Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze beside her from the mist and said, "Why didn't you know how to talk in your previous life? Just because you said you liked me, why did I misunderstand you so much that I had to divorce you?"
It's obvious that they like each other, but neither of them says anything, and they torture each other for so many years.
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning in his arms and said, "Didn't you say you liked me?"
Qi Yuning said: "I am a girl, I have to be reserved. Besides, it would be embarrassing to say I like you when I know you don't like me."
Lu Ze smiled softly and said, "It's my fault. No, it's Lu Ze's fault in that life."
In the fog, under the pressure of Lu Ze, Lu Yun was clearly the victim, but he still had to bitterly invite Shen Nian back.
But after Chen Nian returned to the princess's mansion, Qi Yuning still hadn't come back. Before Lingling turned one, Qi Yuning fell seriously ill, with alternating hot and cold spells. It was malaria, and she didn't even hold a celebration for Lingling's first birthday.
Malaria has always been difficult to treat, and this disease has tormented Qi Yuning for nearly two years.
In the past two years, Lu Ze often used Lingling as an excuse to see Qi Yuning. He had seen Qi Yuning fall ill countless times, and he always stayed by her side, even though Qi Yuning always spoke harshly to him.
Qi Yuning's illness became more and more severe, until the first month of the Xinwei year, Qi Yuning's coughing up blood became more and more severe, and his coma became longer and longer.
All the famous doctors in Shengjing City came to check Qi Yuning's pulse, and they all said that Qi Yuning didn't have much time left.
Qi Yuning had been tortured by illness for two years and had long since become indifferent to life and death. Now that her brother had recovered and married the princess, Qi Yuning no longer had to worry about the Qi family. She only had her little Lingling...
She felt very sorry for Lingling because she did not take good care of Lingling during her pregnancy, which made Lingling weak and taciturn since childhood.
Lingling was just over three years old, and Qi Yuning was really reluctant to leave her.
Qi Yuning said to Lu Ze, "I haven't been out for a long time. Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. Let's take Lingling out for some fun."
Lu Ze responded: "Okay."
Qi Yuning fell asleep exhausted. She heard a cry at night. When she opened her eyes, she saw Lu Ze holding her in tears. This was the first time she saw Lu Ze crying so hard.
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Shouldn't you be happy? I'm finally going to die, and you can marry your beloved Guan Zhiyi, your beloved Zhou Jiayun... Then you can have as many concubines as you want..."
Lu Ze choked up and said, "Qi Yuning, don't you really know that you are the only one I love?"
Qi Yuning raised her eyes and looked at Lu Ze: "How is that possible?"
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning and said, "Qi Yuning, if I really had feelings for Zhi Yi, I would have disobeyed His Majesty's order to marry you. I would rather be a heartless person and be laughed at by the people of Shengjing than cancel my grandmother's verbal engagement and marry you. Do you really think it was just for the future of the Lu family?
We have been married for five years, and you don't even know that I only love you?"
Qi Yuning leaned weakly in Lu Ze's arms, a tear falling from her eyes, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Why did you wait until I died? Do you know that I have liked you for a long time? I liked you when we first came back from North City!"
Lu Ze frowned and said, "If that's the case, why have you been so insistent on getting a divorce these past few years?"
Qi Yuning said: "I know you want to deal with my Qi family."
Lu Ze asked, "When did I say I would deal with the Qi family?"
Qi Yuning thought that it was indeed not what Lu Ze said, but what Lu Ze's subordinates said. The Zhou family wanted to take action against the Qi family a few years ago, but was also demoted by Lu Ze.
Qi Yuning had never thought about the misunderstanding before, but now that she thought about it, she threw herself into Lu Ze's arms and cried, "We have missed too much, but it's too late. I'm going to die."
Lu Ze touched Qi Yuning's head and said, "You will get better. You will get better."
The next day, on the Lantern Festival, Qi Yuning endured the discomfort and fatigue and took Lingling to play on the Lantern Festival. It was the first time for Lingling to go out to play with her parents, and she smiled happily.
However, Qi Yuning fainted after being exposed to the cold wind all night.
Lu Ze posted an imperial edict to invite folk doctors, including famous witches and gods, and tried every possible medical and witchcraft trick.
Lu Ze was completely uninterested in state affairs and fell ill in a coma.
It was not until he heard about the whereabouts of Taoist He on Mount Laojun that Lu Ze climbed up Mount Laojun, kneeling every three steps. The roads on Mount Laojun were all icy in the first month of the year. The moment Lu Ze climbed to the top of the mountain, his hair and beard turned white due to the wind and snow, and his knees were broken from kneeling and bleeding, and they were also frozen.
By the time he reached the gate of the Taoist temple, Lu Ze was already breathing his last.
Taoist He saw Lu Ze's expression and sighed, "Why is your Highness doing this?"
Lu Ze's knees hurt so much that he couldn't stand up. "Master He, please help save my wife."
Taoist He sighed and said, "Let's go."
But Lu Ze couldn't stand up. Taoist He looked at Lu Ze's knees and sighed, "Alas, your legs are useless."
Taoist He arrived at the princess's residence and saw the unconscious Qi Yuning. He took out the silver needle in his hand, drew a talisman and pasted it on Qi Yuning's forehead, saying: "I owe the old prince Qi a favor, and today I will repay you with my life's cultivation."
Taoist He looked at Lingling who was standing aside and asked, "What's your name?"
Lingling walked forward, looked at Taoist He and said, "My name is Lingling, Lu Yiling."
Taoist He touched Lingling's head and said, "You must remember that your name is Lingling, Lu Yiling, remember not to play around and come back early..."
Taoist He took blood from Qi Yuning's fingertips and injected it into the talisman paper, then wrapped the talisman paper around the jade lock on Lingling's neck. "It is God's will, Lingling. Whether I can save your mother depends on you. Go to sleep."
Lu Ze asked Taoist He: "Master, what's going on?"
Taoist He said: "Life and death are in the hands of God. Now I can only go against God and start over again. But all opportunities still need you to figure out for yourself."
A white light flashed, and Qi Yuning and Lu Ze outside the fog felt that the light was going to blind their eyes. When the white light was weak, the fog became much thinner.
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "So Lingling came back because I misunderstood her too deeply in that life. But the Lingling who came back doesn't seem to be the Lingling of that life. Lingling never mentioned that I was sick."
Lu Ze looked at the thin mist and said: In the mist before his eyes, he went back to the day when Lu Yun became a monk.
Qi Yuning, still in the shallow fog, parted ways with Lu Ze unhappily in front of Xianglin Temple.
Unlike the first life, a weak Lingling appeared the next day in this second life. Different from the three-year-old Lingling in Qi Yuning's memory, this three-year-old Lingling was obviously less lively.
Just like what Qi Yuning had experienced in this life, after she and Lu Ze had Lingling, there were no more misunderstandings, and she also discovered the Qin family's conspiracy early on through Lingling's words.
The days were happy and the scenes in the fog changed quickly, like a passing tour, just like their life.
Soon the day came when she became pregnant with Lingling, and the three-year-old Lingling disappeared out of nowhere.
After Xiao Lingling was born in September of the Dingmao year, the situation changed very quickly, until the first month of the Xinwei year, when Xiao Lingling, who was a little over three years old, disappeared out of thin air. No matter how hard Qi Yuning and Lu Ze, who were in their second life, searched for her in the mist, they could not find her.
…
Lu Ze outside the fog suddenly understood and said to Qi Yuning:
“It seems that the Lingling in our current life is not the Lingling of the first life, but the Lingling of the second life?
But why do we still have this life? You and I were both happy in our second life... Why do we have to come to this life again?"
An old voice suddenly sounded out of nowhere, ethereal and long:
"Some things cannot be violated by fate. The princess did not experience death in her second life, so the three-year-old Lingling who disappeared out of thin air in her second life could not return to her original time and space. After the Xinwei year of her second life, no Lingling appeared again, and only then did you and me come into this life..."
Qi Yuning heard the voice of Taoist He and asked in surprise, "That well-behaved three-year-old Lingling didn't make it back? How could that be? Where is the three-year-old Lingling? Where did the three-year-old Lingling go?"
Taoist He's voice rang out, "Only if the princess escapes death, maybe everything can be normal. There are some things that even an old Taoist can't do anything about. Princess, Prince, you two should go back first."
There was a flash of white light, and the fog dissipated.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze opened their eyes at the same time. They found themselves in the room of the princess's mansion and had returned to the reality of this life.
As soon as Qi Yuning woke up, the pain from malaria made her head hurt so much that she wanted to die, and every part of her body felt uncomfortable.
Princess Pingrou, who was standing by, saw them both open their eyes and said, "I was so scared. You've both been unconscious for three days!"
After Lu Ze woke up, he pressed his head and asked, "What happened to the country while I was asleep?"
Zhao Shu said, "You worry about state affairs as soon as you wake up. It's okay to delay state affairs for three days, but you know that my hair has turned white because of worrying about you."
Qi Yuning looked at Zhao Shu in front of him, smiled slightly and said with pain: "Sister-in-law, is my brother back too?"
Zhao Shu said: "I'm back. How could you get sick when you were fine? But don't worry, Yu An has sent someone to invite a doctor from Lingnan. I heard that Miao doctors have special medicines for treating malaria." (End of this chapter)
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