In the back carriage sat the ministers of the court and their families, as well as the family heroes who came back with them.

Whether it's a sleeper or a hard-seat passenger, after dawn, they keep an eye on the scenery outside the window.

"Just now the conductor said that he is almost in the capital, and he has already entered the Gyeonggi area, you see, the cement road is straight and spacious, and there is no problem with several cars walking side by side!"

"Yes, before I came to the capital, I received news that the Gyeonggi area was built by Niangniang many roads, at first I didn't believe it, I wanted to come to Jiankang There are not a few cement roads in the entire imperial court, and there is no capital supported by the treasury! Who would have thought that the slap in the face would come so quickly! ”

"You're right, the capital may change even more, but now that the emperor is back, I just don't know whether the emperor will be in power or the queen in the capital next?"

"Brother, please be cautious, if your words are heard by someone with a heart, say a mouthful in front of the emperor, and you can't eat and go around!"

The minister who had just said this also knew that his mouth was about to speak, so he hurriedly changed the subject, pointed out the window and said, "Look, are those carriages racing against the train we are on?" ”

The others were attracted by his words, so they didn't mention the topic just now, and everyone looked out the window.

On the highway parallel to the railway, several carriages galloped side by side, and from time to time they glanced at the train, flicking their whips to speed up, and in front of the carriages there were several sons and brothers riding tall horses, screaming and throwing their whips at the same time, and the speed was not much different, of course, it was impossible to see how fast they were running.

But to be able to race with trains, I want to be able to ride a horse is not bad.

"Are they crazy? Let's not talk about those few sons and brothers who rode horses, those carriages actually dared to compete with the train, did they die? In case the carriage overturns, it will be the result of the car crashing and the death of people! ”

"Who says it isn't! I can't help but admire the courage of these people! ”

"You still admire, I think they are a bunch of crazy people who are full of food and panic!"

"Hey, Master Ma, those boys who ride horses, there is a figure that I look a little familiar with, you can take a look, is that the third child of your family?"

"The third? He returned to the capital early! Master Ma squeezed to the window of the car and squinted slightly at the road in the distance, a few young men in brocade clothes riding on horseback, full of spirit, full of smiles, although the distance is not small, but it can still be seen from their demeanor, they seem to have a good time, very happy.

Of course, when he saw that one of them was really his boy, Master Ma's face completely darkened, "This rebel, he came to the capital and didn't seek advancement, he knew all day long that he was slapping horses, and the face of the Ma family was about to be lost by him, what are they doing?" Is it because the body given to him by his parents is too healthy, and he wants to lose arms and legs, right? ”

Racing horses so frantically, if there is a small mistake, it will be a person who turns on his back, and he will not die or be injured!

Lord Chen next to him saw that his face turned purple with anger, and comforted: "Master Ma, a teenager should have the vitality of a teenager, this is quite good, full of vitality, ahaha"

The person next to him pushed Lord Chen with a little schadenfreude on his face and reminded him: "Lord Chen, that's right, it's good to be full of vitality, look, is the one at the back your youngest son?" ”

Master Chen's laughter stopped abruptly, and he stared out the window with squinted eyes, "Where?" Where? ”

The person next to him kindly pointed out to him, "There, the boy who rode the red horse at the back, and the fat boy in the blue brocade robe, don't you take a look?" ”

"Ouch!" Lord Chen clutched his chest and gasped, "My ancestor! How can you participate in such a dangerous horse race? Isn't this nonsense? Hurry up, hurry up! Come over with a horn and shout outside, tell your little master to stop the horse quickly, this game of train racing is too dangerous! ”

As he spoke, he instructed the little servant to take out the loudspeaker he bought for his youngest son in Jiankang and shout.

The little servant of the Chen family immediately complied, took out a gift for the little young master, a cone-shaped iron horn, stretched out the window and shouted: "Little young master, the old man ordered you to stop the horse quickly, it is too dangerous to race with the train!" ”

Master Ma relieved his breath and sneered: "I said, Master Chen, a teenager should have the vitality of a teenager, this is quite good, full of vitality, you just let them race!" ”

Lord Chen also knew that Master Ma was sarcastic at this moment, but he didn't have the heart to pay attention to him at this time, his son was precious, "Master Ma, let's talk about it later, I'll save Xiao'er first." ”

Master Ma was also worried about his son, and when he heard his words, he just snorted coldly, so he didn't say much, and he hoped that those boys would stop!

Master Chen thought that the little girl's voice was too quiet, and patted the back of his head, "You haven't eaten!" Give me a loud voice! ”

The little guy looked at the horse that was still galloping, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, took a deep breath, opened his throat and shouted: "Young master, little young master, the master asked you to stop the horse, and you are not allowed to race!" Dangerous! Dangerous! ”

This time, the sound not only reached the opposite road, but even Li Jingfu, who was sitting in the first-class carriage of the locomotive, heard it.

He asked Anu, "Who's shouting?" ”

Anu listened to the question, glanced at the little eunuch standing at the door of the carriage, the little eunuch was very clever, and when he saw him coming, he went out for a while.

When he came in again, he told the situation outside: "There is a group of sons racing horses on the parallel highway, it should be a race against the train, among them is the sons of Lord Chen and Master Ma, they are afraid that their sons will be injured, so they shouted to them to stop." ”

Li Jingfu, who was lying on the soft couch, sat up when he heard this, and became interested: "Racing with the train? ”

This is the first time I've heard of this, it's strange!

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's across the railroad." The little eunuch pointed out the window.

"Your Majesty, come and see, there is really a group of people riding horses galloping on the opposite road, they are really racing with the train?" A little beauty who was slightly favored in Jiankang couldn't wait to lie on the window, and when she saw the sons galloping on horses, her beautiful eyes were round.

Li Jingfu got up from the soft couch and sat back in front of the car window, "Huh! There is really a group of young men in fresh clothes and angry horses, not bad! I didn't expect to be so good at equestrianism at such a young age! ”

Looking at the flying hair of the teenagers opposite, Li Jingfu's mood also soared.

Anu looked out the window with a cold face, and echoed: "It's true that equestrianism is good!" ”

Li Jingfu was happy at this time, and while watching their horse races, he instructed Anu: "How can there be no lottery in the train race, you remember to write down their names later, and see who wins the first place, I will be rewarded today!" ”

"The old slave wrote it down." Anu looked at the galloping horses outside the window, and sighed in his heart, a group of young men with good luck have fallen into the eyes of the emperor.

The shouting of the carriage behind had not stopped, and even if the young men on the opposite side heard it, they regarded it as the sound of cheering them on, and directly ignored the past, and threw the whip more diligently.

The little family who had been guarding the highway entrance saw the teenagers galloping over from a distance, busy emptying the people at the highway entrance.

"Everyone, hurry up, our sons are here!"

"Get out of here, you'll be careful of being trampled to death by the horses' hooves!" We don't care if we get hurt! ”

At the same time, the people who had been waiting all morning also noticed that the train was about to enter the station, and there was a commotion in the crowd.

"The train is coming to the station!"

"The emperor is here!"

"Tick !!"

With a shrill whistle of the train, the train slowed down and slowly entered the train station.

On the highway, Ma Gongzi, who was the first to reach the finish line, stopped his horse and smiled at the people who had reached the finish line one after another.

He beckoned to them: "Brothers, concede, concede, accidentally won the crown, tonight I have a treat, please go to the drunken fairy building to eat prawns!" ”

Someone snorted, "Okay, you won so much silver from us this time, you have a treat." You're welcome next time, we'll definitely surpass you! ”

Ma Gongzi bowed his head, and he was not angry, and smiled: "Thank you brothers for accepting this time, next time we will fight again!" ”

The spectators next to him, some of them lost money and were not convinced, "Hey, do you say that they didn't show real skills, why didn't Zhang Gongzi, who I am optimistic about, win the first place?" ”

"You're right, I'm also optimistic about Zhang Gongzi, he won the first place last time, why is it cold this time?"

"I suspect that they are operating insider, why is it unexpected every time they get first? If you continue to play like this, who will play next time? ”

"It's just that there is no rule at all, it's fun to gamble, if whoever gets the first let you guess it, how can it be fun to play?"

"Yes, if you guess correctly, the odds can't be so high, you can't win much silver, and it's not exciting enough to play!"

"Haha. I bought Ma Gongzi and I won! I won't tell you, let's go and redeem the bonus first! ”

The crowd at the train station split into two groups, one group of people really came to see the emperor's dragon face, and some people came to bet on horses.

Li Jingfu didn't know that when he first entered the capital, as soon as he got off the train, Anu remembered his instructions, so he sent a little eunuch to send a prize.

Ma Gongzi was stunned when he got the emperor's reward, how could he race a horse, and the emperor also knew? also rewarded him with a pair of jade pendants and a set of four treasures of the study.

"Ma Gongzi, you are really lucky today, you got the first, and you got the emperor's reward, why didn't I have such a good thing last time I won the first?"

Subsequently, the son-in-law who was racing together shouted to let the horse-boy feast them for three days and taste the delicacies of the drunken fairy building before stopping, which is a later story.

Back inside the train station.

As soon as the train stopped, the Praetorian Guards and Zhi Jinwu put the platform of the railway station under martial law, the train door slowly opened, and the first to come down were the palace maids and eunuchs who accompanied them.

The next one who came down was Anu, and after Anu got down, he stretched out his hand to help Li Jingfu get off the train.

As soon as he stood still, Li Jingfu sighed: "It feels so good to be down-to-earth!" ”

After wandering on the train for more than 20 hours, although it was a special train, I was still very tired.

"The minister Ding Dazhuang has seen the emperor, you have worked hard all the way, in order to leave the train station as soon as possible, please here!"

Ding Dazhuang saluted him and guided Li Jingfu and others to evacuate outside the station.

Out of the train station, the three princes who had been staying in the capital stepped forward to bow to him.

"Erchen has seen his father!"

Li Jingfu raised his hand: "Let's get up!" ”

Concubine Xian, who was following Li Jingfu, kept her eyes glued to Li Chengyi's body as soon as she came out, and when she saw her son standing in front of her intact, her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

The three sons stood up, Li Jingfu looked at them, and saw that they were more mature and stable than a few years ago, and bowed his head with satisfaction: "Yes, let's go back first." ”

When the emperor passed by him, Li Chengyi turned around and saluted Concubine Xian, and the mother and son had the opportunity to say something intimate.

Before going to the dragon chariot, Li Jingfu stopped, turned around and asked Anu beside him: "Where is the queen?" ”

Why only three sons came to pick him up, where did the queen go?

Anu: "." He also just got off the train, how does he know where the queen has gone?

"I'm here!" Xia Jing leaned lazily against the car window, opened the curtain with one hand, and said in a casual tone: "You are also big enough, only to find out that I am missing at this time!" ”

Li Jingfu frowned slightly, "Why is the queen sitting in a carriage behind, why don't you share a carriage with me?" ”

Xia Jing heard what he said and glanced behind him, "I won't disturb you and your beauties, sit in the back of this quiet." ”

Li Jingfu looked at the curtain that had been lowered, turned around and asked Anu: "What does the queen mean by this?" ”

“.” Anu pursed her lips.

Li Jingfu didn't wait for Anu to answer, pondered for a while, and then asked, "Could it be that the queen is jealous?" Playing with me? ”

“.” Anu turned his gaze around Li Jingfu's snickering face, wanting to say that he didn't see it.

"Your Majesty, do you want to go and see the queen mother?" The new Jin beauty cautiously approached Li Jingfu and asked.

"This" Li Jingfu glanced at the carriage behind him, a little undecided, in fact, to be honest, he was a little stunned of her.

Seeing the emperor's hesitation, the little beauty turned her beautiful eyes and asked in a low voice, "Don't you like us?" ”

"How come, Queen" Li Jingfu sighed, "Everything will wait until you go back to the palace, hurry up and get in the car!" ”

Concubine Xian and Li Chengyi took a car, and when Li Jingfu got on Longlin, several beauties behind also wanted to follow.

Just before they stepped forward, Anu stopped them and put his zombie face on his face: "Little masters, Long Yuan is only the emperor and queen to ride, and others are not qualified to ride, please sit in the carriage behind the little masters!" ”

As soon as these words came out, several little beauties blushed, and they felt that the Praetorian Guards standing like trees next to them were laughing at their ignorance.

Bai Mei has been paying attention to the situation outside the car, seeing this situation, she turned around and said to Xia Jing: "Niangniang, fortunately, Anu has not forgotten the rules, otherwise she would have made a joke outside this time!" ”

Xia Jing raised her eyes and glanced at her, and said lightly: "Since you lack education, when you return to the palace, find a few strict grandmothers to teach them the rules." Now that they have returned to Beijing, don't let them bring back to the palace those bad habits in Jiankang. ”

After speaking, she yawned, and the emperor returned to the capital, and the previous quiet days were probably gone.

(End of chapter)