There was a Dragon Boat Festival palace banquet at noon. Qi Yuning hurriedly went to the palace after coming down from Xianglin Temple. Although His Majesty was not here today, the palace was still lively.
But Queen Mother Zhou's expression was obviously very wrong and full of anger.
Qi Yuning asked Princess Pingrou in a low voice, "What's going on? Why is Queen Mother Zhou so angry today?"
Princess Pingrou said in Qi Yuning's ear: "The Empress Dowager did not give the phoenix seal to the Queen Mother Zhou before. Before her death, my mother gave the phoenix seal to the Queen Mother Tian. Today's palace banquet is not the responsibility of the Empress Dowager Zhou." Forget it, how can she not be angry?"
Her son became the emperor, and she became the queen mother, but she couldn't even handle matters in the harem.
Concubine Tian Tai was the concubine of Emperor Shi Yuan. Empress Dowager Zhou wanted to call her concubine, which was the last wish of the Empress Dowager. No wonder Empress Dowager Zhou was so angry.
However, Qi Yuning also knew that the Empress Dowager had concerns during her lifetime. Empress Dowager Zhou did not seem to be a brainy person. In the future, when the little emperor grew up and took in concubines, the power of the harem would not be in the hands of Empress Dowager Zhou.
It would be better to give it to the childless Concubine Tian, who is about the same age as the Queen Mother Zhou, and later hand it over to the Queen of the Middle Palace who can take charge of the Sixth Palace.
Princess Pingrou asked Qi Yuning, "Didn't Yun'er go to Xianglin Temple with you? Where are the others?"
Qi Yuning said: "I don't know where he went."
Empress Dowager Zhou had a really unpleasant Dragon Boat Festival, but she soon realized that as long as she lived well, she would definitely be able to take charge of the harem when Zhao Jie took charge.
……
In the princess's mansion.
After Shen Nian finally put Brother Han to sleep, he heard the door being kicked hard.
Lu Yun kicked the door in, startling Shen Nian, "Lu Yun, speak softly."
Lu Yun looked at Shen Nian and said, "Don't you want to make peace? I'll let you make peace. Let's make peace now. I don't want to be a cuckold. You take your stinky little bastard and get out of the princess's house."
Shen Nian looked at Lu Yun and said, "Why are you so crazy? Don't wake up Brother Han."
Lu Yun said with red eyes: "If you don't want to reconcile, throw Huang Rui's spiritual tablet out of Xianglin Temple. I don't want to see his spiritual tablet in Shengjing City."
Shen Nian sighed and pulled Lu Yun to the master bedroom aside. She raised her eyes and looked at Lu Yun and said, "What did Huang Rui's spiritual position bother you?"
Lu Yun said: "You rushed to Xianglin Temple on the 15th day of the lunar month. I really believed that you were going to worship Buddha. I didn't expect that you were going to see your ex-husband. Anyway, he is there without me, and there is me without him! You want If he stays, then throw away his spiritual tablet."
Shen Nian sighed deeply and said, "Then let's make peace. I'm tired too."
Lu Yun opened his eyes wide and looked at Shen Nian in disbelief: "You didn't choose me or him?"
Lu Yun stretched out his hand to restrain Shen Nian's wrist, pulled Shen Nian to the bed and said, "How many years have you been married to him? You and I have been married for almost three years, and you still choose him without hesitation. Are you really a couple?" It’s so bullying!”
Lu Yun's eyes were red with tears as he spoke, and he bit Shen Nian's exposed shoulder hard, "I won't make peace with you, so don't even think about making peace with me! You still owe me several children.
How can you let me down like this? I have forgiven you for all the bad things you have done, and I love you so much..."
"Bah! I don't love you."
Shen Nian stretched out his hand to wipe Lu Yun's tears, leaned into Lu Yun's arms and said, "I rushed to Xianglin Temple on the 15th day of the lunar month because of you. When you were bitten by a poisonous snake and fell unconscious, I told you in front of the Bodhisattva I swear, if you wake up safe and sound, I will remain a vegetarian for the rest of my life and go to the temple to worship Buddha on every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month to fulfill my vows.
I enshrine Huang Rui's spiritual tablet, not because I still have him in my heart, but because he is Han'er's biological father.
Lu Yun, now in my heart, you and Haner have the same status, and I love you too.
Can you and I live a good life from now on? Don't mention reconciliation again, okay? "
When Lu Yun listened to Shen Nian say the words "I love you too," the corners of his lips curled up behind his head. He gradually stopped crying and responded, "Yeah."
……
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the heat has continued, but even the heat can't stop Lingling's fun-loving heart.
In August, Zhao Shu and Brother Yuan came back. Lingling had an aunt and cousin to play with, but she was unwilling to go home in the palace.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao Shu held a banquet at Prince Qi's Mansion and invited Princess Pingrou and her family to the banquet. When Lu Yun arrived at Prince Qi's Mansion, he took Shen Nian to see the dog hole he climbed in when he was a child. "Why is this dog hole sealed? This is where I crawled in to find you when I was a child."
Shen Nian smiled lightly and said, "You went to find Yu Ning when you were a child."
Lu Yun hummed: "Who wants to find her? She has been fierce since she was a child, and only my brother can stand her."
Lingling raised her eyes and looked at Lu Yun, pouted and said: "My mother is not evil, but my uncle is bad!"
Lu Yun looked at the little Lingling who appeared out of nowhere and said, "Where did you come from? Little aunt, I will teach you how to climb a dog hole. Don't tell your uncle that my mother is cruel."
Lu Yun opened the blocked dog hole and let Lingling crawl through the dog hole. He then went out from the side door to the alley. Lu Yun pointed to the princess's mansion on the side and said: "Look , your uncle’s house is just a hole away from our house.”
Lingling brightened her eyes and knocked on the side door of the princess mansion. As soon as the side door opened, Lingling entered the princess mansion and said, "Go home."
Lingling exited the princess's house and crawled back from the dog hole, "We're at my uncle's house."
Lingling climbed over again and said, "Go home."
Climbing back again, "I'm going back to my uncle's house."
Lingling was having a great time.
Qi Yuning and Lu Zeman searched for Lingling at Prince Qi's Mansion and found the side door. Seeing Lingling trying to get into the dog hole, Qi Yuning stepped forward and picked up Lingling who was all dirty and disgusted. Lu Ze.
Lu Ze was very disgusted with Lingling who was covered in dirt and said to Lu Yun, "Lu Yun, how do you teach Lingling to climb a dog hole? Isn't this dog hole sealed?"
Lu Yun said: "I demolished it again. Why did I seal this dog hole? This is great. Lingling can be closer to her uncle's house in the future."
Lu Ze frowned.
Lingling said with a milky voice: "Hello, uncle."
Lu Yun kissed Lingling on the side of her face and said, "Lingling is so good."
Qi Yuning looked at the dog hole in front of him, called Lu Ze aside and said, "Lingling, who was more than three years old, knew about this dog hole on the first day she came here, but we had seen it from the mist before. Little Lingling has never walked through this dog hole."
Lu Ze said: "So, the three-year-old Lingling who came back earlier is the little Lingling today?"
Qi Yuning looked at the dirty Lingling in Lu Yun's arms. It was exactly the little Lingling in her memory. Even the small scar on her forehead after the fall was exactly the same.
Brother Han and Brother Fang hit it off immediately, and they actually play together better. Brother Yuan is healthy and chubby, while Brother Han is thin. Brother Fang, who seems to be a few months younger, is more like an older brother.
After Brother Han and Brother Yuan played together, the two boys were no longer willing to play with Lingling.
Lingling was very aggrieved by this, "I don't want my cousin, I don't want my brother Han, I want my little uncle."
Qi Yuning hugged Lingling and chuckled: "Okay, if you want little uncle, let your father take you to the palace to find him tomorrow."
Qi Yuning finally understood why Lingling, who had returned to the past, seldom talked about Brother Han and her cousin, because both Brother Han and her cousin disliked her for being too young and refused to play with her.
Only the little uncle really indulges Lingling.
In September, on Lingling's third birthday, Zhao Jie gave Lingling his most cherished set of ceramic ponies.
Qi Yuning took out the porcelain pony that Zhao Jie had given to Lingling before in the imperial mausoleum.
After a few years, the ceramic pony had fallen into dust, and Qi Yuning also saw the small wooden sword beside it, which was the previous favorite of little Lingling.
Lu Ze saw Qi Yuning sorting out the toys that Lingling had played with before and said, "Aren't these the ones that Lingling in front of me played with? This wooden sword used to be Lingling's favorite to play with. Why don't you take it out and give it to Lingling?" Let’s play with Lingling today.”
Qi Yuning said: "Don't give it to Lingling now. We will wait until after the Lantern Festival next year. If it is really Lingling who goes back to Yichou Year, she will remember this little wooden sword when she comes back..."
Qi Yuning stroked the small wooden sword and said, "I'm just afraid that Lingling won't be able to come back?"
Lu Ze held Qi Yuning's hand tightly and said, "Why can't I come back? I will definitely come back safe and sound!"
