Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 361 Who Is My Master?

Another day after get off work, Li Yan left the imperial city and headed for the mansion.

The two letters to "Zuo Ming" have been updated for several versions. Di Renjie played a huge role in them, constantly deliberating and improving them based on the information collected from various aspects.

Li Yan has great trust in Di Pangpang's wisdom. He has been immersed in practicing these days, and with the blessing of fully enlightened five senses, the three great skills of Baishengjin have become more and more proficient.

Immersed in the joy of progress, Li Yan frowned when he saw a person waiting by the private room from afar.

Because the person who was waiting was the little prince's personal guard, Xue Le, who greeted him with a gift and presented a letter: "Li Jiyi, this is a letter from the prince."

"Thank you for your hard work, let's take a break in the mansion!"

Li Yan took the letter, arranged for his servants to take Xue Le to rest, and then opened the letter outside the Zhumen.

The little prince returned to Tuyuhun with a large number of servants and tea cakes. Before leaving, Li Yan asked him to check something when passing through Liangzhou.

This matter has been in his heart for many days, and he really can't wait at this moment.

But when he opened the letter, he first scanned it hastily, and then carefully confirmed it. Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief, his expression completely relaxed: "Then there will be no time, it seems that I think too much..."

A stone in his heart fell to the ground, and Li Yan suddenly felt relaxed. He walked into the mansion, hugged Xiao Hei, who was rushing over, and patted him, and saw Xu Da come out again: "Xiao Lang, Mr. Xie arrived half an hour ago , drinking tea in the hall."

Regarding the relationship between Li Dejian and the Xie family, the old man in the house naturally knew about it, and when he heard that Mr. Xie came here, Li Yan also knew what was going on, and walked into the hall: "Uncle."

Director Xie hurriedly got up: "Yuan Fang, you are back, I thought it would take a while..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that this was not appropriate, so he quickly laughed awkwardly.

Li Yan was a little helpless: "Uncle, don't be nervous. Is your mother coming to Luoyang? I'll meet you when I arrive and do my best to be filial."

Xie Zhangshi said: "Yuan Fang, sister has arrived in Luoyang, just arrived last night."

Li Yan was slightly stunned: "Then why didn't you tell me in advance, is she in the chamber of commerce, let's go now?"

Mr. Xie looked at his words and found that this person was in a good mood today, so he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded again and again: "Good! Good!"

Li Yan thought for a while, took Xiao Hei with him, rode on Shi Shi Cong, and headed south of the city with Mr. Xie.

When he first heard that this cheap old lady was coming to see him, he was a little resistant, but now he is calm and curious.

After all, the current scale of the Xie Chamber of Commerce is quite remarkable, and it can be seen from the fact that Xie has been in power all the time, his mother's line is firmly in control of the situation. Did not happen.

It doesn't mean that the Xie family is kind and live in harmony, but it means that the Xie family manages the family well and resolves injustice invisibly.

This is not easy, the bigger the family, the more difficult it is, the Gong family is a lesson from the past.

Whether Gong Siming was a man in charge of the family or an official, he ended up committing suicide by taking poison to preserve the vitality of the family. As a woman, the Xie family had to put in even more painstaking effort to go into business.

Of course, this is also related to the social atmosphere. In the feudal dynasty, the status of women in the Tang Dynasty can be said to be relatively high.

When a woman gets married, although she still has to obey the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker, she can put forward conditions and make choices for her husband to a certain extent. After marriage, a capable woman can run the family at home, speak out boldly, and even occupy active position.

At the same time, women wear men's clothes outside, play polo, gallop on the battlefield, have been female generals, and naturally there are also female businessmen.

In history, there is Gao Wuniang in Luoyang, just like the widow Qing in the Qin Dynasty, who "made Huang Zi a career", that is, mastered smelting technology.

There is also Aunt Yu, who specializes in transportation and owns a huge sailing ship, with hundreds of boatmen alone. Weddings and funerals are all on it, like a small castle.

Now Director Xie notified him of entering the house in advance, and when Li Yan walked into the house again, he saw a woman sitting kneeling on the main seat. It was his mother Xie Huicheng, who was second in line, also known as Xie Erniang.

This woman, who is not yet forty years old, is dressed in simple and simple clothes, not luxurious, and her features and outlines have a bit of the gentleness of a Jiangnan woman. At this moment, her eyes are red, and she is looking at him as he walks into the hall.

Li Yan observed the etiquette, stepped forward and bowed down: "My child pays homage to the mother."

Xie immediately stretched out his hand to hold his shoulder, and said in a trembling voice, "Get up! Get up!"

Li Yan got up and looked at the mother closely, and then the atmosphere became awkward.

When he and Li Dejian first got along, they were also very cold, and then gradually eased up.

And after this paragraph, meeting with Mrs. Xie again would be even more embarrassing.

At this time, the tool cat was about to be dispatched. He raised his heels, followed Xiao Hei who had walked in behind him, and immediately stepped forward wisely, stood upright, with his paws lying on Li Yan's back, and his eyes fixed on Li Yan Look at Xie Shi.

Mrs. Xie was also very stiff at first, but the person she was supposed to be closest to became a stranger. Even she didn't know how to grasp the distance. Seeing that Xiao Hei was so agile, she immediately looked away tacitly and looked at Xiao Hei. Curious, but a little scared: "What a beautiful cat!"

Li Yan knew that there is still a huge difference between the north and the south. There are very few people raising leopard cats in the south, so he smiled and said, "Master, this is the leopard cat I trained. It is the most humane. It will never hurt you."

Mrs. Xie nodded slightly, and Xiao Hei sprinted nimbly, came to her side, and began to gain favorability skillfully, until Mrs. Xie reached out and stroked it lightly: "This cat is so agile, it is worthy of being a child you tamed of!"

As a result, the atmosphere suddenly eased a lot, Xie also took the opportunity to wipe the corners of his eyes lightly, and said gently: "Sit down!"

Li Yan sat down, Zhang Shi Xie, who was peeking outside the door, felt relieved, and walked away lightly.

Xie gently stroked Xiao Hei's soft fur with one hand, his expression gradually returned to his usual calmness, and he said gently: "My child, we are the ones who are sorry for you when you are exiled to Liangzhou. You are kind-hearted, but you have no Half blamed, I felt happy, but also felt more guilty, I didn't know how to face it, so I procrastinated and procrastinated until now..."

Li Yan believed in this. After all, he is in power now. If he was greedy for vanity, he would have come to him long ago. It's not bad to put some Jiangnan children into the inner guard.

Of course, from Li Yan's point of view, there is no reason to take the initiative to comfort him. That would make the other party even more uneasy. He simply asked, "Mother, how did I end up in Liangzhou?"

Mrs. Xie was silent for a while, let go of Xiao Hei's hand, and said in a concentrated voice: "Your father was involved in Li Chengqian's big treason case back then, and was implicated in sending him to Wu County. Do you know that?"

Li Yan nodded: "Of course, he was originally sentenced to exile in Lingnan. Taizong thought of my grandfather and specially sent him to Wu County instead."

Mrs. Xie pursed her lips, and said with a wry smile: "It's not just body thoughts, but also a lot of hidden secrets. Your father didn't participate in the conspiracy at all. The reason why he was implicated was because Li Chengqian went crazy and bit him randomly."

"This person has a letter with your father in his hand, and there are many words in it that make the late emperor suspicious. They are friends since childhood, how could they expect this?"

"It was Sun Fuji, the former Duke of Zhao, who was in the middle of it. The late emperor also found out the situation and knew that your father was innocent, so he punished him lightly. Later, he was recalled to Chang'an and inherited the title."

Li Chengqian was indeed ill. The prince, who was originally the emperor, had a physical illness first, and later developed a mental illness, so he chose to rebel.

Isn't this troublesome, whoever rebelled can't do it, Li Shimin's rebellion?

When he was king of Qin, he was an invincible commander who won all battles. He won the throne abruptly with the transformation of Xuanwumen, and then ruled the country for twenty years.

Li Yan was stunned: "That is to say, if there was no mediation from the eldest grandson Fuji, father would have been sent to Lingnan at that time?"

Mrs. Xie nodded: "That's right, your grandfather and eldest grandson Fuji had a mediocre relationship, but he was able to lend a helping hand in times of crisis. It's really a life-saving grace."

Li Yan thought of Xuanzang's apprentice, Bianji, and sighed: "The former Zhao Guogong was a nobleman from Long Xungui and a relative of the emperor during the Zhenguan period. After he was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he resigned on his own to avoid becoming too powerful and out of control. He can still show kindness everywhere and make friends with many people, no wonder the prestige of the dynasty was so high at the beginning of the dynasty, but unfortunately it is exactly the same, he gets carried away and his mentality swells so hard to contain."

Xie also sighed: "Power is the most attractive thing in the world, but also the most terrifying thing."

Li Yan put on a posture of listening: "Then what happened after that?"

Xie said: "In the year when the eldest grandson Fuji was exiled, a great-grandson was born not long ago, the same age as you, named eldest grandson Yuanyi."

Li Yan thought of the name he had long ago, his pupils shrank slightly, and asked directly: "Isn't it such an old-fashioned trick to exchange children?"

Mrs. Xie was startled, looked at him strangely, shook his head and said: "It can't be exchanged, you were already two years old at the time, not a baby, and people close to you can recognize your face at a glance, how to exchange? Your current appearance is also the same as your grandfather's." They are quite similar, Yingwei is extraordinary, he must be Li's son!"

Li Yan frowned: "In that case, what's the use of bringing me?"

Mrs. Xie said slowly: "Changsun Fuji was originally the leader of the inner guard, but as a result, a force in the inner guard not only turned against the saint, but also wanted to kill him. It was even rumored in the court that the saint wanted to commit the crime of treason." Killed the entire Changsun family."

"In order to preserve his family's last bones and blood, the nobles in Guanzhong contributed their own efforts, and your uncle Li Keshi and his eldest grandson Fuji are in-laws, and came to persuade him that your father is also willing to help in order to repay his past kindness. "

"But their target is you. They say that a child who is about the same age as the eldest grandson Yuanyi is the key, and ensure that you will be safe. Your father is also confused, and he actually believed what they said. No matter how much I try to persuade you, I can't persuade you." , handed you over to them..."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Xie showed obvious pain and hatred: "These nobles obviously look down on my southern origin. If your mother is the daughter of a high-ranking family in the Guan, I will never let you take risks!"

Li Yan's expression also sank.

Li Jing, a pharmacist, has a younger brother, Li Keshi, who also made many military exploits. He was named the Duke of Danyang County and lived to be ninety-one years old. He died a few years ago. This daughter-in-law is a member of the Changsun clan. A similar marriage relationship There are still many, that's why the elder Sun Wuji was so involved in the treason case back then, and none of the gentry in the Guan was spared, and Li Zhi took advantage of the situation to suppress them.

As for Master Li's behavior, if it is as Xie said, it will make him very unhappy. Sure enough, it is correct not to associate with other members of the Li clan in Longxi. These high-ranking clans are full of oppression and discrimination, and no one is spared .

After Li Yan's breathing was slightly heavy, he quickly calmed down and asked, "What happened next?"

Xie said: "I don't know how the gentry in the pass did it, but the result is that the sage did take back his order, and instead of killing them all, he sent the Changsun clan to Lingnan, but you never came back. They didn't even enter the mansion, they just sent a message of apology, without any sincerity at all..."

"However, we dare not say anything about this kind of thing, so we can only look for it secretly. Your father regretted it too much, it was already too late, and I couldn't stay any longer, so I returned to Jiangnan in anger."

"It wasn't until a year later that your father came to Jiangnan and told me that you were safe. I was overjoyed and thought that we would be able to reunite as a family. But he didn't know where you were, he just got the exact news!"

"I wanted to reconcile with him in a hurry, but he returned the marriage certificate. After all, I was still holding on to a glimmer of hope. I waited and waited until I completely gave up hope. I didn't expect that after more than ten years, you really came back..."

Speaking of this, Xie's tears were streaming down like rain, and Li Yan's expression became heavy.

If this is the case, then who would be the dumb uncle who raised him from a young age, taught him carefully, and taught him martial arts?
(End of this chapter)