Duanping is the youngest daughter of the Li family, named Li Xiao, and like Li Jianhong and Li Yanqiu, both follow the Chinese character for water. In the past, before she got married, she was the most favored by Li Jianhong, but she was also the one who was the least willing to marry her brother and Duan Xiaowan. Now it can be regarded as fate, but Duan Xiaowan's son actually came to him.
"Get up." Li Xiao hurriedly helped Duan Ling up. Duan Ling was still a little nervous, but Li Xiao sighed, neither crying nor helpless, looked at Duan Ling for a moment, and suddenly said, "Your mother must have been beautiful before her death, no wonder the third brother liked her so much."
Duan Ling laughed, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he said, "I don't look like my father, but more like my mother."
"I see." Li Xiao also smirked and said, "If you're like a sister-in-law, I can't tell you that I'd still be a little muttered in my heart today, but you can see that your lips and these dimples didn't say anything. already."
As he spoke, Li Xiao stretched out his finger and pressed Duan Ling's dimple, poking the corner of his mouth. Duan Ling was happy and felt a little embarrassed knowing that his lips resembled hers.
Li Xiao asked Duan Ling to sit still, looked in the mirror, untied his hair, and brushed him again.
"Who combed your hair in the past?" Li Xiao asked.
"Wu Du." Duan Ling replied.
"What about the past?" Li Xiao asked again.
"My father."
"Again?"
"Lang Junxia."
"What a strange name."
"It's Ulohum."
Li Xiao understood, and said, "Another day, let your uncle send you a hairdresser, but he doesn't know how to clean it up. Wu Du has to lead troops and protect you, so he can't handle it himself. Sloppy. Don't rely on your good looks, just be casual."
Duan Ling was so embarrassed that he never paid much attention to those things, so he hurriedly said "um".
Li Xiao combed his hair, let him get up, and took him into the hall. When he was about to see Yao Fu, Duan Ling couldn't help but get nervous again, thinking of a dignified and rigid middle-aged man, sitting in the hall, looking at his scene.
In the hall, Li Yanqiu was drinking tea. A middle-aged man faced Duan Ling, set up the chessboard, and played chess with Li Yanqiu.
"Here comes." Li Xiao said lightly.
"Uncle." Duan Ling was about to salute, but Li Xiao pulled him and said, "Ignore him."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa-"
The middle-aged man turned his head, but it was a fat man with a full beard. Seeing Duan Ling, he said, "This is Ruo'er! Ouch! Uncle finally sees you! Come, come!"
Duan Ling: "..."
Yao Fu has passed the year of knowing his destiny. He is older than the two brothers Li Jianhong and Li Yanqiu. He lives in Qi and nourishes his body. He can't help but gain weight. His eyes are still single eyelids, and he has no similarities with Zheng Yan at all. Come, happy eyes narrowed into a slit, almost can't find it.
Yao Fu hurriedly stayed at the bed with a "yoha" sound, lifted the golden belt, was so enthusiastic that he stepped forward and hugged Duan Ling. Duan Ling's whole body froze. Yao Fu was a tall and fat man. He couldn't stop talking while talking, and he used his beard to rub Duan Ling's face.
"Hey, hey." Li Xiao hurriedly said, "I'm eighteen, you should treat your youngest son."
Duan Ling could not laugh or cry, but Yao Fu said it was very good, and said with satisfaction, "This one looks like this, this one looks like it!"
After saying that, he sat back on the couch, smiled at Li Yanqiu again, and said, "This is finally like it."
Everyone: "… "
Wu Du and Zheng Yan stood aside, their faces were extremely strange, as if they were trying to hold back their smiles.
Duan Ling saluted Li Yanqiu again, Li Yanqiu waved to him and asked him to sit next to his lap, Duan Ling was beside him, watching him play chess with Yao Fu, Li Xiao ordered the maid to prepare lunch.
Yao Fu smiled and was very kind. He looked at Duan Ling again, tsk tsk admiration, and gave him a thumbs up. Duan Ling didn't know how to respond, so he could only laugh.
"Your fifth aunt has always been a knife-mouthed, tofu-hearted person." Yao Fu said, "What you said, just listen to it."
Duan Ling hurriedly said that the fifth aunt had said it all. When he looked up at Li Yanqiu, Li Yanqiu didn't mention anything about his past, and said casually, "I saw you asleep yesterday, so I didn't ask anyone to call. After sleeping for so long, you must be hungry too. It's a family banquet today, so there's no need to hold ceremony, we all sit and eat together."
"What about them?" Duan Ling always felt uneasy.
"Let's talk about it after eating." Li Yanqiu said, "If you have to worry about it, let the fourth uncle finish this game of chess first."
Yao Fu asked, "Ruo'er, do you know how to play chess?"
"Yes... a little." Duan Ling replied.
"Very good! Very good!" Yao Fu praised.
Duan Ling really didn't know why it was "very good" to play chess a little. Yao Fu asked him what he liked and how he was doing in the north. Duan Ling answered truthfully and found that Yao Fu seemed to think of himself as a child. After a while, another girl came over with a five- or six-year-old child. Duan Ling thought that this should be Yao Zheng.
Yao Zheng called his parents and brought his younger brother, whose name was Yao Zhao. He first called Li Yanqiu his fourth uncle, and then called Yao Fu's father. Yao Fu teased him with a wide-eyed smile, asked him to hug him, and said, "This is your brother, my name is brother."
"This can be compared." Li Xiao laughed aside.
Yao Zhao followed his father's small eyes, and Duan Ling only looked at it for fun. He held hands with him. Seeing Yao Fu holding his young son, and remembering that he was so spoiled by his father back then, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Li Yanqiu seemed to sense Duan Ling's mood and touched his head with a smile, meaning that someone was hurting you too.
"Yo." Yao Zheng looked at Wu Du, and said, "It's been three years since you have been away for three days. You've been climbing quite fast."
Duan Ling: "..."
Wu Du and Yao Zheng looked at each other, Duan Ling was about to speak, but Wu Du replied, "I don't dare to do it, I can't say that I have a better life than the guy in prison."
Yao Zheng: "You..."
"Okay, okay." Yao Fu said, "Why is it always like this? Your brother has finally returned home today. As a big sister, don't let people make fun of you."
Duan Ling finally knew that Yao Fu taught children like this, and that he was used to being a daughter. Li Yanqiu didn't say anything. After playing chess, Li Xiao ordered the table to be served. The table is full of dishes, all of which are precious ingredients. Duan Ling thought how much it would cost, and it was better than eating in the palace.
Li Xiao had two more places, Wu Du and Zheng Yan also took their seats, Wu Du accompanied Duan Ling, and Zheng Yan served Yao Fu's youngest son, and wiped his mouth after eating.
"I'll take you to play." Zheng Yan said to Yao Zhao, leading him out with one hand.
"I'll take you to play too," Wu Du said to Duan Ling.
"What's the fun?" Duan Ling couldn't help laughing and crying, "Hurry up and pack up and prepare to go back, Yecheng doesn't know what the chaos is like."
The soldiers came one after another, some of them came to Huaiyin, and some of them could not find anyone, so they waited at the foot of Dingjun Mountain. Wu Du had already sent a letter in the past few days, asking to keep 400 people in Huaiyin, and the rest to go back to Hebei.
But there are still too many unresolved matters, and Duan Ling's head hurts when he thinks about it. Fortunately, Li Yanqiu was still by his side, as long as he nodded, otherwise it would be really troublesome.
After dinner, Li Yanqiu moved to the side hall. It started to snow lightly in Huaiyin, and a stove was built in the side hall. Duan Ling came over and said to Li Yanqiu, "Fourth Uncle, I have to go back."
"Where are you going back?" Li Yanqiu said, "You are not allowed to go anywhere. Since you are back, follow me back to the capital."
"No." Duan Ling said, "Almost all of Yecheng's soldiers came out, Qin Long... Anyway, I have to go back and rectify it immediately."
Yao Fu was listening, nodded, and said, "If I knew you were in Hebei, my uncle's soldiers had already been dispatched. Earlier, that boy Zheng Yan sent a letter, and he was so angry that I was scolded by your fifth aunt. pause."
Li Yanqiu said, "I have already tried Qin Taki."
Duan Ling's heart froze, Qin Taki rebelled and dared to assassinate the emperor. If the court were to hold him accountable, his immediate superior would be accused of losing his head. Hejiancheng's troops were mobilized, but Wu Du didn't even notice it. Enough for a pot.
"Well." Duan Ling felt uneasy.
"Wu Du." Li Yanqiu said.
Wu Du came in, knowing that accountability was unavoidable, he lifted the front of his robe and knelt down.
"As Colonel Hejian, you are in charge of the military in Hebei, and your subordinate Qin Taki is conspiring against you, but you didn't even notice it." Li Yanqiu said, "Do you know the guilt?"
"My subordinates are guilty." Wu Du replied.
Duan Ling was about to plead for Wu Du, but Li Xiao waved his hand at Duan Ling under the table, and Duan Ling had to stop talking.
"But what Qin Taki mobilized was not a regular army after all." Li Yanqiu said, "After my interrogation, he colluded with bandits in Hebei, wearing the armor of a regular army, and came to assassinate me. Therefore, you left AWOL and were mobilized. The crime of the army knowing nothing."
These words finally solved Duan Ling's doubts, and said why Qin Taki had such a group of "Hebei Army" who had never been seen before. It seemed that his family was hidden too well.
"Yes." Wu Du knelt on the ground and listened quietly.
"I miss you guarding the prince for many years, running the army in Hebei, and taking over the Yuan people in the north. You have made great contributions." Li Yanqiu said, "I should have been named the prince's master, but now you are downgraded to the prince's junior master and fined for a year's salary, can you be convinced? "
"I know I'm wrong." Wu Dubai fell to the ground.
Duan Ling heaved a sigh of relief and felt uneasy. Li Xiao said: "It's really arrogant."
Duan Ling was stunned again, thinking that Li Xiao was talking about Wu Du's attitude. Yao Fu sighed and said, "The shepherd's family is going to fight to death and the net will be broken."
Li Yanqiu said to Wu Du, "Get up."
Wu Du got up, and Li Yanqiu said again: "In the past few days, you will take the prince to walk around, it's none of your business."
Duan Ling also wanted to ask about Lang Junxia, but Li Yanqiu seemed to be unwilling to let Duan Ling get involved, and ordered the door to be closed to discuss matters with Yao Fu.
Wu Du and Duan Ling came out, Duan Ling was very worried, but Wu Du looked at him and smiled.
"What's the fun?" Duan Ling asked.
Wu Du replied, "I sealed a civil servant."
Duan Ling said, "What's so fun about this." But on second thought, he remembered that most of Chen Guo's military generals were bullied by civilian officials. Now that Wu Du has become a civilian officer, he can naturally roll up his sleeves and teach others a lesson.