The city gate is lively. Thousands of Tang soldiers walked into the city gate cave one after another, and they returned from a bitter battle, their clothes were ragged, their expressions were tired, and their bodies were seriously or lightly wounded.

Countless people in Chang'an City greeted each other on the road, welcoming this group of soldiers returning from the front line, still without noisy gongs and drums, but with enthusiastic smiles and waves.

This was the first rotation of the Tang army since the beginning of the war, and most of the troops withdrawn from the front were resettled in various states and counties, and only a part of them returned to Chang'an City.

Since the issuance of the recruitment order, hundreds of thousands of former veterans have been spontaneously or organized to the front line, and all kinds of material resources have been continuously transported to the front line, finally allowing the Tang State to usher in a respite.

The tragic war continued on the land of the return (II) of the one hundred and eighty-eighth chapter of the year of the fourth volume of the fall of Xinjiang, and the ceremonies to welcome the return of the soldiers in various places were solemn but simple, and the ceremonies in Chang'an City were no exception, but the personal attendance of the queen mother still attracted a lot of people.

An ordinary carriage was parked next to the official road outside the city, and the bustle at the city gate became quiet with the departure of the people, but this carriage seemed to have no intention of leaving, and always stopped in place.

During the war, the vigilance of the people of Chang'an was extremely high, and it didn't take long for someone to notice the abnormality of the carriage and report it to the City Patrol Division. The soldiers of the City Patrol Division went to interrogate, and after seeing clearly who was sitting in the middle car, they hurriedly pleaded guilty and retreated, but they attracted a lot of curious eyes.

Lifting the cyan curtain with one hand, Ning Que looked through the window at the distance of the official road frozen by the cold winter, and when he finally saw the dust blowing up, he got out of the car with a crutch to greet him.

Dozens of cavalry Tang troops returned to Chang'an City, from the weapon system and mounts can be seen, it should be the cavalry of the Xiao cavalry battalion, the Xiao cavalry battalion is directly under the command of the palace, is a real noble soldier, in terms of status alone, even above the Yulin army, but now these Xiao cavalry cavalry cavalry is more wolf than the ordinary Tang army who entered the city before.

Ning Que looked at the man on the horse and said, "It's really unaccustomed to seeing you wearing leather armor and returning from Chapter 188 (II) of the year of the fourth volume. ”

The man was covered in dust, but he was still heroic, listening to Ning Que's words, he said with a smile: "Since you are in the army, not in Chang'an City to collect rent, naturally you can't wear those old clothes." ”

He is naturally Chao Xiaoshu who led the cavalry battalion thousands of miles to help the eastern frontier.

Jumping off the horse towards the little tree, he didn't have time to speak, but he coughed first.

Ning Que said: "Since you are injured, don't ride a horse." ”

After saying this, he turned around and got into the carriage first.

He smiled at Xiaoshu, turned around and said a few words to Liu Wu, also got into the carriage, and said, "Since you are here to welcome me, how can you have the reason to enter the carriage yourself." ”

Ning Que pointed to the bandages on his body and said, "I was poked seven holes by the Guanzhu, and the blood was basically gone, but I didn't dare to stand on the side of the road and blow the cold wind for too long." ”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at his face, found that he could no longer find those young children back then, thought about the news that circulated in Chang'an City, and said, "I thought you were dead." ”

Ning Que said, "I thought you were dead, too." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Ning Que said, "Why do you think I'm going to die?"

Chao Xiaoshu said: "I heard that before killing Xiahou, you said in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military that your story is not a story in a book, since this is the case, then when you meet the master, you should die." ”

Ning Que said: "You put down your wife and children's hot kang head, and you are going to be a big hero with a few hundred horses, I thought that this kind of hero would have to die in the end in order to perfectly show the tragic love, so I thought you were dead." ”

After a moment of silence, Chao Xiaoshu said, "There are a lot of people who have died. ”

Ning Que lifted the blue window and looked back, looking at the heavy carriages behind him. 、

In the carriage were the remains of the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, covered with horse skins, which had been blown by the cold winter winds on the road for so many days, and the edges of those horse skins had been cocked and faintly blue.

"You took hundreds of cavalry out of Chang'an, and when you came back, there were only dozens of cavalry left, and there were indeed too many dead. ”

Ning Que said: "On the other side of Dongjiang, the fight was too bad. ”

Chao Xiaoshu said: "The Zhenbei Army independently fought against the Golden Horde, and against them, those of us in the Eastern Frontier have no qualifications to shout bitterness and misery, but the border is empty, the Eastern Wilderness cavalry is raging lightly, and the volunteers recruited from various counties have indeed suffered a lot." ”

Ning Que said, "I thought you would come back earlier. ”

Chao Xiaoshu said: "A few days ago, I chased Longqing, and I didn't catch up until Chentang County, and then I found that this problem was inexplicable - it was solved by you, so I went back to Dongjiang first." If it weren't for the academy holding Chang'an City and blocking the Xiling Temple coalition army at Qingxia for seven days, Gushan County and the northeastern border army that had withdrawn from the territory would not have been able to reorganize at all, so I should still be there now. ”

Ning Que said: "The change of the situation always has to be slow. ”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at the bandages on his body and said, "When will your injuries heal?"

This question sounds very simple, maybe it's just a concern, but Ning Que knows that when Chao Xiaoshu mentions his injuries at this time, it will definitely not be so simple.

"I don't know. He knew what Chao Xiaoshu wanted to ask, and continued: "The injuries of the senior brothers and sisters don't know when they will heal, you don't need to think about this for the time being. ”

Chao Xiaoshu frowned slightly and asked, "Why is it so slow?"

Ning Que said: "It's not easy to get hurt, and it's not easy to get better after being injured." ”

He thought about the senior brothers who were still seriously injured in the back mountain, and thought about the third senior sister who was still in a wheelchair, his expression gradually became solemn, if the strong man of the Dao Sect infiltrated the henchmen of the Tang Kingdom, it would bring great trouble.

Entering through the East City Gate, you will naturally pass through the East City.

When the carriage passed by the old bizhai, Ning Que lifted the curtains, looked at the old residence where the shop was still intact, and thought about the stories that had happened here over the years, and inevitably felt emotional.

"In the spring of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, you and Sangsang came to Chang'an City, and it is now the deep winter of the eighteenth year, in fact, only five years have passed, but it seems that decades have passed. ”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at Lao Bizhai and the shops next to him, thinking about the spring rain in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, thinking about the killing that night and his own bowl of omelette noodles without eggs, and smiled slightly.

Ning Que looked at him and suddenly said, "Actually, now that I think about it, we don't know each other very well. ”

Chao Xiaoshu said: "Yes, the number of times we have met is not too much. ”

Ning Que said, "Don't you think it's a little weird?"

"Push forward another twenty years, when the first emperor was still the crown prince, I met him for the first time in the red sleeves, had a fight, and then drank a drink, and since then I have become the second brother of the court. ”

"A glass of wine is a life, and a bowl of noodles is also a life. ”

Chao Xiaoshu said: "Chang'an is a very interesting city, things like this have happened many times, and the people who live here are still happy, so there is nothing strange about it." ”

Ning Que thought for a while and said, "That's true. ”

Chao Xiaoshu did not return to the home of the Spring Breeze Pavilion, but went directly to the palace.

After entering the palace, his own eunuch answered, and Chao Xiaoshu followed him into the palace, but Ning Que did not go with him, but waved his hand to let the eunuch who followed him leave, and he went to the imperial study.

His life has been full of wandering, there have been many key turns, and many places have very important significance, but the imperial study of the Tang Palace is undoubtedly a very special place.

Here he wrote a picture of huā open the other side of the sky, so he met the first emperor, here he talked with Li Yuchang all night, and the next day in front of the palace to cut off Li Huiyuan's head.

He put the crutch in front of the bookshelf, slowly moved it to the desk, sharpened the ink and laid the paper, and began to write.

He kept writing, writing a lot of sheets.

The first emperor liked his words back then, but he refused to write, even if he occasionally gave a few, he was as distressed as cutting meat, and now that he thinks about it, it was really better to write a few more at that time, so that His Majesty Xià was happy and happy.

Now he is willing to write, but His Majesty can't see it.

It was very quiet in the imperial study, and only the sound of Zihao sliding on the paper could be heard, and suddenly, a few extremely majestic reprimands came from nowhere.

Ning Que lost his mind slightly.

The study and the front hall are so close that the sound must have come from there.

At that moment, he even thought that he had heard the voice of His Majesty scolding the idiot.

As he said in the car, he and Chao Xiaoshu are not acquainted, but they can live and die together.

He is actually not familiar with His Majesty, but His Majesty dares to put Chang'an City and the future of the Li royal family into his hands, and he also dares to use his own life to complete this entrustment.

Because this is Chang'an City, this kind of thing is very common.

The trust between him and His Majesty did not start with that huā post, but when he heard His Majesty scolding an idiot in the imperial study, he liked to scold idiots very much, so he felt so happy.

Ning Que came to his senses, His Majesty was dead, and no one was scolding idiots in the palace anymore.

He shook his head and continued to write.

Suddenly, his hand holding the barrel of the pen became a little stiff.

For he heard again a voice from before the temple.

This time he was listening.

That majestic voice was indeed scolding an idiot.

The queen is swearing.

Ning Que laughed, feeling so happy.

In the depths of the palace, there is a huge map, marked with intricate lines and annotations, illuminated by dozens of arm-thick candles, so that all the details can be seen clearly.

A middle-aged staff officer from the military department, holding a thin and long wooden stick, pointed to the map, and was explaining to everyone in the hall, but it was obvious that there were not many people who could listen at this time.

The queen mother was a little tired, so she sat behind the desk and took a cup of tea and drank it slowly.

The generals and ministers looked at Niangniang's gentle appearance at this time, where could they think of the picture when the household department had a problem with the delivery of grain and grass to the Western Army, and Niangniang scolded more than a dozen idiots.

Chao Xiaoshu stood quietly in the corner, watching the queen not speak, but like someone in the imperial study at this time, he remembered the majesty who had scolded his idiot in the palace.

Some people are still alive and they have returned to their hometowns, some have died and they have returned to their hometowns, maybe they have not left at all, so it's good.

(Two chapters tomorrow) (to be continued!!