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When I came to Li's house, the time had just arrived at Si o'clock.

The two of them went to the study under the leadership of the housekeeper. It seemed that Li Bingcheng had just returned from court, and he hadn't even had time to change his court clothes.Seeing his son whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Li Bingcheng's eyes moved back to normal.After saluting with Li Hongshen, Li Zian sat down beside him and quietly listened to the conversation between the father and son who were not too close.

Li Bingcheng was obviously a handsome man when he was young, even now that he is old, it is still not difficult to see the elegance of his youth.The grizzled hair was meticulously tied into the hair crown, and the dark blue court dress was worn on the body, even if he didn't speak, there was an aura of calmness and self-prestige.

Li Zi'an was still a little nervous when he met Li Bingcheng for the first time, but when he glanced at Li Hongshen's faint eyes, all the emotions in his heart immediately settled down.

I thought that Li Zi'an was still worried that Li Bingcheng asked his identity and the two father and son had a falling out without saying a word, but obviously he was too worried.Li Bingcheng glanced at him and then turned his gaze to Li Hongshen.

"You feel that you are doing well in this test, are you sure?"

"After the exam, I asked Mr. Yan Qing to help me evaluate it. It should be okay."

Li Hongshen didn't have much affection for this father, and they usually said a few innocuous words when they got along.Now at this time, Li Hongshen wanted to find something else to talk about, but found that he had nothing to say to that so-called father...

Seeing Li Hongshen's expression, Li Bingcheng didn't show it on the face but felt a little bitter in his heart.He knew how much he had neglected his son these years, and by the time he realized it, the child had grown up, standing with him was almost half a head taller than him.It's not that Li Bingcheng didn't want to treat the child left by his first wife well, but the relationship between the two has always been indifferent, and they want to make up but don't know where to start.Li Bingcheng originally thought to leave it like this, but the matter of King Rui made him have to push this son farther away.

Knowing that this child hated the mother and daughter in the backyard the most, but at this time Li Bingcheng had to take them out as a raft.

"Well, Yan Shu and His Royal Highness Rui Wang are going to get married next month. As an elder brother, you have to attend. It just so happens that you come back this time, so I won't have to send someone to make a fuss." Li Bingcheng He gripped the arm of the chair tightly, trying to restrain his expression as much as possible.

Sure enough, after Li Bingcheng's voice fell, Li Hongshen's expression changed immediately.Looking up at the expressionless father with a cold expression on his face, Li Hongshen said: "It's really a coincidence, I originally planned to set off and return to Lin'an the day after tomorrow."

"Don't wait for the list to be released?" Li Bingcheng asked.

"I wanted it at first, but now it seems that it is not necessary." After speaking, Li Hongshen got up and walked to Li Zian, stretched out his hand to hold Li Zian's hand, and said, "I'm coming back today, and I have one more thing to say to my father. explain."

"When I was in Lin'an, I was already married under the management of my cousin and brother-in-law. Today I brought my husband to say hello to my father, and I brought him here to recognize the family."

When Li Bingcheng saw Li Hongshen holding Li Zi'an's hand, his heart was already clenched.However, when his son really said that he was married and that his husband was still a man, Li Bingcheng felt his head thump, and his eyes went blank, and he collapsed on the chair.

Even though Li Hongshen didn't like this father, but now that he suddenly collapsed in front of him, it was impossible not to panic.

Li Hongshen and Li Zian hurriedly stepped forward to check on Li Bingcheng's situation, and at the same time called the steward Li at the door to ask him to call for a doctor.After tossing for a while, Li Yang in the backyard was finally alarmed and rushed to the study with her maid in a hurry.Seeing Li Hongshen and Li Zian beside him, Li Yang's eyes flickered and he went into the room to visit Li Bingcheng.Seeing that the person's complexion was not very good, but his breathing was steady, he felt relieved and turned his head to look at Li Hongshen.

"When did the eldest son come back? What happened to the master? He was fine when he came back just now, why did he pass out suddenly?"

Although Li Yangshi spoke politely, his tone of voice and meaning in his words were not very polite.

Li Yangshi is Li Hongshen's nominal "mother" anyway, and Li Zi'an listened to her words and was about to speak back.But he saw the steward of Li's mansion hurriedly leading an old man with a gray beard and carrying a medicine box on his back.

Li Zi'an held back his anger and shook Li Hongshen's cold fingertips, and comforted him, "Don't worry, it will be fine."

Li Hongshen nodded and did not make a sound, and followed the doctor after he was brought into the inner room by the housekeeper.Li Yangshi was still standing in the living room looking up and down at Li Zi'an, seeing that his eyes were full of contempt in his plain clothes.

"Butler Li is really serious. No matter what kind of countrymen, cats and dogs, they bring them to the mansion. In case something is lost, he can take responsibility."

Hearing this, Li Zian was not angry at all.Thinking of the life experience of the stepmother that Li Hongshen told him at the beginning, he smiled and said: "Isn't it, it doesn't matter if you lose something, even if you lose your conscience, no one will be responsible. After all, this money touches people's hearts. Lost in mind and broken in conscience, you can be looked down upon even more than cats and dogs and rural peasants!"

Li Yangshi couldn't tell that Li Zi'an was mocking her. She was the most taboo of others to tell the story of the past, and her face turned livid with anger. The big servant girl roared: "Get this man out of here, out!"

"Who is Madam going to drive out?" Li Hongshen walked out quickly from the house, looked at Li Yang with a livid face, Li Hongshen frowned and said impatiently: "Father is still in a coma at this time, why is Madam yelling so loudly?" Decent!"

Seeing Li Hongshen coming out, Li Yang's face was green, pointing at Li Zi'an and scolding: "Young master just came out, where did this barbarian come from, to come to Li's mansion to play wild?"

Hearing this, Li Hongshen glanced at Li Zi'an who was smiling at the corner of his mouth, and said, "He is my husband, not a barbarian. Madam, please pay attention to your words. If you say something inappropriate, don't blame me for not leaving it for you." feelings."

Li Yang was originally full of anger, but when she heard Li Hongshen pull a man and call out 'Husband' one by one, she was stunned for a moment and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Covering her mouth with a veil, Li Yang gave Li Zian a white look.Twisting his waist, he walked towards the inner room.When passing by Li Hongshen, Li Yang covered her mouth with a handkerchief, cursed 'bitch' in a barely audible way, and then walked towards the inner room holding the maid's hand.

Li Zi'an was standing next to Li Hongshen, and Li Yang's scolding was naturally heard clearly.Li Zi'an has always kept Li Hongshen at the tip of his heart, and he was not willing to make a move to bear Li Yang's insults.He opened his mouth to fight back and said: "If you are talking about cheapness, he is not one ten thousandth as good as you. A married man still covets it, it is simply a subsidy."

Li Yang's voice is very low, and Li Zi'an's voice is not too loud.Li Yangshi was about to lose his temper when he heard a cough coming from the inner room.Li Bingcheng raised his voice and said, "Who is making noise outside?"

Hearing this, Li Yangshi was not going to have another attack, so he immediately flung off his sleeves and helped the servant girl's hand into the inner room.After a while, Li Yangshi came out of the inner room with a proud face, looked sideways at Li Hongshen and Li Zi'an, and said in a thin voice: "Eldest son, the master invites you in."

Li Hongshen originally planned to be expelled from the Li family, but now seeing Li Yang coming out of the house with a proud face, his heart was not fluctuating, and he walked into the inner room together holding Li Zi'an's hand.

Li Bingcheng lay on the bed with a blank face, looked at his own son who was holding hands with Li Zian, closed his eyes involuntarily, took a deep breath, Li Bingcheng said in a deep voice: "Since you are willing to be a wife, I don't stop it either. From today on, our Li family will not have you as an unworthy descendant, and you will no longer be the son of my Li family."

As he said that, Li Bingcheng sat up with his hands propped up, looked at Li Hongshen with piercing eyes and took a deep breath and said: "You and my father and son are destined to be destined by heaven for twenty years. Now that our fate is over, what do you want? Do your best to help you."

Hearing this, Li Yang who was standing at the door was not happy at first, but looked at Li Bingcheng's warning eyes.Li Yangshi murmured for a while and finally said nothing.

Li Hongshen stood in front of Li Bingcheng's bed with his hands down, holding Li Zi'an's hand. Hearing Li Bingcheng's words, he felt a tightness in his chest. He swallowed hard and said, "I don't want anything. You can pick it up in the ancestral hall of the government."

"No! I can promise you anything you say, but I don't agree to this!" After Li Bingcheng finished his last sentence, the veins on his forehead burst out.

Seeing his appearance like this, Li Hongshen felt both sad and pathetic.

"Why don't you allow it? You don't cherish her when she is alive, so what's the point of holding on to her when she is dead? My mother has never been happy for a day since she entered the mansion. I heard her want to go back to her hometown earlier. I am already in Lin'an So what if you take her back to your hometown when you have a family."

Thinking of that gentle woman, Li Bingcheng only felt pain like a knife in his heart.However, the two of them have been separated forever, and it is too late to regret some things.

"Can't we really keep her?" Li Bingcheng's voice was trembling, and his eyes were pleading.

If nothing happened back then, Li Hongshen would not be able to help but praise him as an affectionate gentleman, but he is Li Bingcheng's son, and he saw with his own eyes how Li Bing became the most affectionate and kind-hearted mother of Li Yang's mother and daughter.

"You have already made a promise, so you can't go back on it. Besides, you have more than one woman, but I only have one mother."

Li Hongshen's words pierced Li Bingcheng's heart heavily. Li Bingcheng fell down on the bed with red eyes, and waved to him with his eyes closed.

"That's all, Steward Li, open the ancestral hall, and take the young master to ask for a memorial tablet."

Hearing this, Steward Li bowed in response.Reaching out his hand to Li Hongshen as a gesture of invitation, Li Hongshen took another deep look at Li Bingcheng, turned around and walked out while holding Li Zian's hand.When Li Hongshen was about to walk out of the door, Li Bingcheng was lying on the bed and said: "From now on, you and my father and son will have no ties to each other. In the future, whether you live or die, whether you are poor or expensive, has nothing to do with my Li family!"

Li Hongshen had already stepped out of the threshold of the inner room. Hearing Li Bingcheng's words, he stopped, squeezed Li Zi'an's hand, tried his best to suppress the trembling in his voice, and replied, "As you wish!"

After all, Li Hongshen pulled Li Zian out of the study without looking back, and followed Steward Li to the ancestral hall.

Li Hongshen and Li Zian entered the ancestral hall and knelt down on the ground, kowtowing heavily at the golden tablet with a black background.

"Mother, I brought my husband to fetch you back to Lin'an." After finishing speaking, Li Hongshen bent down and kowtowed again, then got up and walked to the tablet and carefully took it off.After wiping off the floating dust on it, Li Hongshen wrapped the tablet with the red silk he brought, hugged it to his chest, and walked out of the gate of Li Mansion step by step.

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As soon as Li Hongshen stepped out of the gate of Li's residence, Li Yang sent someone to throw out Haoranxuan's things.Li Hongshen held his mother's memorial tablet, looked up at the nurse in charge beside Li Yang at the gate of Li's mansion, and remained silent.On the contrary, Li Zi'an really couldn't bear it anymore, he wanted to go forward and argue with those villains.Hearing the applause from the side, everyone turned their heads, only to see Meng Jiu squeezed out from the crowd in a moon-white dress.

"My son has just left the house. I didn't expect to see a good show."

After finishing speaking, Meng Jiu glanced at Li Hongshen and Li Zian who were holding the tablets, then looked back at the nurse in charge standing at the door with her hips akimbo, and walked two steps forward.

"If I remember correctly, this son seems to be Lord Li's eldest son?"

The nurse in charge snorted coldly when she heard the words, and said with a sneer: "Now he has severed ties with our Li family, and he is no longer the eldest son of our family, close the door!"

After finishing speaking, the nurse in charge twisted her bucket-like waist and led a few servants and maidservants into the mansion.

And Li Bingcheng stood at the window with his hands behind his back, his eyes reddened hearing the noise outside.

Steward Li at the side saw his master like this, not only felt a little sore in his heart, he couldn't help but said: "Master, why are you doing this? Why don't you tell the young master clearly, let him know that there are some things you can't help yourself, young master I will understand you."

"So what if I say it, it's just to make him worry. Now our Li family has been forced to tie up with King Rui, and it's only a matter of time before we are liquidated. Since he has signed a marriage certificate and married as a wife, he will no longer It's from my Li family. I'm relieved that he can escape, so why drag him into the water again. It's just a pity for you, who have been with me for most of your life, and you may not even have a good death when it happens."

"What did the master say, the life of the old slave was saved by you and the first wife. No matter what, the old slave will not leave you and leave the Li family. You don't have to feel ashamed, all the old slaves are willing. But you, or Go rest more."