In the past two months, Niu Jinxing's father and son, who live in Lushi County, have gradually recovered, and under the careful care of Langzhong and the maidservant arranged by Xiao Tianjian, Niu Jinxing has been able to walk on the ground after the Spring Festival, and his spirit has recovered.

Although Xiao Tianjian has a lot of official duties, he will still use his leisure time to visit Niu Jinxing's father and son in the city from time to time and talk with Niu Jinxing.

As for Niu Jinxing, Xiao Tianjian did not deliberately hide anything, as long as Niu Jinxing asked about the handling of civil affairs by the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian basically answered them one by one, but the more this was the case, the more frightened Niu Jinxing felt later.

From the beginning, Niu Jinxing didn't know Xiao Tianjian and Xing Tianjun, at most he had heard of it, and after the year, Niu Jinxing had basically understood Xiao Tianjian's style of acting, and couldn't help but look at Xiao Tianjian with admiration.

Originally, Niu Jinxing's vision was still quite high, and he thought that a leader of the rebel army like Xiao Tianjian, who was born with mud legs, even if he was capable, his vision could not be high, at best, he was just a gang of thieves, but after many exchanges with Xiao Tianjian, Niu Jinxing realized that he underestimated Xiao Tianjian too much.

Although Xiao Tianjian has no attainments in poetry and songs, but the breadth of his vision is only seen in Niu Jinxing's life, sometimes Xiao Tianjian comes to visit Niu Jinxing, and does not talk about anything like the current situation, but with Niu Jinxing's chaos in the north and south, from the history of China, to this world, and even the affairs of overseas vassals, it can be said that he talks about everything, Xiao Tianjian is much stronger than Niu Jinxing, a scholar who was born in a burrow, and Niu Jinxing shouted in amazement, and he no longer dared to underestimate Xiao Tianjian.

What surprised Niu Jinxing even more was Xiao Tianjian's ability to subdue people's hearts, from what Xiao Tianjian had done before, Niu Jinxing really didn't dare to think that this was actually done by such a young man who was not yet thirty years old in front of him, in just two or three years, Xiao Tianjian was stunned to open up such a large territory belonging to the Xingtian Army in the south of Shanxi, and stood firm not to mention, but also waved his army south into Henan, opened up another control area belonging to the Xingtian Army, and established their own weapons production workshop, Such a strong army has been created.

After Niu Jinxing recovered from his illness, he was personally invited to the station of the Xingtian Army outside the city to watch a drill of the Xingtian Army's soldiers and horses, and after watching it, Niu Jinxing had to admire Xiao Tianjian, Niu Jinxing also boasted that he was a person who knew the soldiers, but after seeing the lineup of the Xingtian Army, it still made him a little embarrassed, I really can't imagine how Xiao Tianjian trained these homeless people who were once just mud legs into the appearance of the current strong soldiers.

In this way, Niu Jinxing was not very optimistic about Xiao Tianjian, but after the New Year, he no longer had this kind of idea, especially when he saw that the Xingtianjun had resettled batches of displaced people, and the division of fields and land was in full swing, and all kinds of affairs were implemented very quickly, so Niu Jinxing's mind began to live.

But what made Niu Jinxing a little depressed was that since the first meeting, Xiao Tianjian never mentioned the idea of asking Niu Jinxing to go out of the mountain to work for him, which made Niu Jinxing feel a little itchy in his heart, but he was embarrassed to directly propose to serve Xiao Tianjian and act as Xiao Tianjian's staff.

When it was just out of the New Year and entered February, seeing that the heels of the Xingtian Army in the local area were getting more and more stable, and Niu Jinxing had fully recovered, Niu Jinxing finally couldn't bear it, so he took his son Niu Quan to pack up his things, went out of the city and came to the outside of the Xingtian Army camp outside the city, and asked someone to inform Xiao Tianjian, saying that he wanted to resign to Xiao Tianjian.

And Xiao Tianjian was also handling military affairs in the camp outside the city at this time, and when he heard the news, he immediately put down the affairs at hand, got on the horse and left the camp, and invited Niu Jinxing to enter the camp to speak.

After Xiao Tianjian arrived, Niu Jinxing immediately hugged Xiao Tianjian and said: "Thank you Xiao Dashuai for your hospitality and life-saving grace over the past few days, Niu Mou's body has now recovered, so it is inconvenient to continue to bother Dashuai here!" Today, I am here to ask Dashuai to resign, and I hope Dashuai will let our father and son leave! ”

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "Mr. Niu is polite, Xiao has always spoken and counted, no matter when, Mr. wants to leave here, he can do it!" But I don't know where Mr. is going to go when he leaves here this time? ”

Niu Jinxing sighed and said: "It's not that Niu is unwilling to serve the marshal, but after all, Niu still has a big family in Lushan, once people know that Niu is serving the marshal, the government will definitely harm my family, this time to resign to the marshal, Niu plans to go home to visit his family first, although Niu is a guilty body, but after all, the Lu family has been accused by the marshal, and the government will not allow me to go home!" ”

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then Xiao can't force Mr. to stay!" Come! Take 500 taels of silver, arrange a big car for Mr., and send someone to escort Mr. back to his hometown! ”

"Don't dare, don't dare! The marshal saved the father and son, it is already a great favor and difficult to repay, how can Niu let the general break the money again, not to mention that when the general is using money everywhere now, he must not break the money for Niu again! After Niu Jinxing heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and refused.

Xiao Tianjian grabbed Niu Jinxing's wrist and said: "Sir, don't be polite, you can meet Mr. in the next place, and you have to be instructed by Mr., it is luck in the next place, what is this little silver?" Mr. just take it home to see, in case the Lushan official mansion and the family surnamed Wang can't tolerate Mr., please remember that the door of Xiao's Xingtianjun will always be open to Mr., as long as Mr. sends someone to send a letter, even if Xiao leads his division to Lushan County, he must ensure that Mr.'s family is safe! ”

As he spoke, Tietou prepared everything, and sent ten elite subordinates to escort Niu Jinxing's father and son back to their hometown, Niu Jinxing saw that Xiao Tianjian was so enthusiastic, so he didn't make any more excuses, so he hugged his fists and gave Xiao Tianjian a deep salute and said: "Don't thank you for your kindness, but Niu is disrespectful!" I will say goodbye today, I think I will have a chance to say goodbye to the handsome man in the future, and I will say goodbye! ”

Niu Quan also hurriedly followed his father to give Xiao Tianjian a deep salute, and only then after Xiao Tianjian's return salute, he stroked Niu Jinxing and sat in the mule cart.

As the mule cart gradually drove away from Lushi County, after the Xingtian banner fluttering in the camp of the Xingtian Army could no longer be seen, Niu Quan sat in the car and whispered to Niu Jinxing: "Why doesn't Daddy stay here and serve Xiao Dashuai?" Although the child is not talented, he can also see that Xiao Dashuai is not an ordinary person, but a person with great ambitions! Daddy has now been dismissed by the government and is a person with fame, what can he do when he goes home? I'm afraid that even if I continue to teach others to read, I'm afraid it won't be possible! Why go back and suffer the anger of the king? ”

Niu Jinxing leaned on the carriage, his body shook slightly with the shaking of the car, his eyes were slightly closed, he shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Are you blind as a father?" Can't you see that this son is a man with great ambitions? Although he has the idea of recruiting me, you must remember that our current background is not allowed to be reused for the time being, so it is better to wait for the time and see how the world is going! If this person is really a man of destiny, then it is not too late for our father to vote for him again with this friendship between us, not to mention that it is easy for you to say it, we will take refuge in him, once the government knows, don't forget that there are dozens of people in our family, how can the government tolerate them? Don't talk about it, I know what to do, let's go home and have a look! I don't know what's going on at home now! ……”

After watching Niu Jinxing's cart go away, Xiao Tianjian shook his head slightly and smiled, turned around and returned to the camp, scratching his head and asking Xiao Tianjian, "Doesn't the big marshal want Mr. Niu to serve?" Why are you letting him go now? As soon as he leaves like this, will he come back to serve the marshal? This Mr. Niu is also yes, and he doesn't see that the handsome man treats him so politely, but he has to go home? Wouldn't it be better to stay here than to be angry when he went back? ”

Xiao Tianjian said to Tietou as he walked: "Niu Jinxing is indeed a talent, whether it is military or civil affairs, this person is quite talented, as for him to leave this time, let him go first!" You don't have to worry about this, I don't expect that in less than two months, Niu Venus will naturally come to me! If we force him to stay now, it won't necessarily be a good thing, the key now is to do our things first, and when the time comes, will there be fewer people like him who will serve us?

Don't talk nonsense, you pass on my general order, let Luo Li and them come to me immediately to discuss matters, after resting for so long, it looks like spring is about to begin, and we should also be active! ”