The princess has said so much, what else can Zhao Shouzheng say?

Zhao Hao was also very surprised and was still thinking about how to hug the thigh. Unexpectedly, the thigh hugged him instead.

Li Mingyue was also very happy. Now she didn't need an excuse to play with Zhao Hao anymore...

So, when Li Chengen came to Shuixie, the matter of recognizing her as his godmother had already been finalized.

"Hey, so you are here." Li Chengen poked his head in and saw that his sister had changed her clothes and was standing obediently behind her mother, even covering her mouth when she spoke.

He couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Sister, are you going to go ice skating or not? Why are you dressed like this?"

"Mom, look, my brother is trying to drag me out again." Li Mingyue seemed to have seen a big bad wolf. She timidly leaned against her mother, stretched out three fingers, pulled her mother's sleeve, and twisted her body and said, "You don't care about him."

"Take care of it, I'll take care of it." The princess patted her daughter's hand, and was pleased with Mingyue's change. If the wild girl could become a lady like Xiaojing, wouldn't it let the old mother put her worries at ease?

"Oh my god. You have to speak with conscience. Who on earth insisted on going ice skating?" Li Chengen couldn't help but cry out in injustice.

"Brother..." Li Mingyue smiled and slowly turned her head. When she was at an angle where the Zhao father and son could not see her, she glared at Li Chengen fiercely.

Li Chengen was startled and quickly changed his words: "Of course it's me..."

"Look at you, what a mess you are in!" The princess scolded him, "If you dare to take your sister out to play again, I will break your legs!"

"Uh..." Li Chengen smacked his lips and lowered his head like a defeated rooster.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, brother." After scolding her son, the princess gently apologized to Zhao Shouzheng, "This child has lost his father since he was young, so he needs a lot of discipline."

"Brother..." Li Chengen looked around in surprise. When he failed to find Emperor Longqing, he realized that the eldest princess was calling him "senior".

Not only was he surprised, Zhao Shouzheng was also shocked. He waved his hands and said repeatedly that he couldn't afford it and couldn't do it.

"What's wrong with that?" The princess said with a nonchalant smile, "Your son is my son now, so we are a family, aren't we? And you keep calling me Zhao Xiaolian, how strange."

The eldest princess secretly gave herself a thumbs up and said, Ning An, you are so smart. You plan every step carefully and achieve double the results!

After a pause, she added, "Besides, the emperor brother is the emperor brother, and the elder brother is the elder brother. No one will get them confused."

"Uh, is this okay?" Li Chengen scratched his head and suddenly said in surprise: "What do you mean by 'your son is my son'? Mom, why did his son become your son?"

"It's like this, I have adopted Zhao Hao as my godson, and you two will be brothers from now on." The eldest princess smiled and said to her son, "Come on, call me brother."

"Ah?" Li Chengen was dumbfounded. He looked at Zhao Hao and then at his mother, and after a long while he managed to utter a sentence. "I'm older than him..."

Then Li Chengen walked up to Zhao Hao, looked down at him and said, "I'm seventeen, how old are you?"

Zhao Hao thought that this young master looked down on him, but he didn't expect that he would care about such a thing...

He didn't know how this young lord, who was so arrogant outside, lived a submissive life under the double oppression of his mother and sister.

He is really a punching bag and a punching bag. It brings tears to my eyes when I mention him and it is a sin when I talk about him.

From the naive young master's perspective, it's actually quite good to have a boy who he likes and who can help him share some of the burden...

~~

"Don't listen to his nonsense, you are younger than him." Unexpectedly, the princess said to Zhao Hao very confidently: "Don't be fooled by his big stature, he and Mingyue share the same birthday. You are born in the year of the Ox, and they are both born in the year of the Tiger, so it's not wrong to call you brother."

"Oh." Zhao Hao couldn't help but look at the young master in surprise. Judging from his height, he seemed to be around sixteen or seventeen years old.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao secretly made up his mind. No matter how painful it was, he had to persevere. He would definitely grow taller...

"Mom, I told everyone outside that I was seventeen..." The young master grumbled in dissatisfaction.

"Why are you still pretending at home? Call me brother." The eldest princess waved her hand, not allowing him to talk any more nonsense.

The young master had no choice but to call Zhao Hao "brother" in a wronged manner.

Then, in front of everyone, Zhao Hao kowtowed to the eldest princess and called her mother.

Well, this time my knees were bent and I didn’t feel awkward anymore. The call of “Mom” sounded more intimate than a kiss.

"Hey... what a good child..." The princess responded with a long sigh, then took the gift list from Lady Liu and handed it to Zhao Hao with a smile:

"Mother doesn't have anything to show you. So I'll give you some of the rare things I've been rewarded with in the palace over the years. I know you're good at business, so I'll transfer a few shops under my name to you. You can run them for fun."

"Thank you, Mom." Zhao Hao smiled sweetly, took it with both hands, opened it and saw that there were not many words. He was almost scared when he looked at it again and called out "Mom" again.

It simply reads:

'Eight hundred pieces of calligraphy and paintings from the Tang, Song, Yuan and present dynasties.

There were 666 pieces of various gold items, including gold hooks, gold bracelets, gold chains, etc., weighing 230 kilograms.

There were nine hundred pieces of various gems, including rubies, sapphires, emeralds, etc., weighing two hundred and seventy kilograms.

There are 1,200 pieces of imperial porcelain from the Imperial Kiln and 12 boxes of various treasures.

There are twelve shops in and outside the capital, three farms, four thousand acres of dry land and one thousand acres of paddy fields...'

Seeing Zhao Hao in a daze, Zhao Shouzheng came over to take a look and was also shocked.

"Hey, this gift from Your Highness is too expensive. This kid can't afford it..."

Now even a fool like him could see that the eldest princess's plan to adopt Zhao Hao as her godson was definitely a long-planned move that she had to do.

"Just keep these few possessions." The eldest princess waved her hand and said with a smile, "How can my son live in poverty?"

"Thank you, mom. You are so kind..." Zhao Hao couldn't help but burst into tears. He couldn't tell whether he was acting or was truly moved.

How could he not be moved? How much silver would this be worth? Not counting the treasures, cultural relics, and shops, just the land - the imperial farms were all the best land, dry land was at least ten taels of silver per mu, and paddy fields were twenty taels. These fields alone must be worth at least fifty thousand taels, right?

Although I know clearly that this is a gift from the eldest princess to her old lover, but her old lover is her father, so isn't it still given to me?

So Zhao Hao firmly believed that he had never been treated so well in his life.

Well, how can that old dad who only knows how to spend money compare with mom?

~~

Seeing that Zhao Hao was so moved that he cried, the eldest princess was also very happy. She thought to herself, "Now, boy, won't you just follow my orders from now on?"

However, Zhao Hao wiped his tears and secretly gave his father a wink.

Zhao Shouzheng sighed knowingly and said:

"Your Highness, this gift is too heavy. We really cannot accept it."

After a pause, he stood up, bowed deeply to the princess and said:

"I would like to ask Your Highness to change the gift."

"What gift do you want, brother?" The eldest princess naturally wanted to hear what Zhao Shouzheng said.

"Today my father and I came here not only to see the princess, but also to speak for the hundreds of thousands of refugees living in the capital." Zhao Shouzheng stood up and told the princess what he had seen and heard yesterday, and then said seriously:

"We, the candidates, are willing to help them, but firstly, scholars are not familiar with the affairs of the world and are unfamiliar with the people of the capital. Secondly, we are of low status and are afraid that opening a porridge factory rashly will cause displeasure to the court and cause trouble. Therefore, I have the courage to come and ask Your Highness, do you have any good advice for me?"

Zhao Hao's eyes bulged when he heard this. Is this still my silly dad? He didn't teach Zhao Shouzheng to say so much. This was basically all his own expression!

Could it be that all of Dad's talent points were put into picking up girls? !

Li Chengen couldn't help but look at the old senior with admiration, thinking that he was worthy of being a man of our generation, who knew when to be unrestrained and when to be careful.

Li Mingyue was even more delighted, thinking that my elder brother Zhao's father valued righteousness over money and was so kind-hearted, my elder brother Zhao must be the same...

Not to mention Her Royal Highness the Princess, her heart melted after hearing what Zhao Shouzheng said...

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