When Qi Yunqing returned home at night, he found Duke Qi pacing back and forth in his room, with a look of confusion on his face that did not seem fake.
In addition, since he had been following his acquaintances for some time, he knew that Duke Qi must have guessed his feelings for Princess Jiaoyang.
Qi Yunqing said, "Father, let me tell you a story."
"Once upon a time, there was a bastard son of a wealthy family. When he was young, he went out to attend banquets. His legitimate brother often hinted at others to exclude the bastard son. Then one day, the only daughter of the host family saw this and stood up to protect the bastard son. The bastard son wanted to protect this little fairy from afar."
Duke Qi looked at his son, who used to be cold and icy, and his eyes were now filled with tenderness, but he would never agree to marry a daughter-in-law who could not have children, especially now that Qi Yunqing was his only son.
He interrupted Qi Yunqing's dream: "But Princess Jiaoyang is childless. Even if you continue to have a crush on me for another ten years, your father will not agree."
Qi Yunqing also expressed his attitude, asking Duke Qi to either hurry up and have a baby now, or take Qi Yunfeng's child back and raise him well.
The father and son parted on bad terms.
Duke Qi sat there in boredom for half the night. He knew Qi Yunqing's temper too well. Qi Yunqing was now 25 years old, and the fact that he had not gotten married for so many years showed his feelings.
As for Qi Yunfeng's son, he didn't believe that parents like him could produce a child with both good character and ability. It was hard to say whether they would hold a grudge or not. Taking him back would only create a potential powder keg.
He decided to first find a doctor with excellent medical skills to nurse Princess Jiaoyang back to health. Princess Jiaoyang was still young, and even though her body was injured by the medicine, it was not impossible for her to recover.
Qi Yunqing found excuses to report to the Princess's Mansion every now and then, and the Princess had long noticed something was wrong.
Because Qi Yunqing was thinking about his daughter, some of the other suitors were scared away.
The eldest princess was also very conflicted. Her daughter was still young, only in her early twenties, and had a long life ahead of her.
As a mother, she couldn't be with her daughter for the rest of her life. She still wanted her daughter to have a reliable husband, and preferably a child to take care of her.
Thinking of the child, the eldest princess' heart ached. She had asked the imperial physician to come and see her daughter, but the physician was helpless.
She was extremely heartbroken. At this moment, she heard from the housekeeper that a doctor had volunteered to see the princess.
The first doctor that Duke Qi found arrived.
Dan Ruo took the opportunity to ask the doctor to check his pulse and then left a prescription.
The princess kept the doctor as a retainer. Not long after, another doctor came to visit. He was a miracle doctor who was usually hard to find. Her sixth sense had a feeling that someone might be behind this.
Upon investigation, it turned out that it was Duke Qi who was pushing it behind the scenes.
She was silent for a while, and felt that she could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb about Qi Yunqing's frequent visits to the Princess's Mansion to find the Princess. Although his excuses were varied every time, they happened too often.
She thought about it and decided to talk to her daughter about the matter and find out what she thought.
She walked into her daughter's yard and saw that the door of her daughter's room was closed and the maid was guarding the yard.
She was afraid of seeing something she shouldn't see, so after thinking about it, she turned around and left, then asked her secret guards to keep an eye on the movements in the mansion for a while.
Inside the house, Qi Yunqing's face and neck were pink, and he hugged Danruo tightly like a big bear. Danruo looked into his eyes and knew that he was a Chinese medicine.
Qi Yunqing rubbed Dan Ruo impatiently, showing weakness and begging her to help him again and again.
Before he drank today, he had already realized that someone had tampered with his family. Now he was the only male in Duke Qi's mansion.
Although she hasn't been asked to be crowned as the Crown Prince yet, it seems to be a done deal to the outside world, so there are many people who want to be the future wife of Duke Qi.
At this banquet, he was drugged and sent to the guest room, but he secretly ran away. He had to find a place for himself.
There are quite a few foolish people outside who are ready to make moves on Princess Jiaoyang. They all plan to marry the princess to win the emperor's favor. In addition, the princess is so beautiful that the little problem of being unable to have children is nothing to them because they already have children.
The room was filled with springtime beauty and the charming atmosphere had not yet dissipated, and Qi Yunqing took the opportunity to fight for his own status.
If Dan Ruo couldn't resist Qi Yunqing's beauty, the cold and handsome young man would now have red eyes and faint pink scratches on his chest, and he would cling to her with a look of grievance on his face.
I agreed without thinking.
When Qi Yunqing left, the eldest princess also learned about this matter through her secret guards.
She used the excuse of giving her daughter bird's nest as a gift and after looking at her daughter's expression, she knew that she had to prepare for her daughter's wedding.
In the past six months, several doctors sent by Duke Qi to the mansion said that her daughter's health has improved. However, since her daughter has not given birth to a child yet, she cannot tell others that her daughter's infertility has been cured.
She also didn't want to spread the news and attract more suitors who were after her daughter's identity. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to tell the difference. After all, she had only experienced a man as good as her son-in-law, who made her not want to marry again.
She had never thought that Qi Yunfeng swore to her so solemnly, but was so mean behind her back.
Now that he knows that his daughter is not well yet, the man who is still willing to marry her and who has no children yet is the one who is truly worthy of trust.
After getting Danruo's approval, Qi Yunqing took Duke Qi to prepare the betrothal gifts with great enthusiasm.
Duke Qi also made preparations for both scenarios. In the past six months, he has taken in a concubine who is good at bearing children. Now this concubine is pregnant.
All of the eldest princess's difficult requests were a mother's worry to Qi Yunqing. He knew that words were powerless, and that it would be difficult for the eldest princess to believe in her oath after having learned from her previous experience.
He then allowed the princess to poison him and give him the antidote at regular intervals. As long as he treated the princess badly, the princess could take his life at any time.
Seeing him like this, the eldest princess didn't want to poison him. Anyway, she would pay more attention to her daughter this time.
Once the news of the marriage between the two families spread, Qi Yunqing's reputation became even worse. Everyone thought that he was trying his best to curry favor with the royal family.
No wonder Duke Qi suddenly took a concubine with a clean family background.
Qi Yunqing didn't care what others said about him. He only knew that he had finally married the person he had always dreamed of.
He specifically asked the emperor for an imperial decree to grant the marriage, and then held the wedding in a grand manner. On the wedding day, he was genuinely happy, but everyone misunderstood him as someone who was performing with his life. What a cruel person.
His reputation in official circles became increasingly tarnished.
After the wedding, many people were paying attention to their lives, and everyone was watching to see how long Qi Yunqing could pretend.
However, I didn’t expect that the two of them had a good relationship. They were often seen riding horses and boating together.
This is different from the one-sided love that Qi Yunfeng packaged for himself, bringing pastries every day.
Half a year later, Duke Qi's concubine gave birth to a boy as she wished, and Duke Qi happily held a full-moon banquet.
At the full moon banquet, Danruo suddenly felt nauseous while eating fish. Qi Yunqing was worried and hurriedly helped Danruo to the inner room to call a doctor. Unexpectedly, she was pregnant.
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