Two days later, Li Ke's team finally arrived in Longxi.
"Your Highness, walk thirty miles further along the official road to Luofengpo. This is where the Ying family will welcome you."
"Our people are waiting at Luofengpo."
Previously, the white-faced scholar sent word that they had notified the winner, but it was the winner's old lady who came out to reply, not the winner's family head or ancestor.
This made Li Ke very confused. Why did the winner push out an old lady to stand up to him?
Is there no winner left?
"Yinyin, is your family headed by a woman? Does Winner still have this custom?"
Ying Yinyin: "???"
How is it possible? The Ying family is the most chauvinistic. Women never count what they say, so only the grandmother counts.
Seeing Ying Yinyin's confused look, Li Ke knew that it would be better not to ask this woman.
At this moment, a group of cavalry galloped from the official road in the distance. Looking at the flag on its back, it came from Chang'an City and was Li Shimin's special eight-hundred-mile express messenger.
"Xu..."
When the visitor arrived not far from Li Ke, he reined in his horse, hurriedly dismounted, came to Li Ke's side, bowed and said, "I have seen His Highness the King of Qin."
Then, he took off the bamboo tube on his back, raised his hands and said, "Your Highness, King Qin, this is a secret message sent to you by His Majesty."
"Send it up!"
Fu An jumped off the carriage, quickly took the bamboo tube over, checked the seal, opened it and handed it to Li Ke.
Li Ke wondered in his heart that he was about to arrive in Chang'an. If he rushed quickly, he would actually be able to reach Chang'an City in less than a day and a night.
At this time, my father sent me the eight hundred mile expedited message. What does it mean? Could it be that the situation in Chang'an City has changed?
He quickly opened the letter. After reading the letter, Li Ke couldn't laugh or cry.
Damn it, Si Huaijin almost killed all the winners in Chang'an City.
This thing is serious, I really didn't think about it, I took advantage of the situation and took the winner from the pot!
I just want to be a guest at Winner and take some local specialties home.
You really think too much and think too bad of me.
"Go back and tell your father that I really have no intention of destroying the winner. I just want to visit the ancestor of the winner."
The messenger nodded. In fact, they did not know the twists and turns, so they took Li Ke's words, turned around, got on the horse, and left quickly. They had to bring Li Ke's words to Li Shimin as quickly as possible.
Li Ke looked at the leaving messenger with a faint smile on his face. Previously, I just wanted to visit the Ying family and didn't have a bad idea. But now it's different.
The Ying family's nest turned out to be empty. The main characters of the Ying family took the money to Chang'an to give themselves money, while others were deceived by themselves into joining the Nestorian religion.
So now that I go to the winner's lair, why don't I just do whatever I want?
This little son-in-law is here, why don't you bring some souvenirs home?
"Let's go, speed up. We will stay at my father-in-law's house tonight, and I and my father-in-law will have a good chat."
"Yin Yin, lead the way..."
Ying Yinyin: "..."
How could Ying Yinyin not see through Li Ke's thoughts? What did this big devil want to do?
After getting a secret letter just now, this guy seems to be much more confident, like a wild horse running wild.
Could it be that something happened to the Ying family?
"My lord, what happened to my winner?"
Li Ke smiled and said, "It's okay. Your grandfather has already taken your father and second uncle to Chang'an City to deliver the dowry."
"Ah? Did you send a dowry?"
For a moment, Ying Yinyin was stunned. It turned out that her family still felt sorry for her, but what had she done?
He wrote a letter to sever ties with his family, and still spoke so unpleasantly. Now think about it, how sad his family must be when they see his last letter?
"Yinyin, what are you doing standing still? Hurry up and leave!"
"Oh..." Ying Yinyin felt a little disappointed and didn't know how to face the people at home.
An hour later, the motorcade arrived at Luofengpo. Bai Sheng, a white-faced scholar, led an army to greet Li Ke at Luofengpo Station, but no winner arrived.
"Where is the person from the Ying family who welcomes me?"
The white-faced scholar looked gloomy and stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, the winners don't know what to say. We have already informed them, but they didn't come to greet you. It's really abominable."
"Your Highness, please allow me to go and question them."
Li Ke rolled his eyes. If he doesn't come to greet him, is he looking down on me?
Then I won’t be polite.
Li Ke waved his hand and said with a smile: "Yinyin, it's up to you. Your husband is very concerned about face. If the Ying family doesn't give me face, they won't give you face."
Ying Yinyin said angrily: "Your Majesty, wait a moment, I'm going home right now."
Li Ke thought for a moment and said, "It's better for me to accompany you on this trip in person, so that the Ying family can take you seriously."
"The army sets out to visit the Ying family."
"yes!"
"The army is setting off...the target is Winner Mountain Gate."
The Tiance Army, the Mohist Army, and the Youth Battalion, totaling more than 6,000 people, quickly approached the Ying Family Mountain Gate.
Luofeng Gorge is rumored to be the place where the Phoenix is reborn from nirvana, hence the name Luofeng Gorge. It is a deserted place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is surrounded by tall mountains and has a basin in the center. After many years of management by Winner, it has been It's an iron wall.
Even the other seven major families among the eight major surnames have never thought of breaking into it.
The old lady had not slept for two days, waiting for her husband and son to come home to save the situation.
But I have been waiting for two days, and nothing has come, except a secret letter from my son.
Unexpectedly, her husband and son encountered difficulties in Chang'an City and were imprisoned by Li Shimin. They would not be able to come back at all for the time being.
What to do now?
However, the experts brought by my husband and sons were already on their way home.
However, the journey from here to Chang'an City is only one day and one night at most. It has been two days and it has not yet arrived.
"Old lady, the master of the family is back..."
Everyone in the lobby breathed a sigh of relief. The old lady slammed her crutches on the ground and said coldly: "Today, I want to see if he, King Qin, can take me as the winner?"
"Come here, prepare the food, let the masters of the family eat and drink, and prepare for the battle!"
The women at home went to prepare food one after another.
At this time, someone else ran into the mountain gate, and galloped all the way to the old lady's side and said: "Old grandmother, something bad has happened. King Qin personally led six thousand masters into the Phoenix Gorge and came towards our mountain gate."
"They sent forward troops to clean up the people in our family who stayed outside..."
"Damn it, how dare you, Shuzi!"
The old lady's hands trembled with anger, and then he said: "Masters in delivering orders, gather in front of the mountain gate. Today I will teach King Qin how to behave."
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