wind and earth

Chapter 6 The Uninvited Guest 6-1

It was overcast and rainy, and half of the people in the market were gone. The loess was muddy and muddy water was splashed along with the wheel marks of the carriage. The groom was soaked and whipped his horse.

"Chu Dao, hurry up." The master in the car was so jolted that he couldn't speak well, and his tone was still anxious.

"Okay." Another whip.

"Have you sent someone to send a letter to Mr. Chang's residence?"

"The slave delivered it in person last night, and handed it over to Mr.

"That's good, that's good..."

The person in the car was Chu Suiliang, the imperial censor of Shangshu, the third rank of the court, and his expression was a bit anxious at this moment. The day before yesterday, his hometown in Luozhou suddenly passed on a family letter, asking him to return to Luozhou quickly, saying that the old grandmother was seriously ill, and he was afraid that it was time. The days are numbered.

"Grandma..." He clasped his hands, and the stubble on his chin made him look haggard.

After two days of driving, Chu Suiliang got off his horse in a hurry, left his shoes in front of the door, and went straight to Chu's house regardless of the mud on his socks.

"Second Young Master is back!" The servant outside the door shouted quickly.

Passing through the corridor of the courtyard and opening the mahogany door, Chu Suiliang saw his eldest aunt Chu Xuan wiping the corners of her mouth with medicinal juice. His eyes were red and he knelt down beside the bed.

The old grandmother glanced at him, the fine lines around her eyes raised, and she slightly raised her hand for Chu Suiliang to hold.

"Deng Shan, you're back..."

"I'm back, come back and say hello to grandma." He pressed his hand to his face, just like when he was a child, grandma always warmed his face with her hands.

"Very good...very good..." asked Chu Xuan to help her up.

"Grandmother scared the grandson this time." She deliberately blamed the old lady.

Everyone felt sad for a while.

Only Chu Liang said, "Only you, the child, talk to grandma like this."

"Father, you are also scared!" His eyes were slightly red, and his heart was sour.

"you!"

"Hehehe...The Chu family hasn't been this lively for a long time...cough cough..."

"Grandma!" Everyone panicked again.

"It's okay...I saw Dengshan, and my illness...was half cured." He touched Chu Suiliang's hand again.

"Shan'er, grandma is much more energetic today." Chu Xuannian is over sixty, looks like he is only 35.

"Big aunt." Seeing Chu Xuan, she was still slightly stunned. This big aunt was still young.

"Come back after changing your clothes. You're wet and what to do if you're caught in the wind and cold." He took out a handkerchief and wiped the rainwater from Chu Suiliang's forehead.

"Xuan'er, you treat him as a child, Deng Shan looks much older than you now." Chu Liang entertained his children.

Grandma smiled happily: "Hehehe... I didn't know, I thought Xuanxuan was Dengshan's younger sister!"

"Look, grandma can talk and laugh!" Chu Liang's wife, Wang covered her mouth and laughed with everyone.

"If you keep talking, Xiaoshan will hide in his little cabinet and cry again." Li Yuanyi teased Chu Suiliang.

"Eldest Uncle, how come you are like this!" It's all from childhood!

"No way, you are the youngest." Li Yuanyi's eighth son, Li Han.

"How can I be the youngest!" After saying that, he shut his mouth.

Everyone suddenly fell silent for a while, and saw Grandma Grandma and Chu Xuan with sad faces.

"Which pot do you not mention?" My brother Chu Yiliang gave him a stern look.

"Ah... grandma really misses the youngest." With tears in her eyes.

Chu Xuan on the side also had tears in his eyes, bit his red lips, and comforted his grandma: "Grandma, the youngest will be back, you have to take care of yourself."

"Grandma, the youngest will come back." Chu Suiliang said with confidence from nowhere.

"Dengshan, do you know the news about the youngest?" Seeing that he was sure, grandma was comforted by hearing this.

"I heard about a person in Chang'an, and felt that his style of acting was very similar to that of the youngest, so Deng Shan decided to tell him that his grandma was ill." Even if the information was wrong, it didn't matter, he couldn't let the youngest feel regretful.

"Really..." smiled gratifiedly: "The youngest... is too smart, and has so many responsibilities on her body, grandma only hopes that he...is safe."

After hearing this, Chu Xuan wiped away his tears secretly, and recited Li Yuanyi.

Seeing her like this, Li Yuanyi lowered his half-raised hand and sighed.

Everyone stayed with grandma for a while, and left the room when they saw that she was tired.

After leaving the door, she saw Li Yuanyi waiting for her on the porch.

"Xuanxuan."

Chu Xuan couldn't bear the sadness, his eyes turned red.

"He's fine." It was to comfort Chu Xuan and comfort himself.

"How can it be all right!"

"People from the Qilin clan said that they couldn't find his..." His body.

"I know he's still alive, but I just feel sorry for him. The youngest was born in October, and he hurts. As a mother, it hurts even more." Her ability to see things is not as good as before, and she has no way of knowing the youngest. whereabouts.

"I stopped him for his own good." He expected him and pampered him. The youngest is a once-in-a-century genius in his Li family.

"For his own good..." Chu Xuanren's tears rolled down his face: "Your good for him, keep him from contacting us for 12 years..."

"I..." Li Yuan put his arms around her shoulders: "It was my fault, don't cry."

For 12 years, he was full of remorse

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"Nonsense!" Li Yuanyi patted the desk again.

"I'm not messing around. The Longevity Qilin is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. After spreading the Gu, I will use a formation to get rid of the Longevity Qilin!" Li Chufeng knelt on the ground and said decisively.

"You really think you are a century-old genius. If this matter is known to the Qilin clan, you will still be able to get out of the Longevity Palace!" He was worried.

"If you don't come out, you have to come out!"

"you!"

"Father, everyone says that I, Li Chufeng, am a hundred-year-old genius. I not only have the body protection of the longevity unicorn, but also the five-element unicorn's ability to see the secrets of heaven, but...my child...I really think this is a curse." He just wanted to be like an ordinary person. .

"In the past eight years, do you dare to say that without the power of Qilin, you can still help him become king?" Talking about Li Shimin's ascension to the throne.

"It is to help him become a king, and after seeing all human nature, I know the greed of the Qilin clan!"

"Hello! Let me say something, and you say it!"

"Father, I have made up my mind."

"You!" Holding his eyebrows, he said with difficulty: "It's really not because of that Li Chengqian?"

Li Chufeng was taken aback, turned his head away: "It's none of his business." This is a matter of the Qilin clan.

"You go, you go, go as you want." Close your eyes, turn your back.

"Father, take care." Li Chufeng kowtowed on his knees, got up and opened the door.

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These days, the rain has been annoying. Chufeng clenched the letter in his hand and sat by the window. He watched the rainwater slide down from the eaves, drip into puddles, and splash, and his mind went blank.

My mind is confused and my heart is always restless.

A few days ago, Cheng Qian said that after he checked it himself, Chu Feng did not see him, thinking that Cheng Qian was really angry, and felt depressed again.

Looking at the crumpled letter paper and the simple words, he couldn't stop thinking about the worst.

"Grandma is seriously ill, come back quickly." Without even writing her name, Chu Dao was sent to deliver it in person.

He thought that maybe Chu Suiliang was just speculating about his identity, but he also thought, if Chu Suiliang already knew his identity, then... what about Changsun Wuji?

After reading the letter again, he was even more anxious. He removed his disguise, put on his cloak, thought for a while, and then rushed to Luozhou in the dark.

After two days of driving, when he arrived at Chu's house, it was just dawn and the remaining stars were hanging high in the purple-black sky. He climbed over the wall and entered, followed the aisle, pushed open the mahogany door of grandma in his memory, and approached grandma softly and slowly.

Sitting on the steps beside the bed, she touched her grandma's face with her hands. It has been 12 years, and the grandma who loves him the most has gray hair all over her head, and the fine lines at the end of her eyes indicate her age.

"Grandma..." with a crying voice.

The old lady opened her eyes slightly as if she had sensed it.

Taking a closer look, there were tears in his eyes, and he kept thinking: "My... my youngest..." and grabbed Chufeng's hand.

"Grandma, I'm back." Hug grandma.

"Is this real?" He looked at Chufeng again: "Is grandma grandma dreaming?"

"It's true." He took the old grandmother's hand and put it next to his face: "Look, my face is warmer than your hands." She laughed and shed tears.

The old lady laughed and said, "You are the youngest, you are so clever."

"Grandma, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm old, my body is useless." Seeing Chufeng, she felt relieved.

"Why did Grandma Grandma say that?" She shook her hand again: "It was you and Feng'er who said that, people from our Chu family are stiff even in old age!"

"Hehehehe...you are the one who can make grandma laugh, naughty!"

Chufeng smiled with tears in his eyes, and the old lady touched his little face again.

"Youngest, you've lost weight again."

"Grandma, I've grown taller, of course I've lost some weight."

"You, just like Xuanxuan, looking at your looks, Grandma Grandma also feels that she is younger." Some emotion.

"Grandma Grandma is the number one beauty in Luozhou, even if she is old, she is still a beauty."

"Hehehe... just you coaxing grandma grandma, I will reward you with a piece of flower cake later." pinching Chufeng's face.

"I want the flower cake with jujube." She held the old grandmother's hand.

The old grandmother's eyes were red again, she nodded: "Okay..."

Chufeng was jealous when he saw her, and his nose was sour again.

The door was opened, Wang entered the room with hot water, and was surprised to see Chufeng.

"You...you..." Before recognizing who it was, she shouted, "Father of the child!"

When she shouted, she first called Chu Xuan who was sleeping in the next room over.

"Sister-in-law, why..." Shun saw Chufeng, she covered her mouth, tears burst into tears.

The old lady pushed Chufeng: "Go... Your mother misses you..."

Chu Feng got up cowardly, and embraced Chu Xuan: "Mother, I'm back."

Chu Xuan clutched the corner of Chufeng's clothes, weeping uncontrollably.

Li Yuanyi ran into the room, saw his mother and son embracing each other, he stood by the door, his eyes were red, and he said softly: "I let you go, but you really go..."

When everyone heard it, their noses were sore again.

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In the Hall of Qinhe in Chang'an City, seven people, including Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Liu Xuan of Dali Temple, the crown prince, Li Ke, King of Wu, and Li Zhi, King of Jin, entered the hall to discuss two matters.

One is the matter of Yao Luoge's marriage, and the other is the matter of King Qi's punishment.

"Your Majesty, I think that Yao Luoge is here to make a marriage, and I'm afraid Mr. Chu Feng has other plans." It was Fang Xuanling who was speaking, and he and Li Ke looked at each other before he opened his mouth to express his position.

"My son also thinks so. The drug Luo Ge got involved with Mr., it seems that he intends to damage my reputation in the Tang Dynasty, but it is a bit of a bully, so don't bother." Li Ke stood up and echoed, thinking that his temper was blunt and impatient. Well, if you say these words, you will at most get a meal from your father, so it's better to say it first.

Li Shimin did give him a look, but he didn't scold him.

"What the King of Wu said is wrong, it's too much to ignore." Changsun added.

"Could it be possible to hand over your husband?" asked rhetorically.

"Not really." He didn't want to pay attention to Li Ke at all, and didn't even look at him.

Seeing him like this, Li Ke was also angry. This eldest grandson Wuji has treated him and his mother and concubine like this since the past, and he is too bullying.

"My son, can you share your humble opinion?" It was Jin Wang Li Zhi who spoke.

"Tell me." The emperor stopped.

"If you want my son to say that he asked my Tang Dynasty for two people so casually, would my Tang Dynasty really give him two people?" He also said: "From ancient times to the present, there has never been a dynasty like my Tang Dynasty. Let the foreign race become a vassal state, obey the orders of the Khan of Heaven, and Huihe is just one of the vassal states of my Tang Dynasty. If he really wants to disturb my Tang Dynasty, he will not come to make peace. Moreover, if he really invades my Tang Dynasty, we will The Tang Dynasty is in its prime, so why be afraid of it.”

Seeing Li Shimin's expression softened and he took a sip of tea, Li Zhi continued: "My son is thinking, the father will marry Yaoluo Gexiuqi in the name of Tian Khan, and make him surrender and thank you. You can directly refuse, sir is a grassroots person, and it is really not enough for the emperor to write an order to reward him."

Li Shimin laughed when he heard this: "Your Majesty Jin, you have really improved."

Li Zhiqian made a bow, exhaled slightly, and glanced at Li Chengqian, the prince taught him this.

"Where is the prince? Mr. Chu is now in your family."

"My son thinks what King Jin said is true." He lowered his head.

Seeing that the crown prince was absent-minded, Wei Zheng said, "Mr. Chu saved the crown prince, if someone asks for peace because of the country, I, the Tang Dynasty, will hand him over. It is really inappropriate."

"It seems that the crown prince and Master Wei have the same opinion." The emperor smiled, but Wei Zheng also said a word for Chufeng, pointing to Fang Xuanling: "Xuanling, draw up the decree."

Li Chengqian was really absent-minded, he searched for two days but found nothing, and the two years of Chu Feng and Yao Luo Ge Xiuqi seemed to have disappeared.

The hands in the sleeves were clenched tightly, and when he thought of this, his heart was swollen, and his breath was tight——

Li Chengqian held the portraits given by Su Ji and the portraits of Li Chufeng, and he was stunned. This person looks so similar to Jiufeng, a little thinner, without unicorn lines, and there is a thin scar from his face to his neck.

"Brother, when elder brother rescued him, he was covered in injuries. Before he left, he only put on a new shirt and a blood-stained coat and left." Su Ji said with a hint of appreciation.

"This person doesn't have a unicorn tattoo?"

"Indeed, if he intentionally concealed it, the elder brother would not know."

Li Chengqian looked at the portrait again, it was really too similar.

"Brother saw that his coat was stained with blood, so he gave him a coat, but he said that the blood on it was the blood of his relatives, and he wanted to keep this wound and scar in his heart." He still remembered the look in Li Chufeng's eyes.

"You said his relatives?" He asked again, "Did you say where he is from?"

"It is said that he is a relative of the Yaowuge clan, but he looks like a Han." Su Ji was also puzzled.

"Yaowuge clan... but the Yaowuge clan that was wiped out half a year ago?"

Su Ji nodded, and said: "Then Li Chufeng's eyes are so sad that even the eldest brother can't bear to see him."

"Brother, can you search for Li Chufeng together, maybe this person is related to Jiufeng."

"Brother has already been found, but there are always people following this person's trail, and every time he is found, someone will block him." This is also the first time he has encountered such a situation.

Li Chengqian sat weakly on the chair and pressed his forehead.

Jiufeng, Li Chufeng, Yaoge Luoxiuqi and that Yaowuge clan seem to be connected but not related.