Qi Yuning arrived at the small courtyard next door. It was said that there was only one room in the courtyard. There were many guards standing outside, and it was very dark inside. Next to it was the towering Prince Duan's Mansion, which blocked the sunlight in the room.

Qi Yuning entered. The courtyard was very small. There was a peach tree, an ancient well next to it, and a fence surrounding a muddy field. Because there was no sunlight, the vegetables grew sparsely in the muddy field.

Song Heqing was playing the guqin in the courtyard. When she saw the person coming, she was stunned for a moment and said with tears in her eyes, "Yu Ning!"

Qi Yuning stepped forward and hugged Song Heqing, who looked extremely bad, "Heqing."

Seeing Song Heqing wearing coarse clothes and looking very bad, Qi Yuning said with great concern: "Heqing, leave this place. You can still live your life as usual after you divorce Qin Chong."

Song Heqing shook her head with tears in her eyes, "No, I can't bear to leave him."

"He Qing."

Qin Chong's voice came from inside.

When Qin Chong came out, he saw Qi Yuning with a self-deprecating smile on his face, and he wanted to look at her greedily a few more times.

Seeing Qin Chong's angry look, Qi Yuning said to Song Heqing, "Heqing, leave here. He is not worth your suffering here."

Song Heqing's eyes were reluctant to leave, and he only whispered: "I'm sorry."

Qi Yuning sighed and said, "Forget it. If you don't want to, I can't persuade you."

"Have you and Ze'er married?" Qin Chong asked, "You should have been married too, right?"

Qi Yuning said to Qin Chong: "Whether I get married or not has nothing to do with you. He Qing gave up her wealth and glory for you and suffered here with you. If you have a little conscience, just be nice to her!"

After Qi Yuning finished speaking, he didn't want to stay here any longer.

After going out and seeing the sunlight, Qi Yuning recalled the darkness and crampedness in the courtyard just now, and felt uncomfortable. She didn't understand why Song Heqing was so confused.

I don’t know how long it will take for her to wake up and avoid this suffering.

Before she came to her senses, Qi Yuning didn't feel sorry for her. Who made this silly girl want to suffer for herself?

In the following days, Qi Yuning asked her maid or Lu Baozhu to bring Lingling to play with Xiao Zhaojie, while Qi Yuning stayed at home to handle official business and prepare for the wedding.

The busy days passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the end of September.

The day Qi Yuning finally got to see his little nephew, Qi Yuning took the still sleeping Lingling to the city gate early in the morning.

Lu Ze also specially took two hours out today to come and welcome his parents back to Beijing.

Lu Ze held the sleeping Ling Ling in his arms and said to Qi Yuning who was looking forward to it: "You are so happy to see your nephew."

"Finally, there is one more person in this world who is related to me by blood. Isn't that joyful?"

Qi Yuning was looking forward to seeing his baby nephew, so he arrived at the city gate and waited for almost an hour, and finally saw the convoy coming from the North City.

The leading carriage was pulled by eight horses. It was extremely spacious, like a spacious little house.

Lingling on the city wall pointed to the carriage road in the distance and said, "Mother, the carriage is coming."

Qi Yuning went down the city gate and rode to greet him.

In the carriage, Qi Yu'an opened the door and looked at the nearby Shengjing City. He smiled at A Ping and said, "We have arrived in Shengjing. It seems that we can go to the palace to pay respects to His Majesty today."

Aping held the swaddling baby in her arms, full of nervousness.

The difference from the last time she met His Majesty was that this time, after she knew his identity, Ah Ping felt mixed emotions.

Pingrou comforted Ah Ping and said, "Sister, you don't have to be too nervous. Although Daddy and Mommy are the masters of the world, they treat their children just like ordinary parents in the world."

Ah Ping took a sip of tea and nodded, "Yeah."

“Brother, sister-in-law!”

When Qi Yu'an saw Qi Yuning coming on horseback, followed by Lu Ze and Lingling, he stopped the carriage and said with a faint smile, "Sister."

Qi Yuning got off the horse and got on the carriage. When he saw Princess Pingrou, he said, "Your Highness."

"Yu Ning."

Pingrou's eyes were all on Lingling, who was held by Lu Ze. "Lingling."

Lingling threw herself into Pingrou's arms, "Grandma, aunt, uncle, I want to see my little cousin!"

Princess Pingrou smiled and rubbed Lingling's head, then took Lingling over to see.

Qi Yuning looked at the little baby in Aping's arms. The baby had fair skin and a pair of eyes like Lingling. No wonder Lingling said that her cousin looked similar to Lingling.

At first glance, she really looks like Lingling.

"Can I give you a hug?" Qi Yuning asked nervously.

Ah Ping opened the swaddling clothes with a faint smile and gave the unswaddled child to Qi Yuning. Qi Yuning held the two-month-old soft baby in her arms, feeling extremely nervous, and even the way she held the baby was very strange.

Ah Ping smiled and said, "The way the princess holds the child doesn't look like a mother."

Qi Yuning laughed awkwardly. She had indeed never touched such a soft Lingling before. "Have you given it a name? What's it called?"

Qi Yu'an said: "My name is Qi Zhiyuan, and my nickname is Yuan Ge'er, which means reunion."

Qi Yuning called out to the soft child in her arms with a gentle face, "Brother Yuan, I am your aunt."

After Lu Ze exchanged greetings, he also moved closer to Qi Yuning and looked at the child in her arms. He had heard Lingling say that Yuan Ge'er looked similar to her. Looking at him now, he really was a smaller version of Lingling.

Qi Yuning saw Lu Ze approaching and said to the little round boy with peach blossom eyes: "This is your cousin Ze."

Lu Ze: “…”

The child was right to call him cousin, but calling Qi Yuning aunt and him cousin sounded weird.

"Lu Ze, look at Yuan Ge'er, he's so cute, he can even smile."

When Qi Yuning saw the smile on the chubby little nephew's lips, she felt her heart melt.

Lu Ze smiled and said, "He is indeed very cute."

“Woo woo woo.”

"Lingling, why are you crying?" Princess Pingrou hugged Lingling and said, "My dear Lingling, where do you feel uncomfortable?"

Lingling said aggrievedly: "Mother only hugs my cousin, only likes my cousin, and doesn't want Lingling anymore."

Qi Yuning even returned the child to Ah Ping, and went forward to hug Lingling, "Silly Lingling, how could mother not want you? You are mother's most important treasure!"

Qi Yuning hugged Lingling tightly, unwilling to let her suffer any grievance.

Everyone first returned to the palace to rest for a while, and then Qi Yu'an took Qi Yuning, A Ping and the child to the palace.

Princess Pingrou and Lu Ze did not go to the palace. Compared with her parents, Princess Pingrou missed her children whom she had not seen for a long time more.

As soon as I returned to the princess's mansion, I saw Lu Baozhu who was still sleeping in, but I didn't see Lu Yun.

Princess Pingrou said to Lu Ze, "You are such a fool. Why don't you take care of your sister? How can she sleep until almost noon when she is 19 years old? And what about Yun'er? Where did she go?"

Duke Lu spoke up for Lu Ze, "You also said that Baozhu is nineteen years old, and it is not convenient for Ze'er to enter her courtyard at will. How can we control her to sleep until noon? Yun'er really needs to be taught a lesson. She knew we were coming back today, but she didn't know where she was."

Lu Ze knelt in front of Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu, "Dad, Mom, I didn't take good care of my brother."

Princess Pingrou was shocked when she saw Lu Ze kneeling on the ground. "What happened to Yun'er? What happened to him?"

Lu Ze said: "He...he suffered a brain injury and forgot his past and future. He is now in Lingzhou."

Princess Pingrou was shocked and said, "What?! Why didn't you tell me such a big thing earlier? No, his brain was injured and he forgot the past. Why did you let him go to Lingzhou? Why didn't you bring him back home?"

Lu Ze said: "He has determined that Mr. Shen San's adopted daughter, Shen Nian, is his wife. He is determined to follow Shen Nian and is unwilling to return."

Princess Pingrou turned to look at Duke Lu and said, "Do you think Yun'er is pretending to forget his past, but in fact he just wants to have a wife?"

"It's hard to say, but Yun'er doesn't have the ability to deceive Ze'er, right?"

Lu Ze said: "Yun'er shouldn't be pretending. Chen Nian's husband died not long ago, and she has a son. Now Yun'er also believes that the son is his..."

Princess Pingrou: "I got a grandson for nothing?"

Lu Ze was helpless about Princess Pingrou's thoughts, "Master Shen San just sent a letter saying that he will come to Shengjing City in mid-October, and my brother will be back by then."