1

The three of them returned to Qinghe, just as the red sun was sinking in the west.

When the gold brought Alatai and Sren into the camp, Alatai saw that it was empty, and asked strangely, "Why, the other brothers haven't come yet?" Jin Zi said: "They should all come, in the eldest brother's tent." Si Ren said: "Then what are we doing here?" Jin Zi smiled: "I haven't seen Brother Siren for a long time, Jin Zi has to give Brother a gift." Si Renxi said: "Oh, what gift? ”

Jin Zi took a wooden box and put it in front of Si Ren, and said with a smile: "I promise that Brother Si Ren likes it." Si Ren was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "What is a good thing?" As he spoke, he opened it, saw that it was a human head, and said with a smile: "What do you want to give me a human head, you want to scare me to death, your brother Siren is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is also afraid of a dead human head?" Kaneko smiled: "It's what you thought about." When Allah looked at it, he asked, "Who is this?" Si Ren took a closer look, suddenly recognized it, and said, "Okay, you gold, you killed Mo Huai?" Jin Zi grinned and said: "What you and Brother Shi'an and Brother Ala Tai can't do three times and five times, this girl can do it without much effort, with a snap of her fingers, do you accept it?" Si Ren laughed and said, "Serve, serve." Ala Taizan said: "Jin Zi is really the reincarnation of Mulan, Mu Guiying is reborn, and it is not okay if you don't accept it." ”

Siren thought for a moment and asked, "Hey...... By the way, there is also a Mo Sha, you killed Mo Huai, what about Mo Sha? Jin Zi said: "Mo Huai was beheaded by Qian Jiu of Tong County. Alatai sighed: "Jiang Wen is right, the way of heaven is cause and effect, and the retribution is not happy. He asked again: "Jinzi, this Mo Huai's martial arts are not bad, how did you kill him?" Jin Zi said: "Mo Huai was arrested by the government for his brawl, his family sold all the land in order to save him, it happened that our army came, this villain turned into a poor people, but he was treated preferentially by the rebels, I secretly deceived him into the barracks, pretended to appreciate his knife, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to get the knife down, hehe, this matter must not be told to the eldest brother." Si Ren praised: "Gold is brave and resourceful, powerful. ”

Ala Tai said: "Why don't you let the eldest brother know, could it be that the eldest brother does not allow you to kill this wicked person?" Jin Zi said: "The king's military order, kill the rebel not to kill the Shun, kill the rich but not the poor, this thief is very good at speculative drilling, seeing that my righteous army is strong, kneeling to vote, is an authentic Shunmin poor man, the eldest brother is worried about killing him, violating the military order." Ala Tai sighed: "The king's military order is extremely confused, or our eldest brother is right, the righteous man kills, whether it is good or evil, whether it is good or evil, whether it is right or wrong, whether it is right or wrong, if we don't distinguish between good and evil, and only talk about enmity and hatred, how can we be worthy of this word 'righteousness'?" ”

2

In Tang Hai's tent, in addition to the wolf ba, Lu Qi, and Wang Feng stationed in Shanxi, fifteen people gathered together, and everyone said goodbye to each other, all of them rejoiced.

Tang Haidao: "We and the other eighteen people are brothers, but since the uprising, we have no choice but to be commensurate with the general, but it is a lot more rusty." Gather again today, firstly, to break through the capital, it is done, and secondly, to gather in the Qinghe countryside, there is no outsider, we don't want to call any general, or brothers. ”

Everyone was overjoyed and said, "It's all up to the eldest brother's orders." ”

"It's a pity that the three brothers Wolf Ba, Lu Qi, and Wang Feng stayed in Shanxi," Tang Hai said with regret.

Xiaolong said: "The capital of the Ming Dynasty has been broken, and it is expected that the king will soon transfer the two of them to Beijing." ”

Tang Haidao: "I hope so." ”

Tang Hai ordered the banquet to be held, and the sergeant laid out more than a dozen plates of mutton, five or six plates of steak, seven or eight jars of fine wine, and a large pot of stewed dog meat in the middle.

Si Renxi said: "I haven't been able to eat good mutton for many years, this meat is fragrant, it smells like on the grassland, I'll taste it first." Before he finished speaking, his hand had already been torn in a large piece.

Tang Hai said with a smile: "This is cooked by the seventh sister herself, everyone tastes it." ”

Si Ren was about to put the mutton in his hand into his mouth, and Jin Zi said: "Seventh Sister hasn't tasted it yet, Brother Si Ren is embarrassed to eat it first?" ”

Si Ren was stunned, hurriedly sent the mutton to Duan Qi, and said with a smile: "By the way, let's honor the seventh sister first." ”

Duan Qi smiled and said: "The gold is so powerful, it made Si Ren so well-behaved in one sentence, I'm happy to be a cook for everyone, you can eat, leave me alone." ”

Si Ren smiled: "Seventh sister is so good. With that, he took a big bite and ate it.

Everyone also took chopsticks and tore them with their hands, Tang Hai personally poured wine for everyone, first poured it for Lin Yuan and Ye Yang next to him, and when he poured it for Ala Tai, Ala Tai said: "How dare you let the eldest brother pour the wine himself, come, I will pour it full for the brothers." ”

Ala Tai said that he was about to come and rush to pour the wine, Tang Hai took back the wine jar and said: "The brothers have worked hard, the seventh sister is willing to be a cook for everyone, Tang Hai is also willing to pour wine for everyone, and the Ala Tai brothers don't want to win people's love." ”

Ala Taihaha laughed, Tang Hai continued to pour wine for everyone, and then raised a bowl to celebrate: "Today's banquet, congratulations to the brothers on their success." Everyone drank it all, and Tang Hai poured it for everyone.

Ye Yang said: "Let's go back and do something, we will get together every day in the future, there is the seventh sister to cook for us, and the eldest brother will pour us wine, wouldn't it be happy, haha!" ”

Zhang Chuan echoed: "Okay, then don't go back." ”

Jin Zi smiled: "Seventh sister cooks, eldest brother pours wine, we enjoy happiness, you are embarrassed?" ”

Qiuguang joked: "Jin Zi is right, how can we let the eldest brother and the seventh sister serve us, we are eighteen people, we should choose the youngest to serve everyone!" ”

Among the eighteen people, the smallest counted gold, and everyone laughed when they heard it: "So the best, so the best." ”

Jin Zixian crossed his waist with his hands, and his beautiful eyes said angrily: "If you want me to serve you, don't think about it!" The crowd burst into laughter.

Tang Haifu raised the bowl and said: "Our brothers have fought hard for five years since Bashan started the army, and today we finally took Beijing City, and the brothers have worked hard." ”

After everyone drank, Ye Yang said: "Big brother, you should have led us to revolt a long time ago, after so many years of mixing in the rivers and lakes, you have to be sneaky to kill a few dog officials and thieves, which is better than fighting with the officers and soldiers barearmed." ”

Liu Jia also said: "Yes, I used to be afraid of the government, and after the uprising, I fought against the officials and soldiers, which was enjoyable." ”

Si Ren laughed and said: "Yes, yes, yes, in the past, Lao Tzu was arrested and chased and beaten, but now Lao Tzu is chasing and catching Komba, cool, cool, cool." ”

Qiuguang said: "The day before yesterday, I went to the street, an old man in crepe nodded to me, I don't know who it is, and when I asked the people later, it turned out that he was a member of the Ministry of Rites of the previous dynasty, haha." ”

Ye Yang said to Qiuguang: "Why don't you kick him, they are arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and they deserve to fall into such a field today." ”

Everyone laughed and ate for a while, Shan Yong suddenly put down the wine bowl and sighed, Wang Yu asked: "The ancients said that when the wine is entered, the cup should not be stopped, why does Brother Shan Yong stop drinking the cup?" ”

Shan Yong said: "Now we are in one place, after eating this wine, the brothers have to go back to the camp, I don't know when we will have today's happiness?" After Shan Yong finished speaking, his eyes stared at Tang Hai.

Liu Jia said: "Now that Beijing has been defeated, the eldest brother can ask the king to transfer us back." ”

Ye Yang said: "I said a long time ago that if I don't go back, I will send a few soldiers to inform General Liu later." He said to Xiaolong and Ala Tai: "You don't need to go in person, just ask a soldier to inform the two generals, Li Guo and Liu Fangliang." ”

Xiaolong twisted his head to Tang Hai and said: "When the king dispatched us, it was all temporary, but now that the capital is broken and the faint king is dead, we should come back." ”

Tang Hai smiled slightly: "Brothers, listen to me, we are waiting for the army to be born for the common people, not for our own personal enmity, although we are successful and famous, but we must not be greedy for pleasure." When the king ascends the throne in the coming day, the brothers will each have their own rewards, and they will be officials in various places, how can they be greedy for the pleasure of brothers for a while, and ignore the people? Brothers get together, private pleasure; At that time, Tang Hai hoped that the brothers would do their duty, work diligently for the people, and not be proud of their achievements and neglect political affairs. ”

When Xiaolong, Alatai, and Liujia heard this, they couldn't help but be slightly shocked, the meaning of the eldest brother's words seemed to be that he didn't want us to come back.

Ye Yang said: "Big brother, what official position will the king give us?" Si Ren, Zhang Chuan, Lu Qi, Wang Yu and others all looked at Tang Hai and seemed to have the same problem.

"Hehehehe, brother, then you tell me first, now that the Ming Dynasty has fallen, we are done, what do you want? If my king is called the emperor and the great hero general, what do you want? Once you are given an official and a knight, what are your ambitions? Tang Hai asked Ye Yang with a smile.

Ye Yang laughed and said: "I don't have any wishes, I don't have any wishes, but I ask King Dashun to reward me with thousands of gold and silver, and I invite my eldest brother and brothers to drink wine and eat meat every day, haha." ”

Tang Hai set his eyes on everyone and looked forward to it eagerly.

Zhang Chuan said: "If it were me, I would first arrest all the people who bullied me before, I couldn't do anything before, and it's not too late to take revenge." ”

Wang Yu said: "If I become an official, I will ride a tall horse with my brother to go around my hometown first." ”

Tang Xi laughed and said: "It's still a thousand miles of wind and ten thousand years of rain brothers have taste, the ancients said that wealth does not return to the hometown, such as clothes and brocade at night." ”

Siren said to Ala Tai: "Brother, people can return to their hometowns in fine clothes, but we can't, what should we do?" ”

Alatai smiled: "The Central Plains is more fun than our grassland, we don't go anywhere, just be a good official here." ”

Si Ren said: "Well, we can't be foolish officials like Bayin, when there is a murder, we arrest the murderer, and in peacetime, our brothers will drink, how happy!" ”

Tang Hai asked the crowd, "What about the other brothers?" ”

Xiaolong said: "Xiaolong is not the material to be an official, there are still remnants in the south, Xiaolong is willing to go south with the army and sweep the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Duan Qi saw Tang Hai looking at him, and said with a light smile: "What can Duan Qi Nuliu do, if I can get a reward for Long Live Seal, I am willing to resign from the official position and go back to Luoshan with the reward to enjoy a few years of Qingfu." ”

Lu Qi smiled and said: "How can you easily resign as an official, I don't resign, Brother Siren is right, when you are a prefect or something, you can judge the case and redress your grievances when you are busy, and drink and have fun in your spare time." ”

Qiuguang said: "Me too, Lu Qi, or we will go to the same yamen as officials with the two elder brothers Ala Tai and Si Ren." ”

Si Renxi said: "Okay, Brother Qiuguang has a good idea, in this way, you will be the same knowledge, I will be the pusher, and Brother Ala Tai will ...... Just be the governor, how about Lu Qi as an inspector? ”

The crowd laughed again.

"Shan Yong is not uncommon, there are big and small officials, wherever the eldest brother goes, I will follow him, even if it is to be a sedan chair driver for the eldest brother."

"Lin Yuan too, as long as he follows the eldest brother and doesn't become an official, with the king's reward, he can be free for a lifetime."

"I am willing to go with Brother Long to pacify Jiangnan," Jin Zi saw Tang Hai's gaze move to himself, and also said his ambition.

"Where's Brother Tang Xi?" Tang Hai saw that only Tang Xi and Shi'an had not shown their ambitions, so he asked.

"The faint monarch is dead, Jiangnan must not be difficult to calm down, Tang Xi is willing to go to Dengfeng with Senior Brother Shi'an as an official, there, we can often go to Shaolin Temple," Tang Xi faced Shi'an, as if he was invited.

Ye Yang said: "You still want to be a monk? ”

Ye Yang's words caused everyone to laugh again.

Shi'an slowly stood up: "Shi'an since he practiced martial arts, in addition to killing or killing, he has long been tired of fighting in the rivers and lakes, the king ascended the throne as the emperor, Shi'an does not ask for a seal, and does not ask for rewards, only wants to return to his hometown for the people, and plant a few acres of mulberry hemp in my house." ”

Tang Hai listened to the words of the brothers, and said with a smile: "Tang Hai led the brothers to raise righteousness, braved the rain of arrows, faced swords and guns, and finally survived the bloody wind and rain for five years, I hope that all the brothers' requests can be realized." After Tang Hai finished speaking, he picked up the chopsticks and said, "Come, eat dog meat, this dog was killed by me because of a dream, brothers eat more." ”

Everyone laughed and said: "How can you say that we were killed because of a dream, the eldest brother teased us." ”

Everyone stretched out their chopsticks to eat dog meat, and after Tang Hai ate a piece, he said: "How dare the eldest brother tease the brothers, he really killed because of a dream." ”

Everyone blamed: "Kill because of a dream? How? ”

Tang Haidao: "This dog is an ownerless wild dog, I have nothing to do, keep it by my side for recreation, and I have a lot of friendship." At noon today, I took a nap in the camp tent, and I dreamed that Cao Yin broke into the barracks and scolded me, Cao Yin scolded, every sentence was reasonable, and the words pierced the heart, I was afraid to face him, so I ran away from the door, but Cao Yin chased after him, I ran to the bank of the Qing River in a hurry, and saw that there was no way to escape, so I had to turn back, and saw Cao Yin with a knife and slashed at me fiercely, I knew that I would die, so I closed my eyes and waited for death, but I had nothing to do for a long time, and I opened my eyes to see that Cao Yin had been bitten to death by the dog, and the dog was wagging its tail and smiling at me. ”

Ye Yang and Si Ren smiled: "Good bite." ”

Tang Hai said: "After I woke up, I thought about it, and ordered the sergeant to kill the dog and let the seventh sister cook it for the brothers to eat. ”

"Strange! Big brother, it saved you, why did you kill it? Ye Yangqi asked, and the others were also quite strange, and they all said, "Yes!" Why did the eldest brother kill this loyal dog? ”

Tang Hai opened his mouth to eat with a piece of dog meat, and when he saw everyone asking like this, he put down the dog meat and asked everyone with a very strange look: "Shouldn't it be killed?" ”

Everyone said, "No." ”

Tang Hai said with a smile: "The world says that among many beasts, dogs are man's most loyal friends, and all brothers can believe this?" ”

Everyone was surprised, and they all nodded, "Yes, of all the beasts, only the dog is the most faithful and reliable." ”

"Brothers!" Tang Hai stood up, pointed to a pot of dog meat on the table, and said: "The world only sees the loyalty of dogs, but they can't see the ferocity of dogs, which is really sad." This kind of beast is loyal to its master, but it is extremely vicious towards others, it does not distinguish between good and evil, whether it is right or wrong, whoever gives him a bone, he will recognize him as its master, and to the passers-by, this beast is crying out, eager to tear others to pieces, is it not hateful? Shouldn't they be killed? ”

Tang Xi said: "Big brother's remarks reminded me of the beggar who arrested me back then, he also had this remark, he said that bad people love dogs, good people don't keep dogs, bad people love dogs, they like to let dogs bite others, good people don't keep dogs, they are worried that their dogs bite others." ”

Tang Hai's face was dazed, and he said: "I didn't expect Tang Hai's bosom friend to be a beggar, and he was sad!" ”

3

After the banquet, Ala Tai and Si Ren returned to the Lugouqiao military camp, Liu Jia, Lin Yuan, Ye Yang, and Qiuguang returned to the city, and Xiaolong, Shan Yong, Shi'an, Zhang Chuan, and Wang Yu returned to the Li Guo military camp in the south of the city. Duan Qi couldn't do it because he was drunk, Tang Xi had to go back alone, and Tang Hai ordered Jin Zi to help Duan Qi back to the barracks to sleep.

Everyone left, Tang Hai sat alone in the camp tent commandery, the smile that was full of Fang gradually converged, his face slowly became gloomy, and what appeared in his mind was the situation when Li Zicheng gave the evil sword, Bashan raised righteousness, and the Quartet conquered.

The door of the tent rattled and was slowly pushed open from the outside.

Standing at the door was Duan Qi.

Strange, isn't she drunk? Why, woke up so soon?

Tang Hai guessed, perhaps, Duan Qi came to resign.

"Seventh sister, are you leaving?"

"No, it's not that I'm leaving, it's that you're leaving."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"Big brother is going to abandon his brothers and go away alone?"

"What do you mean by Seventh Sister?" Tang Hai was secretly shocked.

"Invite your brothers to come and try to see who will go with you by the reward?" Duan Qi entered the tent, closed the door with his backhand, and walked lightly to the center of the tent.

"Tang Hai is tired and wants to go to the mountains and wilderness for a year and a half."

"Why don't you take your brothers with you?" Duan Qi asked closely.

"The brothers braved the rain of arrows, faced the sword, fought hard for five years, and finally survived to this day, and now that they are about to be crowned and worshipped, how can I easily ruin their future?"

"Is this one of them?"

Tang Hai was slightly shocked, he didn't expect Duan Qi to be able to see through his thoughts, so he had to say truthfully: "Not bad." ”

"I want to hear about it."

"There is still half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is in urgent need of requisition. Second, Zhang Xianzhong is entrenched in Sichuan, and my Dashun Dynasty wants to unify the world, and it is inevitable to fight with him. The three Liaodong tigers and wolves have been peeking at China for a long time, although Wu Sangui surrendered, and my Dashun sent people to take over the three customs, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely take advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to invade through the Mongolian Koubian, and it must also be heavily defended. Therefore, there is still a place for the brothers. ”

"So there's a third one?"

"Three? Hehe, what does the seventh sister think is the third? ”

"The eldest brother walked alone and left the brothers behind, the real reason is that he is afraid that Li Zicheng will be suspicious, right?"

Tang Hai never dreamed that Duan Qi's eyes were as sharp as arrows, and he could penetrate his heart, and after a long sigh, he said slowly: "Tang Hai's mind can't escape the eyes of the seventh sister. ”

Duan Qi suddenly took three steps forward and said before coming to the handsome seat: "What are you afraid of? We still have tens of thousands of horses, and there are no people here, but there is a place to keep people. ”

"No, China has been in war for a long time, the people are in urgent need of recuperation, I look at today's heroes, those who can calm the world, only the king is alone, at the time of this great achievement, if I Tang Hai set up another mountain, the Great Shun Dynasty will inevitably have civil strife, and the people of the world do not know how much suffering they will suffer!" Tang Hai vetoed Duan Qi categorically, and said: "Seventh sister, you must not harm the people of the world for your own selfishness. ”

"In that case, why is the eldest brother leaving?"

"Tang Hai kills people, regardless of good and evil, regardless of enmity and hatred, and whether it is right or wrong. Tang Hai raised troops to seek the righteousness of the world, not his own wealth. Now although the king can sweep away the universe and stabilize the world, but he kills the rich but not the poor, kills the rebel and does not kill the shun, and the difference between him and Tang Hai is thousands of miles, what benefit does Tang Hai have to stay? Moreover...... The king is suspicious, if I stay, there will be Luo Rucai and He Yilong. ”

"If you stay in the army, people just guard against you, if you leave, people can't guard against you, how can you rest assured?" Duan Qi lowered his voice and reminded kindly.

"The dragon is in the air, the teeth are dancing, the tiger is shaking the mountain, the roaring empty forest, Tang Hai is crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, thanks to the help of all the brothers, without the brothers, Tang Hai is idle in the thatched hut during the day, and reads hard under the oil lamp at night, if the dragon has no claws, the tiger has no teeth, who will still worry about me."

"Big brother planning to go alone? Without a brother? ”

"Brothers Shan Yong and Lin Yuan are willing to go with me, but although the two of them have no intention of being officials, and they still have the intention of fame, I see that Brother Shi'an has no intention of fame and fortune, and wants to take him there, but I am worried that he is excellent in martial arts, and will attract criticism if he takes him away, so he is hesitating about this matter."

Duan Qi was silent.