Lu Yiling smiled and said, "Uncle, can't you learn to be as thick-skinned as Qi Zhiyuan? You have to have more confidence in yourself. It's not that my aunt doesn't like you. As long as you listen to me, I promise to make my aunt open her heart."
Zhao Jie really didn't know whether he could trust a girl who had just turned fifteen, but now it seemed that he could only try his best.
Lu Yiling leaned close to Zhao Jie's ear and whispered, "My aunt wasn't unhappy right after entering the palace. She's been feeling down ever since she lost her child. Although you've punished Ning Ji for his crimes, Ning Ji is more than just Ning Ji. Without this Imperial Concubine Ning, there will be other Imperial Concubines like Imperial Concubine Zhou, Imperial Concubine Qian, and Imperial Concubine Sun..."
Lu Yiling said, "The harem struggles are unstoppable. Before my great-grandfather ascended the throne, there were cases of brothers killing each other, and how many princes killed each other? Who wouldn't be envious of the throne? If I were named Zhao, I would be envious too!"
Zhao Jie flicked Lu Yiling's forehead and said, "If the Queen Mother hears what you said, I won't have a peaceful day."
Lu Yiling covered her forehead and said, "Uncle, it's impossible that my aunt doesn't like you. It's precisely because she doesn't dare to like you. It's destined that her husband can't be hers alone. If she still dares to like you sincerely, she would be too stupid."
"Why doesn't she want to have another child now? It's because she doesn't dare to gamble on whether she can give birth to this child successfully, and whether she can let this child grow up safely. When she is full of anxiety, how can you let her experience the good things in the palace?"
"If she had married an ordinary man, she could have divorced him despite all the worry and fear. But she is the queen, and she is destined to stay in the palace no matter how much she hates it."
Lu Yiling looked at Zhao Jie and said, "To make my aunt feel happy in the palace, you must become her only husband. Promise her that there will be no more concubines in the palace in the future. There are still the virtuous concubines and others in the palace. You can make them ladies and grant them gardens outside the palace."
Zhao Jie frowned slightly and did not agree. It was easy for Lu Yiling to say, but it was not that simple for an emperor.
Lu Yiling was young and naturally didn't understand these things.
Lu Yiling didn't say anything more. She just felt that her position as the female Shaoqing of the Dali Temple was hopeless. If she were the emperor, she would not be willing to give up the three palaces and six courtyards in the harem. It was just human nature. What's more, Zhao Jie was the emperor.
The emperor's feelings are ridiculous.
Lu Yiling returned to Yuemiyuan, but did not see Chu Che. It took a long time for Chu Che to return.
"Chu Che, where have you been?"
Chu Che looked at Lu Yiling with displeasure and anger and said, "Little Princess, how could you let Princess Baozhu introduce a wife to me? I'm still young and don't plan to get married!"
Lu Yiling recalled that the Shen family had indeed prepared a woman. "This is because I miss you. That Shen family beauty was originally intended for His Majesty. I gave her to you, and you still dare to complain to me?"
Chu Che said, "Princess, my parents will take care of the marriage, so you don't need to worry about it."
Lu Yiling snorted lightly, "Don't worry about it. I won't introduce you to a marriage in the future. It seems that I have no hope of entering the Dali Temple. My uncle doesn't want me to enter the court."
Chu Che said, "The princess can find a husband who can enter the Dali Temple and still hold the power of the Dali Temple."
Lu Yiling asked, "How can it be so easy to find a husband?"
Lu Yiling looked at Chu Che in front of her and said, "Chu Che, are you willing to listen to me on everything?"
"Except for the marriage," Chu Che said, "I don't want to get married so early. Everything else is up to you."
Lu Yiling smiled and said, "Go and take the imperial examination. Next year, when you pass and enter the imperial court, I will ask my uncle to give you a position in the Dali Temple. If you enter the Dali Temple, it will be the same as if I entered the Dali Temple. You will listen to me anyway."
Chu Che was surprised and said, "How can it be so easy to pass the exam? I'm afraid..."
Lu Yiling said, "I will urge you to study hard. You need to pass the imperial examination next year, otherwise you are not worthy of being my guard!"
Chu Che: "..."
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze didn't return to Shengjing City from Chang'an until March.
After returning to Shengjing City, Qi Yuning didn't see Lu Yiling for several days. Only then did he know that Lu Yiling and Chu Che had gone to study with Fang Daru.
Qi Yuning brought Lu Yiling's favorite cakes to Fang Jing's house. Fang Jing was a famous scholar. Lin Jiang and Lu Ze were once his students. Now he was over eighty years old and lived in seclusion in a village outside Shengjing City.
When Qi Yuning arrived, she saw Lu Yiling wearing coarse linen clothes and planting rice in the paddy field. If Lu Yiling's face was not too beautiful, Qi Yuning would not have dared to recognize her as his daughter.
“Lingling!”
Qi Yuning shouted with a sad face.
"Mother!"
Lu Yiling threw away the seedlings in her hand, ran barefoot up the ridge of the field, and threw herself into Qi Yuning's arms, "Mom, you're back? Did you give me a brother or sister?"
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Yiling, whose face and hair were covered in mud, with distress. "Lingling, how did you become like this? Why are you still walking barefoot in the fields? I'm afraid there are leeches in the fields. Come back with me quickly."
Lu Yiling said, "Mother, I'm fine here. Mr. Fang said that I'm too impetuous and utilitarian, so he asked me to farm to calm my temper.
Mother, look at those acres of land over there. Chu Che and I planted them together. When the autumn harvest comes, you will be able to eat the rice I planted."
Qi Yuning said, "We don't need you to farm in our family."
Qi Yuning had never worked in the fields since she was a child, no matter how miserable she was. Naturally, she would not let her daughter, who had been raised in her arms since childhood, do such a thing.
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