Chapter 13 Princess Qi, please help me apply the medicine
August 29th.
Early in the morning, just as Qi Yuning finished dressing up, she heard the maid come to inform her that Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu and his wife had arrived.
Qi Yuning was surprised, "So early?"
He stood up and went outside to greet them. When he was about to salute the princess and her husband, he was stopped by Princess Pingrou.
Princess Pingrou smiled and said, "We are all family, so there is no need to perform formalities. Where is Lingling?"
Qi Yuning was puzzled by what the family said, but she did not argue. She asked Lichun to bring Lingling, who had just washed and dressed, over.
Lingling was wearing a red and white skirt today, with two buns on her head and two red rabbit fur balls wrapped around her hair. She looked like a fairy.
It was the first time that Duke Lu saw his granddaughter. He finally understood why Princess Pingrou had to come to Prince Qi's mansion before the morning. If he hadn't told her that there was something wrong with her hair and she needed to have it recombed, the princess might have come knocking on the door before dawn.
Who wouldn’t like such a fairy-like granddaughter?
"grandfather!"
Lingling fell from Lichun's arms and threw herself into Duke Lu's arms.
He threw himself into Princess Pingrou's arms again, "Grandma!"
Qi Yu was glad that Princess Pingrou came early in the morning. She only remembered to tell Lingling not to call her daddy, but forgot to tell her not to call her grandma and grandpa.
Princess Pingrou picked up Lingling and kissed her on the face, making Lingling laugh. "Grandma!"
Qi Yuning watched the two of them getting along harmoniously, and for a moment she didn't know how to tell Lingling not to call her grandma.
Qi Yuning saw Lu Ze outside the palace and walked up to him and said, "Go and talk to the princess and Lingling. Lingling must not call the princess grandma."
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning today. She was wearing a pomegranate skirt made of the same fabric as Lingling. Just like the gorgeous red wedding dress she wore that day at Longhua Mountain, Qi Yuning was still so bold and bright.
Lu Ze said, "It's okay to call me grandma."
Qi Yuning stared at Lu Ze unhappily.
Lu Ze had no choice but to step forward and take Lingling from Princess Pingrou's arms and said, "Lingling, in the future, you can't call me Grandfather and Grandma in front of outsiders. You have to call me Your Highness the Princess and Your Majesty the Duke."
Duke Lu frowned and said, "Lingling is my granddaughter, so why can't I call her grandpa?"
Princess Pingrou was aware of Qi Yuning's concerns, and she couldn't help but blame her youngest son for becoming a monk, which prevented her from holding her granddaughter.
She also hated Lu Ze for telling her about having a daughter a few years ago. It was inevitable that Qi Yuning would give her a cute and clever granddaughter now.
Princess Pingrou looked at Qi Yuning's flat belly.
Lu Ze said, "Dad, Lu Yun's becoming a monk is already a hot topic, so it's better to have less trouble now."
Duke Lu glanced at Qi Yuning who was standing beside him. How could he not understand? This was something Princess Qi didn't want to do. "I will definitely beat up that stinky boy Lu Yun after he returns to secular life."
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"A-choo! A-choo!"
The autumn wind was biting in Longhua Mountain. Lu Yun, who was forced to get up early with his head bare, felt a headache from the wind.
After he finished sweeping the courtyard, he looked up at the sky helplessly. He had been a monk for so many days, but why didn't any of his family members come to see him?
He didn't expect Lu Baozhu to come, but why didn't his parents and elder brother come to see him? His life was really miserable.
"Junior brother, it's time to eat."
A six-year-old novice monk handed Lu Yun a bowl of porridge made of green leaves and rice bran.
Lu Yun said: "I am ten years older than you, why do you call me Junior Brother?"
"Amitabha, I entered the temple before you, so I am naturally your senior brother."
Lu Yun looked at the vegetable porridge and frowned, "Is this food for humans? It's ok to have rice bran in it, but how can there not be a drop of lard in it?"
The young monk said, "Amitabha, monks do not eat greasy, meaty food."
Lu Yun sighed dejectedly, and Qi Yuning appeared in his mind. He picked up the rice bran porridge and drank it with great courage. It would be better to drink rice bran porridge than to marry Qi Yuning!
He doesn't want to be the unlucky guy who marries Qi Yuning!
"Have you heard? Princess Qi actually has a three-year-old daughter!"
"I heard that this matter has caused a stir in Shengjing City. I heard that His Majesty has also conferred the title of Princess of Xichang on her daughter and is holding a banquet at home today!"
Lu Yun listened to what the pilgrims who came to Xianglin Temple to worship Buddha said early in the morning. He even walked up to them and asked, "What did you say? Princess Qi has a child?"
He was eating green leaf porridge in the mountains, and Qi Yuning actually made a green hat for him?
The pilgrim asked, "Young Master, you monks also like to listen to other people's gossip?"
Lu Yun touched his bald head and said, "How could Qi Yuning have a three-year-old daughter?"
Three years old? That was the child conceived four years ago, when Qi Yuning was fourteen years old, but Lu Yun had met Qi Yuning several times when she was fourteen years old.
How could Qi Yuning be pregnant?
Come to think of it, she must have felt humiliated by my breaking off the engagement, so she got a child from somewhere and deliberately cheated on him!
Perhaps, it was a trap, Qi Yuning's way of tricking him into coming down the mountain and returning to secular life. After he came down the mountain and returned to secular life, Qi Yuning would force him to get married.
The more Lu Yun thought about it, the more he felt that it was Qi Yuning's plan.
Lu Yun sighed, and the young monk beside him asked in confusion: "Brother, why are you sighing? You are already a monk, and monks should not have worries."
Lu Yun touched his chin and said, "It's not good to be too handsome. Qi Yuning actually ignored his own reputation and tricked me into coming down from the mountains and getting married. Alas, it seems that it's all my mother's fault for giving birth to me who is so good-looking."
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In Prince Qi's mansion.
Seeing Princess Pingrou and Lingling having fun, Lu Ze was about to go to the East Palace when he saw the servant beside Qi Yu'an coming over:
"Master Lu, our prince wants you to go to the martial arts arena for a chat."
Lu Ze followed the servant to the martial arts arena and saw Qi Yu'an practicing swordplay shirtless on the arena.
Qi Yu'an said to Lu Ze on the martial arts training platform: "Prince Lu, our ancestors have fought side by side before. Come up and let's have a duel!"
Lu Ze said, "Brother Qi has been in the military camp for many years, so I will not embarrass myself in front of you."
Qi Yu'an sneered, "Old Duke Lu was so majestic back then, but what a pity, there are no more men in the Lu family. Duke Lu is obsessed with being a son-in-law who is afraid of his wife, and even handed over the military power to the Qin family. The men of your generation in the Lu family are even more irresponsible than the other..."
Before Qi Yu'an could finish, Lu Ze jumped onto the arena and said, "Then I would like to ask Brother Qi Wang for your guidance."
When Qi Yu'an saw Lu Ze coming up, he threw away the knife in his hand, clenched his fist, and hit Lu Ze hard on the side of his face.
Lu Ze dodged to the side, the strands of hair on his temples moving slightly due to the wind from the fist. It was hard to imagine how painful it would be if that fist hit him in the face.
Qi Yuan'an's punches were so fierce that Lu Ze could only dodge. After several rounds, Qi Yuan'an didn't gain any advantage. His punches and kicks became more and more fierce.
"elder brother!"
When Qi Yuning arrived, he saw Qi Yu'an punching and kicking Lu Ze without any mercy.
Qi Yu'an went to the border military camp when he was ten years old. Although Lu Ze was from a military family, because he was the son of a princess, the military power of the Lu family had long been in name only. Lu Ze had never been in the army, so how could he be a match for the young Prince Qi who had been trained in the military camp for ten years?
When Lu Ze heard the word "brother", he looked distractedly at Qi Yuning who came in from outside.
Qi Yu'an punched Lu Ze on the side of his face. Lu Ze tasted blood and spat out blood.
Seeing this, Qi Yuning stepped onto the stage again and again, protecting Lu Ze and saying, "Brother!"
Qi Yu'an said, "Sister, he has betrayed you so much, making you pregnant at the age of fourteen, and now he wants to marry someone else. Such an irresponsible man deserves to be beaten to death! Do you still want to protect him?"
Qi Yuning said, "Brother, what happened back then was that Master Lu and I were in love with each other, and we didn't let each other down when we broke up. Why did you hit him?"
Seeing Qi Yuning defending him like this, Qi Yu'an was so angry that he jumped off the martial arts stage and left angrily.
Qi Yuning stepped forward and looked at Lu Ze's suddenly red and swollen face, and ordered: "Lichun, go get the ointment and apply it to Master Lu."
Lichun came in with ointment a short while later. When he was about to apply the ointment on Lu Ze's face, he heard Lu Shizi, whose face was half swollen, say, "Princess Qi, please help me apply the ointment."
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "Why do you want me to apply medicine to you personally when there is a maid here?"
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said, "I don't like other people touching me."
Qi Yuning said: "I am also a bystander."
"But you won't be someone else after a year."
(End of this chapter)
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