Far away, the morning sun rose slowly, just half of the brain came out.

The crimson morning glow stretched across the sky.

Liu Zongmin curled his legs and sat alone in front of the window, staring at the morning glow, petrified into a statue.

At this time, his expression was very subtle, three points of amazement, three points of confusion, two points of warmth, and two points of hope.

He looked back at his room.

Clean.

A few white-washed undershirts and four sets of new clothes hung on bamboo poles in the small courtyard outside the window, two young brothers and sisters were playing around the stone table on the left side of the courtyard, and the elderly mother was watering and weeding in the small vegetable garden in the courtyard.

In the hall, there are seven or eight bowls of different sizes and four pairs of chopsticks on the dining table.

On the side of the wall, there was also a set of black clothes and black armor, and a long-handled broadsword with a cold light.

In the crooked cloth wardrobe hung three or two inferior cloth clothes, large and small full of patches.

Turning his head and looking again, not far from the big water tank in the kitchen, two bags of rice and noodles were placed neatly, and there was no shortage of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the old wooden cabinet.

It was a small mansion, poor, boring, boring, but full of hope.

This kind of house, in the new army, every general-level officer, most of them have a set, which is the emperor's great grace.

Liu Zongmin rubbed his forehead, trying hard to sober up and cheer up.

Suddenly going from hell to heaven made it difficult for him to adapt.

It took him about ten days to accept reality.

"Today, I heard that I want to go out of the city to suppress bandits? How long does it take a week or so? ”

After a while, he remembered something, and he couldn't care about the messy thoughts in his heart, so he quickly got up, changed his clothes, and put on his armor.

Then, after carefully checking the clothes on his body, he lifted the long-handled broadsword by the wall and walked out of the hall.

"Mother, there will be military affairs starting today, and I will have to go to the city for a few days."

As he walked out, he said to his old mother, "Take care of yourself at home, you don't need to save those rice noodles, just eat them." In a few days, the military salary will be paid, and it will be ten taels of silver. ”

"My son, go quickly!"

The gray-haired old mother turned her head and waved her hand, "Remember, don't lose the face of the old Liu family, and think twice before doing anything." ”

She knows the temperament of this eldest child, although she is very filial, but she is more irritable and easy to offend people.

Therefore, the old man had to be told often.

"Yes."

Liu Zongmin said goodbye to his mother, pushed open the wooden door of the small courtyard and took a step.

He closed the courtyard door with his backhand and walked along the alley towards the street.

When I came to the mouth of the alley, I was about to turn into East Chang'an Avenue when a shout came from behind me, "Da Lao Hei, wait for me!" ”

Liu Zongmin didn't need to look back to know who was coming.

"Rubbing ......"

The sound of running and the clash of armor came from far and near, and soon, a big man came to his side.

This is a giant man who is almost two meters tall.

His name is Xiong Ba, about twenty-three years old, one year older than Liu Zongmin.

Xiong Ba, like Liu Zongmin, is now serving as a division commander in the New Army, each commanding 30,000 soldiers.

Don't look at this Xiong Ba just shouted affectionately, not only are the two not friends, but their contradictions are almost irreconcilable!

The reason for this is more than ten days ago.

Because the 600,000 new army is almost completely different from the old army, not only in terms of its establishment, its titles, but also its training and equipment, it is very different from before.

Under Zhu Youxiao's order, even swimming training has been carried out recently.

The conflict between Liu Zongmin and Xiong Ba came out after the start of swimming training.

This bear is not only tall and strong, but also has lush and dense hair, like a wild man.

He led his division, and after learning to swim on the first day, after coming ashore, he felt some itching in his thighs, so he turned over the thick hair of his thick legs and looked at it, and everyone was stunned!

I only saw two small fish, firmly trapped by his thick and thick leg hair, and he pulled a few times before falling to the ground!

"Hahaha......"

Suddenly, there was bursts of laughter on the riverbank.

Among them, the one who laughed the loudest was Liu Zongmin!

This guy laughed for a while, and he also helped Xiong Ba with great interest to get a nickname, called "Mao Mao Bear".

In less than an afternoon, the nickname and allusion of this "hairy bear" were completely spread among the new army, which made Xiong Ba angry and angry.

Therefore, between Liu Zongmin and Xiong Ba, they have become a pair of enemies with a lot of grievances.

Since then, the two have been-for-tat, no one is convinced, and the smell of gunpowder is stronger than that between Li Dingguo and the red lady.

"Da Lao Hei, how about it, this time I went out of the city to suppress bandits, do you dare to try it with my third division?"

As soon as Xiong Ba came to Liu Zongmin's side, he tilted his head, looked down at Liu Zongmin, who was half a head shorter, and said defiantly.

"Compare to compare!"

Liu Zongmin is not a good scumbag, and he said without showing weakness when he heard the words.

His force value is half a step higher than this hairy bear, and in several battles, he was beaten down, where would he be afraid of this "hairy bear"?

As for the officers and men of their respective subordinates, in the competition and exercise, they won and lost each other, and they were on a par.

It just so happened that he took advantage of this time to go out of the city to suppress bandits and share his rivalry with the other party.

"If anyone loses, there will be a full banquet at the Yuelai Hotel."

Liu Zongmin glanced at the other party, and his slanted eyebrows jumped.

The "Yuelai Hotel", which has only just opened, is currently the most famous restaurant in Beijing, and I heard that it was opened by the royal family.

The delicacies there are different and varied, and after eating, people will have an endless aftertaste.

It's just a little too expensive.

A table of ten perfect feasts costs six taels of silver!

With Liu Zongmin's current military salary, he can only eat one meal a month.

One tael of silver in these years is not simple, it is about equal to about 1,300 yuan in later generations, and the purchasing power is very strong.

Eight thousand yuan for a table is not low in later generations, and ordinary people really can't afford it.

"Good!"

Xiong Ba was overjoyed, "A word is a certainty!" ”

He originally meant the same thing, who wanted to coincide with Liu Zongmin, and he was in the middle of it.

The two high-fived as an oath.

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

The fierce light that came out of the two pairs of thick eyebrows and big eyes collided, and the two of them sneered in unison, and no one ignored the boring head and strode towards the New Army University in the distance.

In about a quarter of an hour, the two arrived at the campus of the New Army.

It's already crowded with people, and the black pressure is full of people.

A famous soldier, dressed in jet-black neat black clothes and black armor, armed with various weapons, hurriedly looked for his team to assemble.

Liu Zongmin and Xiong Ba hurriedly came to the front of their respective divisions and regiments, facing the point of the general platform, standing upright, not moving like a pine.

This time out of the city to suppress bandits, both of them are very clear.

During this period of time, with a large number of displaced people, they continued to flee to the capital, attracting a large number of bandits to enter all parts of Shuntianfu.

In an instant, bandits raged everywhere.

This situation made Zhu Youxiao, who got the secret report, furious, and issued an order to clean up the entire Shuntian Mansion.

Anyway, I will soon go out to conquer outside the customs, so I will first train the new army with these bandits and thieves, just right.

While exterminating the bandits of Shuntianfu, stabilize the base camp of the capital and kill two birds with one stone.

Eliminate the worries of the army after leaving the customs, why not?