Chapter 209 Li Xiaowei's visit
Cheng Jichang did not go to the school to collect the salary during the day. It was not because he was unwilling to collect it, but still acted like a brigade commander. In the past, the military paid was sent by the lieutenant to send his personal soldiers. If he went to collect it himself, wouldn’t he have lost his dignity?
He sat on the mound in the room, chewing mint leaves in his mouth, and listening quietly to the sounds outside. In the past, when paying wages, the personal soldiers of the lieutenant at the time of Xu should have arrived.
He knew that Zhao Lushui embezzled money for his salary. Although he admired Zhao's behavior, he opposed it in terms of interests. In order to raise the settlement expenses for the women of the dead brothers, Zhao embezzled money for the entire regiment of wages. In order to raise money for the women of the dead brothers to return home, Zhao embezzled money for the entire regiment of wages. First of all, the people in the 10th regiment could not get through.
In the battle to change cities, the 10th Regiment suffered heavy casualties, and there were more than 30 people left, and they did not receive any pensions and rewards, and they were futile. The wives and children of the dead brothers were also lonely and helpless. Do they need to resettle them in the 10th Regiment?
Cheng Jichang did not swear on the city wall, and he really couldn't do it now.
What I hate most is that others are doing what he cannot do, and they have also occupied the salary of these people. This is the conflict between the Sixth and Tenth Groups. Even if they have been in conflict with the Eighth Group for three years, the conflict is still deepening.
Bang! Bang!
"Can Cheng Lushuai be at home?"
He spit out the mint leaf residue from his mouth, turned his head and ordered the lady who was sitting under the oil lamp of the earth couch and said, "Go and open the door!"
The lady put down the needle and thread, staggered to the door, and quickly made it aside after opening the door.
"My wife, okay." Li Siye looked around the house and smiled at Cheng Jichang, who was sitting on the mound, and said, "Chen Lushuai closed the house so early?"
Cheng Jichang turned his head and was stunned for a moment. Obviously he didn't expect that Li Siye would come to deliver the salary in person. He quickly stood up to greet him and crossed his hands in front of his chest: "I didn't expect that Li Zheng came here in person, and he was ashamed of his humble power."
Li Siye walked into the door, put a jar of wine and oil-paper-wrapped lamb legs on the four-legged table, held Cheng Jichang's arms and let him sit down, and sat cross-legged across from him.
Cheng Jichang understood and quickly ordered his wife: "Get two bowls!"
The lady took out two black porcelain bowls from the rattan box at the corner of the wall, lifted up the hem of the skirt and wiped it hard for a few times to put it on the shore. Then she picked up the jar with a smile on the corner of her mouth and took off the sealing mud. She poured the wine bowl and whispered: "Please drink slowly by the lieutenant and Cheng Lang."
"I'm sorry, my wife." Li Siye nodded and smiled.
The lady bowed her knees and saluted, turned around and sat back on the couch and sewed clothes with an oil lamp.
Li Siye held up the wine bowl with both hands and said to Cheng Jichang: "Cheng Lushuai, although Li Siye has just arrived, he dare not forget his responsibilities. Now that you and my brothers are together, it is a fate. After drinking this bowl of wine, don't treat yourself as an outsider. If you have any dissatisfaction in the future, you can ask me directly. What this lieutenant likes most is the straightforward and refreshing person."
Cheng Jichang also quickly held up the wine bowl with both hands and said, "The lieutenant treats us and brothers well. He paid the salary a few days after taking office. How could he be dissatisfied?"
Li Siye raised his head and poured a bowl of wine, stood up and told Kubani to put down the six-ton coins of money, clasped his fists at Cheng Jichang and said, "I have something to do, so I won't leave it with you."
Cheng Jichang hurriedly sent Li Siye outside the door and said loudly: "Captain, walk slowly!" His voice seemed to be heard by everyone.
After he turned around and entered the door, he opened his mouth with joy. He was talking to the lady sitting on the couch or talking to himself: "Did you see it? He, Captain Li, still has to rely on me, so he came to the door in person, not only sent me salary, but also wine and meat."
He picked up the wine bowl and was about to raise his head to drink. Suddenly, he saw that there was still half a bowl of leftover wine left in the wine bowl that Li Siye had left. He couldn't help but curl his lips with regret, and poured it into his bowl. Then he raised his head and drank it all, and then grabbed the lamb leg and started to chew.
Li Siye brought up another wine pot and lamb legs and came to Yuan Tao's adobe house. The man opened the open and sat at the door with the desk. There was a bowl of cold water on the desk. He looked up at the starry sky, as if expressing his feelings to the moon.
At first glance, this person is a literary youth, which is different from a crude man who cares about vulgarity like Cheng Jichang.
Li Siye smiled from afar and said, "Why is Yuan Lu Zhuang melancholy about the moon? But he misses his relatives and friends in his hometown?"
Yuan Tao turned his head and glanced at him, ignored him, and continued to look up at the moon. He naturally stayed away from those who had lost their virtues.
Li Siye took in uninvitedly, looked down at the clear water in the bowl, then picked up the bowl and poured it into the yard. Then he pulled the wine jar in his hand and poured the brown wine into it.
Yuan Tao looked down at the bowl of wine, and said coldly to Li Siye: "We are not a member of the same place, so why should you hit the nails?"
Li Siye put down the wine jar, sat cross-legged across from him, and looked at the Gou Jianyue, and said to himself: "The virtue is too high, and it is easy to be too high and weak. We are now in the army, not in the Imperial College of the saints. Your pure morality can be hidden in your heart, but don't take it out to measure others."
"I only focus on results and do not care about the details."
Yuan Tao turned around and said coldly: "Is that a small matter? You can rob a hundred miles away. Whether you are robbing a cannibal or a Tubo person, this is not what officials should do. If they follow their examples in the future, the reputation of the Tang army will be ruined!"
Li Siye nodded in agreement: "It is indeed, it needs to be paid attention to. It is just a temporary stopgap. We must strictly warn others. Only I can do this, and they cannot do it."
Yuan Tao: “…”
Li Siye waved at Zhang Yong and ordered him to pour the money in the pallet on the table.
"Please take it!"
Yuan Tao waved his hands repeatedly as if he was stung by a scorpion: "This is an ill-gotten fortune, and Yuan must not bear it!"
"Haha," Li Siye chuckled in a low voice, "I know you have noble character, how dare you give you the money you sell the stolen goods? Before I came to the Western Regions to join the army, my family had a lot of savings. Please rest assured that the money on this table was definitely clean."
Yuan Tao remained silent, still looking up at the bright moon.
Li Siye smiled knowingly and bowed to Yuan Tao and said, "The Yuan Lu Shuai is resting earlier, I will go back to the payroll."
He waved his hand and took the two personal soldiers away. Yuan Tao turned his head and looked at the copper coins piled on the desk, and sighed helplessly: "I have also started to deceive myself."
Captain Li returned to the duty room, opened the partition wall covered with paper, and there were a lot of people kneeling inside. The personal soldiers sat around the lamb wrapped in oil paper, and there was a table table in the middle, with a huge wine jar on the table table. The young man from Drinking Pantuo was responsible for holding the wine jar to drink for the personal soldiers.
The men blushed and turned their heads toward Li Siye and smiled, like plates of sunflowers in the rising sun.
"Personnel Li! I'm waiting for you to come!" Tian Zhen got up from the ground drunk and put the wine bowl on his hands.
Li Siye took it with both hands, raised his head and poured a bowl of wine, then handed the wine bowl back. He took off his boots with the partition, and squeezed into the crowd with only exposed foot bags and sat down. Cubani and Zhang Yong also squeezed into the crowd one by one.
The room was indeed a little small, but it seemed intimate. He was at the center, and it was just the stars who held the moon. He picked up the wine bowl and said to everyone, "I have been suffering in the past two days. Li Siye is here to be respectful."
Everyone also raised the wine bowl with their hands, raised their heads to drink wine, and the sound of swallowing sounded around them, which sounded very shocking.
After several rounds of wine fighting, even though the wine in a jar was poured out, Li Siye wanted to call someone to buy wine, but was stopped by Tian Zhen and Teng Mu. The sloping soldiers stood up and said goodbye to the captain, supporting each other and leaving the room.
Li Siye sat cross-legged with drunken eyes, Tian Zhen Tengmu sent off his relatives and returned. Tengmu sat cross-legged in front of him and said regretfully: "The gold you brought from the Pamir Mountains and the more than one million and a million yuan of money are spent in just a few days, and the rest must be divided. Don't you save a little to prepare for emergencies?"
"What do I do to save it? If I want money, why come to Anxi?" He snorted to the two of them according to the case: "The most important thing for people is to know what they want. Don't let money limit themselves. Today's team building is well done, and you must do it frequently in the future so that the team can be cohesive."
"What is a team building? Why do you always make your own words?" Tian Zhen hummed from the side.
"Team building is team building, and you won't understand it even if you say it."
"Okay, don't bother him, let's clean up and leave."
The two of them helped Li Siye down, covered him with a quilt, then closed the fan and left.
Chapter completed!