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Because Liu Shixiong only arrived in the afternoon and was not looking for Li Ping, Li Ping showed up in no hurry, but he still showed up. After all, this was the most basic courtesy.

When it got dark, Li Ping held a banquet in his residence to entertain Liu Shixiong, and invited Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue. Together with Song Baolai, five people gathered around a small table, which was a private space in the house and there were no outsiders. A feeling of ease and intimacy.

After giving Liu Shixiong the main seat and saying a few words of cheerful greetings, the banquet began.

Although the four people sitting here are actually not familiar with Liu Shixiong, these four people are obviously more familiar with the culture of the wine table and are more skilled in how to deal with such a scene. This made Liu Shixiong, who was sitting in the chair, very excited. It seemed that he was the only one who seemed unfamiliar with such an occasion.

Although Zhao Lanyue has been Shi Ming's junior secretary for two years, she actually has very little contact with Liu Shixiong. After all, for Shi Ming, he and Liu Shixiong only have polite contacts, and occasionally let the couple get some benefits around them. .

Without Zhao Meiling, Shi Ming would not even have any interaction with Liu Shixiong.

After just a few glasses of low-alcohol mixed wine brewed with fruit, Liu Shixiong started talking more obviously and became a little more excited. His drinking capacity should be average.

In addition to talking about the current situation of himself, Shi Ming and Wang Chengwu without getting to the point, Liu Shixiong complained a little loudly about why Li Ping didn't say hello to them when he came to Xiangyang City two days ago? Why didn't he go to his place to sit there? That's easy. He entertained him as a landlord would.

Although Li Ping knew that this was just a polite comment and could not be taken seriously, he still explained seriously that he went to Xiangyang mainly to express his support to Zuo Mengeng, and since he was going back the same day, he was tight on time. Even when he was with Zhao Jin, he just showed his face. He really didn't have time to bother others.

Liu Shixiong immediately yelled something like, "You can't just look at leaders and have no brothers." Li Ping had no choice but to politely apologize and give himself a glass of wine as punishment.

Fortunately, Liu Shixiong didn't dwell on this topic, and he quickly turned to Li Shengcai.

When he just introduced the current situation of everyone in Xiangyang City, Liu Shixiong was a little strange and did not mention Li Shengcai. It turns out there is a story!

But when it comes to Li Shengcai, Liu Shixiong is very obviously hesitant to speak.

Finally, under the gaze of everyone, he finally rolled up his sleeves and said with great determination: "We drank some wine today and we have a good relationship, so I won't hide it. Li Shengcai is also a brother, but Those things about him, oh! How should I put it? You guys will also comment on it to see if it’s inappropriate?”

But after saying these few words, Liu Shixiong stopped again, his expression began to hesitate again, and he just looked at everyone.

Li Ping and Gao Lei just smiled and did not answer the conversation. It was best not to say anything at this time. Song Baolai glanced at Li Ping secretly and only made a face.

At this time, Zhao Lanyue suddenly raised her wine glass, shook it gently at Liu Shixiong, and then said with a smile: "Come on, Brother Liu, take a sip." After that, she took a sip first.

After seeing that Liu Shixiong had also drank, Zhao Lanyue continued: "Brother Liu, I know you best. You have vision and ability. In the past, Brother Shi praised Brother Liu as a talent many times in front of and behind others! It's rare for us to get together today, and we don't have the ability." Outsiders, we are not people who like to talk nonsense. There are some things that Brother Liu can't stand in his heart, and I think they are particularly unacceptable. Brother Liu, please let go and let it go. We are all ears."

"Then let me tell you!" Liu Shixiong glared and drank up all the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp.

It turned out that when he first arrived in Xiangyang, Li Shengcai went out with Shi Ming, Wang Chengwu and others to recruit troops and food, but within a few days he came back alone with dozens of people.

At that time, there was a lot of chaos in Xiangyang, and everyone was busy with their own affairs. No one took it seriously. When someone asked casually, several people involved said that there was too much chaos outside the city, and Li Shengcai was not good at fighting.

It was really too dangerous, so I came back early to stay with Liu Shixiong and the others. There were so many people so I could protect myself and prevent accidents.

But in fact, according to what Liu Shixiong later learned, Li Shengcai was kicked back by Shi Ming.

Liu Shixiong said: "Although everyone understands that the so-called military conscription and food requisition are just recruiting men and robbing food, after all, we are from the civilized world. There is always a bottom line, and there are always things we cannot do.

Shi Ming and Wang Chengwu didn't attack ordinary civilians from the beginning. They mainly robbed large households, and then waited for others to recruit the strong men of the civilians, and then took advantage of the chaos to rob these people.

The area outside Xiangyang City was chaotic from the beginning, and the soldiers and bandits were not very clear. Shi Ming and the others were quite comfortable fishing in troubled waters. Moreover, even when they robbed large households, Shi Ming mainly robbed money, grain, and their servants, which they generally did not know how to do.

hurt their lives.

This is also the main reason why most of the young men and women attracted by Shi Ming and others respect Shi Ming, and it is also one of the reasons why he can attract many thieves to join him.

After all, for most civilians, it was not Shi Ming who ruined their families. Shi Ming was still the person who saved them and gave them food. He was a capable and righteous man.

As for the little thieves, there is nothing much to say about taking refuge in whoever has a strong fist.

Shi Ming used to really take both black and white, and he was always good at taking black and black."

Seeing that Li Ping and others looked suddenly and thoughtfully, Liu Shixiong continued to say proudly:

"But Li Shengcai is different, he is simply doing whatever is wrong.

He took the people assigned to him by Shi Ming and went directly to people's homes to rob people and grab food. They beat and killed people who resisted at the slightest. It is said that several people were injured in just two days. What is even more shameful is that Shi Ming beat him

The rich man, he wasn't just helping to find food and money, but he was busy robbing other girls and girls, insulting women everywhere, and even doing unsightly things in public.

What's even more disgraceful is that Shi Ming and the others got into a fight with a group of people, and Li Shengcai was hiding behind him, ready to run away at any time. Fortunately, Shi Ming won in the end. But Shi Ming finally couldn't stand him anymore.

Just kicked him back.

Although I did not see these with my own eyes, Shi Ming once said that what my wife heard with her own ears was definitely not me who arranged it for him.

But once, I witnessed Li Shengcai robbing several houses in the city. It was really amazing! This man was so ruthless.

I happened to bump into him when he was taking someone out. I asked him what he was doing there. He said he was going out to try his luck. I was curious and casually said how about going with him? But he didn't avoid me.

What he should want to do is to show off his majesty in front of me, but who am I? I don’t know him yet! He must be a good person, otherwise he definitely doesn’t want to bully others.

I would do this kind of thing alone.

As expected, Li Shengcai went directly to several houses, surrounded them and robbed them.

You will never imagine how miserable those people were caused by Li Shengcai!

They really dug deep and robbed everything except the elderly and children. If anyone resisted, they just pressed them down and stabbed them. Those young women, Li Shengcai separated from his subordinates on the spot.

What's even more irritating is that he kept the robbed mother and daughter together in his own place, and now the mother and daughter are still waiting on him in his room every day.

Do you think this is still a human being?"

At this point, Liu Shixiong became surprisingly angry. He continued: "Although Li Shengcai has more than 200 people, he seems to be quite capable, but we look down on him. We can't do what he does, and we don't bother to go."

Qian. I, Liu Shixiong, also have things I do and things I don’t do.

You don’t know! He pretends like that in front of me every day! What’s there to pretend?

Look at all the people he has friends with outside. They are all thieves. He snatches a bunch of women and sends them around, relying on his ability to do tricks and massages, and he goes to curry favor with those powerful generals every day..."

"Brother Liu, I really read you right. How could Li Shengcai do this? He is so disgusting. Come on, I respect you, Brother Liu." Zhao Lanyue expressed her anger and appreciation for Liu Shixiong in a timely manner, and then

Li Ping and others also expressed their anger.

What Liu Shixiong said really shocked everyone, and even subverted the three views.

Although very cruel things are happening everywhere around us, and everyone is somewhat accustomed to them, they are all done by others after all. Now that there are people doing such things, the feeling is still different.

In their subconscious mind, they come from later generations after all, and they always feel that they will be different.

Liu Shixiong, who was praised, became even more excited. He told another magical story about Li Shengcai in a more ostentatious manner. While spitting, he even started talking about all kinds of ridiculous details excitedly, without any taboo about the presence of ladies.

Be present.

But no one tried to stop him, everyone was silent.

Whether it's true or false, exaggeration will definitely be exaggerated, and adding fuel and jealousy is inevitable, but everyone knows in their hearts that it may not be too different.

Li Ping and Song Baolai's brows were always furrowed, while Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue's faces alternated with expressions of disgust and intolerance. What Li Shengcai did far exceeded everyone's imagination.

Finally, Zhao Lanyue couldn't bear it anymore, stood up angrily, and said to Liu Shixiong: "Brother Liu, I'm a little uncomfortable today, so I won't accompany you for now. You can eat and drink well."

Zhao Lanyue was leaving, and Gao Lei naturally had to go with him.

After a while, Li Ping entered the inner room first on the grounds that he was still very weak and could not drink more. This was not entirely false, after all, the stitches on his wound had just been removed!

The remaining two people, who were not very familiar with each other, were still at Li Ping's residence, so naturally they couldn't drink the wine anymore, so Song Baolai accompanied Liu Shixiong back to his place to rest.

Song Baolai prepared a room for Liu Shixiong in his residence.

On the way, Liu Shixiong kept asking Song Baolai how his daily life was like under the influence of wine. How many maids did he have? Are there many women here? The two beautiful maids he saw at Song Baolai's place in the afternoon were both taken.

?etc.

Song Baolai didn't think too much at first. He just thought it was a man's bad nature, so he dealt with it with a smile. It wasn't until Liu Shixiong entered the house that he euphemistically said, "It's not easy for him to come out alone. He wants to have a show."

Only then did Song Baolai understand Liu Shixiong's thoughts.

But Song Baolai was really unprepared, let alone handing over his maid.

He had no choice but to express in embarrassment that he was bragging just now. Because they had Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue here, they were actually more conservative in this regard. Liu Shixiong was so angry that he pointed at Song Baolai for a long time.

The next morning, Liu Shixiong led his men and left Li Ping's villa. Looking at Li Ping and Song Baolai who had been waving to him behind him, Liu Shixiong felt complicated and melancholy. He kept cursing in his heart: "Fake it with me."

,Pooh!"

In Liu Shixiong's team, Old Man He also kept looking back at the distant villa with complicated emotions, sighing in his heart that he didn't know when he would be able to come here again. If it weren't for his belly that was almost bursting from eating in the morning, Old Man He would always

I feel like this is all a dream.

Finally, Old Man He couldn't help but glance at the commander Liu Shixiong who was standing on the horse with his chest deliberately raised. Then, he felt more disappointed than ever before.
Chapter completed!