Chapter 684: Take Down the Future Second Minister
Kong Xigui followed Li Guodong into the city. According to the order, more than 7,000 soldiers under his command camped at the Dongting Lake outside Yuezhou City, waiting for the order to enter the city.
Wu Weibo naturally kept his word. At noon, he saw Jinyang Army driving pigs and sheep to Kong Xigui Army's camp.
"Dear brothers, our uncle has brought you something." He Xing led his soldiers to drive away pigs and sheep, and pushed vehicles full of food, vegetables and wine into the Kong Army camp.
"It's great, brothers are about to have a tooth sacrifice tonight." Looking at the pigs and sheep screaming, looking at the carts of food, and the lively fish and shrimps, Kong Xigui's soldiers couldn't help swallowing their saliva. During this period, they had been defeated all the way, from Jingzhou to Yuezhou, from Yuezhou to Changsha, and then fled back to Yuezhou. They suffered many years of defeat, except for the great officials above who spent their days and spent every day, it was good that the soldiers below could have a full meal. When could they eat such big fish and meat?
But these soldiers, who were almost the same as bandits, never dreamed that after the meal, some of them were killed, and most of them became slaves from then on, working in the dark mines, serving them with whips from supervisors, and punishing them for hunger and fatigue.
Besides, after Kong Xigui arrived in the city, Li Guodong invited him into a garden. The two walked along the artificial lake for a while and came to a pavilion on the rockery by the lake.
On the stone table in the pavilion, there was a tea tray, two plates of exquisite pastries and a plate of candied fruit, and two maids stood beside them, a small charcoal stove was placed on the ground, and a kettle was on the stove.
"Kongjunmen, sit and the pot is full of good mountain spring water. The tea leaves are the new oolong tea this year. This is the good tea brought by Zhengjunmen (Zhilong) from Fujian. It's still early to eat, so let's taste the tea first and eat some candied pastries." Li Guodong greeted enthusiastically.
The maid next to him picked up the kettle, poured the hot hot water from the kettle into the teapot, then picked up the teapot, poured the teapot into the teapot, and then carefully picked up the teapot and poured it on two small cups.
"I didn't expect that my uncle would be so particular about drinking tea. I'm a rough man and I'm thirsty, so I'll drink a big bowl of tea. How could I be so particular about it?" Kong Xigui smiled.
Seeing that the tea was soaked, Kong Xigui couldn't wait to pick up the cup and drink it, and drank the tea in the cup in one sip. Although he didn't taste it carefully, the tea was fragrant and there was a hint of sweetness between his mouth.
"Good tea, it's really delicious," Kong Xigui shouted, "Even people like me who don't drink tea can drink it, which is good tea."
Li Guodong smiled and said, "Of course it's a good tea. This is the good tea brought by Zheng (Zhilong) military clan from their hometown in Fujian. Drinking too much green tea hurts the stomach, nor does it hurts the stomach when drinking too much green tea, nor does it hurts the stomach when drinking green tea. It has the coolness and detoxification of green tea, but it does not hurt the stomach when it is like green tea. It has a strong fragrance and endless aftertaste."
"I'm so lucky to be able to drink Master's good tea today." Kong Xigui quickly stood up and saluted.
"Come on, sit down and taste it, drink tea and have some refreshments. This is the greatest enjoyment of life. If you have another cigarette, it will be even more beautiful." Li Guodong said, and took out a pack of good Huai cigarettes produced by genuine Xinyuantang from his arms, unpacked the packaging, and handed it on: "Do you want one from Kong Junmen?"
Kong Xigui took the cigarette, lit it on the charcoal stove, took a sip, and kept saying: "Good cigarette, it's so good cigarette! It tastes strong enough, and it's not choking at all, and the fragrance is still very strong."
Li Guodong smiled and said, "This is the authentic Xinyuantang product. I'm afraid that the Kong Junmen smokes fake cigarettes on weekdays? This kind of high-quality product is hard to see in other places except Beijing and Jiangnan."
The two chatted for a long time, and Li Guodong asked Kong Xigui about several battles with the thief army.
"The bandits are powerful, and the last general has only 20,000 troops, and they really can't resist it. How can you compare with you, Master, and all the tens of thousands of soldiers under your command are elite?" Kong Xigui sighed and suddenly asked, "I heard that the 300,000 generals of the thief have all been taught a lesson by Master?"
"I'm too much, that's because the general of Pingtie was determined to rob Anqing. My uncle just taught him a lesson while he was unprepared. If the soldiers in Anqing City had not restrained the general of Pingtie, if it weren't for the navy's assistance, if there was a fair confrontation head-on, just my troops would be the opponent of Pingtie General?" Li Guodong said with a smile.
While the two were talking, the sun set and the sky gradually became dark.
"Okay, it's time to start. Let's welcome the Kong Junmen today." Li Guodong stood up and made a gesture of inviting him.
Throughout the afternoon, Kong Xigui drank a lot of tea and ate a lot of appetizing candied fruits. He was already hungry. When he heard that it was about to start a meal, he couldn't wait to stand up and followed Li Guodong straight to the dining room.
Before he could enter the dining room, he saw more than ten large dining tables outside the hall. More than a hundred of his servants had already sat down. Li Guodong's "housekeepers" were actually not taken at night. He was sitting with Kong Xigui's servants, with a jar of fine wine on the ground. Seeing the two of them coming, the soldiers stood up and saluted: "Hello, Mr. Kong, hello!"
"Sit down, sit down, just drink happily." Li Guodong signaled them to sit down.
When I walked into the dining room, I saw a large round table in the middle. There were a circle of cold dishes around the table, and there were various delicious dishes, including braised deer tendons, wax wild ducks, deer tongues, etc. Kong Xigui sat down at the seat and saw that Li Guodong did not move his chopsticks, he was embarrassed to move his chopsticks.
"Come on, Kong Junmen, today I will welcome you. Let us brothers meet you, let's drink three drinks in a row!" Li Guodong picked up the wine glass.
Kong Xigui was already hungry, and after three consecutive glasses of strong wine, he felt uncomfortable in his stomach. Without waiting for Li Guodong to greet him, he quickly picked up the chopsticks and picked up a few mouthfuls of dishes and put them into his mouth.
"Master, I'm sorry, Mo Jiang has been starved long ago." Kong Xigui put down his chopsticks and smiled awkwardly.
Li Guodong smiled and said, "It's okay, eat more, let's have a good time to drink later!"
The wine and food outside had already served, and Li Guodong's night-time bang and Kong Xigui's servants were shouting from outside the door. The hot dishes inside also began to be served, and servants came in one after another and served a plate of delicacies on the table.
"Come on, Kong Junmen, we are brothers now, I'll give you another cup!" Li Guodong picked up the wine glass again.
Kong Xigui just drank this glass of wine, and Han Dashan, who was accompanying the table, also picked up the wine glass: "Kong Junmen, Han also toast you!"
Outside the city, inside Kong Xigui's military camp, there were bright lights, and a large pot of stewed meat was brought out. The tables that were temporarily set up were filled with various hard dishes. Li Guodong's soldiers opened the wine jar, and the fragrance immediately filled the entire military camp.
He Xing picked up a sip of the wine jar: "Dear brothers from friendly forces, I am the master today, so He will do it first!" After saying that, he held the wine jar with both hands and drank it all in one go.
"General He is so good at drinking!" Kong Xigui's soldiers exclaimed.
"Brothers, drink and eat!" Li Guodong's soldiers warmly greeted Kong Xigui's people. But the soldiers of the Kong family army did not notice that their wine bowls were genuine and strong wine, while Li Guodong's soldiers were actually mixed with water in the wine bowls.
In the city, Kong Xigui, who was not full, was filled with a lot of wine. He felt that he could not bear the alcohol, and his personal soldiers outside the hall were already drunk.
Seeing that the time was almost over, Li Guodong stood up and shouted: "Come on, it's time to serve the big meal!"
Han Dashan and Wang Quan stood up at the same time, pressed Kong Xigui's shoulder with both big hands, and then put a rope on him.
"You, what are you doing?" The drunk Kong Xigui struggled to ask without knowing what was going on.
"Take you down and ask for guilt!" Li Guodong sneered.
Kong Xigui was so scared that he woke up halfway through his drunkenness, and opened his voice and shouted: "Come on, save me!"
But all his personal soldiers outside were subdued and tied up and arrested.
Chapter completed!