After the concubine ran away, the cold prince lost control

Chapter 499: Love without a clue (3)

"If you leave like this, the girl from the Zhou family will be disappointed."

Lu Chengyun had just walked out for a distance when he heard a clear voice coming from the side. He turned his head and saw a little girl in green embroidered brocade clothes standing under a flower tree on the side of the road, and someone was talking to him.

The little girl was not very old, only about fourteen or fifteen years old, and her oval face still had a bit of childishness.

Lu Chengyun stopped walking, and the little girl didn't come forward, she just stood there and introduced herself, "I am the daughter of Marquis Gu."

Lu Chengyun knew the identity of the little girl, and a smile appeared on his face. He said to the people under the flower tree: "My father and the emperor are brothers with different surnames. According to etiquette, you should call me brother."

After exchanging such pleasantries, Lu Chengyun asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Gu Meng'er." Then she explained, "I took my father's surname, and my given name is a character from my mother's given name."

After hearing what she said, Lu Chengyun understood.

I heard that Marquis Lu had been married before, but was later forced to marry a girl from a wealthy family. He then made his former fiancée his concubine, but unfortunately the girl passed away later, so he made the concubine his principal wife.

He knew very little about the private affairs of his father's generation, but Marquis Lu was a close friend of his father, so Lu Chengyun knew a little about the Gu family's affairs.

Presumably, this little girl named Gu Meng'er was born to the woman who was demoted from wife to concubine and then promoted from concubine to wife by Marquis Gu.

"Are you here with your family to pay respects to your mother?" Lu Chengyun asked.

Gu Meng'er smiled and said, "Your Highness is extremely intelligent, and his reputation is well-deserved."

Lu Chengyun was a mature man, and he never argued with such young girls. He just did everything with Zhou Shulan because she was the candidate for Crown Princess chosen by the Queen's mother, so he was willing to give her face. Of course, he also meant to give her a chance on purpose.

The young man was not opposed to choosing a concubine, but he always had a standard in his mind for who to choose.

Just as he said in front of his father and mother in Changle Palace that day, the other party must possess the qualities that can support her becoming the queen in the future.

Facing this old friend who suddenly appeared, Lu Chengyun had less deliberate judgment in her heart, but facing her unwarranted praise, she did not feel disgusted.

"I didn't say anything, why do you praise me like this?" The young man had a smile on his face, and there was a rare hint of ease in his tone.

The little girl replied, "Your Highness, I have only spoken less than three sentences to you, but you have already come up with a lot of ideas in your mind. I am not exaggerating when I praise your intelligence."

She paused, then tilted her head and smiled: "Besides, people outside are praising you like this, so I naturally have a preconceived idea in my mind that you are a smart person."

The sky is clear and the bright sunshine shines on people, making them feel comfortable for no reason.

The boy looked at the little girl standing under the blossoming tree. The layers of pink buds were not half as beautiful as hers.

The more natural something is, the more it can attract people's hearts.

Lu Chengyun smiled, which was rare for him: "People outside praise me for being smart?"

There was a hint of teasing in his tone, as if he was treating her as his own sister: "What else did they say about me?"

It was said that the prince was aloof, but Gu Meng'er had not expected that her unintentional words would actually arouse his interest, so she asked back, "Do you care about other people's opinions?"

Lu Chengyun didn't seem to expect the little girl to ask this question. He was stunned for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders and continued to ask, "Who doesn't care about their reputation?"

"I don't care." The little girl replied without thinking: "What others say is their business, I just need to do my best."

The little girl was as pure as an unpolished jade, and her words were full of innocence.

Lu Chengyun chuckled when he heard this, and then replied: "We are different." Finally, he added: "You are a girl, and I am a boy. Girls just need to live a good life, but boys need to bear too many responsibilities."

The little girl nodded as if she understood what he said, and added, "As a prince, you have a great responsibility and cannot make any mistakes."

The boy agreed, "You're right."

The little girl frowned and glanced at the boy's puzzled eyes. She explained: "I think that if it is really as you and I said, then being a prince is really a hard job."

Ever since he could remember, what Lu Chengyun heard most was how honorable it was to be a prince. This was the first time he heard such an evaluation.

He smacked his lips and pondered for a while, then agreed: "You are right, being the crown prince is indeed a tough job."

“But no matter how hard it is, I have to bear it.” Lu Chengyun said with a wry smile.

Gu Meng'er nodded and agreed, "Your Highness is right. As the crown prince, the matter is of great importance. Even if it is hard, you have to endure it."

Even though she said this, the little girl couldn't help but show sympathy for him. Finally, she comforted him, "Since you can't shirk your responsibility, Your Highness will have to learn to find joy in suffering."

Lu Chengyun was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then laughed out loud: "What you said makes a lot of sense."

Seeing him laugh, the little girl also laughed and praised him generously: "Your Highness looks very good when he laughs."

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Having said that, without waiting for Lu Chengyun to say anything else, she said goodbye, "It's getting late. I have to go back to Changle Palace to find my mother."

"Goodbye, young lady." Lu Chengyun greeted politely.

The girl bowed slightly, walked out for a while, then turned back and said to the young man, "Oh, by the way, I called you just now because I wanted to tell you that you treated Miss Zhou like that just now, and she will be disappointed."

After being reminded by the other party, Lu Chengyun remembered what she said to him when he passed by here just now.

Lu Chengyun asked, "You heard what we were talking about just now."

Gu Meng'er nodded, and then explained: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop on you on purpose, it's just that I was looking at the flowers here, and you were talking over there, the distance was so close, I accidentally saw and heard it."

After explaining, she added: "Miss Zhou is a very nice person."

Lu Chengyun said "Oh" and asked, "Do you know her?"

The little girl nodded and replied, "The second young lady of the Zhou family and I are good friends. The one who just spoke to Your Highness was the eldest young lady of the Zhou family. The two young ladies of the Zhou family are well-known in the whole capital, especially the eldest young lady of the Zhou family. She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her character and temperament are also one in a million."

The young man nodded when he heard this: "I see."

Then he laughed at himself and said, "If I wasn't outstanding, I wouldn't have been chosen to enter the palace."

It was common knowledge in the capital that the Queen had selected girls to enter the palace as reserve for the Crown Princess, and Gu Meng'er naturally knew it as well.

"I'm telling you the truth, Your Highness, please don't find it offensive."

"You say." Lu Chengyun said.

Gu Meng'er said: "In fact, those young ladies from aristocratic families did not necessarily enter the palace voluntarily. They were pushed by their family forces and had no choice."

After a pause, she said, "So, I think Your Highness should be more considerate of them."

The boy wondered: "Did I treat them harshly?"

"That's not the case." The little girl said, "It's just that Your Highness lacks some sincerity."