Daily life of captives

Changsun Boyi and his party lived in Jinyang City for two days. The first day was to wait for the snow to stop, and the second day was to help Huanzhi formulate a training plan for the Huan Family Army. Only then did Changsun Boyi order to pack up and set off again.

In order to rearrange the training of the Huan family army, Huan Zhi had to stay in Jinyang City for a few more days, but when discussing this matter with Xie Jun, Huan Zhi encountered a lot of obstacles. Secretly ask someone to invite Li Shao here.

But even in the face of Li Shao, Xie Jun's attitude is still very firm.

"No! Everyone knows that I have a good relationship with the son and grandson. Now that even Qingyu is involved, how can I let him stay in Jinyang city alone? Don't you know how dangerous it is, son? ?!"

Mrs. Xie sat beside Xie Jun with her head down, also looking resolute.

"Brother-in-law, I can really handle it," Huanzhi has said this many times, "and I don't want to live in Jinyang City for a long time, at most ten days or eight days, and I will soon I will go back to Chang'an, and I guarantee that nothing will happen during this period. Young master, you should say something!"

He specially invited the young master here in the hope that the young master can help him persuade his brother-in-law, but why did the young master sit for a long time without saying a word?Is this lively so beautiful?

Sure enough, Li Shao raised his head to look at Huan Zhi, smiled warmly and said: "It's rare to see Qing Yu looking anxious, it's quite interesting."

"Master!" Huan Zhi glared at Li Shao angrily.

Only then did Li Shao put down his teacup, and said unhurriedly, "If I call Wei Ze and Wei Feng to stay and protect Qing Yu, Xie Jun, will you agree?"

Unexpectedly, when Li Shao opened his mouth, he wanted to leave his most trusted bodyguard to Huanzhi, Xie Jun was stunned, but after a moment of hesitation, Xie Jun still shook his head.

"My lord, you don't need to say too much, I won't put Qingji in danger."

Li Shao smiled faintly, and asked again: "Then you mean that as long as you keep Qingyu, everything that Qingyu has worked so hard to build over the years will be destroyed if it is destroyed, right?"

"This..." Xie Jun was speechless.

"I finally know why Qingyu has to hide it from you. You are so overprotective, it's really annoying." Li Shao cast a playful glance at Jiejun, "Forget it, Xiejun, you and your wife can stay together. I leave Wei Ze to you."

Now Jie Jun was really stunned: "But son, Chang'an..."

"It's hard for you to still miss Chang'an," Li Shao teased, "Take it as a vacation for you. Since you started following Boyi, you haven't had a day of leisure. Before that, Boyi used Xunxiu to escape for a day. , but you have been holding on, so take this opportunity and forget about those annoying things in Chang'an City for the time being. It just so happens that you have been a military adviser for Boyi for ten years, and this time you will personally give advice to Qingyu."

Xie Jun raised his eyebrows, and chuckled lightly: "My lord, your last sentence is the main purpose, right?"

Li Shao shrugged: "Who knows. But I can only give you a month at most, and you have to come back to Chang'an before the year."

Xie Jun got up, and solemnly bowed to Li Shao: "Thank you, my lord."

Li Shao got up, seeing Huan Zhi who was quite surprised with a dazed face, he couldn't help but raised his hand and patted Huan Zhi's head: "It's only a month, Qingyu, you have to cheer up and learn from your brother-in-law." , He is the number one military advisor of Hou Chu, and I still count on you to become a wise general of Hou Chu."

Huan Zhi looked overjoyed, bowed his head and said, "I will live up to your high hopes!"

So the three members of Xie's family were left in Jinyang, and the northern patrol team set off again. The mighty team slowed down for six days and finally returned to Chang'an City.

As soon as he got back to General Tiance's mansion, Eldest Sun Boyi threw his head on the bed, lying on his stomach, not bothering to move.

Still comfortable at home.

Li Shao sat down by the bed, touched the head of Changsun Boyi: "Is it that tired?"

"I'm not tired," Eldest Sun Boyi squirmed close to Li Shao, and put his pillow on Li Shao's lap, "It's just tense and uncomfortable."

"Let's sleep for a while." Li Shao stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt to cover Changsun Boyi.

"What about you?"

Putting Changsun Boyi's head back on the pillow, Li Shao sighed and said, "If you want to rest, I'll have to do the work. I'll go to Yongning to have a look."

After hesitating for a moment, Changsun Boyi sat up anyway: "I'll go."

Li Shao raised his hand and patted eldest Sun Boyi on the forehead: "Sleep, you will have too many things to do starting tomorrow."

"Then be careful on the road."

"kindness."

After watching Li Shao leave the room, the grandson Boyi lay back on the bed and fell asleep peacefully.

Walking out of the main house, Li Shao saw Mu Ran sitting on the stone steps at the door, as if waiting for Li Shao to decide his whereabouts.

Li Shao smiled, and when he walked down the stone steps, he patted Mu Ran on the back of the head.

"Come with me to Yongfu."

"Eh?" Mu Ran was taken aback for a moment, and quickly jumped up to follow Li Shao, "Yong Mansion? Is it Master Yong's Mansion?"

"En." Li Shao nodded, and then told Wei Feng to lead the horse to the door.

"Take me there?" Mu Ran followed closely beside Li Shao, looked at Li Shao with a blank expression on his face, but ended up patronizing Li Shao, and accidentally tripped over the threshold.

Li Shao hurriedly stretched out his hand, "Look where you are going."

Boyi said that it was time to teach Muran something, but seeing Muran's stupid look, he always felt that it was too early to teach Muran anything.

"Hey." With Li Shao's help, Mu Ran scratched her head in embarrassment, with a smirk on her face.

Li Shao sighed, although a little discouraged, he still took Mu Ran to Yongfu.

"Father!"

Walking into Yong Mansion, before Li Shao saw Yong Ning, he was embraced by Yong Wan who ran over madly, even though Yong Wan was only tall enough to hug his waist.

Li Shao bent down and hugged Yong Wan: "Is Wan'er here specially to pick up her adoptive father?"

"Yes!" Yong Wan replied crisply, "Father hasn't come to see Wan'er for a long time."

"Missing foster father?" Li Shao carried Yong Wan into the Yong Mansion.

"I think so, I think about it! But Dad said that the adoptive father is busy, so he won't let Wan'er go to play with the adoptive father." As she spoke, Yong Wan wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction.

The smile on Li Shao's face became more gentle, and he said softly: "Don't listen to your father, next time you miss your foster father, let your mother take you to find your foster father, and your foster father will play with you."

"Okay!" Yong Wan immediately rolled her eyes with a smile, "Lagou, we've agreed."

"Pull the hook." Li Shao stretched out his hand and hooked Yong Wan's little finger.

Carrying Yongwan into the back garden of Yongfu, Li Shao smelled the smell of roasted sweet potatoes before seeing the Yongning couple.

"I also knew that you must work hard in Chang'an alone, so I came to see you as soon as I returned to Beijing, but you were so leisurely that you even roasted sweet potatoes?"

Yong Ning turned his head to look at Li Shao, raised his chin, and said, "No matter how busy you are, you have to roast this sweet potato. This is what our little ancestors want to eat."

Hearing this, Yong Wan shyly leaned on Li Shao's shoulder, giggling.

Mrs. Yong got up and walked in front of Li Shao, and only after Fu Fu pulled Yong Wan's sleeves: "Wan'er, come down quickly, don't tire your adoptive father."

Yong Wan pouted, blinked and asked Li Shao, "Is foster father tired?"

"Not tired, let's go see if your father's sweet potatoes are ready."

"Okay!" Yong Wan immediately laughed again, and stuck out her tongue at Mrs. Yong.

"Ghost girl!" Mrs. Yong poked her finger on Yong Wan's forehead, and then said to Li Shao very apologetically, "Young master, don't spoil her too much, my husband will spoil her to heaven, if you do the same, Mr. , she will really go to heaven."

Li Shao laughed and said: "This is our little princess of Houchu, even if she wants to go to heaven, she can go to heaven."

Saying that, Li Shao turned Yong Wan upside down, and Yong Wan was so frightened that she really thought that Li Shao was going to throw her into the sky, her eyes widened in shock, but when she landed on Li Shao's arm and sat down firmly, she clucked again. Laughing non-stop.

After Li Shao hugged Yong Wan and sat down beside the charcoal stove, Yong Ning asked Li Shao, "Is this trip to the north going well?"

"Well," Li Shao nodded, "it's nothing difficult. What about your side?"

Yong Ning proudly said: "Because Wei Ning is not around, I took all his people away."

Li Shao shook his head and laughed: "It seems that you really have a leisurely life in Chang'an."

He, Boyi and Jie Jun are not here, and the daily government affairs are all on Yongning alone, so that he can devote his energy to dealing with Wei Ning, so there must be no difficulties in government affairs.

"You are not here. This is my world alone. I can do whatever I want. Of course I am leisurely."

Hearing this, Mrs. Yong glared at Yong Ning: "I don't know who is so busy every day that he hits the back of his head with his feet, and falls asleep on the bed after returning home at night. Young master doesn't know anything, so you can brag."

Yong Ning rubbed his nose: "You can talk nonsense just because you don't know anything about me, can't you let me be more proud?"

Mrs. Yong was amused by these words.

After Li Shao fed Yong Wan a roasted sweet potato with his own hands, Mrs. Yong took Yong Wan to play elsewhere. Only Li Shao, Yong Ning and Mu Ran were left by the charcoal stove, and everyone else retreated a little far away. In some places, the expressions of Yong Ning and Li Shao became dignified.

"Have you received any other news about the war in Xizhi Kingdom?"

Li Shao sighed, shook his head and said, "No, all the spies we sent out never came back."

Yong Ning frowned: "Then this situation is exactly the same as when Shizong sent people to investigate the Far West?"

Those who were sent there back then never returned.

"We are facing the same kind of people, and it is not surprising that we will encounter the same situation," Li Shao picked out a roasted sweet potato from the charcoal stove, handed it to Muran beside him, and asked Yong Ning Dao, "Did you find anything?"

Yong Ning also shook his head: "Most of the ancient books in the library were written by people from the Central Plains. Even when the Far West was mentioned, there were only a few words. They all said that the Far West was extremely dangerous, but no one described it in detail. What kind of danger is it? I also sent people to inquire among Hu merchants, and the information I got was similar to that in ancient books, and there was no more information."

"You don't even know Hu merchants?" Li Shao frowned, "Could it be that the Far West has never traded with the outside world?"

"That's not true." Speaking of this, Yong Ning's expression became a little clearer, "Many merchants have done business with the Far West, but no one has ever entered the Far West, and no one has ever entered into the Far West. People in the land have been in contact, and all transactions are completed through a group of middlemen."

"A middleman?" Li Shao couldn't find it, "Do you have any clues?"

Yong Ning nodded: "Some people say it's the Gui Rong from the west, and I've sent people to investigate. But Gui Rong, like Chi Di, depends on the sky for food, and migrates once or twice a year. In winter, it will take a lot of time to find the ghosts."

"It takes as long as it takes to find out," Li Shao said firmly, "We must get information about Jixi from Gui Rong."

"I know."

Mu Ran has been sitting on the side eating roasted sweet potatoes, except for the slight haha ​​sound when his mouth is burned, there is no other sound, and now Li Shao and Yong Ning are silent with solemn expressions , Mu Ran spoke up.

"As for Gui Rong, it is said that no one has seen it for several years."

Upon hearing this, Li Shao and Yong Ning looked at Mu Ran together.

"How do you know?" Li Shao looked at Mu Ran curiously.

Mu Ran swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth, and said with a wink, "I heard it from someone when I was eating in West Market."

Yong Ning raised his eyebrows and asked curiously: "What else have you heard?"

Mu Ran took a bite of the sweet potato, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Most of Guirong's activities in the past were around Xizhi. Although there were several times when they wanted to grab some territory in the northwest of Houchu, they were all beaten back." About seven or eight years ago, the scope of activities of the ghost army was narrowed to the west of the Xizhi state, but it is said that in recent years, the western border of the Xizhi state has hardly been harassed by the ghost army, and almost no one has seen ghosts inside and outside the west of the Xizhi state. Rong... that's what they seem to say, and some people say that Gui Rong probably found a good place to settle down."

After finishing speaking, Mu Ran took another bite of the sweet potato.

settle down?Li Shao and Yong Ning looked at each other.

Gui Rong has been wandering around Xizhi for a hundred years, and has never found any good place to settle down. Why did they suddenly settle down?But if Gui Rong has really been a commercial middleman between the Far West and the outside world, is it possible that he directly took refuge in the Far West?

But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that this possibility is very small. After all, for nations like Guirong and Chidi, belief and dignity are equally important. If they could bend down and seek refuge in other countries, they would have done so long ago. Why live in nowhere for a hundred years Only then did you remember that you were going to be inferior to others?Or did Guirong change to a spineless leader?

Li Shao rubbed his forehead and sighed: "If Li Zheng hadn't wasted the hidden stake that Sejong buried outside, we wouldn't have to work so hard now."

Li Shao has been in business for nearly ten years, and has planted a large number of hidden stakes in the two major countries of Xizhi and Dingling, but these actions are still not worth mentioning compared with Sejong's past.

Sejong had been in business for decades, not only buried hidden stakes in the courts of Xizhi and Ding Ling, but also infiltrated his own people into nomadic peoples such as Chidi and Guirong, and even the island countries in the East China Sea and South China Sea. There are people from Sejong in the area, but the extreme west is the bottleneck of Sejong.

It is a pity that Li Zheng failed to keep in touch with these hidden stakes after he succeeded to the throne. These hidden stakes that have not been led for many years are dead, lost, and rebellious, all of which are useless.

Yong Ning was noncommittal about Li Zheng's actions. After all, the matter is a foregone conclusion, and they can only rely on themselves now.

But looking at Muran, Yong Ning suddenly said to Li Shao: "My lord, have you considered sending Muran to Xuanyuanhe?"

Xuanyuanhe is Li Shao's subordinate who is responsible for collecting information, and all of Li Shao's hidden troubles belong to Xuanyuanhe.

Li Shao was taken aback, then turned to look at Muran who was eating the third sweet potato: "I really never thought about it."

While eating sweet potatoes, Mu Ran stared at Li Shao and Yong Ning, and then asked vaguely with sweet potatoes in his mouth, "Who is Xuanyuanhe?"

Who is this going to send him to?

Without answering Mu Ran's question, Yong Ning said again: "It's not suitable for Mu Ran to be with you or the eldest grandson. Why don't you send it to Xuanyuanhe for a try."

Yong Ning originally wanted to say that Mu Ran could not succeed in literature and martial arts, and that it was useless to be by the side of Changsun Boyi and Li Shao, but when he caught a glimpse of Mu Ran's big, clear eyes, Yong Ning couldn't say "Passionate". It’s not useful” so I had to change my words to a more euphemistic word.

Li Shao looked Mu Ran up and down three times, echoed Yong Ning and said, "This is a good idea."

Mu Ran paused, swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth, and looked at Li Shao pitifully: "Uncle, where are you taking me?"

He just wanted to stay by his uncle's side honestly, why did his uncle send him out?Is he that annoying?

Amused by Mu Ran's pitiful appearance, Li Shao patted Mu Ran's head: "I don't want to go anywhere, I'm in Chang'an City."

"Oh." Mu Ran continued to eat sweet potatoes.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't leave Chang'an City, anyway, he has always lived separately from his uncle, it doesn't matter where he lives.

Seeing Mu Ran's obedient appearance, Yong Ning shook his head and said with a smile: "If Wan'er is so well-behaved, then I will be much more at ease."

Although Mu Ran often does some troublesome things, he still listens to the young master very much, probably no one can match him in this regard.

When leaving Yongfu, Li Shao was obviously in a better mood than when he came. On the one hand, it was because he had found a good place for Muran, and on the other hand, he finally knew something about the Far West. With this clue, he is sure to dig out all the secrets of the Far West.

Because he was thinking about things along the way, Li Shao forgot to tell Wei Feng to send Mu Ran back to his residence, and Mu Ran also followed Li Shao without saying a word, and silently followed back to Admiral Tiance's mansion.

When Li Shao noticed Mu Ran, the sky was already dark.

At the dinner table, eldest grandson Boyi was slightly surprised when he saw Mu Ran: "Mu Ran staying here today?"

"En!" Mu Ran looked happy, and cupped his hands at Eldest Sun Boyi decently, "I'm bothering Uncle Eldest Sun."

Changsun Boyi sat down and said casually, "If you are used to living here, then you can stay here."

Mu Ran curled her lips and said, "This may not work, uncle is going to give me away again."

"Give it away?" Zhangsun Boyi smiled and glanced at Mu Ran, "Who is he going to give you to?"

"A man named Xuanyuanhe."

Just as Mu Ran finished speaking, someone knocked heavily on the top of his head.

Li Shao walked to the other side of eldest grandson Boyi and sat down, and gave Mu Ran a sideways look: "Don't make it sound like I'm going to sell you."

Mu Ran grinned, giggling silly.

It was the first time in his life to live in the same house with Li Shao, Mu Ran was always very excited, after dinner he stuck to Li Shao's side, and his uncles and uncles talked endlessly.

Li Shao has always known that Muran respects and loves him very much, but it is the first time that he feels Muran's admiration and dependence so intuitively. stay.

The eldest grandson Boyi, who slept all afternoon, was extremely dissatisfied with Mu Ran's clinging to Li Shao, but seeing that the pair of nephews and uncles also got together less and more, he went into the east wing alone and asked Xi Hu, who was watching the house, to inquire. The big and small things in Chang'an City.

In the middle of the day, the eldest grandson Boyi came out of the East Wing, but saw Mu Ran and Li Shao were still chatting, but it was Mu Ran who kept talking and Li Shao listening with a smile on his face.

Noticing the tiredness hidden in Li Shao's eyes, Zhangsun Boyi walked over and patted Mu Ran on the head: "Go to sleep?"

"It's so late?" Mu Ran noticed the time, and suddenly said cheerfully, "Uncle is sleeping with me today!"

As soon as Mu Ran said this, Li Shao and Changsun Boyi were stunned.

The corner of Changsun Boyi's eyes twitched violently, and he reached out to grab the top of Mu Ran's head and twisted Mu Ran up.

"Yun Zhu has cleaned up the sleeping place for you, let Xi Hu take you there."

But Mu Ran took advantage of the situation and ran to Li Shao's side: "Uncle can just take me there. Uncle Changsun, don't be so stingy, can't you just lend me a night?"

"No, I'm very generous to lend you half the night, let's go." As he said, the eldest grandson Boyi went forward again to arrest Muran.

Mu Ran let out a strange cry, and hid on the other side of Li Shao laughingly, and the two began to circle around Li Shao non-stop.

Because there was Li Shao in the middle, it took a lot of effort for the elder Sun Boyi to catch Mu Ran, and he carried Mu Ran to the door.

"Uncle, look at Uncle Changsun!" Mu Ran thumped and tried to break free from eldest grandson Boyi, but couldn't do so no matter what, "Uncle, do you want me or Uncle Changsun?"

Upon hearing this question, Changsun Boyi stopped suddenly and turned to look at Li Shao.

Li Shao was stunned.

These two people are playing around, what does it matter to him?Why drag him into the water?And why even Boyi is waiting for his answer with all seriousness?

Turning his head, Li Shao smiled and said, "Seeing that you two have such a good relationship, why don't you two sleep together tonight?"

"Uncle, don't change the subject!" Mu Ran had a rare moment of wit, "Do you want Uncle Changsun or me?"

Li Shao couldn't laugh or cry: "I want...I want to sleep."

Before the words finished, Li Shao got up, quickly slipped back to the east room, and closed the door behind him.

The eldest grandson Boyi threw Muran out with all his strength, quickly closed the door and unbarred it, then walked quickly to the east room, kicked open the door and stepped in, took Li Shao's hand and pushed Li Shao down on the bed .

"Don't choose me? Huh? It's hard to choose?"

Li Shao laughed: "Mu Ran deliberately made trouble with you, why did you make trouble with him?"

The eldest grandson Boyi was silent, just staring at Li Shao.

Li Shao pursed his lips, and said aggrievedly: "Why are you still staring at me? Didn't I choose? Everyone is lying on your bed, how do you want me to choose?"

With a soft snort, Changsun Boyi said in a deep voice, "He will trick me with sweet words."

Li Shao put his arms around the neck of the elder Sun Boyi, tilted his head and smiled coquettishly: "Don't you like to hear it? If you don't like to hear it, I won't talk about it in the future."

"Love to listen, say a few more words."

Li Shao immediately got up and leaned into Changsun Boyi's ear, whispering non-stop. Hearing that Changsun Boyi felt hot all over, he pushed Li Shao down on the bed and kissed him.

This night, it was hard to part again.