"Wait, this matter was to be hidden from you. How did you know? Who did you hear?" Li Chengqian asked.

Jin Deman explained: "This afternoon, the youngest son of General Hou's family, Xiang'er's uncle, came, pointed at her sister and said she was blamed for her troublesomeness, which implicated General Hou.

My sister was so angry that she chased her parents' home to ask clearly. Xiang'er's uncle had no choice but to tell the truth, so..."

That's why the Hou family was hit hard?

Li Chengqian understood it, didn’t this mean that the wife knew everything? No wonder she cried like this, and she felt guilty.

Xiang'er's uncle is the younger brother of a compatriot of the Hou family. He just returned from a meritorious service in the Northeast and was awarded the reward, while Xiang'er's uncle is the concubine's son born to me. He is not very old and very playboy.

Just listening to Jin Deman's brief description, Li Chengqian knew that it must be his ignorant brother-in-law who made a fuss. If it were his elder brother-in-law, he would definitely feel sorry for his sister and would not reveal the truth and complain.

"This bastard dares to be so unreasonable. Even his sister is bullied. Wait, I'll vent your anger!"

Li Chengqian was furious and was about to give birth to his brother-in-law.

Hou grabbed it and said sadly: "Husband, I have caused my father to suffer a lot of trouble. My younger brother scolded me correctly. I am a loser and ominous person.

Don't go, I have no face to face my mother's family.

Even my husband has been tired of me and has come to this day. I have no shame to live..."

What??? How dare that soul dare to scold you like this? I must kill him! Li Chengqian threw away his wife and insisted on going out.

Jin Deman stopped and persuaded, "No need for husband, that man was still beaten by Xiang'er's uncle on the spot, and said he would be closed for three days. Now the main focus is to calm down her sister's emotions. If she can't think about it, something will happen."

"Yes, yes, yes, so when Xiang'er hasn't finished school, you go to school to wait for the child, and then take him to our fifth brother-in-law to avoid it. Don't let the child know that something is wrong at home. I'll pick you up after I've handled it here."

Li Chengqian arranged everything in an orderly manner. As for the knot of his wife, he should slowly resolve it. If it weren't for the big plan, he would almost tell his wife the truth.

Jin Deman took Xiao Lixiang to Du Shaoqing's Marquis' Mansion in a carriage. At this time, Du Shaoqing and Xiao Xuanxuan were both in the clinic, and only Princess Changle and her son Du Zhong were at home in the Du family.

The princess asked Du Zhong to take Xiao Li Xiang to the doll house to play, and she led Jinderman to the small living room in the backyard to chat.

In fact, the princess has seen something wrong, otherwise, there would be no one who would have taken the legitimate son to visit relatives.

In the doll house, Li Xiang was unable to get interested in looking at the piles of toys at the first time. He did not play with building blocks with Xiao Du Zhong, but took out the abacus he carried with him from his schoolbag.

Xiao Du Zhong was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "Big cousin, why are you doing with abacus? Don't you like these toys of me?

Or do you want to buy all my toys, so you came with an abacus?

No, Zhonger won’t sell these things.”

These words surprised Li Xiang, "Cousin, do you recognize this thing?"

"Of course I recognize it, it's just an abacus. It was invented by my father. It was used to settle accounts. My sister taught me, it was meaningless and not fun." Xiao Du Zhong said indifferently.

"No, you don't seem to be learning to read. How could Sister Xuanxuan teach you how to do it?

Little cousin, lying is not a good boy…”

Xiao Du Zhong blushed with anxiety and argued: "No, Zhong'er never lies. My sister has really taught me, and I have already started to read. My mother said I am too young and I can just recognize one word a day.

Hehe, actually, I can learn three words a day without telling it. So far, I have recognized more than 900 words."

"How is this possible? You are not as old as me, how can you be more literate than me?

I don't believe it." Li Xiang shook her head repeatedly.

Xiao Du Zhong stomped her feet in anger, "Hmph, cousin, you underestimate others, then how can you believe me?"

Li Xiang's big eyes turned and thought of a good idea, "Unless you can prove that you really know how to use abacus."

But I think you don’t know. If you don’t know, Humph, little cousin, you have to apologize to me. It’s wrong to lie.

By the way, my cousin can teach you how to use this thing today. I have only learned this from the school teacher recently. I have learned the fastest in the whole school."

Xiao Du Zhong said firmly: "Zhong'er did not lie!

One up one up two up two, three down five down two, four down five down one…”

Immediately afterwards, he snatched Li Xiang's abacus, plucked the abacus beads with one hand, and quickly recited the abacus mantra. His skillful technique, combined with the abacus beads, kept plucking up and down, was like a music with a strong sense of rhythm, and he was stunned by Li Xiang next to him.

After a long time, Xiao Zhong Yu finished the operation, clapped his hands and stood up and asked, "How is it? Zhong'er isn't lying."

Li Xiang was stunned. He was simply petrified on the spot. He had just learned the basics of abacus and had a few previous melodies, which could achieve simple addition and subtraction within ten.

But when he heard his cousin talked endlessly, he memorized such a lot of mantras. Although he had never heard of it and could not tell the truth or falsehood, it did not affect the envy in Li Xiang's eyes at all. This is called being unconscious.

Moreover, the little hand was moving around the abacus, saying that it was a person who didn't know how to calculate the abacus, which was absolutely impossible.

After coming back to his senses, Li Xiang stammered and asked, "Cousin, your calculations are so good. Can you teach me?"

Xiao Du Zhong was not very scheming, nor was she proud because she won. Instead, she shook her head seriously and said, "No, cousin, I learned this thing from my sister for three days before I learned it. Now it's almost dark and there is not enough time.

Let’s play games before dinner.”

Wait a moment... say it again, how long have you been studying? How many days? Li Xiang was confused and grabbed Xiao Zhong and asked.

"Three days, cousin, what's wrong with you? I know I can't catch up with my sister's smartness. I'm slowing down after learning for three days, but I finally learned it. I don't have to be beaten by my sister. Zhong'er is already very happy..."

Xiao Du Zhong is an optimistic person who is devoted to playing games and does not take other things seriously, but he doesn't realize that Li Xiang on the opposite side is almost blown and vomits blood.

"Big cousin, what's wrong with you? Why are you sitting on the ground?" Xiao Du Zhong shouted, pulling Li Xiang, who was slumped on the ground.

"Don't pull me, let me think about it...

The gentleman seems to have said that there are hundreds of abacus mantras in total. I have learned it for several days and it will take less than twenty sentences. You will finish it in three days. I..."

What Li Xiang might want to say at this time is to let me be quiet.

But Du Zhong was still an ignorant child. He didn't know what it means to observe words and expressions, and how could he comfort people? He heard this and answered happily: "What's there?

My sister was faster and she finished memorizing it all in one day, but I…”

Before he could finish speaking, Li Xiang suddenly burst into tears, then turned over and got up, trotting outside, and shouting, "Mom, second mother, I don't want to go to school... I don't want to compete with Sister Xuanxuan again..."

This... Why did my cousin suddenly cry? Why did he cry? I didn't bully him, and I couldn't beat you. It's so strange.

Oh, he must have cried because he thought the abacus was not fun, but isn’t there a room for toys here?

Also, what did he say he wouldn't compete with his sister? What did he compare? He could not compare anything. He would be beaten and be pinched when he lost. Every time his sister wanted to beat me, he would deliberately compete with me for something. Humph, he always wanted to lie to me and get beaten, so I wouldn't be fooled.

By the way, who can I compare to her? It’s like learning abacus. She learned for a day, and I studied for three days. Hum, she must be not as slow as herself, and then I won, hehe, and then, I can beat her up too...

No, right? I can't beat my sister, she and Xiao Miaomiao help. Forget it, I'd better play with toys by myself.

The monologue of Xiao Du Zhong’s heart is that I don’t know how many times I have suffered before, so I can develop such a wise and clever little brain. Tsk tsk, this child has a very powerful sister, I really don’t know whether it is a blessing or a disaster.

But what is certain is that when Emperor Changsun Xiao Lixiang meets the Du siblings, it is definitely a disaster. With just one game, Du Zhong beat his cousin Li Xiang to get tired of learning.

Jinderman and the princess were startled when they heard the child crying and hurried out to check it out, but they didn't expect to encounter such a situation.

The princess turned around and pulled Eucommia over and beat her up.

"Your cousin finally came to our house for a trip, why did you make you cry? Did you bully him?"

Xiao Du Zhong’s injustice was simply unreasonable. He liked to cry, so how could I dare to mess with him?

Looking at the angry mother, Xiao Du Zhong said aggrievedly: "Mother, I didn't bully my cousin. I can't beat him if I don't believe me. If you don't believe me, please ask him."

Here, Jin Deman hugged Li Xiang and almost asked the result, "Sister Changle, don't blame Zhong'er, it's not a child fighting, it's Xianger's problem."

After explaining it through the princess, I realized that this is the case. My God, my nephew is too. He is not very old and is quite competitive. Unfortunately, why do you want to compete with Xuanxuan? How good is it to change someone, such as Xuanxuan's younger brother?

"Mom, my cousin is slower than me in learning abacus. Are you afraid of getting beaten up when you go home?" Xiao Du Zhong asked guessed.

I... the princess was speechless, pulled her son over and asked in a low voice, "Did you hurt me if my mom? Will you apologize if you tell you a story tonight?"

Xiao Du Zhong broke free from his mother's arms and rubbed his butt in surprise and shouted, "Oh, I forgot if you don't tell me, mom. It still hurts now. You have to tell me two stories!"

"Okay, two, why are you almost becoming a naughty child like your sister?" the princess cursed with a smile.

During dinner, Li Chengqian came to pick up his wife and the child, but Jin Deman couldn't handle the job. He had an accident when he took care of the child for the first time. What should I do if the child really doesn't go to school in the future?

Li Chengqian laughed and solved the problem with just one sentence, which was to tell Li Xiang that Xuanxuan also learned from that school. Sure enough, Li Xiang immediately changed her mood and said that he wanted to go too, and that he learned as well as Sister Xuanxuan.

Seeing his son expressing such ambitions, Li Chengqian smiled and hoped that this lie could be exposed later.

The Hou family had already been calmed down by Li Chengqian and promised her to take her to Luoyang to visit Hou Junji soon.

But they didn't know that something was going on in Hou Junji.

Since Lao Hou was demoted to Luoyang and became a comfortable city governor, he wrote letters to the emperor several times, one to explain his loyalty and the other to advise the emperor to cherish the relationship between father and son.

But Li Er became more and more impatient. He didn't expect that Hou Junji, who was extremely talented in military affairs, was so unrestrained in politics. Why did he always cause trouble at this time?

So Li Er replied hushly, "Control his duties well and do not return to Beijing without following the order!"

Well, it was this almost heartless decree that made Lao Hou sad and cool.

Since then, he has been depressed all day long and seems to be unable to get interested in everything. The more he thinks about what happened in Chang'an recently, the more he thinks about it, the more wrong he is.

The emperor started to depose the crown prince when Prince Li Chengqian came back a year ago. He first took away the position of crown prince, and on the surface he asked the crown prince to be the Minister of Justice to train, and retained the right to live in the East Palace as a delaying strategy to confuse everyone.

But in fact, it is also a test. When the time is ripe, he will further drive the prince out of the Eastern Palace. Now, the title, residence and privileges are all clean. He doesn't even give a prince. What does it mean that the prince's deposed is a foregone conclusion, and he will not be the first person in the future.

The more Hou Junji thought about it, the more he felt that the emperor's skill was, which was different from the violent act of directly abolishing the crown prince. The one who was deposed and demoted to a commoner or imprisoned after being spread, and the reputation was not good. The cleverness of this curve now lies in that the government and the public gradually accepted the facts, and no one felt that there was anything wrong with it.

After the successful deposed crown prince, the prince's gangsters were eliminated. His prince's father-in-law was the first, of course it was just the beginning.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, don't you remember the love between father and son, and you don't think about the friendship between master and servant that Hou Junji first followed. In order to stabilize your position, will you exclude dissidents like this?

No wonder the prince made great contributions in the battle to destroy the country in the Northeast. You only praised him verbally and did not have any rewards. So that's how it is! Are you afraid that our achievements will shock the Lord?"

Lao Hou's contempt to himself was to his personal speculation that he had taken root in his heart day by day, and slowly evolved into a knot in his heart. The knot that no one could untie was also a knot in his heart that could not be shared with others.

There is resentment, there is injustice. Once the seeds of hatred are planted, they will be out of control. Hou Junji himself is not a person with open mind. He wants to take revenge and take the opportunity to respond to the emperor's ruthlessness and injustice.

Coincidentally, at this time, a man in Luoyang slowly approached Hou Junji. This man was not old, but he was a famous local snake in Luoyang. He was the adopted son whom Zhang Liang was the governor of Luoyang. Later, Zhang Liang was angry and expelled all adopted sons, and this man was re-organized into Luoyang.

He found Hou Junji as a guest, but actually approached the other party to send money and goods, and then made further plans.
Chapter completed!