Gao Le saw that the three of them had no objections, so he continued to beckon them to drink and eat.

But at this time, in addition to Murong Ling still pouring himself a drink, Li Xiaofei and Ju Renshan still drank wine.

Gao Le raised his glass to Li Xiaofei: "Little Hou Ye, Li Daxia, let's go to business, we have to continue to drink this wine, let's distinguish between public and private"

Ju Renshan hurriedly raised his glass, and Li Xiaofei slowly picked up the cup: "The Prime Minister is very hard, and I admire it, but in this way, isn't everyone going to have a hard life?" But what is the explanation for the many meat stalls in this city? ”

Murong Ling also put down his cup and wanted to hear Gao Le's answer.

Gao Le took a sip of wine: "Tsk, I, Gaochang, am a small country and a widow, if I want everyone to have food, it is nothing more than farming, grazing and business, and this meat can only be bought by nobles and foreign guests, or exchanged for goods, only in this way can the nobles' money have a place to use, and the money can only be used when it is used, can you understand?" ”

Murong Ling himself filled another cup of salute: "It is indeed not easy for the minister of state to painstakingly maintain the food and clothing of this Gaochang, I will give you a cup below." Even buying things has to be restricted, and presumably other laws will be very strict."

Gao Le nodded and drank his glass, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "That's true, the laws formulated by Gao Changguo, from the nobles to the common people to wear clothes, shoes and travel, have various clear regulations, by the way, the people can't gather crowds, and if they gather more than 30 people, they must be questioned." Of course, the king's offenses are also dealt with in the same way as the people, and our King Gaochang can only feast and drink four times a year, once a quarter, and no more than three concubines can be accepted. Officials at all levels can only marry one wife. This is Gao Changguo."

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling were dumbfounded when they heard this, and they were stunned on the spot, ordinary people in the Central Plains had many concubines, not to mention officials and emperors.

The two couldn't help laughing, and Li Xiaofei said: "The prime minister has to be so restricted, no matter how big or small, won't everyone hate you?" ”

Gao Le clasped his fists with his hands upwards and arched: "This was set at the beginning of the founding of Gaochang, but I implemented it conscientiously, everything is for the good of everyone." If the widows of a small country do not abstain from sexual abstinence, they will not be far from defeat. Even if it's hated by the whole country, I don't care. ”

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling had to admire Gao Lelai, and after the banquet, they consciously followed the people of the Lion Guards to the army.

Along the way, Li Xiaofei always tried to talk to the soldiers, but no one paid attention, and when he arrived in the camp, the captain of this squad couldn't help but speak: "Don't make noise at will in the army"

After saying that, he gave the two armor and spears, and took the two to guard the camp tent at the camp gate.

Li Xiaofei was still carrying some dried fruits from Houfu in his arms, and deliberately sprinkled them on the ground while people were unprepared.

Sure enough, a few soldiers picked up the dried fruits: "Throw away the waste at will, and you will be punished with thirty lashes."

Li Xiaofei thought that they would pick it up and eat it, but he didn't want to get a whip instead, so he shouted that he was wronged: "This is the dried fruit I took out to dry, and it tastes better when I dry it again, I don't believe you can taste it."

The soldiers held out a piece of dried melon stained with ashes: "If you eat it, we will believe"

Li Xiaofei hurriedly took it and fed it into his mouth to eat, and the soldiers saw that Li Xiaofei was eating with relish, so they also secretly ate a few pieces.

Murong Ling smiled on the side: "Haven't you eaten here for many years?" ”

A soldier chewed and said, "There are only wild vegetables in the barracks, and the dried meat is eaten once a month, so where do you get so many things to eat?" ”

Another soldier booed: "Be quiet, you don't want to die?" ”

The next day, Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling went to stand guard again, but found that the heads of the two soldiers who had eaten dried fruits yesterday were already hanging at the gate of the camp.

An official was reprimanding the commander of the barracks: "Bald commander, the soldiers in your camp have violated the ban and stolen contraband, and your commander will not escape the blame, come and be sentenced to fifty lashes."

With that, several of the Lion Guards took the bald commander out and whipped him, and after fifty lashes, he was drenched in blood, and he couldn't get up.

Li Xiaofei couldn't stand it, so he stepped forward to help the commander: "I gave the thing, eating something is a violation of the ban, and killing people, is this what people do?" If you want to kill or chop, come at me! ”

The official sneered: "If you weren't a foreigner, you would have been beheaded a long time ago."

Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling were dumbfounded, and the rest of the soldiers lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak, and the official glanced at everyone again: "Remember, the law of this Gaochang Kingdom is supreme, you must keep it in mind, don't violate it again, next time it will be the whole family of Zhulian."

Li Xiaofei slowly helped the bald commander into the tent, Murong Ling touched the long knife on his back and was about to draw the knife, but was stopped by the two people next to him.

The two of them gestured a few times in the palm of his hand, and Murong Ling gently put his hand down, what these two were comparing to, in fact, Murong Ling didn't guess it.

Murong Ling also went to the camp to help the bald commander treat his injuries, but was stopped by the bald commander: "No, otherwise you will break the law again."

The soldiers on the side secretly wiped their tears, looked outside the tent again, and whispered to Murong Ling: "You guys go out quickly, and the commander will be punished again if you leave your post."

The two of them came out of the camp in a hate and continued to guard, and in a flash, months passed.

Let's say that on the day of the destruction of Chang'an City, Xiang Dahu fell from his horse into the ditch because he was injured, but escaped with his life because of misfortune.

Xiang Dahu begged all the way to Luoyang, and went to find Liu Jian, the king of Han.

When he came to the gate of the palace, he was sent some steamed buns by the guards as a beggar asking for food, and he was about to bombard him away.

Xiang Dahu was held up by them and had to shout: "His Royal Highness King Han, I have news of Master Murong and Master Li"

As soon as he said this, the guards dragged him into a carriage on the side of the road and dragged him out of the city.

It turned out that in the past few months, people have been pretending to be people who escaped from Chang'an to report to the palace to receive rewards, but all of them have been recognized by Xiang Xiaoyu.

The guard threw Xiang Dahu on the side of the road: "Don't come to claim the reward, there are so many scammers and stupid people these days"

Xiang Dahu endured the pain and yelled: "I can beg for food from Dahu, but I will never take the reward, the two of you just need to help me pass a word and tell the prince that Master Murong and Mrs. Li escaped to the west and did not die in battle!" ”

The two guards smiled: "Don't act, you must say that as long as you lead the way, you can find them", after all, the people who came in front of them either said that the two of them died in battle and buried them on their behalf, or where the two of them are now living in seclusion, etc., today this Xiang Dahu is just one of them.

Xiang Dahu roared out again: "I don't know where they are now, I only know that they took more than forty people to the west and rushed out and are still alive, you can tell the news to the prince, I will walk back to Ba County myself"

The guards took a closer look at Xiang Dahu and looked at the scars all over his body: "It seems that you really fought, okay, let's go back and bring the words for you"

The two guards drove back to the city in a carriage, and walked slowly south with a cane to the big tiger.

The guard returned to the palace and told Liu Jian what had just happened, and Liu Jian stood up: "Quickly bring that person back, I have something to ask him." It turns out that they are not dead, they are not dead, they are all alive, hahahaha"

Liu Jian's smile woke up the sleeping children, and everyone hurriedly ran over to see what was going on.

Liu Jian pulled Xiao Qian and jumped up: "It turns out that Murong Ling and Li Xiaofei are still alive, they are still alive"

Xiang Xiaoyu sighed: "It seems that the prince misses them too much, and he is delirious, come and give the prince sober up"

The servants immediately brought water, and Liu Jian hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't don't, this time it's true, as long as you wait another hour, you can know the details." This time, the messenger left without asking for a reward."

Xiang Xiaoyu put down the basin in his hand, Xiao Qian looked disgusted: "I'm afraid I lost it, you don't miss it so much, if they come back, you can go with them."

Zhu Xuehua ran over: "Lord Wang, you didn't lie to me, Murong Ling is still alive?" ”

Liu Jian laughed: "We should have believed that they were still alive a long time ago, your Murong family has always only killed others, where did someone kill him, haha"

Zhu Xuehua cried out: "This has no conscience, I don't know how to go home if I escape, I will pull his ears off when he comes back"

Xiang Xiaoyu also smiled with tears in his eyes: "This is the best news I heard this year, by the way, send someone to tell Miss Hongrui about this news"

Meng Crow also rushed over: "Yes, yes, yes, hurry up and tell Miss Hongrui, otherwise when Li Xiaofei comes back, his wife will remarry, how bad it is"

Xiao Qian glanced at him: "Hongrui is now the lady of the decree, how can she remarry and lose her temperament?"

Everyone was happy for a while with tears in their eyes, and finally waited for Xiang Dahu.

Xiang Dahu started from the martyrdom of Wang Xian in the city that day, everyone listened in awe, and when it came to fleeing west, Liu Jian ordered someone to bring a map to check.

When everyone looked at the map, it became gloomy again, and it turned out that at the end of the west was a cliff and a big river.

Xiang Xiaoyu asked Xiang Dahu: "Have you ever heard later that the team to the west has gone?" ”

Xiang Dahu asked rhetorically: "Didn't they all escort the body of General Wang Xian back to Chengdu?" ”

Everyone was surprised: "Isn't Hanzhong too guarded?" ”

Xiang Dahu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If he has such ability, it is better to rescue Chang'an directly, and it is not a new thing for officials in this dynasty to be greedy for merit and rewards."

Only then did everyone suddenly realize: "If this is the case, they have already arrived in Chengdu, but it is strange, if they arrived in Chengdu with the remains of the general, the court will not know, and they will come back to find us."

Xiang Dahu shook his head: "I can't guess this, maybe there are some things we don't know"

Liu Jian coughed: "Since those forty-one people can escape, let alone a peerless master like Master Murong, I think they must still be alive, maybe they will give us a surprise."

Everyone believed together and took Xiang Dahu down to settle down and recuperate. and asked Meng Crow to go back to Shou County to report to Hongrui.

In Luoyang City, there are still peddlers and pawns, roaming around and bustling, as if the fall of Chang'an has nothing to do with them. Chen Hongyi led the army back to the city to ask Luoyang officials to curfew and close the door, and the officials in Luoyang first complied with the general's order, but they only posted posters everywhere in the city, and all other affairs remained the same.