After Yang Zhen finished speaking, he glanced at Li Yi cautiously. After all, based on his understanding of this old man, he was afraid that he would get angry at the next moment. Therefore, he had already thought about what to do next.

words.

However, what surprised him was that Li Yi showed no signs of getting angry! He just showed a surprised expression when he first heard it, and then looked at the person sitting next to him thoughtfully.

Li Ping'an is sitting next to me.

Li Ping'an had been eavesdropping on their conversation, and was naturally watching them at the moment. When Li Yi looked over, their eyes happened to collide, and Li Ping'an suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Safety."

Sure enough, before he could react, he heard Li Yi calling him, and Li Ping'an could only respond with a grimace.

"If you're full, why don't you go down first?"

Although Li Yi seemed to be asking him, Li Ping'an could hear the decisive meaning in his words. So he had to put down the chopsticks in his hand, wiped his mouth and stood up obediently to salute Yang Zhen.

"Grandpa Yang, you've eaten safely. Now you're going to go play with Yang Hao. You and your grandfather can chat slowly."

Yang Zhen smiled and nodded. He also understood what Li Yi meant, so he ordered a servant to lead Li Ping'an to the backyard.

After watching them leave, Yang Zhen looked at Li Yi again and found that he was also looking at him seriously.

"Ahem, what's wrong?" Yang Zhen coughed dryly, touched his mustache, and asked slightly uncomfortably.

Li Yi did not answer immediately, but picked up the wine glass and took a big sip of wine, and then asked with slightly blurred eyes:

"Is this... your intention, or the emperor's intention?"

"Old Li, this is the result of the discussion between the emperor and us. It is not someone else's intention. With the current situation of Qi State, if it does not want to destroy itself, the only way to go is to seek alliance through marriage." Yang Zhen frowned slightly,

Said seriously.

"In other words, you and the emperor both think that my health is failing? I can't fight, right?" Li Yi's voice is very calm, but anyone who knows him can hear that he is feeling a little nervous now.

Not even calm.

Yang Zhen gave him a complicated look, and then asked softly: "Old Li, that's not what we meant. On the contrary, it is precisely because you are still able to go to the battlefield and are still enough to frighten the enemy that we came up with the idea.

This is the way to do it."

Seeing Li Yi's view, Yang Zhen then explained: "Yes, you can still lead troops to fight now, but Lao Li, you touch your chest and say, how many more years do you think you can fight?"

Li Yi's face froze, and he was speechless. Because he himself said before, he is getting worse and worse than when he was young. If this continues, it will not take even five years, and he may no longer be able to bear that kind of pain.

It's been a long battle.

"If, in the few years that you are still able to deter the enemy, our Qi State cannot annex the remaining countries. Have you ever thought about what will happen to Qi State by then? Have you ever thought about the future for Qi State?

Road?" Yang Zhen asked seriously.

"this..."

Li Yi was dumbfounded. At this moment, he wished he could confidently shout that he could do it, and that he could take down all the young people he called in the past few years.

But he knows that this is unrealistic, and saying it is just to make people laugh. Today's Qi State, it is not easy to protect itself, let alone send troops to attack. If it weren't for the fact that there are two sides in the northeast that are extremely difficult to cross and easy to defend.

Due to the difficult-to-attack natural mountains and dangerous rivers, Qi State may have already fallen apart under the siege of the four kingdoms.

Even now, it seems that he rarely encounters an opponent outside, but every time he wins a battle, he is not even qualified to pursue. First, there is a lack of food and grass, which is not enough to support long-term operations. Second, there may be spread in other territories at any time.

Come to war, he would not dare to chase the enemy too

Deep, in case the army fails to come back in time, or falls into an ambush from another country, and one mistake will cause eternal regret. This is the pain of fighting alone! Although he looks glorious, he is called a victorious general.

!But only he himself knows the pain and helplessness behind it.

"Tell me, who do you want to marry?"

After a long silence, Li Yi finally asked again. He lowered his head, and Yang Zhen couldn't see his expression clearly, let alone his true thoughts at the moment.

Yang Zhen smiled bitterly. To be honest, he really couldn't stand Li Yi in this state. If he hadn't had the best relationship with Li Yi and Emperor Qi had appointed him to do this, he really wouldn't want to take on this job.

ah.

...

At this time, in the backyard of the Yang family

Li Ping'an was walking aimlessly on the path in the back garden, because after the servant brought him here, he notified Yang Hao and asked him to wait here.

But... Li Ping'an smiled bitterly. If he didn't want to get something about his father and grandfather from Yang Hao, who would want to play with a six or seven-year-old kid? He is more interested now.

I want to go back and listen to what those two old men are talking about, okay?

Although outsiders are envious when they mention him, because he was born in the palace of the great general of Qi State and has received the best treatment since he was born. Not only does he have a victorious general who is respected by thousands of people in Qi State as his grandfather

, and there is another one who is quite successful in literature and art, unprecedented in history.

When he was only thirty years old, his father was named Zheng Guogong. Under such unique conditions, Li Ping'an's future is destined to not be too ordinary, and I don't know how many people are looking forward to his future.

He replaced his father and grandfather and became the pillar of the new generation of Qi State.

However, Li Ping'an knew in his heart that precisely because of this, the Li family's current situation was even more dangerous.

Although his grandfather Li Yi was in a high position, he did not know how to adapt at all. Although his father Li Shiming was proficient in literature, he was not at all humane. It is not that they are bad, but Li Ping'an comes from modern times, and he has a deep understanding of five thousand years of history.

I know that in this kind of officialdom

There are too many intrigues and deceptions above. Even though the Li family is at its peak today, the dangers in officialdom are no less dangerous than on the battlefield. As long as someone secretly stumbles and deliberately targets and frames, it will only take an instant for that thousand-foot tall building to be destroyed.

Just time.

"Alas~" Li Ping'an sighed, but who told him that he was just a six-year-old kid at this moment? Adults would naturally not talk to him about such things, and he would not know anything he wanted to know.

He had to put a lot of thought into it, but it really made him anxious.

But Li Ping'an naturally didn't know that if he acted like this at this moment, it would make people laugh even more.

"Pfft!"

A burst of laughter suddenly came, and Li Ping'an was stunned for a moment, then looked for his voice.

It turned out that he had unknowingly walked to the center of Yang's back garden, next to the Yangxin Lake. And the owner of the laughter was a girl sitting in the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The girl looked about twelve or thirteen years old, with bright eyes and white teeth, and a sweet smile. Li Ping'an had met her a few times before. She was Yang Hao's half-sister Yang Yanyu. Although she was still very young, she was still immature from then on.

From the silhouette of Li Pingan, it can be seen that she will be a beautiful woman who will conquer the country in the future.

Seeing the young man looking over blankly, Yang Yanyu suddenly laughed even harder and had to gently cover her cherry-red lips with her sleeves.

"why are you laughing?"

Although Li Ping'an admired her beauty, he still couldn't help but feel a little angry. After all, the girl obviously looked like she was laughing at him.

"Hehe, you kid is really funny. This is my home. I can laugh when I want to. You don't care how much I laugh?" Yang Yanyu said this, but her laughter never stopped.

She was still in a bad mood today, but for some reason, she wasn't that sad after being teased like this by this cute little kid.

Li Ping'an was speechless, but this girl was very eloquent.

The two of them are quite interesting. One thinks that the other is a little kid of six or seven years old, and the other thinks that the other is a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old. Both of them think that the other is a child.

"Hey, come here."

Seeing that Li Ping'an stopped talking, Yang Yanyu felt bored and did not laugh anymore. Instead, she waved to him and motioned for him to come over.

Li Ping'an didn't refuse. Since they were all here at Yangxin Lake, he might as well just sit in the Yangxin Pavilion and look at the scenery.

"I said, you should be the guest here today, Li Ping'an, the grandson of General Hussar, right?"

As soon as he walked into the pavilion, he heard Yang Yanyu ask.

At the same time, she looked at Li Pingan very seriously. She didn't know what she was looking at. Anyway, Li Pingan felt uncomfortable when she looked at him.

"I know you're still asking." Li Ping'an couldn't help but rolled his eyes. In fact, what he almost blurted out was "Why don't you remember me?" Then he suddenly remembered that he was only two or three years old when he saw her last time.

Little brat, it’s normal for people not to remember.

"Hey, you kid has a bad temper." Yang Yanyu glared.

"I'm not a child, my name is Li Pingan!" Li Pingan glared at her dissatisfied.

"Haha, you said you're not a child, but you're clearly acting like a child~ You're obviously a six-year-old child, why are you pretending to be an adult? You don't know, the way you sighed just now is so funny! Hee

Hee, but your skin is really good! Children are good, white and tender, come here and let your sister pinch it." Yang Yanyu seemed to have been suddenly turned on to speak, and she said no

Stopped normally.

Then, when Li Ping'an's eyes widened and he still hadn't reacted, he stretched out his hands and pinched his soft little face, rubbing it back and forth.

The touch of the girl's cold little hands and the faint scent of flowers suddenly flooded into Li Ping'an's mind, causing him to even forget to resist for the first time.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and quickly took two steps back, and then escaped from her "clutches".

"Hey! What are you doing?" Li Ping'an was very angry, at least he felt that he should be very angry.

"Hehe, what's wrong? Isn't it just rubbing your cheeks? Why are you such a stingy kid?" Yang Yanyu said dissatisfiedly, looking like she still had something to say.

Li Ping'an's eyes suddenly widened. You just rubbed my face without my consent, and you still call me stingy? Are you a woman who can't be unreasonable?

"Besides, what does it matter if I rub my future husband's face?"

"What??!"
Chapter completed!