter today, if only I had been more vigilant, the princess is still young, we ran too fast, we didn't let the guards keep up, the lake is dangerous, out of danger The people in the inner palace are mixed, and if they are not in order, they will meet assassins. And I... a foreign minister, suddenly appearing with the princess, will damage the reputation of the princess, and I admit my mistake to you."

Yumin whispered: "I heard from Wenwen that she took you out, and you met Wang Ba."

Ming Shen asked with some doubts: "Yes, Your Majesty."

"You have less contact with him, I ordered you not to have contact with him from now on, did you hear that?" Yumin said.

Ming Shen looked at him, and the doubts in his heart became deeper and deeper.

Yumin doesn't seem to be angry at the fact that the little princess ran out to meet strangers at will, but more like... angry at him?

But he is not a boudoir girl, what's more, even a boudoir girl doesn't have such a rule not to be seen by others.Women in this dynasty have always been free, and the daughters who have not left the court can also go wandering in the streets.

But he didn't say anything, he just said obediently: "Yes."

Yumin looked at him for a while, then suddenly reached out to grab Mingshen's arm, pulled him into his arms, and hugged him tightly.

Ming Shen: "...Your Majesty?"

Yumin said, "Let me hug you for a while."

Ming Shen remained silent.

With a warm embrace and firm shoulders, Yumin's breathing gradually changed from heavy to quiet and long.

The words that Yuwen said when she came to look for him this afternoon are still in my ears——

"Brother Huang, I asked Brother Jianyin to go out with me today, and we ran into that man named Wang Ba. I'm sorry, you told me before that you are getting married in secret now, don't take Huangsao outside, yes I forgot, Brother Huang, just punish me."

Yumin has only been on the throne for a few months, and the court situation is like a deep pool. He has long been accustomed to hiding the front and dormant, like a lone wolf hiding minions.Only this sentence brought him back to the rainy night when fear and hatred erupted ten years ago, and he lost his composure in a rare way - before the court lady was beaten to death by him, she sprayed blood and begged vaguely for mercy, and only confessed a " Master Wang".

Yumin hugged him quietly for a while, and then said: "Okay, you go back, let Yuwen go back too, if she cries, don't worry about her, I will apologize to her tomorrow, I was reckless today."

But the hand was still holding him and never let go.

Ming Shen glanced at him, bent his eyes and smiled, and asked him in a low voice: "But Your Majesty, I have already dared to let the princess go back, will Your Majesty punish the minister?"

"You?" Yumin withdrew from his deep thoughts and let go of him a little bit, seemingly surprised.

Mingshen lowered his head and obediently admitted his mistake: "I have presumptuously taken the title of Empress, and pretended to be equal to His Majesty, and deceived me. In fact, I saw that the little princess is still too young and it is too cold outside. If this continues I'm afraid I'll get sick from the cold. I know that my marriage with His Majesty is just a divine marriage, and there is no royal seal or grand ceremony. Am I counting this as a fake decree? But Brother Min, if you want to punish your ministers, you have to look at the little princess love..."

He babbled a lot, Yumin listened more and more, his lips slowly raised a curve.

After he finished speaking, he rested his chin on the top of his head and let out a muffled laugh: "Are you blaming me for not canonizing you sooner and urging me to marry you?"

After being interrupted suddenly, Mingshen was taken aback for a moment, and then quickly clarified: "No, no, I definitely didn't mean that."

Yumin looked at him mysteriously.

Mingshen quickly got out of his arms, didn't know what he thought of, blushed and stammered: "The minister first, let's go first. Your Majesty, you are busy."

He stood up, and the corner of his clothes brushed over Yumin's shoulder and slid down his arm.

Yumin clasped his hand, and asked in a low voice: "Ah Shen, do you think that I...is a tyrant?"

He didn't hold it tightly, Ming Shen's inertia of rushing out caused him to only hold it for a moment, and then dragged his hand.Mingshen turned his head and thought about it, and said seriously: "No. I know Brother Min is doing it for our own good, no one is more suitable to be emperor than you."

Yumin was dazzled by the brilliance in his eyes, moved his fingers, and before he could hold it, he saw the robe fluttering away like a butterfly, and Mingshen had already slipped out.