Prince Jin walked up to Zhao Rong with heavy steps. He looked at Nanny Sun who was pushing Zhao Rong and glared at her. "Is what she just said true? Your good master actually dislikes me so much in private?"

Nanny Sun lowered her head and didn't dare to reply.

The King of Jin laughed heartily at himself, "I am truly foolish, the ultimate fool! It's a pity that I cared about her for so long, but it turns out that she never looked down on me in her heart."

Prince Jin glared at Zhao Rong who was sitting in the wheelchair. Looking closely, he found that Zhao Rong did not look like him at all.

Prince Jin stepped forward and grabbed Zhao Rong's neck, clasping his fingers tightly. Zhao Rong felt he couldn't breathe.

Zhao Rong spoke with difficulty in a hoarse voice: "Dad..."

Seeing Zhao Rong's face turning purple, Prince Jin threw her into a wheelchair and ordered his men, "Strip her and all the servants of the Sun family and lock them up in the palace's ice cellar!"

Zhao Rong continued to breathe heavily, "Daddy, Daddy!"

Prince Jin ignored Zhao Rong's pleas and walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "I'm sorry, I almost killed the princess. I owe her a big favor..."

Qi Yuning said, "If you really feel you owe me a favor, then treat Shuangjiang well. Considering your green clouds covering your head, I should have punished you for not disciplining you properly."

King Jin responded in a deep voice.

After Qi Yuning and Lu Ze returned to the princess's residence, they were called to Duke Lu's residence.

The lights in Duke Lu's mansion were brightly lit. When Qi Yuning and Lu Ze arrived, all the lanterns had been replaced with white lanterns with large characters for "Dian" written on them.

Qi Yuning and Lu Ze looked at each other. In their first life, Madam Lu passed away after the New Year. Who would have thought that she would pass away so early in this life?

Lu Baozhu also happened to arrive. Seeing the white lanterns with large black characters "Dian" hanging on them, she felt happy, but she still had to pretend to cry:

"Grandma, Grandma, why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

Then he whispered, "Why don't you just endure a little more pain?"

Qi Yuning knelt beside Lu Baozhu. After hearing what Lu Baozhu said and seeing Lu Ze's sadness, she said, "Speak less."

"You're still speaking for this damn old woman? Don't you know that when you had malaria a few days ago, she said she would find a new princess for my brother, and said you were getting retribution..."

Listening to Lu Baozhu's words, Qi Yuning recalled his first life in the fog. Before she left, Old Madam Lu had indeed forced Lu Ze to marry another woman, as she felt that the Lu family's bloodline could not be cut off with Lu Ze.

However, death is the greatest thing after all. Now that the person is gone, Qi Yuning doesn't want to worry too much about it.

When Madam Lu was young, she was also quite kind. Qi Yuning vaguely remembered that when she was young, Madam Lu was a very kind elder. Why did she change later? Maybe she became more confused as she got older.

Now that the person is gone, Qi Yuning can't say anything more.

When Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu rushed back from the palace, Duke Lu knelt in front of Old Madam Lu's bed and shouted that he was unfilial.

Princess Pingrou sighed deeply upon seeing her mother-in-law pass away. She looked at Lu Baozhu and said, "My poor Baozhu, your marriage will be delayed for another year."

Just as the funeral of Madam Lu was over, bad news came from the palace: Empress Dowager Qin had passed away.

When the Empress Dowager Qin passed away, all the princes living outside the capital had to return to Shengjing to observe mourning.

On the day Prince Xu returned to Shengjing City, he went to Prince Jin's Mansion. After leaving Prince Jin's Mansion, Prince Xu went straight to the imperial mausoleum, dug up the remains of Prince Jin's wife, and threw them into the mass grave together with the body of Zhao Rong who had just passed away.

When Qi Yuning heard the news from Shuangjiang in the palace, she felt relieved.

Qi Yuning looked at Shuangjiang's belly and said, "By the way, is Prince Jin treating you well? He insisted on having you enter the Prince Jin's mansion because you looked like Princess Jin. Does he hold a grudge against you because of Princess Jin now?"

Shuangjiang said, "He was quite nice to me. He said that after the state mourning period was over, he would ask for an imperial decree to make me a princess."

Qi Yuning patted Shuangjiang's hand and said, "That's good. You should stay together and go back to the palace first. You don't need to come to the palace to observe mourning anymore."

"Yes." Shuangjiang burned incense to the Empress Dowager and then left.

The Empress Dowager passed away, and the saddest person was Princess Pingrou. Having lost her mother, she cried all day long. Although Xiao Lingling was still a baby, she seemed to know that her grandmother was very sad and would go to wipe her tears.

Princess Pingrou was very pleased holding Lingling.

The funeral of the Grand Empress Dowager lasted for forty-nine days before she was buried. Her will required that forty-nine days replace one year of national mourning. Although this was true for the common people, officials still intended to observe a one-year mourning period.

During this year, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze were both busy with their own things. They had promised each other before Lingling that they would spend more time with Lingling, but now they had to break their promise.

Prince Jin felt guilty and handed over a lot of business that overlapped with the Qi family to Qi Yuning. Qi Yuning was busy but happy as he watched the money pouring into the account.

Lu Ze was busy with state affairs. The little emperor was still young. In the imperial examination at the beginning of this spring, Shen Jialin and a member of the Chu family's branch took the top two places.

Even though Lu Ze and Qin Feng deliberately made things difficult during the palace examination, they both still won the first and third place respectively, and the second place winner was over 40 years old.

The books read by these children of secluded families are naturally better than those of students from other places. Their teachers are all great scholars, and the books collected in their mansions are rarely seen in many academies.

They entered the court through the imperial examinations, and there was really no way to stop them.

It is September again. Lingling is two years old and can already speak a lot. The thing Lingling says most is "go play, go out and play."

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