After handing over his work in the afternoon, Director Li Xingpeng officially ended his work in the Armaments Department. Next Monday, he will officially become an assistant minister, and from then on he will enter the ranks of high-ranking officers in the empire.

At the same time, Sergeant Lina, the former assistant to the director, was officially promoted to the assistant to the minister and became Sergeant Lina. All of this was deliberately asked by Li Xingpeng to help Princess Lili Ai.

Riding in his own private carriage, he soon returned to his residence in the imperial capital. This is an ordinary courtyard house located in the civilian area in the west of the city, and it is also the only private property of Baron Li Xingpeng in the imperial capital.

As soon as the carriage stopped at the gate of its slightly dilapidated courtyard, the old gate was opened.

"Young Master, you're back!" An old man who looked at the age of the year stood by the open courtyard door with his back bent.

"Well, Uncle Lee, what did you cook tonight, I'm hungry." Waving his hand to signal that his coachman could go back, Li Xingpeng turned around and closed the courtyard door, and immediately became like a child and walked towards the courtyard with the old man in his arms.

"Young master, there is a guest at home, from the southeast province!" The old man gently broke free of Li Xingpeng's arm holding him, and hurriedly reminded that there were guests at home today.

Hearing that there were guests at home, and they were from the southeastern province, Li Xingpeng's brows furrowed slightly. The old man beside him also noticed Li Xingpeng's strange appearance, and hurriedly and secretly pulled the latter's sleeve.

Hearing the movement in the courtyard, two middle-aged men quickly came out of the living room, and after giving Li Xingpeng a salute, they politely stepped aside.

"Manager Li, I haven't seen you for several years, I don't know what you're doing this visit?" Li Xingpeng greeted the man named Li Fei who was closest to him politely. Glancing at the man behind Li Fei, he nodded lightly and took the lead towards the living room.

"Lord Duke has been missing you a lot lately, so he sent me to send you some hometown specialties. In addition, the lady is also very concerned about the young master, so let the housekeeper Li An next to him also come over to see the young master! ”

Following Li Xingpeng, the two came to the small living room. Seeing Li Xingpeng, who had turned around, looking at him, he hurriedly stepped forward to explain his intentions.

Seeing that Li Xingpeng motioned for him to sit down and talk, the two of them found their own places to do it. At this time, Li Bo also brought tea from the kitchen and politely served a cup of green tea to the two.

It seems that the two of them were sitting awkwardly in the room before, and they didn't even mix a cup of tea. This will see that he was not kicked out by his young master, so Li Bo gave the two of them a little humanitarian treatment.

Lord Duke, the face of the bad old man in his mind once again crossed Li Xingpeng's eyes, and he felt a little strange. The arrival of General Manager Li should have a lot to do with his position as assistant minister. If it weren't for this, how could he arrange people to come over and talk about the deep relationship between father and son.

Li Xingpeng's true identity, which is actually Lin He, is also unclear.

If he and his second brother Linghu Yihui appeared here at this time, it is estimated that he would definitely hold down his eldest brother and beg for the money he had eaten and drunk for nothing in the past two years. You know, when the previous two were in school, they didn't help this big brother who looked a little rigid.

Even Linghu Yihui, who was also born in a civilian family, usually works as a tutor and robs junior classmates, and the benefits he gets from robbing junior classmates are all generously taken out for public use.

Li Siming, Duke of the White Tiger, is the contemporary head of the Li family, which has the longest history in the aristocratic family in the eastern part of the empire, and his fief is six provinces adjacent to the 100,000 mountains.

Duke Li Siming didn't have anything too brilliant in his life, guarding the relatively calm eastern border of the empire, and doing nothing for most of his life.

If there's one place to show off, it's the Duke's fertility. The old duke married three ladies in his lifetime, and these three ladies bore the old duke a total of eight boys and five girls. The total number reached as many as fourteen.

There is one more because the problem is Li Xingpeng.

The old duke actually has four wives, and there is a fourth lady that few people know, that is, Li Xingpeng's mother, who turned out to be a maid in the Duke's Palace. After an old duke drank too much, a plot occurred that often appears in romance novels.

Fortunately, after becoming pregnant, this old and unashamed father still admitted it. Not only did he arrange a separate yard for his mother, equipped with corresponding servants, but he also occasionally came over to ask for warmth.

As for the attitude of the three genuine ladies in the family, it is not cold but also warm. After all, the three wives who are marrying Ming Media are also wealthy nobles in their families. Naturally, there is no need to lower your value and get along with a maid.

Li Xingpeng, who was a child, was a lone and independent existence in the Duke's Palace. The small circle of brothers and sisters, I will definitely not be able to get in. Moreover, her weak mother was also worried about her son's safety, so she deliberately narrowed the scope of Li Xingpeng's activities, and she usually disciplined her relatively harshly.

When he was eleven years old, his mother finally moved the Duke and sent Li Xingpeng to the imperial capital to study through family relations. And Li Xingpeng, who has been taught by his mother since he was a child, naturally has a strength far beyond that of ordinary children. A few years later, he was admitted to the Imperial Royal Academy as a civilian.

And since leaving the Duke's Palace, which is thousands of miles away, he has slowly cut off contact with that side. The only thing I care about is my mother.

He served as the Chief of Armaments and has now been promoted to Assistant Minister. It can be said that Li Xingpeng, who graduated from school, can be said to be on a steady rise. The speed of promotion can be used by rockets to pedestrians, as for what a rocket is, there is no need to delve into it, you don't understand it.

It is precisely because he is too good that Li Xingpeng, the star of hope for the future, inevitably attracted the attention of the Duke's Palace. You must know that in Li Xingpeng's generation, he is basically disabled. Occasionally, there are a few normal ones, but they are all mediocre in their qualifications and difficult to take on big responsibilities.

Although the family belongs to the hereditary top nobles of the empire, everyone also knows that without the leadership of an excellent family master, the family that is slowly declining will inevitably decline in the end. It will eventually disappear into the long river of history, although the probability of such a thing is relatively small.

After all, every family will spare no effort to cultivate successors for the sake of their own inheritance. With resources that are beyond the reach of others, generally speaking, there will always be a few qualified heirs who can take on great responsibilities.

The same is true on the Duke's side, but after more than 20 years of training, I don't know what went wrong there. None of Li Xingpeng's eight half-brothers can look pleasing to the eye, and all of them are big road goods with mediocre qualifications.

This has slowly become a problem for the Duke, and the Duke has not known how many nights he has not been able to sleep in the past few years. And now, the little son who is about to forget about the flowers inside the wall and the fragrance outside the wall has put a satellite, which makes the old heart of the Duke alive again.

So, thousands of miles away, the love from his own father appeared in front of Li Xingpeng!