Mrs. Liu looked heartbrokenly at the excited little guys who looked like little tabby cats, and looked dissatisfied at Mr. Liu who was happily holding a fishing rod!
"Is there a father like you? He smells like something fishy, like something crawling out of a mud hole!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at his five red-faced children and smiled lightly before handing the fishing rod to Liu Song: "My son owes them something. Just have fun and have fun. Children are like this!"
"Tui'er, take Feifei and the other five to take a bath and change into clean clothes so they don't get cold!"
"yes!"
"Young master, young lady, you guys come with the slaves!"
The five little guys looked at their father reluctantly, as if they were afraid that Mr. Liu would fly away as soon as he turned around!
"Go on, daddy won't leave and will wait for you to come out for dinner!"
The few little guys then followed Cui'er towards the inner courtyard.
"Mom, are Yun'er and the others up?"
"Won't you go and see for yourself? I don't know anything. I'm obviously very distressed and you're still pretending. Aren't you asking for trouble?"
"Oh...Mom, the children are unfilial. Please go to the children's courtyard and tell them that they can get up. What should I do if my knees break if I kneel down again?"
"If you want to go, go by yourself, I won't go! Do your own thing!"
"Mom, they won't take it easy when the baby is gone, so just go and work hard. The baby still has some things to go to the study to deal with!"
"Okay, just this time, I won't be an exception. Pay attention to your health. Don't you know how many days of rest you have just come back from the expedition? It's all your father's old man who works as an official. You can do your own calculations and stay at home since you entered the court. How many days have you spent? You have been on mission to the Kingdom of Jin, providing disaster relief in Qingzhou, suppressing bandits in the south of the Yangtze River, and conquering the Western Regions. You can count the days you have spent at home in the past few years on one hand. It doesn’t matter if you are not an official. It is the worst thing to do like your father-in-law. It's better to be an idle father-in-law like this kid Zhu Run than to run around like this!"
"Oh...Mom, don't say anything angry. At this point, the child can't help himself. The child has touched the interests of too many people. If he resigns from the official position, he will end up dead sooner or later. The outcome, don’t look at the many people in the court who are smiling and fawning over the child, but once the child loses power, they will definitely be the first to turn their backs on him!”
"In the court, interests always come first. Love is the most worthless thing in the three-acre land of Jinluan Palace!"
Mrs. Liu's face was a little sad: "Zhi'er, don't blame your father. Your father is helpless. He is also the person who worries about you the most. But you also know your father. He is not good at expressing anything, but you don't know that your father is worried about you." What is it like!"
"Qingzhou, you are unfortunately infected with the plague. Your father has not cried for ten years. He burst into tears of regret and blamed himself. He complained that he should not have forced you to become an official. During the Western Expedition, your father even handed over his business. The various shopkeepers of the Liu family take care of it, and they climb to the roof every day and look towards the west!"
"mother.........."
"Doesn't your father know that you can't see anything across thousands of mountains and rivers and towers? He knows it better than anyone else, but he still often stares at the west in a daze, hoping to see you returning on horseback that day !”
Mrs. Liu shed tears as she spoke.
"Lian'er went to Sichuan alone. Thirty thousand of Liu Ye's younger brothers are either a waiter, a caravan guard, or a shopkeeper. They haven't been together for fifteen years. When your father knows about this, Thirty Thousand For the first time in fifteen years, the Nei Liu disciples secretly went to the south of the Yangtze River to gather together. Your father said that his old bones can still fight the last mountain for you. From now on, you will have to rely on yourself! Fortunately, the emperor relies on Zhong and You didn't do anything to Lian'er, what a blessing in misfortune!"
Liu Mingzhi's eyes were a little moist: "Mom, I know in my heart that the old man is a sharp-tongued person. If I can't pay him back in my lifetime, I will pay him back bit by bit in the next life!"
Mrs. Liu gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "You go and do your work first, while my mother prepares a banquet for you to wash away the dust!"
"Okay, prepare more good wine, let me have a few drinks with the old man!"
Liu Mingzhi pursed his lips and walked towards the inner courtyard hall.
In the courtyard outside the hall, Liu Mingli was squatting pitifully, and Liu Zhi'an was sitting on a lounge chair, holding a small teapot and drinking tea comfortably.
The coal stove next to him was steaming with steam. Liu Zhian still wrapped himself in a cloak from time to time to prevent the cold wind from invading his body.
"When you get older, don't stay outside all the time. Be careful if you catch the cold. Don't point to me to support you until you die. Anyway, you scold me every day for being an unfilial son. If you don't live a happy life for me, an unfilial son, you don't want to live happily. Hold on for a few more decades!”
Liu Zhi'an's sleepy eyes opened a slit and glanced at Young Master Liu. He put the tea cup on the low table and sat up: "I want you to worry about it. If you don't support me until you die, I still have Chengzhi. Chengfeng Yiyi has been here for a few days." You are such a good grandson and granddaughter, I hope you don’t know about the years to come!”
"It's best if you have this consciousness. Anyway, if those two bastards Chengfeng are so angry with me in the future, the better I will live, live a long life, and piss them off to death!"
Liu Zhi'an sighed and stood up from the recliner, tightening the big cloak around him: "Time is not forgiving. In the blink of an eye, there are many children and grandchildren. I don't know how many years I have left to live." , sometimes I just think, I have lived for most of my life and I still don’t feel that I have accomplished anything. Fortunately, you are trying to cheer me up. There is no 25-year-old father-in-law among the ancestors of the Liu family. A hundred years later, I When I meet them, I can proudly occupy a place! Even this guy Mingli..."
Liu Zhi'an glanced at Liu Mingli who was wearing a horse stance and sighed helplessly: "It's getting worse and worse. Good seedlings are getting crooked and crooked, while bad seedlings are getting straighter and straighter. The year before last, Mingli didn't even pass the top three in the imperial examination." , he is really not good at studying, if that doesn’t work, you can find a way for him to go to the military and train for a few years before he can do it!”
"What about the family business? If he goes to the army, who will take over your job?"
"Why does Mingjie grow up so fast? If the second son agrees, I will try to train Mingjie!"
"Dad, I have no objection!"
"Shut up!"
"oh!"
"Just look at the arrangement. It's not impossible to throw him to the military camp for two years of training. It's mainly up to him. What path he wants to take depends on his own thoughts!"
"I'll think about it, I see you walking towards the study. I think something is going on, so go ahead and get busy!"
"I'll help you go and have a rest. Don't stay here anymore when it's so cold outside!"
"Why should I support you? I haven't reached the point where I can't walk yet, so get lost!"
"Okay, be careful!"
"Go on, let's have a drink after we're done, and see if your drinking capacity has improved!"
"knew!"
After Liu Zhi'an left, Liu Mingzhi looked at Liu Mingli: "Why don't you hurry up and take a rest? I didn't wink, and I didn't even know how to seize the opportunity when I gave you a chance to take a rest!"
"Thank you, brother. Let's take a shower first. I'm so sticky and uncomfortable!"
Liu Mingzhi walked towards the backyard study with a complicated expression. The older he got, the more sad he became.
I can no longer find the happiness I had seven years ago. When did I say goodbye to my lazy days and start working hard?
"The price of growth is too high!"
Liu Mingzhi said melancholy and opened the door to the study.
The study is spotless and someone comes to clean it from time to time.
Apart from herself, the only one who has the key to the study is Ying'er!
Sitting on the chair, Liu Mingzhi made a few gestures to the open window!
"Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu!"
"See you, Master!"
"In half an hour, I want to see all the information about the rebellion in Shu!"
"yes!"
"Is there any news about Qi Ya?"
