Chapter 417 "Haha, Second Uncle, he will definitely come!"
(Thanks to Ms. Zhang, who doesn't want to be Wang's mother, for casting a monthly vote.)
At 3:45 AM, the Li family members began packing up and headed towards the door.
Today is Pingping and An'an's first birthday banquet. The Li family has booked a table at the inn at the entrance of the village to entertain men, women, and children of all ages.
It was quite a coincidence that today was a day off for the school.
Apart from those who were left to keep watch, everyone else in the village would go to the large inn at the village entrance before noon to wait for the feast.
Pingping and An'an, carried on Shitou's back, shouted excitedly. Shitou, the eldest uncle, and Li Wuji, the younger uncle who was protecting the two children, walked at the front.
Li's mother, Zheng Meiniang, and Gu Lanzhi walked in the middle, followed by Li Shiyue and the others.
Jiang Huai and Qin Fen, who were walking at the back, were chatting together.
"Brother-in-law, didn't you say there was a younger brother-in-law?"
Why hasn't anyone come to the house?
"......"
Jiang Huai was stunned for a moment. He looked at Qin Fen's truly innocent gaze and hesitated, unable to say what he wanted to say.
He immediately recalled the conversation he and Li Xiatian had when they left their home and headed to the Li family's house.
"summer?"
"Um?"
"Today is Pingping and An'an's first birthday party. Second Uncle, will he come back?"
"...Mother and Aunt have sent invitations to the prefectural city, so they should be coming."
As for why Jiang Huai asked this question, it all started when Li Shiyue stopped following Li Wangming's wishes and went to the mountain with Shitou to pay respects to her scumbag father, Li Wangguang.
In the past, Li Wangming would go up the mountain twice a year, during the Qingming Festival and the Lunar New Year, together with Li Shiyue and Shitou, to pay homage to the cenotaph of their scumbag father, Li Wangguang.
Of course, the cenotaphs of Grandmother Li and Grandfather Li should also be worshipped together.
Generally, Li's mother would go with them, but she wouldn't go up the mountain to worship; she would just wait at the foot of the mountain.
This was requested by Li Shiyue.
In Li Shiyue's own words, "My mother and father divorced when my grandmother was still alive. My mother is not a member of the Li family, so she doesn't need to follow the rules of a daughter-in-law."
Mother was able to come with us siblings because she is kind-hearted.
But, Second Uncle, how can you force Mother to come up the mountain?
This is against propriety.
Later, after Li Wangming married the younger sister of his classmate and friend Zhou Anzhi, he lived in the prefectural city for a long time, only returning to Lijiatun during festivals.
After Li Shiyue was promoted, she became too lazy to go against her conscience and pretend with Li Wangming anymore.
She didn't want to wrong herself anymore.
She had no intention of kowtowing to her scumbag father's cenotaph.
So, during last year's New Year's celebration, Li Wangming, who had returned to Lijiatun with his new bride, met Li Shiyue, who refused to kowtow to the cenotaph of her scumbag father, Li Wangguang.
Li Shiyue herself was unwilling to kowtow, but she didn't forbid Shi Tou, as her son, from doing so.
She can disregard her scumbag father because she already wields power. Even if she doesn't go to pay respects, who will say anything about her?
Moreover, she needs to have a flaw in herself that suggests she is "unfilial".
A superior can only trust a subordinate with flaws, right?
Shi Tou is just an ordinary person, so there's no need for him to be as stubborn as her.
However, Shi Tou was simple-minded and didn't have a good impression of his scumbag father. Seven or eight years had passed since they fled famine to Andong, so how could Shi Tou remember who his scumbag father was?
Therefore, seeing that Li Shiyue did not kowtow, Shitou also stopped kowtowing.
This immediately caught Li Wangming's eye!
"October!
Even if my elder brother did go too far in his lifetime!
But he's already gone, and you already paid your respects before, didn't you?
What's going on now?
"Now that you've been promoted and have power, do you no longer want to visit your own father's grave and kowtow?"
"Yes, that's how I am, and I'm not happy about it."
"......"
Li Shiyue is truly no longer pretending at all.
She openly and frankly admitted that she was unwilling to play along with Li Wangming because she now had power.
This rendered Li Wangming speechless, unable to utter a single word of his moral high ground criticism of her.
Li Shiyue looked at Li Wangming with a cold smile, thinking to herself, "How hypocritical he is. He has become increasingly jealous of me these past two years."
He's practically become a live-in son-in-law, only coming back once a year.
In the end, you want to blame me?
"She's just trying to use her scumbag father's name to intimidate me."
Li Shiyue had foreseen this years ago; she knew that such a day would eventually come between her and Li Wangming.
When she was granted an official position by the old Prince of Zhenbei, Li Wangming had already shown that he could not accept it.
If Li Wangming were to successfully go to the capital to participate in the imperial examination and enter officialdom, he would likely not fail to show his jealousy of Li Shiyue and would continue to maintain a good "uncle-nephew relationship" with Li Shiyue.
After all, military officers who actually hold military power are the best helpers to civil officials at this time, when there are clearly signs of impending chaos.
How could Li Wangming not pretend to continue this "uncle-nephew relationship" with Li Shiyue?
However, the news from Kyoto was not very clear, so Li Wangming could only stop at the provincial examination with his status as a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial examination) and wait three years to see how things would develop.
Therefore, Li Wangming, who was unable to become an official, became increasingly resentful of Li Shiyue's meteoric rise in rank.
Li Wangming didn't believe that Li Shiyue got promoted by relying on his own abilities or by desperately seizing the right opportunity.
He would only think that Li Shiyue was incredibly lucky to have gotten involved with Yan Jiuniang and Liu Tan when she was still a nobody.
According to Li Shiyue, Li Wangming may not be very capable, but he is certainly very jealous!
Because of the political situation, I cannot participate in the imperial examination in Kyoto. As a candidate for the provincial examination, does that mean I cannot become an official first?
Or is it that Li Wangming couldn't accept starting as a low-ranking ninth-grade official like a county lieutenant?
Besides, was it Li Shiyue who prevented him from becoming an official?
If one had to put it in perspective, Li Shiyue was only a military officer with the surname Li in public.
Li Wangming wanted to become an official, and he was going to follow the path of a civil servant!
How could Li Shiyue, a military officer, possibly stand in the way of his civil service career?
Moreover, did Li Wangming genuinely not know, or was he pretending not to want to know?
Did he think that the Zhou family would marry their eldest daughter to him simply because he was Zhou Anzhi's classmate?
Or is it that he can marry someone of high social standing simply because of his academic degree?
Didn't he ever consider that it was because he, Li Wangming, had a niece who was an official, namely Li Shiyue, who was a highly valued general under General Liu Tan?
Is Li Wangming unwilling to admit this?
Or is it a deliberate attempt to avoid acknowledging this?
However, Li Shiyue still brought stones to kowtow and burn paper money at the cenotaphs of Li's grandfather and grandmother.
At least Grandpa Li and Grandma Li treated the original owner's family of three quite well.
Kowtowing is acceptable as a way to help the original owner understand the cause and effect.
As for her scumbag father's cenotaph, Li Shiyue simply skipped over it with the stone.
Li Wangming's resistance to Li Shiyue's actions is quite interesting.
He left Lijiatun without saying goodbye and took his new bride down the mountain. He never returned to Lijiatun for the Lantern Festival or the Third Day of the Third Lunar Month.
Li Shiyue didn't care about this at all. She was busy training at the garrison every day, learning the qualities and knowledge that a general must have.
On the first and fifteenth of each month, I also have to take time out to work overtime and conduct online transactions with other parallel worlds.
Even on her days off, she still had to return to Lijiatun to inspect the village's industries, check accounts, and continue to promote the next three-year plan;
Occasionally, they also have to find solutions for industries in the village that are experiencing problems;
Sometimes they even have to help villagers divide their families, attend weddings or full moon celebrations.
In short, she was as busy as a dog.
No, you should say she's not even as leisurely as the dog in Lijiatun.
Therefore, Li Shiyue had no time to think about Li Wangming, her jealous second uncle.
Therefore, because of this incident, Jiang Huai asked Li Xiatian this question before leaving.
Faced with Qin Fen's gaze, Jiang Huai truly didn't know how to answer.
Li Shiyue, who was walking ahead of Jiang Huai and Qin Fen, had exceptional senses. Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian, who had drunk the Vitality Water, were not deaf either.
Qin Fen's question and Jiang Huai's stammering were naturally overheard by the three sisters.
At this moment, Li Shiyue turned around with a smile and said to Jiang Huai and Qin Fen behind her, "Haha, Second Uncle, he will definitely come!"
The gift list that my mother compiled shows that Madam Zhou had already sent gifts to the family a long time ago.
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