Chapter 9 This child is nothing but an illegitimate child
Qi Yuning couldn't help but think of the scene that Lingling described. The tips of his ears felt slightly hot, which lasted for a while before disappearing.
Qi Yuning brought Lingling to the side door of the palace.
Lu Ze was already standing at the side door of the princess's mansion. Seeing Qi Yuning, he asked, "The princess is looking for me?"
"Daddy, it's Lingling who's looking for you. Every night when Daddy gets there, he only has Mom in his eyes, not Lingling."
Lingling said in a baby voice, with an expression of helplessness that one has long been accustomed to.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze turned their eyes away from each other when they heard this.
Lu Ze said: "Daddy has a spirit in his eyes."
Lingling opened her arms and asked Lu Ze to hold her, "Daddy, hug me."
Lu Ze held Lingling in his arms and looked at her little face under the candlelight. "Actually, Lingling's mouth is more like that of a princess."
Qi Yuning said: "Lingling, now that you have seen your father, can you go home and sleep?"
Lingling said: "Daddy and mommy sleep together."
Qi Yuning's ears felt even hotter: "No!"
Lingling said: "Dad and Mom always slept together before, why can't they sleep together today?"
Lu Ze coughed.
Qi Yuning said: "That's not possible."
Lingling blinked her eyes and said, "Then mommy and daddy, please kiss me. After the kiss, Lingling will fall asleep."
Seeing Lingling's head heaving and moving, as if she was about to fall asleep, Lu Ze kissed her on the cheek.
Lingling said: "It's not Lingling, it's mom and dad kissing each other!"
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and saw that Lu Ze was looking at her and said, "Master Lu, can you tell Lingling why it's not allowed?"
Lu Ze has always been good at speaking, but at this moment he didn't know how to explain to a three-year-old child why his loving parents couldn't continue to be so loving.
Lingling was about to fall asleep, but she was still forcing herself to be kissed by her parents.
Qi Yuning couldn't help but hate herself and Lu Ze six years later. Why didn't they avoid the child when they were intimate with each other? Aren't they afraid of teaching the child bad habits?
Fortunately, Lingling couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep.
Qi Yuning tried to take Lingling from Lu Ze. When she took the sleeping Lingling, their hands touched each other unexpectedly. Qi Yuning felt that Lu Ze's hands were very hot.
Lu Ze also felt a coolness on his fingertips. He coughed and said, "Princess, I have withdrawn from the Guan family's verbal engagement."
"What does your breaking off of the engagement with the Guan family have to do with me?"
Qi Yuning carried Lingling inside and was about to close the side door when Lu Ze blocked it with his hand.
"Princess, Lingling is also my daughter. Can you take care of Lingling in the first half of the month, I will take care of Lingling in the middle half of the month, and Lingling can go wherever she likes in the second half of the month? Is that okay?"
Qi Yuning didn't expect Lu Ze to make this request, "No."
Lu Ze looked into Qi Yuning's eyes, "Why?"
Qi Yuning said: "You Lu family humiliated me so much..."
"Today, didn't the princess say that she would not care about it after she kneeled down?"
Qi Yuning now understood why Lu Ze was willing to kneel down just now, "I will consider it."
Lu Ze lowered his eyes to look at his daughter's peaceful sleeping face in Qi Yuning's arms, "Okay."
Qi Yuning returned to the palace, and the orchid fragrance at the tip of his nose dissipated. Lu Ze, a man, didn't know why he liked to use this incense.
Lu Ze watched Qi Yuning's back as she entered the house, then turned around and returned to the princess's mansion.
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When Qi Yuning woke up, she saw Lingling had already woken up. Seeing her wake up, she smiled and said, "Mom, where is the wet nurse? Lingling hasn't seen her wet nurse for a long time."
Qi Yuning thought, if Lingling wanted a father, she could still find one, but where could she find a wet nurse?
The wet nurse two years later is still nowhere to be found.
Qi Yuning rubbed Lingling's head and said, "Nursing has something to do at home, so from now on, mother will take care of Lingling."
Lingling smiled and said, "That's great, Mommy and Daddy will play with Lingling together!"
Qi Yuning asked: "Lingling, do you like mother or father more?"
Lingling was stunned, scratched her head and said, "I like it just as much."
Qi Yuning asked: "What if you can only choose one?"
Lingling lowered her head, tears in her eyes as she said, "Mom and Dad both like them, Lingling can't choose."
Qi Yuning was very afraid of Lingling's tears, so she wiped them away and said, "Don't cry, don't cry. I'll take you to buy clothes and jewelry today, okay?"
Lingling smiled and said, "Okay."
After Qi Yuning washed up and had his meal, he took Lingling's hand and went to Xuanwu Street.
It was a perfect autumn day, and the streets were crowded with people. Qi Yuning took a little girl to the street, and the news spread throughout Shengjing City in less than a minute.
In Yunyi Pavilion, the largest silk shop in Shengjing City, several ladies from wealthy families who were selecting cloth did not dare to believe the rumors.
"It's true. I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. The little girl next to Princess Qi called her mother!"
"Princess Qi's engagement had just been broken off, how could she have a daughter?"
While the ladies were wondering, they saw the controversial Qi Yuning enter the Yunyi Pavilion, and she was indeed holding the hand of a delicate and pretty girl.
When Lady Qin saw the little girl's appearance, she was extremely surprised. How could this child look so much like Lu Ze? "Princess Qi."
Qi Yuning glanced at Qin's uncle-in-law calmly, nodded and said, "Uncle-in-law."
When Mrs. Qin saw the child beside Qi Yuning, she asked, "Who is this child?"
Qi Yuning picked up Lingling and said, "This is my daughter, she is exactly three years old."
Lingling was unconvinced and pointed her finger, "It's five years old!"
“Three years old!”
Qi Yuning pried off Lingling's fingers. Only Lingling, who was only three years old, liked to calculate her age using the lunar calendar.
Qin's uncle asked in surprise, "Who is the father of this child?"
Qi Yuning ignored her, and Aunt Qin also felt that the question was a bit presumptuous, but this child looked too much like Ze'er!
When Qi Yuning took Lingling to choose fabrics and ready-made clothes, everyone was whispering.
"I bet that child must be Master Lu's, cut from the same mold as Master Lu!"
"If Prince Lu had not become a monk, he would have married Princess Qi tomorrow. How could Princess Qi's daughter be the child of Prince Lu?"
"They look so similar, how could she not be the daughter of Lord Lu?"
"Prince Lu is a famous and elegant gentleman in Shengjing, Ruyu Langjun, how could he do such a thing as having a child out of wedlock?"
"Who knows if Princess Qi coveted Master Lu's beauty and forced him? Maybe Master Lu himself didn't even know he had a daughter."
"Yes, that must be the case. Princess Qi couldn't get Master Lu, so she schemed to give birth to Master Lu's daughter."
Qi Yuning frowned as he listened to the "whispering" that was getting louder and louder.
How come she forced me and I couldn't get what I wanted?
Xiao Lingling looked up at Qi Yuning and said, "Mom, can we buy some clothes for Dad?"
Qi Yuning said: "Not good."
Xiao Lingling said "oh" and didn't feel disappointed. She picked out a few clothes for herself.
After Qi Yuning ordered Lichun to pay the silver, when he was taking Lingling out of Yunyi Pavilion, they happened to encounter a simple carriage parked at the door with a wooden sign with the word "Guan" hanging on it.
A short, round-faced girl, about fifteen, came out of the carriage.
"Sixth Miss, be careful."
Guan Zhiyi got off the carriage with the help of the maid. As soon as she got off the carriage, she saw Xiao Lingling's appearance. She looked at the woman in purple clothes next to Xiao Lingling with great surprise.
The woman in purple was dressed gorgeously. The golden crown on her hair sparkled brightly in the autumn sun. She had an extremely beautiful face, and it was obvious that she was not virtuous. The word "flamboyant" was written all over her body.
Guan Zhiyi looked at Xiao Lingling twice more. Is this child Lu Ze’s eldest daughter?
Guan Zhiyi walked up to Lingling, bent down, rubbed Lingling's face with his fleshy hands and said, "Miss Lu."
Lingling frowned and hid behind Qi Yuning. Jingzhe stepped forward and grabbed Guan Zhiyi's hand, folding it inwards, "How dare you touch my young lady with your dirty hands?"
Guan Zhiyi screamed in pain.
Guan Zhiyi's maid said anxiously: "My young lady is the sixth daughter of the Chengyilang family."
Jingzhe said: "It's just a minor dislocation. Miss Guan Liu, please remember this lesson and don't touch others with your dirty hands. How can you touch a golden branch and jade leaf?"
Guan Zhiyi frowned and said, "The golden branches and jade leaves are princesses, but is this child a princess? She is just an illegitimate child born out of wedlock in the princess's mansion! How can she be called a golden branch and jade leaf?"
(End of this chapter)
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