Qi Yuning caught a glimpse of Zhou Jiayun's happy eyes, and a nameless anger rose from the bottom of his heart. However, he couldn't vent his anger, so he could only gently wave his round fan.
Queen Mother Zhou said, "Congratulations to Lingling for getting her wish. Jie'er has been thinking about playing with Lingling these past few days. I wonder which Taoist temple Lingling went to practice in?"
Qi Yuning said, "There's no Taoist temple, but Taoist He took a fancy to Lingling and took her on a journey."
Previously, she and Lu Ze mobilized all their men but failed to find Taoist He. Qi Yuning thought that using Taoist He as an excuse would be the most appropriate.
Queen Mother Zhou said, "You are willing to let Lingling go at such a young age."
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Lingling has a destiny, and we can't stop her from having a bright future. If your Majesty wants a playmate, the child in my belly will be born in a few days."
Empress Dowager Zhou smiled and said, "That's true."
After saying goodbye to Queen Mother Zhou, Qi Yuning arrived at the Purple Palace.
In the Zichen Hall, Lin Jiang was reading a memorial to Xiao Zhaojie, while Lu Ze was giving him instructions.
Qi Yuning saw that Xiao Zhaojie's originally bright eyes had become dim, and he couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Your Majesty."
"Sister Princess!" Little Zhao Jie looked at Qi Yuning and asked, "Did Lingling come with you?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "Lingling went on a journey with the Taoist priest."
Little Zhao Jie looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside and said, "I also want to travel with Lingling. Being an emperor is not easy at all..."
Little Zhao Jie hugged Qi Yuning's thighs and cried, "Sister Princess, I don't want to be the emperor anymore."
"Wow, being an emperor is so hard!"
Qi Yuning patted little Zhao Jie's head and looked at Lu Ze and Lin Jiang. "You two must remember that he's only five or six years old. What can he possibly know if you read him a memorial right now? Why are you forcing him to do this?"
Qi Yuning touched Zhao Jie's crying face and said, "Don't cry, sister will take you to play in the imperial garden."
Little Zhao Jie looked up and asked, "Can I really go play?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Of course, I'll find you some playmates to play with you and study with you, okay?"
"Good!" Little Zhao Jie's eyes lit up. "Sister Princess is so nice, much better than my cousin."
Qi Yuning smiled gently. She had thought that after Emperor Shi Yuan left, perhaps her only support in the future would be the Qi family. Now it seems that this little emperor is not impossible to be supported by their Qi family army.
Lu Ze went to play in the garden with Qi Yuning and Xiao Zhaojie.
Qi Yuning sat under the shade of a tree, weaving a grass dragonfly for little Zhao Jie.
Lu Ze watched Qi Yuning weaving a dragonfly and asked beside her, "I didn't expect you could weave these?"
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Uncle Zhong taught me this when I was a child. I didn't tell you before because I was afraid Lingling would find out and pester me to make these for her every day."
Qi Yuning handed the woven dragonfly to Xiao Zhaojie, "Does it look like a dragonfly?"
"Looks like it!" Little Zhao Jie said, holding the dragonfly. "Very similar."
Qi Yuning looked at Zhao Jie, whose eyes had brightened up again, and said, "Why don't we catch a real dragonfly for comparison?"
Zhao Jie took a quick look and said, "There's a dragonfly over there!"
Little Zhao Jie ran towards where the dragonfly came from.
Qi Yuning helped Lu Ze stand up and said, "He's just a child after all. Now you're forcing him to handle political matters that even adults find difficult to decide. Do you want the future emperor to be a lifeless piece of wood?"
Lu Ze sighed and whispered in Qi Yuning's ear, "There are bound to be voices in the court saying that the Qi and Lu families will use the young emperor as a puppet in the future. That's why I allowed him to get involved in government affairs at such a young age."
Qi Yuning said: "How can we manage the account books directly without learning how to use an abacus? We have a clear conscience. If we really want to seize power, can't we do it now? We are not fighting for our own reputation, but for the people of the world. I hope that the future emperor will be a flesh-and-blood person with joy. Only such an emperor can serve the people of the world.
Rather than an emperor who has been locked up in the Purple Palace since childhood, deprived of entertainment, he will go mad sooner or later. If he himself does not know how to be happy, how can he bring happiness to the people of the world? "
Lu Ze nodded gently and said, "Yeah."
Little Zhao Jie caught a small dragonfly from the flowers, walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Sister Princess, I caught it."
"Your Majesty is amazing!" Qi Yuning smiled faintly, "Your Majesty, do you know any poems that mention dragonflies?"
“The little lotus has barely budded, and already a dragonfly has landed on it!”
Qi Yuning clapped his hands after hearing Zhao Jie's voice and said, "Great! How about asking your cousin to take you to see the lotus leaves in a few days?"
Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning.
Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "Instead of keeping him stuck in the court, it would be better to have him spend more time with the common people. That way he won't be so high up in the government and say things like, 'Why don't you just eat meat?'"
Lu Ze asked, "Do you want to go with me?"
Qi Yuning shook her head and said, "I'm afraid of the sun being too strong."
Zhao Jie took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Princess Sister, come with us! Just let your cousin hold an umbrella for you to block the sun."
Qi Yuning lowered his head and smiled, "Okay, then I'll go with the young Majesty."
Zhao Jie played with the dragonfly for a while and then let it go. Qi Yuning saw the dragonfly flying away and asked, "Your Majesty, why did you let the dragonfly go?"
"It doesn't like being trapped here."
Little Zhao Jie looked at the surrounding walls and said, "I don't like being trapped here either."
Qi Yuning touched Zhao Jie's head and said, "After my baby is born, can you take your niece out to play more?"
Qi Yuning didn't know what her life was like before Lingling came. In this life, Zhao Jie became emperor because she leaked the secret to Emperor Shi Yuan. It could also be said that she was the one who pulled Zhao Jie onto the throne. She only hoped that Zhao Jie could be a happy emperor.
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