The group embarked on the trip again, and after a simple rest in Tianping County, they finally arrived in Zhaodu two days later.

When everyone arrived at the city of Zhao, Zhao Kuo looked at the tall city wall, with excitement, feelings, and a little sadness. I sacrificed so many people and endured so many hardships along the way, and now I finally came back safely. At this moment, Zhao Kuo thought that he was about to meet his parents in this life, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart.

Zhao Kuo had already learned from Wu Heng that he did not live in the palace, but had his own mansion in the city, and at the same time Wu Heng also told him that he could not return to his mansion immediately after entering the city, and according to the regulations, he had to go to the palace to meet his father and report the trip to Emperor Zhao. Yan Ning had to stay at the State Guest Post House first, and then let someone send a letter of worship to Emperor Zhao, and Emperor Zhao agreed to summon him before he could enter the palace to meet him.

"Let's go into the city" Zhao Kuo sighed, and then said to the people beside him.

After the officers and soldiers guarding the city of Zhao Capital saw Zhao Kuo and others, they hurriedly knelt on both sides and shouted: "Meet His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose"

As soon as Zhao Kuo and the others entered the city, a team came to meet them, and after meeting Zhao Kuo and others, a middle-aged eunuch walked out of a sedan chair and walked towards Zhao Kuo with a smile on his face.

Wu Heng whispered to Zhao Kuo beside Zhao Kuo that this person was the eunuch serving by the emperor's side, the chief eunuch in the palace, and Li Ying's father-in-law.

"The old slave visited His Royal Highness the Four Princes, His Royal Highness has worked hard all the way, His Royal Highness has heard a thing or two about the things encountered in Tianmang Mountain, and the old slave was really frightened after hearing it, but fortunately, the four highnesses have their own natural appearance, and now they see that His Royal Highness has returned safely, and the old slave's hanging heart can finally be put down."

"Manager Li, please get up quickly, Zhao Kuo He De how can he be, he is actually tired of Manager Li, he has not made an inch of merit, and he is tired of Manager Li personally going out of the palace to meet him, Zhao Kuo is very guilty" Zhao Kuo hurriedly stepped forward to help him, eunuchs, they are the ones who spend the longest time with the emperor every day, he came over in his previous life, he deeply knew that the eunuchs around the emperor could influence the emperor's thoughts many times, so Zhao Kuo had decided that he must have a good relationship with him in the future, and did not ask him to help him say good things in front of the emperor, Just beg him not to stab himself in front of Emperor Zhao if he is fine.

"Your Royal Highness, you are tormenting the old slave, Your Royal Highness has returned safely from this trip, the old slave is coming to greet Your Highness on behalf of Your Majesty, Your Majesty knows that Your Highness has worked hard all the way, so you don't need to enter the palace immediately after your Royal Highness comes back, you can go back to the house to rest and rest, and other matters can be reported tomorrow morning."

"The grace of the father and the emperor is remembered in the heart"

Li Ying nodded, then turned to Yan Ning and bowed and saluted: "The old slave greets the princess."

"Yan Ning didn't dare to be," Yan Ning replied.

"Princess, Your Majesty specially ordered the old slave to personally escort you to the State Guest Post House to rest first, Your Majesty asked the old slave to tell the princess that the matter of sending troops is a major matter of the country, and the specific day of sending troops needs to be carefully discussed with the ministers, and I hope that the princess will not be in a hurry, just wait patiently for Your Majesty to summon you."

"Yan Ning obeys His Majesty's arrangement"

"Your Highness, it's not too early, you go back to the house early to rest, the old slave will send the princess back to the post house first, and retire first."

"Manager Li walked slowly" and then looked at Yan Ning and said to her: "You have no relatives here, you are not familiar with life, you must take care of yourself alone, send someone to inform me immediately if there is something, and I will continue to send someone to find the whereabouts of the four sisters."

Yan Ning nodded to Zhao Kuo and did not speak.

"Princess, please"

After Yan Ning walked out of the road with Manager Li, she turned around and waved her hand to Zhao Kuo, "Your Highness, there will be a period later."

"Your Highness... Your Highness..."

"Huh? Do? ”

"The princess is already far away, don't look at it"

Zhao Kuo saw Yan Ning leave just now, he was slightly stunned, and remembered all the things he had experienced with Yan Ning along the way, and the common hardships were really the most suitable for him and Yan Ning. Now that they have returned to Zhaodu, the two of them have also separated, and I don't know when the next time they meet. Zhao Kuo couldn't help but think of what Yan Ning said when Yan Ning took him on the same horse: Before returning to Zhao Capital, she was Yan Ning, he was Zhao Kuo, and now she has returned to Zhao Capital, he is the fourth prince, and she is the princess of Yan Kingdom.

"Oh . . . Let's go, go home."

"Your Highness, they will take you back to the mansion, I will rush back to the Lian family first, report the specific matters to the old general, and I will not accompany you over." Wu Heng said to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo nodded at him: "Go ahead, get busy with your go"

"Donor..."

"Call Brother"

"Donor..."

"You haven't eaten dinner yet, have you?"

"Brother..."

Zhao Kuo looked at the void monk and nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, let's talk about it, what's the matter?"

"When is dinner?"

Zhao Kuo......

After Wu Heng and Zhao Kuo separated, they rushed directly to the Lian family, and as soon as they arrived at the door of the Lian family's mansion, they saw Lian Po's youngest son Lian Yun walking back and forth in front of the door.

After Lian Yun saw Wu Heng coming, he hurriedly said: "General Wu doesn't need to be polite, my father specially asked me to wait here for the general's return, at this moment my father is already waiting in the study, General Wu will go with me."

Then Lian Yun took Wu Heng to the study in the house, at this time an old man with white hair and beard was sitting straight at the desk looking at the book, this person was Lian Po, the general of Zhao Guolonghu, Wu Heng was busy kneeling on the ground and kowtowed: "Humble Wu Heng visited the general, the crime of despicable duty deserves death, this trip failed to protect the safety of the eldest prince, resulting in the uncertainty of the eldest prince's life and death, please punish the general"

Lian Po still looked at the book in his hand intently, and said lightly: "Get up"

"I am guilty of despicable duty, and I dare not get up"

At this time, Lian Pocai slowly put down the book in his hand and looked up at Wu Heng who was kneeling on the ground: "Do you still want General Ben to go over and help you get up in person?" ”

"Don't dare to be humble" immediately stood up.

"As a general, you should be proud of dying on the battlefield, even if he is killed in battle, you don't have to blame yourself, this is where he ends, understand? And he's alive."

After hearing this, Wu Heng asked excitedly: "The eldest son... Got it? He didn't die? He's alive? The eldest prince is in the house now? ”

"When you were attacked by the Huns, Lian Yun happened to be in the territory of Qi at that time, after learning about it, he borrowed 5,000 troops from Qi to go to Tianmang Mountain to support you, but the Huns did not meet, but found his eldest brother, now Lian Feng is not in Yan or in Wei, this time tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops can quietly lurk in Tianmang Mountain, and we actually have no knowledge, this matter must be investigated, so I ordered Lian Feng to investigate this matter, this matter is not clear, it will always be a great harm to the border of my Zhao State in the future"

After hearing this, Wu Heng suddenly realized: "No wonder after we arrived in Yanyun City, His Royal Highness asked the defenders of Yanyun City to search the area of Tianmang Mountain for several days without any gain, it turned out that the eldest prince had already been rescued by the second prince." ”

Lian Po nodded at him, "You don't have to worry about Lian Feng's affairs anymore, but His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, I heard that he had an accident on this trip and forgot all about the past?" Is that really the case? ”

"Yes, General, Your Highness has almost forgotten all about the past, and on the way, we were separated from Your Highness, Your Highness took the princess of Yanguo and the two of them to Yanyun City alone, and they also experienced a lot of hardships on the way."

Lian Po sighed lightly: "This time to welcome the princess of Yanguo, the emperor originally planned to let the third highness go, but His Royal Highness was worried that the princess of Yanguo would marry the third highness, so he blocked more, so the task of welcoming the princess fell on the head of the fourth highness, I thought that this time there was my Lian family's black flag army guard, or at the border of my Zhao country, there should be no danger all the way, who knew that this time, the people who went to my Lian family's black flag army were almost wiped out, and at the same time, the four highnesses were also suffering, it is really not as good as the sky"

"General, the last general is brave, there is something to ask"

"Ask me if there's anything I want."

"On this trip, the Huns caused more than 10,000 casualties to my Black Flag Army, and this hatred is not shared, and the last general wants to ask the general emperor whether he will agree to send troops to attack the Huns?"

After listening to Wu Heng's words, Lian Po sighed slightly and said: "The holy will is unpredictable, our Emperor Your Majesty, he has always disliked war, plus there have been frequent raids in Western Xia recently, and now Li Mu's old guy has also come back to ask the emperor to go to Western Xia, although the Holy Emperor has made an appointment with Emperor Yan first, but at present, it seems that there is still little hope of sending troops to fight against the Xiongnu, after all, there is still a Yan country between the Xiongnu and my Zhao State." ”

"In this way, is it possible that the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers of my Black Flag Army have been sacrificed in vain? Wouldn't the emperor feel ashamed of his dead brothers? Wu Heng said angrily.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lian Po slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "Presumptuous, what the Holy One has done, how can you and I talk about it in vain?" As a courtier, remember to do your part."

Wu Heng saw that Lian was quite angry, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The general is angry, the last general knows that he is wrong, the last general just wants to find the Huns as soon as possible to avenge the dead brother, and he said the wrong thing on impulse, and asked the general to forgive his sins"

"Get up, send troops to attack the Huns, I will propose to the emperor again"

"General, there is something about the Fourth Highness, and the last general doesn't know whether to talk about it."

"It's just you and me here, you can just say it"

"The last general feels that since the accident, His Highness's whole person seems to have changed a lot compared to before, and he is like two people before."

"Oh?" Lian Po looked at Wu Heng and motioned for him to continue.

"His Royal Highness has become very approachable now, he usually likes to laugh with the people below, and he is very polite to us, and he has completely lost the frame of the previous prince."

After hearing this, Lian Po nodded, did not speak, and after pondering for a moment, he said to his youngest son Lian Yun: "Yun'er, tomorrow you get up early, go to the mansion of the Fourth Highness, and accompany the Fourth Highness into the palace and the early court."

"Yes, Father"

"Also, since Your Highness has forgotten all the things before, then you will walk around with the Fourth Highness more in the future, if there is anything he doesn't understand, you can tell him more"

"Yes, Father"