These literati in Shengjing City all knew Lu Baohua, and they all made way for Lu Baohua. Lu Baohua withdrew his gaze from Zhong Ming's face, picked up his pen and wrote a poem: Comb your hair diagonally in front of the makeup mirror. Returning wild geese in autumn, weary travelers miss home. The green sleeves are attentive, the gold cups are scattered, and the jade hands are playing the pipa. People are losing weight, the wind blows the curtains, and the butterflies are worried about tomorrow's flowers. Looking back at the end of the world, there is a ray of setting sun, and the jackdaws are counted. After finishing writing, Lu Baohua took a deep look at Zhong Ming, then stood up and left. Shen Jialin was left looking at Lu Baohua's good calligraphy and praising him: "Good calligraphy, good words. Whose family does that girl belong to?" The scholar on the side said: "The second girl of the Lu family is famous in Shengjing for her talent." Shen Jialin said: "She is Lu Ze's sister?" "Yes, the two of them are brothers and sisters with outstanding literary talents. They have few rivals in Shengjing City." Zhong Ming looked at the two lines of words left by Lu Baohua, then looked at his right hand wrapped in gauze, laughed sarcastically, picked up a glass of wine with his left hand and drank it all.
When Qi Yuning went up to the box on the second floor, he happened to see the scene of Zhongming. In the private room, Lingling ordered a lot of dishes and waited for the two roasted squabs to arrive. Lingling grabbed a pigeon leg and gave it to Lu Baohua: "Second aunt eats the leg." Lu Baozhu was jealous and said, "Why isn't Auntie?" Lingling grabbed another pigeon leg and gave it to Lu Baozhu, "Auntie, eat it." Lu Baozhu held Lingling into his arms and handed the leg in front of Lingling: "Finally, your love for my Lingling was not in vain." Qi Yuning looked at the scene of Lingling chewing pigeon legs and smiled lightly. After drinking and eating, Lingling still had the energy to wander around, and Qi Yuning followed Lingling around. Lu Baozhu asked: "By the way, why didn't I see Lu Yun yesterday? Didn't he follow you?" Qi Yuning couldn't help but have a headache when he thought of Lu Yun who still had amnesia. He didn't know how to explain to Lu Baozhu, "He is at the Shen family in Lingzhou." "What is he doing there?" Lu Baozhu asked, "He is really good at running. Where is Baoshuang Baoxue? Why can't he see the two of them?" "They followed Zhong Ding to suppress King Ning." Qi Yuning said, "We just received an urgent report yesterday that King Ning has surrendered and should be back soon." Lu Baohua asked Qi Yuning in a low voice: "Princess, General Zhong Ding went to destroy Prince Ning first. Didn't Zhong Ming go with him?" Qi Yuning said: "His hand was seriously injured. I'm afraid he can't even hold chopsticks with his right hand..." Lu Baohua was extremely surprised, "What?" Qi Yuning looked at Lu Baohua and said, "He currently lives in the General's Mansion in the west of the city. If you want to visit the injured, you can go to the General's Mansion to find him." Lu Baohua didn't say anything after hearing this. …… In Prince Xu's Mansion. King Xu entered Princess Xu's room and saw that Princess Xu was coughing badly and said, "I heard that you met Baohua today?" Princess Xu nodded and said: "Your Majesty, Baohua is a good girl. Ahem, but it's a pity that I can't leave now in this state. Otherwise, you can use your position as a concubine to hire her, and she won't be wronged." .”
King Xu held Princess Xu's hand tightly. The young couple had been together for fifteen years. King Xu felt very uncomfortable hearing what Princess Xu said. "I will ask a good doctor to take a look at you. You have to hold on until you become the crown princess..." Princess Xu leaned on the pillow and said: "I know that my mother-in-law has planned to send my sister and niece to the palace, but I don't trust them either. I can only trust Baohua. Ahem, our fragrance My son is too innocent, ahem, I need to find a stepmother who treats her well." Seeing that Princess Xu was seriously ill, King Xu sighed. Princess Xu added: "There is also Shen Jialin, who has a bad temper. Fang'er is still young, so don't think of him as your son-in-law." King Xu felt uncomfortable listening to Princess Xu's last words, "Well, you have a good rest." King Xu left the princess's courtyard and saw Shen Jialin entering with a piece of paper. Shen Jialin said to King Xu: "My lord, why didn't you tell me that there is such a talented girl in Shengjing City? I have found the goddess of my dreams, and I want to marry the second girl from the Lu family." "..." King Xu was silent for a while, then coughed and said, "I have made a verbal agreement with her parents to make the second girl of the Lu family my concubine." Shen Jialin frowned and said: "My lord, how old are you, and you still want old cows to eat tender grass? You must be more than ten years older than her!" King Xu has always been tolerant of talented people. Hearing Shen Jialin's words, he was not annoyed and said: "It is true that she is much older, but her parents have already agreed to get married." King Xu was not very willing to marry Lu Baohua. She was really much younger than him. He liked Lu Baohua, but he had always been fond of his niece and junior. Seeing that Lu Baohua's talent was becoming more and more outstanding, King Xu was also proud of the junior who he promoted personally. But letting Lu Baohua become his concubine and have children with her, King Xu felt very sad just thinking about it. It's just that now, for the sake of the ninth-five-year-old position, there is no choice but to be shameless and eat young grass. Shen Jialin said, "It's a pity that she is engaged to be married to you, but she also has a sister. Judging from her sister's tone, I think her literary talent is also excellent." "Sister? She only has one sister, which is my niece, Lu Baozhu, the daughter of Princess Pingrou." Shen Jialin said: "So her name is Baozhu. From the way she sounded, I guess her literary talent is superior to that of the second girl Lu. She is also Lu Ze's biological sister. Doesn't she have great literary talent?" King Xu smiled, but after all, he did not expose his niece as uneducated and unskilled, "Girls from the same house must be similar." Shen Jialin smiled and said: "Then I will write to my parents and ask them to bring the betrothal gift to propose to marry Lu Baozhu!" King Xu said: "Isn't this inappropriate?" "Does the prince think that I am not good enough for your niece?" King Xu thought about how Lu Baozhu, when she was a child, could pretend to be illiterate and illiterate in eighteen ways when he was asked to write a few words. She was really not worthy of Shen Jialin. However, after all, he was married to his niece, and now that he was getting engaged to the Lu family, he still had to save some face for his niece. King Xu sneered: "It's worthy, it's worthy." …… Lingling played for a whole day, and by dusk, she was finally too tired to go back to the palace. Back in the palace, Lingling leaned on the small wooden couch and fell asleep. Qi Yuning saw Lingling sleeping and touched her little face with his hand, feeling very satisfied.
Lu Ze entered the house and saw the silence inside. He saw Lingling sleeping on the couch and went over to touch her little face. Qi Yuning raised his eyes and asked, "You came back early today?" Lu Ze said: "I was afraid that Lingling would make a fuss and want to see me, so I brought the official business back to handle it." Qi Yuning said: "Lu Baohua met Zhong Ming today. I think she is interested in Zhong Ming. Should we help match them up?" Lu Ze said: "Adult marriage is a good thing, but my second uncle and second aunt have agreed to King Xu's proposal of marriage. Now King Xu has not gone to tell His Majesty about it. If Your Majesty agrees to King Xu, Baohua will really be a sure thing." The concubine of King Xu needs to be matched as soon as possible before His Majesty agrees." Qi Yuning said: "Well, I will go and confirm Baohua's thoughts tomorrow."