Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

Li Yuan looked at her steadily, then looked away with a gloomy look.

He left the next day, and Wei Qiqi had no idea about it. He also had no intention of letting Wei Qiqi know, and then mobilizing a large number of people to prepare things for him and send him out.

That would make him never want to go anywhere without her.

Li Yuan rode alone on horseback and galloped away from the foot of Jiguan Mountain before dawn.

He lowered his waist, and the strong wind blew from the front, making his eyes hurt.

He squinted his eyes slightly so that he could see clearly ahead. It was September, and the unknown wild flowers on the roadside were in full bloom. Li Yuan's horse hooves trampled on them, leaving only the petals that were blown up and fell to the ground as he walked away.

Li Yuan went to Yizhou first. He had become an excellent rider over the years, and his horse was a good one, so he only stopped a few times on the road. When it was getting dark, he just caught the last bit of time and passed smoothly with the help of the letter in his hand.

Yizhou is a place that is extremely suitable for human habitation, just as its name suggests.

Apart from Luozhou and Yongzhou close to Kyoto, Yizhou is the third largest grain-producing province among the Kyushu.

The climate and soil here make it easy to produce grain, so it has become a well-known trading prefecture.

There is no curfew here, and even after dark there are still people hawking their wares on the street.

Li Yuan first went to an inn, paid the money, took the number plate, and went to the room.

The location he chose was good. By opening the window, he could take in the surrounding slightly shorter houses at a glance.

You can even vaguely see the place where the dignitaries live on the other side.

Li Yuan's gaze fell on the unclear distance. He looked for a long time, until it was completely dark, then he withdrew his gaze and closed the window.

The time interval was too long, and Wei Qiqi occupied the most important years of his life, causing the previous memories of his father to become unimportant.

Over the years, Qi Niang has been teaching him to be a responsible and kind person. Li Yuan knows that he is not that kind of person, but he is willing to become that kind of person for Qi Niang.

When he was a child, his mother, whom he could no longer remember, passed away, leaving only his wet nurse, father, and a group of servants in the house.

Whenever my father had to go out for something and my wet nurse was not available, I had heard unpleasant words from the servants who gathered together.

They said that the young master was born unlucky and killed his wife when he was only a few years old.

They also said that he had no emotions and that such a young child actually liked to torture animals.

They respectfully called him "young master" in front of others, but behind their backs they said how evil and scary he was.

It was at that time that Li Yuan realized that he was different from others.

When other children see animals getting hurt, their first reaction is pity, but he wants to end the animal's suffering.

Other children couldn't stand watching the killing of cattle and sheep, but he could dismantle animal carcasses without any expression on his face and arrange them neatly.

After these things were discovered, everyone in the house knew that the young master of the master's family was abnormal, and no one was willing to serve him.

They were afraid that he would kill them like animals and not take it seriously.

He became more and more lonely.

The father couldn't sleep all night because of the worry he felt about the child his wife left behind, his only blood relative.

He saw his father praying to God, saw his father severely scolding those who gossiped behind his back, and he also knew that his father had thought about choosing a playmate for him.

He knows all this.

But no one is willing.

There was only one wet nurse. Since she had been serving the lady since he was young, she had raised Li Yuan from childhood to adulthood. Naturally, she treated Li Yuan as her own child and was not bad to him.

But he couldn't feel it at that time.

It was not until later that he made clear his feelings and found that he could actually be attracted to someone.

The belated pain seeped into every part of his body.

His father's resentful death and his wet nurse's tragic death were like threads that pulled out the invisible human emotions in his mind bit by bit.

He experienced great pain. The delayed pain and the first love that was immoral made him fall into a vortex, and the more he struggled, the more he fell into it.

He left and entered the barracks.

He knew that everything needed time to settle, and time would make him understand what he needed.

At such a young age, he has nothing but indifferent emotions.

Since the first time they met, Qi Niang had been following him everywhere. At that time, he didn't care about Qi Niang, he just wanted to know what this step-relative left by his father would do and how he was different from other people.

He was able to make his father remarry and his wet nurse praise him as a kind-hearted person.

He waited and waited.

Until he regarded Qi Niang as someone more important than his own life, as someone who was on par with his father and wet nurse.

after that……

In his dusty heart, Qi Niang is the sweetheart whom he cannot see or hear clearly.

As time passed, the intertwined emotions made him deeply immersed in revenge and building achievements, while at the same time he was immersed in the joy woven by Qiniang.

According to his personality, he is not the kind of person who is hesitant and indecisive.

But Qiniang made him timid.

He didn't dare to gamble whether Qiniang would abandon him, nor did he dare to let Qiniang feel unhappy or uncomfortable.

Sometimes, Li Yuan even thought that it would not be bad if they just supported each other for their whole lives.

When you are alone, you tend to think too much.

Li Yuan no longer thought about it more deeply, he only dared to think about the surface.

At dawn the next day, shouting and hawking could be heard outside. The inn where Li Yuan stayed was right in the center of the city, and the windows could not block out the noisy sounds.

Amid the bustling and bustling backdrop, a closer look reveals that people’s lives are difficult.

What they sell are shoes, handkerchiefs, straw baskets and other things that they have made with great effort.

There is very little food to buy.

There are more sellers than buyers.

Looking more closely, these people had sallow complexions and it was estimated that they had already started to run out of food at home.

Even the shouting sounded a little hollow.

Li Yuan first walked around several city gates of Yizhou, then went to look at food and restaurants, and finally stopped when he unknowingly walked in front of the City Lord's Mansion of Yizhou.

After a while, he stopped someone and asked, "I just came from another place, and I don't know who our city lord is, what his name is, and what his surname is."

The man stopped walking. He must be in no hurry, so he spoke slowly. Li Yuan didn't understand until he finished speaking.

The Jiang family is still the one in power now, and the current city lord is a senior member of the Jiang family.

In terms of seniority, Li Yuan curled his lips and thought that he should meet the city lord, his cousin.

Li Yuan left the City Lord's Mansion and came to a teahouse. He gave someone some money and started to gather information.

After getting enough information, Li Yuan had some idea about Yizhou.

As long as Yizhou is managed properly and food is provided to the people in a timely manner, I think there will be no resistance.

On the contrary, if it is not handled properly, Yizhou will be irreparable.