Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Bonfire Ball

"Third child, why did you come out?" Chen Yu waved his hand to withdraw the personal guards, and saw Li Xuanqing come forward, but saw that his face was still very pale, and a trace of worry suddenly flashed on his face. And Hou Yong on the side also saw it, and secretly glanced at the few people around him, and the pro-guard team who was supposed to retreat in accordance with the order stopped and still stayed by Li Xuanqing's side.

At the moment when Li Xuanqing came out of the account, in an unknown corner behind the iron spear, someone suddenly whispered: "What's the matter, the third child's vision is poison." Now that he's out, let's go over. ”

"I'm fine, the young marshal came to give the order in person, how could I not come out." Li Xuanqing waved his hand, walked up to Han Xun and said with a smile: "Xuanqing's injury has not healed, and his subordinates are abrupt, please don't blame the young marshal, and ask the young marshal to blame here." ”

Han Xun was young after all, and his self-cultivation was not enough, so he was still angry, especially when he saw Li Xuanqing's appearance of bowing his head and saluting, there was a fire in his heart for no reason, but before he could get angry, the iron spear soldiers who had been guarding behind him suddenly separated automatically, and two people came over in the middle, it was Zhang Tianhu and Wan Yi, who were dismissed.

Seeing that the two of them were unharmed, Li Xuanqing also breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly stepped forward to greet the two of them, and said with a smile: "Wei Shuai and the commander make your lord well." ”

"What's good, you kid is bold enough to dare to sneak up on my old man, who gave you such a bold one?" After Zhang Tianhu laughed and scolded, he suddenly punched Li Xuanqing and said angrily: "Also, you called me teacher in front of the two armies before, what's wrong now?" Don't admit it? Or are you trying to fool me again? ”

"Okay, teacher, I was wrong." Li Xuanqing also sighed helplessly, and when he saw Wan Yi who was snickering on the side, he smiled bitterly: "Teacher, you do it lightly, but I was beaten half to death by Li Cunxiao, and I haven't recovered yet." ”

As soon as he said this, Zhang Tianhu's face became extremely solemn, staring at Han Xun who couldn't speak, and said in a deep voice: "Han boy, I remember that Dashuai didn't seem to let you catch Xuanqing, right?" What do you want? Also, if the commander doesn't have an order for you to arrest Li Xuanqing, then the general can only accompany his own soldiers when he leaves the camp, and the iron spears behind you are all your personal soldiers? Do you remember how many pro-soldiers the commander can have according to the regulations? ”

Zhang Tianhu's words were ruthless, and Han Xun was blushing, but the Zhang Tianhu in front of him was one of the people who created the soul of the Lingwu Army in the same era as Han Zun, and enjoyed a unique position in the entire Lingwu Army. So I wanted to refute a few words, but I found that I couldn't say it. Fortunately, Wan Yi on the side relieved him, turned around and ordered the iron spear to retreat.

Seeing Han Xun follow the iron gun away, Zhang Tianhu smiled, took the silk book with the appointment from Chen Yu on the side, and suddenly smiled: "The dragon swims into the sea, and the bird enters the forest." It seems that our Han Dashuai also has times when he is confused. Xuanqing, what do you think of this letter of appointment? ”

"Three years, three years should be about the same." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly, did not continue the topic, but turned to the two of them and said: "Teacher, your actions today are probably taboo, you should be careful in the future, Tie Liang also mentioned this matter to me before." ”

Zhang Tianhu and Wan Yi looked at each other and smiled when they heard this, shook their heads and smiled: "Don't worry about being your Fengzhou inspector, the two of us know it." It's not early, you go to the feast. After that, he glanced around and whispered, "Be careful." After speaking, he didn't wait for Li Xuanqing to reply, and left directly.

Li Xuanqing looked at the backs of the two and muttered for a long time, and called Chen Yu and Hou Yong and said: "Now the Lingwu Army camp is no longer safe, and today we can be regarded as completely offending the young marshal." So Hou Yong, you immediately take the personal guards to find Xu Tianxiang, ask him to speed up, give him ten days, and after ten days, be sure to make all preparations, we will take the Hedong route and make a detour to Fengzhou. Strive to reach the destination at the end of January. After a pause, he nodded to Chen Yu and said, "You immediately go to the rear camp to find the baggage team, gather the people who are willing to go with us, and take advantage of the opportunity for everyone to go to the Hedong Army for a banquet tonight, take them out and find Tianxiang to gather." ”

Hou Yong and Chen Yu saw Li Xuanqing's face extremely solemn, coupled with the confrontation just now, they understood the danger of their group at this moment, and hurriedly acted according to their orders.

Li Xuanqing looked at the sky, and also rode the jade lion towards the Hedong Army camp.

When he arrived at the camp, he saw that Li Cunxiao was already standing at the gate of the camp and waiting, so he hurriedly got off his horse and left the saddle, and smiled at Li Cunxiao: "Xuanqing is late, the general has been waiting for a long time, please atone for your sins." ”

Li Cunxiao also laughed, "Brother, you're late, I'm afraid that you won't be able to get in, so I'm waiting for you here." Let's go inside. After speaking, he pulled Li Xuanqing to his tent, and the jade lion had already been taken away by Li Cunxiao's men.

"Brother, come on, come on, my father-in-law is feasting Han Dashuai and a group of people, I see that these people are not pleasing to the eye and are not arrogant enough, so I prepared a separate table, just the two of us." Li Cunxiao's big tent has already been prepared, obviously waiting for Li Xuanqing for a long time, at this moment Li Cunxiao picked up a large wine glass, pulled Li Xuanqing and said with a smile: "We'll go back when the dance party starts." ”

Li Xuanqing's heart moved, and he was not polite, a wine glass like him was held, and he said with a smile: "Xuanqing is disrespectful, come, General Li, I respect you." "In these years, the wine of the Shatuo people is still the mare's milk wine of the grassland, to be honest, Li Xuanqing also drank it once in his previous life, and it is indeed different from the wine he imagined, but at this moment he had to pinch his nose and take a big sip.

Looking at Li Xuanqing's frowning appearance, Li Cunxiao couldn't help laughing, this was the first time he had drunk, but he didn't care. Li Xuanqing's previous details are estimated to have been almost turned over in the past two days, and a little-known young man was born, so he can naturally get the attention of these big people.

"Brother, look at you like this, no, a manly husband can't be twisted when he drinks, didn't anyone laugh at you when you drank before?" Li Cunxiao said while pouring wine.

"I laughed and laughed, I didn't drink before I left school." Li Xuanqing laughed secretly while accompanying him, this guy is still a coarse and fine person, and he actually knows how to ask his own details by drinking, but he has already thought about this aspect.

Li Cunxiao scratched his head, thought for a moment and said: "I thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with any sect masters in Lingzhou who can teach a talent like you, by the way, don't call me a general, I'm older than you, call me big brother." ”

Li Xuanqing saw his expression as if he was about to stuff the wine jug into his mouth without changing his words, and said with a smile: "Okay, big brother." I said you can't bully me with alcohol. Little brother, this is really willing to bow down. I learned everything in the teacher's school, but I didn't learn to drink. ”

"Oh, what kind of sect is this?" Li Cunxiao originally wanted to find out Li Xuanqing's origin, but when he saw that he had the intention of taking the initiative to say it, he suddenly stopped.

Li Xuanqing had thought about these things a long time ago, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, and said some things about Guigumen, but Guigumen was changed to a ghost gate and became a hidden Jianghu sect. As far as Li Xuanqing's memory of martial arts novels in his previous life, making up this kind of story is naturally for Li Cunxiao to be stunned. So after listening to Li Xuanqing's introduction, Li Cunxiao sighed: "Brother, your luck is really good, there is such good luck in escaping from the tiger's mouth without dying, why don't I have this blessing?" ”

Li Xuanqing was completely amused by his expression, "Big brother, you are already the first in the world as a self-taught talent, and you still think about this, and you still don't let people live?" Didn't I, who learned martial arts, be beaten half to death by you? ”

"It's not the same, I'm born, there is only one Li Cunxiao in the world, but according to what you said, the ghost sect can teach a group of disciples like you, and you are still very powerful." Li Cunxiao sighed while pouring wine into his mouth, and his expression and demeanor suddenly made Li Xuanqing feel that this first general of the fifth generation also had a cute side.

"Brother, His Majesty the Emperor will return to Chang'an soon, and the Lingwu Army should also return to Lingzhou, I don't know what the plans are?" After a while, Li Cunxiao suddenly asked.

I still have to come, but I've been waiting for this sentence for so long. So when he saw Li Cunxiao asking, he deliberately smiled bitterly: "Our Han Dashuai gave an official of the Fengzhou Inspectorate, and it is estimated that I will be asked to go to the border in a while." ”

"Toyosu? The station of the Tiande army? After Li Cunxiao muttered a few times, he smiled and said, "Your Han Dashuai is really good to you, what are you going to do?" ”

"What else can I do? My teacher is still in Lingzhou, so I have to go to work. Li Xuanqing also sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Big brother, if I open my mouth at that time, you will have to help me." If you can't get along one day, you can't leave me alone. ”

Li Cunxiao smiled slightly, picked up his wine glass, and said with a smile: "That's, can I still say a word when your brother speaks?" As long as the elder brother says, the guarantee of being an elder brother will be done properly for you, if you are not used to staying in Fengzhou, come to Jinyang to find me, and I will let my father-in-law also give you a Taibao, how about it? ”

Li Xuanqing laughed and nodded, "This is what you said, you are not allowed to repay the account when the time comes, if I can't get along, I will definitely rob you." After speaking, he drank it all, smacked his lips randomly, and continued: "Now that the weather is cold, I plan to borrow the road from Hedong to Fengzhou, big brother, you have to give me a pass at that time, otherwise I really don't know if I can toss to Fengzhou." ”

"That's it, this is my order, you can get it unimpeded when you take it, and I will have people prepare grain and grass for you along the way, so I can't make you unable to get to Fengzhou." But brother, how much do you know about the situation in that place? Li Cunxiao was obviously prepared, reached out and took out a token of his own from his arms and threw it to Li Xuanqing, followed by a straight face and said solemnly.

Li Xuanqing knew that this guy was going to dig out some dry goods for himself, so he hurriedly leaned over, "I was about to ask my brother for advice." "But Li Xuanqing obviously reacted a little strangely to Li Cunxiao, even if this guy got Li Keyong's hint, he couldn't give himself so many things for nothing, right? I was kind enough to point out to myself.

Li Cunxiao introduced the basic situation of Fengzhou at the moment, the Shatuo people originated in the grassland, and naturally knew more clearly about this Hetao area than Li Xuanqing, especially the year before last when they fought with the Dangxiang people in Nanyuan near Fengzhou.

With Li Cunxiao's narration, Li Xuanqing also generally understood the current situation of this granary of later generations, and it was really a little better than he expected, but it was not much better. After the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Han people declined, and many of the farmland that was originally cultivated has now degraded into grasslands, and due to the increase in trade with the Uighurs, bandits are rampant, and the people are withered, and the population has been greatly weakened compared with the Tang Dynasty. Due to the good relationship between the Tiande army and the Uighurs, the number was very low, and it did not even have the name of a military town, and its subordination was still under the name of Lingzhou.

After Li Xuanqing silently digested this knowledge, he picked up his wine glass and said, "Does the eldest brother have any advice?" He didn't believe this guy would be kind enough to tell him this. The so-called courtesy to others must be sought.

"Be wary of the party members, these guys are all scum who don't believe their words, don't believe their words." Li Cunxiao was very satisfied with Li Xuanqing's reaction, so he also said his thoughts, and said in a low voice: "And in the future, if the old brother asks you for something, you have to help." ”

Li Xuanqing was stunned for a moment, and then understood the meaning of his first half of the sentence, the party and the Shatuo people have been fighting in recent years, and he went to Fengzhou to help contain the party members, which he had already reacted to when he said just now that he was vigilant against the party members, but what did the second half of the sentence mean?

"It's getting late, the dance has begun, let's get over." Li Cunxiao saw that he was still thinking about what he had just said and knew that he had listened to it, so he laughed, pulled Li Xuanqing and walked out.

Although the Shatuo people have been in Bingzhou for many years, they still maintain the customs on the grassland of that year, and this bonfire dance is a group of people singing and dancing, eating and drinking around the bonfire that is burning Zhengwang. When Li Xuanqing saw Han Zun sitting next to Li Keyong from a distance, he hurriedly grabbed Li Cunxiao and whispered a few words.

Li Cunxiao nodded, and asked one of the guards beside him to hurry away with Li Xuanqing, avoiding Han Zun's figure.

And Li Cunxiao was silent for a long time after seeing Li Xuanqing disappear into the darkness before walking towards Li Keyong.