Chen Peipei turned around and smiled sweetly at her mother, took a cup of tea handed by the maid, gave it to her mother to drink, took it again, handed it to the maid, and then said softly: "The scenery is good, but I am thinking about something else." www.biquge.info She unconsciously stirred with an embroidered handkerchief in her hand, and said for a moment: "Mother thinks, Zhongguan'er...... How is it? ”

Chen's daughter didn't expect her to ask this. The smile on her face froze, and then she smiled again: "How can you ask like this?" He patted the back of his daughter's hand lovingly and quipped: "There is an old saying, the mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at her son-in-law, the more interesting it is. She deliberately said some folk slang, but Chen Peipei took over the conversation very naturally: "I am both prosperous and lossy with him, and I hope that he will be ...... well" Speaking of this, she showed a serious look on her face, and spoke to her mother in a low voice: "This time we are in danger, Zhong Guan'er came to the rescue, I am really happy." Look at his family guards......"

"A few points better than your father's own soldiers, right?" Chen Shi calmly continued: "Don't say that your father, the pro-soldier of a thousand households, is when he was in Liaodong, your father's general, the pro-soldier team under his command, is also proud of the armies, but compared with the group of soldiers in Zhongguan'er's hand, it is almost meaningless. ”

"Mother!" Chen Peipei screamed in surprise, she was young after all, although she looked calm on weekdays, when she heard these words at first glance, she blurted out: "You mean Zhong Guan'er has a private soldier?!" As soon as the words came out, I heard her sigh softly, and a slender jade hand appeared in the wide sleeve, covering her mouth, and the tips of her ears were a little red - Chen Peipei regretted her gaffe very much.

Chan didn't have any of her concerns. She has followed her husband from Liaodong to Sichuan over the years, and she has been at several life and death moments, if it weren't for the gods, she was afraid that the corpse would turn into a handful of white bones at this moment! The troubled times are coming, and the officer's wife is more distinct than ordinary people - Chen smiled faintly and said: "Military affairs are what those masters in the hall should worry about, and I don't understand your father's military affairs. However, since the beginning of the Wanli year, Liaodong has never stopped; This southwestern border is also not peaceful, I heard that the area of Guanzhong is also a continuous ...... of civil unrest" As he spoke, Chen's voice lowered, and finally there was only a whispered voice: "Ordinary big families still raise some vicious dogs that guard the door, I think Zhong Guan'er's move is not inappropriate." ”

Chen Peipei glanced at his mother, lowered his eyebrows, leaned on Chen's knees, snuggled up to his mother, but there was a thought in his heart: Li Yongzhong was less than a weak crown year, a salt merchant, but in the remote place of eastern Sichuan, he trained soldiers who were not weaker than the elite soldiers of the imperial court, is this a good thing, or ......

In the sound of the carriage, the girl was full of worries, mixed with half worry, half indescribable joy, and fell asleep in the bumps of the mountain road.

When Chen's mother and daughter finally embarked on the journey home again, Li Yongzhong took Wang Huanzhi, He Tai and Cao Jinliang, and then there was a personal little Wutong and the newly promoted new captain Liu Xiaoqi and other comrades - he happened to be on duty to escort - a line of more than a dozen people, when the sky was still bright, they rode a Dian horse, went out of the east gate to cross the Tianjin pontoon bridge, and walked not far away is Tongxin Mountain, according to legend, Ge Xian Weng and Yiren are in this alchemy place, the clouds and mist are shrouded, the scenery is beautiful, the mountains are high and the forests are dense. The group walked and looked, the weather was good, and there was a bit of a sense of outing.

After walking in the mountains for about an hour, then turn from the road into a mountain road, and then walk for a quarter of an hour, the road conditions gradually become steep, the wild stream is surging, the mountain road can only be passed by a single column, the slightest carelessness will be suspended under the feet, although it is not very high, but there is no problem with breaking tendons and fractures.

Seeing that the mountain road was difficult, the group dismounted together, leading the horse to concentrate on the feet and not daring to be distracted. Fortunately, the road was not too long, and the hour of incense was finished, and then an open river beach appeared in front of the unsuspecting crowd. The small river about three zhang wide runs around the mountain, and it is late spring, and the banks are lush and green, and the scenery is lovely.

Li Yongzhong took the lead in jumping off the horse, walked to the river, scooped a handful of water, washed his face happily, and sighed comfortably. He beckoned the others to come over and relax quickly, and after a while, a bold guard rolled up his trousers and went into the water, and walked to the middle of the river to his thighs, he walked back and forth to the opposite bank, and came over to tell Li Yongzhong: "The water is not deep, the ground is full of pebbles, and you can cross it on horseback." ”

He Tai, Cao Jinliang and the others were still in a daze, and after listening to the guard's report, He Tai wiped the water droplets on his face, and asked with some hesitation: "Zhong Guan'er, where is this?" He looked around and said stunned: "I was born in Fushun for so many years, and I have been to Tongxin Mountain a few times, but I never knew that there was such a place in this mountain!" ”

"Haha, don't talk about you, I don't know!" Li Yongzhong took the hand towel handed by Wutong and wiped his face, laughed, obviously extremely happy, he took the horsewhip upside down, pointed to the opposite bank, and said loudly: "The terrain here is flat, and from here to the east for a few miles, there is a big slope of terraced fields!" That's five hectares of land! ”

He looked left and right, and the people who accompanied him, except for Wang Huanzhi's face as usual, were all taken aback by this news! Although the Li family is rich, but the land is not much, one is that the Li family is based on the well field, no better than those landlords and gentry, and secondly, in order to raise capital, Li Qi sold a lot of the land that belonged to the big house, and even the sacrificial field in the public school was almost sold, so in Fushun, the Li family is famous for having wealth and no business, and this industry refers to the field and soil.

He Tai and Cao Jinliang glanced at each other, these two people were smart, but they were the first to react, and said in unison with a happy face: "Liu Sankui!" ”

Wang Huanzhi stroked his beard, smiled with satisfaction when he saw this, and said, "It's the uncle of the Liu family." For the last incident, he sincerely repented, and said that he had to express everything he said, so he said to Zhong Guan'er that the Li family was not rich in land, and as Zhong Guan'er's elder, he could be regarded as making amends to Zhong Guan'er, and it was also a little heart. ”

He ignored the distorted faces of the two opposites, and sighed loudly: "This broke the bones and connected the tendons after all." What's more, the uncle of the Liu family is still the uncle of Brother Zhang's brother-in-law. Because of this, for the sake of Brother Zhang'er's face, Zhong Guan'er is not to blame for the past, and only hopes that the Liu and Li families can cooperate sincerely and help each other in the future. ”

After he said this, Liu Xiaoqi couldn't help it anymore, and they all looked weird, and they almost didn't burst out laughing-they all knew that Liu Sankui was also one of the murderers behind the scenes that day, and several people talked about it in private, and they all said that the main culprit should actually be the cunning uncle of the Liu family, not the eldest young master of the Li family who was stupid and arrogant and intended to murder his own brother. But looking at it now, it should be Liu Sankui who cut a large piece of meat to Li Yongzhong in order to get rid of the crime.

Li Yongzhong also laughed lightly, coughed twice, stopped laughing and said: "That's right, but it is said that it is five hectares of land, in fact, those mountain terraces are not counted, only the good water under the mountain is counted, I have already gone to see it the day before yesterday, there are two whole mountains, there are many trees on the mountain, and the mountains and rivers are quite rich, it is really a treasure land." ”

When he said this, his emotions were also excited--the Li family did not have much land, and Li Yongzhong was a real city man a few hundred years later, and he had not even been to the countryside a few times, and now it was the first time he felt the shock of Tian Lianqianmo, of course, if Chen Xianda was there, I was afraid that he would have to laugh at him for being rare and strange -- in Liaodong, the earth seemed to have no barriers.

"I have decided that in the future, if there are meritorious servants among the guards, I will give him the field to plant! Depending on the merit, he will be spared from the tenant of food! Li Yongzhong said in a deep voice: "In the future, we will have to rely on a spear to walk in salt, and the guard is the top priority, don't be afraid to waste money on me!" There are also you captains," he nodded at Cao Jinliang and the others, and said angrily: "I will not hesitate to reward you for training good soldiers who can fight and dare to rush and prohibit them!" ”

"In the future, the Li family will not only become a first-class salt merchant on the ground in eastern Sichuan, but also make a name for the whole Sichuan! Just like the Hui Gang businessmen, the world knows it! He rarely showed his high-spirited side, pointed to the large landscape in front of him, and shouted: "Give me Li Yongzhong to do things, as long as I work hard, concentrate on everything, and am willing to follow me Li Yongzhong all the way to the dark, I, Li Yongzhong, can eat a mouthful of meat, so I won't let the brothers drink a mouthful of soup, and if I can eat a bowl of rice, I won't let the brothers drink a mouthful of porridge!" ”

Liu Xiaoqi was almost in a dream—a dream he didn't want to wake up from. Li Yongzhong's words were heard word for word in his ears, and the heart in his chest was about to jump out of his throat! The fire that had been extinguished for the time being was rekindled, and his blood was boiling! Since then, Liu Xiaoqi has made a decision that will make him feel extremely wise and lucky in the future - in this life, he has followed Li Yongzhong, which is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, as long as Zhong Guan'er gives an order, if his eyelids blink, he will be raised by his stepmother!

Li Yongzhong looked at the young faces in front of him who were excited and eager to die for him immediately, and sighed softly in his heart, in the face of the coming troubled times, he was still moved after all - he wanted to change his fate unwillingly, wanted to change the regrets he had read, and wanted to change this cannibalistic world - even the scheming Wang Huanzhi never expected that the seemingly cold and rational Li Yongzhong in front of him was backed by the knowledge and experience accumulated in the next four hundred years after experiencing this tragedy of fratricide, In his heart, he planted the ambition to compete for the world.

Standing between the nameless mountains and rivers in eastern Sichuan, a picture scroll called the world finally unfolded in front of Li Yongzhong. Those magnificent poems of iron and fire, blood and tears will shine brightly in the future. The great era that belongs to Li Yongzhong has finally opened a corner in this remote town in eastern Sichuan.

And this, he knows nothing about now. It's just that when the bird's wings pierced the sky, Li Yongzhong seemed to be aware of it, and his gaze crossed the mountains and seemed to see far away.

(End of Volume 1)