The Prince of the Tang Dynasty was built

After admiring Li Shimin's painful expression again for a while, Li Jiancheng stood up, ignored him, and moved on.

Because the road is nourished by the river, the vegetation is very dense, and there are many birds and animals.Li Jiancheng picked fruits to satisfy his hunger along the way, and occasionally used stones to beat some wild animals to eat, but he didn't have flint on him, so he couldn't roast them, so they didn't taste delicious when eaten raw.Thinking that Li Shimin should have flint hidden on his body, Li Jiancheng somewhat regretted it. He shouldn't have let him go so easily at that time, at least he searched them.

After walking like this for a while, Li Jiancheng finally walked out of the mountain stream gradually, and found another way to run to the place where he and Yuan Ji were attacked.

It took only half a month for the trees to cover the sky, and all traces of the past had disappeared, only the faintly visible sword marks on the trees still hinted at the fierce fighting before.The corpses of both Li Yuanji and Yuwen Chengdu seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, together with the dead servants.

Li Jiancheng looked at all this blankly, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He carefully checked the imprints around the trees, and sure enough, he saw the unique code of the Li clan, which seemed to be Li Xiuning's notes. I found it.

Seeing this, Li Jiancheng had no choice but to rush back to Taiyuan first.

Today's Taiyuan is at the height of the war, and there are wars everywhere outside. Li Jiancheng sneaked into Taiyuan City among the fleeing civilians, and finally got back home.He was in a state of embarrassment, and after eating wild fruits for so long in the forest, his face became even more sallow. When Li Yuan saw him, tears flowed down his face.Li Yuanji died tragically, and the whereabouts of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were unknown. The Li family is now very weak, and it was actually relying on Li Xiuning and Chai Shao to survive this period.

"Jiancheng is not filial, which made my father worry." Li Jiancheng knelt down fiercely with his fists clasped in salute. Thinking of what happened in the past half month, his heart was full of complicated emotions, and his eyes couldn't help but heat up.

"Get up... my son is suffering too..." Li Yuan seemed to be ten years old this time, and his hard work all day had forced out a bunch of gray hair. Die wild.The rest of the descendants are all in the hometown of Hedong, and such troubled times have long since cut off the news.How could such a situation make Li Yuan calm down to compete in the world? If it wasn't for Li Xiuning who turned into a man and recruited troops in the name of Li Shimin, which strengthened the momentum of the Li Clan and suppressed the news that Li Yuan lost three sons in a row, he, the Duke of Tang, might have It won't be long.Now that the eldest son has returned safely, it is naturally a great comfort to Li Yuan.

The father and son walked away, and Li Jiancheng told what happened that day. Of course, Li Shimin and the account book were omitted. He only speculated that it was probably because the Yuwen faction regarded the Li family as the number one enemy, so Yuwen Chengdu Come here to ambush him and Li Yuanji.

Although there are still doubts about this, but Li Jiancheng just pretended not to know, Li Yuan didn't have much doubt about him, he just asked him hurriedly if he knew Li Shimin's whereabouts, saying that Li Shimin went to meet him single-handedly but never came back.Li Jiancheng said that he didn't meet him, but that after trying to kill Yu Wencheng, he fell down the mountain stream and was washed downstream due to lack of energy.After he recovered from his injury, he hurried back.

Speaking of the injuries on his body, Li Yuan came back to his senses, and asked a doctor to check on Li Jiancheng's injuries, and after making sure that he was not likely, he hurriedly told him to go back to rest.

Due to the war, Li Yuanji could not be allowed to return to his ancestral home for burial, so Li Yuan had to send someone to find a place on a secluded mountain in the outskirts of Taiyuan, and take a rest temporarily.

When Fang returned to Taiyuan, Li Yuan was considerate of Li Jiancheng's poor health, and did not entrust him with military affairs, but only told him to take a good rest. Li Jiancheng went to see Li Yuanji every day, sometimes bringing a pot of wine, and sitting for a whole day.

The place where Li Yuanji was buried was on an unknown mountain in the outskirts of Taiyuan. The tomb was not piled high. There was a tombstone, several plates of offerings, and an incense burner, no different from ordinary people.There were too many children who died so early in those years, such an unfavored and unacknowledged son could not cause Li Yuan too much pain.What's more, the Li family had just started an incident, so it was good to be busy with things, and Li Yuanji was undoubtedly relatively unimportant.

Just as Liu Bang can calmly watch Xiang Yu cook his parents and still talk and laugh happily, so although Li Yuan is not a good father, he is not a bad father either.

Now that the weather is getting hotter, the mountains on the outskirts of Taiyuan are full of greenery, and unknown yellow or purple wild flowers bloom all over the mountains and plains, looking from afar, they are full of vitality.Li Yuanji's tomb was obscured by tall bushes, making it inconspicuous.

A jug of beer wine, a man in a relaxed suit.

At this time, when the sun was setting, Li Jiancheng drank the last bit of wine and murmured: "Yuanji, don't blame me, it's just..." Those reasons turned around in his throat, but they finally melted into a long cry. sigh.

In the distance, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, Li Jiancheng turned his head, and it was Li Xiuning who ran over with a face full of horror.

"Brother, the second brother is back! He is badly injured, you should go and have a look!"

On the third day after Li Jiancheng returned to Taiyuan, Li Shimin arrived late.It's just that he was much more embarrassed than Li Jiancheng, with wounds all over his body, his left arm was swollen badly, and it was bruised and purple, as if he had been poisoned.

Li Yuan turned pale with fright, and asked what had happened to him. Li Shimin only said that he was ambushed and seriously injured before Li Jiancheng could meet him. At that time, a poisonous snake passed by and bit him.He had no choice but to touch his acupuncture points, control the venom on his left arm, and then hurried back.

As a result, Li Clan was in a mess up and down, and black blood with a foul smell was let down from Li Shimin's arm. Li Jiancheng watched from afar, stood with his hands behind his back, and never spoke.Fortunately, people around only cared about Li Shimin, and no one noticed his abnormality.

After most of the poison in Li Shimin's arm was detoxified, Li Yuan came out of the room. While wiping the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, he breathed a sigh of relief. The eldest son was fine, and the second son's injury was also under control. This time I finally feel at ease, and I can fight for the world without any scruples.

"Father, Shimin is alright?" Li Jiancheng had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time, when he saw Li Yuan coming out, he rushed to greet him, pretending to be worried.

"Your life should be safe." Seeing that the eldest son seemed to regain his energy, Li Yuan sighed in relief.Before, he only thought that Li Jiancheng felt guilty for not being able to protect Yuan Ji, and he didn't know how to dissuade him. Seeing that he seemed to have almost recovered now, he felt very comforted.

"That's a great fortune." Li Jiancheng showed a relieved expression.

"Jiancheng, you are in good health now, and it's time to help relieve father's worries. Come with me to the study, I have something to teach you." Li Yuan rarely had the opportunity to hold the eldest son firmly, so naturally he would not let him go. Hastily grabbed his wrist and went to the study.

Therefore, Li Jiancheng pushed the boat forward and took most of the responsibility and military power of the Tang army on himself.

At this time, the situation in the world was chaotic, there were dozens of groups of rebels from all over the country, and many of them were just rogues composed of bandits.However, Li Yuan raised troops from Taiyuan, and while Li Mi in Wagangzhai was fighting with Wang Shichong and others who were trapped in Luoyang, he was determined to lead his troops into Guanzhong.

"Xiu Ning has recruited [-] soldiers, and they are being trained by Pei Ji, Liu Wenjing and others as soon as possible. Now that I am busy with my father's military affairs, I still have one important thing to do, and I can't get away. You should go there yourself now."

"I wonder what father is worried about?" Li Jiancheng asked with a frown.

"There is a Pegasus Ranch in the southwest of Jingling County, and I, Li Clan, have been in contact with each other. A few months ago, I ordered a batch of good horses for my father and the current owner Shang Xiuxun, a total of thousands of horses. Now there is an urgent matter in Taiyuan. , you are willing to go there yourself to make sure the horses can be delivered to Taiyuan on time."

"Pegasus Ranch?" Li Jiancheng muttered the familiar name, gradually came to his senses, and nodded lightly. This Pegasus Ranch is really a place he must go to.

A few days later, Li Jiancheng packed up and saluted, and rushed to the Pegasus Ranch together with Chai Shao, Li Gang, Dou Wei and others.

In the original book, it was Li Xiuning who was sent by the Li family to the Pegasus Ranch that day, but in this life, because Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were not in Taiyuan before, Li Xiuning was in charge of all the affairs of Taiyuan City. The handover was not easy for a while, so Li Jiancheng Instead of Li Xiuning, he rushed to Pegasus Ranch.

Li Jiancheng had never seen Chai Shao since the boat in Jiangdu. On this trip, he saw that Chai Shao was much thinner than two months ago, and his face was a little haggard. He couldn't help asking, "How is Sichang recently? It seems clear It's reduced a lot."

When Chai Shao heard Li Jiancheng calling him, his face froze, and he said in a low voice, "It's all right. It's just that the weather is getting hotter and I feel uncomfortable."

Seeing Chai Shao's behavior like this, Li Jiancheng knew that Chai Shao had something on his mind that he didn't want to talk about, so he didn't want to ask more questions.

A few days later, a few people finally arrived at the Pegasus Ranch. They saw that the wilderness and pasture was beautiful, surrounded by mountains, and the Pegasus Ranch surrounded more than ten square miles of fertile fields. There were only two canyons to enter and exit.The situation is dangerous, forming a natural screen for the ranch.

On the higher ground in the southwest, there is a magnificent castle, leaning against a steep cliff like a wall, and facing a small river winding like a belt, it is even more spectacular.

There is a tower at the exit of the gorge. In front of the building, a tunnel with a width of three feet and a depth of five feet is dug across to protect the mouth of the gorge.

Shang Xiong, the first generation owner of the Pegasus Ranch, was a military general at the end of the Jin Dynasty. In order to avoid the flames of war, he led his subordinates and clansmen to live and work here in peace and contentment, and established a ranch.

During the 160 years here, the Pegasus Ranch has experienced seven owners, all of whom were inherited by the Shang family, with supreme authority.

Looking at the orderly defense of the Pegasus Ranch and the densely packed checkpoints and sentries along the way, Li Jiancheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart. For such a small ranch with such armed forces, the world of Tang Shuanglong really has nothing to do with the one he experienced. same.

No matter how vivid what was written in the book before, it is not as comfortable as being so personally on the scene.