Li Siye laughed and raised the bronze cup in his hand: "Don't say anything else, the feelings are all in the wine, let's go."

"Although General Li's words are vulgar, but it sounds pleasant, let's have one too!"

Seeing that the time had come, he put down his wine glass, stretched out his chopsticks and put a piece of mutton in his mouth to chew, and said, "I, in fact, I can't bear to brothers, I want to gather you by my side and follow me to Qiuzi." But I don't have the ability to bring the Eighth Regiment over. ”

"What's so hard about that?" Yuan Tao's face was flushed, he supported his knees with his hands and said, "Our eighth regiment, who do you like, bring it over!" If Yuan Tao frowned, I would not be your brother!"

"Actually, Yan Xiaosi is good."

"Let him go with you!"

"Du Gui is okay."

"Just make trouble and you break the bones, don't beat him, don't know him, take him away!"

"Zhang Ping's crossbow arrows are good."

"Take it away!"

"Dou Sijing's strength is amazing, suitable for using Mo knives, but it's a pity that our eighth regiment doesn't have such good weapons, if you can enter the Qiuzi Town Striker Team.

"Take him away too!"

”……“

Li Siye said five or six names in a row, Yuan Tao agreed one by one, and the people next to him either drank silently or pretended to be drunk, most of them were among the fifty people in Talas City. Cheng Jichang sat in front of another desk, and when he heard that there was no one in the person mentioned, he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart. Although he said that he was unwilling to go to Qiuzi with Li Siye, Li Siye deliberately did not mention him, did he look down on him

"Cheng Jichang ......"

Chen Jichang's hand holding the wine glass paused, pricking up his ears to listen.

"Cheng Lulu is a good leader of the troops, but the backbone of the Eighth Regiment can't be drained by me, if he leaves, you can't support it alone, so it's better to leave it for you."

Cheng Jichang smiled at the corner of his mouth, raised his head and poured the wine into his stomach, put down the cup and crossed his hand towards Li Siye: "My subordinates wanted to follow the general to fight for a future, but a certain person also has a lot of feelings for the Eighth Regiment, so he is really in a dilemma, but fortunately, General Li made a decision for me, and General Ji Changjing had a drink."

"That's right," Li Siye poured the wine and held the wine glass in both hands: "After I leave, I hope that Cheng Lushu can do his best to assist Captain Yuantao, and the two of you will work together to lead the Eighth Regiment well."

"Take away, take away, take whatever you like." Yuan Tao was already drunken and lying on the table.

Li Siye drank the last glass of wine in his hand, raised the empty glass above his head and downward, not a drop of wine fell to the ground, he buckled the wine cup down on the table, and arched his hand to the brothers present: "You are all the captains, fire commanders, team leaders, and Cheng Lulu of the Eighth Regiment, someone is going to go to Qiuzi with me today, and someone will stay here, no matter where he sits on my ass every day, I will never forget this moment, and I will not forget the brothers of the Eighth Regiment."

He sighed and stood up from the banquet, looked around and said, "Let's go, there is no banquet in the world, take advantage of the sadness and drunkenness, at least it won't be too uncomfortable, say goodbye to the brothers around you, I'll wait for you outside."

After Li Siye said this, he turned around and went downstairs, Tian Zhen and Fujimu glanced back at the messy banquet, and also shook their heads and followed him away.

Yan Xiaosi pulled his legs and wanted to chase after him, but a team member next to him hugged his leg like a drunken mania: "Xiaosi, can't you stop leaving!" Have you forgotten that our brothers drank together, and you forgot that you blocked the knife for me in the city! Ahh

"I'm sorry, Liu San'er, General Li and I have a life-saving grace, you spread it, spread it."

Yan Xiaosi raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes, the red in his eyes was hot, he struggled again, broke free of the other party's arms, and ran down the stairs quickly.

Liu San'er actually lay on the desk and cried, although the rest of the people were not as out of shape as him, after all, they were reluctant to give up with each other, or give up or hug, and some people took advantage of the drunkenness to drink a few sips, saying drunken words of brotherhood, and finally the people who were going to leave still left the banquet, and the remaining dozen people stayed in place and sighed for a long time.

Li Siye settled the account with the owner of the wine shop downstairs, took out a silver ingot from his arms, put it on the wine bar, and said: "The owner, settle the account that the brothers of the Eighth Regiment owed in your wine shop in the past, calculate whether this ingot is enough silver, and I will give it if it is not enough."

The owner did not dare to slack off, and personally took the calculation plan to open the account book for liquidation.

After a while, the shopkeeper timidly crossed his hands and said, "General Li, the brothers of your regiment owe a total of 136,000 yuan on credit in our liquor store, and I have weighed your silver ingot, a total of 622 yuan, according to the conversion ratio of our Anxi, there is still a difference of 124,000 yuan."

"So much! Do you drink wine as water? Li Siye suddenly sobered up halfway.

"Don't dare to deceive General Li, this is the account book, please see it for yourself."

He took the account book and looked through it, the black and hemp words were all names, and he secretly said in his heart that he had forgotten to bring enough money when he went out this time

What he says is equivalent to spilling water, and not bringing enough money is equivalent to slapping himself in the face

He took out the inner pocket of his coat, found two Sassanid gold coins, and handed them to the owner: "Look, is it enough to add these two?"

The scales on the gold coins clanged, crackling and stirring.

"Two gold coins are two taels and six coins, and they can only be worth 23,000 yuan, and there is still a difference of 101,000 yuan."

The shopkeeper stood aside respectfully, and quietly lowered his voice and said: "General Li, I don't think it's as good as this, I will settle the accounts of the brothers of the Eighth Regiment first, how much money is still owed, please leave a token for the general, your faith is clear to us to change the merchants in the city, and the general will come back to me when he raises money in the future, how about"

"No," Li Siye looked up and thought about it, and then asked the shopkeeper, "Do you want pepper?" ”

The shopkeeper's body trembled, his eyes were full of irrepressible surprise, and he asked, "The general has pepper?" How many? ”

Li Siye was surprised, a few catties of pepper excited you like this?

"What are you?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly explained to him: "The general didn't know that Tubo Zampu married his sister to King Xiao Bolu, so that the twenty small countries west of Xiao Bolu all rebelled against Tang and surrendered to Tibet. The Tianzhu trade route was blocked, Tianzhu's specialty dipterocarp, pepper and other spices were transferred to the territory of Bolu and Tubo, and only a small amount of spices could be smuggled over, causing the price of pepper in Anxi to skyrocket, and now it has risen to 400,000 yuan a bucket! Even so, there is still no market. ”

Li Siye licked his lips and said, "No wonder the mutton just now was full of fishy mouths, and I dare to love you without a single pepper." Gotta get me a bag. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly took the silk cloth bag in the store, and followed Li Siye to the bolted horse pile at the entrance of the wine store with Mu Sheng in his hand. He reached for the sack on the fat black back, and the pepper flowed into the bag like a cascade of thin threads.

The shopkeeper's eyes are shining, and General Li has a big treasury by his side!

Li Siye quickly tightened his pockets and said to the shopkeeper: "Measure it, it's enough." ”

The shopkeeper weighed the wooden liters carefully, and the pepper that flowed out was five liters and three he, worth 212,000 yuan. The shopkeeper was reluctant to pour the pepper back, but Li Siye stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Isn't your wine shop short of pepper?" Imagine that I have sold you and paid me the silver and gold. ”

"Okay, okay!" The shopkeeper saluted Li Siye and said: "The general is really benevolent and righteous, he has opened a wine shop in the city of change all his life, and he has never met a general who treats soldiers so leniently. ”

After saying that, the shopkeeper lifted his hem and knelt on the ground, and sat up with his head on the ground, and Li Siye hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

……

After the farewell, everyone had already walked down in a piecemeal manner, and they came to the owner of the wine shop in a disordered manner, and said with their fists clenched: "Shopkeeper, we will be transferred to other places in the future, please settle the accounts of my few people in the past."

The shopkeeper respectfully saluted: "Rank military master, there is no account." General Li has settled all the past credit accounts of the Eighth Regiment. ”

The soldier turned around to see that Li Siye's figure was already outside the door of the wine shop, holding the black and fat horse reins in his hands. They hurriedly went out, stood side by side behind Li Siye and bowed their hands: "General Li is kind, I will not forget it."

"Just a little money, what kind of kindness, bring your armor and luggage, let's go."

"Whoa!"

Li Siye and his entourage of more than 30 people each led their horses, and the horses carried their luggage along the street, and the sunset had begun to appear on the city, and the brown and yellow color of the Tucheng Tower was gradually dyed red.

Upstairs in the restaurant, Yuan Tao and the others opened the window sash with a lamp, and they poked their heads out to look at the procession passing through the city gate. Yuan Tao's heart was undulating, and he had a lot of emotion.

According to the usual practice, after an officer is promoted, he must take away some cronies from the original unit, and this is understandable, and although the incumbent has complaints, he does not dare to openly disagree. As the so-called official university crushes people to death, he didn't expect Li Siye to use this gentle method, in order to take care of his face as a captain and take care of the feelings of the brothers of the Eighth Regiment, it can be regarded as impeccable benevolence and righteousness.

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