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The middle door was wide open, and everyone in the house went out to welcome the head of the house home.

"Hello Xiangye!"

"Hello husband!"

"Daddy!"

As soon as I got out of the carriage, all kinds of names immediately came, and the older children were already more than three years old, trotting all the way over, hugging the legs, pulling the sleeves, and calling for their fathers in a childish voice.

Li Chao's heart was quite comfortable all of a sudden, he hadn't seen it for more than half a year, and several little guys had already grown taller again.

"Brother Lang Jing, well, you've grown taller, yo, don't wipe your nose on your father's robe!"

"Hey, Brother Erlang Hui, help your sister."

Li Jing, Li Hui, Li Jue, and Li Zhu are all more than three years old, and the eldest daughter Xia Hua is also more than three years old.

The other three sons, Li Ke and Li Lian, are younger, standing on the side, they seem to be a little unfamiliar with Li Chao's father, and they don't dare to come over.

Li Chao walked over and pinched his face, but the youngest seventh Li Ting suddenly cried.

Cui Yingying came over to coax a few words, and the seventh child quieted down.

"As soon as I came back, I made the child cry."

Li Chao looked at Lao Qidao, "This child is too squeamish, the children of our Li family can't be so pampered, especially boys, they must not be like this." This kid, crying when he touches it, like a woman, how can this work, let him start learning martial arts when he turns around. ”

The seventh Li Ting is Cui Yingying's fourth son and the second child, although she has now given birth to another ten, but this seventh is still a baby. Hearing this, he immediately said, "The child is only two years old, what kind of martial arts is he learning?" ”

"Why can't you learn martial arts at the age of two, you have to start practicing at a young age to learn martial arts. Practice horse steps first and lay a good foundation. Everything else is the same, at the age of two, you have to start squatting and running. Girls, from the age of three, also have to practice, practice running and dancing, the girl's family, can't be weak, good health. ”

Cui Yingying didn't argue with Li Chao, knowing that her husband had always had the right idea, and if there was one out of the other, she couldn't interfere, just say a few words. In fact, she quite agrees with some of her husband's ideas, and her children do have to be strict with them.

I think she was born in the Qinghe Cui family, although it is not a regular branch, it belongs to the branch room in the Qinghe Cui Zhengzhou house, but she also accepts strict family education when she is young, and the family rules are extremely strict for both men and women.

Both men and women have to study since childhood, and even if they grow up, as long as the woman is not married and the man is not married, they should not think about not returning home at night, and they are not allowed to go out at will.

"Husband, Hachiro, Jiulang, Shilang haven't chosen a name yet, and the two girls haven't been named yet." Cui Yingying reminded Li Chao.

Naming his son is such a big thing, and Li Chao and Lao Tiegun are qualified in the family, but women are not qualified. The old iron spear went to the Yanbei fiefdom, and Li Chao was outside, so he could only wait for him to come back.

Now the family still just calls them Hachilang, Jiulang, and Shilang according to the ranking.

On the way back, Li Chao was already pondering his son's name. In the generation of the Li family, the names are all single words, and they are taken next to the word king, which means beautiful jade.

The previous seven were all taken in this way.

"Eight Lang's name is Li Jun, Jiu Lang's name is Li Xiu, Shilang's name is Li Lang, and Eleven's name is Li Cong."

Cui Yingying heard Li Chao take all the names of Shiyi Lang, but just smiled. Eleven Lang is naturally the illegitimate child born by her husband and Pingyang outside, and he knows that this child is definitely going to come back, and this kind of thing can't be stopped. She can't stop it, otherwise, her reputation will not be good.

She had expected such a day.

"When will Eleven Lang pick it up?" Cui Yingying asked blandly.

Li Chao smiled weakly.

"He is not yet a month, and he is still in Youzhou, so he will take it back after he reaches his first birthday."

Cui Yingying nodded, and seeing that Li Chao didn't want to say more, she didn't mention it anymore.

Li Chao also took the names of the two girls, one is called Yuya, which means indifferent and elegant. "The husband and painter are elegant."

The other is called Jinyu, which is a metaphor for virtue and talent. From the Northern Qi Yan Zhitui, "Yan's Family Motto. "Saving trouble": "In this life, those who hold Langui with Jinyu are ashamed. ”

The names of the first three daughters are Ruohua, Fanghua, and Xinyao.

Eleven sons and five daughters are considered to be flourishing.

hugged a bunch of wives and concubines and children into the house, and the steward commanded the family to set off fireworks at the door.

Li Ji's fireworks are now very famous, and wealthy families or businesses have long replaced the blasting rods with fireworks, which are both beautiful and sound.

As soon as I entered the house.

Qi Niang began to ask about her father's situation impatiently.

"Dad is very good in the fief, now the castle of the fief has been built, last time Dad led the volunteers to make great contributions, His Majesty has decreed the promotion of Dad's title to the Duke of Luo, although the size of the fief has not changed, but this title has reached the top."

"Since the castle has been built, then let's just go over with our mothers, your father in the province has no one to take care of over there." Qi Niang said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it when I go back, and I'll send someone to escort you over in a few days."

Li Chao also knew that Qi Niang must still live comfortably with her father, and maybe there would be some selfishness, after all, the title of father is a national prince, and Qi Niang gave birth to a young son with her father, and wanted to take her son to the territory as soon as possible, which Li Chao can understand, although he doesn't look down on that fief or that title at all.

"But the eldest sister will stay, she should almost get married, so she will no longer toss and go to Yanbei Territory."

The eldest sister Lian'er and Wei Zheng's eldest son Wei Shuyu were engaged early, and early marriage was popular among the Tang people in these years, especially at the beginning of the founding of the country after the Sui Rebellion, the imperial court advocated early marriage, and fifteen men and thirteen women could get married.

Li Chao didn't want his two sisters to get married too early, but he also had to worry about the attitude of the Wei family, and it was not good if it was too late.

The second sister Lan'er is still young, so she is not in a hurry for a while.

Qi Niang thought about it and agreed.

"When the big girl gets married, we'll come back."

Li Chao brought some gifts to his two sisters, as well as gifts to Qi Niang and his wives and concubines, and his children were naturally indispensable. Everyone was very happy to receive the gifts.

Dinner.

Qiuyue and Dongqing took charge of the cook and cleaned up a table of good dishes.

These two girls are now the kitchen lady in the house, and they usually manage the inner kitchen, specializing in cooking the meals of the master of the house. When the food was served, Li Chao saw that the two girls had grown a lot plump, and when he asked, he realized that the two girls had become married.

married people from the house, Li Chao originally arranged two pillars for them, but the two girls did not marry them in the end, but married two people from the house. Although both of them were also freed, they were far from the pillars who were already fifth-rank military attachés.

However, everyone has their own choice, and Li Chao does not interfere with them. Maybe these two girls don't feel worthy of them, or they are unwilling to leave the Li family's kitchen, or they are willing to live a more ordinary life, no one can say.

Li Chao took two pieces of jade to the two of them, and asked someone to bring two sets of gold ornaments from the library, and gave them one of them a hundred Li Ji Zhuang tickets.

When Li Chao first came, these two girls entered the door of the Li family, although at the beginning, the two girls also thought about being Li Chao's people, although this thing did not work out in the end, but the two girls have been in the Li Mansion for several years, and Li Chao really feels like relatives to them.

They finally got married, and Li Chao blessed them.

"You got married, I wasn't at home, I didn't catch up, even if this is a belated blessing gift, I will accept it."

Qiuyue and Dongqing now have a high status in the Li Mansion, and the kitchen stewards in the Inner Mansion are not low. There are often some noble relatives in the mansion, will come to invite them to hold a banquet or something, borrow it for guidance, sometimes get a few dishes in person, but also get a lot of thanks, for this, the Li family will not ask them to hand it in, they can keep it themselves.

"Xiangye, this is too valuable, we can't accept it."

"What's precious, you came to the house first, I actually regarded you as a family member a long time ago, even a sister, I am very happy that you are married, and I am even more happy that you continue to stay in the house. Usually the stomach of the whole family is taken care of by you. This is nothing, and if you don't accept it, you will see the outside. ”

The two girls who had become **** hurriedly accepted it with a smile.

They don't care about these money gifts, hundreds of dollars of things, although there are a lot, they don't forget about the others, they are even happier that the Xiangye treats them as family, and even says that they are sisters. In this way, they were even moved to tears.

Just because of this sentence, I will be happy to cook for the grandfather and Mrs. and the little grandfather for a lifetime in the future.

This scene was very touching in the eyes of the other people in the house.

This is what they are most proud of in the house, and the Xiangye and his wife treat their subordinates the most humanely. Not to mention the treatment, people usually care about a disease or something. There will be no shortage of leave and medical treatment.

A meal, eating quite happily.

Usually the Li family is not at home, it is rare for the family to get together to eat, each room has its own small stove, and they cook and eat in the kitchen at their own expense, and the meals are directly sent to their respective courtyards when they are ready.

Only when Li Chao comes back, will the big table be set up like this, and the whole family will eat together.

One table for adults and another table for children.

Even the nannies and housekeepers can eat in the same hall.

After the meal, remove the plates and bowls, brew the tea, and serve the fruit snacks.

Li Chao began to check the children's homework, although several older children were only three years old, but they had already begun to start reading, Li Chao checked one by one, and asked them to recite the three-character scripture and the ninety-nine formula.

Several children are good, they all memorize them, and they can even recite a lot of thousand-word texts.

This made Li Chao very satisfied, and each child praised a few words. After being praised by Li Chao, the little ones were very happy, and even their mothers on the side were also happy.

"Eleven Lang was named the founding prince of Ningyuan County by His Majesty, and he also sealed a hundred miles of land in Yanbei, which is quite close to his father's fief." Li Chao drank tea and told Cui Yingying and them the news.

Cui Yingying snorted, although she was a little apprehensive in her heart, the two children of the seventh and tenth generations did not have a title or a fief, but the eleventh of this illegitimate son was already a county duke, and there was a hundred miles of fiefdom. However, the mother of the family is the eldest princess, and the uncle is the son of today, so there is nothing to say.

"A few days ago, the wife of the patriarch of the Fanyang Lu clan came to the house as a guest, saying that she wanted to marry the family."

The Li family is in turmoil, marrying with major wealthy families, and it is normal for seven families with five surnames to want to marry with the Li family.

"How many years has the Lu family taken a fancy to our family?" Li Chao didn't care at all.

Cui Yingying smiled, "People don't take a fancy to those little cubs in our family, they have a great eye, and they fancy you." There is a twenty-eight-year-old girl in their family who wants to be your concubine. ”