Lu Baozhu was shocked when she heard this and said, "Another monk? Wouldn't Qi Yuning destroy my Lu family?"
Lu Ze said to Madam Lu, "Grandma, I can't do as you wish. Even if there is no imperial decree today, my grandson has already decided to marry the princess."
Madam Lu pointed at Lu Baohua, Lu Baoxue and several other brothers and sisters and said, "Ze'er, you are the eldest grandson of the Lu family and their eldest brother. Now you are going to ignore your brothers and sisters for a woman?"
Lu Ze raised his eyes to look at Duke Lu standing beside him and said, "If the second and third uncles are worried about their nephew being implicated, they can split up the family..."
Duke Lu angrily scolded, "What do you mean by dividing the family? Your grandmother is still alive, and you are talking about dividing the family. How much infamy are you asking me to bear?"
Princess Pingrou glared at Duke Lu and said, "I think Ze'er's suggestion is very good. Since the old lady has also said that she is afraid that the children of my second and third brothers will be implicated by Ze'er, we should just separate the family and end the matter."
Madam Lu was so angry that she gasped and said, "Zer, you grew up by grandma's side. Grandma worked hard to raise you. Now you are well-known in Shengjing City and a high-ranking official in the court, but you treat grandma like this? You want to divide the family before I die?"
Lu Baozhu said: "It's fine if the family doesn't split up. Brother, you can marry into the Qi family. The Qi family is short of people anyway. If you are willing to marry into the Qi family, I'm sure both King Qi and Qi Yuning will applaud you!"
Old Madam Lu kept saying more and more outrageous things about Lu Baozhu, and she was so angry that she had a headache.
"Your Highness, Princess Qi is outside asking to see you."
When Mrs. Lu heard that Qi Yuning came to see her that night, she was so angry that her heart ached. Second Mrs. Lu and Third Mrs. Lu served tea and medicine respectively.
Princess Pingrou saw her two sisters-in-law coming forward to take care of her, so she stood up and said, "It's late, Baozhu, Ze'er, we should go home."
Duke Lu bowed to Madam Lu and said, "My son will take his leave."
When Princess Pingrou saw Duke Lu following her, she said unhappily, "Aren't you going to be a filial son? Why are you following me? Your mother is still sick, you have to stay by her side and take care of her day and night."
Duke Lu has always respected Princess Pingrou, but today, he became angry when he heard what Princess Pingrou said. "Zer's statement about splitting up the family just now is unreasonable. If this gets out, how will he gain a foothold in the court in the future?"
Princess Pingrou said in a slightly higher voice: "I asked for Yuning on behalf of Ze'er! My father has already agreed, so why do you Lu family have to say anything?
After I married you, I never acted like a princess. Did I make your Lu family forget the difference between the ruler and the subject?
Ze'er is right, it's time to separate the family. The Princess's Mansion is separated from you. My Lord, please remember this: you are not allowed to come to the Princess's Mansion without an imperial decree in the future!"
Duke Lu frowned slightly and said, "Mother is doing this for the good of the entire Lu family."
"Is she doing this for the Lu family, or to save my reputation?" Princess Pingrou said unhappily, "You should be a filial son, and go ahead and do it."
As soon as he arrived at the gate of Lu Mansion, Lu Ze heard Lingling crying.
Qi Yuning breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the light of the lantern coming, "Little ancestor, your father is here, don't cry!"
Lingling saw Lu Ze and cried out in grievance, "Daddy."
Lu Ze strode forward and hugged the crying Lingling in his arms, "Don't cry, Daddy is here."
"Oh, poor Lingling." Lu Baozhu went forward and wiped Lingling's tears. "Why are you crying so hard? Qi Yuning, what did you do to my little niece?"
Qi Yuning ignored Lu Baozhu and saw the princess and her husband quarreling in the back. She asked Lu Ze in a low voice, "Are your parents quarreling?"
Lu Ze said: "Don't worry about them."
Lu Baozhu nodded and said, "At most, the two of them will quarrel tonight and make up tomorrow. It has been like this since they were young."
Lingling snuggled in Lu Ze's arms and asked, "Why doesn't Daddy come back?"
Lu Ze touched Lingling's little head and said, "Grandmother is sick. Daddy was accompanying her just now."
Lingling pouted and said, "Lingling also wants daddy to accompany her."
“Why is Lingling crying so aggrieved?” Princess Pingrou stepped forward and saw Lingling in Lu Ze’s arms and asked, “What do you want to eat?”
Qi Yuning said: "Lingling just wants her daddy, it will be good to see her daddy."
Princess Pingrou said, "That's right. It's getting dark now. Ze'er, you should take Lingling back and rest."
When Qi Yuning and Lu Ze walked back to the palace, she looked up at Lu Ze and asked, "Is Madam Lu really ill or faking it this time?"
Lu Ze sighed and said, "When you get old, you will always get sick. I have real illnesses, but today I am seriously ill because my grandmother doesn't want me to marry you."
Qi Yuning chuckled and said, "I thought you would cover up your grandmother's dislike for me."
Lu Ze said, "My grandmother doesn't like my mother very much either, but my mother never pays attention to my grandmother. You will marry into a princess's mansion in the future, and I will take care of your filial piety to your grandmother. You just need to keep up appearances."
Qi Yuning chuckled and said, "Master Lu has always had a good reputation. I thought you would tell me not to bother with your grandmother and be filial to her?"
Lu Ze said: "Grandmother doesn't like you, so I won't let you suffer in front of her."
Qi Yuning smiled lightly, "There are only a handful of people in Shengjing City who can make this princess feel wronged."
Lu Ze held Lingling in one hand and Qi Yuning's waist with the other, and returned to the palace under the soft moonlight of the full moon.
Lingling had been unwilling to sleep, and today, even though Lu Ze told her one story after another, she was still full of energy.
Qi Yuning could hardly bear it any longer, "Lingling, go to sleep!"
Lingling pouted and said, "When Lingling falls asleep, she will cry if her mother kisses her. Lingling doesn't want to see her mother cry. If her mother cries, Lingling will be sad too."
Qi Yuning hugged Lingling and said, "What a good baby! Don't cry if mommy kisses you."
Lingling listened to story after story and finally fell asleep at 11 p.m. Her eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and she must have been unhappy in her dream.
Qi Yuning reached out and smoothed Lingling's eyebrows, and Lingling gradually fell asleep.
The little hand still tightly grasped Lu Ze's fingers.
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said, "After we get married, let's go find Taoist He and ask Lingling how to get back."
"Is that the Taoist He who predicted the Great Sheng General Star for my grandfather? Taoist He was already over eighty when he predicted my grandfather's fate. It's been forty years, and he's still alive?"
Lu Ze said: "Well, the Taoist priest is still alive and has not passed away. It's just that his whereabouts are unknown. I don't know if we can find him."
Qi Yuning said: "He is over 120 years old. Can a person live so long?"
"I heard that Taoist Master He has made a longevity elixir that can make anyone who takes it live a thousand years."
Qi Yuning did not believe in such elixirs. "How many emperors in ancient times sought this elixir of longevity, hoping to rule for thousands of years. But in the end, even the powerful Qin Shi Huang and Han Wudi could only accept the cycle of life, aging, sickness and death. It is a blessing for a person to live to be a hundred years old."
Lu Ze said, "Indeed, it is not easy for a person to live to be a hundred years old. No one has ever been able to live to be a thousand years old. However, I think Taoist He is the leader of the Xuanmen sect and has a wide range of knowledge. He may know how Lingling can go back to the Xinwei year."
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