In the next five or six days from the second day, Li Siye took his brothers from the Duhu Guards Brigade to search around at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, as if they were looking for something, but they were not in a hurry, and they even had spare time to hunt.

In the early morning of the ninth day, a shepherd ran down from the Tianshan Mountain, ran to the officials and soldiers and reported: "Master Jun, I, I was grazing sheep by the Tianchi, and I saw a strange stone that looked like a man riding a bull, lifelike, I thought it was a miracle, and I specially went down the mountain to report to you!" ”

Li Siye nodded solemnly and asked, "Is there really a strange stone?" ”

"Naturally, I don't dare to deceive the military master, and if I don't believe that the military master can go up the mountain with me to have a look."

He waited for this sentence, waved his horsewhip and said, "Lead the way ahead." ”

This Tianshan Yaochi is actually in the territory of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, but the Beiting has already transported a statue of Emperor Xuanyuan on the Tianshan Mountain, and it is estimated that it is already on the way to Chang'an, so naturally it will not prevent the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate from doing the same trick by the Tianchi. Everyone knows that this thing is formalism, but they only see through it, don't say it, and do their own thing, and that's how good neighbors come about.

The shepherd led him to the statue, and Li Siye took a look, which should be the work carved by the two craftsmen. The whole sculpture is eight feet high and nine feet wide, and is the image of an old man riding on the back of a cow. In order to make it look more natural and vivid, the two old craftsmen have worked hard to polish it, and now it looks natural, and it really looks like it has been eroded by the wind.

In fact, even if their workmanship is worse, they can still be fooled.

When Li Siye saw this stone statue, he was first taken aback, and shouted three times in succession: "Like, like, like!" It's so similar! Then he climbed down from his horse in fear, led everyone to bow to the ground, and shouted Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan.

"The ministers welcome Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan down the mountain!"

The shepherd stood aside kicking the eggs and laughed as he watched the group pretend to be funny.

Li Siye bowed to the stone statue for nine years, turned his head and saw the shepherd, frowned and ordered the shepherd to be dragged aside, stuffed him with a few copper coins, and sent the unqualified extras down the mountain.

The method of inviting Emperor Xuanyuan down the mountain is actually very simple, use a few rolling logs, take turns to replace the rolling, and then send someone to drag it with hemp rope and red silk, and use two people to change the direction with wooden sticks next to it, and wait until the place where the carriage can be driven at the bottom of the mountain, and then find a way to load the stone statue on the cart.

The stone statue weighed about a ton, and it took a lot of effort to transport it back to Qiuzi, and it took hundreds of people to crush three carts.

Meng Lingcha, the protector of the capital, led the civil and military officials who stayed behind in Qiuzi to greet him at the gate of the city, and after the nine bows, he sent two hundred additional soldiers, who were escorted by the army of Cangcao, the protector of the capital, and transported them all the way to Chang'an along the post road.

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Li Siye followed Fumeng Lingcha back to the main hall of the Duhu Mansion, and this Fumeng Duhu turned around and said with feeling: "Siye, thanks to your insistence on presiding over the construction of the post stations on Khotan Road and Qiuzi Road within this year, and sweeping away the bandits on the Tulun Moraine Gobi, otherwise my Anxi Duhufu will really be an inch-less achievement this year." ”

He showed a look of surprise, and hurriedly asked, "Du Hu, is it ......?"

"That's right, Tanaka Cheng's expedition to Xiao Bolu failed, the secret report that came back from the Green Ridge yesterday, our army failed to cross the river three times before the Bole River, and besieged Lianyunbao for three months after crossing the river for the fourth time, and never overcame it until the cold wave hit in October, the river was frozen, and the best fighter had been lost, Tanaka Cheng knew that he could not do anything, so he had to reluctantly withdraw his troops, but fortunately, the loss of our army was not too big.

Li Siye meditated, isn't this loss too big? The financial revenue of the Anxi Protectorate for two whole years, 19,000 soldiers and soldiers spent countless amounts of grain and grass, so they worked in vain and retreated in a hurry.

Judging from the expression on his face, he did not seem too surprised, as if he had long expected that the expedition would not be successful. Gao Xianzhi seems to be in the operation of this expedition, and I don't know what role he played.

"In the near future, Tanaka Cheng will return with a large army, and you don't have to run around these days, stay in Qiuzi City and wait with peace of mind, and we will give Tanaka Cheng the wind at the city gate at that time."

After saying this, Fu Meng Lingcha turned around and returned to the inner hall alone, and did not summon Li Siye to follow up.

Li Siye stood for a long time, guessing in his heart that Fu Meng Duhu should go back to steal fun, and completed the major event of building a post station and cleaning up the sand bandits, Tian Renwan's expedition to Xiao Bolu failed, and the imperial court will weigh these two things, Tian Renwan may soon have to move his ass to Fu Meng Lingcha.

Now the most important thing is the attitude of Li Linfu, the right minister of the central government, who is more enthusiastic about ordering the Hu people to serve as the envoy of the festival, so as to cut off the way for the border generals to enter the court.

Is this called virtue and unworthiness?

He turned around and led the black fat back home, and halfway through the journey, snowflakes fluttered in the sky, small but light. The snow in October is nothing, Cen Shen said in the poem that Hu Tian will snow in August, but the team returning from the expedition is afraid that it will be uncomfortable on the way. Tian Renwan's mood was already sad at this time, and when he encountered this fluttering snowflake at this moment, he might chant what a sad sentimental poem.

Li Siye led the black fat into the stable, pushed open the backyard door, entered the main hall through the corridor, and just entered the door, he saw two women sitting cross-legged on a large white wool carpet, one of the women had an open chest and shoulders, and her eyes were full of white flowers.

He dodged back, leaned against the wall and sighed, asking himself, "Is this my home?"

"Brother"

Mei'er's voice came from inside.

He regrouped his expression, turned and walked back in. Mei'er and a strange woman had already risen from the carpet, this woman was wearing a full-breasted skirt, her hair was pulled low, and her shoulders were already covered with tulle, although it was still a little faint, and a blush flashed on her face, and she soon looked dignified.

"Oh, it turns out that there are female guests at home, don't worry about me, you play your own."

Mei'er and the woman put their hands on their waists and bowed to Li Siye together, and after standing up straight, Li Mei'er stretched out her hand and introduced: "Brother, I mentioned this to you, she is the daughter of General Cheng Qianli, Cheng Wansu." Wan Su, this is my brother. ”

"Oh, I'm glad I will."

Li Siye secretly thought, this is Cheng Qianli's daughter, I really can't imagine that Cheng Qianli's rosacea nose and beard can give birth to such a peugeot lady, the only thing that can explain it is to have more genes with her mother.

Cheng Wansu was also looking at Li Siye, her eyes were not dodging at all and she was hot and direct, it may be that this Han woman was born in Anxi, and she was inevitably influenced by the Hu people's atmosphere, and she also became open and bold.

"Ahem, you keep playing, I'll go back to my room."

The junior's dress is a little revealing, and he, the parent, should hide.

He walked through the porch, turned around and walked towards the side room of the back main hall, and the voice of the daughter of the Cheng family boldly talked behind him: "Mei'er, is this your brother, I didn't expect to be a Zhonglang general at such a young age, much more magnificent than my grandfather."

The little lady is really talkative.

Li Twelve Niang suddenly appeared in front of him, keenly swept the smile on his face, she leaned out around him, glanced at the main hall with a slightly cold expression, and turned around to follow him: "Li Lang."

"Oh, Twelve Niang, didn't you entertain her guests with Mei'er. The three ladies are a little more lively. ”

"Li Lang, that's what I'm going to tell you, this friend Mei'er made is not very serious, can you persuade her to have less dealings with this kind of person."

Li Siye smiled: "It's just a little lady, what's wrong with being serious?"

"It's really not serious." Twelve Niang stopped in front of her, lowered her voice and whispered: "A few days ago, when I went to the market to buy sheep with Mrs. Wu, I met this little lady of the Cheng family.

"Raising a male pet" Li Siye's eyes widened, isn't this kind of thing a male pet raised by a married lady, how can she raise a little lady.

"Are you mistaken, maybe it's her lover, Anxi women have an open atmosphere, and there should be a concubine in front of the public."

"No, Twelve Niang can't be mistaken." Li Twelve Niang swore and said: "Twelve Niang has lived in Chang'an with her master for many years, and this kind of man is common in the rich field, they shave off their beards and apply fat powder, do not produce, and make a living from it."

Isn't this just a little white face who eats soft rice?

"That's why I'm here to tell you, lest Mei'er learn badly from her."

Now it is worth his deep thought, no wonder this lady just looked at him with a provocative and bold gaze, it turns out that people are experienced. As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, in case Li Mei'er learns from her, she will also raise such a man outside, I can't imagine it.