Zhang Huangyan almost struggled to finish these words!

Li Xiao nodded seriously and patted Zhang Huangyan's hand.

He turned to Zhang Wanqi and said, "Take good care of your father!"

Zhang Wanqi followed suit and sent Li Xiao out of the house. After watching Li Xiao get on his horse and leave far away, he trotted all the way back to Zhang Huangyan's bedroom.

"Let's go!" Although Zhang Huangyan's face was still sallow, his eyes were not as dull as before. He was no longer lying on the bed with a dying look, but half lying on the bed leaning on the pillow.

"Let's go! Dad, will your plan work?" Zhang Wanqi asked very nervously.

"It works! Haha, it depends on what effect you want to achieve.

The possibility of restoring the position of chief assistant is very small, but... hibernating and ensuring that our Zhang family escapes intact, I guess it won't be a big problem.

Your brother's official position will probably be preserved.

Now think about Mr. Sun back then, what a wise man he was."

"Father, you are the chief minister of the imperial court, are you going to give up like this?" Zhang Wanqi became a little panicked.

My brother's official position was saved, but my own was lost. I relied on my father's blessing to get my official position back.

Now that my father has stepped down, who the hell will help me?

Officialdom is such a place where one can walk alone, let alone say that you have left. Even if you want to leave before you leave, someone will already use you as a decoration.

"What can you do if you don't give up? Don't make a mistake, kid, otherwise you will be torn into pieces regardless of whether you succeed or not!

Although Li Xiao is not the best choice for his political acumen, there is one thing he grasps very accurately.

That is political power coming from the barrel of a gun!

He has a gun in his hand. Although there are mountain factions in the Liao army, there is really no one who is not loyal to Li Xiao!

If you do anything deviant, our whole Zhang family will be ruined by you.

OK, OK! At your age, dad can't live for many years. For the sake of me letting you enjoy all the glory and wealth, can you spare your dad?"

Zhang Huangyan said, clasping fists with both hands and bowing to his son.

"Dad! How dare you do this? I don't dare. I don't have such thoughts." Zhang Wanqi fell to his knees on the ground in a panic.

"Of course you don't dare. No one knows a son better than his father. I gave birth to you, so I naturally know your temperament.

I'm afraid that you will be used as a gunman. With your brains, you will be sold to help count money.

Humph!" Zhang Huangyan snorted heavily, and Zhang Wanqi was too frightened to speak anymore.

"Remember! From today on, I will stay on my sickbed.

You are responsible for managing the affairs inside the house, and you are not allowed to participate in any entertainment outside. To the outside world, just say, I need someone to wait on me in front of my bed.

If something happens to people who are close to each other, gifts can go but not others. The best thing is to make the whole capital forget about the existence of the Zhang family.

Anyway!

From today on, our Zhang family will be nothing more than insects burrowing into the soil. We will not appear again until there is a muffled thunder from the Jingzhe.

I went to give five thousand silver coins to the medical officer, and I am grateful for his help at this time. He had a lot to do with deceiving the commander, and he deserves this amount. You must not deduct it, now is not the time to be stingy with money."

"No!" Zhang Wanqi's words reached his lips, but he swallowed them back into his stomach helplessly.

Li Xiao left the Zhang family and returned to the handsome manor. Li Lin was in Li Xiao's office, dozing off little by little.

"I want to go to bed and go back to my room to sleep. What's wrong with sleeping in the office?" Li Xiao patted his son on the head. Li Lin was unsteady and his head almost hit the desk.

"Dad, you're back." The rules of the Li family are different from those of other families.

Since he was little, Li Xiao has not let Li Lin call him dad, but instead calls him dad.

"Yeah! You're back, tell me what's going on. Don't talk nonsense like you're worried about dad's health. Tell your third uncle about that."

"I was worried that you were hungry, so I asked the kitchen to make Xiao Long Bao for you. Later, when it was almost dawn, I ate them when I was hungry."

"I knew it was like this. How can I put it? You've resorted to all kinds of tricks like midnight snacks. What on earth are you going to do?"

"Dad! I'm still young and don't want to get married. I want to go to my second uncle's Marine Corps to open up territory for our Ming Dynasty."

"Haha! Who said they want you to get married?" Li Xiao looked at his son with interest.

A sixteen-year-old boy is at the age when he is full of fantasies about the opposite sex. My son actually said he doesn’t want to get married. What on earth is going on?

Then Li Xiao remembered that Zhang Huangyan wanted to marry his granddaughter into the Li family.

I guess when Li Lin said he didn't want to get married, he was referring solely to the Zhang family's daughter.

"Are you referring to the girl from the Zhang family?" Li Xiao looked at Li Lin and asked.

"Yes!" Li Lin nodded sincerely.

"Don't like it? I heard that the little girl from the Zhang family is pretty. She is regarded as the apple of the Zhang family's eye and is the most favored in the Zhang family." Li Xiao wanted to tease his son like a prank.

"I just don't like it." Li Lin pouted, looking like a reluctant boss.

"It's better not to go to your second uncle's place. It's not safe to be stationed overseas all year round. If someone knows your identity, they might use assassination methods.

If something happens to you, your second uncle will use you as a dot and draw a big circle on the map.

In this circle, not even a chicken or a dog can survive. For the sake of the world, it is better for you to stay in the capital and harm me.

If you don't want to, you won't marry the Zhang family's little granddaughter. The girls who want to marry you and be your wife can be arranged from here all the way to the Western Regions.

Let's not be in a hurry, let's take our time." He was tired after staying at Zhang's house for a whole night, and Li Xiao didn't want to tease his son anymore.

The most important thing now is to get some sleep quickly, and then think about who is more suitable to be the chief minister of the imperial court.

I originally planned to let Zhang Huangyan last another ten years, by which time Li Hao would be almost done with his experience.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Huangyan was absolutely unambiguous when he said a stroke was a stroke.

Helpless, Li Xiao could only consider it from the current feudal officials and imperial ministers.

The more this time comes, the more Li Xiao wants to talk to Sun Chengzong. This old man can always give him the most appropriate advice.

If Mr. Sun was not too old, Li Xiao would even want to invite Mr. Sun back to continue to be the chief assistant.

pity!

Since the Chinese New Year, Sun Chengzong has stopped chatting with Li Xiao, citing physical illness. When he brought Li Lin to pay New Year greetings during the Chinese New Year, he hurriedly said a few words and was carried back to his room.

The old guy wants to disappear completely from Ming Dynasty’s political map!

He knew very well that rights were very exclusive. His existence had already affected Li Xiao's rights.

Apart from anything else, just seeing the unruly Ao Ye and Man Ye behave like puppies in front of Sun Chengzong, you can know the old guy's prestige.

"Really?" Li Lin's eyes widened. When Huniu told him yesterday that the girl who looked like a clay sculpture in the temple was his future wife, Li Lin panicked.

When it comes to marriage, what matters is the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words. It’s not Li Lin’s turn to talk too much!

In addition, the other party was Zhang Huangyan's granddaughter, so Li Lin naturally knew that this was a political marriage.

I originally thought it would take a lot of effort to convince my dad today. I didn't expect that I could convince my dad so easily.

Dad...couldn't he be sleepy?

"If you don't want pearls, I won't interfere in your marriage. It's up to you to decide what kind of girl you want to marry.

I won’t go back to the army these days. I’ve been thinking about some new tactics. Let’s try them out together and see if they can be implemented in the future.”

"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Li Lin immediately beamed.

The door opened, and Tokugawa Chihime herself and her maid were holding a jar of rice porridge, a steaming box of leeks, and a few small pickles.

"You are still considerate, unlike this kid who ate the xiaolongbao given to dad.

Come, come, let’s eat some together. I’ll take a nap after eating, and I’ll go to Yuquan Mountain later.”

"Look at Grandpa Sun? Take me there!" Li Lin liked Grandpa Sun whose hair and beard were all white.

"Okay! Maybe with you as a skinny monkey, Grandpa Sun can say a few more words to your father." Li Xiao looked at his son lovingly.

He has grown taller than himself, and he will be old when the child grows up.

"Let's eat!" She laid the dishes on the table herself, and Tokugawa Chiki weighed a bowl of rice porridge for each of Li Xiao and Li Lin.

There are six kinds of pickles on the table, which is Li Xiao's usual breakfast.

Li Xiao and Li Lin came to the table and sat down, and the two of them started to eat.

"Commander, Lin'er will be sixteen years old this year on his birthday. This...!"

"Oh, I'm sixteen. I need to organize this birthday well. I'm busy with work, so you can take care of this matter.

It doesn’t matter if you spend more money, the main thing is to make the event lively.

Oh, right!

Lin'er will follow me these days. Don't invite any granddaughters from the Zhang family or other families!

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, Zhang Huangyan just thinks too much about his children and grandchildren. Our son's marriage is his own decision."

The leek box filled with leek and egg is so delicious when you eat it in your mouth. Especially for people who have been hungry all night, taking a bite is simply a supreme enjoyment.
To be continued...