Chapter 327 The Truth About Marriage Fake
Upon learning that Qin Xiaoning had arrived, Li Lanchun had already personally been waiting at the gate to greet her. When she saw Qin Xiaoning coming, she greeted her with a smile.

"When I heard that you were coming back, I really didn't want to do anything. I've been waiting for you." Li Lanchun said quickly and warmly.

Qin Xiaoning exchanged pleasantries with Li Lanchun as she entered the main hall. The maids served her tea and fruit. Qin Xiaoning asked tentatively, "There is a wedding going on in the mansion. The eldest lady must be very busy these days."

Li Lanchun smiled and replied, "That's right. I've been busy for quite some time. Oh my, I'm exhausted."

"Fortunately, the date is only a month away. If we get it done quickly, everything will be fine. Otherwise, these red tapes will never end."

Qin Xiaoning forced a smile and agreed, "When a family like us gets married, we naturally have to make it a grand occasion."

"Marry a wife?"

After hearing what Qin Xiaoning said, Li Lanchun asked in confusion: "Who wants to get married?"

Qin Xiaoning asked back: "Isn't it that the prince wants to marry a wife?"

"Which prince?" Li Lanchun seemed even more confused. He stared at Qin Xiaoning and asked, "Are you talking about my second brother?"

Without waiting for Qin Xiaoning to answer, she waved her hand and said, "Don't you know that my second brother's marriage to Wang's cousin has been cancelled long ago?"

This is also what Qin Xiaoning is curious about.

"Why did the marriage between the Wang and Lu families fall through?" she asked.

Li Lanchun put down the teacup in his hand and sighed, "My second brother doesn't want to do it."

As she spoke, she waved her hand to dismiss the servants in the room, and said to Qin Xiaoning in detail: "A Ning, you may not know yet, when you were in the mansion before, there was a scoundrel who came to claim his kinship. Oh my, it turned out to be the cousin of the Wang family who instigated it behind the scenes."

Qin Xiaoning had long suspected that it was Wang Fengyi's doing.

However, in front of Li Lanchun, she couldn't speak directly about her current identity, so she just pretended to be confused and said, "The daughter of the Wang family is dignified and noble, how could she do such a thing? I am just a nobody, how could she waste her energy on me?"

Li Lanchun was amused when she heard this: "Jealousy."

She glared at Qin Xiaoning: "Second brother only has you in his heart, how can she not be jealous."

Then he said to Qin Xiaoning in detail, "My second brother probably suspected the cousin from the Wang family, but she did it cleanly. Plus, at that time, our family was constrained by the Jiang family, and the late emperor was watching covetously, so we didn't dare to offend the Wang family rashly and get caught, so we didn't find out anything for a while. Later, my second brother became the regent, and there was no one who could suppress him, so he went to great lengths to investigate the matter, and indeed found some clues."

Qin Xiaoning asked, "It was the cousin of the Wang family who bribed that person, right?"

Li Lanchun sighed: "If my cousin had done it herself, there wouldn't be so much trouble."

She lowered her voice and said, "It turns out that it was the eldest son of the Wang family who was behind this."

"Wang's cousin was jealous of you, so she asked Wang's cousin for help. All of this was done by Wang Zhaoji."

"It was done perfectly, and the person is dead and there is no evidence."

"It's because my second brother is in power and is determined to investigate this matter, so we have some clues."

Qin Xiaoning listened silently, and her eyes couldn't help but become slightly moist.

Li Lanchun handed over a handkerchief and joked with Qin Xiaoning: "You are the apple of my second brother's eye. No matter who bullies you, he will not stop until he gets revenge for you."

Qin Xiaoning couldn't help but sigh: "In the past, we were really good, but now..."

The little woman couldn't continue speaking, and in the end, she only sighed softly. She tried to ask Li Lanchun, "The prince regretted his engagement with Wang's daughter, and then betrothed to which noble lady?"

"How can I betroth a noble lady?" Li Lanchun said, "Since I broke off the engagement with the Wang family, many people have come to propose marriage to me, but no matter how the elders persuaded me, my second brother just refused to marry."

She looked at Qin Xiaoning and smiled faintly; "Now that you are back again, I am afraid that my second brother will look down on other women even more."

"I think his marriage is still difficult."

Lu Ji actually didn't plan to get married.

"So what is the happy event that is going to be held in your house?"

Li Lanchun clapped his hands when he heard this: "Such a big thing, and you still don't know about it?"

"Oh my, it's Miss Li from the third room of our East Palace." Li Lanchun said with a smile, "The Queen Mother has chosen our Miss Li to marry the Emperor as the Queen."

"Oh my, this is the first time our family has a queen, tsk tsk."

When this was mentioned, Li Lanchun started talking, completely immersed in the glory of the Lu family producing a queen, and she kept chattering. Qin Xiaoning listened attentively on the surface, but she felt like a mixed bag of emotions in her heart.

She never thought that even during the time she was away, Lu Ji was still protecting her.

From childhood to adulthood, whenever someone bullied her, Lu Ji would always get her back.

Qin Xiaoning slowly recalled every bit of the past in her mind, and she suddenly felt a little guilty towards Lu Ji.

Compared to his devotion and love for her, what she gave him in return was indeed less.

Especially when Qin Xiaoning heard Li Lanchun say that Lu Ji had no intention of getting married, she felt even worse.

It was because she had hurt him too deeply. This man must have staged this drama on purpose to save face and to piss her off.

The two were here, one talking about the Lu family's upcoming marriage of a daughter into the palace, and the other thinking about something complicated. A maid knocked on the door and came in to report to Li Lanchun, "Grandma, Princess Xuancheng is here."

Li Lanchun stopped talking immediately, and her tone became dull: "Why did she come here? To see me?"

"It's not the eldest lady." The maid said, "It's the dowager who invited Princess Xuancheng here. She said she has something to tell the princess."

Li Lanchun heard this and said to the maid, "In that case, let the servants entertain her well. Go and tell the Madam that I am busy arranging for Li Jie to enter the palace and I will not be able to go to see the princess."

After the maid left, Li Lanchun whispered to Qin Xiaoning, "I was only halfway through what Wang's cousin said just now."

She pretended to be mysterious: "You just came back, so you probably don't know anything about her yet."

Qin Xiaoning was curious: "What happened? Grandma, don't keep me in suspense."

Li Lanchun then said, "My second brother broke off the engagement with the Wang family. In order to silence the gossips of the world, he actually begged the Queen Mother to confer the title of princess on my cousin from the Wang family, and named her Xuancheng."

"Look, in three or four months, we will go to Qi State for marriage."

"She is marrying the prince of Qi."

As she spoke, Li Lanchun showed a trace of disdain: "Although she is not a good person and caused my second brother to cancel the engagement, I have been kind to her. It is said that she is destined to be a phoenix and the mother of the country. In this way, she will really become the queen in the future."