Qi Yuning caught Zhou Jiayun's happy eyes with his peripheral vision, and an unknown fire arose from the bottom of his heart. He couldn't vent his passion, so he could only shake the fan lightly.
Empress Dowager Zhou said: "Congratulations to Lingling for getting her wish. In the past few days, Jie'er has been thinking about playing with Lingling. I wonder where Lingling went to practice in a Taoist temple?"
Qi Yuning said: "There is no Taoist temple. Taoist Master He took a fancy to it, so he took Lingling around to travel around."
Previously, she and Lu Ze mobilized all their subordinates but failed to find Taoist He. Qi Yuning thought that using Taoist He as an excuse would be the most suitable one.
Empress Dowager Zhou said: "Lingling is so young, but you are willing to do it."
Qi Yuning smiled lightly and said: "Lingling has a destiny and we can't stop her from having a great future. If your Majesty wants a playmate, the child in my belly will be born in a few days."
Queen Mother Zhou smiled and said: "That's true."
After Qi Yuning said goodbye to the Empress Dowager Zhou, he arrived at the Zichen Palace.
In the Zichen Hall, Lin Jiang was reading a memorial to little Zhao Jie, while Lu Ze was giving instructions to little Zhao Jie.
Qi Yuning saw that Xiao Zhao Jie's originally bright eyes turned dark, and he couldn't help but chuckled and said, "See your majesty."
"Sister Princess!" Xiao Zhao Jie looked at Qi Yuning and asked, "Did Lingling come with you?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "Lingling went to Yunyou with the Taoist Priest."
Xiao Zhao Jie looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside and said: "I also want to follow Lingling to travel around. Being an emperor is not good at all..."
Little Zhao Jie hugged Qi Yuning's thigh and cried, "Sister Princess, I don't want to be the emperor anymore."
"Uuuuuuuah, it's so difficult to be an emperor!"
Qi Yuning touched little Zhao Jie's head, looked at Lu Ze and Lin Jiang and said, "You two must remember that he is only five or six years old. If you read the memorial to him now, what can he know? Why are you forcing him like this?"
Qi Yuning touched little Zhao Jie's crying face: "Stop crying, sister will take you to play in the imperial garden."
Little Zhao Jie raised his head and said, "Can I really go and play?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Of course. Sister, can I find you some playmates to play with and study with you?"
"Okay!" Xiao Zhao Jie's eyes lit up, "Sister Princess is so kind, much better than my cousin."
Qi Yuning smiled softly. She thought that after Emperor Shi Yuan left, her only support in the future might be the Qi family. Now it seems that the little emperor cannot be the support of their Qi family army.
Lu Ze followed Qi Yuning and Xiao Zhao Jie to play in the garden.
Qi Yuning sat under the shade of a tree, knitting grass dragonflies for little Zhao Jie.
Lu Ze watched Qi Yuning weave dragonflies and asked beside her: "I didn't expect you to make up these things?"
Qi Yuning smiled lightly and said: "Uncle Zhong taught me this when I was a child. I didn't say it before because I was afraid that Lingling would know and pester me to make it up for her every day."
Qi Yuning handed the braided dragonfly to Xiao Zhao Jie, "Does it look like a dragonfly?"
"Like!" Xiao Zhao Jie held the dragonfly and said, "It's very similar."
Qi Yuning looked at Zhao Jie whose eyes were bright again and said, "How about catching a real dragonfly for comparison?"
Zhao Jie glanced around and said, "There are dragonflies over there!"
Xiao Zhao Jie ran towards where the dragonfly came from.
Qi Yuning helped Lu Ze stand up and said, "He is just a child after all. Now you are forcing him to deal with political affairs that are difficult for adults to make decisions. Do you want the future emperor to be a lifeless piece of wood?"
Lu Ze sighed and whispered in Qi Yuning's ear: "There are inevitably some voices in this court that our Qi and Lu families will use the young emperor as a puppet in the future, so I let him get involved in political affairs at a young age. "
Qi Yuning said: "How can we manage the ledgers directly without learning abacus? We just have to have a clear conscience. If we really want to seize power, can't we seize it now? What we do is not for our own reputation, but for the people of the world. I hope that in the future An emperor is a person of flesh and blood and joy. Only such an emperor can serve the world.
Rather than an emperor who has been imprisoned in the Zichen Palace since he was a child and lost his fun, he will go crazy sooner or later. He doesn't know happiness himself, so how can he bring happiness to the people of the world? "
Lu Ze nodded slightly and said, "Yes."
Xiao Zhao Jie grabbed a small dragonfly from among the flowers, walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Sister Princess, I caught it."
"Your Majesty is so awesome!" Qi Yuning smiled lightly, "Your Majesty, does your Majesty know of poems with dragonflies in them?"
"The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it!"
Qi Yuning clapped her hands listening to Zhao Jie's voice and said, "That's great. How about asking your cousin to take you to see the lotus leaves among the people in a few days?"
Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning.
Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "Rather than letting him sit in the court, it would be better for him to see the common people, so that he would not talk about why he should not eat minced meat while sitting in a temple."
Lu Ze said: "Do you want to go together?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the sun will be too hot."
Zhao Jie took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Sister Princess, let's go together! Just ask your cousin to hold an umbrella for you to block the sun."
Qi Yuning lowered his head and smiled and said, "Okay, I will accompany your Majesty then."
Zhao Jie played with the dragonfly for a while and then let it go. Qi Yuning saw the dragonfly flying away and asked, "Why did your majesty let the dragonfly go?"
"It doesn't like being stuck here."
Xiao Zhao Jie looked at the courtyard walls everywhere, "I don't like being trapped here either."
Qi Yuning touched Zhao Jie's head, "Then after the child in my belly is born, how about you take your little niece out to play more?"
Qi Yuning didn't know what was going on in the life before Lingling came. In this life, Zhao Jie would become the emperor because she revealed the secret to Emperor Shiyuan. It could also be said that she was the one who pulled Zhao Jie to the throne. She only I hope Zhao Jie can be a happy emperor.
Zhao Jie looked at Qi Yuning's swollen belly, stretched out his little hand to touch it and said, "Is there a baby here?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yes."
Zhao Jie raised his eyes and said, "Does the baby have a name?"
Qi Yuning helped Lu Ze squat down with difficulty, and said in Zhao Jie's ear: "She is also called Lu Yiling, Lingling!"
Zhao Jie touched Qi Yuning's belly and said with a smile: "Lingling! I want to play with Lingling! When will she be born?"
Qi Yuning said: "More than two months later, there are only a few days left."
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In Ci'an Palace.
Queen Mother Zhou heard that Lu Ze and Qi Yuning were taking the little emperor to play and catch dragonflies in the imperial garden, and she only turned the beads in her hands.
Zhou Jiayun leaned next to Queen Mother Zhou and said, "Auntie, Princess Qi is playing around with His Majesty. Does she want to make His Majesty lose his ambition by playing with things? So that Your Majesty can eventually become the puppet of their Qi family?"
Empress Dowager Zhou turned the beads and sighed softly, "Even if she has this idea, what can we do? Now the Qi family can easily get this country. At that time, the Qi family army had already controlled Shengjing, even if the Zhao family The other royal families came here with ulterior motives. No matter how they act as puppets, at least becoming the emperor means that Jie'er can have a safe life."
Zhou Jiayun said: "What if the Qi family wants to let cousin Jie abdicate? Then cousin Jie will be in great danger.
But aunt, the Qi family is not without restrictions now, and Lu Ze..."
Empress Dowager Zhou gently waved the fan in her hand and said, "Lu Ze? He is the son-in-law of the Qi family..."
"He can be the son-in-law of the Qi family, and he can also be the son-in-law of our Zhou family." Zhou Jiayun looked at the Queen Mother Zhou calmly and said, "If Lu Ze becomes the son-in-law of our Zhou family, he will be loyal to cousin Jie. I’m not afraid that Lu Ze will have any objections.”
Empress Dowager Zhou looked at the beauty of her niece. Her niece's beauty was rare in the world. "But we can't force them to divorce as a newly married couple!"
Zhou Jiayun whispered: "For cousin Jie, I am willing to be the regent's concubine."
Empress Dowager Zhou held Zhou Jiayun's hand and said, "I feel sorry for you. You are still in the state of filial piety. When you get out of the state of filial piety, the Ai family will talk to Lu Ze."
Zhou Jiayun lowered her head and said, "I don't feel wronged." (End of Chapter)
