Bao Kan asked the restaurant guy to set up a brazier in the corner of the door, set up a brass basin on an iron tripod and sent a young man to guard the warm wine, and when he saw that everything was arranged, he said to Shang Cheng with a smile: "I'll go and arrange a place for Uncle Seventeen to stay for them." ”

Shang Cheng nodded and said, "I'll just look at the courtyard next door, and arrange my uncle and them there." You and Lao You said that when my uncle lived here, he would give preferential treatment to accommodation, food, servants, carriages, etc., and let him keep an account of how much he spends, and come back to me to settle the bill. ”

Huo Shiqi didn't refuse, but asked Bao Kan in a little surprise: "You don't eat together?" ”

Bao Kan said: "You Modou, that old loach is not easy to deal with, others say it, he doesn't necessarily pay attention to it, I have to go on a trip to this matter." Besides, I just eaten, I ate four catties of donkey meat in the sauce on the front street, swallowed three pieces of dead dough cakes, and poured a few bowls of tea soup with you, where is there a seam in my stomach now? As he spoke, he stroked his belly, looked at a table of feasts stacked on top of each other, smacked his lips and shook his head, as if he regretted that he had eaten dinner early, arched his hand towards Huo Shiqi, and went out with a curtain to confess.

Shang Cheng saw that Huo Shiqi frowned slightly and didn't speak, thinking that he was worried that it was not appropriate to live in such a place with his identity, so he explained with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, rest assured." This post house is the official property handed back by someone else, and the official has not been disposed of for the time being, and several courtyards only live in me and Zuojun Sima, and there are many vacant houses. Then she saw Erya standing behind her father, biting her lip and staring at a table of wine and food, so she said, "Erya sister also sits down and eats together." They are all from their own families, and they are away from home, so there are not so many rules. The second girl glanced at her father, saw that Huo Shiqi did not object, and dragged the drum stool opposite Shang Cheng to the corner of the table, took the wine jug and filled the almost untouched cups of her father and Shang Cheng before sitting down, and then poured herself more than half a glass, took a big sip of the wine glass, and smiled happily.

"I'm not worried about that." Huo Shiqi didn't notice his daughter's actions, he wrinkled his brows and muttered to himself, "Bao Kan ......"

"You say Baokan?" Shang Cheng smiled while giving Huo Shiqi a dish, "That's it, You Modou, who Yanzhou Mansion temporarily sent here to take care of, is a guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, if someone else mentions this, there is a chance that it won't be done; I can only let Bao Kan do it. One by one, Bao Kan and he are friends with wine and meat. Another reason was that Bao Kan was reluctant to eat at the same table with him. He had an eye disease, he had a lot of things to avoid, he couldn't eat this or that, he couldn't even drink too much wine, and his meals were all yellow rice and hard dough cakes with clear soup and little oil.

Huo Shiqi just groaned. Although he had only been here for less than an hour, and he didn't say a few words to Bao Kan, the onlookers knew that from Bao Kan's words and deeds, he could already see that Bao Kan was quietly distinguishing between superiority and inferiority in front of Shang Cheng. He also realized once again that today's monk is no longer the fake monk who didn't know anything about it, nor the offspring who went around doing odd jobs in order to make a living, and he was not the laborer who owed a riverbank account debt in order to buy a house and beg for his daughter-in-law; The fake monk who was nervous outside Yixian County has become the general of Dingyuan of the imperial court and the Sima of the Chinese army of Yanshan......

It's only been a few years!

He held the wine glass, glanced at Shang Cheng who was sitting with him with the dazzling gaze of the two candle mountains, looked at the ugly and resolute young face, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: People, the opportunities in this life are created......

Shang Cheng saw Huo Shiqi holding the wine glass and was stunned for a long time, and suddenly raised his head and drank a full glass of wine, thinking that he had something to worry about, so he looked for the topic to divert his mind and asked, "Why did you come to Yanzhou?" Did the road go well? ”

Huo Shiqi glanced at his daughter sitting at the corner of the table and said, "I am on an errand this time, and I am on a military order to carry out the camp. On the New Year's Day, the camp will hold a heroic feast in Yanzhou City, rewarding those who have made great efforts for the Yanshan war, and I heard that the general of the camp will also meet ......"

Shang Cheng understood what was going on when he heard half of it. Sun Zhongshanbu won the three important towns of Yandong in one fell swoop, Huo Shiqi contributed a lot as the first guide to sign up, and his talent status was exaggerated by ten points; Since the camp is going to hold a hero's banquet, it is even more impossible to miss this model of a scholar.

His heart couldn't help but churn with unhappiness. In order to celebrate the "Yanshan Victory", and also for the sake of peace, I don't know which sycophants came up with a confused idea, so Chen Pu ordered the approval of the military parade and fireworks to celebrate. When he heard about it, he was adamantly opposed to it! The Battle of Yanshan is a continuation of the Northern Expedition, and any big and small victories are all nonsense with their eyes open! Tens of thousands of people died on the grassland, and Yanshan's current record is a fart! The most urgent thing at the moment is to appease the military and civilians. The camp should quickly open several large army grain depots, and first borrow military food to solve the problem of feeding the fleeing people; It is also necessary to urge the inspection department and the imperial court to clearly screen the situation of detaining officials as soon as possible, and release those officials who are innocent or have little responsibility to handle official business. Doing both things may reduce the losses suffered by Yan Shanwei. But there was little support for him. His opinion didn't even make a wave, and he was drowned in the cheers and cheers of Yanshan's victory.

Huo Shiqi didn't notice that his expression became a little unnatural, and continued: "...... The road is not very smooth, there are bandits everywhere. When I was in Yixian, I didn't feel that I met a share as soon as I entered Shuoyang. There are more and more later, sometimes you can meet three or four stocks a day, and it is not better until you enter Yanzhou. He sighed as he spoke, "Actually, those people are not bandits, they are all hungry people who have fled, and they are so hungry that they have no choice but to go to a dead end." ”

Shang Cheng was silent for a long time and asked, "Then you didn't have an accident, right?" ”

"It's a shame that when we set off from Yi County, one of your old subordinates sent us two sentinels to escort us, otherwise it would be difficult to talk on the road."

Shang Cheng asked in surprise, "My old subordinate?" "Qian Laosan is in Beizheng, Fan Quanji is like that, where are his other subordinates on the ground in Duanzhou?

"It's a Huaihua captain surnamed Tu. Tu Xian one by one, the commander of the Nanguan battalion. ”

Shang Cheng raised his face and thought about it. He quickly remembered that there was such a person, who was temporarily transferred from the Left Army to be controlled by himself after defeating Zhao Ji last summer, and he didn't have much contact, so he was not impressed. He told Huo Shiqi what happened at that time, and said: "After a few days of spooning in a pot, if you don't say it, I can't remember this person." I was wounded shortly after Zhao Ji, and I haven't seen him since. He was still a sentry at the time...... How is he now? ”

Huo Shiqi put down the cup, and his daughter poured it for him again, chewed it with chopsticks, as if he was thinking about something, and said after a while: "On the way, I asked the two sentry commanders who led the troops. He stared at the steaming copper stove in the middle of the square table with his eyelids drooping, and waited for the restaurant boy to change the hot wine that had just been scalded and left with the cold wine jug before he continued, "On the way, I asked the two sentinels, Tu Xian used to be Li Shen's personal soldier, and he was transferred to Nanguan by Li Shen as a commander before he was promoted. In addition, because of the matter of Qian Laosan releasing grain in front of him, the transfer envoy of Wei Mufu has been detained, and the current Nanguan camp is actually Tu Xian in charge. ”

Shang Cheng listened to it, stared at Huo Shiqi for a long time, and suddenly smiled and said, "You know everything?" He knew that no matter who was the admiral, the first thing he did when he took office was to help the people, and since Li Shen had planted his henchmen in the Nanguan camp, of course, he was also doing this.

Huo Shiqi nodded, and said: "Li Shoude's thoughts, I don't think anyone knows about Yan Shanwei." Their old Li family has been running Yanshan for so many years, how can they say that they can let go? He sighed, and his voice dimmed. If someone else comes to be the commander, we don't care, but you have a grudge with Li Shen, and if he succeeds, he will have to deal with you sooner or later. One by one, I came to you specifically for this. He was half-truthful. He just doesn't worry about Shang Cheng, and he will come over. He didn't go out this time to participate in any hero's banquet at all, but to bring Erya to see Shang Cheng. He and his wife both had a thought to see if they could give Erya to Shang Cheng and make the two families a family.

But they also know that it is too difficult to do it. When it was the eldest girl's matter, they hurt Shang Cheng; Lian Niang had an accident, although Shang Cheng never blamed them, but every time the two of them thought about it, they always felt sorry for him, the more Shang Cheng never mentioned it, the more they were unhappy in their hearts, and after a long time, this matter became a piece of their hearts, they felt that it was because of their own fault that they harmed Lian Niang and the child in her belly...... Now, they have finally found a way that is not a way, which can not only make up for their relationship with Shang Cheng, but also make them feel better, that is, to marry Erya Xu to Shang Cheng! And they can also see that the girl Erya likes Shang Cheng very much, and if they can really become a good thing, it can be regarded as compensating for the marriage of the eldest girl in front of Shang Cheng. However, the problem is also here: the second girl is not a big girl! And the current Shang Cheng is not the previous Shang Cheng, who knows what he thinks now?

What's more critical is that there used to be a Liu Laozhu in the middle, but now? They didn't know how to mention this to Shang Cheng at all.

The two discussed for a night, but they didn't come up with an idea, and in the end, Aunt Seventeen said, whatever, let Erya and Shang Cheng meet first; The older Er Ya has grown in the past two years, the more she looks like her sister, maybe Shang Cheng himself will fall in love with Erya?

So Huo Shiqi took Erya out of this trip. Tolerances are just a cover for him. He knew that the command yamen of the Yanshan Central Army was located in Duanzhou. He was ready to find Shang Cheng in Duanzhou, so he would find a reason not to leave, and stay there for the New Year. As a result, when he asked in Duanzhou, he knew that Shang Cheng was still in Yanzhou, and he felt that Shang Cheng's current situation was definitely not good, so he hurried towards Yanzhou. It was precisely because of the hurry that the carriage broke down, and had to stay on the way for two days, which delayed the trip. Otherwise, they should have arrived in Yanzhou the day before yesterday.

Only then did Shang Cheng understand that what he and Huo Shiqi said were not the same thing. He was talking about food, but Huo Shiqi was worried that Li Shen would come to deal with him after he became the commander. He gratefully told Huo Shiqi that he and Li Shen had reconciled.

Huo Shiqi shook his head and said, "You don't know that person. Li Shen is narrow-minded, inferior to Qiao Zhun; You have offended him, and sooner or later he will take revenge on you! You have to be careful! ”

Shang Cheng didn't know what to say. Thinking about the grievances in front of him, now that he and Li Shencai are really too deep to resolve, Li Shen has obviously regarded him as a stumbling block to the Admiral's Yamen. If Li Shen fails to do so in the end, then no matter who takes that position, Li Shen will put all the blame on him! If he really made it in the middle, Li Shen would be understandable for himself, but he would do everything!

It's all to blame on those who spread rumors!

The more he thought about it, the more depressed he felt, and he took up his glass and drank most of the wine.

him! There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat is naturally straight to the bridge! Ignore it!

He said to Huo Shiqi: "You just rest in the post house first, I'll accompany you around if it's okay, and after the Lantern Festival, let's go back together." ”

Huo Shiqi nodded and said yes.

That's exactly what he couldn't ask for.