The long procession walked on the yellow road, the sun shining directly down without the slightest cover, shining warmly on the faces of the people, and the hooves of the war horses stepped on the dust on the ground, raising yellow dust all the way. The crisp wheat seedlings swayed with the spring breeze in the land on both sides, shaking so that Ren Man's eyes felt a kind of coolness. Li Kuan rode a horse and accompanied Chai Shao all the way, and this time, the two returned to Beijing together.

The yellow dust was all over the sky, and the returnees who returned all the way felt a burst of excitement and a sense of sadness. Some of the brothers who went out together were forever left in the land where they had fought. Those who come back with glory and the expectations of their brothers will live with the thought of their comrades in the years to come. In that distant Chang'an, where singing and dancing are leveling, it is the holy place in the hearts of all the Tang people, but it is also the dirtiest place in the entire Tang Dynasty. This time they returned with a great victory, and they were the heroes of the entire empire. Perhaps the old wife of the family can tear the cotton cloth she likes and make a beautiful dress, thought the veteran in the team.

The smoke was rising, it was already close to noon in the morning, and the people of Datang began to prepare breakfast, for them who had two meals a day, this time was the first meal of the day.

"Let's go, there is a village ahead, there are too many people in our group, it's not convenient to go to other people's villages, let's go around!" Chai Shao raised his eyes and looked around, his long beard swaying on his chest with the pace of the horses, looking at His Royal Highness the King of Chu who had a slight beard on the corner of his mouth, this battle-hardened veteran had to admire. Along the way, at the beginning of the daily march of hundreds of miles, he, a veteran who had been training hard, was already tired. But the kid next to him seemed to be light all the way, and he didn't even sweat once. It's not just him. Even the soldiers behind them blushed slightly. Is such an elite army really trained by this boy who is only fifteen years old? Compared to today's holy Xuanjia Guard, it is not necessarily any worse. At the same time, he also felt a burst of distress: no matter where such an army is, it is regarded as a treasure hole card, and where it will be like this young master. In the end, after fighting the enemy for so long, he killed four or five hundred people, and such an elite soldier must be a junior officer at the rank of centurion under his command, and the four or five hundred dead men were enough to bring up an army of forty or fifty thousand.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, you're really a luxury little guy! Chai Shao thought so, he didn't know that in fact, the imperial court's expenditure on this army was only a small less than thirty percent of the military salary, and the rest was all made up by Li Kuan out of his own pocket, just the two months of training in the depths of the Qinling Mountains outside Chang'an City were enough to spend half of the money that Li Kuan had saved over the years. But after the initial input. Now maintenance doesn't require so much money.

Moreover, two days ago, they received a tip from the front that there was a plague in Tuyuhun, and even the fine work they sent out suffered heavy casualties in this plague, and finally a half-human, half-ghost face full of potholes and scars died desperately through the large plague-ridden land to pass the news back. After getting this news, Chai Shao was really relieved, so he slowed down and walked slowly with Li Kuan, no longer as if there was a large group of enemies chasing and killing behind him as before.

The plague that broke out in Tuyuhun was a sore. For this thing, Datang is also deeply concerned, and in the land of Lingnan, sores have erupted. At that time, the previous head of the Feng family, who had already become the actual owner of that land, had cried and fainted on the side of the road outside the city where the sores had erupted. It was a hellish scene, filled with hundreds of thousands of people, and in the end there was not a single survivor, and most of them were suffering from various strange diseases. Some of them looked like they had rotted and regrown, and they were covered in horrible white spots. Some of them were covered in scars, and pieces of armor looked like pieces of scale armor. That was during the period of the Great Cause of the Former Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was also furious at the Jinluan Palace for this, because this time the sores broke out, and some people used him to say that he was not benevolent, and the heavens were furious and sent down the disaster.

Of course, in the end, all those who chewed their tongues in the back were clicked by this cruel king, at that time, Chai Shao's family lived in Daxing City, and it was also a big family, that year in front of the noon gate, the blood splashed on the ground was enough to form a blood scab several inches thick, and the strong smell of blood that could not be dissolved permeated for more than half a month, and the entire Daxing City was completely like a dead city in that period of time, and all the people did not dare to go out of their homes, or even dare to talk to any acquaintances, I'm afraid that if I accidentally say something taboo, I will be arrested and beheaded.

Chai Shao was particularly impressed by this sore, so on the road after that, his attitude towards Li Kuan became a little subtle, although he didn't believe that this so-called plague had anything to do with his nephew, but he couldn't help but feel strange in his heart. You have just gone around and come back, and there is a plague there, are you the plague gods?

So later on the way, Chai Shao's heart was not on the road, but on guard, he really felt afraid for a while, because this group of people came back from the 'epidemic area', if someone suddenly fell ill or something, then wouldn't he be in danger? So he carefully observed every wolf warrior knight in his line of sight to see if they were real or normal people, if anyone had a headache and brain fever, then it would be terrible.

Chai Shao can only say these things in his heart, he doesn't dare to say it, if he pokes out such a thing, then will these soldiers stay in place and wait for the so-called plague to break out, or will they go crazy and scatter, thus spreading this terrible thing? These Chai Shao are all balanced, so Chai Shao can be described as extremely tormented along the way, and it can even be said that he is walking on thin ice, and he is in a dilemma before he knows that the journey of thousands of miles is so long and so tormenting. But he didn't dare to say it, and even the subtle changes in his attitude were only felt by Li Kuan, who had been with him all these days.

Although Li Kuan felt the changes in Chai Shao these days, but in his mind, it was because of his hometown timidity, after all, this uncle had not returned to Chang'an for six or seven years, the most recent time was when Li Er ascended the throne, that time he returned to Chang'an to participate in the bloodshed in Xuanwu Gate, but his cousin was still much worse than his wife Princess Pingyang, which made him reluctant to go back all these years. Until now, this time, Li Kuan fought with Tuyuhun on the plateau, and then achieved a lot of results. This made him have the idea of going back to see what his unsuccessful son had grown under his mother's teaching, although every year when the Yuan was closed, both of them and mother and son came back to the border to reunite with him, but at that time, Chai Lingwu was decent, and he looked very aristocratic. This made Chai Shao very pleased, but he felt a little strange. That's why I remembered that this time I suddenly went back to Chang'an with Li Kuan to live for a while, and thoroughly checked my son's condition.

But on the way, he was hit in the head by this blow in the eye, why did such a thing happen? That's not what he wanted!

Chang'an City, the high city walls are still so majestic, or like the copper wall and iron wall, guarding the largest city in the world today in his arms. The city was full of people coming and going, and all kinds of goods gathered here and then dispersed. The city is full of bustling scenes. High-rise buildings, relative to the rest of the world in this era, are absolutely prosperous places, the Tang Dynasty can be said to be famous over the years, after the Turks were destroyed two years ago, the trade between the Western Regions is not so difficult, there are countless Western Regions Hu merchants with their goods, through the dangerous vast desert, through the blockade and encirclement of countless horse thieves, and countless Western Regions countries came to the prosperous Tang Dynasty that they dreamed of, bringing the best grapes and wine in the Western Regions, And the beautiful and passionate orchid.

These new gadgets are a supreme temptation for those half-grown children of the Tang family, so for a period of time, the young people in the Tang Dynasty have been obsessed with an activity, that is, shopping.

That's right, this group of gentlemen is obsessed with shopping, not riding horses on the street like before, but using those pairs of fleshy feet to measure the streets of Chang'an City, they are not to buy anything, but to watch the performance of those orchids who only wear a few pieces of cloth, shaking their chests and lifting their hips one by one, and the eyes of these untrained teenagers are shining. Then, with a bright smile of a different meaning, he took the jar of so-called grape wine from their hands, threw down a large piece of silver, and turned and walked away in style.

Not only did these families fall in love with shopping, but there were also another group of people who became the main force of the street sweep, that is, a large group of Lori and young women who no one dared to provoke. This group of women not only has the ladies of the noble family, but also many of them are the ladies of the prince's family, and they love this activity more than the children of the gentlemen, because they can find things they like here, such as rouge from the land of Wuyue, as well as gadgets from the far western regions, what colorful glass and the like, these things are deeply loved by them, so now they have become a beautiful scenery in Chang'an City.

To say that so many female dependents are showing their heads on the street, no matter which family's daughter or daughter-in-law, the family will not be at ease, so this group of people has become a big disaster that no one dares to provoke in Chang'an City, because there are a lot of plainclothes around them quietly guarding. In this group of people, there are a few of the biggest, that is, the ones who came out of the palace, no one dares to mess with the entire Chang'an City, or everyone knows who they are, and they don't want to provoke, because those people are out to play, as long as no one robs them with a long eye, then they will go back after playing, who will offend the top person because of these gadgets brought by other races? (To be continued......)