Li Yanqing didn't know whether he should disturb this person. At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came. Li Daqi turned out from the moon gate in the corridor next to him and said to himself: "Strange, where did the person go?"

"Qing'er, your fourth uncle is not here. Let's bow first and then burn incense!"

Li Daqi's voice alarmed the middle-aged man in the main hall. He quickly stuffed the gourd into his arms and hurriedly put the wine pot back to its original place. The door creaked and Li Yanqing walked in.

Li Yanqing pretended that he had seen nothing and turned to his father and said, "Dad, there is someone in the main hall!"

"Haha, I was shocked. It turned out to be Qing'er. It's been a long time since I saw you." The middle-aged man secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out to be this stupid boy.

Li Daqi also walked in, and he said in surprise and joy: "I can't find anyone everywhere, it turns out that my fourth brother is in the main hall."

The man was named Li Daguang, Li Daqi's cousin, and a scholar. He was sleek and had a lot of connections in the family. Although he was not the main house of Lushan, he was treated differently by the patriarch and asked him to take charge of the Li clan ancestral hall.

Only then did Li Yanqing see his appearance clearly. His eyebrows were actually very young, at most thirty years old, but his hair and beard were half white, and he looked like a middle-aged man in his early fifties.

However, although his hair and hair were half white, his beard on his jaw was one foot long, and he looked a bit fairy-like.

He was tall and wore a snow-white robe, with very exquisite workmanship, and his every move had a gentle and elegant manner, just like a Taoist priest who was practicing alchemy in the ancestral hall, which was in sharp contrast to Li Daqi, who was wearing a patched shirt and a thin figure.

Seeing that Li Yanqing did not kowtow to him, Li Daguang felt a little uncomfortable, and asked Li Daqi again, "Why did Daqi come today?"

"Qing'er has completely recovered. Today I will thank my ancestors for their protection."

"It should be!"

Li Daguang glanced at Li Yanqing, then pulled Li Daqi aside and asked with a smile: "Maybe I shouldn't ask, Qing'er looks very smart! Why do everyone call him Ersilly?"

Li Daqi smiled bitterly, "I used to be a little stupid. I was blessed by my ancestors, but Qing'er suddenly got enlightened."

"Oh! So that's it."

My father and uncle hid aside and muttered, but Li Yanqing looked around curiously at the spectacular main hall.

The main hall is not tall from the outside, with a maximum of three floors, but from the inside it looks very tall, with a full wooden structure, with several long curtains hanging from a huge beam, and dozens of tables stacked by the window on the north side. It seems that banquets are often placed in the ancestral hall.

In the middle is the Spiritual Position Tower, which is actually a huge wooden niche two-story high, occupying most of the main hall, and is densely filled with the spiritual tablets of the ancestors of the four houses of Li’s family. They are layer by layer like pagodas, with more than a hundred tablets.

Li Yanqing found that the top was a bit strange. Generally speaking, there was only a spiritual tablet at the top, which was the first ancestor worshipped by the family ancestral hall. The Li family was no exception. There was indeed a tablet at the top, placed in the middle of all tablets, demonstrating its ancestral status.

But there was a larger spiritual tablet on this ancestor, which seemed to be made of very precious red sandalwood and placed on the side at the edge. What surprised Li Yanqing was that there was no word on this spiritual tablet, just like a redundant spare tablet. But an intuition told Li Yanqing that it was the real ancestor of the Li family.

"What are Qing'er looking at?" Li Daqi walked up to him and asked.

"I'm looking at the top, Dad, were our ancestors officials?"

Li Daqi then remembered that today was the first time my son came to the ancestral hall after he got to know him. In the past, he would go to the table to find food. It was rare for his son to take the initiative to ask about his ancestors.

A strong sense of responsibility made Li Daqi feel the need to tell his son about the glorious history of his ancestors.

He pointed to the spiritual card in the middle of the top and said, "See, that is our earliest ancestor. When Taizu of this dynasty was the general of the right-leading guard, Congpu was his name, but it was originally called Congqian. He had seven sons, of which Shu's third son moved to Tangyin County, Xiangzhou during the reign of Emperor Taizong. He had four sons, which formed our four houses today."

Only then did Li Yanqing realize that his ancestor was actually a general of the Song Dynasty, but he seemed to know Li Congqian. After thinking for a while, Li Yanqing finally remembered that Li Congqian was a poet and calligrapher in the early Song Dynasty, and was also the younger brother of the Tang Dynasty's late emperor Li Yu.

"So, who is the wordless spirit card at the top?" Li Yanqing asked, pointing to the concealed spirit position at the top.

Only then did Li Daqi see the wordless spirit card at the top. He was shocked and asked anxiously: "The Fourth Old Master, why did you take out the spirit card of the Great Ancestor?"

"You forgot that after Tianlu Mountain House was going to worship the ancestors, so the patriarch took it out. He originally took it out tomorrow, but tomorrow's life was not good, so it was put on at noon today. The patriarch also specifically told me to sleep in the main hall these two nights and watch it well."

"Play the piano randomly!"

Li Daqi said very dissatisfied: "According to the clan rules, it can only be taken out during the ten-year high ceremony. Now it is just a small sacrifice in Lushanfang. How can the clan leader..."

Li Daguang curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "I don't know this. Anyway, it is in the hands of the patriarch. If the patriarch wants to worship his ancestors, who can control it!"

Li Yanqing asked curiously: "Dad, who is the spiritual card?"

Li Daqi was a little embarrassed and said for a while: "This... I will tell you when you grow up. Dad can't tell you now."

"What can't be said about this!"

Li Daguang was a little dissatisfied with Li Daqi's criticism of the patriarch just now. He squatted down and pointed at the tablet without words and said to Li Yanqing: "Qing'er, that is the true glory of our family. He is a supreme person, do you understand?"

Li Yanqing was shocked. Isn’t it the emperor the supreme? His mind changed rapidly. Could it be that Li Yu was in the east wind last night? It is impossible. In history, Li Yu had no queen. Besides, how could Li Yu’s spiritual tablet be placed on Li Congqian? It is usually his father.

Li Yanqing had already guessed who this person was. It should be Li Yu and Li Congqian's father Li Jing. Li Yanqing happened to read the lyrics he wrote in a bunch of books borrowed by his father two days ago. Li Yanqing couldn't help but blurted out: "It turns out that he is Li Jing who writes about the small building blowing the jade Shenghan!"

Li Daguang stood up in shock and looked at Li Daqi. Li Daqi was so scared that he waved his hand quickly, "I have never told him, how could I say such things?"

Li Daguang squatted down again and asked carefully: "Qing'er, who told you this?"

"Didn't you just told me? He is Li Congqian's father, and he was once the supreme person. Who is not Li Jing?"

Li Daguang and Li Daqi looked at each other, and the two were completely stunned. After a while, Li Daqi suddenly reacted and quickly scolded: "Qing'er, the name of the ancestor is not allowed to be said casually. Is this disrespectful to the ancestors, do you understand?"

"Qing'er, how do you know his name?" Li Daguang asked in confusion.

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "I just read a poem he wrote about Huanxisha a few days ago. The lotus fragrance is gone and the green leaves are gone. The west wind is so sad that the green waves rise, so I know him."

Li Daguang sighed deeply and turned to Li Daqi and said, "It would be a pity if he didn't send him to school if he was so talented and beautiful."

Li Daqi's face suddenly turned pale.

.........

"Qing'er, don't go far. I'll say a few words to your fourth uncle and leave." Li Daqi shouted to his son in the yard.

"I understand!" Li Yanqing's lazy spirit came from the yard.

"Let him worship his ancestors just like he is killing him. Some tribe members are not qualified to worship him yet. They are in blessings but do not know how to be blessed!"

Li Daqi muttered to his son's back with dissatisfaction. Just now, Li Yanqing knelt down reluctantly under the forced force of his father, but never kowtowed.

Li Daguang didn't care much about Li Yanqing's etiquette. He was still recalling Li Yanqing's previous genius performance.

"Great talent, you still have to find a way to get your child into school! We can teach him how to read a few poems, but without the connections of the county school, how can he be recommended to take the county exam in the future? Without the county exam, how can he be recommended to take the county exam by the magistrate?"

"Of course I know, but...oh! I finally saved a little money and lost it. What should I do if I don't have money? Why don't I borrow ten cents of money first!"

Li Daguang smiled bitterly and said, "I want to help you, but you know that I'm just a good drink. Now I still owe three stagnant of wine in the tavern, and I don't have any money. My good brother would rather go and try it out. Logically, the clan leader should help the clans' children study."

Li Daqi shook his head, "It's better to ask him if he wants to borrow money than to ask him about borrowing money. In addition to not having to mortgage, his interest is higher than that of the silver shop."

"Why don't you go to the bookstore in the county town to check it out again. Didn't Manager Luo ask you to go to his place to do things?"

"But But Butler Liu won't ask for leave!"

Li Daguang immediately said angrily: "A shit butler is nothing. Just go to the county. I will tell the patriarch tomorrow, what will Liu Heizhu dare to say?"

Li Daqi finally made up his mind that in order for his son to study in school, he had to go to the county bookstore to copy books.

Besides, there was another even more deadly thing that he dared not tell his son that he had written a medical bill of fifty cents to Mr. Liu, and was robbed of ten cents and still owed forty cents. The other party limited him to pay it back within one month. There were more than twenty days left, and he had to find a way to borrow the forty cents.

Butler Liu made it very clear that if he dared to make a deposit, he would attack his son.

.........

Li Yanqing had already run out of the gate of the ancestral hall. The two-two-pound small fish he had just caught were placed next to the stream. He pinched a small besieged city with mud and kept the two fish inside.

After waiting for his father to come out, he simply rolled up stones in the stream again. He was lucky. He caught three loaches in a row and had no place to put them. He simply smashed the head of the loach with the stones. Tonight, he could stew a pot of delicious loach fresh fish soup.

Thinking of the stir-fried loach I had eaten before, the greedy worm began to churn in his stomach.

At this moment, he suddenly saw three children emerging from the woods. It was the three evil children who smashed his father with mud and stones that day. The leader was the son of Butler Liu. Seeing their sneaky appearance, there would be no good things. Li Yanqing quickly flashed and hid behind a big cypress tree.

"Li Er, I told you that I will start to place offerings tomorrow. If you don't believe me, my father is the butler. Would he not know how to arrange it?"

"I'm afraid that if you don't listen to the idea that those guys in Lushanfang are also making white jade cakes? We have to start ahead of them."

"Brother Fu'er, is the white jade cake really that delicious?"

"Of course it's delicious, glutinous and thin, it melts when put in your mouth, and it's sweet enough to go to the heart. I haven't bought it yet. My father said that it was a special supply sent by the second master of the capital. It was for the best people to eat. One cost a lot. We don't steal it, and each one eats one to try."

The three of them looked around at the entrance of the ancestral hall for a moment. Liu Fu'er kicked Li Er beside him, "I mean the genius has just started to present offerings. You don't believe it, it's a waste of time!"

"Isn't this Brother Fu? What are you doing here?"

Li Daqi happened to walk out of the ancestral hall and met three evil children who made him extremely angry.

Liu Fu'er smiled contemptuously and suddenly raised her voice and said to the Li brothers: "I'll tell you something fun. A few days ago, a dog chased me, but I didn't even bite a single hair from me. I told my father that I was bitten by someone and the evil dog. What do you think?"

Li Daqi's face suddenly turned red and he said angrily: "So my Dahei didn't bite you!"

Liu Fu'er ignored Li Daqi and continued to say proudly: "My father took the servant to beat the dog owner hard. I heard that he even had feces and urine, and he sprayed my father with blood. The funnyst thing was that he knelt on the ground and learned to crawl through the crotch of the four servants. It was because my father was kind-hearted, so he only asked him to pay 50 pounds of medical expenses!"

"Your father is really so kind. If you want me to say, you must pay a hundred currencies."

"I think I should pay a thousand stakes!"

The three evil children laughed and turned around and left. Li Daqi was so angry that his face turned red and white, but he did not dare to provoke the three evil children. At this time, he suddenly saw his son standing by the stream, and was shocked and hurried forward to stop his son. He rushed forward for fear that his son would be hot.
Chapter completed!