The interim military conference did not lead to any results.

As soon as the meeting ended, Chen Pu took the two new military commanders and Wei Mu Lu Ji to visit Shang Cheng, who was recuperating in the official post.

There are two official posts in Yanzhou City. The new official post was ordered to be built by Li Wei after taking office, just behind the Qingliang Temple in the west of the city. The place there is small, the house is also very compact, the accommodation conditions are simple, and the surrounding environment is not good, so although the Shangyi Hall is very close to several large yamen, but since it was built, it has basically not received many officials who have come to Yanzhou for business, and it has been in a state of semi-closure. In stark contrast to the desolation here, the post house set up by the guards outside the eastern city is a collection of plaques. Because the courtyards of the houses are spacious and magnificent, the environment is good, the accommodation, food and drink are good, and there is no curfew, and it is very convenient to have a communication between colleagues, so the officials who enjoy the generous tolerance subsidy of the imperial court would rather run more every day and live in the seat card set. As for the old official post not far from the Admiral's Mansion, it was built more than 30 years ago when Yanshan was guarded, it took more than 30,000 workers at that time, and it took a total of more than 100,000 yuan before and after, and the post house built has halls, living rooms, corridors and gardens, and there are high courtyard walls around it, which is magnificent and gorgeous and does not lose the ** ancient temple like Qingliang Temple, and the solemn style is not worse than the Yanshan Admiral's Mansion, and it is also one of the best mansions in Yanzhou City. It is precisely because of this that after Li Wei took office, he closed this place under the pretext of being in disrepair for many years, and built a new official post in the west of the city; When the new official post was completed, it quietly became Li Wei's residence.

Now, with Li Xiaobing's defeat and conviction, his family is also unlucky. Although the Li family did not know for a while what charge the imperial court would convict Li Wei, after hearing the news that Li Wei had been locked up and taken into Beijing, they immediately moved out of the old official post that had been occupied for many years, and rented a small inconspicuous courtyard outside, where more than 100 people huddled together in a grinding and grinding manner, waiting for the fate of the imperial court all day long.

At present, Shang Cheng lives in a small courtyard in the old official post.

After the team withdrew to Yanshan, he, like most officers above the fifth rank, was also detained in solitary confinement to be inspected by the imperial court and the military department. But he was a high-ranking officer who was promoted before the breakthrough, and the defeat of the Northern Expedition had nothing to do with him; Second, he himself was seriously injured, and he made a lot of contributions during the breakout, so the investigation against him was quickly over. After resuming his duties, due to injuries, he did not directly command the team for the time being, but was arranged here to continue to recuperate.

After a period of treatment, several injuries on his body have been healed, although the person is still a little weak, but there is no obstacle to movement, usually when the sun is good at noon, he will also go to the yard to walk around, move the parts of the body that are about to rust. But he can't go back and lead the troops now. His eye disease is still very serious, in addition to the ** disease of tears in the wind, there is a new problem after this injury: sometimes he feels that the right eye is sour and swollen, as if someone is squeezing the eyeball into the eye socket, and the right temple often has a pinprick-like stinging pain, and when the pain is severe, it seems that half of the head is aching......

Now, he's been woken up in his sleep by a headache again.

He lay on the kang, inhaling the cool air one by one, pressing the four fingers of his right hand against the eyebrow of his right eye, and pressing his thumb against his temple. Something seemed to be jumping out of his right temple, and with each jump, it was like someone knocking a stick on his head, and his ears were buzzing, and half of his head was aching. The most irritating thing is that the pain is not fixed in one place, east and west, so that he has no way to prevent it at all. He could barely restrain his emotions, and his chest seemed to be congested, and he just wanted to shout a few times to relieve the pain......

But he didn't shout. It was already late at night, and everyone else had already gone to sleep, and he couldn't wake everyone up because of his pain. What's more, even if he wakes up others, he still needs to bear the pain himself. Of course, he can also invite Dr. Zhu, who is sleeping in the wing, to come over and ask him to use acupuncture to relieve his pain; However, acupuncture is not an immediate pain reliever, and it will take half a day to see results.

He closed his eyes, trying to divert his attention from his headache.

Through the thick mattresses, he could still feel the hard and cold kang bricks. He was suffering from an eye disease, and he did not dare to burn the kang for fear that the charcoal ash and charcoal gas would make his eye disease worse; I didn't burn the brazier, so the huge upper room was dark and cold, and there was no warmth at all. A cat meow came from somewhere in the yard. There was a dog barking in the distance, barking a few times before it was silent. I vaguely seemed to hear someone talking, and I didn't know if I was training a dog or calling the door......

He heard the shaft of the big room outside twitch slightly, and then he saw a dark figure lift the cotton curtain of the inner room; The oil light in the big room immediately came through the crack in the door curtain. The man did not enter the house, but stood behind the curtain and poked his head into the house.

Shang Cheng knew that this was the few ** that he accidentally made just now that alarmed the pro-soldiers on duty at night, and he had already identified it from the sturdy body of this person, this was Su Zha. Seeing Suza gently lower the curtain to leave, he stopped him and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Your Excellency, the drum has been played three times."

It's time for a child. Shang Cheng rubbed his temples and thought about it, then sat up, reached out and found his leather jacket on the side of the bed, draped it over his shoulders, and then said to Suza, "You light the lamp." I can't sleep and want to read a book. ”

Su Zha went to the big house and lit two lanterns and brought them over, put them in the hole in the wall behind Shang Cheng, and pulled two more futons on Shang Cheng's back to make him lean more comfortably. After doing this, he saw that Shang Cheng was still clenching his fist and tapping his temples with his knuckles, so he asked with concern, "Adults have a terrible headache?" "It's been almost a year since he joined the army, and he has made a few friends who can talk about the deed, and everyone has nothing to do on weekdays to eat and drink together, and scold his mother, so now he has spoken Chinese very fluently." Do you want me to call Dr. Zhu over? ”

Shang Cheng shook his head and said with a sigh of relief: "Forget it, it's too late." He looked down at the volume of "The Book of the Former Tang Dynasty" that he had taken casually in his hand, and felt that he had no intention of reading now, so he simply threw the book aside and said to Suza: "You move the drum stool and sit down, and talk to me for a while." Speaking of which, it has been almost a year since we met last year when we were fighting the bandits in West Malaysia, and we haven't even talked a few words. ”

Su Za sat on the drum stool in front of the kang with his hands on his knees, and when he heard him say this, he was not easy to talk for a while, so he only accompanied a smiling face and did not say a word.

Shang Cheng closed his eyes slightly and didn't look at Su Zha, slowly rubbed his eyebrow bone with one hand, and continued: "When General Wang Yi came the day before yesterday, he brought a piece of news, which was supposed to tell you right away, but he was so busy with things that he forgot about it. That's it, your rank was judged and reported one by one for seven merits, and after the above screening, four merits were surveyed, and you were awarded the honor of lieutenant with a halberd. He saw Suza's tense face and raised his hand to stand up and salute himself, waved his hand and smiled, "You don't need so much etiquette to talk in private." The reason why I told you now is because I want to talk to you alone......" But he didn't immediately say that he wanted to talk to Suza, but pointed to the kang table, "Hand me the medicine." ”

Suza went over and brought over the two small silver boxes on the small square table.

Shang Cheng lifted his blindfold, took a wet cotton towel with a faint medicinal fragrance from a box, slowly wiped his eyes, and said, "Actually, what I want to say, you also understand in your heart, is your merit and honor. Originally, according to your merits, if you were only awarded a halberd lieutenant, it was indeed a little lower, and you would definitely feel uncomfortable. Don't be in a hurry to deny it. He laughed a little and continued, "I know that when this happens, you must have a grumble in your heart. If you feel aggrieved and depressed, you can tell me that you can't say these things again when you go out one by one......"

Suza stood in the ground at his feet, and said seriously and movingly for a long time: "I know, my lord, I will not go out and say. I am already very happy to be promoted to lieutenant, how can there be any complaints. …… If you really want me to say it," he tensed his lips and took two breaths, his voice choked up. “…… If I really want to say it, I only have one sentence, one by one, I am grateful to my lord. He knew how difficult it was for a naturalized grassland man to get promoted in the Zhao army, even if it was the title of lieutenant, Shang Cheng must have earned it for him.

His guess was not wrong. In the earliest evaluation, his honor was just a loyal and brave man who did not enter the grade, and it was Shang Cheng who entrusted the matter to Wang Yi, so he finally won this halberd lieutenant from the ninth rank for him. However, Shang Cheng didn't want him to know this. Shang Cheng didn't want Suza to be grateful to him. In Shang Cheng's opinion, this honor was originally deserved by Suza, so he put aside Suza's words of gratitude and said with relief: "This is the best." In addition, I have another sentence to tell you, in this life, it is impossible for everything to go smoothly, and it is impossible not to encounter several setbacks, you can't give up for a moment of grievance or tribulation, you must learn to look forward. Just as we fight on horseback, our eyes should always be on the enemy in front of us, not on what's behind us......"

Suza nodded vigorously and said, "I know, sir, you don't have to worry about me. The past is gone, and man always has to move forward, like the water of Ranamoqin, which always flows to the far north. ”

Shang Cheng laughed. He also understood Suza's parable, but he asked, "What is that place?" A river? ”

"It's just a river. Ranamoqin is 'the river of gold'. ”

"What a place. Where is your hometown? ”

"Yes, my lord, I was born on the banks of the Lanamochen River. From that time when the heavens and the earth were separated, and the sun and moon divided day and night, we Lanamo people have lived there for generations. There is no end to the grass, and there are countless cattle and sheep. ”

Shang Cheng's hand that was wiping his eyes paused. He pondered, slowly put his hand down, and asked, "Then why did you end up in Yanshan?" What happened? He looked at Suza's pained expression in the candlelight, and a bad thought immediately came to his mind, and his face darkened with the speculation. …… Is it a Turk? ”

Suzamu nodded with a grimace. Yes, it's the damn Turrets! They forcibly seized his homeland! They took everything and killed all the Lanamo men......

Shang Cheng was silent for a long time before asking, "What about your family?" Are they still alive? ”

Suza shook her head. His two wives and five children, and several of his brothers, all dead, died by the scimitars of the Thorts, and he hid in the Lanamochen River for three days and three nights before he could save his life. Then he wandered in the steppe. Later, he heard that in the far, far south, there was a very large tribe called "Zhao", and they had been fighting against the Tuqi, so he kept going south, and south, until he walked into Yanshan and went to Ximazhi. But the Zhao people didn't want foreigners to fight for them, so he could only wait for the opportunity silently with a heart full of hatred. He stayed in West Malaysia for 10 years. At that time, when the light wore away his sharpness and edges, and the hatred faded with the years, and even he doubted that he could no longer avenge his family, he met Shang Cheng......

Shang Cheng fell silent again. The longing for his loved ones made him extremely painful, and the hatred of his enemies made him even more angry at his weakness and weakness, and if he had the power to move mountains and seas, he would not hesitate to kill all the Turpents. Yes, kill them all; As long as they dare to stop themselves, he will never have the slightest mercy and mercy!

After a long time, he asked Suza: "Now there is a matter for which I would like to ask for your opinion." After you have been awarded, would you like to be an officer in the Guard, or will you continue to follow me?" He hoped to keep Suza and Tian Xiaowu and a few other soldiers he liked more by his side, teach them some of the things he had learned and understood in his short life, and then find the right opportunity to put them back in the army. He felt that in that case, the role they could play and the success they could achieve would definitely be greater than it is now. He had already talked to Tian Xiaowu about it; Tian Xiaowu, who was about to be promoted to captain of the halberd, had already agreed to stay. The other creeps hadn't been with him for long, and he had to take a closer look. And for Suza, he values this person's tenacity and strength, as well as the bravery and wit he has shown in the past six months, so he has higher expectations for Suza. He didn't care at all about Suza's origins. He felt that loyalty was not a slogan, but an action......

Like Tian Xiaowu, as soon as Shang Cheng's words were finished, Su Zha said without hesitation: "I am willing to be an adult of the pro-soldiers." Lifetime! "Because of the excitement and excitement, he couldn't even speak fluently.

Shang Cheng laughed.

He was about to say something else to Suza when he knocked on the door and walked in, saying, "General, they're here." ”