Lu Ze looked ahead through the thick fog. Everything he saw in the fog was exactly the same as what they had experienced before. In front of Xianglin Temple, the siblings Qi Yuning and Qi Yuanan parted with them unhappily.
After Lu Ze returned home, he witnessed the scene where Princess Pingrou asked him to marry Qi Yuning in place of his brother to calm Qi Yuning's anger.
Lu Ze, who was in the fog, naturally refused using Miss Guan Liu as an excuse.
Qi Yuning, who was standing by, was so angry that she kept coughing. She glared at Lu Ze and said, "I didn't know about this. I'll settle the score with you when I sober up!"
Lu Ze touched his nose guiltily and said, "It was three years ago. I just didn't want my grandmother to break her promise. Besides, I also felt that with your pride, you would not be willing to marry the young master of the Lu family at that time. Why should my Lu family go to you and humiliate ourselves?"
Qi Yuning snorted coldly, "Master Lu is a man of integrity, but didn't you break off the engagement and marry me?"
Lu Ze chuckled and said, "So you don't have to settle this account."
Qi Yuning ignored Lu Ze and continued to look through the mist until she arrived at her boudoir in Prince Qi's mansion.
At daybreak, Qi Yuning woke up in the fog. Unlike her previous life, when she woke up to find a little Lingling, Qi Yuning did not find a child out of thin air after waking up in the fog. She was still angry.
Within two days of the wedding, many of Qi's army's subordinates from all over the world came to visit.
After Qi Yuning met with several old subordinates, she looked towards Princess Pingrou's Mansion next door with dissatisfaction. If she was not afraid that the fire would affect their palace, she really wanted to set a fire in Princess Pingrou Lu Yun's courtyard.
Qi Yuning was angry for half a day, and in the afternoon, the palace rewarded her with a lot of precious ornaments, jewelry and fabrics.
Qi Yuning knew that this was done by Emperor Shi Yuan and the Queen to appease her anger.
Xiao Man saw a piece of brocade with a red carp pattern in front of her and said, "Princess, this piece of cloth is what Princess Baozhu has wanted for a long time. The Queen is so kind to you."
Qi Yuning looked at Hongli Yunjin coldly and said, "Let the embroiderer make some clothes for you."
Qi Yu'an came forward: "Sister."
Qi Yuning looked at Qi Yu'an and said, "Brother."
Qi Yu'an looked at the rewards in the courtyard and said, "Your Majesty still cares about our Qi family. This time, the Lu family boy really went too far. Even if he becomes a monk, I can't let him off easily!"
Qi Yuning said: "Of course, he dares to insult me like this, I will never let him off easily. I want to see if the pampered little prince can bear to eat bran and vegetables every day."
"Princess, Prince, Prince Lu is outside with gifts from Princess Pingrou's residence. He said he came here specially to apologize."
Qi Yuning frowned and said, "Even if Princess Pingrou's family spent all their wealth, they still couldn't make amends. I won't see you! Unless they bring Lu Yun's head as an apology."
Qi Yu'an said: "Sister, I think Master Lu is a good person. You two were good friends when you were young. This time it was Lu Yun who was wrong, but Master Lu has nothing to do with..."
Qi Yuning looked at Qi Yu'an and said, "Brother, Lu Ze is no good either, just like Lu Yun. Like brother, like brother!"
"Xiaoman, come here." Qi Yuning whispered a few words in Xiaoman's ear and said, "Go."
Xiaoman responded repeatedly: "Yes."
Lu Ze came to the gate of Prince Qi's mansion with gifts to apologize, which caused the people outside the two mansions to talk about it. Prince Qi's mansion closed the door and refused to see him. Lu Ze waited for two quarters of an hour and saw that more and more people were watching, including some maids and servants from wealthy families.
When Lu Ze was about to go back to the princess's mansion, he heard a voice from the crowd, "Prince Lu only showed this much sincerity, he just waited for a while and then left!"
"Princess Pingrou's Mansion is bullying others by taking advantage of their power. They actually allowed the young prince to destroy Princess Qi's reputation. Princess Qi's elders all sacrificed their lives for the country, and Princess Pingrou's Mansion has the nerve to just give them such a small apology!"
Lu Ze frowned slightly when he heard that, but it was not right for him to leave immediately.
Someone in the crowd objected, "This apology is quite a bit, almost as much as the betrothal gift for Prince Lu to marry a wife."
"Does Prince Qi's Mansion need these material possessions? Three days before the wedding, my fiancé disobeyed the order and became a monk. Now Prince Lu has become a monk, but Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu are also bad parents. They should not be forgiven! The eldest brother is like a father. Prince Lu has no face to stay in the Dali Temple as a junior official!"
Lu Ze listened to the words of a young girl in the crowd. He felt that it sounded like Qi Yuning's tone. He looked at the girl who was trying her best to speak loudly in the crowd. Wasn't she the youngest personal maidservant beside Qi Yuning?
After hearing this, Lu Ze felt it was difficult to leave. After all, if Princess Pingrou's Mansion did not show respect to Prince Qi's Mansion, if he left today, Qi Yuning would surely take the opportunity to have Qi Yu'an go to the morning court tomorrow to complain that the Lu family had failed to educate their children properly.
Lu Ze stood tall at the gate of Prince Qi's mansion and said to the gatekeeper in front of him, "Please go and report to the prince and princess."
Qi Yuning was bored in the courtyard feeding the fish in the pond. When she heard the maid come to report that Lu Ze was still there, she said sarcastically, "Let Lu Ze wait!"
Qi Yuning returned to his room to take a nap. When he woke up, he realized that it was already dusk and the sky was about to get dark.
Qi Yuning asked Lichun: "Has Lu Ze left?"
Lichun said: "I haven't left yet."
Qi Yuning said to Lichun: "Do my makeup."
After Lichun had done Qi Yuning's makeup and changed her clothes, the sun was already fading away.
Qi Yuning opened the main door of Prince Qi's Mansion and looked down at Lu Ze who was standing at the door.
Lu Ze looked up and saw a beautiful girl appearing from the red door on the steps. His deep peach blossom eyes stayed in front of Qi Yuning for a long time, until Qi Yuning walked in front of him, Lu Ze took two steps back.
Lu Ze bowed and said, "Lu Yun has brought shame upon the princess. Although he was young and confused, it is indeed because our Lu family did not educate our children well. I have come here today on the orders of my parents to apologize to the princess."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze who was standing in front of him with his hands clasped but not bowed, and said, "Lu Yun has already become a monk, and has nothing to do with your Lu family, so I hope your Lu family will not interfere in anything related to Xianglin Temple."
Lu Ze put down his hand and said, "This is as it should be. Lu Yun is already a monk. How he lives in the temple has nothing to do with the secular world. The Lu family will not ask a single question."
Qi Yuning said, "And Lu Yun disobeyed the imperial order and refused to marry, and became a monk. It is indeed because your Lu family failed to teach him well. As the saying goes, it is the fault of the father if the son is not well educated, and there is also a saying that the eldest brother is like a father. If Master Lu is willing to kneel down and kowtow three times today, I will forgive the humiliation of the Lu family yesterday."
Lu Ze looked up at Qi Yuning and clenched his hands, "Princess."
Qi Yu'an came out of the palace, stood beside Qi Yuning and said, "Master Lu, do you think that my sister is not worthy of you kneeling down to apologize for the humiliation you have in the Lu family?"
Qi Yuning gently waved the round fan in her hand and said, "As long as Master Lu kneels down, this princess will no longer care about this matter."
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning's cold eyes, but he didn't kneel down. He just said to Qi Yuning, "Princess Qi, please don't make things difficult for me. The princess's mansion owes you a favor. If you have any instructions in the future, just let me know."
After saying this, Lu Ze asked his men to put down the apology and left with a bow.
"Heh!" Qi Yuning, who was outside the mist, looked at Lu Ze beside him and said, "Without Lingling, you didn't even kneel down?"
Lu Ze touched his nose again with a guilty conscience and said, "Then it's not me."
Lu Ze was afraid that his past life self might have done something wrong, so it would be better to make things clear now.
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Qi Yuning, who was in the mist, looked at the valuable gifts at the gate of Prince Qi's mansion and said to the onlookers, "Take all these things away! The Lu family is too much. I feel sick to even touch anything from the Lu family."
When the people saw these treasures, they rushed forward to grab them.
Seeing the noisy people, Qi Yuning returned to the palace.
Qi Yu'an looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Don't worry, Lu Yun is a blind man. I will definitely find you a man who is thousands of times better than Lu Yun."
Qi Yuning smiled faintly: "Yeah."
The next day, Qi Yuanan helped Qi Yuning find a husband and brought many portraits of men to Qi Yuning.
Qi Yuning looked at them absentmindedly, not liking any of them.
Qi Yu'an also knew that Qi Yuning was really angry these past two days, so he suggested: "If you are really angry, why don't you go out and buy a couple more nice clothes to calm down."
Qi Yuning didn't have the heart to buy clothes, but to be honest, the culprit for Lu Yun's breaking off the engagement was Lu Baozhu. If it weren't for Lu Baozhu's bad idea of making her his sister-in-law to take care of her, she wouldn't have lost face today.
Qi Yuning also planned not to spare Lu Baozhu. As her name suggests, the owner of Baozhu County loved jewelry and fine clothes. Today happened to be the day when Yunyi Pavilion had new items.
Qi Yuning planned to snatch away whatever piece of cloth Lu Baozhu took a fancy to today, so that Lu Baozhu could also have a taste of her anger.
When Qi Yuning arrived at Yunyi Pavilion, many people looked at him.
Although they didn't show it on their faces, they were already whispering to each other in private, "I didn't expect Princess Qi to have the nerve to come out. She's not afraid of being laughed at. The young prince would rather become a monk than marry her. I guess it's hard for her to get married."
"Who made Qi Yuning so arrogant and unvirtuous? Earlier there were rumors that if you want to marry a wife, you should not marry Princess Qi, but she suppressed it later."
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