I picked up a ghost and took it home

Li Xuan has never eaten such simple noodles in his life.

From the simple bamboo chopsticks to the large white bowl without decoration, to the vegetables in clear soup and unpretentious noodles, but probably because he was hungry, he took a tentative taste with the chopsticks and found that the taste was not bad.There is a refreshing aroma, and a magnanimous warmth.

Ye Fan said to Xiao Shitou who was waiting outside the door, "Eunuch Shi, would you like a bowl?"

Xiaoshishi was shivering with the cold while holding the wind lantern. When he heard the question, he let out a surprised "Huh". Although he twitched his index finger when he smelled the fragrance, he still looked at Li Xuan timidly.

Li Xuan drank a sip of the noodle soup, without turning his head, said slowly, "When did you talk about the rules here in this hall? If you really follow the rules, a hundred heads are not enough for you to lose."

After hearing this sentence, Xiao Shitou said happily, "Thank you Your Highness for not killing me! General, servant also come to a bowl."

Little Shitou sat down on the threshold of the kitchen with his noodle bowl in his arms.Ye Fan also filled a bowl, set up a chair, and sat beside the stove, and the three of them took their own space and finished eating the noodles.Ye Fan looked at Li Xuan who was lazily lying on the table, and suddenly said, "The diet and daily life in the barracks are worse than those of the Ye family—I think, Your Highness might as well admit your mistake to His Majesty, and go back to the palace."

"Don't admit your mistake!" Li Xuan turned away angrily.

"Why?" Ye Fan was puzzled.

"I hate the people in Chang'an City, but the emperor's brother always wants to turn me into a person in Chang'an City."

Seeing the stubbornness on the young man's face, Ye Fan suddenly felt that His Highness Lu Wang was not an ignorant embroidered pillow as in the legend.

When it was dawn, the rain stopped.Ye Fan got up and decided to send Li Xuan back to the palace.

When Li Xuan heard that he was going back to the palace, he hummed a little tune leisurely.

As soon as the Danfeng Gate opened, the carriage swayed into the Daming Palace facing the morning glow. Ye Fan waited patiently until the morning court was over before entering the Zichen Palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

When the young emperor saw Ye Fan, although he was surprised, he still treated him warmly, "Ye Aiqing, didn't you go to Shence Camp today? Why did you go back to the palace?"

Ye Fan respectfully gave a big gift, and said carefully, "Your Majesty, this time I'm staying in Beijing, I want to get married and start a family."

Ye Fan's implication: Your Majesty, can you take back that broken-sleeved brother of yours?

The emperor looked at Ye Fan's expression and said with a smile, "It's a good thing to have a family, but what's the problem with Ye Aiqing? Do you want me to help you as a matchmaker? Which girl do you like? Let's hear it."

"...I don't dare to bother Your Majesty, the minister's mother has arranged a family for the minister, but—" Ye Fan said in embarrassment, "But—" Can you ask Your Majesty to take His Royal Highness Lu back?

The emperor said: "Could it be that the family doesn't have enough money? Don't worry, Aiqing. After you have trained my emperor brother, I will definitely give you a mansion and good land, and I will personally arrange your marriage. What do you think?"

"...!" Ye Fan felt unable to communicate, but asked him to say directly in front of the emperor, "Your Majesty, your precious brother is a broken sleeve, and he will prevent me from marrying a wife." He really couldn't speak, and couldn't help sweating profusely.

At this moment, the servant on the side stepped forward carefully and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Zuoxiang is here."

"Quick pass!" The emperor had never been so impatient to see Prime Minister Zuo.

Ye Fan didn't dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the food and accommodation in the barracks are extremely poor. I would like to ask His Majesty for an amnesty and allow His Royal Highness Lu Wang to bring some of his own food and clothing there."

"So it's this matter, I'm sure." The emperor secretly breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment, he thought that the general was here to return his wayward brother. He slowed down and said with a sigh, "Ye Aiqing, I Sure enough, I saw the right person, and I am very relieved to hand over the emperor to you."

Ye Fan gulped down a big mouthful of bitter water.

Outside the King's palace.The servant sent a message: "Your Highness has gone to take a bath, the general is waiting."

Ye Fan waited for half an hour, Li Xuan came out with wet hair, stood at the entrance of the hall, and asked with a frown, "Why are you here again?"

"Sir, come and pick up His Highness to go to Shence Camp." Ye Fan replied respectfully.

"Didn't you go to see the emperor's brother?"

"Your Majesty, I have seen His Majesty the Emperor."

"You didn't tell him that you don't want to teach His Highness?" Li Xuan asked.

"Chen, no." Ye Fan replied bitterly.

"Why?" Li Xuan asked in disbelief, "This hall is a broken sleeve, if you touch this hall, you don't want to marry a wife—do you still want to marry a wife?"

"Chen, I want to." Ye Fan finished speaking with difficulty, "But, I can't say it."

Li Xuan was stunned.

After a while, he said, "The general is very different from the people in Chang'an City. The people in Chang'an City can say anything."

Although it was Ye Fan's request to allow Li Xuan to bring his own belongings into the barracks, Ye Fan was still shocked when he saw the beautifully carved bathtub, and he said carefully, "Your Highness, there is a bathtub in the barracks, so you don't need to bring your own. past."

"That won't work, this lotus basin is the smallest bathtub that His Highness can accept." Li Xuan refused.

"..." Your Highness Lu Wang, do you want to take a bath or swim!

Therefore, when Li Xuan felt that the scrambled eggs last night were delicious and heard that they were eggs laid by Ye Fan's own chicken, it was not so surprising that he abruptly took Ye Fan's old hen away.

As a result, a group of people left Chang'an City in a mighty, cooing, lively manner, heading northwest, passing through Xianyang, and arriving at Linyou Town where the Youshence Army was stationed, it was already dusk.

As one of the eight major towns in Gyeonggi, Linyou Town is adjacent to Yongshou in the east, Fengxiang in the west, Fufeng in the south, and Lingtai in the north. With the momentum of the northwest gate, it has become a military fortress to defend Chang'an. It has always been the main point of deploying troops.

This time when Ye Fan returned to Beijing to report on his duties, he asked himself to hand over his military power in Longxi and stay in Chang'an. Weak, Tubo covets the Central Plains frequently, vainly trying to get involved in Chang'an, and Ye Fan once defeated the Tubo army in a battle two years ago, and rescued the Fengxiang Jiedu envoy who was trapped in the enemy army at that time. Joining the Shence Army, even skipping the position of veteran and directly taking the position of general, was a move that the emperor had considered for a long time.

Immediately after receiving the report from the fast horse, Zhang Xiaozhong, the general of the garrison, immediately led his troops out of the city to meet him.

As the sun was setting, outside the pristine city walls, Ye Fan showed a slightly excited smile on his horseback as he looked at the Shence soldiers lined up neatly. Sure enough, the army was where he should have come.He got off the horse neatly, threw the whip to the guard beside him, and strode towards the city gate.

Zhang Xiaozhong led the generals in the army to meet him quickly.He is about 40 years old this year. Before Ye Fan came, he was in charge of all affairs in Linyou Town. He couldn't see any dissatisfaction with such an immediate boss who was suddenly airborne. He smiled modestly and cupped his hands: "General !"

Ye Fan knew that he was younger than Zhang Xiaozhong and had less seniority, so he didn't dare to take the credit and be proud, so he bowed his hands to Zhang Xiaozhong humbly: "General Zhang."

"I've prepared thin wine tonight, and I'm going to wash it off for the general."

"Don't dare to do it." Ye Fan said, impatient to follow Zhang Xiaozhong into the city.On the contrary, Zhang Xiaozhong glanced at the mighty team behind Ye Fan, and reminded softly: "General, did you forget something?"

"...!" Ye Fan finally put away his excitement, remembering that he still brought the famous His Royal Highness Lu Wang with him.He hurriedly asked: "General Zhang, have you received the imperial edict that His Royal Highness Lu Wang is going to the Shence Army to take up his post?"

"I received it." Zhang Xiaozhong's expression changed subtly: "The imperial decree only says that His Royal Highness Lu Wang is coming, but how to arrange everything is up to the general."

"I said in the letter, please prepare the best room for His Royal Highness Lu Wang, have you prepared it?" Ye Fan asked again.

"It's prepared." Zhang Xiaozhong said hesitantly, "But in this town, the best house is Linyou Temple——Is Taoist Temple okay?"

"...Your Highness is afraid of ghosts. He can't live in places like Taoist temples where gods and gods talk."

"Then—" Zhang Xiaozhong said, "Other than that, it is the yard prepared for the general."

Ye Fan immediately said: "Give it to Your Highness, I'm a rough man, it doesn't matter where I live." After giving the order, Ye Fan walked back to the carriage and said softly, "Your Highness, we're here."

Although Li Xuan refused when he was about to leave the Daming Palace, when the carriage left Chang'an City, as a boy of sixteen or seventeen, he still showed what a boy should be joy and excitement.

At this time, the car was quiet, Xiao Shitou pushed the door open, and said awkwardly, "General, Your Highness is asleep."

"Then there is no need to wake up. Just invite the carriage into the city." Ye Fan made a decisive decision. At a certain moment, a flash of joy flashed in his heart. His Royal Highness King Lu fell asleep. It's so good, it's easier this way.

Zhang Xiaozhong first ordered someone to take Ye Fan to his residence to put down his luggage. Ye Fan only brought a few pieces of clothing and a box of military books, and asked his personal guards to put them in the small yard temporarily prepared for him by Zhang Xiaozhong—it wasn’t even a yard. The big courtyard where Li Xuan lives is just a small courtyard with two rooms inside.

Ye Fan first asked Xiao Shitou to help Li Xuan spread the quilt brought from Daming Palace, then turned around and jumped into the carriage, and carried Li Xuan who was sleeping soundly.

Ye Fan was slightly startled when he actually hugged him in his arms, it was so light!

He protected Li Xuan and got out of the carriage, and put him lightly on the fine brocade and satin quilt. Li Xuan seemed to be more comfortable now, his brows relaxed, he snuggled up to the quilt and snorted softly, and continued to sleep.

Ye Fan unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, a smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth, he was just a child.He confessed a few words to Xiao Shitou, and walked out of the yard quickly.Zhang Xiaozhong was waiting, when he saw Ye Fan coming out, he hurriedly said: "General, I have ordered people to look for the courtyard again, after it is cleaned up, you can live in it tomorrow."

"Don't bother." Ye Fan sighed softly, "General Zhang, to tell the truth, His Majesty has ordered me to take care of His Royal Highness Lu Wang, but something went wrong and I'm the only one to ask—this His Royal Highness Lu Lu is a bit willful, I still live in the Be at ease with him."

Zhang Xiaozhong had obviously heard of His Royal Highness Lu Wang's name, so he gave Ye Fan a sympathetic look.

But Ye Fan hesitated for a while, and said, "If possible, add a gate to the courtyard where I live."

——The small courtyard where Ye Fan lives is attached to the big courtyard where Li Xuan lives, and they enter through the same gate.Ye Fan wanted to open a gate for free entry and exit on his small courtyard, so that he could not pass through Li Xuan's courtyard.Regarding Li Xuan, although Ye Fan did not think that Li Xuan was a hopeless dandy prince like the people in Chang'an City, but the fact that Li Xuan broke his sleeve still made him brood.

Seeing Ye Fan's subtle embarrassment, Zhang Xiaozhong didn't ask any more questions, just nodded in agreement.He said again, "General, I have prepared the defense map of the capital and the drill schedule of the Shence Battalion that you want, and I will take you to the camp to have a look."

Neither of them are long-winded people, so they walked towards the barracks together. Zhang Xiaozhong introduced some of the situation in the barracks while walking, and Ye Fan listened attentively. It wasn't until they came outside the barracks that the sound of shouting and shouting drills came, and Ye Fan was attracted Losing his attention, his face showed excitement again, and he looked up.

Zhang Xiaozhong couldn't help admiring: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born in youth, and the ancients did not deceive me."

"General Zhang's praise." Ye Fan smiled, stopped the battalion guard's movement to report, and walked in.The two walked around the camp for a week, and when they returned to the main playground, the sky was already dark, and the two cooks were burying the fire to make food, and they chatted:

"Did you see it? That general, with so much luggage, I heard there is a bathtub!"

"I didn't see it. I heard from Counselor Chen that those luggage belonged to His Royal Highness Lu Wang, but the general looked so excited, as if he was bringing his daughter-in-law home."

The two of them talked and snickered.

Zhang Xiaozhong was sweating profusely, and was about to yell to stop, Ye Fan said: "It's okay, His Highness did bring his bathtub, let's go into the main tent to have a look."

Zhang Xiaozhong secretly looked at Ye Fan's expression, he couldn't see any anger, he couldn't help admiring his demeanor from the bottom of his heart, and hurriedly said, "Yes, please, General."

The reception banquet was originally planned to be held in Ye Fan's yard, but because Li Xuan moved in, it was temporarily changed to Zhang Xiaozhong's yard.The yard is not big, and several wooden tables are lined up one by one. The food on the table, no matter the wine or the dishes, looks extremely rough.Ye Fan didn't care too much, he sat down on the main seat above.

Zhang Xiaozhong briefly said a few polite words, and then said, "General, please say a few more words before the banquet begins."

Ye Fan was not too polite, he picked up the wine bowl in front of him, stood up, and said loudly, "There is nothing better than wine and meat."

The big and small generals sitting below burst out laughing.

Ye Fan also smiled slightly, and when everyone's laughter stopped, he turned serious and said loudly: "Ye is not talented, and he was ordered to be transferred to the Divine Strategy Camp. If you are dissatisfied, you don't need to bury it in your heart, you can ask Ye In the afternoon, Ye will not back down, and if he loses, he is willing to let go of the 'General'. But if someone is timid and only knows how to gossip, once found out, he will be dealt with by the military."

After the words fell, the courtyard was silent, only the rustling night wind could be heard.

Ye Fan's eyes were piercing, he glanced at everyone in the courtyard, and continued: "His Royal Highness Lu Wang grew up in the court and was young, so he is ignorant of world affairs and a bit stubborn, but he has accepted His Majesty's imperial decree to take up his post in our magic strategy camp. , is a member of the Shence Battalion. I hope that every general and every sergeant will treat him seriously and respect him. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can raise it to him or to me. I will treat everyone equally. But if He only knows how to gossip behind his back, and once he finds out, he will be dealt with by the military. Ye Mou, you must do what you say."

After finishing speaking, Ye Fan drank the spirits in the bowl in one gulp, turned over the bottom of the bowl, asked everyone to look at it, and then, in the chilling atmosphere, smiled openly and brightly: "The feast is on!"