Chapter 184 The warmth of family affection
In the next few days, Ao Lie fell into an extremely busy life. He had to organize the reconstruction of the elite army; he had to inspect the venue himself to build the academy; he also had to go to the headquarters of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce from time to time to calculate the specific use of property with his grandfather Ao, so he had no time to visit his mother and wife. In a classic saying in later generations, he had to devote his limited time to infinite struggle for his career. This sentence is simply the best interpretation of Ao Lie's current situation.
Just when Ao Lie was busy, the arrival of the two people forced Ao Lie to leave all the work at hand and to welcome the two people in person. These two people were none other than Ao Lie's father Liu Yu and his father-in-law Cai Yong. After welcoming the two elders into the mansion, Ao Lie looked tired on his face and asked respectfully: "Father, father-in-law, why are you back?"
Liu Yu snorted with a cold face and said, "Do you still know that I am a father? I asked you, after you come back, have you ever visited your mother who shed tears for you day and night? Have you ever visited Yan'er who cares about you?"
Ao Lie was speechless when asked and replied in a low voice: "Isn't this a busy boy? All kinds of things are almost exhausted."
Liu Yu listened to Ao Lie's defense, and his anger became even stronger. Just as he was about to reprimand, Cai Yong, who was standing beside him, reached out to stop Liu Yu and said with a smile: "Okay, OK, Brother Bo'an, just put away the posture of a strict father. I don't know who was chatting all the way, worried about Lie'er's safety." Liu Yu's old face turned red, he snorted heavily, and sat down and stopped talking.
Cai Yong turned his head and looked at Ao Lie and said with a smile: "Lie'er, I'm here with your father, and I have no other intention. I originally wanted to see you, worried about the damage you suffered in the Battle of Shaxian. Later, I heard that you submitted a letter to the emperor and reported on the promotion of civil and military officials and the establishment of the college. I and your father asked the emperor for the angel's errands and took the opportunity to come back to help you."
"Help me?" Ao Lie asked in confusion: "The two elders are important officials in the court. Can you stay and not return to Luoyang?"
Liu Yu pointed at Cai Yong and said angrily: "Isn't you, a good father-in-law, forced to resign for your father, retire and return home, and come back together to help you with those trivial matters?! Your father-in-law even sold his house and was ready to give you all his money. Why don't you thank your father-in-law quickly!" At the end of the talk, Liu Yu's originally slightly stern tone slowly softened.
Cai Yong reached into his arms, slowly took out two things, held a volume of imperial edict in his left hand, and held a list in his right hand, and handed it to Ao Lie. He said, "This is the emperor's imperial edict. The emperor has agreed to everything you have expressed, and allowed you to be promoted to the generals under your command, and granted you the right to be arbitrary on the occasion. You can make your own decisions and everything in the two states. As for this list, it is my husband's property. After I sold the property, I will keep all the money I received. Now I am a penniless person, and I will rely on you to support me in the future."
Ao Lie was moved, and reached out to take the imperial edict and list, and said with some sobs: "My father-in-law is so kind. I really don't know what to say. Son-in-law, please kowtow to you." Although Cai Yong is a great scholar, he is honest and naturally does not have a lot of wealth in his hands. However, this friendship cannot help but touch Ao Lie deeply. Ao Lie, who doesn't even have to kneel down to see the emperor, willingly bows to Cai Yong under the warm family affection. Ao Lie's kneeling is limited to the touching family affection and has nothing to do with money.
Cai Yong smiled and helped Ao Lie up and pointed at Liu Yu. He said, "The person you really want to thank is your father. In order to come back to help you, he has abandoned his lifelong persistence. He has also prepared a generous gift for you." After hearing this, Liu Yu smiled and waved to the outside of the hall. Dozens of escorts walked in with more than a dozen large boxes, put the boxes in the lobby, bowed to Ao Lie, and then bowed his head and retreated.
Ao Lie looked at the dozen boxes in front of him in confusion and said in surprise: "Where did my father get so much money?" Liu Yu was so angry that he almost jumped up by Ao Lie's words, and angrily scolded: "Bastard! You are an unfilial son, you are honest and honest in your father and official position. Where can you find you so much money? Open it yourself and take a look."
Ao Lie hesitated and opened a box. What caught his eye was not the gold, silver and jewelry he imagined, but bundles of bamboo slips. Liu Yu's voice sounded again: "Do you see clearly? You are honest and honest in your father, and you can't even take out a copper coins. These slips are copies of the books copied by your father in Dongguan. All the books in Dongguan have been copied by your father. Now, these copies are all yours."
A copy of all the books in Dongguan? Ao Lie grew up in surprise and looked at the book in the box in disbelief. At present, Ao Lie was worried about the opening of the college, and his father delivered these books at the right time, which was a timely help. Dongguan is a royal library, which contains various rare and highly research-worthy books. It can be said to be a great place to gather all civilizations from ancient times to the present. Therefore, the value of the books in Dongguan is no less than gold from the perspective of civilization alone. Ao Lie obtained these books and obtained the general outline of all the knowledge in the world, and he could use these books as a teaching outline.
More importantly, the collection of books in Dongguan is like a huge piece of iron-sucking stone, which has an irresistible temptation to all those who do academic research. Many people want to feast their eyes but cannot enter. Now that Ao Lie has these collections, is he still afraid of not attracting teachers with high reputation? Are he afraid of not attracting enough students? Ao Lie looked at the copy book in front of him blankly, and really wanted to shout: "The copy book is in hand, and I have all the scholars in the world!
Turning around, Ao Lie was about to thank his father with an excited expression, but Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "Actually, the reason why he was able to bring these copies of Youzhou is the priest. If you want to thank him, thank the priest." Ao Lie immediately woke up when he heard this. Dongguan is a royal library, and emperors of all dynasties have had extremely strict protection for Dongguan. Without Liu Xie's consent, even if Liu Yu had the identity of an imperial concubine, he could not copy the collection of books in Dongguan privately.
Ao Lie faced Luoyang and murmured in remembrance: "Xiao Xiezi, thank you."
"Okay, now that the business is over, it's time to talk about private matters." Liu Yu interrupted Ao Lie's thoughts: "Sei Yu's father and go to visit your mother and wife."
Listening to Liu Yu's words, Ao Lie's face felt a little embarrassed again. Since returning to Youzhou, Ao Lie has not visited his mother, Mrs. Ao and his wife Cai Yan. It's not that Ao Lie is indifferent, but because of Sun Shangxiang's affairs, Ao Lie doesn't know how to face them. Now that Liu Yu proposes to go to the back hall, Ao Lie has to harden his teeth, follow Liu Yu and Cai Yong, and walk towards the back hall step by step.
Along the way, Ao Lie was thinking about how to tell them about Sun Shangxiang after seeing his mother and Cai Yan later. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked outside the backyard, he heard a silver bell-like laughter: "Sister Yan'er, your piano sound is really nice, unlike Shangxiang, who can only dance swords and guns. Why not, teach me to play the piano?" Cai Yan's voice immediately rang: "Piano skills are just a small path. I really envy you. The sword of dance is so powerful. If my sister can have one move and half of your posture, she can also protect her husband on the battlefield."
This is... a conversation between Sun Shangxiang and Cai Yan? Ao Lie immediately felt that his brain was not enough. How did they play together? Judging from his tone, it seemed that they were still getting along well. They were not cold-eyed, and Ao Lie was about to burn high incense, but how could this be the case now? What kind of situation is this? For the first time in Ao Lie's life, he felt that his brain had a short circuit.
When he walked into the backyard, Ao Lie hurriedly looked up and saw Cai Yan sitting on a chair with a guqin on the table in front of him; while Sun Shangxiang was leaning on Cai Yan's body, with her hands wrapped around Cai Yan's neck. Looking at the two girls, it was clearly like a leap secret in the boudoir, and there was no conflict.
"How could you...?" Ao Lie opened his mouth and wanted to ask clearly what the two were doing. But he was embarrassed to ask directly in front of Liu Yu and Cai Yong. His expression of wanting to say something but stopping made Cai Yan and Sun Shangxiang burst out with pleasant laughter like silver bells at the same time.
Hearing the laughter of the two girls, Mrs. Ao walked out of the room and said with a smile: "What are you two crazy girls laughing?" Just after saying this, Mrs. Ao suddenly saw three men, two elders and one young men standing in the yard. The steps under Mrs. Ao stopped immediately and looked at Ao Lie steadily, her eyes were already wet. Big drops of tears slid down on her chest.
Seeing Mrs. Ao shed tears, Ao Lie felt ashamed. He quickly stepped forward two steps, knelt in front of Mrs. Ao, and said blamingly: "Mother, the child is unfilial, you are worried." Mrs. Ao suddenly burst into tears, hugged Ao Lie in his arms, stretched out his right hand and slapped Ao Lie's back, and said choking while beating: "Is the wings hard? I don't know if I come back to see my mother first? I almost lost my life on the battlefield. Do you want my mother to shed tears for you?"
Liu Yu hurried forward and whispered to his wife: "Madam, OK, Lie'er is back safely, we should be happy. What kind of rituals do you cry in front of Yan'er and others? Besides, Lie'er is now the Great Governor of You and No. 100, you have to leave some face for Lie'er..."
"Shut up!" Mrs. Ao said angrily to Liu Yubo, "You still have the face to say this? If it weren't for you, Lie'er would have had so many troubles today when he was eight years old? Also, when you ran to Luoyang alone and threw our orphan and widowed mother in Youzhou, what kind of face do you have to return to this home today?"
Liu Yu was famous for his fear. In front of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ao pointed at her nose and scolded her. Liu Yu blushed and didn't know where to put her hands and feet. In the end, Cai Yong stood up to solve Liu Yu's dilemma: "Forget it, the day of reunion for the family, what to do if you say unhappy things." As he said that, Cai Yong also gave Liu Yu a secret wink.
Liu Yu understood, took Mrs. Ao's hand, walked towards the room, and whispered, "Madam, I'm sorry for you, right? Let's go to the room and say slowly, look, Lie'er and Yan'er are still here, so you can also give me some face..." Under Liu Yu's verbal offensive, Mrs. Ao burst into tears and smiled, gave Liu Yu a blank look, and then followed Liu Yu into the room obediently.
After Liu and Yu entered the room, Cai Yan walked to Cai Yong slowly and blessed Cai Yong. Then the father and daughter whispered. Speaking of which, Cai Yan had not seen her father for several years. Although she wanted to be gentle with Ao Lie who had been together for a long time, she couldn't bear to neglect her father, otherwise she would say that her daughter was her father's little cotton jacket.
On the other side, Sun Shangxiang gently walked to Ao Lie and whispered in Ao Lie's ear: "Auntie is so domineering. I will be like my aunt in the future! If you do something that makes me unhappy, let me see how I deal with you!" Sun Shangxiang's words immediately made Ao Lie sweat all over, looked at Sun Shangxiang with a bitter face, and said pitifully: "No, aren't you?"
PS: PS: Sorry, everyone, Dakun promised to take his daughter out for fun, it's too late to come back. So, tomorrow, Dakun strives to make up for everyone. Today, due to time, it's impossible to make up for it, and he can't write so many words.
Chapter completed!