"Well……"

Realizing that he had called the wrong person, Zhao Shouzheng cast a probing look at Zhao Hao. Who is this?

Zhao Hao also looked confused, wondering where this tall and beautiful girl came from.

"Brother Zhao, I..." Li Mingyue was about to raise her hand to greet him, but suddenly remembered her best friend's reminder. She immediately put her hand back to her left abdomen, performed a standard bow, and said softly:

"I'm here to greet my uncle and Brother Zhao. May my uncle be well and may Brother Zhao be well."

"Are you the Princess of Lanling County?" Zhao Hao sat up in surprise and looked at Li Mingyue, who had changed drastically from head to toe.

It is totally impossible to connect this graceful and elegant princess with the bear-like damsel in distress that day.

“I can’t recognize it at all.”

"I was in such a mess that day, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, brother." A hint of shyness appeared on Li Mingyue's face, and she said in a mosquito-like voice, "I've always wanted to see you again, brother Shi, and thank you for saving my life."

As she spoke, she bowed to Zhao Hao again, and Zhao Hao hurriedly returned the greeting.

The palace maids who followed in saw the county lord's ladylike appearance, but they couldn't help but worry secretly. They wondered if the county lord was possessed by a ghost or what happened?

At this moment, Ji Sizheng's voice suddenly rang out from behind: "Her Royal Highness the Princess has arrived!"

After all, the eldest princess was not as agile as her daughter, so she arrived a step late.

Zhao Hao and his son hurriedly bowed again, and a group of palace maids all stepped aside and bowed their heads.

A faint fragrance floated in the air, and Princess Ning'an finally walked into the waterside pavilion with the help of Concubine Liu.

Ning An excitedly glanced at Zhao Shouzheng who was bowing his head, then he remembered the tactical discipline, took a deep breath, regained his usual elegance, slowly raised his hand and said, "Zhao Xiaolian and my nephew, please stand up quickly."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Zhao Hao and his son stood up.

Seeing Ning An's expression normal and no longer as uncontrollable as last time, Zhao Shouzheng breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he could not help but feel a sense of shameless loss.

Little did people know that this was just a change made by Her Royal Highness the Princess after learning from the lessons of her last failure.

In order to avoid scaring Zhao Lang away again, she had to hide her passionate love in her heart and let the two families interact like normal people.

Then, in the normal interactions, Zhao Lang's defenses were gradually removed, and then, hehehehe...

The princess keenly caught the disappointment in Zhao Lang's eyes and laughed like a pig in her heart. This tactic of playing hard to get really works. This princess is truly a genius.

She looked calm and composed, and with the help of Lady Liu, she sat elegantly on the phoenix chair.

"Please take a seat, both of you."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Zhao Shouzheng and Zhao Hao sat down on the armchairs under the east window.

Li Mingyue stood beside her mother.

"Girl, why don't you go out?" The eldest princess glanced at her daughter.

"My daughter thinks that it is better for girls to stay at home and study, do embroidery and spend less time outside."

Li Mingyue lowered her eyebrows and replied, "So I went against my brother's will."

The county lady's personal maid twitched her lips. She thought to herself, I don't know who it is, but she keeps saying that she is so bored at home every day. If she doesn't go out for some fresh air, she will suffocate to death...

The eldest princess also looked at her daughter in surprise, then glanced at Zhao Hao, who had handsome eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, and could not help but look at Liu Shanggong with understanding.

Liu Shanggong nodded silently, your judgment is absolutely correct. I thought, but I saw it last time...

"Haha, sorry to have made you two laugh. My daughter is a quiet person to begin with. It was her bastard brother who dragged her around all day long, causing the trouble last time."

The princess tried to save her daughter's image first, then smiled at Zhao Shouzheng and said, "Thank goodness Master Ling risked his life to save us. We can never repay this kindness."

Li Mingyue kept nodding, indicating her full agreement.

Zhao Hao felt embarrassed when he heard this, thinking, "Isn't that sacrificing my life to save him? At most, I sacrificed my strength to save him."

But what is he here for? If it doesn't matter, why bother to talk about it? Why not strike the snake while it's still there?

"Your Highness, you are too kind." Then Zhao Hao said seriously, "Father always teaches students to be good men who are brave and selfless. Even if the situation is ten times more dangerous than it was at that time, I will not hesitate to save the county lady."

"Uh..." Zhao Shouzheng thought about it again and again, and couldn't remember ever teaching his son such words.

Shouldn’t it be safety first, safety second, and safety third?

"It is true that like father, like son. Zhao...Xiaolian has raised a good son." The princess was so moved that she looked at Zhao Shouzheng with moist eyes.

Seeing that His Highness was unable to control his emotions, Lady Liu hurriedly coughed lightly to remind His Highness to be reserved.

The princess quickly suppressed her overflowing emotions, and instead smiled as she looked at Zhao Hao and said, "The more I look at this child, the more I like him. I wanted to tell Zhao Xiaolian about this idea last time, but you left in a hurry, so I didn't have time to speak."

"Your Highness, please speak." Seeing the eldest princess talking to him seriously, Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that Ning An was just reminiscing about the past with me last time, or was I just overthinking it?

Thinking about it this way, he felt that he had always been sorry for others...

"I want to adopt this child as my adopted son and raise him in my house, how about that?" The eldest princess said with a smile, "This way Cheng'en will have someone to play and study with, and he won't have to drag Mingyue around all day."

Upon hearing this, Lady Liu couldn't help but sigh inwardly. His Highness was indeed persistent and had not given up the idea of ​​taking this boy hostage.

"Yes, that's the best." Li Mingyue was overjoyed when she heard that. She nodded like a chick pecking at rice and said with a look of relief, "Then my daughter can finally study and embroider in peace."

"Mom, I do..." Zhao Hao said to himself.

It's a pity that it's not his turn to make the decision on such matters. Besides, if he's too pushy, people will look down on him.

"This..." Zhao Shouzheng felt a headache after hearing this. He had raised this son from childhood, and he missed him terribly when he didn't see him for even a day.

If I agree to this, I will have to go to the Princess's Mansion every few days, and I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself.

"Your Highness, you may not know that my son has many disciples despite his young age." Thinking of this, Zhao Shouzheng quickly declined, "His disciples are about to take the imperial examination. If he, as a teacher, leaves, he will mislead the students."

"Spring Examination?" The Princess and Li Mingyue shouted at the same time. The Princess asked in confusion, "Is it the Spring Examination for the Jinshi Examination?"

"What else can it be?" Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but said with pride: "Although my son is still young, he is quite capable of teaching disciples. Among his five disciples, four are successful candidates in the imperial examinations, and one of them is the first place winner in the Southern Zhili Provincial Examination."

"Wow..." Li Mingyue exclaimed, holding her little face, looking at Zhao Hao with admiration.

Liu Shanggong and the palace maids even glanced at Zhao Hao secretly as if he were a monster. Fortunately, they had all been specially trained, so no matter how surprised they were, they would not scream out.

The princess looked at Zhao Hao in disbelief and said, "I only heard that you can run a restaurant and write good poems, but I didn't expect that you are also so good at reading?"

"It's all the result of the students' own efforts." Zhao Hao hurriedly explained: "As a teacher, I didn't do anything."

This is obviously the truth, but no one believes it. Instead, they think he is being overly modest.

"Oh, look at this child, how adorable he is. Such a gifted genius will only appear once in a hundred years in the Ming Dynasty. This son, I must acknowledge him!"

The eldest princess looked at Zhao Hao with shining eyes and thought to herself, how great it would be if this child was my biological son.

"If you don't want to live in my house, then don't live there. Just come and visit me often..."

But it doesn’t matter, I will make you feel the warmth of a mother again...

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