Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling returned to Shou County with Xiang Xiaoyu, and immediately allocated 300 people to Xiang Xiaoyu to patrol the city.

Xiang Xiaoyu is also diligent in his duties, Shou County has been much cleaner after his arrival, there are a lot more vendors in stalls, and the business of wine shops and gambling houses is also more prosperous.

Originally thought that the Qin State would attack Shu, Wang Xian led 50,000 horses and horses for two months to Chengdu, Chen Hongyi in order to buy time for Wang Xian and did not want to lose the soldiers and horses, so he sent hundreds of scouts to walk around the news that the Chen army was going to attack Luoyang, Yangzhai, Xuchang and other places. The Qin State did not dare to relax, Hu Jian led 30,000 people to be stationed in Luoyang, and Cui Hong also recruited 30,000 horses in Chang'an to guard against Chen Hongyi. Xie Rui of the Liang State also trained soldiers and horses in Huainan to prevent the Qin State from crossing the Li River.

In a blink of an eye, it was almost the Midyear Festival on July 15, Li Xiaofei and Hongrui were planning to set up a lantern festival, and volunteered to help Xiaoyu, and Li Xiaofei simply asked Xiang Xiaoyu to arrange it. Xiang Xiaoyu sent his 300 men to the cloth shop to collect rags, and the paper mill to collect shredded paper, as well as all kinds of bits and pieces, and went outside the city to cut a lot of bamboo.

On the night of the 15th day of the seventh month, the whole city was hung with lanterns of all kinds, large and small, in the shape of ox heads, horse heads, sheep heads, peaches, shells, plum blossoms, and so on. Peach charms were also hung in front of each house, and the children each had a small cloth man to make money.

The three hundred soldiers patrolling the city dressed in rags and dressed as lions, tigers, and black bears roamed the streets, and Murong Ling was wrapped around Xiang Xiaoyu with wings tied and dressed as an eagle flying between the rooftops and flagpoles, provoking the children to chase them all the way.

Meng Crow was forced by everyone to put on the decoration of a wild boar and pretend to be a wild boar, and walked slowly at the end of the line, and the people in the city laughed non-stop. Meng Crow arched the pig's head and pretended to run to passers-by from time to time, teasing the little girls, and causing a burst of laughter and scolding.

Li Xiaofei took Hongrui to shuttle through the crowd, and Xiang Xiaoyu was busy for a few days, and at this time, he also took his wife and children to visit the stalls in the night market.

Huang Banxian didn't know when he set up a platform, and erected a sign on the left and right that read: "Calculate the future with marriage, seek good fortune and avoid evil, do good deeds, accumulate yin and virtue, and protect children and grandchildren." For a while, it attracted a lot of aunts and sisters, and they all wanted to marry their daughters, younger brothers and sisters.

Huang Banxian squinted his eyes and said: "Ah, the sage said that this parent is not far away, and said that there must be faithfulness within ten steps, and Lan was born in the court, this marriage, you can't marry far, otherwise your parents will not be able to come back to visit if they are sick" Everyone agreed: "Now the war is in chaos, our Shou County is a peaceful place, just in our Taiping, it is great to marry to Chuzhou, but don't go north."

"Jinling in the south is not good, I heard that there are several emperors in Jinling City, and they are always calling around"

"It's better for us to be in Shou County, I think this half-immortal is right, you have to keep the children by your side."

Huang Banxian saw that everyone agreed with him, so he shook his head again: "Ah, in this troubled world, you must be strong, brave and fearless in order to protect the family, that king and marquis, we don't care, I don't have anything to eat, I still rely on people with martial arts, and I am stronger than ordinary people when I plough the field and carry a camel on my shoulder."

A few people next to him echoed again: "Half Immortal is right, my son-in-law ploughs the field faster than the four of us, and he does more than half of my family's work."

"Yes, if this girl marries a man, she has to find a strong one, what Old Man Wang said is what I saw with my own eyes"

"But there are many girls and few men in our Shou County, and there are many men in the Xiao family, but I don't look down on us ordinary people, my daughters are twenty-eight years old, and I am sad to death."

"I said everyone, I heard that the more than 100 people brought back by Lord Li are all unmarried, they are experienced in a hundred battles, why don't we try?"

The half-immortal coughed: "No, no, no, this soldier, maybe one day he will go to the battlefield and be shrouded in horse leather, you let everyone marry the daughter of the family to them, this is not appropriate"

The crowd began to talk again, and one person said: "This half-immortal is not good, I heard that this Lord Li brought these 100 people to Shou County to retire, and he also built a house outside the city and divided the land, which is not as good as those border troops."

"That's right, it's been three months, and they haven't practiced much except farming and building houses, and no matter how you look at it, they don't want to go to the border to fight."

Huang Banxian deliberately stopped everyone: "Listen to the old man's advice, good men are not soldiers, don't marry the girl to them, I persuaded you"

The crowd then coaxed: "Let's go and see these soldiers just now, aren't they playing in the streets, let's go too"

As soon as the team of lions, tigers, black bears and wild boars came over, Xiang Xiaoyu immediately got into the crowd and shouted: "Folks, we might as well come and play a game with these buddies patrolling the city, today's Midyear Festival, let's catch demons and exorcise evil spirits, so many tigers, lions, wild boars, black bears and eagles, where are we, whoever catches them will bring the captured one to the house to do three days of work for everyone, what do you think?" ”

Everyone applauded together, and they rushed to these soldiers, chasing the eagle the most, Murong Ling had no choice but to jump to the city gate tower, took off the eagle costume and slipped away from the city wall. But there were still women who did not give up and climbed the city wall to chase after Murong Ling. Murong Ling jumped on the roof and ran back and forth again, and finally got rid of everyone.

The other tigers, lions and black bears were quickly caught back to the people's homes, except for the wild boar chasing the crowd behind, Li Xiaofei saw Meng Crow who was playing a wild boar and leaned back with a smile: "Brother Meng, Brother Meng, hurry up and let Brother Xiang change your outfit to see if it's too late?" ”

Meng Crow took off the wild boar's head cover: "Ahhh

As soon as Hongrui saw that Meng Crow was angry, she instructed the maid to persuade Meng Crow, so that she could coax Meng Crow back to the barracks alone.

Xiang Xiaoyu also saw that Meng Crow was angry, so he asked his wife to prepare some wine and food, and he took Huang Banxian to comfort Meng Crow with the wine and food.

As soon as Meng Crow saw Huang Banxian, he grabbed him by the collar: "Did you say something to those people like this bad old man, why did you find a wife, and I was left alone?" ”

Huang Banxian coughed a few times, and Xiang Xiaoyu was also busy trying to dissuade him, but Huang Banxian was not angry and said with a smile: "I said Meng Crow, the two of us have been born and died together for ten years, and you still don't believe me?" I've calculated for you, your marriage is in the north, and you're going to be a horse master in the future."

Meng Crow let go of his hand and hung his head: "Alas, don't say it, drink the bar, don't say that you don't believe it, I don't believe it myself, I don't know a few big characters, Wu was beaten by Brother Murong, and he broke an arm, and he is a big fat man, and that's it for this life?" “

Huang Banxian sighed, patted Meng Crow on the shoulder, poured the wine and handed it over to Xiao Yu: "Brother Meng doesn't have to be discouraged, don't you think that Han Gaozu married a wife when he was in his forties?" There is also the seventy-year-old Jiang Taigong, you are only in your thirties now, it's still early, a good man is ambitious all over the world, why worry about this little thing, come, do this cup first! “

"Drinking doesn't wait for me, are you trying to alienate me?"

Li Xiaofei also brought some wine and food to join the banquet: "Well said to the eldest brother, in the past, Han Gaozu was just a pavilion chief, and I looked at the eldest brother with the momentum of Han Gaozu back then."

Xiang Xiaoyu didn't shy away from it: "Haha, there are indeed any, they are all poor bastards in their forties!" Bragging doesn't pay taxes anyway"

Huang Banxian toasted Xiang Xiaoyu: "Commander Xiang does have something extraordinary, I can't imagine that today's plan and arrangement for Big Brother Xiang is so successful, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has the talent of a prime minister."

Xiang Xiaoyu took a sip of wine: "I don't know a few big characters, I know how many catties and taels I know, thanks to Lord Li and General Murong, I became the commander of the city patrol, and I will be content in this life, people, you must be content when you have wine to drink and meat to eat, and you can't give up when you are hungry when you eat tree roots, isn't this how people come?" “