Outside Jinan Mansion, on a village of Li Zhong, the two acres of melon fields that he had planted by himself are now growing just right.

As a leader of the Liangshanbo era, Li Zhong is now less than the top and more than the bottom.

Thinking that he was the king of a mountain five or six years ago, and seven or eight years ago, he was a showman who played tricks and sold medicine in the rivers and lakes of the state, and now he is now the deputy head of the soldiers and horses of Qilu Province.

Even if it can't be compared with Han Bolong, it is not inferior to Jiao Ting. The latter is not as high as him in terms of official position, but he guards the palace and can see Lu Qian from time to time.

Li Zhong, who has never had great ambitions, is already smiling in his dreams about his current situation. There are only one hundred, one thousand, and ten thousand loyalties to King Lu, and there is nothing else to speak of.

He is not busy with military affairs in Jingtian on weekdays, and in the land of Qilu, there are two Lei Heng and Huang Xin above Li Zhong, where can Li Zhong be busy every day? Even if it is now a stall for veterans to retire and recruit into the army, there is Lei Heng sitting in the Qilu garrison, and even if Huang Xin, the deputy head of the left of the soldiers and horses, is transferred to the south, Li Zhongwu has his own time to rest in his favorite Zhuangzi for a few days.

At that time, his greatest wish was to make a fortune, and then return to his hometown to buy a few acres of land, marry a daughter-in-law, give birth to a few dolls, and live in peace.

After going to Peach Blossom Mountain, these were buried in his heart. He knows very well that once he enters the green forest, he can't help himself.

I only became a thief for one day, but if the government doesn't give me the clear way, then I will be a sinner for the rest of my life. Therefore, it is that there is wine today and drunk today, just for one to eat and drink comfortably, and to live a day and two nights. Even if he was forced to join Liangshan Shuibo helplessly, he was so psychological. At that time, could you have imagined that there would be today?

Now he is 'famous' and glorifying his ancestors. Two years earlier, I went to Dingyuan, Haozhou, and returned to my hometown. It is his father's mother's wish to overhaul all the graves of his father's and grandmother's ancestors and build a small courtyard of blue bricks and black tiles on the original site of the ancestral house.

It's not that Li Zhong has no money, but that his family's ancestral house is half an acre of land.

However, he donated a school in the neighborhood for the children of the Li family and the children of the neighbors to go to school, and all the pen and ink were free of charge. This is more and longer than Li Zhong's three-day banquet in Dingyuan City, and he earned more and more fame for a while.

Li Zhong consciously has his own ability and strength, and this life will come to an end, and he is also content. The days to come are to run errands, and then to enjoy life.

So he bought land in many places, some farms, some manors, that is, to fulfill the wish of his early years.

Just like the little Zhuangzi now, on a whim, he also went to pick up a hoe and do farm work.

Living like this in the eyes of people with hearts, just like Lei Heng and Sun Li's generation, is wasting time and spending time. But Li Zhong is content and happy, and his life is comfortable.

I rested on the Zhuangzi for two days and eased my spirit. This year, even though the army of Liangshan Army is on the march, the army has its own veterans and recruits to join the army. Qilu garrisoned the army, but he was busy for a while. Although Lei Heng loves drilling machines, he has never monopolized power. When Huang Xin was there, most of this kind of general affairs were handled by Li Zhong under his leadership, as long as he finally sorted out the data summary and handed him a report.

Now that Huang Xin is no more, then Lei Heng will lead Li Zhong to do it, and he will also run up and down with people for a while, and when the matter is dealt with, he will see the opportunity to come to the village to be lazy.

With this nourishing spirit, he wanted to go down to the ground and pour out the wheat. It's already May, and not only the watermelon has lost, but the wheat is also ripe.

Li Zhong not only wants to go to the ground, but also his two nephews and a son and daughter who he raised by his side. Even if the son and daughter were not yet five years old.

Even if it's just to stay on the ground.

This was his wish in his early years. At that time, he had no wife, let alone a field. Now Li Zhong is rich and noble, but he doesn't want to raise his children without diligent and grain. In addition to his earlier wishes, he took his children to work in the fields.

It's just that a sudden guest called Li Zhong's family to come to work in the field for a day came to an abrupt end.

Li Zhong led his nephews and children, all dressed as peasants, and soon after entering the field, he saw a retinue running to Li Fu's ear and muttering, this Li Fu was a confidant that Li Zhong collected when he was in Peach Blossom Mountain, and later retired from the army and became a manager in his house.

Then Li Fu immediately said to Li Zhongyu, but it was Zhou Tong who came to visit.

The little overlord Zhou Tong is worse than Li Zhong, and he is serving as a soldier in Jeju. "How did he get here?"

Without waiting for Li Fu to reply, he hurriedly came out of the wheat field and asked someone to prepare water to wash it.

But it's too late.

Zhou Tong has been lured over. Not far away, I saw a few acres of wheat fields and melon fields on the side, as well as a watermelon shed.

In the shed sat Li Zhong and his sons and nephews, all dressed in the same way: a hat on their heads, a dark cotton towel around their necks, a short suit, sleeves and trouser legs, and coarse cloth shoes on their feet.

Zhou Tong smiled without getting closer. He had heard that Li Zhong had made several Zhuangzi and was still cultivating on the Zhuangzi, but he didn't see him take his children to the field with his own eyes.

When Li Zhong saw Zhou Tong, he didn't get up to greet him, beckoned and smiled: "Brother, come, taste the watermelon planted by my brother!" ”

His two thirteen or fourteen nephews knew that today's descent was over, and led Li Zhong's two children to get up and salute Zhou Tong. Li Zhong waved his hand, and Li Fuzi left with the four.

"The younger brother came to Jinan Mansion to pick up the recruits, and when I heard that my brother was also here, I asked for it." Zhou Tong and Li Zhong had a good relationship, so he sat on a stool while talking, and picked up a piece of melon to eat.

However, everything is based on official business, no matter how good the relationship between Zhou Tong and Li Zhong is, he can only stay in the village for one night, and the next morning he will rush to the Jinan new barracks.

It was Li Zhong who spent five or six days leisurely in the village, and then returned to Yidu.

The reason is not that he is going to be busy again, but that Li Zhong is going to celebrate his fortieth birthday.

This is a whole birthday, and it is natural to celebrate. If the Li Mansion was not lively that day, it was far inferior to Li Zhong compared to Lin Lu and others. But in essence, the right deputy head of the soldiers and horses of a province, the third person in the provincial standing army, is still an old person in Liangshanbo, and some people are stammering.

Taking Mrs. Li Zhong's maiden family as an example, not all the seven aunts and eight aunts came. This is not to see that Li Zhong's family is rich and rich, and he has taken advantage of it, but he has that shallow eyelid, and Wu has already been pressed down. Today is a great opportunity for them to deepen their relationship with the Li family.

The morning was full of joy, and near noon, Li's sister-in-law was a little unable to hold on, so it was convenient for her concubine to go to the small flower hall to sit. Before the bowl of tea was changed, the outside suddenly became lively.

They were about to call someone out to have a look, when a maid ran in and said, "The queen has a reward, quick!" Get out! ”

This Fang Niangniang's position is a little embarrassing, but the queen's position is solid.

The two concubines naturally did not have three inner and outer three layers in the house, and the outer cover was taken off. It's a hot day in May. So I hurriedly dressed up again, and when I entered the main hall of the backyard, all the preparations were ready, and when everyone arrived, I knelt in the courtyard with a large brush.

The aunt who came to present the award looked thirty or forty years old, very dignified, standing there with a straight back, and said a long list of special words, in short, it means that it coincides with an auspicious day, remembering that Li Zhong has been loyal and conscientious for many years, and is very moved, so he will be rewarded today.

Next is a few sets of head noodles, silk and satin, and some rare melons and fruits. For example, lychee and cantaloupe.

The former was offered by the merchants, and the latter was offered by the Uighur envoys of Gaochang.

The Uighurs of Gaochang were very knowledgeable, and immediately after the Liangshan army unified Guanlong, they sent an envoy to visit Yidu. He was accompanied by many tribal envoys from Huangtou Hui and Qingtang Qiang.

The Li family was rewarded by Fang Jinzhi in the back house, and Li Zhong was rewarded by Lu Qian in the front yard. Both husband and wife have worked together many times.

At the beginning, the birthday of the leader of Liangshanbo, Lu Qian asked someone to remember it. When the day comes, there will be a reward, and it will win hearts and minds. Later, he became King Lu, and those people's birthday gifts were saved, and if they were too frequent, they wouldn't be worth much, right? But a whole life like Li Zhong's must have. In such a way, he and Fang Jinzhi were very happy.

The Li Mansion was also full of friends and rejoiced on this day. Drumming and blowing sheng, jubilant. In this large rear area, Wu could not feel the tragedy of the front-line battle at all.

Song Wan sent the gunpowder to the Hengyang army, and it happened to be sunny every day, Lin Chong did not hesitate at all, and called people to make the cave car dig a hole under the city, and the explosion in the afternoon of the same day destroyed the western city wall of Hengyang in one fell swoop.

The loud noise shook the sky, and the dust obscured the day.

The army of Liangshan had already prepared, and immediately beat the trumpet and killed the army. And the western army in the city was so dizzy and panicked that they could still resist it?

The collapse of the city was too traumatic for the defenders, even if there were 30,000 small western troops in the city, even if it was a seed division in Hengyang, Wu Zi was like a rabble, and was defeated and retreated by the Liangshan army that attacked the city.

The latter is like a flood pouring down on the ground, unstoppable.

In a desperate situation, Wu Zi wanted to organize a counterattack by the Western Army, and was finally forced by his generals to escape from the south of the city. The end is like a mountain of defeat.

However, at this time, how easy is it to escape life?

The Liangshan army surrounded and pursued, and how did the division escape out. In the end, more than 1,000 remnants of the contract were surrounded on a hill.

Lin Chong knew that Lu Qian admired the big and small races very much, so he was naturally unwilling to coerce too much. Let people go to persuade them to surrender, but how can they be willing to be old and become a second minister? "I joined the army, and now I am old, can I endure humiliation?"

I know that I am in a desperate situation, and I am dead and lifeless. When he had regained his strength, he shook his spear and led those who were willing to die to rush down the mountain.

The latter has less than 300 people.

At this time, it has reached the time of the card, only to see the northeast corner of the mountain, a cluster of flags, hugging a red Luo umbrella cover, you can vaguely see a person, wearing purple gold armor, holding a long whip, things and things are pointing randomly.

When the seed master was on the mountain, he had already seen the direction clearly, pointed his hand alludedly, and said to Guo Cheng and Guo Hao and his son beside him, "That must be where the general of the Northern Thief is." This is a scourge of the imperial court, and today he is in the battle array, how can we not meet him? I wanted to lead my troops to make a last-ditch fight, but by surprise the thief, I killed him, and cut off the thief's arm. ”

Guo Cheng's father and son were still following the seed master at this moment, and they were loyal ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, and when they heard the voice, they immediately said: "My father and son are willing to die with the prime minister." ”

If the seed master is not happy, he immediately shouts to the soldiers on the mountain, and those who are willing to fight to the death with him will be killed and go down the mountain. If you don't want to, stay in the mountains and surrender later.

As soon as he spoke, the planter turned over his horse, lifted the steel gun in his hand, and rode his horse straight down the mountain.