Zhao Daochang felt ashamed in his heart, so he could only follow Li Siye's voice and say, "That's right, it's too casual." ”

When they came to the door of an empty retreat behind the alchemy room, Zhao Zhengyi raised his palm with one hand, put the dust on his sleeve, and bowed his head and said silently: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, general, please see." ”

He pushed open the door of the Jingshe with a bang, and Li Siye looked down to see that the ground was full of black iron balls, and the medicine twist was exposed outside. His hairs suddenly stood on end, and if a little open flame fell on his body, this fine house, as well as the entire Thunder Temple, would be wiped out in one pot.

"It's too unstable to store it like this." Li Siye retracted the foot that had reached in.

"Please rest assured, General." Zhao Zhengyi said: "Poor Dao inspects this house three times a day, and no idle people are allowed to approach. Sometimes I come by at night with a lamp. ”

You're still carrying a lamp to watch?

The sense of safety is so weak that there is almost none, how could he not know the danger of this thing? It's too careless.

He glanced up at Dao Chang, shook his head and said: "No matter what you call it palm thunder, thunder or not, you must not store it like this, even if you strictly prevent it without open flames, it is easy to get wet and fail if you put it on the floor for a long time." ”

"Listen to me tell you that you write it down, first of all, make a box one foot high, two feet wide, two feet long, and three feet long according to the same specifications, and lay hay and quicklime inside to prevent moisture, and then put all these thunderbolts in the box for me, and seal them with iron nails or mortises. Secondly, a courtyard was built behind this courtyard, and a separate room was built as a storehouse, and the storehouse sent a person to be strictly guarded at 12 hours, and the walls and exterior walls of the storehouse were uniformly painted with warning signs strictly prohibiting open fires. Finally, don't do this thunder for now, if you have enough time, let the blacksmith find a way to cast some iron or brass pipes and make me a assault rifle. ”

"Assault gun, what's that?" Zhao Daochang asked.

"Naturally, it's something less dangerous than Ray, I'll draw you a picture when I get back, and you can try it then."

After he gave instructions to Daochang Zhao, he was going to leave again. Daochang Zhao hurriedly sent it outside the courtyard gate.

Li Siye took two steps and suddenly turned back, as if he had figured out a certain joint: "Since he only knows that you are a Taoist priest, why did he give you the formula of the fierce fire thunder?" Well? ”

Zhao Zheng was startled, opened his mouth and couldn't speak.

……

Winter in Shule came earlier than usual, the sky was still empty and lonely, and the vast pastures were full of herders and soldiers harvesting pasture. The autumn grass was bundled into rolls and forked onto ox carts with forks. Not far away, large cars were heading towards the city.

Li Siye personally went to supervise the threshing of military forage, and nearly 10 million catties of forage were hoarded in the military forage field in Shule Town.

Li Siye repeatedly ordered them to do a good job in fire prevention and not to take their own heads seriously.

Seeing that November was coming, accompanying the envoy Meng Lingcha to Chang'an was also put on the agenda. Every trip in life may be a change, and Li Siye deeply believes this sentence. Many news from Chang'an, people and events that happened, all vaguely told Li Siye that today's Chang'an is no longer the Chang'an of the past. He needs to be careful in what he says and do, and he needs to make decisions and judgments at all times.

Don't look at the military town guard of the four products, what a loyal general and a light car captain. In the whirlpool of officialdom in Chang'an, it is just a big bed bug, a little stronger than an ant petty official. For this kind of hierarchical distinction, Li Siye weighed it like this in his heart, an ant-level official, the superior will remove you, it doesn't cost a little price, at most it is a kung fu to move his mouth, so he is called an ant.

If it's a big bedbug, even if he chokes you to death, it will not only stink his fingers, but also pollute the air with a bad odor. This is a little bit of self-preservation that the bug-level officials have. As long as this kind of official does not actually anger the magnates in Beijing, he will not touch you, because he will have to pay a little price to deal with you, although the price is not too big, it is enough to make him disgusting for a while.

Li Siye thinks that his current self-preservation ability should be regarded as a bed bug, or the kind that doesn't stink.

Because he wanted to enter Beijing, Twelve Niang prepared his bags for him more than ten days in advance, clothes and boots that could be washed in rotation, court clothes and a few veils, and they could not be less. Although Ah Lang is not good, he will inevitably socialize with friends, and if he can't pay for it when he goes to a place like Pingkangfang, he will be despised and ridiculed by his colleagues. So she specially sewed a money bag for him and hung it on the belt, which contained four silver trees of eight taels and four four taels respectively, worth a total of forty-eight yuan, and at today's prices, it was enough for him to squander in Chang'an City for a while.

Li Meier heard that her brother was going back to Chang'an, and she also tried to go back with him, just because she had lived in Chang'an for a few years, and her memory of Chang'an was deeper than that of Li Siye.

But Li Siye rejected his sister's request, firstly, it was quite inconvenient to travel long distances with his female dependents, and secondly, he had some premonitions, just like the induction in the dark, his personal trajectory would undergo some changes that would affect his fate, maybe for the better, maybe for the worse. Even if you have the soul of the afterlife, you dare not claim to be in complete control of your destiny.

Three days before leaving, Li Siye entrusted the affairs of Shule and Khotan to Zhao Chongyu and Li Zan respectively, and it is estimated that it will take four or five months to go and return. It is true that in the past, the traffic was slow, and even the pace of life was relatively slow, no matter who was efficient, it was procrastination for him, and even he himself was falling into the process of this procrastination.

……

In an adobe house in the narrow curve in the south of the city, the left brigade and the right team of the third regiment of the cavalry battalion of the Shule army were lying on their backs on the couch, looking up at the cracks on the mud on the roof. ”

He rolled over from the couch, felt the wooden staff on the ground, propped himself under his armpit, tiptoed his right leg, limped open the door and walked out, and said, "Come in!" The broken wood door opened as soon as it was pushed. ”

He came to the courtyard with a slight surprise on his face, there were three uninvited guests today.

One of them is his team deputy, Yan Laoan, who is about to take over as the head of the team, and the other two are his brigade commander and the captain of the third regiment.

Dai Wang was a little flattered, he had never received such courtesy since he was recruited to the west of the city, and he was able to get the brigade commander and the lieutenant to visit at the same time.

"Team Dai, Lvshuai Zhang and Captain Tian have come to see you."

He hurriedly stepped forward on crutches, and just as he was about to bow down and cross his hands, Captain Tian hurriedly stepped forward and walked two steps quickly, helped him up and said: "Dai Liulang, this is not in the army, why should you and I be polite." ”

"Captain, I didn't think you could come, it's too shabby in this room...... Otherwise, please sit in the courtyard. ”

"No problem." The two nodded, and when they saw that there were a few pieces of sandstone in the courtyard for sitting, they each lifted up their robes and sat down.

Captain Tian said regretfully: "Dai Liulang, as a cavalryman, whether it is a horn bow or a foot bow, you are the best in our army, although it is a pity that you have injured your tendons and can no longer go into battle to kill the enemy." But you can stay in the army as a teacher, or you can be a small official in the governor's mansion, why do you have to abandon your brothers and go back to your hometown? ”

Dai Wang lowered his head and said freely but astringently: "Dai Wang knows his ability, it is a bit redundant to do teaching, but he can't settle accounts as a small official, and he still doesn't make trouble for the Governor's Mansion and our general." Besides, since I was conscripted in the 23rd year of the old calendar to join the army in Anxi, I have been fighting in the army for nine years, and half of my life has passed, and I am also a little tired. It is better to take advantage of the fact that these arms and legs can still move, return to his hometown of Changsong County, Wuwei County, to join his brother and sister-in-law, buy a few acres of land, and live a few days of relaxation and tranquility. ”