Chapter 11: Don’t Call Me Daddy
In the Ganlu Palace.
When Lu Ze and Qi Yuning arrived at Ganlu Palace, Lingling and Queen Qin were having a great time.
"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen."
Queen Qin saw that the hem of Lu Ze's official robe was wet and asked, "Did your grandfather smash the teacup? You are a steady and sensible child, how could you do such a ridiculous thing?"
Lu Ze pretended to feel guilty and lowered his head, saying, "I know I was wrong."
Queen Qin looked at Lingling and said, "When you were Lingling's age, you loved to stick to me and play with your uncle. It's been almost 20 years in the blink of an eye. I'm getting old too. I don't know when I'll be gone."
Lu Ze said: "Grandma is not old, she will definitely live to be a hundred years old."
When Qi Yuning heard the words "live a long life" she looked at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze caught Qi Yuning's gaze and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Queen Qin smiled softly and said, "Everyone must accept old age. I hope your uncle can marry a crown princess as soon as possible and give birth to a grandson as cute and well-behaved as Lingling. Then he can die without regrets."
Queen Qin patted Lingling's head and said to Lu Ze, "You are close to your uncle. You should persuade him to find a crown princess as soon as possible and expand the Eastern Palace."
Lu Ze cupped his hands and said, "Yes."
Qi Yuning stepped forward and picked up Lingling and said, "Empress, it's getting late. Lingling and I won't disturb you anymore and will leave the palace first."
Lingling raised her little head and said, "Lingling, don't leave the palace. Lingling wants to play with little uncle. Lingling didn't see little uncle even after entering the palace today!"
Qi Yuning didn't know who the little uncle Lingling was talking about, so she hugged her and said, "Lingling, don't you want a pony? Mommy will take you to pick a pony."
"Okay!" Lingling smiled sweetly.
Queen Qin chuckled and said, "Ningning, when you have time in the future, please bring Xiao Ling'er to the palace to visit me more often. I am getting old and always want to have more children around me."
"yes!"
Qi Yuning nodded in acceptance of the order.
After leaving Ganlu Palace, Lu Ze took Lingling from Qi Yuning and carried her out of the palace.
Qi Yuning said to Lu Ze at the palace gate: "Prince Lu, please go back to the Dali Temple. I will take Lingling back to the palace."
Lu Ze said: "It's time for dinner now, why don't we have dinner together?"
Qi Yuning was about to refuse, but Xiao Lingling touched her belly and said, "Mom, I'm so hungry. Let's have dinner with Daddy, okay?"
Qi Yuning gave his daughter face and nodded, "Okay."
Lu Ze arrived at the restaurant and asked for a prime private room.
After ordering the dishes, Lu Ze told the maids and guards around Qi Yuning, "Wait outside the house."
Jingzhe and Lichun looked at Qi Yuning, and Qi Yuning nodded at them, "You guys stay outside and guard."
"Yes, Princess."
After the maid closed the door, Lu Ze asked Qi Yuning, "What did you mean by the look you gave me in Ganlu Palace just now?"
Qi Yuning frowned slightly and said, "Master Lu, please don't be so sentimental. Who is looking at you?"
Lu Ze had no doubt that Qi Yuning disliked him, so he was not so self-indulgent. He said helplessly: "Princess Qi misunderstood. I was talking about the way Princess Qi looked at me when I said that the Queen would live a long life."
Qi Yuning pointed at Lingling and said, "Lingling doesn't know His Majesty or the Queen."
Lu Ze shuddered. If Lingling didn't know His Majesty and the Empress, did it mean that she would no longer have grandparents in six years?
Lingling said at the side: "Lingling knows His Majesty, but the white-bearded ancestor just now is not the same person as the His Majesty that Lingling knows."
Lingling didn’t know Emperor Shiyuan, so the Majesty six years later would naturally be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Lu Ze rubbed Lingling’s head and said, “Lingling, don’t say that anymore. The only emperor is the Whitebeard Ancestor. No one else is the emperor.”
Lingling said: "Oh, since my uncle doesn't allow me to call him Your Majesty like everyone else, from now on I won't call my uncle Your Majesty anymore. The White Bearded Ancestor will be Your Majesty."
Qi Yuning's hands shook when she was pouring tea, and a lot of tea splashed onto the table. She looked at Lu Ze, and Lu Ze also looked at her.
They looked into each other's eyes. Both of them were intelligent people. They could guess the future changes in imperial power from Lingling's few words.
Although the prince is only three years older than Lu Ze, he is also Lu Ze's biological uncle. There is no way Lingling would call the prince "little uncle".
So it wasn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who ascended the throne six years later?
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Lingling's uncle, except for that bald donkey in Xianglin Temple..."
Lu Ze said helplessly: "In front of Lingling, I hope the princess will be careful with her words. If Lu Yun hadn't become a monk, would the princess really marry Lu Yun tomorrow?"
Qi Yuning thought about it. If Lu Yun had not become a monk, tomorrow would be the wedding date. Knowing that Lingling was Lu Ze's daughter, could she really continue to marry Lu Yun?
Qi Yuning glared at Lu Ze and said, "That bald donkey betrayed me first when he became a monk. Why can't I call Lu Yun a bald donkey?"
Seeing the annoyance in Qi Yuning's eyes, Lu Ze did not defend his bald brother. If he really annoyed Qi Yuning, she might not even let him look at Lingling.
Lu Ze stopped talking about Lu Yun, the bald donkey, and asked Xiao Lingling, "Lingling, do you know how old your uncle is?"
Lingling said: "After the Chinese New Year, my uncle will be ten years old!"
Xiao Lingling used her left hand to count the fingers of her right hand. After counting for a long time, she found that there were only five fingers on her right hand, which was less than ten.
Seeing this, Qi Yuning smiled and gave his hand to Lingling, asking Lingling to continue counting her fingers, while he touched Lingling's cute little face with his other hand.
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning's profile with a faint smile, it turned out that Princess Qi could still be gentle for a moment.
Qi Yuning raised her eyes and looked at Lu Ze, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has a son?"
Lu Ze's voice was a little deep: "The East Palace has no heirs."
Qi Yuning's smile paused. The Eastern Palace had no heirs, and the one who ascended the throne six years later was a ten-year-old child. How was this possible?
His Majesty the present emperor had eleven sons, two of whom died young, and the third prince passed away two years ago, leaving behind only a widowed princess and a little prince who was less than four years old.
There are still eight princes left. Even if the crown prince is gone, why would a child be allowed to take over the throne in the end?
Qi Yuning guessed, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has the Qin family and your Lu family. If you and I were married at that time, and there were still the Qi family's troops, there is no reason why the Crown Prince could not ascend the throne and hand over the throne to a child. There is only one possibility, the Crown Prince died unexpectedly after ascending the throne, so he adopted a son from his brothers?"
Lu Ze nodded and said, "As you said, this possibility is the greatest. Tomorrow I will take Lingling to the East Palace to meet the prince."
Qi Yuning said: "No."
Lu Ze said: "I want to confirm whether Lingling knows His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Qi Yuning said, "Master Lu, everyone says you are smart. Don't you think that you are so smart when you bring your child to the East Palace? It's obvious that something is wrong."
Lu Ze said softly, "I am too concerned. Since His Majesty has already named Lingling a princess, I think we should hold a banquet for Lingling in the Princess's Mansion in the next two days to announce to the world that Lingling is my daughter. We can also invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the banquet."
Qi Yuning said, "No, if Lingling is to be crowned as a princess, if we want to hold a banquet, we should hold it in my Prince Qi's mansion."
"Princess, Lingling's surname is Lu."
Qi Yuning whispered, "It's not impossible to change the surname to Qi. Qi Yiling sounds better than Lu Yiling."
Lu Ze said: "I think Lu Yiling sounds better."
Qi Yuning looked at Xiao Lingling who was standing beside him, "Let Lingling choose for herself. Do you prefer the surname Lu or Qi?"
Little Lingling looked at Qi Yuning, then at Lu Ze. She lowered her head and said, "Mom, you never asked Lingling these questions before. Lingling likes both mom and dad. She likes the surname Lu and the surname Qi. She likes both of them."
Lu Ze felt very distressed when he heard this. He held Lingling in his arms and gently patted her back. He signaled Qi Yuning with his eyes and said, "The banquet for Lingling to be conferred the title of Princess should be held in Prince Qi's Mansion."
Qi Yuning saw Lingling in Lu Ze's arms and said, "Okay, and the prince must not tell anyone that Lingling is your daughter!"
Lu Ze frowned and asked, "Why?"
Qi Yuning said to Lingling again: "Lingling, don't call him daddy in front of outsiders in the future."
Lingling also didn't understand: "Why? Daddy is Daddy, why can't I call him Daddy?"
Qi Yuning said: "After Lu Yun finds out that Lingling is your daughter, he will definitely return to secular life. The original fault of breaking off the engagement was his. If I admit to others that Lingling is your daughter, it would seem that I was at fault for breaking off the engagement first.
Lu Yun became a monk to humiliate me. I don't want him to come back easily after just two days of vegetarianism. Doesn't he want to be a monk? Let him continue to be a monk! If he doesn't lose 30 or 40 pounds, I will never be able to get rid of the hatred in my heart!"
Lu Ze thought, this is the vindictive Qi Yuning.
Lu Ze didn't want to get it too easy, so he agreed to it. It was time for Lu Yun, this devil, to suffer more.
The little bald donkey eating grass: Brother, you are really my brother!
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