Little Grape Chasing Her Husband

Seeing that he was too melancholy, Hua Rong was still listless after coaxing him for a long time, so he went to the dressing table to open his jewelry box, took out the big ruby ​​and emerald phoenix hairpin that Putao had seen shining in his eyes just now, and handed it to Putao: "Hey, this is the new hairpin that my mother made for me this year. It is the most popular new style in Beijing. I give it to you. Don't be sad anymore, okay?"

Putao's eyes lit up, she quickly took it, and said happily, "Sister Huang, you are so kind!"

Hua Rong pursed his lips and smiled.She watched Putao grow up, how could she not know what he likes?Then he said softly: "I'll call Meier in, how about helping you put on women's clothes? Let's wear it secretly in my Weiwei Palace, and the emperor and uncle won't know."

Putao was overjoyed: "Okay! Sister Huang, you are the best, I like you the most." When he was happy, his little mouth seemed to be smeared with honey.

Princess Huarong and the maid of honor helped Putao dress up, and the handsome little prince immediately became a beautiful little princess.

Putao was wearing a long floating light green pleated lotus skirt, and a light pink embroidered double-breasted vest over it, looking like a pure and innocent little beauty.

Princess Huarong put a bunch of jewelry on him again.Hairpins, necklaces, bracelets, etc. are scattered all over the body in bits and pieces, but they don't look vulgar, but have a sense of luxury.

Putao was so beautiful that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. After walking around the palace, she couldn't help but said, "Sister Huang, it's so beautiful. I'm going to show it to Grandmother Huang."

The Empress Dowager loved Putao very much, and felt that he was still young, and it wasn't weird that he liked to wear women's clothes.The sons of many rich families are delicate and precious, and they have been raised as girls since they were young.Putao is not yet ten years old, it is the time when male and female are indistinguishable, so if you like to wear women's clothes, you can wear women's clothes.

The most important thing is that the Empress Dowager is worthy of being Dongfang Haoye's biological mother, and she has the same thought as her son: With our Pupu's background, character, and appearance, what kind of man can we find in the future?If you want to marry, you can marry. Anyway, we have no shortage of dowry, and we can give birth, so what are you afraid of!

Putao happily ran out of Caiwei Palace, and even Princess Huarong couldn't catch up with him. (Gao Putao has made great progress in his lightness skills after returning from Lingyin Valley)

He came to the Empress Dowager's Palace of Compassionate Peace with familiarity, the maids and eunuchs at the gate saw him, and before they could salute, he jumped in and couldn't help feeling a little flustered.It turned out that although they were used to the fourth son of Prince Jing's family often appearing in the palace in women's clothing, that was when there were no outsiders. At this moment, the queen mother was receiving a few wives. I don't know what to do.

At this time, Putao had jumped into the Palace of Compassion and Ning, shouting: "Imperial Grandmother, I'm here to see you."

The Empress Dowager couldn't help being happy when she heard Aisun's voice, and said, "Come in quickly."

Wearing women's clothes, Putao swaggered into the inner hall, and saw that there were still a few wives inside, and she was heartbroken!For a moment, the secret path is not good.

His father, Beitang Yaoyue, doesn't like him wearing women's clothing, and he doesn't even like him showing off to outsiders by wearing women's clothing.Now this scene, let his father know, but it is not good.But Putao's mind was quick, and she immediately restrained her steps, lowered her head slightly, and walked up to the empress dowager with the appearance of a quiet girl, bowing respectfully, and said softly, "Granddaughter has come to pay her respects to the empress dowager. "

When the Empress Dowager saw Ai Sun coming in in women's clothing, she felt something was wrong, and was thinking about how to make things right, but when she heard Pu Tao say this, she couldn't help but praise her clever Sun.

She beckoned, pulled Putao to her side and said with a smile: "Good granddaughter, the imperial grandmother is missing you. Where did this come from? Look, my head is sweating, go down with Yixiang to wipe the sweat first, the emperor Grandma left you iced almond milk, come back later to talk to the imperial grandma."

The empress dowager is worthy of being an empress dowager, she has a sophisticated wrist, but she picked out the little grapes in just a few words, and did not introduce them to the few wives present.These wives are curious, wondering which princess this young girl who is so juicy is.Of the empress dowager's two sons, only the emperor gave birth to a eldest princess, and King Jing had all sons, but the royal family of Wen Kingdom is flourishing, and there are still several princesses in this generation, but it seems that which one is different from the current one? The age is not right.

However, although everyone was curious, seeing that the Queen Mother had no intention of letting them meet the princess, they wisely kept their mouths shut.

Putao followed the Empress Dowager's maid Yixiang to the back side hall, seeing that there were no outsiders around, she immediately jumped onto the small couch and said with a long sigh of relief: "Yixiang, quickly bring the iced almond dew."

Yixiang patted her chest and said: "Your Highness, I was really scared by you just now. Next time you come here in women's clothing, you must greet the Queen Mother in advance."

Putao pouted and said, "I want to surprise the emperor's grandmother. If I say hello in advance, there will be no surprises. Who knows that someone will come to the palace today, and it's not the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year."

Yixiang thought in her heart: Yes, the surprise is gone, Quan Cheng was frightened.

Seeing Putao running all the way in from the outside, Yixiang's face was blushing, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead, she couldn't help but said distressedly: "My servant will wipe your face first."

Putao was very thirsty. Hearing this, he waved his hand and said, "Go and fetch almond milk, and I will wipe my face. Hurry up, I'm thirsty."

Upon hearing this, Yixiang left a little maid to wait on her, and hurried to serve him almond dew.

Putao wiped his face completely, walked around the hall with his skirt in his hands, and said to the little palace lady, "How is it? Is this young master beautiful?"

Before the maid could answer, she heard a childish voice at the door and said crisply and authentically: "Beautiful! My sister is beautiful!"

Putao looked back, and saw a four or five-year-old boy like a jade doll lying on the threshold and smiling at him, with one front tooth missing in his cracked mouth.

Putao happily said: "Did you just praise me for being beautiful?"

"Yeah!" The little boy looked at him with sparkling eyes and drooled, "My sister is beautiful, and she will be Xiaoyou's daughter-in-law when she grows up."

"Haha, is your name Xiaoyou? You are too young, what do you know about marrying a daughter-in-law?" Putao squatted down and pinched the boy's chubby face across the threshold, feeling good in his heart, no wonder the eldest brother and the others love to pinch their own face.

The little boy said childishly: "I understand. I want to marry a wife!"

Putao raised his chin proudly, and said, "You are too young, so I won't marry you." What a joke, his future husband must be talented, handsome, gentle and considerate. Right now, this kid is not eligible .

The boy wrinkled his face and stared at Putao's face for a while, then struggled in his heart, and said, "Okay, then you should marry my elder brother. I will allow you to be my sister-in-law."

Putao is not happy, and he speaks as if he is a climber.who is he?He is the young prince of Prince Jing's Mansion, the nephew of the current emperor, the grandson of the empress dowager, and the younger brother of the prince.Only others begged him to marry, there was no reason for him to rush.

"Bah! Little guy, just dream, I won't marry anyone casually!" Putao couldn't help but pinched the little boy's tender face again.

The little boy stared at the grapes, suddenly flattened his mouth, sat down on the ground and cried.

Putao was at a loss.Although he was often bullied by his father and elder brother to the point of crying, it was because he was the youngest child in the family for a long time, and he was a little petty because he was favored and proud.Later, when his younger brother Dongfang Junren was born, he became more sensible and rarely cried anymore.Seeing this little baby who was not a few years older than Modi sitting on the ground and crying loudly, Putao couldn't help panicking.

"Don't cry, don't cry! Brother is joking with you." In his panic, he also forgot how his daughter was dressed, and hugged and patted the child.But the toddler was crying sadly, and he didn't pay attention to his self-proclaimed "brother".

Just at this time, an anxious voice came: "Xiaoyou, what's wrong with you!?"

An eleven or twelve-year-old half-grown boy ran over quickly, pushed Putao away and hugged the young boy in his arms.

Putao originally squatted on the ground to talk to the young boy because of his short stature, but at this time his legs were already numb, and when the young boy pushed him unintentionally, he couldn't help but groaned and fell back to the ground.

The boy let out a cry, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him, and said apologetically, "Sorry! I missed it just now."

Putao stood up unhappily, frowning at her skirt, which was stained.

At this time, the little boy stopped crying and snuggled into his brother's arms without a drop of tears on his face. He smiled and said: "Brother, brother, this sister is so beautiful, will you marry me back and be my sister-in-law?"

The young man's face was slightly red, and he said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense! If you talk nonsense again, brother will punish you when you go back!"

This young man obviously has the prestige of a big brother, as soon as he said this, the boy immediately shut up.

Yi Xiang came over with almond milk, and asked suspiciously, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Putao said, "It's okay, just a little misunderstanding."

The young man was heartbroken when he heard the maid calling for His Highness Putao!After a while, although he didn't know Putao's identity, he also knew that he couldn't offend him, so he hurriedly saluted and said: "Caomin was rude just now, please forgive me, Your Highness!"

Putao said: "I said it's all right, don't worry about it." Although he was a little sorry for the new skirt being stained, he was not as cautious as those girls after all, so he expressed his indifference.

Yixiang said: "Your Highness, these two young masters are brought by Mrs. Fang, they were called by His Majesty just now, I don't know how the two young masters came here?" She asked the last sentence to the young man.

The young man blushed slightly, and said: "Sorry, it's all because of my brother's playfulness. We came back from His Majesty, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye, so I came to find him."

It turned out that the two brothers were asked by the emperor to go to the front hall for questioning. After the questioning, they walked back. Because Mr. Fang was cautious in his words and deeds in the palace, it was not easy to hold his brother's hand, so he followed the front with his head down all the time. The eunuch who led the way, Mr. Fang was short and short, and disappeared from the side at some point, and neither of them noticed.When Mr. Fang and the eunuch leading the way returned to the gate of the Empress Dowager's Palace and found that the person had disappeared, they were in a hurry.The eunuch didn't dare to take responsibility, so he hurried in to report to the queen mother.Young Master Fang couldn't wait, so he started looking for it himself.Fortunately, it was not far from the side hall, so he heard his younger brother's cry and found it.

Yixiang heard the words, and said: "So that's the case. Why don't you and the young master take you and the young master to find Mrs. Fang."

The young man said: "It's very good. I'm here to help you."

Yixiang handed the tray in her hand to the little maid next to her, bowed to Putao and said, "Your Highness, I will take them to the front hall first, and I will come back to serve you later."

Putao said: "Go. Don't make Mrs. Fang anxious."

The young master Fang still looked at Putao with some reluctance.However, he obviously knew from the conversation just now that he had caused trouble, and his elder brother was very upset and didn't dare to be willful anymore, so he had to be held by his elder brother and walk back obediently.

The eldest son Fang took two steps, remembering that he pushed down the noble lady just now, and seemed to have stained her skirt, but the noble lady not only did not blame him, but also did not care about the reckless behavior of him and his younger brother.He wanted to apologize to that lady again.If the woman was an ordinary person, he would definitely ask the other party to leave her house number and go back to ask his mother to pay for a new dress. Just seeing the attitude and address of the big palace lady next to the queen mother towards her, it can be seen that this woman has a noble status. Speaking out, I was afraid that it would be regarded as a person who clings to the powerful, and people would look down upon him, so he hesitated for a while and didn't say anything more.He only took two steps but couldn't help but look back.

At this moment, I saw that noble lady picked up the almond milk, took a sip with a spoon, and held it in her mouth gracefully and softly. After swallowing, her red and tender tongue stretched out and licked around her lips lingeringly. , showing a satisfied and comfortable smile.

For some unknown reason, the boy blushed for a moment, his heart was beating violently, he hurriedly turned his head and didn't dare to look any further, he led his younger brother to follow Yixiang.

Putao was very thirsty, and just now he had teased with that little ghost for a long time, and couldn't wait to go back to the house, so he directly grabbed the almond dew from the hand of the little palace maid, took a sip eagerly, and then slowly carried the bowl into the house .

Afterwards, the Queen Mother sent away those wives and called Putao to talk. He spent half a day at his grandmother's knees, and when he returned to the palace, he forgot about it.

After that, time flew by, and Putao also reached the age of 16 in the blink of an eye.He trembled through the voice-changing period. Fortunately, his voice didn't turn into a duck's voice like his elder brother's in the past, but it was a bit rough after all, which made him dare not speak much for more than a year.After the voice change, the voice is slightly lower than when I was young, but it is still clear and pleasant, and it has not become a rough voice.

As for the beard... I don't know if it's because of his physique, anyway, it hasn't grown out yet.Every morning when Putao wakes up, he has to take a good look in the mirror and use the methods taught by his aunt and sister-in-law Princess Huarong to beautify him, and the same is true at night.He also eats a lot of fruit every day, and his skin is smooth and smooth, which makes him quite satisfied.

However, he also has a deep understanding of what his father said about "the little penis is swollen".This made Putao a little annoyed, wondering if it would be resolved after getting married?

"Master, they're coming after you!"

Little Zhuzi ran fast in the carriage, but the speed of the carriage was not as fast as riding a horse. Seeing that the robbers were getting closer and closer, Xiao Zhuzi couldn't help sweating profusely.

Putao came out of the carriage, held the sword in his hand and shouted: "What are you afraid of! Just let them see my Mingyue swordsmanship!"

The little bamboo sweated even more.Master, don't you know that your three-legged kung fu is at best second-rate in the Jianghu?This is still for your face, if not, it will be a third-rate standard, so you have the nerve to say it!If you hadn't insisted on showing off and showing off your wealth just now, we would have been targeted.

Speaking of which, why did Putao and his valet fall into this situation?This has to be said from a month ago.

A month ago, Qi Hengcheng, Wen Guo's most famous young general, got married.This is not surprising at all. He is a 20-year-old young general who is in the midst of a weak crown. His family background, martial arts, and meritorious service are all there.Even because he stayed in the army for several years, the marriage was delayed.

But there is a problem, that is, this Major General Qi and Dongfang Junting are childhood sweethearts. They studied together in the Royal Academy when they were young. They have a deep friendship and even fought with other boys in order to please Putao.At that time, Qi Hengcheng, who was already ten years old, patted his chest and swore to the six-year-old Xiao Putao: "Don't be afraid, Junting. If anyone bullies you in the future, come to me and I will cover you!"

Later, as the two got older, Putao made a resolution not to marry anyone who is not capable of both civil and military skills. After examining all the people around him, he finally felt that only Qi Hengcheng was the most satisfactory among all the qualified candidates, so So she went to him happily and made a deal with him: "When you grow up, you will marry me!"

At that time, Qi Hengcheng was nearly fifteen years old, and he was in the rebellious period of youth. He spent all day catching chickens and dogs in the capital, and was chased and beaten by his father.It just so happened that the family wanted to say goodbye to him at that time, his parents picked out a bunch of lists of ladies from famous families, and kept chattering in his ears all day long.Qi Hengcheng was terribly annoyed. Hearing Putao's words, it was like a traveler who was walking gloomyly in the dark and suddenly saw a ray of light. His whole body brightened up, and he immediately agreed.At that time, Qi Hengcheng didn't know what it was like to be a woman. After he understood, he realized that he and Dongfang Junting could only be brothers, and husband and wife were absolutely impossible.

Qi Wen, Minister of the Ministry of War of Qi Hengcheng's father, heard his son's words, his eyes widened, and he almost didn't faint.

There are five sons in Prince Jing's family, the eldest son is already the princess, the second son is the lowest one who can't run away as a county king, and the third son is the current prince and the emperor's adopted son.This fourth son will not be able to escape a county king in the future.Prince Jing's concubine is a Maya man, and the sons she gave birth to should also be fertile.Qi Shangshu didn't care whether Dongfang Junting was a man or a woman, as long as he could give birth to a grandson for him.Prince Jing is a master with real power, and the real power is not small. If you get married with his family, although the Qi family is in danger of burning oil, it will be extremely prosperous, but it is still a good thing to marry the future emperor.But this kind of thing can't be settled by the two children casually. Kuang Qi Lao Shangshu still has some psychological barriers to marrying a male daughter-in-law in the future.

He ambiguously and jokingly told the emperor that he had heard about it. At that time, the emperor just smiled and said: "Junting is still young, and he doesn't know about human affairs. It's just a child's joke. Why don't you let Hengcheng Go to the army for a few years to practice, firstly, to gain fame, and in the future, you will have the capital to marry a wife. Secondly, to test the hearts of the two children, if they are still as firm as before, I will not beat the mandarin ducks."

Qi Laoshangshu pondered whether the emperor did not approve or deny it, and probably also disliked his son for not being famous and not worthy of the son of Jing Wang's family, so he cleaned up when he went back, ignored his wife's crying and howling, and hardened his heart to send his son thousands of miles away. Sent all the way to join the army.

But he didn't know that the emperor's main concern was Princess Jing Beitang Yaoyue.Beitang Yaoyue doesn't like Putao's feminine personality.He himself married the young prince Dongfang Haoye as a man, although it was a matter of heart, but it might not be because he gave up the dignity of a man.The emperor and his wife have snatched a son from Beitang Yaoyue. Now Jing Wang and his wife see that the prince is going to perform the half-lord ceremony. Dongfang Junhe can only call "imperial uncle" and "uncle" when he sees the two, and cannot call father.The emperor already felt indebted to this, so it was not good to make a rash decision before knowing Beitang Yaoyue's intentions. (The emperor knew very well who had the final say on the marriage of Xiao Putao in Prince Jing's Mansion, so he didn't consider his younger brother's wishes at all. Poor little prince...)

Qi Shangshu sent his son to join the army, who knows that he really made a name for himself, made several military achievements at a young age, was named a major general when he was less than 20 years old, and returned home in fine clothes.However, returning with him was Liu Shi, the granddaughter of General Liu, the veteran of the frontier city.

It turned out that Qi Hengcheng had been in the border town for many years, and met Liu Shi during the Lantern Festival.The beauty under the moon, falling in love at first sight, actually composes a good story.

At this time, Qi Hengcheng had already forgotten the verbal agreement with Putao, and when he excitedly wrote a letter to tell his father about his marriage with Miss Liu, Qi Shangshu had a mouthful of old blood in his throat. Got mad at my son.

Fortunately, Qi Hengcheng and Putao were just friendship back then, and this verbal agreement was also closely concealed under the hint of the emperor, and the slightest bit was never revealed.Seeing that his son had made up his mind, Qi Shangshu had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​marrying Jing Wangfu, and pretended not to know what happened in the past, and went to the palace to propose marriage to the emperor.

The emperor is generous.After all, this matter requires mutual affection and cannot be forced.Both the Qi family and the Liu family are important officials in the court, and they should not be chilled because of their nephews.What's more, the emperor may not be happy to marry off his good nephew, which is really embarrassing for the royal family.

As soon as the decree of the marriage was given, Qi Hengcheng personally went to Prince Jing's Mansion to apologize to Putao, and asked his friend Dongfang Juncheng to help him say a lot of good things, finally let Putao reveal the past, and promised not to mention the oral marriage contract back then.

Poor Putao took Qi Hengcheng's promise seriously, and gradually began to feel a little bit of first love, but who knew that she was dumped in the end, really sad and depressed.But he has a good friendship with Qi Hengcheng, Qi Hengcheng took off his shirt in the yard and let him beat him like Lian Po pleaded guilty back then, how could he be able to beat him?It happened that the second elder brother Dongfang Juncheng also came to speak for Qi Hengcheng, so Putao had no choice but to go down the steps.

It's just that he was really angry and annoyed.Thinking of him, the fourth son of the dignified Prince Jing's mansion, the future king of the small county, he is beautiful, good at martial arts (in his own opinion), and proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting (this is also in his own opinion), how can he not be compared? a woman?Damn it!All women in the world are enemies!

Putao doesn't want to watch my father, father, elder brother and sister-in-law kiss me at home, the second brother Dongfang Juncheng has already been named the king of Chengjun and lives in another mansion, the third brother is the prince in the palace, only the youngest brother Dongfang Jun Ren can express the depression in his heart.However, Xiao Xingren is no longer the naive child who let him dress up and play around, he is so steady at a young age, and most importantly, at only nine years old, his martial arts are even higher than his own, and he can't beat him. !

So Xiao Putao, who was heartbroken and heartbroken, ran away from home with her valet.

Putao has always been pampered in the mansion, how can she suffer when she is away from home?All the way to travel in the mountains and rivers, the cost of eating and drinking is the best.Even so, he kept complaining that the outside was not as comfortable as in the house: the clothes were easily dirty, the food was not clean, the bed was not soft and so on.

Xiaozhuzi used this a few times to persuade him to return to Beijing, but Putao was quite persevering, she just gritted her teeth and endured it, unwilling to go back to Beijing to see Qi Hengcheng's newly married sweet and energetic appearance.

It's just that Putao has a rough temper and is used to extravagance. He was so open-minded along the way that he was quickly spotted by others.Fortunately, Xiao Zhuzi is the secret guard specially assigned by Dongfang Haoye to his son. He has a cautious personality, good martial arts, and also knows about drugs and poisons.It’s just that Xiaozhuzi is still a human being after all, no matter how powerful he is, he is only a year old this year. He has been with Putao before, and he has never really traveled through the rivers and lakes. Although he has learned a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes, there are inevitably some omissions.

I don't know if Prince Jing intended to temper his son, or if he was really negligent. This time Putao left Beijing secretly, but he didn't send secret guards to reinforce him secretly, which made Xiao Zhuzi exhausted and exhausted from serving him.Today was the time when he went to buy a steamed bun, and the master showed his wealth outside, and was actually targeted by several robbers.

These robbers are veterans of the rivers and lakes. They followed the master and servant of Grape in the town. Seeing how powerful Xiao Zhuzi was, they kept being careful not to show any flaws. The servant left the city, and gradually walked to a remote place before popping out.

Seeing that the momentum was wrong, Xiao Zhuzi immediately went up to protect the master.But I didn't expect these robbers to be good at it. Although their martial arts can only be regarded as second-rate, they cooperate with each other tacitly, and there is a faint formation in it, and Xiao Zhuzi can't help them for a while.Moreover, Xiaozhuzi was single and weak, and had to protect Putao, a third-rate "master" (generally in this case, Putao was a troublemaker), and gradually fell into a disadvantage, and finally the two had no choice but to flee.