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In this world, people like Zhao Mingcheng can make friends if they meet him, but there is no need to deliberately cater to him.

After all, even if you try your best to make friends with a weak and incompetent person like him, you may not gain anything in the end.

In Ximen Qing's heart, Zhao Mingcheng was a dispensable existence. Even if he was unfortunately killed by the bandit Yu Baosi, there seemed to be no actual loss to Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing’s view is not unfounded.

Historically, Zhao Mingcheng was indeed a weak and incompetent person.

Twice when faced with danger, he chose to abandon Li Qingzhao and run away alone.

In March of the second year of Jingkang, the Jin army was about to attack Shandong. At this time, Zhao Mingcheng was serving as the magistrate of Zizhou, Shandong.

However, when his mother passed away in Jiankang Prefecture, Nanjing, he gave up his duties of guarding the land without hesitation and went to Nanjing alone to attend the funeral.

However, Li Qingzhao, as his head wife, was left behind by Zhao Mingcheng in Qingzhou, Shandong Province at such a critical moment and was unable to travel south with him.

After that, the Jin army attacked Shandong, Qingzhou was in chaos and the city fell.

Li Qingzhao relied on his own strength to rob Zhao Mingcheng of some valuable property in his collection of gold and stones. After traveling thousands of miles, traveling by land and water, he finally transported these property to Jiankang City.

Being abandoned by her husband in the war zone, Li Qingzhao escaped by relying on her own strength.

In the early spring of February of the third year of Zhao Jiuyan's reign in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Mingcheng, as the parent official of Jiankang Mansion, learned that Wang Yi, the commander of the imperial camp, was plotting a rebellion.

Instead of holding on to the city and organizing forces to put down the rebellion, he chose to abandon the city and flee, once again showing his usual weakness.

This time, he did not even bring his wife Li Qingzhao, who had been deeply in love with him for 27 years, and Li Qingzhao almost fell into the hands of Wang Yi's rebels in Jiankang City.

In the following June, Zhao Mingcheng was appointed as the prefect of Huzhou by Song Gaozong.

Before going to Jiankang to meet the saint, he said goodbye to Li Qingzhao.

Faced with the threat of the Jin army moving south, the situation was precarious. Li Qingzhao asked her husband what to do with the gold and stone cultural relics he cherished if the city was breached and he had to flee.

Zhao Mingcheng arranged a discard order for her, and in the end, he emphasized,"Only those imperial weapons can be held tightly in your arms, live and die with them, and don't forget them." At this moment,

Li Qingzhao had a deep understanding of her husband's ruthlessness. understanding.

In Zhao Mingcheng's view, if Li Qingzhao was not destroyed along with the Zongqi, it was not because she was greedy for life and afraid of death, but because she forgot to follow his instructions. The three words"don't forget it" deprived Li Qingzhao of his freedom of choice.

Zhao Mingcheng's attitude towards Li Qingzhao was not even as high as his cherishment of those epigraphic cultural relics.

Ironically, Zhao Mingcheng, who abandoned Li Qingzhao for the third time, died of illness on the way soon.

This time, he could not escape fate again.

Zhao Mingcheng, a cowardly person who was addicted to sensuality, fully demonstrated his soft side when he abandoned Li Qingzhao and ran away alone twice.

In fact, Li Qingzhao's married life was not as beautiful as the young literary and artistic people of later generations imagined. This can also understand why she created so many poems full of sadness.

Xin Zan led Ximen Qing to the front hall. On the way, he informed Ximen Qing in detail about the current situation of Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao.

Zhao Mingcheng was implicated because of his father Zhao Ting's failure in the party struggle. He had been dismissed from office for many years and returned to his hometown of Guilaitang in Qingzhou from Bianliang, Tokyo, to live in seclusion.

Li Qingzhao followed him back to Qingzhou to live, calling himself Yi An Jushi.

Shuyutang, located next to Shuyu Spring in Licheng, is the hometown of Li Qingzhao.

This time, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao returned to their hometown in Licheng, Qizhou from Qingzhou Return Hall to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

Soon, they will set off together and return to Qingzhou.

Zhao Mingcheng loves to study epigraphy, and Qianfo Mountain in Licheng is rich in inscriptions from past dynasties. Therefore, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao invited Xinzan and his wife to visit Qianfo Mountain yesterday.

As for what happened next, Ximen Qing already knew something about it.

Xinzan and the others encountered Yu Baosi, a bandit who had fled to Qizhou in the valley, and almost fell into the hands of these bandits.

Fortunately, Ximen Qing and Luan Tingyu fought bravely and rescued them.

When Xin Zan led Ximen Qing into the spacious hall, Luan Tingyu, Jiao Ting and Shi Yong were already sitting there.

Zhao Mingcheng was also drinking tea leisurely in the hall, chatting and laughing with Luan Tingyu and others, and he was very elegant, not showing the sluggishness of yesterday at all.

When Ximen Qing saw this, a blush appeared on his face involuntarily.

He thought to himself:"How could I let Luan Tingyu and other heroes wait for me for so long? How could I sleep so soundly last night? It was all the fault of Widow Li in the dream. No, it should be Hu Sanniang's fault."

Zhao Mingcheng saw Ximen Qing come out. , immediately stepped forward and bowed deeply to thank him, speaking sincerely.

This student from an official family still maintained his noble and elegant temperament after experiencing the test of life and death.

Later, Li Qingzhao and Xin Zan's wife Cui also walked out of the inner courtyard together.

Everyone gathered together. Zhao Mingcheng and Xin Zan once again expressed their sincere gratitude to Ximen Qing, Luan Tingyu and others, and sent a generous gift to express their gratitude.

Ximen Qing and others declined humbly.

After everyone sat down and tasted Xin's fine tea, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao sincerely invited Ximen Qing and others, as well as Xin Zan and his wife, to go to Shuyu Hall to enjoy plum blossoms, taste springs, and drink and have fun.

Ximen Qing had no intention of getting involved in the poetry and wine party of literati, but after learning that the beauty he rescued yesterday was actually Li Qingzhao, his curiosity made him readily accept the invitation of Zhao Mingcheng and his wife. He thought:"I, Ximen Qing, rarely have the opportunity to have close contact with famous people throughout the ages, so I might as well go to her house and get drunk before resting!"

Luan Tingyu could not refuse, so she had to agree.

However, when Jiao Ting and Shi Yong heard that they wanted to enjoy plum blossoms and springs, drink wine and recite poems, they shook their heads and refused.

For them, there is something more attractive about Xin Mansion, that is, Xin Zan's third uncle is waiting to bet with them!

Shuyutang is located in Xinjiazhuang, not far from the residence of Li Qingzhao and his wife. The scenery along the way is beautiful, with wild plums scattered on the clear spring rocks and a delicate fragrance that makes people fall asleep.

The group, including Ximen Qing, led by Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao, soon arrived at the entrance of the Li Family Shuyu Hall.