Li Xiu's seventieth birthday, although he didn't want to do a big deal, but as the emperor's teacher, he couldn't do it even if he didn't want to, and Li Zhi and others have been agitating to congratulate Li Xiu on his birthday, in this case, he can only order people to prepare a birthday banquet, and before that, his students also came from all over the country to celebrate his birthday.

Li Jin, Li Ke and Li Chengqian had already received Li Zhi's order to let them return to Beijing, the reason was to congratulate Li Xiu on his birthday, but many people in the outside world speculated that Li Zhi was likely to find an excuse for the three of them to return to Beijing, so that the three of them could be captured in one fell swoop and completely solve the problem of these three people.

However, there are also many people who speculate that Li Jin and the three of them may not dare to enter Beijing at all, after all, they have become more and more obvious in various "disobedient" actions in recent years, although they have not rebelled openly, but they are secretly cultivating their own forces, which is a taboo for the emperor, so even if Li Zhi invites them back in the name of birthday celebrations this time, I am afraid they will not dare to come back.

It's just that to everyone's surprise, Li Jin and the three of them not only came back, but also came back together, as if they didn't avoid suspicion at all, and Li Zhi didn't look like he wanted to do anything at all, but he also went out of the city ten miles to greet him, and even when the four of them met, they hugged each other and laughed, and finally held hands to meet Li Xiu, and then Li Jin, Li Chengqian, and Li Ke lived directly in Li Xiu's house.

On the day of his birthday, Li Xiu's family also had a big banquet, not only his children, grandchildren and students came, but Li Zhi also led hundreds of civil and military officials to celebrate his birthday, and although Li Xiu was old, his body was very healthy, thanks to his years of unremitting exercise, so on top of the birthday banquet, he drank a few more glasses as soon as he was happy, and in the end, he was not awake.

However, although Li Xiu was drunk, Li Zhi and the others did not drink more, but after the birthday banquet, Li Zhi summoned Li Jin and the three into the palace to discuss matters, and many dark people thought that Li Zhi was finally going to do it, but to everyone's surprise again, the next day Li Jin and the three of them came back happily in the palace, but no one knew what the four of them said in the palace?

Just when Li Zhi took Li Jin and the three of them into the palace, Li Xiu, who was drunk in front of people, was sitting in the study energetically at this time, and in front of him, a pair of gray-haired men and women saluted him with teary eyes, but Li Xiu personally helped them up and said: "Chengdao, Qi Niang, you can come back!" ”

It is worth mentioning that they received news from Li Zhi last year and asked them to come back this year to congratulate Li Xiu on his birthday, so they could come back, but even so, Li Chengdao and his wife did not appear in front of people, but quietly came to see Li Xiu in the inner house.

"Big brother, you ...... You've gotten better! Qi Niang looked at the wrinkles on Li Xiu's face and the white hair on her head at this time, and her eyes were full of tears, although she had secretly come back a few times since she got married, she didn't dare to stay too long, and she didn't dare to come inland, so she could only stay in the coastal area for a while and leave, so she never had a chance to see Li Xiu again.

"Qi Niang, you are still not too old, but Chengdao looks as old as me!" Li Xiu looked at her at this time by holding his sister, although Qi Niang's hair was half white, and there were many wrinkles on her face, her eyes were smart, her skin was still fair, and she could even vaguely see her demeanor when she was young.

"The eldest brother will say that it sounds good, I have become an old woman, how can I not be old?" Although Qi Niang said this, the expression on her face turned from sadness to joy, after all, even if a woman is seventy or eighty, she still likes to hear others praise her for being young and beautiful.

"Neither old nor old, Qi Niang, you are still that sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in my eyes!" At this time, Li Chengdao also praised his wife playfully, but his praise attracted a roll of Qi Niang's eyes.

"Okay, you husband and wife don't flirt in front of me!" When Li Xiu saw the appearance of their husband and wife, he couldn't help laughing at the moment, and then asked about their situation in the Americas, and Li Chengdao immediately answered them one by one.

In recent years, Li Chengdao has taken advantage of various opportunities to migrate people from the Tang Dynasty to the past, although most of the people who are willing to migrate to the Americas are men, but he also encouraged his Han people to intermarry with the Maya, so that the number of Han people in the Americas has increased greatly, and now the population has reached nearly three million, and all walks of life have also been established, so that the living conditions there have been greatly improved, and even have been about the same level as ordinary towns in the Tang Dynasty, of course, there is still no way to compare with an international metropolis like Chang'an.

With the increase in population, the territory controlled by Lee Seung-dao has also become larger and larger, and has begun to expand from Central America to North America, mainly because South America is mountainous and rainforesty, while North America is a large plain, which is very suitable for farming, so Lee Seung-do decided to expand to the north.

It is worth mentioning that Li Chengdao's fourth uncle, that is, the original King of Qi Li Yuanji, is still alive, and when Li Shimin died, he was also happy and drunk, but Li Yuanji's health has not been very good in recent years, but Li Yuanji did not accept the old age, and personally led an army to destroy several native tribes last year, but at the beginning of this year, he had an illness, and now he is finally recuperating at home.

In addition, Li Xiu also asked the children of Qi Niang and Li Chengdao, the two of them have a total of three sons and four daughters, and they have already been married, the eldest one is already in his forties, and even they even have a lot of grandchildren, but there is a shortage of people in the Americas, these children of Qi Niang are either guarding one side or holding important positions, especially this time Li Chengdao brought Qi Niang back, and the Americas need people to sit down, so they can't get out.

However, Qi Niang still brought a grandson back, and she had seen Li Xiu before, and Li Xiu also gave each other several books he had written over the years as gifts, hoping that his knowledge could take root in the Americas.

The bearded guest has also died a long time ago, Zhang Shiyi also returned to the Americas with Qu Yi, and now the Zhang family and Li Chengdao's family are married to each other, and the relationship between the two sides is also extremely close, but the Zhang family has no outstanding talents except for Zhang Shiyi, so now the territory of the Zhang family has also been merged into the Li family, which also fundamentally avoids the conflict between the two families.

"By the way, how did you get in touch with Li Ke, is he also leaving Datang?" At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly asked Li Chengdao about Li Ke.