There are many ethnic minorities living in Ningzhou Prefecture, and their lively personalities have created a different night market.
At the beginning of the lanterns, each stall owner hangs up colorful lanterns, which look like stars from a distance.
Gao Zhen held Luo Qingzhi's hand and shuttled between the stalls, enjoying the envious looks cast by passers-by.
Passing by a stall selling hairpins, Luo Qingzhi stopped and picked up a silver hairpin with a butterfly shape on it.
"Do you like it?" Gao Zhen asked.
Luo Qingzhi put it down, shook her head, and said, "Just looking."
Seeing Luo Qingzhi pick it up and put it down, the stall owner still hoped to make this business a success. He faced Gao Zhen and said, "Sir, sometimes women like to talk sarcastically. Your wife must like this."
Gao Zhen felt happy when he heard the stall owner call Luo Qingzhi "Madam". Without seeing Luo Qingzhi's helpless expression, he had already put down the broken silver and bought the hairpin.
Seeing that Gao Zhen had already paid, Luo Qingzhi said nothing more and responded calmly, "This store owner, sometimes what a woman says is true."
After saying that, he left straight away. Gao Zhen picked up the hairpin and chased after him.
"Arlo, are you angry?"
"No." Luo Qingzhi said.
Gao Zhen handed the hairpin to Luo Qingzhi and said, "Here, I'll give it to you."
Luo Qingzhi looked at the silver hairpin in Gao Zhen's hand, and then remembered the wooden hairpin he had given her in Jinling.
"Why do you like giving me hairpins so much?"
Gao Zhen responded, "One day, I will give you a gold hairpin."
Giving a gold hairpin is a gift from a husband to his wife when they get married.
Luo Qingzhi did not respond, and Gao Zhen continued: "Aluo, you haven't answered my question just now. Let's just stay in Ningzhou, okay?"
Gao Zhen earnestly hoped to hear Luo Qingzhi's affirmative answer, but Luo Qingzhi still didn't have any answer. Gao Zhen lowered his eyes, a little disappointed, "Aluo, you don't want to stay here?"
Luo Qingzhi thought for a while and asked: "Why do you want to stay in Ningzhou?"
Gao Zhen replied, "In Ningzhou, you are just Luo Qingzhi, and I am just Luo Jinchao."
Luo Qingzhi said calmly: "When I return to Jinling, I am just Luo Qingzhi."
"...But I can't just be Luo Jinchao, can I?" Gao Zhen asked.
"You just want to be Luo Jinchao, right?" Luo Qingzhi asked.
The explosion of fireworks resounded in the sky. Gao Zhen opened his mouth to say something, but his voice was muffled and Luo Qingzhi did not hear it clearly.
When the fireworks were over, Luo Qingzhi asked: "What did you just say?"
"...I said, yes." Gao Zhen replied.
Luo Qingzhi was silent and asked: "So, this is your choice?"
Gao Zhen nodded, "Yes, I don't want that supreme position, all I want is you."
Hearing such an answer, Luo Qingzhi seemed to be relieved from the bottom of her heart, "Okay, just be Luo Jinchao."
Gao Zhen sent Luo Qingzhi to the state capital and watched her enter.
Luo Qingzhi returned to her room, thinking, "Since Gao Zhen doesn't want to fight for the throne, it's better to go back to Yuzhou after the incident in Ningzhou."
"Dong-dong-dong-dong!"
There was a knock on the door, "Young Master, are you asleep?"
Luo Qingzhi stood up and opened the door, "Is something wrong?"
Feng Zinan said: "There is news from Luo Chen."
"You come in first." Luo Qingzhi said.
"What news? Tell me."
Feng Zinan handed over the letter and said, "After Luo Chen spread the news, someone really showed clues."
Luo Qingzhi looked at the content of the letter, "The dead warriors all come from the palace and are trained by a mysterious person, and this dead warrior will only be handed over to members of the royal family."
"Who is the mysterious person?" Luo Qingzhi asked.
"Luo Chen said that he didn't see the person's appearance, but judging from his body shape, he was a man." Feng Zinan said.
Luo Qingzhi said: "People from the royal family can be transferred? Does that mean that it has actually existed for a long time?"
Feng Zinan nodded, "Yes."
"But why has no one known about their existence for so many years?" Luo Qingzhi asked.
Feng Zinan shook his head, "I don't know."
"Okay, I know, you can check the traces of those people in Weibaoshan Mountain." Luo Qingzhi ordered.
As soon as Feng Zinan finished speaking, the knock on the door rang again.
"Is it really lively tonight?"
Feng Zinan went to open the door. When Wang Mian saw Feng Zinan's face, an expression of disgust immediately emerged. When he saw Luo Qingzhi appearing in his sight, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Princess."
Luo Qingzhi smiled and said, "Is there any progress in Commander Wang's investigation?"
Wang Mian nodded, "There's news."
"you say."
Wang Mian said: "This Master Ouyang went to see Mu Qi quietly."
Luo Qingzhi asked: "What did they say?"
Wang Mianqing coughed, changed his tone, and began to interpret the conversation he heard.
Ouyang Xun: "Shut your mouth, I'll save your life."
Mu Qi: "We can't involve the Mu family."
Ouyang Xun: "What I wanted was never the Mu family."
After Wang Mian finished his performance, he glanced at Luo Qingzhi and Feng Zinan, both of whom were silent.
Luo Qingzhi said: "It seems that Master Ouyang really has some problems."
Wang Mian said loudly: "It's not just a problem, it's a very big problem."
"Where is Ouyang Xun now?" Luo Qingzhi asked.
"In prison."
Luo Qingzhi nodded, "Lead the way, let's go take a look."
Wang Mian was a little surprised, "He just walked in so arrogantly."
"Otherwise." Luo Qingzhi asked, "Should we bring some snacks in?"
"..."
Wang Mian remembered that His Majesty had given him an order not to say too much. Although he was a little surprised, he still acted according to Luo Qingzhi's order.
When Luo Qingzhi and his party arrived at the prison, Ouyang Xun happened to come out. The two collided head-on. Luo Qingzhi asked calmly: "Sir, is the questioning over?"
Ouyang Xun saluted respectfully and said, "Yes, I am preparing to prepare the confession and submit it to the princess."
"No need to bother." Luo Qingzhi shook her head and said, "Excuse me, sir, please accompany me in again."
"......yes."
Mu Qi was imprisoned in the deepest part of the prison in the state capital. He was sitting on the bed with his back straight.
"Young Master." Luo Qingzhi greeted softly.
Mu Qi glanced at Luo Qingzhi and said calmly: "Princess, there is no need to ask any more questions. I said, I plead guilty."
Luo Qingzhi smiled and asked, "What deal did you make with Mr. Ouyang just now? Forget about it. I'll make a deal with you to give you more protection."
Ouyang Xun and Wang Mian were both startled.
The former immediately knelt down and said he was wronged.
The latter curled his lips and said nothing.
Mu Qi sneered, "Will you give me protection?"
Luo Qingzhi nodded, "Yes, I am Luo Qingzhi, the princess of Anning. In the court, your majesty loves me very much. No matter what I want, your majesty can give it to me. At the border, I am a mercenary with hundreds of thousands of soldiers."
General Bei, the entire Pingbei Army obeys my orders."
Everyone present couldn't help but shudder when they heard such nonsense, even the cold-faced Feng Zinan had a slight change.
Mu Qi laughed, "Haha, Princess An Ning? Do you dare?"
Luo Qingzhi smiled slightly and said, "It's my choice whether I dare or not, and it's your choice whether you want to or not."
Mu Qi stood up and said calmly: "Then, Princess, please withdraw the people on the left and right, and I will talk to you alone."
Luo Qingzhi glanced at Feng Zinan and Wang Mian, "You guys, please step back."
The two of them exited the cell after receiving the order, and Ouyang Xun followed suit.
Luo Qingzhi called him and said, "Master Ouyang, please stay." After she finished speaking, she looked at Mu Qi and said, "Master, is it okay?"
Mu Qi nodded, "Okay."
The prison in the state capital was temporarily set up and was not a place specially designed to hold prisoners. Therefore, Mu Qi was almost the only one in the entire prison.
After Feng Zinan and Wang Mian exited, the sound of wind coming from the dilapidated windows from time to time gave the already deserted prison an even gloomy atmosphere.
Ouyang Xun bent over, not daring to look at Luo Qingzhi at all, while Mu Qi stared at Luo Qingzhi.
Luo Qingzhi said: "What I just said is true. I can give you whatever you want."
Mu Qi was also unambiguous and said directly: "I want military power at the border."
Luo Qingzhi asked back: "Isn't the military power always in the hands of your Mu family?"
Ouyang Xun immediately explained, "Princess, you are not involved in government affairs, so you may not know much about this matter. A year ago, after the death of the eldest son of the Mu family, the military symbols on the border were taken over by the state government."
Luo Qingzhi had doubts in her heart and asked directly, "There was no report of the death of the eldest son? Wasn't the military talisman taken back?"
Ouyang Xun said: "Mufu's position in Ningzhou is very important. If such a thing is known to everyone, then there will be problems."
"What was the reason for the township incident that year ago?" Luo Qingzhi asked.
Ouyang Xun was silent.
Luo Qingzhi looked at Mu Qi, "Maybe you know?"
Mu Qi said directly: "I did it."
Luo Qingzhi thought for a while, looked at Mu Qi, and asked: "So, your target is the military talisman, not the family property."
Mu Qi was more direct, "I want both."
Luo Qingzhi said: "How is your relationship with your sister Mu Wanning?"
Mu Qi said: "This matter has nothing to do with her."
"I didn't ask if she had anything to do with this matter." Luo Qingzhi said.
"No matter what, don't go looking for her." Mu Qi said.
Luo Qingzhi said: "If she really has nothing to do with this matter, then I naturally won't go find her, but if it is, you can't stop me."
"..."
Mu Qi continued: "Wanning's husband is close to Wanning because of the Mu family's property. I can't let someone like him enter Mu Mansion."
"You want military power? Have you ever thought that if you kill someone, even if I give you military power, you can't take it... Our laws are not for decoration..." Luo Qing
Zhi said.
Mu Qi was silent, but Luo Qingzhi suddenly said: "So, you didn't tell the truth."
"...Everything I said is true."
Luo Qingzhi no longer hesitated, "Okay, then I'll go check it out."
Ouyang Xun followed Luo Qingzhi out of the cell. As soon as he walked out of the door, he immediately explained: "Before, the official was just lying, and I didn't really want to make a deal with him."
Luo Qingzhi nodded, "I understand, I naturally trust you." This chapter has been completed!