The sky was slightly bright, and the door of the wing opened from the inside.

Qi Zhen hugged Linglong, who was still asleep, and stepped out of the room.

The weather is still cold at this time of year, and the air-conditioning in the morning is even more chilling.

Linglong's body was wrapped in a thick robe, covering her whole body tightly.

The secret guard waiting outside saw the master carrying someone out, glanced at the steps outside the wing door, and hurriedly stepped forward to remind him softly, saying: "Master, watch your steps, and be careful on the steps."

Qi Zhen carried the man down the steps, glanced outside, saw the carriage that had been prepared outside, and walked towards the carriage outside the door.

After carrying the person safely onto the carriage, Qi Zhen wanted to put the person down, but the person in his arms, perhaps because he was afraid of the cold, was still lying tightly in his arms.

Qi Zhen pursed his lips, hugged the man tightly again, and ordered the secret guard driving outside to set off.

The carriage started off, shaking slightly.

The person in Qi Zhen's arms woke up in a daze.

When she woke up, her eyes were dazed. She opened her hazy eyes and looked at the carriage she was in. Then her eyes fell on the person holding her.

After seeing Qi Zhen's face, he rubbed his eyes and closed them again, wanting to sleep a little longer.

While rubbing his eyes, he asked casually: "Why are you on your way so early? Where are you going?"

Qi Zhen looked down at the sleepy Linglong and replied truthfully: "Go to the north."

Linglong was actually still sleepy, but she just asked casually and didn't take it to heart. After hearing this, she just yawned again and fell asleep in a daze.

When she was about to fall asleep, she seemed to have thought of something, and told the person next to her: "Please remember to wake me up at the next market or street market where we will stop. We left in a hurry, and you didn't seem to bring me any rouge or gouache.

He didn’t bring me enough clothes, so when I get to the market, I’m going to buy all these things.”

Linglong was mumbling, and Qi Zhen could hear her clearly as he hugged her tightly.

But he didn't answer immediately.

Linglong said, rouge gouache.

But Qi Zhen clearly remembered that in the third year of Nanyuan, and even later in the East Palace and even on the Guanyue Tower, she did not often use rouge and gouache.

He said he didn't like rouge, gouache, or bright clothes.

Shen Linglong rarely used rouge and gouache. At most, she just applied lipstick. That was lipstick. Because he didn't like it, he often wiped the color off her lips. Later, she became obedient and stopped applying it.

Qi Zhen used to say that he didn't like Linglong's bright makeup, but it was never true that he didn't like her being so bright and eye-catching.

At that time, every time he saw the bright and beautiful Linglong, he always felt his heart trembling.

At that time, Qi Zhen didn't understand the reason. He thought it was because he didn't like such a bright appearance, so he wanted her to be exquisite and quiet, and he wanted her to be bright, not bold, and not eye-catching.

Only later, when I recalled my past, did I understand.

The reason why her heart trembles is because, in her previous life, Linglong, who was not married to Nanyuan by accident, was the beautiful and dazzling second lady of the Ning'an Hou Mansion.

When he was in the cold and desolate time of Nanyuan, he accidentally caught a glimpse of the beautiful and charming little girl on the wall and jumped off the decaying palace wall of Nanyuan.

Once you are moved by one glance, it will be hard to forget.

So after two lifetimes, I still felt my heart tremble when I saw her with bright makeup.

However, Qi Zhen at that time did not understand.

Fate punished him for being affectionate, so he couldn't remember his past and couldn't understand.

Qi Zhen's eyes were lowered and dim. His words contained a sigh, and he responded: "Okay."

After he finished speaking, Linglong closed her eyes and fell asleep contentedly. When she was about to fall asleep, she muttered again: "I remember there was a box of lipstick that you said was very bright in color. I even rubbed the lipstick on your clothes that day.

, It’s a pity that I left in such a hurry, but the box of lip balm is still in the shop.”

Linglong was talking to the person next to her, and there were only two of them in the inner room.

But Qi Zhen, who was holding her and sleeping on his lap, clearly understood that the person Linglong was talking about was not him.

That day when the governor's office saw Li Mu, his clothes were stained with lipstick.

What Linglong said was probably the lipstick of that day.

Qi Zhen clenched his palms slightly, and although his face still had the illusion of calm, he did not say anything in response to Linglong's words.

Linglong said nothing in reply, then raised her eyes and glared at him dissatisfied, and said angrily: "I'm talking to you, Li Mu, are you listening?"

Her voice was filled with anger, she glared at him, and what she called was Li Mu's name.

The look in Qi Zhen's eyes was cold. The words of the doctor came to mind. A bitter smile escaped from his throat. He raised his hand to cover the eyebrows of the person in his arms and responded: "I'm listening. Go to sleep, Linglong."

Linglong didn't sleep much last night, and she was sleepy again this morning. She didn't have much energy at all, so she just snorted and fell asleep.

Qi Zhen, on the other hand, had obviously not slept all night, but the complicated thoughts in his mind at this moment tortured him so much that he could not sleep at all.

The carriage swayed forward, and at sunset, it arrived at the town where it was planned to stay during the trip.

The secret guard drove a carriage and stopped beside an inn. Linglong slept intermittently all day and finally woke up.

The carriage did not stop all day today. Except for Qi Zhen who briefly woke Linglong to feed her some dry food when it was time to eat, Linglong had never eaten any food and was now very hungry.

The carriage stopped, and the secret guard outside reported the arrival of the inn.

Linglong hurriedly rubbed her eyes and jumped out of the inn.

She moved very quickly, one step ahead of Qi Zhen behind her.

When the guards saw Linglong jumping out first, they subconsciously became on guard. They were worried that Linglong was going to cause trouble again, so they immediately took action.

Linglong was quite perceptive and immediately noticed something was wrong. She turned around and pulled the person behind who jumped out of the carriage.

"Li Mu, I haven't had time to ask you yet? Where did you find these guards? Why do they all look so scary? And the maid, I remember the one serving me is not her."

Qi Zhen glanced at the personal guards on the side, waved his hand for them to retreat, and replied: "They are just paid guards. As for the maid, she didn't take good care of her. I resigned her and replaced her with someone who knows martial arts. Along the way

It is more convenient for me to run around and have a maid with martial arts skills."

He responded to Li Mu's calls to her again and again, mending and weaving lies.

Linglong was in the middle of it and didn't notice it. After listening to his words, she revealed the matter and went to the inn without asking any more questions.

Qi Zhen saw Linglong stepping up the stone steps of the inn, and suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist.

Linglong looked back blankly and asked in confusion: "Li Mu, why are you pulling me?"

When she asked questions, she still called Li Mu.

The pain in Qi Zhen's heart was almost numb, but Linglong's words of "Li Mu" still tormented him.

Qi Zhen didn't want to listen anymore.

He held her wrist, his throat rolled, his movements were a little stiff, and he said to her: "Linglong, now that we are married, it's time to change your words. Don't call her by that last name again. I don't like to hear it."

The confusion in the exquisite eyes disappeared, and instead, they were filled with dazzling smiles.

She smiled with crooked eyes, held Qi Zhen's wrist, and replied with a smile: "Okay, husband."

It's not like Qi Zhen has never heard the word "husband". He has heard it countless times day and night in Nanyuan and East Palace. At that time, the husband who was called in exquisite words was Qi Zhen, not someone else.

But today, I heard that she was facing him, calling someone else's husband.

Qi Zhen thought that not listening to her calling other people's names would relieve his pain, but hearing her husband's voice still hurt him.

But what can he do?

He can't do anything.
Chapter completed!