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Li Jing and Lin Wei are both sons-in-law of today's birthday star. First, Li Jing came forward with the wine to thank everyone for coming to celebrate the birthday. Each table went up to toast a glass of wine, and then Lin Wei, as the son-in-law of the birthday star, also toasted one by one. Today, Li Jing's three sisters, Wanrong, Wanyu, and Wanqing, who went out to get married early, also rushed back to their parents' home with their husbands. However, these three brother-in-law are all honest and loyal people. Although they are ranked above Lin Wei, they are just following behind like a friend holding wine, and are a little timid in front of the officials and gentry.

"I'll come here to celebrate my mother's birthday. If you have any bad hospitality today, please forgive me. Li Jing drinks a glass of wine first, and everyone can do whatever you want." Li Jing drank the glass of wine in one sip, and then Lin Wei, brother-in-law Han Jin, second group husband Zhang Yang, and third group brother-in-law Yang Yanshi followed one by one to each toast a glass. From the Li family courtyard to the outside venue, more than 100 guests from the officials and gentry, plus the villagers' neighbors, a long table of ten people and a table of 40 or fifty tables were set up, which was very lively and amazing. Li Jing bowed one by one to one table, and the first few tables were all officials and elders, and Li Jing had to drink at least one cup at each table.

After the first few tables, Li Jing couldn't bear to drink like this. At first, the seven or eight brothers from the Li family who came to hold the birthday party together to help him drink. Later, he simply asked Zhang Chengzong to make a pot of clear water. After drinking it all over the circle, although Li Jing was not drunk, he was still full of water. It was at this time that Xiao Shitou ran away in shock and said that something was wrong.

"Brother, there are many more people coming on the road to the north end of the village. There are more people here, with 500 or 600 people, all of them are young and strong men." Xiao Shitou had just drunk some wine as a guest. He had just received an urgent report from a villager who was arranged to guard the village head and found that many people were coming to the village. He did not dare to delay at the moment, so he immediately ran to tell Li Jing.

Li Jing was also a little surprised, but he had already regarded the officials and gentry who had come to pay their birthday as bandits and false alarm. Now all the guests have started to sit on the table, and the troupe has come soon. At this time, Li Jing was unwilling to make people panic, so he took Xiao Shitou and then ordered Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian to the north gate.

He rushed to Beicunmen, where dozens of villagers had gathered here. Village Chief Li Shugen was responsible for guarding the village today. Although he was a big banquet in the village today, he was still very dedicated and took over the post after drinking two glasses of wine.

"Sanlang, come and see, there are many more people coming here, which is easier to pull out than before."

Li Jing stepped on the ladder and went up the village wall, reached out to build a pergola on his eyebrows. From a distance, he saw a huge crowd of people coming. Just looking at the posture, there were at least six or seven hundred people. The black crows slowly moved like dark clouds. Looking at the appearance, they were all green and strong, most of them walking, with a few riding horses, and some riding mules and donkeys. Looking at the clothes, they were all diverse, white, gray and brown.

Li Jing didn't dare to be careless, so he asked Village Chief Shugen to close the village gate, and then put the village heads on duty under the village wall and the people he brought to the village wall. After a while, the group of people approached and stopped a hundred steps away. Then five or six men riding horses rushed over, "Hey, brothers on the village wall, we are General Li's brothers. Today is here to pay a birthday to the old lady. Please give me a message!"

Li Jing looked over carefully, but saw that Liu Heigou, the gang leader of the left Yidu, was speechless. He couldn't help but feel relieved. He looked at the people next to him carefully. The people were all from the left Yidu. Today, they were all wearing cloth clothes instead of military uniforms. Li Jing did not recognize it for a while. He quickly opened the door and went out. Liu Heigou and his friends saw Li Jing greeting him in person and quickly met him.

"Why did you come here from such a distance?" Li Jing smiled and gestured to the people behind him with his eyes, "Why are there so many people behind him?" Liu Heigou laughed twice and said in a panic: "The general wants to hold the fiftieth birthday for the old lady. This matter has been spread all over Qingning Township. We are all subordinates of the general, so of course we have to express our feelings. Originally, a few days ago, I just went to make an appointment with several gang leaders of the same team and said that they will come together today, but later when the other brothers heard about this, they would all come together. Originally, the brothers from Zuo Yidu were not

There were a hundred people, but..." Liu Heigou scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Because last time the general said that if my brothers were qualified, they could join the general and eat meat and earn food and rice, I brought the four brothers to the old lady to celebrate their birthday, and let the adults see them in person and test them. Unexpectedly, I brought my four brothers here, but the other brothers in the inner world were like me, and they also brought brothers and clan members who wanted to follow the general to join the army. This time, there were a few more people coming, and there were almost seven hundred people."

Things were indeed as Liu Heigou said. The brothers in Zuoyidu are all from Qingning Township. Since the disbanding of the team and returning home, the rewards and family settlement expenses they received were surprised by the villagers. I heard that when they went to Shamen Town to serve as garrison soldiers, they not only did not have the same hardship as legendary, but also had generous family settlement expenses and monthly food. The villagers who were suffering from famine at home could not sit still. After inquiring about various situations, they asked to go to Shamen Town.

It happened that it was reported in the village that Li Jing was going to hold a birthday for his mother, so everyone wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to come to pay their birthday to let Li Jing meet his brothers and clan members. After all, there were only 250 people to Shamen Town, and now there were 100 people. Everyone had the same idea. In the end, a team of nearly 700 young men appeared in front of the village. Li Jing understood what happened before and after, but couldn't help laughing.

Father and son fight, and brothers fight tigers.

He originally decided to recruit the township party only in Qingning Township as the remaining soldiers. Now that he had not raised the recruiting flag, he came to join the army at once. This is naturally a great thing. What's more, these people are mostly relatives and neighbors of soldiers from Zuoyidu. Recruiting such people into the team can make his team more cohesive.

"Although Shamen Town can only recruit another 150 people, since all the people who come here are fellow villagers, I will talk about joining the army later. Today I will have a few drinks of birthday banquets together." Li Jing turned to Zhang Chengzong and said, "You go back and notify the Wang Madam of the village chief's family of Sheng Lao and ask her to prepare the wine and meat immediately. If the ingredients are not enough, send someone to Chishan to buy some immediately."

Liu Heigou hurriedly said, "General, don't dare. We are just rough people, but we dare not go to the village to disturb the birthday party. We should go to the village in batches to pay our birthday to the old lady, and then go home first, and then we will review and select it tomorrow?"

"They are all guests. Their mother's birthday happened. I would definitely be happier when I saw so many people. Let's go to the village, and we will take the people we brought to the village one after another according to the team that was originally in the capital. "Li Jing was unwilling to miss this opportunity to gain popularity. As a villager, Li Jing planned to use more fellow villagers if he expanded his army in the future.

After hearing Li Jing's words, Liu Heigou immediately smiled and went back, and according to the situation in the capital. The soldiers from the left-level capital all led the people they brought, and then formed the original team, one by one, one by one, one by one. The original group expanded into a team, with nearly seven hundred people, divided into ten teams, entering the village one by one, which did not seem to be very crowded. Li Jing stood at the gate of the village, greeting the old subordinates and their relatives seriously. On the one hand, he also commented in his heart that the young people they brought were mostly young and strong, the older ones may be in their thirties, and the younger ones were only sixteen or seventeen years old. Although many people seemed a little hungry and thin, their bodies were still good.

After the old subordinates brought their people into the village, there was a group of people left outside the village gate. Li Jing looked at these people in surprise. The group of people was probably only fifty or sixty, but they were divided into two. One group was a group of guards wearing short brown pants, holding sticks with eyebrows and iron swords in their hands, and were wearing iron swords around their waists. These people did not follow into the village, and remained in place, firmly guarding two more luxurious double-pin carriages, and there were a row of ten carriages behind them. On the other side, there was a young man in a green shirt and head. He also had several guards around him, and there were also cross carriages carrying items parked behind him.

With just one glance, Li Jing could see that these people were obviously not with Liu Heigou and the others. They looked like the group of people from Huangfu County Magistrate. Could it be that they were gentry merchants who came to give gifts?

At this time, the curtain of the carriage in front was lifted up, and a young man with a gorgeous face was wearing a moonlit silk cross collar and a right lapel, and a large sleeved opposite collar was covered with a white jade belt around his waist, and a jade bi tied on it. He wore a flat scarf on his head, which looked like a cross section of an ingot on the front. Under the wide sleeves of the big collar, a long sword with a three-foot jade-inlaid gold wire handle was worn around his waist.

Seeing this outfit, Li Jing was a little stunned. Looking at this person's outfit, he was definitely either rich or noble, or even ordinary noble. Moreover, he had a natural arrogance and nobleness, which seemed to be born with him. The feeling he brought to Li Jing seemed to be only felt by Cui Yunqing and Li Yin. The young noble man got off the carriage and walked straight to the carriage behind him, and opened the curtain with respect.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Li Jing did not see the person in the car immediately. One hand stretched out from the carriage and gently placed it on the young nobleman's arm. It was a very white, slightly plump hand, and a small wrist exposed under the gorgeous large cuffs. The hand was stretched out first, and then the people in the carriage slowly appeared. Rao Li Jing was prepared in his heart, but after seeing this person, he was still slightly stunned. The man with such a pair of beautiful hands was actually an old man, an old woman with silver silk head.

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