The secret guard was stunned by Linglong's words, and his mind immediately became confused.

The secret guard was also in a dilemma, she couldn't say it, because in the past few years, Shen Linglong was just Miss Shen, and the slaves in Nanyuan, the East Palace, and even the Moon Viewing Tower had long been accustomed to calling her this way.

If this is really said, even if Linglong cannot remember the past and cannot understand, Qi Zhen will definitely punish her for gossiping.

But if you don’t say it, now Linglong asks again, and you can’t avoid it even if you want to.

The secret guard was in trouble several times, but fortunately he was still calm. He finally stabilized his mind and replied with his usual expression: "Look at your mind, the marriage ceremony between the husband and his wife was just completed, and I didn't turn around for a while. Thank you, madam." As a reminder, I will definitely remember this in the future.”

The secret guard said this, but Linglong still felt weird.

Even though the maid called her "Madam", she still felt strange.

To Linglong at this moment, the word "ma'am" is only vague and has no real sense.

Linglong lowered her eyes and was stunned. She crushed the powder on the makeup table even more. With a low voice, she murmured softly: "No need, I'm used to hearing girls, there's no need to change my words."

Without waiting for the maid to respond, he stood up, opened the curtain again, sat down on the bed inside, hugged his knees, lowered his eyes and said nothing, and asked the maid to retreat.

The maid wanted to comfort Linglong, but she didn't know where to start, so she had to retreat.

The small courtyard was quiet. The maid stood in the courtyard and glanced in the direction of the military camp, wondering if the master would come back after listening to Miss Shen's words.

It's strange to say that my master's temperament is really awkward.

After taking so much trouble to bring her back to me, the secret guards took care of me and took care of everything. If I say he is ruthless to Miss Shen, it is absolutely impossible. But if he has feelings for Miss Shen, why doesn't Master come to see Shen? girl.

So much time has passed now, and the master has not appeared once. Even if he thinks about Miss Shen again, I am afraid it will only push him further away.

The secret guard thought like this, hoping that Qi Zhen would come back today to calm the girl's heart.

In the military tent in the border city.

The table full of military reports and memorials was piled into a small mound. Qi Zhen read one after another, but when he saw a certain one, he suddenly stopped.

Oddly enough, the Tatars had been invading the border for more than a month. Qi Zhen originally thought that it would be a tough battle, but when he just arrived at the border town, a civil war suddenly broke out in the Tatar territory.

When the civil war broke out, the Tatars stopped fighting. Even the most ambitious Tatar leader in his previous life was trapped in the quagmire of the civil war and could not escape. He asked Qi Zhen to call a truce.

Originally, this situation could not be better.

But Qi Zhen always felt something was wrong.

The Tatars in the previous life did not have such a civil war at this time.

Qi Zhen and the Tatars have been at war for several years, and they understand this ethnic group very well. Their greed for the Central Plains is not the result of one person, nor is it only the conspiracy of the royal family.

The whole clan relies on war to support war, and their military force is getting stronger day by day. What they want is the abundant fertile soil in the Central Plains. But the Tatar leader is extremely ambitious and will never give up his ambition to go south to the Central Plains.

If the Tatars were really in a civil war, it would be bad to cease the war at this time.

If there is a truce, once the Tatars resolve their internal difficulties, they may immediately launch an attack on the Central Plains.

But if it doesn't stop, and if the Tatars are indeed in a civil war, it would be the best time to take this opportunity to go north.

It's just that Qi Zhen doesn't know the truth or falsehood of this so-called civil war, so he can't judge it arbitrarily.

Therefore, he sent his trusted spies to Tartar to find out the news.

No, what Qi Zhen is looking at now is the report sent by the spy about the Tatar Civil War.

At this moment, Qi Zhen looked at the contents of the memorial, raised his forehead and frowned, and said nothing for a long time.

After a while, he opened his lips and told the people waiting around him: "Go and call Cheng Du over."

Cheng Du was the governor of the Northwest.

The personal guard went over to deliver the message, and soon Cheng Du rushed over.

As soon as Cheng Du entered the military tent, Qi Zhen gave him the report sent by the spy in his hand, indicating that he should read it carefully.

Cheng Du received the report, read it carefully, raised his eyes to Qi Zhen, his expression was full of surprise, and asked in disbelief: "Have you found the legitimate bloodline of the Tatar royal family?"

Qi Zhen nodded slightly and responded: "This is what the spy reported. If the information is correct, this is the cause of the Tatar Civil War."

Today's Tatar leaders rose to power by fighting and did not have orthodox royal blood.

Among the ten Tatar tribes, six tribes were close to the former king and were only temporarily loyal to him.

Before him, there were four Tatar chiefs, and they always fell into bloody battles within a few years. The root cause was that the true royal orthodoxy had died out thirty years ago.

Thirty years ago, the Tatar king had only one daughter.

It was originally planned to choose a son-in-law and let the princess and her husband share the power. Unexpectedly, the princess's fiancée actually killed the Tatar King first.

Since then, the whereabouts of the princess have been unknown, the Tatars have gone through wars, and the leaders have changed one after another. Finally, not long ago, the current leader recognized the throne.

However, in the past thirty years, the former king's old men have been searching for the whereabouts of the princess.

In these days, news spread that the princess's son had been found.

One is the bloodline of the previous king, and the other is the new king who rose to power through killing and fighting. In addition, the Tatars are originally composed of several tribes, so civil war is about to break out.

But there was no news about the former king’s bloodline for thirty years, so how could it suddenly appear?

Cheng Du thought of this and asked Qi Zhen: "Who is the bloodline of the ancestor of the Tartars?"

Hearing this, Qi Zhen shook his head and replied: "The old tribe of the late King of Tartar kept the news secret. No one in the Tatar tribe has seen the blood of the late king, so naturally no one knows who he is."

After hearing this, Cheng Du asked hesitantly: "Since no one has seen him, could this person be just a character created by the old tribe of the former Tatar king to fight for power?"

It's not like Qi Zhen has never thought about Cheng Du's suspicion.

In his memory of his previous life, Tatar had never found the so-called bloodline of the previous king.

In that life, he had always known that the old tribe of the former king of Tartar was looking for the blood of the former king, and he had also sent people to search for it, hoping to use the so-called blood of the former king to involve the Tatar leader.

But until the Tatar army came to Luoyang City, the Tatar leader who led the army south to the Central Plains died under the exquisite golden hairpin, and when the Tatars fell into chaos, they never saw the legendary bloodline of the previous king appear.

Qi Zhen heard from a Tatar that the blood of the previous king died in the war.

Later, the Tatars were left without a master, and the tribes fought on their own. No matter how strong their troops and horses were, they could not escape being defeated one by one.

Qi Zhen was able to end the war and restore the Central Plains within a few years, but it was also inseparable from the help of the Tatar Lordless.

In the previous life, the so-called bloodline of the Tatar ancestors did not appear at this point in time.

If it is true as what Qi Zhen heard in his previous life, this man later died in the war.

It was very strange that he appeared so early in this life.

Qi Zhen pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, thought for a few moments, and then told Cheng Du: "For now, regardless of whether this person is true or not, if the Tatars really regard that person as their lord, you should take some trouble to find out the origin of this person. .”

The changes between this life and the previous life are actually not that big. At many points in time, everything is very different from the previous life. However, there are two changes in Tatar.

One time was to assassinate the emperor, and the other time was this so-called bloodline of the previous king.

Qi Zhen also had doubts in his heart, feeling that the Tatars in this life were very strange.

He ordered like this, Cheng Du didn't ask any more questions, he bowed his head and answered: "Yes."

As soon as the reply came out, the guards waiting outside the military tent opened the curtain of the military tent.

The personal guard stood at the tent door and reported: "Your Majesty, Miss Shen has sent someone over, saying that Miss Shen has something to say to Your Majesty."

This report actually called Qi Zhen's attention back from the Tartar incident.

When he heard that Shen Linglong had sent someone over, he pursed his lips slightly and ordered his bodyguard to bring someone in.

The personal guard led the people inside. Qi Zhen saw that it was a maid next to Linglong, not the secret guard he had left beside Linglong. His pursed lips softened slightly.

After several twists and turns, Qi Zhen is now determined to have someone guarding Linglong day and night. Naturally, he does not want to let the secret guard around Linglong leave.

As for the maid arranged separately after arriving at the border town, there are secret guards there, and it doesn't matter whether the ordinary maid is there or not.

"What's the matter?" Qi Zhen asked.

Although the maid took her badge and went to the military camp to follow the secret guard's instructions to look for someone, she thought she was serving an ordinary general in the army. As soon as she entered the military camp, she arrived in the central military tent. She was so frightened that she lost her soul. After seeing Qi Po, when he saw Qi Zhen in military uniform, he even trembled when he spoke.

The maidservant shivered and was speechless after hearing the question. Qi Zhen, the superior, raised his eyes irritably, tapped his knuckles on the table, and asked again: "What is the matter that the young lady wants you to talk about?"

The maid finally came to her senses and replied tremblingly: "Miss, I want to talk to you about something and ask you if you can go home today."

When the maid finished speaking, Qi Zhen pursed her lips. She didn't know what she thought of. After being silent for a moment, she replied: "I'm busy today. Please tell her. I won't go back today."

After hearing Qi Zhen's reply, the maid thought about what Linglong would have to ask later. She secretly wiped her sweat and said: "The girl said, if you can't come home today, let the maid ask you for her, when will you be able to come back?" ?”

When will he return? Did Linglong ask him this? Did she ask him?

Qi Zhen lowered his eyes and smiled bitterly, knowing clearly in his heart that what she was asking was not him, but the husband in her heart.

So he replied: "Tell her, I'm busy with things lately and can't get away. I'll go there on my own after some time."

Although the maid was too frightened by the pressure in the military tent to raise her head, after hearing Qi Zhen's words, she thought of asking her husband every day if he had a wife who had returned home, and she still secretly cursed this husband for being so heartless.

He was cursing in his heart. They were obviously not far apart, but for so long, he didn't even have the time to take a look. He didn't know how a nice little lady like Madam could have fallen in love with this person.

Qi Zhen rubbed his eyebrows, feeling a little headache, and waved his hand to signal everyone in the military tent to retreat.

The maid's personal guards and the summoned Jiedushi envoy Cheng Du all withdrew.

Only Qi Zhen and Man Anzou were left in the military tent, which was quiet and lonely.

But outside the military tent, the few people who had just exited had different thoughts.

Cursing in her heart, the maid left the military tent and walked home.

Cheng Du and his guards stood outside the military tent.

The personal guards were still on duty guarding the military tent, but Cheng Du looked in the direction where the maid had left.
Chapter completed!