"Okay, Madam, you can come with me. Your grandson is coming back with the Crown Prince. I will personally take you to see him when the time comes."

"well."

Upon seeing this, Li Dequan led a group of palace guards and Old Lady Qin and left in a grand manner.

A primary school

A beautiful woman was looking at a group of children in front of her with a gentle face. The children were chasing and playing. She smiled and reminded them to be careful, but she also played with them.

This is a dilapidated courtyard. She felt sorry for these homeless children, so she opened a school here to provide them with a place to live.

While they were playing, the gate was kicked open forcefully from the outside, and a group of imperial guards filed in from both sides and surrounded everyone in the courtyard.

Li Dequan was standing on the steps of the gate. The children who were surrounded by him all huddled close to the woman, hugging her tightly in fear.

The woman stood at the very outside, protecting the group of children.

Li Dequan walked down the stairs and bowed in front of the woman, "Meet Miss Chen."

Chen Yuetong is the granddaughter of Grand Secretary Chen Ti, so Li Dequan has to give her this favor.

Chen Yuetong protected the child behind her, stepped forward and saluted, asking, "Eunuch Li, what are you doing?"

Li Dequan smiled and said, "Miss Chen, we are here on behalf of the Emperor to take away the orphan girl from the Qin family."

Qin Rui, who was behind Chen Yuetong, grabbed Chen Yuetong's clothes, looking nervous.

"Eunuch Li, the Qin family was executed a long time ago. There is no orphan girl from the Qin family. There are only homeless children here."

Li Dequan knew the other party's identity. The emperor had to give some face to Chen Daxueshi, and he didn't want to offend Miss Chen. "Miss Chen, there is no need to hide it from our family. Although the Qin family was destroyed, this orphan girl is also from the Qin family. The emperor saw that she was an orphan and couldn't bear it, so he didn't care about you taking her in."

Chen Yuetong: "Then why did you come to see her again?"

Li Dequan: "Don't worry, Miss Chen. We are here to bring good things. It's not that a descendant of the Qin family has made contributions on the frontier, and the emperor has pardoned the Qin family. We are not going to take this orphan girl to recognize her ancestors and return to the Qin family."

Seeing that he looked normal and was surrounded by imperial guards, Chen Yuetong believed it to be 70%.

He pulled Qin Rui from behind to the front, squatted down and looked at her at eye level, "Xiao Rui, did you hear that? You have relatives now. You will have a home and a family soon."

Qin Rui: "Sister..."

The little girl is full of attachment to the person in front of her, and confusion and fear about unknown relatives.

Chen Yuetong: "Xiao Rui, be obedient. I will come to see you again in the future. They won't hurt you."

After comforting Qin Rui, Chen Yuetong handed the little girl over to Li Dequan, "Eunuch Li, I hope you can not hurt her. If that person is not from the Qin family, I hope you can send her back here. She will naturally be taken in here."

Chen Yuetong is not a fool. She claims to be a descendant of the Qin family, but now she has taken Qin Rui away. She says that they are recognizing each other, but it is just a test. However, the emperor's order cannot be disobeyed, and she only hopes that Qin Rui can return safely.

Chen Yuetong just stood there and watched Li Dequan take Qin Rui away. The imperial guards around them also followed. She just watched their backs.

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frontier

At this time, Cheng Laohu was leading his army on the way back to the capital. The road was blocked by heavy snow, and the wind was biting cold. The road was rugged and bumpy. Seeing that everyone looked tired, they set up camp on a flat ground.

The soldiers began to set up tents and build bonfires. Qin Yan and Jiang Zhi sat on a cart with tents on it. Cheng Ziang rode on horses with a group of generals. Only Li Chengze, whose injuries had not yet healed, could not ride a horse, so he sat in a carriage.

The soldiers were going to set up the tent, so Qin Yan and Jiang Zhi jumped off the cart. They were wrapped tightly, rubbing their hands and breathing hard, walking around in the hope of getting some warmth.

Qin Yan held Jiang Zhi's hand, rubbed her hands, and walked to the edge of an icy lake. He looked at the ice surface...

Cheng Ziang walked up to them and said, "Hugging each other in public, and they don't even know how to avoid suspicion."

Qin Yan glanced at him and rolled his eyes. "We are married, it's legal, we can love each other however we want, what's it to you? Besides, it's freezing cold, we are just going to keep warm, we didn't do anything, why are you so excited? Why are you envious? Then find someone too."

Cheng Ziang: "Who is envious? What are you talking about? Besides, what are you doing standing here? There is nothing to see in this lake."

Seeing that he was in a daze, Qin Yan didn't say anything. He looked around, picked up a palm-sized stone and smashed it into the icy lake.

The stone hit the ice and slid forward without stopping, leaving no trace on the ice.

Qin Yan stretched out another foot and stepped on the ice. There was no movement, so he stomped again. Well, it was safe.

Cheng Ziang was watching from the side and felt that this man was sick. "What are you doing? What are you doing? You are smashing rocks and stomping on ice. What's wrong with you?"

Qin Yan didn't answer him, "Do you have ice skates or thicker iron sheets?"

Jiang Zhi understood, but didn't say anything. Anyway, with Qin Yan around, she didn't need to worry about anything else. Besides, this was a military camp, and she couldn't just chat with everyone, like she was flirting with everyone. They were all grown men, so she still had to avoid suspicion.

Cheng Ziang: "Yes, it's in the armory. Oh, no, what are you going to do?"

Qin Yan smiled mysteriously, "You'll know in a moment."

……

Cheng Ziang just watched Qin Yan take the iron sheet from the weapon, tie it to a board and then to his feet, tie it to Jiang Zhi's feet with a cloth strip, and then tie his own feet.

Cheng Ziang was puzzled, "If my father knew that you took the blade from the armory and tied it to your feet, he would scold you to death."

Qin Yan slowly stood up and slid on the ice. It felt good. He then pulled Jiang Zhi up from the shore and slowly slid with her.

He slid onto the ice in front of Cheng Ziang and said, "Hey, it's so cold, of course we need to skate to warm ourselves up. Do you want to come down and warm ourselves up?"

While Qin Yan was slowly leading Jiang Zhi along, he also tricked Cheng Ziang into joining in and dragging someone else along as a scapegoat.

Cheng Lao Hu was furious when he heard someone using a knife recklessly on the ice.

He walked quickly to the side of the ice lake, shouting as he walked, "That little bastard stole something from the armory. If I find out, I'll kill him."

Cheng Laohu stood at the lakeside, looking at the entire ice surface filled with soldiers. Only Qin Yan and Jiang Zhi were sliding around, while the other soldiers were running and sliding on the ice, and two people were pulling the arms of the person squatting in the middle to pull them forward...

Cheng Lao Hu was looking at the chaotic crowd in front of him and was very angry, but he didn't know how to express his anger. If he didn't express it, he would feel suffocated.

Cheng Lao Hu looked at Qin Yan who was swaying in front of him and became even angrier. He couldn't say anything to the little girl, and he couldn't say anything to this brat either.

"Qin Yan! You little bastard, what are you doing! Ah!"

Cheng Ziang was shocked when he heard his father's roar. Alas, this terrible muscle memory did not dare to play anymore. He stood up straight, keeping a distance that his father could not hit him, lowered his head and shouted, "Dad!"

Cheng Lao Hu looked at his poor son and said, "Humph, you still know that I am your father. I will deal with you later."

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