After the kiss, I was spoiled by the regent

Chapter 125 All on the chessboard
With Yu Wenyue's reassurance, Nie Mingzhu's heart was much calmer after all.

She put away Yu Wenyue's letter and kept it carefully.

The spring breeze blows by.

Nie Mingzhu ushered in her first spring on the grassland.

In the cold winter, the grassland is vast, with no color except the blue sky and white clouds, but after the arrival of spring, all the vegetation on the grassland seems to have returned overnight, and is dyed a layer of light green.

Looking around, the fresh greenery and the warm spring breeze make people feel refreshed, coupled with the vast landform of the grassland, it makes people feel open.

In late March, the royal family of the Huns ushered in the annual spring hunting.

From the beginning of the Great Khan, no matter whether it is a prince or a princess, civil servants or military generals, they must follow in the footsteps of the Great Khan and go hunting together.

Fortunately, the Huns were born on horseback, and there is no man, woman, or child who knows how to ride a horse and shoot arrows.

This is obviously Nie Mingzhu's waste.

In order not to hold everyone back, Nie Mingzhu hugged Buddha's feet on the eve of the spring hunting, and finally learned to ride a horse after falling three or four times.

I can't ride fast, and it looks stiff, but I can ride and run anyway, and it's no problem to join in the fun with everyone.

The spring hunting site has to leave Shangdu City and go eastward to the grassland for three hundred miles, and there is a place for the imperial court.

Lizhi and Gantang are packing up things for Nie Mingzhu and they are leaving tomorrow.

Nie Mingzhu sat on the couch and wiped the dagger that Zhenguo had always carried with him.

The three master and servant chatted one after another.

Nie Mingzhu said: "These days when you came to the Huns, what do you think of Qin Zhi?"

Li Zhi looked up, thought for a while, and said: "It seems that he is very obedient. Since he lost Wei Jing, he also broke his arms and was sent here by the prince. He only does his own things every day, and he doesn't do too much for the princess. It’s quite safe to come here.”

Nie Mingzhu looked at Gan Tang again: "What do you think?"

Gan Tang rolled his eyes twice, and said: "It's true what Li Zhi said. The concubine deliberately let him go, ignored him, and didn't use him. He is still doing things in a down-to-earth manner in the team."

When Nie Mingzhu heard what the two said, she smiled slightly, put down the knife, and said, "Is that true?"

Lizhi Gantang looked at each other, not understanding what Nie Mingzhu meant.

"Qin Zhi..." Nie Mingzhu whispered his name softly.

He is the secret guard next to Wei Heng, the crown prince of the Zhen Kingdom, and a spy in the Song Kingdom undercover. In short, such a person also has another identity, a dead soldier.

A dead man has been severely educated and brainwashed since he was a child, and he can take his own life as a last resort.

Qin Zhi, however, was alive and well.

Seeing the delicate expression on Nie Mingzhu's face, Li Zhi asked, "Master, do you think you are still worried about Qin Zhi?"

Nie Mingzhu raised her eyebrows: "It's not that I'm worried, it's that I never believed him at all."

Lizhi let out a cry of surprise.

Nie Mingzhu said: "Gan Tang also said just now that I will let him do whatever he wants. From another perspective, he is now in the Xiongnu, on the grassland, and he can leave whenever he wants, but he chooses to stay by my side and do things in silence. If he really changed his master's allegiance so easily, how could Wei Heng send such an unreliable person to Song State."

Lizhi nodded, and Nie Mingzhu's words made sense: "Then the master thinks that he still wants to do something, or hide his thoughts?"

Nie Mingzhu asked back: "Isn't it?"

Lizhi stopped talking.

Nie Mingzhu continued: "Gong Yu, he was specially sent by Zhen Guo to Song Guo as an undercover agent, and he must be loyal to Wei Heng to the death. I have never doubted that. Yu private, you have forgotten that Qin Zhi and Wei Jing have rumored What kind of feelings? Wei Jing was killed by Yu Wenyue again, so he has no resentment at all."

Lizhi's eyes straightened: "Then... the princess and the prince agree to send him to the Huns, so we are not afraid of what he will do."

Nie Mingzhu sighed without a trace, Yu Wenyue didn't kill them all for her sake, and she didn't want to either.

She wanted to give Qin Zhi a chance to let him go, and if we meet again in the future, maybe he will be your life-and-death enemy.

But after all, they are both from Zhenguo, and Nie Mingzhu couldn't do anything to him, so after she came to the grassland, after thinking about it, she decided to turn a blind eye to him and let him go if he wanted to.

But Qin Zhi showed no sign of leaving.

He even showed loyalty and honesty.

The more he behaved like this, the colder Nie Mingzhu's heart became.

During Nie Mingzhu's silence, Gan Tang, who was silent at the side, suddenly hesitated and said, "Master, you only stare at Qin Zhi, don't you think it's strange that there is another person?"

Gan Tang usually doesn't pay attention to this kind of thing, and if she can open her mouth to feel strange, it must be really weird.

"Who else?" Nie Mingzhu asked.

"He also came with us, the prince's personal soldier, Gao Bing. He has been guarding the felt tent all these days."

Nie Mingzhu nodded: "Well, tell me, why is he so strange."

Gan Tang frowned, hesitant to speak several times: "I can't say, anyway, it's inexplicably weird, sometimes he's not there when he should appear, but he appears several times where he shouldn't be."

"Where it shouldn't be?" Nie Mingzhu wondered for a while.

Gan Tang was dumb, she wondered: "I can't tell the details, anyway his whereabouts are different from everyone else's."

Nie Mingzhu thought for a moment, and said, "When did you find out?"

"Five or six days ago."

Nie Mingzhu lowered her eyes.

Gan Tang said again: "He didn't do anything, but his behavior was a bit weird, and this servant didn't want to bother the princess with his affairs, but you just said about Qin Zhi, and spring hunting is leaving tomorrow, this servant doesn't care. Don't dare to say it."

Nie Mingzhu nodded and praised her: "Well done, this spring hunting, you can go with me."

Lizhi was shocked: "Ah? Princess, don't you bring your slaves?"

Nie Mingzhu smiled and said, "You don't know how to ride a horse, so what are you going to do? It's enough for Gan Tang to accompany me."

Lizhi and Gantang felt a familiar tacit understanding for no reason.

From childhood to adulthood, lychee is bright, and Gantang is dark.

Nie Mingzhu has always been with them like a shadow.

Only when she wanted to let others know, would she take Gan Tang out alone to protect herself, while Li Zhi usually stayed behind.

For so many years, this habit and tacit understanding have not changed.

When Nie Mingzhu said this, Lizhi understood what she wanted to do.

It was only because Nie Mingzhu uttered that sentence, which was almost a code word between the three of them: as long as Gan Tang is with me, that's fine.

Li Zhi will come to her senses, and she immediately said: "The servant will stay and watch the house, and take care of people for the princess by the way."

Nie Mingzhu rubbed her forehead, staring at a certain place in a daze.

Nothing is absolute, it is better to be more prepared.

"Go and call Luo Zhong in," Nie Mingzhu said.

"General Luo?" Li Zhi was puzzled, why did Nie Mingzhu see him at this time.

Nie Mingzhu stroked the handle of the knife, and said, "Of course I have something to explain, and you all retreat when you've cleaned up."

"Yes."

Not long after, Luo Zhong was called into Nie Mingzhu's felt tent, and after a while, the soldiers brought by Luo Zhong were also called in.

(End of this chapter)