Li Beidou followed the housekeeper to the study room and saw Li Derjian looking tired. His eyes fell on the book, but his eyes were empty and his expression was sad.
Li Beidou couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He had no father or mother in his previous life, and he had never experienced this feeling of being worried.
The old housekeeper sighed softly and closed the door from the outside.
Li Derjian finally came to his senses and put down the book in his hand.
Li Beidou hurriedly bowed deeply and said from the bottom of his heart: "My son is unfilial and has made my father worried. Please take care of yourself."
Li Derjian was quite surprised. This boy started to become sensible. Although he was happy in his heart, he still said: "Bad beast, it is better for you to cause me less trouble than anything else. There is no need to pretend like this. Exile is a foregone conclusion. No one can save me." Can’t help you.”
"My son knows he made a mistake, and he will definitely not do it again in the future. If my son accepts the punishment, he can be exiled. He just cannot fulfill his filial piety by his father's side. Please take care of yourself, father."
Li Derjian couldn't believe his ears and wanted to say something, but in the end he just waved his hand and asked Li Beidou to go out.
Seeing Li Beidou turn around, Li Derjian finally couldn't control it, a tear slipped down, and he murmured softly, "If I had known you would be sensible, I would have found a way to save you even if I risked my life."
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Li Beidou stood outside the door, looking up at the sky, trying to calm down and prevent tears from falling.
Li Derjian's murmur at the end made him feel extremely warm inside. He felt his father's love for the first time. He really didn't want to lose it like this.
The ignorant Li Xinghe appeared out of nowhere, raised his head and stared at Li Beidou and said, "Fifth brother, why are you crying?"
"Go away and stop asking about social affairs."
"Okay!" Li Xinghe, who was scolded, turned around and left with a smile on his face.
After calming down, Li Beidou walked alone in the back garden of his home.
He was attracted by an ant, and saw that the ant was on the flower bed a few steps away, struggling to escape from a puddle and running tenaciously towards dry land.
Although in human eyes, the puddles are only one step away from the quick-drying land, under its weak body, they have become its vicissitudes of life.
Looking at the ants, Li Beidou felt lonely as never before.
In my previous life, I was choked by life. Even though I tried my best, I still stumbled around in confusion, living a humble and shameful life.
In exchange for a few taels of silver, he would bend down for his boss and smile with his customers. Even if wine was spilled on his face, he would still smile like an obedient and dutiful son.
Now that he has been reborn as a third-generation official with a father to fight for, will he have to repeat yesterday?
Li Beidou squatted on the ground and looked at the ants, and a burst of discussion came along with the sound of pulling strings from bows and arrows.
"I heard that because of the trouble that Fifth Young Master got into this time, the courtiers unanimously opposed the old Duke leading troops to attack Goguryeo?"
"Who said that?"
"The old housekeeper sighed just now, so I asked."
"Shut up, who told you to gossip here!" A stern scolding interrupted the discussion between the two tribesmen.
"I'm sorry Captain Ah Si, we are also worried about the old Duke." One of the Buqu explained.
"Shut up. You can discuss the old Duke's family affairs. Go get the ten military sticks yourself."
"Yes!" the two tribesmen replied in unison.
Seeing the two men leaving, Ah Si picked up his bow and started shooting, and one arrow hit the target.
Seeing no one around, Ah Si pulled out the arrow and sighed.
Li Beidou has a lazy and cold temperament. He doesn't like others to disturb his life, and he has no intention of causing trouble to others.
I thought I would be fine with the consequences of being exiled, but I didn't expect that I would endanger others.
"Who?" Police Officer Ah Si looked in the direction where Li Beidou was squatting.
Li Beidou stood up awkwardly, "It's me, it's me!"
Their eyes met, and the corner of Ah Si's mouth twitched, not knowing what to say.
It was Li Beidou who broke the awkward silence and said, "What a great arrow. How far can you shoot?"
"Go back to Fifth Young Master, within a hundred steps."
"Is it so close?"
Li Beidou suddenly had an idea and asked hurriedly: "Is there a bow that can shoot two hundred steps?"
The Fifth Young Master must have been brainbroken by Da Lang. The largest five-stone bow can only shoot a hundred steps at most. How could there be a bow that can shoot two hundred steps? "Go back to the Fifth Young Master, no."
There was light in Li Beidou's eyes. If he came up with a bow and arrow with a longer range, he should be able to atone for his crime, right?
Ah Si saw Li Beidou laughing and running away, muttering "I have a solution..."
Li Beidou trotted all the way back to his room, and his servants all looked at him as they were accustomed to.
One afternoon, Li Beidou was scratching his head in the room. He remembered that during the Northern Song Dynasty, someone invented the divine arm bow, which had a range of up to 240 steps.
As for whether the introduction of the Divine Arm Bow hundreds of years in advance would have a chain reaction, he no longer cared so much about it. Anyway, Han people were in charge, and it didn't matter whether they were surnamed Li or Zhao.
Until the sun went down, Li Beidou alternately laughed in the room, then became furious, crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it out the window.
The servants were silent, not knowing why Fifth Young Master was so crazy. When they were gathering together and whispering, Li Beidou opened the door with a wild smile.
Li Beidou ordered his servants to find the craftsman from the weapons supervisor. Although the servants were confused, they did not dare to disobey the order, so they had to go find him immediately.
Because the Li family were military generals and had a lot of contacts with the weapons inspector, they were familiar with him. Even though it was late at night, he was found quickly.
As a craftsman, a scholar, farmer, businessman, and businessman, it was the first time I saw such a pampered and powerful person. The craftsman behaved very cautiously.
Li Beidou chatted with the craftsman for more than an hour in a very easy-going manner, and even though his words were thinned, the craftsman still had only a half-understanding.
The craftsman trembled and pointed at the drawing and asked: "Fifth Young Master, this... what is this?"
Li Beidou wiped the foam from his mouth and gradually lost his patience: "Don't worry about what this is, I'm just asking you if you can do it as I said."
"It's possible, it's just..."
"I don't want to listen. I'm telling you, this is a military secret. If a word is leaked, you will be beheaded immediately."
The craftsman was so frightened that he started to fidget. Li Beidou quickly comforted him: "I'm kidding you. You just have to do it according to what I said. You must keep it a secret."
"Fifth Young Master is really...funny!"
Seeing that the craftsman relaxed, Li Beidou decided that he should add some more burdens to stimulate his motivation, so he said seriously: "You must have heard that I will be exiled soon. If you can't build it before I am exiled, When I come out, I can only drag you with me."
The craftsman's bitter face forced a smile, "Fifth Young Master, you are joking with the old man again."
Li Beidou looked seriously into the craftsman's eyes and said word by word: "No, this is true."
It's over. This guy's reputation as a bastard is well deserved.
The craftsman trembled like chaff, and bowed tremblingly, "The villain must do his best, no, he must do his best. He must make it for the Fifth Young Master before noon tomorrow."
The corner of Li Beidou's mouth twitched. Why did this sound strange? Is he taking advantage of me?
After sending the craftsmen away, Li Beidou had just turned around when Li Xinghe appeared out of nowhere and said, "Fifth brother, what were you talking about to that person just now?"
"Go away and stop asking about social affairs."
"Okay!" Li Xinghe turned around and left.
I muttered in my heart that I must wait at the gate tomorrow noon to see what the fifth brother asked this old boy to do.
