Li Tao quickly turned his head and blew out a puff of smoke, then waved his hand towards Young Master Liu.
"To my uncle, nothing happened to the child.
During this period, everything is as usual here, baby!"
Young Master Liu frowned slightly and asked directly: "If that's the case, then why does your mother say that your boy doesn't go to her place as often?"
Li Tao flicked the ash on his sleeve with his fingers and sighed helplessly.
"Well, uncle, it's not that the child goes to her mother less often, but that every time the child goes to pay her respects, her mother is not at home eight times out of ten."
"What do you mean? Where else can your mother go if she's not in the house?"
Li Tao silently took a puff of dry cigarette, raised his head and gestured in the direction of the East Palace.
"Where else can we go, of course to my brother-in-law and sister Jingyao.
Ever since sister Jingyao gave birth to a pair of twins, the mother-in-law rushed to the East Palace every now and then to help sister Jingyao take care of the children.
Every time when I, my wife, and my children would go to greet her, my mother would have already left for the East Palace.
At that time, sister Jingyao was in confinement, and the baby and her family couldn't be there during her confinement, so they rushed directly to the East Palace, right?"
Liu Mingzhi looked in the direction of the East Palace and nodded with a clear expression.
"That's true."
"Furthermore, the child is now on duty with cousin Chengfeng, cousin Yaoyao and the others at the Ten Kings Palace, and they have to come to the palace every day to process documents.
Especially during the period near the end of the year, how busy the court is every day, and how many documents sent to the court from various state capitals have to be reviewed every day. Uncle, you should know better than my child, right?
My dear, I am already very busy dealing with all those paperwork every day, so how can I find time to sit at my mother's house?"
Li Tao's explanation tone was full of helplessness.
Young Master Liu retracted his gaze that was looking towards the east palace, and patted Li Tao on the shoulder with a sad look on his face.
"You brat, I've worked hard on you these days."
Li Tao raised his hand to fan the smoke in front of him, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
"Hey, there's nothing I can do. Why did I have to deal with a good uncle like you who is not very diligent in government affairs?"
"Hehehe, you brat, you are getting more and more courageous. You even dare to make fun of my uncle."
"Hey, uncle, you'd better be angry. When you get angry, kick the child out of the Ten Kings Palace as soon as possible.
Now that the child has left the Palace of Ten Kings, he can have a good rest.
Uncle, you don’t know how much I miss you now, and miss those idle days in the past.”
As Li Tao spoke, he looked solemnly and looked at Mr. Liu sincerely.
"Uncle."
"Huh? You say."
Li Tao took a long puff of dry cigarette and looked towards the direction of the imperial mausoleum outside the city with both self-blame and emotion.
"Uncle, to be honest, I would have known that working hard on government affairs and handling paperwork is so hard and tiring.
Back then, no child would raise an army to rebel against his elder brother."
Li Tao blinked his eyes silently a few times, and took a few puffs of the dry cigarette in his hand.
"Oh, it's a pity that now it's useless for me to say anything.
It’s just that the child was blinded by the power, his mind was lost by power, and his eyes were lost by that chair.”
When Liu Mingzhi heard Li Tao's tone full of self-blame, he immediately trembled and looked melancholy towards the imperial mausoleum where Li Baiyu was buried outside the city.
"My child, do you regret it?"
Li Tao took a long breath silently and nodded silently.
"Yes, I regret it.
Unfortunately, it was too late to regret it.
When a child embarks on that path, there is no way to turn back.
If, hehehe, there is no if.”
Liu Mingzhi reached out and took off the wine bag from his waist, and slowly walked out of the palace corridor.
"Son, my uncle is just like you."
Li Tao heard Mr. Liu's words and looked towards him suddenly.
"Huh? What does uncle mean by this...what does it mean?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and drank a few sips of wine. He gently turned his body sideways, reached out and fiddled with his hair to signal to Li Tao who was following him.
Li Tao looked slightly startled and looked at Young Master Liu's hair with confusion.
When he saw the few white hairs in Young Master Liu's bun, his heart suddenly twitched violently.
In an instant, he already understood Liu Mingzhi's intention.
Li Tao looked at Mr. Liu with a complicated expression, who had stood up straight and was drinking wine again and again. His eyes couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
"Uncle, when did you have long hair?"
"Hehehe, uncle doesn't know either.
Maybe it existed very early on, maybe in the past few years.
Before I knew it, my hair had grown white.
All in all, every time my uncle saw his gray hair in the mirror, he couldn't help but regret it.
As for the reason for regret, it is the same as what your kid said just now.
So tired, so tired."
Liu Mingzhi casually wiped the mouth of the wine bag and handed it to Li Tao with a faint smile.
"You little brat, would you like some?"
Li Tao immediately knocked out the shreds of tobacco from the tobacco pot in the snowdrift next to him, and took the wine bag into his hand.
"Uncle, I won't be polite to that kid."
"You brat, there are no outsiders now. Why should I be so polite to my uncle? Drink quickly."
Li Tao drank a lot of wine, wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth casually, and looked at Young Master Liu hesitantly.
"Uncle, I have a presumptuous question to ask you, but I don't know whether I should answer it or not?"
Liu Mingzhi seemed to have guessed what Li Tao wanted to ask him, and nodded with a slight smile.
"Hehehe, you brat, just ask, you can ask whatever you want."
"Uncle, if, the child is talking about if.
If you could do it all over again, would you still raise troops to rebel like you did back then?"
"meeting!"
Liu Mingzhi answered decisively without thinking.
Hearing his uncle's answer so readily, Li Tao couldn't help but feel startled.
Li Tao reacted, took a few deep breaths, raised the wine bag and drank again.
"Uncle, can you tell me why?"
Liu Mingzhi took a deep breath, took the wine bag in Li Tao's hand and took a few sips.
"Because your eldest brother was unjust in the first place. He never thought of leaving a way for my uncle to survive.
My child, do you know what will happen to your aunts if your uncle dies?
Do you know what will happen to your cousins, cousins, brothers and sisters?
My son, your eldest brother was too wary of the power in my uncle's hands back then.
From the moment he sent people to attack and kill my uncle in Fengyundu, he already wanted to kill me.
To be continued...