Chapter 190: Eye of Light

Li Qingan slowly urged him to step forward, stared at her and said, "Princess Julan, we haven't seen each other for a long time, are you always good?"

Ju Lan lowered her head and whispered: "Do you still remember me?"

Li Qingan lifted his hair, revealed the scar on his forehead, and smiled and said, "As long as this scar remains all day long, I will never forget you."

A look of joy appeared in Ju Lan's eyes, and then a trace of sadness flashed through her. So what if I remember? Time has changed her destiny, and it is impossible for them to have any result.

"I am accompanying my brother to Beiting, and I want to see how you are doing?"

She raised her head and looked at Li Qing'an, and forced herself to look happy and said, "I came to Anxi to find you last year. I heard that you went to Qinghai to fight."

"I was not in Anxi last year and I couldn't explain it clearly for a while. Go to my mansion for dinner! Tell me about your situation in the past two years."

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Ju Lan looked at the two brothers with some embarrassment, Yuanen smiled eagerly and said, "Ju Lan, go! I haven't seen you for a few years, so I should go and have a chat."

Hassan also saw the mystery of this. He had a good relationship with his younger sister. If his younger sister could get the Eye of Light, he might not have no chance. He also smiled and nodded, encouraging his younger sister to go.

"Okay!" Ju Lan finally agreed.

Li Qingan was overjoyed and turned around and clasped his fists at the two princes and said, "Two Your Highnesses, I will give you an answer for a few more days."

He urged the war horse and took Ju Lan to his mansion.

Ju Lan seemed a little worried along the way. She didn't look at Li Qing'an secretly, but the smile on his face was still as handsome as before, but there was a little more maturity and vicissitudes in her eyes. Ju Lan couldn't help but feel sad again. At this moment, she felt that she was far away from this Han officer who had left her deep memories.

Li Qingan turned to look at her, and she also looked back at him. When she looked in contact, Li Qingan read a profound sadness from her eyes. He couldn't help but stop the horse, "What's wrong with you?"

Ju Lan bit her lip gently and said, "General Li, I still won't go."

"Why?"

Li Qingan smiled and said, "Is there an impatient husband waiting for you to go back?"

"No! No."

Tears suddenly burst into Shi Julan's eyes, "I shouldn't have come to Beiting and shouldn't have appeared in front of you."

She turned her head and left. Li Qingan did not stop her, but just watched her walk away silently.

"Let's go!" Li Qing'an whipped the war horse hard and rushed towards his mansion faster.

After dinner, Li Qing'an locked himself in the study. He stood in front of the window and stared silently at a willow tree in the yard in the night sky.

At this time, Rushi walked in gently with a cup of tea. She was careful and found that her lover was a little restless while eating.

"Get a cup of tea!" Rushi gently brought the tea in front of him.

Li Qingan sighed, took the teacup, slowly sat back on his seat, Rushi stood behind him, gently massaged his head, and asked in a low voice: "Have you encountered something unpleasant today?"

"No, I just met an old friend, a princess in the Western Regions that I once missed."

Li Qingan briefly said the experience more than two years ago. Finally, he smiled bitterly and said, "I hope to meet her more than once. I have drawn countless beautiful pictures in my heart, but when I saw her again, I realized that she is far away from me and will never return to the past years."

"Brother, it's been too long for you to forget."

Rushi carefully massaged his head and smiled: "Although I haven't seen her before, I feel that her heart is very painful. Maybe she has something to hide. It's not necessarily a marriage. Something must have happened to her, so that she can no longer treat you like before. Brother, you should have a good talk with her."

At this time, footsteps came from outside the door, and a personal soldier reported outside the door: "Empress, the host of Rehai often comes in and asks for a visit outside the door."

"Take him to the small guest room to wait."

Li Qing'an stood up and smiled at Rushi, "I will go to find her if I have time, now I want to meet the guests first."

He quickly walked out of the room, and Chang Jin held a teacup in his heart. Just now, Li Huichun had told him that the court was preparing to recover the broken leaves. Although this was what he longed for, he knew that recovering the broken leaves was not that simple.

"Brother Chang, Master Li is gone, you are here again. Are you doing the wheel tactic?" Li Qingan walked in from outside the door with a smile.

Chang Jin quickly stood up and said, "I'm joking. My coming this time has nothing to do with the young master, just to break the leaves."

"Brother Chang, please sit down and talk."

Li Qing'an asked Chang Jin to sit down and said with a smile: "Brother Chang, please speak freely."

Chang Jin sighed and said, "I'm worried that the envoy will think too simple about seizing the broken leaves."

Li Qing'an said: "How do you say this?"

"Does the envoy think about the weakening of the cavalry. As long as the army presses forward, the cavalry will throw away their armor and flee in a panic, right?"

Li Qingan didn't say anything. He really thought so. The total strength of the two surnames Hei was only 6,000. Moreover, they had a deep hatred and could not fight together. He could defeat him in one fell swoop. He didn't understand any complicated situation. The reason why Gai Jiayun failed to attack Sai Ye was because of insufficient succession and the big cannibals sent troops. Now the big cannibals internal strife, he built five castles north of Sai Ye. What other accidents would happen?"

"The envoy may not know that there are two thousand garrisons in Ashibulai City, west of Suiye."

The sudden news surprised Li Qing'an. He asked anxiously: "Isn't Ashi Bulai City a small city in the northern part of Ningyuan Kingdom? How could there be a large cannibal garrison?"

"Empress, the Lingxi is not the Lingxi of thirty years ago. The Dashi had already conquered the Lingxi countries. The kings of the Sogdians either surrendered to the Dashi or were re-established by the Dashi. Ashibulai City was originally a city of Ningyuan, but in the 25th year of Kaiyuan, it was occupied by the Dashi and transferred to the Shi Kingdom. The Shi Kingdom and Ningyuan were thus intimidated. The Dashi people stationed 2,000 troops in the Ashibulai City and Talas City, and controlled the business corridor west of the Saiye. Moreover, since last year, the Shi Kingdom increased its troops to the Saiye City. The intention was very obvious, which was to use the support of the Dashi people to take Saiye for themselves. Therefore, the commander attacking the Saiye will inevitably invade the interests of the Shi Kingdom. The Shi Kingdom's army is not afraid of, the key is the Dashi Army."

Li Qingan suddenly remembered what Prince Hassan said to Yuanen in the afternoon, "Aren't you going to Saiye? Why are you here in Beiting again?"

Does Yuan Enlai Sai Ye mean that he would not come to the city when he went to Ashi?

Li Qingan pondered for a moment and asked again: "Is the Dashi Army in Ashi not coming to the city dressed in black or white?"

"They were originally Qubodi's men, and now they have surrendered to Abbas. One of my friends saw that they had changed their black flag."

Li Qing'an paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. Two thousand Great Food Army were not a problem, and the Shiguo army was no problem. The key was that the Great Food Army had surrendered to Abbas, but was still stationed in Ashibulai City. This shows that Abbas had a great ambition. Once the Tang army occupied Saiye, it would sooner or later attract the Dashi Army's counterattack. The Battle of Talas in history might have erupted.

In this way, the Shi Kingdom is a very important role. If the Shi Kingdom can turn to the Tang Dynasty, the Dashi will lose the springboard for the eastward advance, and the Sacred Ye can truly become the logistics base for the Tang army to expand westward.

Thinking of this, he asked: "Now there are two princes in Beiting, one is the eldest prince Hassan and the other is the second prince Yuanen. I want to know, who among them is more inclined to the Tang Dynasty?"

Chang Jin sneered and said, "These two princes are similar, they are both fence-bearers. Datang Qiang and they tend to Dazhen, and Dazhen Qiang and they tend to Dazhen. However, Yuanen's master Huo Yanbai stayed in Dazhen in his early years and also served as an official of Dazhen. He would have a great influence on Yuanen. Hassan was also sent to Dazhen for five years. In fact, he really wanted to Dazhen because of their third prince Campo. Unfortunately, he disappeared four years ago. He heard that he had stolen the treasure of Shiguo, and his whereabouts were still unknown."

Speaking of this, Chang Jin sighed again: "General Li, it is not difficult to take down the broken leaves, but it is not easy to protect the broken leaves. I hope General Li can fully understand the situation in the river and make a correct judgment. Don't use the ideas from thirty years ago to decide the west of Lingxi, otherwise the Tang Dynasty will be defeated."

"I see."

Li Qing'an stood up and bowed, "Thank you Brother Chang for your information, it is very important."

Shi Julan lives in the largest Dong'an Inn in Jinman County. After running back from the street, she locked herself in the room. Her heart was filled with pain, and the pain dragged her into the endless abyss.

My thoughts every day, three thousand miles of journey, are to see the last look at the person she once loved deeply. I thought this reunion would be full of passion, leaving her the most beautiful memories, and let her take this memory away, and be engraved in her heart forever.

But no, when they met again, they no longer had the passion of longing for love, but just a plain greeting, just as two people they knew met on the road, and they walked away with each other with a 'Oh!' sound. This plainness deeply hurt her heart.

At this time, one of her maids reported outside the door: "Princess, someone is looking for you outside."

"I see no one."

"I am a Han officer. He said he had saved you at the hands of Duluoxian."

"Ah!" As soon as Ju Lan stood up, she opened the door and rushed out. Outside the door, under the dim light, Li Qingan was wearing a casual clothes and was looking at her with a smile on her face. She slowly stopped and hid an excitement in her heart.

"Why are you here?"

"Come and see you."

He pointed to a small wine shop in the alley across the street and said, "There is a wine shop there, I'll invite you to drink."

Ju Lan followed him into the small tavern. It was a small tavern. There were more than a dozen tables opened by an elderly couple. There were no guests in the tavern yet. It was very quiet. They entered a separate room. Li Qing'an smiled at the old woman who ordered the food and said, "Come on two pots of wine, and you will get a plate of side dishes in your store."

"Please sit down for a while, and come here."

The old woman went out, brought in two pots of wine for a moment, and quietly closed the door and walked away. Li Qing'an poured himself a glass of wine and said with a smile: "It's fine in the afternoon, why did you run away again?"

Ju Lan lowered her head and didn't say anything. Li Qing'an wanted to pour her wine again, but she covered the wine glass with her hands and shook her head and said, "I can't drink."

"Why?"

“My identity is that I can’t drink.”

"What is your identity?" Li Qingan asked strangely: "What is your identity besides Princess Shiguo?"

A trace of sadness flashed in Ju Lan's eyes. After a while, she whispered: "I am now one of the twelve saints under the Sun God. I will not eat meat or drink alcohol for the rest of my life."

Her voice became weaker and weaker, "I can't get married."

Li Qing'an drank the wine in one go, and said heavily: "Is that Ahuramaz?"

Ju Lan was so scared that she waved her hand, "You can't mention his name, this is disrespect to the Lord God."

"I don't believe in it, so what's the respect or disrespect!"

Li Qingan poured himself another glass of wine and drank it dry before he let out a long sigh and said, "When did this happen? I mean you became a saint."

"Last October, the Persian arch-teacher came to Sogdian to select two new saints, and I was selected."

Shi Julan raised her head and slowly took off her veil. Her beautiful face was covered with tears, "General Li, I have made a great vow in front of the Lord God and will serve him for life."

Li Qingan looked at her with tears in her eyes, and couldn't help but feel heartbroken. He grabbed her hand and said, "You must have been forced, right! It was your father who forced you to get married, and you had no choice but to be forced to become a saint. Don't worry, I will definitely free you."

"No! No." Shi Julan broke free from his hand hard, "General Li, it's not what you think. His father never forced me to become a saint. This is the pride of Shi Kingdom and my glory. General Li, no one forced me. This is God's will and my own choice."

"It's your own choice."

A kind of inexplicable loss surged in Li Qing'an's heart. In the process two years ago, the passion was like the fire princess of the Western Regions, like a cloud that was difficult to dissipate, and inadvertently, when he recalled that experience, a sweet memory of the past would pour into his heart.

But when he met again a few years later, when this beautiful girl reappeared in front of him, he suddenly realized that the former Princess Julan had quietly passed away, as if a gust of wind blew away the mist in his heart, and the memory hidden in his heart began to blur, just like he accidentally broke a piece of exquisite porcelain, and when he picked it up again, the beauty had turned into pieces.

He silently took out the flame gem from his arms, put it on the table and pushed it in front of her, "I have always wanted to give this gem to you, thinking of giving you a surprise, but now it has become a thing that returns to the original owner."

After saying that, he stood up and strode away from the room. Princess Julan sat there blankly. Suddenly, she shouted in a low voice, "General Li!"
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