The night market outside Donghuamen is brightly lit, as bright as day.

The store removed its usual merchandise and replaced them with various items that are popular with girls.

Li Mingyue, however, had no intention of lingering on these material things; she was only concerned about her own lifelong event.

"It seems like last year, Brother Zhao's grandfather arranged a blind date for them." The young county lady said again quietly.

"It seems you haven't yet..." Zhang Xiaojing's left hand turned into two fingers.

Two to one.

"I heard that she is good at business. Brother Zhao founded Jiangnan Company and made her the president." Li Mingyue felt a little breathless and said, "Jiang Xueying, Jiangnan Company, listen, is this reasonable? It's just like her family's company."

Zhang Xiaojing thought to herself, three to one.

But as a good friend of the Ming Dynasty, how could you destroy the prestige of your own people and boost the ambitions of others?

"Isn't your mother still the chairman of Xishan Company?" Zhang Xiaojing snorted and said against her will: "Three to two."

"That's different." Li Mingyue said in a tearful voice, "Xishan Company doesn't have my name on it. It would be great if it was called Mingyue Company. At worst, calling it Lishan Company would be fine too."

Zhang Xiaojing frowned and said, "You might as well change your name to 'Li Xiyue'."

"This is a good idea." Li Mingyue's eyes lit up.

"Isn't this the point?" Zhang Xiaojing's mouth twitched as she said, "Continue."

"I heard that Kunshan had suffered a disaster, so she went around collecting food and even personally escorted a ship to Kunshan."

"This..." Zhang Xiaojing weakly compared it to four to two.

"Later, she was kidnapped by water bandits. Brother Zhao led the entire county's army to rescue her. He also wiped out the bandit's nest and turned all the water bandits into coolies to dig coal."

Zhang Xiaojing didn't dare to compete anymore, otherwise the young county lady might not be able to withstand the blow and die on the spot.

"Then she and Brother Zhao lived shamelessly on a beautiful island on Lake Tai for a long time..." The young county lady finally couldn't hold back her sobs:

"Later, when Brother Zhao returned to Kunshan, she followed him and never left. Brother Zhao visited her every day and made ice cream for her..."

She couldn't help feeling panic and burst into tears while hugging Zhang Xiaojing.

"Woo woo woo, I haven't eaten it before..."

"Don't be sad, I haven't eaten it either..." Zhang Xiaojing advised with red eyes, and then she slapped her mouth lightly. What did I say?

The young girls coming and going, seeing the crying little county princess, all looked at her with understanding, sympathy and support.

A girl in a lotus skirt stuffed a yellow daisy into Li Mingyue's hand and ran away. After running for a distance, she turned back and made a "be strong" gesture.

"I don't want flowers, I want Brother Zhao." Li Mingyue sobbed.

"Then it's no use crying here." Zhang Xiaojing said angrily, "Don't you see it? This is the case of the one who is close to the water gets the moon first. Everything is because that woman is in Kunshan and you are in Beijing!"

"Yeah, that's what I thought too." Li Mingyue nodded in agreement.

"So you should find a way to get closer to him." Zhang Xiaojing gave her some advice: "If you want to cry, you have to cry in front of Zhao...your brother Zhao. That way it will work!"

"If it were up to me, I would have gone south last month, but I don't have the final say." Li Mingyue stamped her feet anxiously.

"My mother said that she is going to Jiangnan to spend the winter this year and she insisted that I wait and be with her. What can I do?"

"It's August now, and winter will come in October, so we'll have to travel for another month." Zhang Xiaojing calculated for a moment and said, "It won't be long, right? It's reasonable for Her Highness the Princess to let you go with her."

"Then I'll ask her if she can leave next month. If not, I'll run away from home." Li Mingyue brazenly made a declaration of elopement.

"You'd better calm down." Zhang Xiaojing reached out and tapped her forehead, saying angrily, "With your confused look, you'll just be delivering food to others if you go."

"I thought so too..." Li Mingyue sighed dejectedly, "The right time, right place and right people are all on her side. I am alone, pitiful, weak and helpless. How can I fight her?"

"You can't give up!" Zhang Xiaojing was anxious. She put her hands on Li Mingyue's shoulders and encouraged her, "This is not like you, Li Mingyue."

"I know, but I'm really scared." Li Mingyue tugged at the corner of Zhang Xiaojing's clothes pitifully and begged, "Why don't you go with me? With you as my advisor, I will have the confidence to defeat that woman!"

"Me?" Zhang Xiaojing had a weird expression on her face. After a long pause, she waved her hands and said, "How could my father agree to this?"

"Don't worry, as long as you nod, I'll do the rest." Li Mingyue tightly grasped the corner of her clothes, looked at Xiao Zhuzi with a pair of watery eyes and said, "Just tell me whether you are willing or not?"

"I, I..." Zhang Xiaojing felt her face burning. Wasn't this forcing her to slide into the abyss of making mistakes?

Li Mingyue hugged Zhang Xiaojing and begged coquettishly, "Please, Xiaojing, you haven't been to Jiangnan yet, right? It's so beautiful there, with green trees and red flowers even in the winter."

"This, this..." Zhang Xiaojing felt like there were ten thousand ants crawling in her heart, but it was easy to nod her head. However, this trip to the south of the Yangtze River would probably change her originally peaceful and peaceful life completely.

"Just agree first. It's still unclear whether I can get Mr. Zhang to nod his head." Li Mingyue adopted another roundabout tactic.

"Hey, now that you've said this, what else can I say?" Zhang Xiaojing sighed and finally nodded. Never mind, never mind, she forced me to do this...

"Great!" Li Mingyue jumped three feet high and threw the young flower high into the night sky.

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High above the night market, the Donghuamen Tower is ablaze with lanterns and is newly decorated.

On several rows of short sandalwood tables, pomegranates, dates, chestnuts, grapes, oranges and other fresh fruits were neatly arranged on beautiful golden porcelain plates. There were also various imperial snacks and fine wines in colorful glass bottles.

Today is the Reunion Festival, and the royal family also wants to reunite. Even Empress Chen, who has not been seen for many years, dressed up and sat peacefully beside Emperor Longqing.

Princess Ning'an sat at the table on the emperor's left, and Concubine Li sat opposite her, holding a small baby in her arms.

That was the victory she had just achieved this summer—the second prince Zhu Yiliu.

In addition, there were the three-year-old Princess Shouyang and the two-year-old Princess Yongning, who snuggled up to the emperor and empress.

And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was sitting at a table alone, like a little adult.

All these dragon species were born by her!

Empress Chen and the dozen or so concubines present gave birth to zero children in total.

On days like today, all we can do is watch her show off her wealth.

Empress Chen was better, she was the legitimate mother, and the princes and princesses were all very close to her.

Those concubines were miserable, watching her display her motherly demeanor and having to flatter her with a forced smile. I guess no matter how sweet the wine is, it will taste bitter, sour and astringent after drinking it, right? ?

Roar, roar, roar... I am so awesome. I am invincible and lonely as the snow.

p.s. There are two more updates, which will be sent soon.