However, when Li Ran's official sedan chair passed through the night market in the north of the city, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him.

When I opened the sedan curtain, I saw more than 20 city defense guards wearing official uniforms and golden swords hanging from their waists, surrounded by a young man in cloth with a cold face.

"These warriors of the rivers and lakes are used to being wild on weekdays, and now they dare to sprinkle at the feet of the Son of Heaven, hum, do you have any good juice to eat?"

The leading sedan chair eunuch complained.

"Fathers-in-law, let's take a detour, I still have urgent matters at home. ”

Li Ran frowned and urged.

He was just about to lower the curtain when he suddenly noticed something!

No way!

Lee Hwan!?

Is this little kid back?

Li Ran's eyes widened.

It turned out that this cloth-clothed young man was none other than his younger brother in this life, Li Huan!

In an instant, mixed feelings and countless memories came flooding back to my heart.

Regarding this brother who has not met for seven or eight years, we have to start with the martial arts policy of the imperial court.

The Great Xuan Dynasty established the country with martial arts, and the successive empresses were all martial arts powerhouses with royal secret skills, and they knew that the power of warriors was inseparable from the rise and fall of a dynasty.

Therefore, the imperial court attached great importance to the management of civil warriors.

In order to strengthen the control of the power of the rivers and lakes, in the autumn of 281 of the Great Xuan Calendar, the imperial court set up a special institution "Shengwu Yuan" in Cangzhou, the center of the empire, and canonized a "Martial Saint", seven "Martial Lords" sat here, and in the same year, the "Martial Law" independent of the Great Xuan Law was formulated to restrain the order of martial arts in the world.

At this point, the changes in the clans of the various martial arts families in the people, and the major matters of the various sects, such as the change of heads and the martial arts conference, all need to be reported to the Holy Martial Academy.

This measure, in Li Ran's current view, is actually somewhat similar to the "Minzu regional autonomy" in the previous life, while the imperial court gave many preferential policies to the warriors, it also carried out macro control, and used the warriors to govern the warriors, which indeed alleviated many contradictions.

Under such a system, Daxuan has been safe and sound for hundreds of years.

Until more than a hundred years ago, the strongest martial saint in history, Nangong Wuji, secretly contacted the top ten martial arts families, the eight major sects, and plotted to rebel.

After this incident, Empress Guangji learned from the pain and set up a "Martial Arts Superintendent" in the Shengwu Academy, which was on par with the traditional highest academic institution "Guozijian".

Since then, every few years, the imperial court will draw lots to recruit their descendants from among officials across the country and forcibly send them to the "martial arts superintendent" to practice martial arts.

In the name of beauty, it is said that the creation of a new "Martial Saint", but it is obvious that this move is not only to monitor the Holy Martial Academy, but also to cultivate its own martial arts power.

Finally got to the point.

Let's talk about Li Daoguang, not only is his official luck bad, but his luck is even worse.

No, there are 38,000 officials in the country, with a probability of one in tens of thousands, and he has been selected.

When the "military envoy" of the Shengwu Academy came to Li Daoguang's house for the "census", Li Ran was only ten years old, and his younger brother Li Huan had just turned six.

I have to say that the saying that the emperor loves the eldest son and the people love the youngest son is true in any time and space.

Faced with the arrival of uninvited guests, Li Daoguang and his wife gritted their teeth, hid their second son Li Huan, and lied that they were missing, so that Li Ran, the eldest son who was weak and sickly and had a high probability of waste materials, went to take the test.

Unexpectedly, their routines are deep, and Li Ran's routines are even deeper!

Out of self-preservation, this kid actually told the military envoy the whereabouts of his younger brother!

You must know that the official deliberately concealed the truth and did not cooperate with the military envoy test, but it is a felony to kill the head!

Fortunately, Li Huan was outstanding and talented in the martial arts test, and the visiting military envoy was happy when he saw that the performance was coming, so he did not report the matter to the imperial court.

As a result, the six-year-old Li Huan left home alone and went south, and since then, there has only been a mediocre prince left in the Li Mansion.

Although he was not himself at that time, Li Ran still can't forget the disappointed and helpless eyes of his younger brother Li Huan on the eve of separation.

Iniquity.

In a sense, he Li Ran has been lazy and lazy all these years, and he has lived so nourishingly in the imperial capital, countless beauties have delivered to his door, and he has also won the reputation of "the first beautiful man in the empire", and he also relies on this younger brother.

How do you say that hypocritical statement?

You have been here for a quiet time, pampered, because someone is in a place you can't see, carrying the weight for you!

"Ladies and gentlemen, please wait for me here for a while, and I'll come as soon as I go. ”

Li Ran hesitated for a moment, but still walked down.

The other side.

"Where did you come from, this is the imperial capital, how can you be presumptuous? Quickly put down the sword, I see that you are handsome, with fine skin and tender meat, in the prison of the Criminal Department, there are all Jiang Yang thieves with strange habits, and when the time comes, I will throw you in, and you will be comfortable!"

A guard captain at the head, armed with a spear, threatened with a strange yin and yang spirit.

Although his tone was vicious, he didn't dare to make any moves, not only him, but the dozen or so guards around him were all foreign warriors who were about to enter the first grade, and their strength was not bad, but they all didn't dare to approach, and they seemed to be afraid of something.

Li Ran stared at it, it turned out that beside them, there were already seven or eight guards lying horizontally, these guys did not have any scars on the surface, they should have been hit by someone and passed out.

"Yo, Li Huan, this kid, I haven't seen you for seven or eight years, has your martial arts come to this point?"

Li Ran was slightly surprised, only to see Li Huan pressing the hilt of the sword, his eyes were as cold as lightning, and the long sword with cold light seemed to be about to come out of the sheath at any time.

In fact, in Li Ran's emotional memory, he has no good impression of this younger brother.

Because the latter is too old-fashioned and too serious, typical of other people's children in the mouth of parents!

Looks, although he is also a handsome guy, but he is too heroic and tough, and his demonic face is not the same style of painting at all.

The most important thing is that Li Huan has always looked down on him as an older brother.

Damn, people are all sending a coquettish and cute sister, and when it's Lao Tzu's turn, I'll give me a younger brother with a paralyzed face, I'm really convinced!

However, an inexplicable impulse in his heart still drove him to grit his teeth and walk up.

As soon as Li Ran walked into the crowd, Li Huan found him, and his plain face was paralyzed, and he actually showed a shocked look: "You...... Why are you here?"

"Stinky boy, give me a side. ”

Li Ran glared at Li Huan, then protected him behind him, and said with a smile on his face:

"Brothers, this is the younger brother in the lower house, he just came back from the Southern Shengwu Academy, and he doesn't understand the sophistication of the people, the laws of the court, and the offenses, so please ask your eldest brother Haihan to sell me face. ”

As soon as the guard at the head heard the words "Holy Martial Academy", his face changed slightly, and then he spat and said viciously: "Give you face? How old are you? The official told you that even if this person is a martial artist, if he confronts the officers and soldiers of the imperial court in public, according to the "Martial Law", he should also be detained and imprisoned, and his martial arts should be abolished. ”

Li Ran glanced around, then noticed the servant who was sent out to take care of Li Huan back then, and asked, "Uncle Wang, tell me, what's going on?"

The servant Wang Danian was about to speak, but Li Huan on the side said in a southern accent: "This matter has nothing to do with the rain girl, I will handle it myself." ”