Shen Xi was tired from the journey, and when Xie Yun'er called him up, his eyes couldn't open, but he had to cheer up, he had to participate in the celebration banquet that night, otherwise the boss would not appear, what would the soldiers of the three armies who went out with him think?

Under Xie Yun'er's service, Shen Xi got up and dressed, and inevitably had a warm encounter with Xie Yun'er in the middle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When he came out of the room and was about to leave the hospital, Zhou stopped him and said, "Han Wa'er, I just came back, where are you going?" ”

Shen Xi saluted: "Mother, the child wants to go out of the city to reward the soldiers of the three armies." ”

Zhou's brows furrowed, and he asked, "Can't let others go?" How long has it been since I entered the room with Yun'er? Even if it's over, aren't there still Jun'er and Dai'er? How did you act as a father-in-law? ”

Do you really think of me as an ox pulling a plow?

There is no such thing as a ploughed field, only a tired cow!

Lin Dai and Xie Hengnu appeared from behind Zhou, and as soon as their son came back, Zhou asked her daughter-in-law to go to the room to "teach face-to-face", but she herself only gave birth to two children for the Shen family, and she was not a master, and the knowledge she imparted was just a guess, and even a lot of it was taught to her by the Li family at the beginning.

"Mother, in front of state affairs, family affairs should be put aside for the time being. Dai'er, Jun'er, you wait for me in the room first, if you don't come back tonight, tomorrow I will spend more time with you for my husband! Shen Xi said.

"Hmm."

Xie Hengnu had a happy smile on her face, but she immediately realized that she was laughing at the wrong time, and hurriedly tried her best to restrain herself, and her face was flushed.

Lin Dai kept a straight face and muttered, "Why am I last?" ”

In the previous order of "comforting his wife" set by the Zhou family for Shen Xi, Lin Dai was ranked behind Xie Hengnu, which made her dare to be dissatisfied. In the past, when Zhou was away, she complained a lot, but now she is even more like an angry bag.

Shen Xi moved out of the big truth, Zhou knew that he didn't have much knowledge, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense, but just told Shen Xi to go and come back quickly.

Shen Xi went out and got into the carriage, it was originally Zhu Qi who was driving the car, but when Zhu Qi saw his son, he pulled his son back to talk, so Zhu Shan helped to catch the car.

Zhu Shan is a road idiot, Shen Xi didn't dare to let her drive out of the city, but fortunately, Jing Yue and others were guiding her along the way, but he was not afraid that Zhu Shan would lose him.

After nightfall, a grand celebration dinner was being held in the east campus of Guangzhou.

Everywhere in the campfires inside and outside the school grounds, all the lamb, pork, and fish were roasted on the fires, and there were also fine wine and fresh soup boiled with various ingredients for drinking, and the morale of the officers and men was high.

At this time, on the port side, since the officers and soldiers were basically withdrawn to the East School Field, the pacesetters under the name of the Governor Yamen were temporarily carrying out the task, that is, the former brothers of the Che Ma Gang had changed their names.

The shopkeeper of the Chamber of Commerce under Hui Niang's name, with the survey issued by Shen Xi, led a long team of carriages, unloaded the goods overnight, and found another place to settle them.

"My lord, I salute you!"

This is the sentence that Shen Xi heard the most when he went to the camp.

Thousands of households and deputy thousands of households came up to toast, and hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags also came up to toast, and even ordinary soldiers joined in the fun...... Whether you recognize it or not, you have to toast to Shen Xi, if you drink every bowl, the first one to fall will definitely be him.

The soldiers have received meritorious services, even if the military merits are determined to wait until the year after the year, but the rewards are actually distributed to the hands, and they can have a peaceful year after they go back.

In recent years, military households have been very strapped for cash.

The treasury of the Ming Dynasty was tight, the money and grain were basically transferred to the important towns of the nine borders, and the local guards relied more on hoarding land to support themselves, and they could not afford to obtain some subsidies from the political envoys and the government and the county yamen, but the exploitation in the army was serious, and the hands of the soldiers were very small. Ordinary soldiers have to support their wives and children, and their lives are very hard.

In these years, even if you know that there are many bandits along the coast, as long as you exterminate them, it will be a great achievement, and you can ask the court for a reward. However, the garrison has been self-sufficient for a long time, its weapons are outdated, its officers and men are seriously undertrained, and the ships that go to sea to fight have not been maintained, decayed and dilapidated for a long time, so even the credit in front of them cannot be obtained.

This time I went out with Shen Xi to suppress bandits, and a series of battles were fought decently, and this was the first time that many officers and soldiers of the guards in Fujian and Guangdong were in a bloody battlefield with real swords and guns...... Lao Tzu was on the battlefield back then, fighting hard with others, and licking blood from the knife!

For many, the excitement of the battle is more important than the material reward.

Shen Xi and the soldiers drank and talked happily, and the purpose was very clear, that is, to try to gather this group of people and prepare for the continued conquest of bandits in the coming year, because they were likely to face a severe test at that time. You must know that even if a pirate is strong, he can't hide in a mud building and can't shrink out, and he doesn't have much lethality, but the pirates are different.

In the minds of the officers and soldiers of the coastal guard post and the common people, they were demonized, and they always thought that they were incapable of the enemy, and once they lost the battle, they were likely to break the morale of the army, and at this time they needed a group of trustworthy soldiers to rely on.

Shen Xi accepted the toast from the soldiers, and Jing Yue and the others were responsible for blocking the wine for him on the side, Shen Xi excused himself for not being able to drink, as long as someone helped him drink when others were saluting, he would not offend people in terms of etiquette. Coupled with the fact that Shen Xi deliberately sprinkled and spit on the ground when others toasted before, it seems that Shen Xi drank a lot, but in fact he was not drunk.

Shen Xi walked around and returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, and saw Liuya sitting in front of the table of eight immortals in the center of the big tent, the table was full of delicacies, and many dishes were sent to Shen Xi as soon as they were put out of the pot and put on the plate.

In the big iron pot in the center of the table of the Eight Immortals, there is a freshly stewed "Buddha jumping over the wall", of course, it is not called this name at this time, but simply put the sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, dried scallops, pigeon eggs, pork belly, lamb elbow, pig's trotters, chicken, duck, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, etc. together and cook it well.

There was a single person next to the huge table, holding the sizzling roast chicken leg in one hand, and tearing the meat on the roast lamb leg in the large iron basin in front of her with the other, and her small mouth leaned on the side of the sea bowl in front of her, trying to cool the steaming soup.

Eating from the bowl and looking at the pot, his left and right hands are not empty, which is the current state of Liuya.

Shen Xi sat down next to Liuya, startled Liuya, and when she saw clearly that it was Shen Xi, she breathed a sigh of relief, wanted to scratch her head, and found that her hands were full of oil, so she simply continued to eat and drink as if no one was around.

"You're at ease, what about your brother?"

The chowder soup in the pot was very delicious, Shen Xi drank wine this night, didn't eat anything, took a bowl and put a big bowl, held it in his hand and steamed, and immediately felt full of strength after taking a sip.

Liuya stuffed her mouth full of meat, and asked inarticulately, "Hmm...... I don't know. ”

Shen Xi asked, "Did your brother take you to see your sister-in-law?" ”

Liuya looked at Shen Xi and didn't understand what "sister-in-law" meant, and finally she shook her head, lowered her head and continued to eat and drink, but her expression was a little gloomy, probably thinking that since she returned to Guangzhou City, Shen Xi would probably send her home, and her good days of eating and drinking would be over at that time.

The little girl was depressed, eating more and more hard, with a small face and a small mouth, but when she ate meat, she felt that half of her face was swaying with black holes.

Shen Xi reminded: "No one is robbing you, eat slowly." Tomorrow ask your eldest brother to take you into the city to meet your sister-in-law, and then you will do things in my house, help with cleaning and cooking, and if you don't understand something, ask your sister-in-law, and she will teach you...... Do you understand? ”

"Oh."

Liuya responded, with a little confusion in her eyes, and looked at Shen Xi in a daze.

Shen Xi drank a bowl full of soup, ate some pigeon eggs inside, had something in his stomach, and felt much clearer, then continued:

"Liuya, over there at your house, I will send someone to send some broken silver over, when I buy you, I will have a salary for doing things in the future, and I will buy whatever I want."

Liuya was pondering Shen Xi's words, when her face suddenly changed, and she looked behind Shen Xi with a little horror, only to see a big man appear at the door of the tent, and said stupidly: "Master, I went out with you at night, and now my stomach is empty." ”

"There's so much to eat outside, and since you're hungry, why don't you find something to eat yourself? Come, sit down! ”

Shen Xi complained, and then moved to the side to make room for Zhu Shan.

Zhu Shan was overjoyed, she had never seen so many delicious dishes on the same table in her life, in her opinion, the roast leg of lamb on the table was not enough for her to stuff her teeth, and she was about to reach out to grab it, Shen Xi threw a meat cutting knife to her: "You are a girl, be elegant, come, use this." ”

Zhu Shan picked up the knife and cut it down, and a large piece of meat fell into her hand. Ignoring the heat, she directly put the meat on the table in front of her, opened her mouth to bite it, and swallowed it after a while. This frightened Liuya, who had never seen such a "terrifying" woman.

"Master, it's delicious, it's the same way we ate it in the mountains, but it tastes better. Why don't you eat it like this in the house? Zhu Shan asked with a grin.

Isn't it fragrant? This time, a lot of spices from the South Seas can be seized, and the men are carefully roasted, and the seasonings and salt are used very much, which is naturally extremely delicious.

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head, he didn't want to talk to Zhu Shan, he stood up and walked to the door of the tent, the meaning was obvious, some of them would eat, what are you doing with so much nonsense?

When Shen Xi went out for a walk and came back, he saw that Liuya in the big tent was carefully handing Zhu Shan a bowl, Zhu Shan finished eating the leg of mutton, and swept away the meat on the table, even the "Buddha jumping over the wall" in the iron pot did not let go, a large pot was eaten by her for nearly half, Liuya was robbed of food, staring at Zhu Shan with a sad face, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

"What for?" Shen Xi asked.

Zhu Shan stood up, touched his stomach, and said with a big grin: "Master, I'm full, shall we go back?" ”

I wanted to leave when I was full of food and drink, and I didn't look at what scared my little sister into it, and at this time, Liuya looked at Zhu Shan as if she was looking at the devil.

Shen Xi said: "This is a celebration banquet, you don't have military merits and still eat so much, go out and roast a hare and come back, don't patronize yourself, leave a little for the sixth son." ”

"Okay."

Zhu Shan didn't say anything, not far from the big tent of the Chinese army was the livestock slaughtering point, and there was a hare that had just been skinned next to it. She grew up in the cottage since she was a child, and she is very good at cooking wild meat, so she went to pick up a hare first, felt that it was too small, took another one, and threaded it all with wooden sticks, and took it to the bonfire in front of the big tent, and said hello to the six girls who came out, "Hey, your name is Liuzi?" My name is Zhu Shan, my lord calls me Xiaoshan, how old are you......"

Maybe she thinks that Liuya is a hairy boy who hasn't grown, Zhu Shan has no younger brothers and sisters, and she is very enthusiastic about Liuya, but she doesn't know how to observe words and feelings, and at this time Liuya has regarded her as an enemy who grabs food.

But after Zhu Shan roasted the two hares, the relationship between the two eased a little, Liuya had never eaten rabbit meat, and he couldn't bite it, Zhu Shan said while eating one of his own: "Can't you gnaw it?" Come, I'll help you...... Cut the meat off with a knife, slowly tear it into strips and send it to your mouth? How's that, it's fragrant, right? When I was a kid, I hated rabbit meat, but then I couldn't eat it if I wanted to......"

Shen Xi sat in front of the tent, watching Zhu Shan and Liuya talking there, and then looked up at the dark night sky, at this time he was thinking about the relatives in the city, thinking about Xie Yun'er and Shen Ping's mother and son, thinking about Lin Dai, a girl who didn't grow up, and thinking about Xie Hengnu, a little girl who was obsessed with him...... But what he misses the most is Hui Niang, who is pregnant with his child in her belly and has a miserable background.

"The gates are closed now, aren't they?"

Shen Xi asked Jing Yue, who was patrolling.

Jing Yue said: "My lord, do you want to go back to the city?" It's easy, the gates are guarded by our own brothers, and they can be opened with a shout! ”

Shen Xi nodded, stood up, stopped caring about Zhu Shan and Liuya, took a few personal guards, and rode back to the city.

After entering Guangzhou City, Shen Xi asked Jing Yue to take people back to the camp first, and Jing Yue asked puzzledly: "My lord, it's not good if something happened this night, let's let the brothers escort you back to your home." ”

"No need, this official is familiar with the city, you go back first, help me greet the good brothers, no matter what, I can't spoil their fun."

Separated from Jing Yue and others, Shen Xi rode through the streets and alleys, and when he arrived at the courtyard where Hui Niang rented, he turned over and dismounted, tied the horse, and deliberately made a long detour, only then did he return to Hui Niang's residence, and before he knocked on the door, he saw that there was a light inside from the crack in the door, it seemed that Hui Niang and Li Jin heard that he was back to the city, even if it was the dead of night, they were waiting for him.

"Knock knock!" Shen Xi knocked on the door.

The sound of footsteps in the courtyard came, the door latch was closed, and the door was then opened, and the first thing that was reflected in Shen Xi's eyes was a haggard and pretty face under the faint light, which was Hui Niang, who he couldn't rest assured on the way.

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