The eldest prince felt really happy when he learned that the city had not been destroyed.

This incident alone saved him and Li Ye a lot of worry. In the blink of an eye, they could notify Yang Kaiyi and the master of Tianfeng City so that the merchants and people who had been dispersed from the three towns could go home.

It is his wish to live and work in peace and contentment.

It was also a task entrusted to him by the emperor before he left.

Li Ye was naturally happy. If he stayed in Xichun City for one less day, he would be able to return to Nanyun City one day earlier and start preparing for his return to the Imperial City.

"It's okay to stay here. The generalissimo will take some people back to Nanyun City tomorrow. The food and grass there will almost be harvested."

What Li Ye missed was the food grown on the thousands of acres of land outside Nanyun City.

After all, the battle with the Imperial City would drag on for who knows how long. He didn't want to fight an unprepared war.

Yeluqi looked at him and said, "So anxious?"

I wonder if I leave, will you leave too?

Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "I have stayed in southern Xinjiang for too long just because of your nonsense. Although we have signed an armistice agreement with the Four Great Khans, we still have our own things to deal with.

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Yeluqi nodded, thought for a while and said, "Then when I leave tomorrow, I will leave my sister to accompany the princess. I will go back first and try to find you in the imperial city next spring."

Li Ye looked at him and smiled: "If you want spring to come, I can even treat you to a drink."

Yeluqi cupped his fists at him and smiled and said, "Just to tell you this, I will definitely come to see you in the spring."

"I'll wait for you." Li Ye smiled lightly.

...

Just as Yeluqi told Li Ye, he left Xichunchun City with his subordinates early the next morning. He had been away for a long time and he missed his mother at home.

When Li Ye and Mu Mu were sitting in the master's living room having breakfast, Yeluyan walked in with red eyes.

Li Ye looked up, sighed softly, and gave Mu Mu a look.

Mu Mu was shrewd. She put down the bowl she was holding, ran to the door, pulled Yeluyan in, and comforted her softly: "You started crying just after we were separated. What will happen if you become the queen?"

Yeluyan, who was crying at first, couldn't help but burst into laughter when Mu Mu said this. She squeezed her little hand and said, "Princess, you are chewing your tongue!"

Mu Mu chuckled and said, "You know it in your heart!"

Yeluyan's face turned red and she stopped talking.

Mu Mu pulled her to sit next to him. Li Ye looked at her and asked, "You are still hungry, let's eat together."

Mu Mu looked at her blankly, squeezed her little hand, and complained: "I really don't understand you. Eat something quickly, and I will go back south to the city with the princess later."

Yeluyan was startled, looked at her and said, "Mumu, aren't you coming with us?" In desperation, the princess next to her stopped calling.

Mu Mu turned her head and glanced at Li Ye, who was drinking porridge. She curled up her lips and said with a smile, "I want to stay with my brother and come back after we finish everything here."

After saying that, he took a bowl and served Yeluyan with a bowl of porridge and placed it in front of her: "Don't wrong yourself in the future. You are the woman who wants to be the queen."

When Mu Mu talked about this, her face turned red again.

...

Before the three of them had finished their breakfast, Xia Wutong flew in like a butterfly.

Before he even entered the door, he called out: "Mumu, are you ready? The carriage is waiting outside?"

Mu Mu glanced at Yeluyan and asked in a low voice, "Are your things ready?"

Yeluyan looked at her and nodded.

Mu Mu turned around and followed Xia Wutong who ran in and said, "You are a princess, so you should be more reserved. How can you make a fuss?"

It means my brother is still sitting here.

Xia Wutong looked at Li Ye who was sitting at the table and couldn't help being startled. He said softly: "Junior brother, my master and brother and I are going back to Nanyun City first. We will wait for you there."

Li Ye smiled at him and said, "If you go to Nanyun City, don't leave Mr. Tang. It's not very safe there now."

From Li Ye's point of view, as long as the matter in the imperial city is not resolved, there will be no peace anywhere.

Xia Wutong nodded to him, looked at Mu Mu and said, "Have you eaten yet?"

Mu Mu shook her head at her, pointed at Yeluyan and said, "Take her and let your brother take care of her."

"Why don't you come back with us? When Xia Wutong said this, he glanced at Li Ye secretly.

"My brother and I still have something to do. I'll come back to you when we're done." After saying that, he took Yeluyan's hand and walked out.

Xia Wutong was startled and didn't hesitate to ask. He turned to look at Li Ye and said, "Junior brother, I'll be waiting for you in Nanyun City!"

Li Ye smiled and waved to him and said, "Be careful on the road."

Xia Wutong nodded and pulled the two of them outside.

...

After sending Yeluyan and Xia Wutong away, Li Ye suddenly felt that the room was much quieter.

He had developed a habit of tranquility on Tianshan Mountain, but over the years, it had been gradually worn away by many affairs in the world.

Just like the stones in the cold pool of Tianshan Mountain, they have been washed away by the snow and water of Tianshan Mountain for many years, and they have finally changed from sharp and rounded to rounded.

Mu Mu, who was walking back with her little hands behind her back, met Wei Qingyu and Wang Tianhua who had returned from Xiaguan at the gate. She looked at them and asked, "Why have you been gone for so long?"

Wei Qingyu looked into his eyes and said with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that something might happen? Do you think I don't want to come back early? You have to follow me and ask the National Master for merit later."

Hearing this, Mu Mu smiled and said, "You have been regarded as the eldest prince's person since you were born. How can you deserve less of this credit?"

Wang Tianhua nodded and explained with a smile: "Qingyu doesn't understand very well, so the princess made a joke. I heard that the generalissimo has returned to Nanyun City, where is the National Preceptor?"

"I'm drinking tea in the house, I guess." Mu Mu looked back at the lobby of the city lord's mansion.

"We went out early in the morning and we were hungry. Is there anything to eat? General Nalan is still behind, and he didn't eat either." Wang Tianhua hurried inside.

Mu Mu shouted behind him: "What are we going to eat? There is only half a pot of white porridge and a few eggs left."

Wei Qingyu took Mu Mu's hand and smiled: "As long as you have something to eat."

...

Looking at Wang Tianhua who hurriedly walked in, Li Ye frowned and thought that only two people left and two more came.

Looking at him, he asked softly: "Where is General Nalan? Didn't he come back with you?"

Wutianhua looked at him and smiled and replied: "I asked a few guards to stop him at the city gate, saying that I wanted to invite him to drink."

Li Ye frowned and looked at him. After a moment of silence, he said, "You haven't had breakfast yet. There is still half a pot of porridge and a few eggs on the table. Let's make do with it."

Wutianhua looked at him and said, "Shall I call General Nalan back?"

Li Ye held the armrests of the chair, thought for a moment and then said: "He should understand the seriousness of the matter and let him go back on his own."

"Come on, let's eat some. It seems to be still warm." As she spoke, Mu Mu pulled Wei Qingyu in.

Looking at the two people sitting at the table, Li Ye smiled and said, "Eat breakfast first, and then we'll talk afterward."

Mu Mu pulled Li Ye to sit aside and asked softly: "Do you want to keep Brother Nalan?"

Li Ye shook his head and said quietly: "The guards of the original three towns will be left here. Yang Kaiyi will assist them. You all have to go back with us. There are more things going on there."

Mu Mu asked in confusion: "Aren't there so many personal guards? All of them have higher cultivation than Brother Nalan."

Li Ye looked at her with a smile, thinking that the personal guards were people trained by the emperor after all. Although they were under his command now, they could not be trusted like his brothers.

"Everyone has his or her own choice. If my eldest brother wants to stay in the world in the future, I will create more opportunities for him to make contributions now."

Li Ye thought about making Nalan Yu the eldest prince's right-hand man as much as possible, so that he would feel more at ease when he went to Fangcun Mountain.

"Oh!" Mu Mu, who was very nervous, listened to Li Ye's explanation and stopped asking any more questions. He took the melon seeds and put them on the table, and then started to eat them carefully.

For her, as long as she follows Li Ye, everything else is not a problem.

Wang Tianhua and Wei Qingyu ate breakfast in a hurry, put away their bowls and chopsticks, sat down next to Li Ye, and asked, "Is there going to be another war?"

Li Ye rubbed his head and asked calmly: "Do you want to stay or go back to the imperial city with me?"

"Go back!" Wei Qingyu replied.

"Of course I will go back with the imperial master." Seeing Wei Qingyu make a decision, Wang Tianhua dared not to obey.

Naturally, Li Ye and the two of them could follow each other back. At least both of them performed well in southern Xinjiang and could be used by the eldest prince, unlike the puddle of sewage in the imperial city where no one knew the details of the other.

Wang Tianhua continued: "My father and mother are both sensible people, otherwise they would not have agreed to come to southern Xinjiang in the future."

Wei Qingyu nodded and continued: "The same goes for my father. It is said that he was ordered by the emperor to stay and protect the imperial city, otherwise he would have come to southern Xinjiang long ago."

"They didn't expect your parents to think so. Who in the Royal Academy knows that you two came to southern Xinjiang?"

"Apart from the dean, only Teacher Nalan probably knows." Wei Qingyu thought for a while and replied.

"That's good, the dean won't tell anyone." Li Ye learned about Xia Yuan's personality from the emperor's mouth.

"I don't know." Wang Tianhua replied timidly.

"You don't know, that's because you don't understand him." Li Ye looked at him and laughed.

"Xiaguan is handed over to Zhu Tianhu, Xichun is Ma Tianyun, and Kaiyang is naturally Shen Huocheng. The three of them will be temporarily responsible for the guards and acting city lords of the three towns. The two of you will be responsible for supervising the harvest of military rations outside the city."

Seeing that the grain in the fields is about to mature, the most important thing is to get the grain back first.

"The Generalissimo brought people back to Nanyun City for the purpose of harvesting the thousands of acres of grain and grass outside the city. The matters here will be left to you two."

After speaking, Li Ye glanced at Mu Mu again and said, "If nothing happens, sister, we can go together to help."

Mu Mu nodded and replied: "It's a small matter."

Looking up at the sky outside the door, Li Ye murmured as if talking to himself: "After harvesting these grains and grass, leave most of them for the Anjun in the three towns. We can take away one of them."

According to the plan of Li Ye and the eldest prince, since there will be no war in recent years, only 15,000 defenders are left in the three towns, which means that the original troops remain unchanged.

It is best to ration food and grass until next summer.

After staying in the military camp for such a long time, Wang Tianhua naturally understood Li Ye's difficulties and nodded in response: "Don't worry, Imperial Master, Qingyu and I promise to take back the food and grass on time."

"I still need to prepare some silver with the master of Tianfeng City. After all, it will cost a lot to build the three-town trading market."

"Do these things also need to be done in the future?" Wang Tianhua was stunned.

"No need!" Li Ye shook his head and said calmly: "Just leave it to Ma Tianyun and the other three. It's just a simple market, not a palace."

"It's a pity that we have to leave soon, otherwise I really want to visit the market of this grassland tribe." Mu Mu looked at the three of them and kept talking.

The corners of Li Ye's mouth moved, but no words came out.

He also understood that after he left, he wanted to come to southern Xinjiang again, but he didn’t know what year or month it would be.

Looking back, I realized that Mumu had the purest mind and never asked herself to do anything for her, nor did she ever cause trouble for herself.

After thinking about it, Li Ye couldn't help but look at her and said, "Would you like to go shopping with you? I'll buy you a new dress. It's getting cold."

Mu Mu was stunned. She didn't expect that Li Ye would suddenly want to go shopping with her.

His face turned red and he murmured: "There are not many shops open in Xichun City right now. Let's wait until we return to Nanyun City."

Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "Go shopping again when we go back."
Chapter completed!