The Li family is really big. The important thing is that the roads are winding and winding, with seven turns and eight turns, and moon gates one after another. Li Yi is not very good at recognizing the road. After simply washing his face, he is still led by a little maid Lead and walk through the mansion.
A big family is a big family, and even have a specific place to eat, unlike those who come from a small village, where there is a place to squat, there is a dining hall.
Just as he walked in from the door, a beautiful woman in her early thirties walked up to him, took his hand and looked him up and down.
"Sure enough, it's Big Brother's child. It looks exactly like Big Brother when he was young."
The women of the Li family have the habit of pulling other people's hands as soon as they meet, and when they get excited, they may even knead their faces twice.
Li Yi's face was almost deformed by that beautiful woman, and he forced a smile: "You must be sister-in-law..., nephew has seen sister-in-law."
The old lady has three sons and one daughter. According to her address just now, Li Yi quickly judged the identity of the beautiful woman in front of her.
The youngest daughter of the old lady is also his nominal sister-in-law.
"Good boy, hurry up and sit down, you must be exhausted from the journey..." The women of the Li family are also very enthusiastic. It has been more than half a year since he came to this world, and this is the first time that Li Yi has been welcomed by everyone. It feels like a wanderer coming home.
Of course, the touch belongs to the touch, and he knows very well in his heart that his home is in Qing'an Mansion, not in the capital.
He was dragged by the beautiful woman to sit next to the old lady, facing the second Miss Liu who had changed into another outfit.
There is a jade bracelet given to her by the old lady on her wrist, and a pair of hairpins on her head that she has never seen before, just sitting there quietly, the butterfly wings on the hairpins will be flapping slowly, one look It is very valuable; the saber that is almost never out of the body does not know where to put it, and after a while, it has changed from a peerless heroine to a lady. Needless to say, this must be the old lady's credit.
Those who ate together were from the line of the old lady, who controlled the current core of power in the Li family. In addition to the family of the second and third uncles I met in the morning, there was also this sister-in-law who kept asking questions. The child stared at Li Yi with wide eyes, very curious that this stranger, whom he had never seen before, could sit beside the grandmother.
It is said that it is the most basic rule for rich people to eat and sleep without talking. Li Yi found that this rule does not apply to the Li family. Of course, most of the sentences are about his life in these years, and more about the "never met" father.
Fortunately, the strange dreams he had in recent days were probably the memories hidden deep in this body, and it was easy to answer them. He was just telling the facts, but the old lady and the beautiful woman's eyes turned red when they heard it.
"Your father, has he never told you about our Li family?" The old lady rubbed her eyes calmly and asked.
Li Yi shook his head, and that was exactly the case. No one had ever spoken to him about the Li family in the capital since he was a child.
The old lady sighed, and said sadly: "Back then, the master almost killed your mother in order to break them up. He still has hatred for us..."
Li Yi didn't know that there was such a thing. No wonder his father was always brooding over his mother's death in his memory. It seemed that he didn't want to mention the Li family, and a large part of it might be because of this incident.
Not wanting the old lady to be too distressed, the beautiful woman hurriedly changed the subject and asked: "Listen to Steward Li, is Xiao Yi'er now the captain of a county, or is he personally appointed by His Majesty?"
For this address, Li Yi didn't react for a while, and Miss Liu Er who was opposite almost spit out a mouthful of soup, patted her chest, and looked at Li Yi with teasing eyes.
"It's just your majesty's love." Li Yi could only nod his head and say.
"Since you have the emperor's favor, you should be more diligent. You have passed the examination of scholar at a young age, which shows that you are very talented. Why haven't you continued to take the imperial examination in recent years?" The middle-aged man sitting opposite the beautiful woman put down his chopsticks and looked at Li Yi asked.
Before Li Yi could answer, he spoke again: "As long as I am an official of the seventh rank and above, I will not be a Jinshi. Although you are in favor of the emperor, you should study hard and strive to get the Jinshi as soon as possible."
As soon as he opened his mouth, there was a taste of admonishment.
The emperor's favor is powerful, and it is often powerful. Perhaps because a poem or an article has caught His Majesty's eyes, he can get a half-job. As the left servant of the official department, Li Mingze has seen many of these things. If there are not one hundred pieces, there are eighty pieces.
Although he was a little curious about what Li Yi had done to be rewarded by His Majesty, he was not too surprised, but in any case, he was considered the most promising of the younger generation of the Li family. Thinking of the situation of the younger generation of the Li family, looking at The two people in the first place said: "Yingjie, Yingcai, you two also have to learn from your elder brother. Yingcai should listen to the teacher's teachings and don't just think about playing around all day. As for Yingjie, it will be a few months later." I'm going to get married, and I won't go to Huajie and Liuxiang from now on."
For his son, Li Mingze has given up hope. He plans to help him find an official position in the future, so that he can spend his life in peace. It will not be reduced to the situation of being bullied.
After Li Mingze finished speaking, a young man at the end of the table nodded his head, feeling like an arrow had been shot in his chest.
However, even if he had ten guts, he would not dare to refute his father's words.
As for the young man who was quickly pushing rice into his mouth with a wooden spoon, he just shook his head. He was most afraid of this second uncle. It's time to dig out the bird's nest in that tree.
Fortunately, Li Yi is immune to such words, and I would also like to thank Professor Feng, who smiled and said that he would study hard, thinking that there are still seven days before the old lady's birthday, and I have time to experience the customs of Kyoto, and then I packed my luggage and rushed home. I heard that if you take a boat, you can go down the river from the capital, and you can reach Qing'an Mansion in less than two days...
"Chaoci Baidi among the colorful clouds, a thousand miles of rivers and tombs return in one day..." Is this the kind of scene that I'm talking about
The meal was very harmonious, and from some fragmentary words, Li Yi also had a deeper understanding of the current Li family.
In the capital city, the political center of Jingguo, a viscount is really nothing. Throwing a brick on the street can kill two of them. The second uncle, in addition to having a title, is also a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and can be regarded as a high-ranking official, and at his age, it is very possible to go further in his lifetime. As long as he does not commit any political crimes, at least he can protect the Li family for dozens of years. Happy New Year.
In this kind of Li family, there is not much if there is one more him, and there is not much if there is one less. .
After sending away the maid arranged by the old lady, he sat in the yard allotted to him. The moon on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month was quite round, but there were not many stars.
In the capital, Li Xuan's big wedding should have ended, and I don't know if he has gone back. I'm afraid it's impossible for Her Royal Highness to pretend to be a policeman again...
"Xiao Yier..."
While Li Yi was thinking about this, a strange voice came from the wall.