Qi Yuning waited for Qi Yuan and others to finish discussing the business before entering the tent.
"Brother, the spies in Longzhou City are back. The eldest son of Longyou Jiedushi Huang Tao died suddenly."
Hearing this, Qi Yu'an said: "Huang Tao is suffering from the loss of his son. If we attack the city, even if we win, we are probably taking advantage of others' danger."
Qi Yuning said: "Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with our Qi family."
Qi Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "What does his son's death have to do with us?"
Qi Yuning said: "Huang Tao's son was angry to death because his wife had an affair with someone else. I just learned that Huang Tao's daughter-in-law misses her sister. I wonder if my brother still remembers his sister?"
Lu Ze remembered it before Qi Yuan and said, "Is this the daughter adopted by the fourth lady?"
Qi Yuning took a deep look at Lu Ze and said, "Why do you still remember her?"
Lu Ze said softly: "You often told me when you were young that even Sister Nian ignored you. Huang Tao's daughter-in-law is the daughter of the Shen family of the Shuofang family. If I remember correctly, the fourth lady later remarried to the Shen family. "
Qi Yuning nodded and said, "It's her."
Qi Yuan frowned and said, "How could the fourth aunt raise such a daughter?"
"Your Majesty, Princess, the third master of the Shen family and his wife are outside the military camp asking to see you."
After hearing what his men said, Qi Yuan got up and went outside the military camp.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze looked at each other and said, "Why are the Shen family members here?"
Lu Ze said: "Let's go out and have a look together."
Qi Yuning went outside the military camp. The military camp was tightly guarded. From a distance, he could see a gorgeously dressed couple being blocked by several soldiers.
Qi Yuning and others got closer and saw clearly the appearance of the lady. The fourth aunt had left Prince Qi's Mansion for eleven years, but her appearance had not changed much. She was still the fourth aunt in Qi Yuning's memory.
Qi Yuning remembered clearly that the fourth aunt apologized to herself on the day she left Prince Qi's Mansion, but she did not expect that it would be eleven years before they met again.
Third Master Shen, Shen Qian, saw the leader and saluted, "Prince Qi."
Qi Yu'an bowed his hands towards Shen Qian and Ning Wen and said in return: "Mr. Shen, Mrs. Shen."
Qi Yuan looked at Ning Wen. He remembered his fourth uncle and his aunt better than Qi Yuning. He and his fourth uncle were twelve years apart. It could be said that he was brought up by his fourth uncle. Before his fourth uncle married, She often took him over the wall to visit the Ning family's daughter.
Once, the fourth uncle was afraid that someone would find him secretly meeting his fourth aunt in the boudoir, so he left the four-year-old boy in the fourth aunt's boudoir and ran away. The fourth aunt took care of him tenderly all afternoon.
In Qi Yuan's memory, the fourth aunt was always gentle, and the Ning family was a master of poetry and calligraphy. At that time, everyone in the family said that the fourth uncle was lucky to marry the daughter of the Ning family.
The fourth aunt's temperament is different from that of her mother's second aunt and third aunt, the daughters of military commanders. She is gentle and quiet.
Eleven years have passed, fourteen years have passed since the fourth uncle passed away, and the fourth aunt is still the fourth aunt.
But the fourth uncle always stayed at the age of eighteen.
Ning Wen looked at Qi Yuan and Qi Yuning, pursed her lips, lowered her eyes, and said in a choked voice: "Yu An, Ning Ning, long time no see."
Qi Yuning nodded lightly and said, "Mrs. Shen San."
Ning Wen looked at Mr. Ruyulang next to Qi Yuning and asked doubtfully, "Who is this?"
Lu Ze said: "I am Lu Ze, the son of Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu Guo."
Ning Wen was surprised: "You're not dead?"
Shen Qian also looked at Lu Zedao: "It's good that Prince Lu is still alive. It just so happens that I have something to ask Prince Lu for help here."
Lu Ze said: "Master Shen, just tell me."
Shen Qian said: "I won't hide it from you. My Nian'er married Huang Rui, the son of Huang Tao, the Jiedu envoy of Longyou Road, two years ago. She just gave birth to a child, and it was the child's 100-day banquet a few days ago.
Unexpectedly, Huang Rui died suddenly a few days later. The Huang family actually said that it was my Nian'er who had an affair and committed adultery, which made Huang Rui angry to death. Nian'er would never do such a thing.
Su Wen heard that Prince Lu repeatedly solved strange cases, and asked Prince Lu to help him go to Longzhou City to investigate the cause of Huang Rui's death and clear Wonian'er's innocence. "
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Zedao: "The Qin family controlled the government, and King Ning and King Liao rebelled and raised troops. We went to Shengjing to protect His Majesty's safety. However, soldiers and horses from Longzhou and even Longyou Road blocked us and even called us rebels. We He went to put down the rebellion and protect the monarch, but was slandered by the magistrate of Longzhou.
If Lu Ze goes into Longzhou City with you now, if he is discovered by Longzhou City, his safety may be in danger. I don't worry about Lu Ze going into Longzhou City to investigate the case. "
Ning Wen said with tears in her eyes: "Ning Ning, I feel so pitiful to miss her. Her father also died to save your fourth uncle back then... If her father hadn't risked his life to take back your fourth uncle's body, I'm afraid your fourth uncle would have died." My uncle’s corpse will be hung on the city wall and humiliated..."
Ning Wen covered her lips with her handkerchief, holding back her tears and said, "Ning Ning, everyone thinks that Prince Lu is dead now. He can disguise himself and follow us into Longzhou City to find out the truth." Qi Yuning frowned and looked at the people in front of him. Shen Qian and Ning Wen hadn't seen each other for many years. She couldn't trust them unconditionally. Maybe she just used this as an excuse to want them to enter Longzhou City to control them?
Qi Yuning held Lu Ze's hand tightly and shook her head at him.
Lu Ze then said: "Mr. Shen, Mrs. Shen, please forgive me for not being able to go."
Ning Wen was extremely anxious, and Shen Qian on the side put his hand on Ning Wen's shoulder.
Qi Yuan felt quite uncomfortable when he saw the loving scene between their husband and wife. Although he was young at that time, he had also witnessed every bit of the love between his fourth uncle and his fourth aunt.
Shen Qian took out a military talisman and said: "This is a military talisman that can mobilize 70,000 soldiers from Shuo Fang. I will give this to Prince Qi. I wonder if Prince Lu can safely go to Longzhou City with us and return my family to me." Is this fair?"
Qi Yuan stepped forward and took the military talisman from Shen Qian's hand, and nodded to Qi Yuning and Lu Ze.
Qi Yuan said to Lu Ze, "Just go and help check. I will send someone to follow you. Be careful in everything."
Qi Yuning was not as bold as Qi Yuan. She held Lu Ze's hand tightly and said, "This military talisman alone is not enough. Since you said it was your grandson's 100-day banquet not long ago, you must have brought your son to the banquet." , you bring your son to the military camp, I will arrange for someone to take care of him, and Lu Ze and I will follow you to Longzhou City."
Ning Wen said: "Ning Ning has really grown up, okay, I will send Yu Qi here right away."
Qi Yuning heard Yu Qi's fingertips tremble.
Shen Qian and his wife went to bring their children.
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze and said, "Do you think this is a strategy?"
Lu Ze said: "It doesn't look like a ploy to me."
Qi Yu'an said: "This brass talisman is real, and I don't think Fourth Aunt will lie to us."
Qi Yuning said coldly: "Brother, she is no longer the fourth aunt."
When Shen Qian and Ning Wen were on their way to pick up their children, Shen Qian saw the tears in Ning Wen's eyes and said, "It's a good thing for Nian'er that Lu Ze is still alive."
Ning Wen said: "More than ten years has really passed in a blink of an eye, and they have grown so big, but I never thought that Yu Ning would be so defensive about me.
After the Qi family's accident, I, an elder, should have been the one to take the lead, but with the pain of losing a husband and a son one after another, I really couldn't take care of them anymore... It was also my fault. "
Ning Wen's eyes were filled with tears. Shen Qian held Ning Wen's hand tightly and sighed softly.
……
In the military tent.
Qi Yuning and Lu Ze discussed how to sneak into Longzhou City. It would be even better if they could see Longzhou's military defense map.
Lu Ze said: "I want to go in disguised as a monk, but I might as well. The scars on my head haven't completely disappeared, and my hair hasn't grown much."
Lu Ze has been wearing a wig for the past few days. In fact, it is very hot in this hot summer.
Qi Yuning took off the wig on Lu Ze's head. The top of his head was covered with sweat, so he chuckled and said, "That's good, so that you don't have to sweat on your forehead every day. Then I'll pretend to be your maid."
Lu Ze said: "How can any monk have a maid?"
Qi Yuning said: "Isn't this already the case?"
"elder brother……"
Lu Yun opened the military tent and entered. When he saw Lu Ze's smooth head in front of him, he covered his stomach and laughed, "Hahaha, brother, why are you hairless like me? You can't and don't want to marry Qi Yuning, so... "
Lu Ze glared at Lu Yun and said, "Come with me to Longzhou."
Lu Yun said: "Why are you going to Longzhou? I feel pain in my legs and heart. I came to you to tell you that I want to go back to Beicheng."
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Yun and said, "You laughed so loudly and full of energy, but it doesn't seem like it hurts anywhere. Just follow your brother to Longzhou and shave off your long hair." Put on the ring scar."
Speaking of which, Lu Yun just cut his hair bald when he became a monk and didn't even perm the scar.
Unlike Lu Ze, who had his ring scar burned so as not to be discovered.
Lu Yun said: "I finally grew such an inch of hair, and you actually want me to shave it off again?"
Lu Ze glanced at Lu Yun coldly: "Don't you like shaving your hair? It just so happens that it's cool to have a bald head in this hot summer!"
Lu Yun: "..."
