Qi Yuning said: "It's not the case at all."

If you haven't performed any of the six rituals, how can you be considered a wife?

Qi Yuning added, "It seems that Lu Baozhu and I have wronged Miss Guan Liu."

Originally, Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu both thought that Miss Guan Liu was very capable and could get a marriage with the Qin family.

After hearing the words coming from next door and what Lu Ze had just said, Qi Yuning realized that it was Qin's fifth uncle who was deliberately trying to forcibly seize his nephew's wife.

"Master Lu, how have you offended Master Qin Wu?"

Lu Ze said slowly: "No."

Qi Yuning asked curiously, "Then why would Fifth Master Qin fight with a little cousin like you for something?"

"Maybe my fifth cousin is jealous that I'm younger and more handsome than him."

Qi Yuning chuckled lightly, but what Lu Ze said did make some sense. After all, he had been blind since he was a child, and Master Qin Wu was six years older than Lu Ze.

Lu Ze could write poems and essays when he was seven years old. When Master Qin Wu was just thirteen years old and about to become famous, wasn't his fame snatched away by a little brat?

Although Lu Ze is young, he has always been very talented, which makes other young men from aristocratic families in Shengjing City who are a few years older than him look far inferior.

Yesterday, Qi Yuning was still saying that the marriage arranged by Guan Zhiyi was a good one, but now it seems that it may not be a good match.

After all, Qi Yuning has been competing with Lu Baozhu for rare treasures since childhood. Many times, it was not because she really liked them, but because she just didn't want the other party to be proud.

Like her white jade hairpin, it was something that could make Lu Baozhu angry when she first got it, so it was worth cherishing.

Later, after having it for a long time, it fell into Lu Ze's hands, and Qi Yuning just became casual about it.

Qi Yuning sighed deeply.

Lin Jiang asked, "Why did Princess Qi sigh?"

Qi Yuning said, "I feel so sorry for Miss Guan Liu's fate. She climbed to the top by stepping on my reputation, but ended up with such a fate. How sad and lamentable."

Lin Jiang said, "This marriage is truly a blessing for the Guan family. The Guan family relied entirely on marriages to rise into the ranks of the Shengjing nobility. For Guan Zhiyi to marry the Empress's nephew is already incredibly wealthy. When the Crown Prince ascends the throne, the Qin family will be the most powerful family in Dasheng!"

Qi Yuning said: "Not necessarily."

In the end, the prince did not ascend the throne. As long as the Qin family was still alive, they would not allow the prince to be alive but unable to ascend the throne.

Lin Jiang asked, "What do you mean, Princess?"

Qi Yuning took a sip of the tea in front of her and didn't answer Lin Jiang. She just looked at Lu Ze and asked, "They insulted you like that? And you're so good-tempered and put up with it?"

Lu Ze said, "Those people didn't dare to say it to my face. I don't know who is the coward."

Halfway through the meal, Qin Feng and Lin Jiang were called away by their servants.

After seeing Lin Jiang and Qin Feng leave, Qi Yuning asked the maid to go out and close the door. There were only two people in the room, and it was quiet for a while.

Qi Yuning said to Lu Ze, "As long as the Crown Prince is alive, the Qin family should support His Royal Highness to ascend the throne. The Qin family controls nearly 100,000 soldiers and 3,000 cavalry in Shengjing City and the surrounding areas. Even now, they can help the Crown Prince abdicate and become emperor, let alone in a few years. Why didn't the Crown Prince succeed to the throne in the end?"

Lu Ze took a sip of tea. He was completely clueless. Lingling was too young and didn't know much, so he couldn't get anything useful out of her.

Lu Ze said, "We need to find out who the uncle Lingling is talking about first."

"What do you want to do?" Qi Yuning asked, "Kill the future emperor first? Eliminate the worries for the Crown Prince? Lu Ze, although the Crown Prince is your uncle, he also strangled Lingling."

Lingling is young, and children's words should not be trusted, but Lingling's repeated fear of being strangled by the prince must be true.

Lu Ze said in a deep voice, "I will be on guard against the prince, but if we can find the uncle Lingling mentioned sooner rather than later, we might be able to learn more and protect him better."

Just as Qi Yuning said, between his uncle and his biological daughter, Lu Ze still knew how to choose, and Lingling was definitely the first in his heart.

Even though they have a close relationship and blood relationship since childhood, he still has to be on guard against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Qi Yuning said, "Your Majesty's birthday banquet will be held in a few days. All of His Majesty's grandchildren will come to celebrate your birthday. Then we'll know which of your little cousins ​​will become the future emperor."

Lu Ze said, "I'm afraid Lingling doesn't recognize this uncle who is five or six years younger than her."

Children look different every day. If a child suddenly looks five or six years younger, even adults would find it difficult to recognize him, let alone Lingling, a three-year-old child.

Qi Yuning said: "I have to write a letter to my brother and ask him to prepare early."

Lu Ze nodded gently. "Now that the Lu family has no military power, we can only ask Prince Qi and the princess for help."

Qi Yuning asked, "Why did Prince Consort Lu hand over the military power of your Lu family to the Qin family? He made your descendants of the Lu family be laughed at by others."

Lu Ze said slowly, "Before Your Majesty ascended the throne, my grandfather chose to be prudent and protect himself. He did not support Your Majesty's ascension to the throne as loyally as Prince Qi. This has always been a thorn in my grandfather's heart.

Before my grandfather died, he wanted to return the military power to His Majesty, but later His Majesty gave the Lu family's military power to the Qin family. From one story to another, it was said that my father was afraid of his wife and voluntarily gave up the military power to the Qin family. But how can military power be given away so easily?

The events of His Majesty's ascension to the throne happened almost forty years ago, but Qi Yuning had heard about it from others.

At that time, the Lu family relied on its status as the head of a noble family and had its own army. In the war-torn era when many heroes were in chaos, the old Duke Lu chose to protect himself and did not bravely support Emperor Shiyuan to ascend the throne like the Qi family.

Although Qi Yuning is a member of the Qi family, she feels that it is understandable that the Lu family was trying to protect themselves at that time.

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