Time flies, and before I know it, another month has passed.

Tea Mountain.

Qin Huaidao sat alone in front of the window, looking at the swaying branches and leaves outside the window, motionless, his mind full of what had happened in the past month, which could be described as a change.

A month ago, after Xue Wanche, the newly appointed head of the march of the imperial court, arrived at the front line, he launched a fierce attack on Qizhou overnight, taking the lead and being the first to climb the city.

However, when he was ambushed halfway, the army suffered heavy losses, and Xue Wanche was also brave enough to lead his troops out of the siege and retreat to Qizhou, while asking for help from the imperial court.

Li Er was angry, and led 50,000 Yu Lin Wei to drive the expedition in person, and halfway through the march, he received Shuozhou, Yunzhou, Shengzhou, and Shan Yudu Hufu adjacent to Daizhou.

Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate made every effort to resist the enemy in the north, but he didn't expect to be stabbed in the southeast corner, and it was immediately chaotic, and it was also thanks to Li Ershuai's soldiers who went out to fight and arrived in time to prevent the situation from eroding.

In Qin Huaidao's view, the ambush of Xue Wanche was to provoke the royal driver to proclaim the expedition, and then deliberately show weakness, to attract the good-faced Li Ermeng to fight Mengchong, so as to settle the situation in one fell swoop, and when the time is ripe, they will be surrounded on all sides and directly make dumplings.

This battle lost Li Er's spirit, pride and self-confidence, plus he was hit by an arrow, and he couldn't afford to be ill, so he had to return to the court, and now the prince is in charge of the country.

Qin Huaidao already knew that Li Er was looking for him all over the world, but the news from Xue Rengui that Cheng Chumo went to Goguryeo to travel and came back, and met a thief on the way, but he did not intercept it and let him go directly.

This situation made Qin Huaidao realize that this big chess game was really done by Prince Yin, but Prince Yin abided by the agreement of mutual non-interference in Zhangjia Village and let go of the caravan, should he go out of the mountain?

It was noon when I sat down.

In the end, Qin Huaidao still decided to go out of the mountain, the civil war can be ignored, the two Li brothers are fighting, whoever sits in that position is the same, but the invasion of Turkic foreign tribes is different, the situation in the capital of Anbei is grim, once it collapses, the Turks will go south, and the people of the Tang Dynasty will face military disasters and displacement.

The next moment, Qin Huaidao stood up and walked out of the door.

Outside the door, Luo Ying had been waiting, and when he saw Qin Huaidao coming out, he hurriedly asked, "Uncle?" ”

"Don't say anything, stay and continue to preside over the training." Qin Huaidao waved his hand, untied the reins of the horse next to him, turned over on his horse, looked at Luo Ying and added: "Remember, chaos is coming, but it's not the time to use you yet, seize all the time to train, and then secretly recruit five hundred people to train into soldiers, and you can't expose everything here." ”

"Understand, wait for Uncle to summon at any time!" Luo Ying nodded solemnly.

"Be careful." Qin Huaidao advised, no one knows what will happen this time, but the eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, Li Er is not bad, now the prince is in charge of the country, once there is a change, it is difficult to say what will happen in this world, and the worst must be prepared.

"Drive!"

Qin Huaidao shook the reins, beat the horse away, and quickly disappeared at the exit.

Luo Ying also had a premonition, his eyes were fanatical, and he shouted after seeing Qin Huaidao disappear: "All of them, assemble, and practice for Lao Tzu." ”

……

At dusk, Qin Huaidao came to Qinjiazhuang on a horse and went straight to the ancestral hall.

Soon, Xue Rengui and Huang Lao rushed over when they heard the news, and after everyone saw the salute, Qin Huaidao said: "Brother Xue, Huang Lao, I plan to go out to quell the chaos, Qinjiazhuang will rely on you, if something happens, destroy all the workshops as soon as possible, and secretly evacuate the technicians from Chashan to hide, I have explained over there and know what to do." ”

"Ah......h

The two of them were a little stunned, and soon Xue Rengui thought of something, his face was full of shock, but he didn't break it.

Qin Huaidao advised: "Don't be too nervous, just be prepared, Qinjiazhuang's silver find a place to hide, remember, safety first, people, everything can be done again, but you can't reveal a word before the incident, so as not to cause chaos, maybe it's just that I think too much, and in the end nothing happens." ”

"Young master be careful, I will be optimistic about Qinjiazhuang." Xue Rengui said solemnly.

"With you, I don't worry, Huang Lao, you two negotiate and deal with the matter in the village, if you have different opinions, Brother Xue will be the main one." Qin Huaidao admonished, turned over on his horse, and left in a hurry.

Huang Lao didn't understand what was going on from beginning to end, he was messy in the wind, and he didn't react until Qin Huaidao disappeared from his field of vision, and asked, "Rengui, I'm old and slow to react, what did the young master mean by what he said just now?" ”

"The young master is going on the expedition, I am worried that something will happen to Qinjiazhuang when I am not there, so I will say it in advance, so as not to know how to deal with it if something really happens in the future, just take precautions, don't worry." Xue Rengui comforted, but his heart tightened, he didn't explain what happened to Tubo in the first place, what happened this time?

"It's just a rainy day, that's fine." After all, Huang Lao was old and didn't think much about it.

Xue Rengui smiled, didn't dare to break it, and secretly clenched his fists.

……

Jinguang Gate, the guards of the city are ready to close the city gate, seeing a horse galloping over, everyone can't help but slow down a few beats, it is not easy outside the city, if you can enter, let it in, after the war horse approaches, everyone recognizes Qin Huaidao, one by one, the generals who defend the city hurriedly catch up, clasp their fists and shout: "I have seen the protector of the country." ”

"You're polite." Qin Huaidao said politely.

"Don't dare, there is a decree in the saint, no matter who sees the return of the adults in Chang'an City, no matter how late it is, they must be released immediately and told to enter the palace to face the saint." The other party hurriedly said.

Qin Huaidao was stunned for a moment, knowing that Li Er was in a hurry, and he also dispatched everyone from the Supervision Mansion to look for it in Qinling, but he didn't expect that even the generals who defended the city had made an order, and if he heard it, he would not go over immediately to resist the order, so he had to cancel the decision to return to the mansion first, and went straight to the direction of the imperial city.

Not long after, Qin Huaidao came to the Vermilion Bird Gate, and the captain guarding the door recognized Qin Huaidao, was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "The Lord Protector is back, please hurry up, the saint has been asking for the past few days, and he is very anxious." ”

"Thank you." Qin Huaidao turned over and dismounted, and entered the imperial city after a routine inspection.

After some inquiry, I learned that Li Er was in the Ganlu Palace, so I hurried over.

The guards at the gate of the Ganlu Hall recognized Qin Huaidao, their eyes lit up, and they saluted one after another, and the attendants ran in happily to say goodbye, and it didn't take long for them to run out and shout: "Lord Qin, the Holy Lord told you to go in quickly." ”

Qin Huaidao nodded, walked in quickly, there was no one in the main hall, Wang De came out from behind the screen in the main hall, was beckoning, hurried over, and followed into the bedroom, the Ganlu Hall is the place where Li Er used to review the chapters, read, eat, and recruit concubines to sleep, so naturally there is no shortage of bedrooms.

On the wide bed, Li Er was sitting, a noble woman was carefully feeding the medicine, Qin Huaidao recognized the identity of the other party, and hurriedly saluted: "Chen Huaidao has seen the saint and seen Wei Guifei." ”

"Stinky boy, do you still know to come back?" Li Er pushed away the medicine handed over by Wei Guifei, looking dissatisfied.

Qin Huaidao looked at Li Er, he had lost a lot of weight, and his complexion was much worse, and he asked with concern: "I heard that the Holy Lord was injured, I don't know how to recover?" ”

"I can't die." Li Er said dissatisfiedly and waved his hand.

Wei Guifei got up knowingly, glanced at Qin Huaidao, bowed slightly, turned around and left, the harem does not interfere in politics, this is the iron law set by Li Er, the eldest grandson of the Holy Empress Wujian never interferes in politics, and Wei Guifei naturally does not dare.

After Wei Guifei went out, Li Er asked, "Tell me, where are you going during this time?" It's easy to find. ”

"Back to the saint, the minister went to the cave left by the pre-Qin warlock, which lasted more than two months, and finally completely adjusted his body, which made the saint worried." Qin Huaidao said the excuse that he had thought of a long time ago.

"You know the situation, right?" Li Er went straight to the point.

"Back to the saint, the minister didn't know, but when he returned, the general who guarded the city passed the decree on his behalf, so he hurried over, and now he is confused." Qin Huaidao pretended to be stupid, and said at this time that he knew that it was looking for death.

Li Er's eyes were sharp, staring at Qin Huaidao and said: "Daizhou, Shengzhou, Shuozhou, Yunzhou, Shan Yu Protectorate and other places rebelled, more than 100,000 mercenaries, the Turks north of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei are not willing to be lonely, 300,000 troops are attacking for more than a month, and the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei is resisting the two places at the same time, the situation is serious, do you have a way?" ”

"This ......" Qin Huaidao had a shocked expression on his face, and pretended to think about it, although he had already thought about it on the road, wouldn't it be revealed that he already knew about it directly?

Li Er saw Qin Huaidao's expression when he heard it for the first time, and his eyes softened a little.