The wedding date was set on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month.

In other words, the preparation time is only half a month, which seems a bit hasty for ordinary people, let alone the emperor's family marrying a daughter.

However, all this is not a problem under the will of the Son of Heaven, and the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites sent people, and it only took five or six days to help the Jing'an Hou Mansion prepare things for 7788, and by the twentieth day of the lunar month, the Jing'an Hou Mansion was already about the same.

However, this day was extraordinary.

Because Ye Mao is back.

The little grandfather of Chen Guogong's Mansion hurried along the way, and finally returned to the capital before the Chinese New Year.

Of course, there were more than 10,000 Northern Zhou clans with him, and these clan lords have now become prisoners of the imperial court, and the life along the way is not easy, because of the heavy snow and cold, when they arrived in the capital, one or two hundred people from these clans had died.

Ye Mao camped outside the capital, and ordered the people of Zhichong Mansion to watch them, and he himself took a few generals into the capital to face the saint.

Because it was a triumphant return, there were still many people who greeted Ye Mao at the city gate, including Ye Mao's father Ye Ming, and Jing'an Hou Li Xin, who had nothing to do.

The two of them, with dozens of guards, waited for Ye Mao's arrival at the city gate.

It was about noon, Ye Mao and He Song, the commander of the Zhichong Mansion, and Zhao Jia, the dog-headed military division, appeared in Ye Ming and Li Xin's field of vision, and after these three people approached, they dismounted one after another.

Ye Mao knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed to Ye Ming.

"Father."

The other two people all saluted Ye Ming in a respectful tone: "Uncle." ”

Then they turned to look at Li Xin, He Song, who was already in his fifties, and bent over to clench his fists at Li Xin: "General Li." ”

Zhao Jia, who had grown a lot of beard on his face, also bowed to Li Xin.

"Master Hou."

Men of this era will begin to grow beards after a certain age, but they are not completely uncared for, in fact, the ancients spent much more energy on their beards than later generations, so Zhao Jia, who has not taken care of his beard for a long time, looks a little sloppy.

Ye Ming stretched out his hand and pulled Ye Mao up, and asked, "Are you hurt?" ”

Ye Mao shook his head.

"Father, this time the son ......"

As soon as he finished saying these words, Ye Ming waved his hand, signaling him not to say any more.

"You are out of Beijing by the holy order, if there is anything, the first one should report to Your Majesty, you go to the palace to face the saint, if you have anything to say, you will talk about it when you return home."

Ye Mao took a deep breath, lowered his head and said, "Obey." ”

So he and He Song got back on their horses and headed towards the imperial city.

Zhao Jia, who was a little sloppy, stayed and stood beside Li Xin with a smile.

Ye Ming glanced back at the young man in white and said in a low voice, "Brother Zhao, can you go to Ye's house for a meal with Ye?" ”

Zhao Jia's father is a military advisor who follows Ye Sheng, from this point of view, he is the same generation as Ye Ming, so Ye Ming will call him a brother.

Zhao Jia bowed his head slightly and said with a smile: "This is natural." ”

He looked back at Li Xin again, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Master Hou is going to have a meal together?" ”

Li Xin smiled: "Let's go, let's go." ”

"With the light of Brother An, I will also go to Chen Guogong's Mansion for a meal."

…………

Chen Guogong's Mansion is a partial hall.

A table of wine and food has been served, the old man Ye Sheng did not come forward, Ye Ming sat on the main seat, Li Xin sat on the left side, and Zhao Jia sat on the right side.

Ye Ming poured wine for the two of them.

After this General Ye finished pouring the wine, he first toasted the two of them with a glass each, then bowed his head to Zhao Jia and said, "Brother Zhao, Ye wants to know what happened before and after this incident." ”

"It's easy."

Zhao Jia did not hesitate, and said: "According to His Majesty's intentions, the little grandfather led the Zhichong Mansion to intercept the Northern Zhou clan, and those internal guards led the way, and we were very smoothly blocked in front of those clans. ”

Ye Ming frowned and said, "How much damage did you have?" ”

"Four or five people."

Zhao Jia said with a smile: "They were all accidentally stepped on." ”

"Then why not kill them?"

Ye Shaobao said in a deep voice: "If this is the case, it will be easy to kill them. ”

"The little grandfather doesn't want to kill him."

Zhao Jia bowed his head and said: "The little grandfather said that there is no point in killing these people, and he can't bear this blood anymore, so he simply sent it to the capital and killed the officials in the capital." ”

"Nonsense!"

Ye Ming said angrily: "Although those clans have declined, there are many great Confucian celebrities in their families, and many of the civil officials in the capital are their students, once they enter the capital, how can they be killed so easily?" ”

"If Your Majesty feels uncomfortable in his heart, Ye Mao's trip will not only have no merit, but may cause trouble!"

Ye Shaobao took a few deep breaths, and his face was very ugly.

Li Xin coughed at the right time, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Ye doesn't need to worry, Brother You'an is a smart person, since he was present and didn't stop Ye Mao, he must have his reasons." ”

Zhao Jia glanced at Li Xin gratefully, and then bowed his head to Ye Ming and said: "Uncle, I also feel that these people are not good to kill all, although they have different ideas from the little grandfather, but they coincide, so I didn't say anything to stop them." ”

"Tell me about it."

"Uncle doesn't know."

Zhao Jia said in a low voice: "These Northern Zhou clans were deliberately put there for the imperial court to kill, to be precise, Li Shen deliberately put them there for the imperial court to kill, otherwise if Southern Xinjiang cooperated with these people, they would have crossed Weishui early in the morning and would not know where to go." ”

"The purpose of southern Xinjiang is to pour dirty water on the imperial court and His Majesty."

"At this time, if your brain is hot and you kill someone, the whole world will know it, and if the pressure is too great, Your Majesty will not be able to bear this sin, and in the end it will only be the little grandfather himself who is unlucky."

"At this point, it's just right."

Zhao Jia took a deep breath and continued: "Now those clans have woken up, they are calculated by the Li clan of Zhao County, at this stage, it is unlikely that they will fall to Southern Xinjiang again, Uncle Ye must not forget, these people are also full of knowledge, if Southern Xinjiang wants to splash dirty water, these people fall to Your Majesty, you can easily block this dirty water for Your Majesty." ”

"And this dirty water will not fall on the head of the little grandfather in the end, uncle, don't you say?"

Li Xin clapped his palms and smiled, "Wonderful." ”

"If I were there, I would probably do the same."

Ye Shaobao still didn't think too much about it, and after a long time, he sorted things out before and after, and then he sighed slowly.

"That's it, it's come to this, it's not up to us to decide whether it's good or bad."

Zhao Jia lowered his head and said in a determined tone.

"Uncle, rest assured, Zhao Jia grew up in the Ye family, and he will not harm the little grandfather of the Ye family no matter what, if the little grandfather is convicted for this, Zhao Jia is willing to die."

Li Xin stood up and snorted.

"Brother You'an's words are serious, His Majesty's holy decree was originally to kill or arrest, Ye Mao will be fine."

As he spoke, Li Xin patted Zhao Jia's shoulder with a smile.

"Brother You'an came back just in time for my marriage."

Zhao Jia smiled.

"It's not just right, but the lowly ones are desperately rushing back."

"Just to not miss the marriage of the Hou Ye."