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"The two gentlemen are polite, and the ladies are polite. I'm going to bother you. I wonder if you can stand up to you."

Just as Li Li, Li Xuan and Ma Yunluo were drinking, a thin and gentle scholar slowly walked upstairs. After seeing that the four elegant seats on the stairs were full, he shook his head in disappointment, and then he wanted to go downstairs and leave. At this moment, he accidentally caught a glimpse of only three people at the table at the window, so he walked over and said loudly.

"Uh?" Li Xuan and Li Li, who were talking in a low voice, looked up and looked up. After seeing the person coming clearly, Li Li quickly glanced at the situation upstairs and knew what the person came to mean. So he smiled and said, "Brother, you don't have to be polite. It just so happens that there is an empty seat at our table. Please sit in!"

"Thank you, brother." The weak scholar was not polite. After hearing Li Li's words, he immediately sat down. Then he called the servant in the wine shop and ordered: "Come two pounds of beef, and boil two pots of good wine, try to get as fast as possible!" As he spoke, he took out a ingot of silver and handed it to the servant.

After the servant left, the scholar said with a smile: "Two brothers, please don't blame me. I'm very anxious when I'm down and I haven't eaten for a day. I'll forgive you for any rudeness."

"You don't have to be too polite, if you don't dislike me, you'll eat with us." Li Li said while pushing a pair of wine cups and bowls and chopsticks on the table to the scholar.

"This,,,,,,, I'm not polite." Seeing that Li Li was so kind, the weak scholar hesitated for a moment, he accepted it happily. Then he smiled and said, "Guo Jia, whose courtesy name is Fengxiao, is a person from Yingchuan. There are many people passing by, and I hope my brother can forgive me if I don't have any etiquette."

After saying that, he picked up the wine pot and poured a cup of wine for himself, and then he picked up the cup and wanted to drink it.

"Let's go!" When Li Li heard the name of a weak scholar, he changed his expression and was extremely surprised. When he saw the man who claimed to be Guo Jia, he immediately spoke up to stop him.

Immediately, when Guo Jia's expression suddenly changed and his cheeks were slightly red, Li Li spoke and explained: "Don't blame me, drinking on an empty stomach is extremely harmful to the body. Brother Tai should eat some beef first. It's not too late to drink later."

"Oh?" Guo Jia's expression slowed down slightly when he heard this, and his blushing face faded away, gradually returning to normal. Just now, he heard Li Li's call, and he looked embarrassed, thinking that someone invited him to sit down and have dinner together, just a polite statement. So he saw that he was drinking without hesitation and stopped immediately. If so, Guo Jia's face would be greatly lost. Therefore, his face turned red and almost felt ashamed, leaving.

After hearing Li Li's explanation, Guo Jia was immediately grateful, but his face was very calm and he was not showing his emotions. Then he said with a smile: "Brother's shouting is really scared! Well, since Brother said that, he would eat first and drink alcohol. Then you can't say that, and you are thin and you can never withstand such frightening again. Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!" Guo Jia's playful words made Li Li, Li Xuan and Ma Yunluo laugh.

Amid the laughter, Li Li pushed a plate of untouched beef in front of him to Guo Jia. He smiled and said, "Come on, this plate of beef was just served, so I can suppress Brother Guo. We are not busy talking, you can eat your stomach first before you say it, or just say what you said just now, eat first and then drink!"

"Okay, I will definitely live up to my good wishes." Guo Jia nodded and immediately picked up the chopsticks and ate them in big mouthfuls.

After hearing Li Li's words, Li Xuan and Ma Yunluo looked at each other in surprise, then kept silent, turned around and looked at the pedestrians coming and going in the alley under the window.

In two cups of tea, Guo Jia, who was thin, actually ate two plates of beef, and the servant of the wine shop just took up the wine and meat he wanted.

"Wow!" After eating, after drinking a cup of wine, Guo Jia said to Li Li in surprise: "What you said is true. It is really very comfortable to drink after eating. I'm sure you'll have to drink first and then eat. As a result, you've eaten very little, and your alcohol volume is getting bigger and bigger."

Li Li nodded slightly and smiled, "Drinking alcohol in moderation is good for the body, but not too much. Brother Guo is weak, so it must be caused by drinking. If I read it correctly, Brother Guo must be a very alcoholic person and started drinking very early. I wonder if this is the case?"

"You guys guessed it, that's true." Guo Jia responded happily.

Then he asked, "Have you asked the two brothers for their honorary names?"

Li Li smiled and introduced: "Zheng Feng, whose courtesy name is Wenchang, is from Liangzhou; the two beside him are cousin Li Zhong and maid Yunluo. I will pass by here like Brother Guo, and have a rest."

"Brother Ren is from Liangzhou, and his courtesy name is Wenchang?"

Guo Jia pondered and smashed his mouth and said, "Tsk tsk tsk! Brother is really brave, he is the same size as Li Li in Xiliang. If someone reports it, I'm afraid that you will be in trouble."

Guo Jia was indeed outspoken. When he saw himself mentioning Li Li in Xiliang, Li Zhong and Yun Luo's expressions changed. He immediately apologized: "Uh, I'm just talking straight, Brother Wenchang, don't blame me!"

Li Li smiled as usual and said, "Thank you, Fengxiao, for reminding me. But when I am in Jizhou, even if Li Li in Xiliang knows that I have the same size as him, what can he do to me? Besides, I heard that Li Li in Xiliang does not seem to be a narrow-minded person, so he should not be so petty. Listening to Fengxiao's words, it seems that he has some understanding of Li Li, but he doesn't know how this person can succeed? If this person can succeed, after our group of people have finished their journey, we will go to Xiliang to find out what happened. Maybe we will still serve him."

After hearing this, Guo Jia thought about it and said, "How can I say this? When Li Li of Xiliang became famous at a young age and became the prefect of Wuwei, he was extremely warlike. He almost never took off his armor, and he would not leave his horse, and he fought east and west. It was strange that when he first arrived in Wuwei County, his foundation was unstable and his food was not good, but he could fight continuously for nearly a year, and his strength became stronger and stronger. It was really strange!

During the Chang'an Rebellion, Li Li shined, waiting for an opportunity to provoke Xiliang generals to counterattack Chang'an, but he took advantage of the opportunity to acquire Dong Zhuo's old subordinates, and his strength quickly grew. In the battle of the southern suburbs of Chang'an, Li Li won the military power of Xiliang, and then reorganized the Xiliang army drastically, thus establishing his stable position to dominate Xiliang.

As for Li Li's subsequent pacification of Xiliang, establishing Yongzhou, and opening up the road to trade with the Western Regions, these are natural things. Ma Teng, Han Sui and other princes were able to guard Liangzhou when Dong Zhuo was in charge of the dynasty because Dong Zhuo was old and no longer regained his ambitions, so Han and Ma were able to seize Liangzhou. After Li Li took charge of the Western Regions, Han and Ma were in a turtle in the jar and could not resist the powerful military front of the Western Regions. However, Yongzhou cleared the trade routes with countries in the Western Regions and set up a stance, which was an amazing innovation, which was enough to get Xiliang out of the predicament.

Looking at what Li Li did, it can be said that he had mixed praise and criticism, but his merits and demerits were hard to say, because it was too early to say it at this time. Although Li Li seized power in one fell swoop, he was cunning, which made the aspiring people in the world very shameful. However, this person's behavior was hidden and ordinary people could not see it. He could only fool the people, but it was difficult to hide the words of the clan scholars.

Now Li Li of Xiliang pushed his uncle Li Jue to the court. This move seems clever, but in fact he is smart and self-binding, which is really unwise. Because Li Li is not a loyal Han Dynasty at all, but he conceals it from many sources, and wants people all over the world to think that he is a loyal minister and proclaim himself everywhere. In this way, how will he deal with himself when the emperor grows up? If he usurps power without authorization, then everything he did before will be revealed to the world, which is equivalent to destroying the Great Wall and becoming the second Dong Zhuo. If he respects the emperor in charge of power, then I am sure now that the most urgent task of the emperor after taking power is to eradicate Li Li. Therefore, what Li Li does now is to bind himself, and eventually put him in a state of doom."

"Well said, Brother Fengxiao is as good as watching the fire, and he hits the nail on the head!" After Guo Jia finished speaking, Li Li cheered with a smile on his face. However, he was slandering Guo Jia in his heart: "You Guo Fengxiao, pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey, you are so brave!"

Just as Li Li applauded, Guo Jia drank a cup of wine with a dry mouth. When he was about to fill another cup for himself, he found that the wine pot was thrown out of the window by Ma Yunluo and fell to the street below and smashed to pieces. Fortunately, it was late at night, and there were not many pedestrians on the street, and the wine pot fell and did not hit anyone.

"Why is Miss Yunluo? Have you ever offended the girl?" Guo Jia asked in amazement.

"Hmph!" Ma Yunluo stared at Guo Jia with a bad expression, snorted coldly, and then said, "This is our wine. Your pot of wine has been finished when you talk. Since it is my wine, I will throw it away as soon as I want to. What does it have to do with you? You are really ungrateful. After eating my young master's wine and meat, you still scold,,,, and curse people! Is this really outrageous?"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Li Li coughed twice and ordered Ma Yunluo: "Yunluo must not be rude. Go back to the inn to pack a guest room and come out. Fengxiao will stay next to me tonight."

"Hmph!" After hearing this, Ma Yunluo saw Li Li's unquestionable eyes, she immediately stood up, glared at Guo Jia with anger on her face, and then threw her sleeves away.

Guo Jia looked at Ma Yunluo with an innocent expression and left, then turned his head and said to Li Li: "Brother Wenchang, did you say the wrong thing just now?"

"It is a very common thing for women to be moody, so Fengxiao doesn't have to care." Li Li said calmly and said, "It's getting late. Fengxiao will stay in the inn tonight. I have arranged for Yunluo to prepare. Tonight, the three of us will drink happily here and stop when we get drunk!"

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Chapter completed!