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Chapter 1 Entering Beijing, the General's Mansion

Since the war between Yan Taizu, Dayan established its capital in Wuping and changed its name to Yanjing. It has been a hundred years since the Great Yan Dynasty.

As a century-old ancient capital, Yanjing has a profound heritage and a long history. It has a jade tower and a golden palace. The capital city is divided into three levels: inner and outer cities and imperial cities, and the imperial city is kept safe and sound, and the imperial city is as solid as a soup.

Thousands of guards outside the capital were guarding the capital, and saw a team of thousands of people coming from outside the official road. I had learned that General Xuanfeng, who had been guarding the border for decades, returned to the capital to report his duties and welcomed him in the middle of the road.

Chu Hui brought more than 2,000 elite troops on this trip, which was not a victory over Triumph, but was still welcomed and worshipped by countless guards in Yanjing and the people. For a moment, the outer city gate was blocked.

The only general with ranks was Ye Wan, and the other soldiers were headed by Chiyu. Ye Wan rode on the gray horse, looking at the crowded people on both sides of the righteous road, their faces were filled with joy of seeing the pillars of the Great Yan, and many girls from ordinary people threw flowers, silk and handkerchiefs to show their admiration. She couldn't help but ask: "Is the general so awesome every time he returns to Kyoto... unprecedented?"

The North and South Avenue, which directly leads to the inner city of Pingjing Gate, was already crowded with people. Except for standing in the circle surrounded by soldiers, there were many people standing next to the teahouses and restaurants and shops standing on the steps of the shops. There were men and women, old and young, and in addition to ordinary people in the outer city, there were also many powerful people who happened to be nearby. When they learned that General Burying the Return of General Feng came to watch and welcome them.

Chiyu looked at Ye Wan, who also received many flowers that had been smashed by lightly, smiled and said, "Yes, I thought it was hot today and there were not many people, but I didn't expect..." They specially chose to enter the city at noon, but the surrounding area was still crowded.

"General Chu! General Chu! You are back to Yanjing!"

"I am so young and promising. I heard that General Chu is not yet thirty, so I don't know if he is married? I really want to marry his daughter."

"I wonder how long will General Chu stay in Beijing this time?"

"I heard that I was going back to Beijing to report my work, maybe it wasn't long. Alas! I felt excited when I thought of living in Yanjing with General Chu. Why don't I try to join the army?"

"Come on, you are over forty, the old man, are you going to the battlefield to make soy sauce?"

Ye Wan secretly set off. Chu Hui was only one of the three main generals of Zhenxi Army. He already had such a high reputation among the people, not to mention the fathers of General Zhen Yu, the other two true veterans in Longxi who were over 40 years old, General Zhen and General Yuan Hong. No wonder the court was so afraid of King Yu and Zhenxi Army. If she was the one who was afraid that she would not be able to sleep and eat day and night.

Just as he was thinking, a sedan chair and many serious guards came swaying in front of them. The sedan chair stopped in front of the army, lifted the curtain of the Jinxiu, and walked out of a middle-aged man with a handsome face and a 70-eight-eight-slight appearance to King Yu. He walked out of the sedan chair with a majestic look. Under the beard, he bent slightly and hung with a smile: "Long time no see, General Mocking Feng! The emperor specially ordered me to welcome the general here. The general has worked hard all the way, thank you for your hard work."

When Chu Hui saw the visitor, he turned over and got off the horse and bowed to the visitor, and his tone was cold: "Thank you, King Qi."

Ye Wan, Chi Yu and others behind him, and knelt on one knee to salute the man with bearded character, "Keep to His Highness the King of Qi." The King of Qi is a royal prince of the first-rank royal family. Chu Hui, who is a first-rank general, did not have to kneel down to him, but they had to kneel down. Also kneeling down together were the people nearby who were joining in the fun.

Xiao Tianmulang smiled and made a gesture of "please get up" and said, "Let's just flat, I'm just here to pick up the general. You don't have to be too polite, get up quickly!" After that, he turned his head and smiled at Chu Hui, "Hui'er, oh... I'm not abrupt in calling you that? Since you are the adopted son of Prince Yu, you can also call me Uncle Wang, so there is no need to be a disgusting. Why are you embarrassed to change your words over the years? Haha, how about it, are you tired all the way?"

His generous and amiable appearance seemed to have no idea about the designs that made the Zhenxi Army and the court a few days ago, and he could easily trick Chu Hui back without knowing anything. Ye Wan stood up and stood behind Chu Hui with his head down with his head down. He felt that the thickness of the people in the Xiao royal family was as thick as that of the city walls of Yanjing, and they were shameless.

As if he knew that Chu Hui would refuse, Xiao Tianmu said again without waiting for him: "Look at you, you have grown a lot after six years. Such a young and talented look is so young, I wonder how many beautiful girls and ladies in Yanjing are going to fascinate?" He laughed at himself, glanced at the petals that were immediately touched, and didn't feel that Chu Hui's expressionless look made the atmosphere feel cold. "Hey, why are we talking here? Let's settle the person first, Uncle Wang takes you to the palace to see you." He patted Chu Hui's shoulder warmly and was about to take him to his sedan chair, as if he was a kind elder who was easy to talk.

Chu Hui avoided his hand by mistake, and Xiao Tianmu took back his hand without embarrassment and looked at Chu Hui with a smile.

"Chimu followed me into the palace, Ye Wan, take them to the inner city general's mansion to be settled. If you have any, you are fully responsible." Chu Hui turned around and arranged the matter coldly, and then completely ignored Xiao Tianmu's appearance of standing aside waiting for him to get into his sedan chair, handed the reins of his war horse to Ye Wan. He turned to Xiao Tianmu and said, "Please ask King Qi to go first, I will arrive later."

Xiao Tianmu expected that Chu Hui was not so easy to talk and would sit in the same sedan chair with him, so he did not insist, so he nodded and entered his sedan chair.

The people kowtowed to the King of Qi and waved reluctantly towards the army, and gradually dispersed.

Ye Wan held the gray-haired and Chu Hui's black war horse, Zhaoye, and looked up at the tallest teahouse on the side as if he felt aware.

From the beginning of entering the city, she noticed a gaze staring at them in the dark. Sure enough, she saw a young woman wearing a white face and a veil at the highest window of the Octagonal Teahouse. She couldn't see her appearance clearly from a distance, but judging from her graceful figure and elegant temperament, she must be a beauty.

"Who is that?" Ye Wan touched her chin with interest, signaling Chu Hui and Chi Yu to look.

Chi Yu glanced at his master awkwardly, and saw that Chu Hui had no reaction, he smiled apologetically at Ye Wan: "Person Ye, General's Mansion is on Heming Street in the inner city. You can find it by asking the people casually. I will accompany my master into the palace. The General's Mansion has not lived in for a long time, and there are only a few servants here. I will trouble you with the affairs of the mansion."

Ye Wan nodded and watched Chu Hui and Chi Yu disappear in front of her immediately after they finished speaking. She touched her chin helplessly. No wonder she asked King Qi to go first. It turns out that they were going to run over with light skills.

She looked at the corner tower in the distance again, and the figure of the woman in white was gone at the window.

Ye Wanwan thanked some of the fruits and vegetables sent by the enthusiastic people, and walked towards the inner city with two thousand serious soldiers.

Although many of them have never been out of Longxi, and have never seen such a prosperous ancient capital, everyone still has a solemn look on their faces. They hear many people's discussions everywhere, and maintain good and neat military discipline. The queue is not messy at all, and there is no voice except the sound of horse hooves. Even Duan Hongyang and Zhou Jian, who are very interested in the surrounding things, know that they cannot embarrass the Zhenxi Army at this time, and they are very serious with their little faces.

Similar to Yunzhou City, the inner city is home to the living places of dignitaries and high-end and expensive shops. When entering the inner city, the eyes of the people who received the attention of the people were much more restrained. When Zhen Yu was a child, she followed her father to Yanjing. With her extraordinary memory, she suddenly found Heming Street, a quiet street gathering the mansions of officials with noble identities.

This street is mostly gated with vermilion jade steps. In contrast, the plaque with the "General Mocking Feng Mansion" seems a bit ordinary. In addition, the thick layer of dust covered on the head makes it look even more desolate and bleak compared to the golden plaque with carved beams and painted buildings next door.

Unlike other guards who were waiting for battle outside the gates of the mansion, there was not even a guard at the gates of the general's mansion. The door with a little peeling red paint was closed and the door knocker was a little rusted.

Chu Hui is really not particular about this. Although he stayed on the border of Longxi all year round, he was the imperial palace, and in Yanjing City, where every inch of land was valuable, he threw it behind his head and ignored it. Ye Wan had no choice but to touch the door knocker helplessly, and made a crisp sound on the lacquered door.

No one heard from inside for a long time.

Ye Wan knocked on the door knocker again, and then he heard the messy footsteps and a man muttering dissatisfiedly. "Who is disturbing people's dreams in the afternoon..."

The door made a "creaking" sound, as if an old tree was making an unbearable moan.

"Who..." The servant opened the door and saw thousands of soldiers with a solemn appearance. The leader was still a handsome young man. He was stunned, "You, you are..."

Ye Wan glanced at the empty door and the servant who was obviously not well-equipped in clothes just woke up, and chuckled and said, "We will go back to the capital with the general. The general will go to the palace first and order us to pick it up. You are the only one in the mansion?" Without waiting for the servant to answer, she ordered people to open the door. Thousands of soldiers followed Ye Wan in an orderly manner and entered the mansion straight into the mansion.

"Hey, hey, wait! You..." The servant was stunned when he heard the words "General Returns to Beijing", but there was no surprise on his face. He hurriedly chased after him to stop Ye Wan. "You, who are you? How could he trespass into the General's Mansion?"

Ye Wan frowned, took out the waist card from the bag and shook it in front of the servant: "I am the fifth-rank inspector of the scout camp of the Central Guards under General Burning Feng, and placed two thousand soldiers under the order of the general. Who are you, dare to stop it?"

When the servant heard that he had been from the fifth-rank lieutenant, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to mercy and said, "Sir, please spare me! Sir, please forgive me! Sir, please forgive me! Sir, the villain is just a gatekeeper of the general's mansion, and the villain knows nothing..."

Ye Wan's face darkened, and he didn't make things difficult for him, and asked, "Is there anyone else in the mansion?"

The servant said in a panic: "Yeyeyeye, there is also a manager, two servants, two maids and a cook..."

"Where is the manager?" Ye Wan asked. Although there are only seven servants in this huge general's mansion that can accommodate two thousand soldiers, it is a bit shabby, but if there is a manager, everything will be much easier. She is not familiar with the general's mansion at all, and she still needs to find someone to ask.

"Maintain business...Maintain business and go out if you have something to do..."

"Where did you go?" Ye Wan asked.

"Responsible... in charge of him... the young one doesn't know! The young one doesn't know! Sir!" The servant just got up and actually knelt down with a plop.

She just asked casually where the manager of the general's mansion was, and the servant reacted so much. Is there anything wrong with it?

"I'll come to see me immediately after I come back. The general will come back to the palace. We have to clean the general's mansion first. Let's see that the gray mansion is really not good." Ye Wan turned to the soldiers and said, "It's not time to buy personnel now, so I'll have to ask all brothers to help clean it together."

Everyone was used to suffering in the military camp, so it was naturally a trivial matter to ask them to clean the general's mansion. They shouted: "No problem!" "Leave it to us!" "When the general comes back, he ensures that the entire general's mansion will be refreshed!"

The soldiers' loud roars and mighty aura were naturally not something that a lazy servant could bear. He immediately collapsed on the ground with his legs limp. His expression turned pale, as if he had done something wrong.

"Take all the soldiers to the edge of the well and find some brooms and rags and basins." Ye Wan now accidentally argued with a servant. After finishing cleaning, there was time to clean up the people in the mansion. After she ordered all the things she wanted to do, she took Zhen Yu, Duan Hongyang and Zhou Jian to investigate around the general's mansion to see how she had more than 2,000 soldiers were placed.

The General's Mansion covers a large area, and it is true that a first-rank general of the Great Yan Dynasty, the mansion given by the Imperial Palace will definitely not be smaller than that of the officials of the second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth ranks below. It has to be said that the mansion awarded by the imperial court is quite exquisite and atmospheric. Even if the garden is a bit dilapidated and the pond is untreated for a long time, it looks a bit dirty and smelly. You can still see the vague scenery of the past. There are almost no traces of people moving in the front yard, and thick dust is piled up on the main hall and the side hall.

After passing through the main hall, there was a schoolyard. This mansion was obviously the mansion of a military general from the beginning. No wonder he gave it so generously to Chu Hui. I have to say that it was all the best.

There is a study room and two kitchens in the front yard, but it has been useless for a long time. The study room is empty, and some of the books and bamboo slips on the bookshelf are stuck together.

"If Brother Chu hadn't been suddenly returned to Beijing to report his work this time, I guess the general's mansion might have had time to die of Brother Chu." Duan Hongyang wiped the dust from the ear room in the front yard with disgust, and wiped Zhou Jian's face with a hand, and two black fingerprints appeared.

"Okay, Duan Dapang!" Zhou Jian touched Gray with a hand and wanted to take revenge without being outdone.

Zhen Yu said helplessly: "Stop messing around, you two." The relationship between these two guys is getting better and better. They make jokes from time to time, which is closer than their relationship with him.

Ye Wan patted the surrounding wing rooms and said, "About the same, if you live in each room, you can stay at least half of the people in the front yard. Let's go to the back yard to take a look. Although it is not convenient to live in the back yard, it can only be like this."

"Hey, Brother Chu has not married a wife, and the general's mansion does not have a wife in charge. They are all pure men, so what's inconvenient!" Duan Hongyang shouted indifferently while avoiding Zhou Jian's attack.

Zhou Jian snorted, "That's not necessarily the case. I think the royal family is not good at this time. Maybe they can stuff a daughter from the general to trip him up in the capital. Hey? Does the emperor have any princesses? Will we let our general be the princess, and then we will be with us from now on..."

"There are no princesses, but there are a few princesses, but according to the seniority, Brother Chu has to call him aunt." Zhen Yu couldn't help but smile when he saw the two of them playing.

"Okay, you guys, shut up one by one." Ye Wan said angrily, "If you are not serious, let you clean the toilet. Let's go and have a look in the backyard."

When you pass through the gatehouse of the inner courtyard, you will see a pink and tender cherry blossom forest. This cherry blossom tree is managed by someone, but due to the large number and incomplete care, it grows a bit crooked.

At the end of the cherry blossom forest is the main courtyard of the General's Mansion, Lu Ying's courtyard. The entrance of the courtyard is very different from the front courtyard. It is clean and tidy, and even the weeds are cleaned. At this time, there are laughter and laughter coming from Lu Ying's courtyard, which is crisp and moving.

Ye Wan's face suddenly darkened, and Zhen Yu and the others' expressions were not very good. They had been in the mansion for so long that they had not seen half of the servants guarding the gate at the beginning, but they all gathered here?
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