Chapter 203: Established Descendants

Suiye City was rebuilt by the Tang army during the Wu Zetian era. It has a circumference of nearly 60 miles. The city walls are tall and majestic. Everything is no different from the Central Plains. Suiye City also retains the consistent characteristics of Tang Dynasty architecture. The city is wide, the streets are upright, and the building base is spacious.

The street layout in the city is also completely imitated by Chang'an City. A straight road in the middle is also called Zhuque Street, but it is east-west and has no walls. The trees on both sides of the street are tall and lush, and shops are lined with one after another. The city has a large population and mixed ethnic groups, Han, Turks, Tuqishi, Sogdian, Geluo, Tochar, etc.

Since the broken leaves have been in the hands of the Han people for a long time, despite the thirty years of rule by the Turks, the style of the city can still be vaguely seen in its heyday.

There are buildings built by the Han people back then, one after another, black tiles and brick houses, and a fence that is tall among people, forming a yard. Li Bai's former residence is in a large mansion on the north side of Zhuque Street, where a Turkish person lives.

Li Qingan surrounded by hundreds of personal guards and arrived at a large mansion near the east gate. Opposite the mansion was Li Huichun's mansion, but Li Qingan did not plan to find him today.

Everyone dismounted in front of the mansion. A personal soldier stepped forward and knocked on the door. After a moment, the door opened. An elderly old man was stunned when he saw that there were a large group of soldiers outside. The personal soldier bowed and said, "General Li Qing'an, the governor of Beiting, came to visit Mrs. Luo!"

"Oh! You guys wait."

The door was closed and the old family ran to report the news. The mansion was the descendant of Li Jiancheng in the old house of Saiye. It has now reached the fourth generation. The owner was Li Yan, who had been arrested by Li Qingan. However, he could not help his family, but his mother, Mrs. Luo, was in charge of the family.

The door opened with a creak!, and a woman in her forties in her palace clothes walked out. Although she was middle-aged and had a windy hair and a mist, her pretty face could still be seen from her eyebrows and eyes. She was Li Xiang's mother, Mrs. Luo.

"Welcome General Li to our mansion!"

Mrs. Luo's voice was very gentle, neither humble nor arrogant, showing the style of a big woman.

Li Qingan smiled and bowed, "I've been here for half a month before I came to visit my wife. It's my rudeness."

"The general has a noble status and is just a civilian woman. How can he afford to visit the military governor? The general does not think that my house is simple, please come in and have a cup of tea!"

"Okay, I'll disturb my wife."

Li Qing'an walked into the house. This was a century-old house. The house was very large and covered an area of ​​about a hundred acres. The courtyards were layered. Although they had been renovated, it could still be seen that it had experienced vicissitudes. The trees were tall and dense, and they were as tall as a cover. The bricks and stones on the road were polished and smooth, and some animal patterns on the bricks and stones were blurred. However, if you carefully identify them, you could still see that they were patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns, which vaguely showed the uniqueness of their owner's identity.

Although Li Jiancheng was heroic and generous, his descendants who were living in the branch of Sailed Leaf were not as good as those of the previous generation. The first generation Li Chengsi had ambition of ambition. He started dancing with a chicken every day and started to study and practice swords. He wanted to restore his father's ambition. Unfortunately, he died of illness at the age of thirty, leaving behind a son, Li Jiye, but he was a playboy. He gave birth to three sons and two died. He himself died at the age of 40 because of excessive alcohol and sex.

Then Li Jun, Li Jun, and Li Jun were Mrs. Luo's husband. He was also killed in Persia six years ago. Mrs. Luo was afraid that his son would follow the old path of his father's death and favored him thousands of times. He was not allowed to go out. He was afraid that he would catch a cold or cough. He arranged for him to serve him more than a dozen maids, but he also raised him into a playboy who was not diligent and did not distinguish between grains. In addition, the Yinlong Society was afraid that he would have no descendants. He gave him a woman when he was twelve years old, but he actually injured his kidney meridian. Now he is twenty-four years old and still has no descendants. This has become the biggest heart disease of the Yinlong Society.

Although the Li family's house is large, it is deserted and has few servants. Most of them are women, and a few men are old servants.

Li Qing'an was invited to the living room. Although tables and chairs were used in all parts of the Western Regions, it was still the same as in the Central Plains, sitting on a couch and mat. Li Qing'an sat cross-legged and a maid brought two cups of fragrant tea. He looked at the room and asked with a smile: "Isn't the young master here?"

Mrs. Luo bowed and said, "My son is studying in the back house and usually does not see guests."

She said gratefully again: "Thank you General Li for being magnanimous and letting my son go in Beiting."

Li Qingan picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "It's nothing! We were doing it at that time. The young master was innocent. If he figured it out, he would naturally release him. But I have a saying, don't you know whether it should be said or not?"

"General Li, it's okay to talk about it!"

Li Qing'an pondered for a moment and said, "The young master has too little contact with the outside world and doesn't understand the world at all. The wife should let him go out more and see the world."

Mrs. Luo was speechless. Her husband was killed when he traveled to Persia. How could she let her only son take risks again?

Seeing that Mrs. Luo was silent, Li Qingan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He took out the dragon-patterned jade pendant from his arms and gave it to Mrs. Luo, and smiled and said, "This is a young master's thing. I have forgotten to give it to him. Now the thing returns to the original owner."

Mrs. Luo stared at the jade pendant for a while. She sighed and gave the jade pendant to Li Qing'an again. "I have no choice but to give it to General Li, so I will give this jade pendant to General Li."

Li Qingan was stunned and gave it to himself. Is this jade pendant meaningless at all? He hesitated and said, "Madam, I heard that this jade pendant is very precious. Is it inappropriate to give it to me?"

"Precious!" Mrs. Luo smiled bitterly, "Yes, it is very precious, it is a thing passed down from generation to generation of the Li family. But no matter how precious it is, can it be as precious as my son's life? This piece of jade has brought so many misfortunes to their grandparents and grandchildren. No one can have a good death. I just hope that my son can live a simple life, have children like a normal person, and let me hold my grandson, and don't ruin my life for an impossible dream."

Mrs. Luo's voice was very low, and finally she became murmured. Li Qing'an was a little embarrassed. This piece of jade brought misfortune to their grandparents and grandchildren, so she gave herself the reason. It was awkward to hear this reason.

He played with the jade and slowly expressed his true intention today, "But Madam, I have seen another jade, which is almost exactly the same as it."

"Bang!" Mrs. Luo's cup fell to the ground and fell to pieces. She was stunned. She grabbed the armrest of the chair tightly and trembled all over, as if she was about to fall down at any time. She asked in a trembling voice: "General Li, is there a phoenix pattern in that piece of jade?"

Li Qing'an suddenly understood, and it was indeed a pair. He pondered for a while and said, "I saw that piece of jade in a jewelry shop in Anxi a few years ago. I don't know if there is any phoenix pattern. Later I wanted to buy it, but unfortunately it has been bought. If the wife is willing to tell me its origin, I will do my best to find its whereabouts."

There was endless sadness in Mrs. Luo's eyes, and she whispered: "I once had two sons. My eldest son, Li Yi, was unfortunately abducted when he was three years old. At that time, he was wearing the phoenix-patterned jade pendant. We searched for it for ten years. There was a clue that he was abducted to Dashi. We even sent someone to Dashi to search, but we could never find it again."

Speaking of this, she suddenly stood up, knelt down to Li Qing'an, and said sadly: "General Li, if you can find my son, I would like to build a temple for you. I will eat vegetarian food for you and recite the Buddha's name for you for the rest of my life."

"Madam, please get up quickly! Don't do this."

Li Qing'an quickly asked to help his wife up, but a stern shout came from behind: "What have you done to my mother?"

When Li Qingan turned around, he saw Li Qing standing at the side door with anger on his face and staring at him fiercely. Li Qingan sat down and smiled faintly, "Young Master, it's been a long time since we saw you."

Mrs. Luo hurriedly explained to her son, "Ji'er, General Li is going to do a big favor to my mother. I'm thanking General Li."

"Help? What do we need him to help?"

There is a small animal. When it encounters a strong enemy alone, it will bow its head and beg for mercy, or lie on the ground with its feet facing the sky to admit defeat. However, when it returns to its owner, it will become extremely fierce and completely forget the begging for mercy.

Li Xiang is undoubtedly this kind of animal. He was scared to death by Li Qing'an in Beiting, but when he returned to Thunder Ye and his mother and Yinlong Association, he immediately turned against Li Qing'an.

He walked forward, saw the dragon-patterned jade pendant on the table at a glance, and reached out to grab it, "This is my jade pendant!"

Li Qing'an hooked his hand and the jade pendant came to his hand and smiled and said, "Young Master, this jade pendant is not yours for the time being."

Mrs. Luo quickly scolded, "Yi'er must not be rude!"

"But mom, this jade pendant is obviously mine."

"It used to be yours, but now I have given it to General Li."

"What!"

Li Xiang was furious, and he glared at his mother and shouted: "What power do you have to give me the ancestral jade pendant from my Li family?"

Mrs. Luo's face turned pale in an instant, "Yu'er, how could you speak to your mother like this."

"How can I speak? This jade pendant is a ancestral object of my Li family. What do you think you are? How dare you give it to someone."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp sound of 'bang!', Li Qingan slapped him to the ground and said coldly: "If you dare to be rude to your mother, I will chop you up with one knife. Do you still remember?"

After saying that, he bowed to Mrs. Luo and left. Li Qi touched his face and fell to the ground. He suddenly remembered the murdered Hu man, with a hint of fear in his eyes. Mrs. Luo quickly helped him up, "Son! Are you okay?"

From afar, Li Qing'an's voice came, "This jade pendant is my spoil. From now on, it will belong to me."

At night, Li Qing'an wrote a letter to Prince Li Heng in the room, reporting to him about the process of taking down the leaves. After all, he was a princeling and he had the obligation to report to the prince.

At this time, the personal soldiers came from the door, "Empress, Lord Li is here."

"Please come in!"

Li Qing'an put down his pen, and at this time the personal soldiers brought Li Huichun in. Li Huichun hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "See the envoy?"

"You're welcome, Lord Li Dong, please sit down!"

Li Huichun sat down and immediately said, "Eunuch Li, I'm here this time..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Qingan waved his hand and interrupted him, and said with a smile: "I know that Master Li is sending me big food."

"No! I have already sent someone to Dashi. I guess in a few days, I will come back. At that time, I will definitely hand over the information to the envoy. I am here today for the Dragon Pattern Jade Pendant."

"Oh! Did Li Yan tell you?"

Li Huichun stood up and bowed deeply to Li Qing'an, begging, "Envoy Li, that jade pendant is extraordinary to us, beg me to return it to us."

"But Mrs. Luo has already given it to me." Li Qingan said with a smile.

Li Huichun was so anxious that sweat beads oozing from her forehead. They always thought that the jade pendant was still on Li Xiang. Today, they realized that it had already reached Li Qing'an's hands.

Li Qing'an took out the jade pendant and put it on the table, saying, "I heard that there are actually two jade pendants. How precious are they? I want to hear it."

Li Huichun looked at the jade pendant with a long eye and could only sigh and said, "There are two jade pendants, one dragon and one phoenix. The prince Jiancheng gave birth to concubine Chang a hundred years ago. If he gave birth to a son, he would wear phoenix jade, and if he gave birth to a daughter, he would wear phoenix jade. As a result, he gave birth to a son on the shady leaves. These two jade pendants became the only evidence left by Prince Jiancheng for the posthumous son. Generally, the dragon jade was two dragon and phoenix pendants. However, because the dragon jade was precious, it could not be worn until the crown prince was young. Before, they were worn phoenix jade to ward off evil spirits. Unexpectedly, the prince disappeared twenty-three years ago, and the phoenix jade was missing. The whereabouts of the phoenix jade was left. This piece of dragon jade was extremely precious. Mrs. Luo gave it to the envoy for the love of her son. I can understand her painstaking efforts, but this piece of dragon jade cannot be left to outsiders in any case. Please return it to us."

Li Qingan smiled slightly, "So that's it! Actually, I'm just collecting it. I happened to have another one, so I wanted to match it into a pair."

Li Huichun was stunned for a while and stammered, "Eunuch Li, what do you mean?"

Li Qingan took out the phoenix-patterned jade pendant from the drawer, put it together with the dragon-patterned jade pendant, and said, "Isn't this a pair?"

Li Huichun's face changed drastically. He trembled and picked up the phoenix-patterned jade pendant, looked at the light, suddenly pinched the jade tightly in his palm, stared at Li Qing'an and said, "Eunuch Li, where did you come from?"

"I don't know where it came from. I have been with me for a long time and have been thrown in the box. If I hadn't seen this dragon-patterned jade pendant, I would have forgotten it."

Li Qing'an picked up the dragon-shaped jade pendant and handed it to Li Huichun and smiled and said, "This dragon-patterned jade pendant belongs to you, but the phoenix-patterned jade pendant belongs to mine, you have to give it to me."

The night was getting deeper and deeper. Li Huichun sat in his study and stared blankly outside the window. There was a sign on the table next to him. It was obtained from the spirit of Prince Yin. There were eight words on it: "The broken leaves return to the Tang Dynasty, and the hidden dragon ascends to heaven."

Li Huichun had been sitting there for a whole hour, and no one knew what he was thinking. At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the door, and Chang Jin asked, "What did your father ask us to do so late?"

"I don't know, Uncle Chang and Uncle Luo, please come in!"

The door opened, Chang Jin and Luo Pinfang walked in. Luo Pinfang was in his early sixties this year, and he was Mrs. Luo's father. He had a blushing face and had a furious temper.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Old Li, it's so late, what are you asking us for?"

Li Huichun sighed, "Please sit down, two!"

The two sat down, and Luo Pinfang urged again: "Tell me quickly! What's the matter?"

Li Huichun took out the dragon-patterned jade pendant and placed it on the table, saying, "This is what I want to get back from Li Qing'an. Last time, I threw it in Beiting."

Both of them were stunned, and Luo Pinfang said angrily: "Why didn't that little bastard say it? How dare you hide it from us!"

Li Xiang is his grandson, and he has always been disappointed.

Chang Jin quickly smoothed out and said, "He may be afraid that we will scold him, but now he has taken it back, that's fine."

Li Huichun whispered: "But, I saw the phoenix-patterned jade pendant again in Li Qing'an."

"What jade does he have..."
To be continued...