When Guan Zhiyue and her party arrived in Guantao County, the city gate was already greeted by the general guarding the city. The general guarding Guantao County was surnamed Chen.

"This humble general pays respects to the Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince!"

"General Chen, how have you been? You've worked hard guarding the frontier all these years." Li Qiji quickly stepped forward and helped Chen Jianjun up with both hands.

Chen Jianjun appeared to be in his forties. He had been working on the border for many years, and the sun there was so strong that he was tanned dark, and his face was even peeling from the sun.

"It would be good if I could protect the people's well-being and be a useful person to our Nanding Kingdom."

"This little bit of hardship is nothing; it's all worth it."

"Your Majesty, Empress, Prince, General, let's enter the city first. We'll discuss the details with Your Majesty later." Chen Jianjun quickly ushered them into the city. With the sun so bright, he didn't want the Empress to get sunburned, which would be a terrible mistake.

When he first received the secret report, he was quite startled. Why was the Battlefield Queen here? But then he remembered last year.

Wasn't their empress also on the battlefield? Now that she's here again, I can let it go, after all, this time it's still against the Japanese.

It would be better to have someone who speaks Japanese around, otherwise they wouldn't know what's going on over there.

Although many of the soldiers stationed on the border can speak some other languages, they certainly cannot be proficient in them, since they have never had formal training.

Now that the Empress has arrived, their worries have been resolved.

Li Qiji reached out and took Guan Zhiyue's hand, walking ahead of them. The generals all followed behind them, whispering among themselves, some even recounting the deep affection between the emperor and empress.

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"When will the fighting begin? Where are those Japanese traitors now?"

"Although our country has not restricted visits from other countries, we still don't know where these Japanese people have gone. Have they gone back? Or are they staying in our country?"

Guan Zhiyue expressed her innermost thoughts and looked at Li Qiji beside her, asking him a question.

Li Qiji leaned close to Guan Zhiyue's ear and said, "According to intelligence, those Japanese have already returned to their own country."

"What?"

"That's absolutely right!"

Their conversation startled the people behind them. Guan Hongsheng quickly stepped forward to see what had happened and why his daughter was so shocked.

"Yue'er, what happened?"

Looking at Guan Hongsheng's expectant and concerned eyes, Guan Zhiyue said, "Dad, don't worry, it's alright, it's alright."

"where?"

“I was telling the Emperor that we hadn’t seen any Japanese people along our journey. The Emperor said that the Japanese should have already returned home, or they might have gone into hiding.”

Forgive her, she didn't mean to say that, but there were so many people present, she didn't dare to say anything reckless.

The group chatted as they walked to the military camp. After a brief meeting, they returned to the tents arranged by Chen Jianjun.

Guan Zhiyue and Li Qiji still lived in the same tent. After all, they were a married couple, so there was no reason for them to live separately.

After returning to his tent, Guan Chengheng lay down on the bed, stretched out his entire body, and rolled around on the bed. "My beloved bed that I haven't had in so long!"

"Brother, I feel like I've finally come back to life. Those days on the road were truly exhausting!"

Guan Chengzhu shook his head, hung his helmet on a clothes rack, walked to a square table, sat down, and casually flipped through some books on the table.

"You know, you've done forced marches before, this is nothing. Now your little sister has discovered those asphalt roads and roller skates, which are so much better than before, and you're still tired!"

"Brother, you have no idea, it's easy for a person to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!"

Guan Chengzhuo put down the book in his hand, picked up another one, flipped through it casually, and said with a faint smile, "You, you're just like a child. I wonder when I'll be able to see my younger brother and sister-in-law again."

Speaking of this, Guan Chengheng had a lot to say. He sat up abruptly on the bed, looked his older brother up and down, and said, "Brother, you're one to talk, but you're not young anymore, you're in your mid-twenties."

"Shouldn't we start looking for a wife? How long until we see our sister-in-law?"

"If you ask me, why don't you just let your eldest sister find you a husband? After all, she's the Empress now, and she and the Emperor are so loving. There are countless girls who want to marry into our family."

Guan Chengzhuo was speechless. When did his second brother start speaking so recklessly? How could he drag his younger sister into this?

"What nonsense are you spouting now?"

Guan Chengheng shrugged dismissively and said, "Am I wrong? After all, you're already twenty-one or twenty-three, brother. If you don't find a new wife soon, I don't think even Father will be able to stand it anymore."

Guan Chengzhuo: "..."

While the two brothers were playfully bickering, Guan Zhiyue and Li Qiji received some important news, which made Guan Zhiyue roll her eyes at Li Qiji several times!

"I told you, women are always troublemakers, but you wouldn't believe me. Now look what happened! You can guard against anything, but it's hard to guard against a thief in your own home!" Guan Zhiyue crossed her arms and looked at Li Qiji with disdain.

Li Qiji was speechless. He had always known that the women in the harem were troublesome, but he never imagined they would be this troublesome.

Although his mother's area was indeed chaotic, he learned his lesson and only brought her into the palace, then ignored her. Wouldn't that have prevented so much trouble?

What he never expected was that his problem was even more serious than that of his father. Although his father was a womanizer with a harem full of beautiful women, each of whom was scheming, he had never been involved in any adultery or treason. Now look what happened!

He actually encountered everything, and even kept a thief who committed adultery. This is simply outrageous.

"Yue'er, I only just found out about this myself, and..."

Guan Zhiyue looked at Li Qiji with some disdain and said, "Come on, who told you to accept everyone? Weren't you so awesome? How come you know you're in trouble now?"

"Look at you, always so capable, you even have so many women in your harem."

Li Qiji quickly pointed to the sky and swore, "I will never do it again. I will have Hua Quan send all those women away right now."

"You decide what to do!"

Guan Zhiyue was speechless. There was actually a Japanese concubine in the palace who had been informing the Japanese for so long. Now that those Japanese had returned home, it must all be related to this woman.

"What a wonderful charging device! It looked like the smallest one, but it turned out to be the hottest one."

"What a clever Japanese spy! Are they determined to work together from within and without to destroy my Southern Ding Kingdom?"

Guan Zhiyue sighed for a moment, then looked at Li Qiji, who was writing furiously with his head down, and shook her head, not knowing what to say to him.