Chen Nian returned to a small villa she had bought in Shengjing, and smiled indifferently when she saw Lu Yun playing with Han Ge'er in the yard.
Shen Nian walked up to Lu Yun and said, "Thank you for helping me look after Brother Han. I saw your niece. She looks very similar to Lingling. Your niece is also called Lingling."
Lu Yun looked at Shen Nian and said, “She was originally Lingling.”
"What?" Shen Nian asked.
Lu Yun remembered that Lingling's identity couldn't be easily revealed, so he said, "Nothing."
Chen Nian handed Han Ge'er to the nanny beside her, let the nanny carry Han Ge'er down, and then took Lu Yun's hand and walked into the house.
Lu Yun looked at Chen Nian in front of him, turning his eyes away and not wanting to look at her, but still unable to help looking at her, he lowered his head and looked at Chen Nian and said, "Chen Nian, I think we should make it clear, I will not marry you, you also know that I am the young prince of the Lu family, if I marry a second-married widow, won't I be laughed to death by my friends..."
Chen Nian looked up at Lu Yun and said sadly, "If you don't want to marry me, I won't rely on you. I am very grateful that you can come and take care of Han Ge'er for me today."
Lu Yun looked at Shen Nian with some distress and said, "After all, I have taken care of him for a few days. After the national mourning period is over, I will get married. You should find a good father for Han Ge'er as soon as possible!"
Shen Nian smiled and said, "Well, I hope the little prince can marry a princess who is presentable and will not be laughed at by others as soon as possible."
Lu Yun looked at Shen Nian's smile, somewhat reluctantly. He lowered his head and grabbed Shen Nian's waist, picked Shen Nian up horizontally, and put her in the bed curtain: "Today is really the last time!"
Shen Nian chuckled and said, “You said the same thing a few days ago.”
"This time it's real!" Lu Yun said, "Chen Nian, we can't go on like this anymore."
Shen Nian said, “You really said that last time.”
Lu Yun said: "You are going to find another husband. This time is really the last time."
The veil is falling.
After several sunny days in a row, autumn rain began to fall.
When Shen Nian woke up, it was already dark and Lu Yun was no longer by her side. After she put on her clothes, she looked at the jade pendant left by Lu Yun.
Chen Nian took the jade pendant and hooked the tassel of the jade pendant in her hand. Since he was the father that Han Ge'er had recognized, she would not let go.
For Chen Nian, there are many men she can marry for her second marriage. Although their family background is not as good as Lu Yun's, their abilities and prospects are much better than Lu Yun.
It's just that Han'er has only recognized Lu Yun as her father since she recognized people. When Han'er called Lu Yun "Daddy" for the first time, Shen Nian thought that it would be nice to marry Lu Yun for the second time.
Lu Yun is a little young and a little out of touch, but the important thing is that the first person Han Ge'er called "Daddy" was him, and he is also the one Han Ge'er likes.
The maid handed over the fertility-enhancing medicine, and Shen Nian drank it down in one gulp while enduring the bitterness. She coughed several times.
When the nanny brought Han Ge'er in, Han Ge'er probably smelled the bitter smell of medicine and his little eyes wrinkled together.
Chen Nian said to Han Ge'er, "Mother will not really give you a brother or sister, at least before you are three years old, mother will not really give birth to a brother or sister, but mother needs to get pregnant first, so that mother can marry Lu Yun and you can have a father."
Han Ge’er looked at Shen Nian with his bright eyes, shouting, “Daddy.”
…
After an autumn rain, the weather suddenly became cold.
Qi Yuning was really tired from the confinement. Although she was satisfied with having Lingling, she had seen little Lingling when she was three years old, and the little Lingling as a baby seemed a little quiet.
The baby only knows how to eat and sleep. Even when she is awake, she doesn’t understand a lot of things when you talk to her. She can only understand the tone of voice.
Qi Yuning wanted to see some business matters, but her subordinates told her that King Qi had ordered that no matter how big the matter was, she had to wait until she was out of confinement before reporting it.
Lu Ze had originally promised to wash her hair on her day off, but he had to give up because it was a cloudy day.
Qi Yuning was almost going crazy from the confinement she had received after giving birth. Fortunately, Lu Ze still had a conscience and often worked in the princess's mansion. Whenever he had time, he would come over to keep her company and relieve her boredom.
Occasionally, Shen Nian and Lu Baozhu would come over to chat with her.
When Shen Nian came today, he brought Han Ge'er with him.
Han Ge'er is already over one year old and walks very smoothly. He walked to Lingling and shouted, "Sister!"
Qi Yuning chuckled and said, "Brother Han is so good at talking now."
Shen Nian chuckled and said, "He can only call people. I don't even dare to bring him here, for fear that he will bully Lingling."
Qi Yuning looked at Han Ge'er and said, "Han Ge'er is quite well-behaved. By the way, I said before that I would find a good father for Han Ge'er, and now I have found one. Do you know the new Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Qian Yun?"
Shen Nian said: “I haven’t heard of it.”
Qi Yuning said, "Minister Qian has a promising future. Lu Ze admires him very much. Unfortunately, his wife died of a difficult childbirth and left behind a daughter. He is a man of loyalty and has been waiting for her for three years. He has no other concubines around him, and it is not easy for him to raise the child by himself until she is three years old. Now his daughter has begun to understand things, and he needs a wife to deal with personal relationships in the officialdom..."
Shen Nian chuckled and said, “He’s a good husband. I’ll go meet him after the national mourning period is over?”
Qi Yuning agreed and said, "Okay, how did you manage to stay in confinement before? I had a very hard time staying in confinement during this period. My hair was so greasy and messy that I felt uncomfortable..."
Shen Nian said, "When I was in confinement, I cried every day and didn't care about my hair being messy. It's better not to mention it."
Qi Yuning did not mention it again. He vaguely saw that there were dots of mottled red marks on Shen Nian's exposed neck. Qi Yuning thought he had seen it wrong, but when he looked carefully, he found that he was not wrong.
Qi Yuning was slightly shocked, but didn't show it on his face.
After Shen Nian left, Lu Ze saw that Qi Yuning looked strange and asked, "What's wrong?"
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "I just think that you can never know a person's heart from his appearance. I didn't expect that Shen Nian looked so dignified and polite on the surface...but in private..."
Qi Yuning thought about it carefully and couldn't say that Chen Nian did anything wrong. Her husband had been dead for more than a year, so there was nothing wrong with her finding another man to have sex with.
However, she didn’t want to be Qian Yun’s matchmaker anymore.
Qi Yuning said to Lu Ze: "Let's call off the marriage between Qian Yun and Chen Nian."
Lu Ze said: "It just so happens that I came to tell you about this matter. Qian Yun feels that he is not worthy of marrying into the Shen family, a family of great rank. Even though she is an adopted daughter, Shen Nian is still a member of the Shen family genealogy, and she is not someone he can marry easily."
Qi Yuning said: "This matchmaker fee is destined to not be collected. By the way, can you wash my head tomorrow? It's been the 20th day, and it's really uncomfortable. If I don't wash my head, all my hair will fall out."
Lu Ze said: "Didn't the imperial physician say that it was just hair loss after giving birth, and it will grow back in the future."
Qi Yuning said: "But I just want to wash my hair, Brother Ze, please."
Qi Yuning rarely acts like a spoiled child, and she rarely acts like a spoiled child in front of Lu Ze. Listening to her acting like a spoiled child, Lu Ze coughed unbearably for a moment and said, "Okay, if there's sunshine tomorrow, I'll wash your hair."
Qi Yuning finally waited for a sunny day.
The reason why Lu Ze agreed to wash Qi Yuning's hair was that he sent away all the other maids and servants. Only Qi Yuning's four trusted maids were left in the whole courtyard, boiling mugwort and ginger soup.
Lu Ze ordered the secret guards to guard the gate. While washing Qi Yuning's hair, he said, "If my mother finds out, I will definitely be criticized."
Qi Yuning chuckled and said, "Who made Master Lu fall into the honey trap?"
Lu Ze also chuckled and said, "Forget it, I'll just let you nag me."
The moment Qi Yuning's scalp touched the water, she felt like she came back to life. Lu Ze used many towels to dry Qi Yuning's long hair. He changed towels one after another and found many heaters, for fear that Qi Yuning would catch a cold.
After washing her hair, Qi Yuning felt refreshed while holding Lingling. Little Lingling, who was already twenty days old, was growing cuter and cuter.
Lu Ze said to Qi Yuning, "Mother, please don't hold Lingling's full moon banquet. When the time comes to mourn the death of the deceased, we will hold a hundred-day banquet."
Qi Yuning asked, "When you go abroad to mourn, Lingling must have passed the hundredth day, right?"
"It's only a few days away, so it's a good time to hold the wedding banquet, and it will also be convenient for relatives to come over for the New Year."
Qi Yuning hugged Lingling and said, "That's fine. We can just celebrate the full moon banquet with our family, and then we can hold a grand banquet for the hundred days, with lots of fun."
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