Will Ming

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"Good job!"

Zhang Zhongjian rubbed Li Xian's hair habitually, but found that the boy's size had almost caught up with him before he knew it.During the Liaodong trip, Li Xian's complexion has darkened a little over the past six months, making him look a little more masculine.

"Is it more than good?"

Li Xian curled his lips and protested Zhang Jizhong's slightly stingy praise: "Even if it were you, my dear grandpa, can you guarantee that you can do better than me?"

Zhang Zhongjian was dumb, and then he laughed loudly and said: "You brat, you are so arrogant."

Li Xian also smiled and said, "Which one of us from Tiefutu is not arrogant?"

"yes……"

Zhang Zhongjian sighed: "Back then, when our Tiefutu brothers fought from Daxing City, from Jiangnan to Saibei, when did we stop being arrogant? Luo Manzi has five thousand tigers in his palm and tens of thousands of powerful soldiers. When will we think highly of him? Don't say Luo Manzi, when Yang Su personally recruited Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu never gave him a second glance."

Li Xian said with a smile: "Boasting - you have to be restrained..."

The two smiled, then fell silent.Yes, the brothers of Tiefutu are all proud. Although they are all horse thieves, they are all vigorous men, all real men, and there is no coward.No matter who the enemy is, no matter how powerful the enemy is, they have never flinched. Back then, Zhang Zhongjian once said that he would rather die standing than live on his knees. In these years, none of the brothers knelt down in front of the enemy. .Looking back, among the sixty or so brothers of Tiefutu, few of them are still alive.

Not only the Iron Buddha, the pride also belongs to the blood cavalry.Those strong men, did they ever shrink back in the past few years in Saibei?There are many examples of the barbarians in the grasslands seeing the blood cavalry scared the shit out of them. They have never lost the prestige of the iron army in Honghua back then.But almost all the blood cavalry were killed in battle, on Yanshan Mountain, at the hands of Da Sui's own people.

Zhang Zhongjian and Li Xian smiled, but felt very sad.

The two were sitting on a huge boulder protruding from the mountainside. In front of them was a cliff, and behind them were hundreds of graves neatly arranged.New soil was added to each tomb, and a jug of wine and a bowl of meat were placed beside each tomb.a pair of chopsticks.

The mountain wind blows over the cliffs, and in the vagueness, it seems to be able to hear the voices of the original partners drinking happily and singing loudly.Li Xian and Zhang Zhongjian listened attentively, trying to distinguish those familiar voices from the wind.

"Come on, brat, drink more with grandpa today."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled, and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Li Xian also rubbed his eyes with a smile, picked up the jug and touched Zhang Zhongjian and said, "The mountain wind is so strong that it blows too hard for the eyes."

"Yeah, the mountain wind is really strong..."

Zhang Zhongjian raised his neck, poured a large mouthful of burning knives from Kansai, and burned the hot liquor down his throat into his chest, driving the chill brought by the cold north wind out of his body.The laughter of the brothers is still in my mind, but I can no longer see the familiar faces of each of them.

Daxi Changru lay not far from Zhang Zhongjian and Li Xian, squinting his eyes to see the afterglow of the setting sun.It's already winter and the twelfth lunar month, and the rocks are cold and the north wind is howling, but it seems that he doesn't care at all.The mountain wind messed up his long hair, and the long scar on his face looked like it was inlaid with a layer of gold under the afterglow.

"Anzhi, what do you plan to do in the future?"

He was also very sad, this sadness came from the wine, from the mountain wind, from the brief separation of Li Xian and the three of them, and from the more than one hundred graves behind him.But he has experienced more than Zhang Zhongjian, not to mention Li Xian who just faced this society colder than Beifeng alone.In the first battle of Honghua, he had more than 2000 fine cavalry, almost all of whom died in battle. However, as a leading general, he failed to earn reasonable pensions for his brothers, and earned the rewards and credits they deserved. At that time The sadness in his heart was ten thousand times stronger than now.

Therefore, he was the first to break the atmosphere.

Li Xian smiled, and lay down on the hard and cold boulder, looking at the white clouds drifting slowly in the sky, and at the blue sky that seemed to have been washed.

"Let's talk about it after this winter."

He closed his eyes, and then slowly said: "He Ruozhongshan is dead."

This is the news he heard only after returning to Yanshan. It is said that He Ruozhongshan died of serious injuries not long after he was sent to Dou Jiande.But Li Xian knew that things were far from that simple. He Ruozhongshan was Sun Anzu's old subordinate and had a high status in Gaojibo.Dou Jiande recruited Sun Anzu's remnants. If He Ruozhongshan is alive, he must give He Ruo a seat, a seat that may threaten him in the future.So He Ruozhongshan died, and his death was worthless.

If Li Xian had been more mature back then, he would not have agreed to send He Ruozhongshan to Dou Jiande.But at that time, he was still too naive. After this trip to Liaodong, he has become more and more mature.

"Besides, Yanshan is not a place to live for a long time. It is said that the foolish emperor is already planning to conquer Goguryeo for the second time. The spring will not come next year, and all the armies will gather in Zhuojun. Taking this opportunity, I plan to take my brothers to Go south and find a good place to stay."

Li Xian said softly.

Daxi Changru hummed and said: "Yanshan is really not suitable for a large army to station. Although you brought a lot of food from Liaodong, if you don't do anything, it will be enough to feed 3 people for many years, but the food will rot, and the hearts of the people will also die." They will be scattered. Most of the soldiers are from Fubing, if you don’t give them hope, sooner or later they will leave you.”

Zhang Zhongjian said: "The law minister is right. Those guys from the government soldiers, if they are idle for a long time, they will be useless. If there are more than 2 veterans not going out, it will be a waste of them. "

Li Xian nodded and said: "When I was in Liaodong, I discussed this matter with Tie Liaolang and the others. Everyone had the same idea. Gao Shida called Donghai Gong in Gaojibo, and Dou Jiande was willing to regard him as the master. Hebei Lulin Road also respects Gao Shida as the leader of the alliance, so it is difficult to win it over. But, for the sake of He Ruozhongshan, the battle with Dou Jiande is still to be fought."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said: "Just let your soldiers loosen their muscles and bones. Don't overestimate Gaojibo's grass bandits. There are quite a few of them, but they are nothing compared to your soldiers. Gao Shida counts." What? When I ruled north of the Yellow River, I didn’t know where he was wearing crotch pants.”

"Ha ha!"

Daxi Changru couldn't help laughing, turned his head to look at Zhang Zhongjian and said, "I don't know if you taught An Zhi to be shameless, or if An Zhi influenced you."

Li Xian curled his lips: "Obviously not the latter."

Just as he was talking, he suddenly heard a crisp call from a distance: "Grandfather, Uncle Daxi, Brother Anzhi!"

Li Xian and the three of them didn't have to look back to know that it was Xiao Di who came.

Ou Siqingqing likes to wear white clothes, especially in winter, she always likes to wear that white velvet dress with a pure white fox tail around her neck, which sets off her face very beautifully.She was holding a small basket in one hand, and with the other hand, Zhang Xiaodi, who looked like a porcelain doll in thick cotton clothes, came over.Seeing that they were getting close, Zhang Xiaodi let go of Ou Siqingqing's hand, and trotted over.

Zhang Zhongjian hugged Xiao Di, stared and said, "Be careful! If you fall, Grandpa can't save you!"

Xiao Di, who is already 11 years old, is more juicy, with big eyes and a small nose. Because of the cold north wind, his cheeks are red on both sides. It looks like a red that makes people want to bite apple.Her clothes are thick, so it makes her look more petite and lovely.

She sat down next to Zhang Zhongjian, pouted and said, "Grandpa can't save me, can't Uncle Daxi save me? Brother An Zhi can't save me?"

Zhang Zhongjian scratched her small nose, and said dotingly: "I know your brother An Zhi all day long, so I don't feel ashamed."

Xiao Di raised her face and replied seriously: "I want to marry Brother An Zhi!"

Zhang Zhongjian and Daxi Changru laughed, but Li Xian, who had never blushed since he was three years old, blushed very rarely.He smiled embarrassingly, but didn't know what to say.

"Brother An, look"

Zhang Xiaodi handed the thing in his hand to Li Xian. It turned out to be a mountain chrysanthemum that had passed the flowering period and could still unfold its shape.Now that it has entered the twelfth lunar month, it is difficult to see the golden yellow hill chrysanthemums in full bloom.I don't know where Xiao Di found this flower, but it is still blooming quite beautifully.

A mountain chrysanthemum, Li Xian's heart suddenly tightened.

Because he suddenly remembered the girl named Gesang Meiduo, she was still there when he left Yanshan, and she had left when he returned to Yanshan.

It's just that this thought was fleeting, and even Li Xian didn't care about it.

"Grandpa, master."

Ou Siqingqing first called Zhang Zhongjian and Daxi Changru, then squatted down next to Li Xian, and said with a smile: "Anzhi, I knew that you and Master Grandpa must have come here to drink again."

Li Xian smiled and said: "There are Iron Wolf and the others in the training. It's really boring, so I come here to sit."

"What's in the basket?"

Li Xian smiled.

"Could it be that they knew that our wine worms had come out, so they specially brought wine and vegetables to serve?"

Ou Siqingqing said seriously: "In such a cold weather, even if you bring food and wine, you can't eat it. Someone sent it up the mountain just now, and the person left after delivering it. He just said it was a gift from an old friend. , I didn’t look at it, and I didn’t know what it was. The man came in a hurry and left without saying a word.”

"Oh?"

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