Xiao Zhuo returned to Luoyang and saw Yuwen Chengdu come out to greet him, and he couldn't help but remember the days before he met Jinruo, when Yuwen Chengdu taught him martial arts every day; At that time, there were parents and elder brothers who were attentive to him; At that time, there were friends from all over the world drinking together in a high-rise building; Then...... If it weren't for that time, I might have already traveled with my son! Retracting his thoughts, Xiao Zhuo looked at Yuwen Chengdu, who was still by his side, and wanted to tell Yuwen Chengdu about meeting Qin Qiong, after all, Yuwen Zhihe is also Yuwen Chengdu's uncle. And Yuwen Chengdu grew up with Yuwen Shi when he was a child, and he believes that Yuwen Cheng has his own judgment on right and wrong.

"Chengdu......" Xiao Zhuo had just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by Yuwen Chengdu. Xiao Zhuo, I still have official business, so I can't stay here for a long time. When I went out on patrol and met Xiao Rui coming back, I realized that you were also back, so I came out to take a look. You have just arrived in Luoyang, go back to meet your parents first! By the way, familiarize yourself with Luoyang City, and when I get off the job, I will go to you again, I will leave first! After Yuwen Chengdu finished speaking, his legs moved, and the horses carried him away. Xiao Zhuo stared for a long time, and remembered what Yuwen Chengdu had said.

"One day, I, Yuwen Chengdu, will definitely lead the Great Sui Iron Cavalry and travel all over the world and Kyushu! The national prestige of my Great Sui will definitely be able to far surpass the Qin and Han dynasties, and the name of my Great Sui will surely resound throughout all countries! ”

Thinking of what Yuwen Chengdu said, Xiao Zhuo also had to feel sorry for Yuwen Chengdu. If Yuwen Cheng could be born twenty years early, this wish would definitely be realized, and now, more than ten years have passed in a hurry, the world is decided, what else does Yuwen Cheng have in addition to the title of "brave and invincible, Tianbao General"?

"Chengdu! Maybe you're doomed to disappointment! Xiao Zhuo sighed, watched his old friend go away, and rode to Xiao's Mansion alone. When Xiao Rui came out to greet him, he saw that Xiao Zhuo was going to greet his father, so he stretched out his hand to hold him and asked, "Don't go to greet your father first, your father is annoyed!" I just told my father about your return, but he didn't listen to him at all, so you better go to your mother first! ”

Xiao Rui said, pulling Xiao Zhuo to the back hall, Xiao Zhuo pushed it, and was about to ask the reason, when he saw Xiao Yu striding out of the house, and when Xiao Yu passed by the two of them, Xiao Zhuo hurriedly leaned over and saluted, and said, "Father!" ”

"Hmmm! It's good to be back, go see your mother! After six years of cultivation, you won't even have to cultivate filial piety! Xiao Yu glanced at him, leaving only this one sentence, and continued to walk outside the mansion.

"Brother, where is my father going?"

"I guess my father is going to visit the ministers of the court, and the day before yesterday, above the court, His Majesty wanted to reorganize his troops and horses to conquer Goguryeo, but my father tried his best to dissuade him. Yesterday I gave another exhortation, and today is the ninth. When I came back just now, I told him what we had heard and seen on the road, and my father, who was indignant, probably wanted to unite with the hundred officials and persuade His Majesty to abandon the Eastern Crusade. ”

"United Hundred Officials?" Xiao Zhuo was shocked at this time, and hurriedly said: "How can this be, if hundreds of officials go to the book together, Your Majesty will definitely think that my father is suspected of forming a party, and I am afraid that he will not take back his fate!" ”

When Xiao Rui heard this, his eyebrows were also furrowed. "Of course I know this, but you don't know your father's temperament, what he decides, even if he hits the south wall, he won't turn back!"

"Brother, you go to follow your father, the ministers of the DPRK and the central government may not all be willing to write a joint letter, if you don't want to, your father will inevitably get angry again, so you should take care of it. I'll go see my mother first, and I'll go back to Chengdu later to figure out a way. ”

"Okay."

Xiao Rui didn't stay any longer, and hurriedly chased out of the mansion. After Xiao Zhuo greeted his mother, he also hurried to Si Tianjian to see Yuan Tiangang. However, as soon as he walked into the main gate of Si Tianjian, he saw a person in official clothes talking with Yuan Tiangang, Xiao Zhuo was inconvenient to disturb, just standing quietly outside the door. After a long time, seeing that both of them stood up, Xiao Zhuo stepped forward, and just as the man in official clothes also turned around to leave. Xiao Zhuo saw that his forehead was sharp and square, his short sideburns were few, his eyebrow bones were prominent, and his eyes were black and white, although they looked a little abrupt at first glance, but at the same time, there was also a tendency of not being angry and arrogant. Xiao Zhuo was a little curious in his heart, and after this person left, he opened his mouth and asked Yuan Tiangang: "Senior brother, who is this person?" How did it end up here? ”

Yuan Tiangang looked at the door for a long time before he replied leisurely: "Pushan Gong Li Mi." ”

"Li Mi? Is that Li Mi who replaced Uncle Ma as the head of the river? What is he doing here? "Li Mi's name Xiao Zhuo has still heard of it, after Uncle Ma's plot to eat the child's heart and liver was exposed, it was Li Mi who replaced his position as the head of the river, and Li Mi did improve a lot after he became the head of the river, and when it was completed this year, Li Mi also restored the title of the ancestor of Pushan County because of his merits.

"He's here to ask about the future!"

"Ask about the future? So what is his birthday? What about the future? When Xiao Zhuo heard this, he thought that he would do the math himself, so as to see how much difference his cultivation had between him and Yuan Tiangang. As a result, after he carefully deduced it, he found that Li Mi's life was really not simple.

"The winner is king, rotten grass turns into fireflies!" Yuan Tiangang dropped this sentence and turned around and walked towards the inner hall.

Forehead! Xiao Zhuo was stunned. Although he also calculated Li Mi's fate, Houque's fate really didn't count. I had to say embarrassedly: "The life of the princes is not bad!" ”

And Yuan Tiangang, who was walking into the inner hall, stopped when he heard his words and said: "This is the strange thing, five years ago, when he was a courtier of His Majesty, I also made a fortune for him once, but the result was just the opposite of today, it was a situation of no wind and no danger, and no happiness. That year, the Duke of Yue recommended him to serve as a counselor of the Gyeonggi Patrol Department, but His Majesty thought that his eyes were abnormal, so he did not agree. But three years ago, he was suddenly appointed as the deputy head of Kaihe, and last year he replaced Ma Shumou as the head of Kaihe, and now he is in the court, which is not the same as five years ago, so he came today, saying that he was here to ask about the future, but in fact, he didn't come to laugh at me! Hum! Ordinary people's lives, no matter how they change, are nothing more than a slight change in money, power, fame and fortune, and the changes in his life are already outliers! ”

Xiao Zhuo heard Yuan Tiangang say this, so he raised his heel and went up, and after the two entered the inner hall, Xiao Zhuo took off the sword box from behind, took out Tianlan and handed it to Yuan Tiangang, and said, "Senior brother means that he has encountered an unusual odd number?" ”

"How else can you explain it? If you hadn't had an adventure six years ago, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to strengthen your Dao heart, would you? And he, even if he has the orders of the princes, is just the light of the fireflies after all. The remnant sun corrupts the grass, decays and turns into fireflies, but it only adds an inch of time, how can it shake the glory of the sun and the moon! Yuan Tiangang took Tianlan and carefully inspected it again before putting the ancient sword that belonged to him back into his sword box.

"Isn't that right? Senior brother, I seemed very happy when he left! ”

"As soon as I finished solving the first half of the problem for him, he was overjoyed, and sneered at my bad fortune five years ago, so I naturally had to give an eviction order! As the head of the river, he has done too many evils, and he also wants to spy on the heavens, which is also his fate. ”

Forehead! Is this a step for yourself? Xiao Zhuo said silently in his heart. Although Yuan Tiangang's statement sounds reasonable, there is a way for a good person to do it to the end, how can there be a divination that only says half of it, isn't that a intention to harm others? However, since Li Mi did not come sincerely, it is no wonder that Yuan Tiangang yin him. After Xiao Zhuo thought clearly, he was about to close the sword box, but Yuan Tiangang stretched out his hand to stop him, took out the painting that Xiao Zhuo brought back from his ancestral home in Lanling, and asked, "You went to Lanling?" ”

"Senior brother knows this painting?"

Listening to Yuan Tiangang's question, Xiao Zhuo realized that this painting, which was related to the fate of the Xiao family, must have an inseparable relationship with Yuan Tiangang. When he lifted the blinding method on the painting, he thought about who did the blinding method on the painting, thought about it, and thought about the time when his uncle Xiao Cong died, and finally felt that it might be Yuan Tiangang's doing, and now it seems that it really has something to do with Yuan Tiangang. Then why did Yuan Tiangang do that trick to hide the true face of the cat demon on the painting?

"On the way back, I encountered some strange things, involving the survival of the Xiao family, so I went to Lanling first to understand clearly." Xiao Zhuo told all the things about Wuliuzhuang again, Yuan Tiangang listened, and was silent for a while before he spoke: "It's inconvenient to talk here, you go back first, and go to Shangqingguan to find me at night, and I have important matters to discuss with you." ”

"Alright! By the way, I have one more thing here, I think it should be yours? As Xiao Zhuo spoke, his hands untied the burden he brought, and took out the robe that Jingyi gave him and put it in front of Yuan Tiangang.

She ...... Are you okay? Yuan Tiangang was silent for a while, and finally reached out to take the robe, but there was more tenderness in his eyes.

"I can't judge whether my sister is doing well or not, I just know that she is still alone. Senior brother, the events of the past have passed, can't you get back together? Regarding Yuan Tiangang and Jingyi's past, Xiao Zhuo could only try his best to persuade him. Because what he knows is just the version passed on by the senior brothers of Panlong Mountain, and no one can say clearly whether it is right or wrong. Just like what happened to him and Yan Ying back then, his aunt thought that Yan Ying was wrong, but he didn't feel that he was sorry for Yan Ying.

"It's me who I'm sorry for her!" Yuan Tiangang looked at the robe for a long time, and finally said something that made Xiao Zhuo want to beat him.

"Excuse me? Do you know you're sorry and don't make it up? Xiao Zhuo was also a little annoyed.

"You don't understand!"

"Good! I don't understand? If I hadn't already belonged, I would have regretted it for the rest of your life! Let's go, don't send it! ”

Xiao Zhuo walked out of Si Tianjian in a huff, and rode around for two or three hours, finally getting acquainted with Luoyang City, and when he stopped, he found that he had actually stopped in front of Chu Xiuyuan. This reminded him of another big event at the beginning of this year - draft girl!

According to the regulations of the Great Sui, draft girls are selected once every seven years, and three show girls are selected from each state and county, and sent to Chu Xiuyuan for re-selection, and the last ones left behind will be sent to the imperial palace to fill the emperor's harem. However, during the period of the first emperor, due to Queen Dugu, such a thing as a draft girl was basically not done, and it was not until the current saint succeeded to the throne that the draft girl was held once. And this time, the quota for each state and county has also been reduced from three to one.

Xiao Zhuo looked at the door of Chu Xiuyuan and was about to leave, but saw a middle-aged woman walking out of Chu Xiuyuan in a hurry. After the woman came out, she looked around, and then walked towards a restaurant, Xiao Zhuo looked around, it turned out that there was a man standing there, and although the man was wearing the clothes of ordinary people, Xiao Zhuo still recognized that the person was Su Dingfang.

[Plot Follow-up]

"Yan Gongzi, dare to ask you where did this painting come from?" Li Chunfeng looked at the scroll, and was glad that the painting was not touched by these viewers.

"This painting is my family heirloom, please return it to me." Yan Liben said, and his hand also stretched out to ask for it.

"Family heirloom? If Ling Zun knew that you brought this painting here to show off, I am afraid that you will have to use the family law! Li Chunfeng said, and put the flower roll behind him, still without meaning to return it.

However, as soon as Li Chunfeng finished speaking, there was a commotion outside, and then he saw a neatly dressed person walking in in a hurry. And after the man came in, he didn't talk to others, but walked straight to Yan Liben. I only heard Yan Liben just call out to his brother when he stepped forward, but he was slapped in the face by the man, and scolded angrily: "Get out of here for me!" ”