In the evening.

Li Xiao was dressed in a white shirt, followed by the seven-year-old prince Li Hong, who was also wearing a white robe.

The teachers and students neither rode in a car nor on a horse, and walked on the streets of Chang'an with steps.

Li Xiao's steps are very big and he is not slow, but the young prince can keep up with the pace with his short legs, and he will not fall behind in the same step.

Two pairs of feet stepped on the snow-covered street, making a non-squeaky sound, leaving two lines of footprints, one large and one small.

The guards of the East Palace didn't dare to follow too closely, so they could only hang from a distance.

"Is Cheng Yanjin really a murderous demon king?" The prince asked while following Li Xiao.

"Where did you hear that?"

"Many people say this, they say that Cheng Yanjin is a murderous demon king, every time he leads his troops to fight, he must kill at least 10,000 people before he can be a teacher." The prince said with a serious face.

Li Xiao mourned for Cheng Biting Jin for a second, this old horseman is now demonized. Now there are stories of Cheng biting Jin killing people everywhere in Chang'an City, and even the more and more outrageous, some people are already spreading that Cheng Biting Jin not only kills people but also eats people, and some people even say that he likes to eat children.

Therefore, the women in Chang'an City are now scared of those children who like to cry and disobey, and they are all saying that they will cry again and bite the gold.

It is said that the effect is not bad, and it can be famous.

"Hearing may not be believing!" Li Xiao took a breath of hot air in his hand, and then rubbed a few handfuls on the prince's cold face, bringing him a trace of warmth. "In fact, General Cheng Biting Jin is a very powerful soldier, with a legendary enough life, his hometown is in Dongjun of Henan Province, his ancestors are all petty officials, he is a powerful landlord, when he is in his hands, his family also has more than 1,000 acres of land, and his life is still good, if it were not for the chaos of Emperor Yang at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he estimated that he would be a powerful landlord in the countryside in this life!"

The prince looked incredulous.

"How can Cheng Yanjin's family be a landlord, doesn't it mean that his family was very poor before? It is said that his father was the general of Nan Chen, and later Sui destroyed Chen, so his mother fled back to his hometown in Shandong with him. His mother had no relatives and no reason there, so she made money by weaving bamboo tools, and then Cheng Biting Jin was born to mix, and she was all kinds of nonsense when she was young, and their family had a miserable life, and then Cheng Biting Jin went to sell illicit salt·········"

Li Xiao was speechless, and he didn't know which unscrupulous storyteller was rubbing Lao Cheng's popularity, and seeing that Lao Cheng was now on fire, he made up a set of commentaries behind closed doors at home.

But it's all nonsense, for example, Cheng Bitingjin's father used to be Nan Chen's general, and he also said that Cheng Bitingjin's family used to be friends with Qin Qiong's family, and Cheng Biting Jin and Qin Qiong were stubborn friends when they were young, and then how did they break up and separate.

even later said that Cheng Biting Jin became a gangster and a scoundrel, and finally became a smuggler of salt.

"You like to ask around!" Li Xiao knocked the prince a chestnut very unceremoniously, "How do you usually take history lessons, did the Sui Book and Chen Shu say that the previous dynasty had banned the sale of salt?" Didn't your gentleman who taught history teach you that since the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court has not banned salt and mines, and allowed people to mine and traffick? Why don't you remember it properly? ”

"But it was rumored that Cheng Yanjin sold smuggled salt when he was young, and he was arrested in a prison cell. It is also said that selling smuggled salt is the most profitable! ”

"That was before the Sui Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty and the imperial court only implemented the salt and iron monopoly system, but after the Sui Dynasty, the monopoly policy was liberalized, and my Tang Dynasty inherited from the Sui, and many systems were the same as the Sui, and they were not allowed to use salt. The profit of selling salt is not as high as you think, because the imperial court does not monopolize it, everyone can pick and sell, and only a small amount of taxes are levied, so the price of salt itself is not high, so naturally there is no need to sell smuggled salt, and selling salt is not a huge profit, and selling salt will not go to jail, listen to lectures and read well in the future, don't confuse the story with history! ”

"Oh!"

The prince nodded, and couldn't help but say, "Do we really want to see Cheng Yanjin, but didn't he kill a lot of people in Tuyuhun, and I also heard my father scold him as an old demon king, saying that he slaughtered the city and killed thousands of people, so that there is no room for relaxation with Tuyuhun Khan." ”

"He didn't order him."

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Cheng Biting Jin did not go to Qizhou to take office after returning to Beijing, first, it is now the end of the year, and it is about to be the annual Zhengdan Dynasty, and the assassin history from all over the country will also enter the Beijing Dynasty to collect his post, and another, a few days after Cheng Biting Jin was awarded the Qizhou Assassin History, the imperial court adjusted his official position.

Cheng Yanjin was reappointed as the general of the Yulin Army.

Previously, he served as the general of the Yulin Army of the inspection school, and this time it was a real teaching.

Perhaps because of the rumors and legends outside, Cheng Yanjin hasn't gone out much recently, and he has been thinking about it behind closed doors at home every day.

Of course, in fact, Cheng Yanjin drinks at home every day and scolds the street.

On this day, I drank some six-year reserve liquor from Lanxi Distillery, and I got up, and I picked up the horse lance and danced in the yard, scolding while dancing.

I don't know at all that this is an old fellow who is almost seventy years old.

At least, when the crown prince Li Hong saw that this was the legendary man-eating demon king Cheng biting gold, he was very disappointed, too ordinary.

It's just a bad old man, and it's a bad old man who is drunk and crazy.

"Gong Lu, don't flash your waist, I brought Lanxi Tegong, a seven-year-old cellar, let's have two drinks together!" Li Xiao took Li Hong's hand and stood under the porch, shouting at Cheng Yanjin.

Cheng Yanjin turned his head and looked at it, and saw that it was Li Xiao, and he was also carrying a child, but he didn't find out for a while that this was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and thought it was Li Xiao's child.

Lao Cheng took the horse lance, jumped to the eaves with a smile, and slapped a pair of big slaps on Li Xiao's shoulder one after another, and Li Xiao hurt when he patted him.

"Rabbit cub, I haven't seen you for three years, your kid has become a prince and a prince, and he has become a prince of the country. Lao Tzu, this old bone, also went out for a spin, in terms of merit, it is not smaller than your little rabbit cub, right? I commanded an army of 200,000 and destroyed the Western Turks, and I almost didn't cut off the head of Helu's old bastard and came back, but because I made a mistake in Tuyuhun, I lost all my merits after I came back, why? ”

Li Xiao didn't bother to pay attention to his complaints, and beckoned the Cheng family to bring the barbecue grill from the stove and charcoal basin, and asked them to get chicken wings, sausages, mutton, lamb kidneys, chicken eggs and other foods suitable for grilling from the kitchen.

Cheng Yanjin saw that Li Xiao ignored him, so he turned his head to look at Li Honglai again.

"Hey, your kid grew up too fast, I remember that he was only three years old, why is he so tall, isn't it your kid's illegitimate son who used to be outside and now brought it back?"

The prince was not happy, he was quite afraid of Cheng biting Jin before he came, and he felt that it was the case after seeing people, and he also heard him say that he was Li Xiao's illegitimate son, so he crossed his hands on his hips and raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily, "Cheng Lao Pifu, dare to bully orphans!" ”

Hearing the lonely word exit, Cheng bit the gin wine and almost woke up.

How many children in the world can call themselves lonely?

This is still with Li Xiao, and he is only six or seven years old, which is not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Lao Cheng was full of remorse, and accidentally offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince again.

The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that the princes have to dismount and salute when they see the prime minister, but that is limited to the prince to the prime minister, and ordinary officials who do not see the prince at the level of the prime minister have to take the initiative to salute.

And His Royal Highness the Prince, that is one person under ten thousand people, he does not have to salute officials except for the emperor, unless it is the crown prince Zhan Shi Li Xiao, who is his teacher. Heaven and Earth Monarch is a teacher, and Li Xiao is behind his father.

And although Cheng Yanjin is the general of Yulin, he is neither the prime minister nor the prince's teacher, of course he didn't dare to let the prince salute him, so he hurriedly apologized to the prince.

Li Xiao tugged at the prince, "Come on, let's come here today, and Duke Lu doesn't know your identity, so it's no wonder." ”

Li Hong is also a big belly, and when he heard this, he personally went to help him bite the gold.

"Gong Lu, don't be formal, today I just brought a student to you to see how old you are, by the way, I will find you to roast a few lamb kidneys and a few pairs of chicken wings to eat, and then take a look at this snow scene and your family's plum."

"Oooh." Lao Cheng blushed, exhaled the smell of wine and just nodded, but he didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.

"Teacher, I'll give you a hand." Li Hong couldn't help but want to drool when he heard the grilled chicken wings, where could he still take care of Cheng Biting Jin.