After meeting with Guo Ziyi, the deputy capital protector, he broke Li Siye's illusion of a legendary figure, of course, this person's appearance is in line with the character of a loyal minister, at least it looks more pleasing than Feng Changqing. However, his knowledge and level are limited to the military path, and as for other aspects, he is quite sincere and studious, and there must be shining points in personal will and morality, which is inconvenient for him to evaluate. The other party's three views are super positive, which is relative to the current feudal social atmosphere, but people like Li Siye belong to the ministers who have incorrect three views.

He ordered Guo Ziyi to temporarily stay in charge of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and he only took a dozen people with him and left Tingzhou for Anxi.

Ten days later, they arrived at Yanqi Town, then Wulei Prefecture, and fifteen days later at Qiuzi.

After entering Qiuzi City, Li Siye ordered his entourage to rest in the pavilion, and only took Dao Rou and Yan Xiaosi to Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the Metropolitan Protector's Mansion, he met Cheng Qianli, the deputy protector of the capital and the deputy envoy of the festival, and the other party's beard trembled and bloomed with a smiling face, and he congratulated him with his crossed hands: "I don't know that Li Zhongcheng has arrived, but I haven't been far away to greet him, please forgive me." ”

Li Siye felt that there was a bit of irony in his words, so he arched his hand and said: "Deputy Envoy Cheng, this is Anxi, and my position in Anxi is the deputy capital protector." ”

"Ha, it doesn't matter what you call it, Cheng Qianli wants to congratulate Li Zhongcheng."

Since the other party didn't change his words, he didn't care much, just asked: "High school can be in the house." ”

"Yes, I just came out of his study."

"Then I'll go and ask to see Gao Cheng first, and we'll talk in detail when we have a chance later."

"Yes, please."

He went straight to the inner courtyard of the Metropolitan Protectorate, Gao Xianzhi's personal soldier captain was no longer Bai Xiaode, and he didn't know where he had been promoted.

Li Siye explained his intentions, and the lieutenant personally ran in to report, and then ran out to invite him in.

Gao Xianzhi personally stood on the steps of the main hall to greet him, obviously showing a sense of politeness and alienation: "Why didn't Li Zhongcheng inform me in advance of his visit, I can bring someone to meet you at the city gate in person." ”

Well, the irony in this man's words is even stronger, if he can't hear it, it will really be a mallet.

He crossed his hand towards Gao Xianzhi according to the etiquette of his subordinates and said: "Gao Gaocheng, if it is in the North Garden, I will naturally intersect with the courtesy of grade, but this is Anxi, and I still serve as the deputy protector of Anxi, so my subordinate Li Siye came to ask to see Zhongcheng." ”

Gao Xianzhi didn't feel very comfortable, held his forehead and smiled: "I forgot about this matter, Heiye, you and I used to have a close relationship like brothers, why bother with the title of official rank, please." ”

He invited Li Siye into the study, Gao Xianzhi sat cross-legged on the main seat, and Li Siye sat on the side below, just like in the past, but now their relationship has changed subtly.

Gao Xianzhi ordered the maidservant to offer the tea, and he also took a sip of the tea bowl, and asked with a seemingly casual expression: "Heiye, you were the first envoy of the Beiting Festival, and your butt has not yet sat in the hot seat, so you ran back to Anxi, there must be something." ”

Li Siye put down the teacup and said: "Although the Anxi Court is divided into two mansions, they are all one, and the affairs of Anxi are the affairs of the North Court, and the affairs of the North Court are also the affairs of Anxi. ”

Gao nodded approvingly: "That's right, what's next?" ”

Li Siye smiled dumbly: "I can't hide anything from Zhongcheng, I came this time to ask Zhongcheng to transfer two people, Feng Changqing and Duan Xiushi." ”

Gao Xianzhi's smile looked a little unnatural, and he rubbed his feet on the knees of the front hem of his robe and said: "Duan Xiucheng is appointed as the deputy military envoy of the Shule Army, I can transfer him to you, but Feng Changqing, he is now serving as the envoy of Khotan Town, and he may not agree to go with you." ”

Li Siye secretly thought, it's not that he doesn't agree to the past, it's that you refuse to let go. When Feng Changqing was a domestic servant in the Fumeng Lingcha Mansion, he asked Gao Xianzhi many times to be his entourage, but Li Siye cut off a beard from it, so that he failed to do so. But talented people are like awls, as long as there is a chance to show their faces, they can stand out. Before the expedition to the Battle of Xiaobolu, Feng Changqing drew a topographic map of the Green Ridge area, which provided a basis for the expeditionary force's marching route, and performed remarkably in the subsequent battles, finally allowing Gao Xianzhi to realize Feng Changqing's talent.

At present, Gao Xianzhi refuses to let go, and Feng Changqing was personally promoted by Li Siye, so that Gao Xianzhi realized the other party's talents. It's like a child raised by himself, and suddenly ran to recognize someone else as his father, and he felt very uncomfortable.

But looking at Gao Xianzhi's posture at the moment, he decided not to let Feng Changqing go with him, it was better to change the target and take the opportunity to put forward more conditions, so as to make up for his losses.

"But I am very short of such manpower at the moment, the four towns of Anxi in Zhongcheng are full of talents, are you still unwilling to give me a mere Feng Changqing?"

Gao Xianzhi's expression was hard and unrelaxed: "No, other people can give it to you, but Feng Changqing can't." ”

"Since that's the case, then I want two more people, Tian Zhen and Bai Xiaode."

"Hey," Gao Xianzhi gasped, thinking that this Li Siye's vision was really spicy, Tian Zhen and Bai Xiaode were both rare brave generals in the Anxi army. He was really reluctant to let the two of them go, but compared to Feng Changqing, they couldn't have both fish and bear paws, of course, they had to give up fish to seek a higher value bear paw.

"Alright, I'll give you these two." Gao Xianzhi reluctantly agreed.

Li Siye's goal has been achieved, and it is time to say goodbye and leave, he crossed his hand towards Gao Xianzhi and said, "High school Cheng, then I will retire first." ”

"Okay, I wanted to keep you, let's get together at night and have a few drinks, but everything in Anxi Mansion is complicated, so we can only get together again in the next day."

Gao Xianzhi's words may be true, or they may be insincere, in short, there is some kind of estrangement between the two, maybe this estrangement arose when Li Siye used the Yang family to go through the back door, or maybe it was when Li Siye was dancing a strange dance in the Calyx Tower. In short, Gao Xianzhi discovered the differences between them, and the like-mindedness of the past was just an illusion.

After Li Siye said goodbye to Gao Xianzhi, he walked out of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and he did not choose to alarm the other officials of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, but only went to the Records and Military Affairs Department to transfer the three people's confessions.

Bai Xiaode is currently the envoy of the Jiedu and concurrently serves as the commander of the Qiuzifan battalion, Tian Zhen is the officer of the Shule cavalry battalion, and Duan Xiushi is the deputy military envoy of the Shule army. After he promoted them to Beiting, of course, they had to be promoted to one level, which was the practice of officialdom, and the three of them were destined to be his henchmen.

He first went to Fanying to find Bai Xiaode, just like the god of fate who favored the lucky one, he stood in front of Bai Xiaode and said sincerely: "Come with me to Beiting, I have already negotiated it for you Gao Xianzhi." ”

Can Bai Xiaode refuse? Li Siye was able to come to him in person, which is enough to show the importance he attaches to him. He was previously a personal military captain of Fumeng Lingcha, although Gao Xianzhi was impartial in his remarks and promoted him to the rank of commander of the Fan camp. But it is impossible for Gao Xianzhi to attach importance to him, let alone compare with Li Siye's attention. Although Bai Xiaode is a descendant of the Qiuzi royal family, he has self-identified with the Confucian values of the Han people.

After Li Siye got Bai Xiaode, he continued to set off to the west, and returned to Shule Town, a node in his life's journey twenty days later.

The current envoy of Shule Town is Zhao Chongxuan, and since Li Siye's family still lives in the town envoy's mansion, he has no choice but to work in the deputy military envoy's mansion.

When Li Siye returned to Shule Town, it was dark, and they didn't alarm anyone, so they went straight to the door of the town envoy's mansion and knocked lightly on the side door.

The doorman lazily pushed open the door, yawned and asked, "Who?" ”

"Me."

The doorman's eyes suddenly widened, and he said in surprise: "Ah, Ah Lang." ”

Li Siye was full of emotion in his heart, but he just asked: "Everything is okay at home." ”

The doorman nodded again and again, suddenly remembered something, and said excitedly: "Ah Lang, the little boy has been born for more than a month!" Miss Mei'er and Aunt Wu want to hold a full moon banquet for their children. But Madame told them to wait, saying that they were waiting for Ah Lang to come back, and let his own father personally organize the full moon banquet for the child, thank God, you are finally back. ”

At this moment, he could finally understand what Gao Xianzhi said, coming back from fighting again and again, and before he knew it, the child had grown up. During the period from Twelfth Niang's pregnancy to childbirth, he did not do his duty as a husband, and the sourness of guilt slowly rose in his heart.