During this period of time, Bao Yuanqian surprisingly made a special trip to the Yangwu Marquis Mansion almost every one or two days after his business trip.

He did not enter through the side door as he used to, but he came to visit uncharacteristically, without avoiding people's eyes.

Xue Lu's injuries are now stable, and he has woken up from a coma. The first thing Xue Lu did when he woke up was to tell Ji Gang and the Taiping Daoists the secret that they were hiding in the Linggu Temple.

Even though Bao Yuanqian informed Ying Hao and Jiang Wei, they took the Jinyi Guards and the officers and soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division of the Investigation Department to search for a lot, but found nothing.

Obviously, Ji Gang, a chicken thief, will naturally not sit idly by, and has already destroyed the evidence of the crime. However, the exposure of Taiping Dao still caught Ji Gang a little off guard.

It turned out that Xue Lu had discovered the traces of Taiping Dao long before Bao Yuanqian, this evil that had disappeared for thousands of years, Xue Lu did not believe it at first, but only later through investigation found that this Linggu Temple and Taiping Dao were extremely close.

Bao Yuanqian and the others returned empty-handed, but they went to find Lu Gangfeng alone. Bao Yuanqian handed him the remnant picture of Luo Fashang in his hand and asked him to spread the news among the followers of the White Lotus Sect and lure the snake out of the hole.

In the evening of this day, the Marquis of Yangwu was in the house.

"Master Hou, don't move, your injuries are just healing, and your foundation is not stable." Bao Yuanqian came to the Yangwu Marquis Mansion as usual, and when he saw Xue Lu wanting to stay, he got up and hurriedly supported him.

Xue Lu walked away from the ghost gate, and now his injuries are good, but his complexion is not good, obviously he has injured the origin, and he still needs a lot of time to recuperate.

Xue Lu lay back on the collapse, his eyes slightly closed and said weakly, "That Linggu Temple..."

Bao Yuanqian sighed lightly and said, "What Master Hou said is true, although we went there immediately, it was still too late."

Xue Lu nodded, "As expected, Ji Gang had ill intentions, and I didn't know that he was raising this white lotus... What is the purpose of Taiping Dao?"

Bao Yuanqian asked: "Hou Ye should be extra careful these days, this Ji Gang is worried that you will not die, and eighty percent will take risks again."

Xue Lu said, "I'm fine, but you... Living in the court and government, he has already offended that Ji Gang, and now he is at odds with the civil and military, which is really frightening."

Although he woke up for a short time, he also heard a lot of things from Xue Yan's mouth. For Bao Yuanqian's life-saving grace and Xue Zongyan's cover, Xue Lu was naturally inexplicably grateful.

Although Bao Yuanqian offended the two factions in the court, privately speaking, Bao Yuanqian was already the biggest benefactor of his Xue family. So now that he talks about it, he didn't blame Bao Yuanqian, but reminded him to be more careful.

"Master Hou, the lower officials understand." Bao Yuanqian nodded and said, "Although Master Hou and I are very respectful, we are like ants in the eyes of the emperor, and we can never escape the fate of this chess piece at the mercy of others. The lower officials do that, and there is a last resort, and I hope the Hou Ye will forgive me."

Xue Lu had been in the sea for a long time, so he naturally understood the meaning, closed his eyes and said, "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind... You have to cherish your life, if you have the opportunity to repay the favor in the future, I Xue Lu will definitely bring one or two."

"Thank you, Master Hou."

Bao Yuanqian said respectfully, but he was a little reluctant in his heart, after all, before Xue Lu woke up, the shadow guards under him were mostly tracking down the Taiping Daoists hidden in the White Lotus Sect for themselves.

It's a little embarrassing not to ask yourself. Besides, Xue Lu's injury has improved, and most of the credit is also Zhang Shenxian's miracle medicine, and he borrowed flowers to offer Buddha to be crooked.

"Girl, what are you hiding outside the porter and eavesdropping?" Although Xue Lu closed his eyes, he caught Xue Yu who was eavesdropping outside the door.

Xue Yu entered awkwardly, wearing a long skirt, delicate and attacking, standing quietly aside.

Bao Yuanqian shook his head at the ground, with his ability, he had already discovered Xue Yu who was eavesdropping, but he was also used to it, and there was nothing unpleasant about the content of his discussion with Xue Lu.

"Alas, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse to rely on your temperament on weekdays." Xue Lu shook his head lightly and said, "If it weren't for you, my father's life would have been wailing a long time ago. But because of your temperament, you behave out of shape and lose manners. Mr. Bao is a guest, and you are hiding outside the door and eavesdropping on the conversation of the guests, which is really presumptuous."

Xue Yu asked to go to Guozijian to study, and then she got acquainted with Bao Yuanqian by accident, otherwise no one would be able to save Xue Lu's life. Xue Lu's family rules are strict, and he has always been harsh on faux pas, but although he was a little angry when he thought of this, he still endured it and reprimanded his daughter in a cold tone.

Xue Yan's cheeks flushed, and she said cowardly like a child who had done something wrong, "Dad... My daughter knows it's wrong."

Bao Yuanqian said: "Master Hou is okay, Xue Yan is like this. If she hadn't made an exception to seek me for treatment that day, I wouldn't have known that Master Hou's injuries were so serious."

Xue Yu lowered her head, and when she heard Bao Yuanqian speak for her, she stuck out her tongue ghostly, looking like she sincerely admitted her mistakes and died without repentance. Fortunately, Xue Lu closed her eyes, otherwise she would have been angry.

"Alas, let Master Bao laugh, it's me who can't discipline me." Xue Lu sighed lightly, helpless.

Bao Yuanqian got up and said, "If it's not early today, if the Hou Ye has nothing to do, the lower official will leave."

Xue Lu said, "I'm out of company, you go and send a bag for your father."

"Yes."

The corners of Xue Yu's mouth bent, and she followed Bao Yuanqian out of the door.

Half a moment later, Xue Yu returned to the room and saluted, "Dad, Brother Bao.. Master Bao, he's gone."

Xue Lu opened his eyes with difficulty, glanced at his daughter, and sighed, "Daughter, you tell your father honestly, do you have a secret affection for this Bao Yuanqian?"

"Huh?" Xue Yu didn't expect her father to speak like this, her smooth and fair cheeks suddenly turned red, and she said, "Dad, what are you talking about? He... He.. Daughter... How could my daughter be..."

She subconsciously denied it, but she couldn't find an explanation.

Bao Yuanqian caught her attention when she improvised poems in the restaurant, but at that time she just felt that this person did not have half of the Confucianism, but he could make such poems.

Later, Bao Yuanqian made a drastic renovation of Guangye Hall in Guozijian, which made her know her ability as a business, and returned her a clear Guangye Hall, so she was still quite grateful.

Then to the same hall to argue with the envoys of various countries, skillfully solve the problem, and earn infinite glory for Daming, she had a strong interest in Bao Yuanqian at that time, and said in her heart, why can this martial artist who started with military merits know so many ways, and his knowledge seems to be more advanced than that of the old pedant, and his opening is a novel thing that she has never heard of.

After Xue Lu was seriously injured by Ji Gang, she asked Xue Zongyan to assassinate Ji Gang at the risk of death, but she happened to meet Bao Yuanqian. Xue Zongyan's assassination failed, and Bao Yuanqian showed his not weak martial arts and saved her fourth brother. Xue Lu's injury worsened, and she desperately found Bao Yuanqian, and it was in Bao Yuanqian's hands that she rescued her father from the palace of Hades.

The most important father and brother in her life are all benefited by Bao Yuanqian, and she is already grateful to Bao Yuanqian in her heart, and she already has the idea of sacrificing her life to repay her kindness, whether it is a cow or a horse, she has no complaints.

Some time ago, Zhang Heng of the shadow guard told her that the black-clothed man who rescued the people's girl and killed Qiu Yue alone was most likely Bao Yuanqian, and her heart was pounding, recalling the scene of playing a pen and nailing through the bow in Guangye Hall, she suddenly realized. Later, after a test on the carriage, I saw that Bao Yuanqian was stunned, and his heart was really inseparable.

Since then, a figure who is both civil and military, not afraid of power, fencing, chivalrous and courageous has repeatedly haunted her heart and lingered.

A chivalrous man with changeable intelligence, profound knowledge, and strong martial arts, the impact on his little daughter's mind can be imagined. In the middle of the night, she was always distracted, and she couldn't help thinking about such a person, and she couldn't sleep for a long time.

But she has been taught etiquette, and she knows shame and does not dare to speak falsely, and now that she has been broken by Xue Lu, she is naturally ashamed.

Seeing her like this, Xue Lu knew it to himself, closed his eyes and said, "Okay, you are my daughter, how can you not know that little bit of careful thinking about your father?"

"Daddy..." Xue Yu was ashamed and complained.

Xue Lu said abruptly: "I am a martial artist, I don't have any parents' orders, and the words of the matchmaker are twists and turns. But there is one thing I have to remind you, although Bao Yuanqian is indeed a talent, and now he is also favored by the saint, it can be said that he will be in the future and unlimited. But he is young and vigorous, too sharp, and deeply caught in the whirlpool of party disputes, and bears the brunt of everything. There are not a few people in the court who hate him, even if he is walking on thin ice and cautious, but if he loses power and is killed in the future, I am afraid that he will never recover, you... Have you figured it out?"

Xue Yu didn't know what was going on in the court, the first time she heard Xue Lu say it, she realized that Bao Yuanqian now seems to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact, she is killing everywhere, and she still knows a thing or two about the truth that a king is like a tiger.

Xue Yu pursed her thin lips, and after a while, her eyes looked at Xue Lu firmly and said, "Daddy is good at recuperation, you don't have to worry about your daughter's affairs, Xiaoyu is not a child anymore, and besides, I can trust Brother Bao."

She said that she would leave the door with a gift, and Xue Lu didn't say a word, just closed his eyes tightly, and was not shocked.

......

Bao Yuanqian rode a horse with a contemplative face, and hurried back to the court before the night ban, although he is now a Jiupin Sesame official, but he has been busy in recent days.

Many elephant slave officials were transferred, and they took the tribute elephants to train day and night, as if they were preparing for something important.

This manpower is withdrawn, and the affairs of the mahout office are naturally a lot more nervous, and even the two thousand households are in person, not to mention him, the listed officer. Regardless of whether he understands it or not, he has the right to be a dead horse doctor, and he has learned a lot of elephant taming.

He is a good hand at raising horses, and this taming elephant is really difficult for him, and he has been unpleasantly lifted off by the tribute elephant several times, and if it were not for his dexterity, he fell high and low and broke his tendons.

Doing high-intensity physical work every day also made him tired and hard, and the whole elephant training center was mobilized in such a battle.

The two thousand households spoke softly, but they just shook their heads and didn't know, and in the end, it was through the palace people of the celebrant that they learned a news that was not small for him.

Annan is coming to the court, and these tribute elephants are trained to act as the face of the Ming Dynasty in front of the vassal states.

Hearing the news, Bao Yuanqian fell into thoughts.

He, a later generation, naturally knew about the war against Annam in the early Ming Dynasty. If the history is good, this Annan State should be the state minister Hu Jichen who usurped the throne and established the Hu Dynasty.

He also deceived the Ming Dynasty that the Chen Dynasty of Annam was extinct and could not find an heir, saying that he had legal inheritance, and asked the Ming Dynasty to canonize him as the king of Annam.

The Ming Dynasty sent envoys to investigate, but what they got was as Hu Jichen said, and they were deceived until the following year. But even if he noticed it, due to the great loss of the strength of the Ming Dynasty after the Jing Disaster, Zhu Di still did not dare to send troops lightly.

Xiping Hou Musheng wrote many times to ask for war, but was refuted by Zhu Di, which shows that the people in Yongle were poor and lacking soldiers in the early years. It was not until the third year of Yongle that the Ming army escorting Chen Tianping, the orphan of the Chen Dynasty, was ambushed, which caused Ming Chengzu to be furious and launched the Battle of Annam.

Bao Yuanqian thought of this, and thought in his heart, if he wanted to go up, he couldn't simply mix in Yingtian and be an elephant raiser. He thought of Jiang Wei, who defeated more than 6,000 people in Saibei with 3,000 people, if Jiang Wei was allowed to have a place to show his skills, it would be safe.

But now it's only the first year of Yongle, how can we wait for the war of the year after that? You can't just sit and wait....

How could this Annan campaign be launched earlier, although the Ming Dynasty is tired now, but what he said in the court is just for Zhu Di, as for whether he is really tired or not, it is his business?

The world is the world of the Zhu family, and it is not the world of his Bao Yuanqian, if it can be said that Zhu Di disregarded the national strength and launched the Annan Campaign in advance, it will weaken the Ming Dynasty, and it will be a clever plan to return to the grassland in the north in the future.

But... How could we convince Zhu Di to start the Battle of Annam earlier? Zhu Dixi's good face is a weakness, can he use this as a breakthrough?

While pondering, he had turned his horse back to the courtyard, jumped off the horse and saw that Qing'er was already standing at the door.

Qing'er sensibly led the horse inside, and said as she walked, "Brother Bao came back late today, and half an hour ago, a person dressed as a small servant handed me an invitation."

"Invitations?"

Qing'er tied up her horse and took out an envelope from her blanket.

Bao Yuanqian opened it and looked at it, frowned and sighed a few times.

Qing'er smiled, "Could it be that Big Brother Bao is about to be promoted? Is it a third-rank official or a second-rank official this time?"

He didn't say much about Bao Yuanqian's degradation, Qing'er saw that he still lived in the Chaoji Courtyard, and he didn't know that Bao Yuanqian was just a nine-grade petty official.

Bao Yuanqian shook his head and was silent, thinking that this letter was actually sent by Song Sheng, Marquis of Xining. The letter said that he heard that the celebrity in front of the saint now was from the former Suzhou Wei pawn, who was the leader of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division and Bao Yuanqian's old boss, so he invited him to have a dinner tomorrow.

Bao Yuanqian felt funny, not to mention how his former superior Deng Pingyu treated him, this Song Shengyuan in Ganzhou Wei had nothing to do with him, and now he invited himself to a banquet, what did he want?

Especially when he thought of Zhenjiang Wharf that day, this Dou Qin father and son came with Song Sheng, obviously they had a good relationship, and he didn't have much affection for this Song Sheng.

It's just that the letter said that Mei Yin, the captain of the horses, would also be present at the banquet and warmly invited.... He doesn't care about the people next to him, but this Mei Yin has defended himself several times, and he is quite decent.

But Mei Yin is considered a noble clan of the old school, and it stands to reason that he should be mixed with Li Jinglong, this Song Sheng should be like Wu Gao, there is no merit in the Jingjing, and he should not fall into party disputes.

This Mei Yin and Song Sheng approached, but it was strange.

Since this Mei Yin was also invited, he was not good at refusing, but after all, the other party's intention was unknown, so he still had to keep an eye on it.

Inadvertently, he squinted at the wall and gave him an indescribable look. A dark shadow on the wall understood, and disappeared in a flash.

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