Gayan stood in front of him, put his hands on his belly, and said with emotion: "It's not easy."

Li Siye crossed his hands and thanked him: "Thank you to the general for relieving the siege of Heiye, the brothers are deeply anxious, or it may be violated."

Gayancong shook his head and pointed to the head of the city and said, "I'm not saying that it is not easy for you to come out, but that it is not easy for you to be able to share the same desires and the same heart, and the soldiers love you like brothers." If there is such a strong army with one heart and one mind in the future, it does not need much, as long as 10,000 people, it can be invincible in the world. ”

Li Siye looked back, and the soldiers were still squatting on both sides of the grass hall, perhaps out of shame, and did not come out.

He said indifferently: "Their requirements are actually very simple, but they are well fed, warmly dressed, usually able to drink two sips of three pulp, the lady can wear clothes without patches, and the child can grow up with sufficient nutrition, these are enough."

"Is this easy?" Gayan gasped and said, "You are guarding the Green Ridge and capturing the small gate and small households, at most a thousand people, and the military rations are uniformly allocated by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. Where do you know the hardships of feeding the population, I know that the Ministry has multiplied in the Green Mountains for so many years, even in the best years, there are many young children who die of hunger and weakness, and as for the disaster year, how many couples have stillborn children, and we wait for the next year by gnawing on sheepskin felt in the cold winter. ”

Jia Yan seemed to be understated when he said this, but the vicissitudes of life under his old face were painful, and he patted Li Siye on the shoulder and said: "You are still rich in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is in the prosperous era, and the rice in the barns is piled up, and there is so much silk that it can cover all the streets of the two capitals. I remember when I followed my father to Chang'an to confer an official position, I was really shocked by the scene, millions of people living in a big city and not farming, and every day they brought grain, vegetables, wine, and mutton into the city from other places, and they even dumped leftovers in the canals. Not to mention the magnificence of the Daming Palace, I often thought about how blessed the emperor of the Li family must be when I was in the green mountains! In order to possess the richest and most extensive society in the world. ”

After listening to his words, Li Siye couldn't help but look to the southeast, at this moment, Chang'an and Luoyang are indeed in the rain and dew of the prosperous era, but how do they know that this prosperous era is just a flash in the pan of the Han nation in thousands of years of struggle. It seems to be a foregone conclusion, but is it really a foregone conclusion?

Li Siye said goodbye to Jiayancong, turned on his horse, and led Fujimu and Song Heng to the front of the Suojia caravan and walked with Suotong.

When passing by Xi's car, Suo Yuanyu wiped his red eyes and lifted the curtain to glance at him, then sat back and muttered in a low voice: "His heart is so hard, the soldiers under his command knelt down like that, but they didn't shed a single tear." Bystanders, like the two of us, secretly cried several times. ”

After saying that, she choked up, lifted her handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes.

Li Twelve Niang leaned against the wall of the carriage with red eyes and retorted: "What do you know! The man has his own soft intestines, he just doesn't want us to see it!"

Suo Yuanyujiao snorted: "You haven't married Li Lang yet, and you've already started to protect your shortcomings, aren't you a little anxious!"

"You hoof! See if I don't tear your mouth apart!"

Li Twelve Niang burst into tears and laughed, and dragged Suo Yuanyu with both hands to fight with her, and a cheerful laughter like a silver bell came from the carriage.

They led the team around Qingling, and when they looked back, the city of the Green Ridge had disappeared from view. Li Siye resolutely moved forward, followed the team to Yandu Prefecture, then to Shule Town, along the ancient silk road through Weitou Prefecture and Diao City, and finally arrived at Qiuzi Town, where the Anxi Protectorate was located.

Li Siye gave the Suo family's team a ride, and the two sides said goodbye at the east gate of Luntai City. As soon as he arrived at this place, Li Siye seemed to remember a poem in the middle school textbook, as if it was called Bai Xuege to send the military judge back to Beijing. But the poet Cen Shen still doesn't know that he is in that mess, and it will take ten years for him to come to Anxi, but Li Siye is the first to experience the poetic touch.

The few of them led their horses and stood under the air-dried earthen wall, the low grass covered the barren land, and the fluffy thorny willows in the distance were only a few feet high, and they said goodbye to Sotong.

Suo Yuanyu got out of Xi's car and wanted to say goodbye to Li Siye, but she kept looking back at the car, as if she was receiving someone's instructions to remote control.

She pulled Li Siye aside and pretended to be sparse and said, "That, Li Lang, we are so separated, I don't know when we will be able to meet, do you feel ...... Well...... Coming. ”

"Of course, I can't give up!"

"What else?"

"Also, have a nice trip."

“……”

Suo Yuanyu smacked his lips helplessly, twisted his shoulders behind his back and said: "Actually, I pulled you here to tell you that another month is Li Shiniang's birthday, you have to remember this, she was born in the ninth year of Kaiyuan, and she was also born at noon on the sixth day of the ninth month of the ninth month of the Xinyou year."

"I'll tell you again, you have to remember, it's noon on the sixth day of the ninth month of the new year."

Li Siye suddenly felt strange, and suddenly pulled him over to say goodbye, just to tell Li Twelve Niang's birthday? Are you asking me for a birthday present? A month is fleeting, and it is true that you have to prepare in advance, since it is a birthday gift, you can't favor one over the other, so you can simply ask Suo Yuanyu's birthday, and then give her one.

So, he blurted out, "In that case, tell me your birth date too."

Standing not far away, Sotonden's hair stood on end, and he hurriedly turned his back to them, as if he had heard something unsightly.

Suo Yuanyu also blushed suddenly, and scolded shyly and angrily: "You bastard, shameless!"

She turned and flew away from the car, and nearly fell, but she finally threw herself into the rut and crawled into the car with her knees rubbed against her strength.

Fujimaki grew his mouth in surprise, and the word admiration was written all over his face: "I have been in Datang for so long, and I have never seen two women ask for their birthday time in person at the same time?"

"Don't say it's you," Song Heng on the side whispered, "I was born in the Tang Dynasty, and I have never seen it."

Li Siye came back to his senses and patted his head fiercely, how could he ignore this stubble, the woman in the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to inform her birthday, is this a hint of marriage?

Suotong also looked particularly embarrassed here, raised his hands and arched weakly and said, "Si Yelang, don't send it any further, don't leave it at that." ”

So saying, he turned on his horse, swung his whip and swept it on the horse's hips, and followed the marching procession.

Li Siye didn't know whether to catch up and explain to Suo Yuanyu and Li Shiniang, but there was no way to explain him, involving his blind spot of common sense, and the embarrassment in negotiating with the woman, it felt terrifying when he thought about it.

He turned around and asked Fujimu and Song Heng, "Is there any remedy?" ”

Fujimu said with a depressed expression: "Remedy what? You are happy to come to the door, and the flowers bloom twice......"

He ignored Fuji Mu, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was better not to catch up with him and explain, and forcibly explaining it would become darker and darker. Let him pass this matter. The matter of marriage can also be put aside for the time being, although he has just turned twenty-one, he has already entered the ranks of older young people, whether it is Suo Yuanyu or Li Twelve Niang, he has not yet had the urge not to marry her. Impulse...... It seems that I haven't had it in my previous life, so wait and see, anyway, there is no parental urging behind it.