Luo Zhaoyun stood in the courtyard, cold and snowy, but his body was like a furnace, exuding a strong masculinity, as well as the temperament of a superior who reigned over the world.

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at the pretty woman standing at the door of the temple, with delicate facial features, graceful figure, slim and elegant, and a little heroic in her softness. After a year apart, the former Iron Lady seems to be a little less sharp, a little more quiet, unpretentious, but there is a feeling of prosperity and sincerity.

"Well, seeing the change in your temperament means that you are more mature than before."

Luo Zhaoyun stepped forward and said lightly, breaking the silence between them.

The two palace maids were so frightened that they broke out of the palace and withdrew from the palace, secretly glad that they didn't treat this cold palace concubine too harshly, otherwise, once she regained her favor, the second daughter would also be unlucky.

Li Xiuning looked at the man in front of her, who had imprisoned her for more than a year, making her a man who hated and admired her, and sighed secretly in her heart, it was too stressful to fight with him as an opponent.

I think that at the beginning, when he was a teenager, he once went to the Li Mansion as a guest, and at that time, he was just a slightly detached girl, arrogant, and did not take him seriously.

Over the years, Luo Zhaoyun has relied on his wisdom and ability to lead troops step by step, laying out layers of layout, and at the time of the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he cleaned up the mess, rose from the border pass, and now unified half of the country, and he still has his advantages.

"Your Majesty is back." Li Xiuning responded simply, although she was worried about the safety of her father, brother and family, she still had to be stable, and she also knew that communicating with this kind of person was too anxious and easy to be restrained everywhere, and she needed a little progressive conversation.

"Well, let's talk in the house!"

Luo Zhaoyun walked into the palace leisurely, Li Xiuning turned around and followed, and the other guards were guarding outside the hall and in the courtyard.

The house is deserted, the screen is gray, and because there is no maid to clean it often, and there is not enough charcoal to heat it, so the interior gives people a feeling of poverty and cold.

"Your Highness didn't bring the guards in, aren't you worried about Xiu Ning's assassination?"

Luo Zhaoyun smiled and said, "With your kung fu, there is still a lot of work to be done against me." Moreover, it doesn't do you any good. ”

"What if Xiu Ning doesn't want to steal life like this, and plans to burn the jade?" Li Xiuning's thin eyebrows frowned lightly, with a resolute look.

Luo Zhaoyun shook his head: "The success rate is too slim, it makes no sense for you to do that, and besides, you will miss the final ending." ”

"What's the end?"

Luo Zhaoyun didn't sit down, just stood with a burly body, looked at Li Xiuning a few steps away in front of him, nodded and said, "A lot, including the unification of the world and the realization of prosperity and strength, including the end of the Li Tang regime in Taiyuan and the fate of Li Valve in Guanzhong." ”

Li Xiuning was silent for a moment, his eyes flickered, and he glanced at him, feeling a little turbulent in his heart. What he said just now was just angry words, and he complained that the other party had been imprisoned here.

"When will I be free?" Li Xiuning couldn't help but ask.

"When I reign in the world, I will make you a home from all over the world!" Luo Zhaoyun suddenly thought of this sentence and said it.

Li Xiuning was stunned for a moment, it seemed to be poetic when he sounded, this is to tell himself that until he unifies the world, he can let himself go free, and he can wander the world and make the four seas his home?

"And how long will it take you?"

"Three years, it should be fine."

"So sure?" Li Xiuning was a little skeptical.

"Win Jinyang next year and sweep the south in two years, it's enough!" Luo Zhaoyun carried a strong self-confidence.

"Jinyang!" Li Xiuning was silent for a moment, and then said with a look of worry: "Can't you let Li Tang go?" ”

Luo Zhaoyun smiled faintly, and then his expression became solemn: "There is a family in the world, on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly!" This is a battle for the country, those who do not surrender to the obedient, block the general trend, and finally they will be wiped out in the dust. ”

Li Xiuning asked tentatively: "If they surrender, can you bypass their lives?" Can you continue to be a Dahua courtier? ”

"Maybe! But can you persuade your father to submit to Kaicheng? Let them willingly surrender to Dahua? Luo Zhaoyun's eyes stared at her and solemnly interrogated.

When Li Xiuning heard this, his eyes darkened and he became silent.

She knew very well that her father and brothers represented part of Guan Long's interests, and it was no longer up to the Li family to control it. With his father's situation, it is difficult to ride a tiger, and since ancient times, it is difficult to end well with opponents who compete for the world.

"When the city is broken, can you spare their lives, even if they are reduced to commoners, Xiuning can accept His Majesty's affection, and be a slave and a maid, and they are willing."

Luo Zhaoyun has no complex for this Li Xiuning, but she knew each other before, her identity is special, and she was placed under house arrest in the palace when she was not exposed.

Especially Li Er, what must be eliminated is too big a hidden danger. If Li Yuan did not die in the end and was already old, he could be placed under house arrest in Chang'an City.

Luo Zhaoyun said the reality: "Your eldest brother Li Jiancheng has been captured and escorted back to the capital, in the prison of the Criminal Department, his life is worry-free!" Another brother of yours, Li Xuanba, led some people from the green forest to intercept and kill the Dahua granary team, repeatedly destroying the grain route, and was finally surrounded by the army and has been beheaded. In Jinyang City, there are also your father, second brother, and fourth brother. ”

"Third brother, he's already dead......" Li Xiuning looked lonely, with tears in her eyes, although this third brother didn't grow up in the Li family since he was a child, and he has been learning art in Ziyang Palace on the mountain, but after all, blood is thicker than water, and that is also her brother, and the friendship after meeting in the past two years is still quite deep.

"On the battlefield, there are horse leather shrouds every day, and when there is a battle, there will always be deaths. He moths to the fire, and there is no way. Luo Zhaoyun didn't have any good impression of Li Xuanba, so he killed him and removed a big hidden danger in his heart.

Li Xiuning's face was pale, her eyes were misty, the fog was misty, and tears kept sliding down Qingmei's cheeks, but she didn't cry, she was very strong, she hesitated and said: "I want to repair a letter and persuade my father, if I can not fight, open the city and surrender, and reunite the family, it is better than everyone giving their lives." ”

Luo Zhaoyun nodded slightly, the meaning of his coming over was the same, although he knew that repairing the book to persuade him to surrender would not have much effect on Li Yuan, but it could break the fighting spirit of Li Yuan's side, so that he would be half-hearted and careless, and he would not do it so desperately. If Li Yuan went out and treated the people in Jinyang City as a burial, it would be a very cruel thing.

Now that Li Yuan's daughter and eldest son have been taken prisoner, the remnants of Li Valve in Guanzhong have also been controlled, making Li Yuan fearful, and there is a limit to the burning of jade.