Chapter 31: Promise!

After the dinner, several wives from the Li family left with their children, and Li Yiqi accompanied Liu and Wu to talk for a while, and then returned to his room alone.

Hoarse –

Pushing the door in, Li Yiqi saw the old man in the room who had been waiting for a long time at a glance.

"Shui Bo. ”

Li Yiqi said hello to Shui Bo, and smiled at the pretty figure with a red face beside Shui Bo.

"Young Master. ”

"Young Master. ”

Shui Bo and Qi'er bowed slightly to Li Yiqi.

"Thank you for your hard work. ”

Li Yiqi glanced at the stacks of files on the table in the room, nodded silently, looked at Qi'er, and said softly: "Qi'er, you go and rest first." ”

"Young Master......"

Qi'er's big eyes blinked, and a look of disappointment flashed in the depths of her beautiful eyes, as if she had something to say, but she quickly lowered her head, and the well-behaved Xerox gave a blessing to her, and retreated silently, and closed the door by the way.

After Qi'er left, Li Yiqi walked straight to his seat, picked up the first file on the table, and began to read it carefully.

"Young master, in the ten days since you left, the old slave still followed your orders to continue to collect information in the capital, which was sorted out by the old slave. Shui Bo stepped forward and bowed his head respectfully and said.

"Shui Bo, was the information I asked you to find out about 'that one' last time?" Li Yiqi flipped through the file in his hand and suddenly raised his head and asked.

Hearing this, a hint of discoloration flashed in Shui Bo's eyes, he nodded, stepped forward, took out a separate file from his sleeve, and said respectfully: "Young master, the file of 'that one' you want, the old slave has already sorted it out separately, please take a look." ”

"Good!"

A cold light flashed in Li Yiqi's eyes, and he took the file from Shui Bo's hand and slowly opened it.

"Young Master, you ......"

Shui Bo bowed down and glanced at his young master, only to see that under the light, Li Yiqi looked at the information by himself. Shui Bo wanted to speak and stopped, seeing that Li Yiqi was extremely focused, and after standing in the room for a while, he also quietly retreated.

After Shui Bo left, Li Yiqi was the only one left in the house.

In the quiet room, the candlelight in a few glass lampshades swayed gently, reflecting the white window paper around the wing room red, and a charcoal fire in the stove in the corner was burning quietly, and the temperature in the room was neither high nor low, just suitable for thinking.

Li Yiqi sat in the room, looking at the information in his hand, motionless.

In his mind, the dusty memories of the previous life slowly opened again......

In the previous life, Li Yiqi devoted himself to Confucianism, and he didn't care much about anything else. In fact, except for some major events, he only has a general understanding of other people or things, but one of them is different.

Wang family, Wang Tianyu!

This Qilin son of the Wang family, who is known as the chosen talent, is the grandson of the former Taifu Fengge Pavilion old Wang Xuanhan, the heir of the future Wang family, and the top 20 people in the young generation in the capital!

Six years ago, when Li Yiqi just entered the Tianfu Academy to apprentice and practice Wendao, Wang Tianyu was already famous in the Tianfu Academy, not only smart and intelligent, but also known as unforgettable, almost won the first place in the literary examination of the Academy for several years.

Although Wang Tianyu is low-key, even those older senior brothers of the Academy Palace looked very respectful and restrained when they saw Wang Tianyu.

Among the students of the Academy, many people will privately refer to Wang Tianyu and Chen Wenyuan as the Confucian twin of the next generation of the Great Xia Dynasty.

At that time, Li Yiqi still vaguely remembered that his grandfather had said, "No accident, twenty or thirty years later, Wang Tianyu will have a place in the position of the three princes and nine kings of Great Xia." ”

In any case, the Wang family was originally a family of three princes and nine kings, when the Great Xia was founded, the first generation of Taifu came from the Wang family, and in the Wenchen faction of the imperial court, the Wang family has a lot of influence, even if the three princes and nine ministers of the dynasty, the six ministers and their families and the Wang family are inevitably inextricably linked.

However, the Wang family is also one of the opponents of the Li family in the Great Xia Dynasty!

Since ancient times, Confucianism looked down on soldiers, and soldiers also looked down on Confucianism, which is an eternal truth, no matter how many dynasties it has experienced, it will not change.

Interestingly, the emperors of all dynasties have never severely reprimanded this phenomenon, but have some secret indulgence......

Because, in the eyes of the emperor, the so-called 'general peace' is not another way of saying 'civil and military collusion'.

The two factions of soldiers and Confucianism are opposed, and the superior only needs to grasp the scale from it, and the so-called imperial mind is nothing more than the way of balance.

This has been the case in ancient times, and it is also true of the Great Xia Dynasty today.

Not to mention, 30 years ago, when Li Jiu killed him as the protector of the capital of Annam, the Wang family admonished and blocked him in many ways; later, in order to suppress the barbarian tribes to implement military reform in Annam, Li Jiu killed did not report to the imperial court in time, and was impeached by the Wang family's forces......

The Wang family seized the handle of the Li family and used it as a means of attack in the court, and similarly, although Li Jiu was stationed in Annan, the forces operated by the Li family in the court also took the initiative to wrestle with the Wang family many times.

The court is deceitful and dangerous.

For decades, the Li family and the Wang family have won and lost each other in the game and balance of the court, although it is not the same power, but the relationship is by no means close.

However, the Li family has more generals, and the Wang family is full of ministers, as one of the symbols of the soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty and the Confucian family, although there is friction between the two sides, at least on the surface it is still a group of harmony.

After all, they are all a century-old princely and aristocratic family in Great Xia, and the Li family of the Jiangmen family has no way to protect the Annan Metropolitan Mansion that has been meddling in Li Jiu's painstaking management for 30 years.

The two sides just take what they need in the game of officialdom and balance, and both sides know that it is almost impossible to kill each other with a stick.

Li Yiqi knew these things very clearly in his heart, and he didn't think so.

However, the Li family was caught in the battle for the heir this time, and there was a faint figure of the Wang family behind it, which couldn't help but make him extremely annoyed.

The princely family's participation in the chaotic battle for the heir is equivalent to walking on thin ice, involving a single hair and moving the whole body, and the slightest carelessness is an overturn.

The Wang family is forcing the Li family to a dead end!

Leave no mercy in the slightest!

Since this is the case, then the Li family has to fight back......

"This senior brother, after entering the Hanlin Academy, is really low-key!" Li Yiqi couldn't help frowning slightly.

The information in his hand was all recorded after Wang Tianyu won the top prize in the Great Xia Imperial Examination Hall three years ago.

The intelligence network in the hands of the Li family in Shangjing City is now in the hands of Shui Bo, the great housekeeper of the Li Mansion, and although the ability to collect information is strong, only a small amount of information has been found. In the past, it can only be traced back to Wang Tianyu's activities after winning the championship three years ago, and it is not detailed.

According to the data, after Wang Tianyu entered the Shihanlin Academy, he lived in a simple place, and Wang Tianyu never went to the banquet held between the princes in the capital, and rarely participated in the palace banquet, and there was little contact with the forces in the palace, and there were almost no clues.

"He is worthy of being the first rising star of the Wang family, and he is really clean. Li Yiqi shook his head silently, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.

Although there is no trace in the newspaper that the Wang family is involved in the struggle between the princes, he has already determined that the Wang family, or Wang Tianyu himself, has already secretly participated in the seizure of the heir, and it is likely that he is standing behind the eighth prince with extraordinary Confucian and Taoist attainments!

The Eighth Prince has loved Confucian classics since he was a child, and as the most proficient in Confucian knowledge among many princes, he has always attracted the attention of those Confucian ministers.

The so-called good birds choose trees to perch, although the Wang family of the Three Princes and Nine Qing families also claims to have never participated in the party struggle for succession, but if you really want to choose one of the many princes to support, as the leader of the Wenchen line, the eighth prince is undoubtedly the best candidate.

It's just that for some reason, so far, there has been no news of the royal family's participation in the succession above the court.

Li Yiqi believes that if he hadn't misjudged it, then he could only say that the Wang family was too deep, but there is no impermeable wall in this world, even if it is hidden deeply, how long can such a major event as the heir be hidden......

"Senior brother, senior brother, since you are trapped in the battle for my Li family, then the Wang family should not want to be alone. ”

Li Yiqi's eyes flickered, the corners of his mouth hooked up a cold smile, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Some time ago, he was in the East Palace to deal with the problems around the prince, and he had no time to take care of other things, but now that he has returned to the Li Mansion, he naturally has to find a way to return the knife that Wang Tianyu secretly stabbed the Li family.

......

Time flies quickly, and after entering the early winter, the sky is getting darker and darker, and the carbon fire in the stove in the room is still exuding a trace of temperature, but it is about to burn out.

After Li Yiqi flipped through the file for an hour, the door suddenly 'squeaked' open, followed by a gust of night wind blowing in, and a chill rose in the room.

Li Yiqi, who was flipping through the file, was startled, raised his head suddenly, and saw a familiar figure walking through the door.

"Qi'er, what's wrong?" Li Yiqi glanced at the other party, smiled, and lowered his head again.

"Young master, this is the ginseng soup that Shui Bo asked me to send, it is cold at night, and drinking a bowl of ginseng soup to fall asleep can ward off the cold. Qi'er's voice was very small, soft and glutinous, for fear of disturbing her young master.

"Thanks, put it over there. Li Yiqi replied without raising his head.

After Qi'er put the jade bowl containing the ginseng soup aside, she quietly stayed beside Li Yiqi, lowered her little head, raised her eyes and looked at her young master timidly, her little face was crimson, and she looked like she wanted to talk to Li Yiqi.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Li Yiqi asked with a look of surprise on his face when he noticed Qi'er's strange appearance.

Hearing Li Yiqi's question, a trace of panic flashed in Qi'er's beautiful eyes, and she glanced at Li Yiqi, and finally seemed to have the courage to bite her red lips lightly, and asked softly with a slightly twisted expression: "Young master, will you stay in the house tomorrow, or will you ...... Back to the East Palace?"

"Tomorrow?"

Li Yiqi frowned, put down the file in his hand, looked at Qi'er with fixed eyes, and asked suspiciously, "I won't go back to the East Palace tomorrow, what's wrong?"

"Uh-huh, it's fine. ”

Hearing this, Qi'er shook her head, a strange light flashed in her beautiful eyes, and an innocent and silly smile appeared on her face, and she said in a voice like a mosquito...... Master...... Do you remember, remember...... Tomorrow...... What day is it?"

After speaking, Qi'er lowered her head, her cheeks were even redder, even if she lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, it was difficult to hide her helplessness at this time.

"Tomorrow, what day is tomorrow......" Li Yiqi's eyes were already a little dazed, looking at Qi'er so shy, her fingers constantly circled, and her expression was even more puzzled.

Tomorrow, the third day of November, what day is it?

"Oh-"

Li Yiqi looked at Qi'er suspiciously, and suddenly, his eyelids jumped, and he slapped his forehead with his hand and exclaimed.

The third day of November seems to be the birthday of the little girl!

Li Yiqi quickly came to his senses, with a sudden expression of realization on his face, and said with a wry smile: "I'm sorry, I actually forgot about this." ”

"Qi'er, tomorrow is your birthday, I promised to take you to Jingshan to pray for blessings, right?" Li Yiqi pursed his lips, touched the tip of his nose, showed a hint of apology on his face, and said with a wry smile.

"Young Master, do you really remember!" Hearing this, a glimmer of joy flashed in Qi'er's black eyes, and a trace of excitement and joy was revealed in her tone.

This was the agreement between the two last year, and she kept it in her heart, thinking that her young master might have forgotten it, but now, the small satisfaction in her heart still made her can't help but be happy.

"Naturally......" Li Yiqi nodded with a wry smile.

Worshipping the mountain and praying for blessings is one of the things that most women in the capital do on their fifteenth birthday, that is, in the year before the ceremony.

A woman in Daxia can marry after the sixteenth year of the ceremony, and praying for blessings is also a means of seeking marriage, praying to the heavens that she can find a wishful husband.

For this kind of superstitious thing, Li Yiqi has always held an attitude of neither believing nor rejecting.

At the beginning, somehow the ghost envoy promised Qi'er that he would take her to the mountain to pray for blessings this year.

"Tomorrow......" Li Yiqi's eyes narrowed, his face was a little strange, and he was smiling bitterly in his heart.

He just said it casually, but he didn't expect this little girl to be so attentive...... So much had happened these days that he had forgotten the promise he had made more than a year ago.

If there is really nothing to do tomorrow, it would be okay to accompany Qi'er to Jingshan for a trip, but on the way back to Li's Mansion, he just agreed with Gu Qianyang to meet tomorrow at that 'Zilanxuan'......

Under Qi'er's expectant gaze, Li Yiqi thought for a moment, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, his eyes showed deep apology and a hint of guilt, and said softly: "Qi'er, this time the young master has something to do, so I can't accompany you." ”

“......”

Hearing this, Qi'er's face turned pale, the expectant gaze in her beautiful eyes suddenly dimmed, her eyes turned red, and she nodded silently.

Sure enough, I was too dissatisfied.

"Yes, then...... The slave and maid withdrew. ”

Qi'er's heart was extremely low, but her expression still pretended to be strong and squeezed out a smile, and gave Li Yiqi a deep salute.

There is nothing more than this in life's encounters, joys and sorrows......

Looking at Qi'er's thin back, Li Yiqi frowned slightly, his heart moved, stood up, and said with a wry smile: "Qi'er, wait." ”

Hearing Li Yiqi's voice in her ears, Qi'er turned her head, her delicate little face full of tears.

"Not really......"

Li Yiqi's face was a little embarrassed, looking at Qi'er's delicate and pretty little face that had been with him for six years, his eyes showed a touch of doting, he sighed helplessly, took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Qi'er, and said softly: "Wipe away your tears, tomorrow the young master has something to do, and I will take you to Jingshan after finishing my business." ”