After the confinement period, Qi Yuning started to get busy again. She had to pick up the tasks that she had neglected before. Fortunately, Lingling was not too clingy during the full moon period.
However, Qi Yuning would work for an hour and then stare at Lingling for half an hour, fearing that Lingling would forget about him. Lingling was getting bigger day by day, and from only being able to be held horizontally to being able to be held upright for a while occasionally.
In the twelfth lunar month, when Lingling was three months old, she could smile even more. It seemed that Lingling loved to laugh very much. She would smile at whoever held her. She was very cute.
Although there are no banquets nowadays and the weather is still very cold, Princess Pingrou loves to take Lingling out to visit relatives, especially to visit her sisters' homes.
Lingling seemed to have gotten used to going out and was unhappy staying at home. She was very happy when she saw Princess Pingrou.
Princess Pingrou was extremely happy holding such a big granddaughter.
Princess Pingrou was busy taking care of Lingling, so Qi Yuning had to take over the burden of Lu Yun's marriage and arrange the weddings for her ex-fiancé and ex-cousin. Qi Yuning thought about it and felt that life was unpredictable.
After all, two years ago, how could she have imagined that she would be able to calmly arrange Lu Yun's marriage?
When Lu Ze entered, he saw Qi Yuning with a shopping list for a wedding in front of her and asked, "Why are you in charge of Lu Yun's wedding? Where's my mother?"
Qi Yuning said, "Mom and Dad have been taking Lingling out a lot these days. I see that Lingling loves going out and doesn't like staying at home, so I'm here to help Mom arrange the little bald donkey's marriage."
After Lu Ze pulled Qi Yuning into his arms and sat down, he said, "What Empress Dowager Zhou and the Grand Empress Dowager meant is that even if we observe national mourning on the Little New Year's Eve, we should let the people of Shengjing have a good and lively New Year."
Qi Yuning said, "That's good. Shengjing City hasn't been very lively this year, so the New Year celebrations are perfect for some fun."
Lu Ze said, "The 26th of the twelfth lunar month is a good day. Why don't we hold a hundred-day banquet for Lingling that day?"
Qi Yuning said, "Now that you've chosen a date, give me a list of the people you want to invite, and discuss it with my parents. It's time to send out the invitations."
Lu Ze said, "Important officials in the court and their families are invited."
"So you'll also invite the Zhou family?" Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "I don't like Zhou Jiayun coming to my Lingling's hundred-day banquet."
Lu Ze said, "Even if we don't invite the Zhou family, can we not invite Queen Mother Zhou? If Queen Mother Zhou comes, Zhou Jiayun will definitely come."
Qi Yuning frowned slightly. Lingling's hundred-day party had to be a grand one, but Qi Yuning was somewhat unhappy about Zhou Jiayun, a woman whose desire to be Lingling's stepmother was written all over her face, coming to Lingling's hundred-day party.
Qi Yuning stood up from Lu Ze's arms and said, "Before Lingling's Hundred Days Banquet, you have to convince the Zhou family to give up on marrying their daughter to you!"
Lu Ze said, "If the Zhou family hasn't said it explicitly, how can I deny their intentions? If they say they never had such intentions, wouldn't I be being rude and intrusive to the young lady? I would really ruin their reputation and I would have to take responsibility."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Lu Ze, have you also entertained the idea of taking Miss Zhou as your concubine?"
Lu Ze said helplessly: "How is that possible? There were so many guests that day, and you couldn't even bother with Zhou Jiayun alone."
Qi Yuning said, "It's because I have a better temper now. If it were before, I would not even give Queen Mother Zhou face!"
Lu Ze hugged Qi Yuning in his arms again. He knew that Qi Yuning was not in a good mood, she was just worried about his reputation.
Lu Ze leaned close to Qi Yuning's ear and said, "I'm sorry, you were free and unrestrained before you married me, but now you have to worry about these things."
Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "It's good that you know!"
Lu Ze chuckled, picked up Qi Yuning and carried her horizontally. He walked to the bed, lowered the curtains, and said, "Then I will serve Princess Qi well."
Seeing the bright light outside, Qi Yuning pushed Lu Ze and said, "You're crazy! Mother will be back with Lingling any minute!"
Lu Ze said, "The maid is guarding outside!"
Qi Yuning: “…”
In the afternoon, it was freezing cold outside, but Qi Yuning in the tent actually broke out in a sweat. Even though Lu Ze, who had been a sedentary for more than half a year, tried to control himself, Qi Yuning still felt overwhelmed.
As the sky grew darker outside, Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze complainingly, "I don't know who's serving whom!"
Lu Ze chuckled, took some clean clothes and put them on Qi Yuning, saying, "Get up and have dinner. Lingling must have returned by now."
Xiao Lingling was not afraid of the cold. Even when her grandmother carried her outside and her face turned red from the cold, she was still very happy.
When Qi Yuning held little Lingling in his arms, he took out the jade skin cream and applied it on her red little face. Lingling looked at Qi Yuning and smiled faintly.
With such a sweet child, Qi Yuning felt that everything was worth it.
Her temper now is not as reckless as before, not only for Lu Ze, but also because of the bond with Lingling.
Lu Ze reached out and touched Lingling's flushed face and said, "It's better to let Mother carry Lingling out. Her face is red from the cold."
"Lingling is also a person who can't stay still. She will definitely be very happy to see so many outsiders during her Hundred Days Banquet, right, Lingling?"
Xiao Lingling's eyes were filled with smiles.
Qi Yuning looked at Xiao Lingling and said, "I don't know when I can hear you call me mother again."
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Lingling’s hundred-day banquet was the grandest banquet in Shengjing City after the end of the national mourning period.
Early in the morning, Princess Pingrou prepared a large table of offerings to the Bodhisattva, praying that the Bodhisattva would bless Lingling with a long life.
After the hour of Chen, guests began to arrive one after another.
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