Zhao Chongqing lowered his head, looked at the peaceful sleeping face, and smelled the faint fragrance...
Qi Yuning was really sleepy. She hadn't slept well since the wedding date was set. She had been extremely busy in the past ten days and had very little leisure time.
Last night, I didn't sleep much all night again. I finally fell asleep and I was very sleepy.
Faintly feeling something moving on his face, he closed his eyes and whispered, "Lu Ze, don't make trouble."
When Zhao Chong heard the word Lu Ze, he laughed out loud.
Qi Yuning smelled an unusual fragrance, and when he opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Chong in front of him, he was so scared that his soul almost left his body.
Qi Yuning said in a high-pitched voice: "Your Highness, why are you here?"
When Zhao Chong saw Qi Yuning waking up and sitting beside Qi Yuning's bed, he pretended to be drunk and said, "He Qing, I'm here to see He Qing."
Qi Yuning had a severe headache and was scared out of her mind. She looked out and saw that there was no maid outside. She frowned and said, "Your Highness, He Qing is not here. This is my boudoir. Please leave quickly!"
Qi Yuning's voice was cold, and she didn't care about Zhao Chong's identity. She was frightened and showed no respect in her words.
Zhao Chong covered his head and said, "My head feels uncomfortable..."
Zhao Chong reached out and held Qi Yuning's wrist, and continued: "He Qing."
Just when Qi Yuning was about to blow the whistle to find the secret guard, he heard a cry.
"uncle!"
Lu Ze entered, followed by Li Chun.
Qi Yuning heard Lu Ze's voice, shook off Zhao Chong's hand, and said coldly: "Your Highness, I am not He Qing. You are drunk. At the beginning of spring, send His Highness the Crown Prince away!"
Li Chunlian stepped forward to support Zhao Chong.
Zhao Chong stood up and pretended to be drunk, "He Qing, where is He Qing?"
Lu Ze took a deep look at Zhao Chong.
After waiting for Li Chun to help the person out, Lu Ze sat next to Qi Yuning and held her tightly in his arms.
Qi Yuning took a deep breath. She had never been frightened like this in her entire life. She still felt frightened in Lu Ze's arms.
Seeing Li Chun come in, Qi Yuning withdrew from Lu Ze's arms and said coldly: "Why is there no maid in my room?"
Li Chunlian knelt on the ground and said: "Princess, the Spring Equinox Guyu Jingzhe and others are busy. Xiaoman should have stayed and taken care of you with the slaves, but Xi Niang just said that there is a shortage of things at the new house, so Xiaoman went to the other side of the new house. , there is only one servant in this room.
Just now His Highness came over and said that he wanted to drink Lu'an tea. There is no Lu'an tea in Chunjiang Courtyard, so I had to go to the front yard to find it..."
Lu Ze said to Qi Yuning: "It was the secret guards in your courtyard who saw His Royal Highness coming in and came to look for me. Today, the guards in the backyard are indeed a bit lax."
Qi Yuning said: "I was the only master in the backyard of the palace, and there were secret guards. I never thought that someone would be so bold as to break into the backyard. Otherwise, there would never be only two maids left. Fortunately, there are still secret guards."
Qi Yuning said to Li Chun: "You should be punished for leaving your post without permission. Remember this in the future. You would rather offend His Highness than go into the house and wake me up."
Li Chun responded repeatedly: "Yes."
After going down at the beginning of spring, Qi Yuning was so frightened that he stopped falling asleep, but he felt a severe headache, and the right side of his head hurt like a knife.
Qi Yuning leaned into Lu Ze's arms and said, "Prince, he is not drunk!"
Qi Yuning raised his eyes and looked at Lu Ze, "I can't let He Qing marry him. Originally, I thought that even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not ascend the throne in the end, I could only let He Qing hit the south wall because of what He Qing's heart wanted. Able to turn back.
Today, I see that he and the Eighth Prince are generally disgusting people, and they are really not worthy of He Qing. I dare not think if I wake up later..."
Qi Yuning really didn't dare to think about what the prince would do to her.
Lu Ze patted Qi Yuning's back and said, "There are still secret guards there, so there won't be anything wrong. Don't be afraid."
Qi Yuning raised her phoenix eyes slightly, "His character is not good enough to be your Highness. After my sister-in-law gives birth to a child, I will definitely expose his identity."
Lu Ze said: "Yeah."
Qi Yuning's heart was still beating very fast. She didn't dare to sleep anymore, so she let Li Chun come in to help her dress up.
But her hand still held Lu Ze tightly, and her palms were filled with frightened sweat.
As soon as she finished combing her fairy bun, the sound of firecrackers and ritual music sounded outside.
Spring Equinox hurriedly entered the house and said, "Princess, the prince and princess have arrived at the street corner."
Qi Yuning hurried to the main entrance to greet Qi Yuan and the bride.
Firecrackers were blasting, fireworks were going off, ritual music was playing, and the streets were filled with people.
Qi Yuning asked the maids to distribute wedding cakes and money to the people, and congratulations continued for a while.
The wedding procession arrived at the gate of the palace, and even the prominent ladies and daughters of the aristocratic families in the palace stretched their necks to see the princess from the mountain village.
After Aping got off the sedan chair, she didn't expect there would be so many people.
She has also seen weddings in Shancheng Beicheng, but she has never seen such a grand wedding.
Qi Yuning endured a headache while watching Qi Yuan and A Ping enter the worship hall.
Her eyes were looking at the red clouds in the west. In the evening, the setting sun was shining high, casting down streaks of golden light.
"Licheng, send it to the bridal chamber."
After worshiping, A Ping put the wedding fan aside and revealed her face.
He Siqing, who was watching the ceremony beside Lu Ze, stood up suddenly, "Qixia!"
Seeing He Siqing being so impulsive, Lu Ze asked, "He Siqing, what's wrong?" He Siqing's eyes turned red and he said, "Nianxia, Nianxia, no wonder it's Princess Nianxia, who can be regarded as making up for Qixia. What a pity.”
Lu Ze asked: "He Siqing, what is Qixia you are talking about?"
He Siqing said slowly: "Qixia is your great-aunt, your Majesty's twin sister. She died in the Battle of Pingshan forty-two years ago. Today, Pingshan has been changed to Nianxia Mountain."
No wonder Lu Ze felt that the word Nianxia was familiar. Nianxia Mountain was named after the burial of the eldest princess Qixia.
Nowadays, very few people remember the appearance of Princess Qixia. No wonder His Majesty agreed to recognize A Ping as his adopted daughter.
Come to think of it, A Ping and Qixia look the same. If A Ping clarifies her identity in the future, it will be a big proof.
After the ceremony was completed, Qi Yuning entertained the guests and took their seats. He did not see Zhao Chong, so Qi Yuning breathed a sigh of relief.
On the grand day of Prince Qi's residence, Qi Yuning did not invite anyone from Qin's uncle's residence. Not even the prince was present at the dinner, but it attracted a lot of talk.
Qi Yuning didn't care, and he and Qi Yu'an only entertained the guests separately, handing out wedding cakes, candy and tea.
When all the guests dispersed, it happened to be Haishi.
Qi Yuning was so tired that she felt like she could fall asleep immediately. She was a little drowsy during the bath, but when she lay on the bed after bathing, she couldn't fall asleep because of the fright at noon during the day.
Lingling was already asleep. Qi Yuning looked at Lingling's little face and saw a hand wrapped around her back, which shocked Qi Yuning.
Qi Yuning turned around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was Lu Ze.
Seeing Qi Yuning's ugly face, Lu Ze said softly: "Why aren't you sleeping yet? I've finished my work today, you can rest assured."
"I can't sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I see the way the Prince looked when he was in front of me in the afternoon..."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze through the dim candlelight. She stood up and said, "I have to ask the maid to come over and change the bed. The prince touched it just now and it was dirty."
Lu Ze saw Lingling who was sleeping soundly and said, "Changing the bedding now may wake Lingling, why don't you follow me to my place."
Qi Yuning looked at Lingling and said, "Where is Lingling?"
Lu Ze said: "She played like crazy all day today, and she will definitely not be able to wake up at night. When she wakes up tomorrow morning, you will also come back. There won't be any extra guest rooms in the palace today, right?"
Qi Yuning glanced at Lingling, held Lu Ze's hand and said, "Okay."
Nights in mid-February are still cold.
This is the third time Qi Yuning has been back to Lu Ze's room. The first two times were because of Lingling's crying.
As soon as he entered the room.
Before Qi Yuning's maid could enter and make the bed, the door was closed by the master inside.
Lu Ze pressed Qi Yuning against the door and kissed him...
Qi Yuning tightened her grip on Lu Ze's waist and responded to his kiss. As soon as she closed her eyes, the panic she felt during the day was gone.
After a long time, Lu Ze carried Qi Yuning to the bed, lowered his head and kissed her lips again.
Clothes were scattered on the ground in a mess.
Qi Yuning only had one small piece of clothing on her body.
Until the jade pendant on Lu Ze's waist fell to the ground, making a startling sound...
Qi Yuning suddenly came back to his senses.
Seeing Lu Ze with blurred and emotional eyes in front of her, she took a deep breath and said, "When we get married..."
"it is good."
Lu Ze also took a deep breath and asked, "Can you sleep peacefully now?"
Qi Yuning said in Lu Ze's arms, "When my sister-in-law is out of confinement, we will expose the prince."
"Well, the most important thing right now is that you sleep well and be good."
Qi Yuning heard Lu Ze coaxing him like a Lingling, and laughed and said, "I'm not Lingling."
"You are the same as Lingling." Lu Ze said, "Go to sleep, you have to have a good rest. If you still can't fall asleep, then I won't wait until we get married..."
Qi Yuning closed her eyes.
……
In the uncle's house of Qin State.
Qin Zhen said angrily: "The Qi family has gone too far to bully others. The palace is so happy today that they didn't even give us an invitation to the Qin family. If we go over, they will kick us out!"
Uncle Qin Guo saw his youngest son and said, "It seems that the Qi family has cut off all official contacts. That's just right. You don't have to be merciful when dealing with the Qi family in the future."
Qin Han came from outside and said, "Dad, it's so late, why did you summon us?"
Uncle Qin frowned and said, "Someone is tracking down Nanny Qin's daughter. That person is very loyal. Even after being tortured, he refused to tell who the master behind it was. He was tortured to death!"
There are very few people in the world who can endure life and death without confessing.
Qin Han was shocked and said: "Mother Qin almost ruined our good deeds. Everyone thought that she and her daughter were dead. They should also have fallen into the river and died. How could anyone come to check on her daughter?"
Qin Zhen looked at Uncle Qin and said, "Dad, do you doubt that Grandma Qin is not dead?"
Uncle Qin narrowed his eyes and said, "The clue is gone now that the man is dead. We can no longer be soft-hearted and keep the old emperor around, lest we have long nights and many dreams."
