While the two were talking, the child in Xie Xun's arms moved, yawned, and slowly opened his eyes.
By the way, since setting off from Kyoto, the child has been held by Xie Xun without any help.
He seemed to want to make up for all the time he had missed with his child in the past few months. Except when he was feeding the child milk and cereal, the child was almost always in his arms, and it was naturally the same now.
Seeing that the child was about to wake up, Xie Xun quickly nudged the child in his arms.
"Are you awake?"
The child had been carried by Xie Xun all the way and had become very familiar with his arms. When he woke up, he did not recognize the child. He yawned, did not open his eyes, and began to look around.
When he saw Qin Rushuang, he smiled sweetly.
Qin Rushuang felt warm in her heart and stepped forward to take the child into her hands.
"You brat! Do you still know that I am your mother? I see that you are so happy all the time that you almost forget about me as your mother!"
The baby can now make some simple sounds. He couldn't understand what Qin Rushuang was saying, but he still happily followed her.
"Yeah~"
Qin Rushuang patted his little butt gently, and the child became heavier and heavier.
Xie Xun was watching the happy scene of the two people from the side, and his heart felt very warm.
After hugging him for a while, he was about to take the child over, but a servant came to deliver a message.
"My lord and princess, this is a letter sent by someone from the Nanman army."
Hearing this, Qin Rushuang frowned slightly and put the child in Xie Xun's hands.
She took the letter and opened it, while asking with a slightly serious look: "Is this letter sent by the Nanman army? It was delivered directly to our camp without avoiding others?"
The soldier nodded, "That's right.
Qin Rushuang's heart sank.
wrong.
If it was Mu Duo, he probably wouldn't act like this. Could it be...
Qin Rushuang opened the letter and turned directly to the signature area without reading the content.
Sure enough, it wasn't Mu Duo's signature, but someone she didn't expect.
Queen of the Southern Barbarians.
Xie Xun held the child in his arms, glanced over here, and asked, "Is it Mu Duo discussing the city with you?"
Qin Rushuang put down the letter in her hand and her face became even heavier.
"No, it was the Nanman Queen who invited me to the palace for a chat."
"Queen of the Southern Barbarians?" Xie Xun was also a little surprised when he heard the origin of the letter: "I thought it was a letter from Mu Duo."
Qin Rushuang said solemnly, "Maybe... the Nanman incident will not end so easily."
"I made an agreement with Mu Duo that he would get in touch with me as soon as I came to Nanman. The person sending me the message now is not him, but the Queen of Nanman. There are only two possibilities."
"Either Mu Duo has changed his mind and wants to occupy these two cities without returning them."
"Either...it's not that he refuses to retreat, but that he no longer has the right to speak."
"You mean...Muduo may be controlled by someone now, or that he no longer has the power to restrain the Nanman soldiers and horses?"
Qin Rushuang nodded, "Nine times out of ten, that's the case."
"Then I'm afraid I can't go to the Nanman Imperial Palace easily. I haven't even been able to distinguish between friends and foes yet. If I go there, I'll hold you there..."
Xie Xun had a stern face. He was not willing to let Qin Rushuang get involved in any danger now. Even if there was only a chance of one or two points, he was not willing to put her in crisis.
Qin Rushuang shook her head, "We have to go to the Nanman Imperial Palace. The Queen is Mu Duo's biological mother. Perhaps she is the only one who knows Mu Duo's current situation."
Xie Xun thought for a moment and realized that it was the same, so he nodded and said to Qin Rushuang, "Then I'll go with you."
In short, it is impossible for Qin Rushuang to be involved in danger alone.
"The letter said that the Queen of Nanman only received me, and I will go alone."
"Absolutely not!" Xie Xun rejected the proposal without thinking.
"You also said that we still don't know whether we are friends or foes. How can I trust you to go alone?"
"But if I go and the prince stays outside, if something unexpected happens to me, the prince still has the ability to rescue me; if you and I go together and leave these 40,000 horses outside, then if I
What accident happened to the two of you..."
"Then we can't let you go into danger alone!"
"Stop talking, I've made up my mind."
Qin Rushuang called for the soldier who had just delivered the message, "Go and deliver the message to the Nanman military camp, saying that I agreed to the queen's invitation and went to the palace alone."
The soldier glanced carefully at Xie Xun, who had a dark face, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
Finally, Xie Xun nodded with a cold face: "Go ahead and do as the princess said."
Qin Rushuang turned her head and said with some comfort, "Don't worry about me. The Queen is Mu Duo's biological mother, so she shouldn't do anything to me."
Xie Xun nodded.
"Then you must bring a few capable soldiers with you, otherwise I won't trust you."
Qin Rushuang wanted to say that when the other party invited her to go on an appointment alone, why would he let him bring a guard, but seeing Xie Xun's face, she finally agreed: "Okay, then the prince will arrange it."
After saying that, he turned around and left, ready to set off.
The child returned to Xie Xun's hands again. Seeing Qin Rushuang leaving, Xie Xun whispered: "Ying 1, Ying 2, where are they?"
The two walked out.
"What orders does the prince have?"
Xie Xun put the child into Ying 1's hands and turned his attention to Ying 2, "Where are those human skin masks I asked you to prepare before?"
Ying Er was slightly surprised.
"My subordinate has been taking her with me, but are you going to secretly follow the princess to the Nanman Palace?"
Xie Xun nodded, "I don't trust him alone. You go find a set of bodyguard clothes and arrange for three of them. I'll put on a human skin mask and blend in among them."
Ying Er got the order and went down to do it quickly.
A moment later, a tall but unattractive man wearing ordinary guard clothes quietly blended into Qin Rushuang's guards.
During this short period of time, Qin Rushuang had been thinking about every situation that might happen when she went to the Nanman Palace, so she didn't pay any attention to who was following her.
In this regard, she quite trusts Xie Xun. Since Xie Xun was chosen to protect her, he is naturally a good choice.
It was not until the group was ready to set off that Qin Rushuang inadvertently glanced behind her and saw the guard Xie Xun had prepared for him this time.
Four people in total.
They were all wearing the same guard uniforms, so there was nothing surprising about them, but this was just one of them...
Qin Rushuang couldn't help but take another look.
This man was very tall, much taller than the people next to him.
It stands to reason that a man of this stature should have a handsome face, but his face looks very ordinary, so ordinary that no one will be impressed by it after seeing it.
When did such a person appear in the army? She didn't pay attention.
However, the news from Queen Nanman came suddenly, leaving her little time to prepare.
After Qin Rushuang was ready, she took the four guards and set off.
