Li Mu looked for Li Siwen everywhere, but couldn't find him anywhere. Finally, after being reminded by a craftsman, he found Li Siwen on the broken wall of the city wall who was climbing up to look into the distance. Li Mu called out twice but there was no response, so he had to climb up the ladder and saw Li Siwen.
While he was in a daze, he followed Li Siwen's example and squatted in the gap of the wall as a meditator, waiting for him to come back to his senses.
"Li Mu," Li Siwen raised his hand and pointed to the east and said, "Have you seen that road? If you keep walking along this road to the east, you can reach Chang'an." He glanced at Li Mu and asked: "
Do you want to go to Chang'an?"
"I want to!" Li Mu said without hesitation.
"I don't want to!" Li Siwen's tone was even more decisive than Li Mu's. He patted the city wall and said, "Although the city wall of Chang'an City is five times higher than here, I stand here and I don't envy you at all.
Do you know why?"
Li Mu shook his head.
Li Siwen smiled and said: "The reason is very simple. No matter how majestic Chang'an City is, it has nothing to do with me. There are countless famous ministers and good generals there, and His Majesty is wise and powerful. Everything there is beyond my control. And in
Here, look at these people below. They are building the city wall because of my order. I, the county magistrate here, are guarding here to protect the borders of the Tang Dynasty. But in Chang'an City, I am just a dandy. I use everything.
Without me, I can't do anything, even I can't beat others in a fight!"
Li Siwen gritted his teeth and said: "There, my life has no meaning. But here, I do useful things every day. I can feel that someone needs me, and this is the meaning of my life!" His eyes were burning.
Staring at Li Mu, he said: "Brother Xian, can you understand what I mean?"
Li Mu nodded. Seeing how excited Li Siwen was, he was about to say a few words of comfort when Li Siwen suddenly grabbed his shoulders and shouted excitedly: "Do you really understand me?!"
"Ah?" Li Mu was stunned and murmured: "You should...understand!"
"Great!" Li Siwen laughed, patted Li Mu on the shoulder and said, "Since you understand my thoughts, you must be willing to help me?"
"Uh..." Li Mu noticed something was wrong, but he didn't know exactly what was wrong.
"I knew you were my good brother!" Li Siwen hugged Li Mu and said, "Actually, there are two official documents that came today. The first one you saw just now, and the other one that His Majesty listened to Tang Jian
Your Excellency has told you your deeds and summoned you to Chang'an. I had already guessed that you would stay and help me, so I didn't show it to you. I have just written a note for you and sent someone to rush it back to Chang'an eight hundred miles away.
, I beg your Majesty to keep you in Dingxiang, good brother, you won’t blame me!”
"Ah?!" Li Mu banged his head, looked at Li Siwen blankly, and said, "Master Tang Jian returned to court safely?"
"Um!"
"He told His Majesty about my deeds?"
"Um!"
"Your Majesty wants to summon me to Chang'an?"
"Yes!"
"You said no for me?!"
Li Siwen laughed guiltily: "A polite refusal is a polite refusal! Good brother, isn't this what you also want?"
"Who is your good brother! I'll strangle you to death!" The thread of 'reason' in Li Mu's head was suddenly broken! No matter whose son Li Siwen was, he pounced forward and pressed him down.
On the ground, he strangled his neck and refused to let go! Li Siwen struggled hard and shouted: "Good brother, don't be so excited! If you want to go to Chang'an, when I go back to report on my work, I will definitely take you there, okay?!"
"You lied to me again! You are the county magistrate and I am the county magistrate. You go back to report on your duties. I want to take your place. How do I get there?"
"Then you report your work for me! Stop pinching me! I'm going to be out of breath!"
The two struggled for a while, until Li Mu was exhausted and he let go of Li Siwen. Li Siwen immediately hid far away and looked at Li Mu, embarrassed to say anything.
Li Mu glared at Li Siwen and said, "Why on earth are you doing this? I asked myself that I have never harmed you, so how can you harm me?"
Li Siwen grinned, rubbed his hands and said, "I can't help it. What can I do without you? I can't do anything, and I don't know how to do it! If you go to Chang'an, I won't be able to be a county magistrate."
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"You can ask your father to help you find some people. I don't believe that the General's Mansion doesn't even have a counselor who can be the county magistrate!"
"Then we have to rely on dad again! I don't want to rely on my dad! I want to rely on myself!"
"You!" Li Mu wanted to say that if you don't rely on your father, you should rely on me. I'm not your father! But the words came to his lips but he didn't say them out. In any case, Li Siwen had helped him a lot, and he couldn't say such heart-wrenching words.
. After holding it in for a while, Li Mu patted the wall corrugation heavily and sighed.
Li Siwen came over and said: "Brother, don't be angry with me. Otherwise, you can stay and teach me for a while. When I get over it, I will write a letter to my father to let him know."
You go to the General's Mansion and ask for help. If you don't want to join the army, I'll ask my father to help you smoothen your relationship and find a way. If you want to do business in Chang'an, I'll give you all my land and you can sell it.
Now, I can definitely buy a good shop, do you think that’s okay?”
"I say no now, can you ask someone to recover the discount?"
Li Siwen shook his head like a rattle and said: "Then we will definitely not be able to catch up. Eight Hundred Miles has been rushed. We have been walking for a long time. Even if we send another Eight Hundred Miles to rush after us, we will definitely not be able to catch up."
, we don’t have a horse that can travel 1,600 miles.”
"That's nonsense!" Li Mu yelled, which made Li Siwen's ears buzz. Li Mu ignored him and came down from the city wall and moved the ladder away. Li Siwen shouted from above, and Li Mu also
He turned a deaf ear, didn't even ride his horse, and carried the ladder home without looking back.
After returning home, Li Mu lay down on the kang, still angry. It wasn't that he couldn't understand Li Siwen's thoughts. If he was easy to talk to and discuss, Li Mu would not agree. Li Mu was so angry that Li Siwen first beheaded and then played, and then looked at a passerby.
I missed the opportunity to go to Chang'an, and I felt unwilling to do so.
However, he is a person who can accept reality. After calming down, Li Mu found that the loss was not that big. At this time, it was not yet ripe to go to Chang'an. First of all, his skill level was not high enough. Everything he could make now was
It is a primary item. Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. All the exquisite artifacts of this era are gathered there. If he cannot come up with something eye-catching, he will not be able to do business in Chang'an. Even if Li Shimin summons him and reports the news,
I'm afraid it won't reach the level of making a wife a shadow. At most, it can only be rewarded with a small official, so that he can have food and clothing. Li Mu didn't go to Chang'an just to have food and clothing!
"Oh! Sure enough, there is no shortcut! We have to do it step by step!" Li Mu sighed, and suddenly heard someone opening the door. He looked over and found that it was Bai Qiaoqiao. Bai Qiaoqiao came over and said, "Lang Jun, I see
You carried the ladder and walked home without turning back. You were worried that something might happen, so you came back to see what happened."
Li Mu reached out and hugged Bai Qiaoqiao's waist, buried his head in her arms, and sighed: "Your husband, I have received a huge blow. Don't say anything. Hug me quickly. I need comfort."
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Bai Qiaoqiao's face suddenly turned red, she bit her lip and whispered: "In broad daylight..."
"Hug, I want a hug!" There was no one at home, and Li Mu was not worried about being seen, so he used his coquettish technique. Bai Qiaoqiao was most afraid of his disgusting words, so in order to stop him, she quickly held him in her arms.