Chapter 224: Selling His Body to Bury His Father
Changsun Chong was left with Wang Jinliang by diving equipment, which made Li Chengqian and others hot, and wanted to persuade Changsun Chong not to leave such a good thing here and want to take it for himself. People who have never dived in the water will never understand the excitement under the water, as if they are omnipotent, and even fantasize that they are a mermaid who can move unimpeded in the water.
"Don't you people have the Datang society in your hearts? Those things are at most for fun in our hands, but in the hands of Wang Jinliang and others, they are very useful for the shipbuilding industry. Changsun Chong faced a few people and said a lesson.
When Li Yexu heard this, he was ashamed and said: "Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, because we pay too much attention to personal selfish desires." In our hands, those things are just playthings, and in the hands of others, they may play an important role. ”
Li Chengqian, as the crown prince, had no face to face, and said with a bitter face: "What the eldest cousin taught us is that we are really bastards. ”
"Big cousin, we don't dare anymore." Li Ke admitted his mistake, even the eldest brother admitted his mistake, and as the eldest brother's follower, he naturally hurried to review it deeply.
Seeing that several people had a good attitude of admitting their mistakes, the eldest grandson nodded and said: "Since you all admit your mistakes, I will also give you a swimming trunk for each person, whether you go to the sea to play or go to the river to bathe in the future, don't wear bare buttocks or wrap in a crotch cloth." ”
The eyes of the three of them were shining, and they wanted to know what Eldest Sun Chong was going to give them.
"One swim trunk per person!" The eldest grandson Chong took three pairs of swimming trunks, packed them completely, and put them on the table.
Li Chengqian was the closest, took a big red one behind him, took it out, and squinted his eyes: "What is this?" ”
"Big pants to wear when swimming!" Changsun Chong replied. I think the reaction of a few people is very interesting. I remember seeing the eldest grandson Chong wearing big pants at that time, they were wearing a crotch cloth, and they laughed at the eldest grandson Chong. But when the eldest grandson Chong gave each of them two, all of them never used the crotch cloth again.
"But this one is so small, it can only fit one of my legs." Li Chengqian made a bitter face, this is too small, pit people!
"You pull hard, give it a try?" Eldest Sun Chong chuckled.
Li Chengqian listened, and pulled it with his hand, and the originally small swimming trunks became full of elasticity. Surprised, he couldn't close his mouth and asked, "Big cousin, this is too, isn't it?" ”
"Hehe, it's really quite good!" Changsun Chong looked at the swimming trunks that were pulled very big, "Put it away." Only one piece will be given to each person, and there is no more. ”
Li Yexu hurriedly took a blue one. Li Ke had no choice but to take the remaining black one.
"Good. It's so good, I really want to put it on and try it in the sea. Li Yexu smacked his lips and said.
"If you want to go, we won't go." Li Chengqian thought that there were still a hundred times that he had not copied the Analects, so he dared to run around, let alone go into the water.
"I can see the bottom of the sea today. I'm content! Li Ke agreed.
Li Yexu felt that it was boring, so he had to give up, only at night he could avoid everyone's eyes and ears, but it was very dangerous in the sea at night. He didn't dare to go.
"Big cousin, why do you have so many good things?" Li Chengqian asked curiously.
Changsun Chong knew that if he took out so many things in a row, he would definitely be suspected by others, so he smiled and said, "Hehe, this is a secret, I can't tell you." In the future, I will definitely get you more good things. ”
Seeing that the eldest grandson Chong didn't say anything, Li Chengqian didn't want to ask, but his father could let the eldest cousin come out, and he also believed the eldest cousin, maybe the father knew the secret of the eldest cousin.
"The Analects can be copied on the road, and now they all go out to walk around, and they can't come to the beach once in vain." The eldest grandson Chong suggested that only by walking more and seeing more can he increase his knowledge. Copying the Analects all day long is not very useful except for being more proficient, and virtue is such a thing, as long as you have good thoughts and do not violate the law and discipline, then it will work.
"Cousin, you're right, if you don't find out what's going on nearby, it's really in vain. Then we will make a private visit during the day and come back at night to copy. Li Chengqian said with a smile.
"Then you're working too hard like this, aren't you?" The eldest grandson Chong was puzzled.
"Hehe, copying one page at night is also copying, and two pages are also copying, anyway, we didn't fall behind, I believe the teacher won't embarrass us." Li Chengqian has already figured out the key to this, but in the final analysis, it is just a matter of attitude.
The eldest grandson smiled treacherously, this Li Chengqian is growing up very fast, and nodded: "Well, well, yes, the son can be taught." ”
In the next few days, the eldest grandson Chong was busy working in the shipyard, and the two brothers Li Chengqian and Li Ke paid private visits everywhere to observe the lives of the people along the coast; As for Li Yexu's visit to see the newly acquired navy in the past few years, Zhang Daliang is the chief of the navy and is specifically responsible for this matter.
Although Li Yexu has been mixed in the army all the year round, it is not wrong to know more about it, and maybe he will be able to use it one day. If you use the words of your brother and grandson, your father and mother are not as good as yourself, and you don't have to be pressured by art!
Li Chengqian and Li Ke walked around the city of Dengzhou to understand the differences between the seaside city and the inland city. These people, although their faces are pale, they no longer suffer from war, and the smiles on their faces go straight to the bottom of their hearts.
"Big brother, you see, the people coming and going in this city are so lively, no worse than Chang'an!" Li Ke said with a smile, pointing to the crowd around.
Li Chengqian nodded and said: "Hehe, yes, in less than three years, this place will change greatly, and when we come again, it will be even more lively than now." ”
As he was talking, there were a lot of people in front of him, and he heard the sound of crying.
"Go and see, what's going on?" Li Chengqian pointed not far away and said, the guards behind him squeezed into the crowd to see what was going on.
After a while, he came to report: "A woman sold herself to bury her father, and everyone gathered around to see it!" ”
"Sell yourself to bury your father?" Li Chengqian frowned, seeing that it was quite prosperous here, there was such a thing, there were still beggars at the foot of the imperial city, this sentence was true.
"It's pathetic!" Li Chengqian took out ten taels of silver from his body, "Take it and bury her father." ”
The guards squeezed in again and gave the money to the weeping woman.
The woman in filial piety clothes saw that someone was giving her silver, and hurriedly kowtowed to the guards: "Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother!" When I bury my father, I will immediately go to serve my eldest brother, be a cow and a horse, and be a slave and a maid, and there will be no complaints. ”
"No need, I guess you still have this money left, think about how to live in the future, you don't need to sell yourself, our young master doesn't need it." With that, the guard turned to leave.
As soon as the woman saw that the guard was gone, she hurriedly pulled the guard's clothes and cried bitterly: "My lord, you can do it, take me in, my father is gone, I am a lonely woman, helpless, a good person will do everything to the end, I will do anything, I promise not to cause you trouble." ”
Although he sympathized with this woman, he didn't like it in his heart, but he felt like he was being relied upon, and the guard frowned: "This girl, giving you money is considered kindness, and you make us very embarrassed by doing this." ”
"Please!" The woman kept kowtowing and crying.
The people around us didn't have any money to help just now, and they didn't have enough spare energy, since this person has money, why don't they do it to the end, save this poor woman.
"This man is too hard-hearted!"
"This man is excessive!"
When the guards heard the people around them pointing and talking, they held their breath and turned their heads to leave, but the woman grabbed their clothes. The crowd uttered even more ugly words, making the guards almost vomit blood in anger.
Li Chengqian, Li Ke wondered, isn't it just to send money, why can't it come out for such a long time, so he asked the other guard behind him to take a look.
The two guards were sweating profusely and squeezed out of the crowd, ran to Li Chengqian and said, "Young master, we do good deeds, but it seems that the woman is going to blackmail us, so she has to sell herself to us as slaves." ”
"Forget it, let's go!" Li Chengqian and Li Ke didn't want to stay here, so they walked away quickly, not wanting to take advantage of the danger of others, and everyone didn't take this matter to heart.
Three days later, Changsun Chong was entangled by Yiniang and Princess Changle and had no choice, so he had to take them out to play and buy some gifts by the way.
Li Chengqian, Li Ke goes out for a walk every day, just with the eldest grandson.
"Big brother, I heard that the pearls here are cheap, I want to buy more." Yiniang shook the arm of the eldest grandson Chong and said with a smile, every time she wanted to ask her eldest brother for something, it was like this, and she tried it again and again.
The eldest grandson flicked Yiniang's nose and said, "Okay, buy more, go back and give it to a few younger sisters, so that they don't have to say that I am biased." Changle, you can also buy some, go back and give them away, today the eldest cousin has a treat. ”
"Okay!" Changle is very happy, this time he came out secretly, and the little money he brought has all been spent, and the cyst is shy, and now the eldest cousin is ready to give it to her, of course he is very happy.
When a group of people came out to go shopping, they would talk about something for a while, and after a while, Changsun Chong, Li Chengqian, Li Ke, and Li Yexu's hands were full of things.
"I said two aunts and grandmothers, don't buy it, we can't take it." Li Yexu explained with a bitter face that there were a lot of people just now, so the carriage was parked outside, so he could only go shopping, and he could only hold things in his hands.
Yiniang turned her head and snorted: "My brother didn't complain, but you couldn't stand it first, you are really unreliable when you speak." ”
The eldest grandson Chong, Li Chengqian, and Li Ke, who originally wanted to complain, hurriedly shut their mouths so as not to set themselves on fire.
"Yiniang, I didn't mean that, in fact, there are a lot of things in it, we can buy them in Chang'an, there is no need to go all the way to buy them back, it is best to buy them if there is nothing that Chang'an can't buy." Li Yexu explained that Yiniang was angry, and the consequences were very serious.
"I'll buy it, and it won't cost you money anyway." Yiniang is not convinced.
Li Yexu hurriedly took out the silver ticket from his body, which was given by his grandfather when he came, five hundred taels of silver, and said: "This is all my belongings, all for you, you can buy whatever you want!" (To be continued......)