Lu Jiuchen turned around gracefully and said, "How does it compare with your husband?"
Even You Qing behind Luo Ran couldn't bear to look at the way the peacock spread its wings.
Luo Ran held back his laughter, tilted his head and thought seriously, "It's only half a pound."
Lu Jiuchen opened his mouth in disbelief.
Luo Ran finally couldn't help but laugh.
Because of Lu Yuanyuan's relationship, she was familiar with Lu Jiuchen, and she knew that he was not a rigid and serious person, so she spoke more casually.
"Why are you here? The Queen Mother has taken a rest."
Luo Ran smiled and said.
Lu Jiuchen raised his eyebrows: "Someone can't leave and is worried about you. Doesn't that make me wake up?"
Luo Ran was a little embarrassed: "I won't delay you, right?"
Lu Jiuchen waved his hands indifferently. At this moment, Aunt Qiu and Aunt Gui came out with their two children. He took Qing Ning and held her in his arms very naturally. He took the lead and walked two steps: "Don't worry, this little free boy I still have it."
On the way, Luo Ran was thinking about something and suddenly asked, "Have you and Fu Jinan known each other since childhood?"
Lu Jiuchen glanced at her strangely, and immediately thought that she grew up in Jiangnan and didn't always go out when she came back. No wonder she didn't know, so he replied: "That's right."
We've known each other since we were five years old, right?
Little Qing Ning was hugged by Lu Jiuchen, lying on his back and looking at her mother behind her, showing a few baby teeth and smiling sweetly. Luo Ran's heart melted, her eyebrows moved, and she asked as if chatting: "Just now, the Queen Mother said that Qing Ning and Jing Xing both resembled him when he was a child. Is that true?"
Regarding the life experiences of Qing Ning and Jing Xing, Luo Ran didn't believe that Lu Jiuchen didn't know.
Sure enough, Lu Jiuchen didn't show any surprise when he heard her asking. He looked at the two siblings seriously, nodded and shook his head.
Luo Ran wondered: "Does it look like it?"
Lu Jiuchen didn't think much about it. He just thought that she wanted to know more about Fu Jinan, and he was happy for someone in his heart. He said, "They look alike but they are not alike. You don't know that when Yan Hui was a child, when I first met him, he was She thought she was much younger than me, but who knew she was actually one year older than me, but she is so much shorter than me. That small body, not to mention, looks like a refugee fleeing from famine."
Luo Ran glanced at the tall figure in front of him and compared them secretly. He found that Lu Jiuchen and Fu Jinan should be about the same height. Maybe Fu Jinan was taller. I couldn't imagine how small he was when he was a child.
Then he said: "What about the Queen Mother, do you like you more or him more?"
Lu Jiuchen suddenly stopped and looked at her strangely.
Luo Ran touched his face uncomfortably: "What's wrong? Is there any question I asked?"
Lu Jiuchen looked at her deeply, shook his head, and continued walking. After a while, he said: "Yan Hui has never entered the palace since he was a child. He only walked in front of the emperor after he entered the Imperial Guard at the age of twelve. How could the Queen Mother recognize him?"
Luo Ran responded: "Oh."
Lu Jiuchen looked at her again: "Why do you ask that?"
Luo Ran moved his fingertips slightly and said calmly: "Because I think the Queen Mother likes the Qingning siblings very much and said they look like him, so I thought the Queen Mother had met him when he was a child."
Lu Jiuchen's forehead jumped and he said calmly: "The Queen Mother just likes children. She chases me to get married every time she sees me."
"Um."
Luo Ran responded again.
The two of them were silent all the way.
Lu Jiuchen did not leave in a hurry after putting the mother and son into the carriage. He turned around and left when he saw Fu Jinan coming out of the palace gate.
When passing Fu Jin'an, he patted him on the shoulder, glanced at the direction of the carriage, and whispered: "She just asked me about your childhood. I feel like she is a little suspicious."
Fu Jinan's eyes dimmed a little, nodded, and said, "I understand."
After getting on the carriage, they saw Qingning and her brother leaning on their mother, their little heads moving little by little, obviously feeling sleepy.
Fu Jin'an sat aside, picked up Qing Ning, patted her gently in his arms, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't they sleep in Cining Palace?"
Luo Ran shook his head, picked up his son, picked up the quilt next to him, covered Qing Ning, and then covered Jing Xing, and said: "Playing crazy with the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is also very tired."
When he said this, Luo Ran took a careful look at someone's face.
Fu Jin'an lowered his head and smiled softly, saying: "Don't worry, when the prince gets married next year and gives birth to the grandson, the queen mother will shift her attention. In the past few years, several children in the palace died in infancy, which made her even afraid. I have become close to those children, and it is easier for people to like children as they get older, so I became closer to the Qingning siblings."
Luo Ran felt that he and Lu Jiuchen were a little too concerned with explaining this matter.
But if she thought about it further, she felt it was too unbelievable and she didn't dare to think about it at all. She simply put it aside, then thought of the queen, and said what the queen said.
Fu Jinan didn't have much reaction after hearing this.
Luo Ran asked: "Does the mother and the empress really know each other?"
Fu Jinan lowered his eyes, unable to clearly see the look in his eyes, and shook his head gently: "I don't know, my mother has been gone as long as I can remember."
Then he said: "I will take you to a place tomorrow."
Luo Ran felt a little confused for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Returning to the Fu Mansion, Fu Jinan sent the mother and son back to their room and went to work. Although the emperor gave him a holiday, there were still many things waiting for him to deal with. These two days were the time he could squeeze out as much as possible. .
After Fu Jinan left, Luo Ran called Qingchuan over. After carefully asking Lin Shoucheng about it, he sat there and thought for a long time.
When Youqing came in, he saw her frowning and said, "Madam, have you encountered any difficulties?"
Luo Ran said: "According to what dad and cousin found out, they all say that Lin Shoucheng was ordered to spread the poison into the capital."
Youqing nodded: "Yes, isn't that what the Marquis and Young Master Biao said?"
Luo Ran said: "But Lin Shoucheng has been with his father for so many years. If the other party loses such an important nail just because of a poison, wouldn't it be a loss that outweighs the gain? Also, how did Lin Shoucheng die?"
Youqing thought for a while and said, "Didn't Qingchuan say that what the Marquis found was that the other party was afraid that Lin Shoucheng would reveal the person behind the scenes and then let the concubine next to him poison him?"
Luo Ran shook his head: "That's not right. If the other party just wants to poison me, there are many ways to give the poison to the second aunt, so as not to use the people who have finally been placed around dad and go around in such a big circle."
In her previous life, she guessed that her father was deceived by his cronies, and that was why he died without a complete body. Such an important person would not give up so easily.
With these questions, Luo Ran went to the study room in the front yard.
