Qi Yuning caught a glimpse of Zhou Jiayun's happy eyes and felt a surge of anger in his heart, but he couldn't vent his anger, so he could only gently fan himself.
Queen Mother Zhou said: "Congratulations to Lingling for getting what she wanted. These past few days, Jie'er has been thinking about playing with Lingling. I wonder which Taoist temple Lingling went to practice in?"
Qi Yuning said: "There is no Taoist temple. It was Taoist He who took a fancy to Lingling and took her to travel around."
Previously, she and Lu Ze mobilized all their men but failed to find Taoist He. Qi Yuning thought that using Taoist He as an excuse would be the most appropriate.
Queen Mother Zhou said: "Lingling is so young, you are willing to let her go."
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Lingling has a destiny, and we can't stop her from having a great future. If your Majesty wants a playmate, the baby in my belly will be born in a few days."
Queen Mother Zhou smiled and said, "That's true."
After Qi Yuning said goodbye to Queen Mother Zhou, he arrived at the Purple Palace.
In the Zichen Hall, Lin Jiang was reading a memorial to Xiao Zhaojie, while Lu Ze was giving Xiao Zhaojie some instructions.
Qi Yuning saw that Xiao Zhaojie's originally bright eyes had become dim, and he couldn't help but chuckled and said, "Your Majesty."
"Sister Princess!" Little Zhao Jie looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Did Lingling come with you?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "Lingling went on a journey with the Taoist priest."
Little Zhao Jie looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside and said, "I also want to travel with Lingling. Being an emperor is not good at all..."
Little Zhao Jie hugged Qi Yuning's thighs and cried, "Sister Princess, I don't want to be the emperor anymore."
"Wow, it's so hard to be an emperor!"
Qi Yuning patted little Zhao Jie's head, looked at Lu Ze and Lin Jiang and said, "You two must remember that he is only five or six years old. What can he know if you read the memorial to him now? Why are you forcing him to do this?"
Qi Yuning touched little Zhao Jie's crying face and said, "Don't cry, sister will take you to play in the Imperial Garden."
Little Zhao Jie looked up and asked, "Can I really go play?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Of course, sister will find you a few playmates to play with you and study together, okay?"
"Good!" Little Zhao Jie's eyes lit up, "Sister Princess is so nice, much better than my cousin."
Qi Yuning smiled gently. She originally thought that after Emperor Shi Yuan left, perhaps she would be the only one the Qi family army could rely on. But now it seems that this little emperor is not incapable of being relied on by their Qi family army.
Lu Ze went to play in the garden with Qi Yuning and Xiao Zhao Jie.
Qi Yuning sat under the shade of a tree, weaving a grass dragonfly for little Zhao Jie.
Lu Ze watched Qi Yuning weaving dragonflies and asked beside her, "I didn't expect you could weave these?"
Qi Yuning smiled faintly and said, "Uncle Zhong taught me this when I was a child. I didn't tell you before because I was afraid Lingling would know and pester me to make these for her every day."
Qi Yuning handed the woven dragonfly to Xiao Zhaojie, "Does it look like a dragonfly?"
"Looks like it!" Little Zhao Jie said while holding the dragonfly. "Very similar."
Qi Yuning looked at Zhao Jie, whose eyes had brightened up again, and said, "Why don't we catch a real dragonfly for comparison?"
Zhao Jie took a quick look and said, "There's a dragonfly over there!"
Little Zhao Jie ran towards where the dragonfly came from.
Qi Yuning helped Lu Ze stand up and said, "He is just a child after all. Now you are forcing him to deal with political matters that even adults find difficult to decide. Do you want the future emperor to be a lifeless piece of wood?"
Lu Ze sighed and whispered in Qi Yuning's ear: "There are bound to be some voices in the court that our Qi and Lu families will use the little emperor as a puppet in the future, so I let him get involved in political affairs at such a young age."
Qi Yuning said: "How can we manage the account books without learning abacus? We have a clear conscience. If we really want to seize power, can't we do it now? We are not fighting for our own reputation, but for the people of the world. I hope that the emperor in the future will be a person with flesh and blood and joy. Only such an emperor can serve the people of the world.
Instead, an emperor who has been locked up in the Purple Palace since childhood and deprived of fun will go crazy sooner or later. If he himself does not know how to be happy, how can he bring happiness to the people of the world?"
Lu Ze nodded gently and said, "Yes."
Little Zhao Jie caught a small dragonfly from the flowers, walked up to Qi Yuning and said, "Sister Princess, I caught it."
"Your Majesty is amazing!" Qi Yuning smiled faintly, "Your Majesty, do you know any poems that mention dragonflies?"
“As soon as the lotus leaves show their tip, a dragonfly already lands on them!”
Qi Yuning clapped his hands after hearing Zhao Jie's voice and said, "Great, how about asking your cousin to take you to see the lotus leaves in a few days?"
Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning.
Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "Instead of letting him stay in the court, it is better to let him see the common people more often, so that he will not say such things while sitting in a high position."
Lu Ze asked: "Do you want to go with us?"
Qi Yuning shook his head and said, "I'm afraid of the sun being too strong."
Zhao Jie took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Sister Princess, come with us! Just let your cousin hold an umbrella for you to block the sun."
Qi Yuning lowered his head and smiled, "Okay, I'll go with His Majesty then."
Zhao Jie played with the dragonfly for a while and then let it go. Qi Yuning saw the dragonfly flying away and asked, "Your Majesty, why did you let the dragonfly go?"
"It doesn't like being trapped here."
Little Zhao Jie looked at the walls around him and said, "I don't like being trapped here either."
Qi Yuning touched Zhao Jie's head and said, "After my baby is born, can you take your niece out to play more?"
Qi Yuning didn't know what her life was like before Lingling came. In this life, Zhao Jie became the emperor because she leaked the secret to Emperor Shi Yuan. It could also be said that she was the one who pulled Zhao Jie onto the throne. She only hoped that Zhao Jie could be a happy emperor.
Zhao Jie looked at Qi Yuning's bulging belly, stretched out his little hand to touch it and asked: "Is there a baby here?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yes."
Zhao Jie raised his eyes and asked, "Does the baby have a name?"
Qi Yuning helped Lu Ze squat down with difficulty and whispered in Zhao Jie's ear: "Her name is also Lu Yiling, Lingling!"
Zhao Jie touched Qi Yuning's belly and said with a smile: "Lingling! I want to play with Lingling! When will she be born?"
Qi Yuning said: "More than two months later, there are only a few days left."
…
In Ci'an Palace.
Queen Mother Zhou listened to Lu Ze and Qi Yuning taking the little emperor to play dragonfly catching in the imperial garden, and she just twirled the Buddhist beads in her hand.
Zhou Jiayun leaned against Queen Mother Zhou and said, "Aunt, Princess Qi is playing with Your Majesty. Is she trying to make Your Majesty lose his ambition? So that Your Majesty can eventually become a puppet of their Qi family?"
Queen Mother Zhou turned her Buddhist beads and sighed softly, "Even if she has this idea, what can we do? Now the Qi family can easily get this country. At that time, the Qi family army had already controlled Shengjing. Even if other royal families of the Zhao family came, they would not be able to resist the Qi family. It doesn't matter if Jie'er is a puppet. At least if he becomes the emperor, Jie'er can live a safe life."
Zhou Jiayun said: "What if the Qi family wants cousin Jie to abdicate? Then cousin Jie will be in great danger.
But aunt, the Qi family is not without constraints now, there is also Lu Ze..."
Queen Mother Zhou gently waved the fan in her hand and said, "Lu Ze? He is the son-in-law of the Qi family..."
"He can be the son-in-law of the Qi family, and he can also be the son-in-law of our Zhou family." Zhou Jiayun looked at Queen Mother Zhou calmly and said, "If Lu Ze becomes the son-in-law of our Zhou family, he will be loyal to cousin Jie. We won't have to worry about Lu Ze having any ulterior motives."
Queen Mother Zhou looked at her niece's beauty, which was rare in the world. "But we can't force these newlyweds to divorce!"
Zhou Jiayun whispered, "I am willing to be the regent's concubine only for my cousin Jie."
Queen Mother Zhou held Zhou Jiayun's hand and said, "I am sorry to have wronged you. You are still in mourning. I will talk to Lu Ze after the mourning is over."
Zhou Jiayun lowered her head and said, "I don't feel wronged."
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