Poor Family

  Chapter 86 Horse Trouble (Part 2)

  Li Wengui's family lives in a big house in the east of the city. Although he and his eldest brother Li Wenyou are blood brothers, they are clear about their accounts. The eldest brother manages the land in the clan property, while he controls various industries. They have never violated each other for many years.

  However, since the eldest brother Li Wenyou founded Li Jiliang five years ago, the tacit understanding between Li Wengui and his eldest brother has been broken. Li Wengui is deeply dissatisfied with his eldest brother's establishment of a new business without consulting himself.

   But what really escalated Li Wengui's dissatisfaction was that he didn't know until three months ago that Li Daqi and his son actually accounted for 30% of the Li Ji Liang line. This shocked him extremely and made him extremely angry.

   Needless to say, this is again because of the so-called Dazu possessed Li Yanqing, the elder brother dotes on him to an unbearable level.

  From the very beginning, Li Wengui did not believe that Li Yanqing would be possessed by some great ancestor. He insisted that his elder brother had lost his head, but he kept silent on this matter because he didn't want to turn against his elder brother.

  Until the elder brother’s love for Li Yanqing broke through his bottom line and gave 30% of Li Jiliang’s share to Li Yanqing and his son, the anger accumulated in Li Wengui’s heart for many years finally broke out.

In the evening, Li Wengui returned from Liji Restaurant as usual. Liji Restaurant is the largest asset of the Li family. It has opened three big restaurants on Hebei Lianglu. In addition to the tavern, the Li family also has two grocery stores and eight inns. .

  These assets are nominally owned by the Li family, but in fact most of them are owned by Li Wengui and several Li family members. The rest of the Li family members basically have nothing to do with these assets.

  Li Wengui came out of the carriage. Today he was wearing a light blue dark coat and a scarf on his head. His slender, dark face always wore his signature stern expression.

  Li Wengui saw an ox cart parked at the door, and asked, "Are there any guests today?"

   "My lord, it is Li Daqi who is here."

  Li Wengui was taken aback, "How long has he been here?"

   "I've been here for a while, and I've been waiting for the master."

  Li Wengui pondered for a while and said: "Let him sit for a while, and I will come after changing clothes."

  In the living room, Li Daqi was drinking tea and patiently waiting for Li Wengui to come back. He had been waiting for almost half an hour, but Li Wengui never came back.

   Just when Li Daqi was thinking about coming back another day, a boy reported from the hall, "Master is here!"

  Li Daqi stood up quickly, and saw Li Wengui walking over slowly with square steps. Li Daqi quickly stepped forward and bowed to salute, "Daqi sees third uncle!"

  Li Wengui glanced at him, seeing that Li Yanqing hadn't come, he was really dissatisfied, so he couldn't help snorting, "Is this the gift of your junior?"

  Li Daqi had no choice but to kneel down and salute, "Daqi bows to my third uncle!"

  Li Wengui ignored him, walked up to the hall and sat down, and then said coldly: "Get up!"

  Li Daqi stood up and walked back to the hall but dared not sit down. Once Li Wengui started to care about etiquette, he could not sit down casually without the permission of his elders.

   "Daqi, teach your son etiquette well. He doesn't look like a junior in front of me. If I hadn't been generous, I would have been mad at him long ago."

  When Li Daqi cursed secretly, trying to make his son sacrifice his future to cheat for him, how could he have the slightest demeanor of an elder?

  Although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he still replied respectfully: "Third uncle taught you the right thing, I will definitely discipline him well."

Li Wengui glanced at him. He felt that Li Daqi's words were a little insincere, and he began to feel disgusted with Li Daqi again. A clansman who caught a knife for others and was scolded by people pointing at his spine, if he didn't have his brother's strong support, he still had a chance to stand up. Talk in front of yourself?

  I didn’t know how to be grateful, and even acted against him. When Li Daqi thought of his son Li Yanqing who didn’t know what to do, Li Wengui’s heart began to burn with anger.

  He took a sip of tea and asked coldly, "Is that horse brought?"

Li Daqi was silent. He just wanted to discuss the matter with Li Wengui about the horse. He wanted to ask Li Wengui to let the horse go for the patriarch's sake. What should I say.

Li Wengui glared at him fiercely, and then asked again: "I made it clear to you in the letter that Brother Ma promised to give it to my grandson, but was taken away by your son with a knife. I just want to know, you When will you bring the horse back to me?"

   "This matter... I am afraid that my nephew should talk to the patriarch first."

  'Kang Dang! Li Wengui slammed the tea bowl on the table, raised his eyebrows, glared at Li Daqi and said, "How dare you use the patriarch to suppress me, Li Daqi, you are very promising! Who do you think you are? Put me, Li Wengui, in your eyes? Don't you!"

Li Daqi quickly explained: "The third uncle misunderstood what my nephew meant, because the patriarch gave the horse to Qing'er. If we don't get the patriarch's consent, we will give the horse to others without permission. We are afraid that the patriarch will be unhappy. Please ask the third uncle Let’s wait for a few more days, my nephew has already written to the patriarch yesterday, and there will be a reply soon, as long as the patriarch does not object, we will definitely send the horse back.”

Li Wengui didn't really want that horse. He knew very well that Li Yanqing was practicing riding and archery every day, and he couldn't do without the horse. He just wanted to use the horse to make trouble, make things worse, and force his brother to stand between him and Li Yanqing. Make a choice, if the elder brother still wants to favor Li Yanqing, then the brother will not be able to do so.

Li Wengui deliberately made things bigger, so he would not listen to Li Daqi's explanation, and still said with a very strong attitude: "Li Daqi, I don't care what your idea is, but you listen to me, even if you invite the magistrate to suppress me , you must bring me the horse tomorrow, otherwise we will have a good talk about the rituals of the elders and the younger in the ancestral hall!"

After finishing speaking, he got up and left angrily, and froze Li Daqi in the living room. Li Daqi felt his scalp go numb. He understood the meaning of Li Wengui's last words. , even if it is unreasonable, you must first hand over the property to the elders, and then you can complain to the patriarch, and the patriarch will mediate. If the mediation fails, the patriarch will call the clan elders in the ancestral hall to make a ruling.

   Li Wengui obviously took advantage of this family rule. If his son refused to hand over the horse, he would have violated the family rule first.

  Li Daqi walked out of Li Wengui's house with heavy feet like lead, and got into the rented ox cart. The driver asked, "Where do you want to go, Master?"

  His mind went blank, he didn't know how to persuade his son, and he didn't know how to deal with this matter? He didn't answer the coachman's words for a while.

  Seeing that he was distracted, the coachman smiled and said, "If Master doesn't know where he is going, let's go back to the mules and horses first! Don't waste Master's money."

  The coachman’s words reminded Li Daqi, and he hurriedly said, “Go to Wangji Mules and Horses!”

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In the yard, Li Yanqing was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, silently reciting the "New Meanings of the Rites of Zhou". Although he had studied the "New Meanings of the Three Classics" for five years, he was already familiar with the scriptures, but this was how he studied. Practice is oral, and he must also recite it from time to time, so as not to become unfamiliar with time.

  At this time, the little maid, Xi Que, hurried over, "Little official, there is an uncle looking for you outside. He called you by your baby name, and he actually knows my name."

  Li Yanqing thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "It should be my father!"

   "Ah!" The magpie was startled, and immediately said in a panic: "I...I didn't salute the master just now!"

   "It's nothing, you don't know my dad, he won't blame you."

  Li Yanqing comforted the magpie, then walked quickly to the gate, just when he reached the outer courtyard, he saw his father leading a red horse, and Wang Gui was carefully looking at the horse.

  Seeing Li Yanqing coming out, Wang Gui smiled and said: "Old Li, this charcoal horse is the treasure of the shop in my shop! I didn't expect it to be bought by your father."

  Li Yanqing's face sank, he knew what his father wanted to do? How can it be!

   【Tickets on Sunday! 】

  (end of this chapter)