As soon as Zhao Yan arrived at the door, a group of servants rushed over and surrounded Zhao Yan.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Yan handed the reins to a groom and asked in confusion.
Uncle Zhao, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion, said with a smile: "Young Master Biao galloped his horse and defeated the bandits with all his strength. The bandits he killed ran away with their heads in their arms. But word spread in the town. Everyone said that Young Master Biao was a great hero. It was Xiang Yu who was still alive. Young Master and the rest of them
These young cousins are all young heroes!"
Zhao Yu secretly laughed, gossip exists in any era, and he has become Xiang Yu...
"Uncle Zhao, what you said is too exaggerated. This is also the result of everyone's concerted efforts. We dare not take credit."
"Young Master, please stop being modest. Please change your clothes first, and I'll go talk to Madam." Uncle Zhao said with a smile.
Under the service of several maids, Zhao Yu changed into clean clothes after bathing, ordered them to wash the cloak, and then rushed to his mother's house.
"Mother, the child is back." Zhao Yan saw his mother walking nervously around the house and walked over and said.
"Xian'er, let Nian take a look, are you injured?" Zhao's mother came back with Zhao Nu, and hurriedly walked in front of Zhao Nu, and looked around on Zhao Nu's body.
"Mother, the child is okay. Don't you worry about the child's abilities?" Zhao Yan said with a smile after helping his mother sit down.
After four years, although Zhao's mother was not old, she had obviously lost a lot of weight. After listening to Zhao Yan's words, Zhao's mother felt relieved and said to Zhao Yan: "There are so many bandits, how can you rush through them with a dozen or so people?"
What? What if something happens?"
"Children will protect themselves. Besides, I am not a child anymore. I will handle this kind of thing. Mother, don't worry."
When Zhao's mother heard this, she looked stunned and said with a smile: "Yes, my son has grown up and is an adult!"
"Mom, did you tell me about my father?" Zhao Yan looked at his mother and said.
The smile on Zhao's mother's face froze, and she looked at Zhao Yan and said, "Why do you want to know this? Do you want to take revenge? Mother will never allow you to do this."
Zhao Yan said seriously: "Mother, I don't want to take revenge now, but as a son, I don't even know my father's enemies. I am a son of a man in vain. Whether I can take revenge is one thing, and whether I can take revenge is another thing
"You can't take revenge now, but that doesn't mean you can't take revenge in the future. Everything will be ruined if you don't plan for it. We are in the dark and the enemy is in the open. Who can be sure that there will be no chance of revenge in the future?"
Zhao's mother looked at Zhao Yu intently, and suddenly realized that her son was no longer the little child lying in her arms. Thinking of her son's actions today, she seemed to understand a little.
Mother Zhao was quiet for a while, seeming to be recalling, and then said quietly for a long time.
"Okay, my son wants to know, then I will tell you that your father was the deputy commander of the Eagle Guards of Prince Yingwu. Twenty years ago, when Emperor Yankang was still in power, the current emperor was still the prince. Yingwu
The prince originally did not have the title of Yingwu, but he was a Yingwu young man and fought with the army many times since he was eighteen years old. He was very brave and good at using soldiers. Therefore, the civil and military ministers and the people all called him Yingwu Prince."
"Then why did Prince Yingwu not ascend the throne, but why is my father hiding here?"
"Twenty years ago, Prince Yingwu led his army to conquer the Turks in the north. At the beginning, they fought and won consecutively. The Yan army once pushed to the middle of the grassland. Prince Yingwu planned to attack the Turks royal court directly and cause a fatal attack to the Turks. At that time, the Turkic army and the Yan army
In the confrontation, the Yan army had a slight upper hand, so this strategy was not very dangerous. However, just before Yingwu
When the prince's 30,000-strong army was about to arrive at the royal court, it was surrounded. The surrounding army turned out to be a Turkic army confronting the Yan army. How could an army of 30,000 resist the encirclement and suppression of 120,000 prairie cavalry? When the heroic prince was surrounded,
I knew I had fallen into a huge trap and immediately ordered the entire army to break out."
"After half a month of bloody battles, the 30,000-strong army fled in various places. There was not much left, and Prince Yingwu was seriously injured. Prince Yingwu summoned several commanders of the Eagle Guards and asked the five deputy commanders to evacuate with some of their people.
, and asked them to report to Emperor Yankang what was strange about their ambush after they returned, and why the Turkic army suddenly retreated, but they did not receive the news."
"The five deputy commanders took hundreds of people disguised as herdsmen and withdrew more than a hundred people, but Prince Yingwu died in the battle. The Turks felt that Prince Yingwu was a person, so they returned his body. The five deputy commanders returned.
When they arrived at Yan territory, they found that the army confronting the Turkic army was still outside the territory and had not withdrawn. This surprised the five people. So one of the five people, Lin Jing,
He said he was going to the Duwei Mansion to inquire. Lin Jing went there, but did not ask about the situation on the front line. Instead, he brought soldiers from the Yunzhou Duwei Mansion. Fortunately, the Yingjia Guards were all iron-blooded warriors and had sentries posted.
In this way, only about thirty of the hundreds of people escaped. The rest understood that Lin Jing was no longer the original Li Jing, but they did not understand why the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion would kill them."
"The four people and the other twenty people learned before they arrived in Taiyuan that Emperor Yankang passed away, Prince Yingwu died in battle on the grassland, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, which is now Emperor Wu Xuan (not the posthumous title, the reign name). The four people
Now I understand that Prince Yingwu did not die in the hands of the Turks, but in the hands of the imperial court."
"The four of them didn't dare to go back since then, so they had to flee for their lives. Your father took me and fled to Youzhou, thinking that it was far away from Chang'an and it was a border pass, so it would not attract anyone's attention. What happened after that was peaceful.
We are living a life that we know now. The one who is chasing us is Tiqisi. Logically speaking, this is the emperor's personal entourage, but now that the emperor has only been in power for three years, he is arrogant, extravagant, obsessed with beauty, and puts all political affairs into his own hands.
Entrusted to the management of Zuo Xiang Situ Lei and Qi Wang Murongcheng, Tiqisi was also in the hands of Zuo Xiang. Qi Wang and Zuo fought for power and fought with each other. They originally thought that after twenty years, they should not be here
I came to find your father, but since ten years ago, Tiqisi began to desperately chase the people around the Yingwu Crown Prince. Soon after, more than 20 people from that year were arrested one by one, and your father also began to plan his funeral."
"When you were ten years old, your father's subordinates in Youzhou were found. Your father was deeply disturbed, so he thought of Li Daitao's method, and used that time to find nine teenagers and a woman.
Because you didn’t know if there were people from Tichisi around you who were watching you, you used the house around the corner to contact the outside world. That house was inspected by Lao Li and your father. In this way, it was peaceful for two years, and finally
Still found it."
"Who is Uncle Li? And that tunnel was built by his father?" Zhao Yan asked.
"Lao Li was rescued by your father when he was fighting with Prince Yingwu. Lao Li was a school captain when he was young. Because he had a disagreement with Shangguan, he was almost executed by Shangguan. However, he was rescued by your father. Later, your father issued a decree.
Someone is more skilled in martial arts than you are. Your father asked him to
Such as Ying Jiawei, but he refused. I was able to escape Chang'an thanks to his help. As for the tunnel, it already existed, but it went straight to the lower part of the city wall. I guess it was a secret tunnel built during the previous war. Later,
Your father led the secret passage into the river."
Mother Zhao thought for a moment and took out a jewelry box from the house, pulled open the cover on the inside of the lid of the jewelry box, took out a piece of cardboard and said: "The night we escaped, your father gave it to me, saying that when you grow up,
I'll give it to you, there should be some special things inside that you should use properly."
Zhao Yu finally took a look and saw that it was actually a map, and the map was located fifty miles north of Le County, which was more than twenty miles northeast of the town.
Later, Zhao's mother told the story of that night. She couldn't help but sigh with emotion when she learned that both Zhao Yu and Mrs. Xu died for their own family.
Zhao Yu put away the map and thought to himself: "There should be reasons on this map why people are being hunted after such a long time. How could a group of people who have no influence on the overall situation be chased madly? Alas! Let's talk about this later.
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After Zhao Yan chatted with his mother for a while, he left his mother's courtyard, mounted a clean white horse, and drove towards the back mountain.
"Brother is here!" Sharp-eyed Zhao Jie shouted from a distance.
Zhao Yu dismounted and came to the crowd. He saw that the brothers had already finished washing and were roasting some rabbits.
"Cousin, are you not injured?" Lian'er looked at Zhao Yan carefully and asked.
Zhao Yan smiled and said: "These guys are fine, how could anything happen to me? Oh, by the way, I took the cloak you gave me and washed it."
"Cousin, Sister Lian'er only asked if you were injured, why did you talk about your cloak?" Xin'er said strangely.