After Li Hao returned to the team, Qin Ming turned around and cupped his hands towards Li Ke and said:
"I would like to thank His Highness the King of Shu for rescuing the siege."
Li Ke, who had been smiling just now, immediately dropped his face when he heard this. He covered his chest with one hand and pulled Qin Ming's cuff with the other.
The look in Qin Ming's eyes was full of resentment, and the words he spoke were even more irritable!
"Brother Qin, you are a minister and your highness. Is this why you don't want Brother Qin to see you?"
After hearing this, Qin Ming endured it again and again, but finally couldn't hold it in any longer.
He shook his sleeves vigorously a few times, gestured to Li Ke with his casserole-sized fist, and said:
"Damn it, if you dare to talk to me like that again, I'll beat you up!"
Li Ke glanced at the furious Qin Ming, grinned, and put his hand on Qin Ming's shoulder.
"That's right! Although Brother Qin and XX just met today, XX has admired Brother Qin for a long time!"
"It's not an exaggeration to say that we met so late."
"I think it will be great if we become brothers from now on!"
Qin Ming's mouth twitched and he shuddered.
These words are obviously good words, but when I listen to them now, they feel a little disgusting!
Qin Ming glanced at the hand on his shoulder and said angrily:
"Can you please take your claws away first?"
Li Ke smiled and took back his hand, straightened his clothes, and suppressed the smile on his face.
With a solemn expression, he bowed his hands towards Qin Ming and said:
"I sincerely make you my friend!"
"Brother Qin, give me a chance?"
Seeing Li Ke's seriousness, Qin Ming thought for a while and nodded slightly.
If the thing he was thinking about changed from just one chance to ten thousand, he might have to deal with the noble man in front of him more in the future.
When Li Ke saw Qin Ming nodding, he immediately smiled.
Qin Ming looked at the sky, cupped his hands towards Li Ke and said:
"It's getting late, Qin will go back home first."
Li Ke smiled and nodded when he heard this. Thinking that he still didn't know the specific location of Qin Mansion, he asked with a smile:
"Does Brother Qin live far from here?"
Qin Ming pointed to the mansion gate not far away.
"It's over there."
Li Ke looked in the direction of Qin Ming's finger and couldn't help but open his mouth.
"It's not a coincidence, it's not a coincidence."
"Brother Qin and a certain elder in the family actually became neighbors!"
"When I have free time in the future, I will visit you often!"
Qin Ming nodded slightly, cupped his hands and said:
"Then Qin will take his leave."
Li Ke nodded, cupped his hands and said:
"Brother Qin, walk slowly."
Throughout the conversation, Qin Ming did not ask Li Ke what he was doing here, and Li Ke didn't say anything either.
Everyone is tacitly understanding it!
.......
After Qin Ming left, Li Ke shook off his large python robe and walked into the Xiao Mansion.
The servants of the Xiao Mansion carefully led the young prince through the gate, passed through two corridors, and entered the reception room of the Xiao Mansion.
At this time, in the living room, a beautiful woman was sitting on the main seat.
The woman is wearing a bright red palace dress, with a wooden hairpin on her head, and has a pair of beautiful red and phoenix eyes.
In addition, there is a small tear mole next to the corner of her eye, which adds a bit of charm to this beautiful and dignified woman.
Behind the table on the woman's right hand, a couple dressed in rich clothes are kneeling.
The man has a Chinese character face, a slightly stout body, a short beard, and a pair of exceptionally bright eyes.
The woman next to the man is also wearing a palace skirt.
She has an oval face and a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes under her curved eyebrows.
The couple who came to celebrate Empress Xiao's birthday were Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang Shu, one of the four noble concubines.
The first position of the beautiful woman's lower left hand is empty.
Sitting in the second seat was a middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a Confucian shirt and a long beard. It was Xiao Shiyilang who went to Qin Mansion to buy fireworks this morning.
Li Ke walked into the banquet hall and first saluted Li Er and Yang Shufei.
"My son has met his father, the emperor, and his mother and concubine."
Li Shimin nodded slightly.
"Ke'er, why don't you go see your grandmother soon?"
Li Ke nodded, and then under Yang Shufei's hopeful eyes, he slowly walked to the center of the hall.
He dusted off the non-existent dust on his body and bowed to the beautiful woman on the throne.
"My grandson, Li Ke, pays homage to my grandmother. I wish her a hundred years longer than Nanshan, and may she be blessed as long as the East China Sea!"
This is the first time Empress Xiao has met her grandson Li Ke since she came to Chang'an.
She smiled and waved to Li Ke and said:
"Okay, come to grandma and let grandma take a good look."
"promise."
After speaking, Li Ke smiled and walked up to Queen Xiao, just blocking the sight of Li Er and Concubine Yang.
Queen Xiao looked Li Ke up and down, and finally stopped at his face.
Empress Xiao moved her lips slightly and murmured softly in a voice that only she could hear:
"Like, exactly the same as when he was young."
.......
On the other side, Qin Ming led a group of people back to the house and went straight to the study.
Xiao Qingwan arranged for the maid in the house to move the things purchased today into the warehouse, and then took Sishe to the kitchen.
Qin Ming closed the door and walked straight to the desk.
He spread out a piece of paper, and after thinking for a while, he wrote the name Xiao Changxi on the paper.
Then he drew two lines under the words Xiao Changxi. At the end of the lines, Qin Ming wrote, respectively, daughter Yang Zijun and niece Xiao Qingwan.
After hesitating for a moment, Qin Ming wrote the names of Xiao Shiyilang, Xiao Chong and Xiao Meiniang next to Xiao Changxi's name.
Then Qin Ming drew a line above Xiao Changxi, Xiao Qingwan, Xiao Meiniang, and Xiao Chong.
After these lines came together, Qin Ming wrote the characters "Lanling Xiao Family".
After thinking for a while, Qin Ming wrote the word "Yang" next to Xiao Changxi and Xiao Meiniang.
Then Qin Ming added a question mark after the word "Yang" next to Xiao Changxi.
Then Qin Ming wrote the word "Uncle Zhang" next to the question mark.
And behind Zhang Bo, he wrote a few small characters about Sui Dynasty soldiers and military backgrounds!
Qin Ming leaned on the chair, put the end of the brush on his chin, and murmured softly:
"Xi'er has lived in Yangzhou for so many years, and her life should have been very stable. Then why did she suddenly come to Chang'an last year to find her relatives?"
Considering that Empress Xiao returned to Chang'an only four years after Zhenguan, it makes sense that Xiao Changxi suddenly came to Beijing to visit her relatives.
After Qin Ming carefully compared the appearance of Xiao Changxi and Xiao Chong in his mind, Qin Ming picked up a pen and drew a line between Xiao Changxi, Xiao Chong and Xiao Empress.
Judging from the information Qin Ming knows so far, Xiao Changxi, Xiao Chong and Xiao Empress are most likely related to each other, but it is not clear whether the relationship between the two parties is close or distant.
If the relationship is distant, that's fine, but if the relationship is close, things may be a little troublesome.
What's more, if the two Yangs on the paper are the same Yang, then you and the people around you may be in danger in the future.
Thinking of this, Qin Ming frowned.
[Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. It’s better to prepare first! 】
After pondering for a while, Qin Ming picked up the brush in his hand again.
There are more and more names on the paper!
Concubine Yang, Li Shimin, Li Ke, Empress Changsun, Li Chengqian, Li Xiyao, Si Zi, Changsun Wuji, Li Tai, Li Zhi and so on.
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