Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Qin Yuli has put in a lot of effort, but she won't be willing to die like this. If she has to use the Red Book of Iron Certificate, it would be worth it if she could only save her life."
Lu Ze chuckled and said, "That's right."
Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "Let's go, it's time to go back."
When Qi Yuning and Lu Ze returned to the princess's mansion, Duke Lu happened to walk out of the door with an anxious look on his face.
Duke Lu pulled Lu Ze aside and scolded him, "It's ok for you to stay outside on weekdays, but didn't anyone come to tell you that your grandmother is dying? Come in quickly."
Qi Yuning saw Duke Lu bowing and said, "Duke."
Duke Lu saw Qi Yuning standing beside him and said helplessly and guiltily: "Princess..."
Lu Ze walked inside holding Qi Yuning's hand and saw that the main hall of the princess's mansion was filled with people from the Lu family. When they saw Lu Ze and Qi Yuning walking towards them holding hands, they all made way for them.
Princess Pingrou sat in the main seat with a very bad look on her face.
"Grandma, my eldest brother is back."
Lu Baohua said in Madam Lu's ear.
"Brother, Princess."
Madam Lu saw Lu Ze and Qi Yuning's interlocked hands, frowned, and said with heavy breathing, "Princess Qi is the daughter of a noble family after all. I didn't expect that she could do such a thing as having sex with a man in private. She disregarded the strict rules between men and women before marriage and had sex with a man without any sense of shame or education. She really brought shame to the old prince."
Lu Baohua said at the side: "Grandma!"
Qi Yuning said frankly: "I, Qi Yuning, have been an orphan since childhood, so naturally I have no education. The Lu family has a good education, but didn't this Lu Shizi also have a private affair with a girl?"
Madam Lu was so angry: "You!"
Lu Ze tightened his grip on Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Grandma, it was my grandson who broke the rules and deceived the princess. This has nothing to do with the princess."
Madam Lu said to Lu Ze, "Ze'er, you must break off the engagement with Princess Qi and marry Qin Yuli. You can't ignore your sister, and you can't ignore your cousins. You know that every day Lu Baozhu is in jail, your cousins' reputation will be damaged!"
Qi Yuning said: "Mrs. Lu claims to be well-educated, but today I want to ask, how can the Lu family be considered a well-educated and well-behaved family when they repeatedly cancel engagements?"
Qi Yuning let go of Lu Ze's hand and sat next to Princess Pingrou, "Princess, Duke Lu, although there are no elders in my Qi Palace, it is not so easy to be bullied!
Let’s first settle the account of Lu Yun’s breaking off the engagement by becoming a monk. I didn’t make a big fuss about Lu Yun becoming a monk out of Lingling’s consideration.
"Your Lu family owed me a debt, and now you want Lu Ze to break off the engagement with me. What's that? Do you really think that my Qi family has no one? Can I be played around by your Lu family again and again?"
Duke Lu’s face turned pale.
Princess Pingrou said weakly: "Ningning..."
Qi Yuning looked at Madam Lu and said, "In the past, this princess respected you as an elder and treated you politely. When you asked me to be the concubine of Master Lu, this princess didn't bother with you because you were old. Now you dare to insult me in person?"
Madam Lu was so angry that her hands were shaking. She said, "You want to enter my Lu family. As the elder of the Lu family, how can I say that you are incredible?"
Qi Yuning said: "I am the Princess of Chang'an, who was personally conferred by His Majesty. I have the same rank as the princesses of the royal family. Although the old lady has the title of Duke's wife, her rank is still lower than mine. I cannot let you lecture me!
What's more, this princess has not yet entered your Lu family's gate, so you can't disregard the hierarchy and teach this princess a lesson!"
Second Aunt Lu and Third Aunt Lu looked at each other, and then stared at Old Madam Lu. They were really worried that Old Madam Lu would not be able to catch her breath...
Lu Ze walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Yuning."
Qi Yuning said: "If you Lu family think that the Qi family is deserted, you are wrong. I, Qi Yuning, am an orphan and I will not tolerate being bullied!
If you really want to cancel the engagement, starting from the incident where Lu Yun disobeyed the imperial order and became a monk, I must demand a fair explanation from your Lu family.
Don’t think that I am easy to talk to, but you guys keep bullying me again and again.”
Qi Yuning raised her eyes and looked at Lu Ze. "This princess doesn't have to marry you. The Lu family proposed to me twice, and it was your Lu family who proposed. You can cancel the marriage if you want to. This princess wants to see if this will affect the reputation of your Lu family's young master and daughter!"
As soon as Qi Yuning entered, she was scolded by Old Madam Lu, which made her very angry.
Even Lu Ze no longer looked so pleasing to the eye.
Princess Pingrou stood up and said, "Yuning, the Lu family really let you down with Lu Yun, so I didn't say a word about how you let Yun'er suffer. He still hurt his spleen and stomach when he went to Beicheng. Although I am worried, I also think he deserves it.
The Lu family is sorry for letting Ze'er break off the engagement with you today. You are right. We shouldn't let you cancel the engagement again."
Madam Lu said, "What? Qi Yuning, if you really loved my Ze'er, you wouldn't have to marry him and bring trouble to our Lu family!"
"That's enough!" Princess Pingrou shouted, "Ze'er is my child, and his marriage is not up to you, an old hag!"
When Madam Lu heard the three words "old pious woman", she was furious, "Princess, you..."
Princess Pingrou said: "When Ze'er was still in his cradle, you snatched him away. When the old Duke said that the Lu family needed a legitimate grandson who was both civil and military, and he would teach Ze'er well, I endured it and gave Ze'er to the old Duke to raise with you.
But you still want to snatch the pearl away. The princess doesn't want that, but you are always disdainful of it.
After the old Duke left, you saw that Ze'er and this princess had a deep mother-son relationship, and you started to cause trouble everywhere. You introduced Ze'er to the daughter of a sixth-rank official, and you repeatedly pretended to be sick and used filial piety to force Ze'er to marry girls he didn't want to marry. Fortunately, Ze'er was not so foolishly filial.
You deserve the title of old hag! From today on, you are not allowed to set foot in the princess's mansion. In the future, you, an old hag, will not interfere in the marriages of my three children. Go!"
Madam Lu said, "I am your mother-in-law! Where in the world can you find a daughter-in-law like this? Look at the second son's family, and then look at the third son's family. Which daughter-in-law is like you?"
Lu Baohua whispered, "Grandma, my mother and Third Aunt are not princesses either."
Princess Pingrou covered her forehead and felt her vision go dark before she fainted. Prince Consort Lu, who was standing by, supported Princess Pingrou and said, "Pingrou, mother, please leave quickly!"
Lu Ze also stepped forward to support Princess Pingrou and felt her pulse: "Quickly call the imperial physician."
Madam Lu also fainted, but no one supported her except the maid.
Even Madam Lu Er and Madam Lu San went to Princess Pingrou one after another, "Sister-in-law."
Old Madam Lu opened her eyes slightly, but actually fainted when she saw this scene. The Second Master Lu and the Third Master Lu quickly sent Old Madam Lu back to the Duke's Mansion.
The imperial physician came and gave Princess Pingrou an acupuncture injection, and only then did Princess Pingrou wake up.
Lu Ze supported Princess Pingrou and said, "Mother, my sister will be out early tomorrow morning. Don't worry."
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yes, Princess, don't worry, Lu Baozhu will definitely come out tomorrow."
Princess Pingrou held Lu Ze's hand and said, "Ze'er, you don't have to marry someone you don't like just for your mother's health."
Lu Ze said: "My son will still marry Yuning. You should have a good rest and go pick up my sister tomorrow morning."
Princess Pingrou looked at Qi Yuning, who nodded and said, "Yes, you should have a good rest. Qin Yuli will release Lu Baozhu."
Princess Pingrou sighed and said, "Alas, it's so late, you should go back first. If you don't see Lingling, you will cry again. It's been several days since I last saw Lingling. Tomorrow, when Baozhu is released from prison, take Lingling with you and we will have a good meal together as a family."
Lu Ze asked the maids to leave, and then said to Princess Pingrou and Prince Consort Lu, "Lingling has gone to the North City."
"What?!"
Princess Pingrou was surprised and asked, "You let such a young child go to the North City alone?" (End of this chapter)
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