When the last rays of the setting sun slowly faded from the rooftop, Shang Chengcai returned to the Weifu Post House where the seat card was set.

His expression was a little gloomy, his left lip was tense, bent downward into a half-bow, the corners of his eyes drooped, and the soldiers at the post house saluted him, and he only raised his arms carelessly, and went straight to the door without looking at them.

He's in a terrible mood right now.

When he heard that there were bandits in Dun'an County in the tea house, he volunteered to go to Weifu to ask for his life, and he wanted to lead troops to recruit and suppress them. He thought that although fighting the bandits was not as pleasant as fighting the Turks, it would be better than his current situation of doing nothing all day. But when he found Shangfeng in the Wei Mansion and told him what he thought, Shangfeng asked him to dispel this idea at that time. The Wei government has not officially received the news of the bandits in Dun'an, nor has it received an official letter from the local government requesting assistance in the clean-up, and if it rushes to send troops, it is likely to cause trouble. In addition, the local security in Dun'an has always been good, and there are very few bandits, and even if there are one or two cases, most of them are committed by small bandits, and they can be dealt with locally, and there is no need to dispatch guards at all. Even if the troops are dispatched, at most the guards stationed in Dun'an will be dispatched to assist the local bandits, and it is even more impossible for Shang Cheng to lead the troops to Dun'an There is only one guard stationed in Dun'an, and there are less than eighty people in total.

Shang Cheng, who rushed away, had no choice but to take the enlightenment lesson of Shangfeng and turned back in a daze.

Only then did he realize that the "Qingshan Manuscript" he had put in his pocket next to the saddle was missing.

He asked a circle of people at the gate of the guard's house, and the sergeants standing guard said that they had not seen anyone take his book. He immediately turned around and went back to the shop where the horses had been kept. The guy at the shop said that he only said that he took good care of the horses, and did not mention anything else in the pocket, so they did not pay much attention to it. He can't blame the shop guys, and he can't blame Gao Xiaosan for losing his book, because drinking tea and talking was originally his idea; If you want to blame, you can only blame him for not being careful. Fortunately, this matter can be remedied, and he can pay for the bookstore to copy another copy for him. So he immediately took a horse and went to the cultivation of fasting on Shuyuan Street.

But what awaited him in the cultivation fast was still bad news, and the bookstore could no longer copy a copy of the "Qingshan Manuscript" for him.

The proprietor of the bookstore sympathized with his plight, and regretfully told him that the book had just been bought by someone who had paid a fixed amount of money an hour earlier.

This is terrible! He's so unlucky! While cursing the damned book thief in his heart, he asked the boss if he knew the person who bought the book.

Of course, the boss didn't know the book buyer, and if he had, he wouldn't have asked the man to pay for the "Aoyama Manuscript" in the first place. The boss also said that listening to the man's accent, he was not from Yanshan, and he was in a hurry when he came to get the book, and he couldn't even wait for the guy to wrap the book for him, so he dropped the money and grabbed the book and left, as if something big had happened and was waiting for him to deal with it. The only clue was that the man had two retinues with him, and he went into the store to buy books, and the retinue waited outside with his horse......

The clues provided by the enthusiastic bookstore owner simply made Shang Cheng cry and laugh.

He had no choice but to hold back the disappointment in his heart and ask the boss if he could buy another copy of "Qingshan Manuscript" for him, as for the price, he would definitely not let the bookstore suffer. Because he was worried that the remaining money on his body would not be enough to pay the fixed money, and because he was worried that people would find excuses to excuse himself, he simply took out Xuntian Yupei and showed it to the boss.

The owner of the bookstore was taken aback when he saw the jade pendant, and then saw clearly the cloud patterns on the jade pendant, and opened his eyes for a long time before he hurriedly wanted to salute him, and he hurriedly stopped him One by one, he just used the jade pendant as a proof to win the letter, hoping that the bookstore could help him find another copy of the "Qingshan Manuscript", and it was not greedy for anything else.

The bookstore owner was embarrassed and told him that he could only say that he would do his best, and he did not dare to say that he would definitely be able to find the book; However, the boss has a few friends in other places, so you can write to them and ask them to help ask. And because there is not much certainty about things, I don't dare to take his fixed money......

Unable to lead the soldiers, and the book was stolen by thieves, Shang Cheng led the horses to the stable of the post house, and returned to the small courtyard where he temporarily lived with a belly of fire.

He met Bao Kan at the gate of the courtyard. Bao Kan was counting copper coins to the two restaurant guys who were carrying food boxes, and when he saw him from a distance, he greeted him with a smile: "Your Excellency is back." Shi was still asking about you just now...... "Seeing that Shang Cheng didn't talk and just walked with his head down, he quickly sent the two guys away, and greeted him and said, "Shi also specially ordered good wine and food outside...... Shang Cheng snorted in his nose and said angrily: "He still knows to come back?" …… Good wine and good food? Now know to please me? It's late! Throw them all out of here! ”

"Who's being idle outside?" Bao Kan asked, grinning. didn't wait for Shang Cheng to speak, and said, "I'm afraid it's not good to throw it away, a table of wine and food, it costs a lot of money." ”

Shang Cheng suddenly stopped, turned around and stared at Bao Kan with a strange smile. He suddenly felt that he was too indulgent with Bao Kan and the stone, and as a result, these two guys became more and more presumptuous, one dared to run to sleep with a lady in broad daylight without saying a word, and the other dared to make fun of him to his face! The stone has returned, and that's for the best; He's going to set a rule for the two of them today! If you obey the rules, you will continue to follow him, and if you don't follow the rules, you will roll up and roll back by yourself!

In the darkness of the sky, his face was quite hideous, and his eyes were also full of evil, but Bao Kan was not afraid, he looked at him with a smile, and said to himself: "This wine and food are not for adults." The stone met an old friend in this inn, and he set up a banquet to ask his friend to drink......"

"Oh?" Shang Cheng said in a long tone with a sneering face, "Then you also have a bargain?" His face changed suddenly, and he walked towards the brightly lit main room, and said with a smile, "You dare to drink in the army, I'm afraid you don't want your head." ”

The lights in the main room dimmed, and the stone had already accompanied the individual out. The man stood under the eaves and gave a military salute in a dignified manner, and Lang Sheng said: "Sun Fu, the captain of the Yanshan Border Army, see Lord Shang." ”

Shang Cheng frowned. He never knew Sun Fu, a border military captain! When looking through the light, this person was dressed in a green officer's regular uniform, without a belt and a half-open brocade robe, not tall but very strong, standing under the eaves and standing as straight as a javelin, with a square face, two thick black eyebrows like two silkworms lying on the eyebrow bones, small eyes but shining, looking at himself with a bright eye.

Ha, this person turned out to be Sun Zhongshan who was separated during the Gongqian Pass!

Shang Cheng encountered all the heartwarming things outside in the afternoon, and when he returned to the post house, he met a stone calling friends and calling friends Bao Kan to speak disrespectfully, and his mood had already fallen to the extreme, seeing that an evil fire in his heart was about to attack, but he didn't expect to see Sun Zhongshan here, and he couldn't help but see the scene of two people fighting side by side several times in life and death, and he couldn't help but have a feeling of overjoy. He took two quick steps to meet him, and as soon as he grabbed Sun Zhongshan's arm that was still on his chest, he was so happy that he didn't know what to say: "Captain Sun, are you still alive?" He let go of Sun Zhongshan's arm and took two steps back, looked him up and down carefully, and suddenly hugged Sun Zhongshan tightly, saying, "It's great that you're still alive!" ”

He suddenly got so carried away that he startled both the stone and the bag. Sun Zhongshan was even more at a loss, so flustered that he had nowhere to put his hands and feet.

Shang Cheng grabbed Sun Zhongshan's arm, almost dragged him into the main room, pressed him into the chair next to the banquet, and kept asking, "How did you escape from Gongqian Pass?" What about the three kings pouting their heads? What about them? Escaped with you? "Sit down yourself as you speak." Why did you come to Yanzhou too? When did it come? Where do you live now? ”

Shang Cheng's enthusiasm surprised Sun Zhongshan very much, even if they had fought a few battles together, but the two of them had almost no contact, and now he was only a captain of the border army from the ninth grade, and his rank was only slightly higher than Zhao Shishi, who was a loyal and brave man of the Zhengpai Guard, and was one level worse than Bao Kan, and even worse than Shang Cheng, a full ten levels...... He sat at the square table with rich wine and food, holding the rice wine that Shang Cheng had poured for him himself, and his face was already swollen and red before he drank it, and he couldn't make a second expression except grinning. He wanted to answer Shang Cheng's question, but his tongue was so stiff that he couldn't even say a word.

Shang Cheng also saw that Sun Zhongshan was very excited, so he beckoned Shi Shi and Bao Kan to sit down together, poured wine on the cup in front of the two people, and pointed to them to introduce Sun Zhongshan: "You know Shi." This is Bao Kan, calling him a bun and an old bag, a stubborn donkey, and he doesn't do a good second whistle, so he has to follow me in Yanzhou and wait for the Wei Fu to send an errand......"

After drinking a few rounds of wine, and listening to Shang Cheng and them talk a little gossip, Sun Zhongshan's expression gradually eased, and he could also mix in a few jokes. Pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Shang Cheng asked him about the situation at that time. It turned out that when the Gongqian Pass breakout team was dispersed, Sun Zhongshan and a group of soldiers and soldiers Xiang Yong also escaped, but they did not go south like Shang Cheng, who was thinking about his home, but gathered dozens of people and fled into the mountains. He hacked to death a wounded leader of the Turgites, was promoted by one rank based on the head of the enemy, and became a full-fledged officer from the exile Zhongyonglang and a halberd lieutenant under the nine pins.

"So you're now a captain?" Shang Cheng asked.

Sun Zhongshan said: "It's the second whistle." ”

Da Zhao's civil official system has the difference between actual officials and loose officials, and the military attache system has the difference between meritorious titles and actual positions, and the two systems are very chaotic, which Shang Cheng has long understood, so he was not surprised when he heard that Sun Zhongshan made a second whistle, and then asked: "Is it still like its village?" "The border army and the guard army are two sets of systems, the establishment and training equipment and logistics supply of the border soldiers are far inferior to the guards, and even the ranks of the officers sound exactly the same, but the ranks of the border troops are one level lower than the guards of the same rank.

"I'm not in Ruqi now, and I'm transferred to Mazhizhai."