This is Zhao Hao's first visit to the princess's residence.

He and his son got off the car at the entrance of Shiwangfu Street and walked to the magnificent Princess's Mansion located in the center of the street.

Standing on the outer wall and looking over, you can see three gates with red lacquer and gold nails under the blue plaque with golden characters of "Grand Princess's Mansion". On both sides of the gates squat a pair of stone lions showing off their might.

The eight-character wall next to the stone lion was inlaid with dragon and phoenix patterns. Eight Jinyiwei in bright red flying fish uniforms stood below it, their cold eyes making people feel a head shorter than they actually were.

Zhao Shouzheng shrank his neck and walked forward, handed the visiting card to the Jinyi captain with both hands, and explained his purpose.

When they heard that they were invited by the eldest princess, the captain of the imperial guards did not make things difficult for them. Instead, he asked the father and son to wait in the gatehouse with a straight face.

After a cup of tea, Ji Sizheng, whom Zhao Shouzheng had met last time, came out to greet him. As soon as he entered the lobby, he smiled warmly and said, "Zhao Xiaolian is really hard to invite. His Highness was still talking about it yesterday, asking if we should go and move you again."

"You are joking, sir." Zhao Shouzheng quickly stood up and apologized, "It is presumptuous of me to come here today."

Ji Sizheng led the two through the triple palace gates, and then walked along the corridor around the front hall, while smiling meaningfully:

"You don't have to be so nervous, Xiaolian. Your Highness is in charge of the imperial farms and stores in the capital. The managers and accountants have to come to see you every now and then. Most of them are not eunuchs like us."

"Oh, I see..." Zhao Shouzheng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he was not the first man to visit him.

Zhao Hao secretly rolled his eyes. Since a mortal princess dared to let her son send out an invitation, there must be nothing to be shy about and it was a common occurrence.

I don’t know what dirty things my father is thinking.

Suddenly, he heard the young lord's very distinctive voice coming from the front.

"Oh, you two are really here?"

The father and son looked in the direction of the voice and saw Li Chengen wearing a crane cloak on the outside and a tight warrior robe on the inside, as if he was about to go out.

"Young Master." The father and son bowed and saluted.

"You're welcome. My sister and I are going skiing, so we won't entertain you." Li Chengen waved his hand and smiled at the person behind him:

"Mingyue, don't you always say you want to thank people? Saying thank you now will also make your heart feel better..."

He was talking to himself, but saw the Zhao father and son looking at him with a dazed look on their faces.

The young master looked back and saw that there was no sign of the girl except a few servants holding ice knives behind him.

"Hey, why didn't she catch up?" Li Chengen asked curiously.

"The county lady has gone back." said the young officer of the Jinyiwei who was following her.

"Go back? Why didn't you say anything when it happened?" Li Chengen was puzzled.

"Probably when..." the Jinyiwei lieutenant whispered, "when those two appeared."

"What the hell?" Li Chengen looked puzzled. "Is she going or not?"

~~

Li Mingyue was excitedly following her brother outside when she suddenly saw Ji Sizheng and a young man walking towards her from the direction of Yin'an Palace.

Her Highness the County Princess is indeed an athletic expert. She completed the actions of identifying, confirming, and turning around to escape in almost one second.

By the time her men reacted, she had already run several feet away...

At this time, Li Chengen greeted the guests, and the servants naturally could not make any noise.

Li Mingyue just ran into the back garden and then rushed into her embroidery building by the lake.

In the embroidery building, the palace maids were carefully avoiding bows and arrows, hunting knives and the like while cleaning the hall.

Seeing the county lady rushing in, a palace maid holding a feather duster covered her mouth and laughed, "What did the county lady forget to bring again?"

"Ho ho..." Li Mingyue panted and waved her hands. After she finally regulated her breathing, she pulled her and ran upstairs.

"No time to talk any more, hurry upstairs."

"County Lady, I'm still cleaning..." The palace maid, clutching a feather duster in her hand, followed the county lady upstairs involuntarily.

"Hurry up, hurry up, find my most beautiful dress."

After going upstairs, Li Mingyue snatched the feather duster from her hand and waved it nervously, saying, "Then dress up for me. I want to become a lady from a noble family!"

She has not forgotten the result of asking Zhang Xiaojing for advice.

~~

In the eldest princess's bedroom, Lady Liu was trying on each beautiful dress in front of the princess.

In the huge dressing mirror, the image of the eldest princess was reflected, shaking her head continuously.

"No, no, this one is too bright, Zhao Lang will think I'm frivolous..."

"This one is plain, it's not good enough."

"This one won't work either. With so many dragons and phoenixes, how can Zhao Lang get close to me?"

Seeing that His Highness still didn't like any of the more than ten pieces he had changed, Lady Liu couldn't help but said in distress:

"In fact, it doesn't matter what you wear, Your Highness. He brought his son with him, so how can he stare at you?"

"Hmm..." The eldest princess in the mirror hesitated for a moment, then smiled proudly and said, "I can ask Cheng'en to take him ice skating with me."

Then he shouted to the palace maid outside: "Tell Li Chengen not to leave yet!"

"Your Highness..." Seeing that the princess was getting angry again, Lady Liu had to remind her quietly, "Did you forget that we agreed to change our strategy?"

"Oh, you mean..." The princess slapped her forehead, she was so happy that she forgot the strategy of winning. "Advance step by step, attack and then rescue?"

"You can say that." Liu Shanggong curled her lips and said, "So it's better not to send his son away."

"That makes sense." The princess nodded in agreement, but then shook her head and said, "But what does this have to do with me dressing up beautifully to meet Zhao Lang?"

"Uh, okay..." Liu Shanggong has completely given up on treatment. Let her do whatever she wants.

~~

Na Ji Si was leading the Zhao father and son through a huge hanging flower gate carved with floral patterns and into the back garden of the mansion.

The back garden is also the rear residence of the Princess's Mansion.

Ji Sizheng did not dare to tell Zhao Shouzheng that, apart from the late Prince Consort and the young Lord, he was the first man to set foot in this forbidden area of ​​the backyard...

Being ignored, Zhao Hao looked at the princess' back garden curiously, and found that it was quite similar to the garden of Ye Salt Merchant in Yangzhou. It was not as delicate and compact as the Suzhou gardens, but it highlighted a kind of majesty in its elegance.

In the center of the garden is a large gourd-shaped lake covering an area of ​​seven or eight acres, with rockery and lotus leaves on the lake. Although it is frozen, one can imagine that after the spring, the entire lake will be blue, and it will be so satisfying and joyful to go boating on it and look at the pavilions and towers around.

It's such a great place, it's a shame not to sell tickets...

Looking at other people's gardens, Zhao Hao couldn't help but think of his own Xiaocang Mountain. He wondered how Fatty Tang was doing. Was the road repaired? Was the silt from the Furong Pond dug out and not wasted? That stuff could be very useful.

While he was daydreaming, the father and son were brought to a pavilion overlooking the lake with a plaque that read "Liulang Hall".

There was a couplet under the plaque. The first line reads, "The reflection of the pond is the same color, and the wind blows it away like silk." The second line reads, "Since Jieyin has obtained the land, why should I thank the Tao family for the time."

There were palace maids serving in the water pavilion. Ji Sizheng respectfully invited the two of them in and then turned to report to the eldest princess.

The father and son sat in a waterside pavilion with wafting sandalwood incense and carved beams and painted buildings, sipping the fragrant tea served by the palace maids, but their moods were very different.

One is thinking about how to get on top of the other's thigh, while the other is like there is a hedgehog under his butt, twisting and turning constantly.

Oh, taking my son to meet his first love, this feeling is so sour.

"Why is father so nervous?" Zhao Hao asked knowingly while the palace maid was out.

"Father, father..." Zhao Shouzheng explained awkwardly, "I have never seen the world and I am nervous."

"Haven't we met once?" Zhao Hao said, "The first time is strange, the second time is familiar."

Zhao Shouzheng thought, the key is that I don’t know how many times this has happened…

"Father, think about those refugees who are starving and cold." Zhao Hao said seriously, "Show your responsibility as a scholar. What's wrong with sacrificing yourself to feed the tiger?"

"Well, okay..."

It was also because of his son's persuasion that Zhao Shouzheng actually changed his mind. He no longer felt that he was going back and forth with his old lover, but was pleading for the people.

Then there was the sound of bells and ornaments, hurried footsteps, and then the palace maid's gentle reminder:

"Your Highness, please go slowly. Be careful not to step on the hem of your skirt..."

It seemed that the eldest princess had arrived, and the father and son hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Unexpectedly, a bright and charming girl walked in quickly in the morning light.

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