Lu Ze recalled the scene he had seen when he touched the Lingling Jade Lock a few days ago. He held Qi Yuning's hand under the table and said, "It's not ridiculous to be cautious in everything. But if you eat with me and eat the dishes I've eaten, if someone really poisons it, won't we both be poisoned?"
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "We share the same bed and the same grave. Although we were not born on the same day, it would be good if we died of poisoning on the same day. This would save you from having to marry someone else after I die."
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said in a deep voice, "I won't marry anyone else."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "You said that before. Remember when you were in Longzhou City, you said you wouldn't marry another woman unless I was willing? Are you sure you won't marry another woman now?"
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Because I know you definitely don't want to. And you definitely won't die before me."
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "I am two or three years younger than you. I certainly won't die before you."
Lu Ze took a sip of his wine and said, "It's Mid-Autumn Festival, please don't say such unlucky words. Let's eat."
After returning to the princess's mansion from the palace banquet, it was still lively.
It is the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion. The autumn wind is neither too cold nor too hot, and the full moon is in the sky. The princess’s family is reunited.
In front of the water pavilion, there is an altar for worshiping the Goddess of the Moon.
Everyone bowed and burned incense one by one. When Qi Yuning came forward with Lingling in her arms, Lingling didn't need any instruction. She clasped her little fists together and bowed towards the moon.
Qi Yuning kissed Lingling's cheek and said with a faint smile: "Lingling is really smart."
Lingling looked at the mooncake in front of her and babbled. Qi Yuning took a piece of mooncake and handed it to Lingling, saying, "Want to eat?"
Lingling's peach blossom eyes shone with light as she said, "Eat, eat."
Qi Yuning chuckled: "You can't eat this mooncake."
"eat!"
Qi Yuning took some mooncake skin and fed it to Lingling, who giggled at her.
Princess Pingrou looked at the harmonious family and smiled faintly, "Now our family is complete. The only thing missing is you, Baozhu. You'd better find a husband as soon as possible!"
Lu Baozhu: "Ah? What?"
Princess Pingrou looked at Lu Baozhu and said, "You are already twenty-one. It's time for you to find a husband. If you really can't forget Shen Jialin..."
Chen Nian was also feeding Han Ge'er mooncakes on the side. When she heard what Princess Pingrou said, she looked up.
Lu Baozhu said shyly and angrily: "Mom, what are you talking about? What Shen Jialin? I hate him so much! Shen Nian is still here, so don't say anything nonsense!"
Princess Pingrou said, "I was wrong, but you must take the marriage seriously."
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone listened to a play before leaving. Qi Yuning returned to her room and fell asleep. In her drowsy dream, she vaguely saw Lu Ze hugging her tightly in the night, with dark circles under his eyes.
Seeing Xiao Lingling standing there blankly, she had never seen Xiao Lingling so weak.
Qi Yuning gasped loudly after being awakened.
Lu Zewei opened his eyes and looked at Qi Yuning and asked, "Why did you wake up?"
Qi Yuning leaned on Lu Ze and said, "I had a nightmare."
Lu Ze touched Qi Yuning's head and said, "With me here, nightmares are fake. Go back to sleep."
Qi Yuning leaned in Lu Ze's arms and fell into a sound sleep. When she woke up, she felt very tired.
After getting dressed, Qi Yuning asked Gu Yu beside her, "Have you sent out the invitations to the Liu family for Lingling's first birthday party?"
Guyu said, "Don't worry, Princess. It has already been sent. The servant who delivered the letter to the Liu family has come to report that the Liu family has a happy event. Young Master Liu Changgeng has been promoted to the position of Doctor of the Ministry of War. He should be able to come to the capital to take up his post when Princess Lingling turns one."
Qi Yuning asked, "Liu Changgeng?"
"That's the child that Uncle Liu adopted."
Qi Yuning's aunt died early, and her uncle was deeply in love with her and did not remarry. Instead, he adopted a child from the clan into the Liu family. This Liu Changgeng was actually the cousin of Qi Yuning and Qi Yuan'an.
However, this cousin Liu had no intention of clinging to the Qi family's wealth.
Previously, Qi Yuan'an had thought about letting this cousin join the Qi family army, but this cousin was also ambitious, so he went to the Lingnan Army in the southernmost part of the country to serve as a soldier, and there has been no news about him in the past few years.
I didn't expect that he had such great ability.
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "He is from my uncle's family. Now that he has a bright future, it's a good thing."
Qi Yuning was looking at the Qi family's account book and fiddling with the abacus when he heard a baby voice calling for mother. Qi Yuning looked down and saw Lingling crawling on the ground.
Qi Yuning picked up Lingling without any disdain, looked at Lingling's little face and said, "Why did you get up so early today?"
Lingling stuck to Qi Yuning's face, babbling words that Qi Yuning couldn't understand.
Ah Li said from the side: "The little princess seemed to have a nightmare last night. She kept crying and it took a long time to coax her back to sleep. It's amazing that such a young person can have nightmares."
Qi Yuning touched Lingling's head with a distressed look and said to Ali, "Next time Lingling has a nightmare, come and wake me up. Don't worry about disturbing Lu Ze and me."
Ali quickly responded, "Yes."
Qi Yuning noticed that Lingling was extremely clingy today, but Qi Yuning really liked the clinginess of the little baby Lingling. When he smelled the milky scent on Lingling's body, Qi Yuning felt all his tiredness disappear.
Qi Yuning touched Lingling's little face and said, "Lingling has been wronged. If you have a nightmare in the future, mother will be with Lingling."
Lingling held Qi Yuning's hand tightly with her little hand, and placed her little hand on the red envelope that Qi Yuning had received from a mosquito bite yesterday.
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