Chapter 24: Upon hearing of Empress Feng's death, Yang Jian fell ill
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen days have passed. It has been thirteen days since New Year's Eve, and today is just the Lantern Festival. He Taichong has already returned to Taiyuan to start preparing for the branch store and adopting orphans; while this side is also developing rapidly, with new iron plaques in hand, waiting for an opportunity to be distributed; and the orphans have been adopted, and the training leaders have been found. To know that many people are willing to go for a three-layered iron plaque, but the salary of court officials is not high. Everything has entered the right track, except for going out to ask about He Qing, they all stay at home. Now Li Jiancheng has also finished practicing the second step of "Changsheng Jue Ri Zhi Pian", and the third step has begun.
As soon as he entered the hall, Yuwen Yan saw only Dou Yi. He guessed that Li Yuan had already gone to court. "Cheng Er, come and have some food. Today is the Lantern Festival, do you have any thoughts?" Dou Yi asked when she saw Li Jiancheng enter.
"No, I think I'll go out for a walk and come back later." Li Jiancheng lowered his head and continued eating.
"Alright! Big brother is taking me there today." Suddenly, the voice of Second Brother Li Shimin came from beside him. Looking at Dou Xuan's smiling face again, he felt that he had been schemed against. His mother must have known that Li Shimin had arrived, so she deliberately asked him like this. How embarrassing!
"Alright, I'll take you out today." Li Jiancheng replied helplessly.
"I'll go too." said Li Yuangui, the third brother, as he also slipped out.
"Alright! Take everything and eat quickly. If you're late, I won't take you guys there." Li Jiancheng said irritably, wondering why these two liked to follow him around so much.
After finishing breakfast, the three of them left the house amidst Du Yin's words "come back early".
"Big brother, where are we going to play today?" asked Er Di on the way; Li Shimin asked.
"I'm not sure either. Let's just wander around with Big Brother today." They couldn't go to the wine house, and Li Jiancheng didn't know where else to go, so they just walked aimlessly.
"Big brother, let's go to the market, I heard from the guards at home that the market is very lively. Big brother, what do you say?" Looking at Li Shimin gazing at him eagerly, he thought about it and realized that since coming to this era, he hadn't seriously gone to a market before and didn't know what it was like, so he nodded his head, causing Li Shimin to cheer and jump for joy.
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"Wow! Big brother, look at how many people there are!" Li Shimin was amazed by the sea of people in front of him.
"Huh? Big brother, what are these red, grainy things?" Li Shimin asked curiously when he saw something.
"Hehe, this is candied hawthorn, it's edible." Li Jiancheng said with a smile, then turned to the boss and said: "Six strings of candied hawthorn, please."
"Alright! Here, this is what you wanted, candied hawthorn, take it." The boss enthusiastically gave Li Jiancheng six strings of candied hawthorn, and two strings each to Li Shimin and Li Yuanji. After giving them out, Li Jiancheng started eating by himself.
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"Boss, give me a string of candied hawthorns."
"Boss, give me a string of candied hawthorns."
"What? Chen Shengping, it's you! I didn't expect you also like eating this!"
"Haha, it's actually Xie Xiaoyu."
"Just call me Xiaoyu!"
In his past life, Li Jiancheng was familiar with his girlfriend because of the candied hawthorn. The two eventually got together and experienced a heart-wrenching romance. Unexpectedly, they couldn't withstand the blows of society, and in the end, it was just a memory. As he thought about it, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. It wasn't because of his past girlfriend or any other reason; he simply had an urge to cry, so he let the tears fall...
"Big brother? Why are you crying?" Li Shimin asked in puzzlement.
"It's nothing, just sand in my eyes." Li Jiancheng wiped the corner of his eye and said, "Let's go, we'll continue strolling through the market."
"Great!" As soon as he heard there was something fun, Li Shimin happily forgot about what had just happened.
Suddenly, Li Jiancheng heard a voice in his ear, feeling a bit far away, but because he had practiced the "Long Life Secret Day Chapter", he could still hear it clearly.
"Master, look at those three people, they seem to be the sons of officials and nobles, how come they don't have any guards with them?" A little girl's voice asked in puzzlement. "And those people are so bad, they bring so many guards but still bully ordinary people, humph!" At this time, the voice made Li Jiancheng feel that she seemed to be a bit angry. It seemed that she thought that rich second-generation people like them would normally have a big entourage and bully ordinary people, which left him speechless.
"Fei Xuan, not everyone in the world is like that. Things have their yin and yang, people also have good and bad sides, so you must be clear-sighted when dealing with things in the future, or else it will be a disaster if you make a mistake. Let's go, we need to hurry back." A middle-aged woman's voice said warmly. After that, the two voices disappeared. However, what made Li Jiancheng stop was the woman's name: Fei Xuan. Among the many Double Dragon enthusiasts, who wouldn't know who Fei Xuan is? Although he didn't know if this Fei Xuan was the same one, just her name was enough to pique his curiosity.
However, when he turned around to look in the direction of the sound, all that was left for him were two blurry figures. With his current eyesight, he could only see blurry images. It seemed they had also walked far away and their figures disappeared into the horizon before long.
"Big brother, what are you looking at?" Li Shimin asked Li Jiancheng who had turned his head back to take a look.
"Oh, nothing, let's just continue shopping." Li Jiancheng casually said and didn't say more. The three of them continued to stroll through the market. In the market, there were many street performers, not only did Li Shimin and Li Yuanji gain new experiences, but even he was amazed by what he saw, some performances that in his previous life he had only heard of but never seen before. What's more, there were performances like "Chest Splitting Big Stone", "Sword Swallowing", "Knife Mountain Climbing", "Oil Pot Walking" and so on, each name sounded thrilling, of course Li Jiancheng knew these were all skilled performances, it was just that they made a living from this, he wouldn't go and ruin their livelihood.
"Everyone listen, the city is now under martial law. All of you immediately return home and do not wander around in the city. If any suspicious person is found, they will be arrested on the spot." Suddenly a team of soldiers appeared, one of whom seemed to be the leader said.
"What's going on?" Li Shimin asked, he and Li Yuanji stood tensely beside Li Jiancheng.
"Nothing's up, let's not play today, let's go home first." Li Jiancheng said and took Li Shimin and Li Yuanji back home.
"Huh? Cheng Er, why are you back so early today!" Dou Xian asked in surprise as she saw her three brothers return so soon.
"The city is under martial law and people are not allowed to roam around inside the city, so I came back." Li Jiancheng replied truthfully.
"What's going on? Why is there martial law?" Du Xian asked in surprise.
"I'm not sure either, but Father should know. Let's ask him when he gets back!" Li Jiancheng had been browsing through books, but they didn't mention this matter either, so he was also completely in the dark and knew nothing.
They had waited for a long time, and it was time to eat, but Li Yuan had not returned, so they all lost their appetite. Du Yan was even more anxious, and Li Jiancheng could only comfort her with kind words.
After the hour of Xu, that is, 19:00-21:00 in the previous life, Li Yuan finally returned. Seeing Li Yuan's tired look, Dou Xian forgot to ask and instead cared about bringing hot water for Li Yuan to wash his face. However, Li Yuan still discovered that several people wanted to speak but stopped, so he said: "The Emperor has passed away."
Li Jiancheng was stunned, Yang Jian hung up! How did time change?
