Ye Gui

Jiankun City, the capital city of Qinyang, is located in the southwest of the border city. The climate is much warmer and drier than Tianlu City, and there is little ice and snow even in winter.

Qinyang Kingdom is adjacent to the small countries in the Western Regions. Most of these small countries rely on trade with Qinyang to survive, and most of them have surrendered to Qinyang.Many people from the Western Regions settled in Jiankun City, and there are naturally some Western Region buildings, which add some exotic flavor to this large western city.

The little general was hungry, so he bought a bunch of grapes and ate them while walking.He heard from Shan Shi that after they brought Chijin Tong back to Baishan that day, Li Jingzhu was worried that Qin Yang would change, so he rushed back immediately.

The atmosphere in Jiankun City is peaceful and peaceful. Except for the white silk hanging on the official mansion, there is no way to tell that it is in a national funeral.

Li Zexian, the lord of Qinyang, also died suddenly that day. Bai Yin said that it was because the resentment demon controlled him, and if the resentment demon died, he would naturally not be able to survive.

The new lord is Li Zexian's 12-year-old eldest prince Li Xulin. When Li Jingzhu rushed back, he was forced into the palace by his own uncle. The emperor's own soldiers had already killed him in the main hall. He hid in the arms of the late empress and shivered. The first queen was already in poor health. To protect her, her neck was smeared and she fell to the ground. The moment her uncle slashed at him with a sword, Jing Xinghou led his troops to arrive and killed the usurper with a sword.

Li Zexian loves him like his own brother, and he must keep Li Zexian's heirs and the throne.

The new ruler ascended the throne, and Marquis Jingxing took the position of regent overseeing the country's governance. Qin Yang's God of War stood under the dragon chair by the hilt of the snake's sword. If he covets the throne again, he can only secretly curse Li Jingzhu to die early.

Lei Yan was walking on the street, and finished picking a bunch of grapes in a short while. Feeling that he was not satisfied, he went back to the stall just now and bought a small basket, holding it in his arms, intending to give it to Jing Xinghou as a companion if he can't finish eating.

Grapes are a rare fruit in Yanming City and Tianlu City. Only those in the imperial city can eat them. Although they are available in Jiankun City, they are also expensive. A bunch of grapes can be worth two days of meals for a family of five. Money, it's really rare for him to buy a basket so proudly and hold it in his arms while walking and eating. In addition, the appearance of sinking fish and wild geese attracted passers-by to stare and talk about which noble son escaped to play.

The teleportation technique he learned from Bai Yin is not very proficient. Although he arrived at Jiankun City, he got lost. He was thinking about asking others how to get to Jingxing Hou's Mansion when he was gently pulled by the waist , the movement is very light, if he is not practicing martial arts, I am afraid it will be difficult to detect.

He reached out and grabbed the hand touching his purse, and looked down, it was a dirty child, trying to break free angrily.

"Let go of me!!" the child roared angrily, and kicked him.

"You stole from me and kicked me?" The little general grabbed him and refused to let him go. "Where's your lord?"

The child looked back, and Lei Yan followed his gaze. Not far away at the entrance of the alley, there were a few teenagers who were around sixteen or seventeen and saw him looking this way, and hurried into the alley.

"..." Looks like a bunch of little beggars, living by begging for food and stealing things.

The child said anxiously: "I don't have an adult! Let me go! I'll admit it if I fall into your hands, and we'll see our mountains and rivers, the Yangtze River and the lake!"

"..." Lei Yan frowned and let go, "Who are you with, Lao Tzu?" Just as the child was about to run, he grabbed the collar of the back of his neck, tripped, and dropped the child to the ground.

"Hey! They ran away after leaving you, you are too unpopular..." He was joking, but when the corner of the child's mouth drooped, tears welled up.

"They, they asked me to come, if I don't get my money back, they will beat me..."

Passers-by all pointed and pointed: "My lord, don't believe him, these little beggars are not telling the truth."

"They're all in the same gang!"

Lei Yan squatted down, and couldn't bear to see the child crying out of breath, so he handed the basket in front of him: "Stop crying, do you want to eat grapes?"

Where did this little beggar eat such a good thing, he was stunned for a moment, no matter how scheming a child is, he is a child after all, the moment he ate it, his eyes lit up immediately.

The little general rubbed his hair and said with a smile, "Is it delicious? Give it all to you." He took out the purse from his pocket and poured it out, giving the child all the broken silver inside.

Passers-by only thought that he had money to burn, so they stopped persuading him.

The child was a little surprised, but still grabbed the silver and ran away with the basket in his arms.

Lei Yan did a good deed, he was in a good mood, and asked with a smile: "May I ask how to get to the Jingxinghou Mansion?"

He smiled, and the minds of the onlookers went blank for a while, pointing to the south: "The Hou Mansion is in the south of the city, so we need to pass through the city."

The little general thanked them and walked south.After passing through a few streets, everyone looked at him, and he turned into an alley for the sake of cleanliness.

After walking for half an hour, his eyes and ears were clear and he heard a few people talking.

"Give us the silver!"

"Brothers, leave some for me..."

"You take it all out, let's share a point, and you are indispensable!"

The kid just took out all the money in his pocket, and the five teenagers squatted on the ground to count.

The tallest one said, "That's a lot! I've never seen so much silver in my life!" He said, clutching the large pieces of silver in his hands.

A thin man divided the rest into several piles, and the kid just got a small piece.

"Brother Hu, give me some more, I brought it back..." He begged with a sad face.

The big man ignored him at all, stood up and fiddled with the money in his palm: "What a goddamn luck!"

The child continued flatteringly: "Yeah, it's rare to meet such a person with a lot of money!"

Lei Yan squatted on the wall and couldn't listen anymore: "Hey! You took my silver, ate my grapes, and still scolded me behind my back?"

He jumped down with his hands behind his back without making a sound.Five teenagers, two of them were sixteen or seventeen, and the remaining three were around ten years old, looking at him warily.

The tall one suddenly shouted: "Scatter!"

The five children immediately dispersed and fled in several directions.

The little general only grabbed the child just now, and shook him like a puppy: "Why are you running?"

The child bared his teeth and claws and said, "You, you, put me down!"

Lei Yan said: "I don't blame you for scolding me, just give me the money, you can show me a way, I'm going to Jingxinghou Mansion."

The child stopped moving: "Hou...Hou Fu?"

Lei Yan put him down: "Do you know him?"

The child said: "No one in Hou's Mansion Quan Jiankun knows, go, it's not far away, I'll take you there!"

He secretly looked at Lei Yan, he had never seen such a good-looking person, black narrow-sleeved dress, only a little light gold decoration on the collar and cuffs, simple but high-quality material, just squatting on the ground did not see the hem of the robe Contaminated with a trace of dust.

Tall and handsome, graceful and handsome, there is a kind of...he couldn't describe it, but he was different from ordinary people anyway, so he asked, "What are you doing in the Hou's Mansion?"

Lei Yan said: "Look for someone."

"Is your relative working in the Hou's Mansion?" He thought about it for a while, and changed his words, "Is your relative a subordinate of Lord Hou?" This person has an extraordinary temperament, maybe he is a relative of an adjutant, and he was a little excited.

The little general was all thinking about "Isn't it appropriate to go empty-handed", nodded absently and said: "Yes."

The child became excited: "Master Hou is our hero! Our god of war in Qinyang! Brother! Can I see Master Hou soon? I want to join the army, can you introduce me?"

He has already called his brother, the little general smiled and said: "I may not be good at speaking..." Indeed, he is a general Shenyu, what can he use to get Qin Yangjun to take him in?

"How could it be! Is your relative Lieutenant Li or Zhao?" The child counted several of Li Jingzhu's subordinates like a treasure, and none of them were. He asked cruelly, "Could it be Adjutant Chen? He is Hou Lord Hou’s confidant, except for Lord Hou in Qin Yang’s army, he is the one who decides...” He babbled endlessly about what the adjutants are good at, where they are taught, what they like, how many wives and concubines they have at home, and even the family members. I pointed it out to the little general everywhere.

The little general thought the kid was very interesting, so he said casually, "You told me all these things without asking me who I am, aren't you afraid that I'm an enemy spy?"

The child said confidently, "I'm pretty sure about people, you're not a bad person!"

"Oh, so the spies are all bad guys?"

The child said: "Of course! My father is a soldier, and he died on the battlefield five years ago... If spies are not bad people, and Shen Yujun is not a bad person, then how could my father die? No one cares about me when he is dead. to be bullied..."

Lei Yan sighed, war is always cruel, not only the cruelty of fighting on the battlefield, but behind the war, life and death, separation of wives and children, and people's livelihood are even more cruel.

He reached out and rubbed the child's drooping head vigorously: "You want to join the army because of your father?"

The child wiped his face: "Yes! I want to avenge my father!"

Not only him, but the children of those martyrs in Shenyu Kingdom, who didn't want to avenge their relatives.

"There will be no more wars in the future." Lei Yan said lightly, "You all live well."

The child raised his face full of tears to look at him. The noon sun shone through the dense branches and leaves, and the little general smiled slightly.He did not understand the meaning of this sentence.

Just as he was about to ask, a person behind him hurriedly walked up: "Ah Yan!"

"Hou Hou Hou Hou Ye..." The child opened his mouth wide, his body was shaking with excitement, and when his knees gave way, he was about to kneel on the ground, but the little general quickly grabbed him.

How could Li Jingzhu notice a dirty child, he was completely focused on his sweetheart whom he hadn't seen for a long time: "Why are you here?"

His eyes were everywhere in Jiankun City. As soon as he heard that Little General Lei had appeared in Jiankun City, he immediately left several important officials behind and rushed out of the imperial city to greet him.

Lei Yan said, "I'll come to see you."

Li Jingzhu was elated when he heard the words: "Come on, follow me back to the Marquis Mansion."

Lei Yan followed him two steps away and remembered something, and said, "Brother Li, this kid, he wants to join the army."

The child was dumbfounded. He never expected that a man who lost his way while eating grapes in Jiankun City by himself without even bringing an entourage would call Jingxing Hou his brother.

Li Jingzhu was a little confused: "He's too young..." Then he ordered: "Chen Di, take this child back to the Hou Mansion first and then make arrangements."

The confidant, Adjutant Chen, who had just been stabbed by this child, pulled him up expressionlessly, and followed him to the Hou Mansion.

Li Jingzhu pushed back all the government affairs, led Lei Yan to the water pavilion, where it would be more humid and comfortable than other places, and then served him all kinds of delicious food, and when he was about to put the cushion behind him, Lei Yan couldn't help but twitched his mouth and said, "Brother Li, what are you doing? If you do this again, I will leave."

Before he came, he was a little hesitant, after all, Li Jingzhu had that kind of affection for him.

Li Jingzhu threw the cushion aside and said: "Ah Yan, I'm so happy that you can come to see me, I heard that you stayed in Baishan, and I was thinking about letting Master take me to see you after I finish my work. "

Lei Yan said: "Well, when Brother Li is free, he must go to Baishan to have a look." He continued to ask, "I heard that Brother Li became the regent?"

Li Jingzhu told Lei Yan the general story, and the little general asked, "How did the little princess of Shenyu Kingdom get married?"

Li Jingzhu said: "Ever since the death of the first imperial concubine, the concubine Xian has been staying behind closed doors in the bedroom. I sent someone to look at it. She doesn't seem very sad. She just embroiders and reads every day. But I can't blame her, after all I've only been married for a few days..."

He asked: "Ah Yan is worried about her? Although there is no precedent, if the concubine Xian wants to go back to Shenyu, it is not a problem. As long as it is open..."

Lei Yan understood what he meant, this was something he could manipulate as the regent, but he was not interested in Si Nan, so he said: "No, I'm just asking...Brother Li, I'm no longer the junior general of Shenyu Kingdom Well, after all, Bai Yin has a special status, so it's inconvenient for me to go back to Shenyu."

Hearing Bai Yin mentioned in his mouth, Li Jingzhu nodded for a moment and said: "I understand."

Lei Yan said: "I know you treat me..." He was a little embarrassed, "But I beg you as a friend, don't start a war with Shenyu again."

He remembered the crying face of the child just now and said: "War is inevitable, and dynasties will change in the future, but you are my friend. I hope that you, my father, and everyone I know can spend their lives safely... "

Li Jingzhu said: "Don't worry, one day when I'm here, Qin Yang will definitely not fight Shenyu."

Lei Yan smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Li!"

He laughed unsuspectingly, Li Jingzhu couldn't help but want to touch his hair, he stopped halfway with his hand, clenched his fist, the outer side of Lei Yan's forearm blocked his wrist and said: "I haven't been able to compete with Brother Li, right now The timing is just right, I wonder if Brother Li will show you his face?"

Li Jingzhu stood up with a smile, stretched his wrist and said, "Please, little general!"