Chapter Twenty-Seven: The New House
"Lan'er, do you think it's better for me to be an official, or not to be an official?" Li Xi's body was half leaning on a couch, one hand sliding unconsciously on the waist of the beautiful woman in her arms, and the other hand was playing with her small hand.
Because Li Qiu had already paid a deposit of 150,000 yuan immediately after the two sides negotiated the price, the old man Li Yifeng had already agreed with him at that time to vacate the yard within three days.
In fact, it didn't even take three days at all, just one day after Li Xi and their Li family drank, Mr. Li had already sent the family and goods that he was going to take away back to his hometown, and some things that were not easy to carry were simply entrusted to his friends to dispose of them, and he had already moved out of the Li family's mansion.
It's just surprising that he himself and his pregnant daughter-in-law did not return to their hometown with the car, but instead purchased a very small gateway in the county, and only brought a few maids and women to settle down.
The remaining 300,000 yuan to buy the yard was paid by Liu Rong, in addition, he also declared the other 100,000 yuan to buy new wine shares, and he kept it in his hand first, and when Li Xi's house was cleaned up, he would send it over immediately, and after Li Xi discussed with the third uncle, seeing that he insisted on not being willing to recover the deposit of 150,000 yuan, he knew that this was his intention as an uncle, so he no longer refused and accepted it calmly.
Because the old man Li Yifeng is an official in a different place, and he has not brought too many family members here, so most of the servants in the Li mansion are collected locally, and he left this time, and only brought a few intimate ones, and most of the rest of the people were negotiated at the time, and they stayed in the house directly, and made the house price, so it is simple for Li Xi to move in, almost everything is ready-made, and he only needs to send people to transport the books and beds in the house over there, even if he moves into the new house.
So today, Li Xi can already hold Wu Lan in Li's house and study together.
"It's all good, as long as the husband likes it."
Wu Lan was lying comfortably in his arms reading a book, and at the moment he touched Li Xi's hand on his waist, but he felt uncomfortable, so he simply turned over in his arms, and pulled his hand out of his palm and turned the page, and then replied casually.
"Perfunctory!"
Li Xi slapped her plump buttocks dissatisfiedly when she heard this, and Wu Lan reluctantly put down the anthology, hesitated, and said: "There are advantages to being an official, and not being an official has the advantage of not being an official." As for being an official, everything is inferior, only being an official is good, which is well known to everyone, but once you become an official, many things will be involuntarily, because no matter how big your official is, if you become the prime minister, there are always people above who are bigger than you, and the official level can crush people to death. ”
This is the truth, Li Xi nodded approvingly when he heard this.
In fact, Liu Rong has repeatedly made words and agitation, if you want to say that Li Xi is not moved, it is false, he also knows that no matter ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign, power is the most exciting thing, not to mention in the current Tang Dynasty of feudal society, it can be said that except for being an official, all other professions are not in the stream.
But there is no doubt that being an official is also one of the least free professions.
As long as the boss speaks, you have to do it even if you don't want to, and the boss says that you are not right, even if you are right, it is not right!
Of course, this is only relative, if you can achieve the level of a feudal official, the power obtained will naturally exceed the price paid, but the question is, with Li Xi's background, if you start from a Xu official according to the arrangement of the Liu family, is it possible to reach that height in this life?
Even if it were possible, how old would it be?
How will you survive the decades during this period?
For most of his life, he has been a small official with a nest of money, how can he be so comfortable as a rich man now?
At this time, Wu Lan thought about it and said, "Say it again...... If this official does a good job, he can act happily in his power, and he can even grace future generations, but as the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and there is nothing more sinister in this world than officialdom...... How many wealthy families have accumulated the efforts of dozens or even hundreds of generations to reach the top, but it is only an instant to fall. ”
Li Xi frowned when he heard this, and suddenly understood in his heart that Wu Lan must have thought of his life experience. But before he could say anything to comfort him, he saw that Wu Lan had already turned around and hugged his neck, and the two huge and greasy pepper milk on his chest were directly pressed on Li Xi's chest, constantly stacking and changing shapes, but Li Xi's eyes were hot.
"But in contrast, the slave wants to be an official! Not only to be an official, but also to be the biggest official! ”
"Huh?" Li Xi was a little surprised when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Why?" ”
Wu Lan blinked her eyes and said, "If Xianggong is not a big official, how can he openly marry a slave?" ”
Li Xi patted his brows, "That's right!" But as you said, it's not so easy to be an official, and by the time you become a big official, you may have become an old man, and at that time, how will I marry you! ”
With worry in his mouth, one of his hands had quietly slipped into his clothes, gently pushing open his chest, and suddenly a large mass of soft and swollen tender flesh entered his palm. Rubbing it gently, Wu Ji couldn't help but fly her cheeks.
She gently but firmly pressed Li Xi's hand, but said in her mouth: "Slaves don't care, anyway, Xianggong promised others!" The man's husband, but he wants to be a good man! ”
Speaking of making a promise from Li Xi's emotion that night, Wu Lan seemed to have taken off the burden in her heart all of a sudden, and these few days of kung fu began to gradually reveal that she should have belonged to her age.
Speaking of the same beauty, after the emotion, she is ten times more beautiful than the previous helpless Ren Bo!
It's a pity that her heart is budding, but Li Xi is cocooned and bound by herself.
Li Xi sighed at the smoothness and size of the tender meat in his hand, thinking that Lan'er was still unemployed, if she became a woman in the future, this place would definitely be even bigger, but she really didn't know how moist and greasy it should be, but on the other hand, she unconsciously followed the idea of the conversation between the two just now, and unconsciously wandered.
It wasn't until someone outside was talking that he suddenly woke up, Wu Lan was also lying on his chest with squinted eyes full of sweetness and didn't know what he was thinking, when he heard the movement, he suddenly started to do it in his arms, but he quickly pushed his palm out of his coat and said, "There is a guest visiting, you go to the front, I will read the book by myself." ”
Li Xi nodded and got off the couch, and let Wu Lan also get down to help him sort out his clothes.
Just now I didn't feel what was going on in my arms, but I slammed down to the ground, and I felt that my legs were a little numb, thinking that this Nizi looked like just flesh and bones, who knew that her body was plump and tight, almost everywhere around her body was soft and greasy, and now she ate her sitting on her lap for so long, she must be a little weak.
After Wu Lan helped him tidy up his clothes, he opened the door and walked out, and saw that the little guy who came to report was still standing outside the door, so he asked casually, and learned that the person who came was actually the original owner of this house, Li Yifeng, Li Xi couldn't help but be a little surprised.
His housewarming to a new house is equivalent to standing on his own from now on, resting on the emperors and nobles, this is called opening the mansion, and this matter will be regarded as a big matter no matter where it is placed. Therefore, Li Xi did invite some guests to come over today, but among these inviters, there was no Li Yifeng.
However, since people came, and just three days ago, they still warmly kept themselves in this house for a banquet, and they had a very happy conversation during the banquet.
When they arrived at the door to greet each other in person, the two greeted each other and laughed and sat down opposite each other in the front hall, Li Ximing knew that there must be something wrong with Li Yifeng here, but he deliberately didn't mention anything or ask, just gossip with him.
Li Yifeng resigned from illness, dealt with the property in his hand, and sent his family back to his hometown with his belongings, but he only took a few old families and the daughter-in-law who brought him endless trouble. It's just that no matter what Li Xi thinks, he feels that the other party really has no possibility of taking refuge in himself.
Not to mention that people are originally genuine court officials, even if they resigned after illness, but there is no possibility of recovery since then, just talking about family wealth, he has been an official for so many years, although he is not the kind of corrupt official who dares to make any money, but as he himself said, he does not exclude earning a little money for himself in addition to being an official, which is not illegal and undisciplined, so he must have accumulated a lot over the years, plus it is said that before he came out as an official, his family was already a famous local family, Therefore, although he may not be extremely rich, his family background is definitely not thin.
And he has been poor for more than ten years, if it weren't for the support of a third uncle, I am afraid that he would have starved to death, or it seems that he is on the right track now, but compared to Li Yifeng, an old official who has accumulated for decades, it is still far behind, it can be said that he really has no need to lower his voice to defect to himself.
However, although he thought so in his heart, first he repeatedly showed favor in the front, and Liu Rong's analysis came later, Li Xi really had a little hope in his heart, after all, no matter whether Li Yifeng wanted to take refuge or not, in fact, he admired this old man.
It's just that after the people came in and served tea, the first thing the old man said made Li Xi surprised.
He said: "After the old man became ill, the position of the chief secretary of Jinyuan County became vacant, I don't know if the son said that the virtuous brother is interested?" ”
Let's not talk about the difference between the two people by more than thirty years, whether it is appropriate for him to call Li Xi a virtuous brother, after all, there is no in-law relationship between the two parties, as long as Li Xi does not take the initiative to descend the steps to call him uncle, then it makes sense for him to call Li Xi like this, just because he mentioned the position of the head of Jinyuan County that he had just resigned, it was enough to surprise Li Xi.
The old man Liu Bo is the Sima of Shuzhou from the five grades, and he can be regarded as one of the real power figures in Shuzhou, with his energy, it can only be said that he wants to arrange himself in a certain county office, and let himself start as a small official, what kind of person is this Li Yifeng, but he is just a small county master, or he has already resigned from illness, and he actually opened his mouth to ask this, which is really a big breath.
Li Xi was only stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, and then he smiled and said noncommittally: "I have always been an idle surname, and the uncle of the Liu family once suggested that I could be a small official and have a good experience, but I rejected, not unwillingly, but I really can't do it at all because I am a lazy surname!" ”
Li Yifeng looked at Li Xi for a moment when he heard this, smiled faintly, but suddenly changed the conversation, and said: "That's right, Zi said that the virtuous brother is a blessed life, and he can't wait for me, obviously he has worked hard all his life, and he can finally rest and recuperate, but he is still in love with the stack, and he is reluctant to throw it away." ”
After finishing speaking, he didn't look at Li Xi, so he picked up the teacup by himself and didn't speak again.
Although Li Xi was curious, he didn't know whether his rebellious topic meant something or just casually, but since he stopped talking, Li Xi was really embarrassed to ask.
At that moment, the two of them lowered their heads and drank tea slowly, until after a while, the next person came to inform the Liu family's carriage that had arrived at the door, and it was said that the old man Liu Bo came in person, and the two stood up together.
Li Yifeng said with a smile on his face: "The boss really gave Brother Zi a face, and I want to accompany Brother Zi to the door to greet the boss, I don't know if it's okay?" ”
Li Xi naturally objected when he heard this, but he was even more puzzled in his heart.
This Li Yifeng is several years older than the old man Liu Bo in terms of age, but he is called an old man, although the officialdom has always been about the official position regardless of age, but he is no longer an official after all, listening to him call him like this, it really makes people feel a little awkward.
At that moment, the two greeted the door, but saw that the old man Liu Bo had already gotten out of the car, and was standing at the door, surrounded by a large group of people, looking up at the plaque on the door, and the brothers Liu Lan and Liu Rong were standing beside him.
Seeing Li Xi come out, the old man smiled, pointed to the plaque and said: "I suddenly remembered the incident of drinking wine at your father's house back then, my sister-in-law's sweet and sour bamboo shoots are really a must, and after a flash of hard work, you have already set up your own door!" ”
Li Xi didn't know what to say after hearing this, so he had to be silent.
At that moment, the old man Liu Bo looked up and looked at it for a long time, before he sighed and said: "This plaque is too old, go back and find someone to write one, replace it, you have a new door, and this plaque naturally has to be new." ”
Li Xi smiled when he heard this, and said, "That's right, then how about asking the old man to do it for your little nephew?" ”
Liu Bo waved his hand when he heard this, "I'll forget it, if I can't do it, I'll find someone to write it for you." ”
Then he turned his head and caught a glimpse of Li Yifeng also coming out behind Li Xi, and greeted him with a salute, the old man nodded at him, turned to Liu Lan beside him and said: "The third uncle of the son will definitely come over later, and you two brothers will accompany Master Li with him to use the bar, which can be regarded as a celebration of the housewarming for the son." ”
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Liu Lan to agree, he beckoned to Li Xi again, "You come with me, let's go somewhere else to eat!" ”
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