When Li Fu came over, he saw Li Lin sitting silently at the desk. The air in the room was cold and silent, reflecting the white snow that had not dissipated in the mountains in the distance, making people feel cold and still, and slightly depressed.
"Cousin." Li Fu stepped forward and saluted, lowering his head and not daring to look at him more, but his back was straight.
Like a small seedling emerging from the ground, it looks green and delicate, as if it can be broken with a gentle force, but it has the persistence and strength to break out of the hard mud layer.
After this year, he is only five years old, and he is still a little boy. Because he has been raised for half a year, he has gained some flesh on his thin body and face, and is a little whiter. He is not like the rustic face in the Li family. The hair looks dry and yellow.
But at this moment, his little face had a calmness and calmness that was different from that of a child, and he didn't seem to be at all panicked or afraid of what was about to happen.
Li Lin sat behind a pear wood desk. Behind him was a bookshelf with several ornaments and books randomly placed on it. Beside the desk, there was also a vase containing scrolls, and some more beside it. There is a red-crowned crane incense burner.
The structure of the red-crowned crane is ingenious. When you light incense, the crane's mouth will open, and light smoke will curl up. When you don't light the incense, the mouth of the red-crowned crane will close again. It will look like an exquisite red-crowned crane ornament.
Next to the red-crowned crane, there is a small couch. The small couch is covered with soft and warm cushions. There is also a plum blossom tea table on the small couch. Although it is tidied up now, it is still Apparently someone sits here from time to time.
"Go to the tea room next door."
"yes."
When Li Fu saw him standing up and walking to the tea room next door, he followed him slowly, looking at the tall back of the other person with some nostalgia and expectation in his heart.
Back then, he followed him like this, hoping to follow in his footsteps and become the best person possible, not to let him down or live up to his expectations.
For many years after that, he always wanted to get his approval, hoped that he could make him proud, and hoped that he could become as good a person as him.
After he disappeared, he hoped to be recognized by the Li family and Licheng. He wanted the world to know that apart from not being a bloodline of the Li family, he was not inferior at all.
Maybe it was a bit competitive. He wanted the world to see that he could do well, that the Li family would not be defeated in his hands, and that Licheng would still be stable and stable in his hands.
Thousands of years later, when someone talks about their father and son, they will say that the adoptive father has a discerning eye and has found a good heir. The Li family will be better off from now on.
Those who would not blame him would say that he failed to get married and leave no heirs, leaving the Li family's property to an outsider, and finally ruining the Li family's 200-year-old foundation.
He worked so hard all his life. One of them was for responsibility, to find his position and do what he should do. The other was for his adoptive father. He didn't want him to be stigmatized because of himself, but he didn't care. The last one is probably for myself.
His position is quite embarrassing. If he doesn't have some ability and doesn't do something convincing, how can he secure this position.
In the past, he sent troops from Licheng, holding the banner of "pacifying the world and ensuring all the people". Because of the prestige of Licheng and the Li family, hundreds of families in the world submitted to him, helping him to calm down the chaos in the world and ascend to a high position.
But this life is different from the previous life. There is no war in the world in this life, so naturally there is no place for him to be useful.
His future is still unclear.
If it were Li Lin or someone from the Li family, he might have said, "In troubled times, peace brings disaster to the world, but in peacetime, we can become immortals in the hidden world." Any kind of life is good.
But as for him, he felt a little unfair in his heart, probably because he was unhappy that he would be ordinary in this life, and that his previous life was just like a dream.
"sit."
Li Fu suddenly came to his senses and sat down at the edge of the tea seat obediently. A guard brought a pot of hot water. Li Lin wanted to reach out to make tea, but he beat him to it.
"Cousin, let me make tea for you."
Li Lin nodded and said nothing, letting him take the tea set and start making tea.
Li Fu didn't have many elegant feelings about playing the piano, drinking tea and playing the flute. He focused on things that could be in his hands that would be helpful to him.
Although he had learned these elegant things and learned them well, he was busy with political affairs for many years and never did these things again.
Therefore, his technique was not very good, like a half-beginner, his movements were stiff and stumbling, but he still remembered the process and finally brewed a pot of tea.
When he poured the tea, his face was quite calm, but his palms were already a little sweaty.
"Cousin, please."
Li Lin looked at his expression calmly, then reached out to take the cup of tea. Because of his slow movement, the tea soup was not hot enough, and the tea soup was slightly bitter due to the longer brewing time.
Li Lin took two sips with a calm expression. Li Fu took a sip himself and frowned slightly.
After drinking tea, it was time to get down to business.
Li Lin looked at him and said slowly: "Qin Zangshu's letter was written by you."
His tone was calm, without any ups and downs at all. It didn't seem like he was asking him, but rather he was stating a fact lightly.
Li Fu felt that the bitter taste of the tea just now was still lingering on the tip of his tongue, slightly bitter.
He nodded: "Yes."
He thought that if the other party wanted to ask anything, he would answer truthfully.
This man was once his most respected father, the light and guidance in his heart.
Li Lin asked him: "Did I teach you?"
He nodded again.
Li Lin asked again: "How many years did you live in that life?"
Li Fu was stunned for a moment, then calculated carefully, and then said: "Fifty-nine."
He took over the Li family and Licheng at the age of twenty. He stayed in Licheng for five years. At the age of twenty-five, he sent troops to bring peace to the world. It only took three years, and he became the emperor for twenty-one years.
There was a heavy snowfall before he died. The old eunuch who had been serving him for many years expressed great joy, saying that the auspicious snow heralded a good harvest and that next year would be another good harvest.
At that time, the world was peaceful and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. He felt that he had fulfilled his life's responsibilities and had not lost the reputation of the Li family.
He is also worthy of his adoptive father's cultivation and trust.
At that time, he had many things he wanted to say to him, but he never found his adoptive father until his death, and did not know whether he was alive or dead or where he was.
This is the regret of his life.
Maybe all he wanted was a compliment, but he just never got it in his life.
Perhaps no matter how old they are, a child will act like a child in front of his father, wanting to be cared for, acknowledged, praised, and made proud of him.
"If you are willing, tell me about those things."
