Late Tang

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Both Li Jing and Lin Wei are the sons-in-law of today's birthday star. First, Li Jing came forward with wine to thank everyone for coming to celebrate the birthday. A toast.Today, Li Jing's three older sisters, Wanrong, Wanyu, and Wanqing, who went out to get married early, also rushed back to their natal home with their husbands and belts. , but this time he just followed behind like a guy holding a drink, a little timidly unable to let go of his hands and feet in front of those officials.

"Guests come from far away to celebrate my mother's birthday. Please forgive me if the reception is not good today. Li Jing has a drink here, everyone is free." Li Jing drank the wine in the glass first, and then Lin Wei The eldest brother-in-law Han Jin, the second-group husband Zhang Yang, and the third brother-in-law Yang Yanshi followed each other to toast each other.From the Li Family Courtyard to the outside venue, more than 100 officials, gentry, visitors, and neighbors from the village set up a long table for ten people, forty or fifty tables, which can be described as lively and amazing.Li Jing paid respects one by one at the tables, the first few tables were filled with officials and elders, Li Jing had to have at least one drink at every table.

After the first few tables, Li Jing couldn't bear to drink like this. At first, the seven or eight members of the Li family who came from the same clan to celebrate the birthday together drank, and later, they simply asked Zhang Chengzong to get a pot of clean water. .After drinking it all around, although Li Jing was not drunk, his stomach was full of water.It was at this time that Xiao Shitou came running in surprise and said something was wrong.

"Brother, there are a lot of people here on the north road of the village. There are even more people here. There are five or six hundred people, all of whom are young and strong." Xiao Shitou also drank some wine as a guest just now. A villager assigned to guard at the head of the village reported urgently that he had found many people coming to the village. He didn't dare to delay, so he ran to tell Li Jing immediately.

Li Jing was also a little surprised, but he had already made a false alarm by treating the officials and gentry who came to pay their respects to him as thieves.Now the guests have already started to sit at the table, the theater troupe has also come on stage, and soon my mother will come over.At this time, Li Jing didn't want to make people panic, so he took a small stone and ordered Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian to go to the north gate.

Riding the horse to the North Village Gate, there are already dozens of villagers gathered here.The village chief Li Shugen was in charge of guarding the village today. Although there was a big banquet in the village today, he still took over the post very conscientiously after only drinking two glasses of wine.

"Sanlang, hurry up and take a look, there are a lot of people coming, more people than before."

Li Jing stepped on the ladder to the wall of the village, stretched out his hand to build a pergola on his eyebrows, and saw from a distance that there was indeed a huge crowd coming, at least six or seven hundred people just by looking at the posture.A piece of black crows slowly moved over like a dark cloud. From the appearance, they were all young and strong, most of them walked, and a few rode horses, and some rode mules and donkeys.Looking at the clothes, they are all varied, including white, gray and brown.

Li Jing didn't dare to be careless, and asked Shugen Village Chief to close the village gate, and then put the villager on duty under the village wall and the people he brought to the village wall.After a while, the group of people approached and stopped a hundred steps away.Then five or six men on horseback rushed over, "Hey, brothers on the wall of the village, we are the brothers under General Li, and we are here to pay respects to the old lady's birthday today. Please pass on the word!"

Li Jing looked over carefully, but saw that the person who spoke was Liu Heigou, the head of Zuo Yidu.He couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and then looked carefully at the people beside him. They were all gang leaders from Zuo Yidu. Today, they were all wearing civilian clothes instead of military uniforms, but Li Jing didn't recognize them for a while.Immediately opened the door and went out, Liu Heigou and others saw Li Jing coming out personally, and hurried to see him.

"How did you come from such a long distance?" Li Jing smiled, and then pointed to the people behind with his eyes, "Why are there so many people behind?" Liu Heigou laughed twice, and said with some fear: "General To hold the 700th birthday for the old lady, this matter has been spread in Qingning Township for a long time. I am also a subordinate of the general, so of course I have to show my heart. Originally, I just went to make an appointment with a few people from the same team a few days ago The gang leader said that we would come together today, but unexpectedly, the other brothers heard about it and also came together. Originally, there were less than a hundred brothers in Zuo Yidu, but..." Liu Heigou scratched his head Shaking his head, he said with some embarrassment: "Because the general said last time that if my brother is qualified, he can serve as a soldier with the general to eat meat and earn food, so I brought the four brothers to the old lady to pay homage to her birthday. My lord, take a look for yourself and test them. Unexpectedly, I brought four of my brothers here, but the other brothers in the city are the same as me, and they all brought their brothers and clansmen who want to serve as soldiers with the general. This way , the number of people who came was a little too high, almost [-] people.”

The thing is exactly as Liu Heigou said, Zuo Yidu’s brothers are all from Qingning Township. Since the disbanded team went home that day, the rewards and settling expenses they took home surprised the villagers. Being a garrison in Shamen Town is not only not as painful as the legend, but also has a generous settling allowance and monthly money and food. Those villagers who are suffering from famine at home can't sit still.After inquiring about various situations, they asked to also go to Shamen Town.

Just then, it was reported in the village that Li Jing was going to celebrate his mother's birthday, and everyone wanted to take the opportunity of coming to celebrate the birthday, and let Li Jing meet their brothers and clansmen.After all, it only takes 250 people to go to Shamen Town, and now there are 100 people.Everyone had the same idea, but in the end, there was a young and strong team of nearly [-] people who came to the village.Li Jing understood what happened before and after, but couldn't help laughing on his face.

Fighting father and son soldiers, fighting tiger brothers.

He originally decided to only recruit the township party members in Qingning Township as the remaining soldiers. Now that he has not erected the recruitment flag, these young and strong people from the number six or seven hundred have come to join the army at once. This is naturally great thing.What's more, most of these people are relatives and neighbors of Zuo Yidu soldiers. Recruiting such people into the team can make his team more cohesive.

"Although Shamen Town can only recruit another 150 people, since the people here are all brothers and sisters, we will talk about joining the army later, and let's have a few cups of birthday wine together today." Li Jing turned to Zhang Cheng Zongdao, "Go back immediately and tell the old village head's Mrs. Wang to prepare wine and meat immediately. If there is not enough material, send someone to Chishan to buy some immediately."

Liu Heigou hurriedly said: "General, don't dare, we are just rough people, but we dare not disturb the birthday banquet in the village. We should go to the village in batches to pay respects to the old lady's birthday, and then go home first, and the general will come tomorrow Check the selection?"

"Everyone here is a visitor. It just happened to be my mother's birthday. I'm sure I'm more happy to see so many people. Let's all go to the village. Let's all take the people they brought with us in the original team and enter the village one after another. "Li Jing is not willing to miss this opportunity to gain prestige.Qingning Township is a township, but Li Jing plans to use more fellow villagers if he expands his army in the future.

After hearing Li Jing's words, Liu Heigou immediately went back with a smile, and followed the original situation in the capital.The soldiers in Zuoyidu all took the people they brought with them, and then joined them together according to the original team formation.The original group expanded into a team, with nearly 30 people, and they were divided into ten teams. They entered the village one by one in order, but it didn't seem too crowded.Li Jing stood at the gate of the village, and greeted the old subordinates and their relatives who entered the village seriously.On the one hand, he also appraised in his heart the young people they brought, most of them are young and strong, the older ones may be in their [-]s, and the younger ones are only sixteen or seventeen years old.Although many people looked a little hungry, their bodies were not bad.

After the old subordinates brought their own people into the village, there was actually a group of people left outside the village gate.Li Jing looked at these people with some surprise. The total number of people in this group was estimated to be five or sixty, but they were divided into two groups.One group consisted of a group of guards wearing short brown trousers, holding eyebrow-level sticks in their hands, and iron swords around their waists. There is a double-drawn carriage, and there is a row of ten pack carts behind it.On the other side, there was a young man in a green shirt with a hooded head. There were several guards beside him, and there were also ten carriages loaded with goods parked behind him.

With just one glance, Li Jing could tell that these people obviously did not come with Liu Heigou and the others.It looks like the group of Huangfu County Magistrate and the others before, could it be the country gentry merchants who came to give gifts?

At this time, the curtain of the carriage in front was lifted, and a young man with a face like a crown jade and gorgeous clothes came down, wearing a moonlight silk cross-collar right lapel, and a pair of big sleeves and double breasts outside.There is a white jade belt around the waist, and a jade bi is tied on it.What he wears on his head is not a Futou, but a flat scarf that looks like a section of an ingot from the front.Under the wide placket sleeves, there is a three-foot long sword inlaid with jade and gold silk handle on his waist.

Seeing this attire, Li Jing was slightly taken aback.Looking at this person's attire, it is definitely either rich or expensive, not even ordinary expensive.Moreover, there is a natural arrogance and nobility in this person, which seems to be born with him.The feeling he brought to Li Jing seems to have only been felt in Cui Yunqing and Li Rui.After the young nobleman got out of the car, he walked straight to the carriage behind him, and opened the curtain respectfully.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, but Li Jing didn't see the people in the carriage immediately.A hand stretched out from the car, and lightly rested on the arm of the young nobleman.It was a very white and then slightly plump hand, with a small section of wrist exposed under several layers of gorgeous large cuffs.This hand was stretched out first, and then the people in the carriage slowly appeared.Rao Lijing was prepared in his heart, but after seeing this person, he was still slightly taken aback.The person with such a pair of beautiful hands is actually an old man, an old woman with silver hair.

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