After a month of running from Yangzhou to now, Wang Xiaolai finally saw the gate of Daxing City again.

Looking at the east gate of Daxing City from afar, Wang Xiaolai sighed.

In the past, he often went in and out of the West City Gate, in addition to leading troops to the East City Gate, there was also that time when Hu Hu stole his house, and the rest of the time, there was no passage.

In general, Wang Xiaolai is still a little unfamiliar with the East City Gate.

(The two gates in the north and south, which have not been walked through once, indicate that they have something to say.) ）

Looking down along the city gate, the empress led the civil and military officials to wait at the city gate.

When Wang Xiaolai saw it, he waved his hand on the horse, and with a brush, more than 100,000 soldiers stopped one after another.

Wang Xiaolai turned over and dismounted, and behind him, more than a dozen generals in the army also dismounted and followed behind Wang Xiaolai.

Step by step, when the empress was twenty steps away, Shen Xiping and Jin Shichang all stopped, and Wang Xiaolai came to the empress three steps away to stop his steps, hugged his hands, and knelt on one knee: "Weichen knocks on Your Majesty." ”

The empress turned her head and smiled at Narcissus: "Look, this guy does know a lot of politeness." ”

Narcissus smiled slightly, and didn't say anything else.

The empress came up to say that Wang Xiaolai picked it up, and said, "Get up quickly, little Laizi, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Wang Xiaolai stood up and looked up at the empress with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's not that I said you, you just wait in the palace, you have to wait for me at the city gate, you are the Son of Heaven, what is this called." ”

The empress smiled.

Behind him, led by Liu Maolin, all the civil and military officials bowed their hands and said: "Congratulations to the marshal for his victory and return to the court." ”

Wang Xiaolai looked up, and there were many familiar people in the crowd, Cai Bingwen, the general of Pingbei who returned early with the empress, Lu Yiping, who was transferred back from Yongliang to take charge of the household department, and Feng Qingyun, the secretary of the criminal department, etc., were all among them.

Wang Xiaolai also raised his hand and bowed to everyone: "Your lords are polite, Xiaolai is ashamed." ”

The empress looked at Wang Xiaolai in surprise, and said in her heart that it was okay, this bastard boy was really sensible.

All the officials are smiling and polite, but it is Feng Qingyun, which is called an awkwardness.

He has always had the intention of replacing Wang Xiaolai, at least on an equal footing with Wang Xiaolai, but with the help of the royalists as a springboard, he is still far behind Wang Xiaolai.

This is good, Wang Xiaolai, who has won the victory and returned to the dynasty, can also get a second-grade Shangshu position at the very least, and in the future, I am afraid that it will become a situation where Liu Maolin, the Eight Sages King, and Wang Xiaolai are all over the place.

But Liu Maolin and the Eight Sages King are old again, and it won't take many years before they will withdraw from the temple, and at that time, Wang Xiaolai is afraid that he will become a real person under one person and above ten thousand people.

How can I compare myself with Wang Xiaolai?

Not to mention anything else, Pingbei General Cai Bingwen and Wang Xiaolai can be regarded as having a friendship of fighting together, not to mention the high look, but the two will not be evil.

Fan Lin and Lu Yiping needless to say, both of them have received the favor of Wang Xiaolai.

These generals like those who returned from the war with Wang Xiaolai, strictly speaking, have already been marked by the royal faction, and it is impossible for them to be hostile to him.

When Feng Qingyun thought of this, he couldn't help but feel lonely, as if, when he raised his eyes, there was no friend in the four corners.

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became.

He gritted his teeth and sulked in place.

When the empress pulled Wang Xiaolai into the city, he didn't even know.

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Originally, Wang Xiaolai thought that it would be enough to save face for the empress to greet him personally, but he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the city, he was startled.

On the main road in the city, on both sides of the street, it was densely packed with people.

Even, there were some young people who climbed onto the roofs of the houses on both sides, and each shouted Wang Xiaolai's name loudly.

That level of welcome, even if it is an empress, is nothing more than that.

In this situation, Wang Xiao was stunned all of a sudden, and he snorted, not knowing what to do.

Shen Xiping rubbed his ears and rushed to Liu Mianyi next to him and muttered: "Old Liu, do you see, adults are so popular." ”

The noise of the people was too loud, even if it was close at hand, Liu Mianyi didn't hear clearly what Shen Xiping said, he sighed and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

Shen Xiping: "···"

The empress also saw that the people were cheering and in high spirits, so she took off her dragon robe with a smile, turned around her arms around Wang Xiaolai's back, and draped the dragon robe on Wang Xiaolai's body.

Such a move made the people burst into cheers again.

The empress took Wang Xiaolai's right hand and raised it, and pressed the other hand down.

The people quickly stopped their mouths and looked at the empress in the center of the crowd silently.

Daxing City, which had been shaking the earth before, fell silent in an instant.

The empress looked at the crowd, the corners of her mouth hooked up and smiled, and her delicate voice shouted: "God bless Sui Yang!" ”

When the voice fell, first Jin Shichang and Ning Shiguang, a group of generals who followed Wang Xiaolai to solicit, shouted slogans, and then the Chinese military officials also shouted.

The 150,000 soldiers are not far behind.

In the end, the entire Daxing City shouted.

For a time, Daxing City was more lively than before.

The empress's slogan pushed the emotions of the people to the peak.

A lot of joy and a lot of sorrow, Feng Qingyun saw that this look was even more unpleasant, he was very unwilling in his heart, but this guy is not a fool, if he makes trouble at this time, let alone that the empress does not agree, even the people around him who are in high mood can trample him to death.

The empress waved her hand, and the secret guard commander Camellia drove a car, the car was pulled by eight horses, the ochre yellow umbrella cover was embroidered with a golden dragon, and the handrail was carved into a dragon pattern by a famous carver in Daxing City, and the whole car was brilliant, so not majestic.

The empress looked at the car and said to Wang Xiaolai: "This car was ridden by my father and emperor back then, Xiao Laizi, go up with me." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Wang Xiaolai, who was wearing his dragon robe, into the car.

The two stood in the car, and the people saw it more clearly.

"Who is that dragon robe next to Your Majesty?"

"Idiot, who else could you be besides Marshal Wang?"

"Then how can he wear a dragon robe, this is not in accordance with the rules."

"Hey, you don't know, Your Majesty and the Marshal are about to become a family, what rules are not rumored."

"yes, yes."

The people chattered, and they all laughed out loud.

However, from the conversation between the two, it can be naturally known that the matter between Wang Xiaolai and the empress is almost no secret.

Among them, although there are people who guess blindly, but more of them are the storytellers' blows, and the crooked beating really makes the people believe it.

In addition, the empress's current performance and importance to Wang Xiaolai made the people feel that they had guessed correctly.

The car went all the way to the palace.

Originally, when the army returned from the conquest, the marshal of the army should have taken the generals to live in the post house outside the city.

Foreign troops are not allowed to enter Beijing, this is the rule, but first, the post house was burned by Hu Hu's last steal, and secondly, the empress didn't care about this.

The above has this attitude, and the following is embarrassed to do more.

After all, you don't know if the empress will hate you because of this.

The car did not stop at noon, all the way to the Taihe Palace.

Naturally, all the officials followed.

went to the main hall, the civil and military officials lined up in shifts, Wen, naturally led by Liu Maolin, martial arts, the Eight Sages King was not there, Lu Gongyou was unfortunately martyred, Li Xian was killed because of his death, Cai Bingwen was not qualified enough, it seems that only Wang Xiao came.

Under the prevarication of hundreds of officials, Wang Xiaolai had no choice but to stand at the head of the military attache team.

The empress looked at the two rows of civil and military officials in the court and the middle of the court with joy, smiled directly, and said to the hundred officials: "Xiao Laizi looks decent in this dragon robe, in this case, you can wear this for the three days after the reward." ”

Wang Xiaolai's face turned red when he heard this, and he hurriedly waved his hand.

The officials also know that jokes have a momentum, how can anyone wear a dragon robe to praise officials, this is not in accordance with the rules.

So, they all followed suit.

The empress was also on a whim, but she smiled at the time and gave up.

Say, what can happen, Wang Xiaolai told all the experiences and exploits from his expedition to the end of the days, in fact, it was mainly for the officials to listen, so that they could know that they did not take the risk of receiving the exploits.

It was lively in the morning, and it was almost noon, and the empress ordered that the palace be opened, and the soldiers drank freely, and they took a three-day vacation, and after three days, a reward ceremony was held.