The Tang Dynasty established the country with filial piety, and the "serving the elderly" system stipulated that the elderly over the age of 60 were exempted from servitude; Those over 80 years old are given a "waiter" to take care of them and exempt them from servitude, and everyone in the world has the obligation to support the elderly over 80 years old. Moreover, after the age of 80, unless it is a major crime such as rebellion, the old man will generally not be sentenced.

It can be said that as long as you lived to be over eighty years old in the Tang Dynasty, you could do whatever you wanted in terms of law.

Li Gang happened to be 80 years old this year, and before the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Yuan personally sent someone to send a large amount of congratulatory gifts to Li Gang when he was 80 years old.

is not an age, even the qualifications of this one, and it is not something that Li Chengqian can treat casually. The old guy had already mixed into the officialdom when he was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and when Emperor Wen of Sui was Emperor, he also became Yang Yong's teacher, and during the Wude period, he also served as Li Jiancheng's teacher. If it weren't for Li Jiancheng's wanton behavior, the old guy would not have resigned and gone into hiding.

But he is such a respected Confucian, but Li Chengqian has no good impression of him. Without him, Li Gang's luck was really not much, he taught Yang Yong, and Yang Yong was killed by his younger brother; taught Li Jiancheng, and Li Jiancheng was killed by his younger brother.

Now he has come to evil himself again.

If the trajectory of history's progress is normal, Li Chengqian will be another one who has played himself to death.

Of course, this is all a joke in probability. When the ox cart stopped at the gate of the East Palace, Li Chengqian still dragged his eldest grandson Baoqing to the ox cart and waited.

The ox cart is the kind of bare-plate ox cart, and the driver is a servant. And Li Gang, who had just been promoted to the crown prince and prince, was lying on the ox cart at this time, covering his head with only a straw hat. Under the straw hat, the snoring of the old man can still be faintly heard.

Is this falling asleep? Li Chengqian couldn't laugh or cry.

Looking at the sun that was still hot after going down, Li Chengqian said to the coachman: "Catch the ox cart again, and go to the shade of the East Palace, the old man is not good for his health to be exposed to the sun." ”

The servant arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, this old cow ate a bad stomach yesterday, I'm afraid it will defile the East Palace." ”

"It's okay, this king will ask someone to clean it up."

At Li Chengqian's insistence, the servants drove the ox cart into the East Palace. No one saw it, under the straw hat, Li Gang's mouth turned up slightly.

The ox cart was driven to a shady place, while Li Chengqian waited with his eldest grandson Baoqing to the side.

There's no way, the old man hasn't spoken yet, and he can't leave the old man to do his own thing. Most of the allusions to Chengmen Lixue are also because of this reason. Respect for the elderly and respect for teachers is directly related to a person's character.

About four or five minutes later, Li Gang, who was on the flatbed, took off his straw hat and got up and stretched out.

"Oops."

Maybe the posture of stretching his waist was not quite right, Li Gang pouted and gasped.

"Master Li, are you okay?"

Hearing Li Gang's oops, the eldest grandson Baoqing and Li Chengqian became nervous.

If this one had an accident in the East Palace, the two of them couldn't afford it, even if Li Chengqian was about to become the crown prince.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm getting older, my body and bones are so weak, and when I get up a little harder, I feel sore."

said so, but Li Gang naturally handed over his hand to the eldest grandson Baoqing and Li Chengqian.

The eldest grandson Baoqing is supporting, and as for Li Chengqian's, it is actually a formality.

After getting off the ox cart, Li Gang smiled slightly, and said to Li Chengqian: "I have long heard that the prince is precocious, and when I saw it today, it was the respectful heart of waiting for the old man to wake up, which is not what ordinary children understand, haha." ”

Li Chengqian floated the old gentleman and said modestly: "You are a respected scholar, how dare the kid be disrespectful to you?" Liu Si, you go and brew the tea first, and let Master Li go to the heat. ”

Liu Si is the chief eunuch of the East Palace, and few of them, the miserable people who have entered the palace, have a serious name.

Liu Si agreed, and ran to the study to prepare tea, while Li Chengqian helped Li Gang to walk slowly step by step.

Li Gang has a leg disease, one leg is obviously stiff, even if the force is short. Seeing that the old man was walking so hard, Li Chengqian made up his mind to get the old man a wheelchair-like thing, at the age of eighty, it is extremely bad for his health to keep walking with his legs like this.

It was not a long or short stretch of road, and it took two pillars of incense to stop and go, and when the old gentleman sat on the brocade mat, the sun was already faintly setting.

Pouring a cup of tea for the old gentleman, Li Chengqian obediently sat opposite the old gentleman.

After drinking a cup of warm tea, Li Gang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Li Chengqian's full tea bowl, and asked, "Why doesn't His Royal Highness the Prince drink it?" But in front of the old man, he was restrained? ”

Li Chengqian shook his head with a smile: "It's not that the kid is restrained, it's just that the kid really can't stand the taste of this tea soup." ”

Tea in the Tang Dynasty was almost not processed. And drinking tea is not about making tea leaves, but about boiling tea. To make it simple, crush the tea leaves and throw them directly into boiling water to boil. It's more complicated, and you actually have to add green onions, ginger and garlic to it.

He had drunk it once before, and he spit out the tea as soon as it entered his mouth. It's so hard to drink!

Seeing that Li Chengqian had no follow-up, Li Gang stopped asking, but picked up the "Explaining Words and Words" on the table, and after looking at it twice, he picked up the paper on which Li Chengqian practiced calligraphy.

After a few glances at the words on it, Li Gang smiled slightly: "The prince is recognizing rare words?" So, the ordinary words, the son of the world has grasped it? ”

Li Chengqian nodded: "Yes." In addition, Master Li, you can just call the kid Chengqian, don't be commensurate with the son, if you let your father know, you will definitely not be able to spare me. ”

Li Gang laughed, and then followed the kindness: "Okay, Cheng Qian, since you have mastered ordinary characters and have read "Getaway", can you tell the old man what you have gained?" ”

Harvest?

Li Chengqian lowered his head and thought about it, facing Li Gang, it was obvious that the statement during the day was inappropriate. Du Zhenglun and Yu Zhining are only middle-aged, and they are not angry. But if the old man is angry, he won't be able to eat and walk around!

Fortunately, the language discipline of later generations provided Li Chengqian with rich experience.

After thinking for a while, Li Chengqian replied directly: "The article of the sages of Zhuangzi is naturally Yawen. Zhuangzi first expounded the difference between small and large through the comparison of Dapeng and small animals such as the dragon and the dove; On this basis, it is pointed out that whether it is the Shu and the dove who are not good at flying, or the Dapeng who can fly to an altitude of 90,000 miles with the help of the wind, or even the columns that can fly against the wind, they are all waiting for something but not free. Then, he introduced and expounded the truth that there is no self in man, no merit in God and man, and no name in saints. Finally, through the useful" argument between Huizi and Zhuangzi, it is explained that only by being used by the world can we be free. It can be said that the whole article is full of a romantic style. ”、

"Romanticism?"

Seeing the old gentleman's stunned appearance, Li Chengqian secretly twisted his thigh. Die young, make up words again! Obviously, the word romance does not appear in the thesaurus of the land of China now.

After thinking about it for a while, he didn't understand the meaning of "romanticism", Li Gang could only say: "Although I don't know what romanticism you are talking about, the old man probably understands the meaning." But, Cheng Qian, do you really think so? ”