Chapter 166 Birthday 12

Zhao Xinqiang suppressed his smile and saluted with his eyes narrowed; "See your uncle, mother."

Li Zhi looked away and just turned his head and followed; "Auntie."

Li Dui beside him saw that he not only did not say hello to himself, but also his eyes directly crossed him, as if he were transparent. When he thought of the purpose of coming, he suppressed his anger and was about to speak, but his hand was tight. Li Dui was stunned and looked back, but his sister was gently pulling himself and winked at him.

Li Dui was so conscious that he took back his step.

It turned out that he came here this time because he had just been forced to make a promise in front of his father and promised to improve the relationship with Li Lie and his son as much as possible, so he came to persuade Li Lie to live at home. Since her sister was willing to stand up for herself, Li Dui simply let her go.

In fact, Li Dui also knows in his heart that he is just such an adult son. At this time when the concept of blood relatives is very strong, no son to inherit his career will bring very serious consequences. If there is an heir, even if Li Dui is not here, the power led by the Li family can continue to be maintained. His party members will continue to support the new owner of the Li family, and the new owner of the Li family can also protect their rights and interests. However, if there is no successor of Li Dui, he will inevitably fall after his death.

So even for the sake of the sake of the family, Li Dui must make up with his only son. It was because Li Chong saw this that he forced Li Dui to come and wanted to take this opportunity to get back together with the father and son. However, according to Li Dui's nature, how can he bow his head to his son? I'm afraid that it will intensify the contradictions when he opens his mouth. It was because of this that Li stood up first.

Li Shi walked forward with a smile, gently took Li Ji's arm and said, "Sier, I haven't seen you for a long time. Do you want to think about your aunt?"

Seeing Li Dui's cold face on the side, Li Lie seemed to be uncomfortable all over, but reluctantly smiled and said, "Of course I miss my aunt."

Li nodded, patted Li Shi's head gently with his hand, and said with a smile, "You still have a conscience. My aunt didn't love you for nothing. I thought you were really going to break off the relationship with our Li family as you said."

Li Li's smile was a little narrow, but he didn't know what to say. When he ran away from home four years ago, he said angrily that he had nothing to do with the Li family from now on. Now he is reminded of the old sayings by his aunt, which makes him very embarrassed.

Fortunately, Li Shi didn't continue to delve into it, but continued with a smile and said, "I just talked to your father that he wanted to ruin you as an eldest grandson over the years, so let me leave you at home for a night no matter what. I haven't been home for a long time, so let's stay at home with you today." The eldest father is the name of grandfather and maternal grandfather)

Li Lie hesitated and said, "I'm afraid this... this is not good," as he spoke, he glanced at Li Du, who had not opened his mouth.

"What's wrong?"

Li stared at him and said angrily, "Why, don't you even listen to your aunt?"

Li Shi suddenly stopped speech. He lost his mother when he was a child. The aunt was very kind to him because she felt sorry for him as a nephew, so he couldn't refute what Li said, so he had to lower his head and stop talking. It's the default.

Seeing this, Li suddenly smiled, took his hand and said, "That's right. The family is a family after all. Come on, I'll meet your father."

Speaking of this, Li Shi quickly gave Li Dui a look, looking a little complacent, thinking that he would naturally be captured.

Li Yu looked a little confused. When he thought of something, he quickly looked back at Zhao Xin and said, "C cousin, are you with me?"

Zhao Xin doesn't have to rotate tonight. He had nothing to do, so he nodded with a smile and said, "I haven't been to your house for a long time, so I'll stay with you."

Li Yu looked a little slower. With Zhao Xin as his companion, he didn't look so embarrassed at home. There was no objection, and half pushed and half let the Li family take away. Zhao Xin and Li Dui followed him and didn't say much.

Seeing that Changsun came back, Li Chong was naturally in a good mood. He hurriedly pulled Li Shi to say something short, and his hand grasped his arm tightly, as if he was afraid that Li Yu would run away again.

At this time, most of the guests who came to celebrate their birthday had dispersed, leaving behind the close relatives of Li's family. In the hall, Li Chong clenched Li Yu's hand and was talking. On the side, Zhao Xin and his son listened with a smile and inserted a few words from time to time. Li Duze and Zhao Jian talked about some trivial things in the court, but their eyes turned to Li Jie from time to time, and their words were also a little absent-minded.

At first, Zhao Jian still talked to Li Dui seriously. When he saw his uneasy look, he knew what he wanted, but just smiled. He was also a father. Naturally, he understood the love between father and son, so he picked up the teacup and took a few sips, and stopped talking about it.

Looking at his father-in-law and juniors talking and laughing happily, Zhao Jian sighed a lot in his heart.

Although he came from a clan, he was born in the middle of his family, and his family was even more poor. Fortunately, although his father was poor, he insisted on letting his son study as a teacher, which made others poor but not short-minded, and had ambitions when he was young. However, even such a hard life did not last long. At the age of fifteen, his father died young, and his mother couldn't stand the blow and followed. In order to survive, he had to sell a little family business and came to Handan, the capital of the State of Zhao, to try his luck.

It's just that the pattern of Zhao Guo's control by the scholar class has long been deeply rooted, and it is even more difficult for the lower-class scholars to integrate into it. Zhao Jiankong was full of talent, but he bumped into a wall everywhere when he was looking for a job, and he was even beaten out by a random stick. He was really desperate.

The State of Zhao, which inherited the system of the State of Jin, paid far less attention to talents than the State of Qin and the State of Qi, who were eager for virtuousness, as well as the State of Wei and South Korea in the Three Jin Dynasty, were much stronger than the State of Zhao. It was also because of this that Zhao Jian hit a wall everywhere in Handan, and the entanglement was soon spent. If he hadn't been stubborn in Xiangzi's identity, I'm afraid he would have put down his persistence and followed Shang Yang's example and defected to the State of Qin alone.

Fortunately, at this time, he met Li Dui, who was also talented but came from an excellent background. Li Wei discovered the potential of Zhao Jian with his extraordinary knowledge. By chance, he became a good friend with him. What's more rare is that he is willing to support his sister to fall in love with Zhao Jian, who has nothing. This made Zhao Jian always grateful, so although he is in a high position now, he does not forget Li Dui's help to him in those years. Even if he is not used to Li Du's unscrupulous approach to seek power, he still firmly stands on his side,

At the beginning, Li Chong strongly opposed his daughter's marriage to Zhao Jian. After learning that his daughter and she were privately determined for life, he was even more angry and drove her out of the house and not allowed them to go home to recognize each other. However, with Zhao's gradual promotion, and his mentality was much calmer when he was older, he gradually accepted his son-in-law.

So now Zhao Jian sits in front of the hall and looks at the family sharing the happiness of the family. There are many emotions in his heart, and there are thousands of thoughts, but he has nothing to say, so he has to gently brush down his beard, with a slight smile on his face, and listen attentively.

But when he heard Li Chongzheng smiling and asking Li Yuke's favorite woman, Li Yu looked embarrassed and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Don't worry, my grandson is still young. He should focus on his career. Let's talk about this slowly."

Li Chong stared at him and said, "What is young or not? Is there any conflict between family and career? Look at your cousin, he is only 15 years old and has been married. Are you twenty-one years old and still young? Go and see your teenager's playmates. There are still men who don't get married until they are 20 years old.

Li Zhi didn't seem to pay attention to the first half of the sentence, but looked at Zhao Xin with great interest, and there was a trace of ridiculing in his eyes.

"Cousin, are you engaged? But whose girl is it? How is your appearance and character?"

This time it was Zhao Xin's turn to be embarrassed. He reluctantly smiled and said, "It's just today that the marriage has been decided. She is the daughter of the family of the county magistrate of Handan.

Hearing this, Li Lie nodded with a smile and said, "So, I said why my aunt is in such a good mood. It turns out that her son is going to get married."