Qi Yuning fell asleep in Lu Ze's arms. Perhaps Lu Ze was too tired, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep as soon as he got on the bed.
Qi Yuning reached out and touched his face, which was similar to Lingling's. She used to think that she had a good impression of Lu Ze's face from the beginning because of Lingling.
In fact, she thought that if Lingling wasn’t there, she would still fall in love with Lu Ze.
Qi Yuning leaned forward and kissed Lu Ze's lips. After kissing for a while, she got a response from Lu Ze.
Lu Ze said in a hoarse voice: "Ningning, don't provoke me. I don't want to take a cold bath anymore. Also, Brother Qi Wang plans to rest for three days and then go to Shangzhou. I hope to arrive in Shengjing City during the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Qi Yuning said softly: "I didn't want you to take a cold bath."
Lu Ze's eyes lit up, and the fatigue from days of fighting seemed to be swept away at this moment.
The Princess's Mansion took more than ten years to build. This wing is extremely luxurious. Even the bed is carved from the finest golden nanmu wood. When Qi Yuning made this bed, he invited a famous old carpenter in Chang'an.
The carpenter thought she was going to make a bed for her dowry, so he spent a lot of time and effort on it. The top of the bed was carved with a picture of hundreds of children playing, and on both sides were carved twin lotus flowers.
Outside, the sky gradually darkened, and two big red candles were placed in the house, like wedding candles.
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning in his arms and said, "Aren't you waiting to get married?"
Qi Yuning said: "I always encounter problems before getting married, so it is better to do it today than to choose a day. Let's get married here today by worshipping heaven and earth, okay?"
Lu Ze said: "This will be unfair to you."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "I don't feel wronged."
Qi Yuning pulled Lu Ze off the bed and asked the maid outside to bring a wine pot and two wine glasses for the wedding wine.
After Qi Yuning poured the wine into the glasses, he gave one to Lu Ze and raised the other glass himself and said, "Do you still remember the old Taoist priest at the beginning of the year? He said that any wedding day is an auspicious day. Today is the day we captured Chang'an City, which is an even more auspicious day."
Lu Ze took the wine glass handed to him by Qi Yuning, put his arm around Qi Yuning, and drank the wine in the glass.
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and drank the wine in the glass with a slightly flushed face. She felt nervous but also expectant...
After Qi Yuning got on the bed, she felt dizzy and fell directly into Lu Ze's arms. Seeing Qi Yuning fall asleep, Lu Ze called out, "Ningning?"
After a while, Lu Ze also felt dizzy and fell on the bed.
In the guest house of the princess's mansion.
When Zhong Ding saw the maid coming to Qi Yu'an to report that the princess had taken the drug and had fallen asleep, he asked curiously, "Why did the prince give the princess the drug?"
Qi Yu'an said: "Drinking late at night is not a good thing. She has been tired for several days and should have a good rest."
Zhong Ding smiled and said, "Your Highness, is it too radical for you to want to arrive in Shengjing before the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
Qi Yu'an looked towards Beicheng and said, "I want to see Ah Ping and my child as soon as possible."
Ah Ping has always been delicate, and when she was feeling the most miserable, I was not by her side...
Zhong Ding also knew that Qi Yu'an was eager to return home, and after thinking for a while, he said: "My Lord, according to the spies from Prince Ning and Prince Liao, the troops of Prince Ning's Mansion are all gone, and Prince Liao is entrenched in a corner of Liaozhou and is no longer a big threat. Have you thought about who to support to take the throne?
It is said that there is no wise leader in the Zhao royal family, and the remaining Prince of Jin is a businessman who values profit more than anything else and is not worthy of being a king.
King Xu was fond of romance, and although he recruited a group of literati, he always valued literature over military affairs, so he might not be able to be a good ruler.
If we support Prince Shou, with his kindness, he might be able to tolerate the overwhelming power of our Qi Family Army in North City."
Zhong Ming said: "Prince Shou is too kind. It is not appropriate for a person who is too kind to be an emperor. But it is true that no matter which prince takes the throne, our Qi family army will be feared."
Zhu Feng also spoke up, "Your Highness, I think what Brother Zhong and Brother Zhong said makes sense. Instead of the new emperor being afraid of our Qi Army, it would be better for our Qi Army to be the ruler of the world. You married the princess of the Zhao family. Now that Ping has given birth to the blood of the Zhao family, you can also legitimately seize the throne and become the ruler of the world!"
Zhu Yang glanced at his younger brother, and also stood up and bowed, saying, "My lord, my younger brother is right. After a hundred years of Emperor Shiyuan, no matter which new emperor of the Zhao family ascends the throne, they will regard our Qi family army as a thorn in their eyes. It is better for you to seize the throne and we will respect you as the emperor."
Qi Yu'an frowned and angrily scolded: "You'd better stop saying such things in the future. The Qi family has always been loyal and will never be a villain who usurps the throne!"
Zhong Ding said: "Your Highness, we are just trying to protect ourselves. Although the Emperor Shiyuan is very kind to our Qi Family Army, if he was really very kind, he would not promote the Qin Family so much. Isn't it because he is afraid that the Crown Prince will have hidden dangers from our Qi Family Army in the future? Even the Emperor Shiyuan is like this, the new emperor will never let us go!"
Zhu Yang said: "We have sacrificed so many brothers, we can't sacrifice in vain, my lord, as long as you give the order, we brothers will help you ascend the throne to become the emperor!"
Qi Yu'an frowned and said, "It's late at night, you can all leave!"
…
When Qi Yuning woke up, it was already noon the next day. She felt her hands were numb. She opened her eyes and looked at Lu Ze beside her. Her movement woke Lu Ze up.
When Lu Ze woke up, he said, "Someone put something in the wine last night."
Qi Yuning asked, "Who dares to put something in my wine in the Princess's Mansion?"
Lu Ze chuckled and said, "The only one who dares to do that is Brother Prince Qi."
Qi Yuning didn't say much. She asked a maid to help her wash up, and then she went to Qi Yu'an's study with Lu Ze, who was wearing a wig.
Qi Yu'an saw Qi Yuning coming and said, "Sister, you are awake. Did you sleep well last night?"
Qi Yuning gritted his teeth and said, "Thanks to you, I had the best sleep since I left North City."
Qi Yu'an chuckled and said, "By the way, Prince Ning is doomed, and Prince Liao is now entrenched in Liaozhou. Shangzhou City and Gyeonggi Province will also be a tough nut to crack. But we still have to think about who to support to ascend the throne after we enter Shengjing."
Seeing that there were no outsiders here, Qi Yuning said to Qi Yu'an, "Lingling said that Prince Duan will ascend the throne as emperor in the future."
Qi Yu'an frowned and said, "Prince Duan? He is still a child of four or five years old, right?"
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yes."
Qi Yu'an said: "Prince Shou, Prince Xu, and Prince Jin are still in the capital, we cannot support Prince Duan to inherit the throne."
Allowing a child to ascend the throne as emperor will inevitably be accused of using the child as a puppet emperor.
Lu Ze said: "There is no rush for this. It is up to His Majesty to decide."
Qi Yu'an looked at Lu Ze deeply and said, "You are right. It is up to His Majesty to decide."
Qi Yuning had never properly visited the Princess's Mansion. She finally had a chance to take a break, so she and Lu Ze went around the Mansion. When they came to the back of a rockery, they heard the conversation between Zhu Yang, Zhu Feng and Zhong Ding.
"Your Majesty is really something. Is there anyone more suitable to be the emperor than him?"
"No matter who the new emperor is, our North City's troops and horses have been able to reach Shengjing City this time. Will the new emperor not be on guard in the future?"
"The prince also married a princess of the Zhao family, and in the future he will make a descendant of the Zhao family the crown prince... It is not considered disloyal to the Zhao family. The prince ascended the throne just to protect himself."
When Qi Yuning heard this, she thought that they were really bold, and her hands clasped with Lu Ze's fingers suddenly tightened, and Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze.
Lu Ze lowered his eyes to look at Qi Yuning and said, "Yuning, do you want to be a princess?"
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