Horse on the World

Chapter 974 Family
What surprised Li Qing even more was that his younger brother Li Feng, whom he had not seen for a long time, jumped out first from the second carriage, and the one who Li Feng turned around and got down was actually his biological mother Qiu Shi.

Marquis Li Li Muzhi has now resigned from his position as the governor of the five armies. He is in plain clothes, holding Anmin with one hand and Jishi with the other, smiling all over his face, while Wen's beside him is holding Xinyi dressed like a porcelain doll.

On the third and fourth carriages, Princess Yanran and Jiyue came down. Since Li Qing returned to Dingzhou, this was the first time they saw Li Qing. , the eyes of both of them were a little flickering.

Li Qing's gaze was directed further back, Tang Hu was getting off his horse, looking at Li Qing's gaze, he shrugged and gave a silent wry smile, but behind Tang Hu was Zhong Jing who was hugging Tang Long.

Li Qing shook his head, strode forward, and bowed to the ground, "Father, mother, why are you here? It's freezing cold, if you don't stay in a warm room, what if you catch the wind and cold?"

Li Muzhi smiled and said nothing, Wen said with a smile: "What's the matter, aren't we welcome here? If you don't like it, we'll go back right away?"

Li Qing smiled wryly, "What are you talking about, mother? If you can come here, my son will be overjoyed!"

Wen looked back at the people behind him, "I called them all, my old lady, what day is today, do you remember?"

"Today is New Year's Eve!"

"Yes, New Year's Eve!" Mrs. Wen said: "Even ordinary small families still say that on this day, the whole family reunite and have a meal together. Alright, it’s divided into several places, Qing’er, it’s been almost ten years now, when did we get together for a reunion dinner? So today I made my own initiative and brought everyone here for the New Year’s Eve, why, Look at your face, don't you like it?"

"My child is full of joy!" Li Qing said with a smile, "It's windy and cold outside, father, mother, please go inside and talk!"

"Okay, okay!" Wen said with a smile.

Bao'er, who was behind Li Qing, came over timidly, "Bao'er has seen her father-in-law and mother-in-law!" Bending down to salute, Wen hurriedly supported her, "My sister-in-law, please stop, stand up!" Such a big belly, what kind of courtesy do you do, don't let my little grandson have any surprises? Will the old woman survive?"

Hearing this, Bao'er's eyes turned red immediately, and seeing the tears were about to fall, Wen hurriedly stepped forward, supported her by the shoulder, and whispered: "Grandma knows that you have been wronged, so I will tell you later. , okay? Don't embarrass everyone now, we are all family!"

"Grandmother is right!" Bao'er wanted to cry, tried her best to hold back her tears, and with Qian'er's support, she walked over slowly, and said to Qiu Shi, "I've seen Granny!"

Mrs. Qiu quickly grabbed Bao'er's little hands, and couldn't stop saying some comforting words.

"I've seen the princess, I've seen sister Jiyue!" Bao'er said to Yanran and Jiyue again.

The three faced each other in embarrassment, unable to find anything to say for a moment.Although the previous incidents were not made explicit, they were all tacit.

Li Qing clapped his hands, "Wu Gui!"

Wu Gui strode over, "Master!"

"Hurry up and arrange for my parents and a few concubines to stay here."

"Yes!"

At this moment, Li Feng found Kong, stood in front of Li Qing, cupped his fists and said, "Brother, I'm back!"

Looking at the sturdy Li Feng with a smile, Li Qing gave him a bear hug, "Why did you run back?"

"Brother, I didn't run back. General Guan sent me to escort the general back to Dingzhou. I just arrived yesterday."

Li Qing laughed, "Guan Xinglong just let you back for the new year, good guy, I'll scold him later, well, since you're back, let's have fun for a few days, and go back after fifteen Bar."

"Thank you, brother!" Li Feng said excitedly.

"My lord!" Tang Hu came over, spreading his hands, "I can't help it, the old lady summoned me, and I still thought it was something, but in the end, she grabbed my ear and asked me to give an order to send them all away. The old lady has kept me under her nose all the time, and I don't even have time to send a letter."

Li Qing smiled, "That's fine, it's good for Chinese New Year, it's good for the family to get together." Turning to look at Tang Long in Zhong Jing's arms, he joked, "Isn't this my son-in-law? Why are you still in my mother's arms? He doesn't look like the son of General Tiger!"

Tang Long's face was flushed, and he wriggled vigorously in Zhong Jing's arms, wanting to jump off, but it was not an easy thing to escape from Zhong Jing's grasp. He hugged him firmly, "My lord, this naughty boy went to a tree to dig a bird a few days ago, fell down and hurt his leg, and he hasn't healed yet. I'm afraid that he will be troublesome if he hurts his leg again by being mischievous, so I prohibit him from doing it." mess around."

Li Qing laughed loudly, "That is, if you become a cripple, well, then I have to consider whether I should not promise Xinyi to you."

Tang Long hummed: "I don't believe it, even if I become a cripple, Xinyi still has to marry me!"

"Oh, you're so confident?"

"Father said that you are the future emperor, and emperors always speak well, can you take back what you have said?" Tang Long spoke plausibly. "Oh, mother, why are you grabbing my ass?"

Tang Hu laughed awkwardly, "This brat, this brat!"

Li Qing turned to Zhong Jing with a sullen face, "Huzi still has a big mouth, so don't worry about it!"

Zhong Jing pursed her lips and smiled, "My lord, you also know him. If you beat him hard, you can control him for three days, but if you scold him, you can only control him for one day. You can't do anything about him, my lord. I can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Alright, in the blink of an eye, I'm back to my old ways."

"It's easy to change your country, but it's hard to change your nature. Headache, headache!" Li Qing shook his head, "Okay, Huzi, seeing that you have brought your family here, you have made up your mind to celebrate the New Year with me, so go find it yourself. live in the house!"

"Dele!" Tang Hu slapped his hands and said, "Jing'er, you are familiar with Taoyuan Xiaozhu, you go to find a house, I will go and take the guard over from that kid Wu Gui first. It will take a few rounds to go there. "

Both Zhong Jing and Li Qing's expressions changed slightly, they looked at each other with wry smiles, and shook their heads away.

It took an hour for everything to settle down. In a quiet room, Li Muzhi and Wen Shi sat at the head. Li Qing personally made tea and put it away for the two of them, while he himself sat next to the Prime Minister.

Li Muzhi lowered his head to drink tea, while Wen Shi looked up and down at his son, making Li Qing uncomfortable.

"Qing'er, do you remember how long I haven't seen you?"

Li Qing lowered his head and said, "After returning to Dingzhou this time, I haven't paid my respects to my parents. It's because my son is unfilial. Please forgive me, my son has too many official duties."

Wen sighed, "You are afraid that if you meet me, I will say something you don't like, so avoid seeing me? You know where Jiyue begged me, right?"

Li Qing remained silent.

"Son, there are some things that you have to learn to pretend to be confused!" Wen said.

Li Qing raised his head, "Mother, there are some things that my son can pretend not to know. It doesn't matter whether they are jealous or exclude each other. This is inevitable, but this time it has gone too far. It is killing people. And it's still my child, your grandson."

Wen shook her head, "Son, although your mother was born as a girl, this kind of thing happens a lot in wealthy families." She raised her head and glanced at Li Muzhi, and saw that his face changed slightly, and he was a little restless, "And you now , It’s not just as simple as a wealthy family, you will be in the world in the future. How can this kind of thing be rare, maybe there will be more in the future.”

Li Qing showed a murderous look on his face, "It's just this one time, and next time, if I find one, I will severely punish the other, and I will never tolerate it."

Li Muzhi put down his teacup and looked at Li Qing, "Qing'er, you are too idealistic, how can you punish her severely? Let's not talk about you in the future, just talk about you now, Jiyue, how can you punish her, don't you care about Qingfeng? Don't look." The monk's face looking at the Buddha's face is for the sake of Qingfeng. In order to make Qingfeng not embarrassed, you can't do anything to Jiyue? Can you move Yanran? There are a large number of surrenders from the Zhou family, can you not worry about these people? If this matter is investigated, how many people will be involved, the Li clan will be involved, and the cabinet ministers will be involved, all of which will hurt your great cause Basically, that’s why Lu Yiming is old enough to expect you to be furious, so he rushed to Qixia Pass to persuade you, it’s been such a long time, haven’t you figured it out yet?”

Li Qing said irritably: "Father, I want to ask you, did you know about this in advance?"

Li Muzhi let out a hey, "The child in Concubine Bao's belly is your seed, but it's also my grandson. Can I know? I only found out after the fact. This was your uncle and second uncle's thoughts, but there is one thing I don't understand, Qing'er, why you have been trying your best to keep the clan power out of the core of Dingzhou, and you are even more unwilling to let the clan members control the military power. Now Li Feng is the only one in the Li clan's hands There is an army, don’t you still trust your own relatives, but trust those people with foreign surnames? Your actions are so obvious, it’s no wonder that your uncles and uncles are starting to plan for the future from now on.”

"Father!" Li Qing shook his head and said, "The clan is too powerful, and it will inevitably endanger the entire country in the future. I will never change this point. The clan will have a lofty status in the future, but it will not have too much power. To manage a country, you must not rely on the so-called clan power, that will bring disaster to the country and the people, and the lessons learned from the Great Chu are there, don’t you understand?”

"Okay, okay!" Wen interrupted the argument between the father and son, "I don't understand what you say about these important national affairs, all I know is that our family should spend this New Year happily, Qingfeng, I don't care What do you think in your heart, you can't show Yanran and Jiyue this year. Since Bao'er is fine, let's stop this matter."

"Yes, mother!" Li Qing nodded and said, "I understand. But mother, Qiu... why did you come here?"

Wen sighed: "There's nothing I don't understand. It's not appropriate to solve the enemy. We are all at this age. Why do we still care about the things in the early years? The Qiu family is pitiful enough. Once she leaves, she will only have two relatives, your father and Li Feng. Since you and Li Feng have such a good relationship, why are you still so prejudiced against her? Doesn't this make it difficult for Li Feng to be a man? This time you will The old Hou Ye's body was transported back to Dingzhou for a grand burial, she is very grateful to you, but she just couldn't bear to thank you in person."

"Since mother has said so, what else can I say!" Li Qingdao: "It's all up to mother's will!"

(End of this chapter)