Chapter 162 Zhao Lingmeng teaches Zhao Houjing and his brother
"Sister-in-law, you dare to tease me now. Where is the sister-in-law who used to speak to me cautiously?" Zhao Lingmeng replied without giving in.
"You..." Lady Wu'an Hou looked at her lively sister-in-law with a bit of helplessness. Ever since she got acquainted with her sister-in-law, she became like a child, and her previous fairy-like appearance could no longer be picked up.
"Let's go, let's go. My sister-in-law invited me to dinner. There must be something delicious to eat!" Seeing this, Zhao Lingmeng could only change the subject.
"We have everything you want to eat. You haven't been home for a long time."
"That's because you don't want to move! Why didn't I see my father and mother today?" Zhao Lingmeng touched his nose a little embarrassedly and could only change the subject abruptly.
"My father and mother went back to their ancestral home. He said he hadn't been back for years, so he took my mother back."
"Oh? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Zhao Lingmeng was really surprised. Her father and mother were not in Yuanjing, and no one had told her.
The wife of the Marquis of Wu'an spoke up for her father. She was also worried that Zhao Lingmeng would quarrel with her father, and Anping would be caught in the middle. "It was my father who didn't want to tell you. He said that Yuanjing would be in trouble soon. If you go with him, you will be passive if anything happens."
"Hmph, Father is so worried. My family is so rich, how can I have the time to accompany him back?" Zhao Lingmeng had just experienced carriage sickness before. She didn't want to travel far away anytime soon. But she couldn't say that.
The wife of Marquis Wu'an thought that her sister-in-law was just being stubborn, so she didn't argue with the other two and took her to her own yard.
Zhao Lingmeng ate and drank her fill at the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion before slowly returning to the Princess's Mansion with her two children.
When Zhao Lingmeng, Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming were sitting in the carriage, Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming both thought their mother was angry, and they both used their eyes to signal the other to speak first.
Finally, Zhao Houjing couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first, "Mom, don't be angry. My brother and I know we were wrong."
"Really?" Zhao Lingmeng glanced at the two of them and spoke in disbelief.
"I don't think I'm wrong." Zhao Houming didn't want to admit his mistake just like that, and he didn't want to lie to his mother. If this happened again, he would make the same choice.
When Zhao Houjing heard his brother say this, he immediately nudged Zhao Houming with his elbow, signaling him to take it easy.
"Then Jing'er, tell me what you did wrong first, and Ming'er, tell me why you think you did nothing wrong. I'm an open-minded mother. As long as you two can convince me, otherwise I'll go back and pull out all the vegetables from both of your crops as punishment."
As soon as Zhao Lingmeng said this, the two little guys immediately became anxious. They now treasured their respective vegetable plots very much and served them like ancestors.
"Mom, I think I was wrong. It's not that we shouldn't have taken action, but we shouldn't have done it in class. We should have found a place where there was no one and beat them up.
Then, my brother and I were studying at the clan school, and aside from Brother Zhimo, we didn't have a close relationship with anyone. This rumor must have been circulating in the clan school for a long time, and we were completely unaware of it."
Zhao Houming felt increasingly insecure when he heard his brother say this, but the point was, he also felt his brother was right. Every day, they were just a small group of three, rushing to and fro. After studying at the clan school for so long, the three of them were actually isolated and hadn't truly integrated into the group.
"I think my brother is right. But I don't regret doing that. If someone says something bad about Mom, and they say it right to my face, and I remain indifferent, I wouldn't be worthy of being Mom's child."
Zhao Lingmeng was quite satisfied after listening to them, and even a little touched. She reached out and hugged them both, "I'm very happy that you two can fight for me.
But you can't be so impulsive in the future. You two should know that if mother is not the eldest princess today, and you offend someone we can't afford to offend, then our ending will not be good either.
So you two have to work hard to learn skills. We don't need power or background to bully others, but we can't do without it either. Do you understand?"
Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming thought about it, nodded vigorously, and said in unison: "We understand!"
"Are you two injured?" Zhao Lingmeng only then remembered to ask.
"Mom, isn't it a little late for you to care about whether we are injured now?" Zhao Houming seemed to have caught some handle on his mother, and his dissatisfied voice was particularly loud.
Zhao Lingmeng felt that she shouldn't care about this miserable kid. She reached out and touched Zhao Houming's head. "I asked about Dongmian before I came here, and then when I saw you two, I saw how lively you both were. Even if you're injured, it's probably a minor one."
"So mother asked!" Zhao Houming was happy to get the answer, and sat aside with Zhao Houjing and whispered. Zhao Lingmeng ignored them and ate the snacks in the carriage.
In the days that followed, Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming did not go to the clan school because the clan school had not found a suitable teacher for the time being, so they temporarily stopped going to school.
As for Master Wu, the teacher Zhao Lingmeng had originally hired, he had left because Zhao Houjing and his brother were attending the clan school. Master Wu had spent several years in Yuanjing, but hadn't heard anything about his family. He had saved some money from his years as a tutor at the princess's mansion.
He took the initiative to resign from his position as a teacher and took his grandson back to his hometown. He wanted to go back to his hometown to wait for them, just in case they could find him back by then! This is the wish of an old man.
So Zhao Houjing and Zhao Houming followed the princess along with Zhao Houyang. At first, Zhao Lingmeng was very happy to have all three sons by her side. However, after a few days, Zhao Lingmeng couldn't stand it anymore and found three spots at the Royal Academy, and stuffed Zhao Houjing, Zhao Houming, and Zhao Zhimo, the eldest brother's son, into the Royal Academy.
That Royal Academy was a combination of nobles and talented children, but there were indeed more nobles. Zhao Ling dreamed that the three of them would go there and see what it meant that there were always people better than you.
There are many who are more prestigious than them, and there are also those who are more talented than them. Don't think you are the best just because you are a little smart, and look down on this and that. It's like looking at the world from a narrow perspective. Regardless of whether you read or not, your enthusiasm must be dampened.
Zhao Houyang also wanted to go, but Zhao Lingmeng, seeing how young he was, refused to allow him to go. He had no choice but to continue playing alone at home. Later, the clan school at Wu'an Marquis's Mansion was reopened. Zhao Lingmeng felt that Zhao Houyang was making too much trouble at home, so she forced him to go there as well.
And after all these things were done, the envoy from Nangan also arrived, and Zhao Lingmeng also began to prepare to attend the welcoming banquet.
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