After leaving the Mayi camp and on the way to the hunting ground, the second mother-in-law of the Li family snorted and said angrily: "Sister Li's sister is also stingy...?..."
This meeting was originally a great time for the host and guest, but it did become a bit unpleasant at the end.
But after Li Jiancheng heard this, he frowned slightly, glanced at his sister with some dissatisfaction, and immediately silenced his second sister.
It is true that he would not easily ask for anything from others, but as the so-called food and sexual nature is concerned, the desire for food and drink is one of the great desires of human beings.
Being able to eat such delicious food in the Mayi military camp in Zhuo County made him unable to help but ask after a long journey. In fact, he had no intention of getting it.
Li Bi simply refused and explained clearly, and that was it.
And he is also the one who is most like Li Yuan among Li Yuan's many sons. When it comes to some small things, he can definitely be said to have a gentle nature, so naturally he will not care too much about such things.
On the contrary, he admired Li Bi's straightforwardness and outspokenness.
His sister's words made him very unhappy. He felt that if his third sister, Xiuning, was not still young, he would bring her here to expand her knowledge. With the third sister's temperament, they would really complement each other.
Of course, this sister pleases him, but she always doesn't like him. It's just that they have the same father and mother, so they are not very close.
Dou Dan smiled silently over there, his wanton smile shining like a male god in the sun.
Coupled with the gentle eyes, the little girl's attention was immediately diverted without saying a word.
No one can learn such Dou's secret skills.
This was the moment when a man was in love with his concubine, but Li Jiancheng made a big splash there. He hugged Dou Dan and said with a smile: "My grandfather once said, Li Jing, there is a tiger girl in the family... It's a little difficult today."
, please come to Third Brother and ask Third Brother to take more trouble."
Li Jing, there is a tiger girl in the family. Did Li Yuan say this? He really said it, but he said it with a slightly proud expression in front of his eldest son and second son in the mansion of the prefect Loufan.
Not only was it a disguised way of praising his two sons, it also meant to ridicule Li Jing for having no successor.
This was actually the seed that was planted when Li Yuan was a boy when he saw Li Jing, who was several years younger than him, in high spirits in Imperial College.
No matter how narrow-minded Li Yuan is, he still remembers the events from many years ago.
That's because Li Yuan inherited the title of Duke of Tang when he was seven years old. For Li Yuan, who was still young, he was not lucky at all. He shouldered the important task of revitalizing the family at the age of seven, which also made his childhood and adolescence.
Full of gray tones.
At this stage, what Li Yuan despises the most is actually a young and proud guy like Li Jing.
Because of this mentality, he even got into trouble with Li Jing and others. Taking advantage of his status as Tang Guogong, he even tore up Li Jing's books arrogantly and beat several sons of aristocratic families who were much younger than him until they cried for their fathers.??
Of course, Li Yuan remembered, and Li Jing also remembered clearly that when he was in Taixue, there was a vicious guy who bullied him for no reason.
Therefore, although the two of them must have been a family five hundred years ago, and they were quite close to each other at that time, they had little contact. It was just because they both still remembered the disputes in their childhood and refused to bow to each other.
But when these words came to Li Jiancheng's mouth, the meaning was completely different.
Dou Dan smiled slightly. This was really not a big deal. For him, it was just a piece of cake.
"It's just a small matter, brother, there's no need to worry about it so much."
He responded briefly, then pondered again, and then said: "Brother, I will be returning to Luoyang in a few days, right?"
Li Jiancheng heard the song and knew its elegant meaning, so he laughed, "Third brother, do you want to go with me?"
Dou Dan nodded slightly, with a wry smile in his heart. Despite his calm appearance, he actually had a lot of worries.
The emperor had always been wary of Mr. Dou. He had been an official for some years, but he was still subordinate to his subordinates. His roots lay with his great-aunt and uncle.
In fact, it is also inseparable from the in-laws of the Li family.
You must know that Li Jiancheng's mother, who was Dou Dan's cousin, was raised in the Imperial Palace of the Northern Zhou Dynasty when she was young, and was appointed by the Empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, he heard that his cousin was crying loudly in the palace, wishing that he could be born a boy and die for his uncle's family.
Although these rumors have the meaning of rumors, with the change of dynasties, if you are not careful, you may be in danger of destroying your family.
That is to say, Dou Yi, Dou Dan's great-uncle, was an official in the Shangzhu Kingdom of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and had a deep foundation. Even Emperor Wen was afraid of three points. When he first ascended the throne, his foundation was unstable, so he did not want to have extraneous branches.
Therefore, a woman's cry did not bring much disaster to the Dou family.
However, after all these years, even if Mr. Dou married an eldest princess again, he still could not go any further. On the contrary, the slightest disturbance would always make Mr. Dou tread on thin ice.
This is not because the children did not work hard enough, which ruined the reputation of their ancestors, but because the time was decreed and there was no way to resist.
Who would have thought that Yang Dalang, who was silent back then, could become emperor?
As for Li Yuan and his father Dou Kang, they are both ordinary and have not returned to Chang'an for many years.
Now we are all gathered in the capital, but one of them has been reduced from his position to the people, and the other has been appointed to a casual official with no real power. This can be said to be extremely unlucky.
There has been quite a lot of trouble in the Dou family in recent years, and there are many voices wanting to get rid of the Li family's in-laws.
But as for the direct branch of the Dou family, who doesn't know that the cousin is a powerful person.
When he was young, he once persuaded Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to be kind to the Turkic princess Ashina who was married to him, so as to appease the Turks and alleviate the war disaster. In the words of Emperor Wu, it was all thanks to the country.
Such a strange woman has kept silent for many years, taking care of her husband and raising her children in the house. Not only Li Yuan respected her and promised her to be a good match, but her children have also gradually grown up.
Each of them is outstanding and outstanding, but it is intriguing that these her children are somewhat loyal to the Sui Dynasty.
His father, Dou Kang, once said, "The children of your cousin are all noble and will definitely be nothing in the pool in the future. You must make good friends and don't neglect them."
In fact, if the third daughter, Li Xiuning, had not been young and both families were under suspicion, Dou Kang would have really wanted Dou Dan to marry Li Xiuning and tie the two families together tightly.
But after meeting his cousin a few times, Dou Dan knew that his father's behavior was completely wishful thinking. His cousin didn't look down on a young boy like him who was so old but had yet to achieve anything.
How could he promise her as his legitimate daughter?
Moreover, even if the cousin didn't say anything about it, she was still very worried about her uncle's family marrying the eldest princess of the Sui Dynasty, and she didn't want to see anyone from her mother's family.
Such a tortuous story is only partially understood by outsiders. Only a direct son of the family like Dou Dan can empathize with it.
Looking at his calm, sophisticated and dignified cousin, Dou Dan was quite envious and even narrowed his eyes in jealousy.
Although the descendants of the Dou family and the Li family are related by blood, their temperaments are completely different.