On the nineteenth day of the winter month of Bingwu year, on the bank of the Yellow River, Lingzhou camp.

This day is the third day after Luo Kaixian's wedding, and according to the old customs of the Tang Dynasty, this day is the day when the son-in-law returns home with the bride to visit relatives. It is no longer known when this ritual began, and the name of the ritual is usually called Huimen or Baimen, and the Confucian sour people have changed to a more elegant word - Guining. In fact, it is to let the bride's family see how the married daughter is doing, and at the same time, the new son-in-law comes to the door to show respect, and at the same time to change the name of the grandmother, to bring back the door gift, back money. The mother's family will hold a homecoming banquet to invite the new son-in-law, to show that the two families are a family and other in-laws alliance.

Early in the morning, Li Ji and Ge Rina couldn't sleep anymore, and got up early to start dressing up, Luo Kaixian was also grabbed by the two little women and carefully combed his hair, pulled it into a bun, and put on a gorgeous brocade robe.

As for the return gift and the like, there were people who helped to prepare it, and pairs of items had already been stacked on top of a four-wheeled cart - this time the gift did not have to be as exaggerated as before, but it had to be an even number.

Trivial things don't need to be mentioned, when the time came, the new couple rode directly to the separate camp of most of the Li family, and more than 1,000 Li family members flocked to the empty field of the wooden village to greet them, headed by Luo Kaixian's father-in-law Li Nie, behind him was the old Li Tan and a large number of Li family's family wives, according to Luo Kaixian's estimation, there were more than three aunts and six women, and more than thirty aunts and sixty women!

Twenty or thirty meters away, Luo Kai first turned over and dismounted, and then walked quickly to Li Ji's mount and stretched out his arms to pick up his bride to dismount, the latter riding on the back of an akhal-teke horse as tall as the duke, dressed as a graceful and luxurious bride, and I don't know how many envious and jealous eyes were aroused along the way.

Li Ji, who was almost hugged off the horse by Luo Kaixian, did not speak loudly, but just muttered to his man with charming little eyes, which was completely the virtuous appearance of a husband and wife, which was very different from the appearance of riding horses in the past, which made all the Li family members a little stunned.

"Lady, what are you going to do?" Luo Kaixian also asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry about it, husband, I'm doing it for those tongue-in-cheek women...... A few years ago, many people in my family were saying that I couldn't get married! Li Ji grabbed the man's thick arm, as graceful and powerful as a vine wrapped around the body of an oak tree.

The bride's little calculation made Luo Kaixian feel sorry in his heart, and then ignored the eyes of others, tidied up his robe, pulled his bride straight to Li Nie, bent down and said: "The son-in-law has seen the father-in-law!" ”

He is a little unaccustomed to calling others Grandpa, and of course he can't call him Dad, Lao Dou and the like in later generations, but fortunately, with his current status in the camp, it is more appropriate to call him Zhangren directly.

Fortunately, Li Nie was more uncomfortable than him, perhaps because he was used to being called Shibo, and he was a little relieved to hear people call him Zhangren instead of Grandpa.

Li Nie, whose beard and hair have turned gray, was wearing a navy blue robe, and his unkempt hair in the past was also neatly groomed, and when he saw Luo Kai saluting first, this old man who didn't pay much attention to etiquette was busy stretching out his hand to hold it up, "Virtuous son-in-law doesn't have to be like this, please get up, please get up!" ”

"Zhangren, this is ......" Luo Kaixian was a little puzzled, in the past, this old man did not speak so elegantly-Lao Li Nike, who was often used to staying in the workshop, had a loud voice, and he always spoke in a rough voice.

Lao Li Nie didn't answer, but took Luo Kaixian's robe sleeves, and shouted in a rare calm tone: "Come on, Siniang, hurry up, the ancestor has been waiting to see you newcomers for a long time......"

After saying that, he glanced at Luo Kaixian.

Luo Kaixian suddenly knew in his heart that he dared to love this old man who had been taught a lesson by the older elders in the family before. His gaze passed over Li Zhan and the others, and directly saw the old Li Tan who was carried outside by a chair.

Hurriedly walked a few steps, pulled Li Ji and said, "Grandson-in-law and granddaughter have seen the ancestor!" ”

"Hurry up, get up!" Covering his body with a white bear skin, the old face of the crane-haired old Li Tan smiled like a blooming old chrysanthemum, and then grabbed Luo's hand with a pair of hands full of age spots and complained, "They didn't let me walk, saying that they were afraid that I would trip, and they didn't let me eat meat, saying that I was an old man with a weak stomach...... The old man can't eat enough, can he not be weak? ”

"Grandpa, grandpa, you have a bad stomach, you ate barbecue last time, and you couldn't sleep for two consecutive nights, who is that person?" Li Nie, who was guarding the other side of the old man, couldn't help but pierce the complaints of the eldest man.

"Bastards, bastards, earth dragons! You don't see it, guarding your broken workshop all day, what do you know? I'm hungry without food! Eat a few more pieces and you'll fall asleep! Old Li Tan began to curse loudly for his grandson, but his voice became lower and lower.

"Relax Ancestor...... The sun is nice today, but it's windy, and it's not for you outside, so we'll carry you in! Luo Kaixian forcibly held back the smile in his heart, and motioned to the father-in-law on the other side, and the two sons-in-law carried the muttering old man into the house. As for Li Ji? After greeting Lao Li Tan, he turned his gaze to the large number of female dependents on the side, which was her battlefield, oh, yes, that's the word.

As for Luo Kaixian, he generally ignores the idle people of the Li family, not that he does not have the human touch close to the family, but that there are obviously too many people in the Li family. In this small wooden village, there are at least 2,000 people - this is not a small family of three or four generations in the same house in the future, but a big family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, from the Li royal family of the Tang Dynasty to the Li family in the camp of Lingzhou, Hexi, although they have been reduced to Central Asia and the former Li Tang royal family, but in this family that still reproduces more than 1,000 people, how many people's interests are entangled?

It won't just be a trouble, it's going to be a giant hornet's nest.

There are many ways to solve the hornet's nest, obviously getting too close is never a good way, Luo Kaixian chose to be a cold sidewitness - marrying Li Ji and Li Siniang is one thing, and it is another thing to be involved in the interest disputes within the Li family.

Obviously, there are no fools who can surprise one side, including Li Tan, the great elder of the old Tang people's camp in the Sylvan Plain.

Under the clear winter sky, old Li Tan, who looked like an old child, returned to the wooden house, and after everyone who had nothing to do was sent away, he changed his appearance.

"San Lang shouldn't like everyone's hearts to be messy?" Lao Li Tan looked kind, but the words he said pointed directly to the hearts of the people.

Luo Kaixian was not surprised at the old man's question, and replied very calmly: "What the ancestor said is good, people's hearts are the most insatiable, and there are many people who are eager to get something for nothing. ”

"Ran......" Lao Li Tan spit out a word, squinted his eyes and stopped for a while, before he said leisurely with a deep aftertaste: "San Lang is decisive in killing and killing externally, and the old man is very impressed, I don't know how to deal with internal trivial affairs?" The new covenant law, with your military law to bind people's hearts? ”

In the face of this kind of long-lived old man, any scheming is useless, the old man who has lived for nearly a hundred years, and in the land of a hundred battles of alien races in Central Asia, what kind of intrigue has not been seen? Anyway, Luo Kai didn't dare to fool people with the so-called insights of later generations, he just asked in a humble voice, "I don't know what the ancestor thinks?" Listen to the younger generation! ”

"Slippery!" Old Li Tan leaned on the soft collapse, raised his hand and pointed at Luo Kai with trembling fingers and scolded with a smile, and then said with a long beard: "Your military justice department is obviously for law enforcement, and Du Jia Shenyan (Du Ne) and Twelve Lang (Li Xuan) have always been busy with internal affairs...... If you want to come to Saburo, you must be plotting, and the three of them will restrain each other...... Is what the old man said? ”

But no?

Luo Kaixian couldn't help but want to say that it was too "natural", the old elder had never interfered in any affairs along the way, and when he arrived in Lingzhou, he could be regarded as staying at home, just by the relay of the people next to him, he could clearly see his intentions, where is this old birthday star, it is clearly an old fox who has cultivated over the years.

Looking at Luo Kaixian's wide-eyed eyes, Lao Li Tan did not wait for his reply, but continued: "Along the way, San Lang, you entrust all the mundane affairs, and you concentrate on controlling the army, which is called lazy to interfere in civil affairs, but in fact, all the rules in civil affairs are handled by San Lang, and you are not worried about civil departure and control, and you have more military control in your hands...... This is by no means the study of the general, but the art of the emperor! Did the old man say wrong? ”

"Ancestor Wisdom!" What should be said has been said by the old man, and Luo Kaixian can only say these four words.

"Wise? Hehe......" Lao Li Tan smiled, but the smile on his face was a little bleak, "If the old man is really wise, he will not be able to save his son's life, don't think about it, I can't blame you for the death of Liu'er, he really killed himself!" What the old man said is the father of your father-in-law, the eldest son of the old man, Li Ji, the past years...... At that time, the Tang camp was still not far from the city of Lai, when it was under the jurisdiction of the Samanid family, I and the ancestor of the Zhang family walked together in the Western Qin, that is, the Westerners often say Byzantium, heard the system of the Senate, and after returning, he and Pei Wei's four families resolved the internal dispute and set up the elder system...... The old man was very ambitious at that time, and he and Zhang Peiwei's three families jointly planned to attack the Turkmen department, trying to find a way out of the eastward return, or to find an independent place to live on the south bank of the Wuhu River, but it did not come to fruition......

"Didn't you think the Samanids were treacherous?" Hearing the old man say that ancient times are a very interesting thing, Luo Kaixian never lacked this kind of patience, so he interjected casually.

"That's right, I didn't think the Saman family was treacherous!" Lao Li Tan glanced at Luo Kaixian approvingly, he was extremely satisfied with this great-grandson-in-law, otherwise he would not easily tell these past events that few people know now, "What will happen after that, San Lang, can you guess?" ”

Luo Kaixian knew that the drama was coming, so he couldn't be vague, and after thinking about it, he said very simply: "The Samanid people are treacherous...... It should be when the Samanid family was still glorious, and the Turkmen tribe was really supported and controlled by the Samanid family, and the ancestor was afraid that his plan was poor, but the artisan battalion could still stand in Sylvan...... Ancestor chose to break his tail to survive? ”

"Alas......" Old Li Tan sighed, lying on his back on the soft collapse, silent for a long time, but a few turbid tears slowly overflowed the corners of his eyes.

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Attached: Make up for yesterday's arrears.