It is said that the third sparring still ended in the fiasco of Zhang Fei's soldiers, after the sparring ended, the scorpion members who had been straining their faces finally saw the long-lost smile, as Yao Lie said, in order to fight with the Hu people, everyone was tense all the time in this month, and the spirit was already a little unbearable, through a sparring with the soldiers, finally released the nervous and suppressed emotions in their hearts, and the whole person was also refreshed.

Zhang Fei looked at the soldiers below who were beaten again with blue noses and swollen faces, turned his head and said to Liu Yi aggrievedly, "Lord! Look at Lao Yao, they are..."

Liu Yi smiled and comforted Zhang Feidao, "Forget it, who called them inferior skills!" It's normal to get beaten! ”

"That can't be a dead hand!" Zhang Fei shouted dissatisfiedly.

At this time, there were already some people in the field who couldn't even stand up for battle.

Yao Lie looked at those soldiers, and felt a little reluctant in his heart, and said to Zhang Fei, "Oh, Yide, don't be angry!" It's a big deal, I don't want your wine, it's okay, right!? ”

"That's pretty much it!"

......

Liu Yi looked at the soldiers below and said thoughtfully, "In the future, we can't let the soldiers practice against the poisonous scorpion, the gap between the two teams is getting bigger and bigger, and if it goes on like this, it will easily backfire, and when the time comes, it will hit the soldiers' training passion, and it will be worth the loss!" ”

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he pointed to a few lightly injured soldiers in the field and said to Yao Lie, "Yao Lie, how about you take a look at these people?" ”

Yao Lie looked in the direction of Liu Yi's finger and saw that those soldiers did look much stronger than the other soldiers, so he replied, "Lord, I saw that although those people were injured, they seemed to have some strength left, and they were indeed much stronger than others!" ”

"I think so too, since that's the case, let's let these people join the scorpion, after all, the current team of the scorpion is still too small!"

"Hey~ Lord, you are too eccentric! I finally trained a few powerful ones, and you gave them to Lao Yao! After that, I won't be the commander of the light pole! Seeing this, Zhang Fei hurriedly shouted.

Liu Yi looked at Zhang Fei and said, "Yide, don't worry, I didn't say that I asked you to hand over these people for nothing!" ”

"Huh? Then how can you compensate me? Zhang Fei saw that Liu Yi said that he wanted to compensate him, and he suddenly became interested.

"Yide, you are different from Yao Lie's team, the scorpion is a soldier but there are few people, yours is a soldier with excellent soldiers and many people, the scorpion values the ability of individual soldiers, and your troops value teamwork, so I am ready to add a few hundred more people to you, so that your soldiers can reach a thousand!"

When Zhang Fei heard that Liu Yi was going to expand his team, he shouted happily: "That's great!" Thank you, Lord! ”

Yao Lie saw Zhang Fei wagging his tail proudly, and teased, "What's the matter?" Not angry? ”

Zhang Fei saw Yao Lie making fun of him, and scolded with a smile: "I, Zhang Fei, am not the kind of person who picks and searches!" ”

"That's good! Look at your good wines..."

"Don't you just fucking say it!"

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In the end, under the envious gaze of everyone, thirteen soldiers finally joined Yao Lie's scorpion team, and the scorpions under Yao Lie's command suddenly changed from seventeen to thirty.

In the next few days, Liu Yi kept his promise and recruited soldiers in the county, and within two days, he had enough 1,000 soldiers for Zhang Fei, and the new arrivals of more than 800 people, in order to allow these newcomers to quickly enter the state, Liu Yi scattered these recruits, and then each veteran had to bring a few recruits on average.

In the first few days, those veterans were instructed by Liu Yi to hand over the hard work to those recruits to do, and some people complained at first, but after a long time, everyone became familiar with each other, and listened to the veterans talk about the situation when they first started training, especially after being beaten three times by poisonous scorpions, these recruits no longer complained in their hearts, knowing that Liu Yi was to let them grow up as soon as possible.

Time flies, there are still a few days to celebrate the New Year in a blink of an eye, Liu Yi instructed Wang early on, this year must be lively and lively for a year, Wang according to Liu Yi's instructions, early began to order people to dress up the mansion, at this time Liu Yi's house is full of red lanterns, everyone in the house, whether Liu Yi or their subordinates, maids have put on new clothes, everyone is full of happy smiles.

Liu Yi took some money for the soldiers and took a few days off, and those whose homes were in Zhuo County ran back to reunite with their relatives, and those who were not in Zhuo County stayed behind.

In order to allow these soldiers to have a good New Year, Liu Yi specially ordered them to go down and let them celebrate the New Year with Liu Yi and others, and those soldiers were all moved to tears.

Not only the soldiers, but also those people in the Arsenal Division, the treatment is the same as the soldiers, in this way, plus the maids and subordinates in the mansion, the number of people who want to celebrate the New Year together in Liu Yi's mansion this year is nearly six or seven hundred, although Liu Yi's mansion is very large, but there are not so many rooms to accommodate so many people to eat together.

In order to allow everyone to celebrate the New Year in the house, Liu Yi specially instructed Yao Lie to build several interconnected sheds in the open space in the mansion, and each shed has a few cauldrons, just like the sheds for happy events in the countryside now.

Liu Yi specially instructed Cui Si to buy back dozens of pigs, and Zhang Fei was responsible for slaughtering the pigs after they were bought, after all, Zhang Fei used to be a butcher and was very skilled in killing pigs and sheep.

At this time, large pieces of pork were boiling in the cauldron in the shed, and the aroma of pork wafted to half of the county.

......

Finally on the day of the New Year, everyone got up early, Liu Yi just pushed open the door, and saw that his door was full of people, standing at the front were Zhang Fei, Yao Lie, Cui Si, Wang San and Li Blacksmith, then the members of the Scorpion Team and the masters and apprentices of the Arsenal Division, and finally those soldiers and subordinates, everyone saw Liu Yi come out, and they knelt down and said, "I wish the lord good health and all the best!" ”

Liu Yi laughed loudly and asked everyone to get up quickly, everyone stood up and looked at Liu Yi when they heard this, Cui Si on the side walked up to Liu Yi with a lewd smile on his face and said flatteringly, "Lord! We're all giving you New Year's greetings! You see if you also mean "

After speaking, he made a gesture to Liu Yi asking for money.

If this was in the past, Liu Yi would inevitably have to bury Cui Si for a few words, but today is the New Year, and everyone just gave themselves a New Year's greeting, so Liu Yi didn't say Cui Si.

"You kid knows money!" Liu Yi pointed at Cui Sisi and said with a smile.

After speaking, he called the Wang family on the side, and at this time, the Wang family was standing with Wang San, and when he saw Liu Yi summoning him, he hurriedly stepped forward.

"My lord, please command!"

"Brother and sister! You go to the treasury and take out some money to distribute it to everyone, it will be regarded as a New Year's gift for everyone! ”

"No!" Wang's crisp response.

"Thank you, my lord!" Seeing this, everyone thanked happily.

After Liu Yi and everyone finished breakfast, they began to go out with everyone to greet the people.

In other places, the people want to give the officials a New Year's greeting, but Liu Yi went to the people to pay New Year's greetings, which caused a lot of sensation in the county, every household opened their doors to welcome Liu Yi, Liu Yi walked some homes, found that the people were too polite, every time they went to a house, they had to chat a few words, and they couldn't go down to the dark, so Liu Yi ordered Zhang Fei and others to take a part of the people to pay New Year's greetings to the people, and they couldn't go empty-handed. The picture is auspicious.

At noon, everyone finally walked all over the people's homes in the county, paying attention to the gifts given by the people in the county, and they were very happy, although they spent a lot of money today, but Liu Yi bought the love of all the people in the county, and this transaction was not a loss!

When everyone returned to the house, Wang had already set up the banquet with his subordinates, and everyone had been hungry all morning, and everyone sat in the several interconnected sheds and began to drink wine and eat meat.

At first, those soldiers were still a little restrained, after being poured down by Liu Yi and others a few bowls of wine, the atmosphere suddenly became lively, everyone toasted each other with a glass of wine, Liu Yi saw that the wine and food were almost over, so he called the maid and the people to the table to eat together, how could these people have received this kind of courtesy, and they shed tears of emotion.

After everyone finished lunch, Liu Yi began to take everyone to make dumplings, there was already a dumpling at that time, but at that time it was not called dumplings but called "crescent chaos" dumplings were created by Zhang Zhongjing, who was called "medical saint" in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Yi loved dumplings very much when he was a child in his previous life, and every time he came home from winter and summer vacations, his mother would make dumplings for Liu Yi.

Everyone worked hard all afternoon and finally finished wrapping the dumplings, six or seven hundred people ate dumplings, think about how many you need to wrap! Fortunately, making dumplings is not too difficult to do, and many people who don't know how to make dumplings eventually learned to make dumplings under Liu Yi's hand-in-hand teaching.

At night, Liu Yi ordered people to start burning bamboo in the open space in front of the mansion, there were no firecrackers at that time, so they could only use fire to burn the bamboo, so that it burst and make a sound, in order to expel the plague god, in order to make everything go well in the coming year, because when the bamboo burns, it will make a "crackling" sound, so it is called firecrackers.

Liu Yi asked people to prepare a lot of firecrackers, and tonight's weather is better, there is no wind at all, so there is no need to worry about a fire, Liu Yi looked at the raging fire of the bamboo in front of him, listened to the sound of the bamboo bursting, and looked at the children who were jumping around the bamboo fire, Liu Yi felt peaceful at this time.

That night, Liu Yi, Zhang Fei and others were all drunk, but fortunately, Yao Lie was more serious and arranged the rest of the people properly before drinking too much, otherwise everyone might have to sleep in the shed all night.