It's not half past time in the inner courtyard of the palace, in the emperor's study.

A blazing charcoal fire and a kettle of boiling water showed that the owner had been sitting here for a long time.

Pointing to the battle report on the case, the emperor looked at his right minister and said, "The Linghu family has fallen. What do you think, uncle emperor?"

The right prime minister sighed, looked at the left prime minister beside him and asked: "What do you think, the left prime minister?"

Prime Minister Zuo trembled, looked at the two of them, shook his head, and said softly: "This time, neither you nor I will interfere. Don't worry, let the Imperial Master solve the troubles in the imperial city."

In his opinion, if it had not been for the soft-heartedness of others, the mother and son who had usurped the throne would not have been in the Beihai War or the usurpation of the throne today.

While he was talking, the imperial army knocked on the door of the study room. After a while, Nalan Kunxuan, who was dressed in weathered clothes, walked up.

He laughed loudly and said: "This day has finally come. How is the Emperor? Where is the National Preceptor? Where is our Nalan?"

As soon as the old man entered the door, he asked a lot of questions.

The emperor looked at the old man who had come after hearing the news, pointed to the chair next to Guan and said: "Dean Nalan, please sit down quickly. The Imperial Preceptor has finished his important work and is hiding in the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion and refuses to go out."

Regarding Li Xiuyuan's holding, neither the emperor nor the left and right ministers had any idea.

After all, the Imperial Preceptor had solved the biggest trouble with just a wave of his hand. The remaining matters were no longer troubles in the eyes of the Imperial Preceptor, so naturally he no longer wanted to be chained to the inner courtyard of the palace.

The Prime Minister Zuo poured a cup of hot tea for Nalan Kunxuan and said with a smile: "Your General Nalan will be cleaning up the imperial city with the imperial army and the soldiers of King Qin of Baiyu City."

When Nalan Kunxuan heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Isn't it true that I didn't help you at all? Why did you let me come back and eat and drink for free?"

The emperor looked at him and shook his head, and said softly: "The Imperial Master is afraid that there will be trouble again in the past few days, so he asked Dean Nalan to come to the palace to accompany us..."

When Nalan Kunxuan heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Did the Imperial Master leave any wine? By the way, he is the only brewing master in the five regions!"

Upon hearing this, the right minister couldn't help but knock the table lightly and shouted angrily: "What is the critical moment now? Let's settle the important things first. Are you afraid that you will run out of wine?"

Nalan Kunxuan nodded thoughtfully, looked at the emperor and asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to recruit some more students from the Royal Academy? This time I brought four elders..."

The emperor shook his head, pointed to the battle report on the table and said: "I was originally afraid that they would make trouble, but I didn't expect that they would be solved by the Imperial Advisor and General Nalan. In the next few days, I will trouble Elder Nalan to drink tea with me here."

Nalan Kunxuan laughed and replied: "I haven't seen the dean for a long time, and I have long wanted to come to the imperial city."

The right minister shook his head, sighed heavily and said: "This time, after all, it is too dangerous."

In the opinion of him and Zuo Xiang, if the imperial master had not suddenly appeared, the emperor's family of three would probably have lost their lives sooner or later.

After all, Su Qingyue and Concubine Li secretly removed all the hundreds of black-clothed guards left by Huang Yu in order to one day attack the emperor.

…

When Hua Tianxia came to the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion with Nalan Ming, who was much taller than Li Xiuyuan.

As Li Xiuyuan expected, Tang Chao and Xiao Ju had broken through the realm and reached the late stage of distraction.

Tang Chao looked at Hua Tianxia who walked in and was speechless for a long time.

Xiao Ju yelled: "Oh my god, brother, are you going to scare Xiao Ju to death?"

Li Xiuyuan ignored the couple's exclamations, stood up, took Hua Tianxia's hand and walked into the flower hall, while smiling: "Is this my godson?"

Nalan Ming was stunned, unable to connect the young man in front of him with his godfather.

After all, his parents have been nagging him about this matter for more than ten years.

From the day he could speak, Nalan Yu told him and the princess that they had a godfather in the sky, who had already ascended and left, and might come back someday.

He didn't expect to see a real person today, but he was shocked.

The person in front of him was more than a little younger than his parents, and he didn't even look older than himself.

However, Hua Tianxia couldn't wait for Nalan Ming to call someone, so he took Li Xiuyuan's hand and touched his face.

He exclaimed: "It just took one night, why did you become like this?"

After knowing that when Li Xiuyuan left Huamanlou yesterday, he was clearly still a thirteen-year-old boy.

After this night, he was actually aged by the years. Is it possible that the young man today has lost his cultivation and is not tolerated by the heavenly laws of the five realms?

Thinking of this, Hua Tianxia was shocked, looked at him and asked: "Doesn't it mean that you will be older tomorrow?"

Li Xiuyuan pulled his mother and daughter toward the flower hall, sighing: "I used power that doesn't belong here, so he's going to punish me... Don't worry about me."

At the moment, Li Xiuyuan has no intention to explain more reasons to her.

Instead, he took Nalan Ming's hand and asked, "I also have a goddaughter? What's your name?"

Nalan Ming, who was wearing a green brocade robe and had the best features of Nalan Yu and Hua Tianxia, ​​looked at Li Xiuyuan in front of him and swallowed a sip of tea with difficulty.

Looking at Li Xiuyuan, he replied softly: "Fuck... godfather, my name is Nalan Ming. The princess and the queen are probably in the harem these days and can't come out. It will take a few days..."

Li Xiuyuan naturally knew that Yeluyan should stay deep in the palace at this moment. He would not allow the emperor's family of three to step out of the palace until the imperial city was lifted.

After all, there are left and right ministers, as well as Elder Nalan who has returned from the Royal Academy, so the palace is the safest place at the moment.

What's more, the three Yeluyans all have the talismans he gave them, so no one in the entire Five Realms can hurt them anymore.

Li Xiuyuan nodded, looked at Yeluyan and said with a smile: "Sister Hua, are you going to have a drink with me first tonight, or are you waiting for Brother Nalan?"

Hua Tian was stunned, with a strange smile on his face: "I'm afraid he won't have time to stay at home these days. Didn't you send him to the military camp?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, looked at Tang Chao and said with a smile: "Just let the kitchen fry a few vegetables. Sister Hua is here with delicious food."

When Tang Chao heard this, he walked out of the flower hall and said as he walked: "I have to have a few drinks today. How many years have I been waiting?"

Xiaoju blushed immediately after hearing this, looked at Li Hongxiu and said, "Brother, don't argue with him, he will lose his image as soon as he sees you."

When Nalan Ming heard this, he finally felt at ease. The woman in front of him, who was not much younger than his mother, also called his godfather brother. It seemed that he had not suffered much.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, looked at Hua Tianxia and said with a smile: "After these few days of work, I guarantee that Brother Nalan will go home."

Hua Tianxia chuckled and said: "He has been idle for who knows how many years. It would be nice to let him move. Isn't it even the city lord of White Jade City, Wang Tianhua, who is here?"

"They are all brothers who followed me in the wars in the north and south. They are trustworthy."

Li Xiuyuan silently served tea to the three of them, but he was thinking about Wang Tianhua in his heart.

He is not afraid of anyone in the dynasty, and he owes nothing to anyone, but Wang Tianhua is the only trouble... Everything is because Wang Tianhua married Linghu Shanshan from the Linghu family...

At the moment, Nalanyu is leading Wang Tianhua in the imperial city to clean up all the rebellious families of aristocratic families and ministers.

If it had been anyone else, Li Xiuyuan probably wouldn't have even blinked, but after all, Wang Tianhua and Wei Qingyu had been following him since the beginning of southern Xinjiang.

After thinking about it, I wondered how I had forgotten this matter before.

If he had known earlier, Nalan Yu would not have been allowed to take Wang Tianhua to the Linghu family to ransack the house. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

As expected, nine out of ten people are unhappy in their lives.

However, Li Xiuyuan's sigh shocked the three people sitting there, and they didn't know why the Tianyi-like man in front of them was sighing.

Even the Queen and Imperial Preceptor Su Qingyue have been defeated in your heart, what else do you feel dissatisfied with?

Hua Tianxia looked at him and frowned slightly, and asked: "Brother, why are you unhappy? Is it because we didn't entertain you well?"

In her opinion, the entire Huamanlou belongs to you.

In the entire dynasty, you are much older than the emperor. What else is there to be dissatisfied with and what is there to be dissatisfied with?

Unexpectedly, Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My trouble has nothing to do with Sister Hua. Forget it, when the current matter is over, bring the princess to me for a look."

Nalan Ming was startled and asked blankly: "Why does the godfather want to see the princess sister?"

"Me? I want to see how much your princess sister looks like Yeluyan and how much she resembles her father."

Li Xiuyuan said calmly, before his eyes it seemed that he had returned to the scene where the prairie princess in elegant clothes competed with Nalan Yu outside Xichun City in southern Xinjiang.

I couldn't help but sigh again, looked at Hua Tianxia and said leisurely: "I think yesterday, Brother Nalan and I were fighting against Yeluyan's brother in southern Xinjiang..."

When Hua Tian heard this, he immediately covered his mouth and laughed.

He pulled Nalan Ming and said, "Your godfather is your father's brother in life and death. When they were fighting in southern Xinjiang, you were not there yet."

Xiao Ju also giggled when she heard this: "That's right. I thought I was still practicing hard in Qingcheng with Tang Chao at that time, and I couldn't help my brother at all."

Li Xiuyuan felt a pain in his heart when he heard this and was speechless for a long time.

I thought that although you didn't help in the battle in southern Xinjiang, your brother Hu Ge lost an arm in the battle in Beihai, and he couldn't even say a few words to everyone.

On the day of the decisive battle, after beheading the elders of the Tribulation Realm in Beihai, they ascended and left.

Thinking about it, Hu Ge has become a hidden wound in his chest.

From this, I thought of Nalan Moli and Wu Xin from the Tianshan Sword Sect, and how Wu Xin, a monk obsessed with Buddhism, turned into a talented man who was famous in the Buddhist capital and even in the five regions.

A legendary figure who wrote countless poems for the Buddha and the woman he loved couldn't help but sigh again.

He looked at Hua Tianxia and thought for a while, then said: "Do you know Nalan Moli from the Tianshan Sword Sect, sister?"

Hua Tianxia's heart tightened. She didn't expect that Li Xiuyuan would actually talk about Jasmine and Wu Xin. After all, this was a big deal and everyone in the Tianshan Sword Sect knew about it.

Because of this, Nalan Yu almost took up his sword and entered the palace, but Hua Tianxia finally persuaded him to stop him.

Because the emperor's family of three were in Su Qingyue's hands, Nalan Yu was not allowed to risk his life.

Glancing at his son, Hua Tianxia sighed again and said, "Is it possible, brother, that you came back here just because of this?"

"That's right, according to my plan, I won't come back from Prajna Temple until next spring."

Li Xiuyuan looked at the two women and said quietly: "If it weren't for Wu Xin and Jasmine, if it weren't for the Emperor being imprisoned by Concubine Li, I should be in the Buddhist hall of Prajna Temple right now."

"Daddy, are you a monk?"

Nalan Ming looked at the young man with only inch-long hair in front of him, and he really couldn't connect him with his father's brother, the Imperial Master of the dynasty.

Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly, looked at the falling snowflakes outside the flower hall and said, "No, by the time spring comes, your aunt will come down from Fangcun Mountain."
Chapter completed!