The maidservants finally left, and only Li Siye, Mei'er and Li Twelve Niang were left in the main hall, and the dining atmosphere seemed quiet.

Twelve Niang's chopsticks paused in the air, lying on the desk and staring at Li Siye opposite.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw the eyes of Twelve Niang, his face was a little hot for a moment, and he bit his chopsticks and said, "Twelve Niang, eat, what are you looking at me, can I see enough?"

She lowered her head, her fingers circled on the table, and said softly: "I can't see enough, but if I can't see you, my stomach feels empty, and my heart is empty."

Li Mei'er on the side widened her eyes, embarrassed and wanted to laugh but didn't know how to laugh, she felt the goosebumps on her body fall straight down, so she had to hold the bowl with both hands and bury her face in it, and quietly twisted it to the side.

Li Siye choked for a moment, then coughed twice and said, "When eating, don't keep teasing me." Ahem, today's dinner at home, in fact, I want to talk about a serious matter, the jumping camp is not in the city, but outside the city, on the banks of the White Horse River, so I am afraid that I will not often be at home in the future. ”

"You don't live at home?" Li Mei'er hugged the bowl and pouted: "Since you are not at home, what is the difference between me living in this Qiuzi City and living in Chang'an."

Li Siye knocked on the case and solemnly declared: "I am not often at home, and I still have to come back every three or five days." When I'm not at home, you, and Twelve Niang, have to maintain this home. Don't always be bored at home, there are still a lot of places to go in this city, and you can walk around with the neighborhood. ”

Twelve Niang raised her head happily and nodded affirmatively: "Lang Jun, please rest assured, I will definitely take care of my home and Mei'er."

Li Siye sighed helplessly, not knowing whether to shake his head or nod, he pinched his chopsticks and thought for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Twelve Niang, do you have a name?"

"Name?" Twelve Niang was stunned for a moment and said, "Twelve Niang, isn't it my name?"

"Twelve mothers, this is just a nickname."

Twelve Niang thought for a while with chopsticks, and immediately replied: "When I was a child, Master often called me Ah Ruo."

"Li Ruo? Okay, I'll call you Li Ruo in the future. Li Siye patted his stomach and stood up, and said to Mei'er and Twelve Niang: "Mei'er, Li Ruo, I'll go back to the room first, and you eat slowly."

Twelve Niang looked at Li Siye's back, and poked the bottom of the bowl with chopsticks as if she was angry: "Li Ruo, Li Ruo's good life, can't you call someone Ah Ruo?"

Li Mei'er got goosebumps again, leaned over to Twelve Niang with a smile, and asked in a low voice, "Twelve Niang, do you want to marry Brother Twelve Niang?" Is it possible to have children after visiting the church and getting married? If you can't go to church, won't you have children?"

Twelve Niang's face suddenly flushed, and she hesitated for a moment before she shook her head and said, "Don't ask me about this kind of thing, ask your brother."

After she said that, she put down her chopsticks, stood up and ran back to her room quickly, Li Meier looked at the back of Twelve Niang in surprise, and found that she really didn't understand her, she was not ashamed when she should be ashamed, and she was ashamed when she shouldn't be ashamed.

……

In the early morning of the second day, Li Siye rode a black horse to the bank of the White Horse River wearing black hammer armor, and the Qiuzi jumping camp was stationed around an earthen fort on the riverside. The entire barracks were walled along the river around earthen forts, and the barracks gates and the four corners of the walls were guarded by felled trees.

He rode a horse close to the guard range of the watchtower, and the soldiers on the tower also found the general on the horse, and hurriedly called the guards on duty to lift up the horses, open the camp gate, and hurriedly called the three captains.

Li Siye dismounted at the gate of the camp, led the black fat and walked in, three officers in armor had already run out of the earthen fort, judging from the looseness of the armor on their bodies when they ran, this was temporarily put on urgently, one of them put the sash in his hand on his head while running, and the other was still wearing the strap on the shoulder armor.

The three of them ran to Li Siye without deciding on their breath, bowed their heads and crossed their hands and said, "Humble Qiu Luan, Liu Long, and Zhao Congfang pay a visit to General Li!"

Li Siye held the horsewhip in his hand, paced back and forth in front of the three of them, and deliberately was silent for a moment to set off the atmosphere before he spoke: "Raise your head."

The three of them crossed their hands and slowly raised their heads, Qiu Luan's face was full of black manes, and his roots were as firm as the spines of a porcupine, and Liu Long's face was brown and red, with a high nose and deep eyes, it was indeed the physiognomy of the Turkic people, placed in Zhao Congfang, he had seen it a long time ago.

"Let's add a camp rule today." He raised his whip and pointed at the guard tower and said: "From now on, if a strange face approaches the camp, no matter what horse he rides, what armor he wears, or what cloak he wears, he will report his name to the officials. If you don't comply, you should be warned fifty paces away and shot within thirty paces. ”

"Whoa!"

Li Siye walked towards the camp, and the three of them followed closely behind. He swept his gaze over the rows of prefabricated houses, and saw the ranks of soldiers patrolling along the camp, every aspect of the camp, every place had no dead ends, and the sergeants walked and sat in order, and it seemed that his predecessor was indeed not bad at leading the troops.

The personal soldiers he brought from the city, as well as Tian Zhen, Duan Xiushi and others, were all stationed in the barracks on the slope of the earth fort, occupying the commanding heights of the camp. At this moment, they all stood in line on the side of the road, waiting for Li Siye to take office.

Li Siye's expressionless gaze swept over their faces, and he didn't show any special affection to anyone, just nodded with satisfaction, turned around and walked towards the earthen fort.

From the perspective of the mental outlook of the soldiers he brought from the change city, they were far better than the soldiers of the Qiuzi Jumping Battalion, which was enough to make him full of confidence.

The large tent of the detainees is located in the earthen fort, which is an inner room and an outer hall where you can stay, and the wall in the center of the outer hall is painted with a picture of a black leopard, and a table is set up in front of it. Felt mats were laid on both sides of the stage, and officers could sit during meetings.

Li Siye sat down in front of the desk, stretched out his hand to the three of them and said, "You can sit down too."

They thanked Li Siye with their hands and sat on both sides according to their previous ranking.

"Today, the second battalion rule is set again, every month the soldiers in the army will compete in the competition, and the team can participate in the competition, determine the winning and losing rankings, and divide the horse battle, foot battle, cavalry shooting, and foot shooting four items, and then determine the top three with a comprehensive score, you can get a generous financial reward, as for the amount of reward, it will be determined later."

"Every month, all teams, brigades, and regiments in the battalion should conduct confrontation drills, and the commanders of the teams, brigades, and regiments with the lowest results will be deducted 20% of their monthly salaries and awarded to the top two teams, brigades, and regiments."

After he finished speaking, he pressed his hands on the desk and lowered his head, stared at the three lieutenants below and asked, "Do you have any objections to my new camp rules?"

The three of them lowered their heads and looked at each other, with different expressions on their faces, and after a moment of silence, they raised their heads and crossed their hands and said, "General Qiyu, there is no objection."

"Since there is no objection, you will go down and convey the new camp rules and arrangements, and inform everyone in the regiment that from this month onwards, Ben will test how capable you are."

They stood up from the felt carpet and bowed to Li Siye: "I'll retire."

The three of them walked out of the earthen fort, revealing their respective emotions, and Zhao Congfang said to Qiu Luan and Liu Long worriedly: "You two talk about it, it's okay for the new official to take office with three fires, but this fire is also too hot." He made the soldiers more acceptable in the competition, but let us also take the soldiers to practice, and also deduct the loser's 20% of the money, doesn't this force us to fight each other, the sword has no eyes, and it is easy to hurt lives. ”

Qiu Luan tugged at the mane on his chin with both hands and nodded: "That's what I said, but I'm not afraid, the three of us, no matter how we pull it out to practice, Lao Tzu will not be at the bottom."

Captain Qiu laughed twice, walked straight down the slope, and left the stunned Zhao Congfang behind.

He hurriedly asked Liu Long again: "Captain Liu, what do you say, we won't really practice hard with knives and guns, if this is the case, won't the brothers be injured?"

Liu Long looked ahead indifferently, perhaps thinking about things, and suddenly said: "If you are afraid of injury, you can use a wooden knife and a wooden gun, and you can also remove the arrow with a crossbow arrow." Although I do not approve of it, I do not disagree with it either. ”

After he finished speaking, he left directly, leaving Zhao Congfang, who was confused, holding his stomach and thinking for a long time, before turning around and looking at the earth fort and muttering: "You said you don't care, isn't this still a whole for me, come up with such a solution, how can I deal with it?"