Li Tao said to Kang Lu: "Come and taste the ancient wine, this is the latest superb, fierce and ruthless, today we are drunk." ”

Speaking of this, Li Tao looked at Li Bai again: "The two of us haven't drunk for a long time, so let's let go of drinking today, let me see if you can drink well." ”

Li Tao muttered: "King Jun, it's okay to drink, but you have to promise me one thing!" ”

Li Tao was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "You also told me about the conditions, you say, what's the matter?" ”

"Next time you go to war, you have to take me with you, you can't leave me in the mansion anymore." Li Bai said.

"That's not going to work!" Li Tao refused.

"Why?" Li Bai suddenly became anxious.

"Unless ......," Li Tao pretended to think.

"Unless what?" Li Bai asked anxiously.

"Unless you drink more than I do, and write poetry better than I do."

"Huh?" Li Bai was stunned: "Why is this?" ”

Li Tao laughed and said: "You don't have to worry about this, if you can do these two things, I will take you next time." ”

Li Tao bit his lip and said fiercely: "A word is a certainty, if I do these two things, the king of the county can't break his word." ”

Li Tao said seriously: "If you do it, I will never break my word, and Uncle Yue can testify." ”

After that, Li Tao was secretly happy in his heart: he must not let Li Bai waste such a good billet in his hands, he must restore the poet fairy Li Bai who has hundreds of poems about fighting wine, and with the poet fairy as his guard, it must feel very cool.

Everyone saw Li Bai smirking alone, and for some reason, they all looked at him in a daze. The banquet suddenly became cold.

Kang Lu picked up his wine glass and said to Li Tao: "King Lantian, it is my honor for Kang Lu to be your friend. Come! I toast you! ”

Li Tao came to his senses at this time, he raised his glass with a smile and said boldly: "Come, let's do it." ”

"Wait!" Xue Lian grabbed Kang Lu's arm on the side.

"What's wrong?" Kang Lu turned his head and said.

"Have you forgotten about the day after tomorrow?" Xue Lian reminded.

Kang Lu was silent for a moment, and then said: "It's okay, I know what will happen the day after tomorrow." Today, we invite the king of Lantian to dinner, how can we not drink. Isn't that rude? ”

Xue Lian nodded and said, "Otherwise, I'll toast King Lantian for you, and you will prepare for the day after tomorrow." ”

Kang Lu waved his hand and said, "What are you talking about?" I, a big man, asked you to toast for me, didn't I understand that King Lantian would look down on me? ”

Li Tao put the wine glass on the table and asked, "Brother Kang, I don't know what will happen to you the day after tomorrow, you have to be so cautious?" ”

Kang Luqiang smiled: "It's not a big deal. Leave him alone. Lantian King, come! We drink. ”

Li Tao said dissatisfiedly: "Since we are friends, we have to put our hearts in our hearts, Brother Kang is so evasive, don't you treat me Li Tao as a friend?" Besides, drinking should be refreshing, you have something hidden in your heart, and I am also awkward in my heart. If so, don't drink it. ”

Kang Lu heard Li Tao say this. He was also quite reluctant in his heart, and he said embarrassedly: "It's not that I don't talk about it with King Lantian, but I'm afraid that this matter will make you laugh." Since King Lantian is willing to listen, then I'll talk about it! ”

Xue Lian said on the side: "It's up to me to talk about this matter......

It turned out that Kang Lu and Xue Lian were a pair of lovers, but they couldn't get together, all because of the grievances between their two families.

The war between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks ended, the Western Turk Khan Ashina Helu was captured, and the Western Turks perished. The Tang Dynasty appointed Ashina Xuelian's grandfather, Ashina Mishe, as the protector of Kunling, under the jurisdiction of the Wulu Army, and gave him the title of Khan of the Past and the Dead. Turgish is one of the five great sips, and Mohedagan of Ashina Huthro is Kanglu's grandfather, the leader of Turgish. After Ashina Huthero returned to the feud, he favored his own surname in dealing with internal contradictions, protected the status of the Turkic nobles, and aroused the dissatisfaction of the Turkic tribes with different surnames. Wu Zhile can Fu Shi, has prestige, Hu people are obedient, so he rises, and puts 20 governors, each supervising 7,000 soldiers, with the broken leaf city of the Chu River valley as the big tooth, and the Gongyue City of the Ili River valley as the small tooth.

In the third year of Chang'an, Uzile openly raised troops to resist Ashina Hu Sero, and the war spread, resulting in the defeat of Ashina Hu Sero, and most of the feudal territory under its jurisdiction was annexed by Uzhile. This major change in the political situation in the Western Regions was not noticed by the Tang Dynasty in time, and for a period of time it still adhered to the traditional policy of supporting the Western Turkic Khanates with the ten surnames of kings, and the result was that they constantly hit a wall.

After the death of Ashina Hu Seluo, he came to the imperial court to canonize Ashina Xuelian's father, Ashina Yuanqing, as the general of Zuo Yuxuanwei, the protector of Kunling, and the Khan of Xingxi, who ruled the five divisions of Dulu. In the second year of Shenlong, the eldest son of Uzile, who was Kanglu's father, Suo Ge, succeeded him as the leader of the Turgish. Ashina Yuanqing and Suo Ge are still opposed, and Guo Yuanzhen, the protector of Anxi, is the main protector of Anxi, and he strongly advocates the pacification of Tuqi Shi, promoting the transformation of Tang Dynasty's policy to reality. As a result, Ashina Yuanqing had to return to Chang'an, and later he was falsely killed by the cool official Lai Junchen, and Ashina Yuanqing's son and Ashina Snow Lotus's brother Ashina Xian was also exiled to Yazhou.

In the first year of Shenlong, Ashina Xian was recalled to Chang'an from the place of exile, but he was not given any official position or errand, and the former glory of the Ashina family has long been gone. On the contrary, the Tang Dynasty named Suo Ge as the fourteenth surname of the Turgish, and recognized the emerging Turgish Khanate, and allied with it to jointly defeat the Later Eastern Turkic Khanate, which made Ashina Xian very dissatisfied. Kang Lu, as the proton sent to Chang'an by Suo Ge, and his love with Ashina Snow Lotus was naturally opposed by Ashina Xian.

After Li Tao knew what was going on, he asked puzzledly: "Then what are the things you said about the day after tomorrow?" ”

Ashina Xuelian said: "Kang Lu proposed to his brother, and my brother objected to my relationship with Kang Lu, but it was inconvenient to tell Kang Lu the reason, so he gave Kang Lu a problem, that is, the competition. My brother made it clear that if Kang Lu could defeat him, he would allow me to marry him. ”

Li Tao asked, "Isn't it that Kang Lu can't beat your brother?" ”

"Kang Lu's martial arts are not weak, but my brother has also practiced diligently over the years, and the two are equal. The two of them have to compete every year, but each time it always ends in a draw, this is the fourth year, and the day after tomorrow is the day they agreed to compete. ”

Li Tao looked at Kang Lu: "Are you sure that you can win against Snow Lotus's brother the day after tomorrow?" ”

Kang Lu smiled bitterly: "The two of us are between the two of us, if I am on the battlefield, I may still be able to defeat him, but after all, he is Xuelian's brother, and he can't fight to the death in the competition, how can he be sure of winning?" ”

"So, even if you don't drink, you don't necessarily win?" Li Tao asked again.

Kang Lu was silent, but he was helpless.

"Then you might as well let it go!" Li Tao said disapprovingly.

"But......" Xue Lian was anxious, but she didn't know what to say.

Li Tao smiled: "Your brother has a knot, so he doesn't want you to marry Kang Lu, the competition is just an excuse, even if Kang Lu wins, he will find other reasons to refuse Kang Lu." Therefore, the victory or defeat of the competition is not the key, the key is to untie his heart knot, so that everything can be done. ”

"What Lantian King said is right!" Xue Lian nodded, and she asked again, "But how can I untie the knot in his heart?" ”

Li Tao glanced at Kang Lu and said to Xue Lian: "Drink!" ”

"Drinking?" Xue Lian was confused by Li Tao.

Kang Lu seemed to understand a little: "King Lantian means to drink first, and you have a way to solve our affairs." ”

Li Tao said with a smile: "After drinking, there is naturally a way to solve it, but if you don't drink, then I'm afraid there is no way." ”

"Then I'll drink too, let's accompany Lantian Wang to get drunk!" Xue Lian was overjoyed when she heard this.

Li Tao teased: "If I were your brother, I wouldn't be happy, are you so anxious to marry yourself?" ”

Although Snow Lotus has the straightforwardness of the grassland daughter's family, she was also embarrassed by Li Tao's words.

…… (To be continued......)