Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 10
The British Duke's Li family is a big family. Li Ji has two older sisters, two younger brothers, two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.

Judging from the current state of the Tang Dynasty's need for population, the Li family is undoubtedly a model household, because there are enough births.

Because of Li Ji's great achievements and prestige, the emperors of the three dynasties conferred many official positions on Li Ji's peers and descendants one after another, which was called "enyin" in ancient times.

What Enyin means is that no matter whether you are capable or not, as long as your relatives are awesome, you can be an official. You don't have to be awesome, and it's better not to be awesome.

It is enough for a family to have one awesome character, and if there are more heads, it will be the head of the emperor.

Li Ji's brothers and heirs are all officials outside, and among the grandchildren, Li Jingye, Li Jingyou, Li Jingzhen, etc. all have official positions.

Li Qinzai was the youngest of his grandchildren, but unfortunately he was such a jerk, he had done a lot of jerk things before, and his reputation in Chang'an was almost stink.

Even though the Son of Heaven wanted to be kind to Li Qinzai, he did not dare to appoint officials indiscriminately, for fear of accidents.

If a person with an official position does any stupid things, he will lose his national prestige and imperial prestige.

After the Pegasus Jade Carving was sold, it is estimated that Li Zhi also quietly wiped a cold sweat in the harem.

What the hell, luckily he didn't give this bastard an official position, otherwise he would have slapped the royal family in the face.

So Li Qinzai is 20 years old this year, but he is still a white man, and he is broken... Well, benevolence is good, at least there is no psychological burden when doing stupid things.

After solving a huge problem, Li Qinzai returned to the gate of Li's mansion from the suburbs of Beijing alone.

It has been several days since time travel, Li Qinzai is probably familiar with the Li family, and his impression of the Li family is neither good nor bad, and his feelings are very flat.

Neither love nor hate.

After the imperial decree was released, after Li Qinzai returned to Chang'an City, he rushed back to the Li family immediately, not because he loved the Li family, but because he had nowhere to go.

Today, he is still unable to fully integrate into the role of "Li Qinzai". Instead, he is like a calm bystander, calmly watching all the people and things in this strange age, neither sad nor happy.

After being welcomed back to the mansion by the trilogy, except for Liu Ahsi's sincere smile, the servants in the mansion did not show any signs of excitement at Li Qinzai's departure and return.

The smiles they showed were only professional. When Li Qinzai was a social animal in his previous life, he was already familiar with this kind of fake smile in the workplace.

The former owner of Li Qinzai's body was obviously not a kind person. Judging from the performance of the servants in the mansion avoiding them like snakes and scorpions, Li Qinzai was very poisonous to them.

After entering the front yard, Wu Tong, the housekeeper, came up to meet him, and pulled Li Qinzai's sleeves, and his eyes turned red. I don't know if it's true or not, but he actually shed a few tears.

"Fifth Shaolang has suffered. How can he endure such a crime as a delicate and noble person? He won't dare to cause trouble in the future, he won't dare to cause trouble..."

Li Qinzai stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, but thinking that he had peeked at him peeing, his motives and intentions were unclear, and he didn't know what eccentricity he had, so he hesitated for a while and finally dared not take it.

"It's good for Shaolang to come back. The old man is waiting for you in the study of the house in the backyard. The old man will take you there."

The two walked into the backyard, and Wu Tong led Li Qinzai to turn and turn, and stopped in a secluded and remote courtyard with unique scenery.

There is only one room in the yard, with blue bricks and red tiles, simple and not ugly.

Li Qinzai stood at the foot of the wooden steps in the entrance of the house, pondered for a while, and then took off his shoes and entered.

An exquisite hollow copper ball is hung on the beam of the study room, and sandalwood is burned inside, which smells elegant and quiet.

Li Ji was wearing a lavender casual robe and sat at the main seat, flipping through the book with a calm expression.

Seeing Li Qinzai coming in, Li Ji raised his eyes and glanced indifferently, and his eyes continued to fall on the pages of the book.

Li Qinzai smiled wryly, Li Ji's reaction was a little cold, but understandable.

Unworthy descendants, they are treated like this at home.The more jerk you are outside, the more humble you are at home.

Li Qinzai bowed silently to Li Ji: "Grandson has met grandpa."

Li Ji hummed, pointed to a futon in front of him, and said, "Sit."

Li Qinzai sat down on his knees, with his back straight, his thighs and thighs parallel, the soles of his feet overlapping, his hands on his legs, and his eyes looking straight ahead.

This is the standard sitting posture of this era.

Li Ji ignored him and was still reading.

After a long time, Li Ji finally left his eyes from the book, glanced at Li Qinzai, and said indifferently: "I think His Majesty has decreed that you should be exonerated, otherwise you are still on your way to Lingnan."

Li Qinzai lowered his head and said, "Yes, thank you, my lord, for pleading for mercy for my grandson."

Li Ji shook his head: "Old man Mo Xie, all the troubles you have caused since you were young were all helped by the elders in your family, but this time, it was you who saved yourself."

Li Qinzai smiled and said, "I would also like to thank my grandfather. Without my grandfather helping my grandson to listen to God, my grandson would still be unable to save himself."

Li Ji took a deep look at him.

In just two sentences of dialogue, he could already deeply feel that this grandson's temperament was very different from before, and he was like a completely different person.

How should I put it, the grandson in front of me has matured a lot, he is no longer a jerk in talking and doing things, he is also very polite and tutored, and he will not play tricks.

He seemed to be a completely different person. This person was very strange, and he obviously still looked like him, but Li Ji didn't recognize him.

Unable to find a reason, Li Ji could only explain in his heart that the change in his grandson was due to a catastrophe and he grew up overnight.

Taking a blueprint from the table, Li Ji pointed to it and said, "Is this really what you created?"

No need to look at Li Qinzai to know that it was a blueprint he gave to the military supervisory craftsman, and it showed the mechanical parts of the new strong bow.

"Yes."

Li Ji squinted his eyes: "You spend all day drinking, feasting and having fun with friends and foxes, sleeping in flowers and sleeping in willows, and I don't know how many books you have read. You are half blind. Why do you have such a skill that you can create a weapon that doubles the range?" strong bow?"

Li Qinzai's face was a little dark.

Although it was my grandfather's evaluation, I still felt a little hurt in my heart...

All chickens are patriotic, so why can't dudes make some contributions to the country?
"My lord grandfather, my grandson just saw the weapons equipped by the trilogy at the door yesterday, and suddenly realized something, so I got something occasionally." Li Qinzai said modestly.

Li Ji asked again: "The mechanism of this thing is quite dexterous, it can save the effort of drawing the bow, and it can reach a distance of [-] steps without losing sight of the head, but if you get it occasionally, it will go far beyond the thousand years of wisdom of the predecessors, heh, Those predecessors who worked so hard should all be smashed to death under the nine springs."

"Don't worry, Grandfather, they were reincarnated a long time ago..."

"You bastard!" Li Ji glared at him fiercely, then sighed, and said, "Forget it, you are lucky this time, and you have escaped a catastrophe. If it were different, even if you made this With the new strong bow, I'm afraid it won't be easy to get rid of the crime..."

Li Qinzai wondered, "Why?"

Li Ji's muddy eyes gradually deepened: "After the northern Turks were wiped out, there are still nine surnames of Tie Le who frequently invaded the border, looting and slaughtering our Tang people. Your Majesty has long wanted to go north. When this autumn comes, he may mention some kings. , Bei Zheng Tie Le nine surnames."

"The war is imminent, and you happened to offer a sharp weapon that can be used by the country, so His Majesty let you go. Otherwise, the court and the world will be hard to hide. How can His Majesty absolve you of your crime lightly?"

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