Ten years later

After returning home, he lost his scruples and even laughed out loud: "You are walking so fast, it's like fleeing from disaster."

Lin Ziqing smiled wryly: "Don't make fun of me. Madam is so enthusiastic, I can't stand it, so I have to run away."

Li Yuan gently turned the white porcelain cup in front of him: "Sanniang wants to be warm to you. She couldn't tell you directly, so she asked me to come here."

"Is Lang Jun joking?" Lin Ziqing asked, he didn't quite believe it.

Li Yuan replied: "I won't make fun of it, she wants to ask me to ask what you mean."

Lin Ziqing's expression changed immediately, and he said solemnly, "Ziqing has no intention."

"Don't answer so quickly, intentionally or not," Li Yuanyu said to him earnestly, "I think Sanniang is a good person, and you are too. You still have to find someone to accompany you, and you can't always be unmarried."

Lin Ziqing had no way to answer this question. He was not a cultivator who was too forgetful, and he also wanted someone to be by his side, but..., he smiled wryly in his heart, since it was impossible, then don't delay others.In fact, it's good not to have a family all the time. I feel free and easy, and I don't have any worries.

But he didn't dare to say these words to Li Yuan, and only asked: "Lang Jun said so, is he planning to continue?"

Li Yuan sneered, and replied: "What nonsense, I'm still in the period of filial piety."

Lin Zi was silent for a moment, not daring to speak.

Li Yuan dismissed the servant who prepared the tea, and asked Lin Ziqing, "How about making a cup of tea for me?"

Lin Ziqing naturally agreed, took out the tea leaves and looked at them carefully, then put them in his hands and twirled them lightly, and asked, "Is this Mengding nectar?"

Li Yuan nodded: "Yes, I brought it with me when I came out of the palace. Jiulang said that if he didn't pay attention to me, he asked someone to give me a small half."

The output of mengding nectar is very small, and most of them are tributes.Although rewards were distributed in the palace every year before, the amount was very small, which is not as generous as Li Lian.As for not paying attention to yourself--Li Lian was brought up pampered, and he doesn't pay attention to anything that is slightly inferior, so what kind of lack of attention is there.

Li Yuan seemed to have thought of something, and said quietly to Lin Zi: "I am used to being a powerful minister outside, but I am still a little uncomfortable when I suddenly return to the feet of the emperor. I am afraid that one day I will break the rules again and attract the Lord." dissatisfied."

When he was in Lingzhou, he said what he said, and he was unavoidably a little arrogant.Now Li Lian is kind to him, but no one knows what will happen in the future.

... Now it is obvious that the Lord is afraid that you will be dissatisfied with him.

Lin Ziqing didn't want to answer his words, and silently guarded the teapot, waited for the water to boil, adjusted the salt, added tea, and divided the tea after the third boiling.

After sharing the tea, Li Yuan took a sip and praised: "Your craftsmanship is better, the tea in the palace is not as good as yours."

Lin Ziqing lowered his head slightly, "Your Majesty prefers a lighter taste, so the palace naturally puts less seasoning in the tea. Ziqing knows what Langjun likes, so Langjun naturally thinks that Ziqing's craftsmanship is good."

After drinking a cup of tea, Li Yuan found that Lin Ziqing was still sitting on the tea stove, guarding the tea stove, and greeted him: "Sit down, you stay there all the time, I can't talk to you."

Lin Ziqing got up, walked to the seat opposite Li Yuan, sat down politely, and asked him, "What does Mr. Lang want to say?"

His respectful appearance made Li Yuan feel extremely unfriendly, as if he was too humble.Li Yuan sighed, and asked him directly: "Why did you resign with all your heart? You will not be able to keep you in the position of Shangshu Sheng Youpushe."

As soon as the words finished, he added another sentence, "Answer well, don't try to lie to me."

Lin Ziqing would tell the truth without Li Yuan's reminder.He didn't say any more high-sounding words such as retiring after success, he just said: "Ziqing followed the ninth son to repay the great favor of the Lord. If he still takes the official position, what kind of repayment is that?"

Not only to repay the favor, but also to avenge Li Yuan.He doesn't care about the principles of ethics, the loyalty of monarchs and ministers, if someone dares to harm Li Yuan, he will avenge Li Yuan at that time.

Li Yuan laughed: "I never thought of threatening you with kindness. Even if I have been kind to you, you have done so many things for me, and you have already paid it off."

How can it be clear, Lin Ziqing thought in his heart, not to mention being in a high position, without Li Yuan, he might not be able to live now.What's more, how much I have learned from Li Yuan in those years, how can it be regarded as repaying the favor.

He smiled, and said vaguely to Li Yuan: "Mr. Lang, you don't understand what Ziqing is thinking."

"I don't understand you," Li Yuan seemed a little helpless in his tone, "Don't call me Lang Jun, my name is Xuan Chu."

Lin Ziqing was stunned for a few seconds, then said, "Ziqing...don't dare."

Lin Ziqing knew Li Yuan's name, but because Li Yuan was in a high position at a young age, there were only a few people who could talk with his peers and match him with words.Now Li Yuan deliberately brought up his own name in order to let him call him that, but how dare he meet Li Yuan's peers?

"Why don't you dare?" Li Yuan leaned forward a little, and asked seemingly indifferently, "Another way of asking, what do you think, who am I to you, and who are you to me?"

Lin Ziqing was startled, apparently he didn't expect Li Yuan to ask such a question suddenly, but soon, he said very calmly: "You are the master, Ziqing is a slave."

For Lin Ziqing, this was not even a question worth thinking about, after all, he had signed a contract of selling himself.

"Household slave? It's interesting. The court official, the prince's third teacher, actually said that he is my family's servant?" Li Yuan suddenly laughed out loud, and after a long while, he stopped and stared at Lin Ziqing with deep eyes. There is no bottom, and there is an inexplicable meaning mixed in, "Lin Chengzhi, Lin Chengzhi, you really dare to say it."

Lin Ziqing knew that Li Yuan was angry, so he bowed his head in silence and dared not speak.

Li Yuan was indeed angry.

He and Lin Ziqing were originally in a subordinate relationship, and when they first met, they didn't feel anything wrong with Lin Ziqing's behavior.After he came out of the Marquis of Anping's Mansion, he noticed some strange things, and he always felt that Lin Ziqing seemed to have gone a little too far.He regarded Lin Ziqing as his confidant, and thought that there should be no concealment between the two of them, so he thought of asking about this matter.

But turning around, Lin Ziqing opened his mouth without hesitation and said that he has always regarded himself as a domestic slave, how could Li Yuan not be angry.

He thought he had done his best for Lin Ziqing's affairs.Since Lin Ziqing entered the Chengguo Mansion in Lingzhou at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he sent people to teach Lin Ziqing the six arts and hundreds of schools, such as rites, music, archery, calligraphy, Confucianism, Mohism, Dao, law, yin and yang, and agriculture. learned?He even opened the library at home to allow Lin Ziqing to come and go as he pleased.

Less than four years later, he let Lin Ziqing go in and out of the barracks with him. He took Lin Ziqing with him in every battle, and taught him hand in hand.In fact, the time he taught Lin Ziqing was much longer than the time he taught Li Lian.

A few years later, when Lin Ziqing mentioned it by chance, he remembered that there was such a thing as a contract of selling his body. He went to the governor's mansion that day, cleared the archives, gave Lin Ziqing an identity, and enlisted him as the secretary of Lingzhou. Joining the army, under the sixth rank, is already the highest rank he can give himself.

At that time, who in the army's government would dare not respect Lin's joining the army?Even with an identity like Jiulang, he has to be called "Mr."He would even leave Lin Ziqing to preside over the scheduling when he went on an expedition.

Slaves are the same as goods, if he regards Lin Ziqing as a slave, why bother to teach a piece of goods?Why is it necessary to give him status?How could he rely on Lin Ziqing so much?Not to mention, he is still invited to live with him in the ancestral house in Yongchangfang!

Li Yuan's series of questions left Lin Ziqing speechless.In other words, he didn't think about those aspects at all.

Lin Ziqing always believed that when he was bought into Cheng Guogong's mansion, he could only be a servant for granted.Li Yuan taught him because he wanted to use what he had learned and seen for Li Yuan.Even if Li Yuan returned the deed of sale to him later, it was still kindness.

Although sometimes, he would have the illusion that he had been staying in the Duke Cheng's mansion in Lingzhou and had known Li Yuan since he was a child.But he also always reminded himself to remember his identity, so he couldn't lose his sense of proportion. Stories like "Doctor Wuyan" are stories after all, and it is impossible for him to happen to himself.

Seeing that he refused to answer for a long time, Li Yuan lightly tapped the table in front of him with his fingers, with a bit of hatred for iron and steel: "Lin Chengzhi, why don't you spend all of your exquisite thoughts on yourself!" Lin Ziqing His nickname "Chengzhi" was still taken by him in the past, so similar to his younger brother's nickname "Muzhi", Lin Ziqing didn't realize it.