Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 195

When embarking on the journey, I was full of apprehension, not knowing the future fate.

The tragic battle, the blood-swelling battle, all kinds of bizarre twists and turns, the skyrocketing reputation, and the knife light that fell on the neck, everything is in the past, but everything will affect all aspects of the future.

In any case, I came back, and returned to Chang'an with a proud attitude.

Beside the Baqiao, Li Shan squinted his eyes and looked at the city of Chang'an, which he couldn't see clearly, but which shocked everyone in Hebei.

Li Shan speculated in his heart, now that he returns to Chang'an, what will greet him?

How would Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng treat a young man who made such great achievements in Shandong, but slapped a powerful family in the face?
Everything will be revealed soon... A smile appeared on the corner of Li Shan's mouth, with bitterness and relief.

In all the previous performances, Li Shan's performance was almost too perfect to be faulted, but after that knife, many things in the future are hard to say.

In fact, Li Shan also knew that if he Xu Weizheng and Cui Qian made peace for Cui Bo at dusk that day, to appease the rebellious soldiers... his reputation would definitely rise to a higher level, and the Qinghe Cui family would always reciprocate.

But Li Shan did not regret the knife.

If you say you regret it, it's because you didn't save Fang Shilang.

"I've heard the name of Baqiao for a long time." Ling Jing stroked his beard and said, "I heard that this place is the place where Chang'an sees him off."

Su Dingfang was a little surprised, "Why have you never heard of this custom?"

Su Dingfang was born in Jizhou, Shandong, but he moved to Guanzhong with his father when he was young, and he didn't return to Hebei until he was young.

"A certain traveler traveled to Guanzhong and settled down in Chang'an, but I haven't heard of it." Ma Zhou shook his head and glanced at Fan Shiyi, Zhu Ba and others, and everyone was also shaking their heads.

Ling Jing's hand stroking his beard paused, and he glanced at Li Shan out of the corner of his eye... Didn't you say that Baqiao Yangliu sent you off, but Chang'an's grand scene?

Li Shan was a little embarrassed, how did he know that the so-called farewell at Baqiao only started in the middle of Tang Dynasty.

"I'm coming!"

Following Zhu Ba's yelling, several riders came galloping. Yesterday Li Shan asked Zhu Shitou and a few other guards to report in advance. up.

The leader is Zhu Wei, who is old and strong, with gray temples, but he is calm and unhurried while galloping, reining in the reins, getting off his horse, "Da Lang, you are back at last!"

"Uncle Qi..." Li Shan pursed his lips, "I'm back...but..."

Zhu Wei had heard from Zhu Shitou long ago that thirty young men acted as personal guards and were in danger many times. Although Li Shan deliberately defended them, five people died in Hebei.

Zhu Wei fought many battles in the early years. Although he was sad, he did not shed tears. His eyes fell on Ling Jing and Su Dingfang.

"This is Uncle Qi, the person in charge of Zhujiagou."

Zhu Wei was a little surprised by Li Shan's introduction. He took two steps forward and saluted, "Country man, I met Mr. Ling..."

"This is Su Lie, the wording is fixed." Li Shan said with a smile: "Brother Su has made an appointment with a certain person, so I will treat Brother Su as Uncle Qi treats me."

Su Dingfang stepped aside and bowed, "I pay my respects to Uncle Qi, please take care of me in the future."

Yesterday Zhu Shitou's personal guards returned to the village, Zhu Wei asked in detail, except for a few things that Li Shan deliberately explained, Zhu Shitou talked endlessly, except for Li Shan, Su Dingfang was the most mentioned.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Su Dingfang was not very talkative, mainly Zhu Wei and Ling Jing, this old man was actually gentle and refined, it seemed that he had thrown away his personality again, and he didn't know how many days he would be able to lose it.

Li Shanwei was impatient, "Let's talk about it after returning to the village, there will be plenty of time in the future."

"Da Lang is in a hurry, it's inevitable." Zhu Wei smiled and said to Ling Jing: "Da Lang is the most filial."

Ling Jing nodded slightly. In this era, filial piety is still the most important criterion for assessing character.

"But I won't go back to the village for the time being." Zhu Wei lowered his voice and said softly, "I came here in a hurry...Today is the fifteenth day, the last day of the county government assessment."

"Now that I have given my name and surname, Da Lang went straight to the Chang'an county government office to take the test."

"The rest will follow me back to the village, but don't worry, they will be settled properly."

"It's today?" Li Shan swallowed, and he couldn't help but look at Ma Zhou, originally thinking that he would hold Buddha's feet for a few days after returning to the village.

Zhu Wei chuckled a few times, "On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, Chang'an county captain went to conduct an assessment, but Chang'an ordered Li Qianyou to return to Beijing and ordered another assessment to make up for it. But it must be done before the [-]th day. Zhu Ba came to report yesterday, and immediately Send the letter to Chang'an."

Li Shan's face changed slightly, Li Dewu really wanted to get in the way, if it wasn't for Li Qianyou, he would have been tricked.

Kneeling on the ground and kowtowed three times in the northwest direction, it is a due gift not to meet his parents first when he travels far away to return home. Li Shanxing will leave with Ma Zhou after finishing the ceremony.

Fan Shiyi followed silently... Zhu Bayi, who was in a hurry to go home, grinned, and followed Su Dingfang and Guo Pu's stern eyes.

All the way to the county government office, Li Shan went straight to a familiar official, asked clearly and went to the side hall, and was stunned as soon as he entered, there were only six people inside... It seems that this time he really accepted Li Ganyou's favor.

"It's just an explanation of the scriptures." Ma Zhou said briefly, and stepped back from Li Dewu's gaze.

As usual, the county magistrate was in charge of the assessment. Li Shan glanced at Li Dewu indifferently, sat down on his own, took out the brushes, inkstones and inkstones that had just been delivered and put them away one by one.

Li Shan didn't answer the question first, but read it from the beginning to the end first, and his mind immediately settled down. It was just the first test, and the difficulty was not high. I learned it by rote a few months ago... Well, he has experience in this area .

In his previous life, in elementary school and junior high school, Li Shan was a rural child with no qualifications, and the teacher was not dedicated, so he memorized it by rote and pondered it slowly.

Slowly grinding the inkstone, Li Shan glanced out of the corner of his eyes, and the other six people had already started to answer the questions, so he turned his gaze to the front and smiled at the expressionless Li Dewu.

I really didn't expect that the first acquaintance I saw after returning to Chang'an would be you.

Can you imagine what I experienced in Hebei and Shandong?

The fear of precariousness, the life-and-death struggle, corpses strewn across the field, blood flowing like rivers... The smile on Li Shan's face became more and more gentle.

Li Dewu stared for a long time at this very familiar but seemingly very strange young man. He looked exactly the same, grew a lot in size, but had a very different temperament, not only compared with the year before, even compared with Wuling County a few months ago, There are also huge differences.

Like a rusty iron sword, it has been tempered again, and when the sword comes out of the water, it shines with dazzling light.

After the Hebei battle report came out, Li Dewu was extremely disappointed, but he suppressed this emotion very well, because in the entire East Palace, there are countless people who are more disappointed than him... The most disappointed and humiliated is undoubtedly Prince Li Jiancheng.

But then, the flattery of Li Kai, Zhang Wenguan, and Wang Renbiao... This made Li Dewu feel that he and Li Jiancheng were in very different situations.

The only difference is that Li Jiancheng was slapped wildly by his own brothers, the one on the left and the one on the right. They were slapped unconscious and their cheeks were red and swollen.

And Li Dewu was slapped wildly by his own son, not one or two, but dozens of big slaps, Li Dewu was slapped like falling into a dream.

Li Dewu maintained a blank expression, Li Shan smiled meaningfully, and his right hand was still grinding the inkstone leisurely.

Both of them knew it well, although they didn't tear their face apart, they just didn't tear their face openly.

(End of this chapter)