The mountain breeze blew, and there was a moment of awkwardness between the three of them.

Qi Yuning also coughed lightly and said, "Do you want to hunt with us?"

Zhao Xunfang shook her head and said, "No need, cousin, cousin-in-law, I'm leaving first."

After Zhao Xunfang left, Qi Yuning pinched Lu Ze's waist in annoyance and said, "It's all your fault for making trouble outside!"

Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand and smiled faintly: "Who knew she would be here? Fortunately, she is not an outsider, but my cousin."

Qi Yuning complained, "I will never let you mess around outside again."

Lu Ze looked towards where Zhao Xunfang was and saw the mark of the wooden wheel. He frowned slightly and gestured for Qi Yuning to look over there. "There is a mark of the wooden wheel."

Qi Yuning asked, "Is it Princess Rong? She was here just now? Lu Ze! If you mess with me outside again, I will ignore you for three days."

Lu Ze smiled lightly, "Fortunately, she is my cousin."

Qi Yuning stomped on Lu Ze hard and focused on finding prey. She was lucky enough to see two foxes. She pulled her bow and shot arrows at both foxes.

Qi Yuning went forward and picked up the foxes and said, "These two foxes can be used to make Lingling a winter fur coat."

Lu Ze helped Qi Yuning carry the fox and asked, "Do you still remember that you promised to make me a set of clothes?"

Qi Yuning said, "I'll make one for you when I have time."

Lu Ze didn't force it. After all, he wasn't as childish as Lu Yun to test whether his wife could make clothes for him.

When the two men went down the mountain, they did not notice the girl hiding in the bushes.

Zhao Rong looked at Qi Yuning's back, clasping his hands tightly.

…

Qi Yuning and Lu Ze returned to the Lu Mansion.

Seeing his men waiting outside, Lu Ze asked, "Have you found out about the rumors about the Prince? Has anyone deliberately spread them?"

"Master, we've found out. It was Miss Zhou herself who sent someone to report to the Chu family master about her one-night stand with the Prince. Later, it was the Empress Dowager who sent someone to make a big fuss about it."

Qi Yuning glanced at Lu Ze and said, "The Zhou family is still restless. I have to go to the palace."

Lu Ze nodded slightly and said, "Yeah."

Qi Yuning changed her clothes and went to the bedroom of Empress Dowager Zhou in the temporary palace.

When Queen Mother Zhou saw Qi Yuning approaching, she chuckled and said, "Yuning, what brings you here so early in the morning?"

Qi Yuning smiled lightly and said, "It's nothing serious. I just came to tell the Queen Mother the good news that Lu Yun has woken up."

Empress Dowager Zhou twirled the Buddhist beads in her hand and said, "That's truly a good thing."

Qi Yuning nodded and said, "This is all thanks to Shen Nian's vegetarianism and chanting of Buddhist scriptures day and night. This emotion moved heaven and earth and made Lu Yun wake up."

Queen Mother Zhou looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Yuning, we are family and we should not talk behind each other's backs. What do you mean by this?"

Qi Yuning said: "Lu Yun's meaning is that he will not divorce Chen Nian. Even if Chen Nian didn't exist, Lu Yun would not marry the daughter of the Zhou family as a concubine or even a concubine."

Empress Dowager Zhou said, "My Jiamin saved his life without caring about her reputation."

Qi Yuning said, "We will naturally repay Jiamin for saving our lives, but wasn't your reputation... something your Zhou family didn't want first?"

Empress Dowager Zhou frowned, "What do you mean?"

Qi Yuning smiled faintly: "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself. Queen Mother, for the sake of everyone's reputation, I think this matter should be dropped. If Jiamin insists on making the Lu family responsible for her lost reputation, then the Lu family will have to find out who is behind this news.

I'm sure Your Majesty wouldn't want to see the Zhou family's daughter have a bad reputation, which would only make matters worse, right?"

Queen Mother Zhou glared at Qi Yuning in extreme anger, but no matter how angry she was, she could only endure it.

It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. She has endured for so many years in the imperial mausoleum. She can wait until the day when her Jie'er grows up.

Let’s see if Qi Yuning can still be so arrogant then.

Empress Dowager Zhou said, "I will find another marriage for Jiamin. If that playboy Lu Yun wasn't concerned about Jiamin's reputation, I would still look down on him from afar."

Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "That's perfect."

The hunt ended on June 20th, but many people were still reluctant to leave, especially Xiao Lingling, who was reluctant to leave Chang'an.

When we returned to the Shengjing Princess Mansion, Xiao Lingling refused to drink milk or millet porridge, and she laughed much less.

Qi Yuning had no choice but to let Aliduo take Lingling for a walk outside. She had never seen a child who loved to play outside so much.

When Lingling was ten months old, the weather was the hottest. The heat wave seemed to be able to steam people to death. People say that July is the hottest month, but in fact, July is the transition between summer and autumn, which makes people even more irritable and hot.

Lingling no longer likes to go out and just stays at home to play with Han Ge'er.

Qi Yuning didn't want to restrict Lingling from playing with anyone, but Han Ge'er was sick every few days. Qi Yuning was afraid that Lingling would disturb Han Ge'er's recuperation, and Chen Nian was afraid that Han Ge'er would pass on his illness to Lingling, so gradually Lingling stopped playing with Han Ge'er.

Lingling found a good way to have fun, which was to follow Lu Ze into the palace early in the morning to play with Zhao Jie. Zhao Jie doted on Lingling very much, and Lingling especially loved playing with her uncle. If she didn't go to the palace for a day, she would be surrounded by her uncle.

Qi Yuning listened to Lingling muttering about her uncle again, pinched Lingling's face and said, "My uncle has to study and deal with state affairs, how can he play with you all day long?"

Lingling had no one to play with, so she started practicing walking. She could already take a few slow steps holding onto the wall, but she was still too timid to let go of the wall and stand.

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