The best way to deal with a money-hungry villain is to do what he likes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Li Sheng's army has no women, but there is money, good food and wine. When a batch of gold, silver and jewelry were secretly sent and a sumptuous dinner table was set up on the surface, Huang Jing's still handsome face was piled up with a happy smile.

In Shi Tao's unconscious open and dark dimension, he became more and more talkative, and he was also full of affection for Li Sheng, who occasionally came over with a few words. Because Shi Tao had already secretly pointed out in his own words that everything today was arranged by Li Sheng, but this young county magistrate's face was a little tender, and he couldn't talk endlessly, and he respected you Huang Changshi is a celebrity in Jiangxia County, so he asked me to accompany him - this is also Li Sheng's kindness.

"It's extreme, it's extreme! Everyone has a different temperament, so don't force it if you don't get used to it. Huang Jing smiled and nodded. In Jiangxia City, he dared to consider himself the boss arrogantly, but in the face of Li Sheng and Shi Tao, who were well-known in the Jingzhou literati circle, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous. He knew that Li Sheng was the Xiyang County Commander directly appointed by Liu Biao, and he was a county commander with soldiers, and he was very familiar with all the adults in Xiangyang, and I heard that he was also the godson-in-law of Lord Liu Biao. For such a promising person, I have to have a good relationship with him no matter what.

Although this "Brother Zixu" can't talk to him deeply because he is not good at words, it's okay, as long as he can convince the Shi Tao he sent, his relationship with him will naturally not be too bad. After all, he had also heard that Shi Tao, who had a good conversation with him, was a close friend of Li Sheng.

On the one hand, he has the heart of filial piety, hoping to have a good relationship with the Huang Zu behind him, and on the other hand, he does not dare to be arrogant, and he also has the heart to get acquainted with a group of people with a slightly lower status here, and the atmosphere of this banquet is naturally harmonious. After a while, after three rounds of drinking, everyone was already slightly drunk and called their brothers. This is in the army, and most of the soldiers attending the meeting are bold soldiers, and they are not used to the slow and methodical way of the literati. This commotion will break out, and there will be no order in the whole banquet, and everyone will be in an uproar, making the entire Chinese army tent extremely lively.

However, Li Sheng couldn't stand such a lively noise, he was a little calm and used a little drink, then stood up with a smile and confessed to Huang Jing, who was sitting next to him: "I can't drink enough, and I am not good at words, so staying here makes Gongzi feel slightly inconvenient." It's better to let the next sit down to rest the meeting, and if there is anything inconsiderate, please forgive the son. ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Huang Jing, who was drunk and hazy, waved his hand and agreed.

Seeing that this "honorable" guest had agreed, Li Sheng left the table and went to Shi Tao and Wei Yan's side and carefully explained to them, so that they could entertain this guest well. Then he bowed his hand to the generals in the tent who were a little drunk and couldn't tell who was who, said a confession, and then walked out of the tent lightly.

Outside the tent, it was a crisp sky. Li Sheng took a few deep breaths of the cool air that belonged to autumn, and tried to make his head look a little drowsy because of drinking. He's not a good cup of things. In the past, he didn't drink much alcohol, at most he drank beer mixed with drinks, and he never touched liquor. Although the concentration of rice wine is not very high in this era, he is still not used to it, because he hates the hot taste of wine.

"If only there was juice!" Li Sheng looked up at the clear night sky in the sky, looking at the bright stars above, but he remembered the good things he was used to before: "If someone told me seven years ago that I would have survived for a long time in a place without a computer, I wouldn't have believed it even if they killed me." Things in the world are really impermanent, but if there is no such impermanence, I am afraid that I will not be on the road I am today, with today's power and the loveliest bell. Is this a gain or a loss? Li Sheng himself didn't know. He has never had time to analyze the past, and he is really a little confused at the moment.

There was a loud cheer in the distance, which immediately interrupted Li Sheng's thoughts. He frowned slightly, and there was an urge in his heart to get angry. Why, he himself doesn't quite know. All he knew was that he was very irritable at the moment.

With a sound of anger, he fled away, and after walking a short distance, he saw a group of people gathered in a corner of the camp, beating vigorously. That's where the uproar came from.

"What's going on? Do they not know that there is no loud noise in the barracks? When Li Sheng saw this, the anger in his chest rose even higher. He hurried to the place, trying to teach them a good lesson and let them know what the rules of the barracks were.

However, gradually walking into this group of people, the anger in Li Sheng's chest slowly cooled down under the blowing of the autumn wind. He found something strange about this group of people: first of all, their weapons were not so regular, axes, spears, bows, crossbows, knives, swords, everything, and most of them were very crude, and seemed to be made by the people, not the standard products of the regular army. Second, these people are acting too casually. Although the murderous aura on their bodies is very strong, and they are indeed people who have experienced the battlefield, they sitting, standing, and walking in a variety of ways, and they do not have the seriousness of many soldiers.

"It's definitely not my own team." Li Sheng quickly understood this, so he hesitated a little as he moved forward. He remembered his guesses about this team, about the leader of this team. "If it's that person, it's really a great help for me to have him coming." He thought to himself, indeed slowing down his pace more and more. At the moment, he no longer had the original idea of wanting to go to Xingshi to ask for guilt, all that was left was some curiosity, curiosity about the leader of this group of people. Because, because of the banquet in the evening, he still hasn't been able to find the true identity of the leader of this team.

Li Sheng quietly leaned over, and saw this group of people with a casual temperament standing together in a circle, looking at the situation in the circle very intently.

"What are they looking at?" With this doubt, Li Sheng walked over very casually. Under the cover of darkness, he pretended to be casual and blended into the group, and he naturally saw the situation in the circle:

I saw that the leader of the team that I had seen during the day was now wielding a short knife and practicing a set of extremely powerful sword techniques in the open space surrounded by everyone. The knife flew up and down in his hand, sometimes a thunderous slash, sometimes a lightning stab, although it was a simple move, but in his hand it revealed something special that might be surprising but indescribable. This is a very imposing sword technique, Li Sheng can feel the anger and unwillingness in his heart and the monstrous battle intent that turned into this anger and unwillingness. This is also a very practical knife technique, because he is simple, there are no superfluous fancy movements, and each blow is completely a practical move made up of simple movements.

Watching quietly from the side, Li Sheng became more and more intoxicated with this knife technique, and seeing that this person was beneficial, he couldn't help but shout "good" loudly with himself around him. He himself has this good, and his voice is quite loud, although it is not very conspicuous among the crowd at the moment, but it also makes the people in the audience look at this side a few times with some consciousness - he is also a master, and his hearing is much more sensitive than ordinary people.

After a set of knife skills was performed, the onlookers naturally burst into enthusiastic cheers. This voice was like the sound that Li Sheng had heard in the distance before, which caused trouble and made him come over angrily, full of chaotic noise. If it was really ahead, Li Sheng would definitely be irritated by the frowning voice. But now, when he found out that it was the person he cared about that caused all this, he turned a little deaf to such a voice. He focused all his energy on the man. Seeing that the man had finished the drill, the master came over and wanted to take a rest, so he hurriedly pushed aside the crowd in front of him and greeted him.

"This general is really a good skill." Li Sheng came to him with a smile and looked at him approvingly.

"Don't dare! It's just a small partial colonel, and he really doesn't deserve to be called a general! Seeing that Li Sheng's clothes were a little luxurious, and knowing that he was a high-status official, the man couldn't help but turn his face slightly, arched his hand and said cautiously: "I am just practicing casually in front of me, and please don't be surprised." He was apparently aware of the order not to make loud noises in the barracks.

"Just practicing casually?" Li Sheng raised his eyebrows lightly when he heard this. He could clearly hear from the man's words that he was alienated from himself.

Such estrangement is something Li Sheng does not want. He still stepped forward enthusiastically and said with a smile: "If you can only practice casually with such sword techniques, I am afraid that there will be no one in the world who can be called strong in martial arts." If you think that all the kung fu can only be regarded as a partial colonel, it is too burying you. ”

"This ......" the man stammered, and the reluctance on his face became more obvious. I was unjust. He had long felt that way.

"Can you borrow a step to speak!" Li Sheng looked at the kaleidoscopic colors on the man's face and smiled more confidently.

"Okay!" The man nodded and agreed.

The two of them pushed through the crowd to a more remote part of the camp. Far from the lights on the outskirts of the camp, the place was completely hidden in darkness by the piles of grain and grass in all directions. Due to the cramped space, there are only enough for two people to walk side by side, so generally no patrols pass by.

"I think you should be Gan Ning Gan Xingba!" The name of the Yangtze River Jinfan' is like thunder! In the dark, Li Sheng said with a smile.

"Are you sarcastic about me? Say I'm a thief? Gan Ning frowned tightly and said in a very impulsive tone. He is now very disgusted with his previous reputation and nickname, and he thinks that he will fall to this point today, which undoubtedly has a lot to do with these things about himself in the past. And he can't let go of his previous things, but he is very disgusted that people mention this matter like this.

"Don't dare! I just admire Xingba's courage and force. After all, it is obviously not possible to be able to crisscross the Yangtze River waterway for so many years, without outstanding books. Li Sheng said sincerely.

"Oh!" Gan Ning's face slowed slightly. He saw Li Sheng's unprejudice from Li Sheng's sincere tone just now, and from his politeness to himself, and felt his politeness to himself. "He's sincere!" Gan Ning confirmed this, and no longer put on a face to treat Li Sheng.

"But what is the use of force and courage alone? I think that my ability on the battlefield is no less than that of any of Huang Zu's generals, but just because I was born as a water thief, I can't be reused by Huang Zu. This time I participated in the defense of Jiangxia with the army, I once shot Ling Cao, the general of the Jiangdong Army, with a bow, I thought that I could be promoted according to this merit, but I didn't want Huang Zu to turn a blind eye, and still took me thinly, only to make me do this despicable thing. And his nephew, such as Huang Jing, has no merit but has been promoted since Changshi, which is really an injustice of the sky. In the face of Li Sheng's sincerity, Gan Ning's heart was sour, and he poured out the dissatisfaction in his heart like a few family treasures: "In this way, I Gan Ning is not convinced." ”

Feeling the dissatisfaction in Gan Ning's heart, Li Sheng was silent for a while before asking, "Then what do you want to do now?" Want to get out of here? ”

"Maybe!" Gan Ning smiled, but this smile was full of bitterness, "But even if I leave Huang Zu, I don't know where I'm going." Originally, I wanted to go to Koto, but now, I may not be able to go there. After all, I just killed their general, and I'm afraid that the people of Jiangdong will hold a grudge against me. ”

"That's ......," Li Sheng nodded understandingly.

As far as he knew, after Gan Ning "later" defected to Eastern Wu, he encountered Ling Cao's son Ling Tong at the banquet who wanted to draw his sword and kill him. If it weren't for Sun Quan and Zhou Yu to maneuver between the two and transfer the two separately, I was afraid that he would be killed by the Dongwu people soon after Gan Ning defected to Dongwu. That was seven years later. Two years later, there are still people who remember the hatred of the present, let alone the present seven years ago. When I was hurting the loss of my family, I suddenly heard that the enemy sent him to the door on his own, but I am afraid that no one will want to let it go.

Gan Ning himself understood this, so he also looked very helpless: "It seems that I still have to stay under Lord Huang Zu for a while and continue to work for him." ”

"It's a pity, Lord Huang Zu doesn't know how to use people." Li Sheng said suffocatingly. He looked up at Gan Ning's sturdy and explosive body, and felt very strange: "Can't you go alone?" Why do you have to keep it? If you're leaving alone, it should be a very easy thing to do. ”

"It was easy for me to leave alone, but I couldn't do it, I couldn't give up on my brothers who had been with me for so long. The hundreds of people under my command have been following me since 'back then', and I can't leave them behind and let them be oppressed by Huang Zu's men. These brothers have suffered a lot over the years because they followed me to the wrong master. Gan Ning shook his head lightly and said with some sadness.

"Then ......" Li Sheng laughed: "Then you can come to me." Although I am only a small prefectural magistrate now, I will not treat you badly. After talking for so long, Li Sheng finally lobbied Gan Ning, and he confided in Gan Ning his true purpose.

"......" Gan Ning was silent for a moment, and his calm face did not change at all, so that people couldn't guess his inner thoughts all the time.

"As far as I know, Master Li is also very dangerous now. The county seat of Xiyang where you are located is already in ruins, and I am afraid that you can't even support your own subordinates, how can you still talk about taking care of my troops? Tonight's conversation with Master Li was short, but our understanding was very deep. I'm confident that Master Li will level this pot of water, but even if it is level, it will make the treatment of my subordinates drop a notch. This made me very difficult, and I did not want to treat my subordinates badly because of my own decisions, nor did I want to let Master Li carry a heavier burden because of this. Let's leave this matter at that! After thinking about it for a long time, Gan Ning finally said something that disappointed Li Sheng. He rejected Li Sheng's solicitation for the simple reason that he believed that Li Sheng could not afford to raise so many troops at the moment.

"That's a shame." Li Sheng's voice suddenly fell, full of frustration that was obvious to the eye. He was very hopeful that he could recruit Gan Ning, a fierce general, but now he directly rejected him, which made him feel very uncomfortable. He fully understood a little meaning from Gan Ning's reason for rejecting him: "Most of the things in this world are only icing on the cake, and few people do it in the snow. In this Han world, both the monarch and the courtiers value a person's reputation and status more than the person's real talent. This point, even a low-born talent like Gan Ning is always not exempt from vulgarity. ”

"It seems that my reputation and status are not enough now." Li Sheng whispered to himself in his heart. This is also a very normal thing, and there is no one under Li Sheng who he persuaded by himself:

Shi Tao is his classmate and friend, and the relationship between the two is extraordinary, so Shi Tao will come to help Li Sheng; Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Peng Ling, and Xu Ding were all Li Sheng's martial arts teachers, and they were not very valued among Liu Biaojun, so it was not too difficult for them to help; Luo Zhao established the relationship between the retainers of the Zhuge family from Li Sheng's father-in-law, Zhuge Xuan, and naturally had to assist Zhuge Xuan's heir Li Sheng; And the last Song De, Zhou Li, and Zhou Rui are Li Sheng's own sworn brothers, so they will naturally assist Li Sheng.

None of them were persuaded by Li Sheng's fame and status to join Li Sheng's camp. It was because he had a deep understanding of Li Sheng, recognized Li Sheng's talents and ambitions, and had a very important connection with Li Sheng. It can be said that they all took a fancy to Li Sheng and helped him, not Li Sheng's status and reputation. After all, Li Sheng doesn't have any status and reputation now, he is just a small county magistrate, just a student who is slightly famous in Xiangyang City.

"In this way, I will stop chattering with the general." Since everything has no result, Li Sheng naturally can't continue to stay. He shrugged his shoulders in silence and turned to leave.

"Wait!" When Li Sheng was about to take the step of leaving, Gan Ning's shout suddenly came from behind.

"What's the matter?" Li Sheng stopped, slowly turned around in the darkness, and looked at Gan Ning calmly.

"I've also vaguely heard about you, and I also know that you have a deep connection with Lord Liu Biao. I don't doubt at all that you'll soon become a taishou. Speaking of this, Gan Ning paused, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "I think you can take me and my brother in after you become a taishou?" ”

"What?" Li Sheng's mouth opened wide in surprise. He was still extremely disappointed just now, but now he was excited by Gan Ning's words. He looked at Gan Ning in a daze, as if to confirm the truth of his words. After looking at it for a long time, he opened his mouth to confirm: "Are you saying that once I can become a taishou, I will be put into my account?" ”

"That's pretty much what it means!" Gan Ning nodded heavily, "If I hadn't joined other forces at that time, I would have wanted to go to your side to ask for a bowl of rice." I also hope that you don't refuse when the time comes. ”

"Aren't you afraid that I will reject you then?" Li Sheng asked him rhetorically.

"Refusal? You won't. Gan Ning shook his head slightly, "There are some people you have been with all your life, and you don't understand what he is thinking. There are some people you can get to know his personality and his personality in just a few words with him. As I understand it, you are the latter and not the former. I can tell from what you said earlier that you really mean. You are a true lover, so when you think I have the potential to work for you, you will not give up even the slightest opportunity. This makes me dare to make such an unreasonable request of you. ”

"Oh?" Hearing Gan Ning say this, Li Sheng was a little embarrassed, he involuntarily touched his nose and muttered in a low voice: "I am like that transparent person, as if I was seen through at a glance." "It's not a wonderful feeling, especially for someone like Li Sheng who wants to do big things.

"Looks like I still have to work hard." Li Sheng found his shortcomings again, and secretly reminded himself in his heart. It's also a big change he's made since he came here. He was originally just a casual person, who liked to live a comfortable life and ignore many of his own problems. But after coming to this troubled world, the uncertainty of the future and the idea of wanting to build a career here in his heart filled him with a nervous sense of crisis. This sense of crisis makes him always vigilant, always check his mistakes, and correct his mistakes at any time.

In Li Sheng's view, only when he himself becomes stronger, can he be more capable of guiding and recruiting more talents to serve him. Although this kind of life is tiring for him, if he is asked to choose again, he will still choose the same path as now. Because he felt that he had set such a goal, then he would undoubtedly have to move towards that goal, and the path he had chosen now was the one that had to be taken to reach that goal.

Having said that, Li Sheng has generally already had a result for tonight's meeting with Gan Ning. Li Sheng himself is not very satisfied with such a result, but he has nothing to do. As Gan Ning said, Li Sheng is now just a county commander, and he can't raise so many troops. Xiyang is small and dilapidated, and the population of the city is pitiful.

Although Li Sheng thinks that there are ways to solve these problems, there is another very important problem that he can never avoid - after receiving Gan Ning, what name will he use to settle Gan Ning? He is now only a small county magistrate, and he does not have much right in this regard. And Gan Ning is different from the rest of his subordinates, he is the person Li Sheng wants to recruit, and he himself has little to do with Li Sheng. Therefore, Li Sheng wants to use someone he can't give a higher rank than Li Sheng himself, otherwise there will be a situation of chaos up and down. This is something that neither Gan Ning nor Li Sheng wants to see.

Therefore, whether Li Sheng wants it or not, it is impossible to directly put Gan Ning under his account at this time. It seems that the method proposed by Gan Ning to give priority to Li Sheng in the future is the best choice for the two on this issue. It's just that such verbal promises are so certain, how much certainty is there in this troubled world? For this, even Li Sheng, who knew the future, was uneasy in his heart.

He knew that the general trend of the whole world would not change much at the moment because of the development of his own small force, but the fate of these people around him was very likely to have undergone all kinds of changes that were completely different from history due to his appearance and involvement. He saw the change, but he couldn't be sure of the fate of the people around him and his own.

With this little confusion, Li Sheng, who broke up with Gan Ning, came to the hill on the edge of the camp, looking at the stars in the sky and was silent. He had wanted to come here to be an independent thinker, but the tranquility of his surroundings and the coolness of the night breeze made it impossible for him to put his mind on thinking about these headaches.

Feeling the softness of the blowing through the hills and meadows, breathing in the absolutely fresh air, Li Sheng lay on the ground in a daze and looked at the magnificent starry sky that he could not see before, and his whole head slowly became ethereal, without thinking, without thinking, his body and soul were surrounded by a gentle comfort, and slowly entered into a kind of beauty that was difficult to allego. This is like a mother's embrace to give oneself a kind of safe tenderness, and like a lover's caress to bring oneself warm joy. In this wonderful, Li Sheng gradually relaxed everything and fell asleep deeply. A man, on top of this empty hillside meadow, gave up everything that had bothered him.