The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 373
"Thank you, Lord Hou, Chang Le!" Hearing this, Chang Le cupped her hands and saluted Xuan Shijing respectfully.

Xuan Shijing waved his hand, "There's no need for that. If we can settle the matter of your two brothers, Long'er can save a lot of thought. Now that our Hou's family has a great career, it is inevitable that people will hate you openly and secretly, so we also You have to hold on to it.”

Chang Le could hear the meaning of Xuan Shijing's words. Now that he is the guard of Xuanwu Tower, he should try his best to defend Xuanwu Tower. I heard that Xuanwu Tower is already the most important property of the Hou Mansion.

"Don't worry, Lord Hou. As a member of the Hou family, Chang Le will definitely do his best." Chang Le quickly expressed his opinion.

Xuan Shijing nodded, patted Chang Le on the shoulder, then passed Chang Le, walked to the side of the square table in the small study, picked up the pen, drew two patterns, and only picked it up after the ink dried up. Pass it to Changle.

"This is the drawing I drew. When you have time, you can take it to the West Market and find a carpenter named Liu to build it for you. One is a walking stick and the other is a wheelchair. Your brother should be able to use it." Xuan Shijing said.

Chang Le carefully took the two blueprints in Xuan Shijing's hand, and roughly looked them over. The crutches were clear at a glance, but the wheelchair could be seen as a chair with two wheels next to it. People can't sit on it?

Although he didn't know much about it, Chang Le could see that these two things were of great help to his younger brother, so he quickly put them in his arms and bowed to Xuan Shijing: "Chang Le thank you, Lord Marquis."

"We will be a family from now on, work hard." Xuan Shijing encouraged.

After leaving the backyard, I went around with Longer in each room of the chamber of commerce on the fourth floor. Now all the things that should be busy a year ago have been done, and all the shopkeepers are also on vacation, and they have returned home. The entire fourth floor except Apart from the guards on duty, there was no one else, and it seemed a bit empty.

"Long'er, is there any news from Jingzhou recently?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"Master Hou, the carrier pigeons in the house are probably about to arrive in Chang'an now, and they will be able to carry a batch of more specific news by then. Now King Jing Li Yuanjing is still on his way to Jingzhou, and our people are also on the road all the time. After staring at the news, there is nothing unusual, just hurrying on." Long'er replied.

"Well, according to Li Yuanjing's speed, I guess it will be a year after we reach Jingzhou, and we can have a good year with peace of mind."

But he said that Li Yuanjing, who was rushing back to Jingzhou in a hurry, these few days of traveling and worrying, made him have a lot of vicissitudes of life, the stubble grew on his face, and when he saw it, a few hairs appeared indistinctly. Huafa, this made the housekeeper who was waiting on the side very distressed.

Because I was in a hurry, I didn't complain about the inn when I passed by a town at noon, so I went to the evening as soon as I walked, and the daylight hours were short in winter, seeing that the sun was setting on the western mountain, the people in Jingwang's mansion were It ended up in a situation where there was no way to go to the village and no shop behind, so I had to find a ruined temple near the official road and rested.

The people in the palace left in a hurry, so they didn't bring any expensive things on the carriage. The meal for the evening was just some dry food and some dried meat.

The guards of the palace cleared a place in the ruined temple and got angry with the fire. The butler took out the iron pot from the carriage and put it on the fire.

On this winter night, if there is no hot water, how can we bear it.

Li Yuanjing raised a child with rich clothes and fine food. Even in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty fought in all directions, Li Yuan never treated his son badly. Even in the camp on the battlefield, the food he ate was even more cold than dry food and meat. Drying is much better, so when Li Yuanjing saw the dry food and jerky, he lost his appetite instantly.

"My lord." The butler filled a bowl of hot soup with a pottery bowl and handed it to Li Yuanjing: "Eat some, I'm staying in this ruined temple today, it's cold at night, I don't eat something to warm my body, I'm afraid it will be cold at night." Not having a good time."

Li Yuanjing sighed, and took the pottery bowl from the housekeeper's hand: "Tell me, did this king do something wrong when he came out of Chang'an City?"

The steward was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought of the current situation of King Jing's Mansion, he sighed and said: "It can't be said that it is wrong, our King Jing's Mansion has already been tested by His Majesty on the fire, if we still remain indifferent, I am afraid it will end like this. It's not much better, now, anyway, we are not in Chang'an, not under His Majesty's control, but it is much safer, and we can advance or retreat."

"Can you advance or retreat?" Li Yuanjing smiled, holding the bowl in his left hand, and gently poking the fire with the wooden branch in his right hand: "Is it the king's land in the whole world? He is also a member of the noble family, why is this?" He said, looking at the pottery bowl in his hand with a slight sarcasm in his eyes, and drank it down in one gulp regardless of the boiling hot water.

"My lord, everything will be fine when we arrive in Jingzhou." Now, the butler can only comfort him like this.

If in Chang'an, Li Yuanjing made such a decision in a fit of anger, then after these days of ups and downs, Li Yuanjing's mind has cleared up a lot. Now that the power at hand is going head-to-head with the court, how likely is it to win.

Now, it's not Li Yuanjing himself who wants to take this step forward, but his wrong step, wrong step, the form began to push him forward.

"Now that we are in such a field, the rest is to fight hard. When we return to Jingzhou this time, we must gather all the officials under our hands to discuss this incident carefully. Only in this way, we may still have a little hope "The butler continued.

When Li Yuanjing heard this, he didn't speak, but just nodded.

Maybe in Chang'an, the anomalies in his house are about to be discovered by others, but that's okay, even if it is known that there is no one in the house, no one will suspect that he has run away.

Li Yuanjing did not expect that Xuan Shijing would keep an eye on King Jing's mansion all the time, and His Majesty Li Er also sent hidden guards, not only to watch King Jing's mansion, but his whereabouts along the way were also relayed back all the time. Chang'an.

Fortunately, there were thick quilts on the carriage. The guards of the palace took out some quilts and spread them for Li Yuanjing. Although the conditions on the road are limited, Li Yuanjing is also a prince, so he would not have to sleep next to the cold and hard floor at night. brick.

Leaning against the fire, wrapped in a quilt, Li Yuanjing gradually fell asleep with the fatigue of the day and the lingering worries in his mind.

The housekeeper added some more firewood to the fire to make the fire more intense. After seeing that Li Yuanjing was fast asleep, he put down the branch in his hand, wrapped his coat tightly, and walked out of the ruined temple.

(End of this chapter)