In January of the 11th year of Baoda University, a group of people finally arrived outside Jinling.

After nearly eight months, Li Yuan was really touched by the familiar Wu accent of the people on the streets. Looking at the tall walls and the wide and straight streets, he heard the familiar Wu accent of the streets.

In the big cart beside him, Peng Qingying lifted half of the curtains, revealing a pair of clear and vivid eyes, looking at the streets of Jinling City in surprise, and kept making surprise sounds.

You should know that the power center of Dongxi Land is Xizhou City, the scale of Xizhou City is only slightly larger than that of a prefecture in the Southern Tang Dynasty. After arriving in Langzhou, Peng Qingying was extremely surprised by the scale and architecture of Langzhou City. Langzhou City is equivalent to two and a half-Xizhou City, and both the scale of the street market and the population have exceeded Peng Qingying's imagination.

On the way, Li Yuan told Peng Qingying that the scale of the capital Jinling City was more than three times that of Langzhou, Peng Qingying didn't believe it here. At this moment, just after crossing Changgan Bridge and entering the south gate, he walked several Minfang neighborhoods, and Peng Qingying had already realized how grand the scale and grandeur of the capital described by Li Yuan was.

"Qingying, is Jinling City the same as you imagined?" Li Yuan immediately leaned over and asked with a smile.

Peng Qingying shook her head slightly and said, "It's completely different. What I imagined is definitely not like this. This city is really big, but why do I feel a little cold and there are many people, but the people here all look very careful. Look at the walking people, they don't seem to be very happy."

Li Yuan smiled slightly, and Peng Qingying felt very keen. The whole country is grand and prosperous, but there is indeed a cold atmosphere in the prosperity.

Because ordinary people are not the masters of this grand city, the real masters live in tall palaces, high walls and deep houses. Ordinary people are just the targets of enslaved in this city and are just poor people under the pressure of imperial power. Perhaps what Peng Qingying felt was this kind of incompetence.

Peng Qingying looked at the fast horses galloping on the wide streets from time to time. Although the cold knights did not dare to disturb Li Yuan and others' cars driving high flags, they were shocked by the people around them to avoid them. They frowned and said, "Didn't you tell me that except for emergency situations, the streets in the city should not be on the streets? This is the capital. Is the capital even worse than our Langzhou City? What if the Pegasus accidentally hurts someone? I suddenly dislike this Jinling City, although it is very gorgeous and grand."

Only then did Li Yuan realize that there seemed to be something abnormal in Jinling City today. From the South Gate to the Imperial Street, three or five soldiers wearing armored soldiers flew past without any scruples, but there was no sign of emergency military information on their bodies. In the past, Jinling Yin would have come out to get people.

But after thinking about this trip, I still don’t cause trouble, so I laughed and said, “Forget it, we don’t live here, I just take you here to take a look. Our Langzhou City is not like this. In fact, Jinling also has the beauty of Jinling. You only feel the beauty these days, don’t think about these messy things. This is not your home.”

Peng Qingying paused, turned her head and smiled, "Well, you're right, I won't talk too much."

Li Yuan nodded and smiled, "Be good, I will take you back to the old house in the west of the city first. The environment is very good. After the settlement, I will go and ask where your brother and sister will live and reunite you. After my business is done, I will take time to accompany you to visit the good places in Jinling City. Qingxifang Fengxian Temple, the willow banks of the Qinhuai River, and the famous places in Jinling are all good places."

"Okay." Peng Qingying blinked at Li Yuan, lowered the curtain and retracted her face.

Under the leadership of the Ebony Special Service, Wuping's personal guards surrounded Li Yuanhao and rushed straight to the west of the city along the straight street. When passing the gate of Fengxian Temple, the rumbling drum sounds in Jinling City. It was already dusk. Listening to the familiar drum sound, Li Yuan felt deeply. He had followed these majestic rhythms and returned home from the palace and military office.

The old house next to the Binglinggong Temple stands quietly in the twilight. The grass in front of the house is trimmed flat and the ground is swept cleanly. The lanterns in front of the porch have already lit up, and the words "Li Mansion" on the lantern are clearly distinguishable. Everything looks like when I left last year. It seems that the servants who stayed behind have taken good care of the house.

When the servant in the mansion learned that the master had returned

After the news, more than ten maids and servants left behind hurried to the mansion to greet him, and welcomed Li Yuan and others into the mansion to settle down. Li Yuan took Peng Qingying and walked around the house. Everything was the same in the house, retaining the way he looked before leaving.

The residence of the female family in the Hou House was sealed up after Li Yuan's family left. Last time Li Yuan returned to Beijing to marry Zhou Ehuang, he specially ordered two maids to ensure the daily cleaning of the Hou House. He could move in directly at this moment, and there was nothing unusual in the other courtyards.

Only the courtyard was a little decadent, and there was no daily care of Liu and Wang Jingyao in the courtyard. The flowers and trees died, the plum branches were slanted, and the water in the pond became dark. The grass at the corners of the courtyard was deep enough to reach the knees, completely losing the exquisiteness at that time. If they knew that this was the case, they would be sad and distressed.

After settling down on Peng Qingying, Li Yuan told Xu Kuangheng and the Ebony Special Forces some secret matters. After the two were ordered to leave, Li Yuan then called the servants who stayed behind in the old house to ask about the situation.

What Li Yuan was most worried about was that some people would come to the old house to harass him during the period when he left Jinling, but according to what they said, there was no disturbance. However, his father-in-law Zhou Zong brought people to see him twice, but he only looked at the back house to see if the residence was intact and tidy, and left, and rewarded all the money and belongings of the maids and servants.

When Li Yuan heard this, he felt emotion, and Zhou Zong's old and kind face appeared in his eyes. This father-in-law was really good to him. Since we met in Yangzhou, the old man's concern and enthusiasm for him remained the same. If you want to talk about who the person Li Yuan was most grateful to during this era, it must be Zhou Zong.

Not to mention how much help he married the pearl in his hand or brought him, Li Yuan sometimes felt that Zhou Zong had made up for a gap in his heart to some extent. Now, Li Yuan has an adoptive mother, brothers, wives and concubines, and some of his wives and concubines look like sisters and some look like sisters, but he lacks the care of fatherly love.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan felt a fever. He didn't know how this old Taishan, who was over 60 years old, was in good health recently. Moreover, he had important matters to discuss with him, and he wanted to go to Zhou's mansion to pay a visit immediately. But Li Yuan knew that he had to be careful of every move after entering Beijing, especially in the order of meeting people, he must not be reversed.

This time, I was not summoned to Beijing. Before meeting the emperor, I could not contact anyone first, otherwise I would have given the best excuse to the Censorate, which was purely a cause of trouble.

It was getting dark, and Peng Qingying became the hostess, led a group of maids and servants to ask the kitchen to cook and prepare wine, but Li Yuan knew that it was impossible for him to eat this supper at home. When the wine and food were served, Li Yuan took a shower and changed clothes and prepared to stop, and took more than a dozen personal guards to go out.

Li Yuan was going to see the emperor, and after returning to settle down, he had to see the emperor as soon as possible. This was not only a gesture of avoiding suspicion as a military governor, but also a courtesy of a minister. Whether the emperor met or not was another matter, but Li Yuan had to go to the palace to ask for a meeting.

A dozen riders were riding high on the bustling streets and slowly sailing. Soon after, they arrived in front of the palace. They dismounted and submitted famous letters to the palace gate. How dare the imperial guards guarding the palace stop him? After bent over and greeted him, they let Li Yuan enter the palace and informed him in the inward. When Li Yuan was guided by a small yellow gate, he learned that the emperor and the queen were listening to the music in the Rouyi Hall. An eunuch came to invite General Li to see the carriage.

Under the guidance of the eunuch, Li Yuan walked through several corridors and headed straight for Rouyi Hall. The lights in the Rouyi Hall were brightly lit, and dozens of eunuchs were waiting in the corridor of the hall gate, stepping on the red carpet on the corridor, and heading silently into the hall. Outside the several corridors, you could hear the melodious sound of silk and bamboo.

When he reached the gate of the main hall, several personal eunuchs stood at the door to serve. One eunuch came forward and whispered several words to the small yellow gate leading Li Yuan. The eunuch came forward and saluted, "Governor Li, Your Majesty is waiting for you, let someone report it."

Li Yuan bowed and said, "It's hard."

The eunuch turned around and entered the hall. A moment later, the sound of silk and bamboo in the hall stopped abruptly. Soon after, a hunched figure appeared at the door. When Li Yuan saw this familiar face, he hurried forward and bowed, "Sister Liu, Li Yuan is polite!"

The visitor in front of the door was the old acquaintance Liu Shaojian. His hair and beard were silver-white, his figure was hunched, and his face was still covered with a fluffy rosy.

"Oh, how can I afford the great gift of Governor Li!

Governor, hurry into the hall to see you. Your Majesty and the Empress are waiting for you!" Liu Shaojian was also very excited, but he still kept smiling and returned the favor. He turned to the side of his body and made a gesture of inviting him.

Li Yuan bowed and asked Liu Shaojian to go first. Liu Shaojian didn't say much, so he walked into the hall first. Li Yuan followed him into the hall, tidied his clothes outside the screen in front of him, and then walked out quickly from the side of the screen, and quickly moved forward under the gaze of more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids, entering the brightly lit hall.

"I am Li Yuan, who meets Your Majesty and the Empress, and I respectfully invite Your Majesty and the Empress to the Holy An." Li Yuan bowed down and saluted respectfully.

"Okay, let's calm your body, get up quickly. Young Master, give Li Yuan a seat."

The emperor's full of energy sounded on his head, and Li Yuan thanked again and saluted him straight. An eunuch brought a brocade stool and placed it beside Li Yuan.

"Li Yuan, why are you back to Beijing? I remember that I didn't seem to call you back? The eunuch came to report, but I still didn't believe it. I didn't expect it to be you." Li Jing sat on the soft seat of the dragon couch and looked at Li Yuan with a smile.

Li Yuan hurriedly bowed and said, "I should have returned to Beijing to thank you for your kindness, but the wars have been fought one after another, which has forced me to stay in Langzhou for the aftermath. Your Majesty is very kind and rewarded me. I am not stingy with me. I am unable to thank you personally, and I feel extremely uneasy. Now the situation in Chu is stable, so I want to go back to Beijing to meet Your Majesty and personally thank you for your kindness."

Li Jing laughed and said, "So that's it. It's good that you'll come back to Beijing for a walk. I haven't seen you for so long, so I want to see you. Yesterday I told the Queen about you, a famous general in my dynasty. I didn't expect you to come back today. OK, come back well."

Li Yuan sighed and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, your Majesty, you are busy with state affairs but you still remember me often. I am grateful to you."

Li Jing smiled and said, "Don't be grateful. You made great contributions in the war in Xizhou, took the land of Dongxi for me, and then defeated the Han army and protected the land of Chu, strengthened the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and saved my prince a few months ago. What I want to be grateful to is you.

I have a good attitude, queen, look, I promoted Li Yuan as the governor of the army, and many people said that Li Yuan was young and thought that I had broken the rules. Now, what do you think? My youngest general and governor of the Tang Dynasty are handsome and handsome. Not only are they both civil and military, but they also lead the army to fight without any disadvantages. I can hardly remember the achievements I have made, and now I am afraid that no one will gossip."
Chapter completed!