Li Yanqing is from Shangdang County to Fuyang Road into Hebei Road Cizhou, three days later, Li Yanqing arrived in Tangyin County, at this time, the Jin soldiers have retreated north, the large-scale return of the fleeing people has ended, the road is full of devastation, everywhere can be seen ruins and broken walls, the field is full of newly buried graves, many graves kneeling on the children and women wearing white stripes on their heads, crying relatives killed by the Jin soldiers.

At dusk, Li Yanqing arrived at Lushan Town, Lushan Town had long been unrecognizable, there was not a single complete shop, almost half of the houses were destroyed by the fire, only a dark wall was left with thick smoke, and the magnificent Lushan Academy in the distance had been burned to the ground.

A number of mud and straw huts have been built along the open space, which are temporary shelters for the people who have fled, their homes have been destroyed, their property has been looted, and many people are still rummaging through the rubble of the destroyed old houses for imaginary remnants.

"Li Guanren!"

Someone suddenly shouted behind him, Li Yanqing turned around, and saw a person running from the ruins of the restaurant, it was the shopkeeper Zhang of Lushan Restaurant, he had been the shopkeeper of the restaurant for 20 years, and Li Yanqing had known him since he was a child.

"Shopkeeper Zhang!"

Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and said, "You're okay!" ”

The shopkeeper Zhang cried whining, "There is nothing, people are dead, the restaurant is burning, my wife is sick and dead in the mountains, only me and my little granddaughter are left, how will I live in the future!" ”

"What about Saburo?"

"San Lang went to Zhending Mansion to fight, there is no news so far, it is estimated that it has been more auspicious, and his daughter-in-law has left with her mother's family."

Li Yanqing sighed, touched a silver ingot from his arms and stuffed it into him, "You take the child to Jiangxia!" My father has a manor there, and you can at least have something to eat. ”

Shopkeeper Zhang knelt down, and Li Yanqing hurriedly helped him up, "Shopkeeper Zhang, don't do this!" ”

At this time, the people in the town gathered around one after another, and said gossips: "Li Guanren, will Jin Bing come again?" ”

Li Yanqing looked at a pair of eyes full of expectation, these were his fellow villagers, his nose was sour, and he said to everyone in a loud voice: "Jin Bing will kill again at the end of the year, folks, go to the south!" Jiangkou Town in Jiangxia County is also called Xiaotangyin, where the new Lushan Academy is located, and there are still many villagers from Xiaohe Township living there, and my father's manor is also there, and he will help everyone. ”

"Can the Yellow River be crossed?" Someone asked loudly.

"I got the news that there are official boats in Baimadu in Liyang County that are ferrying for free, and I will arrange for people to give porridge along the official road in Kaifeng Prefecture, so let's go south as soon as possible!"

Li Yanqing's words brought hope to everyone, and many people even couldn't wait to run home to tell their families.

Leaving Lushan Town, he arrived at Li Wen Village after a short time, Li Wen Village was also destroyed by the Jin soldiers because of its proximity to the official road, and most of the entire village was burned down, leaving only a dozen lonely houses, and there was no one in sight in the village, and it was as silent as death.

Li Yanqing's old house was also burned down, but Uncle Ah Fu and his wife died of illness last year, and the old house has been empty, and now only a ruin remains.

Li Yanqing came to his mother's cemetery behind the house, the cemetery was gone, and it had become a flat land, with two small saplings planted on it, which looked different.

Li Yanqing knew that this should be his father's arrangement to prevent the Jin people from robbing the tomb, he put on the incense and candle offerings, knelt down and kowtowed three times, at this time, a pro-soldier shouted and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Someone shouted in the distance: "I am a friend of Li Tongzhi, is Li Tongzhi here?" ”

Li Yanqing was taken aback, this is.... Yue Fei's voice!

He hurriedly stood up, only to see more than 20 soldiers standing on the official road in the distance, all leading war horses, and the person at the head was tall and burly, it was Yue Fei.

Li Yanqing hurriedly led people to the official road, Yue Fei stepped forward quickly, the two hugged each other excitedly, Li Yanqing asked, "Why is the fifth brother here?" ”

"It's hard to put into words! I'll tell you slowly. ”

The two of them found a big stone on the side of the road and sat down, Yue Fei rescued himself from King Kang Zhao Gou, and briefly talked about the matter of hiding in Lin Xi County, Li Yanqing was quite interested, and asked, "What about later?" Why didn't you follow King Kang south? ”

Yue Fei shook his head, "King Kang wanted me to go south with him, but when I heard that General Zong Lao was appointed as the deputy marshal of Hebei, I decided to stay and fight against Jin. ”

"Is your mother safe?"

"My mother and brother are fine, my two sons are also safe, I met Uncle Tang in Weizhou half a month ago, and I followed Uncle Tang to Jiangxia."

Li Yanqing saw that Yue Fei's eyes were a little gloomy, so he asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”

Yue Fei said gloomily: "My wife thought I was killed in battle, so she followed her cousin to Kaifeng Mansion. ”

Li Yanqing frowned, "How can this be?" ”

Yue Fei sighed, "She and her cousin have grown up together since childhood, but her parents don't like it...... Ay! Forget it, this kind of thing is not reluctant, just like my mother said, twisted melons are not sweet. ”

At this time, Yue Fei remembered something again, "By the way, Uncle Tang told me that your mother's tombstone is buried in the northwest corner of the backyard, and it was your father who asked him to bring it back to the capital, and he couldn't take it away this time, so I asked someone to send it to him, do you want to take it away by the way?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Thank you!" I'll take it away. ”

Yue Fei got up and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm going to Tangbei Township, we'll have a date later!" ”

Li Yanqing also wanted Yue Fei to go to Shaanzhou to find Wang Gui, but as soon as he thought about it, Yue Fei should follow Zong Ze, so he stopped persuading and patted him on the arm with a smile, "I hope to hear the news of your big Jin Bing as soon as possible!" ”

"Each other, each other!"

The two glanced at each other and laughed together, Yue Fei turned over his horse, gave Li Yanqing a fist salute, and then galloped towards the north with more than 20 of his subordinates, gradually disappearing at the end of the official road.

Li Yanqing also found his mother's tombstone, immediately mounted his horse, and ran towards the direction of the Yellow River with a hundred personal soldiers.

After crossing the Yellow River from Liyang Baima and walking for two more days, Li Yanqing finally arrived in Bianliang, Tokyo, where he arranged for his men to stay in an inn outside the city, and headed for the city with only two soldiers.

Li Yanqing entered the capital from the Fengqiu Gate, the former gate into the capital was not guarded by soldiers, the people inside and outside the city entered and exited freely, and the city gate was not closed all night on holidays, saying that the people were free and not bad, but on the other hand, the armament was deserted, and there were no basic soldiers guarding the city, let alone the training of the forbidden army.

But this time it was different, there were soldiers standing in front of the city gate, and all the people who entered the gate were strictly checked, Li Yanqing walked towards the city gate, at this time, two soldiers raised their spears to stop him, "Stop, who is it?" ”

Since the announcement of the appointment, Li Yanqing has been transferred from a military position to a civilian official, he did not wear a military uniform anymore, but wore a light cyan fine linen deep coat, wearing a folding scarf on his head, this is the most common dress of the Great Song Dynasty men, but he is burly and rides an extremely majestic war horse, which is extremely different.

However, Li Yanqing did not embarrass the two soldiers defending the city, he smiled slightly: "I am the new Kaifeng Yin, Li Yanqing who came back from Taiyuan. ”

The two soldiers opened their mouths wide in shock, half a sound, turned around and ran, and after a while, a guard general ran quickly, knelt down on one knee and reported, "The last general Tang Shouyi, see Li Dutong!" ”

Although Li Yanqing is no longer in the military, the military officers and soldiers are still used to calling him the capital, Li Yanqing said with a smile: "General Tang, please get up!" ”

At this time, the soldiers at the head of the city rushed out one after another, standing at the head of the city to welcome Li Yanqing's return, there was a round of applause at the head of the city, Li Yanqing waved to the soldiers at the head of the city with a smile, and asked Tang Shouyi, "How many soldiers are guarding the city gate?" ”

"Back to the capital, there are 1,500 soldiers at each city gate, divided into three shifts to defend the city in turn, and now the capital sees 500 people."

"Oh! Can the gates be closed at night? ”

"It will close on time, and open the door in the early morning, and now the main thing is to strictly prevent the Jin State spies from entering the city."

"Thank you guys!"

Li Yanqing urged the horse to go slowly to the city, and walked into the inner city gate, only to see that the entrance of the city gate had been surrounded by countless people, there were as many as five or six thousand people, they were all people near the city gate, I heard that Li Yanqing had entered Beijing, and the people spontaneously came out to greet them, and when Li Yanqing appeared, there was a cheer all around.

"Welcome Li Dutong back to Beijing!"

Li Yanqing was taken aback, and hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, fellow villagers, Yanqing can't afford it." ”

His voice was soon drowned out by enthusiastic applause, and at this time, two old men with white beards stepped forward and knelt down tremblingly, "Li Dutong has entered Beijing, and our capital is safe and sound!" ”

Li Yanqing hurriedly dismounted and stepped forward to help the two old men, "The two old men have killed the juniors!" ”

At this time, someone asked loudly: "Li Dutong will not leave when he enters Beijing!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled and hugged his fists to everyone and said: "Thank you, folks, Yanqing has been ordered to enter Beijing and will serve as the governor of Kaifeng, and there will be many days to deal with everyone in the future." ”

Hearing that Li Yanqing was appointed as the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, thousands of people cheered again, and many people shouted excitedly, "With Li Dutong here, our capital is not afraid of Jin soldiers!" ”

The trust and expectation of the people in the capital made Li Yanqing's heart very moved, he turned over and got on the horse, urging the horse to go slowly, people got out of the way, Li Yanqing kept waving to everyone, more and more people on both sides of the street, forming two miles long welcoming people's walls, there were tens of thousands of people, they spontaneously dodged a road, and kept waving to Li Yanqing and cheering, at this time Li Yanqing couldn't help it anymore, and two lines of tears flowed down his face.