"Ah Le, it's time to Chang'an."

The carriage heading from Shengle County to Chang'an walked on the road for more than ten days, and although Yang Shuang and Xiao were basically cured, they were still a little weak, so they walked all the way to rest.

It took nearly half a month to arrive outside Chang'an from Shengle.

Xiao Shi, who was always drowsy in the carriage, opened his weak and tired eyes after hearing Yang Shuang's words, and looked out of the window through the window of the carriage.

Along the way, Xiao found that the Zhou Kingdom was becoming more prosperous the further south he went, and when he passed through Yinzhou this time, the prosperity of Yinzhou was beyond Xiao Shi's imagination.

In the more than 20 square streets in Yinzhou, there are people who dare to come out and sell their surplus assets, and they are not afraid that their assets will be robbed.

This is invisible in Yanzhou, when she was in Yanzhou, whenever her father wanted to exchange his surplus grain for linen, salt, etc., he had to hide it carefully, and he had to ask people in advance who had a surplus, and only after negotiating did he dare to take things out.

Because what Yanzhou is afraid of is not only the Turkic barbarians going south, but also the passing army that loots the people's homes everywhere.

Even local officials often use unwarranted excuses to ask for this and that.

Let the days go by with fear, and not tired.

After leaving Shengle this time, he traveled all the way through 27 counties in Yinzhou, Suizhou, Yanzhou, Tongzhou and other four prefectures, and entered Chang'an City after passing Dali County.

I thought that Yinzhou was already very prosperous, and this time I saw that Chang'an City was so prosperous that hundreds of streets stood on both sides of the official road, and they walked by carriage for more than an hour, and there was no sign of the end.

Xiao Shi was only stunned as a response to Yang Shuang.

"Brother Yang, are you from Chang'an? Is there a private house in Chang'an? Will the little girl ...... Excuse me for my brother......"

Shaw never felt that his life was good or bad.

When she was killed in the city, she felt that her life was not good.

Now that she met Yang Shuang and was saved by him, she only felt that this life seemed to be as good as a dream, and she was always worried that this dream would wake up at some point.

And she was still lying on the cold rammed earth of her house.

"Let's go to the palace." Yang Shuang said heartily, but Xiao Shi's eyes widened even more.

"Enter, enter the palace?" Xiao couldn't believe it, and even thought he had misheard.

I am an ant-like grass people, and I can't even think of such a thing as entering the palace, let alone the imagination to think about it.

Born in a humble background, it limited her imagination, and along the way, everything she heard and saw was breaking through her imagination.

"That's right, let's enter the palace, I'm not from Chang'an, but I'm the marching general appointed by His Majesty!"

"When there is no military conquest, I live in the palace."

Yang Shuang patiently explained to Xiao Shi in an easy-going manner why he could live in the palace:

"Although I have a direct sister-brother relationship with Her Royal Highness the Queen, Zhou Guo has long been free to pay attention to any relatives and other relationships, and if there is a relationship, you can't enter or follow Rong by relationship, you have to rely on your ability to be an examiner."

"And I haven't met Her Royal Highness the Queen a few times, so I'm not familiar with it."

"The palace of the Zhou State is no longer a place where only the emperor's relatives can live, and those who are officials or servants in the Zhou State, who come to Beijing, will be arranged to stay in the palace by the Taifu Temple."

"You can just enter the palace with me as my entourage, and you can take a walk and see if you want."

"The imperial garden in the palace, the flowers and plants are particularly beautiful, you can also go and see it."

As he spoke, the carriage had already reached the end of the official road—

The south gate of the Royal Palace.

The soldiers guarding the palace gate routinely stopped their carriages, and after Yang Shuang handed his talisman to the guards, the soldiers immediately gave a solemn military salute:

"I've seen the General!"

"Please come in!"

After being led into the palace by the guards, the palace attendants of the Taifu Temple immediately walked quickly and skillfully.

"Colleague, I just came from the frontier, and I am still a little sick, after settling down for my party, please call the doctor over."

"Eh," the palace attendant nodded, knowing that he was the brother-in-law of Dugu Jialuo, the temple attendant of the Taifu Temple, and said one more sentence:

"General Yang, Daoxing Hall is close to the Taifu Temple Affairs Mansion, it is better to go there to stay, and the lower officials can immediately inform Lord Siqing of the past, you have not heard back, Siqing has been worried about you for a long time."

"Your Majesty is also worried."

In a few words, the situation of the Northern Expeditionary Army was clarified, and it had already been spread throughout the palace, and Yang Shuang was one of the two commanders of the Northern Expeditionary Army, after he returned to the palace, the news immediately spread from the mouths of the palace attendants all over the imperial city to the ears of others.

Yang Shuang led the Xiao family, who had never seen a big scene and was a little shrunken, and just went to the Daoxing Palace, and he didn't even have time to drink tea.

Over there, Dugu Jialuo immediately brought the news to Yuwen Shihong, and quickly came to the Daoxing Hall with Yuwen Shihong.

"Good you Yang Shuang! Why did it take so long to come back? ”

Before Yuwen Shihong entered, the voice came in first.

When he entered, he saw that Yang Shuang did not come back alone, but also brought a woman.

However, both of their faces were pale, as if they had not yet recovered from a serious illness.

"I've seen Your Majesty." Yang Shuang stood up straight and gave a straight military salute with emotion.

"Who is this?" Seeing the panicked woman, she just stood there stunned, her hands were still shaking, and Yuwen Shihong asked casually.

Yang Shuang probably introduced that she was one of the few survivors in Yanzhou, Xiao Shi, and didn't say anything else.

Yuwen Shihong, who was probably aware of the situation, instructed Dugu Jialuo to send the two doctors over, and then took Yang Shuang out of the palace alone for questioning.

"Your brother was sent to southern Xinjiang by me, and the Northern Expeditionary Army only came back with more than 30,000 people under the leadership of Liang Dong, and you are responsible for finding the other more than 30,000 who are missing." After Yuwen Shihong said selflessly, because Yang Shuang's pale face was difficult to ignore, he had to ask again:

"Could it be that when you were in the Turks, you were already sick?"

Yang Shuang nodded, and then hung his head to comprehend the sin:

"Brother pretended to pass on the holy order to save me, and at that time in the Turks, my northern expeditionary army was besieged by the main force of 400,000 Turks, and it can be described as a heavy death and injury."

"If it weren't for General Tang's rich experience, he would have consulted with me in time to cooperate with each other and cooperate with each other, and fought his way out of the encirclement......

"The 70,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, if I am the only one to lead it, I am afraid that all of them will be buried in Mobei."

"At that time, I was also seriously injured, and my brother was worried about me, so I ......"

"Please also ask Your Majesty to punish the last general, Brother is because I ......"

"Okay," Yuwen Shihong plans to turn the page of the past, don't care about it, after all, the matter has come to this, what's the use of saying more, but Yang Shuang almost died, which made Yuwen Shihong can't help but pinch a cold sweat:

"Yang Jian was not condemned and sent to southern Xinjiang, but it is the same as when you go to Mobei, it is the layout."

"I know in my heart that I will heal my injuries and illnesses, and I will leave more military affairs to you."

Hearing this, Yang Shuang solemnly received the order:

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”