If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

Huainan.

Lu Heng's injury has healed, leaving only a scar on his abdomen.

At night, lying on the same bed with Guangning, even though she was naked and pressed against him, he still did not react.

He didn't know whether it was because of his injury or because he had lost interest in Guangning.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered her appearance like a rag in the grass on the hillside.

She was completely dirty, with all the filth left on her by the man.

He felt sick.

"My dear Prince Consort, don't be discouraged. Everything will be fine." Guangning looked at the back of his head and comforted her softly.

"Yeah." Lu Heng just responded in a low voice, but did not hug her back.

In the darkness, Guangning's eyes grew colder and colder, and there was no tenderness in his gaze towards Lu Heng.

"I sent someone to bring Song's daughter to Huainan. Song left her daughter behind and has disappeared." Guangning said calmly.

Lu Heng sat up suddenly, "Did you kill Song?"

Guangning stood up gracefully, picked up his clothes and put them on, walked barefoot to the candlestick, picked up the tinder and lit the lamp.

She turned her head and looked at Lu Heng with a smile, "Didn't the prince consort send someone to pick them up? You should know whether Song was killed or ran away on her own."

"I am willing to keep Song's daughter and bring her to Huainan because of you."

"Prince Consort, you should know that I have never tolerated anyone. It is only because I have you in my heart that I have wronged myself so much."

Lu Heng suppressed the anger in his heart.

He even had the urge to make Guangning remember that incident. It was obvious that she herself could no longer have children, so why did she always speak to him in a tone of pity and pity?

"There is something that your Highness may not know. Your mother is sick. She is unconscious and talking in delirium. Even the imperial doctors cannot cure her." Guangning said.

Lu Heng's mind buzzed, "What did you say?"

"You should receive news from the Lu family in a couple of days. You have to know it anyway, so I'll tell you first." Guangning smiled faintly at Lu Heng.

"Impossible!" Anyone could be crazy, but his mother definitely couldn't be.

From childhood to adulthood, his mother has always been calm and wise. She has never been angry because his father secretly took a concubine. It seems that nothing in this world can make her lose her reason and decency.

How could my mother possibly... go crazy?

Guangning: "It seems like I had a nightmare."

"You are not in Shangjing City, how do you know it so clearly?" Lu Heng said angrily.

"I have already said that you should send someone to bring your daughter back." Guangning's voice turned cold. "Your daughter is the only child you have in this life. If you want her to be raised by a concubine, I will send someone to bring Song back."

"Or do you want your daughter to be registered under my name and raised as your legitimate daughter?"

Lu Heng's anger was completely cooled by Guangning's words, which were like ice water.

Yes, his only biological daughter is still in Guangning's hands. If Guangning can't even tolerate that child, then he will have no bloodline left in this world.

"Okay, okay, I'll put it in your name." Lu Heng's eyes flashed slightly, and he slowly sat down.

Guangning glanced at him sideways, a mocking smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

"Princess, I have to go back to visit my mother." Lu Heng said.

He felt that something must have happened to his mother, otherwise she would not have been sick.

"Prince Consort, what can you do when you go back? You are not proficient in medicine. Even if you go to the Bai family and bring your mother back to the Lu family, what can you do? Will you let your mother go back to see your father flirting with his concubine all day long?" Guangning asked with a smile.

Lu Heng's face darkened even more.

"Otherwise, I will ask my father for permission to let you return to the capital to continue your work in the Ministry of Rites so that you can take care of your wife." Guangning said.

"No need." Lu Heng clenched his teeth.

If he returned to Shangjing City, he would become an idler again.

He can't go back!

His mother certainly wouldn't want him to return to the Ministry of Rites.

In this world, his mother is the person who has the highest hopes for him, and he cannot let her down.

His people will return to Huainan soon and will naturally tell him what happened.

Guangning smiled and said, "Please go back to the front yard, my dear. I am going to bed."

Lu Heng looked at her in surprise. This was the first time Guangning kicked him out of the room.

Oh! She thought he was willing to sleep with her, and he stayed every day to suppress his nausea.

"Princess, sleep well." Lu Heng stood up and left without looking back.

The maid who was on night watch heard the noise and hurried in to check. Seeing the princess standing by the window in a daze, she walked over cautiously.

"Your Highness, do you feel unwell?"

Guangning shook his head, "Go and light some calming incense for me."

The maid replied in a low voice.

That night, Guangning finally stopped dreaming.

It seemed that Lu Heng sleeping next to her made her unable to sleep well all night.

Two days later, the child finally arrived in Huainan.

Looking at the fair and tender baby in the cradle, Guangning felt no emotion at all, neither angry nor sad, just like looking at a porcelain doll.

Lu Heng was very excited and he couldn't wait to hold his daughter in his arms.

"Your daughter's eyes and eyebrows are quite similar to yours." Guangning said that since she doesn't look like Song, it's no big deal to keep her around.

She's just a girl, and she'll get married when she grows up.

"Princess, are you really willing to keep her under your name?" Lu Heng asked with some disbelief.

Guangning nodded calmly, "I have no experience in raising children. My husband, please find two wet nurses for this child and arrange for some maids to serve her, so that you don't think that I mistreat her."

"The princess will be Jingrou's mother in the future. How can a mother treat her daughter badly?" Lu Heng said hurriedly.

If a princess becomes the legitimate mother, the child's status in the future will be higher than others.

For the time being, Lu Heng didn't care much about whether Song Xiuzhi stayed or left.

What he regretted most was that his twin sons died young, and the reason for their death was that they were frightened by a fire.

The maid who set the fire was sent by the Duke's Mansion. He absolutely would not believe that Lu Yuan had nothing to do with it.

"Jingrou?" Guangning raised his eyebrows. They had just met and he had already thought of a name.

Lu Heng could not hear the mockery in Guangning's tone. He lowered his eyes and looked at his sleeping daughter. "Yes, I have already thought of a name. It's Lu Jingrou."

"Good name." Guangning nodded.

"Son-in-law, don't you still have to discuss the salt well issue with the officials in Huainan today?" Guangning asked.

Lu Heng finally remembered the important matter, so he had no choice but to hand his daughter over to Guangning. He took a deep look at her, still a little worried, and said, "Let Nuanchun take care of Roujie first, so as not to disturb the princess."

Nuanchun is Lu Heng's maid.

Guangning: "Okay."

Did he really think she would do anything to his daughter at this moment?

If she really wanted to, the child would not be able to come to Huainan.

However, since her mother handed the child to her, Song must be in great danger.