Hearing her ask such a pointless question, Meng Zhao immediately wanted to curse, but she held back and said, "What's wrong with your maid? She looks quite tall, but why are her legs so short? Why haven't you called anyone over yet?"
Just as the two were trembling and clinging to the pillar, the little maid from before finally led the others over. Meng Zhao saw a group of people climbing onto the pavilion in the middle of the lake from afar, and thinking about the quality of the pavilion, he was really afraid that they would collapse it.
When the people finally arrived and were about to help them up, Meng Zhao shouted in a voice that everyone could hear, "Quick, don't worry about me, save the princess, save the princess."
Fortunately, the people on the shore still had some conscience. After pulling the princess up, they didn't really abandon her and pulled her up as well.
When Madam Gu heard that the princess had fallen into the water, she rushed over with the Hanlin Madam. When she got closer, she saw that the princess was surrounded by people who were asking her how she was doing, while her Zhao Zhao was lying on the side, soaking wet and shivering from the cold. Madam Gu was so angry that she almost fainted.
She quickly took off her long-sleeved robe and draped it over Meng Zhao, hugging her tightly. Her voice trembled as she said, "Zhao Zhao, are you alright? Don't scare your mother!" Then she called out to the people nearby, "Where's the doctor? Has anyone called a doctor?"
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Meng Zhao couldn't help but shiver. Gu Shi hugged her even tighter, and Sun Mama, who was standing nearby, quickly picked up Meng Zhao's long coat from the ground and wrapped it around her.
Meng Zhao was waiting for the princess to speak. Finally, she heard the princess shout angrily, "What kind of dilapidated garden is this! The railings are all worm-eaten and they didn't even replace them. They almost killed me!"
Meng Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief and nestled tightly in Gu Shi's arms.
When the lady of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion heard the news that the princess had fallen into the water, she rushed over. She first comforted the princess, and then saw Meng Zhao still standing there soaking wet. She quickly said to Madam Gu, "Madam Gu, I am so sorry. It is all because my servants are not careful. This happened. I have already ordered people to prepare a warm room. Please take this young lady to change her clothes."
Madam Gu was furious and didn't want to talk to her at all. Meng Zhao forced herself to say, "Then thank you very much, Madam Marquis."
Afterwards, she was led to the warm room by a maid from the Marquis's residence. Just now, in order to hug Meng Zhao, Gu Shi's clothes were mostly wet, so Meng Zhao asked the maid to get Gu Shi a change of clothes as well.
By this time, the Marquis's mansion had already found out the truth of the matter. Hearing that if Meng Zhao hadn't gone into the water, the princess would probably have been in grave danger, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. A perfectly good Double Ninth Festival banquet would have been in real trouble if a princess had died.
Therefore, when Meng Zhao and her companions left, they carried much more things in their carriage than when they arrived.
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