When the two walked out of the courtyard, Zeng Zuimo looked around the small courtyard again, and asked the old man, "Uncle Ho, that garden in the backyard..."
The old man nodded again and again, and said, "It's there, it's there, it's exactly the same as before!"
She held Li Yi's hand, with a look of reminiscence on her face, "That garden is where I played hide-and-seek when I was a child. I know there is a place where no one can find it after hiding it..."
When walking towards the garden, she said with some regret: "It's a pity that it's winter now. If it's summer, when the branches and leaves are the most lush, it's the best time to play hide-and-seek."
Li Yi shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, then wait until summer to play, besides, it's all at home, so you can choose when, play whenever you want..."
She shook her head and said, "That was before..."
Li Yi turned his head and looked around, and murmured softly: "It will be the same in the future..."
…
"Congratulations Zijian, Mr. Zeng has been promoted to Jing Zhaoyin this time, and he is also the servant of the household department. It is extremely rare even if he counts up to two dynasties..."
"The one who got promoted is my father, it has nothing to do with me."
"Zijian just likes to be humble..."
"That's not right. Mr. Zeng's official career is going smoothly, and the status of the Zeng family in the capital has naturally increased. Zijian's matter with you may also be loosened..."
In the stone pavilion in the center of the garden, screens were erected on all sides to keep out the cold. In the center of the stone pavilion, a large stove was lit. There was a copper pot on the stove. Several young people boiled meat and vegetables in a copper pot, chatting while eating.
The screen resisted the cold air outside, and wrapped the heat inside, so that there was no coldness inside the screen.
Zeng Zijian picked up the wine that was warming in the small stove beside his hand, took a sip, shook his head and said, "It's not easy to overthrow the decree made by His Majesty himself. I don't want to be an official now. I'm just a dandy waiting to die. There's nothing bad about it either...”
The young man next to his left took a mouthful of mutton and comforted him, "Don't be discouraged, Zijian. This decree will be invalidated in one year or two or three years. It's not that you don't know about your majesty's body. How long can it last? Mr. Zeng has a high official fortune now, and he will be highly valued by His Royal Highness the King of Shu in the future. At that time, Zi Jian's matter about you is not just a word from His Highness... "
Zeng Zijian glanced at him and said, "Brother Han, be careful..."
The young man looked disapproving, "This is the Zeng family, and it's your territory. Zijian, you are too timid. Can anyone still hear us?"
He shook his head, took another mouthful of mutton, then smacked his lips, and said: "It is said that this thing called 'hot pot' was first created by Li Yi, you said he is a majestic magistrate, and he is also Doctor Jinzi Guanglu , not doing business, why do you like these crooked ways?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone opened a passage in the corner of the screen. Li Yi leaned half his body in, frowned and said, "Just now you said that your Majesty didn't have a good two years to live. I can pretend that I didn't hear it, but I don't forget to eat." Don’t you think it’s too much for a well digger to say such things while eating hot pot?”
Li Yi looked at Zeng Zijian and asked, "Master Zeng, what do you think?"
Snapped!
"You, why are you here!"
The jug in Zeng Zijian's hand fell to the ground, and his face changed wildly.
And that Mr. Han just now, his face turned from white to blue and then back to white, and only the words "You said just now that His Majesty has not had a good life for two years" echoed in his mind, and he stood up suddenly from his seat.
If this sentence reaches His Majesty's ears, it doesn't matter what position the Han family occupies in the court, even if they ransack the family and exterminate the whole family, it won't be an exaggeration!
clang!
Because he stood up too violently, his thigh touched the stove, and after a violent shake, the copper pot on the stove fell over, splashing hot soup, and then there were several screams of horror and ear-piercing.
The screens on all sides were hit by several people, and they fell to the ground one after another.
When the copper pot rolled down, Li Yi turned around quickly, hugged Miss Zeng behind her by the waist, jumped lightly, and jumped down to the pavilion.
With nephrite in his arms, Li Yi sighed as he watched the people rushing out of the pavilion with ferocious faces, took off their shoes, and jumped up and down on the spot, and said, "Although the hot pot is delicious, the boiling water is so hot. When you're here, be careful..."
The screams of crying for father and mother quickly attracted the guards of the Zeng residence. A middle-aged woman hurried over from the rear. Seeing the painful Zeng Zijian, her expression changed and she hurriedly said: "Zijian, what's the matter, what happened?"
"No, it's okay, it's just that I accidentally knocked over the soup pot just now, mother, mother, don't worry." Zeng Zijian gritted his teeth, looked at Li Yi with horrified eyes, and shook his head.
"Don't move here..." the woman said to him, then turned around, and sternly said to the guards: "What are you doing standing here, hurry up, call the doctor over here!"
In addition to Zeng Zijian, three other people were drenched in boiling water, but it was only scalded, and there was some pain in the flesh. Apart from being unable to move for a while, there was nothing serious about it.
Seeing Zeng Zijian, the middle-aged woman didn't mind. She stood up, glanced in a certain direction, and strode over. Looking at Zeng Zuimo, she frowned and said, "What are you doing here?"
Zeng Zuimo shook Li Yi's hand, walked out, looked at the middle-aged woman, and said calmly, "I'm here to get back my parents' spirit card."
"Spiritual card?" The middle-aged woman curled her lips, "Your parents are sinners of the Zeng family, shame the ancestors of the Zeng family, and let their spiritual card have a corner in the ancestral hall, what else do you want?" satisfied?"
Li Yi felt that she was holding his hand a little hard, and patted the back of her hand lightly.
"My father was framed." Zeng Zuimo looked at her, and said word by word: "You have already expelled him from the Zeng family, and he is no longer a member of your Zeng family. Bring back your spirit card."
The middle-aged woman sneered, "I don't know if your dead parents know, do you want their spirit cards to be placed in the Zeng family's ancestral hall, or in the hands of a dirty prostitute?"
Li Yi suddenly felt a tingling pain on the back of his hand, because her nails got stuck in the flesh on the back of his hand.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it."
He took a step forward, blocked her behind, and whispered something back.
The middle-aged woman was startled, and frowned, "What are you?"
"Zeng Shichun is quite smart, why did he marry such a thing as you..." Li Yi looked at the middle-aged woman and shook his head.
"you… "
Snapped!
Just as the middle-aged woman opened her mouth, there was a loud voice, followed by burning pain on one side of her face.
"This slap is for what you just said."
Snapped!
When the middle-aged woman froze in place with disbelief all over her face, Li Yi made another backhand.
"This slap is because you scolded me just now..., correct me, Li Yi, it's not..."
Li Yi stopped it in time, and after thinking about it, he gave her a dissatisfied look, "Are you still playing tricks with me?"
Snapped!
Another crisp slap.
"This slap is a routine."