Chapter Eighty-Eight: Drinking in a Big Bowl and Eating Meat

"Xianggong, the convoy sent by Zengtou City has arrived, and a lot of supplies have been pulled, but it seems that there has been an ambush on the road, and now there are many wounded people lying on the car." As soon as he went out early in the morning, Zhu Wu waited at the door to report.

"You go to the Shenji Camp first, and let the Taoist chief and the medical women quickly carry the wounded to the camp for treatment first, and I'll go here to have a look." After Liu Jing finished instructing, he stepped up and walked towards the camp.

As soon as he arrived at the camp, the Taoist commander and the female soldiers of the medical battalion hurried past him with stretchers and disinfectants.

This time, Zengtou City was led by Su Ding and Zeng Suo with 2,000 men and horses, escorting more than 100 supply carts, and caught up with a tough battle halfway, and the Liangshan soldiers who failed in the first attack on Zhujiazhuang and came to rob the salted meat after hearing the news fought to the death.

The two sides met at the junction of Jeju and Xiqing, and the convoy in Zengtou City was caught off guard at the beginning and was disrupted, with heavy casualties.

Su Ding and the Shenji Battalion, which were backward and pressed the formation, were first covered by a burst of firepower, and the Liangshan soldiers who fought directly were stunned, and Su Ding's army took the opportunity to attack, and the Liangshan soldiers could fight with the wind.

Seeing Liu Jing rushing over, Su Ding and Zeng Suo hurriedly came over to greet them, Liu Jing helped them up and said: "The two of you have worked hard all the way, I didn't expect this Liangshan to remember to eat or fight, and the poor and crazy dare to grab anything, it seems that in the future, this material should be sent as little as possible, and the lives of the soldiers are worth more than these salted meat." ”

The two of them were moved when they heard this, and Zeng Suo grinned and said: "Where is the Xianggong, how can there be immortals in this war, in fact, this battle is just right, and it also lets us know that the guys are two pounds, and there is nothing to be afraid of in the future." ”

As he was talking, the younger brother Zeng Sheng rushed over, and the two brothers hugged each other and chatted cordially.

Liu Jing and Su Ding walked side by side, inquiring about the situation in Zengtou City, Su Ding said: "The army is still the same, maintaining the scale of 5,000 people, in terms of trade, the Jin State has increased the intensity of trade, and transported a large number of furs, salted meat, and medicinal materials by sea in exchange for our iron tools, their people, now we have set up a contact point there, and now we are in contact with the officials of the imperial court, I don't know what to do." ”

"Jin Guo is preparing to attack Liao, and those people are here to discuss with the court officials about the joint attack on Liao." Liu Jing said.

Su Dingmian said with a happy face: "This is a good thing, the Liao State has bullied us for so many years, and it is time for them to taste the taste of being beaten." ”

"It's a good thing now, and the imperial court thinks so too, but have you thought about it, if even the Liao State can't beat the Jin State, then if the Jin State comes to fight our Great Song Dynasty again in the future, what will happen."

Su Ding was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "Whatever, when the time comes, take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun first." ”

Liu Jing shook his head with a smile, and didn't say anything more, it seems that this Great Song Dynasty is afraid of being bullied by the Liao State, and the whole country has the same idea, and it is impossible for him to change this common concept that exists in the world.

After thinking about it, he came to the supply car with Su Ding, "Xianggong, look, these are marinated and dried beef and horse meat, and this is tiger meat, this is bear meat, this is venison and robe meat, these ten carts are furs, and Chief Zeng specially selected them to give to Xianggong's family, these are ginseng and deer antler velvet." Su Dingru said.

The leaders came, watching and talking around the car, Ruan Xiaoqi was only interested in meat, and said with great interest: "How big I lived, I haven't eaten bear meat, Second Brother Wu, have you eaten it?" ”

Wu Song shook his head and said: "This thing is also available in Liaodong, even if it is our father-in-law, I'm afraid I haven't eaten it." ”

Chen Liqing was bold and said to Liu Jing: "Taiwei, there are ten carts of this fur, seeing that your old man will not be able to marry too many little wives for a while, it is also a waste to pile them up at home, so it is better to give us a few." ”

Everyone laughed, and Mrs. Liu glanced at her, but also smiled: "Okay, I'll keep two carts, and the rest will be divided between the leaders and female soldiers, and it's good for you to get a leather collar and a fur hat in winter." ”

Everyone was overjoyed and was about to come over to scramble, Hua Rong and Qiao Daoqing hurriedly shouted: "Slow! Don't run out of rules. ”

Walking over with Zhu Wu, he studied for a long time, first selected the best two cars for the captain to push aside, and then found a tiger skin from other cars, and immediately smiled: "This skin can be placed on the captain's chair as a cushion." ”

"Forget it, don't give me all these vain things, put them in the warehouse if they are too valuable, and then exchange them for money to improve military supplies, and you will slowly look at the rest of the points, first send the medicinal materials to the medical battalion, and leave some meat for the cured meat at noon, and put the rest into the warehouse." Liu Jing said.

When the licking dog saw what the captain had said, he hurriedly pushed a rare cart with cured meat of bears and deer to join the two fur carts, and then began to count the goods into storage.

"Give you a dowry." Liu Jing picked up a fiery red fox skin and threw it to Chen Liqing, and in that surprised expression, he walked straight to the medical camp to visit the wounded.

After everything was done, they had lunch together in the camp, the cook made salted meat soup, the officers each had a plate of steamed pork slices, and Liu Jing sandwiched a slice and tasted it carefully, it was not bad, a bit similar to bacon.

Then there was the miscellaneous fish stewed, and there was bean juice and small tofu, Su Ding and Zeng Suo sat next to him, and the two of them ate with their mouths full of oil, and couldn't help but praise: "There is no such salted meat, this food is not like this in any military camp in the Great Song Dynasty, and the food is slippery, and I don't want to leave." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi finally ate the bear meat, and said twice: "In addition to a little more fatty meat, it is salty, and there is no special taste." ”

Liu Jing smiled: "It's salted meat, what else do you want to eat?" ”

Everyone laughed, Ruan Xiaowu said: "Xianggong said when he went to Shijie Village to recruit my brother before, saying that we should have meat to eat every day, since the first day we came, we have not broken our promises, and now, the officer has also become an officer. ”

Luda sighed with emotion: "It's just that the officer can eat meat, the key is that our Shenxiao Army is a small soldier, except for the lack of this plate every day, the others are also the same, in this world, there is a barracks cottage feeling compared with here." ”

"The lobbyist from Liangshan went to invite the Sprinkle family to join the gang, and they boasted that they were talking about drinking in big bowls, eating meat in large pieces, and dividing gold and silver in large scales, if they were really so rich, they would come to rob our salted meat car."

Liu Jing smiled: "This is actually very demagogic, it's not that I said you guys, if I hadn't taken the first step to grab you in my hands, you heard this slogan, and you didn't have to hurry up and join the gang, right, Brother Seven." ”

"Yes, I was almost poor at that time, and if I heard that there was such a good thing, I wouldn't go." Ruan Xiaoqi said as a matter of course.

"So, at that time, there were few people on Liangshan, hundreds of people, and they grabbed the birthday gang, if you save some flowers, it is enough to live happily for a lifetime, but what about it, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and they have to develop and grow, now it's good, it's really big, more than 20,000 people, up and down, not to mention eating meat, it is estimated that the grass on the mountain has been eaten up."

Everyone laughed, and Liu Jing continued: "Then what should I do, I can't starve to death on the mountain, so I changed my banner and called it for Tianxingdao, and then went down the mountain openly and came to rob everywhere, robbed a village, and killed all the people of the village, and the women went up the mountain to spoil it, which is also called Tianxingdao?" ”

"Just like us here and Dongping, if we were breached last time, how many of us would survive? This is tens of thousands of people, all of them will go to the tomb like this, and they can't even mix the grave, so they will be on the streets! ”

"Then what are they trying to do, when Shandong is all robbed, it's not the same as having nothing to eat, it's better to gather hundreds of people in a mountain nest and live happily." Ruan Xiaoqi scratched the back of his head and said.

Liu Jing pouted: "What's the picture, it's actually ridiculous to say it, they are so desperate now, just to wait for the imperial court to recruit peace in the future, and then mix an official smaller than a sesame grain, congratulations to Brother Qi, you have mentioned them in advance to realize their ideals." ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, and congratulated Ruan Xiaoqi with their hands and giggles.

"I'm a good girl, how did the minister say it, I just understood, co-authoring those people is not a good thing, in order to get promoted and make a fortune, I recruited us to be substitutes for the dead!" Ruan Xiaoqi said embarrassedly.

Liu Jing nodded: "Seventh brother is talking this time, do you think that there can be such a pie-dropping good thing waiting for you in this world, in fact, you really went to Liangshan, and finally worked hard, you were really recruited, and there will be no good end, do you think, if you are an official of the imperial court, will you rest assured that a grass coward will kill you sooner or later." ”

Ruan Xiaoer was the most calm, nodded and said: "Xianggong is right, the Xianggong in the court, can have a few good things, and he will only bewitch the official family, which is no different from those Liangshan leaders, and you will be recruited first, and then think of getting rid of you." ”

Luda said indignantly: "For example, Gao Yu's house, his godson molested Lin Niangzi, he began to frame Lin Jiaotou, so that the family was almost ruined, and the Sprinkle family couldn't stand it, so he saved it once, and then came to calculate the Sprinkle family, if it wasn't for the Xianggong's action, I would still be in the grass in Erlong Mountain." ”

Lin Chong was eating silently, but when he heard Luda's words, new hatred and old hatred, fire erupted in his eyes, and he almost crushed the dishes, stood up and said: "Lin Chong is an introvert, he can't speak, and he is very kind and virtuous, just keep it in his heart, only this life, follow Xianggong to fight for his life!" ”

Liu Jing smiled at him: "It's still good to follow me, you see, Lao Lin, you are now a big official." ”

In this way, Liu Jing took this opportunity to teach a shocking lesson to these people's worldview in the most plain language, and he no longer had the previous sympathy and yearning for the so-called heroes who did the right thing for heaven.

Zhu Wu hugged his fists and said: "Xianggong's remarks, after listening to the Daigo empowerment, I am really taught!" The other leaders also hugged their fists and were taught.

Ruan Xiaoqi began to cherish the food and said, "It's still fragrant." ”