Sun Zhongshan didn't seem to notice Shang Cheng's inquiring eyes, and talked tepidly: "...... The family has reported her funeral, and the Cheng family has violated the marriage contract, and now Miss Yang has relatives who can't vote, and she can't return to her family, so it's useless to stay in Yanzhou. Send her back to her hometown in Beijing, Yanzhou to Shangjing is more than thousands of miles, the road is long, it is the cold winter season, the road is difficult, she is a delicate woman, she is lucky to get out of the difficult physical and mental exhaustion, whether the bumps on the road can withstand is also two words. Moreover, she has the status of an official dependent, and a slight mistake on the way will also damage the comradeship between the adults and the princess......"

Shang Cheng still listened to Sun Zhongshan find a reason to explain without saying a word, and at this time, the more he said, the more unreliable it became, and he couldn't help but interrupt: "Stop!" I don't know Yang Gongdu, don't talk about this. Tell me, why did you bring people back? What's your idea? "He is not even a person who is very clear about the direction of the Jingping Plain Mansion, how can he know that Yang Zhidu Jingguan? Besides, he is a border military captain and commander of the military village, how can he have anything to do with Cao Xiaojing, an official of the Jiupin Division of the Ministry of Industry?

"What I just said is what I thought."

Shang Cheng rolled his eyelids and stared at Sun Zhongshan. He has only been in Zhongzhai for less than ten days, and the matter has been dealt with on his heels, not only to comfort the subordinates who have to be cheaply disposed of in the suppression of bandits, but also to inquire about the soldiers, equipment, training, food and salaries in various walled forts, etc., and also to send personnel to distribute materials to deal with the deficits and omissions left by his predecessor. Even now, there were two well-known elders in the study room waiting for him to come over to speak, and he didn't have the energy to guess Sun Zhongshan's thoughts.

He took out the Mianpa, wiped away his tears, folded the Mianpa, gently rubbed his sour and itchy eyes, opened his left eye and looked at Sun Zhongshan and said, "If you talk nonsense again, be careful that I drive you out!" Just tell me straight, why did you bring people back? ”

Sun Zhongshan's face suddenly flushed, his eyes were not so natural, he lowered his eyes and stared at his new leather boots, his expression became cowardly, and he couldn't spit out a word in his mouth for a long time.

He was a man of five years and three thick, and then thought of Sun Zhongshan's emotion of "a man is thirty or forty years old and has no home" in Dujiadian half a month ago, Shang Cheng already understood seven or eight points in his heart. But he didn't break it. Not only did he not break it, but he also took the Mianpa, put on the blindfold again, and took a sip of cold tea soup with a teacup for a long time, quietly waiting for Sun Zhongshan's "next words".

It was so much more interesting than going to spend time with the squires. Sun Zhongshan sent Miss Yang to get married, but the errand was not completed, and in the end he found a family for himself. But it's not surprising to think about it, Sun Zhongshan is in his thirties, and after more than ten years of hard days, he must have long longed for a woman to feel distressed; In the past, he had a low status, no savings in hand, and couldn't afford a daughter-in-law, but now it's different, in terms of identity, he is already a benevolent lieutenant under the ninth grade, and in terms of status, he is a dignified sentinel, and he has all the status, and he has a lot of loot when he was suppressing bandits, and his pocket is swollen, and it is normal to want to ask for a daughter-in-law. It happens that the Cheng family is afraid that Huaimen Feng will push off the marriage contract with the Yang family, and her mother will not recognize her, she has nowhere to go for a while, it is the time of sadness and dazedness, and then she is carefully cared for by Sun Zhongshan all the way, and it is inevitable that she will be grateful to the girl of this age, gratitude and affection are the same thing......

He pretended to meditate with a herbal teacup, and Sun Zhongshan also had a hesitant look on his face. The room was quiet, except for a few short orders from the direction of the barracks. Far away, the order is not very clear. Outside, there was the sound of stone's unbridled laughter, mixed with Bao Kan's scolding and scolding.

After a while, Sun Zhongshan looked very unnatural and said, "My lord, I ......."

Shang Cheng held the teacup and didn't squeak, as if he hadn't heard his words.

"My lord, I ...... Subordinate ......"

Shang Cheng withdrew his gaze from staring at the door frame, and looked at him quietly with a teasing look in his eyes.

Sun Zhongshan, who had said twice in a row that he had only gotten up, suddenly plucked up his courage and shouted: "My lord, there is a reluctant request from my position, I hope that my lord will fulfill it!" ”

"Huh?" Shang Cheng looked very surprised and asked, "What do you want me to fulfill you?" Ugly words ahead, I don't have any money. "Although he is so drunk, and now he has no money to lay down the bandits' lair, he is also the thickest spoils of war, but the idea of moving the village to Dujiadian is his own, and the farmers' settlement expenses are naturally paid by him in advance, and he was going to be reimbursed on the big account, who knows that he only remembered when he arrived in the village, he actually forgot to ask the three families to write him a receipt voucher one by one without this thing, how could he receive money and grain from the border army's tent?

"I'm not looking for adults to borrow money. …… I hope that the adults can speak for me. ”

Shang Cheng let out an "oh", and when he raised his head, his face was already full of "surprise", and asked, "Zhongshan wants to start a family?" Speaking of which, it's time for you to start a family. For men in their thirties and forties, if there is no woman around them to take care of them, they will either break pots or bowl bowls. Seeing that Sun Zhongshan's face was a little embarrassed, he himself felt that he shouldn't say these jokes at this time, so he coughed lightly and changed the topic, "Which lady do you have a crush on?" ”

“…… The beans of the Yang family. ”

"Yang Dou'er?" Shang Cheng was a little dazed, and couldn't remember who this bean was for a while. In my impression, Yang Gongdu's daughter's milk name is not Dou'er, it seems to be called "Pan'er". Of course, it is also possible that he listened to it and heard "Yan'er" or "Lan'er" as "Pan'er", in short, it could not be "Dou'er". He pondered and asked, "Miss Yang?" ”

"It's not. It is the maid of Miss Yang. ”

Shang Cheng was a little stunned. He really didn't expect that Sun Zhongshan would fall in love with the Yang family's maid. In that case, things are a little troublesome. He glanced at Sun Zhongshan and asked with his lips curled, "You marry her...... Marry and be a concubine? He knows the legal atmosphere of this era, since Yang Douer is the dowry maid of the Yang family's daughter, it must be a death contract for sale, and the identity is no longer a free person but the property of the Yang family, and a person with status like Sun Zhongshan can't even use a "marry" to marry her, it can only be a "begging", and if she asks for it, she can only be a concubine and not a wife, otherwise Sun Zhongshan will wait for the impeachment of the report, although it is a petty sin, but it is also annoying to be serious, and it will be demoted to a civilian for forty days and ten days.

Sun Zhongshan obviously knew what he wanted to say, and his gaze became firm after a moment of hesitation: "It's not ......"

Shang Cheng himself has no prejudices about marrying a maid as a wife, but the atmosphere of the times is like this, and the law is like this, and he can't help it. If it were someone else, he would ask and persuade him twice at most. But Sun Zhongshan is different, he has a lot of connections with this crazy student and now a border army officer, and Sun Zhongshan's temperament is also very important to him, and he can't help but be verbose about this matter. Even if Sun Zhongshan doesn't like to listen, he still has to say it.

"Have you ever thought about the consequences of marrying her back as a wife?"

Sun Zhongshan nodded slowly but calmly: "I have read "Da Zhao Criminal System". ”

Shang Cheng hadn't read "Da Zhao Criminal System", and he didn't know what kind of book it was, but looking at Sun Zhongshan's face and eyes, he knew that it was impossible for him to persuade him. He put down the teacup and poured a cup of hot tea, lifted the blindfold again, and put the teacup under the eye sockets, so that the water vapor slowly steamed his eyes, so that the dry eye sockets and eyelids could be more comfortable. He was spinning in his head. Since Sun Zhongshan knew that it was powerful and still wanted to do this, the first thing he wanted to think about now was how to make Sun Zhongshan fulfill his wish.

But he couldn't think of any proper solution for a while, so he casually asked, "Bean...... Dou'er knows what you're thinking, right? ”

"Back to adults, she knows."

"She willing? …… I mean, would she like to be your wife? Shang Cheng himself couldn't tell why he was asking, and he didn't know whether he wanted to hear a positive or a negative answer. If Yang Douer said "yes", he would feel that she was not worthy of Sun Zhongshan; But if she said "unwilling", he would probably feel sorry for Sun Zhongshan again......

"She didn't want to. …… She said that she was going to guard her young lady. She was afraid that her young lady would still find a short-term meeting. ”

Shang Cheng frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" Yang Gongdu's daughter doesn't want to live anymore? Is she still looking for a short time? ”

Sun Zhongshan pursed his lips and said for a long time: "I have searched twice." When I went to Cheng's house, I saw her father's letter and looked for it once that night, and I also found it in the car on the way back...... was bumped into by Dou'er twice, and it took a life to get back. ”

Hearing Sun Zhongshan say that the Yang family's daughter was still looking for a short time in the car, Shang Cheng couldn't help but shudder. In such a small space as a carriage, if a person wants to seek death, all he can do is scissors or knives...... I don't think that a quiet fifteen-year-old girl has such a strong temperament. But why wasn't she in the bandits' den...... As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, he hated to slap himself - when did you become so dirty! She still has the hope of being rescued and surviving in the bandits' den, and it is this slim hope that sustains her to survive; But after she was really rescued, she found the door of her husband's house, but what was waiting for her was her husband's ruthless destruction of the marriage and her father's letter claiming that she was dead, who could stand such a blow? The key is that she also knows that they actually know that she was just taken away by the bandits, and it was the "meat ticket" in the hands of the bandits to extort money, and they all couldn't bear to leave her alone, including her biological father...... The double blow coupled with the fear in the bandit's lair, if you change yourself, maybe everything will be lost at this time.

He had a wooden face, the corners of his mouth twitched constantly, and he didn't speak, just stared at the corner of the wall in a daze.