Chapter 28: Prince Lu must have the princess in his heart
Song Heqing said: "Yuning, I know how bitter it is to share a husband with so many women after entering the palace, and I also know that the harem will not be peaceful due to the fighting, but I just like Your Highness."
"I know that I will lose favor when I grow old and lose my looks, or even lose favor at all. As long as I can be the woman by your side and enjoy your happiness for a while, I will be willing to do it."
Qi Yuning really couldn't understand Song Heqing's desperate thoughts: "What if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't ascend the throne in the future? What if someone steals the throne?"
Song Heqing said with tears in her eyes: "Yuning, I only like the prince, regardless of his status. If I can't marry him in this life, I would rather become a nun than marry the young master of the Guan family."
Qi Yuning sighed softly, "Forget it, I'll go talk to your parents. I want you to be engaged to my brother. That way, your parents will never dare to arrange a marriage for you with anyone else. At the very least, it can be delayed until the selection in the spring of next year. Before the selection in the palace, I'll go and say that the marriage doesn't count. You're not engaged, and you can still participate in the selection."
Song Heqing stepped forward, held Qi Yuning's hand tightly and said, "Thank you very much, Yuning."
Qi Yuning smiled softly and said, "We have been sisters for many years. It's too polite for you to say thank you. It's almost noon. Let's have lunch together?"
Song Heqing shook his head and said, "No, I won't bother you anymore. I'll leave first."
Qi Yuning said: "Then I will come to your Song Mansion tomorrow."
"Thank you very much."
After Qi Yuning sent Song Heqing away and returned to the study, he heard bursts of laughter coming from next door. Qi Yuning walked over to the next room and saw Lingling and Lu Baozhu playing with a ball.
Lingling was running around picking up balls, sweating profusely, while Lu Ze continued to paint amid the noise.
Qi Yuning came inside and wiped the sweat off Lingling's forehead with a handkerchief. "Look, you're all sweaty after playing. Let's stop playing and eat."
Lingling took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Mom, please wipe Daddy's sweat."
Qi Yuning naturally couldn't wipe Lu Ze's sweat, "He has a sister, let his sister wipe his sweat!"
Lu Baozhu said, "My brother dislikes my dirty handkerchief. He doesn't want me to wipe his sweat. He won't let me touch anything. I am his biological sister. He even asks the servant to clean the couch after I sit on it."
Qi Yuning paused while wiping Lingling's sweat.
Lu Ze stopped writing and said, "Men and women are different. Even if they are siblings, they can't be so casual."
Lu Baozhu said, "You just dislike dirt. You moved into your brother's courtyard and asked the servants to clean it inside and out at night. How can you be different from your brother?"
Lu Ze said nothing more: "Let's go back to the house for dinner."
Lu Baozhu picked up Lingling and said, "I want to have dinner with Lingling!"
Lingling lay in Lu Baozhu's arms and said, "Lingling also wants to have dinner with aunt."
Qi Yuning sourly asked Lu Baozhu to stay to have dinner together, but Lu Ze did not stay. It was obvious that the rain would not stop today, so he might as well go back to the Dali Temple to do some work.
After lunch, Qi Yuning returned to the room and coaxed Lingling to take a nap.
On the desk by the window in the room, there was a piece of rice paper, only half of which was painted, but one could see that it was a portrait of her looking at the account book just now.
One has to admit that Lu Ze's painting skills are excellent. If he becomes poor in the future, he can still support his family by selling his paintings.
However, unless the Zhao imperial power was overthrown, Lu Ze would never become destitute.
Jingzhe said at the side: "Princess, Master Lu's painting is really good. Master Lu must have the princess in his heart, so he can paint so well."
Qi Yuning said: "Lu Ze has me in his heart? Then you might as well think that the sun rises from the west today."
Lu Ze said that she was arrogant and overbearing, but wasn't he, Lu Ze, the same?
Born into a noble family, His Majesty’s love and expectations for Lu Ze are no less than those for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
On the surface, he is a gentle gentleman, but in private, he is aloof, aloof and unattainable person. How could a man like him have someone else in his heart?
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After Lu Ze finished his meal in the princess's mansion and before he headed to the Dali Temple, he received a note.
Lu Ze held the letter and went to a royal garden in the south city in the rain. This royal garden was a gift from His Majesty to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
It was a rainy day today. When Lu Ze arrived at the Royal Villa, his fifth cousin Qin Zhen, who had just been engaged, and his cousin Qin Yuli were both there.
Qin Yuli saw Lu Ze coming forward and said, "Cousin Ze."
Lu Ze saluted towards Zhao Chong and Qin Zhen and said, "Your Highness, my fifth cousin."
Crown Prince Zhao Chong chuckled and said, "Why are you willing to call him cousin, but not me uncle?"
Lu Ze said: "Fifth cousin has been used to calling him that since he was a child, and Your Highness has also been used to calling him that since he was a child."
The prince chuckled and said, "Your fifth cousin has arranged a marriage today, which is something worth celebrating. Why are you the only one here? Where is Baozhu?"
Lu Ze said, "Baozhu was having dinner at Prince Qi's mansion, so I didn't call her."
Qin Yuli frowned when she heard this and asked, "Where does Baozhu eat? Prince Qi's mansion? Isn't she afraid that Qi Yuning will poison her to death?"
Lu Ze said: "The princess would not poison the palace."
Lu Ze raised his eyes to look at Qin Zhen and said, "Fifth cousin, congratulations."
Qin Zhen reached out and patted Lu Ze's shoulder, saying, "I didn't know that you had already made a verbal engagement with the daughter of the Guan family. Only after the engagement did I find out that you and Guan Zhiyi had a verbal engagement with Madam Lu. I'm really sorry for you."
Lu Ze sneered in his heart. Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu fought over silk, satin and jewelry openly, but his fifth cousin liked to compete with him secretly.
She is clearly his elder and six years older than him, but she always wants to be first in everything.
Originally, Qin Zhen's position as the guard of the capital was his. After Qin Zhen learned of Lu Ze's intention, he took the initiative to persuade Zhao Chong.
Lu Ze was not picky and went into the Dali Temple casually.
There were many such fights, and Qin Zhen's means of snatching were really dishonorable. Lu Ze really didn't care. He had almost everything since he was born, and he didn't care about anything that could be snatched away by Qin Zhen.
When Lu Ze heard Qi Yuning say that the Qin family went to propose marriage to the Guan family, he guessed that Qin Zhen's old problem had come back again.
But his fifth uncle seemed unaware that he had already gone to the Guan family to cancel the engagement.
Lu Ze chuckled and said, "It's okay, it's just a verbal agreement and it doesn't count. Congratulations to my fifth cousin for getting the beauty."
Qin Yuli stepped forward and said, "Guan Zhiyi has always had a good reputation, and it is indeed a blessing for Uncle Wu to marry Guan Zhiyi as his Aunt Wu.
Although it is a small family, Guan Zhiyi is much better off than Qi Yuning. Look at cousin Yun, he is still eating coarse food in Xianglin Temple, how pitiful! "
Lu Ze said: "He deserves it."
Qin Yuli thought that Lu Ze would hate Qi Yuning for making his brother Lu Yun suffer in the temple, but she didn't expect that Lu Ze would say that Lu Yun deserved it?
Qin Yuli said: "Cousin Ze."
Qin Zhen looked at Lu Ze deeply, his brows slightly furrowed. Qin Yuli said that Lu Ze and Guan Zhiyi were about to get married, but why didn't Lu Ze seem annoyed that his fiancée was taken away by him?
Qin Zhen pulled Qin Yuli aside and asked, "Are you sure Lu Ze is really going to get engaged to Guan Zhiyi?"
Qin Yuli said: "Yes, at the banquet for Qi Yuning's daughter that day, Guan Zhiyi personally admitted that she was Lu Shizi's fiancée, and a few days ago, Princess Pingrou did go to buy the betrothal gifts."
Although there were rumors that the person Princess Pingrou proposed to was not Guan Zhiyi, there was no mention of other girls afterwards.
It seemed that the old lady of the Lu family pretended to be sick a few days ago to force Lu Ze to marry Guan Zhiyi, and she even asked Guan Zhiyi to go to Duke Lu's Mansion early this morning.
Qin Yuli did not dare to take it lightly. She would rather let Guan Zhiyi be her fifth aunt than let Guan Zhiyi become the prince's consort.
Qin Zhen frowned slightly, thinking that Lu Ze must have been filled with grief and anger because he had robbed the Crown Prince's Consort of his wife, but this boy was good at hiding his emotions.
(End of this chapter)
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