Li Xun was pushed by Mu Gong, rubbed his loose eyes and said softly: "Mr. Mu Gong, are the emperor awake?"

Mr. Mu smiled and said, "The emperor has woken up long ago. I'll wait for you for a while."

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Li Xun quickly stood up: "How long have I slept?"

Mr. Mu smiled and said, "You will know if you go outside the window."

Li Xun walked to the window and looked at the sky. It was completely dark outside. He was sleeping fast and he had been sleeping for almost two hours without realizing it.

"Let's go, the emperor is waiting for you to have dinner together."

Mr. Mu chuckled and urged.

Li Xun turned around and followed Mu Gong into the inner hall.

Zhao Zhi was sitting there reading a book, and his aunt Li Yi was also there, and she was fiddling with bowls, chopsticks and food.

Li Xun sorted out his clothes, then strode forward, bowed with his fists and said, "Li Xun meets the emperor, Concubine Li."

Li Yi looked at Li Xun and smiled and said, "You dog, you kowtowed and bowed to me when you saw the emperor and me before. Why did you become a military governor and become quite good?"

Li Xun touched his head embarrassedly and laughed: "The emperor taught me several times, but Li Xun dared not be polite."

Zhao Zhi said indifferently: "Only by knowing etiquette and being honest can one become a state of mind. The harmony of affection cannot be achieved by kowtowing."

Li Xun was solemnly told, "Li Xun is loyal to the emperor and has no other intentions."

Zhao Zhi smiled but said nothing. Li Yi turned a wink at Minister Mu, who smiled and said, "Today's meal was made by Concubine Li himself. Your Majesty should eat more."

Zhao Zhi nodded, reached out to touch Li Yi's arm, and said softly: "I haven't eaten the food made by Yaya for a long time. I must eat a lot of rice today."

"It is the happiest thing for me to eat more of the emperor."

Li Yi pointed at Li Xun: "You talk to the emperor, and the food will be ready soon."

After saying that, Li Yi left.

Li Xun stood there without moving. He was no longer young and ignorant in the past. Although he was young, he had already experienced many things, especially when he returned to Fengjing to report his job, he was trapped in the capital and almost lost everything. All the roots came from Zhao Zhi. This gave Li Xun a very deep experience of accompanying the king and being with a tiger. It was impossible to be as unscrupulous as before.

Zhao Zhi pointed to the chair opposite and said indifferently: "Sit down, there are no outsiders today, it is considered a family dinner, and there is no need to be a polite."

Li Xun then stepped forward and sat down opposite Zhao Zhi, but his whole body sat straight, with a serious expression, lowered his head slightly, and did not look directly at Zhao Zhi.

Zhao Zhi looked at Li Xun carefully, and finally sighed slightly, "Dou'er, you have grown up, this is very good. I am very pleased with it, but for some reason, I always like the dog I used to be more."

Zhao Zhi's words expressed some sighs. He seemed extremely noble in the imperial family, but in fact he had many helplessness. Before Zhao Xun became the crown prince and before he grew up, Zhao Zhi's fatherly love for him was absolutely sincere and pure. However, as Zhao Xun grew up, he was enthroned and enthroned, and began to make friends with court officials, and gradually exposed his ambition for the position of crown prince. Zhao Zhi's fatherly love for Zhao Xun may not have changed at all, but the way of communication between father and son has changed greatly. Zhao Zhi began to become extremely serious and harsh to Zhao Xun. This is a kind of teaching and encouragement. From that time on, Zhao Zhi and Zhao Xunzhi

In the meantime, they are no longer pure father and son, and there is a more significant relationship between the monarch and the minister. This kind of emotional change can also be compared with Li Xun. If Li Xun is always so carefree, so carefree, and does not involve politics and power, Zhao Zhi will still call him "Doer with a smile", and the latter can also call him "The Emperor's uncle" with a smile. It doesn't matter. Zhao Zhi does not value these false rituals too much. However, since Li Xun joined this game, no matter how Zhao Zhi likes Li Xun because of Li Yi's relationship, they will not be as simple and selfless as before. If there is selfishness, there will be a distance!

Hearing this sentence, Li Xun's nervous mood suddenly relaxed a lot. Then he raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhi opposite him. After not seeing him for half a year, Zhao Zhi became thinner and thinner. His hair was completely white, his face was pale and bloodless. This was an old man who was about to come to an end.

Li Xun's eyes suddenly turned red and he choked and said, "Uncle Emperor, you must take care of yourself. My daughter's first-year-old wine is also ready to invite you to suppress the scene and make my Li family look better."

Zhao Zhi looked at Li Xun for a while, but there was a smile on his face and said softly: "No matter how great the face I give, it will be my face, not my own. Dog, you have done a good job. In the future, you must be at peace with yourself and not be willing to behave otherly. This will be good for you and will be good for Inquirer."

Li Xun's heart beat, quickly adjusted his emotions, and said sincerely: "I am now a Duke of the Kingdom, with a great reputation, and have glory, wealth and fame and fortune. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne to the emperor in the future, and my aunt is even more the Empress Dowager. With this relationship, what can I make things difficult for people to make things difficult for me? I am already very content."

Speaking of this, Li Xun may have been inspired and kept saying, "I, Li Xun, was born in poverty and humbleness. The greatest hope in my life is to be able to have a full meal every day. It is just because of the White Scarf Army Rebellion that I had to come to Fengjing and unexpectedly recognized my aunt. My biggest hope in the past was to succeed. I remember that from the first year of Chengping to the fifth year of Chengping, the prince would come to participate every year and ask me what I want to get. I always answer, there are countless fertile land, three wives and four concubines.

, Wouldn't it be so happy? The old man and his aunt are very strict. I am young, so the prince will definitely not give me any beauty or something. But every time I give me a lot of fertile land and money on my birthday, plus the time of rewards from the emperor and my aunt, in just three or five years, my family was anxious about me and the old man, but I already had fertile land and more than 300,000 taels of money. I can't use up so much wealth in this life. At that time, I was thinking that the days of three wives and four concubines, walking the dog and the eagle are not far from me."

Zhao Zhi looked at Li Xun, and his eyes showed a lot of softness. How could he not see that Li Xun's words were indeed heartfelt words, without any pretentiousness.

“What changed your mind?”

"It's the prince's cousin. On the eve of the Battle of Jiangnan, he told me that he might not be a real man or a hero, but he would eventually go out and see the wonderful world, so that he would not be a man in vain. After hearing the prince's cousin's words, I went out and looked, and then realized that this world was indeed very wonderful."

Li Xun lowered his head and said silently.

Zhao Zhi remained silent, and after a long time, he whispered: "Only after hard work, I will cherish things. Some things are not your fault."
Chapter completed!