Chapter 198 Popularity
These carriages were naturally the family members who were secretly arranged by Li Xin to leave Beijing last year.
In fact, after they left the capital, Emperor Taikang sent many people to investigate their whereabouts. The Tianmu Superintendent of the Eighth Inspector of the Inner Court, and even the Meihua Guard, had received orders to find the location of Li Xin's family. These people set out from the capital and found the southwest all the way, but failed to find where Li Xin hid these people.
Because Li Xin did not put them in the southwest.
The southwest is so conspicuous. After all, the southwest was deemed to be Li Xin's power by the court at that time. Once they were put in the southwest, although the people from the court could not take them away, they would likely be assassinated by the Meihua Guard.
Li Xin is still in fear of how Li Chun died back then.
Li Chun was stabbed to death by his family at his own home!
This incident made him extremely afraid of the plum blossom inner guards in the inner court. Therefore, after secretly sending the eldest princess and others out of the capital, he did not send it to the southwest, but returned to his hometown in Yongzhou.
Over the years, Li Xin has also developed a strong force in his hometown of Yongzhou. He was originally used to secretly protect Lin Hu and others for experiments, but now it is just in handy.
After Zhong Xiaoxiao, who was carrying two children, shouted like this, then looked at the eldest princess again and lowered her head slightly: "Hello, sister-in-law."
Today, Zhong Xiaoxiao is already a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. Although she cannot be said to be charming, she looks average and superior. Moreover, because Li Xin has raised a good tribute over the years, she is very tall and only half a head shorter than Li Xin.
Li Xin looked at Zhong Xiaoxiao and sighed: "Thank you for your hard work."
Xiaoxiao shook her head.
“Not hard work.”
At this time, Xiao Ahan, who was holding in Zhong Xiaoxiao's hand, also recognized her parents. She let go of Zhong Xiaoxiao's hand and trotted towards Li Xinxiao.
"Dad——"
Li Xin bent down with a smile and hugged the little girl in his arms.
"Do you miss my dad?"
The little girl is over five years old now. When she was born, Li Xin happened to be unemployed in the capital and basically took care of her daughter at home every day. Therefore, she is very close to Li Xin. The father and daughter have not met for almost a year. She started to cry when she lay in Li Xin's arms.
"…I miss my dad very much."
Whether facing a strong enemy or an emperor, Li Xin will not have too much emotional fluctuation now, but the little girl's choked words made his already powerful heart melt almost instantly.
He kissed his daughter fiercely.
"Let's go, my dad will take you home and make delicious food for you."
The eldest princess on the other side had already picked up her younger son Li Ping and walked beside Li Xin. She looked at Li Xin with some resentment.
"Others' families like their sons, but you are different, and they spoiled the girl to heaven."
Li Xin smiled and said nothing.
Behind the couple, Chen Shiliu has also reunited with Hui Niang. This time, all the women and children of the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion can leave the capital, including Chen Shiliu's wife Hui Niang, and their son and daughter.
During the period when the eldest princess was away, it was thanks to Hui Niang taking care of Li Shu and Li Ping. Otherwise, Zhong Xiaoxiao, the young girl who was not married, would not be able to take care of these two children well.
Li Xin's family and Zhong Xiaoxiao got on their own black carriage, and Chen Gang drove them, while Chen Shiliu and his wife and children were sitting in the carriage behind. The group entered Beijing from the south gate of the capital and slowly walked towards Yonglefang.
In the carriage, because of the hard work of rushing all the way, Xiao Ahan had already fallen asleep in Li Xin's arms. Xiao Liping cried a few times, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Zhong Xiaoxiao sat next to Li Xin, and the brother and sister hadn't seen each other for a year. Li Xin asked her many questions, and she, who was introverted, answered them one by one.
Then she lowered her head a little embarrassedly.
"Brother, Zhao Fanghe..."
"Is it okay?"
Li Xin looked at his girl and shook his head helplessly: "You have been away from the capital for a year and are still thinking about him so much."
Originally, when Zhong Xiaoxiao and Zhao Fang were in the Marquis' Mansion, they had correspondence with each other, but because Zhong Xiaoxiao went to Yongzhou for refuge, in order to hide his whereabouts, it was naturally impossible to send a message to the northern border again, so the contact was broken.
However, Zhao Fang still wrote two letters to her.
Zhong Xiaoxiao lowered her head and looked embarrassed.
The eldest princess, who was holding her son, said, "Xiaoxiao is seventeen years old this year? I am almost married to the Marquis of Jing'an at her age. What's so strange about Zhao Fang?"
The eldest princess gave Li Xin a blank look.
"She and Zhao Fang are both married. You should write a letter to Zhao Fang and ask him to go back to the capital. We will help prepare and get married."
Marquis Jing'an also rolled his eyes.
"How old is the child? What are you doing in such a hurry to get married?"
Zhong Xiaoxiao is sixteen years old and seventeen years old this year. This girl was only four or five years old when she followed him. She was raised by him. It can be said that she is no different from his daughter. Even when she is about to get married, she is still a Budweiser in her heart.
Besides, the age of sixteen or seventeen is indeed too young for Li Xin.
The sound of the couple's speech awakened Li Ping in the eldest princess' arms. After all, she was only over one year old. After waking up, she cried loudly. The eldest princess hurried to coax the child and did not continue to argue.
Li Xin looked at Zhong Xiaoxiao and said slowly: "When I was in the Northern Frontier a year ago, Zhao Fang had already become a captain in the Zhenbei Army. After I left the Northern Frontier, the Zhenbei Army fought a battle with Yuwen's troops, which was a great victory. He, the captain, should have made merits and promoted."
Speaking of this, he took out two letters from his sleeve.
"This is a letter sent to you by Zhao Fang. Because it is inconvenient for you to be in Yongzhou, it has not been delivered to you."
Zhong Xiaoxiao nodded, reached out to take the letter and put it into his sleeve.
"Thank you brother."
"I want to thank you."
Li Xin hugged his daughter and said to her with a smile: "Your sister-in-law is not in Yongzhou, thanks to you taking care of the two siblings."
Zhong Xiaoxiao looked up at Li Xin.
"I am their little aunt, so it's time to take care of them."
"And... Sister Hui takes care of her a lot, and I don't understand many things."
As the few people spoke, the carriage had already stopped at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion in Jing'an. Shen Gang, who was driving, said in a deep voice: "Mr. Marquis, Madam, you have arrived at the Marquis' Mansion."
Li Xin nodded and walked out of the carriage with Xiao Ahan in his arms.
The little girl had already slept lightly and was too loud. She woke up suddenly and then saw the four big words "Jing'an Hou Mansion" in front of her.
Li Xin smiled and put her on the ground.
"Ahan, we're home."
Xiao Ahan has been away from home for more than a year and saw that the Marquis' Mansion is still a little unfamiliar, but after all, it was the place where she was born and raised, so she quickly cheered and jumped into the Marquis' Mansion of Jing'an.
The eldest princess also hugged Li Ping and walked out of the carriage.
In addition, Chen Shiliu and his wife Huiniang also walked to the gate of Jing'an Marquis' Mansion with a child.
Li Xin walked up to Hui Niang and lowered his head slightly: "With Hui Niang Lao, take care of my children."
Hui Niang's face turned red and she almost knelt on the ground.
"What the Marquis said is to destroy my slave family. This is all my slave's duty..."
She used to be a maid in the Jing'an Marquis Mansion. She was married to Chen Shiliu by Li Xin as a matchmaker. She spent half of her life in the Jing'an Marquis Mansion and had a deep relationship with the master.
Seeing that she couldn't speak, Li Xin smiled.
"We've all arrived at the doorstep, and I've got something to go in and say."
As he said that, he bent over and picked up the youngest daughter of Chen Shiliu's family and walked into the Jing'an Marquis Mansion.
For a long time ago, except for some servants in the Marquis’ Mansion of Jing'an, only he and Chen Shiliu lived in this huge Marquis’ Mansion. They could not hear the sound of children playing, and they seemed quite deserted.
Now, the family and children of the Marquis’ Mansion have returned to the capital and returned to the Jing'an Marquis’ Mansion. Soon the Marquis’ Mansion will become lively.
Chapter completed!