Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 969 Reunion
Zi Nu's return was sudden, but it was within Li Qinzai's expectation.

Feeling the coldness of her little hands, Li Qinzai exerted a little force, trying to give her some warmth.

Zi Nu looked up at him, and the familiar purple pupils were full of yearning and love.

The two entered the door, butler Wu greeted them, and Li Qinzai said with a smile: "This is my third wife, Zi Nu, Your Majesty bestowed a land around Qinghai Lake, allowing her to graze and inhabit and multiply her clan."

Butler Wu was startled, oops, patted his thigh and said: "The emperor bestowed such a huge land, he must be a great nobleman, and he can be regarded as a prince, right? The old man has to give a big gift..."

Li Qinzai and Zi Nu hurriedly stopped him as he was about to kneel down with a flick of his robe.

"It's not that serious, she is my mother-in-law, grandpa's granddaughter-in-law, that's all." Li Qinzai laughed.

Only then did Steward Wu bow solemnly, calling him "the third young lady".

Declining Butler Wu to lead the way, Li Qinzai took Zi Nu's hand and walked to the backyard.

The Duke's Mansion occupies a large area, and along the way, countless servants and maidservants stopped one after another, casting curious glances at Zi Nu.

Li Qinzai didn't bother to pay attention, and still held her hand for a long time, but her little hand was still cold.

After soaking in the cold wind of Qinghai Lake for a long time, she seemed to never warm up again.

"Is grazing hard?" Li Qinzai asked abruptly on the way to the backyard.

"Huh?" Zi Nu didn't react for a moment.

"I'm asking, are you working hard on grazing in Qinghai Lake?"

Zi Nu smiled and shook his head: "It's not hard, it's very free, and the horse gallops aimlessly on the grassland. The feeling is much better than being locked up in a deep house."

"Is that why you left without saying goodbye?" Li Qinzai glanced at her.

Zi Nu lowered her head guiltyly: "I'm afraid that if I say goodbye in person, you will keep me."

"If you are determined to leave, does it make sense whether I stay or not?" Li Qinzai's tone became a little serious.

Zi Nu whispered: "I'm just afraid that you will keep me, and I will be reluctant to leave after being detained by you... But I still have a lot of things to do. People who perish, forget their homeland, if there is a stone , it can be regarded as the restoration of the ancestral property, and it is worthy of the ancestors."

Li Qinzai sighed, Zi Nu has his own mission and difficulties, so it seems that he is not humane.

"You should stay in Chang'an first. Qinghai Lake is not peaceful. The imperial court has not been able to take action to clean up Tubo recently. Your ranch will rest for now. It will not be too late for you to go back after the imperial court wipes out the remaining enemies in Tuyuhun."

Zi Nu nodded, looked up at him and smiled, his eyes were bent into crescent moons, with a bit of flattery, very cute.

When the two came to the backyard, Li Ji was looking at the radishes he planted in the yard, shaking his head and sighing while watching, with a miserable expression.

Li Qinzai coughed twice, Li Ji turned his head to look, his eyes were not friendly.

Suddenly finding the woman standing beside Li Qinzai, Li Ji frowned, sized him up, and said strangely, "Purple pupil? Hu girl?"

Suddenly, Li Ji said: "This is probably the princess of Loulan Kingdom you knew when you were in Tuyuhun, right?"

Li Qinzai gestured to Zi Nu, and Zi Nu stepped forward to pay respects: "Zi Nu pays homage to... Grandpa."

Li Ji smiled: "Excuse me, you are the honor of the princess, so the old man should salute you, but since you are a respected woman, it is not presumptuous for the old man to accept your salute."

Speaking of which, Li Jifei took a quick look at Li Qinzai, and said: "This woman is a miserable person, you have to treat her well, and her man has to take care of what should be done."

Li Qinzai nodded: "Yes, after the Eastern Expedition, Sun Er will suggest to His Majesty that Master Wang should sweep up Tuyuhun. It is not only her business. Tuyuhun should be brought back to the Tang Dynasty, and the chaos cannot continue."

Li Ji stroked his beard and said: "That's right, Tuyuhun is guarding the throat of the western region's commercial roads, and it really can't be messed up, that is, he can't take action right now, that old man Su Dingfang came back too early, if it's an old man, he will have to sweep it for another year and a half, and he should be killed." , to deter Xiaoxiao."

Then Li Ji looked at Zi Nu and said: "Don't worry, girl, Qinghai Lake is not peaceful recently. I heard that you have also been bullied. The imperial court will avenge you for you sooner or later. Now stay in Chang'an and go to rectify the old department in peacetime. One is grazing and nourishing, and the other is guarding the border for the emperor, guarding the commercial routes in the Western Regions."

Zi Nu respectfully said: "Zi Nu listens to Grandpa and is willing to stay in Chang'an and help her husband serve Grandpa."

Li Ji smiled with satisfaction: "What a wonderful girl, you are affectionate, righteous, ambitious and capable. Your Majesty gave you Qinghai Lake with a radius of five hundred miles and three hundred tents for herdsmen. In the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, you are a prince... ..."

Speaking of which, Li Ji looked at Zi Nu, hesitated to speak a few times, and finally couldn't help asking: "Why do you take a fancy to my bastard?"

Zi Nu blushed, smiled and bowed her head in silence.

Li Qinzai said dissatisfiedly: "Grandpa, this bastard in our family is not bad, okay..."

Li Ji snorted, waved his hands and said: "It's time to meet and see, hurry up and bring her to meet your parents, and your two wives. The old man is fine here, let's go."

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Leading Zinu to meet Li Siwen and Li Cui's couple, they praised their closeness again, Li Cui took out a white jade bracelet and gave it to Zi Nu, which was considered a meeting gift, and mysteriously said that it was a family heirloom of the Li family , pass on to daughter-in-law but not to son.

Li Qinzai watched coldly from the side. Cui Jie had this so-called family heirloom, and Jinxiang also had it. He seriously suspected that his mother had wholesaled a large box from the Yiwu Small Commodity Market.

Zi Nu was so moved, her eyes were red, she kept rubbing the bracelet on her wrist, she couldn't put it down.

No wonder the remnants of Tubo could not fight in Tuyuhun. If this stupid girl stays any longer, the pasture will be robbed of cattle and sheep.

Just after leaving her parents' house, Cui Jie and Jin Xiang came hand in hand.

When the three girls meet, it's another time you're so beautiful, I'm not as white as you, what kind of skin care products did you use?

When Zi Nu saw Jin Xiang for the first time, his pair of purple pupils kept sizing up, but there was no malicious intent in his eyes, she was simply amazed at Jin Xiang's beauty.

And Jin Xiang is even more curious about Zi Nu, especially her pair of purple eyes, which amazes Jin Xiang even more.

For the fact that Li Qinzai newly married Jin Xiang, Zi Nu has no jealousy.

Zi Nu was originally a Hu girl from the Western Regions, and she was much more unrestrained in ethics than girls from the Central Plains. Besides, she was away all the year round and had an open-minded temperament. She was not used to competing with other women in the deep house. That was not her style.

In the evening, the family had a reunion dinner.

It's the New Year, and it's also a welcome for the purple slaves, a family feast, for all ages to enjoy themselves.

After the banquet, Li Qinzai led the three wives back to the backyard.

Standing in the yard, the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

Cui Jie looked left and right, then chuckled, and said: "Today Zi Nu returns, husband should accompany her well, I will sleep in the same room with Jin Xiang."

Zi Nu blushed slightly, lowered her head and said: "I... I just came back to see you, I also want to sleep with my two sisters tonight."

Li Qinzai put his hands on the shoulders of Cui Jie and Zi Nu, and said seriously: "We are all one family, why talk about two different languages, we are both husband and wife, can't you let your husband experience triple happiness?"

Cui Jie and Jin Xiang decisively rolled their eyes, turned around and went back to the room.

(End of this chapter)