Man Tanghong

Chapter 346
Li Xiaogong may be a little bit dissatisfied with the clan's direct descendants, but he is quite firm in maintaining the clan's rule over the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuanji admired Li Xiaogong very much.

Li Yuan was able to conquer half of the country by relying on his own family, probably because of this.

That's quite a feat.

A feat far surpassing the predecessors and surpassing the successors.

In other royal families of all dynasties, although there are some people who rely on their own family members to make their fortunes, they can't reach the level of the Li family.

"Not only will I not help them, I can also help you if you need it."

At the end of Li Xiaogong's speech, he had a firm attitude and a firm tone.

It seemed as if he really wanted to help Li Yuanji clean up the Li family in Zhaozhou.

Li Yuanji said amusedly: "You don't think about the love affair between you and Zhaozhou's Li family at all?"

Li Xiaogong stared at Li Yuanji, as if you were joking with me.

In terms of absolute positions, who cares?

Li Yuanji understood Li Xiaogong's thoughts, and said bluntly: "Then please cousin send my little sister-in-law back to her natal home first."

Since Li Xiaogong made his statement and boasted about Haikou, Li Yuanji was not polite to Li Xiaogong.

Decisively let Li Xiaogong drive out the concubine of the Li family in Zhaozhou.

Li Xiaogong stared, didn't say yes or no, just hummed and said: "Then how will my Sanlang deal with himself in the future?"

The Sanlang mentioned by Li Xiaogong is exactly from the Li family in Zhaozhou.

Li Yuanji pondered for a while, and said: "I will find an opportunity to ask my father to adopt your Sanlang to my eighth uncle."

The corner of Li Xiaogong's mouth twitched obviously, but he didn't refuse.

The eighth uncle Li Yuanji mentioned was Li Deliang, the king of Xinxing County. He contracted a serious illness when he was young and has not recovered, so he has no heirs. If Li Xiaogong's third son is adopted, he is expected to inherit Li Deliang's title.

For a concubine of the royal family who was not conferred a title by Li Yuan, this is definitely a good opportunity to reach the sky in one step.

Even if Li Deliang has a son in the future, Li Xiaogong's third son will not be able to inherit Li Deliang's title, so with Li Deliang's seniority in the Li family, Li Xiaogong's third son can also be named a prince.

So Li Xiaogong had no way to refuse.

Because Li Yuanji is really too generous.

"My cousin doesn't talk, so I will accept it as my cousin, and I will wait here for the good news of my cousin."

Seeing that Li Xiaogong wanted to save face, Li Yuanji just acquiesced in the matter, did not speak, nor forced Li Xiaogong to speak, but gave Li Xiaogong a smile.

Li Xiaogong always felt that Li Yuanji's smile contained some mockery towards himself, and he shouted angrily: "You called me over, set up a table of wine and food, and drove me away if you didn't let me taste it. Are you still a human being?" ?”

After Li Xiaogong shouted, without giving Li Yuanji a chance to reply, he picked up his chopsticks and stuck them into the earthenware pot where mutton was gurgling on the low table.

The mutton had just been put into the pot and was not yet cooked, and there was still a layer of mud-colored foam oozing from the meat on the broth.

Li Xiaogong didn't care, picked up a piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth.

Li Yuanji could see that when Li Xiaogong was chewing, there was still blood seeping out of the mutton, and he immediately felt panicked.

But Li Xiaogong acted like a normal person, he ate one piece and picked up the second one.

Xue Wanshu seemed to be infected by Li Xiaogong's heroic way of eating, and joined the ranks of eating meat.

The same is true for Ling Jing.

Seeing the three people eating the half-baked mutton was very flattering.

Li Yuanji's whole body is not well.

Are you the devil?

"Go, prepare another pot for me, one pot for each person."

Li Yuanji saw that the corners of Li Xiaogong's mouth began to bleed, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and decisively ordered the maid to prepare a few more pots of mutton.

As far as this scene is concerned, if the Turkic envoys see it, they will really think that the dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty can't afford mutton.

After all, in the eyes of Tang people, when Turkic people like barbarians eat mutton, they will cook the mutton thoroughly.

A group of great nobles from the Tang Dynasty sat together and ate a pot of mutton, eating it before it was cooked. It really looked like they had never eaten mutton.

The servant girl got the order and immediately took people to prepare.

Since it is freshly cooked, there are not too many complicated procedures, so the servant girl quickly prepared four pots of mutton with others.

It seemed that he had guessed why Li Yuanji suddenly wanted four pots of mutton, so the person who prepared the mutton not only piled up the mutton in the clay pot, but also presented four or five plates of freshly cut mutton on a plate.

Li Yuanji's soul doesn't like the strong smell of mutton, but his nose likes it very much.

This is where time-traveling becomes an ancient violation.

Especially when he crossed over and became an ancient nobleman.

There are very few people who eat mutton in later generations, and most people don't like the smell of mutton.

So it is impossible to accept a pile of mutton with a strong smell in front of you.

But mutton was the mainstream meat in the Tang Dynasty, and it was also the meat most commonly eaten by people, so Tang people have become accustomed to the smell of mutton.

Even some people who can't afford meat, but don't want others to know that they have fallen into poverty, will try to get some fishy smell on their bodies, so as to show others that they have meat every meal.

Li Yuanji waited until the mutton was cooked through, then dipped it in the secret sauce and had a full meal. Finally, after slipping around with a bowl of milky white mutton soup, he felt that his internal organs were hot and his whole body was full of strength. .

Li Xiaogong was a man with a big belly, he ate from beginning to end, until his belly was plump, then he picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp.

Then he sat there with no image and picked his teeth.

Li Yuanji couldn't stand it anymore, especially when he saw Li Xiaogong use his thick fingers to pull the shredded meat out of his teeth and put it into his mouth, he couldn't help it.

"Whatever you do..."

Li Yuanji hadn't finished speaking when a guard appeared in the small martial arts arena and bowed to report, "Your Highness, the Xin'an County Duke of the Dou Mansion has arrived and is waiting for you to see him."

The Duke of Xin'an County is called Dou Xi, and he is the general of Youwuwei. He belongs to Dou Chi's lineage and is Dou Gui's cousin, but not his own brother.

One of Li Yuanji's cheap uncles.

That is to say, the lifespan of Li Yuanji's uncle is short, otherwise the person who got Dou Chi's in that round would be the big one in Datang.

"Listen, tell me to see him."

Li Yuanji laughed angrily at Dou Xi, and had forgotten to remind Li Xiaogong to pay attention to his manners.

Li Xiaogong pursed his lips and said: "It seems that you, the king of Qi, have never had as much face as your elder brother and your second elder brother, nor have you had the prestige of your elder brother and your second elder brother. Otherwise, why didn't they rush over to see you, but let you go?" see him."

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Xiaogong and said: "He is an elder, it is right for me to greet him."

Ling Jing said with emotion: "Your Highness, I feel that the Xin'an county magistrate is not kind."

Xue Wanshu lingered on Li Yuanji and the three of them for a while, and said seriously: "It's probably because I came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, otherwise it would be impossible to make such a big deal."

Li Yuanji nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, after all, I sent people to arrest the people from the Dou Mansion."

The Dou Mansion has always kept a low profile, but they have several families, and Dou Xi is one of them, and he is obviously not a fool to be sent out by Dou Gui to move around.

The Dou family probably didn't know why it offended him, so they acted like they were being bullied and came to find fault.

"Will you wait here, or go with me to meet my cheap uncle?"

Li Yuanji looked at Li Xiaogong and the other three and asked with a smile.

Li Xiaogong curled his lips in disdain, "What qualifications does he have to be your uncle?"

Dou Xi does not belong to the lineage of Li Yuanji's relative uncle at all, and his relationship with Li Yuanji's relative uncle is roughly equivalent to the relationship between Li Chengye and Li Chongyi.

If Li Yuanji didn't treat him as an uncle, he really wouldn't have the cheek to come up to him as Li Yuanji's uncle.

That is to say, people from the lineage of Li Yuanji's uncle died early, and Li Yuan was always fond of cronyism, plus Dou Gui was more outstanding, so Dou Gui's lineage was a little higher.

But in any case, they are not qualified to put on airs and temper in front of Li Yuanji.

"Then are you going or staying?"

Li Yuanji didn't care about Li Xiaogong's words, and asked with a smile.

Li Xiaogong stood up abruptly, and said loudly: "Go, why not go, go and see who Dou Xi really is, it's worthy of our Li family's descendants to visit."

Li Yuanji nodded with a smile, and rushed to meet Dou Xi with Li Xiaogong, Ling Jing, and Xue Wanshu.

Out of the small martial arts arena.

After bypassing the Jingshe courtyard, I saw Dou Xi's carriage parked on the avenue.

Dou Xiduan was sitting in the carriage, the curtain of the carriage was opened.

Seeing Li Yuanji really came out to meet in person, with Li Xiaogong beside him, Dou Xi didn't dare to push him too hard, he quickly got out of the carriage, handed the hand warmer in his hand to the servant beside him, and took the initiative to greet him .

"I've seen Mr. Xin'an."

When Li Yuanji arrived near the carriage, he took the initiative to salute.

Dou Xi hurriedly replied, "Don't dare."

Li Xiaogong didn't respond to Dou Xi, let alone salute Dou Xi, instead he straightened his waist and waited for Dou Xi to salute him.

Dou Xi also took the initiative to salute Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong's nose is not his nose, his face is not his face, he said: "How arrogant is it that I treat you as Mr. Xin'an, to let Yuan Ji take the initiative to come to see you. So that's all I can do?"

Facing Li Xiaogong's sarcasm, Dou Xi didn't change a bit on his face, he just kept laughing dryly and said: "I was out of anger, out of anger."

Before Li Xiaogong opened his mouth to attack again, he heard Dou Xi say again: "I was in the mansion just now, and I heard that all the people sent by the mansion to Jiulongtan Mountain were arrested by Qi Wang's mansion in one go.

I was in a hurry and hurried over without asking any questions.

There were also a lot of insults in the words, but after I calmed down, I realized that there was some misunderstanding in it? "

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Li Yuanji.

Obviously, the last sentence was spoken to Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji had to admit that Dou Xi was a character.

After arriving at Jiulongtan Mountain, they made a tough move first, showing that their Dou family is not easy to bully, and also implying that Li Yuanji should not bully his uncle's house. Offended to death.

In this way, if he greets people's smiling faces and makes people look bad, or makes things difficult for others, he will appear petty, and he will lose the way of hospitality and dignity.

In the first confrontation, he suffered a dull loss.

But he didn't care too much about it.

Because it's just a little thing.

What he should really care about is the matter of Xue Wanshu, that is the big deal.

(End of this chapter)