General, is that you? The carriage came to a slow stop, Colliers through the window

The other party didn't speak, just lifted the bamboo hat slightly, revealing a slightly smiling face, in the snowy night, Gao Lishi faintly recognized that it was Li Qing, only to see him nod slightly, and glanced at himself.

Gao Lishi had an epiphany, and immediately ordered the side door to be opened, and Li Qing quickly led the horse with his entourage, and his figure quickly disappeared into the long wind and snow.

The light in the room was soft, warm and pleasant, Gao Lishi took a sip of hot tea gently, let the heat dispel the chill in his body, he put down the teacup, and then smiled at Li Qing: "Seeing the old man on a snowy night, it is really a different taste." ”

"In Anxi for a few years, when I look back, many old people have passed away or disappeared, which shows that Gao Weng is in good health, and as before, Li Qing is also very grateful."

"I'm getting old, and the number of nights I get up has increased significantly, and my energy is not as good as before."

Gao Lishi smiled and waved his hand, and suddenly seemed to have just reacted, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Didn't the emperor exempt you from reporting on your work this time?" How did you.

"I'm here to visit my wife and children." Li Qing thought of his child, a trace of tenderness flashed in his eyes, he lowered his head and flicked the brazier, and seemed to say to himself: "They are lonely in Chang'an, I am afraid that someone will bully them." ”

"Do you mean Yang Guozhong?"

Gao Lishi suddenly remembered that Li Qing had taught Yang Guozhong a lesson last year, and thought that he was worried about Yang Guozhong's revenge, so he immediately explained to him with a smile: "Your Majesty has warned Yang Guozhong about that incident, and he is not allowed to take revenge for personal gain, please rest assured, general!" ”

"Nope! I'm not referring to Yang Guozhong. "Mountain!"

"An Lushan?"

Colliers was stunned, and he reacted immediately. He waved his hand again and again: "Impossible! You are in Anthy. There are some things you don't know, this year the emperor has made full preparations, do you know how many troops there are in Guanzhong now? Do you know how many granaries have been built in Chang'an this year? General, you're overthinking. ”

"Perhaps!" Li Qing smiled lightly, he didn't say much about this matter, changed the topic, and said: "I visited Gao Weng tonight to ask about the situation between the DPRK and China. He saw Colliers groaning. smiled slightly, and continued to add: "I mean that the land is Lichu, Gao Weng should know the meaning of my land." ”

Gao Lishi's expression gradually became solemn, he stood up, lowered his head and paced slowly in the room, looked up at the roof again, and suddenly turned around and said, "Do you know that the emperor summoned Li Heng today!" ”

In general, after the crown prince was deposed. The emperor will never see him again for the rest of his life, and when the next emperor succeeds to the throne, the first thing to kill is this unlucky former prince, so. After the news of Li Longji's summoning of Li Hengdi came out, almost everyone was taken by surprise.

Li Qing sneered slightly. "Gao Weng, others don't understand, don't you still understand what the emperor means?"

"I guessed one or two when the emperor changed the name of King Guangping to Li Yu for the emperor!"

Gao Lishi was silent, and he looked up to the sky for a long time and sighed: "I only understand now that the emperor has actually laid out the situation a long time ago, and when he gave you the jasper paperweight, he made it clear that he hoped that you would assist the prince well, and then let you go to Anxi, and then send the king of Guangping to him, the intention of which has been clear, but I thought that he wanted to set up Li Cong as the prince, causing me to repeatedly collide with him, and I was worried in vain for a year, and now it seems that he is just diverting everyone's attention from Li Cong, in order to better protect his eldest grandson, he has good intentions, I can't even see it. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Lishi suddenly turned around and stared at Li Qingdi's eyes, and said sincerely: "Li Qing, the emperor actually trusts you very much, so he entrusted the king of Guangping to you, and you must not live up to his expectations in Anxi." ”

Li Qing nodded silently and didn't say a word.

When Li Qing and his entourage came out of the Gaolishi Mansion, the wind had gradually subsided, and clumps of snow fell from the sky like pine balls, and the ground had already been covered with a thick layer of snow, and before they reached their ankles, they turned their horses' heads and galloped westward.

About two quarters of an hour later, Li Qing arrived at his house, but he did not go to the main gate, for fear of being discovered by Yang Guozhong's family on the opposite side, but turned to the back house to call the door.

In a moment, a subordinate opened the door with a tired face, and looked impatiently, and there was a group of soldiers leading horses, and in the middle was a man with a hat, and he was tired and paused, and he asked vigilantly, "Who are you looking for?" ”

"It's me!" The man in the middle lifted the hat gently, then went up the steps, pushed the door and entered, and the man stood there as if struck by lightning, watching his master stride past him.

In the room, the curtain was busy sewing thick cakes for her distant husband, her son Li Huan was playing alone with her little buttocks, her daughter Li Tingyue was kneeling on the Luohan bed, and she was engrossed in practicing calligraphy, while Xiaoyu was holding her cheeks, staring out the window and not knowing what she was thinking, her eyes flashing with shy joy.

The curtain glanced at her, frowned slightly, and said, "Xiaoyu, don't you daydream, if it's okay, isn't it good to straighten out the line for me?" ”

Xiaoyu seemed to wake up from a dream, she smiled embarrassedly, picked up a bunch of threads, and carefully sorted them out, but just after a few strokes, her hand slowed down again, and she couldn't help asking: "Sister, do you say that Gongzi can come back in the New Year?" ”

Curtain pursed her lips and smiled, and teased her in a low voice: "Xiao Nizi's heart is moving again?" ”

"You talk nonsense!" Xiaoyu blushed, lowered her head and muttered, "Isn't it the same for others to talk about yourself?" ”

"Mother, what is Spring Heart?" Xiao Li Huan beside him asked in a milky voice.

"Mother is wrong!" Li Tingyue, who was practicing calligraphy, had her ears erected high, she turned her head and corrected seriously: "It's winter now, it should be said that Erniang's winter heart is moving!" ”

"Go! Go! Go! Write your words, what do children say. Xiaoyu's face turned red and she slapped her little buttocks lightly.

Li Tingyue's neck shrank, stuck out her tongue, and continued to turn back to write her words, the curtain stitched the last stitch, and bit off the thread with her teeth, then she sighed and said to Xiaoyu: "I heard that the emperor exempted Li Lang from reporting next month, and besides, the wild goose is pregnant again, I'm afraid he won't come back." ”

"Who says I won't come back?" The leather curtain was lifted. Li Qing smiled and strode in from the outside. The people in the room froze all at once.

"Daddy!" Li Tingyue was the first to react, she threw away the pen and threw her arms out towards her father.

Li Qing squatted down. picked her up, and stabbed the stubble on her little cheek, "My girl, daddy wants you to death." ”

"Daddy, you left again while I was asleep." Spin. She suddenly put her arms around her father's neck, sobbing and crying.

Li Qing hurriedly patted her on the back and coaxed her repeatedly: "Daddy promises never to be separated from Niuniu in the future." ”

"Daddy, are you telling the truth?"

Li Tingyue burst into tears and smiled, stretching out her pink little finger, "You have to pull the hook to guarantee!" ”

"Guaranteed! Guarantee! "Pull the hook matter.

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"Li Lang, you, why did you come back?" Curtain came over with her son in her arms in surprise and joy. The probe looked behind him and asked in surprise, "What about the wild goose?" Have you left her alone in Anthy? ”

"She's in Qiuzi, she's inconvenient, someone takes care of her!"

Li Qing's face flushed slightly. He gave up one hand and hugged his son, but the little one looked at him in fear. Desperately drilling into his mother's arms, seeing that there was no way to hide, he finally 'wow!' With a bang, he opened his mouth and began to cry.

"Li Lang, he may not know you anymore."

The curtain hurriedly handed him to Xiaoyu, stepped forward to put his daughter down on the ground, and then came over to take off her coat for her husband and asked, "Are you coming back to report on your work this time?" ”

"Nope! I'm here to pick you up. Li Qing beckoned to Xiaoyu, asked her to step forward, turned back to the curtain and instructed: "Just pick some important soft ones, start cleaning up tonight, and I will take you away early tomorrow morning!" ”

That night, the family nervously packed up their things, and it was not until midnight that they packed up a few large bags of fine softness, and called the old butler to give him the family's deed of sale and some valuable things, and ordered him to distribute them to his subordinates after they had gone away.

Early the next morning, the sky was bright, the snow had stopped, and it was thick to the knees, the hundred officials had just gone to court, and there were only some merchants and Chang'an citizens who needed to get up early to forage for food on the street, Li Qing and his men had changed their clothes and escorted a wide carriage slowly towards the Mingde Gate.

The Tang Dynasty was not as strict as the Ming and Qing dynasties, although it also had a complete set of household registration system, but it was open-minded, broad-minded, and open to people from all over the world, except for some special people to be monitored, such as An Lushan's anti-will in the late Tianbao period has been revealed, so the Tang court controlled the freedom of Anqingzong, and for the family members who were placed in Beijing as hostages, it was more of a kind of institutional constraint, if the family members were taken away without authorization, it meant a betrayal, and the court would not let you continue to serve, This is more of a tacit understanding, an unspoken rule, and Li Qing took his family away when An Lushan's antipathy became more and more obvious, and he gambled that Li Longji would never attack him at this time.

It's the same with crossing the city gate, except for the transfer of troops above the scale must have the order of the military department, other normal pedestrians, the soldiers defending the city don't ask, the group slowly drove out of the city gate, began to accelerate, the carriage is getting faster and faster, the horse's hooves are getting more and more urgent, and everyone gradually disappears into the vast snowy world.

Early the next morning, the carriage came out of Fengxiang, and the five hundred elite horsemen who had been waiting outside the gate immediately surrounded Li Qing and his wife and daughter and galloped towards Anxi, far away.

Yang Guozhong waited in the political hall of Xingqing Palace after lunch, he also had a room here for dealing with official business, he reviewed the twists and turns of Gao Lishi's turn, and waited patiently for Li Longji to come from the harem, generally speaking, Li Longji would stay in the study for half an hour after taking a nap.

Just like Li Qing bet on the King of Guangping, Yang Guozhong and even their entire Yang family bet all their hopes on the body of Li Cong, the king of Qing, and they can't afford to make a mistake, Ji Wen is very reasonable, Li Longji has suppressed Li Heng for so many years, it is impossible to let Li Cong's power swell unscrupulously, he is full of energy, he can still have sex every night, and he can live for at least ten years, how can he let Li Cong replace him early, the concubine said that he moved the idea of establishing a prince, so it seems that it will definitely not refer to Li Cong.

After a night of thinking, he finally decided to adopt Ji Wen's strategy and force An Lushan to rebel to stop Li Longji's plan to establish a prince. The second is to kill An Qingzong, so that the imperial court thinks that An Lushan has rebelled, resulting in a fait accompli.

But Yang Guozhong waited for more than two hours, seeing that it was almost evening, but he didn't even see Li Longji's shadow, he couldn't help but hesitate a little, it snowed all night yesterday, shouldn't the emperor accompany the concubine to enjoy the snow scene! The more he thought about it, the more likely it was, so he walked out of the room, the yard was noisy, several little eunuchs were shoveling snow in the yard, Yang Guozhong quietly pulled a person over, stuffed him with a golden melon seed and said, "Go!" Find Father-in-law Yu for me. ”

There is no second person surnamed Yu in this Xingqing Palace, the little eunuch will understand, and immediately run to the inner palace, and after a while, the little eunuch ran back in frustration and said to Yang Guozhong: "Xiangguo, Father-in-law Yu accompanied the emperor to Huaqing Palace in the morning." ”

Yang Guozhong was stunned, Li Longji didn't have the slightest warning, and left as soon as he said go.

He paced back and forth in the yard with his hands behind his back, what to do? Do you go to Huaqing Palace or go directly to arrest An Qingzong? He was so confused that he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

After a long time, he just stomped his feet, and then went to discuss with Ji Wen first, he had just walked out of Xingqing Palace, and suddenly saw his eldest son Yang Huo Pegasus coming, his eyes were full of excitement and excitement.

Yang Guozhong's face sank, his son was already a member of the household department, and he was going to be promoted to a household servant next year, but he was still so uncontrollable, and the anger in his heart rose slightly.

"What's so flustered?"

Yang Huo threw off the saddle and dismounted, ran to Yang Guozhong's side, and said urgently: "Father, Li Qing came back last night and has already run away with his wife and daughter. ”

Yang Guozhong was stunned and asked with some disbelief: "How do you know?" ”

"Just now, our gatekeeper found that many family members in Li Qing's house left with packages on their backs, so they reported to me, I grabbed the two and asked only to know that Li Qing came back last night, and when it was not dawn, he quietly left with his wife and daughter."

Yang Guozhong stood stunned for a long time, and suddenly 'Ah! He was almost ecstatic, and now, he finally caught Li Qing's handle, and he didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly ran to the carriage, and stopped halfway through and turned back and shouted: "Tell your mother, I went to Huaqing Palace, and I won't come back tonight!" ”