Volume 2 Starry Morning Wind Sends Horseshoe Light 62 Dry Fight (2)
Seeing each other again, Zhao Dangshi's status in front of Li Zicheng is completely different. At that time, he was just an inconspicuous one of the many rogues, but at this time, he had become Li Zicheng's most reliable ally in Shaanxi.
The specifications of breaking into the camp to welcome Zhao Dangshi were very high, Li Zicheng and below, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu and other generals of the old eight teams, and even Lu Gang, Fang Xianye, Mei Yuchun and other long-term elders who had not seen the end of the dragon all attended the banquet. These people, in their original status, Zhao Dangshi has not seen much, and even fewer have friendships. As soon as he entered the account, except for Li Zicheng, only Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Dang Shousu and a few others took the initiative to greet him.
After Li Zicheng's introduction and praise, the atmosphere in the tent was full of liveliness. Zhao Dangshi found that Lu Gang and other elders were lonely and silent except for occasional laughter out of etiquette, but Zhang Nai, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong and other juniors were much more active.
After going through so many ups and downs, Zhao Dangshi is actually very sensitive to anomalies. Through the joyful and lively atmosphere, he could feel the aura of murder faintly emanating from Lu Gang and the other elders. As for why, he didn't think much about it, let alone ask Li Zicheng. As the lord of the army and the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng will face many challenges and crises that he can or cannot imagine. This is a journey that a self-made leader must go through, and Zhao believes that Li Zicheng has more experience in dealing with this than himself. If a group wants to go on for a long time, it must go through continuous internal cleaning and rectification, which will happen in any situation and any environment. Judging from Li Zicheng's performance and actions in the future, Zhao Dangshi has no need to worry about him at all.
In addition, Zhao Dangshi also found that, aside from the sincerity of breaking into the camp, the wine and food they actually provided were really cold: there was no meat on the table, but Zhao Dangshi, a guest, and several big brothers such as Liu Zongmin put a half-pig trotter in front of him. Li Ziben himself even carried a bowl of rice, mixed with dried chili peppers, and served with spirits. Even if this is Li Zi's eating habits, Zhao Dangshi still saw some clues - a leaf knows the autumn, and the current military food reserves in the camp are not optimistic.
At the moment of secret observation, Zhao Dangshi also felt Li Zicheng's enthusiasm for himself. This is a genuine joy, not something that can be pretended by a hypocritical. At least in terms of open-mindedness, Zhao Dangshi does admire Li Zicheng very much.
"Lao Zhao, my brother has brought tens of thousands of male soldiers this time, you and I join forces, why worry about the instability of the officers and soldiers, and why worry about the injustice of Shaanxi and Sichuan?" In the past, Li Zicheng gave people the impression that he was silent and had a lot of thoughts, but maybe he was too happy today, maybe he drank too much wine, and he talked several times more than usual.
At that moment, the generals on the table were also drunk and began to make noise about you coming and going. Li Zicheng leaned close to Zhao Dangshi, sighed and said, "Old Zhao, do you know that my brother is bitter in his heart. ”
Zhao Dangshi was shocked when he heard him say this, and pretended to be indifferent: "Why bother to break into the king?" The younger brother must do his best to share the worries of King Chuang. When he said this, he actually felt that what Li Zicheng wanted to say was probably not within his power.
"Ugh." Li Zicheng sighed again and said to himself, "Chuang Wang, Chuang Wang...... Even if you can be the emperor, but what? ”
Zhao Dangshi heard what he said, and said worriedly: "The little brother doesn't understand, I want to hear it in detail." ”
Li Zicheng's vicissitudes of life actually became a little ashamed at this moment, which was very different from the previous image of not being angry and self-assured. Zhao Dangshi became more and more suspicious, but he didn't dare to ask.
After a while, Li Zicheng opened his mouth: "Do you know about Gao Jie before?" ”
"Gao Jie?" Zhao Dangshi reacted immediately, and said indignantly, "If this dog thief is met by the younger brother, the younger brother will sacrifice his life to slaughter this guy for King Chuang, and he will be angry with this bird!" ”
Li Zicheng shook his head lightly, pursed his lips and said, "I thought about it later, this matter can't be all thanks to Gao Jie's kid. ”
Zhao Dangshi almost lost his voice: "Why do you say this? He believes that Li Zicheng is not a narrow-minded person, but how can a person be ruthless, no matter how generous he Li Zicheng is, he is not a saint, this matter of being betrayed by his brother and abducted by his wife can be put down like this?
Full of suspicion, Zhao Dangshi continued to listen to Li Zicheng's quiet words: "It's a shame to say that my brother has a manly waist, but on this bed, it is useless. This has been said very tactfully, to put it bluntly, it is Li Zicheng who does not act.
This was something that Zhao Dangshi had not thought of before, and he was also quite surprised by Li Zicheng's honesty.
Xing ...... Alas, I was useless, but I suffered her. That Gao Jiesheng's handsome mouth is sweet, thinking about it, it makes sense for her to abandon me and leave. Li Zicheng shook his head, depressed, and drank the wine in the cup as soon as he took a sip.
Zhao Dangshi thought about all the memories of Li Zicheng in his previous life, and it seemed that he did not retrieve the fragments of his lust, and at the same time, he did not think about whether Li Zicheng had a biological son.
"Fathers and fathers have been passed down from father to son, since ancient times. From the emperor to the crown prince, down to the old peasant to the heir, all of them are the same. But brother, even if Yundao Wangshe forgets to save a foundation, there is no one to inherit it. In the end, won't the so-called fame and fortune all be wiped out? The more Li Zicheng spoke, the more uncomfortable he became, and the wine became faster and faster.
To tell the truth, Zhao Dangshi is not very willing to hear a person say such a secret thing to himself. Mortal interactions, leaving a line is good after all, and the privacy of saying it in a good mood for a while may admit that it is a gaffe and become jealous of those who know. Many examples of close friends turning against each other are the result of being too close. Zhao Dangshi thinks that his relationship with Li Zicheng is still at that point, and it is taboo to talk shallow and deep.
Just watching Li Zicheng's true feelings, I couldn't help but feel a little pitiful and a little emotional. I never thought that the famous characters in the eyes of others actually have the same troubles as ordinary people, and even sometimes, the points they are entangled with are not even looked down upon by ordinary people.
Zhao Dangshiyuan also wanted to take advantage of Li Zicheng's drunken confusion to get some information from him more or less. But Li Zicheng was so cold that he couldn't say anything. In desperation, there is nothing to be done, only a few words of consolation.
Li Zichang sighed for a while, and suddenly pointed to one of the staggering crowds on the seat, and said, "What do you think of that bud?" ”
Zhao Dangshi followed what he pointed at, and saw a thick-looking young man with a red face, laughing and arguing with Liu Zongmin and others.
"This bud's name is Zhang Nai, he is loyal and powerful, he serves me like a father, I love him very much, and I want to adopt him as an adopted son from the child soldiers, what do you think?"
"Zhang Nai......" Zhao Dangshi has not been in the eighth team for a long time, and he has never been in contact with the child soldiers and this Zhang Nai, I don't know how to judge him? But after thinking about it, Li Zicheng can say such a thing, which shows that he already has a tendency in this regard, in line with the principle that more things are better than less, and it is better to make friends than to make enemies, Zhao Dangshi really has no reason to say "no", it is better to be a personal favor, so he pretended, "Oh, I have heard of him, a young talent." Looking at it now, his demeanor is really extraordinary, and he is qualified to be the righteous son of King Chuang! With that, thumbs up.
Talking nonsense with his eyes open is Zhao Dangshi's forte.
However, as soon as he said this, Li Zi's heart was full of joy and he was very happy: "I was still a little hesitant, but if you say so, I will make up my mind." Then he added, "I'm a rough one, I've only watched plays and listened to books, and I don't have much ink." Brother, you've read a book, why don't you give it a name? His original name is hard to write and remember. ”
Zhao Dangshi is good at naming this matter, and when he named Zhao Yuanzai, it was also easy. After a moment's thought, he said: "Chuang Wang Yizi, the name should not be too mournful, and it must be catchy" Speaking ......of this, a name popped up in the ghost's mind like a god, "The meeting of the two camps today is for a joy; King Chuang has an excellent son, and it is another joy. In my opinion, it might as well be called double happiness. ”
"Huh?" Li Zicheng listened to it and said casually, "Li Shuangxi ......"
He repeated it a few times, felt deeply satisfied, nodded and smiled: "Yes, that's it." Hehe, when he is officially accepted in the coming day, you can't be absent from the person who named him. ”
Zhao Dangshi nodded hurriedly: "This is the luck of the little brother." ”
The two talked happily, chatted and laughed, and drank a lot of wine one after another. The two of them were still drunk slowly, and looking around, except for the two of them, there were all drunken generals in the camp at the huge banquet, and none of them could still maintain their consciousness at this time.
Zhao Dangshi hadn't been so drunk for a long time, he saw Li Zicheng happy in his heart, and thought to himself that in order not to spoil the situation, he simply indulged tonight, and he didn't get drunk and didn't return. It can be regarded as opening a new chapter for the cooperation between the two battalions in the future. With such self-comfort, there are no worries.
At present, Li Zicheng's big tent, where the banquet is held, is full of singing, drumming and music, and all kinds of scolding and laughter are endless, and it seems that everyone does not want to give up and enjoy this last comfortable time. Maybe it has been too long since I had a catharsis, and this banquet has been drunk until the second half of the night, and there is no sign of stopping, including Zhao Dangshi, everyone is getting more and more energetic and crazy.
Zhao Dangshi was holding a wine bowl, staggering, just finished a round of battle, and wanted to come back and drink two bowls with Li Zicheng as a buffer, but he was dazzled and ignorant, and he didn't see a person lying there in front of him, tripped and fell to the ground, the wine bowl shattered on the ground, and the wine in the wine jug was also spilled on the ground.
When he got drunk and lost his temper, he was about to scold, but at the moment when he was about to raise his head, a fire flashed above his head, and a small meteor seemed to fly past.
"Wow!" Over there, a drunken general screamed like a pig, which was so tragic that it immediately broke the pleasant atmosphere of the banquet. Everyone looked at each other, and they saw that the general had been hit by an arrow in his face, and his face was covered with blood and fell there with his back facing the sky, and the head of the arrow was dancing with flames.
"There are rockets!" A few generals who had a good amount of wine and were still thinking shouted first. Their cry was like a bell ringing for life, and everyone present, except for a few who were already snoring like thunder, were all so shocked that most of them woke up.
"Copy guy!" Li Zicheng did not lose his mind and spoke out. When he commanded the battle, there was a lot of habit in the command, saying "copy the guy", that is, let everyone prepare for battle.
At the sound of the order, all the generals in the tent were immediately in confusion, and at this time, rockets broke into the tent one after another, many of them hit people, and some set fire to the tent, tables and chairs.
Zhao Dangshi was a spirit, the fish jumped up, only to get up, an arrow came quickly, and wiped his forehead. Zhao Dangshi smelled the tips of the hair on his forehead, which seemed to bring a trace of scorching smell to the flames. It's just that he didn't have time to think about it, so he jumped to Li Zicheng's side in three or two steps, helped him up, and said loudly: "It must be a night attack by the official army, and there is no war here, only taking is the best policy!" ”
Li Zicheng slapped himself twice, as if this would make him sober up, and at this time, Wu Ruyi, the only general who did not come to the banquet and was in charge of duty tonight, broke in. He came from a poor background, but Li Zicheng selected beggars from among the beggars, and later put them into the children's soldiers, because he was a little older, he was soon proposed to replace the defected Gao Jie to take charge of the internal logistics of the camp.
As one of Li Zicheng's most trusted generals, Wu Ruyi's appearance undoubtedly gave Li Zicheng a shot in the arm, he took three steps and two steps up and said: "King Chuang, the official army came from the northwest and has kicked into our camp. ”
Zhao Dangshi pondered for a moment and said to Li Zicheng: "Coming from the northwest, I should have smuggled through Jitou Pass." I thought it was ruined and difficult to do, but it seems that we were negligent. After that, he frowned again, "I heard that most of the officers and troops were assembled in Luoyang, why did an army dare to advance alone?" ”
The two followed Wu Ruyi and hurriedly walked out, and when they left, they heard the surrounding voices shaking the sky and lingering. Li Zicheng asked Wu Ruyi, "What are they shouting?" ”
Wu Ruyi bit his lip and said: "They said that they would behead the king and avenge General Cao's soldiers!" ”
When Zhao Dangshi and Li Zicheng heard this, they glanced at each other and smiled bitterly in their hearts. It turned out that Cao Bianjiao had arrived, no wonder he was so desperate. The big Cao is fierce, the little Cao is ruthless, and the name is well deserved.