Three days after the end of the war, an ox cart drove on the official road south of Hongnong County, and several burly knights guarded the ox cart.

The ox cart is wide, walking slowly on the official road, walking very smoothly, at this time, the window of the car reveals a girl's thin face, she looks very thin, her neck is so thin that one hand can pinch it, but her eyes are extremely flexible, full of brilliance, she turned her eyes to look at both sides, and asked the coachman in a sharp voice: "Liu Laohan, has Hongnong County arrived?" ”

The coachman was an old man in his sixties, squinting his eyes, as if he were about to fall asleep, and he was very slow to react, and only after a while, 'Oh! He said, "It's almost there, there's still a mile or two." ”

A young knight guarding the ox cart next to him couldn't help but laugh and said, "Miss Yu'er, can't you just stick out your head and take a look?" ”

The girl looked slightly, and immediately saw a corner of the county city wall, it turned out that the county seat was already in front of them, she blushed slightly, glanced at the young guard, retracted her head and whispered: "Princess, Hongnong County has arrived." ”

There was also a young girl sitting in the ox cart, dressed in a white dress, wearing a hat, and the scarf on the hat was lifted, about twelve or thirteen years old, slender and slender, although she was not very old, but her face was pretty, and she was absolutely beautiful, perhaps because of the hard work all the way, her face was very pale, without a trace of blood, her body was lightly leaning against the wall of the car, her eyes were deep, and there was always a trace of sadness in the depths of her eyes.

She is Yang Guang's youngest daughter Danyang princess Yang Fangxin, she was rescued by Shen Guang in Jiangdu Palace, sent to Danyang County to hide, and when the situation calmed down a little, she took a boat to take the Yangtze River waterway to detour north, and after getting off the boat in Xiangyang, she took an ox cart to take Xiangyang Road all the way north, which lasted more than a month, and finally arrived in Hongnong County today.

Her final destination was to Taiyuan Mansion, the last territory of the Great Sui, while Yang Fangxin was still immersed in the endless pain of her father's suicide. This is a psychological wound that she will not be able to heal for the rest of her life.

She was originally an innocent, carefree, and innocent girl who was pampered by her father's side, but the fate of the country's ruin, her father's death, and her mother's separation made her grow up overnight, and she became very silent, and along the way, she didn't say a word to the guards.

The little maid beside Yang Fangxin is her personal little palace maid Yu'er, who has been following her. She's lively and smart. Along the way, she was very familiar with the guards, and always changed her ways to make the princess happy, but she didn't succeed once.

"Princess."

Yu'er lifted the curtain behind the ox cart and cracked it. Glancing outside, she lowered her voice and said, "I heard from a few of them in the morning that General Yang is in Hongnong County. If the princess doesn't want to go to Taiyuan, it's too late to escape now. ”

Yang Fangxin sighed softly, "Where can you go if you don't go to Taiyuan?" ”

"You can go to Luoyang!"

'Luoyang? A wry smile appeared at the corner of Yang Fangxin's mouth, she shook her head, and didn't say anything, Yu'er was a little anxious, pulled her wrist and said, "Princess, are you going or not?" ”

"Jump off the ox cart and run twenty paces to show me."

Yu'er was stunned for a moment. After a while, she muttered, "I don't want to leave." ”

"Since you don't want to go, what do you say?" Yang Fangxin glanced at her and asked lightly.

Yu'er noticed that the princess was a little unhappy in her tone, and she felt aggrieved, so she whispered: "People think that the princess wants to leave, so they come up with an idea, and they are kind." ”

Yang Fangxin took her hand and said softly, "I know you are kind. It's just that... It's just that I don't want to go to Luoyang either. ”

Yu'er suddenly became happy, "It turns out that the princess wants to go to Taiyuan." ”

"I don't want to go to Taiyuan either."

Yang Fangxin sighed lowly, "I don't know where I want to go?" Maybe I want to go back to Jiangdu, build a small room in front of my father's grave, and live there. accompanied his father all his life, so that he was no longer lonely. ”

Speaking of which. Yang Fangxin covered her face with her hands, and tears welled up from her fingers.

At this moment, the ox cart suddenly stopped, and I saw the voices of several guards outside the car, "See the manager!" ”

Then a young man's voice said, "Is Her Royal Highness in the ox cart?" ”

"Back to the chief, Her Royal Highness the princess is in the ox cart."

"Very good, you have worked hard all the way, and I will be rewarded."

In the ox cart, Yu'er was a little excited, she heard that this was Yang Yuanqing's voice, when Yang Yuan rescued her in the city, this voice left an unforgettable impression on her.

"Princess, it's General Yang!"

"I know it's him."

Yang Fangxin wiped away her tears, her voice was still very flat, although Yang Yuanqing defeated the Turks in Yanmen last year, saving her from humiliation, and this time she sent someone to rescue her from Jiangdu Palace, but her father once told her with tears that Yang Yuanqing was a thief of the Sui Dynasty, and her father's sadness and this sentence of the thief left a deep memory on her, which made her have both a gratitude to Yang Yuanqing in her heart, and a hatred for him, which made her extremely conflicted in her heart.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing's voice came from outside the carriage, "Minister Yang Yuanqing see Her Royal Highness the Princess!" ”

Yang Fangxin was silent, Yu'er saw that she didn't react, so she was so anxious that she shook her arm, "Princess, General Yang is talking to you!" ”

Yang Fangxin put down the light veil on the hat, covering her face, she pulled the curtain, through the thin light veil, only to see a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young man standing in front of her, wearing a purple and gold helmet, tall and burly, with a high nose bridge, angular lips, and sharp eyes, as if she could see through the light veil covering her face.

When Yang Fangxin was five years old, she was taken by Yang Lihua to Yang Yuanqing's mansion to see him, but she had forgotten it, and later saw him again in Yanmen County, that time was far away, she couldn't see his appearance clearly, and she had the impression that Yang Yuanqing was very tall, but the maid Yu'er praised him as rare in the sky, and there was nothing in the world.

Yang Fangxin smiled faintly and said: "Manager Yang has worked hard for state affairs, and he has worked hard for himself. ”

She has received a strict education since she was a child, and everything she says must match her identity, although she is young, she can be calm and behaved generously and decorately.

Yang Yuanqing received an advance report from the escort guards, Princess Danyang has arrived, he specially went out of the city to greet him, in Yang Yuanqing's memory, Yang Fangxin was still the little princess who was five years old, seven or eight years have passed, she has grown up, should be thirteen years old.

Yang Yuanqing saluted and said apologetically: "The minister failed to save the life of the saint, this is the incompetence of the courtier, and the minister is very guilty." ”

Yang Yuanqing's words aroused Yang Fangxin's sadness, her long eyelashes drooped down, tears oozed from the corners of her eyes, and her voice was a little choked: "That's the evil of Yu culture and it, the chief manager is far away in Taiyuan, even if he has the heart to protect it, it is difficult to take care of it, it is not the fault of the chief manager, please don't blame yourself for it." ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that she still had the naivety of a girl, but she took on the responsibilities and sorrow of an adult, which made him feel a trace of pity in his heart, and said to her softly: "Her Royal Highness the princess has worked hard all the way, rest well today, and return to Taiyuan with me early tomorrow morning, where there are your relatives." ”

Yang Fangxin nodded silently, she could feel Yang Yuanqing's concern, and a trace of gratitude swelled in her heart, "Thank you Mr. Yang for your care, Danyang is grateful." ”

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Yang Yuanqing ordered someone to send Yang Fangxin to the backyard of the county government in the county to rest, and ordered his own soldiers to be under martial law around the small courtyard where she lived, and no contact was allowed with her.

Yang Yuanqing returned to the camp outside the city, and as soon as he entered the camp gate, a personal soldier came forward to report: "The chief of Qiqi, there are people in the tent waiting to be received, and they are the clansmen of the chief manager." ”

'Clansmen? ’

Yang Yuanqing groaned slightly, and then understood, this must be someone from the Yang family of Hongnong, he stayed in Hongnong for a few days, but he has not been in contact with the Yang family, but intentionally or unintentionally avoided them, he does not want to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors now, he prefers to keep his identity in a vague state.

"What's the name of the person here?"

The pro-soldier reported: "Two people came, one of them seemed to be named Yang Yi, and the other didn't know." ”

This name is a little familiar, he thought about it for a while, as if he had heard Yang Wei say that this person is currently the highest-ranking person in the Hongnong Yang family, and he is also the uncle of his grandfather Yang Su, who rarely shows up, and is a mysterious figure in the Yang family.

"Take them to the side tent to see me."

Hongnong Yang is known as one of the three major scholars in Kansai, and Longxi Li, Jingzhao Weishi is equally famous, in more than 1,000 years of long years, Hongnong Yang has been divided into dozens of large and small rooms, there are thousands of people, each room has its own head of the family and ancestral hall, Yang Su is only one of the larger rooms.

In the Yangjia village in the southwest of Hongnong, there is also the general ancestral hall of the Yang family, which enshrines the ancestor of the Yang family, the Spring and Autumn Sheep Tongue Clan, every three years, the heads of the Yang family and the elders have to come to the general ancestral hall to hold a big sacrifice.

In the ninth year of the Great Cause, Yang Xuangan rebelled, and Yang Guang only ordered the beheading of a few Yang clansmen who led the way for Yang Xuangan, and the rest of the clansmen were not affected.

At present, the two Yang clansmen who are sitting in the side tent waiting for Yang Yuanqing, one is called Yang Yi, Yang Su's father, about eighty years old, gray hair, but his spirit is very strong, and his thinking is still agile, he and Yang Su are from the same room, according to the generation, he should be Yang Yuanqing's great-grandfather.

Another person is called Yang Wenjin, is the head of the largest room of the Hongnong Yang family, Songyang House, after the decline of Yang Su's room, Songyang House became the leader of the Hongnong Yang family's houses, and Yang Wenjin replaced Yang Xuangan as the chief priest of the ancestral hall.

The two of them sat in the tent and were silent, what they should say had already been said on the way, and now they are waiting for Yang Yuanqing's statement, which is also a main purpose for them to visit Yang Yuanqing today, hoping that Yang Yuanqing can admit that he is a son of the Yang family of Hongnong, after all, Yang Yuanqing finally sent Yang Xuangan's body back to the tomb of the Yang clan in Honghua.

"Mr. Yang has arrived!"

The soldiers outside the tent shouted, the curtain was raised, Yang Yuanqing walked in quickly, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I'm busy with affairs, so I made the two of you wait for a long time." ”

His tone was very polite, just like receiving the squire of the Wang clan in Hongnong County, Yang Yi and Yang Wenjin glanced at each other, both of them couldn't hide the disappointment in their eyes, they didn't need to talk about them to know the result, Yang Yuanqing would not admit that he was Hongnong Yang, and he would not accept their invitation to visit the general ancestral hall.