The mountain breeze blew, and there was a moment of awkwardness between the three of them.
Qi Yuning also coughed lightly and said, "Do you want to hunt with us?"
Zhao Xunfang shook her head and said, "No need, cousin, cousin-in-law, I'm leaving first."
After Zhao Xunfang left, Qi Yuning pinched Lu Ze's waist unhappily and said, "It's all your fault for making trouble outside!"
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand and smiled faintly: "Who knew she would be here? Fortunately, she is not an outsider, but my cousin."
Qi Yuning complained, "I will never let you mess around outside again in the future."
Lu Ze looked towards where Zhao Xunfang was and saw the mark of the wooden wheel. He frowned slightly and motioned Qi Yuning to look over there, "There is a mark of the wooden wheel."
Qi Yuning asked, "Is it Princess Rong? She was here just now? Lu Ze! If you mess with me outside again, I will ignore you for three days."
Lu Ze smiled lightly, "Fortunately, she is also my cousin."
Qi Yuning stepped hard on Lu Ze and focused on looking for prey. She was lucky enough to see two foxes. She pulled the bow and shot two foxes with one arrow.
Qi Yuning picked up the fox and said, "These two foxes can be used to make Lingling a fur coat for winter."
Lu Ze helped Qi Yuning carry the fox and said, "Do you still remember that you said you would make me a set of clothes?"
Qi Yuning said: "I'll make one for you when I have time."
Lu Ze did not force it. After all, he was not as childish as Lu Yun to compete with his wife to see if she could make clothes for him.
When the two men were going down the mountain, they didn't notice the girl hiding among the bushes.
Zhao Rong looked at Qi Yuning's back and clasped his hands tightly.
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Qi Yuning and Lu Ze returned to the Lu Mansion.
When Lu Ze saw his men waiting outside the house, he asked, "Did you find out that there was someone deliberately spreading the rumors about the prince?"
"Master, we have found out that it was Miss Zhou who sent someone to go to the head of the Chu family and tell him about her one night with the prince. Later, it was the Queen Mother who sent someone to make a big fuss about it."
Qi Yuning glanced at Lu Ze and said, "The Zhou family is still not at peace. I have to go to the palace."
Lu Ze nodded slightly and said, "Yes."
Qi Yuning changed her clothes and went to the bedroom of Empress Dowager Zhou in the temporary palace.
When Queen Mother Zhou saw Qi Yuning coming, she smiled and said, "Yuning, what brings you here so early in the morning?"
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "It's nothing serious. I just came to tell the Queen Mother that Lu Yun has woken up."
Queen Mother Zhou twirled the Buddhist beads in her hand and said, "That's really a good thing."
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "This is all thanks to Shen Nian's vegetarianism and chanting, copying Buddhist scriptures day and night. This emotion moved heaven and earth and made Lu Yun wake up."
Queen Mother Zhou looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Yuning, we are one family and we should not have different opinions. What do you mean by this?"
Qi Yuning said: "Lu Yun's meaning is that he will not divorce Shen Nian. Even if Shen Nian didn't exist, Lu Yun would not marry Zhou's daughter as a concubine or a concubine."
Queen Mother Zhou said, "My Jiamin saved his life without caring about her reputation."
Qi Yuning said: "We will naturally repay Jiamin for saving our lives, but wasn't your reputation... something your Zhou family didn't want first?"
Queen Mother Zhou frowned, "What do you mean?"
Qi Yuning smiled faintly: "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it. Queen Mother, for the sake of everyone's reputation, I think this matter should be dropped. If Jiamin insists on making the Lu family responsible for her lost reputation, then the Lu family will have to find out who spread the news behind the scenes.
I guess your Majesty doesn't want to see the Zhou family's daughter have a bad reputation, which would make things worse, right?"
Queen Mother Zhou glared at Qi Yuning in extreme anger, but no matter how angry she was, she had to endure it.
It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. She has endured in the imperial mausoleum for so many years. She can wait until the day when her Jie'er grows up.
Let’s see if Qi Yuning can still be so arrogant then.
Queen Mother Zhou said, "I will find another marriage for Jiamin. If Lu Yun, that playboy, was not concerned about Jiamin's reputation, I would look down on him from afar."
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "That's perfect."
The hunt ended on June 20th, but many people were still reluctant to leave, especially Xiao Lingling, who was reluctant to leave Chang'an.
When we returned to the Shengjing Princess's Mansion, Xiao Lingling refused to drink milk or millet porridge, and she laughed much less.
Qi Yuning had no choice but to let Aliduo take Lingling for a walk outside. She had never seen a child who loved to play outside so much.
When Lingling was ten months old, the weather was the hottest. The heat wave seemed to be able to steam people to death. People say that July is the hottest month, but in fact, July, when summer turns to autumn, also makes people even more irritable due to the heat.
Lingling no longer likes to go out and just stays at home to play with Han Ge'er.
Qi Yuning didn't want to restrict Lingling from playing with anyone, but Han Ge'er was sick every other day, and Qi Yuning was afraid that Lingling would disturb Han Ge'er's recovery, and Chen Nian was afraid that Han Ge'er would pass on his illness to Lingling, so gradually Lingling stopped playing with Han Ge'er.
Lingling did find a good way to have fun, which was to follow Lu Ze into the palace early in the morning to play with Zhao Jie. Zhao Jie doted on Lingling very much, and Lingling especially loved playing with her uncle. If she didn't go to the palace for a day, she would be surrounded by her uncle.
Qi Yuning listened to Lingling talking about her uncle again, pinched Lingling's face and said, "My uncle has to study and deal with state affairs, how can he play with you all day long?"
Lingling had no one to play with, but she started practicing walking. She could already take a few slow steps holding onto the wall, but she was still too timid to let go of the wall and stand.
Seeing Lingling holding onto the wall with both hands and practicing walking on tiptoe, Qi Yuning couldn't help but chuckle and went over to help Lingling practice walking.
When Lu Ze entered the room and saw Qi Yuning supporting Lingling and she was able to walk, he was surprised and said, "Lingling can actually walk."
"I was able to walk by holding onto the wall in the first two days."
Qi Yuning carried Lingling to the wall and asked her to walk with the help of the wall. She showed Lu Ze how Lingling could walk with the help of the wall.
Lu Ze praised: "Lingling is amazing."
Lingling took two or three steps and then started crawling again.
Lu Ze saw Qi Yuning and said, "Your birthday is coming soon. We couldn't hold a birthday party last year. Do you want to have a big one this year?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "No, Lingling will be one year old in less than a month after my birthday. I might as well hold a grand celebration for Lingling. I wonder what Lingling will grab at the celebration?"
Lu Ze asked, "Why is your daughter having a grand celebration for her first birthday? Isn't it usually only held for sons?"
Qi Yuning glared at Lu Ze and said, "How come you are so clichéd? Isn't our daughter's first birthday worth celebrating? There are no such rules. I heard that I also held a one-year-old celebration."
Lu Ze said: "Yes, Lingling deserves the best in this world."
After dinner at the princess's residence, Qi Yuning informed Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu about the grand one-year-old celebration banquet that would be held for Lingling.
Princess Pingrou took Lingling from Ali and said, "Speaking of which, Lingling will be one year old in a little over a month, so we should give her a big celebration."
Lu Yun said: "No food should be served at Lingling's one-year-old birthday banquet. She loves to eat so much, she will definitely grab some food!"
Lu Baozhu also said: "Yes, especially no meat buns and mung bean cakes!"
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Yun and Lu Baozhu and said, "It's a pity that Lingling still calls you uncle and aunt. You look down on Lingling in this way."
Princess Pingrou smiled and said, "Speaking of the one-year-old feast, there is an interesting story. Yuning, do you know what you got for the feast?"
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