Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Qin Yuli has put in so much effort, but she won't be willing to die like this. Since she is going to use the Red Book and Iron Certificate, shouldn't it be worth it? It would only be worth it if it could save her life."

Lu Ze chuckled and said, "That's right."

Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "Let's go, it's time to go back."

When Qi Yuning and Lu Ze returned to the princess's mansion, Duke Lu happened to walk out of the door with an anxious look on his face.

Duke Lu grabbed Lu Ze and scolded him, "It's okay for you to stay out on weekdays, but didn't anyone come to tell you that your grandmother is dying? Come in quickly."

Qi Yuning saluted Duke Lu and said, "Duke."

Duke Lu saw Qi Yuning standing beside him and said with helplessness and guilt: "Princess..."

Lu Ze walked in holding Qi Yuning's hand and saw that the main hall of the princess's mansion was surrounded by people from the Lu family. When they saw Lu Ze and Qi Yuning walking towards them with their fingers intertwined, they all made way for them.

Princess Pingrou sat in the main seat with a very bad look on her face.

"Grandma, my eldest brother is back."

Lu Baohua whispered in Madam Lu's ear: "Brother, the princess."

Seeing Lu Ze and Qi Yuning's interlocked hands, Madam Lu frowned and breathed heavily as she spoke, "Princess Qi is the daughter of a noble family after all. I never thought she would be so shameless as to have sex with a man before marriage, disregarding the strict rules between men and women. She has truly brought shame upon the old prince."

Lu Baohua kept saying, "Grandma!"

Qi Yuning said frankly: "I, Qi Yuning, have been an orphan since childhood, so naturally I have no upbringing. The Lu family has a good upbringing, but didn't this Lu Shizi also have an affair with a girl?"

Madam Lu was furious: "You!"

Lu Ze squeezed Qi Yuning's hand, "Yuning."

Qi Yuning raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Ze. Lu Ze whispered, "You don't have to be so mean to yourself, Grandmother. It's my grandson who broke the rules. This has nothing to do with you, the princess."

Madam Lu said to Lu Ze, "Ze'er, you must break off the engagement with Princess Qi and marry Qin Yuli. You can't ignore your sister, nor can you ignore your cousins. You know that every day Lu Baozhu is in jail will damage the reputation of your cousins!"

Qi Yuning said, "Madam Lu claims to be well-educated, but today I want to ask, how can the Lu family be considered well-educated and well-behaved when they repeatedly cancel engagements?"

Qi Yuning let go of Lu Ze's hand and sat next to Princess Pingrou, "Princess, Duke Lu, although we have no elders in the Qi Palace, we are not so easily bullied!

Let's first settle the account of Lu Yun becoming a monk and breaking off the engagement. I didn't make a big deal about Lu Yun becoming a monk for Lingling's sake.

"Your Lu family already owes me, and now you want Lu Ze to break off the engagement with me. What's that? Do you really think that my Qi family has no one? Can I be toyed with by your Lu family again and again?"

Duke Lu's face turned ashen.

Princess Pingrou said weakly, "Ningning..."

Qi Yuning looked at Madam Lu and said, "In the past, this princess respected you as an elder and treated you politely. When you asked me to be Prince Lu's concubine, this princess didn't bother with you because of your age. But now you dare to act so arrogantly and insult me ​​to my face?"

Madam Lu was so angry that her hands were shaking. She said, "You want to enter my Lu family? As the elder of the Lu family, how can I say that you are incredible?"

Qi Yuning said: "This princess is the Princess of Chang'an, who was personally conferred by His Majesty. Her rank is the same as that of the princesses of the royal family. Although the old lady has the title of Duke's wife, her rank is still lower than this princess. This princess cannot be lectured by you!

What's more, this princess has not yet truly entered your Lu family's gate!"

Second Aunt Lu and Third Aunt Lu exchanged a glance, then stared at Old Madam Lu. They were really worried that she might not be able to catch her breath...

Lu Ze walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Yuning."

Qi Yuning said: "If you, the Lu family, think that the Qi family has no one, you are wrong. I, Qi Yuning, am an orphan and I will not tolerate being bullied. If you really want to cancel the engagement, I will ask your Lu family to give an explanation starting from the incident of Lu Yun defying the imperial order and becoming a monk.

Don’t think this princess is easy to talk to, but you guys keep bullying me.”

Qi Yuning raised her eyes and looked at Lu Ze. "This princess is not forced to marry you. The Lu family proposed to me twice, and it was you who did it. You can cancel the marriage just like that. This princess wants to see if this will affect the reputation of your Lu family's young master and daughter!"

As soon as Qi Yuning entered, she was scolded by Mrs. Lu, which made her very angry.

Even Lu Ze no longer looked at me with such favor.

Princess Pingrou stood up and said, "Yuning, the Lu family really let you down regarding the Lu Yun incident, so I didn't say a word about how you made Yun'er suffer. He injured his spleen and stomach when he went to Beicheng. Although I was worried, I also felt that he deserved it.

Letting Ze'er break off the engagement with you today is also because the Lu family is sorry for you. You are right. We shouldn't let you cancel the engagement again."

Madam Lu said from the side: "What for? Qi Yuning, if you really loved my Ze'er, you wouldn't insist on marrying him and thus bring trouble to our Lu family!"

"Enough!" Princess Pingrou shouted, "Ze'er is my child. His marriage is not up to you, an old hag!"

When Madam Lu heard the three words "old pious woman", she was furious, "Princess, you..."

Princess Pingrou said, "When Ze'er was still in his cradle, you snatched him away. When the old Duke said that the Lu family needed a legitimate grandson who was both talented in civil and military affairs, and that he would teach Ze'er well, I endured it and gave Ze'er to the old Duke to raise with you.

But you still want to snatch the pearl away. This princess doesn't want you to, but you are always disgusted with the pearl.

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