Ningzhou is home to many ethnic minorities, and their lively personality has created a different night market.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the stall owners hung up the colorful lanterns, which looked like starlight from a distance.

Gao Zhen took Luo Qingzhi's hand and shuttled between the stalls, enjoying the envious gazes cast by passers-by.

Passing by a stall selling hairpins, Luo Qingzhi stopped, picked up a silver hairpin, and fell into a butterfly style.

"Do you like it?" Gao Zhen asked.

Luo Qingzhi put it down, shook her head, and said, "Just take a look."

Seeing Luo Qingzhi pick up and put it down, the stall owner still hoped to complete this business, faced Gao Zhen, and said, "This son, sometimes women like to talk back, and your wife must like this."

Gao Zhen listened to the stall owner call Luo Qingzhi "madam", his heart was happy, he didn't see 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 didn't say anything anymore, and responded lightly, "This shopkeeper, sometimes, what the woman said is still true."

After speaking, he left directly, and Gao Zhen picked up the hairpin and chased after him.

"Arlo, are you angry?"

"Nope." Luo Qingzhi said.

Gao Zhen handed the hairpin to Luo Qingzhi and said, "Oh, I'll give it to you."

Luo Qingzhi looked at the silver hairpin in Gao Zhen's hand, and remembered the wooden hairpin he had given in Jinling.

"Why do you like to give me hairpins so much?"

Gao Zhen responded, "One day, I will give you a golden hairpin."

The golden hairpin is a gift from the husband to his wife when he is newly married.

Luo Qingzhi didn't respond, and Gao Zhen continued: "Ah Luo, you haven't answered me to the question just now, let's 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, "Ah Luo, you don't want to stay here?"

Luo Qingzhi thought for a moment and asked, "You, 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 lightly: "Back in 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, don't you?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

The explosion of the ceremonial flowers resounded in the sky, and Gao Zhen opened his mouth to say something, but the voice was muffled, and Luo Qingzhi did not hear it clearly.

When the ceremony was 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 breathe a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart, "Okay, you can be Luo Jinchao."

Gao Zhen sent Luo Qingzhi to the state capital and watched her enter.

Luo Qingzhi returned to her room and thought, "Since Gao Zhen doesn't want to fight for this throne, it's better to go back to Yuzhou after the matter in Ningzhou."

"Knock-knock!"

There was a knock on the door, "Young Master, have you slept?"

Luo Qingzhi got up and opened the door, "Something?"

Feng Zinan said, "There is news from Luochen."

"You come in first." Luo Qingzhi said.

"What's the news, you say."

Feng Zinan handed over the letterhead and said, "After Luo Chen spread the news, sure enough, someone showed clues."

Luo Qingzhi looked at the contents of the letter, "The dead soldiers are all from the palace, trained by a mysterious person, and this dead soldier will only be handed over to the royal family."

"Who is the mystery man?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

"Luo Chen said, I didn't see the man's appearance, but, looking at the figure, it was a man." Feng Zinan said.

Luo Qingzhi said, "Can people from the royal family be transferred? Meaning, it's been around for a long time?"

Feng Zinan nodded, "Yes."

"But why hasn't anyone known about their existence for so many years?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

Feng Zinan shook his head, "I don't know."

"Okay, I know, the traces of the group of people in Weibao Mountain, you can check it again." Luo Qingzhi commanded.

As soon as Feng Zinan's words were finished, the knock on the door sounded again.

"Isn't it really lively tonight?"

Feng Zinan went to open the door, Wang Mian saw Feng Zinan's face, and his disgusted expression immediately appeared, and when he saw Luo Qingzhi appear in sight, he squeezed out a smile, "County Lord."

Luo Qingzhi smiled and said, "Has Commander Wang's investigation progressed?"

Wang Mian nodded, "There's news."

"You say."

Wang Mian said, "This Lord Ouyang quietly went to see Mu Qi."

Luo Qingzhi asked, "What did they say?"

Wang Mian coughed his throat and changed his tone, beginning to interpret what he had heard.

Ouyang asked: "Shut your mouth, I will save your life."

Mu Qi: "You can't implicate the Mu family."

Ouyang asked: "What I wanted was never the Mu family."

Wang Mian finished his performance, and glanced at Luo Qingzhi and Feng Zinan, both of whom were silent.

Luo Qingzhi said, "It seems that this Lord Ouyang is really a bit of a problem."

The crown said loudly, "It's not just a problem, it's a very problematic."

"Where is Ouyang Xun now?" Luo Qingzhi asked.

"In prison."

Luo Qingzhi nodded, "Lead the way, let's go and have a look."

The crown was a little surprised, "Just swaggering in."

"Or else." Luo Qingzhi asked rhetorically, "Do you want to bring snacks in?"

「......」

Wang Mian remembered that the order given to him by His Majesty was not a lot to say, and although he was a little surprised in his heart, he still acted according to Luo Qingzhi's order.

When Luo Qingzhi and his party came to the prison, Ouyang Xun happened to come out, and the two collided head-on, Luo Qingzhi asked calmly, "My lord, is this the end of the inquiry?"

Ouyang Xun saluted respectfully and said, "Yes, Xia Guan is preparing to sort out his confession and submit it to the county lord."

"Don't bother." Luo Qingzhi shook her head and said, "Let's go in with me again."

「...... Yes."

Mu Qi was held in the deepest part of the state jail, and he sat upright on the bed, his back straight.

"Young Master." Luo Qingzhi greeted softly.

Mu Qi glanced at Luo Qingzhi and said lightly, "The county lord doesn't need to ask more, I said it, I pleaded guilty."

Luo Qingzhi smiled and asked, "What deal did you make with Lord Ouyang just now, forget about it, I will trade with you, I can give you more protection."

Ouyang Xun and Wang Mian were both stunned.

The former immediately knelt down and said that he had been wronged.

The latter pouted and said nothing.

Mu Qi sneered, "You give me protection?"

Luo Qingzhi nodded, "Yes, I am Luo Qingzhi, the lord of Anning, in the court, Your Majesty favors me well, whatever I want, Your Majesty can give it to me, at the border, I am the Pingbei general with 100,000 mercenaries, and the entire Pingbei Army obeys my orders."

Such nonsense, the people present couldn't help but shudder when they heard it, and the wind with a cold face changed slightly from the south.

Mu Qi laughed, "Haha, Lord Anning? Do you dare?"

Luo Qingzhi smiled slightly and said, "Whether I dare or not is my choice, whether you want it to be your choice or not."

Mu Qi got up and said lightly, "Then, please ask the county lord to retreat the people left and right, and I will tell you alone."

Luo Qingzhi glanced at Feng Zinan and Wang Mian, "You guys stand down."

The two of them withdrew from the cell after receiving the order, and Ouyang Xun followed suit.

Luo Qingzhi called him and said, "Lord Ouyang, you stay." After she finished speaking, she looked at Mu Qi and said, "Eldest Prince, is it okay?"

Mu Qi nodded, "Yes."

The prison in the state capital is a temporary setting, not a place where prisoners are deliberately held, so Mu Qi is almost the only one in the entire prison.

After the wind withdrew from Nan and the crown, the sound of the wind coming from the dilapidated windows from time to time made the already deserted prison even have a somewhat gloomy atmosphere.

Ouyang Xun bent over, not daring to look at Luo Qingzhi at all, 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 not ambiguous, and said directly: "I want the military power on the border."

Luo Qingzhi asked rhetorically, "Hasn't the military power always been in the hands of your Mu family?"

Ouyang Xun immediately opened his mouth to explain, "County Lord, you are not involved in the government affairs, you may not know much about this matter, a year ago, after the death of the eldest prince of the Mu family, the border talisman was taken over by the state capital."

Luo Qingzhi had doubts in her heart, and asked directly, "There is no report of the death of the eldest prince?" Didn't you take it back?"

Ouyang Xun said, "Mu Mansion's position in Ningzhou is very important, if such a thing is known to everyone, then, there will be problems."

"What was the cause of 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 a talisman, not a family property."

Mu Qi was more direct, "I want both."

Luo Qingzhi said, "How is your sister Mu Wanning's relationship with you?"

Mu Qi said, "This matter has nothing to do with her."

"I didn't ask if she had anything to do with it." Luo Qingzhi said.

"Anyway, anyway, don't go to her." Mu Qi said.

Luo Qingzhi said: "If she really has nothing to do with this matter, then I naturally won't go to her, but if it does, you can't stop me."

「......」

Mu Qi continued, "Wan Ning's husband is close to Wan Ning because of the Mu family's property, and I can't let someone like him enter the Mu Mansion."

"You want military power? Have you ever thought that if you kill someone, even if I give you the right to fight, you won't be able to take it...... I'm not a decoration...... I'm a rule," Luo Qingzhi said.

Mu Qi was silent, but Luo Qingzhi suddenly said, "So, you didn't tell the truth."

「...... What I say is true."

Luo Qingzhi was no longer entangled, "Okay, then I'll go and verify."

Ouyang Xun followed Luo Qingzhi out of the cell, and as soon as he walked out of the door, he immediately explained: "Before, Xia Guan was talking nonsense, and he didn't really want to make any deal with him."

Luo Qingzhi nodded, "I understand, I naturally believe in adults."