Chapter 48 I Actually Like Lu Ze a Little Bit
After Qi Yuning fell asleep, she felt embarrassed and annoyed. Lu Ze was too ignorant of romance. How could a man like him dare to say that he wanted to marry a beautiful woman.
If Lingling hadn't been there, Qi Yuning wouldn't even give him this chance.
Qi Yuning didn't sleep well that night. She had constant dreams, sometimes about the tomb, sometimes about her childhood, but always with Lu Ze's irritating face.
One morning, she was woken up by Lingling.
Qi Yuning opened her eyes, Lingling smiled at her and said, "Mom, I woke up earlier than you today."
Qi Yuning looked into Lingling's eyes, rubbed her head and smiled faintly.
Lichun came in hurriedly and said, "Princess, Master Lu is in the yard."
Lingling got off the bed without even putting on her clothes, walked outside and shouted, "Daddy!"
Qi Yuning put on her coat, with her long hair hanging down like a waterfall but not combed up. She limped to the door and said to Lu Ze, "It's only the morning hour, what are you doing here?"
Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning with her long hair through the lantern, walked up to her and handed her a rolled-up piece of rice paper, saying, "I really can't write a poem anymore, so I drew a picture for you overnight. I have to go to the morning court."
Lu Ze rubbed Lingling’s little face and said, “Daddy will come to see you after the court.”
"Goodbye, Daddy."
After entering the house, it was still very dark at the hour of Mao in late autumn and early winter. Qi Yuning asked Lichun to add two more lamps and slowly opened the roll of rice paper.
She originally thought that Lu Ze drew her, but she didn't expect it was her parents.
Daddy rode on a big white horse and wore general's armor. When Daddy left, he was only 25 years old. The young General Qi had a firm face and a resolute look.
My mother was only 23 years old when she passed away. She had a bright smile on her face, wore women's armor, and waved a military flag in her hand, looking very heroic.
There were two little children on the corridors on the left and right of the painting. Qi Yuning recognized that the little girl was himself.
Should the older one be Qi Yu'an? But he doesn't look like Qi Yu'an.
Qi Yuning reached out and touched the portraits of her parents. Her vague memory finally had faces. She hugged the portraits and shed tears.
"Why are you crying, mom? Are your feet hurting?"
Qi Yuning shed tears and said, "Yeah."
Lichun stepped forward and handed Lingling a handkerchief. Lingling stepped forward and wiped Qi Yuning's tears and said, "Mom, don't cry, don't cry."
"Don't cry, mother. Mother is happy."
Qi Yuning opened the scroll and showed it to Lingling.
Lingling pointed at the figures above and said, "Grandfather, grandmother."
Qi Yuning asked in surprise: "Does Lingling know him?"
Lingling said: "Mom, you taught Lingling."
Lingling pointed at the two children and said, "Lingling still knows that this is daddy, and this is mom when she was a child."
Qi Yuning saw Lingling pointing at the two children, pointed at the little boy and asked, "Isn't this your uncle?"
"This is daddy, he looks very much like Lingling!"
Qi Yuning took a closer look and found that it was indeed very similar to Lingling, just slightly bigger. But why was Qi Yu'an not in this picture?
Lingling said, "Hey, there's an uncle missing from this painting. The last time Lingling saw this picture, there was still an uncle."
Qi Yuning asked, "Where was your uncle before?"
Lingling pointed to the left corner of the painting and said, "Uncle is here."
Qi Yuning smiled instead and said, "Then ask your father to make up for your uncle later."
Qi Yuning's feet only hurt slightly when he walked today, and the swelling had subsided. He consulted the imperial physician, who said that there was no serious problem.
Song Heqing came after the imperial physician left.
As soon as he entered, Song Heqing said with a guilty conscience: "I didn't know until today that your foot was injured. Is it serious?"
Qi Yuning said, "I was greedy for persimmons and sprained my ankle while picking them. It's not a big deal and I'll be well soon."
Song Heqing chuckled and said, "That's good."
Lingling looked at Song Heqing and hid behind Qi Yuning. Qi Yuning let Lichun take Lingling out to play.
Song Heqing asked: "Why is Lingling so scared the moment she sees me?"
Qi Yuning smiled slowly and said, "This child is just shy of strangers."
Song Heqing said: "Yuning, I got the news that the prince will hold a poetry gathering in the royal garden in the south city in a few days, and will invite the sons and daughters of the nobles in Shengjing City. I didn't receive the invitation, and I wanted you to help, but..."
Qi Yuning said, "I haven't received it either. I'll ask Lu Ze later. If this poetry meeting is real, ask him to get an invitation for me. I'll take you there."
"But your foot..." Song Heqing said, "Since your foot is injured, you don't have to go to the garden poetry meeting for me."
Qi Yuning smiled and said, "My foot has been injured for many days, and I feel depressed. Maybe my foot will be healed in a few days."
Song Heqing looked at Qi Yuning with great gratitude, "Thank you very much."
Qi Yuning said: "You don't have to be so polite with me."
Song Heqing said: "By the way, you were talking about Master Lu just now? When did you become so familiar with Master Lu? I have never been able to ask you, this Lingling looks so similar to Master Lu, there are many rumors outside, I wonder..."
Qi Yuning did not hide it from Song Heqing, "Lingling is indeed Lu Ze's daughter."
Song Heqing was slightly surprised. "I thought you hated Master Lu before. I've seen you never even glance at Master Lu at banquets before."
Qi Yuning said: "I felt a little disgusted before."
Song Heqing smiled faintly and said, "What is it now?"
“I don’t hate it now.”
Qi Yuning still hid her feelings in front of her best friend. In fact, she was happy for Lu Ze...
But before Lu Ze confessed his love for her, she would not let anyone know that she liked Lu Ze.
"However, I've recently heard people talking about the close relationship between Guan Zhiyi and Lu Shizi. It's all because of Qin Wuye's swindling of their love. So, Lu Shizi and Guan Zhiyi..."
Qi Yuning said: "Don't trust rumors easily. They only met once."
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Lu Ze painted all night last night, and he looked very bad during the morning court session.
When Prince Qi and his wife left, he was still very young, only six years old.
He vaguely remembered that Qi Yuning's mother, General Liu, smiled softly at him before she went to the battle, and asked him to take better care of sister Qi.
Lu Ze was the eldest grandson of the Duke's Mansion. At that time, the old Duke was still alive and the military power of the Duke's Mansion had not yet been handed over. Lu Ze also aimed to fight on the battlefield in the future.
Therefore, he had a deep impression of their expedition, and fearing that he had remembered it wrong, he went to look for the hunting map in the princess's mansion from twenty years ago that day. The hunting map showed all the people who went hunting.
I found the portraits of Qi Yuning's parents taken twenty years ago, and only after matching the portraits with the appearance in my memory did I draw this picture.
Lu Ze painted the whole night without closing his eyes, and finished it just before the morning court.
After staying up all night, his eyes were dark and he felt listless and exhausted.
When the court was about to be dismissed, Emperor Shi Yuan looked at his grandson and said, "Ze'er, are you feeling unwell?"
Lu Ze cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I am fine."
When His Majesty asked this question, many officials looked at Lu Ze.
The officials thought of the recent rumor in Shengjing City that Lu Ze's beloved wife was snatched away by his fifth cousin, and they all looked at Lu Ze with pity and sympathy. It was so depressing that Master Lu was so depressed because his beloved was snatched away.
There was a hint of contempt in his eyes when he looked at Qin Zhen. A cousin and nephew were competing with each other for their loving wife who had not yet married. How shameless!
(End of this chapter)
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