The bearers were carrying the sedan to the palace.
Jin Jiande, who was sitting in the sedan, lowered his head, pursed his lips tightly, and looked at the broken leg, with only loneliness left on his pale face.
I don't know how long it took, but Jin Jiande frowned when he heard laughter coming from outside.
The voice was a little familiar, but also a little strange.
Immediately, he opened the curtain on the sedan window and looked out. It turned out that he was almost at the entrance of the palace.
In front of the house, several men in strange costumes were gathering and chatting. There was a familiar figure in the crowd, who seemed to be his younger brother Jin Jianzhong, whom he had not seen for a long time.
But looking at the clothes and hat he was wearing, they were not like his younger brother's clothes. They looked strange and weird, and Jin Jiande couldn't confirm it for a while.
But it was obvious that they had just arrived at the palace, and there were a group of carriages and horses around them.
The next moment, Jin Jiande saw the old housekeeper Fu Bo coming forward with a smile and leading the group of people inside. The man in the black hat was greeting Fu Bo familiarly.
Only then did Jin Jiande finally confirm that it was really his younger brother Jin Jianzhong.
"Jianzhong! Jianzhong!"
A smile finally appeared on Jin Jiande's pale face. He stuck his head out of the sedan window and shouted loudly.
The man in the hat had just walked to the door and turned around when he heard the shout.
At a glance, he saw bearers carrying a sedan not far away. When he saw the face peeking out of the window, his eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his face.
"Second brother!"
After shouting, Jin Jianzhong said to a middle-aged man next to him: "Sir MacLeary, my father has prepared a banquet to receive you. You go in with the butler first, and I will come later."
Different from Qianren, the middle-aged man wore a black knee-length coat, which was extremely tight-fitting. There was a silver badge embedded on his chest, with an eagle logo on the badge.
The most striking features of the man's fair face are the deep-set eye sockets and the tall, aquiline nose.
At this moment, hearing Jin Jianzhong's words, he nodded.
Then he took his cane and followed the others in his shiny leather boots.
Jin Jianzhong held his hat in one hand and trotted towards the approaching sedan. With a smile on his face, he shouted after a few dozen steps:
"Second brother, I'm back!"
"Just come back, don't run away, I'm about to enter the house."
"I thought you wouldn't come back until next year." Jin Jiande greeted with a smile.
The return of his younger brother, whom he had not seen for a year or two, made Jin Jiande's depressed mood much better.
Looking at his younger brother running towards him, Jin Jiande was surprised by the weird clothes he was wearing, but seeing him walking like flying and in full condition, this doubt was quickly replaced by the joy of reunion.
The bearers carried the sedan forward and continued to move forward. Jin Jianzhong also arrived at the sedan at this time. He walked to the window and looked at Jin Jiande with a smile:
"Second brother, long time no see!"
Jin Jiande smiled and nodded, "Well, you went overseas and haven't come back for such a long time. I didn't recognize you at first sight just now."
As he spoke, he glanced down from the black hat on his brother's head, and then said with a smile:
"You're wearing something weird, what's all this?"
Jin Jianzhong laughed, stood still with one hand holding the hat on his head, turned around in a circle, and said with a smile:
"This is called Yifu!"
"Far better than our dry clothes!"
"Overseas, everyone wears this, so we Dagan people only wear those vulgar and ugly long clothes."
As he spoke, he took off his hat, revealing his shiny hair, with a proud look on his face.
Jin Jiande smiled and shook his head, jokingly:
"What are you talking about? Why don't we get dressed?"
"You went overseas, and when you come back, you plan for us to have a big fight?"
"Why, you don't look down on us when you see a new gadget? Haha."
Jin Jianzhong smiled and waved his hand, "Hey, second brother, what are you talking about?"
"By the way, second brother, did you just see that my friends are also here. One of my friends has a distinguished status and comes from the Sari Kingdom. He has long wanted to come and see us."
"My friend is very nice, generous and sincere. He said this was his first time here and specially prepared many gifts."
As he spoke, he pointed at the clothes on his body: "He has given us the best clothes that our family wears, and they are almost the same as mine."
"The men's ones are pretty much the same, but the clothes this woman is wearing are really beautiful. My little girl is as beautiful as a flower. She must be as beautiful as a fairy when she wears them."
"My little sister must be very happy when she sees the clothes, haha."
Seeing his happy expression, Jin Jiande shook his head: "I'm afraid that may not be the case."
"A lot has happened recently..."
When we were talking to this point, the sedan chair had already been carried to the door.
The smile on Jin Jianzhong's face gradually disappeared. He knew what the second brother was talking about.
Since arriving in Daqian from Nanhai not long ago, he has heard more and more bad news all the way to Jinling.
First, in the East China Sea, Fusang was in rebellion, and the coastal cities were already in flames of war.
However, this is currently limited to the East China Sea, and compared with another piece of bad news, it is considered light.
The biggest bad news is that Qin Ze, who was canonized as the King of Zhenbei a few months ago, has now rebelled. He is leading his army southward. Along the way south, the imperial troops are retreating steadily. .
When he was about to arrive in Jinling, the news Jin Jianzhong heard was that in the Battle of Yanluoshan, the traitor Qin Ze led the rebels to kill hundreds of thousands of barbarians and imperial soldiers.
This news is really shocking. Jin Jianzhong never expected that such a big disaster would occur in the country during his time in Daqian.
In his memory, when he went to Daqian, the Qin family was under house arrest in Jinling.
According to the letter sent by his father, it was only a few months ago that Qin Ze was canonized as King of Zhenbei. Now it is less than a year. Not only did he rebel, he even came south with thunderous momentum.
Jin Jianzhong was deeply surprised every time he thought about this.
Because of this, Jin Jianzhong was depressed all the way to Jinling.
At this moment, seeing his brother silent and not speaking, Jin Jiande squeezed out a forced smile on his pale face:
"Let's go to the house first. Come to my room and let us have a good chat."
"Okay, second brother, I'll go say hello to my friends first and come back as soon as I go." Jin Jianzhong said.
As soon as he finished speaking, I saw a person shouting at the door of the lobby:
"Jianzhong! Come quickly."
"Why don't you bring people here and leave them alone? Everyone is waiting for you."
The person who spoke was none other than Jin Jianren.
As soon as he said this, Jin Jianzhong cupped his hands at Jin Jiande with a trace of apology and said:
"Second brother, I'm going first."
"I'll see you again later."
Jin Jiande nodded silently.
On the other side, in the lobby, Prince Qing had already started chatting with the guests who had come from afar.
