Qi Yuning said: "Why bother with the national mourning? We can just arrange a good match in the next few days, and then we can get married right away after the national mourning period ends..."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "You go talk to the Minister. When Chen Nian comes to my place, I will talk to her."
Lu Ze said, "Chen Nian is indeed more suitable than Lu Baozhu."
Lu Baozhu snorted at Lu Ze, "Hmph, don't think that I have nowhere to complain now that Grandfather is gone. Grandmother is still here. I'm going to the palace to complain to Grandmother right now!"
Lu Ze grabbed Lu Baozhu's hand and said, "Stop messing around! Grandmother's health has been deteriorating since Grandfather passed away. You should avoid going to the palace and worrying her."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and asked, "Is the Empress Dowager in poor health?"
Lu Ze said, "It's nothing serious, just a minor illness. She and my grandfather were very much in love, a couple who lived together from youth to old age. It's rare in history to have such a loving couple for their entire lives. After my grandfather passed away, she was inevitably sad."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "I was thinking that before His Majesty left, he valued you so much and entrusted the country to you for the sake of Queen Qin and her two daughters."
Lu Ze said, "You only just realized it now? Before his death, His Majesty was indeed afraid that with his death, another prince would ascend the throne. Princess Pingrou's Mansion and Prince Qi's Mansion would be subject to reckoning. Prince Jin, Prince Shou, Prince Xu, if any of them were born from my grandmother's womb, even if they were incompetent and immoral, they would still be the crown prince."
Qi Yuning said, "No wonder Prince Xu and Prince Jin are so infatuated. They all follow His Majesty's lead."
Lu Baozhu said from the side: "There are three thousand beauties in the harem, how can it be called infatuation?!"
Qi Yuning paused, looked at Lu Ze and said, "That's right. After all, Prince Xu and Prince Jin also claim to be deeply in love with one person, but they also have concubines all the time! It's inevitable that some of them will also add a concubine named Zhou..."
Lu Ze listened to Qi Yuning's talk about Concubine Zhou and said, "Don't let your imagination run wild. It's important to take good care of yourself during the confinement period. The most taboo during confinement is to avoid stressing your mind."
Then he said to Lu Baozhu, "You can go now."
Lu Baozhu looked at Lingling twice more and then left.
Qi Yuning looked at her messy hair and said to Lu Ze, "I want to wash my hair."
Lu Ze said, "Impossible. Wait until you're done with the confinement period."
On the eighth day of September, Qi Yuning washed her hair specially, thinking that she could last a few more days. However, she did not expect that she had sweated so much while exercising yesterday. After only two days, she could not help but want to wash her hair.
Qi Yuning said, "I heard that washing your hair with ginger soup is fine."
Lu Ze said, "That will take at least half a month."
"After half a month, everyone stinks."
Lu Ze leaned in and sniffed it. "How can it smell? It smells good. The weather isn't too hot right now. Just bear with it for a few more days, at least until I take a day off. I'll wash your hair in the warm afternoon sun."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and asked, "Really?"
Lu Ze replied, "Yes, but you are not allowed to wash your hair while I'm gone."
Qi Yuning agreed: "Okay."
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