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Chapter 4 My Son is a Fool

It was almost dusk, and Li Zheng also walked towards his home.

That night, Qin Qiong brought a pair of soldiers and told the subordinate generals around him: "You go and find a few villagers first."

Such a large group of troops entered the village, which immediately caused a lot of commotion.

The soldiers brought several villagers, and Qin Qiong asked, "Where is Li Zheng living?"

"Is this general asking about Li Daxiong's son?"

"Why is there another Li Zheng in your village?"

"It's gone, he's the only one." The villager replied.

Qin Qiong turned over and dismounted, "leading the way."

A villager was talking at home, "It's not a crime for Li Daxiong's son."

"What can he do, a fool? Li Daxiong is very nice to us. If he changes to a tenant, he might be very harsh."

"What can cause so many officers and soldiers to commit?"

...

The villagers were hiding at home, and they didn't dare to go out even when they saw so many officers and soldiers.

Hearing the shouts outside and the sound of his own door being kicked open, Li Zheng got up sleepyly.

Li Daxiong immediately went out to ask the officers and soldiers who walked into the yard, "What happened to the officials?"

Qin Qiong walked into the yard and looked at the person in front of him, "Are you Li Daxiong?"

"It's the grass-roots." Li Daxiong replied.

"Where is your son?" Qin Qiong asked again.

When the other party asked about his son, Li Daxiong looked flustered, "Is something wrong? My son is usually a little bit miscellaneous. Is it because I, the father, is not disciplined well. If you want to arrest me, you should arrest me."

Li Zheng stood in the room and listened to Li Daxiong's words and was still a little moved. He walked out of the room and said to Qin Qiong, "I am Li Zheng."

Seeing that Qin Qiong was about to come forward, Li Daxiong hurriedly stopped him and said, "The general made all the mistakes of me, my father, if you want to catch me, you can catch me."

The villagers around also discussed that some of them thought that Li Daxiong's son was not a trivial matter, otherwise he would not have attracted such a large group of soldiers.

"Your son has not committed any trouble, I want to ask him some things." After Qin Qiong said that, she lifted up the thin Li Zheng and walked out of the yard.

Didn't make a crime? Why did you take your son if you didn't make a crime? Li Daxiong was stopped by a few soldiers as soon as he was about to come forward to ask. It was useless to let him shout.

Li Daxiong looked at the soldiers holding torches outside the door and walked back and forth in his yard, "The child has a spirit in the sky and must bless Li Zheng."

Qin Qiong was pulled outside the village, and Li Zheng looked at him and said, "Why arrest me?"

"Are you Li Zheng? Are you studying in the Hongwenguan Library Studio in Chang'an?" Qin Qiong asked.

"Yes." Li Zheng replied.

"Has been driven out?"

"That's right."

Qin Qiong kept observing his expression. The boy was neither humble nor arrogant when facing him, and asked again: "Are you also on duty at Hongwenguan and become a book boy?"

"I said you're done, what do you want to do?"

Qin Qiong said solemnly: "Now the Tang Dynasty is in the process of hiring people. Do you want to be an official?"

"Be an official?" Li Zheng was puzzled.

"Yes, as an official, I can recommend it to Your Majesty and find a position for you." Qin Qiong endured the excitement in his heart and finally found this kid.

If you learn your own way of using troops in the future, you will definitely become a general who is thrilling in all directions.

"I'm too stupid to be an official."

Qin Qiong stepped forward and stared at Li Zheng, who was half a shorter than him, and said, "You are proficient in nine chapters of mathematics."

Chapter Nine Mathematical Techniques were at the level of primary and secondary schools in later generations, and Li Zheng understood what happened.

Qin Qiong sat beside Li Zheng and looked at him and said, "I asked you again if you want to be an official?"

Li Zheng bowed a little and said, "This general, I really have no interest in being an official. I am just a person with no ambitions. I just want to support my family."

Standing in front of Qin Qiong, Li Zheng said again: "The risk of becoming an official these days is too high. One day I said the wrong thing, what should the emperor do if he saw that I was unhappy and chopped me up with a knife? My father is the only son, and I want to be filial to him."

"Your Majesty is not as kind as you said." Qin Qiong said. I wonder if the child was kicked out of the bookstore and was disappointed with the court and career. He turned around and said, "Don't be an official?"

"Don't be an official." Li Zheng said firmly.

Qin Qiong stood up in disappointment, "Well, I will ask you one last thing."

"Please speak, General."

"How do you know the situation in Yinshan, how do you know the discord between Zhishili and Jie Li?"

"I said I was confused, do you believe it?"

Qin Qiong sneered and said, "Are you a fool?"

After turning over the horse, Qin Qiong said to him: "If you change your mind, come to Chang'an to find me, Qin Qiong."

Li Zheng waved his hand and said, "By bye."

Seeing that his son came back, Li Daxiong immediately stepped forward and grabbed him and asked, "Boy, are you okay? What are they doing to you, right?"

"No." Li Zheng shook his head.

Li Daxiong still checked Li Zheng's body and the other side, confirming that his son had a lot of meat before he breathed a sigh of relief, "What did that general ask you for?"

"I want me to be an official, I want me to be a vocational officer."

"Really? How is that possible?" Li Daxiong was surprised.

Li Zheng said lightly: "So I refused."

"Um?"

"Um!"

Li Daxiong felt a little unreal and pinched his face, "They asked you to be an official in the court, but did you really refuse?"

Li Zheng said: "What's the best thing about being an official? It's so easy to farm at home."

"Hehehe." Li Daxiong suddenly laughed three times.

After being stunned for a while, Li Daxiong suddenly ran out of his house and chased the soldiers who were about to leave and said loudly: "General, my son is a fool. He can't speak. Give me another chance."

However, the soldiers had already walked far and could not hear their own shouts.

After dawn, Li Daxiong sat at the entrance of the village and looked numb, as if he was thinking about life.

A villager passed by and saw Li Daxiong with a decadent expression and asked, "I heard that the officers and soldiers last night asked your son to be an official?"

Li Daxiong nodded with his eyes blankly.

"Good thing, we will be in the village and have a good face together."

Li Daxiong covered his forehead in pain and said, "He refused."

"Why? What a great thing."

Li Daxiong was about to cry without tears, "How did I know?"

Another villager said, "If the court asked me to be an official, I would love it, and a fool would not go."
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