Unparalleled Concubine

The kid rolled his eyes, and said in a treacherous way: "I heard that sister Ah Han will return to Beijing in a month or two."

When this topic was mentioned, Li Xin's face darkened, and he stopped talking to this bastard.

The father and son walked for about a stick of incense, and finally came to the entrance of an alley. Li Xin lowered his head and adjusted his clothes, then took a deep breath, and walked in.

Zhao Yi, who was following behind Li Xin, also turned serious.

As a godfather, he is quite casual with everyone on weekdays, but this is the first time Zhao Yi has seen him be so serious.

So, he followed suit step by step.

After turning around in the alley, Li Xin came to the door of a small courtyard and knocked lightly on the door.

No one answered.

Li Xin frowned slightly, and was about to turn around to leave, when the courtyard door latch sounded behind him, a girl with big eyes looked Li Xin up and down, and asked, "This...Master, what do you want?"

At this time, Li Xin was already 33 years old, had grown a beard, and was called "Master" by others.

Hearing this address, Li Xin was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "My lady, is Jiuniang here?"

"Here I am."

The round-faced girl with big eyes nodded quickly: "Auntie is asleep, does the master recognize Auntie?"

Cui Jiuniang has lived in this small courtyard these years, and usually has a maid to take care of her, but the maid will also grow up, Jiuniang has never married in this life, so she can't see others like her, so when the maid reaches the age of marriage, Jiuniang will Will marry people out.

This round-faced girl is not the same as the girl who opened the door when Li Xin came last time, and I don't know how many girls are next to Jiuniang.

The maids in the past still called Jiuniang their own girls, but when they came to this round-faced girl, they had already started calling her "auntie".

Li Xin nodded with a smile: "Please tell the girl that Li Changan is asking to see you."

The girl looked Li Xin up and down, then looked at the guards behind Li Xin, shrunk her neck and ran into the small yard.

Not long after, Cui Jiuniang, dressed in plain white, stepped out.

At this time, she was almost 40 years old, and the best youth in her life had passed away, but after washing away all her charms, she added some tranquil beauty.

She looked Li Xin up and down, then smiled, and said softly: "I thought that Lord Hou would never return to the capital in his life."

"It was originally impossible to come back."

Li Xin bowed his hands to Jiu Niang, and said with a smile: "However, what happened a few days ago was done by luck, so I was able to return to the capital."

Jiu Niang nodded silently.

"There has been a war in the capital for the past few months. I heard that it was a soldier from the southwest. At that time, I thought it was you, Lord Hou, but I didn't think about it. Now it seems..."

She looked up at Li Xin, with a complicated tone: "You still beat him."

Li Xin shook his head and said: "He has been gone for many years, I can only be regarded as winning a child."

As he spoke, Li Xin stepped aside and said to Zhao Yi behind him, "This is my sister in the capital."

Zhao Yi hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Jiu Niang and said, "Zhao Yi kowtows to my aunt."

Cui Jiuniang looked at Li Xin in astonishment, Li Xin smiled and said, "This is my adopted son, sister Cui deserves this courtesy."

"In a blink of an eye, your descendants will all grow up."

Jiu Niang sighed, stepped forward to help Zhao Yi up, and said softly: "Get up quickly, my child, I am a layman living here, and I just had an old relationship with Lord Li in the early years, so I don't deserve such great courtesy from you. "

Zhao Yi stood up with a respectful expression.

"Father said it deserves it, so naturally it deserves it."

Li Xin, who was standing on the side, smiled at Cui Jiuniang and said, "In another one or two months, Xiaoxiao and Ah Han should return to the capital. Ah Han is almost as tall as Sister Cui now, and I will take them Come and see my sister."

"Xiaoxiao was brought up by Sister Cui. Over the years, she and I have often talked about going back to the capital to visit her."

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"By the way... there is also a little husband-in-law, who is near the capital at the moment, I will take him to see my sister when I have time..."

Li Xin and Cui Jiuniang walked side by side in this small courtyard, talking about some homely things.

Of course, Li Xin was the one talking most of the time, and Jiu Niang just listened quietly.

"They miss you very much. When they come to Beijing, let's get together."

"also……"

As he spoke, Li Xin looked around in this not-so-small but by no means big yard, his tone calm.

"What's more... Sister Cui will no longer have to be locked up in this kind of place."

Chapter 1128

With Zhao Jia in charge of the Shangshutai, Li Xin didn't have to spend too much time on state affairs. Those subtleties, such as the rewards of the officers and men of the Southwest Army, their official position arrangements, and how to deal with the officials in Beijing and Central China, all mattered. It can be handed over to Zhao Jia to deal with.

After Li Xin entered the capital, in order to temporarily stabilize the court, the original officials in the capital basically did not move, but in fact it was very wrong to do so. Since the Southwest Army entered the capital, it must do what should be done, for example It is said that for the original officials in the imperial court, it is naturally impossible to overthrow them all at once, but they can't stay still. They have to win over a group, suppress a group, and promote a group, and then put people from the southwest into various key positions. These things have to be done little by little.

For this aspect, Li Xin is not very good at it, so it happens that Zhao Jia, who is delicate in mind, can handle it.

Zhao Jia is the most innocent person in the entire Southwest Group. He is capable but has no influence. The most wonderful thing is that he has been in the Southwest for more than ten years. Li Xin can rest assured no matter what he is used for.

It's amazing, but it's just the second Zhang Qu and Zhang Hao.

With Zhao Jia in charge of the government, Li Xin began to organize military affairs. In the past half a month, the Southwest Army had controlled the capital, while the two battalions of the Imperial Army had their weapons and armor confiscated and placed in the camp outside the city. In addition, there are also major yamen in the capital, including the city gate soldiers and horses, the imperial city soldiers and horses, and the inspection department. The candidates for the three imperial guards have to be rearranged by Li Xin.

Of course, except for the removal of the imperial army, the other yamen are trivial and do not need to spend too much energy.

After returning from Cui Jiuniang, Li Xin began to think about how to reorganize the Forbidden Army.

It is also worth mentioning that Li Xin went to Qinhuaifang to visit Cui Jiuniang a few days ago. He originally wanted to take this old man back to live in Jing'anhou Mansion, or simply find another house for her in Yonglefang, or give her Another nunnery was built to practice, but these were rejected by Cui Jiuniang. She spent most of her life in Qinhuaifang. Now that she is 40 years old, she can't leave that place. He bought a big house in Qinhuaifang, and hired a few maids to take care of her daily life. For the time being, let her live in Qinhuaifang. When Zhong Xiaoxiao and the others return to the capital, Zhong Xiaoxiao can persuade her.

Li Xin spent two whole days thinking about it in Jing'an Hou Mansion. On the third day, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the cold winter rain fell. There were even some small hailstones like salt grains mixed in the raindrops. The weather in the capital became more and more serious. Chill.

Li Xin, who was already afraid of the cold, had already put on the fur coat to wrap himself tightly.

He put on his clothes and walked to a small yard in the backyard of his house. Before he got close to this yard, he could smell a strong and important smell. Li Xin rubbed his nose, and after walking in, there was immediately The servant bowed his head and saluted to him: "Master Hou."

Li Xin nodded silently: "General Li's body, is it better?"

During the siege that day, Li Shuo took the lead and led the Ningzhou army into the capital. Later, because he loved to fight, he couldn't retreat in time, and was shot in the back by two arrows. The injury was not too serious, but it was definitely not a minor injury.

It was for this reason that Li Shuo stayed in Jing'an Hou's mansion to recuperate his injuries during the half month after entering the capital, and did not show up much.