Chapter 378: An Official Who Doesn't Spend Money

Li Bai has been in the palace for almost a year, and when he first left his hometown, Li Bai's ideal was to travel the world, but now he has no such thoughts, he just wants to stay quietly in the palace.

When he first met Li Tao, Li Bai regarded Pei Yue as his idol, and he had been working hard to learn the amazing swordsmanship from Pei Yue. But once Pei Yue told Li Bai something, all this changed.

On that day, Pei Yue sighed and told Li Bai: Li Tao was born to learn martial arts, don't look at him as weak, but he is no longer his opponent, even when he is young and prime, at best, he can only have a tie with the current Li Tao. If time passes, even he doesn't dare to predict how far Li Tao's martial arts will be.

Although Pei Yue said this with a sigh, Li Bai could clearly see from his face that he was happy. Li Bai has never seen Li Tao practice martial arts, but where did Li Tao's martial arts come from? But no matter how Li Bai asked, Pei Yue always smiled and didn't answer.

Since this discovery, Li Bai has paid attention to Li Taolai intentionally or unintentionally. Li Bai's change naturally couldn't be hidden from Li Tao, so pranks like today's became commonplace, which made Li Bai a lot of trouble.

"That's right, Li Bai, I've grown a lot better than a few days ago, and I've seen and heard the meaning of the eight directions." Li Tao said with a smile.

"Thank you, King Jun!" Li Tao's praise made Li Bai very happy.

"You take my prayer sticker and invite Lu Langzhong from the Ministry of Rites, and say that there is something to discuss!" Li Tao instructed Li Bai.

The Lu Langzhong mentioned by Li Bai is Lu Yue'er's father, Lu Shicai. Lu Shicai has been serving in the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites is one of the six departments of the imperial court, with one person each of the three grades of Shangshu and one of the four grades of the Waiter, and there are four divisions under the Ministry of Rites. They are the ceremonial division, the ancestral hall, the food division, the host and guest division, and each division has one Lang Zhong and one outside the staff. Before the Tang Long coup, Lu Shicai was a member of the Ministry of Rites, but now he has taken the path of Princess Taiping and has been promoted to the Langzhong of the ancestral hall. The ancestral hall is in charge of the ancestral hall, enjoying the sacrifice, astronomy, missing carving, national taboos, temple secrets, divination, medicine, monks and nuns, Lu Shicai, as the head of the ancestral hall of the Ministry of Rites, can be regarded as a spring breeze.

"Yes. The king of the county! Li Bai turned around and left.

Li Tao has not been in contact with officials in the imperial court for more than three months, although he did not say it explicitly, but Yuan and others can also guess one or two. He was to avoid suspicion and not to get involved in court disputes.

And today, for Lu Yue'er, he made an exception.

Lu Yue'er had tears in her eyes, and she choked up: "Tao'er, I ......"

Li Tao smiled: "Aren't we a family? Why should a family talk two words? ”

Everyone was stunned. It was Hua Jingjing who reacted first. couldn't help laughing, and then Suana and Yuan also reacted and laughed.

Lu Yue'er was stunned at first, but she also came to her senses, and suddenly blushed. Looking at Lu Yue'er's pear blossom with rain and lowered face, Li Tao couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart: he has been here in the Tang Dynasty for several years, and now he has made a small achievement, and he is accompanied by these three beauties. It seems that it is time to think about the issue of having fun in time.

Hua Jingjing saw Li Tao with a wicked smile on her face, and it seemed that her saliva was about to flow down. I couldn't help but wonder: "Ah Tao, what are you thinking about again?" ”

Li Tao joked: "What you are thinking, I am thinking!" ”

Hua Jingjing was angry, and this time it was Suanna and Lu Yue'er's turn to laugh.

Seeing that Li Tao and his daughters were happy, Yuan couldn't help but think of her husband, and she sighed: Li Tao has grown up, if he can get married and have children, then he has no regrets.

After a while, Li Bai led Lu Shicai to the back garden.

"Xiaguan see Lantian King!" Lu Shicai saluted Li Tao.

After all, Lu Shicai is Lu Yue'er's father, and Li Tao can't be rude, he got up and said: "It's very presumptuous to invite Lu Langzhong to come today, don't mind Lu Langzhong!" ”

"Where, where!"

"Lu Langzhong, please take a seat!"

After Lu Shicai sat down, Lu Yue'er hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Yue'er has seen Daddy!" ”

"Yue'er is okay these days? Have you been thinking about you? Lu Shicai looked at Lu Yue'er kindly.

It stands to reason that her own daughter should live in her own home, but Lu Yue'er insisted on living in Lantian Palace. The Lu family is a famous family, and they have always paid attention to the style of the family, and it is impossible for an unmarried woman to live in another man's house in the past, but Lu Shicai acquiesced to Lu Yue'er's choice.

"I'm fine, I'll go to visit A-Niang in a few days!" Lu Yue'er nodded.

Yuan got up and said to the women: "Tao'er has something to talk to Lu Langzhong, let's go back to the house!" ”

Since the Yuan family returned to Chang'an, they have never asked Li Tao what he did, and at the same time, they have not allowed Hua Jingjing and others to interfere with Li Tao, this has become their habit, and this time will naturally be no exception.

Li Tao waved his hand and said: "A-Niang, you sit down first, this matter also has something to do with you, it doesn't hurt to listen!" ”

Yuan Shi was stunned, thought about something for a while, nodded and sat down again.

Li Tao looked at Lu Shicai: "Lu Langzhong, I don't know what I asked Yue'er to say, is there a response from the head of the Lu family?" ”

Lu Shicai nodded and said: "My father asked me to tell Li Xiaolangjun that he understood your kindness, he said that Chang'an is good, but the situation changes too quickly." Shucheng is the root of the Lu family, as long as the root is still there, the sky will not fall. ”

Li Tao said with a smile: "Jiang is still old and spicy, the idea of the head of the Lu family is very safe, it doesn't matter if your Lu family doesn't come to Chang'an to develop, it can be regarded as leaving a way back for yourself." ”

"That's exactly what my father meant!"

"I heard that Lu Langzhong and Princess Taiping are very close?" Li Tao asked suddenly.

Lu Shicai said in high spirits: "Thanks to Princess Taiping, she can afford to be in the lower ranks, and the lower officials are promoted to Langzhong in the Ministry of Rites, and the lower officials are naturally grateful." ”

"How much money did Lu Langzhong spend?" Li Tao asked again.

"What money to spend?" Lu Shicai was inexplicable.

"I said, how much did it cost you to be promoted to this rite department?" Li Tao was straightforward.

Lu Shicai forked his head and said, "What does Lantian King mean?" Princess Taiping told Xia Guan in person that she liked Xia Guan's talent, so she promoted Xia Guan to Lang Zhong, how could I be an official who spent money to buy? ”

Li Tao muttered to himself: "This princess Taiping is so calculating, even I have calculated it!" ”

Lu Shicai was puzzled: "King Lantian, how can you say this?" ”

Li Tao said unceremoniously: "In the past few months, Princess Taiping has appointed five people as the prime minister alone, and in addition to appointing nearly a hundred officials like you, only three of them have not spent money, is it possible that you Lu Langzhong is already so talented?" (To be continued......)