Soon it was completely dark, and the whole Jiuquan City was shrouded in night, and now it was already late autumn, and the sky was darker than before.

"This kid can be regarded as waking up." At this time, in front of Li Yan's bed, there was a woman sitting in a towering bun and a light green dress, looking at Li Yan who was sleeping on the bed affectionately.

"Madam, the young man has been asleep for more than an hour after eating." Xin'er behind the woman said respectfully.

"Xin'er, you go down first. I'll take another look at the rocks here. The woman turned to Xin'er and said.

"Yes, ma'am." Xin'er bowed to the woman and gently exited the door.

This woman is Li Yan's mother, Ling Hu, and the wife of the late Li Tan, the son of Xiliang. It has been more than ten years since she married into the Li family, and after Li Tan died of illness four years ago, she tried her best to raise her only son Li Yan. Although he is only over 30 years old, after experiencing the pain of losing his husband and a series of blows, there are some gray strands in his towering bun, and his face is full of haggardness.

The leaves rustling in the courtyard blown by the cold wind outside the house, and the candlelight swaying in the house, Ling Hu sat in front of the bed, gently stroked Li Yan's face, and quietly watched his son breathe evenly.

Suddenly, a tear fell on Li Yan's face with a "snap", and Ling Hu hurriedly wiped the tears on Li Yan's face with his hand.

"Mother, the child is not filial, so you are worried." Li Yan opened his eyes and saw Ling Hu's eyes full of tears, this was the first time Li Yan had seen his mother Ling Hu since he crossed over, looking at this mother who was worried about himself, Li Yan really felt bad in his heart.

Li Yan's mother made the fox's heart melt, and this son, who made her frightened for a day and a night, finally woke up. After her husband Li Tan died four years ago, Li Yan was her only support for survival, and if her son also gave up, she would definitely not live alone.

"Yan'er, let Weiniang take a good look, does it still hurt? Hard-working Yan'er, if you are gone, your mother will not live. Ling Hu said, holding Li Yan tightly with both hands and crying, tears kept flowing down.

"Mother, it's not good to be a child, I will listen to you from now on, and I will never let you worry about it again." Li Yan was at a loss for a moment, so he could only comfort him.

"Yan'er, for my mother to know, after your father died, you have been angry with your grandfather to make your second uncle the prince, you want to show your ability everywhere, at the beginning of the year, you worshiped under your grandfather Song to learn scriptures and history, have you ever known that the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." After calming down, the Fox Clan said patiently to Li Yan.

"It's all to blame for the child's negligence for a while, the child mistakenly believed the villain's words, and heard that there was a new horse in the house, and he was very curious, but he didn't expect it to be a fierce horse, so he suffered from this ordeal. The child must be cautious in the future, and will not let the mother worry anymore. A few days ago, Liu San, who was taking care of the stables, came to him and said that a new horse from the Western Regions was a bloody horse in the house, saying that it was the mount of the Wusun royal family in the past, and it was not easy to get back to the Liangwang Mansion, and he also said that he had a docile temperament and was easy to control, as long as he could be tamed, it would be his own. As soon as he heard that it would be his own if he was tamed, Li Yan agreed without saying a word. Which Cheng came up with the palace and rode it himself to know what kind of docile temperament this is, it is simply grumpy, only to run a hundred steps, but the horse ran like crazy, Li Yan himself was thrown off the horse in a bump, and became what he is now.

"Yan'er, your father is no longer there, you are the only one to rely on for your mother, do you want to think about your mother in anything?" Seeing Li Yan hurt the city like this, Ling Hu couldn't bear to blame him ruthlessly.

Li Yan could only repeatedly promise that he would take good care of himself in the future, so that the Fox clan would leave.

"My second uncle is really not simple, he knows the competitive nature of his predecessor, and let Liu San use sweat and blood to provoke himself to be fooled." Li Yan thought to himself. As a later generation, Li Yan certainly knew that if a horseman in the palace was not instructed, even if he had thousands of dogs, he would not dare to deceive himself to ride a fierce horse. Since his second uncle Li Xin was made the crown prince, Li Yan's relationship with his second uncle has dropped to a freezing point, and he often contradicts Li Xin. Moreover, in all dynasties, most of the descendants of the deceased prince or the deposed prince have ended up extremely miserable. It seems that he is really cautious in the future, otherwise he will really capsize in the gutter, and there will be nowhere to redress his grievances.

The night passed quickly.

Li Yan woke up very early and ate breakfast under Xin'er's service.

This body has been lying in bed for a few days, and now it is sore, and the wound on his head has been redressed, Li Yan thought about getting up and moving.

Li Yan was still dizzy when he first got up, and it took a while to gradually adapt to this body.

"It's barely okay with the deputy appearance, it's much better than in the previous life, but this physique is too weak." Looking at himself in the bronze mirror, Li Yan muttered in his heart.

Li Yan went out and came to the courtyard in front of the door. This is the most remote courtyard in the west courtyard of Liangwangfu, there are a few old trees in the courtyard that are about to lose their leaves, they used to be the descendants of the county guard mansion to live here, it is dirty and messy, and even the gate is rotten a lot. After moving the capital from Dunhuang to Jiuquan, the housekeeper brought Li Yan and his wife here.

"Young boy, what are you thinking?" Just as Li Yan was thinking about it, Liu Laohan said behind Li Yan.

"Oh, it's nothing, I'll just go out and walk around." Li Yan turned to Liu Laohan and said.

"It's okay to come out for a walk, but it's windy outside, and your injuries haven't healed, so you should go back to rest early." Liu Laohan said with a worried face.

"Hmm. I'll be back in a minute. You get busy first. Li Yan said.

Li Yan stayed in the courtyard for a while, and then went back to the house. Although it was broad daylight, Li Yan's weak body still felt a little cool.

At this moment, in the east of the Liangwang Mansion, there is a large courtyard, which is a large courtyard, with special residences and stables, and the yard is full of all kinds of flowers and trees, and the ground is clean. This is where Li Xin, the prince of the Western Liang Kingdom, lives.

In the study, there was a tall middle-aged man, he had a beard, a wide brocade robe, his hands behind his back, and his eyes were firmly fixed on a fat man kneeling in front of him.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the little one just saw Li Yan still walking around in the west courtyard, and Li Yan is not dead yet." The kneeling man said in a trembling voice.

"Juan, what did you say? Yesterday, you swore to me that Li Yan's kid would definitely die, and now you actually tell me that he is still dead. Li Xin slapped the table and said angrily.

"Your Highness, please calm your anger, yesterday I asked a few doctors who prescribed medicine to Li Yan, and they all said that the injury was too serious and he was unable to return to heaven, and he would definitely die. Your Highness, I don't know how Li Yan can survive. Juan said with his head down.

There was a sudden silence in the study, and after a while, Li Xin sighed and said: "You failed once on the way to move the capital three years ago, and since he didn't die, forget it this time." It's just a pity, a good BMW can't be used by me, and in order to tame it, I fell to death two useless wastes, and I still couldn't tame it. But that little rabbit cub is also fateful, so let's stop here. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Then Liu San..."Juan looked up at Li Xin and said.

"Idiot, just find a reason to kill him, you must not let your father know about this, otherwise~" Li Xin said and looked at Juan, staring at him tightly.

"The little one understands, the little one understands." Juan quickly kowtowed, his head nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

Time passed day by day, in the west courtyard, Li Yan was discharged from the hospital regularly every day, and the wound on the back of his head continued to heal, in the process, the wound was extremely itchy, Li Yan knew that this was a sign of wound healing.

If Xin'er hadn't told Li Yan about the big and small things in Jiuquan City every day, plus those trivial things, so as to relieve his boredom, Li Yan would have gone crazy. After being tortured like this for more than a month, Li Yan's wound finally healed.

Early this morning, after Li Yan got up, he saw Xin'er walking out of the door in a hurry.

"Xin'er, where are you going in a hurry this morning?" Li Yan stopped Xin'er and said.

"Young son, there is no rice left in the house, and my wife asked me to take her dowry so that I can buy some food." Xin'er turned around and showed Li Yan the two bracelets in her hand, and said angrily.

Is there still a shortage of food in the dignified Liangwang Mansion? Li Yan said in disbelief: "No, it's only been nearly ten days until the end of the month, how can there be no rice in the pot." "The supply of all the houses in the house will be uniformly distributed by the housekeeper at the beginning of the month.

"It's not that nonsense, at the beginning of the month, it was said that my father and I were not in the distribution of food in the house, and only three stones of grain were given this month. I asked the subordinates of the other courtyards, and they were all the same as usual, and the subordinates were halved. Xin'er replied.

"Wasn't it possible for you to distribute food to the house before?" Li Yan asked.

One stone of grain is only enough for one person to eat for about twenty days, and three stones of grain for four people is definitely not enough, Xin'er and Old Man Liu were personally promised by his father Li Tan not to let them become naturalized slaves, and no one has embarrassed them for more than ten years, Li Yan thought to himself.

"In the past, my father and I could be allocated two stones of grain, but at the beginning of the month, Na Hu Papi said that my grandfather and I were not naturalized as slaves, so we couldn't distribute food according to the standards of the people in the house. Now the people in the house call him Hu Peel, no matter what he does, as long as he passes through his hands, he will peel off a layer of skin, and hate him to death. Xin'er's face flushed angrily.

"Xin'er, you take the jade bracelet back to my mother, and I'll go to Steward Hu to ask for food." Li Yan said to Xin'er.

"Young boy, can you get food? The skin can be picked, and there are regulations in the house that only naturalized people can get food. If I haven't bought rice for a while, my wife will blame me," Xin'er asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry! I have my own way. Li Yan said and walked outside the courtyard.

Li Yan walked around the mansion for most of the time, and finally came to the small courtyard of Juan, the steward of the palace. At this moment, Juan was lying on a lazy chair in the courtyard basking in the sun with his eyes closed, and a cup of freshly brewed hot tea was placed on the stone table next to him.

"Ahem, nonsense. You're so comfortable! Li Yan stood beside Juan and coughed lightly.

Juan squinted his small eyes, glanced at it, and saw that the person in front of him was Li Yan, so he stood up lazily, and said with a slight arch of his hand: "I don't know if Gongzi Yan is not in the house early in the morning to recuperate, what is the important matter of coming to find him?" After saying that, he sat down in his chair again.

"Hey, it's not a big deal. It's just asking the steward to help you and ask you for food. You also know that I have a lot of mouths, look at me, I'm growing my body, that little food is really not enough, don't you say? Li Yan spread his hands and made a helpless expression.

"Yan Gongzi, you can't help you when you're busy, look at my two sleeves of fresh breeze, and I don't have extra rice grain. Besides, there is a system in the house for all the supplies, and as a steward, I should strictly abide by the law, so how can I knowingly violate it. Juan shook his sleeves to Li Yan and said seriously.

Seeing that Li Yan kept looking at him and didn't speak, Juan touched his round belly and continued: "Young Master Yan, at the beginning of the month, I gave you three stones of grain." As for Xin'er's girl and Old Man Liu, there is no way to do it, you also know the rules of the palace. Now it costs a lot of food to give porridge outside the city every day, and there is really no extra food, and there is nothing that can be done about it. ”

Li Yan already knew in his heart that Juan must have a lot of rhetoric, and said with a smile: "Hu is strict with himself and works hard for the palace, which is really admirable." ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, thanks to the trust of the prince, let me manage the chores in the palace, it should be so, it should be so." Juan stopped and said with an intoxicated expression.

"Butler Hu, there's something I want to ask you about." Looking at Juan's intoxicated expression, Li Yan's scalp was numb.

"Yan Gongzi, please speak, if you know in the next place, you must tell me." After Juan glanced at Li Yan, he took a sip of tea and said.

"I heard that three months ago, a new grain store opened in the south of the city, do you know? It seems to be called Hexi grain store. Li Yan looked down at Juan lying on the lazy chair and said.

Juan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "I haven't heard of it in Xia, and besides, the house is full of chores, and Jiuquan City is so big, I really haven't noticed where there is a new grain store." ”

"Really? I heard that a large amount of grain has been hoarded in the grain store in Hexi recently, and the strange thing is that even the sacks of those grains are the same as those of the palace to help the victims. Li Yan lowered his voice and said to Juan.

Juan suddenly felt bad, beads of sweat continued to seep out, and he stood up and said to Li Yan: "Young Master Yan, this~ This may be a coincidence." ”

"Huh. I heard that the shopkeeper of the grain shop in Hexi turned out to be your nephew Hu Cai, who is in charge of the matter, do you think this is a coincidence? Li Yan said, walked to the stone bench next to him and sat down.

Seeing that Juan was stunned in place, Li Yan smiled and said, "Manager Hu, do you want to take the guards of the house to go to the grain shop in Hexi with you." ”

Juan's face changed greatly, he walked quickly in front of Li Yan, clasped his fists and said, "I don't know what advice Yan Gongzi has, and he can do what he can do in the future." ”

After Juan finished speaking, he continued to stare at Li Yan and said gloomily: "But don't forget, Young Master Yan, you are now His Royal Highness the Prince's person, besides, the prince has been inspecting the border in the past few months, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still in charge of the mansion, so it's a big deal!" ”

"I can't talk about advice, it's just that I'm hungry right now. You know, if you're hungry, you can say anything. And, sometimes, when the fish dies, the net may not break. You tell me? Butlers. Seeing that Juan dared to threaten himself, Li Yan said disapprerovitically. Li Yan knew that if his second uncle knew that Juan dared to embezzle relief food behind his back, Juan would naturally not have any good fruit to eat.

Hu Anli saw that Li Yan was not afraid of threats, so he said: "Young Master Yan, since you have said so, I will immediately give you two stones of grain, and from next month, the West Courtyard will resume the previous five stone grain supply for one month, what do you think?" ”

"Humph! Wushi, then I didn't come for nothing, it's really worthy of being a nonsense. Li Yan said in his heart.

Seeing Li Yan sitting silently, Juan asked, "I don't know what Yan Gongzi wants?" ”

"You immediately send someone to send five stones of grain to the West Courtyard now, and in the future, I will ask for ten stones of grain in the West Courtyard every month, and I will come to visit you if there is one less." Li Yan smiled and patted Juan's shoulder and said.

"Ten stones? Can you finish eating? When Juan heard that Li Yan opened his mouth to ask for ten stones of grain. The face was dark.

"Hehe, as for whether I can finish eating or not, I won't worry about your big manager, what do you say?" Li Yan stared at Juan and said meaningfully.

"Alright then, just do as Yan Gongzi says. It will be sent over in a while. Juan gritted his teeth.

"Haha. Then I'll go back first and take my leave. After Li Yan finished speaking, he walked straight towards the west courtyard.

After Li Yan left, Juan grabbed the teacup next to him casually and fell to the ground with a "snap". Gritting his teeth, he said, "Let's make you proud for a few days to see how long you can be arrogant." Sooner or later, I'll clean you up! Bah! ”