Although the meat dealer Lao Xu looked fierce, he was indeed a good man. Even though he couldn't figure out where the five copper coins went, he still sold the meat to the old man for only five copper coins.

He also gave the child a piece of fruit and asked him to sit by the stall and eat it to quench his thirst. Of course, the child did not eat his food in vain. He was carefully told how to avoid this price problem.

"Kid, didn't you want to send him to Jing Zhaoyin just now? Why are you eating his fruit now? Can you buy your position with just one fruit?"

Li Chengqian did not retreat with the crowd. Dugu Miaoyin was right. There are not many children with such good looks. As long as he is guided to the right path, his future prospects are limitless. Li Chengqian, who has come to value education, has begun to love talents again.

"Hmph, Father Xuan is still afraid of future generations. He can't be a young man, so who do you call a brat? Besides, I don't get this fruit for free. I got it in exchange for my teaching. By the way, you were watching just now.

, then what can you do to thank me for being such a wise teacher!"

Seeing the little boy pouting at Li Chengqian, the lively Dugu Miaoyin couldn't help but laugh. With the prince's current power, there were not many people who dared to blatantly blackmail him. Today she took a look.

So, he joked: "Brother, he wants to be your teacher. What do you think? Why don't you invite the little gentleman back for tea?"

Before Li Chengqian could say anything, the pork vendor Lao Xu stood up, wiped his hands and walked over, cupping his hands and saying, "Don't blame me, sir. This child speaks freely. You adults don't remember the faults of villains. Don't argue with children."

You can tell by the dress and demeanor of the two people in front of you that they are not ordinary people, especially this young master. He has a strong murderous aura, which is even worse than that of his old boss. He has been a soldier for half his life and knows this.

Very sensitive. Although this child just embarrassed me, I can't let him be bullied in front of me.

"I see that your waist is straight, your legs are slightly apart, and your hands are on the table. This is the typical sitting posture of a junior guard officer. Judging from the scar on your right wrist and the intensity of the tremor, it must have been that you were raped in that battle.

The crossbow penetrated and injured the tendons."

During the conversation, Li Chengqian stood next to the little boy, looked at the big man with a wary look on his face, and continued: "Don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions and I have family members. What else do you have to worry about? I only talked to this kid."

I’m just very interested.”

"Besides, I also serve in the army, so it's not surprising to know this. I dare to ask which senior guard he belongs to, and he might be a fellow soldier of the first guard!"

Oh, after hearing Li Chengqian's explanation, Old Xu nodded clearly. He turned out to be a man in the army. No wonder he has such murderous intent.

"We are just a pig-killing businessman. We just earn some drinking money every day. We don't dare to call ourselves seniors. I did serve in the Sixteenth Guards Army in the past, serving in the Left Guards Army and affiliated to the Yueqi Central Army under the command of Qiao Guogong.

.During the Wude period, I accompanied my father-in-law to conquer Tuyuhun. No, I was disabled, so I withdrew. Are you from that guard?"

After learning that Li Chengqian was also a soldier, Lao Xu's attitude changed 180 degrees. Not only did the smile on his face become more sincere, but his tone of voice was no longer stiff.

Li Chengqian understands that his complex is shared by all those who have served in the military. Even in "that era", veterans have never forgotten the place where they shed their blood and youth. If there are veterans who will never die, they will just gradually

What about the idea of ​​its demise?

"It turns out that he is a subordinate of Duke Qiao. It's really disrespectful. It's a pity that Duke Qiao died fighting for his country in the Anzhou Rebellion not long ago. As for me, I serve in the Zuowu Guards and am a subordinate of Duke Yi."

"Good people don't live long. Duke Qiao treated us old brothers well. He even invited us crippled old brothers to have a glass of water and wine on the 4th and 8th festival. But now, hey.", as he said,

Lao Xu lost interest in chatting and walked back to the pork stall with a sad expression on his face and chopped up the meat.

Li Chengqian expressed his understanding of Lao Xu's sadness. Chai Shao had many shortcomings, but this did not prevent those who had benefited from him from missing him. This depends on people and cannot be viewed from a one-sided perspective. People like Qin Hui

The traitorous minister also has a few good friends, let alone Chai Shao.

"Hey, general, can you send me to Jingzhaoyin?" At this moment, the little boy interrupted Li Chengqian with a look of begging.

Well? Take the initiative to go to Jingzhaoyin? Is this child from Shangguanyi's family? Thinking of this, Li Chengqian smiled and touched the child's head: "Sending you to Jingzhaoyin, of course, is not a problem, but you have to sue me, why

Where do you want to go?”

Since I have something to ask for, I naturally have to change my attitude, so I stared at my big cute eyes and said: "My name is Di Renjie, from Bingzhou. My father was an official in Kuizhou Prefecture, and I was transferred to Jingzhao last month.

Yin Chong serves as deputy..."

Di Renjie? Let me go, this little kid with a bottle of oil on his mouth is the prodigy Di Renjie. This really shocked Li Chengqian. However, what Di Renjie said next made Li Chengqian have no choice but to believe in the existence of the child prodigy.

It turned out that Di Renjie secretly ran out of the house because he was unwilling to read the book, but he couldn't find his way home while playing. Thinking about the bad guys who kidnapped and trafficked children, his mother had warned him, so Di Renjie had to open the door.

Use your brain to think of ways to get home.

After seeing Lao Xu and the old man buying meat, the little guy came up with a plan. If he could make the matter bigger and attract officials, he could reveal his identity and go find his father.

Although he is young, he knows that all the servants on the street are under the supervision of Jingzhao Yin. In order to flatter his father, they will definitely send him back safely, so this is why Li Chengqian and

The scene Dugu Miaoyin saw just now.

Now that Di Renjie knew that he was an officer of the Sixteenth Guards, he hoped that Li Chengqian could help him for the sake of being a colleague with his father.

"Well, since your father and I are officials in the same dynasty, it is of course our duty to do so. But look at this time, it's lunch time. You must be hungry too. Otherwise, let's go to a restaurant to have a meal first.

, and then I’ll send you back.”

After hearing Li Chengqian's suggestion, Di Renjie couldn't help but touch his shriveled belly. Indeed, he had only eaten one fruit in most of the day. It would be great to have a full meal. Besides, this person

He was still a colleague of his father, so it was okay to eat him. The worst he could do was ask his father to go back and invite him back.

"Okay, let's eat and then go home. However, I want to eat roasted leg of lamb, is that okay?" After finishing speaking, he wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and looked at Li Chengqian and Li Chengqian with a smile...

....

Decades later, when Di Renjie became a grandfather, he was telling his grandson the story of the previous dynasty. When the grandson asked him why he joined the East Palace camp, Di Renjie stroked his beard and smiled and said: The teacher bought it with a leg of mutton.
Chapter completed!