A day ago, a group of chariots and horses came to Los Angeles. There are countless cars and horses entering and leaving the city like this every day, and they are not noticeable. But this line has a simple appearance, there is no sign of any sect power, and the clothes of the people driving the car cannot be seen. But these two ordinary carriages, before entering the city, the city gate guards stepped forward to investigate, and an entourage of the convoy handed over something, and the guards were directly shocked, and entered the city directly without saying more. The rest of the people or caravans waiting to enter the city were puzzled, and they all guessed which dignitaries were on the car. Curious people went to the gate guards to inquire about the identity of the people in the car, but the guards were secretive.

After the carriage entered the city, it still drove very low-key, passing through Taiping Avenue to the Li Mansion in the city. After the doorman of the Assassin's Mansion took the post, he hurriedly opened the door and welcomed the group into the mansion. This led to speculation among the people in the city. However, some of the big forces in the city or the spies of the sect in this place knew a little about this matter, and a few months ago they received a message from the sect that Yuwen Xing, the third son of the Yuwen family, was leading people to Luoshi City, but it coincided with the opening of the tomb in Eagle Ridge Mountain, so it was delayed for about two months on the way.

At this time, in the main hall of the Li Mansion, Li Haozi, who was sitting in a precarious position, was greeting guests on behalf of his father, and there was also a staff member of the Assassin's Mansion sitting next to him. After serving refreshments, the servants retreated one after another, leaving only the two Li Mansion and Yuwenxing, the accompanying old woman and a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt from the Yuwen family.

No matter how careless Li Haozi is about officialdom, but the most basic etiquette is still extremely thoughtful, after all, the person in front of him is the third son of Yu Wenyuan's wife, one of the four pillars of Great Xia. In several greetings, Li Haozi said that his father had political affairs to deal with, and he didn't know that Yuwen Gongzi came from afar, and he missed the welcome, please forgive me, and he had sent someone to invite his father back, and hoped that Yuwen Gongzi would take care of him and so on. Yuwen Xing also restrained the evil charm and casualness on weekdays, and also said something politely, Li Gongzi is a young and heroic man, young and promising, and Lord Assassin Shi is dedicated to the people and the court, and it is the Tang Yunyun of our visit.

About two minutes later, Li Hanren heard the news, put down the matter at hand, and hurried from the office. Entering the main hall of the Li Mansion, it was inevitable that there would be another polite greeting. Seeing his father come back, Li Haozi was about to confess and leave, but before he could speak, Yuwenxing seemed to see his thoughts, and took the lead and said: "Li Gongzi, don't leave in a hurry, you might as well listen to it together, this matter can be regarded as related to you." ”

Everyone talked in the room for nearly two hours before the door of the main hall was opened by Li Hanren. His face was a little gloomy, and he looked preoccupied. He gave an order and asked the person in charge of the house to arrange for the Yuwen family and his party to stay in the attached middle school. When everyone left, Li Hanren turned his head to look at his son who was standing behind him. Latter. The latter saw his father looking at him, the mocking expression on his face flashed, and he asked, "Father wants to agree to the Yuwen family's request?"

Li Hanren did not answer his son's words, and still stared deeply into his son's eyes. After a long time, he spoke, "You can go." ”

Hearing this, Li Haozi was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly: "Where are you going?"

"Don't you want to explore the world? ”

"Father, you. Li Haozi was a little anxious and wanted to argue with his father about something, but the latter waved his hand, stepped down the steps and said, "I'll go to your sister first and ask her what she means." ”

In Li Yingxin's room, the father and daughter sat opposite each other. Seeing that her father's face was a little solemn, and she wanted to speak a few times, the woman took the lead in breaking the deadlock: "Father, I heard that Yuwen Xing of the Yuwen family is here?"

"Yes, before the Yuwen family sent a book, they were going to visit two months ago, and then they sent someone to send a letter saying that they took a detour to the area of Sanhuai Town, where a red armor tomb was found, and many forces sent people to come, and it was a sensational event recently. Even your father and I, who have never cared about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, have heard of it. ”

"So, this time my father came to me, it should be related to Na Yuwenxing, right?" the woman asked tentatively.

Li Hanren nodded, but did not answer. Seeing her father's embarrassed face, the woman seemed to think of something, she smiled lightly and said, "Didn't Yuwenxing come to the door to propose?"

Hearing his daughter's words, Li Hanren woke up in an instant like a sleepy person who was suddenly taught a basin of cold water from scratch. He sat up straight and stared at his daughter, his eyes flashing alternately with dimness and light.

"Dad hasn't agreed yet?" Seeing her father nodding, the woman continued to ask, "Why shouldn't Dad do this family affair?"

The middle-aged man finally sighed deeply, and said for the first time after entering the house: "The Yuwen family came this time, and mentioning your marriage to Yuwen Xing is just one of them. Yuwenjia said that they would also let me go to Beijing to be the head of the household department through their operation. In addition, they also promised that they could let your younger brother go to the military department to be an official, and they would find a warrior from the Yuwen family to guide him in martial arts. ”

"So what's Daddy worried about? That's a good thing. The woman asked.

"Yun family. The man's answer was only two words. Seeing the increasingly doubtful look on his daughter's face, he continued: "I have a very close relationship with your Uncle Yun Jinchuan, you know this. From an outsider's point of view, Yun Jinchuan and Yun Yin Villa have never been on good terms, but this is not the case. Over the years, although Yunyin Villa has not only asked about the internal affairs of the state, since Dad arrived, your Uncle Yun has contacted Yunyin Villa many times, and used the power of the Yun family to help Dad solve a lot of troubles in secret. Whether the double reed sung by Yunyin Villa and Yun Jinchuan is planned for many years, and it is unknown to my father. But first, I have been sympathetic to your Uncle Yun over the years, and I am quite like-minded, so my personal relationship is not adulterated. But I owe Yunyin Villa a lot of favors over the years, and it's true. Or that I am also a person of the power of Yunyin Villa, and it is not an exaggeration. And if I agree to the family affairs of the Yuwen family, it means that I will have a good relationship with the Yuwen family, and in this way, on the surface or secretly, we all have to think about the interests of the Yuwen family. And the Yuwen family deliberately contributed to the trouble and let me enter the center, naturally for this purpose. I want to come to the Yuwen family because I want us to be completely attached to them. And once this happens, I'm afraid that my friendship with your Uncle Yun will be difficult to maintain in order to avoid suspicion. And we have broken with the Yun family since then. ”

"Why is it so serious, the Yun family has always disliked disputes. Even if we are friendly with the Yuwen family, Uncle Yun and Yunyin Villa won't embarrass us, right?"

"Don't you know, Yuwenxing and Yun Xueluo have some conflicts in the tomb. So Li Hanren told his daughter what happened in the tomb. The woman's brows furrowed when she heard this.

"In this way, the Yuwen family is deliberately calculating the Yun family. In other words, the Yuwen family's visit this time, whether it is to propose relatives or promise his father's future, is it also aimed at the Yun family?" Li Yingxin said to himself.

Li Hanren sighed, "Yes, I promised that the Yuwen family was the enemy of the Yun family." But the Yuwen family came all the way this time, and they must have come prepared, and they must have been determined. If we reject the Yuwen family, I don't know what kind of revenge the Yuwen family will have in the future. ”

"So, what is Daddy's plan?" the woman looked at her father.

"yes. The man nodded and said, "Let's choose the lesser of two evils." I'm just going to wronged you. ”

The woman smiled at her father and said, "I am the daughter of the Li family. Marriage is the order of the parents, and if you marry into the Yuwen family, it can be regarded as a good match. If you want to come to a wealthy family like Yuwen's family, you care most about family style and face, even if the wealthy family is as deep as the sea, she will not treat her daughter badly. Just the younger brother of him. ”

"I know that he and Yun Xuelan also grew up together. He has been a loving person since he was a child, and this matter, he is even more in a dilemma, and he feels even more uncomfortable. ”

"What about him?" the woman asked.

"Don't let him get involved in this matter, I decided to let him leave the Li family to do what he wants. Seeing what his daughter was going to say, Li Hanren motioned to his daughter to listen to what he had said, and he continued: "Although he is a little ignorant, he is worried about his dream of rivers and lakes. But he has been persisting for so many years because of a childhood agreement. What he retains is the pure heart that our Li family has always wanted to inherit but is still gradually forgotten. I thought that he would be able to be named on the gold list, and one day he could wear a purple robe and glorify the lintel of my Li family, and don't let the glory of the Li family decline in his generation. But just now in the main hall, when Yu Wenxing proposed that we break with the Yun family from now on, and even asked us to collect evidence of Yunyin Villa's treason with the enemy of Nanliang, your brother's performance was rude from the officialdom. But from the perspective of a Li family, he is the son who really retains the loyal blood of my Li family. Although I scolded him at the time, what I said at that time was more like scolding myself. Over the years, I have been bent on honoring my ancestors for the Li family and serving as an official for nearly 20 years, although I have also fulfilled my duties, worked hard for the court and the people of Great Xia, but if you ask me if I am really worthy of my heart. I don't dare to say yes, although I have not been corrupt, I have not formed a party for personal gain, and I have not looted the people's fat and ointment. But all I did was to tarnish the reputation of the Li family. The so-called scholars who cherish the world and open peace for all generations have long been forgotten by me in the process of maintaining the reputation of the Li family. I am now looking ahead and backward, cautious, walking on thin ice, for fear that if I lose the foundation of the Li family, I will lose in my hands. But I am no longer the Li family that the ancestors of the Li family wanted the descendants of the Li family to become. What kind of face do I have to criticize your brother with the rise and fall of the Li family? Instead of making it difficult for him to choose between loyalty and filial piety, it is better to let him take the last bit of incense of my Li family and leave some inheritance for the family. ”

The daughter seemed to think that her father's words were a little too serious, and she asked suspiciously: "Dad, why are you saying this the same as wanting to exterminate the clan? If we really choose to lean towards the Yuwen family, with the friendship between you and Uncle Yun for so many years, Yunyin Mountain Villa will not embarrass us. ”

"Yunyin Villa will not embarrass us, that's because the current owner of Yunyin Villa is still Yunjinhe. He had spent all these years looking for a cure for his son's pulse disease. And because of the early death of his deceased wife, he loved a pair of children, so his temperament became more gentle. He is not strong in temperament, and he has no quarrel with the world. But this can only be said that Yunyin Mountain Villa is still a snoozing lion. Now it is rumored that Song Jichen will be the owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa in the future, even if Yun Xuelan is really hereditary, he is a person who cannot cultivate martial arts. In such a military family, there is no way to cultivate your own power, and you will eventually become someone else's puppet. And Song Jichen has a completely different personality from his father-in-law, he is an ambitious and powerful person. If he becomes the real person at the helm of the villa, he will definitely settle this account with our Li family in the future. I only hope that your brother can stay out of the matter, and the Yun family will really investigate it in the future, with the relationship between him and Yun Xuelan, the Yun family will not poison him, but can keep the bloodline of my Li family. Of course, all of this I said was the worst-case scenario, maybe I was overthinking. Maybe the Yun family doesn't take care of today's actions, maybe the Yun family is really in a state of collapse after being suppressed by the Yuwen family? Then our worries are also superfluous. ”

"Dad thinks that Yunyin Villa is really so easy to be destroyed by the Yuwen family?"

"Over the years, the Yun family has been stationed on the frontier, loyal to Great Xia and the Chai royal family. But it is precisely because they show no dissent, are too low-key, and never really form a party for personal gain in the open, which is what disturbs His Majesty the most today. There are no people who are officials in the court today who do not have some selfishness or shortcomings. As an emperor, what you are afraid of is not that the courtiers make mistakes, it is not that the courtiers are greedy, as long as the courtiers are not excessive, and the mistakes made are not big, the emperor can use this to reign. But if a person behaves flawlessly and without flaws, as an emperor, he should be cranky. I was worried that this person had no intentions, so I kept forbearing. Especially the Yun family has troops to guard the border. It also controlled the entire southeast of the rivers and lakes. If these soldiers and horses were loyal, it would naturally be the emperor's seriously impregnable line of defense. But once these soldiers pointed their swords to the northwest, or even colluded with the Southern Liang? For the emperor, this was a problem of raising tigers. And if there is a person in the court, what if he intentionally or unintentionally blows the wind on the pillow? Therefore, what Yu Wenxing proposed today wants me to prove that the Yun family has a heart of disobedience, not a joke. There is no need to really have any evidence, as long as I open my mouth, the thorn in His Majesty's psychology will be pierced deeper, and the Yuwen family has a back hand, and the Yun family is afraid that they will really have to drink a pot. ”

"Why did the Yuwen family do this, will the Yun family really be forced to rebel?" the woman blurted out as soon as she blurted out her words, and quickly covered her mouth. At this moment, the door was slammed open from the outside. A somewhat angry teenager's voice sounded, "I don't know why the Yuwen family did this. But I know that the Yun family will definitely not rebel. ”