Chapter 31 The number one scholar’s father is a charlatan who always wins in gambling!
"The Gambling God Dad Behind Master Li"
Original poster: Have you seen the recently unearthed diary of Grand Tutor Li Changqing? There are frequent references to Master Li's admiration and flattery for his father, with the most common phrase being: "Dad won the bet again this time!"
1L: In the biography of Grand Tutor Li, wasn’t Li Changqing’s father Li Siyuan an ordinary marquis who gained status through his son? The most commendable thing about him was his exceptionally long life. He died only after the death of Grand Tutor Li. Even his title of marquis was changed to Ningshou Marquis by the emperor at that time.
2L: It is true that it is recorded in history books. However, the recently unearthed tomb of Li Taishi contains Li Taishi’s diary, which is well preserved. Experts have restored all the contents of the diary. You can watch this video [link]
3L: Who would write a diary if they were serious? I didn’t expect that Grand Tutor Li, who single-handedly pushed the national power of the Daqing Dynasty to its peak, was actually a person who liked to write a diary!
4L: Is it true that Master Li’s father is a gambler?
5L: What kind of gambler is this? Can the father of Grand Tutor Li be called a gambler just because he gambles? That's called God of Gamblers!
6L: Damn, everyone, go read the diary. It completely overturned my impression of Grand Tutor Li!
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105L: I came back after reading it. I never expected that Master Li is actually a daddy's boy. His diary is almost entirely filled with "my dad said", the essential sentences of a daddy's boy.
106L: The most shocking thing is that behind all the reform measures of Grand Tutor Li, there was actually the guidance of Marquis Ningshou!
107L: The most bizarre thing is that Marquis Ningshou's advice to Grand Tutor Li was actually in the form of "a bet". No wonder Grand Tutor Li often mentioned in his diary that "Dad won the bet again this time". I don't think it was Marquis Ningshou who won the bet again, but that he made the right prediction again. How can this be gambling? This is clearly a fortune teller!
108L: Judging from the description of Ningshou Hou in Li Taishi's diary, Ningshou Hou is really a good father. No wonder Li Taishi is a daddy's boy. If I had such a good and powerful father, I would also be a daddy's boy.
109L: Yes, before the reforms of Grand Tutor Li, the Daqing Dynasty was very feudal and closed. At that time, Marquis Ningshou was able to allow Grand Tutor Li to marry freely. In Grand Tutor Li's diary, Grand Tutor Li even specially recorded the unhappy marriage of his cousin Li Changwen as a comparison. Compared with the happy Master Li, it is indeed miserable for Master Li's cousin to have parents like that.
110L: Unfortunately, there are too few records about Ningshou Hou in history books. Most of the records are centered on Li Taishi, such as how filial Li Taishi was to Ningshou Hou and how he even dressed up to entertain his ninety-year-old father when he was over seventy years old. There is no detailed description of what kind of person Ningshou Hou was in history books. Instead, there is a record in unofficial history that Ningshou Hou was a playboy who relied on his son. When he was young, he squandered all the family property after the division of the family. He lived a very miserable life. It was only after his son grew up and passed the imperial examination that he was able to live a good life again.
111L: You also said above that it is unofficial history, and unofficial history cannot be trusted. If Marquis Ningshou had really squandered his family fortune before Grand Tutor Li was born, then Grand Tutor Li would have had no conditions to study. How could he have passed the imperial examination and become the top scholar?
112L: Don’t try to interfere with unofficial history. Go and read the contents of Li Taishi’s diary. Li Taishi even recorded how good Ningshou Hou was to him when he was a child. How could a family that could eat candied haws every day be ruined by Ningshou Hou?
113L: U1S1, I really envy Li Taishi. He was over 70 years old but still had a father to act cute with. Even until the day of his death, he still had his father by his side. He also had many children and grandchildren. It is said that before his death, Li Taishi had six generations living under the same roof. In ancient times when the average life expectancy was low, this was a very rare happiness. Even now we may not have six generations living under the same roof. Modern people get married late, so it is difficult to do so.
114L: Grand Tutor Li died at the age of over eighty. Marquis Ningshou lived to be over a hundred years old. He died after Grand Tutor Li’s funeral. It is said that he died in his sleep. He must have died with longing for his son.
115L: It is said that Marquis Ningshou seldom fell ill, and was even free of illness and pain in his later years. He was full of energy and did not look like a man over a hundred years old at all. He had become a good omen for the Daqing Dynasty, and even the emperor often visited him in person to ask for the secret of longevity.
116L: Go and read Master Li’s diary! Ningshou Hou’s secret to longevity is also in the diary!
117L: I have seen it a long time ago. The secret to longevity is to go to bed early and get up early, eat a balanced diet of meat and vegetables, exercise regularly, and maintain self-discipline and health. Who doesn’t know this now? But who can resist practicing Taoism in the middle of the night?
118L: Oh, it seems that I will not live a long life. I can’t even go to bed early and get up early. The quilt has sealed me up.
119L: I can’t go to bed early and get up early and eat a balanced diet of meat and vegetables. Humans have evolved for so many years to become the top of the food chain, but that doesn’t mean I have to eat grass!
120L: So it is impossible for you guys to live as long as Ningshou Hou. This is because of the development of modern medicine. If it were in ancient times, you might have died young.
121L: Not to mention in ancient times, even in modern times, there are many people who die suddenly at a young age.
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893L: Why are you all going off topic? Does anyone remember the title of the post?
894L (Original Poster): Maybe no one remembers it QAQ
895L: Of course I remember. Aren’t we the Ningshou Marquis who is behind Grand Tutor Li? Longevity is also a characteristic of Ningshou Hou.
896L: Have you seen this diary of Grand Tutor Li? [Link] Grand Tutor Li actually said that Ningshou Hou’s greatest hobby is eating melons from his brother’s house!
897L: Who is Ningshou Hou’s younger brother? Never heard of it? What’s so delicious about their melons?
898L: It is not clear who Ningshou Hou's younger brother is, but I know that Li Changwen, the cousin of Li Taishi, should be the son of Ningshou Hou's younger brother. This younger brother is a concubine's brother, and his name is not recorded in history books. However, based on the name of Ningshou Hou Li Siyuan and the name of Ningshou Hou's biological brother Jingyuan Bo Li Chengyuan, this concubine's younger brother of Ningshou Hou should be called Li Xyuan.
899L: Li Xyuan is not very famous in history, but he has a fairly famous son, Li Changwen. Li Changwen only married one wife in his life, who never gave birth to any children. He never blamed his wife, nor did he take a concubine. When he was in his forties, Li Changwen helped Li Taishi to quell the Jihe Rebellion. In order to save Li Taishi, he was seriously injured and died in his fifties. Li Taishi was very grateful to this cousin. After discussing with his wife, he even decided to let his third son keep vigil and break basins for Li Changwen after his death. He also instructed future generations to offer sacrifices to Li Changwen. It can be said that this relationship is no different from that of brothers.
890L: The love between Li Changwen and his wife Tan is so touching. In that era when having three wives and four concubines was a common practice and having no offspring was considered the worst, he would rather have no children or grandchildren than to be with his wife for the rest of his life. It's so touching. I believe in love again!
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After Si Yuan completed the mission and left the current small world, the system told him with great surprise that because he completed the mission very well, the legend of their father and son was circulated even in later generations. In later generations, everyone believed that Si Yuan, the father of Li Changqing, was better and more powerful than Li Changwen's father, so Si Yuan obtained a large number of mission points.
When Si Yuan heard the system say that it could see the evaluations of future generations, he asked the system to show him how people in future generations would evaluate him.
The system showed this forum post to Si Yuan, saying that it was the latest evaluation of them in later generations and was highly valuable as a reference.
When the post reached over 800, Si Yuan almost died of laughter before he even finished reading it.
Li Jingyuan held a grudge against him for decades and never let it go until his death. As a result, not even his full name was left behind in later generations. It was only based on the names of Siyuan and Li Chengyuan that people inferred that his name was Li Xyuan.
Unlike him, not only his title and name have been passed down to later generations, but even the interactions between him and Li Changqing and his son have been passed down to later generations. This is a solid fact proven by historical relics.
It was worth it that after Li Changqing's death, he found the diary that Li Changqing had secretly written while sorting out Li Changqing's belongings. He used a little trick to ensure that the diary would not decay for a long time, and buried the diary with Li Changqing.
After later generations carried out protective development on Li Changqing's tomb, they indeed found this diary, and the name Li Siyuan also became very popular in later generations.
Si Yuan almost died of laughter after seeing some netizens from later generations saying in the forum that Li Changwen and his wife Tan were a perfect couple who would be together for life.
What perfect love between two people for a lifetime? Ever since Li Changwen passed the imperial examination and was sent out to serve as an official, he has never lived in the same room with Tan Zhuyue again. Later, they were husband and wife in name only. In fact, one lived the life of a widower and the other lived the life of a widow. The loving male and female protagonists in the original plot have become a pair of resentful lovers.
It's a pity that Li Changqing was too polite. Even in his diary, he only mentioned that Si Yuan liked to eat the melons from Li Jingyuan's house, but he didn't write in detail what the melons were, nor did he write in detail about the grievances between Li Changwen and Tan Zhuyue.
Perhaps Li Changqing felt that as a cousin, it was inappropriate for him to write about the relationship between his cousin and his wife, so he just passed it over.
So when people in later generations saw that Li Changwen had no children and had no concubines, and only had Tan Zhuyue as his original wife, they thought that the two had a very deep relationship and that Li Changwen did not take concubines or have children because of Tan Zhuyue.
This is a big misunderstanding. In fact, Li Changwen lacks love because of the influence of his original family since childhood. He envies Li Changqing for being loved unconditionally by his parents. He has never received such flawless love, and he doesn't know how to love his own children, nor does he know how to have children with a woman he doesn't love.
In addition, Li Jingyuan and Tan both forced him to have children. Li Changwen's rebellious period was too long and he didn't want to listen to his parents at all. So in the end, whether it was to rebel against his parents or for some other reason, Li Changwen had no children in his life.
Li Jingyuan's wife Tan controlled the backyard and he had only one son, Li Changwen. Li Changwen did not have any children, so Li Jingyuan and Tan could not have a grandson. Before his death, he still urged Li Changwen to give birth to a son as soon as possible to continue the family line.
Li Changwen was already in his forties at that time. He was already feeling touched and felt that he was unfilial. He wanted to take a concubine and have a child, but Tan Zhuyue started making a fuss again and insisted on adopting a son.
Li Changwen felt that the matter was really troublesome, so he might as well help Brother Changqing to reform the malpractices. As for after his death, he didn't care if there was a flood or no one would offer sacrifices to him.
If he could be respected by the people like Brother Changqing, people would voluntarily offer incense and burn candles for him and set up a longevity tablet for him.
Li Changwen devoted all his energy to his career. While assisting Li Changqing in quelling the Jihe Rebellion, he injured his health and died at the age of only fifty.
The heroine Tan Zhuyue died half a year earlier than Li Changwen because she was unhappy with her life.
Si Yuan thought about how the male and female protagonists died one after the other. The male protagonist Li Changwen died half a year after the female protagonist Tan Zhuyue died. If people in later generations knew that the two died only half a year apart, wouldn't that be...
Si Yuan, feeling unsure whether it was anticipation or some other emotion, continued to read the comments from netizens under the forum post.
As expected, there are many naive netizens who are unaware of the inside story and envy the fairy-tale love between Li Changwen and Tan Zhuyue.
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1458L: Half a year after Li Changwen's wife passed away, Li Changwen could no longer bear the pain of losing his wife and followed her. It was so touching. Wait for him on the road to the underworld, and they will be husband and wife again in the next life...
1459L: I believe in love again. Li Changwen gave up children for the sake of his wife and finally gave up even his name. I hope they can continue their relationship in the next life.
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When Si Yuan saw the contents of these posts, the corners of his mouth twitched. If Li Changwen knew that this was how people in later generations viewed the relationship between him and Tan Zhuyue, and even "blessed" them to continue their relationship in the next life, even if he died, he would probably pretend to be a corpse and sit up and curse: No, are people in later generations sick? Who wants to continue this kind of evil fate in the next life! He finally got rid of Tan Zhuyue, but she wanted him to haunt him in the afterlife. What sin had he committed to deserve this?
Si Yuan couldn't help laughing after imagining this for a while. Fortunately, he had anticipated this and had specially prepared a backup plan so that future generations would have enough historical materials to understand their situation and would not have to imagine any true love with a white moonlight or any sadistic and lingering love.
What does it matter whether it’s love or not? Isn’t it more interesting to pursue a career?
If we want to celebrate love, isn't the beautiful love between his son Li Changqing and his daughter-in-law, which is truly a couple for life, worth celebrating?
If we are talking about family affection, isn't the father-son relationship between him and his son Li Changqing touching? He was a loving father who was worried that his son would become a fatherless child and who tried hard to live until his son's death and only died after holding his son's funeral?
It was indeed touching. When Si Yuan continued to read the subsequent forum posts, he saw that netizens in later generations were deeply moved by the father-son relationship between him and Li Changqing.
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3482L: Damn it, you guys go watch the live broadcast, the last page of Grand Tutor Li’s diary has also been restored by experts, and the last page was not written by Grand Tutor Li, but by Marquis Ningshou! [Link]
3483L: [I have worked hard for so many years and have not let my Changqing become a fatherless child, but I have become a father without a child...] Woohoo, this sentence that Ningshou Hou left on the last page of Li Taishi's diary really made me cry QAQ
3484L: What kills me even more is that Ningshouhou died a month after Li Taishi died, that is, after his son's funeral. He forced himself to finish his son's funeral before he died QAQ
3485L: Master Li was a child loved by his father until his death... Wow, that's so wonderful.
3486L: But Ning Shouhou has to experience the pain of losing his son!
3487L: Although I am also very sad, but isn’t there something wrong with what the above person said about the elderly sending off the young? It was a happy funeral when Grand Tutor Li died in his eighties, as his hair had already turned white when he died.
3488L: Do you understand the metaphor? No matter how old you are, the pain of losing a child is hard to bear. Otherwise, how could Ningshou Hou, who was so long-lived and healthy, die just one month after his son's death? He must have died because he couldn't bear the grief of losing his son.
3489L: The knife is killing me. Ning Shouhou is such a good father. He really loves his son. Master Li is also very lucky to have such a good father who has given him the most love and freedom since he was a child. Even when he is in his seventies or eighties, he is still loved by his father. He is so lucky!
3490L: A son wishes to support his parents but they are no longer around. The average life expectancy now is much longer than in ancient times, but when people are in their thirties and forties, they are busy working for their careers and hardly have time to be with their parents. When they have time in their fifties or sixties, how many people's parents are still alive? Grand Tutor Li retired in his seventies. He gave up his career and returned to his family at that time. His father was still alive and well, and he had the opportunity to be with his father. How many people can't ask for such ordinary happiness?
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Si Yuan closed the future world forum that the system showed him and said to the system: [Let’s go to the next world. 】
The mission of the first world was successfully completed, and the mission target also entered the reincarnation of the small world and had nothing to do with him anymore.
Si Yuan has not forgotten his real purpose. He did not choose to return to the Tiancang Realm to practice, but just experienced a small world. The foundation he has accumulated is not enough for him to break through from the God Transformation Stage, so there is no need to return to the Tiancang Realm for the time being. He continues to complete tasks to improve the realm of his soul. After he is confident of breaking through to the next realm, he will return to the Tiancang Realm to break through.
The system was also very satisfied with Si Yuan's positive attitude towards completing the task. The successful completion of the first task also made the system full of confidence in Si Yuan.
System: [Okay, the mission in the next world begins, host, be prepared! 】
Just like the first time he traveled through time, Si Yuan woke up in a mortal's body.
At this moment, he was lying on a patched quilt. When he opened his eyes, he saw the bulging and peeling wall. There was a big spider blatantly weaving a web in the corner. The whole room was very dark and the lighting was very bad.
However, I could still see through the window that the sky outside was blinking with the moon and stars, and it was not yet dawn.
Si Yuan could hear the snoring of the person sleeping in the next room. He lay on the bed without moving, closing his eyes and absorbing the original owner's memories.
The original owner was named Wang Siyuan, an ordinary worker. He had a wife, Li Guihua, who worked as a farmer at home in his hometown. The couple were just ordinary people.
The original owner worked on a construction site, doing hard labor, but he was smart and wanted to bring his wife from his hometown to live with him, planning for the couple to open a small food truck to sell breakfast.
According to the original owner's fate, he and his wife would slowly expand from a small mobile food truck to own a small restaurant, and then turn the small restaurant into a big restaurant, and even a chain catering business, and finally become the leading catering company in S City.
Because working in the catering industry is very tiring, the original owner's wife was overworked and had a miscarriage. It was many years later that she became pregnant again. This child was the original owner's only daughter, Wang Zhenbao. The meaning of this name is very clear, which means that this daughter is the treasure in the hearts of the couple.
The original couple had no idea of favoring boys over girls. Wang Zhenbao was just a daughter, and they never felt sorry that she was not a son. Instead, they wanted their daughter to live a happy life.
However, their old-fashioned ideas still make them believe that their daughter will be happy only if they find a good husband for her and give her a good home.
As for the Wang Catering Group being given as a dowry to the daughter, such a large company was brought by the daughter to her son-in-law's home. What should be done if the company changes its name? The original couple didn't care at all. They had worked hard for so many years just to make a name for themselves and let their children live a good life. It didn't matter what the surname was, as long as it didn't affect their daughter's good life.
Wang Zhenbao was pampered by her parents. She fell in love with Ling Feng, the heir of Ling Group, so the original owner went to discuss marriage with Ling's father, the head of Ling Group.
Unlike the original owner who loves his children, Ling's father is a thorough businessman who only sees profit.
Although the size of Wang's Group is slightly smaller than Ling's Group, it is not that small. The most important thing is that Wang Zhenbao is the only heir to Wang's Group. The original owner clearly said that he would give all the shares of Wang's Group under the names of the couple to his daughter as a dowry.
Father Ling thought that as long as his son married Wang Zhenbao, the Ling Group would be able to merge with the Wang Group, so how could he not be willing? So the marriage of the two children was arranged directly.
But Ling Feng doesn't want to do that. Ling Feng has his true love, Cinderella, but he doesn't want to do that and doesn't say it.
Because Ling Feng knew that Ling's father had more than one son, and there were many illegitimate children out there waiting for him to make a mistake so they could take over, so he never disobeyed Ling's father openly.
Ling Feng couldn't resist Ling's father, so he secretly PUA Wang Zhenbao, being ambiguous with Wang Zhenbao, keeping her in suspense without giving a definite answer, while acting as if he liked her. Then he took advantage of Wang Zhenbao's feelings for him and quietly hollowed out the Wang Group.
Ling Feng knew very well that his father wanted him to marry Wang Zhenbao only because he wanted the Wang Group, and he did not really want Wang Zhenbao as a daughter-in-law. As long as he could help the Ling Group to swallow up the Wang Group, then Wang Zhenbao would be useless.
Ling Feng took full advantage of his fiancée Wang Zhenbao. Some days before he was about to take action against the Wang Group, Wang Zhenbao discovered the existence of Ling Feng's true love, Cinderella, and made a fuss.
Ling Feng took the initiative and, under the pretext of venting his anger for true love, he risked his life for the woman he loved and destroyed the Wang family's Tianliang King.
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