Chapter 123 Zhao Lingmeng meets Princess Fushou
After Zhao Lingmeng sat down, the people in the hall kept looking over there, whether openly or covertly. Zhao Lingmeng ignored them and just kept her cool.
Zhao Lingmeng calmly peeled a small orange for the two little ones with her own hands. It looked very much like the tangerines she had eaten in her previous life. She tasted a slice and found that the taste was somewhat similar.
Zhao Houjing took the orange his mother gave him and ate a slice of it shyly. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he said in a low voice, "Mom, this is delicious."
Zhao Houming, who was standing next to him, couldn't wait to eat a piece after hearing what his brother said. After eating it, he looked at Zhao Lingmeng with bright eyes.
"It's delicious, you two just eat it! Mom will peel it for you after you finish eating." Zhao Lingmeng said that since it was still early, and it was better to just sit there and serve the two little ones to pass the time.
But Zhao Lingmeng hadn't sat there for long when someone sat down a little above her. Zhao Lingmeng turned around and saw that it was Princess Fushou, the emperor's legitimate daughter and the eldest princess in the true sense of the word.
Zhao Lingmeng looked at Princess Fushou. Although she was a little thin, she was still full of grace and was also a peerless beauty. She had a good impression of such people, so she looked at her and nodded with a smile.
"Your two children are very cute." Zhao Lingmeng was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Princess Fushouchang to speak, and to praise her two children.
Zhao Lingmeng was not a hedgehog who would give anyone a slap on the wrist. She responded politely, "Thank you, Princess Fushou."
"Don't be so polite. I came here so early because my mother asked me to make friends with you." Fushou said as she asked the servants to help her sit down. In the middle of the conversation, she did not forget to make a funny face to Zhao Lingmeng.
After hearing Princess Fushou's words, Zhao Lingmeng actually thought she was quite adorable. Furthermore, the Empress didn't have any princes, so it wasn't a big deal for her to talk to Fushou. Furthermore, the Empress's permission for Princess Fushou to approach her must have been due to some hint from the Emperor.
No matter how much Zhao Lingmeng was thinking, she still smiled and said, "Princess, you have seen me before! Before I got married, I often followed my mother into the palace. It's not like you've met me for the first time."
"But we weren't friends before, were we? Are we now?" Fushou truly admired women like Zhao Lingmeng, who managed to stand on her own despite a poor marriage. The point was that their statuses were similar now, so no one would think too much of a conversation if they did.
Fushou really didn't dare to get close to other brothers and sisters in the harem, for fear of dragging his mother down. The women outside the palace were all flattering her, which was extremely boring.
"Come and call your aunt!" Zhao Lingmeng also quite liked Fushou's open and frank attitude, and immediately pulled over the two children who were eating oranges next to her and asked them to call someone.
Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming were both confused, but they were very obedient. When their mother asked them to call someone, they obediently called her "Auntie".
Fushou was very happy when she saw the two obedient children beside her. She took the gift that had been prepared long ago from the servant behind her and handed it to the two brothers. Each of them received a jade pendant, and the quality was obviously very good.
Zhao Lingmeng gestured to the two little ones to take it, and asked the people around them to take them back to continue eating oranges. She sat a little closer to the table, trying to get closer to Fushou.
Seeing this, Fushou also moved a little closer, and in an instant, the distance between the two of them was only an aisle.
Zhao Lingmeng and Fushou looked at each other's movements, then looked at the distance between them, smiled at each other, and actually felt that they had met too late.
"What should I call you?" Fushou asked curiously as he looked at Zhao Lingmeng beside him.
This question really stumped Zhao Lingmeng. "How about you just call me Funing? I'll call you Princess, how about that?"
Fushou nodded, "I feel like calling you princess isn't intimate enough."
"I call everyone by their full name, but I'll just call you Princess." Zhao Lingmeng looked at Fushou the same way she looked at Zhao Houjing. They were just kids after all! This Princess Fushou was quite real, but more would have to wait and see.
"That's fine." Fushou also knew Zhao Lingmeng's difficulties. Calling her this way would make him seem closer and would not give anyone with ulterior motives to use against him.
"Fu Ning, have you ever had friends before?" Fu Shou was curious about this, looking at the person next to her who was sitting in a very stylish manner even when chatting with him. It seemed that when he saw her before, she also had such a cold expression.
Zhao Ling dreamed that she must have friends in that world, studying and shopping together. They were all children from similar backgrounds. She wondered if they would be sad to know she was gone.
The original owner did have a few friends, but she hadn't seen them since she married into a lower-class family, and no one knew why.
"I guess so! Princess, you've heard about me, right? But we haven't been in touch much since I got married, so I guess we're not even friends now!"
"You might as well just say that we haven't been in touch since you married into a lower-class family!" Fushou rolled her eyes, wondering why her new friend seemed a little silly.
"To be honest, I don't know. During those years, I was only focused on my own little life. I can't say for sure if I rejected them first, or if they looked down on me first, or if there were other reasons in between. I didn't investigate later, and I can't just arbitrarily accuse anyone of anything."
"Your vision is really not that good." In Fushou's opinion, seeing her friend struggling in the quagmire, couldn't she say a few more words? It seemed that her friends were not reliable.
Princess Fushou looked at Zhao Lingmeng's expressionless face and added, "Funing, your vision should be pretty good this time."
"And you're even praising yourself." Zhao Lingmeng also felt a little funny looking at Princess Fushou.
"That's right, not everyone can be my friend." Fushou still has some confidence.
"Yes, yes." Zhao Lingmeng looked at the somewhat arrogant eldest princess and could only agree with her.
The people around the hall looked at the two princesses who were chatting happily and complained in their hearts that the people in the Queen's faction had no moral integrity at all, and this had something to do with Zhao Lingmeng.
But for a moment, no one dared to destroy the atmosphere between the two princesses. If they made anyone angry, they would not be able to bear the consequences.
Zhao Lingmeng, however, looked at her with such dignity that even with so much powder on her face, she couldn't hide the paleness. She felt sympathy for her and lowered her voice and said, "The princess is not young anymore. You can ask the queen to find a prince consort for you as soon as possible. Then we can have tea and chat together."
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