Late at night, Qin Zhen was busy with government affairs until now he had time to visit Zhao Lian's mansion.

When he walked to the door of Zhao Lian’s mansion, Qin Zhen felt very complicated.

The reconstruction of Jiangcheng is still going smoothly at present, and Hexi is worthy of being a wealthy dog ​​owner.

Qin Zhen proposed that a large amount of building materials were needed to rebuild Jiangcheng during the day, and at night, a merchant ship advanced downstream to ask Qin Zhen about the geometry of building materials needed, whether it was manpowered or not.

The latter's aid worker is probably trying to install eyeliners in Jiangcheng.

This Qin Town can only adopt a procrastination method, first transporting building materials and materials to me before considering going to Hexi.

Now the merchant ship is backflowing again, and it may take two or three days to get another reply.

Qin Zhen finally had time to have a good talk with General Zhao Lian.

When I walked into Zhao Lian's mansion in Qin Town... I saw the jade lion lying in the courtyard at first sight.

The jade lion's nest is in the courtyard. Zhao Lian specially built a rain pavilion for it. The mats are covered with fine silk, as well as some gold and silver equipment and jade utensils for food.

Qilin's recipes are all-encompassing. They can eat meat like lions and tigers, and they can eat bamboo like giant pandas. A better recipe is gold and silver utensils and jade ceramics containing spiritual energy.

If you don’t consider the latter, the jade lion is still easy to support on some level.

When Qin Zhen walked into the courtyard, he saw the jade lion... holding his nest.

"So fast?"

Qin Zhen walked to the jade lion and looked at it lying on the silk nest like an old hen.

It nodded proudly, raised its body and looked at Qin Zhen at the egg with thunder pattern under it.

"This is really..."

Qin Zhen thought that the jade lion would have to be pregnant for at least several months before giving birth, but he ended up holding the baby today.

"Is General Zhao Lian inside the house?"

Qin Zhen took back his attention from the jade lion's eggs. Qin Zhen still needs to discuss the matter of putting jade lion's maternity leave.

When the jade lion heard that Qin Zhen mentioned Zhao Lian, it suddenly sighed, which felt like the parents at home were not doing well when they saw their children.

Finally, I had to point my tail helplessly in the courtyard.

Qin Zhen left the jade lion and walked into the back of the courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard the sound of gunfire from the wind.

It is approaching early morning now, and in this era, except for night patrolers, most people will rest before the hour of the Hai Dynasty.

General Zhao Lian led the team to maintain order in Jiangcheng during the day to now returning to the mansion, and he still had a spirit of dancing... Qin Zhen really had to sigh that her energy was really strong.

The spear she danced with was cast from black iron, but there was no weight in Zhao Lian's hand. The blade of the gun swung across the ground and left a deep gully.

As the gun rod stirred up like a dragon entering the sea, the dust in the courtyard was swept away by the wind breaking the wind. At this moment, Zhao Lian seemed to feel the arrival of Qin Zhen...

So the blade of the spear in his hand turned upwards, and when he held the handle of the gun and placed it on the ground, the blade of the spear held in Zhao Lian was still trembling slightly, as if there was a dragon's sound.

"Your Majesty...why are you..."

Zhao Lian adjusted his messy breathing. Although his expression was still cold, his fair forehead and neck were already covered with sweat.

"I came to General Lian late at night to discuss something, so it shouldn't be considered disturbing, right?" Qin Zhen then walked into the back of the courtyard full of ravines. Seeing Zhao Lian's sweaty appearance, he handed her a hand towel.

Qin Zhen used to have a good habit of carrying napkins with him. In this era, if there is no napkin, I can only bring a bunch of hand towels.

Zhao Lian took the towel and said in an invisible voice, "Thank you... King."

"Love General patrolling the city in the daytime. Tomorrow, he has some military responsibilities. Why do he have to work hard to dance his gun late at night..."

Qin Zhen looked around and looked at the devastated courtyard. Before he came, General Zhao Lian had been dancing guns alone in the courtyard for a long time...

"Is it because of some worries?"

Qin Zhen's "things" seemed to be said. Zhao Lian's eyes moved for a moment and didn't want to answer, but the scarf in her hand could just cover half of her face.

This gave her a little shame to hide, and she had to answer when asked by the king, so Zhao Lian blocked half of her cheek with a hand towel, looked at one side and said softly...

"During the break in the middle of the night, some lustful and evil thoughts flashed in my heart, so I got up and danced my gun and tried to exhaust my energy. I rarely appeared in the army for many years, but today..."

Zhao Lian couldn't say anything at all when she said this. Although she wanted to maintain her cold and abstinent personality, she could still see a hint of blush on her cheeks stained with sweat.

Qin Zhen was also irritated at this moment.

But it seems normal to think about it carefully. After being over thirty years old, I have been fighting on the battlefield all year round. I am full of my country and never thought about anything about getting married. But people who are not sages always have this idea...

On the contrary, every time Zhao Lian has this idea, he will rely on body training and gun dancing to relieve the loneliness in his heart, which is too hard-core.

"Well, General Lian, I have something to discuss with you now."

Qin Zhen hurriedly changed the subject, and Zhao Lian wiped the sweat from her cheeks and wanted to return the towel to Qin Zhen, but Qin Zhen waved his hand and said it was okay.

"Please say it, yourselves."

"I have discussed with the Prime Minister Dong and decided to go to Hexi for a banquet." Qin Zhen said.

"this…"

Zhao Lian heard the spear in her hand making a low sound. She wanted to dissuade her, but she knew that this might be the best decision except for the full war with Hexi. So...

"Does the king need me to protect you?"

"General Lian's important task is to guard central China. If necessary, he can station troops in the west border of Hexi to put pressure on it, but for safety needs..." Qin Zhen paused for a moment when he said this... and continued, "Maybe he had to go with the Jade Lion."

"The king's idea is exactly the same as mine. The jade lion travels thousands of miles a day, and the ability to protect the master may be much better than me." Zhao Lian agreed without thinking.

"It's just after the jade lion was born..."

"The king does not need to worry about this matter. In fact, I also ask the king for the breeding of the descendants of jade lions."

Zhao Lian said that the egg of Jade Lion didn't need to be cared about at all. The Qilin clan adopted a free-range attitude towards its offspring, starting with the eggs.

After the qilin lays its own egg, it will hide it in a place with little to nowhere to be full of spiritual energy. The egg will naturally break out of its shell after it is nurtured for a period of time.

"Ah... how long will it take for that unicorn to hatch?"

"As little as ten years, as much as thousands of years, so I want to ask the king to put the jade lion in a place full of dragon veins, so that the jade lion may hatch as soon as possible."

"What about the tomb of the former king? Although it is a tomb, there is indeed a lot of spiritual energy in the place. It can also allow the former king to see the jade lion and talk about comforting him."

No matter how Qin Zhen thinks, he only has his own tomb. There is enough spiritual energy in the place that can ferment the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.

"Very good!"

Zhao Lian seemed to be thinking this way. The ancients of this era seemed to be more inclined to be a place to protect our ancestors, rather than the forbidden area that cannot be entered into offensive.

When I think about putting the jade lion's eggs in the tomb, I feel a bit like showing my grandfather the grandson.

After discussing the whereabouts of the Jade Lion, Qin Zhen fell into a brief silence again... and continued to say to Zhao Lian.

"The other thing is to save the heir."

Zhao Lian was also in silence when he heard this topic. During the silence, Zhao Lian took Qin Zhen to a pavilion to sit down.

"Please continue..."

"The young girl from Dong Xiangguo is still young and is really not suitable for the matter of having her heirs, so Dong Xiangguo asked me to discuss this matter with General Lian. Of course, this is a discussion! Later, I ordered Dong Xiangguo to go to various places in central China to find a woman of appropriate age and equal status. Although I asked the other party to agree, this matter...ah..."

Qin Zhen became particularly tired when he talked about this.

Zhao Lian listened silently, her expression never changed much, and then she suddenly said as she looked at Qin Zhen's silent look.

"Li still remembers... I was only fourteen years old when I joined the army. That year, my family also made an appointment with me for a marriage. I didn't want to follow me. I thought that women shouldn't have weaved clothes and washed floors since childhood, and then they could only marry others. So I escaped from the house that day and dressed in men and joined the local rebel army."

Zhao Lian recalls past experiences.

"Although I feel sorry for the years of conquest and making achievements, I mostly serve the country and the people, and repay the kindness of the ancestors who knew the favor."

Zhao Lian paused for a moment before continuing to say this.

"But for personal pity, it is to be a woman who can be free from being merciless in this troubled world, hold this life firmly in your own hands, and to no longer force pity to marry someone you don't like or have never seen before, and accompany you for the rest of your life... But the older you get, the more you find that many things in the world are not determined by yourself, and the matter of survival of the country is related to the survival of the country."

"No need to be so serious! General Lian, you must now put the priority of defending the country, but..." Qin Zhen suddenly said with a weak voice, "But General Lian, really holds himself to me, I... I should try my best to make... General Lian, you can fall in love with me..."

When Zhao Lian heard Qin Zhen’s words, his eyes suddenly widened, and then he couldn’t help but turn his cheek, blocked half of his face with a hand towel, and replied in an extremely subtle voice...

"That mercy... I thank the king for his kindness first."
Chapter completed!