Li Daozheng rode his horse and galloped on the winding Chang'an Ancient Road. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The cold wind is howling, the face is like a knife, the strong wind rolls up the yellow dust, Li Daozheng was blinded by the wind, he tried to lower his body on the horse's back, and adjusted his breathing in small mouths, so that the frequency of breathing and the rhythm of the horse's running are consistent, in the eyes of outsiders, this person and a horse have been integrated into a whole, not a veteran can never practice such skilled riding.

Fatherly love is always unconditional, without expecting anything in return, even between good and evil, right and wrong.

No matter what their children do, in the eyes of their fathers, even if they are wrong, they can't allow outsiders to teach them, the children have their father's blood and bones, and they are the continuation and sustenance of their father's life.

What Li Daozheng has to do now is to protect the calf, he wants to rescue his son, he doesn't want to see him go to prison, let alone see him exiled to Qiannan, he uses all his strength, and even does not hesitate to open the dusty past, tear apart the past that he doesn't want to face the most, everything he does is just for his son.

The horses galloped like crazy, and in less than half an hour, the Yanxing Gate of Chang'an City was in sight.

Li Daozheng reined in his horse, squinted his eyes and fixed his eyes on the majestic city, and couldn't help but exhale a long breath.

Dismounted and walking, Li Daozheng led the horse into the city gate, and after entering the city, he went straight to Suzaku Street.

Suzaku Street is inhabited by the Tang Dynasty nobles and important ministers, and the people he is looking for also live there.

Walking through the streets, without squinting, half an hour later, Li Daozheng stood at the door of a powerful family on Suzaku Street.

There were many warriors on duty at the door, and when they saw Li Daozheng leading his horse and stopping, he looked at the plaque hanging in front of his house, and the warriors couldn't help but be suspicious, until they found that this middle-aged man dressed as a peasant with a horse suddenly walked towards his door, and the warriors pressed their swords and stopped Li Daozheng.

"In front of the Guogong Mansion, idlers are not allowed to stay, leave quickly!" The samurai said with a blank expression.

Li Daozheng didn't hear it, looked up at the plaque on the lintel, didn't know what to think, his expression became more and more bitter, and his eyes turned red unconsciously.

Seeing that Li Daozheng had no reaction, the warrior couldn't help but be angry, and couldn't help but reach out and push him.

"Idlers are not allowed to stay, don't you understand people?"

Li Daozheng was pushed backwards, but he didn't resist, but the tears in his eyes were accumulating more and more, and he didn't know what sad past he remembered.

Seeing that Li Daozheng still had no intention of leaving, the warriors couldn't help but be furious, and the leader pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist with a bang, pointed at Li Daozheng and said angrily: "Tell you to go, if you don't go, what do you want?" ”

Li Daozheng finally reacted, raised his head and smiled bitterly, sniffed hard, and then arched his hand towards the samurai, with a full attitude of humility.

"Please inform the head of the family here, the ministry will ask to see me in the past, my name is Li Changsheng."

Li Changsheng, this is a name that has not been mentioned for many years, and it is also the name of Li Daozheng in the year, after settling in Taiping Village, he changed his current name for some reason. When the hero was in his prime, he was Li Changsheng.

The warrior frowned, showed a disgusted expression, and said, "In the past, the general was your virtue?" Our grandfather is the pillar of the court, the important weapon of the country, busy all day long, you say a name, our grandfather will come out to see you, who do you think you are? ”

Li Daozheng muttered to himself in disappointment: "If it is really a thing or a person, in the past, he rushed into the enemy formation side by side with the general, and drank wine and ate meat in the camp after a big victory, how could he have thought that he wanted to see it today but could not get it?" ”

The samurai couldn't hear his whispers clearly, and seeing Li Daozheng's sad appearance, as if he had not heard his words, and were ignored again and again, the samurai couldn't help but be furious, and raised his horizontal sword and put it on Li Daozheng's neck.

"If you can't stay for a long time, the gods are chattering, what are your intentions? If you don't leave, I'll take you down to the official! ”

The knife was on his neck, Li Daozheng finally reacted, subconsciously put his backhand on the blade of the horizontal knife, and I don't know how he used his skill, he twisted and flipped it casually, the warrior was stunned, the elbow holding the knife suddenly became numb, and the horizontal knife actually made a miracle to Li Daozheng's hand, and the snowy blade pointed obliquely to the ground, and the situation reversed in an instant, as if it was a trick.

The warriors at the door were stunned, and then immediately came back to their senses, Li Daozheng's hand could be regarded as stabbing the hornet's nest, and everyone was out of the sheath at the same time, and surrounded Li Daozheng in a fan shape very experienced, and everyone showed a high degree of vigilance, staring at Li Daozheng as if facing a great enemy.

The samurai who was snatched of the sword was shocked, and suddenly took three steps back, pointed at Li Daozheng and shouted: "What a thief, sure enough, the person who came is not good!" Abandon the knife quickly, otherwise you will be considered an assassin and killed! ”

Li Daozheng smiled coldly, stared at the samurai and said, "Li has never been used to being held to the neck with a knife in his life, someone did this many years ago, and they all died. ”

The samurai was stunned.

Li Daozheng looked up at the plaque on the gate of the Guogong Mansion, his heart was sullen and irritable, he suddenly raised the horizontal knife in his hand, carried enough strength, exhaled and opened the sound, shouted violently, the horizontal knife flew out of his hand, between the electric light and flint, only to hear a muffled sound, the horizontal knife was impartially nailed to the beam under the plaque ten steps away, the blade was nearly half into the wood, the handle of the knife was still trembling and shaking, making a buzzing strange sound.

The samurai were shocked.

This kind of hand, this kind of accuracy, what is the origin of this unattractive black-faced man in front of him?

Xiao Xiao showed his hand and shocked the warriors in front of the door, but Li Daozheng ignored the many swords pointing at him, raised his head and laughed heroically: "Since you don't have a reason to see your old friend, then it's okay not to see you!" ”

With that, he resolutely turned around and walked away.

The swords pointing at him around seemed to be separated by an invisible air cover, and the warriors were frightened and frightened, as if they were facing a great enemy, obviously with swords in their hands, but no one dared to greet Li Daozheng, the kind of majesty like a mountain, like a killing god, shook the warriors deeply, and no one dared to make any moves.

Li Daozheng didn't look at the samurai at the door, turned around and led the horse, and walked alone into the distance.

Until Li Daozheng's figure disappeared, the warriors breathed a sigh of relief, and some curious people hurriedly ran to the beam below the plaque, stretched out their hands and tentatively pulled out the horizontal knife, the horizontal knife into the wood nearly a foot, firmly nailed to the depths of the beam, all the warriors looked at each other, their eyes showed a look of shock, they are all men in the army, are experts in dancing knives and sticks, Li Daozheng casually threw this knife, in the eyes of insiders, at a glance know its weight.

"This man...... I'm afraid it's really the old man of Grandpa Guo. One of the samurai's faces turned pale.

The other person's face was also not good-looking: "What did he just say?" Former generals? Grandpa Guo's former generals are now all prominent, this person is dressed as a farmer, which ministry will be mixed like this? ”

Another sneered, pointed to the knife that was still nailed to the beam, and said, "You don't believe it? Look at this, pat your conscience and say, can you have this skill with a casual throw? ”

Sighing, he continued: "Just looking at this quasi-head, this hand, I'm afraid it's really the old department of Grandpa Guo, and it's also a master who charges into battle, slashes and captures the flag, either the striker officer or the personal guard next to Grandpa Guo, that's right!" ”

The face of the first warrior to speak became more and more pale: "In this way, we turned away the old robes of the grandfather of the country, and we were rude to him, this is ......"

"What is this, hurry up and ask, he is a good man, the husband is a hero, let's treat each other politely this time, don't ruin the reputation of the grandfather of the country, and teach people to say that he is arrogant."

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In Chang'an Street, the flow of people shuttles like a river, bustling, passing by, and each becomes a passerby in the life of strangers.

Li Daozheng was leading the horse and walking alone in the market, looking lonely and lonely.

Asking for someone is actually a very simple thing, bow down, laugh with you, pass a few good words softly, put down the worthless face for the time being, pick it up again after achieving the goal, dust off it, face, it is still the same face, maybe more glamorous than ever.

However, Li Daozheng couldn't do it. A man who is no longer confused, has gone through half a lifetime of vicissitudes, his half of his life is more brilliant and legendary than ordinary people, however, he still can't let go of his face, he is afraid that when he puts down his face for the first time in his life, he will never be able to pick it up in the future. A man without a face, how terrible.

Li Dao is humble, and his identity is as humble as dust. But he is also proud, he has never said half a soft word to anyone in his life, let alone begged anyone, the first half of his life fought on the battlefield, the military merit he needs will always rely only on the sword in his hand to get, the second half of his life is hidden in the countryside, even if the most hungry and difficult years, even if his son is so hungry that he can't sleep in the middle of the night and gets up and pours cold water, he can't help but ask the landlord, but he jumped into the cold water and mud to dig a ditch for the neighboring village to exchange food.

A person who is as humble as dust also has a spotless noble dignity, Li Daozheng's life is like an iron gun that would rather bend than bend, he would rather die than let his clean self be covered with a flaw.

So Li Daozheng left without hesitation just now, it was not his intention to come to the door for his son to ask for someone, this decision was extremely difficult, but at the door of the high-ranking family, he only received a little cold reception and ridicule, he couldn't continue, his pride did not allow himself to abuse his dignity so badly, and the feeling of humiliation was worse than death.

On the left side of the wide street in front of him was a dark alley, and Li Daozheng was standing at the mouth of the alley, his figure paused, and led the horse into the alley.

In the uninhabited alley, the tears of sadness that had been accumulated for a long time finally flowed down without scruples, Li Daozheng was crying silently, the seven-foot man was in tears at the moment, and the days of peace for many years were broken, and what followed was the most difficult advance and retreat in his life, he wanted to let go of his dignity and dignity, and he wanted to cross this threshold easily, but he couldn't get over it.

What's more, behind that threshold, there is a past and grievance that has been sealed for many years and will not be revealed until death.

Kneeling on the cold and damp ground like losing his strength, Li Daozheng looked at the sky with teary eyes, and muttered helplessly: "What to do, what to do, Yingniang, you used to make up your mind about the affairs of the family, you go, Su'er is in trouble, you teach me, what to do......"

The man's sadness was only in no one's place, Li Daozheng knelt in the alley and simply cried, years of bitterness and loneliness, years of accumulated sadness, at this moment, vented to his heart's content.

The sky was gray, and the cold wind wrapped a few pieces of withered yellow leaves, swirling above Li Daozheng's head, and the wind gradually stopped, and the fallen leaves finally fell into the dust weakly.

I don't know how long I cried, Li Daozheng suddenly stood up, raised his sleeve and wiped away his tears, his red eyes were full of determination.

Bow your head, pleading, humiliating.

These men should not have things, they will always encounter several times in their lives, what dignity in the world can be higher than the safety of their son's life?

Li Daozheng decided to go back, and then returned to the door of the powerful family, waiting for the old man back then, begging him to save his son.

Taking a deep breath, Li Daozheng calmed down, led the horse out of the alley, and still walked back the way he came just now.

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In the bustling street market, the noisy and noisy noise was in his ears, and Li Dao was expressionless and deaf.

In the distance, there was a sound of horses' hooves on the opposite side, three or four people were riding on horses, several horses were very close, and the people on the horses were getting together, talking while walking, with a solemn expression, revealing a little anxiety, and they didn't know what to discuss.

When the people in the market saw the horses coming, they consciously avoided them.

The person who can ride a horse slowly and leisurely in the Chang'an City Market must be a powerful person in the dynasty, either the prime minister of the three provinces or the founding general, otherwise no one can have this honor.

Pedestrians are avoided, the three zhang in front of the horse suddenly left an open space, with the horse walking slowly, the open space is constantly changing, whether walking fast or slow, the front three zhang is finally empty.

The people on horseback are indeed powerful people, and they are all founding generals, it is Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, and Niu Jinda.

Yesterday, Li Shimin suddenly ordered the exile of Li Su, and set off in a few days, and this morning he suddenly announced Li Su into the Taiji Palace, and he didn't know how to deal with it, and several old generals who were originally calm suddenly became anxious, they didn't know what kind of signal His Majesty suddenly summoned Li Su, whether it was fierce or auspicious, and with Li Su's soft bear temper on the outside and strong on the inside, if he collided with Li Shimin, who was already angry, the end would definitely not be as simple as exile for thousands of miles, and it was not impossible to behead and exterminate the clan.

So after the three old generals heard the news, they all gathered outside the Taiji Palace, asking to see Li Shimin, but Li Shimin was summoning Li Su at the moment, and the eunuchs in front of the palace gate naturally didn't dare to connect, the three old generals touched a nail, and they didn't dare to leave, they lingered in front of the palace gate and waited for a long time, until two hours later, it was nearly noon, and there was no murderous letter such as "push out and cut off" in the palace, the three of them gradually reassured, and thought that Li Su should be roughly fine today, so the three of them rode horses and went home slowly.

Ordinary people avoided it with interest, but Li Daozheng, who was coming on, did not avoid it, he led the horse, hung his head, indifferent to everything in the outside world, and did not notice the three veterans who were getting closer and closer to him on the opposite side.

In the open space three feet in front of the horse, a person and a horse suddenly appeared in front of him, this situation was very abrupt, and it was difficult for the three veterans not to see Li Daozheng.

The three people on the horse only raised their eyes and glanced at it, but they didn't care, they were not bullying magnates, the road was not their own, anyone could walk, so the three of them pulled the reins of the horse to the side a little at the same time, and commanded the horse to bypass Li Daozheng.

Cheng Yanjin was still heartless, and while pulling the reins, he said with a smile: "The old man knows how to meet, and he saw that kid at first sight, he must not be a blessed person, although he is a bastard in words and deeds, there is no danger in his life." ”

Li Ji scolded with a smile: "You are an old man who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to meet, you know how to meet with a fart, believe it or not, I'll bring Li Chunfeng here, you can talk about how to meet face-to-face, and see how he demolishes you." ”

Cheng Biting Jin laughed and said: "Talking to me face-to-face Lao Cheng is not cowardly, Li Chunfeng dares to talk nonsense in front of the old man, the old man will teach him to know what the real 'Fu Bo' is, chop him up with an axe, he will naturally be 'Fu Bo', this old god stick has learned the old man's methods three years ago, and now I have seen it from afar, and I have been scared several times into the dead alley, and the old man is smiling...... Hey? Isn't that the father of the Li family's baby? Feed! Brother Lee! ”

Cheng Biting Jin has always had a loud voice, and when he yelled on the street, Li Daozheng, who was lost in despair, was also called back to his senses, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Cheng Biting Jin riding on a horse and looking at him with a smile.

Li Daozheng naturally knows Cheng Biting Jin, in the past few years, Cheng Biting Jin has nothing to do with going to Li's house to play the autumn breeze, never treating himself as a guest, but whenever he encounters good objects in Li's house, he doesn't say anything about packing and taking them away, so every time Cheng Biting Jin comes, Li Su will nervously hide the good things at home before entertaining guests, so Li Daozheng has a deep impression of Cheng Biting Jin.

Seeing Cheng Biting Jin greeting with a smile, Li Daozheng raised his head and reluctantly squeezed a smile at him.

However, Li Ji on the side saw Li Daozheng at first glance, his body couldn't help but be shocked, and after being stunned for a moment, his face changed greatly, and before Cheng Cheng bit the gold and got off the horse to say hello, Li Ji rode on the horse and suddenly shouted: "Changsheng!" But immortality? Is that you? ”

Li Daozheng was stunned for a moment, and then he saw Li Ji next to Cheng Biting Jin, and then Li Daozheng's face also changed greatly, his dark face was extremely pale in an instant, his lips spurted a few times, and he couldn't say a word, but his eyes suddenly turned red.

The sudden change caught Cheng Biting Jin and Niu Jinda off guard, and the two looked at Li Ji and Li Daozheng in surprise, looking at each other and confused.

Li Ji's eyes were also red, staring at Li Daozheng's face, the two were separated by a few feet, looking at each other for a long time, Li Ji finally nodded affirmatively: "Changsheng, that's right, you are Changsheng!" ”

As he spoke, Li Ji turned over and dismounted, and strode in front of Li Daozheng.

Just when Cheng Yanjin and Niu Jinda thought that there was about to appear a picture of the happy meeting of the old people, the situation changed abruptly.

Li Ji walked in front of Li Daozheng, suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Li Daozheng's clothes, and lifted it up suddenly, Li Daozheng, who was more than 100 pounds, was actually lifted by Li Ji with one hand, his feet were hanging in the air, and the strange thing was that Li Daozheng did not resist at all, so he let Li Ji carry him, his eyes were closed, and tears flowed down his cheeks.

Li Ji's eyes were also full of tears, staring at Li Daozheng's face as if looking at an enemy, full of anger and resentment, but there was still a trace of pity and sadness.

"I've been looking for you for many years, and there has been no news, Li Changsheng, the old man thought you were dead, but I didn't expect to see you again in Chang'an City today......"

Li Daozheng couldn't stop crying, but he bit his lip and didn't say a word.

Cheng Biting Jin and Niu Jinda on the side were in a hurry, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Li Ji's arm, pulling it down desperately, Cheng Biting Jin shouted: "Old man, did you take the wrong medicine?" Let it go! They are all acquaintances, don't misunderstand......"

"Get out of here!" Li Ji was like an angry lion, his hair was open and roared angrily, Cheng Yanjin was frightened, and couldn't help but take a step back.

Li Ji didn't bother to pay attention to him, still staring at Li Daozheng, and said slowly, word by word: "Don't mention anything else, the old man only asks you one thing, where is Yingniang?" She has followed you all these years, have you wronged her? ”

Li Daozheng finally opened his eyes, looked directly into Li Ji's angry eyes, and said in a low voice: "Yingniang...... Twenty years ago, it was gone. ”

Li Ji's body trembled violently when he heard this, his eyes quickly widened, and he lost his voice: "Yingniang is dead?" ”

"Dead."

Li Ji was stunned for a moment, and tears finally burst out of his eyes uncontrollably.

Raising his head and exhaling a long breath, Li Ji laughed miserably: "Okay, very good!" The old man didn't ask her how she died, just asked, she died, why didn't you die? ”

Li Daozheng wept: "The child has nothing to feed, I can't die." ”

Li Ji let go of Li Daozheng, his face showed sadness, and he muttered: "A good living person followed you without saying a word, and he didn't even live a hard life for a few days, she died, how can you live alone?" ”

Suddenly, he pulled out the instrument knife from his waist, and a bright white light flashed, and the blade slashed towards the top of Li Daozheng's head with a thunderous momentum.

"The old man will send you to see her!"

Li Daozheng's face was full of grief, he closed his eyes in resignation, he didn't hide, he let the blade fall, obviously he had the heart to die!

Boom!

With a crisp sound of gold and iron clashing, Li Ji's instrument knife was still two inches away from the top of Li Daozheng's head, but it was held by two instrument knives of the same standard.

Li Ji raised his head angrily, and saw Cheng biting Jin and Niu Jinda, one left and one right, and the two of them also had their knives out of their sheaths, and they happened to hold his knives at the same time.

"It's none of your business, get out of the way!" Li Ji said angrily.

After Cheng bit the golden knife, his arm was shaken and hurt, bared his teeth for a while, and said angrily: "This is Li Su's father, what are you crazy about, old man!" ”

Li Ji was stunned for a moment, turned his head and said in amazement: "Li Su? You, you are...... Li Su's father? Then Li Suhe, is he ......?"

Li Daozheng closed his eyes and cried: "Li Su, it is the child of me and Yingniang, flesh and blood." ”

Li Ji stared at him in astonishment, speechless for a long time.

Li Daozheng raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears, and suddenly knelt in front of Li Ji, and said fearlessly: "General, Yingniang is your own sister, I didn't say goodbye to Yingniang back then, I deserve to die, but I and Yingniang's child Li Su are now in prison, and I am about to be exiled to Qiannan, where it is still a barbaric place, all the way to the jungle and mountains, full of dangers, I don't know if I can save my life, I beg the general to save him, as for my Li Changsheng's crime back then, after this incident, let me kill Ren and chop, there will be no complaints!" (To be continued.) )