When the large stove room of Yingbo's Mansion was busy with the banquet for entertaining guests, Shang Cheng was talking with the two founding princes in the outer study.

The two old generals of Suhou are both in their fifties, and their long years of military life have cultivated a bold temperament, so although the purpose of visiting the door today is to seek a good future for the next generation, but after a few polite words, Shang Cheng's temper is clear, and he is no longer restrained. In this way, everyone will not have the strangeness of knowing each other at the first time. In addition, the stories told by the two old generals are right for Shang Cheng's appetite, so he is also talking and laughing.

Now, the topic they are talking about is Yang Du, especially some of the past events before Yang Du made his mark in the early years; Among them, the most important is to tell some jokes made by the old fire.

For example, the two founding princes are naturally talking about the old things. Shang Chengcheng sat next to them, kept pouring tea and soup for them, and at the same time repeatedly greeted Su Po and Hou Ding, who had been sitting down with bated breath since they entered the study, not to be formal. Su Po and Hou Ding both honestly put half of their butts on the seats, nodding whenever Shang Cheng spoke to them, and then grabbed two dried dates or a dried apricot. But none of them dared to eat it; Waiting for Shang Cheng's gaze to turn away, he quietly put it back.

General Su picked up the tea cup that had just been poured and said, "Actually, Yang Liehuo has another matter, which is really unpleasant to say......

Shang Cheng asked curiously, "What's the matter?" The big drama he and Yang Du co-starred in is far-reaching, and it is obviously impossible to achieve the goal by relying only on a fist and kick on the Zichen Palace, and he now needs to "design" a series of follow-up "programs". Since Su Hou and the others came to deliver the "materials", of course he had to laugh at it.

Old General Su didn't speak immediately, but took a sip of tea soup first.

Of course, Shang Cheng knew what was on his mind. He had heard a little about these two founding princes. The Suhou family has been passed down for three or four generations in Shangjing, and most of the children of the past generations have worked in the Liyuan camp or palace, which can be called a family in the army. Although the two of them have not had any figures who command the three armies for decades, their influence in the army is far less than that of the Yiguo Gong Wang family, and the family business is not prosperous, but they have not caused any trouble to themselves by virtue of their diligence and careful work. However, this undisturbed situation continued to Su Hou's generation, but there was a little deviation. These two people are rare outstanding people in their respective families, and they naturally have great ambitions if they have the ability, and they want to make contributions to revitalize the family, but they accidentally step on the wrong step. More than ten or twenty years ago, when Xiao Jian and Yang Du emerged one after another, Su Hou and the two miscalculated the situation and stood on the opposite side of Xiao Yang, and the final result after several battles is needless to say, Xiao Yang rose strongly, and the military veterans they followed left their posts gloomily, and the two of them also moved to the side of the Liyuan camp......

Shang Cheng put down the teapot in his hand and said unhappily: "Old Su, you are really not authentic!" We are all people who compete for vegetables in the big pot and in the big pot of meat, and we only pay attention to being cheerful when we talk and do things, so there is no reason why you hide half of what you say! ”

He lowered his face to blame General Su, and his tone was also very unkind, but from the two founding marquis to Su Po and Hou Ding, they all smiled and breathed a long sigh of relief. Since Shang Cheng opened his mouth and called "Lao Su", it meant that he no longer treated them as outsiders; There is a big pot and a big bucket to say that it can be regarded as a formal acceptance of them! Su Po and Hou Ding moved uneasily in their seats at the same time, I don't know if it's time to make another Jin Jian salute in the army? But seeing that the elders didn't speak, and there were no hints, they had to suppress the excitement in their hearts first, and they didn't dare to act rashly.

Lao Su and Lao Hou are always careful, and they can hear more meaning from Shang Cheng's words. Shang Cheng agreed, but he only promised to put the two of them in his "big pot and big bucket", as for where Su Po and Hou Ding can go, it will have to rely on them to "grab meat and vegetables" one by one, those who have the ability to grab it can of course eat vegetables and eat meat, and those who don't have the ability can only scrape the bottom of the pot to catch the soup residue......

That's enough!

Lao Su and Lao Hou were very satisfied. They know what their sons are capable of! As long as in the future, as Shang Yanshan said, let the two juniors earn their own merits based on their abilities, then they don't have to worry too much about it at all!

The two of them looked at each other, stood up together, and bowed their hands to Shang Cheng one by one.

Shang Cheng hurriedly helped them up, and called Su Po and Hou Ding, who were on one knee in the march, to ask them to hurry up as well.

He relinquished the two veteran generals into their seats and sat down again.

General Hou was so excited that his eyes were moist at this time. Since he was transferred from the position of brigade commander of the mighty army in his early years to be a senator of the attached army who only receives food and salary, he knows that his life is over. He pinned all his ambitions on the head of his son Hou Ding. But the year before last, Hou Ding was retaliated against by his opponent back then, and he was transferred from the position of deputy lieutenant of the cavalry battalion to guard the forage field, and he knew that those people did not really let him go because he was depressed, but poured all their anger on Hou Ding; Hou Ding also almost died of illness a few times. Where is this still revenge; They are digging the roots of their old Hou family! But he could only watch others abuse his son, and he couldn't help at all. You can't let him beg those people, can you? Then it is better to teach him to die! He can only comfort his son and let him grit his teeth and endure it, he must endure it; If you endure it, you will have a chance. The emperor has lived up to his wishes, and the opportunity has finally come. A few days ago, his son told him that he met Shang Yanshan during dinner. But Shang Yanshan obviously looked down on Hou Ding, a small lieutenant from the eighth grade, so his son begged him to come forward. He was afraid that his son would follow the wrong person, and even more afraid that his son would follow his old path, so he didn't agree immediately, and personally went to the military department to find an acquaintance to ask what kind of person Shang Yanshan was. But apart from those things that everyone knew, not a single superfluous thing was inquired about; He didn't know what Shang Yanshan relied on to become the county lord of Shangzhu Guoying. He also wanted to ask more, but his acquaintance was sternly warned by his boss: If you dare to inquire about Shang Yanshan, you will be ready to go to Leizhou to the seaside! This inconclusive result excites him more than having a result. Obviously, Shang Yanshan is a capable person; Although I don't know what Shang Yanshan is capable of, no one is allowed to inquire about him, which in itself proves that he is very capable! Besides, Shang Yanshan dared to fight with Yang Liehuo on the Zichen Palace, didn't he rely on it, how could he dare to act so recklessly? So he immediately dragged his old friends to come to pay homage to Shang Yanshan......

General Su was also a little excited. But he could still restrain himself, beckoned Su Po and Hou Ding over, and solemnly said to them: "In the future, you will be the general's soldiers." You must do things in a down-to-earth manner under the command of the general, and if the general tells you to go east, you must not go west; The general tells you to come forward, and you must not retreat! Did you hear them all? Seeing that the two of them agreed awe-inspiringly, he said to Shang Cheng again, "General, Lao Hou and I will hand over these two unfinished dolls to you." From now on, they will do whatever you want. If they dare to disobey your orders, you can just beat and scold them. Even if it is killed, Lao Hou and I will never complain! ”

Lao Hou added next to him: "You treat both of them as your own dolls, and you can clean them up as you want!" ”

Shang Cheng couldn't laugh or cry. He just flipped through the resumes of Su Po and Hou Ding, Su Po was four years older than him, and Hou Po was also three years older than him, how could he treat these two people who were older than him as his dolls?

However, he was very clear about the thoughts of the two generals Su Hou. He said very sincerely: "You two also inquired about my affairs before coming. I am now recuperating in the capital, and for a long time in the future, I will not have the opportunity to send troops to herd horses, but I don't know if the two sons can hold back the urgency of making contributions? ”

The two families had discussed the matter carefully before they came. Shang Cheng's current situation is very clear to them, he is ordered to "recuperate" in Beijing, and he may not move for three or five years. But what if you can't make a contribution now? Sun Fu has been in the border army for more than ten years, Ximen Sheng has been white-headed as a assassin, and Zhang Shao has been in the army for 20 years in the Liyuan battalion, but now? All of them are either princes or princes! How could they be today? It's all thanks to the Shangzhu country in front of you! So without his father's orders, Su Po stepped on a step and saluted and said: "I have nothing else to ask for, I just want to die for the general!" ”

Hou Ding followed up and said: "The position is the same as Captain Su, but I want to die for the general!" ”

Shang Cheng waved his hand and smiled: "Just forget about death." Since you can endure the coldness, I'll talk to the military department when I go back, and I'll transfer you to my guard camp first. "This is not the guard battalion he was in Yanzhou. Since he left Yanshan, the guard battalion was naturally transferred to the new governor of Yanshan. He was talking about being the guard battalion of the Shangzhu Kingdom. "Let's start with the sentry commander!"

Su Pohou Ding was overjoyed, and was about to salute and receive the order, when he heard Duan Si, the captain of the guard battalion, say outside the door:

"Tell the general, the Marquis of Poyang has passed the mansion, can you see it?"