Drinking alcohol is a favorite thing for civil and military officials in Shou County, since the three of them arrived in Shou County, there are more than a dozen wine shops in Shou County.

When it comes to drinking, Li Xiaofei is inferior to them in terms of both the amount of alcohol and the understanding of wine, but he is still good at persuading alcohol. Murong Ling drank countless times with these people, never got drunk once, never shirked, others poured wine and took it, if you pour him a bowl, he will drink a bowl, and he will drink a jar when he hands it over. Meng Crow screamed the most fiercely on the table, either to punish this or to respect that, but every time he was the first to lie down. Huang Banxian drank very slowly, smacked his lips after taking a small sip, and then told the strange facts of the first half of the day, but he took a second sip. Xiang Xiaoyu is bold and witty, he can not only persuade and drink, but also chat with Huang Banxian about some old things.

Shen De has been here for a few days, and the group is naturally indispensable to drink wine and eat meat. Before leaving, everyone discussed in the government who would follow Shen De to escort the grain and grass, who would stay to defend the city, and who would follow Li Xiaofei to Lishui.

Li Xiaofei wanted to bring Xiang Xiaoyu and Murong Ling with him, but there was no suitable person to defend the city, and Shen De also wanted to bring Xiang Xiaoyu back. Meng Crow volunteered to go to Lishui, and everyone didn't want a veteran like him to fight again.

Everyone argued with each other, and Xiang Xiaoyu saw that he had been arguing for a long time and had not settled down, so he stood up by himself: "I thought that Shou County could not assign everything to the right person with these few pieces of material, and it was impossible for everything to be done perfectly." There are priorities in this matter, there are new and old people, and I ask General Shen and Master Li to weigh it again. ”

Li Xiaofei and Shen De both looked at him, and Shen De patted his head: "You, the commander of the city patrol, are really unusual, I suddenly understood a little when you said this." Capable people for important things, ordinary people for ordinary things, right?"

Li Xiaofei also nodded: "It's me who drilled the tip of the horns, and I always want to do the three things properly, now that I say this to the eldest brother, I also have a clue, the defense of the city is actually with Brother Meng Huang Banxian to assist my wife, if you charge the grain, as long as the master follows the method that Brother Xiang said before, there is no problem, then I and Brother Xiang Murong will go to Lishui."

Xiang Xiaoyu nodded: "Yes, just defend the city according to the current rules, the autumn harvest has been completed, and it is good to dig more wells in the city to prevent fire and drought." If we go to Lishui, we need to bring some straw, which can be useful when it comes to windy and snowy days."

Shen De was very happy: "It seems that with this Xiang Commander, you kid don't have to worry about it." Okay, let's have a drink and practice wine, and we will set off tomorrow morning! ”

Meng Crow began to shout again: "Why, if you don't take me to war, you look down on me, you are all gone, just leave an old man who can't finish a bowl of wine for half a day, how can I drink this wine?" ”

Li Xiaofei's eyes rolled: "Then why don't you leave Little Brother Murong to drink with you?"

Meng Crow waved his hand again and again: "Forget it, this guy is afraid of a buffalo, he can drink all the time, I drink with him and I can't drink him, don't hurt me"

A few people chatted and went back to the table. Before the dishes were ready, this Huang Banxian began to tell the story again: "This Xiang Commander, reminds me of a person, or forty years ago in the capital Luoyang City, the then Prime Minister Wang Jingzhi can always arrange the world's affairs in an orderly manner, at that time, the Liang Siyi surrendered to all countries to come to the court, the country and the people are safe, the night does not close the door and the road is not left behind, every family has meat to eat and drink, go out are carriages, the lanterns of the Lantern Festival and the Midyear Festival illuminate the inside and outside of Luoyang City, and the bonfires built by people in small places are countless bright lights from afar, At that time, the princes and grandsons dragged carts of wine, flowers and jewelry in horse-drawn carriages, chasing singers and dancers in big cities like Luoyang, Chang'an, and Jinling. It was a great time."

Everyone was fascinated by what he said, and Shen De laughed: "No wonder His Royal Highness King Han and Lord Chen shout every day to recover the two capitals and create a prosperous era again, I like this prosperous world, come on, come on, drink a bowl for us to return to this prosperous world as soon as possible."

Everyone drank a bowl first, and Xiang Xiaoyu was also very interested: "How did such a good prosperous era come to this point today?" Senior Huang, you are a person who has lived from the prosperous era to the troubled times, and you must have seen many things more thoroughly than those of us, and you are still very puzzled by the decline of this prosperous era."

Huang Banxian took a big sip of wine uncharacteristically, put down the bowl with his neck tilted, and sighed: "The extreme of things must be reversed, back then, the best silk and Shu brocade were wrapped around the tree, and the strange-shaped stones were transported from the south to make rockeries, the families compared with each other, what is rare and wanted, what is valuable will be wasted, the prime minister's mansion at that time was sandalwood cooking, ginseng fed to horses, mermaid oil to make lamp oil, honey to feed pigs, coral to make rockeries, bloodstone to make floor tiles, Cui's want to compare Wang's family, feed pigs with human milk, ginseng feed chickens, Abalone is fed to dogs, Hetian jade paves the way, mink hats are rewarded to servants, the list goes on. At that time, cockfighting and bird fighting were popular in the imperial court, the upper beam was not correct and the lower beam was crooked, the whole country was extravagant, and the ordinary people followed suit, how many fields were barren, and the people went into the mountains to catch pheasants and birds, so tossed for ten years, and finally waited for the great drought and water and the cavalry of the fire dragon clan. How happy you are in the front, how miserable you are in the back"

Xiang Xiaoyu saluted Huang Banxian with a sip of wine: "It seems that everything in this world is a reason." This fruit is the most fragrant and sweetest before it is about to rot. It's the same with drinking, it's best when you're slightly drunk, and if you overdo it, you'll fall into disarray. In fact, this prosperous era is just a drunken dream, and our current people are not much worse than that prosperous era, but they will inevitably have to fight, and everyone will have to serve in the military."

Shen De also gave Xiang Xiaoyu a bowl of wine: "Hey, what's wrong with fighting, back then, it was a long time of peace, and the horses put Nanshan knives and guns into storage, and when the fire dragon cavalry came over, our cavalry couldn't get on the horse, most of the archers couldn't even pull the bow, and they didn't have the guts, and the army of 5,000 people was driven into the river by more than a dozen people and drowned." Nest bag, mention these Chen adults are gritting their teeth"

Li Xiaofei invited everyone to drink together: "I have benefited a lot today, I can't imagine that the end of this prosperous world is so miserable, it seems that Wenzhi still has to be worthy of martial arts." Otherwise, no amount of treasure will be able to keep."

Meng Crow took over: "Don't mention it, isn't it still said in Jinling City that the person who writes a splendid article outside the Vermilion Bird Gate is a good man?" When you are a soldier and fight, you are always inferior. Aren't our big beams all civil servants and military generals? ”

Shen De also sighed: "The imperial court only regards us as Qiu Ba, if Lord Chen is not from a famous family, I am afraid that this Chen family army will be gone a long time ago." At the beginning, many of us followed the Qin State with soldiers and horses, just because the Qin State was a military general who established himself as the king, and I didn't expect that it would still be suppressed by the family for more than 30 years, and finally there was chaos."

Li Xiaofei thought thoughtfully, and raised the wine bowl to Xiaoyu again to signal everyone to drink: "The court system is not something we can discuss now, or if there is wine today, it is better to get drunk today."

Everyone shouted again: "It's done" and drank until dawn.