Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze in confusion.
After Lu Ze closed the doors and windows, he whispered: "When I went back through the side door last night, I saw His Royal Highness lingering at the entrance of the palace for a long time."
Qi Yuning smiled slightly and said, "Your and our families are close to each other. Maybe he went to find the princess."
Lu Ze said: "No, if you were to find my mother, you wouldn't have lingered in the palace for a long time before leaving."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "How is that possible? You are overthinking it."
"Maybe I'm overthinking it," Lu Ze said.
"It's just that you are overthinking it." Qi Yuning said, "Besides, you and I are going to get married. No matter what A Ping's status is, you are still His Highness's nephew. If His Highness the Crown Prince really likes me, how can he just watch me become him? Where is your niece-in-law?"
Qi Yuning took a bite of an apple as he spoke. The bright red apple was wrapped in rock sugar and had a sweet and sour texture. "Did you buy a crispy apple?"
Lu Ze asked: "Yeah."
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "Lu Baozhu only eats pink apples. She is afraid she will cry again."
Lu Ze said: "Xiaoman said you like to eat crispy ones. I don't know that Baozhu likes to eat pink ones. I will buy it for her next time."
Qi Yuning handed the unbitten side to Lu Ze and said, "You want to try it too."
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand, took a sip and said, "It's quite sweet."
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "It's more delicious than candied haws."
When Lu Ze saw the corners of Qi Yuning's lips stained with sugar, he lowered his head and kissed the corners of Qi Yuning's lips. The sweetness of the sugar coating came...
"Father, mother! Open the door!"
Lu Ze sighed helplessly when he heard Lingling's voice coming from outside.
Qi Yuning chuckled lightly, went over and opened the door, "Lingling!"
Lingling gave the candied haws in her hand to Qi Yuning and said, "Mother, this bunch is sweet, not sour. Mother, eat it."
Qi Yuning didn't like eating hawthorns very much, but he bit off half of one to show Lingling's dignity.
Lingling handed the candied haws to Lu Ze again, and Lu Ze ate half of what Qi Yuning had bitten, "It's quite sweet."
Qi Yuning looked into Lu Ze's eyes and felt that what he said was sweet and had other meanings.
Lu Ze said to Lingling: "Dad has a vacation in the next two days. The first and second days of February are both free. Where will Lingling go to play?"
Qi Yuning said: "The second dragon raises its head in February, isn't your Majesty leading the ministers to farm?"
Lu Ze said: "Your Majesty has been in poor health recently, so he stopped farming."
"Not feeling well?" Qi Yuning said in surprise, "It's something serious."
Lu Ze sighed slightly and said: "Grandpa is getting old after all. He is annoyed and sad about the King of Shu... He has not been in good health these past two days."
Qi Yuning hoped that Emperor Shi Yuan would live a long life, even though Lingling had already informed him that his uncle would succeed him in the end.
But the change of imperial power is not a simple statement.
Recalling the winter thunder in the twelfth lunar month, Qi Yuning felt very uneasy.
Lingling tilted her head and said, "Daddy, Xiu Mu, took Lingling to meet her little uncle and play with him."
Qi Yuning said: "That's fine, let's go play with my uncle."
Lingling was very excited when she learned that she was going to play with her little uncle. She put away all the things she had brought from Beicheng and planned to take them to her little uncle.
On the first day of February, the spring sun is shining brightly. Although the spring cold is still lingering, it is much better than the freezing winter days, and there is no need to wear a coat.
In the carriage, Lingling kept her head out of the window and looked.
Seeing that Lingling was interested in the outside world, Qi Yuning said to Lu Ze, "Let's go there on horseback. You take Lingling!"
After Lingling learned about it, she raised her arms and shouted: "Great!"
Lu Ze chuckled and said, "Yeah."
With Lingling, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze did not ride fast horses, but walked slowly on their horses, enjoying the spring scenery along the way.
It was already afternoon when we arrived at the imperial mausoleum.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze took Lingling to the other courtyard of Prince Duan's Mansion first.
When Princess Duan heard that Lu Ze and Qi Yuning were coming, she came out and said: "It's really a relief. The King of Shu is finally dead, and I can finally avenge my daughter and the prince!"
Lu Ze and Qi Yuning looked at each other and said nothing. In fact, although Qi Yuning hated the King of Shu, he trusted Huo An more.
If the death of Princess Shan was really related to King Shu, he would not have tried his best to bring Princess Shan out.
Lingling looked at Princess Duan and said, "Madam, where is my uncle?"
Zhao Jie heard Lingling's voice and ran out, "Lingling!"
Lingling took over the gadgets bought from Beicheng from the beginning of spring, "Little uncle, Lingling bought this from Beicheng. There is also sand here. It is the sand from Beicheng. It is fun for Lingling to slide down on the sand. Woolen cloth!"
Zhao Jie said with envy: "I want to go too, I don't want to stay here anymore."
Princess Duan heard Zhao Jie's words and said, "No, Jie'er, your father and sister have been killed. You can't go anywhere. Just stay here and live a good life, so that you can be protected."
Lu Ze said: "Third aunt, Jie'er needs to study and make friends after all."
"There is also a gentleman here who can teach him."
Seeing that Lu Ze wanted to say more, Qi Yuning stretched out her hand and pulled Lu Ze's sleeve. She understood that Princess Duan had only one son alive after losing her beloved, so she must only want her child to be safe.
Lingling and Zhao Jie played together all afternoon and had dinner together before they had to separate.
Lingling still held Zhao Jie's hand reluctantly, "Mother, dear, Lingling wants to sleep with her uncle."
Zhao Jie also said: "Mother, I want to sleep with Lingling, and I will be obedient."
Qi Yuning said: "No, Lingling, you are a little girl, you can't sleep with the young man!"
Lingling said: "But mother is also a girl, and father is also a husband, so mother slept with father."
Lingling's words were loud, and Qi Yuning's face was filled with embarrassment.
Lu Ze said to Lingling: "Do you remember the little turtle in the palace? Do you want to sleep with the little turtle?"
Lingling nodded and said: "I want Guigui, Lingling wants to go back to the palace to play with Guigui."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze in surprise. If she slept with that turtle bastard, she would rather Lingling slept with Zhao Jie.
Simply put, the combined age of these two children is only six or seven years old.
Lingling was more interested in turtles, but the turtles she found were all hibernating.
Lingling saw the little turtle with its head and limbs shrunk inside the shell and said, "Dad, is it dead?"
Lu Ze said: "No, the little turtle is asleep. When it is cold in winter, the little turtle will fall into a long sleep."
Lingling put the hibernating little turtle in her hand, "Lingling and the little turtle sleep together!"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "No."
Lingling said: "Dear mother, the turtle is asleep and won't bite."
Qi Yuning said to Lingling, "Lingling, you can only choose one, sleep with the little turtle or sleep with your mother!"
Lingling blinked her peach blossom eyes and said, "Lingling doesn't have to sleep with mother, but sleeps with the little turtle!"
Qi Yuning felt a little sad. She thought Lingling would choose her at any time, but she didn't expect that the little turtle would be more important than her.
Lingling insisted on accompanying the little turtle, so Qi Yuning and Lingling left the dormitory. Fortunately, the palace staff had tidied up the two dormitories, so Qi Yuning asked Lu Ze to accompany Lingling.
Just when Qi Yuning took off her fairy cloud bun and was about to rest, Lu Ze came in from outside.
Qi Yuning asked: "Aren't you going to sleep with Lingling?"
Lu Ze chuckled helplessly: "Lingling is afraid that I will crush her little turtle and won't let me sleep with her."
Qi Yuning frowned and said: "Lingling is not afraid of the turtle waking up and biting her. No, when she falls asleep, I still have to let Li Chun take away those little turtles."
Lu Ze said: "The turtle is docile and won't bite. And with the temperature at this time, the little turtle won't be able to wake up."
Qi Yuning walked to the bed and sat down, and saw Lu Ze also sitting down. In the huge dormitory, I don't know when all the maids had gone out.
Qi Yuning's heartbeat was a little fast, and there was no Lingling today. She and Lu Ze could be considered to be truly alone, alone in a room...
Qi Yuning coughed and said, "Well, Prince Lu, why don't you sleep on the soft couch outside..."
"Lingling is not here, so you call me Prince Lu?"
It's been a long time since I heard Qi Yuning call him Prince Lu in such an unfamiliar way.
Lu Ze lowered his head and met Qi Yuning's eyes, and said hoarsely, "What if I have to sleep here?"
Qi Yuning raised her phoenix eyes slightly and said, "Then...that's not impossible!"
(End of chapter)
