Siheyuan: Fighting against Japanese Aggression in Beijing

Chapter 407: Neither Literary nor Martial

Hearing Li Kangri say that this was what he was thinking, Li Sicong became anxious, "Dad, what are you doing? You shouldn't treat your son like this. Quick, free me, otherwise, I'll go find my mom."

"What did I do to you? I just let you go?" Li Kangri laughed, "I didn't do anything to you."

"No, Dad, Dad, no one would betray their son like that." Li Sicong said anxiously.

"What's going on?" Wang Yue walked over and asked.

"Mom, my dad, my dad, what did he do to me? Ask him," Li Sicong said embarrassedly.

"Brother Kangri, what did you do to your son?" Wang Yue asked puzzledly.

"I didn't do anything? I don't even know what he was talking about." Li Kangri said innocently, "I just arranged for him to get married. If you don't believe me, ask Damao."

"Master's wife, that's right. Master got a little anxious when he saw that my Xu Wen and Xu Xiao got married." Xu Damao said slyly.

"No, Senior Brother, you..." Li Sicong said anxiously.

"Sicong, your father is right. It's time for you to get married. Stop being so picky all the time." Wang Yue said.

"No, Mom, what are you talking about? It's my dad, it's my dad,"

"What happened to your dad?"

"Oh, I won't talk to you anymore. I have something else to do. I'm leaving first. I'll come back to see you in the evening," Li Sicong said anxiously, "Mom, don't let Dad go out at night. That's it."

After saying that, Li Sicong stood up and ran out. He wanted to find a girlfriend to see if his father really did something to him.

"This child is so unruly every day," Wang Yue complained, "But Kangri brother, you can't go out at night. When he comes back, we will have a good talk with him. It's time to prepare for marriage, otherwise I will be left behind by Sister Xiao'e in having grandchildren."

"Okay! I won't go out at night."

"Then you guys chat, I'm going to talk to Sister Xiao'e about something."

After Wang Yue left, Xu Damao asked slyly, "Master, what did you do to me just now? Tell me quickly!"

"Nothing, I just pushed him to get married quickly."

"Impossible," Xu Damao whispered into Li Kangri's ear, "Did you do something to him so that he can't do that anymore?"

"Yes, now you are also caught." Li Kangri said with a smile.

Hearing what Li Kangri said, Xu Damao jumped up and said, "Master, don't joke with me. I'm preparing to have a third child recently!"

"I'm just trying to scare you. Look at your behavior."

"Big Brother, you'd better hurry up and have your third child," Sha Zhu came over and said, "It would be bad if your grandson is older than your son."

"Get out of here. I've already told them that they can't have children in the short term. If they don't obey, I'll ask Master to deal with them." Xu Damao said.

"How to clean up?" asked Sha Zhu.

"Then don't worry about it. Master has many tricks anyway. I just need to learn a few tricks, right, Master?"

"Da Mao, you can't learn these, don't worry about it, sit down now, I'll find Zhuzi to do something."

"Master, do you want to ask me about the house?" Sha Zhu asked after sitting beside him.

"Yeah, what's going on?"

"Hey, Master, I've already talked to most of the people in the courtyard, except Qin Banbian and Liu Hai," Sha Zhu sighed.

"Oh? What's going on? The price I told you is not low?" Li Kangri asked in confusion, "I won't say anything about Liu Haizhong, but he has money, so shouldn't Qin Banbian be rich?"

"Who said it wasn't? All the families agreed without hesitation. But Qin Banbian seemed to be against me. She said she didn't need money and that if she was well-fed, the whole family would not be hungry," Sha Zhu said speechlessly. "No matter how much I tried to persuade her, she just didn't want to. She even lied to me. I was so angry."

"It's okay. If she doesn't want to sell it, then don't sell it!" Li Kangri said, "She will sell it sooner or later. What about Liu Haizhong? What did he say?"

"His sons are very willing to do so, but he is not happy about it. He says that he has lived there all his life and is used to it. He also says that he is not short of money and will not sell it even if he does not want to live there," said Sha Zhu.

"Master, I met that bastard Liu Guangtian a few days ago. He boasted to me about how much his family earned. He acted like a nouveau riche," Xu Damao said contemptuously.

"It won't be long. Liu Haizhong's lucky star is about to leave, so just wait and see! It won't be long before he will be separated from his wife and children." Li Kangri said with a smile.

"Lucky star? What lucky star?" Xu Damao asked in confusion, "Can he be lucky?"

"Haha, the lucky star I mentioned is far away in the sky, but it is right before our eyes."

"What do you mean? Where? Why can't I see it?" Xu Damao looked around and said, "Just the three of us?"

"Zhu Zi! Have you forgotten what I told you before?" Li Kangri said with a smile, "Zhu Zi is destined to be the lucky star of everyone in Courtyard No. 95, and the son of everyone. Now Zhu Zi is about to move to our place, so won't the lucky star be gone?"

"No, Master, why are you involving me again?" Sha Zhu said speechlessly.

"How can I stop talking nonsense? You are the eldest son of everyone in the hospital. If I hadn't appeared, Yi Zhonghai, Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong would all be your fathers, closer to you than your biological father." Li Kangri said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'd better move out as soon as possible. I'll go and urge them to pack up quickly tomorrow. I don't want to live there anymore." Sha Zhu said speechlessly.

"Master, how about I give you a word and you test it for Liu Haizhong, and I can learn it by the way. Anyway, I have nothing to do right now."

"sure!"

"Okay," Xu Damao said, dipped his hand in a little wine and started writing.

After a few seconds, the word "Liu" appeared on the table.

"Master, since we are measuring the bangs, just write the word Liu!" Xu Damao said.

"The character Liu, which means both civil and military, is too greedy. He is neither civil nor military, so he is just a half-baked person, which is why he is like a grasshopper in autumn and cannot grow," Li Kangri said. "And this character is also a true portrayal of his life for most of his life."

"How to say?"

"Liu means civil on the left and military on the right. He is civil to his eldest son and takes good care of him, just like a kind father. But he is military to the other two, just like a tyrant. Do you think this character is like him?" Li Kangri said with a smile.

"Hey, Master, you know what, it really looks like him," said Sha Zhu.

"He used words against the eldest brother because he planned for the eldest brother to provide for his retirement in the future. But he showed his true colors against the second and third brothers and used violence. However, he didn't know that the eldest brother would be traumatized when he saw him beating them. This is exactly what happened to his eldest brother who ran away."

"Yes, that's it."

"So I said he is neither good at literature nor martial arts. Do you think there is something wrong with that?" Li Kangri said with a smile.

"Master, but now his eldest brother has come back too? He is by his side again." Xu Damao asked, "Doesn't this mean that he can become both a scholar and a warrior?"

"This is an illusion. In ancient times, Liu also represented an axe. There are ancient books that say, 'A man wearing a crown, holding a Liu, stands in the East Hall.' This means that a man wearing a top hat, holding an axe, stands in the East Hall. You say you are holding an axe and still pretending to be hospitable? So this is a double-edged act, which won't last long. In addition, Liu also means peeling and withering, such as 'no grass will wither, no tree will not wither', which means that there is no grass that will not wither, no tree that will not wither, and life is short, so the Liu family will be unlucky, which means one autumn."

"Master, then I'll wait and see what will happen to Liu Haizhong?" Xu Damao said with a smile.

"Why wait? You can imagine it," Li Kangri said with a smile, "When the money is gone, those illusions will naturally fall away, and then we will return to the original path."

"With unkind parents and unfilial children, how come the child ends up alone and helpless?" Xu Damao said.

"That's it, just wait and see!"

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