After listening to Li Qinzai's advice, Xue Ne stopped boasting about his achievements and learned to keep a low profile.
But, being low-key can’t be so low as to be in the dust, right?
When he was on the ship, Xue Ne was complacent, thinking that he would be greeted by loud gongs and drums, and firecrackers blasting. He hung a big red flower on his chest and walked off the ship to the cheers of thousands of people.
As a result, no one cared about him at all. All the people who came to greet him were Li Qinzai's family disciples. He was regarded as a little transparent, drifting with the crowd, and was finally lost in the crowd.
How could Mr. Xue endure such anger?
He is here as a hero, and his deeds have spread throughout the army, and everyone knows it. This time he returned to Chang'an, and he was waiting for the emperor to reward him, but you treat me like nothing?
"Give me an explanation, or I'll roll around on the floor to see if you are embarrassed!" Xue Ne said angrily, grabbing Li Sujie's arm.
Li Sujie hurriedly said: "Xue... well, we have heard of your achievements. We have been looking for you just now. I want you to tell us how you conquered a city by one person. This matter has already been reported to the emperor."
Before this, my father had praised you more than once in front of all the ministers."
When Xue Ne heard this, he immediately beamed: "The emperor also knows my merits? Did he really praise me?"
Li Sujie looked serious: "Of course, when my father convened a family banquet for the princes and princesses in the palace, he often said that as a human being, you should follow Jing Chu's words carefully and serve your family and country with complete loyalty..."
Xue Ne felt a buzz in his head, and his soul was sublimated.
"The emperor is so flattering, so flattering! Haha, haha, hahahaha!" Xue Ne looked up to the sky and laughed.
Li Qinzai's words to persuade him to keep a low profile were certainly remembered at this moment. Didn't he humbly say "ridiculous praise"?
I really want to laugh, but I can't suppress my instinct.
Li Sujie looked at him speechlessly.
Although he is a little disrespectful to his elders, but...this fool doesn't look like someone who has made great achievements.
"If there is nothing else to do tonight, I will invite all the princes and princesses to a banquet, and by the way, I will tell you about the magnificent Goguryeo battlefield." Xue Ne still looked up to the sky and laughed.
Li Sujie blinked: "I have to wait for you tonight, how about... I won't bother you until I get back to Chang'an?"
"It doesn't matter, we'll talk about it when we get back to Chang'an. Haha, I have wine and stories. You are in luck."
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Li Qinzai was half-lying in the side room. The weather was a bit cold. He was covered with a thick silk quilt. There was a charcoal fire beside him, and the room was steaming.
There was a small clay pot on the charcoal fire, with decoction boiled in it. Cui Jie sat beside the charcoal fire, staring at the timer on the incense burner without blinking, silently calculating the duration of the decoction.
After the soup boiled, Cui Jie poured the soup from the clay pot into a bowl and set it aside to wait for it to cool down.
He put two more sweet potatoes on the charcoal fire and roasted them. He turned to smile at him and said, "Husband, sweet potatoes have been planted all over Guanzhong and Jiangnan. The yield is not small. People all over the world appreciate your kindness."
"A lot of rice seeds have been left by the people. We can eat them. I will bake two for you to try."
Li Qinzai shook his head: "Eat this freshly. It is used to save people's lives in times of famine. It can be mixed with rice and eaten on weekdays. It can be used as a coarse grain to nourish the stomach."
"I want to eat meat. The injured person just wants to eat a big oily elbow."
Cui Jie hesitated for a moment and said: "Can you, husband, eat meat... I will ask a doctor in the city to ask, but I don't dare to be careless. I finally came back from the battlefield with my life. If I eat a few mouthfuls,
The injury was aggravated by eating, so it’s not unfair.”
Just as he was about to go out, there was a message from outside the door.
Qi Zheng, the governor of Dengzhou, asked to see him outside his door and asked for instructions on something.
Cui Jie looked at Li Qinzai, who raised his chin and signaled for Qi Zheng to come in.
After entering the house, Qi Zheng was very respectful, not only because of Li Qinzai's identity and title, but also because of his deeds on the Goguryeo battlefield.
"What's the matter with Governor Qi?" Li Qinzai asked with a smile.
Qi Zheng said respectfully: "Yesterday, before Duke Li's ship arrived in Dengzhou, a fight broke out outside the city. This matter is related to Duke Li, and I dare not hide it."
Then Qi Zheng told the story of a fight that happened outside Dengzhou City yesterday.
When he heard that several fishermen in Dengzhou risked their lives to fight against Goguryeo assassins for the sake of him whom they had never met, and even several fishermen died heroically in the battle, Li Qinzai looked at Cui Jie in shock.
"The last young man calls himself a knight-errant?" Li Qinzai asked, "Did you leave a name?"
Qi Zheng shook his head: "After this man killed all the assassins, he left quietly. According to the fishermen, he also did it for the sake of Duke Li County."
"This official neglected his duty. I didn't expect that there were Goguryeo assassins on the ground in Dengzhou, and they almost killed Mr. Li. Please punish Mr. Li." Qi Zheng lowered his head and apologized.
Li Qinzai shook his head, Qi Zheng could not be blamed for such a thing.
"Where are those fishermen alive?" Li Qinzai asked.
Qi Zheng said: "They were all arranged by the lower officials to stay in an inn in Dengzhou City."
Cui Jie said solemnly from the side: "I cannot thank you for saving my life. Please ask Governor Qi to invite these fishermen, as well as the family records of the fishermen who died in the battle. My husband and I would like to express our gratitude in person."
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Qi Zheng left in response.
Not long after, several fishermen and a group of men and women dressed in white mourning clothes came to the door of the hotel, looking embarrassed and nervous.
Li Qinzai was supported by Cui Jie and stood outside the hotel to greet them personally.
Behind the couple are Li Sujie and other disciples and tribesmen.
Seeing the fishermen arriving, Li Qinzai took two hard steps forward, and the couple slowly bowed to the fishermen.
"My dear Li Qinzai, thank you all for your generous help."
The fishermen's eyes widened in surprise. When they heard that the man in front of them was Li Shuai, whom they were desperately protecting, everyone suddenly became excited.
"Li Shuai, it's really Li Shuai!" the fishermen cried out without emotion.
But the middle-aged fisherman knelt on his knees and said in fear: "How dare you, humble people, do something so trivial that they can be treated as commander-in-chief and harm the common people?"
The rest of the people also came to their senses and hurriedly imitated him and knelt down together.
Li Qinzai stepped forward to help the middle-aged fisherman up, and said with a wry smile: "You saved my life, and you still kneeled down to me. Thank you for panicking, you are the one who broke me. Please stand up."
Li Sujie and other disciples stepped forward one after another and helped the fishermen and the deceased's family members up.
Qi Zheng stood with a smile on his face, and he didn't know if it was because of Li Qinzai's strength, so he told the fishermen that the people who helped them up were Li Shuai's disciples and the current prince and princess. When the fishermen were shocked, they knelt down again with a plop.
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Li Qinzai glanced at Qi Zheng: "If you talk so secretly, how about you change your career to become an official media?"
Qi Zheng shuddered, his face turned pale and he hurriedly confessed.
Li Qinzai helped a group of fishermen and their family members up, and personally invited them all to sit high in the post.
One arm was supported by Cui Jie, while Li Qinzai's other arm was supporting the middle-aged fisherman's elbow, and the three of them walked in side by side.
As for the fishermen's shabby and worn-out clothes and the unmistakable smell of fish on their bodies, Li Qinzai seemed not to notice them at all and walked very close to them without any disdain.
The fishermen were more and more moved. Looking at his words and actions, they found that this Li Shuai did not have the aloof and arrogant temperament of a powerful man at all. Instead, he was particularly friendly and friendly. In him, class barriers seemed to be completely non-existent.
It was worth it to risk your life for such a person in this life!