When Liu Xu received the secret order from the Queen Mother, he really didn't know whether he was happy or worried, in short, he felt a chill down his spine.

The small leader of the household registration, although he was discovered at the time, he didn't say it, and now the secret order of the Queen Mother fell from the sky, he was not afraid but abnormal.

Facing the leader of the Xuanjia Army who came from the capital, he didn't dare to slack off, packed up his belongings, and came to Luoyang with his family. lived directly in Fuchengfang, and became neighbors with Tang Yuan. The two families both lived in the original Meng Danqing's super mansion, with two seven-entry courtyards side by side, and they could hear the conversation over there through the wall.

Tang Hu took Meng Tao, stepped on a table, and lay on the wall, Tang Hu suddenly shouted: "Oh, I'm grass, isn't this Natanhun?" Why did you run here, old boy? ”

Natanhun is actually not very old, only fifty-three years old, but he used to stay in the army to train in the army as an adult, and he was very tanned, looking very old, but after three years of recuperation, he now looks much whiter, if it weren't for his particularly eye-catching big eagle hooked nose, Tang Hu almost didn't recognize it.

Natanhun was leading his family to move furniture, and turned his head to look, "Oh, isn't this General Tang Hu?" Who is the girl next to you, your sister? ”

"Well, almost, why did you get here?" Saying that, Tang Hu actually climbed over the wall and sat on the wall.

Meng Tao was naughty and climbed up, but she couldn't climb up, Tang Hu stretched out a hand and carried it up like a chicken.

Natanhun gave a thumbs up and said, "General Tang's divine power!" ”

Tang Hu was praised, and the little girl Meng Tao shook her head with a proud look.

Tang Hu smiled and said, "Although I don't know how you came here, but now that you live next to my house, I know that you kid will definitely be reused." In the future, if you become a great official, you will have to take care of us. ”

Tang Hu is crooked.

Natanhun is so old, he hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Little Lao'er is just lucky, and then there are people in front of the Queen Mother, bragging indiscriminately, in fact, Xiao Lao'er's ability is limited, and it won't take long for his true form to be revealed, and at that time, I hope that the Queen Mother will be gracious and don't cut off my head." As long as I am not dead, I will pack up my belongings and continue to go back to my hometown in Hebei to be a farmer. ”

"Pull it down." Tang Hu waved his hand and said: "You kid is the most cunning one among the five generals in Dizhou, count you to run, and run the fastest." Tang Yuan's monkey spirit, you can deceive it, it can be seen that your old boy is also an old monkey. ”

Natanhun hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where did I deceive General Tang Yuan, at that time Tang Yuan was fighting Du Shunnan in the Mache River, I just luckily avoided General Tang's sight, otherwise Xiao Lao'er would have been buried at this time." ”

"Hahahaha!" Tang Hu laughed and said: "You old boy, you can't speak clearly, it's a pity, I, Tang Hu, am also very smart, in this way, you haven't deceived Tang Yuan, but you have deceived Tang Qi, Tang Qi is now the queen's mother, you dare to say that you are better than her, hey, your old boy's handle has fallen into my hands, are you afraid?" ”

Hearing this, Natanhun laughed, "Of course the little old man is afraid of General Tang." ”

"Hahahaha!" Tang Hu and Meng Tao laughed together.

After a face-to-face with Natanhun, Tang Hu and Meng Tao's brothers and sisters jumped back into the courtyard, and Xiao Meng Tao whispered to Tang Hu: "Third brother, don't underestimate this person, this person is very ghostly." ”

Tang Hu blinked his eyes and said: "You, you must be with your grandfather, the way you look at people is really different, you are right, this little old man is not simple." ”

Tang Yuan was very busy, he was wearing his official uniform and preparing to set off, to do a lot of work.

Now he is in charge of dealing with the chaos of the Ximen family and the Meng family, and the trial is held all day long, and the trial is big.

These two families are so big that they are simply boundless, from the Central Plains to the localities, the power is like a spider web, and what is even more terrifying is that there is an overlap between the two families.

Tang Yuan felt that the timing of Empress Dowager Cao's attack was very appropriate, and not long after Meng Danqing's death, Meng Zongwei's foothold was not stable, so he gave him a head-on blow.

If in another three or five years, Meng Zong smoothed out the Meng family, with his wolf ambitions, he would not give Empress Dowager Cao this opportunity. Instead, he will wave his troops to attack Luoyang, and if he joins forces with the Ximen family, Empress Dowager Cao will probably have to move the place.

"It's almost over." Tang Yuan said a word and said to Meng Tao: "Meng Tao, do you want to meet your father and your mother, I was about to interrogate them today." ”

"Big brother, you're not lying to me, are you?"

"Don't worry, the Queen Mother Yizhi, said that the Meng family will no longer be arrested, even if you expose your identity now, it's fine. And your brother is now also named the Duke of Jing, this kind of outgoing Guogong, everyone is used to calling King Jing, the treatment is still okay, and now he is still preparing to lead the family to Xiangcheng. I haven't asked you yet, do you want to go? ”

"I'm not going." Meng Tao said firmly: "I want to stay with my parents." ”

"Huh? How do you know your parents aren't going back to Jingzhou? Tang Yuan wondered.

"The Queen Mother will not let them go. But they won't be killed, they may have to live in prison for the rest of their lives. Meng Tao said as she spoke, shedding tears, "I stay in Luoyang, I can go to see them from time to time, send some clothes, send some food, if I also leave, they will have no one to take care of, and they will starve, it will be too bitter." ”

Tang Yuan nodded and said, "Giving birth to a daughter like Meng Tao, there is no way to ask for more?" ”

Tang Yuan took Meng Tao to see Meng Zong and his wife, and when they saw their daughter, the husband and wife cried.

Stretched his hand out of the cage, grabbed his daughter, and was reluctant to let go.

The scene is touching and does not need to be detailed.

After crying, Mrs. Qian asked Meng Tao where she lives now and why she didn't go to Xiangcheng with her brother.

Meng Tao told him about being arranged by his grandfather to live in the dark pile, and then said that he was on the streets, and finally said that he was taken in by Tang Yuan and had been living in his house.

Hearing this, the Qian family kowtowed to Tang Yuan to thank him.

Meng Zong's face was calm, as if he was thinking about something, but he didn't speak.

He looked at Tang Yuan with a scrutinizing gaze, and there was a sentence that he wanted to say, but he swallowed it back.

The first time we met, it was a little hasty, and Meng Tao didn't bring any gifts, but just handed over a sweat towel to her mother, and said that she would bring clothes and food for her next time.

She also begged Tang Yuan if she could not let her parents wear prison clothes, it looked miserable.

Tang Yuan said: "As long as you go to prison, it doesn't matter what clothes you wear, it's still summer, don't be afraid of less clothes, next time you come, just prepare a new set of bedding for them." Being able to lock the two of them together is already Prime Minister Tang Cheng's extra kindness, otherwise they will live in the men's and women's prisons respectively and never see each other. ”。

Meng Tao said: "Please Brother Tang Yuan take me to meet Grandpa Tang Zhen." ”

Tang Yuan thought about it and reluctantly agreed.