As one of the eight major families in Yanjing, the hall used by the Li family to receive important guests is naturally not just an ordinary living room, but is richly decorated, like the important place of the ancient Chinese imperial palace. Exquisite handmade classical mahogany furniture, a carpet made of fur from unknown large congenital demon beasts, a pair of unusually old purple sand tea sets on the table, and the four walls are hung with priceless antique calligraphy and paintings, full of elegance and power.

At the request of the old men of the Li family, there seems to be no science and technology here on the surface, and it purely wants to return to the taste of ancient China. Influenced by the elders of the past generations, the Li family is a rare big family that has maintained most of the customs of ancient China, just like the giant pandas in the national era, and it is not an exaggeration to call them the 'national treasure family'.

The disciples of the Li family are also very few Chinese people who can understand a few sentences of 'Zhihu Ye' in addition to scholars who study ancient Chinese culture. Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, the humanity hidden in the bones of the Chinese people has gradually been lost, otherwise it would not have been distorted by the crazy development of science and technology, and almost self-destruction.

It is precisely because of the Li family's Chinese heritage that they won a leadership seat in that rectification movement and demanded a lot of benefits that allowed the Li family to develop to this day. After the Rectification Movement, although the influence of traditional Chinese culture has increased countless times compared with before, the inability to establish substantial interests is still gradually forgotten.

Fortunately, the ancestors of the Li family did not panic at the moment of crisis, but tirelessly absorbed the spirit of the traditional golden mean, so that the family can still maintain today's scale after the weakness of traditional Chinese culture, this lesson also made the Li family deeply understand the essence of Chinese traditional culture, and the current Li family is no longer inherited for the sake of maintenance, but for its own development.

An extraordinarily large Eight Immortals table had been placed in the hall, enough to accommodate all the people of the Li family to sit around. The Eight Immortals table made of pure mahogany is exquisitely carved and has exquisite patterns. This is a high enough price for the Li family to let an ancestral carpenter make it with pure manual skills. It has been a hundred years now, but this table of eight immortals is still shining brightly under the maintenance of modern technology.

An old man in a green shirt was sitting in the first place, his face was clumsy, his gray hair was tied in a bun on the top and then draped behind his head, and his long beard hung softly on his chest. It is the current head of the Li family, the father of Li Qingtian and other second-generation disciples, Li Yuxi.

There was a vacant seat left on the left hand side of the old man, which was reserved for Uncle Li Qingtian, and the few places close to him were full of people at this time. It is several uncles of the second generation of the Li family, Li Qingshan, a figure who is quite prominent in the second generation of the Li family, is among them, but he can only sit on the periphery at the end of his age.

As soon as Li Qingtian came in, he went straight to the position on the left hand side of the old man, Li Bai and other juniors and his sister-in-law Li Qingzhao and other women also looked for suitable positions to sit down according to their respective ages and identities, and Li Bai's position was only before many aunts, the end of the three generations of juniors of the Li family. As a rather feudal family, the idea of preference for sons over daughters can be vividly reflected in some family rules.

The old man looked at the juniors, large and small, and his face was filled with a little relief and pride, which were the result of his efforts. It's just that after everyone sat down, there was still a small half of the vacant seats at the huge Eight Immortals table, which made him a little regretful. The great policy of trying to reproduce offspring was put forward by the old man.

In fact, he was not the only one in the old man's generation, but when he was young, he encountered a once-in-a-century beast tide, and the two brothers above him were overwhelmed by the beast tide in order to cover his retreat. At that time, the Li family pinned all their hopes on him, and almost crushed him, but fortunately he carried it over and did not let the Li family decay in his generation.

After surviving the crisis and putting the development of the Li family on the right track, the old man began to frantically prepare for the resources of the Li family's descendants, and he was also a successful man at that time, which can be described as a spring breeze. According to incomplete statistics, the old man had 9 mistresses back then, but he married the most eloquent and followed him to the tenth wife. If nothing else, just because Mrs. Ten gave birth to his first son, Li Qingtian, and gave birth to his youngest son, Li Qingshan, he is naturally the most favored.

As for Li Bai's other uncles, they were all born to him by the old man's other mistresses. In addition to his own grandmother, who passed away a few years ago, several other ladies will come to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner every New Year, and they will also come to live for a few days from time to time, and these grandmothers still have a lot of power outside, not only relying on the face of the old man, but also their own means. This is a legend that only belongs to the old man, and it is worshiped and admired by the juniors of the Li family.

It is also because of the old man that the idea of passing on the family has become the most important topic in the Li family at present, which has made many juniors very painful, after all, these things also have to pay attention to fate, and not everyone can become a legend like the old man. Li Bai has just come of age, and his headaches are still to come.

Syllable! The old man slapped the wooden plank in his hand, and the whole hall immediately fell silent.

"It's been a long time since I've had a meeting, and you've been very busy for most of the year! Forget all about me, old man? As soon as the old man opened his mouth, he shocked the audience, making a group of uncles and aunts of Li Qingtian's generation silent, and no one dared to answer.

For a long time, as the most favored youngest son, Li Qingshan said with difficulty in the urging eyes of his brothers and sisters: "Dad, aren't you too busy with work, your body is also tough enough, we have always been in contact with Xiao Tian." ”

Xiao Tian is the old man's royal physician, and the old man vented the anger in his heart and returned to the topic.

"Alright, just weigh it yourself. Now, I'm here to test the good grandchildren, who of you knows what I'm calling you all back for this time, and there will be a prize for the correct answer! The old man changed his smiling appearance, people say that they are relatives from generation to generation, but the old man is never ambiguous about the children of his grandchildren, leaving them with a deep psychological shadow. He must have hidden some conspiracy when he suddenly became so friendly, and the juniors immediately sat up straight, and no one dared to look at him.

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