In the middle of January of the 11th year of Baoda, a group of dusty people finally arrived at the outskirts of Jinling.

After nearly eight months, he returned to the national capital again, walked on the familiar bustling streets, looked at the tall walls, the wide and straight streets, and heard the Jinling Wu dialect familiar to the people on the streets, Li Yuan was really deeply touched.

In the big car beside her, Peng Qingying lifted half of the car curtain, revealing a pair of clear and expressive beautiful eyes looking at the street market in Jinling City in amazement, and her mouth kept letting out surprises.

You must know that the scale of Xizhou City, the power center of Dongxi Land, is only slightly larger than a state-governed city in the Southern Tang Dynasty, after arriving in Langzhou, Peng Qingying was already extremely surprised by the scale and architecture of Langzhou City, Langzhou City is equivalent to two and a half Xizhou City, and both the scale of the market and the number of people have exceeded Peng Qingying's imagination.

On the way, Li Yuan told Peng Qingying that the size of Jinling City, the national capital, was more than three times that of Langzhou, but Peng Qingying still didn't believe it. At this moment, just after crossing the Changgan Bridge and entering the south gate, Peng Qingying had already realized how grand the scale and grandeur of the national capital depicted by Li Yuankou were.

"Qingying, is Jinling City the same as you imagined?" Li Yuan immediately leaned over and asked with a smile.

Peng Qingying shook her head slightly and said, "It's completely different, what I imagined is definitely not like this. This city is indeed big, but I feel a little cold, there are a lot of people, but the people here seem to be very cautious. Look at the people who walk, their steps are hurrying, it seems that they are not very fast."

Li Yuan smiled slightly, and Peng Qingying's feelings were very keen. The capital of a country can be said to be not grand and prosperous, but there is indeed a cold atmosphere in the prosperity.

Because ordinary people are not the owners of this grand city, the real masters live in tall palaces, high walls and deep mansions. Ordinary people are just enslaved objects in this city, pitiful creatures under the pressure of imperial power, perhaps Peng Qingying feels this kind of unfreedom.

Peng Qingying watched the fast horses galloping on the wide street from time to time, although those indifferent knights did not dare to disturb the cars of Li Yuan and the others waving flags, but they were shocked that the surrounding people avoided one after another, and frowned again: "Didn't you tell me that except for emergencies, flying horses are generally not allowed to step on the streets of the city? This is the capital, is the capital not even as good as our Langzhou City? What if Pegasus accidentally injures someone, I suddenly don't like this Jinling City anymore, although it is very beautiful and grand."

Li Yuan realized that there seemed to be something abnormal in Jinling City today, from the south gate to the royal street straight all the way, every once in a while, there were three or five soldiers in armor flying past without any scruples, but there was no sign of emergency military intelligence on his body, in exchange for the past, Jinling Yin had already come out to get people.

But after thinking about it, this trip still didn't cause trouble, so he smiled dumbly and said, "That's it, we don't live here, I just brought you here to take a look, and we are not like this in Langzhou City." In fact, Jinling also has the beauty of Jinling, these days you only feel good, don't think about these messy things. This is not your home."

Peng Qingying paused, turned her head and smiled, "Well, you're right, I don't talk much."

Li Yuan nodded and smiled, "Obediently, I'll take you back to the old mansion in the west of the city first, where the environment is very good." Once settled, I will inquire where your brother lives, and reunite your brother and sister. After my business is done, I will take the time to accompany you to visit the good places in Jinling City. Qingxifang Fengxian Temple, Qinhuai River Yangliu Bank, Jinling Scenic Spots, are all good places to go."

"Okay." Peng Qingying winked at Li Yuan, lowered the curtain and retracted her face.

Under the leadership of the ebony special service, the Wuping personal guard cavalry surrounded Li Yuanhao and swept along the straight street to the west of the city to drink Hongqiao, when passing the gate of Fengxian Temple, the rumbling drum of Jinling City sounded, it was already dusk, listening to this familiar drum, Li Yuan felt deeply, he was stepping on these majestic rhythms, from the palace to the military palace to return home.

The old house next to the Bingling Gong Temple stood quietly under the twilight, the grass in front of the house was trimmed evenly, and the ground was swept clean. The lantern in front of the porch has been lit, and the big words "Li Fu" on the lantern are clearly legible. Everything was as it was when I left. It seems that the servants who stayed behind took good care of the house.

When the servants of the house learned of the return of their master

After the news, more than a dozen maidservants who stayed behind hurried to the gate of the mansion to greet them, and welcomed Li Yuan and others into the mansion and settled down. Li Yuan took Peng Qingying back and forth in the house, and everything in the house was the same, retaining the appearance of when leaving.

The last time Li Yuan returned to Beijing to marry Emperor Zhou E, he specially ordered two maidservants to ensure the daily cleaning of the back house, and at this moment they can also move in directly, and the rest of the courtyards are nothing unusual.

Only the courtyard is a little decadent, without the daily care of Liu and Wang Jingyao, the flowers and trees are dead, the plum branches are slanted, the water in the pond has become black, and the long grass in the corner of the courtyard is knee-deep, completely losing the delicacy of the time. If the two of them knew that this was the case, they would be sad and distressed.

After settling Peng Qingying, Li Yuan instructed Xu Kuangheng and Ebony Special Service about some secret things, and after the two were ordered to leave, Li Yuan called the servants who stayed in the old mansion to ask about the situation.

Li Yuan was most worried that during the time he left Jinling, some people would come to the old house to harass him, but according to them, there was no nuisance. It's just that his father-in-law Zhou Zong brought people to see it twice, but he only left after looking at the back house to see if the residence was intact and tidy, and rewarded the maids with all their money and belongings.

When Li Yuan heard this, he sighed with emotion, and Zhou Zong's old and kind face appeared in his eyes, this father-in-law is really good to himself, since he met in Yangzhou, this old man's care and enthusiasm for himself is as always, to say who Li Yuan is most grateful to in this era, it must be Zhou Zong.

Not to mention how much help he brought to him by marrying the pearl in his palm, or how much help he brought him, but Li Yuan sometimes felt that Zhou Zong had made up for a vacancy in his heart to some extent. Today, Li Yuan has an adoptive mother, brothers, and wives and concubines, and some of the wives and concubines are like sisters and some are like younger sisters, but he lacks the care of his father's love.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan's heart was hot, I don't know how this old Taishan has been in health recently, not to mention that he also has important matters to discuss with him, and he can't wait to go to Zhou's mansion to see him immediately. However, Li Yuan knew that he had to be careful with every move after entering Beijing, especially in the order of meeting people.

This time he returned to Beijing without a recall, and before meeting the emperor, he could not contact anyone first, otherwise he would have given Yu Shitai the best excuse, and it was purely asking for trouble.

When it got dark, Peng Qingying took on the role of hostess, leading a group of maidservants to order the kitchen to cook food and prepare wine, but Li Yuan knew that it was impossible for him to eat this dinner at home. When the wine and food were served, Li Yuan bathed and changed clothes and prepared to stop, and prepared to go out with more than a dozen personal guards.

Li Yuan wanted to see the emperor, and he wanted to see the emperor as soon as he came back and settled, which was not only a move to avoid suspicion as an envoy of the festival, but also the etiquette of a courtier. Whether the emperor can see or not is another matter, but Li Yuan must go to the palace to ask for a meeting.

More than a dozen horsemen rode slowly on the lively street under the banner of the governor of Langzhou, and soon arrived in front of the palace. Dismounted and handed over the name card in front of the palace gate, how could the forbidden army guarding the palace dare to stop it, and after leaning over to salute, he let Li Yuan enter the palace, and at the same time reported to the inside. When Li Yuan descended to the outside of Chengxin Hall under the guidance of a small yellow gate, he learned that the emperor and empress were listening to music in the Rouyi Palace, and an attendant came to invite Governor Li to meet him.

Under the guidance of the chamberlain, Li Yuan walked through several corridors and went straight to the Rouyi Palace. The lights in the Rouyi Hall are brilliant, dozens of attendants are waiting in the corridor of the temple gate, stepping on the red carpet spread on the corridor, and the footsteps are silently going to the hall.

Walking to the front of the main hall, several personal attendants stood at the door and waited, and an attendant stepped forward and whispered a few words to the little yellow door leading Li Yuan, and the attendant came forward to salute and said, "Governor Li, Your Majesty is waiting for you, let people know."

Li Yuan arched his hand and said, "There is labor."

The waiter returned the salute and turned around and entered the hall, and after a while, the sound of silk and bamboo in the hall stopped abruptly, and soon a rickety figure appeared at the door, Li Yuan saw this familiar face and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Young Eunuch Liu, Li Yuan is so polite!"

The person who came in front of the door was none other than an old acquaintance, Liu Shaojian, with silver hair, a rickety figure, and a vain ruddy face still smeared on his face.

"Oh, how can the old slave be worthy of the great gift of Governor Li! big

Governor, come into the palace and see you, Your Majesty and the Queen are waiting for you!" Young Eunuch Liu was also excited, but he still kept a smile and returned the salute, leaning on one side and making a gesture of please.

Li Yuan bowed down and asked Liu Shaojian to go first, but Liu Shaojian didn't say much, and walked into the hall first. Li Yuan followed him in, straightened his clothes outside the screen in front of him, and then walked out quickly from the side of the screen, and walked quickly under the gaze of more than a dozen chamberlains and palace maids, and entered the brightly lit hall.

"Minister Li Yuan has come to see His Majesty and the Queen's Mother, and respectfully invites His Majesty and the Queen's Mother to be Saint." Li Yuan bowed respectfully and saluted.

"Okay, flat, get flat. Young eunuch, give Li Yuan a seat."

The emperor's angry voice sounded over his head, and Li Yuan thanked and saluted again and straightened up. An attendant brought a brocade stool and placed it beside Li Yuan.

"Li Yuan, why did you go back to Beijing, I don't think I called you back? When the chamberlain came to report the news, I still didn't believe it, but I didn't expect it to be you." Li Jing sat on the soft seat of the dragon couch and looked at Li Yuandao with a smile.

Li Yuan hurriedly said, "The minister should have returned to Beijing to thank him, but the successive battles caused the minister to stay in Langzhou to deal with the aftermath. His Majesty Long En did not hesitate to reward the minister, but the minister failed to thank him personally, and his heart was extremely uneasy. Now that the situation in Chu is stable, the minister wants to go back to Beijing to meet His Majesty and personally thank His Majesty."

Li Jing laughed and said, "I see, it's okay to go back to Beijing for a walk, I haven't seen you for so long, and I want to see you too." Yesterday, I talked to the queen about you, the world's famous general of our dynasty, but I didn't expect you to come back today. Good, good back."

Li Yuan sighed and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, you are busy with state affairs, but you often remember Wei Chen, and the ministers are grateful."

Li Jing smiled and said: "Don't be grateful, you have made great contributions to the war in Xizhou, won the land of Dongxi for me, and then broke the Han army to protect the land of Chu, strengthen my Tang Guowei, and saved my prince a few months ago, I want to be grateful to you."

I am confident and have a good vision, Queen, look, I made Li Yuan out of the ordinary when I promoted Li Yuan as the envoy of the festival, and at that time, many people still said that Li Yuan was young, and they felt that I had broken the rules. Now how about it? I, the youngest governor of the Tang Dynasty and the envoy of the festival, are not only both civil and military, but also lead the army to fight without disadvantage, and I can't even remember the exploits I have made, and now I am afraid that no one will chew the root of the tongue."

The corner of Li Yuan's eyes glanced at the queen Zhong who was sitting two feet beside Li Jing, and happened to meet Zhong's meaningful gaze, startled, and hurriedly looked away. But I heard Zhong teasing: "Yes, Your Majesty's vision is naturally unmatched! But Your Majesty has said this more than a dozen times......