Wu Youxu's efficiency was first-class. In less than half an hour, he completed the transfer procedures of Li Zhen and arranged a new residence account for him.

There were 45 people in Wu Zetian's Qianniu, all of whom were very skilled in martial arts and nobles. Li Zhen was the only civilian, but also the only guard with a title.

The forty-five guards were divided into two parts, one of which was the guard, with thirty-six people, divided into three shifts to protect Wu Zetian's safety day and night. The other eight were the guards, and there were no fixed affairs and they were all temporary arrangements. Li Zhen was the ninth guard.

It is of course an extremely honor to be the Qianniu Preparation for Empress Wu Zetian. Not only is it a high status, but it also has a very generous treatment.

The monthly salary, food, miscellaneous items and other welfare subsidies add up to at least 60 jin per month, and there are still 100 jin of rice at the end of the year, and even five hectares of Yongye land, which is equivalent to a sixth-rank lieutenant.

But Li Zhen was not very happy. Entering the palace as a guard was just his expedient approach. He agreed with Shangguan Wan'er that he would resign after a few months at most. Unexpectedly, he has become Wu Zetian's Qianniu Preparation, and it would not be so easy to resign.

Now that he has his own tent, he no longer squeezes a tent like the previous three people, which is also a kind of improvement in his treatment.

The camp was covered with sheepskin, and his war horse was tied outside the tent. There was basically no furniture inside the tent. There was only a wooden box for him to hold his personal belongings, and bows and arrows and long swords were hung on the tent.

Li Zhen sat cross-legged on the sheepskin blanket, stroking Wu Zetian's white jade ruler, about one foot long, and was carved from the best Hotan white jade, as delicate as lamb fat. If you look closely, it was carved with phoenixes, but it was actually a picture of a hundred phoenixes dancing with exquisite brushwork and lifelike.

Li Zhen was very calm in his heart. Although the reward made him happy for a moment, he felt a little disappointed after calming down.

Although he received a title that everyone envied and became a personal guard of the emperor with a high status, he lost his freedom and could no longer do whatever he wanted and be free as before.

This is called gains and losses. At this time, he felt something moving behind him. Looking back, he saw a palace maid standing at the door of her tent, with her face flushed and a little uneasy.

"What's wrong?" Li Zhen asked with a smile.

"Sheren Shangguan...please come over!"

Li Zhen suddenly remembered that this palace maid was Shangguan Wan'er's personal maid Xiao E. He quickly got up and Xiao E bowed to him, "Please come with me!"

Xiao E took him to Shangguan Wan'er's big tent. Shangguan Wan'er's big tent was located in the forbidden area, and was surrounded by fences along with the Queen Wu Zetian's big tent. He was surrounded by more than a hundred other big tents, with guards.

Even if Li Zhen becomes Wu Zetian's Qianniu's preparation, he cannot camp in the forbidden area, but can only be on duty in the forbidden area and camp on the periphery.

But he has a silver medal with a number of 174. With it, he can enter and exit the forbidden area freely.

"How is Shangguan Sheren's injury?" Li Zhen asked in a low voice.

When he was shooting the leopard, he saw that Shangguan Wan'er had blood marks on her left shoulder and seemed to be scratched by the leopard's claws, which made him a little worried.

"Doctor Shen said that it was nothing serious. He had already applied medicine and would recover in a few days."

Li Zhen nodded silently and followed Xiao E into the big tent. The tent was filled with a strong smell of medicine, and several palace maids were packing up the messy items in the tent.

Shangguan Wan'er was wearing a white brocade robe and was sitting on the soft mattress. A palace maid was carefully combing her hair. Perhaps because of her fright, her face was a little pale, but her eyes were very calm.

Li Zhen had seen his brother-in-law Cao Wen's performance after being knocked down by a leopard. Compared to Cao Wen's serious mental reaction, Shangguan Wan'er's performance was much better, and she was still attacked by a special beast.

Shangguan Wan'er looked up and saw him with gratitude in her eyes, but then she returned to normal. Seeing that his guard's leather armor was inlaid with gold edges, she couldn't help but smile knowingly: "Well! As the guard of the emperor, his spirit is different."

This sentence made Li Zhen feel relieved. It seemed that she had no problem. He hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See Shangguan Sheren!"

Shangguan Wan'er waved her hand and said with a smile: "Sit down! I feel depressed when I stand so high."

Li Zhen sat down on the carpet beside her, and a palace maid brought two cups of hot tea. Shangguan Wan'er took a sip of the tea and then said slowly: "I will remember your life-saving grace. I will not think that is your duty."

Li Zhen didn't know what to say, but after a while, he asked, "It doesn't matter if the injury of the servant is?"

"No big problem. Although the skin was scratched, luckily there was no bleeding."

Speaking of this, a look of hatred flashed in Shangguan Wan'er's eyes, and she gritted her teeth and said, "My Shangguan Wan'er has always been clearly distinguished with grudges. If someone respects me, I will give him one foot, and I will give him one foot, and I will give him tenths. I will remember this hatred."

Li Zhen originally wanted to tell her about this, but she seemed to know it clearly, so Li Zhen stopped talking. At this time, Shangguan Wan'er smiled and said, "Justice came to visit me just now and told me about you. I heard that she gave you the ruler?"

Li Zhen quickly took out the white jade ruler from his backpack and handed it to her. Shangguan Wan'er took the ruler and gently stroked it. After a long time, she whispered: "This is the Lord's beloved thing! After following her for a full ten years, she actually rewarded you."

"This is because the emperor valued Shangguan Sheren, so she would reward me."

"Well, she really values ​​me, or she can't live without me." Shangguan Wan'er never denies this. She is a woman who is jealous of even the prime ministers.

"But some people often say that the emperor cannot live without her. I don't think so. An emperor who ruled the world was always seen through by the little maid next to him. After a long time, she would not tolerate it. What do you think?" Shangguan Wan'er looked at Li Zhen with a smile.

"I think so too!"

The two of them looked at each other and laughed tacitly. They both knew who this person was.

Shangguan Wan'er glanced at Li Zhen again and asked, "I am happy for you as the emperor has given you a title, but it seems that you are not willing to be her personal bodyguard. Why?"

"This... I just feel a little unfree."

"It's okay! Although you have less freedom than your previous East Palace guards, because you have something to do! But you are not as unfree as you worry about."

Shangguan Wan'er approached him a little, lowered her voice and asked, "Tell me the truth, why?"

Li Zhen's face was a little hot. How could he say that in front of such a beautiful woman? He stammered: "It's because of some other reason, but it's not easy to speak. I'm worried... You should understand what I mean!"

Shangguan Wan'er chuckled gently. Li Zhen's blushing look made her feel very cute. Of course she knew what Li Zhen was referring to?

It is indeed very likely that she felt that the emperor liked Li Zhen very much, and this kind of love was an instinctive appreciation, such as seeing a pleasing scenery and reading a passage of words with fragrance on the corner of her mouth.

It seems that the emperor likes his style when shooting archery very much, which is the real reason why he was transferred to be a personal bodyguard.

Shangguan Wan'er pondered for a moment and said, "Although I can't control the emperor's preferences, I will try my best to protect you from worrying about things that you are worried about happening."

Li Zhen nodded silently. Shangguan Wan'er's words did not bring him a sense of security. When he thought of letting a woman bring him a sense of security, he felt very funny. The world was completely reversed, right? The emperor was actually a woman. She could like any man she liked, as if she had become one of them.

While feeling funny, he also felt helpless.

.........

The incident of leopard injury in the afternoon was finally classified as an accident by Wu Zetian. Since it was an accident, it would not affect the bonfire banquet at night.

This is the tradition of winter hunting. On the first day of winter hunting, you must judge merit and hold a grand bonfire banquet. Although the hunting time is three days, everyone knows that after the first day of hunting, the wild beasts and deer in the area of ​​Wushan will almost run away, and there will be no more gains in the next two days.

So the harvest on the first day basically determined the final hunting results of this winter hunt. The generals were nervously liquidating, quarreling about the ownership of one deer and one fox, and even tearing their faces apart and pulling their fists to face each other.

Wu Youxu was nervous. As he had expected in advance, their Qianniu Right Guard was at the bottom. Now he could only count on getting the first place in his own right and earning a little face. He heard from Li Linfu that Li Zhen hunted a tiger and gave it to Li Longji, the King of Linzi.

This news immediately made Wu Youxu excited. This was the only tiger hunted today. If this tiger could be counted as the head of Qianniu Guard, then he, the general, could regain some face.

Of course he would not want the tiger, but the record of this tiger hunting must be counted on their Qianniu Guard. He told the planner Wu Sansi for a long time, and Wu Sansi reluctantly agreed, but he had a condition to ask Li Longji to admit that the tiger was hunted by Li Zhen.

Wu Youxu came outside the Jinding tent and secretly looked inside. Inside the tent, the prime minister Li Dan, Shouchun County Prince Li Chengqi, Linzi County Prince Li Longji and Linzi County Prince Li Longji were all kneeling on the ground. Li Chengqi and Li Longji were even more full of tears on their faces, and the guard Li Zhen stood awkwardly beside the tent.

Wu Youxu was a little stunned. He didn't know what happened. He quickly asked a guard in a low voice, "What happened?"

The guard quickly reported: "The emperor praised the prince of Linzi for being able to hunt tigers, but the prince of Linzi said that the tiger was hunted by Li Zhen and gave it to him. The emperor asked Li Zhen again, but Li Zhen said that the prince of Linzi shot the tiger first."

"Then what?"

"Of course he is very happy. It is not easy to say that the Prince of Linzi is young and can shoot a tiger with an arrow, not to mention that he can be honest and open and tell the truth actively."

"How could he become so nervous?" Wu Youxu asked in confusion.

"The Prime Minister proposed to present this tiger to the emperor, which made the emperor happier. He asked the prince Linzi what reward he wanted. As a result, the prince Linzi seemed to have made some requests, which made the atmosphere in the big tent tense suddenly."

“What request was made?”

The guard shook his head, "I didn't hear clearly, it seemed like a bracelet."

"Bracelet?" Wu Youxu was even more puzzled.

At this moment, Li Zhen slowly retreated from the tent. Wu Youxu quickly pulled him aside and asked in a low voice: "What request did the Prince of Linzi make?"

Li Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "The King of Linzi asked the emperor for his mother's bracelet as a reward."

Wu Youxu was stunned with a whistle, and the Prince of Linzi actually asked his mother's bracelet as a reward. How could the emperor feel?

The two imperial concubines, Liu is Li Chengqi's mother, and Dou is Li Longji's mother. Both imperial concubines have no bones, so where can they find the jewelry on their bodies?

.........

In the big tent, Wu Zetian was not furious, but just sat there quietly without saying a word.

After a long time, Wu Zetian said to Li Dan tiredly: "Dan'er, take my two grandsons down!"

Li Dan felt sad. He kowtowed three times, stood up and helped his two sons up, and whispered: "Let's go!"

The father and son staggered back, looking at their departure backs, thinking of their son's thin face, and the two grandsons' tears.

Even though she was determined and determined for life, she could not help but sigh, and a hint of regret arose in her heart.
Chapter completed!