The two caravans came and went together. Li Siye stood on the porch of the main hall, watching their backs walk on the corridor, stepping out of the side door and disappearing from sight.

Twelve Niang walked to the front of the porch, snuggled lightly on her husband's side, and asked him softly: "These two people, didn't Li Lang ask them where they came?"

"They didn't say, I didn't ask, maybe we'll meet again."

Li Siye can be sure that one of them must be Huangfu Weiming. It stands to reason that he, the guard of Shule Town, is not guilty of the dignified Longyou Dao interview envoy, but this person still came, and appeared in front of him in disguise and in the clothes of a business traveler.

The so-called unannounced visit is only part of the content of the exam, but the real exam has not yet begun.

Three days later, the examination team of the Longyou Provincial Interview Envoy came to Shule City, but there was no Huangfu Weiming among them, and the leader was the secretary of the interview envoy, who also served as the Longyou Jiedu Envoy General Wang Sili.

After these people entered the city, they did not enter the pavilion post, and were directly stationed in the army's warehouse and the town guard embassy's residence, and they only symbolically checked the account books, and the entire examination process was useless for even a day, and they had already completed the evaluation of senior officers, and they were all withdrawn to the city post station to wait.

General Wang Sili still didn't want to leave, and after hesitating again and again, he asked Li Siye in a pleading tone: "I want to have an afternoon meal at your house, I don't know if I can ......."

He had never seen a guest who offered to stay for dinner, and for a thin-skinned person, saying such a sentence would probably take him days to bury his head in his crotch. Li Siye always felt that this person was thin-skinned, but he just said it.

"Okay, just a meal."

Wang Sili closed his eyes and nodded vigorously.

This afternoon, Li Siye was entertaining guests in the inner hall of the house, his sister Li Mei'er was making tea and serving beside him, the two took off their boots and knelt in front of the desk with foot bags, and the family brought the boiled mutton and warm wine.

Wang Sili was absent-minded, he didn't expect that it was Li Siye's sister who entertained him, he is such a loyal fan, is it so difficult to meet his idol

The wine and meat were served, Li Siye frequently advised him to drink, Wang Sili drank it with his head bored, the wine passed three rounds, the dishes passed five flavors, General Wang's face became more and more ruddy, and the restrained General Wang finally couldn't control his mouth.

"We drank this reminiscence, why didn't we see the lady come out"

"Oh, lady, he's not in a good mood today, so he's gone to rest."

General Wang nodded regretfully, took the wine cup and drank it all, in order not to make Li Siye suspicious because of his bias, he said in a solemn and reverent tone: "The general knows that Madame is the personal disciple of the world-famous Gongsun Aunt."

Li Siye nodded calmly: "Oh, I know."

"Li Shi Niang's sword attainments are on par with her teacher in my opinion, if time passes, she will definitely be able to become the first sword dancer in the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately she has married early."

Li Siye's face suddenly looked bad, and he said in his heart Are you drunk, you can say such things in front of me, if you say so, I will ruin her artistic career. You can't be a true love fan, right?

Li Mei'er sat down and smiled, and brought sencha to the two of them.

Wang Sili realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said to save him: "I'm just a little sorry, and I don't mean anything else." Actually, I really envy the general, you must have watched her dance the sword often."

Li Siye was slightly drunk, stretched out two fingers and shook it: "No, in fact, I have only seen it once."

"Why" Wang Sili opened his mouth wide in surprise: "You must know that Aunt Gongsun has retired, the Xihe sword weapon has become a peerless sound, and my brother has only seen it once, why don't you teach the lady to dance with you often"

"Sword weapon, I don't know much about this, besides, dancing this thing is too physical, Twelve Niang said that she has to sweat every time she dances, too tired. So I haven't asked her to dance since she and me. Besides, I married her because she was virtuous and quiet, not because she practiced swords. ”

"Oh," Wang Sili arched his hand abruptly.

The two were half-drunk, Li Siye turned his head to look around, and Li Mei'er didn't know when he had left.

General Wang got up to say goodbye, and he personally went out to see him off, all the way to the gate of the town guard embassy.

"General Lee, goodbye." Wang Sili raised his foot and stepped on the stirrup, turned around suddenly, but fell off the stirrup and almost fell.

Twelve Niang was already accompanied by Mei'er and came to stand beside her husband. She wore a cloak, a hairpin in her bun, and a slender sword in her arms.

Wang Sili's face was already drunk red by the wine, and at this moment it was even more like a peach forest, and he stepped forward half a step forward and respectfully crossed his hands and saluted: "Lelang Suicheng Wang Sili has seen everyone Li."

Li Siye is a little jealous at the moment, why doesn't anyone have such a worship for me.

Twelve Niang bowed his head and said: "General Wang doesn't have to be polite, Twelve Niang has long been out of business." She looked down at the sword in her arms and presented it with both hands.

"This sword was held by Twelve Niang in her early years, and now I will give it to you."

Wang Sili hurriedly took it with both hands, his hands were horizontally in his hands, and he looked very excited.

Li Siye interjected inappropriately and said, "Do you want Mrs. to sign you again?"

Twelve Niang glanced at her husband in disgust, and Wang Sili laughed and said: "No need, with this sword, I can often take it out and show off to others, saying that it is a gift from Gongsun disciple Twelve Niang."

Li Siye couldn't help but said again: "You might as well tell someone, this is the sword of Aunt Gongsun, wouldn't it be more face-saving." Twelve Niang's other hand reached behind her back and twisted it around her husband's waist through the robe.

Wang Sili turned over and got on his horse, the sword was still between his arms, he inserted it into his robe along the back collar, whether it was panicked or not, he smiled on the horse and said: "Today I have the honor to meet the virtuous couple, Sili is fortunate to have three lives, farewell." ”

He rode towards the end of the street, and the envoy's horse team was ready to go, rushing out of the Shule Gate and heading south along the herbs.

Halfway through the procession, a carriage waiting on the trade road joined in, and the people on the carriage lifted the curtain with books in their hands and beckoned to Wang Sili who was riding on a horse: "Stay in the carriage for a while." ”

Wang Sili turned over and dismounted and handed over to someone else to take care of it, while he jumped on the wheel and got into the carriage. Huangfu Weiming saw the sword on his back, glared and asked, "You accepted bribes from Li Siye?" ”

He blushed all of a sudden, and hurriedly waved his hand to explain: "Si Nong is wronged, I don't have the courage to do so, this is a gift from Li Siye's wife, Li Twelve Niang." ”

"Huh? Is there a difference between his family and him? ”

He hurriedly took the sword off his back, spread it flat on his lap, and the emperor looked down to see that it was an ordinary sword, with an ebony scabbard on it, and the head and tail of the sword were inlaid with copper patterns, this copper did not weigh three or two in total, and the whole sword was sold for no more than two hundred yuan, if it was not a celebrity effect, it was indeed not a bribe.

"After all, you went to meet the lady and got her sword."

General Wang almost choked on blood when he heard this, and hurriedly crossed his hands and bowed: "It's definitely not what you think, my Si Nong." No matter how bold I am, I don't dare to engage in other people's ladies' swords, wouldn't I want Li Siye to hack me to death with a knife? Your old man may not have seen the sword dance of Gongsun Auntie's disciple Twelve Niang, and you won't say such a thing when you see it. 's admiration for her is equivalent to admiration for Li Taibai, Wang Majie, Zhang Xu, and Wu Daozi. ”

Huangfu Weiming no longer cared about this, but said lightly: "Yesterday I thought hard and meditated, and there was finally something entangled in my heart that I couldn't get rid of, and I didn't make a decision today. ”

"Oh?" Wang Sili hurriedly asked, "Si Nong has any troubles, it is better to inform Sili." ”

He wistfully waved the book and tapped on the door of his head: "Li Siye is virtuous, prudent and clear, fair, and diligent. These four virtues are possessed, and there are border clearances, city gods, and the most important defenses, no matter from the point of view, I should give him a superior. ”

"How about giving him a top?"

Huangfu shook his head: "Since I have been in charge of the evaluation for many years, I have never given people a good evaluation in my life, they say that I am strict, and I can also be more selective." But at present, Li Siye has made several great achievements, and in less than a year as the envoy of Shule Town, he has been able to reorganize Shule Town to this point, win the love of the people, and strengthen the prestige of my Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions. So ......"

"You still can't give him this top, give him a top."