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The crowd entered the city with great momentum, hundreds of Tang army guards of Fan Yang Jie Du galloped on the street to clear the road, pedestrians and people hugged their heads and scurried, and there was a disaster of horses' hooves stepping on their backs in a slow moment. Wang Yuan and his entourage frowned, but An Qingzong and An Qingxu were accustomed to it.

Wang Yuanguan is surrounded by the city wall streets, but he sees that the city wall is high and thick, the corner towers are numerous, and the enemy towers on the city wall are lined with swords and guns, and the flags are displayed, which is very imposing. The streets in the city are also very wide, and the houses on both sides are quite regular, most of them are made of stones, which look gray and unsightly, but as an important border town, Wang Yuan knows the benefits of building houses with stones. Even if the city is broken in wartime, all the houses can become fortresses for street fighting, and can withstand fire and arrows, and it is definitely a fortified city.

Although the impression of An Lushan is not good, I have to say that An Lushan has indeed run this Youzhou City well. On the border of the Tang Dynasty close to the Xi and Khitan people, there is such a strong city lying on the way to the south, which is undoubtedly a barrier to ensure the safety of the Tang Dynasty.

"That, Wang Qin's envoy, my brothers and sisters will send you to the Hanmei Garden to rest first, you must be extremely tired from a long journey, it is better to rest first." At the spacious crossroads, Anqing Zong Le Ma handed over to Wang Yuandao.

Wang Yuan hurriedly said: "I should go to see Lord Ling Zun first, and it would be rude not to see General An when I came." ”

An Qingzong waved his hand and said, "That's not necessary, my father is not in the city." You know that my father is also the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, and a few days ago, the Khitan people in the North Ridge of Chongzhou in Pinglu Jiedu encountered my Tang soldiers and horses, and there was a fight. After hearing the report, the father rushed to inspect the Chongzhou border. ”

Wang Yuan was stunned and said, "General An is not in Youzhou?" ”

An Qingxu said coldly: "My father is busy with military affairs, but he doesn't have time to stay in the city and wait for anyone. The military situation on the border is greater than the sky, so it is not allowed to be sloppy. ”

Wang Yuan heard the contempt in his words, which meant that even if you were an envoy sent by the imperial court, it would not be that important to us. Several people around Wang Yuan also heard the meaning of his words, Liu Dehai raised his eyebrows and was about to go crazy again, but Wang Yuan snorted coldly and stopped him.

"I see, General An did the right thing, military affairs are important, and he is not in a hurry at this time. In that case, let's go to our lodgings and settle down. But I don't know when General An will return. ”

"Oh, my father told my brother and I to receive the envoy well before the leader, he said that he would be back in three or five days, and he had already gone for five days, if there was no accident, he would not be here today and tomorrow his father would be back." An Qingzong replied.

Wang Yuan smiled slightly and said: "Okay, I'm not in a hurry, just rest for a few days, and when General An returns to the city, I will go to the residence to settle down first." ”

An Qingzong stretched out his hand and gestured to the street to the north: "Wang Qin, please envoy." ”

An Qingxu said: "Brother, you accompany Wang Qin's envoy to settle down, I'm about to lose my company, I have a lot of things to do, who has time to accompany me." ”

After that, he urged the horse to rush out, and more than a hundred cavalry behind him galloped away after him.

An Qingzong shouted a few times: "Brother, brother." The cry was drowned out by the sound of horses' hooves, and An Qingxu didn't even look back.

"Wang Qin, I'm very sorry, the younger brother is young, he doesn't know how to be polite, and he doesn't listen to what he says, if there is something offensive in his words, don't mind it." An Qingzong hugged his fists and said to Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan's face was as usual, and he smiled: "What is this?" If the eldest prince also has urgent affairs, he can also take care of himself, and ask someone to lead the way. I don't want to delay the military and political affairs here because of the arrival of this envoy. ”

An Qingzong said with a smile: "I have nothing to do, just accompany the envoy." ”

Wang Yuan smiled and nodded, turned the horse to the north street first, An Qingzong patted the horse to follow, pointing all the way to introduce the scenery in the city, after a while, everyone turned into a side street, at the end of the side street, a gate of the quaint garden with red lanterns appeared in front of them.

This Hanmei Garden is indeed a good garden, the rockery and flowing water long pavilion and short pavilion design is very exquisite, just like the Jiangnan garden. And unlike the bare trees in the city, which have lost their leaves, many of the large trees planted in the garden are still lush. There are also hardy unknown flowers blooming in the flower beds.

There are dozens of plum trees dotted all over the garden, according to Gongsun Lan's identification, they are all the best yellow plum and white plum trees, which is really rare. It's not in vain to be called the Cold Plum Garden.

There are two large courtyards in the garden, more than 20 houses, and there are about 40 people who live with Wang Yuan, but they can barely live there. At the moment, the courtyard was divided, Liu Jun and Ziyun'er lived in the west courtyard with more than 20 guards, and Wang Yuan lived in the east garden with Qingyun'er's grandson Lan Liuxunzhi and others, only a flower wall separated from each other, and there was a vertical door to communicate, which was actually equivalent to living in one place.

There were servants and cooks in the Hanmei Garden, but of course Wang Yuan didn't dare to keep these people around, so he explained to An Qingzong that in the name of too many entourages and inconvenient living, An Qingzong evacuated these original servants. An Qingzong was very talkative, and he withdrew these idle people without saying a word.

Busy until the afternoon, everyone finally settled down, An Qingzong had a heart, and ordered someone to send five tables of good banquets to the restaurant in the city, and stayed to accompany Wang Yuan for lunch, even if it was a simple pick-up and dust. After lunch, An Qingzong got up to say goodbye, asked Wang Yuan and others to have a good rest, and said that his father would notify Wang Yuanyunyun as soon as he returned. Wang Yuan had a good impression of this Anqingzong, he was polite, Wang Yuan also gave face, and personally sent him outside the door to say goodbye.

After An Qingzong left, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, several guard leaders first arranged for the morning and evening duty matters, Zhang Wulang, Wang Dahei and Liu Jun brought more than 20 people in a unified formation, divided into three shifts to patrol the garden around the clock. Liu Dehai's 500 people had already gone to the southern military camp in Youzhou to station, and they gathered here in most of the city, obviously they couldn't count on it, so they could only arrange the escort matters by themselves, although this little manpower, even if something happened, it was of little use.

In the afternoon, the sun shines directly, and the courtyard verandah with the wind on its back is as warm as spring. Gongsun Lan, Liu Jun, Liu Xunzhi and Liu Dehai, who came from the barracks, gathered under the corridor. After taking a hot bath, Wang Yuan spread his hair and squinted his eyes, listening to everyone's gossip.

"This little cub of the An family is very arrogant, he doesn't even pay attention to the imperial envoy, there are a lot of provocations in his words, and he looks very unkind." Liu Dehai said indignantly.

Liu Xun stroked his beard and said: "An Lushan has always been like this, the son is young and has young qualifications, so he naturally doesn't pay attention to it, but judging from the arrangement, it doesn't seem to be too rude." Then An Qingxu didn't say anything, Fan didn't want to be angry with him. If the biggest faux pas is not An Qingxu's attitude, but knowing that the envoy was coming, An Lushan went to Pinglu Jiedu to deal with some war. Obviously, the border wars are all small fights, and as a festival envoy, there is no need to go to the border to deal with it in person, and there is no big war. An Lushan is afraid that this is the case on purpose. ”

Liu Jun pouted and said, "This An Lushan is so arrogant? When I went to the capital, I saw that my mother was as well-behaved as a grandson, and when I arrived at the side of the concubine, I was even more ugly and flattering, and I actually put such a big score on his territory. Hmph, the next time I see him in the capital, I will definitely humiliate him. ”

"Yes, yes, the young man wants to give him some color to avenge today's neglect." Liu Dehai nodded in agreement.

Wang Yuan's squinted eyes slowly opened, and fell on Liu Jun's face and said, "Liu Jun, how did you promise me?" How can you just settle down and already disobey your own words? If what you just said was heard, it would immediately see through your identity, and your current identity is only my student, you know? ”

Liu Jun opened his mouth, and seeing Wang Yuan's serious expression, he had to swallow his words and said in a low voice: "Got it, teacher." ”

Wang Yuan turned to Liu Dehai and said: "General Liu, you don't talk much in the future, don't make trouble, we're not here to make trouble, after a few months, we'll leave here, just for errands." ”

Liu Dehai hurriedly said: "Yes, subordinates shouldn't talk too much." But the subordinates did worry about what they were trying to do. As soon as I came here, I separated the five hundred guards and adults from the north and south cities, what does this mean? Just now, I came here on horseback from the southern military camp, and it will take a quarter of an hour to trot all the way without stopping, and if someone stops me, I am afraid that it will not be able to reach it in half an hour. If something happens in this garden, we can't save it. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "If something happens here, do you still plan to come to the rescue?" You are also whimsical. I don't want to think about how many soldiers and horses there are in this city. There are more than 80,000 soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Fan Yang Jiedu, except for the soldiers and horses stationed in the towns under his jurisdiction, there are at least 40,000 troops stationed in this city, and you still want to rescue 500 people? Five thousand is also for nothing. ”

Liu Dehai was stunned and said: "What you said is that you think too much about your humble position." If there is an accident, it is also a drop in the bucket. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "So, you all relax." In fact, An Lushan did not have any malicious intent. This An Lushan is quite interesting, he is obviously in the city, but he pretends not to be in the city. It's funny to think about. ”

"What? Is An Lushan in the city? Everyone asked in amazement.