"Ancan, is Quartz still angry?" Meng Yan rode into Chencheng on horseback, but there was no trace of quartz.

"Returning to the country, General Shi is in the carriage commanded by Su in the back." An Cang replied neatly, and also betrayed the quartz solidly.

"What kind of system is Cheng, I can't wait to get married yet, Ancang, you go and get him for me!" Meng Yan was a little angry, and thought that this kid Quartz didn't want to leave the Chinese army and was unhappy to hide, who would have thought that this guy would be a private meeting, and he must be severely punished.

"Commander Su hasn't been out of the carriage since he passed Shaonan Pass, and he seems to be sick."

"Sick? I'm afraid it's a heart disease. Meng Yan knew that Su Qing was not sick at all, but was hiding.

Meng Yan suppressed his voice and said to the carriage: "Madam, I'm going to meet Sanniang, Su Qing is a little weak-hearted, you can help her when you go back." ”

"Ahh I'll help her, you still have to think about Wanshu's marriage, do you really want to marry Xiao Yu? Cang Shu Haoyue in the carriage was obviously unhappy.

"Why are you in a hurry, maybe the princess doesn't look down on our family?" Meng Yan said with relief.

When it comes to Xiahou Yingcangshu Haoyue, I don't like to talk, the friendship of Lock Gate Island back then is not much left, think about the "five sheep and three evils" of the year, now one is a princess, one is in charge of Anton's Mansion, and the other is the duchess of the country who is called "Zhenguo Gong", each has its own world and its own calculations, and a carefree life like that back then may only live in memory.

"Qilang, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult for me to come back this time, the queen's decree asked me to take Chu Heng and Wanshu into Beijing, obviously as hostages." Cang Shu Haoyue's mood is not high.

"Don't worry, you can all go back to Changsha, proton? What age! Meng Yan said domineeringly.

Cang Shu Haoyue's favorite and quite infatuated with Meng Yan's domineering speech, suddenly remembered something, and said: "When I entered the city just now, I saw the banner of Ganming in the Huashan camp, and it seems that Xiao Yu also came prepared. ”

Meng Yan sighed and said: "This great pilgrimage will definitely not be easy, Chongqi will also come, the entire southeast has been settled, Your Majesty will definitely do something to us feudal officials, but I don't know how to do it, Chencheng's friends told me that His Majesty intends to make me the king of Changsha County, but I was opposed by many ministers." ”

"There are only Chongqi and Zhong Jue in this court, but what is going on with Chongqi and Zhong Jue, the generals all know that it is not a good thing for Your Majesty to let you become the king with a different surname." Cang Shu Haoyue said with a frown.

"So I wrote early to ask for resignation and reward, but there will still be changes in the title, the Duke of Tan Guo will be transferred to the Duke of Chu, and 5,000 households will be feuded." Meng Yan said lightly.

"Five thousand? This is a reward that only a prince has, what does Your Majesty mean? Cangshu Haoyue exclaimed, this kind of reward is even more ugly, and he enjoys the treatment of a prince as a duke, but fortunately, there are only three princes in the entire Chen Dynasty, Wang Xiaoyu of Yuzhang, Wang Chongqi of Nanning County, and Wang Zhongjue of Dongyang County, but this will be interesting for future rewards.

"This is Your Majesty's attitude, what he means is that I will give you the prince you don't want it, but I can't be gracious, the reward must be in place, if our Majesty is not deep-minded, it is really broad-minded." Meng Yan said with a smile.

The two walked and chatted all the way, and An Cang's voice came: "Guogong, there is someone blocking the way ahead." ”

Meng Yan saw that everyone had already made a defensive posture a little strange, and walked forward to find a row of sergeants outside the inner city, and the people who were dressed in Xiong Zhenjun were led by Lu Chongzong.

"Tan Guogong, Lu is waiting here at the behest of His Majesty!" Lu Chongzong said loudly, dismounting and walking forward quickly as he spoke.

Meng Yan also hurriedly dismounted, and after the two saluted each other, Lu Chongzong said with a smile: "Your Majesty has a decree, please talk to the palace of the Duke of Tanguo!" ”

When Meng Yan heard that it was Xiao Huli's will, he respectfully responded, and then whispered: "Duke Yu, the family members are all in the car, can you send the family members back to the mansion?" ”

"Duke Tan Guo, you better hurry over, King Yuzhang, King Dongyang, King Nanning, and Duke Pinghai have all arrived, and the Lord of Chenyang and Princess Yuzhang have all arrived at Yikun Palace, Mrs. should take the child to Yikun Palace to see the queen first." Lu Chongzong said softly with a smile.

This is a good intention, and most of the news in Chencheng over the years was told to him by Lu Chongzong, Meng Yan has never understood why Lu Chongzong prefers him, and one of the purposes of returning to Chencheng this time is to have a good chat with this Xiao Huli's cronies.

"Thank you for your kindness, please lead the way!" Meng Yan deliberately put the word "front" very seriously.

Lu Chongzong was stunned for a moment, then his expression struggled and changed, and then he said as if he had made a very important decision: "Tan Guogong, please!" ”

Meng Yan smiled, knowing that Lu Chongzong had promised him, and then glanced at Su Qing and the others, who had already gotten off the car, and said casually: "Ancan, you follow me into the palace, Su Qing will accompany his wife and children to Yikun Palace, and Quartz will bring everyone back to the mansion." ”

After saying a gesture of please and Lu Chongzong walked in front, just turned his back and saw a pressing movement of Meng Yan's right hand, An Cang immediately understood, and deliberately flashed in front of everyone and slowed down his steps.

After entering the Nanxuanmen, you have to get off the horse, and you have to walk for a quarter of an hour from the Xuanwu Gate of the palace city, originally a person with great merit like Meng Yan does not need to get off the horse, but Meng Yan dismounts with respect for His Majesty, so that the soldiers of Xiong Zhenjun immediately feel different, and they have not forgotten the scene of King Yuzhang's horse in the morning.

There was An Cang blocking the distance between the two and the sergeant, and the whispered voice was inaudible to everyone.

"Duke Yu, Meng Yan thank you for all these years, but if you don't know something, can you ask Duke Yu for advice?" Meng Yan asked tentatively.

"Remember that Tan Guogong is the seventh in the family?" Lu Chongzong said with a complicated expression, but directly avoided Meng Yan's question.

Meng Yan was a little at a loss by this answer, and he couldn't understand it, what did he mean when he mentioned his ranking in this generation of the clan, "The Meng clan was slaughtered, but according to the ranking of this generation, it is true that there are seven in the next, but what does it mean that Duke Yu asked?" ”

"Hehe, my whole family was also slaughtered, I remember going four times at home, I don't know if Tan Gong's fourth brother is still there? Recently, I would like to thank Guogong for avenging a certain family. Lu Chongzong said while leaving half a line of tears.

Meng Yan was dumbfounded, startled, his head went blank, and he staggered like a corpse.

"Tan Gong, watch your step!" Lu Chongzong's reminder pulled Meng Yan back to reality.

"Are you the fourth brother?" Meng Yan asked directly.

"Qilang, I'm Lu Chongzong." Lu Chongzong said kindly.

Meng Yan knew that he was speechless, and then said, "How can you follow Your Majesty?" ”

"When my family was slaughtered, I was still young, and my family would take me all the way south to escape, but the Gu family kept chasing and killing, and I was the only one left when I fled to South Vietnam, begging for food in South Vietnam, fortunately a Lu businessman took me in to settle down, but the family feud has not been forgotten, and it has been following His Majesty since His Majesty recruited troops." Lu Chongzong said quietly, but between the lines, there was bitterness and bitterness.

Meng Yan had been struggling, and after hearing this, he finally made up his mind, he judged that Lu Chongzong would not fool himself with this kind of thing, and Lu Chongzong had never asked for anything before to send a letter to himself, so he mustered up the courage to ask: "Since you know that I am here, why don't you contact the family?" ”

"Even the name has been changed, and the family feud can't be avenged, what kind of face dare to go home?" Lu Chongzong said in a low voice, and then his expression was overflowing, "However, you have not insulted the reputation of the family, the Gu clan is destroyed, and the great revenge has been avenged!" ”

"You can go on and hide, why tell me who you are?" Meng Yan asked, his tone not polite at all.

"My identity is only known to my uncle, but some time ago, my uncle sent a message telling me that my father is still alive, and I have thought about it for a long time and still plan to tell you."

The ground was thundering, Meng Yan knew in an instant that his brother and father were still alive, who could believe this, who dared to believe it!

"Isn't it unbelievable?" Lu Chongzong said helplessly when he saw Meng Yan's mouth open wide and it was difficult to close.

"I'm a little messy, when will it be convenient for you to go to my house." Meng Yan was devastated.

"The newly built Chu State Mansion is in Nanshi, and according to His Majesty's wishes, my mansion is next door to the Chu State Mansion." Lu Chongzong said lightly.

Meng Yan didn't answer anymore, and walked into the Xuanwu Gate with a heavy heart along the way, and when he arrived at the Xuanwu Gate, Lu Chongzong couldn't go in, and his own Imperial Forest Army took over.

As soon as he entered the council hall, he saw Xiao Yu greet him with a smile and said, "Second brother, you have finally arrived, Your Majesty is in a hurry!" ”

Meng Yan immediately came out of his emotions, with a smile on his face: "How is the prince?" ”

Xiao Yu kept smiling, but his brows twitched slightly, and it could be seen that he was not satisfied with Meng Yan's title.

Xiao Yu pulled Meng Yan's arm and said, "Less garlic!" Your edict from the Duke of Chu has been issued, come and thank you! ”

When Meng Yan heard this, he stepped forward in quick steps, just shook off Xiao Yu's intimate actions, walked to the bottom of the stairs and bowed down and said, "Minister Mengyan, thank you Lord Longen!" ”

Xiao Huli said with an aunt smile: "Originally, I wanted to give you the prince, but you insisted on not accepting it, and it is still difficult to reward you for your merits with the reward of the Duke of Chu, get up." ”

"Your Majesty, it's not the minister's hypocrisy, it's the work of the twelve states of Xingtan that is not a minister, cover it with a sense of holy grace, and take it down, this is Your Majesty's grace, if you reward one person, it's really negative." Meng Yan replied officially.

Xiao Huli was very useful to Meng Yan's words, just now the inner servants came to report that Meng Yan dismounted at Nanxuanmen, and those who came all the way were even more happy, and said: "Meng Qing is young but not public, very good, your guards have come back a lot, I have already asked people to lead them to the newly built Chu State Mansion in Nanshi." ”

Meng Yan knelt down again and said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!" ”

Xiao Huli motioned for him to sit down, Meng Yan saw Xiao Huli clearly, he hadn't seen Xiao Huli for a long time, he was a little blessed, and his face was full of red light.

Meng Yan sat on the left side of the jade steps, next to Xiao Yu, and on the right sat Wang Zhongjue of Dongyang County, Wang Chongqi of Nanning County and Xiahou Ming of Pinghai Gong, Zhong Jue still saw him from afar when he was in Dongyang City, and it looked carefully that this Zhong Jue was old and strong, and his voice was loud; And Chongqi was already cold, but this time they met a little more steady.

Meng Yan agreed, Zhong Jue just smiled and nodded slightly, while Chongqi just hugged his fist lightly, as for Xiahou Ming, he directly ignored Meng Yan.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Drink well! ”