Chapter 148: Panic-stricken Xu Nian and Zheng Zhihui are murdered

Luo Jinan looked at the shy little girl, stood up, tidied himself up and washed his hands, then returned to the couch and lay down next to Xu Nian.

However, Xu Nian jumped up like a frightened cat and tried to get out of bed, but his legs went weak and he almost sat on the ground.

Luo Jinan was startled by Xu Nian's sudden action, and hurriedly carried her back to the bed. In order to prevent any accidents, he also put her inside.

Xu Nian sat inside and didn't say anything and refused to lie down, which made Luo Jinan laugh.

"There is only one bed in this tent. Where do you want to go?"

Xu Nian wanted to say in a tough tone that she was going to sleep on the floor, but when she looked at the lonely quilt on the couch, she shut her mouth tactfully.

"I...I'm going back to Yangcheng."

Luo Jinan looked at Xu Nian and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. It seemed that he had scared the little girl.

He had no choice but to pick up the quilt and was about to lie down on the floor. Xu Nian blinked and looked at him. After understanding Luo Jinan's intention, he hurriedly grabbed his hand.

Luo Jinan's body cannot withstand the cold. If he were to sleep on the ground for a night, the poison in his body would surely relapse tomorrow.

"You...you should sleep on the couch." After saying that, he took the quilt from Luo Jin'an's hand and placed it in the middle, and said sternly: "Chuhe Hanjie, no one can cross the line."

Luo Jinan smiled and rubbed the little girl's hair, and promised: "Okay, I'll listen to you. Are you relieved now?"

Xu Nian snorted and ignored him, turned around and lay down with his back to him.

Luo Jinan lay down on his side and stared at Xu Nian's back, "If you look at me again, I'll kick you to the ground and sleep."

Luo Jinan closed his eyes and curled the corners of his mouth. He didn't expect that Nian Nian would act like a little wild cat when she was irritated.

Xu Nian listened to the long breathing sounds coming from behind him, then he gently turned around and looked at Luo Jinan. At this moment, he was no longer as wild as before, but behaved obediently like a sleeping child.

In fact, Luo Jinan didn't sleep, but in order to make Xu Nian feel more comfortable, he lay there without moving.

Xu Nian didn't know when she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes again, it was already bright. She looked to her side and saw Luo Jinan's figure. She hurriedly got up and tidied the quilt on the couch.

She took out a dressing mirror from the space and looked at herself, and found that her hair was so messy that it was unbearable to look at, and her clothes were wrinkled beyond recognition.

When Xu Nian heard footsteps outside the tent, he quickly put away the mirror and looked towards the tent door in panic.

Luo Jinan entered the tent carrying a copper basin. Seeing that Xu Nian had woken up, he smiled and said, "Come and wash up first. We'll have breakfast later."

Xu Nian walked over hesitantly, but Luo Jinan was very calm, as if nothing had happened last night.

After Xu Nian finished washing, Luo Jinan pulled her to sit on a chair, and he held a comb in his hand and began to comb Xu Nian's hair.

Xu Nian couldn't help but be moved by the scene, but she said ruthlessly: "Can you tie your hair up? Please don't embarrass me today."

Luo Jin'an kept moving his hands and joked, "If Nian Nian continues to go out wearing the clothes she's wearing, she'll be embarrassed to be seen today."

Xu Nian just remembered this, and after Luo Jinan had tied her hair up, she ran to his suitcase and started looking for it.

Luo Jin'an folded his arms and watched happily, "Nian Nian seems to be very familiar with my things, but... are you sure you want to continue flipping down?"

Xu Nian paused as he searched, and hurriedly picked up the moon-white robe and walked towards the screen. However, he heard Luo Jinan sighing from behind, "What a pity..."

Xu Nian didn't want to know what it was a pity, so he hurriedly walked behind the screen and changed his clothes. Xu Nian saw that the robe he had changed into was a perfect fit, and he knew that Luo Jinan must have prepared it long ago.

"When did you prepare this dress? It fits me well."

Luo Jinan smiled, walked forward, hugged Xu Nian's waist, and whispered: "If I say that I secretly measured it while you were asleep, you won't kill me, right?"

Xu Nian looked at the man in front of him who looked like he deserved a beating, and sneered twice, "Don't worry, I won't kill you, but I will - castrate you."

Luo Jinan was stunned, and when he saw the person walking past him and out of the tent, he hurriedly chased after him.

"Niannian, you are a noble daughter of an official family, how...how can you say that word?"

"Oh? You did something that I can't say anything about?"

Luo Jinan looked aggrieved, "I was just teasing you, how could I take advantage of someone in distress?"

Of course Xu Nian knew that he didn't, but he just wanted to curb his temper so that he wouldn't do it again next time.

When the two were arguing, they saw Mo Bai coming in hurriedly.

"Miss, Your Highness, this is a letter from the Royal City."

Luo Jinan opened the letter and his expression changed before he finished reading it. Xu Nian didn't know what had happened.

"Nian Nian, go back to the tent and have breakfast first. I'll go take care of something."

Xu Nian nodded and turned back to the tent. She thought it was about the Zhenbei Army so she didn't ask any further questions.

Luo Jin'an took Mo Bai a little further away from the tent and asked in a cold voice, "Was it done by the Wen family?"

Mo Bai nodded lightly and said in a cold voice: "Although these people handled it very cleanly, An Qi still tracked down their connection with Shengdu."

Luo Jin'an rubbed his fingers together, his eyes dark, "I know about this, but I don't want Nian Nian to hear a single word of it."

Mo Bai bowed deeply and replied, "I understand."

Luo Jinan frowned when he saw Mo Bai hesitated to speak, "Just tell me if you have something to say."

Mo Bai gritted his teeth and whispered, "Miss Zheng's death was not glorious. It is said that the Zheng family does not allow her to be buried. Madam Zheng heard about the cause of Miss Zheng's death from somewhere, and she has been visiting the princess frequently in the past few days."

Luo Jinan's eyes turned cold and he said with a grin, "Why? Do you think you can rely on me just because you lost a daughter? If that's the case, I don't mind letting her experience the pain of losing a child again."

Mo Bai lowered his head and said, "I will do it right away."

"Wait," Luo Jinan couldn't help but curl his lips as he looked at Xu Nian who was peeking out of the tent.

"Send a message back to the palace. Zheng Zhihui saved the princess' life, so she was adopted as her daughter and buried in the Zheng family's ancestral tomb with the funeral rites of a county lord."

Mo Bai raised his head in disbelief, followed Luo Jin'an's gaze to look at Xu Nian in the distance, and began to think in his heart that it seemed that in the future he could not disobey Miss Xu even if he disobeyed His Highness.

Luo Jin'an has never cared about what other people think, just like his attitude towards Prince Zhenbei is considered unfilial in the eyes of other people.

But he cared about how Xu Nian would view him, just like how he dealt with the matter of the Zheng family girl.

The Wen family thought that the Zheng family's daughter was in love with them, so they used dirty means to humiliate the Zheng family's daughter, with the purpose of losing face.

Now, Mrs. Zheng wants to use her daughter's death to gain benefits. With the way she does things, she will never let the Zheng family have an easy time.

But now, he didn't want Xu Nian to feel guilty about this matter. An adopted daughter of the Zhenbei Palace was enough to shut up the Zheng family.