"Uncle Ma, have you seen the old man standing under the Eight Immortals Lantern? Who is he?" Li Xiu was furious for no reason and was a little confused. What's even more unlucky is that he didn't know the other person at all, so he immediately found Mr. Ma. I guess he should know the other person's identity.

"Pei Ju? Why are you asking about him?" Ma Ye saw the old man following Li Xiu's fingers, but suddenly frowned and asked.

"Pei Ji! He is Pei Ji, who is known as the No. 1 prime minister of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Xiu obviously didn't hear Ma Master clearly and shouted in shock.

"If you hear it clearly, it's Pei Ju, not Pei Ji. Pei Xiangke is much younger than him." Mr. Ma immediately spoke up and corrected, but these two names are really easy to listen to.

"Pei Ju? This name sounds so familiar?" Li Xiu finally heard the name Pei Ju clearly, but he always felt that he had heard of it somewhere. He frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly shouted in surprise: "I'm going, isn't he the Evil King?"

"Evil King? What Evil King?" Ma Ye asked curiously when he heard Li Xiu's words.

"What evil king, Uncle Ma, you must have heard it wrong!" Li Xiu immediately reacted and hurriedly denied it. He was not easy to explain this. He could not be said to be a character in a novel in later generations, right?

"You kid always talks something you don't understand. Forget it, I won't ask anymore, but Pei Ju is a cunning man. Don't mess with him!" Ma Ye warned at the end.

Li Xiu also agreed with Ma Ye's words. In the novel "Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the evil king Shi Zhixuan entered the Sui court by name Pei Ju, governed the Western Regions, divided the Turks, and eventually subverted the Sui Dynasty. Although the character Shi Zhixuan is fictional, many of the deeds about Pei Ju are true, such as governing the Western Regions, conquering the Turks, and he also pacified Lingnan and fought with Yang Guang to conquer Liaodong. It can be said that he made many contributions to the Sui Dynasty.

However, what Pei Ju talked about most was that when he faced the stubborn Emperor Yang of Sui, he became a flattering minister who pleased him. However, after returning to the Tang Dynasty, he often dared to offend Yan Zhi. This inconsistent manifestation was used by Sima Guang, a later generation of Sima Guang, as an example of "the king is wise and the minister is straight", which indirectly illustrates the rationality of the Tang replacing the Sui Dynasty.

Facing an old fox like Pei Ju who is capable and well-versed in the protection of his own life, Li Xiu asked himself that he could never afford to provoke him, but what he couldn't understand was how could a big man like Pei Ju know him, and he came to ask for punishment angrily. Even if he had conflicts with Li Jing, he wouldn't have to vent his anger on him, the illegitimate son, right?

After thinking about it, I couldn't understand the reason, and Mr. Ma probably didn't know either, otherwise he should have told Li Xiu just now, instead of warning him not to provoke him.

But at this moment, the rich lady just now came over with her daughter again. Seeing the shy and timid look of the little lady behind her, she seemed to be still unwilling to give up on Li Xiu, which made him secretly scream. Now Ma Ye is by his side. With his temperament, he might even cause trouble.

Sure enough, the rich lady brought her daughter to Li Xiu again, but she saluted to Mr. Ma and said, "I have seen General Ma!"

Mr. Ma seemed to recognize this noble lady, and immediately replied to the gift. Moreover, he was a personal spirit, so he naturally saw the other party's purpose at a glance. He laughed and patted Li Xiu on the shoulder and said, "Mrs. Zhou, there is no need to be too polite. Let me introduce you to you. The young man around me is my nephew Li Xiu. Not only is his family background prominent, but he is also young and promising. Some time ago, when we defeated the Turks in Qingzhou, he made considerable contributions to the court. It can be said that he has a bright future!"

As soon as Ma Master said that, Li Xiu secretly called something wrong. Sure enough, when the lady opposite heard him praising him so much, her eyes suddenly lit up. Her eyes turned into a mother-in-law's expression when she looked at Li Xiu, and she seemed to be more satisfied with her. As for the girl behind her, she stared at Li Xiu shyly, and little stars were almost popping up in her eyes.

"I thought Mr. Li was a scholar, but I didn't expect that he could go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. He is really a role model among the younger generation of the Tang Dynasty!" The noble lady looked at Li Xiu for a moment, and praised with a smile on her face. It was estimated that she had already designated Li Xiu as her son-in-law at this time.

"Madam is a mistake!" Li Xiu could only say with a mercy, and at the same time he looked at Mr. Ma with a begging mercy, hoping that he would not praise him anymore.

Ma Ye was also kind, and in his opinion, Li Xiu was too old to marry, so he ignored his begging for mercy at all, but praised Li Xiu even more vigorously. As a result, the rich lady nodded in satisfaction, finally gave her a wink at her daughter, and then said goodbye. Li Xiu thought that this was over, but when the shy little lady left, she deliberately threw down a handkerchief and looked at Li Xiu again with shy eyes, then ran away like a frightened little rabbit.

After looking at the exquisitely crafted handkerchiefs on the ground, Li Xiu was also at a loss, and then turned his head to ask Mr. Ma for help. Mr. Ma glared at this time and said, "Look at what I'm doing. Why don't you pick up the handkerchief you gave you?"

"Can you not pick it up?" Li Xiu said helplessly. It is easy to pick up the other party's handkerchief now, but if he doesn't ask for a bride in the future, wouldn't it be sad? Moreover, even if he asks for a bride, the other party will definitely not agree if he knows his identity, and neither party will be able to step down by then.

"Don't pick it up? Do you believe that the young lady of the Zhou family just now will be hung to show you tonight?" Ma Ye glared at this moment. Although the Zhou family's mother and daughter left, they were still secretly looking here. Moreover, their actions just now attracted a lot of people's attention. At this time, they were also looking at Li Xiu. If he didn't pick it up, the Zhou family's mother and daughter would be too embarrassed.

Seeing this situation, Li Xiu sighed helplessly, and walked over and picked up the handkerchief of the young lady of the Zhou family. It is said that such handkerchiefs are usually embroidered by young women. They are not only a desirable thing, but also test the embroidery worker. Li Xiu couldn't see how the embroidery worker was, but the handkerchief was quite fragrant. There was a very delicate word "天" embroidered on one corner of the handkerchief, which was probably a word in the owner's name or name.

The woman threw down the handkerchief and said that she was satisfied with the man. It was a very gentlemanly etiquette for the man to accept the handkerchief. Regardless of whether he would propose marriage in the future, at least he could not embarrass the woman. However, Li Xiu was destined to let the young lady down, and with his identity, he might not fall in love with him even if he knew about it.

I thought no one would come again after taking the handkerchief, but what Li Xiu didn't expect was that Ma Ye praised him just now was too loud, and many people around him heard that he was Ma Ye's son and nephew, and he was so respected by Ma Ye, and he was so successful that he made contributions on the battlefield at a young age. It is rare for such a young hero to be seen.

It is precisely because of this that several more ladies took their daughter forward and chatted with Ma Ye and asked their daughter to drop the handkerchief. This made Li Xiu laugh and cry. The lady Zhou not far away looked even more blushed. However, one piece was picked up and two pieces were also picked up. Out of politeness, Li Xiu had to pick up all the handkerchiefs he had left, and the thick stack was almost used as a napkin.

"Uncle Ma, this is too exaggerated. Why do there are so many unmarried daughters in the nobles in the capital?" Li Xiu picked up a handkerchief on the ground and said. He felt that if he continued to pick it up like this, he could use these handkerchiefs to sew a lot of underwear to wear when the lantern festival ended.

"Didn't you find that there are more girls and fewer boys among the young people who come today? In the early Tang Dynasty, many young children are working in the army. Those who stay at home generally have no prospects. These noble ladies naturally want to find a good husband's family for their daughter." Ma Ye explained with a smile. Although he knew that Li Xiu's background was a little low and his reputation was not very good, in his opinion, the entire Tang Dynasty could not find a younger person who was better than Li Xiu, let alone that he had saved Princess Pingyang's life, so he praised Li Xiu so hard.

After hearing what Ma Ye said, Li Xiu looked at the entire lantern festival and found that as Ma Ye said, there are indeed many more women among young people than men, which is also the sequelae of war. After all, no matter in any era, war is a game for men, and of course there are exceptions, such as Princess Pingyang.

"Haha, isn't this General Ma?" At this moment, a unfriendly voice suddenly sounded, and then Chai Shao walked through several lamp holders with a gloomy face and walked to Ma Master Ma, then looked at Li Xiu next to him and the handkerchief in his hand and said, "You kid is here too. You are so much of love-seeking things, you really deserve your little lover!"

Chai Shao kept looking at him with contempt when he spoke. Obviously, he had already found out about Li Xiu's origin, and also knew that Li Xiu had left the house because of a little nun, and many people responded to this matter inconsistently. Some people said that Li Xiu was unfilial, while others thought that Li Xiu was infatuated. Many of the people who held this view were unmarried girls.

Chai Shao had seen Li Xiu before, because Ma Master was there, so he did not plan to step forward. However, when he saw that Li Xiu had accepted so many women's love affairs in a short time, such a person was worthy of being called infatuation? Is he really infatuated with the princess, okay?

It was precisely the above thought that Chai Shao couldn't help but look down on him even more. He thought that he had been beaten by him before, and he still had a faint pain under his crotch until now, and he couldn't even have sex with his concubine for several days. This was simply the biggest shame in his life. The more he thought about it, Chai Shao became more angry, and finally couldn't help but walk forward and mock Li Xiu.

"Haha, it turns out it's General Chai. I wonder if your injury is better?" Mr. Ma patted Li Xiu's shoulder and signaled him not to speak, then he smiled and went forward.

"You..." Ma Master said the pain in Chai Shao's heart. He couldn't help but want to get angry at the moment. However, thinking that this little lantern festival was held by Li Yuan personally for Princess Pingyang. If he disturbed the little lantern festival, it would not only make Li Yuan unhappy, but Princess Pingyang might also hate him even more.

Thinking of this, Chai Shao suppressed his anger and shook his sleeves, turned around and left angrily. After all, he was afraid that Ma would reveal his beating by Li Xiu, and he would have no shame to see anyone. But he also swears in his heart that this matter is not over today, let's take a look!
Chapter completed!