Chapter 203: The Feast of the Hung Gate (2)

Chongzheng's 40th Chinese New Year's Eve

Lanzhou West City Gate

The new year is goodbye to the old year, the earth is changing the new year, this sentence sounds jubilant, in every corner of the Great Xia Dynasty will not be an exception, even in Lanzhou on the cusp of this storm, yesterday's war does not seem to affect the joy of the festival,

The merchants in the city who have closed their shops early in the past seem to be still open today, regardless of the size of this door, they are a pair of couplets with a young spirit hanging at the door, and a big blessing word in the middle seems to be pasted on the heart of every jubilant person.

The stall owner cat was in his own small room, lit the firewood in the stove, killed the two chickens sent by Meng Qi in the afternoon, and was about to give his daughter a full stew of a pot of broth that she hadn't eaten for a long time, and her daughter Zhou Juan'er raised the fire in the house and stayed quietly in the warm room, waiting for the delicious food in her father's hands, thinking about General Meng, who came in a hurry in the afternoon but left in a hurry.

At the same time, Liu Siyi in the house of An Yi temporarily acted as a housewife, wrapped a dozen taels of silver in red paper, distributed them to various family members and maids, lit a few red candles in his own house, made three or two side dishes and served a few plates of favorite melons and fruits, and followed An Xin and the two of them to sit around the table and chat.

Originally, the little girl An Xin was full of joy and was thinking about how to spend this wonderful night with Gao Ciyi, but she didn't think that her brother would come back in the evening and take her Ah Yi away.

Well, every family has its own way of life, but everyone on this land and under this night sky must pass, even the sergeant on duty on the city wall is no exception...........

According to the comfortable military order, the person in charge of the night guard at the west gate of the city tonight is the man and horse of Gu Chenxi, the right guard of Chengdu.

If according to the previous nature, this Chinese New Year's Eve was comfortably arranged to come here to blow the northwest wind on the city wall, Gu Chenxi would have already begun to curse the street, or hide in the city gate building and not even show his face, but it has never been like today, half an hour has not come back and forth on the city wall three or five times, eyes intentionally or unintentionally swept the tightly closed Lanzhou West City Gate, I don't know if it is waiting for something, the Chengdu right guard on the city wall is also very different from usual, They all looked like they were facing a great enemy, looking at the quiet northwest under the night.

He Liu carried a saber on his shoulder, walked up from the city with small steps, and then glanced at Gu Chenxi from a distance.

Gu Chenxi understood, he habitually looked left and right, and then walked towards He Liu's side as if he had no intention of it, and when he was about to reach the place, his body suddenly changed, and he followed He Liu's side to the shadow of the city tower.

"How's it going, is there any news?"

He Liu made a reassuring gesture to him, and responded: "The old time remains the same, when the time comes, raise three torches as a signal, and three thousand of them will come to seize the door first, and then five thousand people will come in and break the city, and then the army will surround Lanzhou, and we will be considered a great success." ”

Gu Chenxi nodded, "I know, there's nothing wrong here, but how do we get out?" ”

"Don't worry, I've arranged everything, and I'll have someone pick you up when the time comes. Lord Yong has already promised us, and when the matter is completed, let me be a Marquis of Wu'an and seal you a Marquis of Ping, and the two of us will go to Wangjing to enjoy happiness! ”

Gu Chenxi looked even happier than the New Year, and responded to He Liu.

The two men were discussing when they were interrupted by a commander of the right guard, who knelt down on one knee and reported to them:

"General Qiyu, Lord Baihu, and Lord An, the chief soldier of Gansu Town, came to invite the two, saying that they had set up a banquet in the army tonight and invited the two to spend the festival together."

After hearing this, He Liu frowned and asked, "Did Lord General Bing only invite us?" ”

"As far as Xiao knows, General Liu Biao of Lanzhou and General Jiang Shang of Sichuan Green Camp are among the invitees."

"Okay, got it, you go down!"

Gu Chenxi waved his hand at the commander to signal him to retreat, and after hesitating alone for a while, he asked with some concern: "Sixth son, is this comfort already suspicious of us?" Don't do it to us, do you? Do you want us to shirk it and drag the time to the sub-hour? ”

He Liu thought about it, but shook his head, "Impossible, here he said let's go, we have to have a reason to drag here, right?" Besides, this comfort has always believed in me before, even if he suspects that the news I gave him is not true, it is impossible to expect it to be today, unless he is Zhuge Liang who can pinch and calculate! ”

"Then you mean that Comfort didn't see through us?"

He Liu nodded noncommittally, stared at Gu Chenxi and said, "I don't think it's possible, didn't you hear that there is still that Lanzhou general in the dinner you just said?" I heard that there was some friction with An Yi's firearms battalion a few days ago, and Liu Biao also said a few words about An Yi, and he took it on the spot. I think he may also take the opportunity of this Chinese New Year's Eve to ease the relationship between the two of them, we and Jiang Shang, maybe there are others, I think he asked us to go to eighty percent to accompany the guests. ”

Gu Chenxi was a little puzzled, "Is this Lanzhou general so big?" Do you still need that comfort to take the initiative to show favor to him? ”

"Hmph~"

He Liu smiled with disdain on his face, as if he had encountered something proud, and responded to him: "Second uncle doesn't know yet, right?" This Liu Biao's sister is the famous Concubine Hui! I'm afraid that this comfort may not have known for a long time, so he rushed to make amends to others, otherwise he could put a Lanzhou general who came out of nowhere? ”

Gu Chenxi thought about it and felt that what He Liu said was like this, after all, Concubine Hui Niangniang is now the top of the emperor's heart, even if she is comfortable and has the king of Shu as a backer, she can't stand the wind blowing hard on the pillow, offending her younger brother Liu Biao, isn't this looking for trouble with herself,

"In that case, let's go to the feast."

But when it comes to this, He Liu doesn't understand it a little, if you want to say that you will accompany the guest, you will accompany the guest, and you will get it if you call Gu Chenxi, why call yourself? I have never heard of the principle that the general soldier invites guests and calls hundreds of households to accompany them.

He Liu gave Gu Chenxi what he was thinking about, who knew that the Lord who had just made up his mind to be the commander immediately became empty when he heard this, "Or ........ Why don't we leave someone behind? Otherwise, if something really happens, or if the banquet is really delayed, he will act here in advance, and we will find a way to get out ourselves? ”

He Liu immediately shook his head after hearing this, and said, "No! No one can believe this matter except for the two of us, this entire Chengdu Right Guard will be the target of the Liao people at that time, how can anyone do things for us. ”

"How's that to be?"

He Liu stroked his head and thought about it carefully, and only after about a long time did he speak: "In this way, you arrange for someone to go to the camp to call us at the beginning of the hour, and say that there are soldiers in the camp to fight privately, this excuse I want to be comfortable and I won't say anything, when the time comes, I will come back to preside over the overall situation, and you will stabilize them there first." Once this is done on my side, they will all know, and then you will take advantage of the chaos to leave the city, and I will let the person who will answer you wait for you outside the city. ”

Gu Chenxi has always been obedient to He Liuyan anyway, and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded and said, "Okay!" Then listen to you! That's it! ”

After answering him, Gu Chenxi turned around and returned to the city wall, found the thousands of households in the army according to what he said, and whispered a few words, and then followed He Liu down the city wall, followed the sergeant waiting under the city, and went to the banquet.........

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An Yi set up this banquet in Jiang Shang's camp, for which Jiang Shang also cleaned up his Chinese army tent, a table full of all kinds of wine and meat dishes, and even a lot of fruits and pastries that are rare in the northwest, it can be said that even if this table is placed in front of the table of Chongzheng in the Qingcheng Palace, it will not be rude at all.

When Gu Chenxi and He Liu entered the tent, the people at this banquet were basically all there.

He Liu glanced at the table with his eyes, in addition to Liu Biao and Jiang Shang, who already knew about it, there were also Lin Muzhi, Jiang Yun, Zhao Shuang and Zhao Lingfeng, these people He Liu was not very familiar with him, but it didn't matter, after all, he was not the protagonist tonight, I wanted to come and drink with them like them,

And the most important thing is that several capable generals under An Yi's hands are sitting here, which also makes He Liu's heart feel a lot easier.

Standing in front of the main seat, Yi Yi seemed to see that everyone was almost all there, and raised his hand in front of him with a smile, as if he was going to signal everyone to sit down,

As a result, An Yi didn't speak yet, and Liu Biao, who was sitting on the second seat, spoke coldly first:

"Don't hold back, all sit, all sit."

After speaking, he sat down on the chair with his own ass, picked up the tea cup in front of him, and poured it as if no one was around, but it looked very ugly to hang comfortably on the spot.

The surrounding generals can be said to be all hand-drawn out of Anyi, and they were not interested in this Lanzhou general, but they didn't expect Liu Biao to come up and give them a score without knowing the size, and the faces of the proud soldiers who were happy just now took advantage of this solar term were ugly.

Especially Lin Muzhi, who had a fiery temper, slapped his palm on the table with a "snap", smashed the bottles and cans on the table and clanged, and stretched out his hand to point at Liu Biao and was about to scold his mother.

It was An Yi who glanced at him in time to suppress Lin Muzhi from having a seizure, Lin Muzhi just glanced at Liu Biao viciously with his eyes, and then this evil man with a scar on his face fell back to his seat like an angry little daughter-in-law, and drank the tea cup in front of him as if he was drinking.

"Yes, yes, General Liu is right, everyone sits, everyone sits."

An Yi then echoed Liu Biao with a smile and motioned for everyone to sit down, but everyone seemed to be a little comfortable and was robbed of the main seat, and those who didn't know thought that he Liu Biao was sitting on the main seat.

It stands to reason that no one is blind, although Lin Muzhi was stopped by An Yi and did not scold Liu Biao's face, but what do the people around him mean in their hearts?

But this Liu Biao is like a person who has nothing to do, not only did he not restrain himself, but while sipping tea, he frowned and said unhappily: "I said Lord An, you are also a member of the party, and you drink these teas every day?" It's too cheap, right? ”

Before An Yi could answer, Jiang Yun interjected first, and he sneered and teased: "Our adults have always been thrifty, how can we be like General Liu, who has a precious armor, and walks with the sound of a golden iron horse, it's really not majestic!" I wonder why I'm not on my body today? ”

"Hahaha!"

The few people around who had seen Liu Biao's set of Ao Long Treasure Armor would laugh heartily, knowing that Jiang Yun was ridiculing him for his extremely inappropriate dress.

Liu Biao also smiled slightly after hearing this, as if he didn't care at all, he didn't raise his eyes and pulled the ink-colored Xuanwen brocade robe that he just wore on his body today, and he didn't know how, a good set of extravagant satin, which was worn by him with a ruffian,

"Precious armor is never a reason for others to give you the stairs."

After saying this, the people around him were stunned, what kind of thing is this donkey lips not the horse's mouth?

Only the comfort who was holding the tea to his mouth, smiled without a trace at the corner of his mouth,

Liu Biao looked at the crowd and didn't react, and waved his hand impatiently: "Forget it, you don't understand, I said Lord An, why don't we start?" ”

After listening to this, An Yi nodded at him with a smile, looked like he was obeying Liu Biao's order, and poured the tea cup in front of him again, raised it high towards the people in front of the table, and said loudly: "The Spring Festival, the moment of family reunion, you are far away in the northwest to go to the national disaster, An Yi is here to say thank you to the court and the elders of your hometown!" It's not that Anyi is reluctant to entertain with good wine, you are all in military affairs, let's gather in the camp today to talk about tea instead of wine, and when we triumph, Anyi promised you, I will accompany you to have a good drink! ”

"Good!"

"Good!"

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As soon as An Yi's words came out, it was regarded as the fire at the banquet just now. The smell of medicine has disappeared a lot, and these generals are also looking for some reasons to give An Yi a glass of "wine", say a few auspicious words, and it is also very festive and lively, but no one cares about Liu Biao.

In the end, he was still comfortable, filled with a cup of tea, and brought it to Liu Biao with a smile.

"General Liu, have a drink?"

That Liu Biao said a light "um" very disappreciatively, and then picked up the cup and touched it with An Yi very copingly, took a few sips casually, and put it on the table.

However, An Yi drank the tea cup very seriously, and then smiled and gestured to Liu Biao with the bottom of the empty cup, but Liu Biao did not raise his eyelids from beginning to end.

He Liu saw all this in his eyes, no matter what he said, what An Yi did tonight was a little ....... Groveling, he sneered and leaned into Gu Chenxi's ear and whispered: "This comfort also knows that the concubine can't afford to offend, so she stammered." Look at it, as long as you have a tough backer, what white tiger god, not all of them are as well-behaved as cats. ”