18. Chapter XVIII

Qin Zhen's breathing was a little short, he put her down on the bed, propped his hands on the side of her head, and leaned over to look at the people below him from top to bottom.

Seeing Zhou Qingqing biting her lip lightly and her eyes dodging, he smiled, held her face with one hand, and said in a dumb voice: "What? Scared? Wasn't last night quite bold? ”

Zhou Qingqing looked at him with wide eyes, a little unwilling to be teased by him like this, but he couldn't say anything to cross-examine.

Qin Zhen looked at her watery eyes, embarrassed and annoyed, laughed, pinched her chin, and buried his head to kiss her. Zhou Qingqing saw that the face covered with beards was about to stick to herself, and subconsciously tilted her head to avoid it, so Qin Zhen only touched the hair behind her ear.

He smiled and was about to snap her face when a knock on the door interrupted his movements.

"Who?"

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have something important to report." Feng Xiao's voice came into the house.

Qin Zhen was stunned and said in a low voice: "What's the matter?" ”

Feng Xiao said: "The two Northern Zhao spies caught last night just committed suicide in prison. ”

"What?!" Feng Xiao's thick eyebrows frowned slightly, he let go of Zhou Qingqing's hand, got up and jumped out of bed, casually put on a coat and hurriedly walked out.

He opened the door only a little, and he quickly dodged out, and closed the door with his backhand, not letting the scenery inside shine through. He frowned and asked in a low voice, "Isn't it for people to take a good look?" How can you kill yourself? ”

Feng Xiao raised his head and said, "The two of them took advantage of the unpreparedness of others to bite their tongues and commit suicide. One of them has already lost his breath, and another doctor has rescued him, and there will be no major problems for the time being, Guo Huai is interrogating. ”

Qin Zhen snorted coldly: "Beizhao has been silent all these years, it turns out that he has been planning big moves, such a loyal spy must have been cultivated for many years. Let's go, I'll personally interrogate the spy who is not dead, and I can't say a word if I don't believe it. ”

Feng Xiao snorted, and said tentatively as if he remembered something: "Tonight is the night of the prince's wedding, will it be ...... to leave the princess alone?"

Qin Zhen looked back at the door behind him, laughed, and said in a barely audible voice: "I see that she would like to be alone." ”

After speaking, he walked away with his sleeves.

Hearing the footsteps of leaving outside, Zhou Qingqing, who was worried all over, got up from the bed, tiptoed over, and quietly opened the door to make sure that Qin Zhen had left, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She said in her heart, this prince of Western Qin is really different from the Southern Zhou Dynasty, there are dozens of people who can be called princes in Jinling City, let alone arresting people and handling cases, even if they enter the court to ask about politics, they are all very little, and they are just arrogant and lascivious all day long. Now it seems that when Western Qin withdrew from the army to negotiate peace, it was really the right to hit the evil.

She sat on a stool and poured a glass of wine, but when she looked up and drank it, she remembered that it was wine and not tea, and she was unprepared for a moment and choked several times. She put down the porcelain cup and began to wonder whether she, the newlywed princess, should wait for her bearded husband to come back and continue the unfinished cave room, or should she ignore sleeping first.

After hesitating for a while, she finally felt that she would be a princess who adhered to her duty and waited for Qin Zhen to return before sleeping.

When it was approaching, Zhou Qingqing sat at the table, drowsy, and finally there was a movement of footsteps approaching outside, and her originally calm heart couldn't help but lift it up. She herself doesn't understand a little, Qin Zhen is not really the king of Shura, why should she be afraid of him?

Thinking about it, she breathed a heavy sigh of relief, got up and walked to the door, tried to bend the corners of her mouth, made a virtuous and gentle princess appearance, and opened the door, but the next moment, her unnatural smile froze at the corners of her mouth.

It turned out that the person who came was not Qin Zhen, but General Feng.

Feng Xiao didn't expect her to open the door suddenly, and her face was stunned, but she quickly reacted, bowed down and said: "The prince asked his subordinates to pass a message to the princess, he will interrogate the prisoner tonight, and if he doesn't come back, let the princess go to bed early." ”

Zhou Qingqing smiled a little embarrassedly: "There is General Lao Feng." ”

Then shut the door.

When she walked back to the bed, she suddenly seemed to react, and suddenly threw herself down on the bed, rolling happily around with the thin quilt.

Go to the fucking cave room and spend candles, Qin Zhen had better never come back.

Because of the wedding gift given to him by Qin Zhen, all Zhou Qingqing's fears and unwillingness disappeared, and he slept dimly, and only woke up leisurely in the morning when the mother-in-law in the palace came to knock on the door.

Zhou Qingqing opened his eyes in a daze, heard the voice of the old woman outside, sat up and glanced at a piece of white silk cloth on the bed, and woke up suddenly. She thought about it, bit her finger in pain, smeared two drops of blood on the cloth, stuffed it under the bed, and opened the door with a wistful eye.

The old lady asked Zhou Qingqing to say goodbye, then went to clean up the bed, saw the bloodstained white silk, smiled silently, picked it up and grabbed it in her hand.

She made the bed, grabbed the white cloth and exited the door, walked outside the small courtyard, and happened to bump into Qin Zhen who was returning home, and after saluting, she was a little puzzled: "Why did the prince go out so early?" ”

Qin Zhen didn't sleep all night, he was very sleepy at this time, and said casually: "I went to the prison last night to handle the case, and I only came back this morning." After speaking, he caught a glimpse of the bloodstained white cloth in her hand, and added with a clear smile, "I only went out after the cave room, I was really sleepy, and I will let someone bring breakfast, so don't let people disturb me." ”

The old lady smiled and was about to bow down, but Qin Zhen reached out and took the white silk in her hand: "I'm not a palace here, so I don't need to get this." ”

Qin Zhen's father died early, and he opened his own door when he was a teenager, but he led troops to fight outside all the year round, and the days in the palace were very few, and there were few female dependents in the palace.

When the nurse saw that Qin Zhen took the silk, she only kept it for herself as a souvenir, and she didn't take it to heart, but only told softly: "Then the prince will go back to the room to rest, and I will let someone bring breakfast." ”

Qin Zhen nodded, hooked his lips and walked towards the room. As he walked, he looked at the white silk with a few blood stains in his hand, and then held it in his hand and smiled silently.

When the door was pushed, the door happened to open from the inside, and Zhou Qingqing's personal maid Bihe went out with a basin of washing water, and when she saw him, she stammered like a mouse seeing a cat...... The prince ......"

didn't wait for Qin Zhen to answer, he had already lowered his head and left tremblingly.

Qin Zhen touched the beard on his face, and said in his heart: Is it so scary? “

When Zhou Qingqing saw him enter the door, he hurriedly greeted him, smiled bigly, and said gently: "The prince was busy all night last night, he must be very tired, so take a good rest, so as not to be tired." ”

Qin Zhen looked at her and smiled, pulled her into his arms, and said in her ear: "Madame is so considerate, I am really touched by my husband, thinking of last night's wedding night, I really can't help my husband to let my wife stay alone in the empty room because of official business, it is better for us to make up for last night's cave room now." ”

The warm breath in his ears made Zhou Qingqing excited, hurriedly pushed him away, jumped two feet away, and said with a sneer: "The prince was busy all night last night, let's have a good rest, we will have a long time." ”

She saw the familiar white silk in his hand.

Qin Zhen nodded, raised his eyebrows and said in a long voice: "Well, the coming day is long." After that, he suddenly stepped forward, took her hand, saw the blood mark on the index finger, and smiled, "If you want to bluff the nurse, just ask your Ah Jin to get some sheep blood, why break your hand." ”

His movement was too big, involving the small wound on his index finger, Zhou Qingqing couldn't help but exclaim: "It hurts!" ”

Qin Zhen laughed, put her finger in her hand and sucked it, looked up and asked vaguely, "How about this?" ”

Humane ten fingers connected to the heart, the warm and warm wetness in his mouth, as if from Zhou Qingqing's fingers to the heart, there is an indescribable sour and numbness, which makes her at a loss for a while, but her face can't help but use a layer of shameful red. reacted, quickly withdrew his hand, and pretended to complain: "Qingqing is married from afar, I don't understand the rules of your Western Qin, and I am afraid of causing trouble, so I made this decision, and I hope that the prince will forgive me." ”

Her skin is better than snow, her lips are red and her teeth are white, her small face is delicate and pretty, and she pretends to be pitiful, which is really pitiful. However, the cunning in his eyes did not escape Qin Zhen's eyes, he smiled and said: "It was indeed bad for my husband last night, and I still think that my wife should not take it to heart." But don't worry, Madame, I will make amends tonight. ”

Zhou Qingqing scolded her so that she didn't need any compensation, but she still smiled with a crooked smile on her face: "The prince is strict." ”

The two of them were weak and wronged, and the maid brought breakfast. The two sat across the table, Zhou Qingqing drank two mouthfuls of porridge, and asked with some curiosity: "What happened to the spies of Beizhao last night?" ”

The words fell, but he saw Qin Zhen raise his head, a pair of dark eyes, looking at him meaninglessly. Zhou Qingqing thought that he had asked something that he shouldn't ask, and hurriedly said: "I just asked casually, the prince doesn't care about me." ”

Qin Zhen laughed and said, "It's dead." ”

"Dead?" Zhou Qingqing was stunned, "Then why did Northern Zhao send spies to lurk in Western Qin, do you know?" ”

Qin Zhen said lightly: "It's nothing more than ambition, wanting to go west to swallow our Western Qin, and send someone to find out the news in advance." ”

Zhou Qingqing said: "I thought that Beizhao was in a safe corner, but it turned out that he was also ambitious. But it's strange, how could they think of going west instead of going south first, after all, the Southern Zhou army is much weaker than your Western Qin. ”

Qin Zhen laughed: "How do you know that they plan to go west first?" Don't be too happy, maybe they'll attack Southern Zhou first. He paused, then said with a smile, "But since Qin Zhou has already made peace, I won't watch Northern Zhao annex Southern Zhou." ”