When I arrived at the main hall, I saw Mrs. Liu.

As soon as Mrs. Liu saw Zhao Siyan and Zhao Wenxi, she showed a loving smile: "Good boy, come to my grandmother, they have grown so big!" ”

"Grandmother."

The two obediently invited An to salute, and Mrs. Liu took out two red envelopes and stuffed them into the hands of the two of them.

Liu nodded, and Zhao Siyan and Zhao Wenxi accepted it.

Zhao Wenxi showed a well-behaved and lovely smile at Mrs. Liu: "Thank you, grandmother, I like grandmother the most!" ”

Zhao Siyan felt that this kid had the potential to be a minister.

The Liu family couldn't hide his words, and asked when he asked, "Mother, how did the prince come?" ”

Mrs. Liu shook her head, and she also looked puzzled: "I don't know, your father only came back in his thirties, I heard that he came to Beijing to supervise the army, and they are not skilled, who knows that the prince and Tingshan are here, there may be something to discuss with your father." After speaking, a flash of worry flashed in his eyes.

Liu Zhenjun is the elder brother of the Liu family, and Liu Shi'an is the only son of Liu Zhenjun and the only male of the Liu family's grandchildren. However, the Liu family has been in the army for generations, and even if it is a single seedling, he was taken by Liu Tianye early on.

On this New Year's Day, how could Li Junze come to the door?

Liu Shi thought for a while, and said with some anxiety: "Mother, my father is also old, it is better to let my father retire earlier, he still has so many old injuries a few years ago." ”

"Well, how could I not know? But you don't know your father's temper, how to listen to what he said! Mrs. Liu said with a sigh.

As he spoke, the housekeeper of the kitchen came to Mrs. Liu with the menu, Li Junze has a noble status, and he must be entertained well, no matter how lazy the housekeeper is, the menu should also find Mrs. Liu.

Entertaining the prince is not a trivial matter, Mrs. Liu and the Song family are very busy, even the Liu family has begun to help, dealing with all kinds of things that the subordinates have returned, and even Zhao Siyan has an errand to help pass the word to ask Liu Tianye when he can eat.

Zhao Siyan turned around and walked towards the study, she knocked on the door, heard someone answer inside, and then walked in.

There were only Li Junze and Zhao Tingshan in the study, and when she saw Zhao Tingshan at first glance, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Daddy!" Zhao Siyan took two quick steps, and a surprised smile bloomed on his face.

"Words!" Zhao Tingshan: "What about your mother?" ”

Zhao Siyan: "...... My mother was talking to my grandfather in front. After a pause, she looked at Li Junze: "I've seen the prince, I just lost my respect, and I ask the prince to forgive me." ”

Zhao Siyan said, glanced at Li Junze, and found that this prince was as exquisite as ever, perhaps because of the Chinese New Year, he deliberately wore a purple and white brocade robe today, this purple is noble, but ordinary people can't suppress that nobility, but he was born good-looking, and suppressed the purple publicity just right, but set off his handsome appearance.

They hadn't seen each other for a while.

"It's okay, Miss Zhao doesn't have to be polite." Li Junze said lightly, but a pair of black eyes fell on her face.

See, he's such a generous and open-minded man.

Zhao Siyan didn't know why she understood his eyes, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help twitching, how dare he blame her? There are so many places for him to be rude!

"Yanyan, why are you here?" Zhao Tingshan asked puzzled.

"Oh, my grandmother asked me to come and see, are you done? Meals in the kitchen will have to wait a little longer. Zhao Siyan said and asked, "What about my grandfather?" ”

"Your grandfather is old, and he hasn't rested well in the past two days, so he let him go back to rest, and I'm discussing some things with the prince." Zhao Tingshan said.

Zhao Siyan glanced at Li Junze, and became more and more sure of his original guess.

"But because of the prison guard who came to Beijing?" Zhao Siyan asked.

Zhao Tingshan was just about to answer, but he thought that this was not his backyard, and Li Junze was here, was it a little bad for him to mention military and political affairs to his daughter so casually?

Zhao Tingshan was hesitating, so he heard Li Junze say: "Yes, do you know who this prison soldier from Shangjing is?" ”

Zhao Tingshan thought about it and felt that this topic was not dangerous, after all, the prison army would also make a public appearance in Dengzhou in a few days, and everyone would know his identity at that time, and it would not be a secret.

Zhao Siyan asked very face-savingly: "Who is it?" ”

"It's the prince of the city!" The corners of Li Junze's mouth hooked, revealing a faint smile.

Zhao Siyan's eyes flashed, "This is big enough." ”

Here comes another prince.

"It's not, it's not small, and the pie is even bigger, and I don't even care about the prince!" As soon as he mentioned this, Zhao Tingshan was very angry, "If it weren't for the prince to stop me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to stand it and beat him!" ”

Zhao Siyan ignored his words, she looked at Li Junze: "It seems that the prince has already figured out how to deal with him, so he has the heart to come to the door?" ”

Zhao Tingshan's heart trembled, and he glanced at his daughter again, he found that his daughter was bold enough, he didn't dare to talk to Li Junze like this, but his daughter dared!

A smile flashed in Li Junze's eyes, "Not yet, he didn't come well this time, and I didn't have so much energy to deal with him, so I gave him a bunch of idle prose books, which is estimated to be enough for him to be busy for a while." ”

Zhao Tingshan was worried that Li Junze would blame his daughter, so he hurriedly said approvingly: "This method is good! ”

Zhao Siyan didn't realize her father's fear at all, but said thoughtfully: "It seems that the peace in Jiangnan is going well, and the imperial court has the heart to meddle in the military affairs of Dengzhou." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Tingshan couldn't help but glance at Zhao Siyan in surprise, this rebellion in Jiangnan is not a good thing, the entire imperial court is secretive, the palace newspaper is reporting good news but not bad news, and the real situation is probably well known to the imperial court.

However, the good news did come back recently, saying that the Jiangnan side had won two battles, and the emperor was happy.

But Dengzhou is located in the middle of nowhere, even if there is good news, it will take some time to come from the south, and he and Li Junze have just arrived in the news, how did Zhao Siyan know?

Could it be that this girl guessed it herself? Just because there was a prison army from Shangjing?

Zhao Tingshan had long known that his daughter was smart, but he didn't expect that his daughter could think so far with just such a thing.

Without waiting for Zhao Tingshan to think about it, Li Junze nodded, with a bit of approval in his eyes: "You are right, Jiangnan has indeed won a few battles, and the people in Beijing also have the energy to meddle in the affairs of Dengzhou." ”

Zhao Tingshan said disdainfully: "In the final analysis, it's just a woman who started a family, how can you compare with the prince?" ”

There is also a difference between the princes, Li Junze is the grandson of the first emperor, the son of King Yi, and the grandson of the emperor.

The prince of this city was a commoner, and the reason why he was given the title was because his aunt was the emperor's favorite concubine.

This Concubine Wen is just the daughter of a civil official, and after entering the palace, she was favored by the emperor, and the Wen family also rose to prominence, and the emperor also gave her a title.

When Zhao Siyan heard this, he couldn't help but think thoughtfully, and suddenly said with a smile: "It seems that over there in Jiangnan, Dongchang didn't get a bargain, so I set my sights on Dengzhou." She frowned.

Zhao Tingshan was stunned for a moment, he was a rough man, and he didn't understand the bends and curves.

Li Junze smiled, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

"This, why is this related to the East Factory again?"

Zhao Siyan glanced at Li Junze, and then found that the root of her ears was a little hot, she said: "I heard that the emperor of Jiangnan sent the Marquis of Nanping over, the Marquis of Nanping is the emperor's uncle, and now the relatives and the Dongchang are like fire and water, I am afraid that the Marquis of Nanping has made great contributions to the rebellion and overwhelmed the limelight of the Dongchang." It must be that Dongchang made a mistake in the south of the Yangtze River, so he wanted to find a place in Dengzhou. ”

This is what Li Junze told her before, and Li Junze also remembered, and a smile flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Siyan continued: "The reason why this Concubine Wen is powerful is because she was single-handedly promoted by the Dongchang Factory, and Concubine Wen is also because of the support of the East Factory, so over the years, the power of the Chengbohou Mansion has developed so rapidly!" ”

Zhao Siyan didn't know what to say, Li Junze was also unlucky, this is the so-called fire at the city gate and affected the pond fish, and his relatives fought with Dongchang, but he was implicated.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Li Junze.

Li Junze sighed helplessly: "Well, I'm indeed a little unlucky. ”

Zhao Tingshan couldn't help blinking, he hadn't left the whole time, listening to the conversation between the two, why didn't he know what they were talking about now? How is this related to Li Junze's bad luck?

Zhao Tingshan blinked, and then he understood the key, and he said without changing his face: "Well, Siyan has really grown a lot, this is up to me." After a pause, he couldn't help but say: "Then according to what you say, the prince of this city is here to rob the military merits?" ”

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Siyan's mouth, and he asked rhetorically: "When did leading troops to fight become a credit?" ”

Zhao Tingshan couldn't help but be a little silent for a while, he is a military general, and he has made a lot of contributions over the years, but the status of the military general is low, and no Wenchen is valued, even he can't say that leading troops to fight is meritorious.

Even the credit of the Marquis of Nanping to quell the chaos was not caused by the war, but because of the flat character, which suppressed the rebellious army, which is his credit.

"Then what is he doing in Dengzhou? Why is it that he is also a prince, right? I'm not afraid of anything going wrong in Dengzhou? ”

"Lord Shizi." Zhao Siyan lightly spit out three words, paused, and continued: "The prince is the greatest credit!" ”

Zhao Tingshan immediately glanced at Li Junze, and then understood why Li Junze just said that he was unlucky.

This is really unlucky, Li Junze is taking it as a credit, and he wants to destroy him, so that he can go back to Beijing to fight for power!

Li Junze glanced at Zhao Tingshan innocently, sighed and said, "Yes, yes, I just live in such a dire situation." ”

The corners of Zhao Siyan and Zhao Tingshan's mouths twitched, but they didn't see at all that this master was in dire straits.

Especially Zhao Tingshan thought that the prince of the city was still in the military tent and read the idle prose book that Li Junze gave him, and the prince of the city was like a great enemy, and he was afraid of leaking the military aircraft, so he guarded all the guards outside the tent, and he did not go out of the big tent.

Zhao Tingshan came back to his senses, glanced at Li Junze, and said to Zhao Siyan: "You mean, this time the city marquis is coming for the prince?" Could it be that the emperor ......?"

The emperor's purpose of letting Li Junze come to Dengzhou this time is almost known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, and this city marquis is likely to be the emperor's sword.

Zhao Siyan nodded: "Nine times out of ten, this is the case." ”

Li Junze said slowly at this time: "The emperor is planning to establish a prince. ”

Zhao Siyan was stunned for a moment, although she said that she knew a little about the affairs of the court, but the secrets of the royal family were not as much as Li Junze.

Li Junze said: "There are two most favorable candidates for the prince now, one is the eldest prince from the current queen, and the second is the fifth prince from Concubine Wen. ”

Zhao Siyan was stunned, a little puzzled, this dynasty pays attention to Confucianism, it is said that those who inherit the family business are the eldest sons, this great prince occupies the eldest son and occupies the heir, of course it should be the prince, even if Concubine Wen is favored, she can't confront the deep-rooted ancestral etiquette of this dynasty.

Li Junze saw her doubts, so he said: "But the bad thing is that this eldest prince is not from the queen, but a palace maid beside the queen, and after giving birth to the eldest prince, he was raised by the queen. ”

So it is said that it is the eldest son, but it is actually the eldest son, after all, it is not out of the queen's belly, and the identity is a little worse, is it recorded in the queen's name that he is the son-in-law? That's just a nice thing to say.

Zhao Siyan suddenly realized.

"Concubine Wen is trying to accumulate chips for the five princes, and I am the emperor's confidant, plus, I'm afraid that Concubine Wen is also worried that I am ambitious, get rid of me, she solves the big trouble of the henchman, and can make the emperor look at him differently, it can be described as killing two birds with one stone." Li Junze explained.

Zhao Siyan chuckled and said: "No wonder Concubine Wen's mother clan is weak, and she can still compete with the queen, this method is really extraordinary." ”

Zhao Tingshan glanced at his daughter indescribably, what is more? Started talking about royal secrets? When did the prince trust his daughter so much? And his daughter, can you not evaluate the mother of a country so calmly?

He felt that his ability to bear it was a little poor.

Zhao Siyan didn't understand her father's complicated mood at all, but glanced at him: "It's the most difficult moment now, so Dad, I hope that Dad can persuade my grandfather to disarm and return to the field for a while!" ”

Zhao Tingshan looked at her with a look of embarrassment: "Your grandfather will not agree, now that the prince is employing people, your grandfather will not escape from the battle." ”

Zhao Siyan said categorically: "Only if he disempowers and returns to the field is the best for the prince of the world, can he protect the prince!" After a pause, she continued: "Now who in the whole of Dengzhou doesn't know that you are the first confidant in front of the prince, and you are your grandfather's apprentice or son-in-law, even if your grandfather wants to stay out of the matter, it is impossible. ”

"I asked my grandfather to disarm and return to the field, because now our Zhao family and Liu family are too conspicuous in the army, my grandfather is highly respected, and he also has an uncle, as long as he attacks one of the three of you, it is equivalent to cutting off half of the prince's arm, so we can't give the enemy this chance."

"Only my grandfather disarmed and returned to the field, he has no military power, he is a veteran, Yu Wei is still there, as soon as he left, the prince of the city will attack you and your uncle, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the soldiers, and the prince of the city will not do this." Zhao Siyan said: "In fact, this is also a way to retreat into advance, and it is also to protect my uncle and father. Dad, if you persuade your grandfather, your grandfather will definitely agree. ”

"As long as I can keep the prince and keep this Dengzhou City, I don't want to!" Suddenly, a voice like a bell sounded, and it was Liu Tianye.

Liu Tianye is in his fifties this year, burly and energetic, at this time he stared at Zhao Siyan with a pair of bright eyes, but his tone was unquestionable.

"Grandfather?" Zhao Siyan was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Liu Tianye to hear what she said.

"Father-in-law!"

Liu Tianye walked in, and he walked in front of Li Junze: "Lord Shizi, as long as you can serve the people of Dengzhou, you will never give up!" ”

Li Junze knew that this was the old man who was putting pressure on him, and he was not retiring for Li Junze today, but for the people of Dengzhou, so no matter what kind of ambition he had, he could not harm Dengzhou and the people of Dengzhou.

Li Junze stood up and said solemnly: "I will live up to the expectations of the boss!" ”

Zhao Siyan felt a little sad in his heart, Liu Tianye had fought all his life, and over the years, Mrs. Liu had asked her son and son-in-law to persuade him to let him disarm and return to the field, anyway, now that there are many talents in the army, there is no shortage of him as a veteran.

But Liu Tianye just didn't agree, he didn't worry about this city he had guarded all his life.

Now that he is moved by Zhao Siyan, it is more to protect Li Junze and his son and son-in-law, but can he feel better?

Liu Tianye showed a smile, he is an open-minded person, since he has decided to retire, there is nothing to be reluctant to.

"Okay, now that there are many talents in the army, it's time for my old bones to rest!"

Liu Tianye saw what Li Junze did after he came to Dengzhou, probably because he felt that he was not the kind of person who would do anything for the sake of power, so he agreed to compromise.

But will Li Junze really not change? When he succeeds in the future, will he still remember his current promise?

Zhao Siyan was engrossed, and suddenly a cold look met her, she raised her head, and met his eyes, he showed a shallow smile.

It just so happened that Mrs. Liu said that the feast was ready and invited them to the table.

At the banquet, Li Junze toasted Liu Tianye with a glass of wine, "Boss, you have fought all your life, killed countless enemies, and made great contributions to the banner, I respect you for this cup!" ”

Liu Tianye did not hesitate to toast with him.

Today, Liu Tianye didn't control the amount of alcohol and drank a little too much, Zhao Tingshan also drank with him, and even Li Junze drank a lot in the end.

Liu was a little worried, not knowing what happened to them, but Mrs. Liu gave her a reassuring look, and she was relieved.

She had always believed in her mother.

Therefore, in fact, the best life is the Liu family, even if she married into the Zhao family and did not give birth to Zhao Wenxi, she suffered a little, but there was also Zhao Tingshan's wholehearted maintenance, and before she got married, there was Mrs. Liu who planned for her and protected her thoroughly, and now there is Zhao Siyan to shield her from the wind and rain, and no wind and waves can not make trouble in front of her.