As soon as Li Yongzhong returned to the house, a disciple stepped forward to say, "Master," he stumbled a little uncomfortably, and then continued: "Master Chen, who came the day before yesterday, is here again, and the chief steward led him to the study, so that the little one can wait for the master here." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Got it." Li Yongzhong bowed slightly, threw the reins of the Dian horse in his hand to the miscellaneous servants, and asked again: "Did the eldest young master go out today?" ”

Menzi buried his head deeper and snorted: "Villain, villain didn't see Brother go out." ”

Didn't go out? So who did he see on the street in the Spring Makeup Building? The corners of Li Yongzhong's mouth curled, and he swallowed back the taste of sarcasm, only turned to his follower and said, "You go and talk to Li Sanzhong and ask him to send some tonic medicine to his brother." ”

The attendant served him in front of the saddle and the horse when he was young, and he was the same as him, and he was transferred by him early. After teaching, now that he heard Li Yongzhong's instructions, he immediately lowered his hand and responded: "Yes, the villain can save it." ”

After ordering all the affairs, Li Yongzhong raised his eyes and looked at the gate of the Li Mansion, the black gate was still magnificent, but now the master was in the filial piety period, and the white paper representing the funeral was pasted on the door, and even the lantern had not been replaced, but even so, Li Qi's shadow had gradually left the Li Mansion, and a new era was about to open.

By the time Li Yongzhong came to the study, it was already a quarter of an hour later, and the Qianhu official was still sitting leisurely on the circle chair and drinking tea, without any intention of being anxious. As soon as Brother Zhong stepped into the door, he bowed and said, "Father-in-law, my son-in-law is late, forgive me." ”

"It doesn't matter. You're busy. Chiho made a gesture, inadvertently revealing a tough gesture. He waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite, sit." ”

Li Sanzhong served a cup of tea to the young master and left the room with interest.

This large study room in the Li Mansion was originally the place where Li Qi was a vassal in the early years, and there were a lot of books in it, but it also earned Li Qi the name of a Confucian merchant, but it was probably not overturned. Later, he married the daughter of a talented family, and he was old, but he loved to spend time here, and the style of the nouveau riche in the past faded, and the furnishings and toys in the study were also a lot more elegant.

Chen Qianhu retracted his gaze lingering on Magu's birthday picture, met Li Yongzhong's calm eyes again, bent the corners of his mouth and smiled, and took the initiative to speak: "It's a little twilight here, how old are you?" It's not funny to hang this. ”

"It was obtained by my father from Chengdu Mansion, imitating the painting of Liuru layman." Li Yongzhong poured a cup of tea for Qianhu with his own hands, only watched a beam of water pouring out, and said lightly: "It's not very valuable, but it's still worth a look." The young man raised his hand slightly when the tea was about to overflow out of the teacup, "My father has not passed yet, and I haven't planned to pack up all the items here yet." ”

"Hmm." Qianhu let out a sound from his nose for unknown meaning, looked at him, and suddenly spoke: "You have this family affair that your father set for you...... Any thoughts? ”

Li Yongzhong glanced at him in surprise, thought about it, sat up straight, and said in a deep voice: "Marriage matters, parents' orders, and matchmakers' words, everyone is like this at the time, and there is no room for younger generations to intervene." ”

"But I don't think you're happy." Chen Qianhu stared at him with burning eyes, and when he saw that the young man was about to speak, he raised his hand and interrupted: "You listen to me first." ”

"Yes." Li Yongzhong raised his eyebrows and replied indispensably.

"Your father didn't tell your brothers about the relationship between the Chen and Li families, right?" After a slight pause, he talked about this, seeing Li Yongzhong shaking his head honestly, smiling lightly, shaking his head, Qianhu Guan reached out and brought the teacup to his lips, and put it down after dipping his lips slightly, Zhong Guan'er saw this and was about to ask Li Sanzhong to come in and exchange teas with him, he waved his hand and said: "Tea is good tea, but I love spirits more when I come back from the north, but I can't bear to drink bitter juice." He smiled and continued what he had said.

"It's the story of the Chen and Li families, but it's just me and your father." Qianhu's face gradually showed a nostalgic color that belonged to the memory, "Thirty years ago, there was no you, about your brother was born, the Li family did not have the current family business pattern, your father was just a small salt household on the Fushun field, and he had to go to the salt department yamen in Xuzhou to pay salt, and it was I who met at that time." ”

"My surname is Chen, and my name is Xianda. My family was originally a military household of Xunanwei, the general flag passed down from generation to generation, but the military household was in difficulty, and my father was Geng Jie's temperament, disdainful of his colleagues' style, and the whole family almost starved to death. Over time, when he saw that he could not do anything, he conspired with his brother to flee. Who knew that his brother was not a good person, pretending to agree, but he raised it to the thousands of households in the guard, my father was sentenced to be beheaded for violating military law, and finally God blessed, that year Liaodong was in a tight situation, and my father kept the head, but because of this, the whole family was exiled and wanted to go to Liaodong. ”

"On the day the verdict was handed down, my grandmother and mother committed suicide in order not to drag my father and me, and my father thought that he had no shame to see the whole family, and when he heard that my mother and wife were both dying, he died in anger. The family's belongings were looted by the enemy, and the bodies of the three were not to be collected. ”

The air in the room was cold, just like the voice of a thousand household officials.

"I took my young brother and pleaded on the road, hoping that someone would be kind enough to give me three thin coffins, but no one responded until it was dark." Qianhu Guan suddenly smiled, "Later, I was already desperate, and finally the road was endless, and when I met your father, he did a good deed every day, sent my grandmother and three parents for me, and gave me three taels of silver, and my two brothers had the life to go to Liaodong alive." ”

With that, he closed his eyes and exhaled very slowly from the end of his nose. Fu opened his eyes again, Chen Xianda looked at Li Yongzhong's eyes and became kind, and his tone gradually softened, and said: "My brother is unfortunate, he died in the battle formation in the second year of Liaodong, and that's it, we were originally fighting and killing Han, and it is better to die in the battlefield than to die in the township." Later, I was fortunate to be drawn as a family member, and the general was very promising, and he accumulated merit to the general, which was a good situation, but I was squeezed out by my colleagues, and it was not a pleasure for me to fight, so I simply took this opportunity to return to my hometown. ”

"I have been in Liaodong for 20 years, and your father has been writing constantly, ten years ago I finally returned to my hometown, but it is difficult to gain a foothold in Xunanwei, and it is also thanks to your father that I have today. I saw the rise of the Li family, and I rejoiced for him. It's a pity that your father is not a trainer, and your father is to blame for your brother's fate today. But in the end, he has a blessing, and you can inherit the family business. ”

Li Yongzhong sat silently, and he only owed himself when he heard the words.

Chen Xianda pressed into the void and said, "Today I will tell you this, and I have no other meaning. I saw you for the first time that day, but I had heard of your name for a long time. A teenager can make a situation like yours, don't say Sichuan, even the world is difficult to ......"

The young man coughed and interrupted him a little uncomfortably: "Father-in-law praises ......"

"Fallacious what?" Chen Xianda raised his voice and brutally interrupted his son-in-law's words, he snorted, picked up the teacup and poured the residual tea on the ground, poured it full of anger for himself, moistened his throat, and said bitterly to Li Yongzhong: "You are not writing an article to take the top prize!" Shopping malls are like battlefields, I still understand this truth! You're a junior boy, but you can not fall into the prestige of Ling, which is very good! He slapped it on the table, and the tea utensils jumped, "Your father promised you my girl before he died, but I know that you have a heart that does not want to be subdued......"

Li Yongzhong stiffly interrupted Qianhuguan's words, and the young man's face showed a bit of solemnity, but it was different from the previous politeness that was only superficial, but really attached importance to it. He looked at Chen Xianda's eyes, there was no more frivolity of young people, only people who have experienced the world have seriousness, and said: "Father-in-law knows me, I won't say anything empty to coax you, there is only one thing in the future, if you marry me, you will be my wife, I should protect her and believe in her, and it has nothing to do with other things." ”

Chen Xianda smiled, obviously unloading the blockade in his heart, he touched a glass with Li Yongzhong with tea as wine, and said: "It's enough to have this sentence!" The great kindness of heaven has now turned into dust with people, I didn't expect Brother Li to ask Xu Qilin'er to be his son-in-law, but now I see that it is Brother Li who left it to me! ”

Qianhuguan's eyes turned red, and he pressed Li Yongzhong's shoulder with all his strength, and the past flashed in front of him like a marquee. The mournful and weeping young man and the young man who was silent to help him collect the bodies of his parents and grandmother seemed to be close at hand, but the smell of incense and candles on the tip of his nose reminded him that the young man who had given the two brothers three taels of silver was now lying in the cold ground like his elders, and there would never be them again in the world.

Li Yongzhong's eyes were complicated. He doesn't have much admiration for his father with this body, after all, he is not a real child, but he has been with him for more than ten years, and it is Li Qi who teaches him to write by hand, and the person who guides him to do things is also Li Qi. In the years when his biological mother had just died, it was difficult to say whether he would have survived if it hadn't been for Li Qi's protection-Li Yongzhong had once seen the cold killing intent in the eyes of his eldest brother Li Yongbo.

He really treats himself not as well as Li Yongbo. The young man thought that he loved his eldest son, and when he was hot and cold, he always thought of the eldest son first, and he was afraid that Li Yongbo's illness and weakness when he was young had never broken his roots, as if he was blind to the eldest son's tall and straight figure now. However, before he died, he did not leave the family business to his beloved eldest son, but gave it to his youngest son, who has always been lukewarm, Li Yongzhong sighed in his heart, maybe he never understood Li Qi's true thoughts.

Chen Xianda observed his son-in-law, who did not look like a teenager. This is the judgment of the officials of a thousand households, he has never believed in his ability to see people, when he was in Liaodong, he chose to follow a young general, from a family with no background to climb to the position of a thousand households, relying on his ability to recognize people. But now he is a little confused, this young, newly baked son-in-law, he can't understand it.

He had heard of this youngest son of the Li family, who may not be well-known in the market, but whether it was the Yamen of the Salt Department or the archer inspector in the Inspection Division, he actually had a bit of true or false friendship with Li Yongzhong. But he actually became friends with the prefect's son--Qianhu Guan snorted in his heart, he was sure that there were few people in the Li family who knew about this matter, including his old brother who had gone--this was capable.