A cold wave hit the brightly lit streets!

Of course, this is not Liu Huan's song, but a fact. A gust of cold wind blew by, causing countless weak people to sneeze. However, this still could not stop their interest. They endured the cold and enjoyed the excitement.

On the street, I watched lanterns, young ladies in white silk coats, juggling and theatrical performances.

The official New Year festival is for visiting relatives and friends, visiting elders, and worshiping ancestors. It is a busy and solemn festival. The Lantern Festival is for fun. On this day, anyone can have fun.

play.

King Wu couldn't help but stay up all night.

This was the prosperity of the Shangyuan Festival during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, but at this moment, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was no less generous. Although Zhu Youxiao's work had not really started yet, his influence was fully demonstrated in the capital.

"A sneeze!"

A thin middle-aged man covered his mouth and nose and sneezed. The man was probably in his fifties. In modern times, he was in his prime, but in the Ming Dynasty, he could already call himself an old man.

"Dad, please be careful. It's cold now and the night is cool. Why don't you go back?" A man in his early twenties supported the old man with a look of concern on his face.

"Yes, Dad, why don't you go back?" Several men and women were shouting behind them. Judging from the vague similarity in their faces, they seemed to be a family, but the strange thing was that these people seemed to be vaguely surrounding the old man who was supporting him.

around men.

"Bastard, do you think you can see this kind of flowery scene if you want?" The old man scolded and continued to walk forward, looking around.

"Dad, my dear, you are much older when you come back this time!" Supporting the old man, the man looked sideways and saw that his father's hair was actually mixed with white. This had never happened before.

"Well, I don't know why. Since I retired from the Ministry of Household Affairs a few months ago, I have been free, but I can't muster any energy." The old man sighed with emotion, and then glared at his youngest son, "Why?

It’s not you, a bastard, who has done so well that I have no shame in staying in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Otherwise, depending on His Majesty’s policies next year, I will have to work as an official and go home.”

"Yes, yes, it's all the child's fault." The man was not angry, but kept nodding. His head was rising and falling, exposed to the bright lanterns, and people finally saw his face clearly. He turned out to be the third officer in the army.

Li Tao of Li Zhi.

"You, my father named you Tao when I was in trouble at the time. Otherwise, I thought of Tao Yuanming. But I didn't expect that you and this name are not compatible at all, and you actually joined the army and became so prominent in the army."

The old man turned his head, his eyes a little moist, obviously remembering the difficulty he felt when Li Tao was left alone.

He raised his hand, trembling slightly, as if he wanted to caress his child's head, but after thinking about it, the child had grown up, and had become General Xiliu, in charge of an army, and his majesty had greatly increased, so he still had to give it to him

Save face in front of the subordinates who followed you.

Therefore, these thoughts were all in the blink of an eye. The old man paused just as he raised his hand to shoulder height, and then put it down again. However, Li Tao was always known for his careful thinking and calmness in the army. He had excellent observation skills, and his father

How could he not notice this little move?

The old father's hand only moved down a little, and he grabbed it, then pulled it up, and finally put it on his head. He remembered that his father liked to touch himself like this when he was a child. He would moan and sigh as he touched him.

The world is getting worse and worse and more difficult.

It was precisely because of this that he remembered Tao Yuanming and named himself Tao.

"Dad, no matter what happens in the future, my child will always be your child." Li Tao lowered his head slightly, allowing his father to stop his hand.

"..." The old father was speechless, but his eyes were moist and his hands moved slowly.

The others looked at this scene of a loving father and a filial son, and did not dare to disturb them. They all held their breath and watched carefully.

"Good boy, good boy!" The old father let go of his hand and patted Li Tao hard on the shoulder. "Come on, let's go see the lanterns. Let's go to the lanterns." As he said this, he grabbed his son's hand and walked forward.

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Seeing the two people leaving, a man who looked very similar to Li Tao couldn't help but wonder, and asked aloud, "Brother, why didn't father mention Sir Hubu Bi's desire to get married?"

Another man who is more mature and steady, and who is about 45% similar to Li Tao, is also very doubtful, "I don't know either, but it seems that my father doesn't plan to tell the third brother anymore, and I'm afraid he wants to reject Mr. Bi."

"Rejecting Mr. Bi, this... this is a second-grade official! He just refused..." The man with the second-rate intention widened his eyes and his face was full of surprise.

"Well, judging from father's attitude, I'm afraid he plans to let the third brother make the decision himself." The eldest brother seemed to be analyzing.

"Make the decision yourself!" The second brother was even more surprised now. In this era where parents' orders and the matchmaker's words are important, making the decision on one's own marriage is just like the legal marriage of men in later generations. It is full of incredible.

The two brothers fell silent and looked at their third brother with great envy, envying each other's free life. Their father had decided on their marriages, and they married a girl whom they neither liked nor disliked, but who was the right match.

On another street in the capital, Li Tu, one of the three heroes in the army, was completely different from the two people in front of him. He was skillfully wielding a deboning knife and chopping meat.

I saw that he was skilled in knife skills. With one stroke, he accurately cut off the part that the customer wanted, and then chopped it into pieces. Next to him, his father grabbed the braised pork with a big hand and put it on the table.

Wrap it in lotus leaf and hand it to the guest.

"Here you go, here is the half kilogram of braised pork you asked for." Li Tu's father's greasy face was full of smiles. The atmosphere of the Lantern Festival actually made the butcher with bloody hands become peaceful.

"Thank you." The man in black uniform who bought Braised Pork looked a little respectful and turned around to leave. However, as he left, he kept looking at Li Tu.

After being so busy, the crowds of people finally subsided, and Li Tu finally had time to talk to his father.

"Dad, why did you think of braised pork instead of killing pigs to sell meat?" Li Tu asked curiously. When he came back today, he found that his stall had changed its style. Instead of selling raw meat,

Braised pork.

"Hey, it's not thanks to His Majesty's great blessing. Now the price of salt is falling every day. It's really the same thing every day. Salt is cheaper, and braised meat is naturally cheaper. This stuff is much easier to sell than raw meat, so dad naturally started this business.

." Father Li replied with a smile and glanced at his son.

"It's you, the majestic General of the Hussars, who actually came to help me, cutting and chopping meat. You really don't care about your status at all." After talking about it, Father Li felt like he hated iron but not steel. He didn't know about the ancestral graves at home.

After a lot of smoke and smoke, he finally got such a big official, but this bastard didn't respect himself at all. He ran back and saw that he was very busy, so he even picked up a knife and helped.

"Dad, what is a general? He is just a major general. He cannot be called a general. At least he has to be a general before he can be called a general. Don't go out and talk nonsense." Li Tu frowned and immediately corrected his father's mistake.

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"Yes, yes, yes, dad knows the importance and won't talk nonsense. Didn't you see that I just dealt with those black men, but they were so stupid." When Dad Li talked about business, he was very excited. He had been killing pigs all his life.

He has been a stall owner all his life, and this small butcher shop is everything in his life.

"Dad, most of the people in your braised pork stall are those from the police station and the city defense army." Thinking of the actions of the man in black uniform when he left just now, Li Tu frowned.

"Huh?" Father Li frowned. After his son reminded him, he recalled carefully and realized something was wrong. Those who often took care of his business were really these two types of people.

"Son, there's nothing wrong with this..." Father Li was a little panicked. He was just a small person in the market, and what he was most afraid of was being targeted by inexplicable people.

"It's okay. After all, you are also the father of a general in the army. How can these people from the public family have any idea of ​​​​you." Li Tu smiled, this is just a small matter, don't worry about it at all. He solemnly reminded it, just to warn his father.

"It's just, Dad, if someone comes to ask for help in the future and what they want to do, you have to clarify it clearly. Don't just agree." Li Tu warned. Although Dad Li was a butcher, he had his own feelings in his heart.

He was reckless and heroic, and acted generously. He often helped orphans and widowed mothers. Because of this kind of temperament, people often came to ask for help. He would not refuse and would always help.

"Hehe." Father Li smiled coquettishly, with a hint of pride in his embarrassment. This was the only thing he could use. It was precisely because of his boldness and willingness to help others that someone told him that a large family was recruiting long-term workers.

He just gritted his teeth and gave away his only seedling, and that was how Li Tu became today.

"Dad, I'm not kidding you." Seeing that his father didn't take it seriously, Li Tu couldn't help but shouted in a deep voice. He had been killing pigs since he was a child, and later he killed people in the army. No matter how powerful the horse was, it was filled with murderous aura when it came to him.

Not daring to make any mistakes, I straightened up my appearance at this time and showed my own dignity.

His father was frightened and couldn't help but listen solemnly.

"Dad, it's okay to ask for help. Just give me some money and be considerate. But don't agree to any of those who come to propose marriage. Just say that you can't make the decision and reject them all."

"You are my son, why can't I make the decision about your marriage?" Hearing this, Mr. Li quickly interrupted loudly and said, "My son, why can't I make the decision?" "If I don't make the decision, who will, don't you?"

Want to make the decision yourself?”

Father Li was a little anxious. He felt that his authority had been violated. Although the person who violated it was his son, he did not intend to give in.

"Dad, where are you thinking?" Li Tu was a little bit dumbfounded by his father's assumptions.

"My marriage is no longer in your hands or mine." Li Tu sighed and looked east, where was the direction of the palace.

"You mean..." Father Li asked in shock. He was not a fool. His son's actions made him vaguely understand something.

"That's right, the marriages of our major generals, who are the first to take the lead, are all in the hands of His Majesty." The faint words came, making Father Li shiver uncontrollably.

He didn't expect that the water inside was so deep. The feeling was just like when he was young and faced the underworld in order to protect this ancestral meat stall.

No one expected that Li Tu, nicknamed Tu by someone in the army, would be the most knowledgeable among the three. He grasped this early on.

With a crash, a gust of cold wind blew open a book and turned to a page. Li Tu lowered his head to look, his expression was shocked, and he murmured to himself, "Cheng Yaojin?!"
Chapter completed!