5 million: [That's a shame. When you have time, come visit the villa.]
Ning Meng: [Yes.]
We may meet again if we are lucky, but it is unlikely that we will meet again!
Xiao Jiu glanced at Ning Meng's perfunctory reply on the phone.
He chuckled and shook his head, "How perfunctory!"
Secretary Liu next to him asked, "Is Miss Ning coming to the celebration banquet?"
"She doesn't have time, so you can just arrange the celebration yourself."
"You're not going either?"
"I'm going back to the manor to fish."
Secretary-General Liu: ...
Fishing, fishing, all I do is fish! I even didn’t attend the company’s rare celebration party!
He had just said he would attend, but now that Miss Ning is not coming, he has changed his mind. Tomorrow will be the day when he will have to take on all the toasts from the executives.
Xiao Jiu turned his head and saw Secretary Liu with his eyes downcast, looking as if he was worried, so he asked, "Anything else?"
"It's okay." Secretary Liu shook his head and left the office silently.
Xiao Jiu's cell phone rang at this time.
It was Ji Beicheng who called. He jokingly asked, "What's so urgent that you can't wait until tomorrow to discuss it?"
Ji Beicheng tutted his words, "Will you attend the birthday party that His Majesty is hosting for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in two days?"
"No."
Ji Beicheng was puzzled. "This birthday party is actually a concubine selection banquet. It's about choosing the future Crown Princess. How can you, as an uncle, not participate?"
Xiao Jiu chuckled, "He's the one who chooses the concubine, not me. Why are you going there? Are you going to vote for your sister?"
Ji Beicheng: "No one knows me better than you. My sister is driving me crazy. She insisted that I ask you to intercede with your nephew and choose her as the Crown Princess. You know she is stubborn and has been in love with His Royal Highness since she was a child. It is difficult to persuade her."
Xiao Jiu remained silent and continued to listen to Ji Beicheng on the other end of the phone: "How about you do her a favor and plead for her this time? Whether it succeeds or not depends on her own fate."
"You beg me?"
"Yes... please!"
"Then do you know that he brought the future emperor's grandson's biological mother back to the palace? Can your sister tolerate this?"
Xiao Jiu kindly reminded that given Ji Beicheng's sister's personality, she probably wouldn't tolerate any sand in her eyes.
"I heard about the powerful sky-high purple light in Nanling City. I didn't expect it to be found so quickly. My sister was heartbroken for half a month, but finally decided to marry him. I can't persuade her, please help!"
"Well, the land in Beiling?"
"It's yours." Ji Beicheng gritted his teeth and agreed. This old man had been thinking about his Feng Shui treasure land for a long time, and now he finally got what he wanted.
"No problem, I helped."
Xiao Jiu readily agreed and also thought about bringing some gifts for his future nephew.
Can an ordinary person conceive a royal child?
It's a miracle.
…
Ning Meng spent the whole day, except for eating, watering these small seeds with spiritual power. When the head maid brought a tailor to make clothes for her, she just asked him to measure the size quickly and leave.
Then I just randomly selected some styles and asked them to make them.
As for jewelry, she let them choose them all.
Now she devotes herself wholeheartedly to her balcony garden.
Sure enough, the effort paid off and it grew to 15CM tall by the afternoon.
The time she used her spiritual power seemed to last longer than in the past few days. If she worked so hard every day, she might be able to grow all the spiritual fruits in just two or three days.
As for the 10 Lingxia fruits, she didn't plan to plant them for the time being. She was also wondering if there would be a chance to find a way to leave in two days.
“Bang, bang!”
"Ms. Ning, Miss Jiang is here to see you."
Jiang Ling came to see her?
"Oh my, I'll be right down."
When she went downstairs, Jiang Ling was sitting in the living room and greeted her with a smile.
"Miss Ning, I heard that you haven't been out all day. How about we go for a walk in the garden?"
Ning Meng thought that she had indeed stayed in the room for a whole day, so she agreed.
The two walked slowly along the garden to the artificial lake. The setting sun just happened to be shining on the lake, and the reflected light was very beautiful.
The maid walked behind them. Jiang Ling asked her to ask the maid behind her to stay away and to talk to her.
The maids were finally stopped by Ning Meng in the distance, and the two of them sat down on a bench by the lake to rest.
Jiang Ling lowered her voice and whispered, "Do you know that the Crown Prince will be choosing a concubine in two days?"
"I know. What's wrong?"
"You know? How are you going to get along with the Crown Princess then? I heard that one of the daughters of the Marquis of Beiling is very unruly and domineering. I'm afraid your situation will be very difficult then!"
Ning Meng raised her eyebrows. She had never thought about this question. It wasn't that difficult. The royal family was not stupid. Would they allow someone to bully a child that was born only after 50 years?
What she feared was that these rich girls would not accept the fact that the child was not their biological child and would snatch the child away to raise. That would be troublesome!
"Then do you know that besides this marquis' daughter, there are other noble daughters among them?"
She wanted to know.
Jiang Ling nodded. "I heard from other maids that the candidate with the greatest chance of becoming the Crown Princess, besides the Marquis' daughter, is Jiang Xingyue, the daughter of the Earl of Xiling. She might even be the aunt of the child I'm expecting."
"But I heard that Miss Jiang has a gentle and generous personality. If she is chosen as the Crown Princess, she might be better to your child. After all, your child and mine in the future... Sigh!"
Ning Meng saw Jiang Ling shake her head and sigh after she finished speaking. The child in her belly had been confirmed to be the blood of the Earl of Xiling's Mansion.
I guess this child will probably not belong to her in the future.
Many nobles only wanted to get rid of the mother and keep the son, and to form alliances with other nobles, so that the interest links would be more stable.
Jiang Ling's voice came again, "Perhaps, after you give birth to the child, you can apply to leave the palace and live the life you want elsewhere."
Ning Meng sneered, "The child is here, but the mother ran away. How helpless he must be! I won't give my child away to anyone else. Who knows if others will ignore him or abuse him?"
Her children will only have her as their mother.
If his own mother can't love and protect him responsibly, how can he expect others to help him?
If she wanted a child, she would give birth to it herself. She would not be someone else's surrogate mother. But now, even if she compromised for the sake of the child and discussed a marriage agreement with the prince, the prince and His Majesty would surely not agree.
What they wanted was always to marry into a powerful alliance with the nobles.
Moreover, she was not willing to be a princess consort. She would be watched by many people every day and would be busy with socializing. How could she have the freedom of a rich woman?
There is still more than a year to go.
If she really can't think of a way to change the situation in the end, she will just leave this world with her child.
Ning Meng knew that her idea was rather extreme, but although her original life was at the bottom of society, she was free to move around. Now, unfortunately, she had traveled through time and space to become the body of this unlucky original owner.
Rather than letting herself and her child be controlled and become puppets in the end, it would be better for her to choose extreme methods to gain freedom.
Perhaps, after her death, she can return to her original world.
After calming down, Ning Meng stood up and said, "Let's go, we should go back."
She needs to plan carefully for what will happen in two days.
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