After fussing around in the study for about half an hour, Qi Yuning and Lu Ze washed up together and spent more than half an hour returning to the room. Qi Yuning was lying next to Lingling. Seeing the white light constantly emitting from the jade pendant around Lingling's neck, he reached out to touch it. Lu Ze took Qi Yuning's hand and said, "Don't touch it." He didn't want Qi Yuning to see the Qi Yuning in the jade pendant, who was too cold. Qi Yuning hugged Lingling tightly, looked at Lu Ze and said, "Why does Lingling's jade plaque shine so brightly?" Lu Ze said: "Let's go to bed first and go to the temple tomorrow to ask." Qi Yuning nodded and closed her eyes. She was already exhausted from messing around in the fountain in the study for so long. It was rare that they could get up late on the second day, so Qi Yuning and Lu Ze slept until midnight. Qi Yuning moved and subconsciously hugged Lingling, but found that there was no Lingling, and it was Lu Ze who was hugging her. Lu Ze was awakened by Qi Yuning's movements and said hoarsely: "Are you awake?"
Qi Yuning looked at Lu Ze: "Did you take Lingling back to the crib again? It's cold now, why let her sleep in the crib alone?" "No." Lu Ze said lazily, "Could it be that Lingling was too crowded and ran to the foot of the bed?" Qi Yuning got up and took a look at the bed. He didn't see Lingling. He turned up the quilt and saw Lingling. The little peach wood sword that Lingling was almost inseparable from was also missing. "Lingling! Lingling!" Chun Equinox and Gu Yu, who were guarding the door, came in and said, "Princess, what's wrong?" Qi Yuning saw the Vernal Equinox and said, "You didn't follow Lingling?" Spring Equinox said: "Princess, Lingling hasn't gone out. Gu Yu and I were guarding the outer room, and we didn't see the door of the inner room open. Shouldn't little Princess Lingling be inside?" "Lingling!" Qi Yuning was in a hurry to get to bed. He didn't wear shoes or socks and ignored the cold wooden floor in the house, so he looked for Lingling everywhere in the house. "Lingling?" Lu Ze and Qi Yuning searched every corner but could not see Lingling. They asked the secret guards and maids outside, but no one had seen Lingling. Qi Yuning couldn't help but feel anxious. Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand tightly and comforted him: "Don't worry, could it be that Lingling has left?" Qi Yuning woke up completely, looked at Lu Ze and said, "Lingling is leaving?" Lu Ze looked at Qi Yuning's belly and said, "It shouldn't be considered leaving. It's already the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month. You're pregnant in ten months. Maybe Lingling is already in your belly." Qi Yuning slowly touched his belly, full of sadness and worry. What’s sad is that she hasn’t been able to see her cute little Lingling for a long time. After spending three months together in the past year, Lingling is very important to her. What worries me is whether Lingling can go back smoothly? Will the child in her belly still be alive in the future? Worrying about whether she is really pregnant. Lu Ze held Qi Yuning in his arms and comforted her, "Lingling will definitely come back, she will." Qi Yuning murmured in Lu Ze's arms: "If I had known she would leave today, I should have spent more time with her yesterday. I also promised her that I would take her to set off fireworks during the New Year. Why did she just leave? ?” Lu Ze held Qi Yuning tightly in his arms. He looked at the small couch beside the bed, recalling the scenes of Lingling being cute and well-behaved and sometimes crying, and he was full of reluctance.
Qi Yuning spent most of the day without thinking about food or food. She thought that Lingling would suddenly appear from somewhere, but she didn't. In the evening, Lu Ze shouted and looked at the account book, but for an hour, she didn't turn a page. Lu Ze walked up behind her and said, "It's time to have dinner. The maid has already called." Qi Yuning looked up at Lu Ze and said, "I don't want to eat." Seeing that Qi Yuning hadn't eaten lunch, Lu Ze comforted him: "Eat more or less. Maybe you are eating alone now?" When Qi Yuning heard Lu Ze's words, she touched her flat belly. She didn't know if it was a hint. She always felt that there was something different. Her cute spirit might be in her belly. If so, she really couldn't be hungry. Lingling, Lingling is the most greedy. When the two arrived at the dining hall, Princess Pingrou and Duke Lu Guo had already taken their seats, but they didn't mind that they were late. Princess Pingrou looked behind Lu Ze and Qi Yuning, "Hey, where is Lingling? Today I made her her favorite braised rock sugar turtle!" Lu Baozhu said: "Yes, I haven't seen Lingling all day today. In the past, I came early in the morning to tell my aunt that it was time to get up." Qi Yuning whispered: "Lingling is gone." Princess Pingrou knew this. After hearing Qi Yuning say that Lingling had left, she felt lonely even though she had been prepared for it. Lu Baozhu said with confusion: "Lingling is gone? Where did Lingling go? Did she go to the palace?" Lu Ze shook his head and said, "I'm leaving. I'm leaving." Lu Baozhu was extremely surprised and said angrily: "How did you take care of the child? How could you let a child at such a young age like Lingling die?" "Lingling did not die young, don't talk nonsense!" Qi Yuning said sternly, "There is no chance that Lingling died young!" Lu Baozhu was frightened by Qi Yuning's stern voice, "Where did Lingling go?" Lu Ze asked all the maids to go down, closed the door of the hall, looked at Lu Baozhu and Lu Yun and said, "You are not allowed to tell anyone what I will say later." Lu Ze could hide it from others, but he could no longer hide it from his own family. Lu Yun swore: "I will never tell anyone. If I tell anyone, I will never be able to marry a wife!" "You can't get a wife yourself." Lu Baozhu quipped. Lu Guogong said: "Don't talk so much, tell me quickly, where did Lingling go?" Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning and said, "It's a long story. Lingling came back from the year of Xinwei. She was supposed to be born in September of the year of Dingmao." "The year of Ding Mao? There are still six days until the year of Ding Mao!" Lu Baozhu said in shock, "Now it is the year of Bingyin, how could Lingling be born in the year of Ding Mao?" Lu Yun suddenly realized: "No wonder Yu Ning agreed to marry me after having Lingling. It turns out that Lingling came from behind, not the one you gave birth to before." Lu Baozhu felt very confused, "What is coming from behind?" Qi Yuning said: "Lingling came back to the present in the year of Xinwei. She was not born today. She will not be born until almost ten months. Lingling appeared here out of thin air. Last time you You are right, I was not pregnant with any children when I was fourteen or fifteen years old." Lu Baozhu said: "I know that Lingling came from the future, but how could this happen? How could such a weird thing be possible?" Qi Yuning said: "Although it is impossible, Lingling was right. She said her second uncle was Zhong Ming, she said A Ping was her aunt, and she said Qin Chong did not ascend the throne but was imprisoned. Lingling said That’s right, so she did come from Xinweinian, and she should have gone back to Xinweinian now.” Lu Baozhu still had difficulty digesting this matter.
Lu Yun was much more accepting, "No wonder she recognized me and called me uncle as soon as she saw me!" Lu Baozhu looked at Qi Yuning and gradually accepted it. At that time, she and Qi Yuning were at odds with each other, but Lingling called her aunt as soon as she saw her and was very familiar with her. Lu Baozhu asked: "Now that Lingling has gone back, how are you going to explain to the outside world that Lingling is missing?"