Qi Yuning slept for a long time. When she woke up, it was already bright and the warmth around her had long since disappeared. Qi Yuning opened his eyes and saw Li Chun's anxious face, and asked, "What time is it?" Li Chun said continuously: "It's four o'clock." Qi Yuning was startled when he heard the news, "Is it so late?" "The county lord." Qi Yuning saw an unfamiliar maid coming in to salute, and raised her eyes to take a look. The maid said respectfully: "This servant is the maid sent by Her Highness the Princess to serve the princess. Her name is Qiuyue. This is Chunhua. There were no eldest maids in the prince's room before, only the servants and the miscellaneous maids. Your Highness asked the two servants to come over first to serve you. Princess." Qi Yuning glanced at Qiuyue and Chunhua in front of them. They looked ordinary and honest. Qiuyue and Chunhua came with warm water to help Qi Yuning get up and wash herself. At the beginning of spring, they took the handkerchief and said, "I'll do it." After Qi Yuning washed herself, she just hurriedly pulled her hair into a bun.
After returning to the palace, I found out that Qi Yuan and A Ping had gone to the palace to thank them earlier. Qi Yuning didn't see Lingling and asked, "Where is Lingling?" When Qi Yuning came back at the Spring Equinox, he said, "Little Princess Lingling came to see you when she got up early. She cried so hard that the prince happened to hear it, so he brought little Princess Lingling into the palace together." Qi Yuning pursed her lips lightly and ordered the equinox: "Burn this wooden bed and replace it with my previous dowry bed." Equinox responded: "Yes." The nanmu bed used for dowry was unlucky, but because it took a lot of carving and was made of golden nanmu, it was not chopped down and burned. At that time, Qi Yuning still thought about keeping this bed. When Lu Yun left in the future, he could change it into a coffin to send Lu Yun away. Now it can come in handy. Yesterday, many overnight guests were leaving, and they came to say goodbye one by one. Qi Yuning was busy for a while and it was already three quarters past noon. Qi Yuan, A Ping and Lingling just returned from the palace. "Lingling!" Qi Yuning walked up to Lingling and picked up Lingling, "Lingling's pigtails look really good today." Lingling snorted softly, "Humph!" Qi Yuning said: "Is Lingling angry?" Lingling snorted again, "Humph!" Qi Yu'an coughed and said, "I turned a blind eye to you because I saw that Lingling was young and couldn't bear to separate her from her father. I didn't let you do whatever you wanted. Do you still know the word "reserve"? Qi Yuning did not dare to refute, so she could only coax Lingling in her arms and said, "Mother made a mistake, can Lingling forgive her?" Lingling said aggrievedly with tears in her eyes: "Lingling woke up without her mother, wuwuwu." Qi Yuning hugged Lingling and comforted her: "In the future, my mother will never ignore Lingling again. Lingling, don't cry." Lingling cried a lot in Qi Yuning's arms. Qi Yuning comforted her and agreed to many of Lingling's requests, and then Lingling fell asleep in Qi Yuning's arms.
There was a pool of tears on Qi Yuning's shoulders. After carrying Lingling to the bed, she changed her clothes, went to find Qi Yu'an and A Ping, and dismissed all the servants. When Qi Yuan saw Qi Yuning coming alone, his tone became more stern, "You are more capable now, aren't you?" Qi Yuning whispered, "Brother, the reason why I went to the princess's mansion yesterday was because His Highness the Crown Prince entered my boudoir while I was sleeping in the afternoon. I was frightened and dared not sleep on that bed again." Hearing this, Qi Yu'an asked worriedly: "Where are they at the Spring Equinox? No one is in charge of your courtyard, allowing others to come in and out?" Qi Yuning said: "Originally, I am the only master in the backyard, and the servants and maids below are all here. They were all entertaining guests. I set up a door for my mother-in-law at the entrance of the backyard. Since the prince entered the backyard with He Qing, my mother-in-law didn’t stop him. Otherwise, if he was a male guest nearby, he would have been stopped when he entered the backyard. It’s on fire.” Qi Yuan frowned, looked at Qi Yuning worriedly and said, "Are you okay?" Qi Yuning said: "Fortunately, there are secret guards in the courtyard. I went to invite Lu Ze, but nothing major happened. I just woke up suddenly and was shocked out of my mind by His Highness the Crown Prince." A Ping was slightly shocked and said: "How could he do this to you?" Qi Yuning looked at A Ping and said, "Sister-in-law, now we are a real family. I think you can tell me your identity, right?" A Ping glanced at Qi Yu'an and said: "I have told the prince that the princess's guess is right. I should indeed be a princess, but I have no evidence. Aunt Qin beside me did it for the queen and hers." The young girl confessed without being implicated, and now she comes out to tell the truth, no one will believe her, and..." A Ping whispered: "I also just want peace." Qi Yuning said: "There has been no such thing as peace since you married my brother. Our Qi family can have today's glory because of His Majesty's wisdom. Another emperor who ascends the throne may not be able to accommodate the more than [-] Qi family members in the north. Thousands of soldiers and horses. Then Qin Yuli was against me not long ago, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince broke into my boudoir yesterday. Isn't it precisely because the Qin family and the Crown Prince have never taken the Qi family seriously? Now that His Majesty is still here, if His Majesty leaves one day and the Crown Prince ascends the throne, our Qi family will have a knife hanging over our heads. " Qi Yuning looked into A Ping's surprised eyes and said, "Do you know why I know that Lu Yun is young, uneducated and not a good man, but when the Lu family went to ask for marriage, did I still agree to marry him? It's because He is the son of the princess and the prince's nephew. With this relationship, he can somewhat save the lives of the descendants of the Qi family. But now that I know that the prince is not the princess's biological brother, even if I marry Lu Ze, I may not be able to protect our Qi family. There will be no peace in the Qi family in the future. We can only correct the chaos and protect the blood of the Zhao family. The great prosperity should belong to the Zhao family and should not be confused by the blood of rebellious officials and traitors. " A Ping said worriedly: "But I'm afraid that your majesty will not believe it. Princess, I am still pregnant. I can't take risks at this time. I have never had a child. I am afraid of this child..." A Ping looked at Qi Yuan. Qi Yu'an said to Qi Yuning: "A Ping is right. We cannot convince His Majesty the Empress just by the words of A Ping and Nanny Qin. It is not urgent to overthrow the prince. I think we should take A Ping back to Beicheng." Go, wait until your sister-in-law's child is born, and then come back to the capital to expose the prince. If you can't bring down the prince, at least the child will be safe." Qi Yuning nodded and said, "Yeah." Nowadays, the top priority of the Qi family is indeed A Ping's unborn child. Qi Yu'an said: "We plan to return to Beicheng in a few days. You must take care of yourself while in Shengjing City. If you and Lu Ze get married in the first half of the year, I may not be able to come back. Please talk to Lu Ze in the past two days. , please invite everyone in the Lu family to have a meal with us." Qi Yuning replied: "When Lu Ze comes back tonight, I will discuss it with Lu Ze." "My lord." The voice of the guard beside Qi Yuan came from outside the door. After Qi Yuan opened the door, the guard came inside and whispered a few words in Qi Yuan's ear, and Qi Yuan frowned. Qi Yuning saw that Qi Yuan looked wrong and asked, "What's wrong, brother?" Qi Yuan closed the door and said: "Isn't there a Nanny Qin beside A Ping? Aunt Qin also gave birth to a daughter back then. In order to protect her daughter, she did not dare to tell A Ping's identity immediately. Now she Want A Ping to meet her daughter. Ah Wei, who I sent to the Qin family to investigate the whereabouts of Grandma Qin's daughter, was wrapped in a straw mat by the Qin family and thrown into a mass grave. "
Qi Yuning said: "I'm afraid I'm just trying to scare the enemy away. Brother and sister-in-law, you'd better go to Beicheng quickly." Qi Yu'an said: "It won't be too late to leave after having dinner with the Lu family, within two days. If we leave directly, it will appear that we are guilty." Qi Yuning said: "That's right, but Nanny Qin's daughter... By the way, sister-in-law, can Nanny Qin tell me about the origin of the prince?" A Ping nodded lightly and said: "Say, Grandma Qin said that the prince was born to the maid in Qin Han's room, the eldest young master of the Qin family. Because the maid was not raised as a concubine, there are very few people who know that she is pregnant. Know..." Qi Yuning suddenly realized: "No wonder there was thunder that day in winter, and the mother knelt down to her son. Couldn't the sky strike with five thunders?"