Liu Zongmin said: "Why should Miss Shi Xue be so modest? Zongmin has traveled all over the country and is quite knowledgeable, but he has never seen a woman like Miss Shi Xue who has peerless swordsmanship and the appearance of a moon-shy flower, who can compete with Shi Xue." Zong Min is really lucky to have met Miss Snow!"
When he said this, his eyes were fixed on Yang Jiangyi, and there was indeed admiration in his eyes.
Liu Zongmin has a tall figure, a strong physique, a handsome face, and a talented appearance. He can be called a handsome man. He drank from a bowl and behaved very freely and boldly. When he praised Yang Jiangyi, his tone was also To be honest, these are enough to impress many women.
It's a pity that Yang Jiangyi is not another woman. When she was in Qingyang Town, she saw Liu Zongmin acting viciously, so she didn't like him at all. Now, no matter how many sweet words are used, it makes her feel disgusted. If If it weren't for Li Zicheng's sake, Yang Jiangyi would have been rude to him a long time ago.
Now she just lowered her head and didn't want to say anything. However, in Liu Zongmin's view, he thought that the beauty in front of him was bowing her head and keeping silent because she was shy in front of others, so he said: "Zongmin was born to be fond of martial arts. In order to practice Wu is still unmarried. Today he has to meet a beautiful woman like Miss Shi Xue who possesses excellent martial arts skills. Zong Min has many questions in his mind that he would like to ask her for advice. I wonder if Miss Shi can give her some advice." [
He looked up at Yang Jiangyi and saw that she still had no expression. He added: "There are so many people at the banquet and it is difficult to talk. If the girl doesn't mind, how about the two of us go to the back garden to talk."
Perhaps because of his drunkenness, Mr. Liu took a step forward and reached Yang Jiangyi, reaching out to grab her wrist!
This move was so frivolous that Yang Jiangyi was furious. He flipped his wrist and escaped Liu Zongmin's grasp. At the same time, he raised his right palm and slapped the opponent on the chest!
There was only a muffled sound of "bang", and Yang Jiangyi's palm hit Liu Zongmin firmly on the chest, but his body only shook slightly, and Yang Jiangyi took a step back.
It turns out that Liu Zongmin has excellent hard skills and wears armor under the brocade robe he wears. Yang Jiangyi is good at swordsmanship, but her palm strength is not her strong point. This palm was struck casually without using her internal strength, and it hit the target. He hit the opponent's chest, but it was like being hit on a stone. He only felt his arms were sore and numb, and his jade palms were so painful that he couldn't help but take a step back to relieve the force of the shock.
At this moment, the expressions of Hua Bushi and Li Zicheng all changed.
Hua Bushi quickly stretched out his hand to support Yang Jiangyi and said in surprise: "Sister, are you okay?"
Yang Jiangyi took a deep breath of Qi and said, "I'm fine."
Li Zicheng scolded Liu Zongmin: "Zongmin! How can you salute Miss Shi!"
However, Liu Zongmin showed an expression of guilt and said: "Zongmin just wanted to ask Miss Shi Xue some martial arts questions, so how could I be polite to her? Since Brother Hongji said this, Zongmin offered another bowl to Miss Shi. , it’s time to apologize to the girl.”
As he spoke, he poured two more bowls of wine, picked up one bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
Yang Jiangyi was always an upright person, but now she glared at Liu Zongmin and refused to drink.
At this point, there was no way he could stay at this banquet. He bowed his hands to Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng respectively, and said, "Shi Xiao is too drunk and has already drunk a little too much. With my sister, Please retire first, please don’t blame me, Marshal Gao and Brother Hongji!”
Without waiting for their reply, Hua Bushi pulled Yang Jiangyi and walked out. Chu Yiyi stood up, clasped her fists and said "I'm sorry", and followed the young master out.
When he came to Huaiqing City this time, Hua Bushi originally wanted to take the opportunity of the "celebration banquet" to recover the looted property for the people in the city, and at the same time to recruit various rebel armies and enforce strict discipline, which could also enhance combat effectiveness and
The officers and soldiers fought against each other, but none of these things were accomplished, and in the end they broke up on bad terms.
The three of them walked straight out of the General Military Mansion. After finding their mounts, they were about to get on their horses and leave, but suddenly they heard someone behind them shouting: "Brother Hua, don't leave, wait for me!"
Hua Bushi looked back and saw that the person calling him was Li Zicheng, so he stopped.
This "eighth-route general" hurriedly chased him out of the General Military Mansion and ran to Hua Bushi. With a look of guilt on his face, he took the young master's hand and said, "Zong Min doesn't know the situation. Huang Tang
He also drank too much and was rude to Miss Xue. This is all because the elder brother knew him before anything happened. If Brother Hua wants to blame me, then blame me!"
Hua Bushi said: "Brother Li is serious! What happened today is not the fault of General Liu, and it has more to do with Brother Li. Hua Bushi just felt that the celebration banquet was really boring and wanted to leave earlier!" [
Li Zicheng looked at Hua Bushi's face and said, "Are you really not angry at my brother?"
Hua Bushi smiled slightly and said: "How can I be angry with Brother Li? Even if I am angry, I am also angry with Zhang Xianzhong for being too evil-minded and ruining our major event."
A smile appeared on Li Zicheng's face, he patted Hua Bushi on the shoulder and said: "I know that Brother Hua is a big man and won't care about such trivial matters! Hey, this banquet is really boring. Let's go, we brothers will find another one."
Let’s go to a restaurant and have a good drink!”
Hua Bushi shook his head and said: "Although I also want to have a drink with Brother Li, the amount of wine is too small and I can't drink anymore today. Moreover, King Gao Chuang is still inside. It's not appropriate for Brother Li to come out at this time, so I'd better change it."
Let’s talk about it later.”
In the eyes of Gao Yingxiang and the rebel leaders, Hua Bushi was not an important figure, but Li Zicheng was the most trusted general of King Chuang. This "celebration banquet" was organized by Li Zicheng. He was really not the right person to be the host.
Like Hua Bushi, he left the table midway.
Li Zicheng knew in his heart that what Hua Bushi said was true, so he had to say: "Okay, let's talk about it another day. Then I will go to Qingyang Town to find Brother Hua."
Hua Bushi agreed, and Li Zicheng asked a few people to be careful on the road before turning back to the General Military Mansion.
Seeing that Li Zicheng had entered the gate, Chu Yiyi said: "This general Li Chuang handles things properly and is very loyal to the young master, but his sworn brother Liu Zongmin is reckless and has no good manners."
Hua Bushi shook his head and said, "Does Mrs. Yiyi think Liu Zongmin is really a reckless person? That's not necessarily the case."
Chu Yiyi said: "He drank a few sips of wine and went crazy, offending Miss Jiangyi. Isn't that reckless?"
Hua Bushi said: "If he is such a reckless person, how can he become the head of the four great kings under General Li Chuang, and be respected by Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo and others? I think this person has a deep scheming, no more than that Zhang Xianzhong
He is very frightened and has great martial arts skills, so he is an extremely difficult character to deal with."
Chu Yiyi frowned and said, "What do you mean, Master? Is he pretending on purpose?"
Hua Bushi said: "The palm my sister slapped him just now, even if he was protected by armor under his robe, if he hadn't used his skills to resist it in time, it would have been impossible to knock my sister back a step. If he really meant what he did, how could he have reacted like that? So quickly? I think he had already seen the relationship between me and my sister, so he deliberately acted offensively."
Although Yang Jiangyi is not good at palm power, he has practiced the "Purple Jade Gong" of the "Huashan School" and the "Yi Jin Jing" of Buddhism. The fact that he was able to knock Yang Jiangyi away after receiving a slap was because he mobilized Gang Qi in time to protect himself, but it also shows that his internal strength is higher than that of Yang Jiangyi.
It seems that Commander Liu was defeated by Yang Jiangyi in Qingyang Town in the morning, so he may not have used his true ability.
Chu Yiyi said: "But why did he do this? What's the use of offending the young master to him?"
Hua Bushi said: "I couldn't have guessed this. Probably because he was wary of me when he saw me as the General Staff Officer of the Thirty-sixth Battalion Rebel Army, he deliberately used this method to drive me away from the table."
He smiled bitterly and said: "As everyone knows, this so-called position of General Staff Army is not in Hua Bushi's heart at all, and King Gao Chuang doesn't trust me either. He only works in the rebel army for the sake of Brother Li." Gao Yingxiang was given a casual position in the government, but this plan failed. Gao Yingxiang was short-sighted and could not achieve great things. I am already disappointed with him and I didn’t want to take the job in the first place."
Chu Yiyi nodded and said: "Young master is absolutely right. There is no benefit at all in joining the general army of the rebel army. On the contrary, it will cause a lot of trouble. From my perspective, it is not appropriate for me!"
※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※Hua Bushi and three other people rode back to Qingyang Town and talked all night.
On the morning of the next day, Li Guo accompanied a messenger officer to Ding Mansion, and also brought a letter of appointment from Gao Yingxiang. Hua Bushi was asked to serve as the general staff member of the 36th Battalion, but yesterday he only said it verbally at the commander's mansion. Later, the three of them were busy planning the recruitment of rebel troops from all walks of life at the "Celebration Banquet", and Gao Yingxiang did not have time to issue a formal command order to appoint him.
But when the commission order came out today, Hua Bushi refused to accept it. In fact, the conditions for joining the rebel army that he put forward in the commander's mansion yesterday were still far from the current Thirty-sixth Battalion. The young master really didn't have it. Reasons for acceptance.[
Hua Bushi politely explained that he could not accept the order, and asked Li Guo to convey his apology to Li Zicheng on his behalf, and sent them back to Huaiqing. In the next two days, no news came from Huaiqing City. It seemed that for Hua Gao Yingxiang didn't care about Bu Shi's rejection, so he just let the matter go.
On the third day after Hua Bushi returned from Huaiqing City, a disciple from "Qianhuafang" came from Kaifeng Prefecture and brought the secret book of "Bone Shrinking Technique", which Hua Bushi spent 100,000 silver in two directions. Fang Changsheng bought it, and what he brought along with the secret book was a handwritten letter written by Fang Changsheng.
In addition to some polite words, the letter proposed to join forces with the "Evil Dog Sect" to jointly attack the evil "Fugui Villa".