There was no one else in the water pavilion. Zhao Hao was lying on the brocade bed with his legs crossed, with his eyes wide open and he was sleepless.

Before today, he did not associate the words on Zhao Shouzheng's jade pendant that he regarded as life with His Royal Highness Ning'an Princess.

Because this is simply that his cat is incompatible with each other...

One is the third daughter of the late emperor, the only imperial sister today, and the most noble young widow in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty;

The other one was a scholar who failed the exam two months ago and was an old widower in Nanjing. How could these two be connected?

No matter how harsh the book is, I dare not write it like this, right?

But the eldest princess just now looked like a thing called love when she was asking about Zhao Shouzheng.

Zhao Hao can't let it go.

‘If the two really had a relationship, when did they get hooked up?’

Zhao Hao started to think about it and found that he really had time to commit the crime.

The old man annoyed Laobutang and sat on the bench in Beijing for ten years.

When he was free, the old man brought his second son Zhao Shouzheng, whom he had high hopes, to his side and personally supervised his study.

Therefore, Zhao Shouzheng spent five years in Beijing when he was sixteen to twenty years old, which is why he sometimes brought out the northern dialect when speaking.

My father is 36 years old this year, so that period was about 30 years from Jiajing to Jiajing. He never came to Beijing again after that, so if something happened, it would only happen at that time.

Princess Ning'an is 32 years old this year, and she was sixteen in the thirty years of Jiajing...

The age can be completely stuck. But thinking that the two might have known each other earlier, Zhao Hao had to spit secretly, "Dad, you are a beast!" Why do you have the face to teach me not to fall in love early?"

Think about it again after the Renyin Palace changed, the eldest princess was implicated by her mother, Concubine Cao Duan, and was sent out of the palace for 80% of her, and then her father encountered it at some point...

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao couldn't help but sigh secretly. His father looked at him as naive and honest, but he was really blessed.

‘In the future, will she call her mother or her mother? Well, the latter seems to be more respectful…’

He happily accepted the fate of having a stepmother with the eldest princess.

I heard that my mother is in charge of all the imperial shops in the capital, and it seems to be richer than my grandmother...

After this, I don’t have to fight any longer... Zhao Hao thought happily and was so happy that he couldn’t stop talking.

However, the next moment, his smile gradually disappeared because Zhao Hao realized that he was daydreaming.

Ning'an was the princess of the Ming Dynasty, not the free and unrestrained princesses of the Han and Tang Dynasties - the princess of the Ming Dynasty. Where is there a precedent for remarrying?

And Zhao Hao also knew that it was the same later.

Princess Yongning got married during the Wanli period, but the prince consort was a tuberculosis man and died before she could finish her family. She could only stay in a life of widows.

Princess Yongning is Wanli's real sister and Empress Dowager Li's real daughter!

So this is the fate of the princess, no one can break through.

‘Isn’t this so happy?’

Zhao Hao lay down depressedly.

~~

At this moment, he suddenly heard heavy footsteps outside, and he quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Then the door creaked open, but Zhao Shouzheng and Eryang came in.

"Son, are you okay?" Zhao Shouzheng ran to the edge of the couch with red eyes and groped up and down on Zhao Hao.

"Master, are you okay..." Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang rushed to Zhao Hao's bed, looking at him with red and swollen eyes.

"What can I do?" Zhao Hao and the others glanced at him, then twisted their bodies to avoid Zhao Shouzheng's hand and said:

"Dad, I'm fine, don't be afraid of it."

When he opened his eyes, he saw that the eldest princess did not come with him. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised, but it was not convenient to ask in front of his apprentice.

"Thank God, it's fine." Zhao Shouzheng then felt relieved, and then couldn't wait to say, "Let's go home."

"Uh, your highness is not allowed to leave?" Zhao Hao thought to himself, if you can't be a couple, you can be a confidant. I can still hold my thighs.

What's wrong with leaving now? Could it be that I can't die when I see the light?

But judging by Zhao Shouzheng's urge, Zhao Hao knew that things were not as simple as he thought.

He had to quickly get up with the help of his disciples. Wang Wuyang helped him put on a cotton jacket, and Hua Shuyang brought him boots. Then Zhao Shizhen wrapped him in a cloak, and Zhao Hao followed Zhao Shouzheng out of the water pavilion with heavy heads.

Outside, Gao Wu and others were ready to set off. Seeing Zhao Hao coming out, Gao Wu quickly stepped forward to support him and carried him onto the carriage.

Zhao Shouzheng turned around and took a deep look at the direction of Qinglu Hall, then resolutely got into the car, and ordered in a deep voice: "Go away!"

~~

Gao Wu and the man from Caijiaxiang slowly left Diaoyutai in a carriage.

From beginning to end, the eldest princess and Liu Shanggong never showed up again, let alone the promised gift...

This made Zhao Hao feel as painful as losing tens of thousands of taels of silver. It was obvious that his father looked even more painful than himself, so he couldn't ask directly, what was going on with His Highness the eldest princess?

When the carriage left Diaoyutai, Zhao Hao listened to his father's long-lost poem:

"Yesterday was sunny, today was cloudy. Flowers flying downstairs and clouds on the roof, and tears on the railings.

People from Jiangnan and people from Jiangbei are the same spring breeze and two emotions, and the late cold wave has not subsided..."

Listening to the heartbroken old man's voice, Zhao Hao estimated that 80% of them, probably, it was a waste...

~~

In the Diaoyutai bedroom.

The eldest princess lay on the brocade quilt and cried.

Liu Shanggong patted her back from the side and whispered:

"Your Highness calms down. This person's memory will be deviated. He always thinks about his childhood too well. You were still young back then and couldn't see clearly that the person was a heartless and righteous person, so it would be normal for him to be deceived."

After a pause, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Now that I see clearly that he is so cold, I don't have to worry about him anymore..."

To be honest, it's just her wish to end here.

If the eldest princess and Zhao Shouzheng were entangled, she would be imprisoned to death if she didn't do it well.

"You're talking nonsense..." Unexpectedly, the eldest princess still couldn't listen to Liu Shanggong slandering Zhao Shouzheng. She raised her head and looked at Liu Shanggong with tears in her eyes and said, "Zhao Lang is not the kind of person you said!"

"But Your Highness is so arrogant and treats him with all his heart, but he abandons him like a piece of shoes. Is it still a good person?" Liu Shanggong widened his eyes when he heard this.

"Of course he is a good person, he is still the same as he was back then." The eldest princess said with admiration: "Honest and down-to-earth, never willing to let people suffer any losses."

"Uh..." Liu Shanggong was stunned and thought to himself that there was no matter where he followed? Could your Highness have made him fall into trouble?

The eldest princess took the veil and wiped her tears while sobbing: "I know that he was just ruthless in his heart and said those words with a hard heart and wanted me to give up. I don't blame him, who made the widow more right and wrong..."

"Uh...Okay..." Liu Shanggong was stunned when he heard this, thinking that this woman was accustomed to her, and she really didn't know whether she was a princess or a folk girl.

She still refused to give up and persuaded: "Even if Zhao Xiaolian is a good person, since he thinks this way, it means that he has put your highness in his heart. Why not..."

"No, he doesn't, he doesn't." The eldest princess shook her head vigorously and said, "I can feel that Zhao Lang has always had me in his heart, otherwise why did he be widowed for many years and never reopen it?"

"Have you ever booked a marriage?" Liu Shanggong said.

"That was done by that old bastard Zhao Liben," the eldest princess mentioned the old man of the Zhao family, gritted her teeth and said with hatred: "Zhao Lang is good at everything, but he is too filial and will never know how to oppose his father in his whole life!"

After saying that, she said with great relief: "But look, when that old bastard let go, wouldn't he give up the marriage?"
Chapter completed!