walked around and thought about it, but heard Shuangxi call softly: "Godfather, be careful to meet." When he said this, there was already a smile in his tone.

Li Zicheng stood up violently, and when he looked up, he walked in front of a house, and he was about to hit the door.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but look back and scolded his godson for his part-time follower: "Little bastard, why didn't you call me earlier?" Do I have to hit my head in a bag? ”

Shuangxi smiled and said: "I called you, but you didn't hear it, there was no way to shout such a voice, or I had to pull you quickly." As he spoke, he couldn't help but smile again: "Incident, the generals outside are copper-headed and iron-armed, and the large array of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers has been broken by our generals. ”

was slapped comfortably by this small, blatant sycophant, Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing and said, "Poor mouth." There was no hint of blame in his tone.

Looking up at this house, the house is newly built, and the old rammed earth wall is still there, but on top of the original, the roof has been re-covered, but this roof is no longer thatched, but layers of green tiles, which is particularly elegant and comfortable.

According to such rules, this house should be a landlord, at least a family with dozens of acres of land can afford to live in, but look left and right, but find that this is just an ordinary people's residence, seeing this, Li Zicheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Lu Shizhi's ability is like this, just next to his sphere of influence, he has been so rich, so what kind of scene will it be in his core base? It's a yearning.

"Since you're here, let's go in and see who the current master is, and I can't sleep, so I'll talk to him." Li Zicheng smiled and said to double happiness. As you speak, you walk inside.

The current master, don't think that it was the original, at this time, the master here must be his brother, but it's just a stopper, temporary idea.

However, when he stepped on the threshold, he was not surprised. At one end of the three tiled houses were some bulky things of the owner of the house, who had been gone for a few days, and a lock hung on the single door; But the lock has been smashed open by a sledgehammer, and it is broken and hung there to meet the situation, as the so-called, this lock is an object to prevent the gentleman from the villain, and the incident is simply a dispensable thing.

But at the other end of the house, there were piles of wheat straw and hay, and on the side of this pile of things were neatly stacked luggage, with silk quilts, coarse cloth bags, and a pile of miscellaneous things, but there was not a single one. There was a pile of firewood burning on the ground in the middle, enclosed with adobe, but it was not extinguished, and the damp roots were half-reaching, and the smoke was so thick that Li Zicheng could hardly open his eyes. It's strange that the twenty or so brothers who live here have gone?

Li Zicheng took two more steps forward, took a closer look, and saw a pair of broken shoes emerging from the messy grass, and the grass was moving, so he couldn't help but smile. He shouted at the messy grass: "Wang Changshun! Wang Changshun agreed, pushed off the hay on his body, and sat up suddenly. But he still had a lot of grass on his head, some of which hung like tassels on the brim of his felt hat, and his eyes smiled through the stems and blades of grass. He swept the grass off his felt hat with his hands, stood up, kicked at the haystack, and cried:

"Guys, get up. The King is here! ”

Everyone rolled out of the haystack, stood up, and hurriedly slapped their hats and clothes. Wang Changshun seemed to guess that Zicheng was going to ask them how cold they were, straightened his chest, and said with a grin:

"Commander, we slept so comfortably. The hay nest was warmer than the eiderdown quilts of the rich men. The year before last, we went to Jiangbei, and I saw for the first time what a duck down duvet was, and I tried it on my body. Speaking of conscience, it is better to sleep in this hay nest to be warm. ”

Li Zicheng looked at the brothers who kept crawling out of the grass nest at this time, and said with a smile: "Isn't it true that your brothers have not gained anything after being in Shanxi for more than half a year?" Not to mention gold and silver women, at least they should get a decent set of shoes and socks and a good bed. Look at Wang Changshun scratching the back of his head shyly, and involuntarily look at the neatly stacked packages. Besides, even if you are always in reserve, you will have a share of the spoils of the old battalion, and Mrs. Gao (Li Zicheng's wife) will not reward you old brothers? ”

When Li Zicheng said this, he immediately asked Wang Changshun and his brothers to shake their hands and deny: "No, no, no, we brothers are all men who go into battle to fight, which one dares to lag behind, after all, we all started with you at the beginning, and we didn't dare to drag the generals back, we have gained a lot." ”

Looking at Li Zicheng, who was smiling and silent, Wang Changshun hurriedly explained again: "What's more, this Shanxi is really rich, there are too many good things, and in a short period of time, our old brothers have lost sight of some ordinary things, so we pick those valuable things, and we really don't miss them." ”

Everyone nodded together and smiled to prove Wang Changshun's statement.

"Also, Mrs. Gao is also generous, and constantly rewards us old brothers, she said, at the beginning, everyone followed the general to endure hardships, and now that the good days have come, there are still some things for our old brothers."

Li Zicheng smiled and nodded, his wife is so good, she doesn't care much about gold and silver, but she is not a random spending, she always buys people's hearts and boosts morale, yes, so that you can build your own core team, such as an old brother like Wang Changshun.

As long as these old brothers are here, even if they go to the ends of the earth, no matter how difficult and dangerous they are, they will make a comeback.

Yes, tomorrow's battle, let those new poles go into battle first, these old brothers are the tinder, keep some if you can, and the days to come will be long.

When he thought of this, he sat down on the edge of the haystack, and it was not uncommon for him to be coarse and ill-clothed, and to share weal and woe with his brethren.

patted his side, smiled at Wang Changshun, who was still standing, and said, "Come on, sit down, I can't sleep anyway, let's pull and ra." ”

Wang Changshun sat down next to Li Zicheng with a smile, looked up at the restrained appearance of a few new brothers, and said with a smile: "Our generals are not like those masters, who were originally bitter men one by one, and this powerful person is five or six people pretending to be garlic, our generals are still as intimate as us, and they all sit down, or they will look angry." ”

For Wang Changshun's words, Li Zicheng is very useful, this is a good way to show his prestige.

"Come on, sit down, I'm not a general or emperor, sitting together is a brother."

Those newcomers looked at Wang Changshun and then at Li Zicheng, and saw that Li Zicheng really didn't mean to blame Wang Changshun, so they sat down cautiously.

"Since you have so many good brothers, why don't you have to go? Do you want to sleep in this straw nest? Do you keep those things to give birth? Li Zicheng jokingly laughed at Wang Changshun, and at the same time wanted to understand what his brothers were thinking now.

"Breaking general, who doesn't want to use good things? It's just that this is about to go back to my hometown, and now I wear it, where is it like going home, and I wear it in front of the villagers? ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Those old Shaanxi people all came over to practice and nodded, and even those new Ding Ding agreed with each other.

"Also, I got these good things, and when I go home, I will ask for a few wives, give birth to a litter of babies, and then I have the handle of inheriting the lineage, so I will follow the general out to fight the world with peace of mind."

As soon as these words came out, Li Zicheng was shocked, why, the old brothers began to have such thoughts? also asked for a few wives, gave birth to a litter of babies, and then had the handle of inheritance, so that he could follow the general out to fight the world with peace of mind. If it really comes, who will come out with him? It's not good, this seedling needs to be changed, it seems that it is not advisable to let them get too much wealth in the battle and plunder, and if they rebel, they have to be poor men.

I thought so in my heart, but I still smiled and nodded: "Yes, I want to please my mother-in-law, it just so happens that there are many women in our old camp, one day I will ask your Mrs. Gao to be a matchmaker and hold a beautiful wedding together, and at that time, the brothers will be beautiful." ”

"Really?" Even those newcomers were tempted to lean forward to confirm their ears.

"When did I tell a lie, this matter, I will do it after this battle, and I will definitely not treat everyone badly."

"Yes, yes." More than two dozen people cheered together.

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Be quiet, don't make noise about the other brothers sleeping." ”

Wang Changshun said excitedly: "Still sleeping? If you let those boys know that Chuang will be arranged like this, how can they sleep? They laughed together.

After laughing for a while, Li Zicheng asked by the way: "Do you have any thoughts about tomorrow's battle?" Now let's hear it. ”

Being asked like this, Wang Changshun suddenly became serious, thought for a long time, and suddenly, said in a low voice: "General, I have something to say, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"It's all old brothers, that's it, where do you want such a mother-in-law and mother?"

"General, in fact, we followed you to get into trouble, it's not that we can't stand the oppression of the government, we can't live without food, and now, we have something, we can go home, of course, it's like an arrow." Wang Changshun even used an idiom, and he used it so appropriately, it seems that Tian Jianxiu had seen them before.

However, this is like an arrow, and it can be used.

"But, Breaker, we are also Lu Shi, who is also from a poor family, why do we have to kill each other with them? After a good discussion, I think that with Lu Shi's person, he can let us pass. ”

Li Zicheng was stunned, but turned to a wry smile, can Lu Shi really let us go? Impossible, this one is quite clear in my heart.

Looking at the silent Wang Changshun, Li Zicheng hurriedly encouraged him to continue.

Wang Changshun sighed and said in a low voice: "Last time, when we helped King Dachuang get rid of that brother and cut down brothers like us, my heart was really uncomfortable. ”

As soon as this remark came out, Li Zicheng was greatly surprised at that time, the last time he helped his uncle get rid of internal disobedience, it was quite confidential, at that time he took a thousand men and horses to raid, but afterwards he sealed those who might leak, and only the remaining hundreds of trustworthy people stayed, but now it seems that this is not a good way.

So, Li Zicheng looked at Wang Changshun with a smile, and said words of explanation, but he thought in his heart: "Tomorrow, let him take his team and be the first to meet Lu Shi's dense artillery fire."