"It's comfortable!" Li Zhi put his big feet in a delicately carved hot foot basin, leaning back on a chair covered with tiger skin, his eyes slightly closed, and his hands spread out in large characters. On the other side of the www.biquge.info, Deng Zhong was smiling and making tea, the small stove was burning, the water in the copper kettle was bubbling and rolling, and the fragrance of tea was tumbling in the room.

They are in the marshal's mansion of Xiao Zhenggang, the original city of Kaiping County. Xiao Zhenggang left in too much hurry and didn't take anything with him, but now it's all cheap Li Zhi.

"It's just a bucket with hot feet, it's actually inlaid with gold and silver, and it's so finely carved, tsk, in our Great Qin, I'm afraid it's only in the palace of His Majesty the Emperor, right? Lao Deng, do you have one at home? Li Zhi let out a comfortable hum.

Deng Zhong laughed: "In our Deng family, if that one dares to use such a thing, he will have to break his leg by me." As Dashuai said, it's just a bucket for hot feet, as long as it doesn't leak, don't hide it from Dashuai, the one I use myself, it's been decades, it's all blackened, but as long as it doesn't leak, I will continue to use it. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said: "The dirt on your pair of stinky feet soaked down, blocking the gaps in the basin, I think it will be heavier and heavier, and the more you use it, the stronger it becomes, how can it be leaked?" ”

Deng Zhong laughed: "Li Shuai has a point, I will scrape it with a knife after I go back, maybe I can change to a new barrel because of this." ”

"Then you'll have to treat me to a drink to celebrate your new barrel." Li Zhi said jokingly.

"I'm afraid that Li Shuai won't appreciate his face, I want to invite Li Shuai, Li Shuai, in the past few decades, you haven't come to my Deng family's door!" Deng Zhong smiled and handed a cup of brewed tea to Li Zhi.

Pinching the small teacup that has not yet taken a sip of tea, Li Zhi sighed: "This kind of enjoyment, I really can't get by, I prefer a big bowl of wine, a big bowl of meat, thirsty, scoop a scoop of cold water and pour it down." I still remember that very early in the palace, His Majesty personally made tea for me, and it was like this, and that tea made me uncomfortable, and then His Majesty the Emperor simply threw the teapot to me. ”

"Only Li Shuai has this kind of treatment, but we don't dare to breathe in front of Your Majesty!" Deng Zhong smiled.

"Really?" Li Zhi looked at Deng Zhong thoughtfully: "Old Deng, don't you really dare to breathe?" Look at the current Great Qin, the Deng clan controls almost all the border armies, the Bian clan controls the Yongdu, controls the Thunder Army, the two of you are fighting back and forth, many people have died, and a lot of vitality has been injured in my Great Qin! ”

Deng Zhong drank his tea slowly, "Li Shuai, if we don't fight, but unite you, can you rest assured?" Is Your Majesty at ease? ”

Li Zhi nodded slightly: "It makes sense, but I hope you will fight without breaking it, and it is best not to touch some principled issues, otherwise, I am welcome." ”

"Of course we will take care of that. There is Daqin, there is the Deng family, and there is also the Bian family. But Li Shuai, I don't think your attention should be on our Deng family, but on the Bian family. Deng Zhong said.

"You're wrong, I'm really worried about you." Li Zhi stared at Deng Zhong: "The Deng family, hard work, up to you, the patriarch, down to your clansmen, not good for money, not good for women, bent on the border army, in the border army and all parts of the border, the reputation is high, and every call is answered, compared to the Bian family, if you have a different heart, then it will really make the Qin State suffer a catastrophe." ”

Deng Zhong smiled bitterly: "Li Shuai, is this also wrong?" Can you rest assured that I am drunk, corrupt and lustful, and have a very bad reputation? ”

Li Zhi sighed: "How old am I this year, I am in my sixties, and I don't know how many years I can live?" Bian Yujing, although he has the power and courage, but he spends too much time on scheming, and he has not been able to advance to the grandmaster in this life, and your second son, Deng Pu, is only in his early forties, and he has already touched the threshold, and in time, he will definitely be promoted to the grandmaster, and at that time, the Deng family will inevitably overshadow the Bian family, if I die, who will check and balance you? ”

"Li Shuai?" Deng Zhong was shocked.

Li Zhi waved his hand, "I'm just discussing this possibility with you, Old Deng, I'm just warning you, you and the Bian family are the two legs of the Qin State, and if you break any of them, there will be a big problem, you have to keep this in mind, and you also have to tell your second son, if one day, the Bian family is really gone, and the possibility of your Deng family's existence is not necessary." ”

Deng Zhong took a deep breath: "Deng Zhong remembered. ”

"Deng Pu is a pure soldier, I can rest assured, the third Deng Su will always be just a general who charges into battle, and he can't become a big climate, but your eldest son Deng Fang has been immersed in the dark world for too long, and he is the one who makes me most uneasy. In the future, when you can't do it, the Deng family must not be handed over to Deng Fang, understand? In his hands, he will definitely do everything he can to become the only one. ”

"Li Shuai, Deng Fang doesn't have that much courage!" Deng Zhong changed color.

Li Zhi smiled: "Because I'm still alive, because you're still alive, because Deng Pu is not a grandmaster yet." When these conditions are ripe, he may be tempted. Old Deng, our Great Qin, the imperial family, the Deng family, and the Bian family, are an iron triangle, all of which are indispensable, I can tell you, don't think that His Majesty the Emperor seems to be doing nothing, let alone thinking that the royal family really has no power. ”

Deng Zhong swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty.

The door was pushed open with a bang, Deng Zhong Huoran looked up, and saw the third Deng Su standing at the door, he couldn't help but be angry when he had something in his heart, and threw the teacup in his hand over.

"What kind of place is this, come in if you want? Don't you have a long mouth? ”

Deng Suyi raised his hand to catch the teacup thrown by his father, looked at his father inexplicably, blinked his big eyes, and looked innocent. Li Zhi smiled: "Deng Su, come here, pinch my feet for me, you have just been reprimanded by me, and I don't want to be angry with you!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!" Deng Su hurried to Li Zhi, stretched out his hand, and carefully massaged Li Zhi's feet. "Dashuai, there was such a good opportunity to kill Xiao Zhenggang yesterday, why didn't you allow me to go after him?"

Li Zhi smiled: "You were already very tired at that time, right?" ”

"Yes, but our Great Qin cavalry, no matter how tired we are, we can kill the enemy." Deng Su said loudly.

"A brave man indeed." Li Zhi said appreciatively: "Then have you thought of any other reason besides this?" ”

Deng Su shook his head: "I think Li Shuai is sympathetic to the soldiers, and the poor are not chasing." ”

"Sympathetic to the soldiers?" Li Zhi laughed and looked back at Deng Zhong: "Deng Zhong, do you remember the battle more than 20 years ago?" In order to accomplish the pre-war goal, I asked you to throw yourself to death with 20,000 soldiers, and how many people came back alive in the end? ”

"Dashuai, it was the most memorable battle of my life, and there were a total of three hundred and six people who came back with me in the end." Deng Zhongdao.

Li Zhi turned his head to look at Deng Su: "So, I'm not sympathetic to the soldiers, if necessary, even if I tire you to death, I will let you keep moving forward." It's just that it's not necessary, because Xiao Zhenggang can't go back alive. ”

Deng Su looked at Li Zhi puzzled.

"Because Luo Yishui can't let Xiao Zhenggang go back alive." Deng Zhong on the side couldn't help but explain that his son was indeed as Li Zhi said, and even his head was full of muscles. "Xiao Zheng has just evacuated Kaiping County, and in the end he will only crash headlong into the big net that Luo Yishui has arranged for him a long time ago. Xiao Zhenggang is now one of the few remaining generals in the Yue Kingdom who is enough to compete with Luo Yishui's court, if he doesn't kill him, will he still be allowed to make trouble behind Luo Yishui's ass? ”

"I see!" Deng Su laughed loudly: "That dare is good, it saves us a lot of energy, but Li Shuai, don't we grab Kaiping County?" The people here are really rich, robbing them, our border army can live a good life for another year. ”

"Don't rob! Because this time we want to bring Kaiping County under the jurisdiction of our Great Qin. Kaiping County is rich in land, but it is not the kind of place where yellow sand is flying everywhere in our Daqin, if it is well managed, it can become the granary of our Daqin, and the wealth is heavy, which can greatly alleviate the financial crisis of our Daqin. Deng Zhong explained on the side: "Don't keep thinking that your second brother robbed the Anyang County of the Chu people and made a fortune, that is because even if we take the Anyang County of the Chu people, we can't hold it, and it will cause a big war with the Chu people, so if you rob it, you will rob it, and leave it for the Chu people." But now that the Yue Kingdom is in a mess, we occupy Kaiping County, they don't have the energy to settle accounts with us, and after a few years of hard work, we will digest him into our own territory, understand? If you learn from your second brother and grab a fine light, what will you do in the future? It's good to have a long stream of water. ”

Deng Su smiled: "I understand, I understand." Anyway, I just lead the troops to fight and charge. Li Shuai, even if we don't grab Kaiping County this time, our cavalry will have to make up for it, I have lost a lot of people, horses, and weapons, I want to equip the cavalry with a saber. ”

"Okay, this time I will give you priority to supplementing, I promised you for your father." Li Zhi laughed and patted his head and said with a smile. For this third child of the Deng family who has no scheming, Li Zhi really likes it.

"That's a good idea!" Deng Su was overjoyed: "Then I'll pinch it for you." ”

"It turns out that I will pinch it for me when I give you something, was it perfunctory before?" Li Zhi said happily.

"No, no, no, it's my blessing to be able to pinch Li Shuai's feet and loosen his muscles!" Deng Su smiled and said, "If the second brother knows, he will definitely envy me." ”

"Your second brother is about to be promoted to a grandmaster, and he pinched my feet, I really can't stand it." Li Zhi shook his head with a smile, closed his eyes and enjoyed Deng Su's service, and after a while, he suddenly opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Old Deng, just now we talked about your boss, I didn't expect that he would come now, and I don't know what news he brought us." ”

When Deng Zhong heard this, he strode to the door, opened the door, and sure enough, he saw his eldest son Deng Fang, who had just stepped into the small courtyard. Looking back at Li Zhi, he was even more worried in his heart, Li Zhi really paid attention to his eldest son, there were not many people coming and going in this courtyard, but just by Deng Fang's footsteps and the sound of breathing, Li Zhi could judge that Deng Fang had arrived, which was not a good thing for Deng Fang. (To be continued.) )