Ann, night falls, the air is flowing with warmth, secretly floating with wisps of peach, the dogs who have been silent on the street for a winter begin to be active, the sound of fighting for food and whimpering is endless, it is still early, most of the street people rush back, today is the Cold Food Festival, every household on this day bans fireworks, eats cold rice and cold dishes, and tomorrow is Qingming, the housewives work all night, wrap the Qingtuan, make the money, in order to sweep the tomb tomorrow.

Li Qing's bedroom is bright, the curtain sits cross-legged on the bed, sewing the gown for the child with a needle and thread, and looks at the sleeping child slaves next to him lovingly from time to time, Li Qing also has Yongye Field in Fengxian County, which is still a small farm, not to mention Li Qing's huge silk business, but the curtain still maintains her kind and simple subordinates, and does it herself, and no one in the family has left so far.

"Sister Lian'er, otherwise, let's go back to Yilong County tomorrow and sweep your grandfather's grave." Xiaoyu is sitting at the table and practicing absentmindedly, the children of the old slave of the house, whether male or female, can go to private school for a few years, she has been smart since she was a child, and she has also studied with her brother for a few years, and she has learned thousands of words in her stomach, and since she has followed Li Qing account book, she picked up the book again.

Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, seeing that every household is preparing to sweep the tomb, and Li Qing's ancestral tomb does not know where it is, and has never heard him talk about it, Xiaoyu has the idea of going to Yilong, if possible, to see his parents again.

The curtain carefully bit off the thread, glanced at the listless Xiaoyu and said with a smile: "Tomorrow will be Qingming, and the time for Yilong to sweep the tomb has already passed, besides, didn't I ask someone to take care of me?" Since Li Lang told us not to go out, there is always a reason for him, so let's stay at home honestly! ”

Xiaoyu stretched her waist, looked out the window with her cheeks on her cheeks, with a smile in her eyebrows, her eyes were full of longing, and she said to herself: "Spring is blooming, I really want to go out!" ”

"Otherwise, I'll take you to the city the day after tomorrow!"

The door suddenly opened, and a man wearing a bamboo hat strode in, and the curtain was startled at first, but the familiar feeling made her surprise and surprise, "Li Lang!" Is that you? ”

The man laughed, took off the bamboo hat on his head, it was Li Qing who was thinking about it day and night, he took the land route from Yangzhou five days ago, and secretly returned to Chang'an in front of the Cao transport ship. ”

He kissed each of the two daughters on the face, his eyes fell on the sleeping child, and he couldn't help laughing: "Why didn't my good baby get up to greet Daddy." ”

Curtain suddenly remembered something, looked back, and asked, "Where is the wild goose?" She went to Yangzhou to find you, aren't you together? ”

Li Qing smiled and beckoned back, "Come in!" Your curtain sister is asking. ”

After a while, I saw a woman in black who was covered with a veil scarf walked into the door, took off the veil, and revealed a beautiful face, which was Li Jingyan.

Although the three of them are familiar with each other on weekdays, Li Jingyan is nervous and shy at this moment, as if the new daughter-in-law who passed the door on the first day, timidly stepped forward to give a big gift to the curtain, and the curtain was extremely surprised, she looked at Li Qing, and then looked at Li Jingyan, her heart suddenly understood, and slowly sat back on the bed, and accepted her gift with a serious expression.

Li Qing saw that the curtain was willing to accept Li Jingyan's gift, his heart also relaxed, waved his hand to the three of them, and said with a smile: "Everyone sit down, let's discuss, where to go the day after tomorrow." ”

Unexpectedly, the curtain ignored him, pulled Li Jingyan with one hand, and beckoned to Xiaoyu again, "Go!" Let's go next door to discuss, and leave it here for Li Shilang to think about the affairs of the court.

Li Qing saw the three girls walking away, he touched his nose with a bitter face, his eyes fell on his sleeping daughter, so he slowly walked up, lay on her side, stretched out his mouth and kissed her red little face, smelled the milk smell on her body, licking the calf spontaneously, his heart was full of warmth and joy, his mind relaxed, and soon he yawned for a long time, his eyelids gradually became heavy, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

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The next day is the Qingming Festival, a day off for the morning, let the hundred officials go to worship and sweep the ancestral grave, three days in a row, it is also the traditional day of stepping into the green, Chang'an City almost poured out of the city, regardless of the citizens, bureaucrats and clansmen will move their families out, take the opportunity to sweep the tomb, experience the warmth of spring, Qujiang Pond, Leyou Yuan crowd congestion, far away even Zhongnan Mountain will have the footprints of Chang'an citizens.

On this day, the business of the shops in the West Market was obviously quieter than usual, and only some merchants who came from afar were patiently picking one by one

, bargaining ruthlessly, Li Qing's Shu brocade shop business has been relatively cold for a while, before it became a business, the big shopkeeper Zhang Yiming simply used this day to take stock of the goods and settle the accounts, at this moment he was standing on the stone bench in the courtyard to direct the guys to carry the goods.

"Be careful, don't confuse the color, you can see clearly, these are not the same."

He saw the two guys each carrying a few horses of Shu brocade towards the warehouse, and couldn't help but say in a hurry: "You two wait a minute, those Shu brocades are damp, and put them outside to dry." ”

Suddenly, his two ears moved, and he seemed to hear the sound of horses' hooves coming from afar, and soon the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, and he stopped near the gate, and then an anxious voice came, "Zhang Yiming, have you seen the skeleton?" ”

Li Qing's chief butler Zhang Wang rushed into the door, his eyes quickly swept around, and asked, "He's not in the wine shop, I don't know if he's here with you?" ”

"Maybe I can find him, what is your hurry?"

Zhang Wang raised a letter in his hand and said hurriedly: "This is an urgent letter from the master just now, there is something very important to tell him to do, you go and find him!" ”

"I know, you wait a while, I'll go to Hongling Courtyard to call him!"

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At about noon, two gossip began to spread from the restaurants in Chang'an, one was that King Yong did not ascend to the throne, and the reason for the final defeat was that King Qing had advanced slander on the emperor, saying that King Yong's family spoke wildly, which made the emperor angry, and finally canceled the decision that had been made.

And the other is the news: King Qing sent Li Li to Yangzhou to assassinate Li Qing, the head of the household department.

I don't know who released these two news, but it was like a cold virus, quickly spreading in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, the more it was said, the more vivid it became, and some people even came out to corroborate it, this matter is true, and there is a record of this matter in the Jingzhao Bureau.

The news finally reached the palace of King Yong at dusk, and Li Lan never knew about it, so he immediately sent his son Li Shen to the Jingzhao Office to verify the matter.

At this moment, Li Lan is pacing back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, anxiously waiting for the echo of his son, the matter has been nearly three months, but he has not known why Tai was not abolished in the end, although the accepted theory is that he was too assassinated, won the sympathy of his father, and finally abolished the East Palace, but Li Lan did not believe this statement at all, since ancient times, there has never been any sympathy for the battle for the throne, and he was too assassinated to delay the time of being abolished at most, and he will never change this fundamental decision.

"Could it really be that King Qing is stumbling behind his back?"

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, King Qing was stupid and conceited, and prone to extreme means, seven days ago he sent a son to stab Li Qing in Yangzhou to a serious injury, and his life and death are still uncertain. He is also the most powerful contender for his own position of Tai, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not use such despicable means, and he cannot get and will not allow others to sit on the throne.

"Father, I'm back." The voice of the child came from afar, the young king was still young, and before the age of the weak crown, he acted in a hurry, and it only took half an hour to find out the answer.

"How? Did you find anything? Without waiting for Li Shen to sit down, Li Xuan grabbed Er's arm and asked.

"Father, that news is true."

Li Shen whispered in his father's ear: "The child did find out about this in the file of the Jingzhao Administration, and asked Xian Yu Shuming, and he confirmed to the child that the night before Shangyuan Eve, there were three family members in our house on Chunming Street who said to Li Yu that his father would be the emperor tomorrow and the emperor the day after tomorrow, but unfortunately those three family members took advantage of the chaos to escape and were not caught. ”

"What!"

Li Lan couldn't believe his ears, such a rebellious remark would come from his own family.

"It's impossible, I've always been low-key, and I have been extremely strict with my family, and it's impossible for three family members to run to the street and speak out against it."

Li Lan squeezed the teacup on the table tightly, and a thought suddenly came to her heart, "Is it so?" ”

He couldn't help but sneer: "I understand, where are my three family members, this is clearly the bureau set up by King Qing, otherwise how could those three family members run away, and it was so coincidental, I just said to Na Li." Li Cong! Li Cong! If you don't know, unless you don't do anything, if this news is not revealed, I will be sold by you and still counting the money for you. ”

"Father, how should we deal with this matter?" Li Shen asked, looking at his father's increasingly gloomy face.

"If you have revenge, you won't take revenge!"

Li Lan gritted his teeth for a while, and lost his position, is this still a trivial matter? He slammed the teacup on the table and said, "I will report to the emperor tomorrow, King Qing sent to Yangzhou to assassinate the ministers of the imperial court, I have evidence in hand!" ”