Happy Little Scholar

The Li family is really big. More importantly, the roads are winding and winding, with moon gates one after another. Li Yi is not very good at recognizing the road. After simply washing his face, he was still led by a little maid to walk through the mansion.

A big family is a big family. Even eating has a specific place. It is not like coming from a small village or a small village. Wherever there is a place to squat, that is the dining hall.

As soon as he walked in from the outside, a beautiful woman in her early thirties came over, took his hand, and looked up and down.

"It's really the eldest brother's child. It looks exactly like the eldest brother when he was young."

The women of the Li family have a habit of holding other people's hands when they meet. When they are in the mood, they may even rub their faces twice.

Li Yi's face was almost deformed by the beautiful woman, but he had to force a smile: "You must be my aunt..., nephew has met my aunt."

The old lady has three sons and one daughter. Based on her address just now, Li Yi quickly judged the identity of the beautiful woman in front of him.

The youngest daughter of the old lady is also his nominal sister-in-law.

"Good child, come and sit down, you must be exhausted on the way..." The women of the Li family are also very enthusiastic. It has been more than half a year since Li Yi came to this world, but this is the first time that he feels welcomed by everyone, just like a wanderer returning home.

Of course, he was touched, but he knew very well that his home was in Qing'an Prefecture, not in Kyoto.

He was pulled by the beautiful woman to sit next to the old lady, and opposite was Miss Liu Er who had changed her clothes.

She wore the jade bracelet given to her by the old lady on her wrist, and a pair of hairpins on her head that she had never seen before. She just sat there quietly, and the butterfly wings on the hairpins would slowly flutter, which was very valuable at a glance; I don't know where the sword that she almost never left was put. After a while, she turned from a peerless female knight into a lady from a noble family. Needless to say, this must be the credit of the old lady.

The old lady's lineage was eating together, and they controlled the core of power in the Li family. In addition to the second uncle and the third uncle's family that I met in the morning, there was also the young aunt who kept asking questions. A half-grown child at the end of the table stared at Li Yi with wide eyes, and was very curious about the stranger who had never met before sitting next to the old lady.

It is said that the most basic rule for a wealthy family is not to talk while eating or sleeping. Li Yi found that this rule did not apply to the Li family. The beautiful woman next to him kept asking him about his life, and even the old lady would occasionally interject a few words. Of course, most of them were about his life in recent years, and more about the father who "never met".

Fortunately, the strange dreams he had recently had were probably the memories hidden deep in this body, and it was effortless to answer. He was just telling the facts, but the old lady and the beautiful woman were red-eyed.

"Has your father never told you about our Li family?" The old lady asked calmly, rubbing her eyes.

Li Yi shook his head. This was the truth. No one had ever said a word to him about the Li family in Beijing since he was a child.

The old lady sighed and said sadly, "In order to break them up, the old master almost killed your mother. He still hates us..."

Li Yi didn't know there was such a thing. No wonder his father always felt bad about his mother's death. It seems that he didn't want to mention the Li family. A large part of it might be because of this incident.

Not wanting the old lady to be too upset, the beautiful woman hurriedly changed the subject and asked, "I heard from housekeeper Li that Xiao Yi'er is now a county lieutenant, and was he personally appointed by His Majesty?"

Li Yi didn't react to this title for a while. Miss Liu Er, who was opposite him, almost spit out a mouthful of soup. She patted her chest and looked at Li Yi with a teasing look.

"It's just His Majesty's love." Li Yi could only nod and say.

"Since you have received the emperor's grace, you should be more diligent. You passed the examination at such a young age, which shows that you are very talented. Why haven't you continued to participate in the imperial examination in the past few years?" The middle-aged man sitting opposite the beautiful woman put down his chopsticks and looked at Li Yi and asked.

Without waiting for Li Yi to answer, he spoke again: "Any official above the seventh rank in our dynasty must be a Jinshi. Although you have received the emperor's grace, you should study hard and strive to obtain the title of Jinshi as soon as possible."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he sounded like a lecture.

The emperor's grace was great, and it was often great. Perhaps because a poem or an article caught the emperor's eye, he could get a position. As the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Li Mingze had seen a lot of these things, and there were at least 80 cases every year.

Although he was somewhat curious about what Li Yi had done to be rewarded by His Majesty, he was not too surprised. However, he was the most promising young man in the Li family. Thinking of the situation of the young people in the Li family, he looked at the two people below and said, "Yingjie, Yingcai, you two should also learn from your brother. Yingcai should listen to the teacher's teachings and not just think about playing all day. As for Yingjie, he will get married in a few months, so he should go to the red-light district less in the future."

Li Mingze no longer had any hope for his son. He planned to help him find a position in the future and live a stable life. Even if the Li family was deprived of the title in a few decades, they would not be bullied after so many years of operation.

After Li Mingze finished speaking, a young man at the end of the table nodded his head, feeling as if he had been shot in the chest.

However, even if he had ten courage, he would not dare to refute his father's words.

As for the young man who was using a wooden spoon to quickly scoop rice into his mouth, he just shook his round head. He was most afraid of this second uncle. Whatever the second uncle said was what he did. He quickly finished his meal because it was time to clean the bird's nest on the tree in the yard.

Fortunately, Li Yi was already immune to such words. He also thanked Professor Feng and smiled and said that he would study hard. He thought that there were still seven days before the old lady's birthday. He had time to experience the customs and customs of Kyoto, and then packed his luggage and rushed home. He heard that if he took a boat, he could go downstream from the capital and reach Qing'an Prefecture in less than two days...

"I left Baidi in the morning among the colorful clouds, and returned to Jiangling a thousand miles away in one day..." This should be the scene, right?

The meal was very harmonious. From some fragmentary words, Li Yi also had a deeper understanding of the current Li family.

In the capital, the political center of Jingguo, a viscount is really nothing. A brick thrown on the street can kill two people. However, those families that were once prominent have some foundation and are not so easy to decline. In addition to his title, his second uncle is also the Minister of Personnel, which is also a senior official of the dynasty. Moreover, at his age, he is likely to make further progress in his lifetime. As long as he does not commit any crimes, he can at least keep the Li family safe for decades.

For such a Li family, one more or one less is not much. It feels uncomfortable to be controlled by others in everything. It is better to return to the small Qing'an Mansion and live with Ruyi in that small courtyard.

He beat away the maid arranged by the old lady and sat in the courtyard assigned to him. The moon on the 16th day of the first lunar month is round, but there are only a few sparse stars.

In the capital, Li Xuan's wedding should have ended. I don't know if he has returned. I'm afraid that the princess will not be able to dress up as a constable and parade around the city again...

"Xiao Yi'er..."

When Li Yi was thinking about this, a weird voice came from the wall.