Today's weather is still very cold, but the atmosphere in Qixian County is good, and there is still a faint smell of firecracker remnants wafting in the air.

Li Zicheng was wearing a yellowed sheepskin jacket, a certain worn felt hat on his head, a pair of mille-feuille cloth shoes on his feet, and his face that had become rough and dark all year round

Li Guo and the two old battalion's subordinates followed closely behind Li Zicheng, and several people kept looking around, like Grandma Liu who had entered the Grand View Garden.

Looking at the naughty boy who occasionally shouted and ran by on the street and the adult who was shouting and shouting next to him, Li Zicheng lowered the brim of his hat, and there was a faint hint of mockery on his face.

Li Guo looked all the way, and after a while, he approached Li Zicheng and said in a low voice: "The troops in the county town here are scarce and lax, and it has been twelve years since the official servants have not been on an errand in the yamen. ”

Li Zicheng didn't speak, looked at the surrounding scenery by himself, and asked after a while: "After taking it down, did you coerce the people in the city or grab it and run away?" Have you thought about it? ”

Li Guo was dumbfounded, although this county town is not big, there are still 10,000 or 20,000 people, just a few hundred of them want to coerce tens of thousands of people, it is a dream, and once something happens, it will not be a few days before the Jiang Ning army in Mengjin City will hear the news, and then these hundreds of them will not even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder.

Li Guo, who was depressed for a while, couldn't help but say angrily: "Then what else can we do?" You can't always stay in the mountains, that hellish place is cold and poor, and if you stay any longer, you're afraid that hundreds of our brothers will starve to death. ”

"yes...... This damn Jiang Ning Army. ”

Li Zicheng looked into the distance and frowned, where would they be so troublesome when they had an incident in the past, hundreds of elite brothers rushed into the county seat, first killed the county order and a cadre of government officials, and the remaining soldiers would naturally scatter in fright, and after doing all this, the county town of Nuoda became their world.

And the government's response is also very slow, often ten days and half a month can not make any response, with this time they can already gather the ruffians of the entire county, and then control the entire county, often in a month can coerce more than 10,000 people to join the rebel army, half a year can form an army of more than 100,000.

It's like now, everything is in the way, in the final analysis, it's still the Jiangning army that is doing it.

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel very distressed.

"Alas......"

Li Zicheng, who had a headache thinking about it, simply said: "Okay, I don't want to do so much, let's find a place to fight tooth sacrifices." ”

"What a ......"

Li Guo and the two old camp thieves behind him are Yixi, who have been in the wilderness outside the city for more than half a month, and the birds have long faded out of their mouths, and no one will refuse the opportunity to eat a big meal.

The four of them walked all the way down the street, and when they saw a restaurant called Wenxianglai, they hurriedly walked in.

The group entered the restaurant, only to see only a few diners in the hall of Nuoda eating, after all, it was not yet fifteen at this time, most of the people were at home, and few people came out to eat.

However, Li Zicheng and his entourage ignored this, Li Guo strode to a table and sat down and shouted loudly: "Little Er, hurry up and see your best dishes served." ”

Soon, a young junior hurriedly ran over, and when he saw Li Zicheng, who was dressed in shabby clothes, but was sturdily in shape, his face froze, and then he hurriedly smiled and said: "This guest officer, there are a lot of good dishes in the small shop, if they are all served, I am afraid that a few guest officers will have to eat until tomorrow, why don't you let the little one choose a few things for you?" ”

Li Guo thought about it for a while: "Oh...... Tell me about it? What do you want to give us to eat? ”

Xiao'er said: "That's it, the little one will give you a few bowls of spicy soup first, and then a few bowls of hot dumplings, sauce carrots, and amber winter melon, if it's not enough, let's add it to you?" ”

"Fart!"

Li Guo slapped the table angrily, pointed at the shopkeeper and scolded: "Do you see that a few of us are poorly dressed and can't afford to pay for food, so you serve us those vegetarian dishes?" ”

"It's a joke objectively, what's the matter." The shopkeeper didn't dare to get angry when he was told about it, and he grinned with a smiling face, but he just didn't see him move his steps.

Li Guo wanted to get angry when he saw it, but was stopped by Li Zicheng, only to see him take out a silver dollar and put it on the table.

"Little Er, this silver dollar is enough for one of your meals?"

The shopkeeper's eyes are so poisonous, and when he saw Yinyuan, he immediately showed a "sincere" smile on his face.

This kind of silver dollar is the silver dollar launched by the Ming Royal Commercial House, each silver dollar is one or two, and it is absolutely full of fineness, and it is extremely difficult to imitate the exquisite casting, and it is very popular among the people and gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, this kind of silver dollar issued by the Ming Royal Commercial House has long become synonymous with hard currency, and the value of this silver dollar in the market has even exceeded its surface value, and ordinary silver even needs one or two coins to redeem a silver dollar. Not to mention letting four people eat a table of food for such a silver dollar, even if it is six or seven more, there is no problem.

Money is easy to do, this will not change at any time, and it will not be long before a table of sumptuous food and wine is served. This time, it's not a vegetarian dish like spicy soup and carrot sauce.

Meat dishes such as spiced air-dried rabbit meat, bucket chicken, iron pot eggs, clear soup Dongpo meat and other dishes were placed on a large table, and even a jar was brought for a long time, Li Guo and the others were not polite, and the four people who had been hungry for a while threw off their cheeks and ate wildly.

Just as the four of them were eating happily, a voice containing anger came from a table next to them, "Brother Santan, you don't have to persuade me, I am in charge of this matter, where do I come from to study." The sages have clouds, set their hearts for heaven and earth, establish their lives for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations.

Now that the faint officials are the people are bored, the people can't live anymore, but the peeling skin still refuses to give porridge for disaster relief, what is the use of such a mediocre official, I must go to the county government to wake up the unconscious official! ”

"Brother Li Xian, don't be impulsive, although you have the status of a person now, you are not an official. Although that Zhang Zhixian is only a seven-grade county order, but it is you and my parents, if you go rashly, you will be detained by him as a bandit, so do you want to enter Beijing to take the exam in the future? ”

The young voice still said angrily: "If the officials who came out of the imperial examination are all like Zhang Papi, it doesn't matter if this official is not right!" ”

When they first heard the two of them talking, Li Zicheng and the others couldn't help but laugh dumbly, feeling that this young man was really too naïve, but after hearing it, Li Zicheng couldn't help but move in his heart, only to see him stand up, pick up a cup and walk over and arch his hand: "I have seen two brothers in Li Hongji under the ......."