The Li family is really big. The important thing is that the roads are winding, with twists and turns, and the moon gates are one after another. Li Yi is not very good at recognizing the road. After simply washing his face, he is still led by a little maid.
Lead him and walk through the house.
A big family is a big family. They even have a specific place to eat. It's not like in a small village. Wherever there is a place to squat, there is a dining hall.
As soon as he walked in from the door, a beautiful woman in her early thirties came over, took his hand, and looked him up and down.
"As expected, he is my eldest brother's child. He looks exactly like my eldest brother when he was young."
Women in the Li family have the habit of holding someone's hand whenever they meet. When the mood strikes, they may even rub their face a few times.
Li Yi's face was almost deformed by the beautiful woman, and he forced a smile: "You must be my sister-in-law..., my nephew has met my sister-in-law."
The old lady has three sons and one daughter. Based on the name she just called, Li Yi quickly judged the identity of the beautiful woman in front of him.
The old lady's youngest daughter is also his nominal sister-in-law.
"Good boy, come here and sit down. You must be exhausted from this journey..." The women of the Li family are also very enthusiastic. It has been more than half a year since he came to this world. This is the first time that Li Yi feels like being welcomed by everyone.
, it feels like a wanderer returning home.
Of course, I was touched, and I knew very clearly in my heart that his home was in Qing'an Prefecture, not in Kyoto.
The beautiful woman pulled her to sit next to the old lady. Opposite her was Miss Liu Er who had changed her clothes.
On her wrist was a jade bracelet given to her by the old lady, and the hairpin on her head was replaced by a pair she had never seen before. She just sat there quietly, and the butterfly wings on the hairpin would slowly flutter.
It is worth a lot of money; I don’t know where I put the sword that I almost never leave my body. I haven’t seen her for a while, but she has changed from a peerless heroine to a lady. Needless to say, this must be the credit of the old lady.
The people eating together were from the same lineage as the old lady, who now controls the core of power in the Li family. In addition to the second uncle and the third uncle's family that I had seen in the morning, there was also the little girl next to me who kept asking questions.
The child looked at Li Yi with wide eyes, very curious that this stranger he had never seen before could sit next to the old grandmother.
It is said that when a wealthy family eats, the most basic rule is to eat and sleep without saying anything. Li Yi found that this rule did not apply to the Li family. The beautiful women around him kept asking him questions, and even the old lady occasionally interjected.
Of course, most of the sentences are about his life over the years, and more about the father he has "never met".
Fortunately, the strange dreams he had had in recent days were probably the memories hidden deep in this body, so it was effortless to answer them. He was just telling the facts, but both the old lady and the beautiful woman turned red-eyed.
"Has your father never told you about our Li family?" the old lady asked calmly, rubbing her eyes.
Li Yi shook his head. This was exactly the fact. From childhood to adulthood, no one had said a word to him about the Li family in the capital.
The old lady sighed and said sadly: "Back then, in order to break them up, I almost killed your mother. He still hates us..."
Li Yi didn't know that there was such a thing. No wonder his father was always brooding about his mother's death in his memory. It seemed that he didn't want to mention the Li family, and a large part of it might be because of this incident.
Not wanting the old lady to be too upset, the beautiful woman hurriedly changed the subject and asked: "I heard from Butler Li, is Xiao Yi'er now the captain of a county, or is he personally named by His Majesty?"
Li Yi didn't react to this title for a while. Miss Liu Er, who was opposite, almost spat out a mouthful of soup, patted her chest, and looked at Li Yi with a look full of teasing.
"It's just your Majesty's love." Li Yi could only nod his head and said.
"Since you have received the emperor's favor, you should be more diligent. You have passed the scholar examination at a young age, which shows that you are extremely talented. Why have you not continued to take the imperial examination in the past few years?" The middle-aged man sitting opposite the beautiful woman put down his chopsticks and looked at
Li Yi asked.
Before Li Yi could answer, he spoke again: "Any official of the seventh rank or above in our dynasty will not be accepted unless he is a Jinshi. Although you have received the emperor's favor, you should study hard and strive to obtain the title of Jinshi as soon as possible."
When he spoke, it sounded like he was admonishing.
The emperor's favor is great, and it is often great. Perhaps because a poem or an article catches His Majesty's eyes, he can get an official position. As the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Li Mingze has seen a lot of these things. Every year
There are not even a hundred pieces but also eighty pieces.
Although he was a little curious about what Li Yi had done to receive His Majesty's commendation, he was not too surprised. However, he was considered the most promising among the younger generation of the Li family. Thinking of the situation of the younger generation of the Li family, he looked at
The two people at the bottom of the room said: "Yingjie, Yingcai, you two have to learn from your elder brother. Yingcai must listen to your teacher's teachings and don't just think about playing around all day long. As for Yingjie, in a few months
I want to get married now, so I won’t go to Huajie or Liuxiang in the future.”
Li Mingze has given up hope for his son, and plans to help him find an official position in the future, so that he can spend his life peacefully. Even if the Li family is deposed in a few decades, after so many years of management,
You won't fall into the position of being bullied.
After Li Mingze finished speaking, a young man at the end of the table nodded his head, feeling like an arrow had been shot in his chest.
However, given ten courages, he would not dare to refute his father's words.
As for the young man on the side who was quickly scooping rice into his mouth with a wooden spoon, he just shook his round head. He was most afraid of this second uncle. He would do whatever the second uncle said and finish the meal quickly.
It's time to dig out the bird's nest in that tree.
Fortunately, Li Yi was already immune to such words, and he also wanted to thank Professor Feng. He smiled and said that he would study hard, thinking that there were still seven days until the old lady's birthday, and he would have time to experience the customs and customs of Kyoto, and then he
I packed my luggage and rushed home. I heard that if you take a boat, you can reach Qing'an Prefecture in less than two days by going down the river from the capital...
"The White Emperor bids farewell to the colorful clouds, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are restored in one day..." It should be this kind of scene, right?
The meal was very harmonious. From some fragmentary words, Li Yi also had a deeper understanding of the current Li family.
In the capital, the political center of Jingguo, a viscount is indeed nothing. Just throwing a brick on the street can kill two people. However, those families that were once prominent have some background and are not so easy to decline.
As the second uncle, in addition to having a title, he is also a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and can be regarded as a high official in the court. And at his age, there is a high possibility that he can make further progress in his lifetime. As long as he does not commit any crimes, he can at least protect the Li family.
Decades of peace.
In such a Li family, one person who is more than him is not too much, and one person who is less than him is not too much. It feels uncomfortable to be controlled by others in everything. It is better to go back to the small Qing'an Mansion and live a life with Ruyi guarding the small yard.
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He sent away the maid arranged by the old lady and sat in the yard assigned to him. The moon on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month was quite round, but there were only a few stars.
In the capital, that guy Li Xuan's wedding should have ended, and I don't know if he has gone back. I'm afraid it's impossible for Her Royal Highness to pretend to be a policeman and show off in the city again...
"Xiao Yi'er..."
While Li Yi was thinking about this, a strange voice came from the wall.
