Li Su only felt that his home was becoming more and more mysterious.

Sitting cross-legged on the futon, Li Su held his chin and stared at the only tablet in the ancestral hall, on the high altar, the tablet stood there alone, showing how thin the people of this family were.

The so-called "fasting" is a hunger strike, in which no food can be touched except water for three days.

Li Su's character naturally will not sit still, sitting on the futon and looking around, looking for a place to sneak out, whether it is a door, a window, or even a hole, but unfortunately Li Daozheng is too dead-eyed, and he seals all the doors and windows to death, isn't he worried that the crown ceremony in three days will become his son's funeral?

Li Su searched for a long time but couldn't find a way, so he had to die for a while, looked up at the tablet on the altar, and his thoughts quickly turned to another direction.

He has only been in this era for a year, and he has not heard much talk about the family history of the old Li family in this year, and he can only get a few thin clues by summarizing the scattered gossip in the mouths of the villagers.

First of all, Li Su's father and mother moved to Taiping Village more than ten years ago, and before that, no one in the village knew where the Li family came from.

Secondly, Li Su's mother-in-law has a very gentle temper, and after moving here, she seems to have little contact with the villagers, almost staying at home, and the villagers are very unfamiliar with her.

There is also the lonely tomb in the west of the village, quietly piled up in a bleak wasteland, as if looking at the direction of the ancient capital Chang'an, and the pair of stone horses in front of the tomb......

There are too many suspicions, but the clues are too chaotic, Li Su tried to summarize them, but found that he couldn't piece together a complete main line.

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Locked in the ancestral hall for half a day, it was already night. Outside the ancestral hall, only the wind could be heard, and the dead branches of the old trees swayed in the cold wind, reflecting strange shadows.

The ancestral hall was very quiet, and Li Su was so hungry that he had to get up and walk around the room, looking for a gap to slip out.

Hesitating to make a stupid way to dig a hole in the wall and slip out. There was a sound of soft footsteps outside the house, and Li Su hurriedly returned to the futon and pretended to sit down.

The Ruyi copper lock outside the door was opened, and Li Daozheng walked in with a white lantern, carrying a wooden food box in the other hand.

Seeing Li Su obediently sitting on the futon, Li Daozheng's eyes showed a look of relief, turned around and carefully closed the door, and then opened the food box, and a refreshing fragrance quickly spread in the ancestral hall.

"Baby, eat. Be quiet, don't let the rest of the family hear ......"

Li Su's eyes glowed green, and he grabbed a roasted wild boar in the food box and gnawed it vigorously, and ate it in three or two bites.

"Daddy, didn't you say fasting? Why do you still give food to your children? Li Su held the wild boar leg and ate it with great joy.

Li Daozheng snorted and said: "If you don't eat for three days, you won't starve to death, and there are many strange names that scholars pay attention to, and if you are crowned, you will be crowned." I have to fast, and I don't know who has set the rules. His Majesty the Emperor has never been so unreasonable, has he? You don't care, baby, don't worry about eating boldly, don't dare to teach others to see. ”

Li Su squinted and smiled: "Dad, you have broken the rules......

Li Daozheng glared: "I'm not a scholar, what are you afraid of bad rules?" What should I do if I don't eat and starve my baby? It's not that I'm bad at the rules, it's that the rules are bad in the first place. ”

Li Su smiled: "Dad." You know it better than you read it. ”

Seeing Li Su burying his head in gnawing on the pig's leg, Li Daozheng's eyes showed a doting look and sighed: "My baby has grown up, it has really grown up......"

Li Su chewed quickly in his mouth, not forgetting to grin at his father.

Li Daozheng seems to have a lot of emotion tonight. There is a sentimental heart of literary and artistic old and young people.

"You were born seventeen years ago, and you were ...... It's only a little bigger than a palm, like a little pink mouse cub......" Li Daozheng said and gestured with a rough and wide palm, and said with a smile: "I was born too small, smaller than other babies, I was really afraid that I couldn't support you at that time, your mother had a difficult birth, and I gave birth to you and left, you have no milk to drink, I hold you everywhere in the village, the east aunt begged for two mouthfuls of milk, the west aunt begged for two mouthfuls, and the ewes of the Hu landlord's family in the village did not let go, holding a handful of grain and exchanging goat milk with the Hu family every day...... Baby, you grew up drinking Baijia milk. ”

Li Su's chewing frequency gradually slowed down, he hung his head and didn't say a word, but his eyes were unconsciously red.

Although he was not the current him, the kindness of his parents is always the same heavy and thick.

Li Daozheng then sighed: "Why did the days pass so quickly? It seems that I just took a nap, more than ten years have passed, my baby is also an adult, the child who was held in my arms and cried in the wind grew up, and now he has become a reader, and he has been crowned in a dignified manner, the age is too fast, in a trance, and most of my life ......has passed."

Li Su blushed his eyes and said with a forced smile: "Dad, you are still young, the child is still planning to renew a string for you, find a yellow flower girl to be your mother-in-law, and have a woman by your side who knows cold and hot, so that you can enjoy the rest of your life." ”

Li Daozheng scolded with a smile: "You are not benevolent for being rich, my father married a yellow flower girl at this age, you are shameless, I still want to be faced." ”

"My Li Su's father is more than enough for any woman in the world."

Li Daozheng glanced at him sideways and snorted: "You don't have to worry about my business, but it's your own business, what are you going to do?" ”

Li Su instantly regained his hunger and gagged his mouth with oily pork leg meat.

Li Daozheng sighed and said: "The matter between you and Her Royal Highness the princess is full of turmoil in the city, and the whole Chang'an City knows about it, you are good, you don't mention half a word at home, I am not deaf or blind, I really don't know anything?" Baby, you grow up, make your own decisions about everything, dad is inconvenient to talk more, you like the princess, dad has nothing to say, but now that the princess is out of the house, you and her no longer have a husband and wife fate, baby, the Li family is the only one seedling you have, the next generation of incense depends on you, like it or not, you have to marry an aunt and have a baby, right? When you live half a lifetime, you will know that in life, you can't live just for love and love, many things are more important than it. ”

Li Su sighed and nodded: "Dad, the child understands." ”

"I understand, but I still don't want to do it, I don't want to lose the oath you once made with Her Royal Highness the Princess. I'd rather carry the reputation of unfilial piety than be scolded as Bo Xinglang, baby, in addition to the princess in your heart, how much would you like to think about your father? Decades of life have passed, and countless things have been experienced. These things are destined to be given and gained, those who are unwilling to give up, and those who do not want to want will eventually be forced to give up and have to ask for them by the world's conditions and human feelings. ”

Pointing to the lonely tablet on the altar, Li Daozheng sighed: "Your father and I were also young and did many wrong things, and in retrospect, some of them regretted it. Some...... I still don't regret it, you are dead eyes like your mother, she was as stupid as you back then, what she wanted, what she gave up, she always couldn't figure it out, and she couldn't pull back the nine cows that she had identified, and she said she didn't regret it when she died......"

Li Daozheng didn't know what sad things he recalled. His eyes turned red, and he suddenly stopped talking. Got up and walked out.

In the cold wind of the call outside the house, I faintly heard a trembling sigh, drifting farther and farther away like half a lifetime.

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Li Su has no regrets.

If you can really figure out what to give up, what to want, and live a well-calculated life so soberly, is it really interesting to live? Such a person is not a tyrant who has achieved hegemony in the end. It is a monk who has realized the hidden empty door.

Li Su is a mortal, eating, drinking, lazing, leisurely and lazy, a little righteous, a little greedy. There are times when you are cowardly, there are times when you are fearless, and occasionally, you may do something lacking in virtue.

This is a human being, a living person, no different from ordinary people in the world, not noble, not too humble.

It's good to live like this, Li Su has no regrets.

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New Year's Day, the beginning of the year.

In ancient times, there was no "Spring Festival" saying, the so-called "Spring Festival", which was first proposed by the Republic of China more than a thousand years later, in today's era, New Year's Day is the Spring Festival, even if it is the New Year.

The saying of New Year's Day can be traced back to 3,000 years, and it was first seen in the Book of Jin, which said: "Emperor Zhen took the first month of Mengxia as the yuan, but in fact, it was the spring of New Year's Day."

Early in the morning, the horses' hooves rumbled at the entrance of Taiping Village, and a black crowd of people was seen from afar, galloping towards the village on horseback, with snowflakes rising behind them, and bursts of heroic laughter could be heard from time to time.

The crowd approached, the villagers felt a fierce aura of gold and iron, more than 100 horsemen in front of the crowd were dressed up, everyone had a stiff face like iron and stone, and their eyes swept over, revealing a chilling murderous aura, some of the villagers were also Zhuang households who had been government soldiers, and at a glance they knew that these tribes on horses had obviously been on the battlefield, and they had killed people with many lives in their hands.

The part is in front of the road, riding a horse galloping through, behind is a few veterans who talk and laugh, the first one wears a brocade robe, wears a beam crown, dressed very formally, and the other few are also very dressed, all wearing gorgeous clothes and red crowns, everyone is riding on horses, looking forward to the tiger and tiger, as if a group of tigers are going down the mountain to forage for food, there is a momentum of looking down on the world, the villagers are silent when they see it, and they dare not face it squarely.

The group rode to the door of Li's house, and dismounted one after another from dozens of zhang, and the tribes lined up in the shape of a goose in front of Li's house, and saluted the veterans with swords.

Li Daozheng was also wearing a dark brocade robe today, standing respectfully outside the door, seeing a group of veterans approaching, Li Daozheng hurriedly took a few steps forward and saluted everyone: "Li Daozheng, a rural villager, meet all the nobles." ”

Before the generals could respond, Cheng Yanjin took a step forward, put one hand on Li Daozheng's shoulder very unelegantly, and laughed: "Haha, Brother Li, I am an old acquaintance with you, why be so polite." ”

Li Daozheng was slapped by Cheng Yanjin and grinned, and nodded with a forced smile.

Niu Jinda, who was dressed most formally, glanced at Cheng Jin, and scolded with a smile: "Cheng Lao Pifu Hugh has to say in vain, today is the day when the Li family's baby is crowned, it is extraordinary, the old goods must be solemn, don't break the etiquette, and be ridiculed by those civil officials." ”

After speaking, Niu Jinda took two steps forward and held Li Daozheng's arm, not letting him give him a gift, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Old man Niu Jinda, today I am ordered to be crowned for your child, fortunately, since you have been crowned for your son, you and I are also our own family, the old brother of the Li family is polite to the old man." ”

Li Daozheng's expression was a little cramped, and he hurriedly said: "My family's cowardice can win the crown of the county prince, it is the luck of my Li family for a hundred years, high climbing, high climbing, ......"

Niu Jinda waved his hand again and again: "Don't say anything about this life, brother, you gave birth to a good baby, the battle of Songzhou at the beginning." How many lives of the children of Guanzhong have been saved by your baby's idea, and I have become famous in the Tang Dynasty, the baby is only seventeen years old, and the future is limitless, and the old man is really honored to be crowned for this son......"

The two were polite for a while. Then Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and others stepped forward to greet Li Daozheng.

Li Daozheng listened to the thunderous names one by one, and his expression became more and more panicked when he saw the ceremony, but his brain buzzed like being hit by a bronze bell.

He didn't expect that his son would quietly become friends with so many founding veterans, all of whom were powerful figures in the court, and today they were dressed in a dignified manner to participate in his son's crowning ceremony, such an honor. How many people in the world can get it?

The strange thing is that Li Daozheng's expression was not only frightened, but also a little uneasy, and after saluting the generals one by one, he kept looking behind them, and found that the famous founding veteran stepped forward to get acquainted with him, and Li Daozheng's expression calmed down a little.

All the generals are exquisite characters, and Li Daozheng seems to be looking for something in the crowd. Everyone was strange, but they didn't say anything. After casually greeting at the door, Li Daozheng led everyone into the door.

In order to rebuild the feng shui of the Li family, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry had already demolished the yard in pieces, but for Li Su's crowning ceremony, the craftsmen rushed to work overnight and temporarily opened up a vacant land in the middle of the courtyard. Before dawn, Steward Xue led the servants to clean up, and the altar of the Shentai was placed on the north side of the courtyard, and the bright red carpet was laid under the altar, and the low table was placed, and the three livestock and six animals were neatly placed on the altar. The courtyard was surrounded by black flags, which fluttered in the cold wind.

In the middle of the courtyard, Li Su, who was dressed in a brand-new dress, looked at the generals with a smile.

"Su to meet your uncles, the boy's crown ceremony can be taken by the uncles to watch the ceremony, and it is a blessing for three lives."

Cheng Biting Jin laughed, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and smiled affectionately: "The baby is older, I received the crown today, and I will treat you as an adult in the future. ”

Niu Jinda stepped forward and kicked Cheng Jin's buttocks, and scolded with a smile: "Today's big day when the baby is crowned, you old man still came to scare him, and after today, he will be an adult, how can you say smoking?" ”

Cheng Yanjin grinned and didn't care.

Niu Jinda stared at Li Su and sighed: "You have indeed grown up, you are young and old, I didn't treat you as a child before, and I won't in the future, you have to fast three days before receiving the crown, these three days are hard, right?" ”

Li Su said respectfully: "It's okay, I can't eat, although I am hungry, but the kid will become an adult after thinking of the crown ceremony, and he will have to carry a heavier burden on his shoulders in the future, and he will do more things that are beneficial to the society and the country......

Niu Jinda and the generals behind him glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "Mission? Tell me, what is your mission? ”

At the time of such righteousness and solemnity, it was the time to show his face and grow majestic, where would Li Su be polite, so he proudly straightened his chest and said loudly: "The mission is also a grand ambition, in a word, to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to continue to learn for the saints, and to open peace for all generations!" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence all around.

After everyone carefully tasted Li Su's last four sentences, their eyes became brighter and brighter, and their eyes looking at Li Su were full of surprise and ...... Admire?

Niu Jinda also muttered these four sentences and praised: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations, good!" Ambitious, worthy of the praise of His Majesty Xià young talent, the old man viewed it, these four sentences should be engraved at the door of the Guozijian, so that those sour scholars can take a good look, what is the ambition of a scholar! Good, good! ”

Even said a few good words, which shows how much Niu Jinda appreciates it, Li Su also feels very face-saving, and a reserved smile appears on his face.

Niu Jinda was stunned, but the next sentence changed his style.

"Whether it's a peerless school, or a peaceful future, it's just ...... When you say this impassioned word next time, remember to wipe the oil off the corner of your mouth first, the old man smelled it just now, it seems to be the smell of roast wild boar, it seems to be ...... And sprinkled cumin? Well, fasting for three days, fasting with a mouth full of oil is barely a skill. ”

Li Sumian wiped his mouth with the sleeve of his dress without changing his color, but his chest was higher, and he said stiffly: "The kid's skin is oily, very oily, and ......he is oily in winter."

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PS: Big Chapter, Big Chapter...... Well, it's too lazy to score chapters again......

Ask for a commuter pass...... (To be continued......)