August 29th.

Early in the morning, just as Qi Yuning finished dressing up, she heard the maid come to inform her that Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu and his wife had arrived.

Qi Yuning was surprised, "So early?"

He stood up and went outside to greet them. Just as he was about to salute the princess and her husband, he was stopped by Princess Pingrou.

Princess Pingrou smiled faintly and said, "We're all family, no need to formally greet each other. Where's Lingling?"

Qi Yuning was completely puzzled by what the family said, but she did not argue. She told Lichun to bring Lingling, who had just washed and dressed, over.

Lingling was wearing a red and white skirt today, with two buns on her head and two red rabbit fur balls wrapped around her hair. She looked like a fairy child, delicate and delicate.

This was the first time that Duke Lu had seen his granddaughter. He finally understood why Princess Pingrou had to come to Prince Qi's mansion before the hour of dawn today. If he hadn't told her that there was something wrong with her hair bun and she needed to comb it again, the princess might have come knocking on the door before dawn.

Who can not like such a fairy-like granddaughter?

"grandfather!"

Lingling fell from Lichun's arms and threw herself into Duke Lu's arms.

He threw himself into Princess Pingrou's arms again, "Grandma!"

Qi Yu was glad that Princess Pingrou came early in the morning. She only remembered to tell Lingling not to call her daddy, but forgot to tell her not to call her grandma and grandpa.

Princess Pingrou picked up Lingling and kissed her little face, making Lingling laugh. "Grandma!"

Qi Yuning watched the two of them getting along so well, and for a moment she didn't know how to tell Lingling not to call her grandma.

Qi Yuning saw Lu Ze outside the palace gate and walked up to him and said, "Go and tell the princess and Lingling that Lingling cannot call Her Highness Grandma."

Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning today. She was wearing a pomegranate skirt made of the same fabric as Lingling, just like the gorgeous red wedding dress she wore that day at Longhua Mountain. Qi Yuning was still so bold and bright.

Lu Ze said, "There's nothing wrong with calling me grandma."

Qi Yuning stared at Lu Ze unhappily.

Lu Ze had no choice but to step forward and take Lingling from Princess Pingrou's arms and said, "Lingling, from now on, you can't call them Grandfather and Grandmother in front of outsiders. You must call them Your Highness the Princess and Your Majesty the Duke."

Duke Lu frowned and said, "Lingling is my granddaughter. Why can't I call her grandpa?"

Princess Pingrou knew Qi Yuning's concerns, and she couldn't help but blame her youngest son for becoming a monk, which made it impossible for her to hold her granddaughter.

She also hated Lu Ze for telling her about having a daughter a few years ago. It was inevitable that Qi Yuning would give her a cute and clever granddaughter now.

Princess Pingrou looked at Qi Yuning's flat belly.

Lu Ze said, "Dad, there's already a lot of buzz about Lu Yun becoming a monk. It's better to keep things quiet now."

Duke Lu glanced at Qi Yuning standing beside him. He clearly understood that this was something Princess Qi was unwilling to do. "That brat Lu Yun, I will definitely give him a good beating once he returns to secular life."

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"A-choo! A-choo!"

In Longhua Mountain, the autumn wind was biting. Lu Yun, who was forced to get up early with his head bare, felt a headache from the wind.

After he finished sweeping the courtyard, he looked up at the sky helplessly. He had been a monk for so long, but why didn't any of his family members come to see him?

He didn't expect Lu Baozhu to come, but why didn't his parents and elder brother come to see him? His life was really miserable.

"Junior brother, it's time to eat."

A six-year-old novice monk handed Lu Yun a bowl of porridge made of green leaves and rice bran.

Lu Yun said, "I'm ten years older than you, why are you calling me Junior Brother?"

"Amitabha, I entered the temple before you, so I am naturally your senior brother."

Lu Yun looked at the vegetable porridge, frowning and asking, "Is this food for humans? It's ok to have rice bran in it, but how can there not be a drop of lard in it?"

The young monk said, "Amitabha, monks don't eat greasy, meaty things."

Lu Yun sighed dejectedly, and Qi Yuning appeared in his mind. He picked up the rice bran porridge and drank it with great courage. It would be better to drink rice bran porridge than to marry Qi Yuning!

He doesn't want to be the unlucky guy who marries Qi Yuning!

"Have you heard? Princess Qi actually has a three-year-old daughter!"

"I heard that this matter has caused an uproar in Shengjing City. I heard that His Majesty has even conferred the title of Princess of Xichang on her daughter and is holding a banquet at home today!"

Lu Yun listened to the pilgrims who had come to Xianglin Temple to worship Buddha early in the morning and walked up to them and asked, "What did you say? Princess Qi has a child?"

He was eating green leaf porridge on the mountain, and Qi Yuning actually made a green hat for him?

The pilgrim asked, "Young Master, you monks also like to listen to other people's gossip?"

Lu Yun touched his bald head and said, "How could Qi Yuning have a three-year-old daughter?"

Three years old? That was the child she conceived four years ago, when Qi Yuning was fourteen years old. However, Lu Yun had met Qi Yuning several times when she was fourteen.

How could Qi Yuning be pregnant?

Come to think of it, she must have felt humiliated by his breaking off the engagement, so she got a child from somewhere and deliberately cheated on him!

Perhaps, it was still a trap, Qi Yuning's way of tricking him into coming down the mountain and returning to secular life. After he returned to secular life, Qi Yuning would force him to get married.

The more Lu Yun thought about it, the more he felt that it was Qi Yuning's plan.

Lu Yun sighed, and the young monk beside him asked in confusion, "Junior brother, why are you sighing? You are already a monk, and monks shouldn't have worries."

Lu Yun touched his chin and said, "Being too handsome isn't good either. Qi Yuning actually disregarded his own reputation and tricked me into coming down from the mountains and returning to secular life to get married. Sigh, it seems it's all my mother's fault for giving birth to me so good-looking."

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