Chapter 291 Welcome Banquet

We rested for another day in Yanling. Early the next morning, General Xuan put all the Kang family members into a prison car and set off back to Beijing.

The people cheered the whole way. Along the way, people kept throwing rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs prepared in advance at the prison car, especially Kang Yueqing, Mrs. Kang and Kang Zixu. They smashed their heads and faces, making them miserable.

Kang Yueqing had a glorious life, but had he ever suffered such humiliation? He only hated Yan Li to his core.

The prison van moves slowly.

Yan Li, Chen Qingfeng, and Qin Shiyuan led 3,000 elite troops to leave early in the morning. The soldiers and horses brought by General Xuan fell behind, escorting the Prime Minister and the Kang family criminals, and rushed slowly towards Shengjing.

At midnight on September 20th, Yan Li and his party arrived in Shengjing, the most prosperous city in the Jin Kingdom.

After Jiang Yi went down to court, he led a group of officials to wait outside the palace gate, nervously and expectantly looking at the group of Qingqi coming from afar.

When he got close, Yan Li turned over and dismounted neatly.

"Li'er." Jiang Yi stepped forward quickly and couldn't wait to hold her in his arms, "You're finally back! I hope you're safe, I hope you're safe."

Yan Li was hugged quietly by her, but she didn't resist. She just looked through Jiang Yi's shoulder and cast her eyes on the crowd of ministers and princes in front of the palace gate. Unsurprisingly, she saw Yan Chen's ugly and almost gloomy face. How can his face still look like the good brother he was when he was in Mu country?

Yan Li patted Jiang Yi's back: "It's okay, don't worry."

Jiang Yi let her go and looked her face up and down: "Have you been bullied in Yanling? Have the Kang family been rude to you?"

"Kang Zixu wanted to be rude to me." Yan Li's voice was neither high nor low, just enough for all the ministers present to hear, "He also sent people to kidnap me in the middle of the night with the intention of doing evil to me -"

"It's a crime worthy of death!" Jiang Yi's face darkened, "The Kang family has been really lawless in Yanling these years. If I don't take care of it, other major families will think that the imperial court is afraid of them!"

"The Queen, please calm down." A civil servant behind him bowed and said, "The princess has been working hard all the way. She was frightened again in Yanling. Let's sit down in the Taiji Hall first and let the princess have a sip of tea and rest."

Other ministers agreed.

Jiang Yi looked up at Ling Ning, who was standing behind Yan Li, "Miss Ling."

"The Queen." Ling Ning came over and bowed to Jiang Yi, "I escort Princess Nanyang back to the Jin Kingdom according to my emperor's decree, and bring my emperor's long-cherished wish of everlasting friendship with the Jin Kingdom."

"The Kingdom of Jin welcomes you." Jiang Yi nodded gently and raised her hand to indicate, "Please follow us into the palace. A grand banquet has been prepared in the palace to welcome Li'er and Miss Ling."

"Thank you, Queen."

Jiang Yi looked at Yan Li: "Let's go to the palace first."

Yan Li hummed.

The group turned around and stepped into the palace gate.

Jiang Yi and Yan Li walked in the front, chatting as they walked. The chamberlains followed with the phoenix chariot, Ling Ning walked beside Yan Li, and the four princes fell behind with different expressions.

After arriving at Tai Chi Hall and sitting down, someone at the table asked, "How is the Kang family doing now?"

Yan Chen tightened his grip on the wine cup.

Yan Li didn't recognize the minister who spoke, so he simply replied: "He is already being escorted back to Beijing."

As soon as these words came out, everyone at the table gasped and subconsciously turned their heads to look at Yan Chen.

Although the Prime Minister and General Xuan had already gone to Yanling according to the Queen's decree, they thought that the two sides had just a little conflict and would end with the Kang family personally coming to Beijing to plead guilty. Unexpectedly, the quarrel would directly lead to being escorted back to Beijing.

"Sister." Yan Chen adjusted his mood and tried his best to smile, "Did the Kang family offend you?"

This question is obviously asked knowingly.

"The Kang family has offended not only me, but also dozens of innocent girls in Yanling, as well as the parents of all the victims." Yan Li's voice was indifferent, with strong disgust in her tone, "I don't want to say more about their crimes. , When the Prime Minister and General Xuan come back, they will clearly state their crimes one by one, and then everyone will understand why the Kang family was convicted. "

An old minister sitting on the left seat said: "Her Royal Highness the Princess has just returned. She probably doesn't know the Kang family's status in Yanling and their contribution."

"I really don't know what their contribution is." Yan Li smiled coldly, "Who made them unlucky? As soon as I arrived at Yanling, I encountered the eldest son of the Kang family occupying another girl? He took over, he took over, Why don't you dare to bear the reputation of being a possessor? You have to go to the scholar's home in person and force the father to admit that he sold his daughter to them. Why, force him to write a deed of prostitution, so that he can do whatever he wants to the girl? , even if the girl was tortured and killed, no one would dare to pursue it, right? "

The old minister was silenced and his face turned slightly red: "Why is the princess so arrogant? The old minister just asked casually——"

"Is this princess arrogant?" Yan Li frowned, "I just truthfully stated the various crimes of the Kang family, how can I be arrogant?"

"I--"

"Also," Yan Li smiled coldly, "I am the princess and you are the subject. It is arrogant for you to talk to me like this. Could it be that this lord looks down on me as a princess and does not want the queen to take me back?"

"Imperial sister!" Yan Zheng said in a deep voice, "This is the Grand Tutor, you must not be rude."

Tutor?

Yan Li looked at the old man in front of her. Because of Taifu Jiang's relationship, her previous image of "the Taifu was highly virtuous and respected" had long been shattered.

Before returning to the Southern Kingdom, she would have reservations about the status of Taifu.

And the Jin Taifu in front of him didn't look much better.

Yan Li picked up the teacup in front of her, and said calmly: "Didn't my eldest brother love me very much before? Why are you so mean to me when you arrive in Jin?"

Yan Zheng choked: "I just told you that you should respect the Grand Tutor based on your brother's status, not to scold you on purpose."

"The Grand Tutor is an elder and should be respected, but there is a saying that 'people must respect themselves before others respect them'." Yan Li raised her eyes, and a mocking arc passed through the corners of her lips, "The Grand Tutor should be respected and impart knowledge and etiquette, and know the hierarchy between the monarch and the ministers."

Yan Zheng obviously guessed what she was going to say next, and couldn't help but speak : "Royal sister——"

"Although I just came back from Mu State, and I don't know the laws and regulations of Jin State perfectly, I also know that the monarch and the ministers are in front, and the teacher and the student are in the back." Yan Li looked at him with a smile, "The Grand Tutor is both a teacher and a minister. Big brother only remembers that he is the Grand Tutor and forgets that he is a minister?"

Yan Zheng's face flushed slightly, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the queen, and then said: "Royal sister, I don't mean that."

Jiang Yi sat on the phoenix chair, holding a mutton-fat jade wine cup in his hand, turning a deaf ear to the dispute in front of him, and his calm face made it impossible to see the emotional fluctuations.

Yan Li asked calmly: "I discussed the Kang family issue with the Grand Tutor. Big brother called me rude right away. Do you want me to shut up?" Tianlai Novel Network

Yan Zheng did not expect her to be so difficult to deal with. He was extremely angry, but he really didn't want to argue with her in front of so many people. Not only did he lose his manners, but he also made the queen unhappy for no reason.

He picked up the wine cup and apologized helplessly: "I was in a hurry just now. I hope that my sister will forgive me. How about I drink three cups as punishment?"