As Kaifeng City gets closer and closer, Zhao Yan is also feeling more and more excited. Nearly a year away from home, he misses his family, Cao Ying, Xue Ning'er, two sisters, etc., especially his newly born daughter, which makes him extremely concerned. Every night, he can dream of a cute little baby clapping his hands and calling his father.

On the way, Zhao Yan had already received news from his family. Not only did he know that Xue Ning'er gave birth to a daughter, but he also knew that his two sisters were arguing about naming. Princess Bao'an wanted to name her daughter Sier, but Princess Shoukang insisted on naming her twelfth lunar month. As a result, the two argued for a long time and finally decided to take a step back and take a word from each of the two names. So Zhao Yan's daughter's nickname was Siyue, but this name no longer looked like a nickname, but could be regarded as a real name.

After nearly a month of traveling, Zhao Yan and the others finally saw Kaifeng City in front of them. This made Zhao Yan on the carriage excitedly open the car window and watch everywhere. However, Yelu Si, who was sitting beside him, became more nervous. She grabbed the corners of her skirt with both hands and rubbed them constantly, and her palms were filled with sweat. When she thought of seeing Zhao Yan's family, especially Cao Ying, the real princess, she became even more nervous.

"Si'er, don't worry, Ying'er and the others are easy to get along with, not to mention that you are still pregnant, and after you go back, you will only be protected by everyone as treasures, and no one dares to say anything." Zhao Yan also saw Yelu Si's nervousness at this time, and immediately stretched out his hand to hold her palm and comforted her.

"Yeah!" Yelu Si agreed, but still couldn't help but feel nervous. She has been living in the palace since she was a child, and now she has given up her identity and accompanied Zhao Yan to live in the Song Dynasty thousands of miles away. This is definitely a huge challenge for her.

"Don't worry, everything is for your husband!" Zhao Yan saw this, so he had to hold her hand tightly and comfort him. Then he thought of something again, and said with a smile, "It's the day after tomorrow. The Lantern Festival in Tokyo is famous all over the world. I'll take you to see it. That day was really lively."

When he heard Zhao Yan mention the lantern festival in Tokyo, Yelu Si was shocked. Although there were lantern festivals in Liao Kingdom, their scale was far worse than that in Tokyo. As early as in the palace, she had heard about the lively Tokyo Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty. She had always dreamed of seeing the lively Tokyo Lantern Festival with her own eyes. Unexpectedly, this wish was finally coming true now.

When Zhao Yan saw Yelu Si interested in the lantern festival. He immediately added strength and said, "If you want to say that the lantern festival in Tokyo is really lively. For example, last year, we first went to Yujie to wait. After dark that day, there was a drum sound, and then hundreds of dragon-shaped boat lights on the Yuhe River set off together. When the first dragon lantern arrived at Aoshan, we immediately took the fire on the lantern and lit the Aolight lamp, and then the lights on the entire Yujie street began to ignite, and finally the lights in the entire Tokyo city would ignite, and then the entire lantern festival officially began..."

When Yelu Si was also fascinated by Zhao Yan's introduction to the grand occasion of the lantern festival, she was also fascinated by her eyes. At the same time, the tension in her heart was slowly left aside by her, and her mind was full of plans to appreciate the lantern festival the day after tomorrow. She even planned to take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy the lantern festival to have a good relationship with Zhao Yan's princess so that she could get along with her in the future.

When Zhao Yan and his convoy arrived outside Kaifeng City, Zhao Shu, who had already received the news, also led all the ministers to welcome him. After all, the return of Zhao Xu and Zhao Yan and others also represented the official return of the mission to the Liao Kingdom last time. Moreover, this mission also made a lot of contributions to the Song Dynasty. For example, Yelu Chongyuan's rebellion had an inseparable relationship with them, so it was normal for Zhao Shu to come to welcome him.

Seeing the greeting team led by Zhao Shu himself, Zhao Xu and Zhao Yan immediately rushed to the front to salute Zhao Shu. Zhao Shu was very happy to see his two sons returning safely, but he glared at Zhao Yan fiercely. It seemed that the incident of his killing of Silibo had also been spread to the court.

Perhaps it was for the sake of confidentiality, or for the sake of Zhao Yan's face, Zhao Shu didn't say anything in front of so many people. On the surface, he was very kind to the brothers Zhao Xu and Zhao Yan. Then the father and son rode on the carriage together and returned to the palace. As soon as they got on the carriage, Zhao Shu immediately scolded Zhao Yan with a gloomy face: "Third brother, you are so brave!"

"My son is arbitrary, please punish him!" Zhao Yan knew that he could not escape Zhao Shu's level, so he did not deny it, and admitted it very simply that he had done this matter anyway. As for how to punish him, let Zhao Shu take care of it.

"You..." Seeing that Zhao Yan didn't even defend himself, Zhao Shu was angry and anxious. Originally, Wanyan's ministry should have been damned by Zhao Yan, but later it led to an alliance with Wanyan's ministry. The matter was unanimously agreed by the court officials, but in the end, Zhao Yan ruined it, which made Zhao Shu unable to explain to the ministers. Many ministers have even written letters to demand severe punishment of Zhao Yan.

"Dad, don't be angry. Although the third brother is a bit reckless in killing Silibo, he also has his own reasons. First, although the Wanyan tribe is weak, the entire Jurchens are not weak, and have even become one of the main threats to the Liao Kingdom..."

Zhao Xu said and said the words that Zhao Yan convinced him, but this was just the first point. Then he continued: "The second is that after the third brother fell into the hands of Wanyan's tribe, he suffered a lot of grievances. He didn't even have food, so he could only rely on Zhou Tong and others to hunt for a living. Father, look at the third brother, now he is dark and thin. When I first saw him, he was even darker and thinner than now, and his hands were frozen all over. It can be said that he suffered a lot. In this way, the third brother was naturally resentful of Wanyan's tribe. He was powerless to take revenge before, but when he formed an alliance, he finally couldn't help but kill the other party. However, this is also the crime of Wanyan's tribe. My royal family of the Song Dynasty was extremely noble. How could the Jurchen savages be so despised?"

When Zhao Shu heard Zhao Xu's words, especially when Zhao Yan suffered a lot in Wanyan's army, the expression on his face finally calmed down. He looked at Zhao Yan seriously and found that he was indeed much thinner than before, and the frostbite on his hands was not as good as before. Thinking that Zhao Yan didn't want to go, he forced him to go to Liao Kingdom to serve. As a result, he suffered so much, which made Zhao Shu feel a little guilty and could no longer bear to scold Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan also observed Zhao Shu's expression change. At this time, he immediately struck while the iron was hot and walked forward with a smile: "Father, although my son made a mistake in the end, he helped his elder brother incite the civil strife in Liao Kingdom. Even Yelu Hongji died in this civil strife. Liao Kingdom has been fighting endlessly, so even if there is no merit, it will work hard. If the merits and demerits are offset, he should not be punished, right?"

When Zhao Yan mentioned his contribution to the Liao Kingdom, Zhao Shu's face relaxed a little, and even a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He also did not expect that his two sons would give him such a big surprise. After the Liao Dynasty's internal chaos, the Song Dynasty became much more relaxed.

"Well, you did a good job in the chaos in Liaoning." Zhao Shu rarely praised him, but then he said to Zhao Yan with a tense face, "But Yan'er, you are so brave, you actually kidnapped the princess of Liao. What are you going to do about this?"

"Father, Si'er and I were in love with each other, and we couldn't help but get together. For me, she was willing to give up her identity as a princess, so in the future she would be with me as an ordinary woman. In addition, the Liao Kingdom also blocked the news of Si'er's disappearance due to face. So as long as we do not disclose Si'er's identity, the Liao Kingdom would not have any big reaction." Zhao Yan said with a smile. He actually saw that Zhao Shu did not seem to make things difficult for Yelu Si.

"Father, my third brother can kidnap the princess of Liao Kingdom back, which can be considered as a face for our royal family of the Song Dynasty. In addition, the princess of Zheng Kingdom is also pregnant with your grandson, so he can't send someone back to Liao Kingdom anyway." Zhao Xu also helped Zhao Yan plead for mercy at this time, which was also what he had agreed to Zhao Yan long ago.

"Hmph, it is because the chaos in Liao is now causing them to be unable to take care of themselves, so they don't have the energy to pay attention to this matter. But if the Liao Kingdom recovers from the future, I'm afraid it will make a big fuss about this matter. Could it be that we still need to increase the annual quota?" Zhao Shu said angrily, but Zhao Yan and Zhao Xu both seemed to both Zhao Shu were not really angry, but just using this to hit Zhao Yan and tell him not to be too reckless in the future.

When Zhao Xu saw this, he immediately gave Zhao Yan a wink, and then Zhao Yan immediately bowed and said, "Dad's lesson, I don't think well about this matter, and I will never do it again in the future!"

"Well, just know your mistake. From today on, the woman next to you is named Cao Si, who is the distant cousin of your wife's family. Her father's name is Cao Rang. She is a county magistrate under Dezhou, Hebei Province. Her mother, Cao Chen, has a son and three daughters. Cao Si is the youngest. When you pass by Dezhou, you will take Cao Si as your concubine. You must remember all these!" Zhao Shu nodded and reminded.

"Yes, I have all my sons recorded it. Thank you, Dad!" Zhao Yan smiled at Zhao Xu when he heard this. Zhao Shu had even arranged Yelu Si's fake identity. From this, it can be seen that he had agreed to the matter between Zhao Yan and Yelu Si long ago.

Just as Zhao Yan and his son were talking, their carriage finally returned to Kaifeng City, and Yelu Si's carriage was sent to the Prince's Mansion. Cao Ying, who received the news, would naturally treat her well.
Chapter completed!