Empress Dowager Zhou's brother Zhou Wenqiang walked out of the gate of the princess's mansion and returned to the Shangshu Mansion.

Mrs. Zhou, who was facing him at the door, hurriedly asked, "What did the regent say?" He has also seen our Jiayun, and the man who has seen our Jiayun is rarely unmoved. ”

Zhou Wenqiang said: "I saw the Lord of Qi today, and the appearance of the Lord of Qi is not good compared to our family's Jiayun. ”

Mrs. Zhou said: "I don't believe it, my family Jiayun is a peerless beauty praised by everyone, how come I have never heard of the good name of Lord Qi?" I've only heard of her arrogant and domineering before, and she just relies on her family background. ”

Zhou Wenqiang sighed lightly and said: "Since you know that Qi Yuning is arrogant and domineering, you should eliminate the idea of letting Jiayun be Lu Ze's concubine!" ”

Mrs. Zhou frowned and said, "Do you think I am willing to let my beautiful daughter go to be a side concubine?" Isn't it what father-in-law and mother-in-law mean? Now that the emperor is young, your sister is the queen mother and cowardly. When you first arrived at the court, although you are the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, you have not yet taken power, and we need to prevent Lu Ze from having different intentions.

can only wronged Jiayun to be his side concubine, and he can also use this to win over Lu Ze and protect your sister and Zhao Jie! ”

Zhou Wenqiang sighed lightly, "Now that it is still the period of national filial piety, if you want Jiayun to be a side concubine to Lu Ze, you can only wait until you leave the national filial piety." ”

Mrs. Zhou said: "If you wait for the national filial piety, I am afraid that the Lord of Qi will have a child, Amitabha, the Bodhisattva will bless the Lord of Qi to give birth to a daughter!" ”

Zhou Wenqiang couldn't help but sigh heavily when he heard Mrs. Zhou's words.

……

Qi Yuning originally thought that before the living soul, she probably wouldn't go out again.

Unexpectedly, Princess Xu was gone in June, Princess Xu had been sick for a long time, and in the autumn of last year, King Xu was already thinking about letting Lu Baohua be a side concubine, and at that time, he knew that Princess Xu's time was running out.

His Majesty's edict asked King Xu to go to the fiefdom, but King Xu never left, also because Princess Xu couldn't even get off the sickbed.

Qi Yuning is pregnant, but as a nephew and daughter-in-law, she can not mourn.

It's just that she is the only one in the Qi family in Shengjing City, and she is giving the gifts of the Qi Palace, and Princess Xu's funeral can't let the housekeeper of the Qi Mansion give the gifts, which is a bit rude.

Now that she is six months pregnant, she can also go to mourn in person.

Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu went to mourn together, but they sat in the Qi family's sedan chair.

Qi Yuning looked at Lu Baozhu, who had to squeeze a sedan chair with him, and said, "Don't you have a sedan chair in your Lu family?" ”

Lu Baozhu said: "Now it's also your Lu family, you have entered the door of my Lu family, and you went to mourn with the famous words of the Qi family, and you are not afraid of people." ”

Qi Yuning said: "I entered the door of your Lu family, I am also surnamed Qi, my brother and sister-in-law are not in Shengjing City, I naturally want to give a gift for Qi Mansion." ”

Lu Baozhu said: "Speaking of which, my Aunt Xu is really unlucky, she and Uncle Xu have always been very affectionate, and she has been seriously ill since the beginning of last year, and I don't know how many imperial doctors have not been able to see it well, alas! Good people don't live long, when she was seriously ill, her mother's family kept wanting to let Uncle Xu come over, and she was finally relieved at this time. ”

Qi Yuning said: "Princess Xu doesn't seem to like her maiden family very much? ”

"Who would like to stuff their sister's niece's maiden home next to their husband before they die? In fact, the last time I asked to marry Lu Baohua, it was not King Xu's intention, it was Princess Xu's intention. ”

Qi Yuning looked at Lu Baozhu in surprise and said, "How do you know?" ”

Lu Baozhu said: "I heard what Princess Xu said to Lu Baohua, she was afraid that after she left, after King Xu ascended the throne, the new middle palace would not be able to accommodate her son and daughter, and if she wanted to find someone with a noble status who could treat her children well, Lu Baohua was the best choice." ”

Qi Yuning sighed and said, "Pity the hearts of parents all over the world." ”

When I arrived at the gate of King Xu's mansion, there were bursts of sobbing inside.

Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu got out of the sedan chair.

King Xu, who was entertaining guests at the door, was full of sorrow, and when he saw Qi Yuning coming, he even stepped forward and saw that Qi Yuning was sitting in the sedan chair of the Qi family.

Qi Yuning saluted and said, "King Xu also asks for condolences." ”

King Xu said sadly: "The county lord has a heart, and he came to see his deceased wife on the last journey." ”

When Qi Yuning and Lu Baozhu entered, they heard a twelve-year-old girl crying uncomfortably, shouting loudly: "Mother, mother, don't go." ”

Lu Baozhu stepped forward, hugged Lord Fangjun and said, "Fang'er." ”

"Sister Baozhu, I don't have a mother anymore, I don't have a mother anymore!"

Qi Yuning stepped forward to put three sticks of incense on Princess Xu, listening to Fang'er's crying, she was also very uncomfortable in her heart, she knew the taste of not having a mother, Qi Yuning liked Qi Yu'an very much to talk to her about her childhood, after all, she was too young at that time, and she couldn't remember the love of many fathers and mothers for her.

Qi Yuning was extremely sad, she only felt that there was a hand on her shoulder, and she raised her eyes and saw Lu Ze.

Lu Ze glanced at Qi Yuning unhappily, and only pulled her to the hall next door for the guests to rest, "Why did you come to condole?" ”

Qi Yuning said: "I came to mourn for Qi Mansion." ”

Lu Ze whispered to Qi Yuning: "Wait for me, I'll go back with you later." ”

Qi Yuning nodded lightly.

After Lu Ze left, Qi Yuning got up and saw two figures entering, a younger girl wearing a beige skirt, and her pale pink face was stunning at a glance.

Needless to say, she knew that this beauty in front of her was the niece of the Empress Dowager Zhou, after all, there are really few such stunning beauties.

Sure enough, Xiao Man, who was fanning her behind Qi Yuning, lowered his head and said in her ear: "County Lord, it's her, the great beauty of the Zhou family." ”

When Qi Yuning was looking at the mother and daughter who came over, the two mothers and daughters who came in were also looking at Qi Yuning.

Mrs. Zhou has always been proud of her daughter's appearance, and feels that women in the world can hardly match her daughter's appearance, but looking at the woman sitting in a high position in front of her, she actually feels that her daughter is one point behind.

"Lord Qi."

Mrs. Zhou listened to the servants of King Xu's mansion salute, and only then did she know the identity of the woman in front of her.

Hearing the three words of the county lord of Qi, Zhou Jiayun even glued her eyes to Qi Yuning's body.

Mrs. Zhou stepped forward and said: "It was the county lord of Qi, we should have come to visit the county lord in Shengjing City a long time ago, I heard that you are pregnant and raising your body, and it is not easy to bother, but I didn't expect to see it today." ”

Qi Yuning said: "I have long heard of Miss Zhou's good name, the maid next to me saw Miss Zhou from a distance before and said that it was a great beauty, I wanted to see the beauty, and today I saw it and realized that what my maid said was true, it was really beautiful." ”

Zhou Jiayun was full of embarrassment when she was praised, and lowered her head shyly.

Mrs. Zhou said: "The county lord has praised it, my daughter is not as good as the county lord." ”

As soon as Mrs. Zhou's words fell, Lu Ze entered from the outside, walked straight to Qi Yuning's side, helped her up, and said, "It's time to go back." ”

Qi Yuning looked at only Lu Ze, not Lu Baozhu and asked, "What about Baozhu?" ”

"Cousin Fang cried a lot, and Baozhu wanted to stay and comfort her."

"Lord Wang." Zhou Jiayun saluted Lu Ze.

Lu Ze's tone was indifferent: "No courtesy." ”

Instead, Lu Ze said softly to Qi Yuning: "Go back." ”

Qi Yuning was supported by Lu Ze and walked, and just went out of the door to meet Shen Nian and Shen Jialin, and when he was about to say hello, he heard a sentence from inside the house.

"Look at her belly, it must be another daughter!"

"Mother! Whisper ......" (end of chapter)