Gayancong stood in front of him, put his hands on his belly and said with emotion: "It's not easy."
Li Siye crossed his hands and expressed thanks: "Thank you, General, for rescuing Siye. Brothers are deeply affectionate and eager, but this may be violated."
Gayancong shook his head and pointed at the city head and said: "I'm not saying it's not easy for you to come out, but I'm saying it's not easy for you. You can have the same desire and the same heart from top to bottom, and the soldiers will love you and be as close as brothers. If there can be such a thing in the future,
A powerful army with one heart and one mind does not need to be many, but only ten thousand people can be invincible in the world."
Li Siye looked back and saw that the military households were still squatting and kneeling on both sides of the thatched hall. Perhaps out of shame, they did not follow them out.
He said calmly: "Their requirements are actually very simple. They just need to eat well, wear warm clothes, drink two sips of Sanle juice at ordinary times, the wife can wear clothes without patches, and the children can grow up with adequate nutrition. These are enough.
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"Is this easy?" Gayancong took a breath and said, "You can only guard Congling and capture small households with at most a thousand people, and the military rations are uniformly allocated by the Anxi Protectorate. How do you know how to feed the population?
It has been difficult for our Sanskrit sect to thrive in Congling for so many years. Even in the best years, many children died due to hunger and weakness. As for the years of disaster, many couples stillborn their unborn children.
We wait for the coming year by gnawing on sheepskin felt in the cold winter."
Gayancong seemed to be understatement when he said this, but the vicissitudes of his long beard under his old face were touching the dull pain. He patted Li Siye on the shoulder and said: "You are still rich in the Tang Dynasty. Now it is in its heyday, and the rice in the barns is piled up like mountains.
, there are so many silks and satins that they can cover all the streets in both capitals. I remember when I followed my father to Chang'an to confer official positions, the scene really shocked me. Millions of people lived in a big city and had nothing to do with farming. They were transported into the city from other places every day.
Food, vegetables, fine wine, and mutton are all available, and they even dump leftovers into the canals. Not to mention the grandeur of the Daming Palace. When I was in Congling, I often thought about how big the emperor of the Li family must be.
Only with great blessings and luck can we possess the richest and most vast country in the world."
After listening to his words, Li Siye couldn't help but look to the southeast. At this moment, Chang'an and Luoyang were indeed in the rain and dew of the prosperous age. But they didn't know that this prosperous age was just a flash in the pan in the long river of struggle of the Han nation for thousands of years. Prosperity
Extreme decline seems to be a foregone conclusion, but is it really a foregone conclusion?
Li Siye crossed his arms and bid farewell to Gayancong, got on his horse, led Teng Mu and Song Heng, and rushed in front of the Suo family's caravan, traveling with Suo Tong.
When passing by the Xi chariot, Suo Yuanyu wiped her red eyes and lifted the curtain to take a look at him. Then she sat back and muttered in a low voice: "His heart is so hard. The soldiers under his command knelt down in tears like that. He insisted on
Not a single tear was shed. Bystanders like the two of us secretly cried several times."
After saying that, she swallowed loudly and picked up the handkerchief to wipe the corners of her eyes.
With red eyes, Li Twelve Niang leaned against the wall and retorted: "What do you know! Men have their own soft intestines, he just doesn't want us to see them!"
Suo Yuanyu snorted: "You haven't married Li Lang yet, and you've already started to protect your shortcomings. Aren't you a little impatient?"
"You hoof! Let me tear your mouth apart!"
Li Twelve Niang burst into tears and laughed. She dragged Suo Yuanyu with her hands and started playing with her. A cheerful laughter like silver bells came from the carriage.
They led the team around Qingling. When they looked back, Congling Shouchuo City had disappeared from sight. Li Siye moved forward resolutely and followed the team to Yandu Prefecture, then to Shule Town, and passed through Weitou along the ancient silk road.
Zhou and Diancheng, and finally arrived at Qiuci Town, where the Anxi Protectorate is located.
Li Siye saw off the Suo family's team for an extra ride, and the two parties bid farewell at the east gate of Luntai City. Once they arrived at this place, Li Siye seemed to remember a frontier poem in the middle school textbook, which seemed to be called Bai Xue Ge to send Magistrate Wu back to the capital.
.But the poet Cen Shen didn't know that he was hiding in that corner. It would be ten years before he came to Anxi. Li Siye was the first to experience the poetic feeling.
A few of them led their horses and stood under the weathered earth wall. Low grass covered the barren land. The fluffy thorn willows in the distance were only about ten feet tall. They said goodbye to Suotong.
Suo Yuanyu got out of Xi's car and wanted to say goodbye to Li Siye, but she kept looking back at the car, as if she was receiving instructions from someone to control the car.
She pulled Li Siye aside and said calmly: "Well, Li Lang, we are parting like this and I don't know when we will meet again. Do you feel... um... reluctant to leave?"
"Of course I'm reluctant to leave!"
"anything else?"
"Also, have a nice trip."
"..."
Suo Yuanyu smacked her lips helplessly, put her hands behind her back and twisted her shoulders and said: "Actually, I pulled you here because I wanted to tell you that Li Twelve Niang's birthday will be in one month. This is your birthday."
But remember, she was born in the ninth year of Kaiyuan, and also at midnight on the sixth day of September in the year Xinyou."
"I'll tell you one more time. You have to remember it. It's noon on the sixth day of the ninth lunar month in the year Xinyou."
Li Siye suddenly felt strange and suddenly pulled him over to say goodbye, just to tell Li Twelve Niang's birthday? Are you asking me for a birthday gift? One month is fleeting, so you really need to prepare in advance. Since it is
When giving birthday gifts, you can't favor one over the other. Simply ask Suo Yuanyu when it's her birthday and give her a gift then.
So, he blurted out and asked: "In that case, tell me your birth date."
Suotong, who was standing not far away, suddenly felt his hair stand on end and turned his back to them in a hurry, as if he heard something shameful.
Suo Yuanyu also blushed instantly, and reprimanded shyly and angrily: "You bastard, you are shameless!"
She turned around and fled towards the Xi car like a flying car, almost staggering and falling. She finally threw herself onto the car's shaft and climbed into the car with her knees rubbed.
Fujimu opened his mouth in surprise, with admiration written all over his face: "I have been in Datang for so long, and I have never seen anyone ask two women for their birthdays at the same time in person?"
"Don't say it's you," Song Heng on the side whispered: "I was born in the Tang Dynasty, and I have never seen it."
Li Siye came back to his senses and slapped his forehead hard. Why did he ignore this? The woman in the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to tell her her birthday. Was this a hint of marriage?
Suotong also seemed particularly embarrassed here. He raised his hands and made a virtual arch and said: "Si Yelang, don't send me any further. Just say goodbye."
After saying that, he got on his horse, swung his whip and swiped the horse's buttocks, and followed the marching team.
Li Siye didn't know whether he should catch up and explain to Suo Yuanyu and Li Twelve Niang, but he had no idea how to explain. It involved his blind spot of common sense and the embarrassment in negotiating with women. Thinking about it, he felt horrible.
He turned back and asked Teng Mu and Song Heng: "Is there any remedy?"
Fujimu said with a gloomy look: "What's the remedy? You are blessed with double happiness, two flowers bloom..."
He ignored Fujimaki, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was better not to chase after him to explain. Forcibly explaining would only make things darker and darker. Let him let this matter go. The matter of marriage can also be put aside for the time being, although he just
When he turns twenty-one, he has already entered the ranks of older young people. Whether it is Suo Yuanyu or Li Twelve Niang, he has not yet had the urge to marry her but for her. The urge... It seems that he never had it in his previous life.
I have passed it, so I will wait and see. Anyway, there is no parent urging me behind it.