The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 424

On the last day of the New Year's Eve, among the hustle and bustle of Kaifeng, there were many more patrolling teams than usual.

Due to the arrival of a team from Luoyang, officials of all sizes in the city were preparing to welcome them in the government office. The time seemed extremely lively.

Not long after, a few people from the arriving team came over and said something, probably because the King Yong was exhausted from the long journey, so he didn't come to meet you and so on.

The officials had many regrets and complaints, but none dared to say them.

Passing through the bustling streets of Kaifeng City, the field outside the city is sparsely populated. At this time of year, the traders who traveled north and south also stopped.

On the side of the road overgrown with decaying grass, a carriage was parked nearby. The exhausted King Yong was walking with his middle-aged son, surrounded by guards in casual clothes and armed with weapons.

Geng Qing looked back at his daughter-in-law Qin Wushuang, smiled and beckoned her to follow: "The family chats, why do you stay so far away, it's not like your father."

"Yes, father-in-law."

The little girl who came to Chang'an at the beginning of the year is now a woman in her 30s. Because of practicing martial arts all the year round, her figure has not been out of shape due to the passage of time after giving birth to a child. On the contrary, she still has a special charm.

Qin Wushuang came to the side holding the Qinglong sword. In fact, he respected her husband's father very much in his heart. Not only was he once an extremely human minister, but he also had a hand and eye, but he respected all women.

It was because of this that her husband, Geng Nian, looked so much like King Yong, that she was willing to marry him.Otherwise, with her personality, no matter how much her sword master father, Qin Huaimian, tried to lobby, she would not agree.

"My father-in-law traveled a long distance, why didn't he go back to the village first, my father has prepared a lot of good wine and is going to have a drink with you. Xun'er and Ang'er also want to see you."

"Your father's drinking capacity, I dare not go." Geng Qing smiled, looking in the direction of Zhuangzi, "This time, I am going to Luoyang to meet His Majesty. He is running out of time, so it would be good to see him for the last time. Yes. I also came to see you two, when I left home, your mother gave special instructions. "

He tapped his son's shoulder: "She didn't go back last year, but she still remembers it in her heart. Next time I go home, be careful of being whipped!"

Ordinary family words are heart-warming.

Rao is middle-aged, Geng Nian is always a son in front of his parents, he glanced at his wife with some embarrassment, and the couple pursed their lips and chuckled.

"Father was joking. The child thinks that it's cold outside. It's better to go back to the village where it's warmer. You see, Uncle Gu and Uncle Dou are getting older."

"They? They are tougher than their father, each of them has practiced martial arts so high, they deserve to be thugs for the rest of their lives!"

Geng Qing took a sip over there, and the corners of Jiuyu and Dou Wei's mouths twitched. The two martial arts were put into the green forest and rivers and lakes. They were both master-level existences. inseparable.

When you come here to scold, you all know that it means love and protection.Everyone naturally understood and smiled kindly. After all, if you want to be scolded by King Yong like this, the morals of this world are gone.

"Now the Geng family's foundation has been handed over to you brothers. You only enjoy the blessings of your father. If you drag him over, you will probably have to discuss troublesome things. Forget it, and you can decide for yourself."

Geng Qing stretched her muscles, pulled her daughter-in-law over, handed it to her son, took two steps back, and watched the couple click tut twice.

"Good match! Sure enough, it is the inheritance of the father's excellence, no matter how you look at it, it is pleasing to the eye."

Qin Wushuang next to Geng Nian pursed his lips and chuckled lightly. The father-in-law was still talking inconspicuously as before, embarrassing, but comfortable to listen to, making the atmosphere harmonious. I am afraid that only a person like the father-in-law can go through several dynasties. to today.

"All right."

Seeing that his son was about to speak again, Geng Qing interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Come here and see that you two are doing well, and everything is going well, so I am very happy to be my father. If I were to be the emperor for my father back then, I am afraid that something will happen in Luoyang. It will fall on your brothers."

Geng Nian also knew about the recent palace changes in Luoyang yesterday. It is a pity that father and son can't fight each other.

"Stop talking about these sad things."

Thinking of Li Siyuan's last obeisance that day, the two may never have the chance to see each other again, and the death of an old man is ultimately sad.Geng Qing sighed, waved his son and daughter-in-law to get on the carriage and go back.

"It's been half a month since I came out for my father. Your mother should be in a hurry. Seeing that your husband and wife are in harmony, it is worthwhile to be a father. By the way, Wushuang, go back and tell your father that if you want to drink, the flowers will bloom in Linghu next spring." Come on, I have quite a few altars of good wine in my treasure house, and if you invite old guys like Li Cunxiao, Wang Yanzhang, and Fu Daozhao, it will be more lively, and it will be more comfortable than drinking with two people, right?"

Wushuang laughed: "What father-in-law said is true, tell me about it when you get back."

Geng Nian also said with a smile: "If Dad goes back, don't hurry on the way. When you arrive at the place, ask someone to write back to the child."

"Troubleshooting, go back quickly."

The old man waved his hand and drove the two couples away, then slowly got into the carriage with Jiuyu and the others, took a last look at the outline of Kaifeng City, and then lowered the curtain.

The carriage passed the official road, but did not go to the ferry. Instead, it bypassed the city and returned to the east again. This time, it did not stop at Luoyang, but went straight to Tongguan. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the team started again. On the eleventh day, they arrived at the outskirts of Ximen, Chang'an, and stopped at the foot of a small hill.

Geng Qing took the joss stick, and Jiuyu came to the two overgrown tombs with a hoe. The writing on the stele became blurred, and the writing on it could still be vaguely read.

The tomb of the heroine Tang Baoer.

Geng Qing asked people to light incense candles, put them in front of the stele, and sat on the ground casually: "It's rare to go south, so I decided to come here to offer you incense sticks. In the future, I don't know if I can come again. You see, this world Is it much higher than before? There is finally only one emperor in such a huge place. In another 20 years, the world will be unified and the people will be able to live a good life. The promise made to you back then can be regarded as fulfilled.

It's just a pity that you can't see it. If you weren't too obsessed with your master's grievances back then, maybe you were also one of my Geng Qing's mother-in-law, with your children as companions, and taking care of your life. Such days are good days, aren't they? Your kind of fighting, killing and killing, enjoy the rivers and lakes. "

Jiuyu and Dou Wei helped clean up the weeds, watching Geng Qing sitting in front of the tomb and talking a lot.

Soon after, the sky gradually darkened.

Geng Qing just got up and went back to the carriage, and a team entered Chang'an, and stayed in the small courtyard for another night. The walnut tree was still there, and it was even longer and lush than before, almost covering half of the courtyard.

"I really miss it"

Geng Qing was wearing a fur coat, moved a chair and sat under the eaves of the attic, looking at the bleakness of the courtyard, as if he saw everyone laughing and playing in the courtyard again.

The playboy Zhang Huaiyi came to visit, but was guarded by his mother with a broom; the little fox ran wildly after an old hen all over the yard; Dachun was dragged into the room by his aunt and didn't know what to do; The 'instrument of torture' was laid; Dou Wei stood under the tree and roared loudly, occasionally, some birds were stunned and fell down; Qiao Niang, who was still a young girl, propped her chin in a daze under the eaves, and Bai Ruxiang swayed her waist limb, is coming back from the outside.
Qin Huaimian danced his sword on the wall.

Xie Tong, a scholar, came to visit with a scroll, Gu Chang entrusted Jiuyu to come and take away the torture tools, and his wife and benefactor smiled happily and asked him to study in the son-in-law's mansion.
Everything is just like yesterday.

"Xi Zong, Zhao Zong, Huang Wang, righteous brother Zhu Wen, Jin Wang Li Keyong, Qi Wang Li Maozhen, Li Cunxu, Yelu Abaoji. These people have all left, and I am old too."

Geng Qing pursed her lips, and there was a faint glimmer of water in her eyes.

"In the future, the world should fall on the young people."

He said softly.

Jiuyu and Dou Wei behind them looked blurred, looking at the courtyard, as if they had returned to the past.

Early the next morning, officials from the city came to pay a visit, and the bleak courtyard was already empty.

(End of this chapter)