Li Siye chuckled and raised the copper cup in his hand: "If you don't say anything else, my feelings are all in the wine. Let's go away."
"Although General Li's words are vulgar, they are enjoyable to listen to. Let's do one too!"
Seeing that the time had come, he put down his wine glass, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of mutton, put it into his mouth to chew, and said, "I really can't bear to leave you brothers. I want to gather you around me and follow me to Qiuci.
But I don’t have the ability to lead the Eighth Regiment there.”
"What's so difficult about this?" Yuan Tao said with his face flushed and his hands on his knees: "In our eighth regiment, who do you like, take it with you! If Yuan Tao frowns for a moment, I am not your brother!"
"Actually, Yan Xiaosi is pretty good."
"Let him go with you!"
"Du Gui is okay."
"The one who caused trouble and had his bones broken by you? If you don't beat him, you won't recognize him. Take him away!"
"Zhang Ping's crossbow shooting is good."
"take away!"
"Dou Sijing's physical strength is amazing, and he is suitable for using the Mo Dao. Unfortunately, our eighth regiment does not have such a good weapon. If he can join the Kucha Town Battle Vanguard.
"Take him away too!"
"..."
Li Siye named five or six people in succession, and Yuan Tao agreed one by one. The people next to him drank silently or pretended to be drunk. Most of them were among the fifty people in Talas City. Cheng Jichang sat on another table.
Before, I heard that he was not among the people mentioned, and I couldn't help but feel sad. Although he was unwilling to go to Qiuci with Li Siye, Li Siye deliberately didn't mention him. Did he look down on him?
"Cheng Jichang..."
Chen Jichang paused while holding the wine glass, and raised his ears to listen.
"Cheng Lvshui is a good soldier, but I can't let me drain all the backbone of the Eighth Regiment. If he leaves, you will be unable to support yourself, so I'd better keep him here for you."
With a smile on his lips, Cheng Jichang raised his head and poured the drink into his stomach. He put down the cup and crossed his arms at Li Siye: "My subordinate wanted to follow the general to fight for a future, but a certain man also had feelings for the eighth regiment. He was really in a dilemma, so why not
Well, General Li made a decision for me. I would like to give a toast to General Jichang."
"Well said," Li Siye filled the wine glass and held the glass in both hands: "After I leave, I hope that Cheng Lvsu can fully assist Captain Yuan Tao, and the two of you will work together to lead the Eighth Regiment."
"Take it away, take it away, take whatever you like." Yuan Tao was lying on the table drunkenly.
Li Siye drank the last glass of wine in his hand and raised the empty glass above his head. Not a drop of wine fell to the ground. He placed the wine cup face down on the table and handed over to the brothers present: "You are all members of the Eighth Regiment.
Chief, Chief Huo, Captain Cheng, and Cheng Lvsu, some people are going to Kucha with me today, and some people will stay here. No matter where I sit in the future, I will never forget this moment, and I will never forget it.
Brothers of the Eighth Regiment."
He sighed and stood up from the banquet, looked around and said: "Let's go, there is no banquet in the world that lasts forever. While I'm worried and drunk, at least I won't feel too uncomfortable. I can say goodbye to the brothers around me. I'll wait outside."
you."
After Li Siye said this, he turned around and went downstairs. Tian Zhen and Teng Mu looked back at the messy banquet, shook their heads and followed him away.
Yan Xiaosi was about to chase after him, but a team member beside him hugged his leg like a drunken maniac: "Xiaosi, can't you just leave? Have you forgotten that our brothers were drinking together? Have you forgotten that you are standing in for him?"
Did I block that knife on the top of the city? Ah, woo hoo! "
"I'm sorry, Liu San'er, General Li has a life-saving grace for me. Get out of here, get out of here."
Yan Xiaosi raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes, his eyes were red and burning. He struggled again, broke away from the opponent's arms, and ran down the stairs quickly.
Liu Saner actually lay down on the table and began to cry. Although the others were not as rude as him, they still reluctantly parted from each other, either holding hands or hugging each other. Some people took advantage of the drunkenness to drink a few sips and said
After talking drunkenly about brotherhood, the people who were about to leave finally left the banquet, leaving a dozen or so people who stayed where they were and sighed.
Li Siye settled the account with the owner of the wine shop downstairs, took out a silver ingot from his pocket, put it on the wine rack and said: "Master, please settle the credit account of the brothers of the eighth regiment in your wine shop.
Let me know if this ingot of silver is enough. If it is not enough, I will give you more."
The owner did not dare to neglect, and took the calculation chips to open the account book and settle the accounts.
After a while, the shopkeeper timidly crossed his hands and said: "General Li, the brothers in your group owe us a total of 136,000 yuan on credit for wine in our wine shop. I have weighed your silver ingot. The total is sixty-two yuan. According to our Anxi
The conversion ratio is still short of 124,000 yuan."
"So much! Do you want to drink the wine as water?" Li Siye was half sober in an instant.
"I dare not lie to General Li. This is the account book. Please check it in person."
He took the account book and looked through it. The black characters were all names. He thought to himself that it was terrible. He forgot to bring enough money when he went out this time?
What he said to the noble lieutenant was like throwing water away. If he didn't bring enough money, wouldn't it be like a slap in the face?
He dug into his inner pocket, found two more Sasanian gold coins, and handed them to his employer: "Let's see, are these two enough?"
The scales on the gold coins jingled and the counters crackled.
"Two gold coins can only be worth 23,000 yuan, which is only one hundred and eleven thousand yuan."
The shopkeeper stood aside respectfully and said quietly in a low voice: "General Li, I don't think it's better than this. I'll settle the accounts of the brothers in the Eighth Regiment first. How much money is still owed, please leave a token from the general. We will allocate your trustworthiness."
All the merchants in the city know this, how about waiting for the general to raise the money and then give it to me in the future?"
"No," Li Siye looked up and thought for a moment, then asked the store owner: "Do you want pepper?"
The shopkeeper's body trembled, his eyes full of uncontrollable surprise, and he asked: "General, do you have pepper? How much is it?"
Li Siye was very surprised. How many kilograms of pepper can make you so excited?
"What are you doing?"
The shopkeeper quickly explained to him: "The general did not know that Tubo Zanpu married his sister to King Xiaobolu, which caused twenty small countries to the west of Xiaobolu to rebel against the Tang Dynasty and surrender to Tubo. The trade route to Tianzhu was blocked, and Tianzhu specializes in borneol.
Incense, pepper and other spices were all transported to Bolu and Tubo. Only a small amount of spices could be smuggled over, causing the price of Anxi pepper to skyrocket. Now it has risen to 400,000 yuan a dou! Even so, there is still a price but no market."
Li Siye licked his lips and said, "No wonder the mutton just tasted so fishy. I bet you didn't even put a grain of pepper in it. Come on, bring me a bag."
The shopkeeper quickly fetched the silk bag from the shop and followed Li Siye to the horse post at the door of the wine shop with Mu Sheng in his hand. He stretched out his hand to untie the sack on the black fat man's back, and there were bits of pepper like thin threads.
A waterfall usually flows into the bag.
The store owner's eyes were shining brightly, and General Li had a big treasury with him!
Li Siye quickly tightened his pockets and said to the store owner: "Measure it and see if it's enough."
The shopkeeper weighed the pepper carefully with a wooden liter, and found that the pepper that came out was five liters of Sanhe, worth 212,000 yuan. The shopkeeper was reluctant to pour the pepper back, but Li Siye stopped him with his hand and said: "Your wine shop is not short of pepper."
What? Just think of it as me selling you, and pay me the gold and silver."
"Okay, okay!" The shop owner crossed his arms and saluted Li Siye and said, "General, you are so benevolent and righteous. I have been running a wine shop in Diaochuan City all my life, and I have never seen the general treat his soldiers and my merchants so kindly. General, please accept it."
A certain ceremony."
After saying this, the shopkeeper lifted up his skirt, knelt down and nodded, put his head on the ground and then sat upright. Li Siye quickly stepped forward to help him.
…
After the farewell, everyone was already walking down in scattered steps. They came to the owner of the wine shop with chaotic steps, clasped their fists and said: "Shopkeeper, we will be transferred to other places from now on. Please settle the credit accounts of the past few of me."
"
The shopkeeper saluted respectfully: "Military lords, we have no debt. General Li has settled all the credit accounts of the Eighth Regiment in the past."
The soldiers turned around to look, and saw Li Siye's figure already outside the wine shop, holding the black horse's rein in his hand. They quickly went out, stood side by side behind Li Siye, bowed and crossed their hands: "General Li's kindness will be unforgettable to us."
"It's just money, it's nothing like kindness. Pack your armor and luggage, and let's set off."
"Here!"
Li Siye and his group of more than 30 people each led their horses, carrying luggage on the horses and walking along the street. The rays of light were already beginning to appear on the city top, and the brown-yellow color of the earthen city tower gradually turned red.
Upstairs in the restaurant, Yuan Tao and others opened the windows with lamps in their hands. They stuck their heads out and looked at the procession passing through the city gate. Yuan Tao's heart was ups and downs, and he had a lot of emotions.
According to the custom, after an officer is promoted, he has to take some close friends with him from the original army. This is understandable. Although the appointed officer has complaints, he does not dare to object openly. As the saying goes, the first level of officialdom kills people, but he did not expect that Li Siye used
This kind of gentle approach, in order to take care of his face as a captain and the feelings of the brothers in the eighth regiment, can be regarded as the most benevolent and impeccable.