Sui and Tang Dynasty Generals

Chapter 35: Dou Gong's Visit

Li House.

Under the snow-covered pavilion, Li Jingjie stood with his hands behind his back, walking slowly and quietly, listening to the young men around him and the children of the mansion reciting ancient books.

Looking at Fu Zhi, the oldest one, Li Jingjie did not dislike him. After a few days of getting to know him, he was quite satisfied with Fu Zhi's honesty and obedience.

Suddenly, servants from the mansion were seen hurriedly coming and saying that Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei were here to visit.

"Tell them to come in!"

Hearing the servant's words, Li Jingjie frowned slightly, but did not refuse.

Soon, led by servants, three teenagers aged seventeen or eighteen came to the inner courtyard.

"teacher!"

Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei came in front of Li Jingjie and raised their hands to salute.

Li Jingjie nodded. Seeing that the three of them were looking vaguely at his daughter beside him, Li Jingjie felt a little dissatisfied.

It's easy to guess that it must be Xu Huaichuan's disciples who went back and told these three people about the Fu family's arrival that day and the engagement. These three people just came to visit Li's house today.

How could Li Jingjie not know what Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei were thinking?

"Is there anything going on today?"

Li Jingjie pretended not to know and asked.

"I have some doubts, so I came to your house and asked you to solve them..."

Sun Yanchen glanced at the beautiful woman sitting quietly behind the wooden table, then exchanged glances with Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei, stepped forward, saluted and spoke.

Upon hearing this, Li Jingjie nodded and motioned Sun Yanchen to continue.

"Zhao Tian! Look, your favorite Senior Brother Dai!"

Li Anjing, Li Anren, and Xu Huaichuan, a few other young men, couldn't help but tease Li Zhaotian in a low voice when they saw their three senior brothers coming.

Upon hearing this, Li Zhaotian glared at them unhappily, then turned around angrily and looked at the bamboo slips in front of him.

But soon, Li Zhaotian couldn't help but secretly glance at the gentle Dai Yanming. In Li Zhaotian's eyes, among all the brothers, only Brother Dai was the most gentle. In terms of appearance...

Perhaps only that stupid Sixth Brother-in-law can compare to him...

But when he thought about the fact that Senior Brother Dai's father was the county magistrate of Zhangnan County, and that his background was not comparable to that of that stupid sixth brother-in-law who fled to Qian County, Li Zhaotian couldn't help but feel proud and happy.

That stupid Sixth Brother-in-law is not comparable to Senior Brother Dai in any way.

Li Zhaotian has fantasized more than once that it would be great if she could marry Senior Brother Dai when she grows up!
Although Senior Brother Dai is slightly inferior to Senior Brother Sun in terms of talent, and is not as good as Senior Brother Yan in swordsmanship, she likes the handsome and gentle Senior Brother Dai.

"What happened?"

Seeing the servants coming hurriedly again and hearing his father's question, Li Zhaotian came back to his senses.

"Report to Erlang! Mr. Dou and a young man from the Bo Ling Cui family are outside the palace and want to see the old lady!"

The servant reported to Li Jingjie.

"Dou Gong! Cui Shi!"

Li Jingjie was stunned when he heard his wife's words.

Nowadays in Xin County, when people mention Dou Gong, everyone knows it is Dou Jiande, but no one will find it strange.

In the area of Xin County, Zhangnan, and Gaojibo, Dou Jiande's reputation was unmatched. Not to mention the countless chivalrous men in the martial arts world, even the Gao family of Bohai had many people who came to become his vassals.

Among them, Gao Yaxian of the Gao family was Dou Jiande's confidant. Gao Yaxian's father, uncle, and cousins also helped Dou Jiande openly or secretly.

Even Li Jingjie vaguely heard that not long ago, Gao Shida had specially visited Gao's house because of this matter.

"And Cui's family, why did Cui's children suddenly come to Li's house today? And with Dou Jiande!"

With doubts, Li Jingjie asked his servant to take the person to the main hall first.

Watching the servant leave, Li Jingjie turned around and inadvertently saw Fu Zhi. He suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Uncle Fu had specifically mentioned something to his mother.

They said that two people named Cao Zhan and Cui Luxing were looking for their Fu family, but they said that the Fu family was not in Xin County and had already left.

Could that member of the Cui family be the Cui Luxing that Uncle Fu mentioned?
wrong!

How could the Fu family know the Cui family? The Cui family was in Anping County, Boling County, further north. Not to mention, the Cui family's children came to visit, and they were with Dou Gong.

how can that be!

Who in the Fu family has such great ability?
This is simply impossible!

"Dou Gong! It's actually Dou Gong! And there are descendants of the Cui family!"

Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei also heard the servant's words. They looked at each other in surprise, and then they all became excited.

That was Lord Dou! And there were also descendants of the famous and prestigious Cui family.

This……

At the thought of meeting Lord Dou and the people from the prominent Cui family, Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei couldn't help but breathe faster.

In the eyes of all scholars in the world, when it comes to families with long-standing knowledge, the Cui and Lu families should be at the top.

Not to mention that if I could make the people of the Cui family remember me and just mention a word to them when I return to the Cui family, it would be enough to benefit me for the rest of my life. Even if I could get praise from Dou Gong, people would look up to me in the future.

Thinking of all these things and knowing what the arrival of those two people meant, how could the three of them not be excited.

At this moment, Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming, and Yan Hanfei all looked at their teacher Li Jingjie with excitement, hoping that the teacher would mention them or take them to meet him.

After a while.

Led by the servants of the Li Mansion, Dou Jiande brought Cui Luxing, Cao Zhan and Ying Kai from the flower garden to the front yard.

Seeing Li Jingjie waiting in the front yard, Dou Jiande hurriedly smiled and bowed before the person arrived.

Seeing this, Li Jingjie quickly raised his hand to return the greeting.

Under the pavilion, Fu Zhi, who was kneeling behind a wooden table, suddenly saw something. His pupils shrank, and he quickly lowered his head and lay on the seat, using bamboo slips to block the direction of the front yard so that people in the front yard could not see his face.

Fu Zhi's behavior made Xu Huaichuan and the other teenagers look confused, but they didn't ask much. After all, they were not very familiar with Fu Zhi.

"What a pity! If the teacher could take us there, even if I could only pay respect to Lord Dou, I would be content!"

"Yes! Lord Dou's benevolence and wisdom are rare in the world! Speaking of which, compared to Brother Yanchen's talent and Brother Hanfei's martial arts, Yan Ming is actually the most hopeless person. The two brothers may still have a chance in this life, but Yan Ming knows that he is probably hopeless in this life!"

"Han Fei actually hopes to get to know the Cui family's children! Alas..."

Li Zhaotian looked at the three senior brothers standing in front of the pavilion with her small eyes. It was the first time she saw such a longing look on Senior Brother Dai's face.

Is that Lord Dou really that powerful? Why do the three brothers all dream of meeting Lord Dou? She had clearly heard her grandmother and mother say that the county magistrate of Zhangnan County had sent people to kill Lord Dou's family, and then the county magistrate of Zhangnan County was killed by those who had received Lord Dou's favor...

However, she did remember that her grandmother and father had said that the Cui family was a very knowledgeable and powerful aristocratic family, and that every one of their children was very capable.

"They went to the main hall!"

When Li Zhaotian heard the voice, he came to his senses and saw his three senior brothers. They turned around and then went to the fourth sister and saluted her.

"Miss Qiong'er!"

Li Zhaotian looked at the actions of his three senior brothers, and then at his fourth sister, who was incredibly beautiful and had an oppressive aura, and lay on the wooden table with a feeling of despair.

He kept counting on his fingers, wondering when his fourth sister would get married.

I don’t know how much time had passed. Just when Li Zhaotian was so bored that he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly saw his mother hurriedly walking from the flower garden to the front yard. After learning from the servants that there were guests at the Li Mansion, she walked towards here.

"Mother!"

Li Zhaotian stood up and looked at his mother, somewhat curious as to why she was holding a sword in her hand.

"aunt!"

"aunt!!"

Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei also saw Li Zhaotian's mother, Mrs. Bao, and hurriedly stood up to greet her. Li Qiong, Li Le and others also stood up.

"aunt!"

When Fu Zhi saw Aunt Bao, he quickly stood up and bowed to her. Fu Zhi knew that she was the wife of Li Shuyun, the third son of the Li family, and the mother of Li Le and Li Zhaotian.

But now, looking at the sword in Aunt Bao's hand, Fu Zhi was surprised.

Isn’t this Zihou’s sword?

How could it appear in Aunt Bao's hands!
"Zhi'er, tell your aunt if there is any difficulty at home. If there is, you can tell your aunt instead of telling the old lady! Why did Zihou use his sword as collateral? Is this sword an heirloom of your Fu family?"

Bao asked softly, if the old housekeeper had not been whipped by the old lady and then sent back to his hometown, she and her sister-in-law Changsun would not have temporarily managed the family property.

Today, when she went to the pawnshop to check the accounts, she was surprised to see the sword in the shopkeeper's hand.

At first she thought she had seen it wrong, but after careful observation, she was sure that the sword the shopkeeper was holding was the same sword she saw placed on the Fu family's luggage outside the Li Mansion that day.

Through the shopkeeper's narration and description, she quickly determined that it was Zihou, who was engaged to her niece Li Cha, who personally took the money as collateral in exchange for 15,000 coins.

I remembered what the shopkeeper said about the young man, and he said with his own mouth that this sword was passed down from his ancestors.

She didn't dare to be careless and took the sword back to Li's house directly.

"Aunt! The food that Granny Li had someone send over has only been eaten for a few days, and there is still a lot left. We have everything else! This sword..."

Fu Zhi was also confused.

The cousin's disciple Hou actually mortgaged his own sword!
This is his favorite sword!
At the moment, Fu Zhi didn't know how to answer his aunt whether the sword was an heirloom. He was afraid that he would say something wrong and it would be bad for Zihou.

"Ah! Then let the old lady ask Zihou in person later!"

Bao shook her head and looked at Fu Zhi's confused expression. She was certain that this seemed to be Zihou's decision and had nothing to do with the Fu family.

Thinking of this, Bao asked Fu Zhi, his son Li Le, his nephew Li Anjing and others to continue their studies, and asked Li Qiong to chat with his three senior brothers Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei, and then turned and left.

Watching Bao leave, not only Li Zhaotian, Li Anjing and others looked at Fu Zhi in surprise, even Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei had strange expressions on their faces.

"Pledge your swords?"

"This... is a wonderful person!"

Sun Yanchen and Dai Yanming looked at each other, then looked at Yan Hanfei, and all three of them couldn't help laughing.

Recalling Xu Huaichuan's words, if Sun Yanchen, Dai Yanming and Yan Hanfei remembered correctly, the man named Fu Zihou was the young man that Old Lady Li wanted Li Qiong to marry.

They had been worried about their loved ones these past two days, fearing that things would change, but now after hearing what Mrs. Bao said, they were finally relieved.

Although he had never met Fu Zihou, he was not traveling, so he even pawned his beloved sword in Xin County.

They despise such people!
I also look down on it from the bottom of my heart!
Under the pavilion.

Even Li Qiong shook her head slightly.

　Note: Mortgage of the sword is related to the plot
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