Late at night.

In the courtyard, Li Kong locked himself in his room, writing hard through the flickering lights.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and then Laifu's voice came in: "Young master, there is a guest at home." ”

Li Kong's hand paused, looked up at the moonlight outside, and chuckled: "It's quite fast." ”

As he spoke, he threw the wolf directly on the shelf next to him, got up and walked outside.

Now there are only three people left in the courtyard, Li Kong and Cuizhu Laifu, and the rest of the people have moved to live in the main house at the back.

One is that he is used to living here, and the other is that he will soon move out of this house to form a new family outside, so it doesn't matter if he moves or not.

"Do you know who is coming?" opened the door, took the cotton hat handed by Fu, and buckled it on his head, which warmed his head a little.

Laifu rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "It's Wang Gui, the patriarch of the Wang family, who is here in person!" ”

"Huh?" Li Kong glanced at Laifu with some surprise, he thought that the Wang family would send anyone over, but he definitely never thought that Wang Gui would come in person, after all, in this era when the scholar clan was in power, the family didn't even care about the emperor, let alone just a little Li Kong?

"It's true that Wang Gui is here in person, and the lord is receiving him in the main hall, should we go over now?"

"Let's go, go see the patriarch of the Wang family!" Li Kong chuckled.

At the same time, in the main hall.

Li Tao sat on the upper chair, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and his eyes were pouting at Wang Gui, who was sitting there motionless, once upon a time, he had to perform a junior salute when he saw this person, and even sometimes he didn't even have the qualifications to talk to this person, but now looking at Wang Gui with a gloomy face but had to bow his head, Li Tao felt a sense of pleasure in his heart.

After the time of tea, Wang Gui, who still couldn't see Li Kong, was angry, slammed the teacup on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Then why hasn't Li Kong arrived yet?" ”

Li Tao sneered, put down the teacup, and said, "Kong'er is busy now, after all, it is a task arranged by His Majesty, so it is reasonable to delay!" ”

"Hmph, the old man is still the acting servant, and his position is not lower than yours, aren't you afraid that the old man will accuse you of the following crimes?"

Li Tao's eyes narrowed, and he said, "Acting as a waiter?" Do you think you can continue to be in the position of a waiter from now on? ”

"What do you mean?" Wang Gui stood up suddenly, the anger in his eyes gradually evolved into a murderous machine, thinking that he was the head of the Wang family, who had been stationed in the court since the time of Emperor Wen of Sui, and went through four dynasties, and when Li Shimin was called the emperor, he was entrusted with the right concubine of the prince, Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, and directly became the acting servant last year, in charge of the province.

Now he was reprimanded by a reckless, and even his own junior, which is simply unforgivable for Wang Gui.

Li Tao smiled noncommittally, took a sip of tea, and said, "What do I mean, Patriarch Wang, you don't know?" Since you served as the prince's right concubine, you have directly hid in the royal family, and you can't leave the house, even if Your Majesty wants to see you, you have to ask three times to show up, and after being an acting servant, do you think for yourself how many days you have been in the court? ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door, Wang Gui's face sank, and he turned his head to look, only to see a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man walking slowly over with his hands behind his back.

"Li Kong?"

"It's the kid, presumably this is Wang Shizhong, Wang Shizhong has always disliked the court, why do you want to come to the capital today?" Li Kong patted his clothes, walked straight to Wang Gui and sat down, during which he only glanced at Li Tao, and did not mean to say hello.

"Hehe, it turns out that you still know that I am a servant, you are a little lieutenant general, and this is the attitude when you see this official?" Wang Gui laughed angrily.

"Oh? Putting on an official posture with Young Master Ben? To tell you a not-so-good news, Young Master Ben just accepted the canonization of His Majesty today and served as the general of the Protector of the Country, well, it is also just a Zhonglang general, so now Young Master Ben is going to give a salute to the king's servant! With that, Li Kong stood up.

But Wang Gui turned sideways suddenly, looked at Li Kong with an angry face, and said, "How is it possible?" ”

As a provincial servant, he naturally would not take a Zhonglang general in his eyes, but if he was a Zhonglang general who protected the country, he would not dare to accept Li Kong's salute if he was given three guts, especially at this time.

"There is nothing impossible, if you Wang Shizhong came here just to show us official authority, then Wang Shizhong can go back, if Wang Shizhong is dissatisfied, you can completely fold the bullet and impeach Young Master Ben."

After speaking, Li Kong turned around and left.

Originally, he thought that Wang Gui came here to find out the news and intercede by the way, but he still underestimated the arrogance of the scholars in this era, especially people like Wang Gui, who had penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and wanted him to intercede, which was quite a bit of a daydream.

"Stop!" Seeing that Li Kong was leaving, Wang Gui jumped up directly and rushed in front of Li Kong at a very fast speed, not at all like an old man who had passed the age of Jiazi, it was estimated that even some thirty or forty-year-old primemen would be able to catch up with him.

"What? What is Patriarch Wang going to do? Li Kong stopped, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

"I ...... The old man ......" Wang Gui opened his mouth, and after a long time, he exhaled a breath of turbidity and said, "Can you tell the old man whether there is really no room for turning around in this matter?" ”

Li Kongle was happy and said: "Is there room for turning around, this is not the kid, it's not in Your Majesty, it's all on the body of the big clan, okay, the kid still has a piece of Chen to write, so I won't accompany him, and I will leave!" ”

"Li Kong, what are you going to do to let me go?"

"It's up to you, maybe you'll get the news in two days?" Li walked without looking back, and slowly disappeared into the night.

Wang Gui looked at the direction of Li Kong's departure with a gloomy face, and then turned his head to look at Li Tao suddenly, and said, "The old man will not give up on this matter!" ”

"I can't take care of this, if there is nothing to do, the old patriarch can rest here for one night, and tomorrow I will have someone send the old patriarch back."

Li Tao chuckled and stood up, ignoring Wang Guina's expression of eagerness to swallow him, and walked out towards the back room.

In an instant, Wang Gui was the only one left in the huge living room, looking at the empty room, Wang Gui's face became colder and colder, and it was not until finally that he whispered coldly: "Li Shimin, you are really so easy to uproot the scholar clan?" Since you won't let me wait for my life, let's see who can't survive first! ”