In the water pavilion in the back garden of the Princess's Mansion.

The eldest princess looked at her Zhao Lang with stars in her eyes, and felt that the image of him in her mind had become taller, more mighty, more brilliant, more outstanding, and more charming.

It turns out that my Zhao Lang is such a loving person. It makes sense, otherwise how could he have the patience to comfort a crying little girl?

“Cough, cough, cough…”

It was not until Lady Liu was about to cough out her tonsils that the princess came to her senses.

Seeing the strange looks from her children, she realized that she couldn't help herself and was being infatuated with them in front of them.

"Haha, this is really..." The eldest princess covered her mouth with a scarf and laughed, while looking at Liu Shang Gong for help.

"Alas, Your Highness is too soft-hearted and cannot bear to see anyone suffer." Lady Liu sighed and gave the eldest princess a suggestion.

"Yes, I grew up in misery. Whenever I hear about someone suffering, I can't help but think of the past. At that time, I was all alone and helpless, with no one to turn to. If there was someone like your brother who helped me, I would remember him for the rest of my life, no, for generations to come." The eldest princess said sadly, wiping her tears.

"Mom..." Li Mingyue felt sad when she heard this, and she quickly grabbed her mother's hand with red eyes to comfort her.

Li Chengen also wiped the corners of his eyes, feeling very uncomfortable.

Zhao Shouzheng's face turned red like a monkey's butt. He knew that the princess was talking about what happened in the past. This, this, this is too embarrassing in front of the children, right?

I could only say awkwardly: "Actually, I'm not that good..."

"My brother's reminder just now was very timely. Shuntian Prefecture has gone too far in this matter. Driving the refugees out of the city in the cold winter, isn't that pushing them into a dead end?" Seeing that it was resolved, the princess breathed a sigh of relief:

"If tens of thousands of people really die of starvation or freezing, the blame will be placed on my brother."

"That's right." Zhao Shouzheng nodded, and said with a look of concern for the country and the people: "For the sake of your majesty's reputation, we can't just leave it alone."

Looking at his melancholy eyes, angular face, and the mature man's mustache, the eldest princess almost became infatuated with him again.

"Your Highness, this is such a big matter, do you want to tell His Majesty about it?" Fortunately, this time Concubine Liu intervened in time.

"Alas, my brother has had a hard time." The eldest princess shook her head slowly and said, "Besides, this dynasty is most taboo about the harem interfering in government affairs. As a married sister, I am even more forbidden to gossip about the court's success."

After a pause, she looked at Zhao Lang apologetically and said, "Otherwise, those censors will take turns to impeach my brother."

"Your Highness is right." Zhao Shouzheng nodded in understanding.

"But we can still try to remedy the situation." The princess thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow, I will go to see the emperor's sister-in-law and the imperial concubine and tell them about this matter. Both of you are kind-hearted people who eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures. You will definitely not sit idly by."

After a pause, she looked at Zhao Shouzheng calmly and said, "How about this, brother, please come back the day after tomorrow, and I will discuss this with you."

The princess gave herself another thumbs up in her heart. Great! Zhao Lang couldn't even refuse the next meeting.

It seems that I still need to pay more attention to the matter of providing relief to refugees.

"Uh..." Zhao Shouzheng felt a tingling sensation on his scalp when he heard that he had to do it again.

After what happened today, he felt like he was about to suffocate. If it happened a few more times, he would probably faint in the Princess's Mansion.

But he was the one who started the conversation, and the princess had already said this, so how could Zhao Shouzheng not agree?

He had no choice but to force a smile and nodded, "As you wish."

"Then it's settled." The eldest princess clapped her hands happily and stood up and said, "Let's start the banquet."

~~

The princess had originally invited them to dinner, and now with the excuse of accepting her as her adopted daughter, Zhao Shouzheng could no longer refuse.

The five people moved to the compartment, where a picturesque palace banquet had already been prepared.

The palace maids had already lit the hot water heater, and everyone took off their coats and sat down to eat in casual clothes.

At this time, men and women should sit at different seats, not to mention that Ning An is the eldest princess. Although she wishes she could sit next to Zhao Lang, she still has to abide by the obvious rules.

So they specially opened two tables and let Li Chengen sit at another table to eat with his uncle Zhao.

The eldest princess asked Zhao Hao and Li Mingyue to sit next to her... Although Master Zhao had a lot of disciples, they were still underage after all.

Just like if Li Chengen didn't have to accompany his uncle Zhao, he wouldn't have to eat at a separate table from his mother.

When the palace maids finished serving the food, the eldest princess dismissed them.

"You guys go down, Lady Liu will serve you alone."

"Yes." The palace maids bowed and retreated silently.

When they are here, everyone just needs to look and the dishes they want to eat will automatically appear in front of them. How can the eldest princess play the role of a loving mother?

After the palace maid left, the eldest princess personally picked up some food for Zhao Hao with a loving face and asked him to eat more.

Li Mingyue also imitated her mother and kept picking up food for Zhao Hao.

As a result, just as Zhao Hao finished the plate of food in front of him, another full plate was placed in front of him. He had to eat it.

So he ate the amount of two meals in one meal, and almost ate to death.

At another table, Zhao Shouzheng and Li Chengen were having a great time.

The young master had never expected that Uncle Zhao had also lived in Beijing for many years, and the things he played with were all his leftovers.

So Li Chengen asked for advice, and the two of them had a good chat, which made the princess very pleased.

Well, this looks like a family...

~~

After lunch, Zhao Shouzheng declined the princess's attempt to keep him for dinner and resolutely returned home.

Zhao Hao was also worried that if he continued to live here, even if he didn't starve to death, he would be fed like a pig by these mother and daughter. So he politely declined his godmother's request to stay and went home with his father.

Reluctantly seeing her godson off, the princess instructed Li Chengen and Ji Sizheng to send the gift that Zhao Shouzheng had declined to her godson's home on another day.

What a joke, how can the princess take back what she gave away? I just didn't mention it just now because I was concerned about Zhao Lang's face...

When there were no one around, Lady Liu couldn't help but say with a pained look on her face, "Your Highness, you are so generous."

"It's okay. Just consider it as a dowry given away in advance."

The princess smiled sweetly, feeling very happy. Although she didn't take the little hostage, it didn't affect her victory today!

Lady Liu was stunned when she heard this, and she didn't know whose dowry the prince was talking about.

~~

On the other side, Li Mingyue, who had seen Zhao Hao off, returned to her embroidery building.

"Hurry up, take this off for me..." Li Mingyue sat down in front of the dressing table, pointing at her hair full of pearls and jade, and said, "It's going to crush me to death. This is heavier than a helmet."

The personal palace maid quickly helped the county princess carefully take off the gold hairpin, hairpins, and necklaces on her head, thinking that the county princess's words were too exaggerated.

How could a dozen pieces of jewelry be heavier than a helmet?

But then I thought, His Highness has worn many styles of helmets, so he does have a say.

She stuck out her tongue and asked in a low voice, "Will Your Highness still wear it in the future?"

"I still have to wear it..." Li Mingyue looked at herself in the mirror and smiled happily: "When I think of how shocked Brother Zhao was when he saw me today, I feel it's worth it."

The palace maid thought to herself that the ancient saying that women dress up to please themselves was true. But the county lady always hated complicated makeup and dressing up.

"Unfortunately, there were too many people here today, so I didn't get to talk to him alone." Li Mingyue puffed up her cheeks in frustration, but then she laughed heartily and said, "But he is my brother now, so I can go and play with him just because I have a legitimate reason."

"Your Highness, please behave yourself." The maid hastily reminded her. Her nervous look was very much like that of Lady Liu. "Don't you want to be a lady from a wealthy family? How can a lady from a wealthy family just run around to other people casually?"

"That's true." Li Mingyue leaned on the back of the chair in distress, and suddenly her eyes lit up and said, "I can go with my brother. I'm his follower. Wherever he goes, I go. Isn't this reasonable?"

"Well, that makes sense..." The palace maid nodded weakly. After all, she was not as outspoken as Lady Liu.

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