During the meal, because Shang Cheng had saved his sister's life several times on the grassland, Nanyang insisted on arranging him in the first few cases. Chen Pu now understands why Nanyang is so good to Shang Cheng Nanyang cherishes her sister one by one, and even with it, he respects her life-saving benefactor very much. Her sister's thoughtfulness made her feel very warm, so she also helped her sister talk on the side.

Shang Cheng didn't pay much attention to the fact that he had saved Chen Pu a few times. But the two sisters of the Chen family invited him to take a seat, and the feelings of the two princesses could not be resigned, so they sat down generously with a polite sentence.

There was not much to say about dinner. Although it was a temporary disturbance, the stove room was not prepared in advance, but Nanyang's Zhuangzi is also the princess's private residence, chickens, flying dogs and jumping all the way in a hurry, in the end, it is still a few dishes with full color and fragrance, which are served in the celadon dishes from Fuliang Changnan Town. The table in front of Nanyang and Chen Pu was full of small bowls, small dishes, and small plates; The porcelain is exquisite, and several dishes are equally delicate, the minced garlic is pounded so that you can't see the core, the beef slices are so thin that they are almost transparent, and the chicken pieces are cut less than half a finger thick, stacked diagonally on small plates, and the sides are circled with green cabbage leaves...... In front of Shang Cheng, there were all large utensils, and the sea bowl was stacked with large pieces of beef and chicken, which were seasoning dishes with sauce and minced garlic, and porcelain bowls the size of fists. It seems that Nanyang still uses his heart, knowing that Mr. Shang Cheng has a general's stomach and intestines, and the dishes and seasonings are all on the ground. But it's a pity that she was too careful and knew that Shang Cheng had eye diseases and avoided spicy, so she specially instructed not to drink more, so there were only four bottles of "Hundred Flowers Honey Brew" at the banquet. Nanyang Chen Pu has one bottle per person, and the other two bottles belong to Shangcheng. To put it bluntly, this refined wine is honey water, Shang Cheng has tasted it a long time ago, and the taste is not as good as the imitation of Sanle pulp, so he directly deduced that he was not good at wine, and he didn't even let the maid open the bottle mouth sealing mud.

The three of them sat separately, there was wine and food on the table, there was a three-fingered wormwood burning in the copper stove in the corner of the house, and there was a handmaid playing the piano by the wall, and the sound of the piano was soothing and flowing gently like a clear stream. Shang cost is not an elegant person, but in his heart no matter how can he no longer offend Nanyang the idea of indecent, indecent also have to pretend to be elegant, holding tea and waiting for the owner to pray for the Son of Heaven to live for a long time, he also followed up with two words of praise, saw Nanyang Luozhan Ti Ji softly said the word "please", bowed his head to thank him, and raised the chopsticks in his hand, and took a chopstick beef in the garlic sauce and rolled it a few times into his mouth, and he didn't chew it much and swallowed it. Looking at Chen Pu and Nanyang again, the first chopsticks dish is still in the seasoning bowl......

Nanyang saw that he was hesitating a little when he was carrying chopsticks, so he stopped and said, "Mr. is self-sufficient." This is a home-cooked swallow drink, and there is no need to be restrained. She gestured to the beef in front of her. This is the old soup yellow beef of the village, the soup made of sauce is the ancestral inheritance of the Qi family from the Kaiyuan period, and it has been more than two or three hundred years, the real flavor of the Tang Dynasty. Sir, taste more. ”

Shang Cheng smiled and said: "I have been in the barracks for a long time, and I am used to being unrestrained, since the princess will not be surprised, then I will not be polite." After speaking, as soon as he stretched out his chopsticks, he swept through the wind and clouds, and all the dishes and plates on the scene were all bottomed out in less than a moment, but Shang Cheng felt that he still owed three points to be full, and looked up and wanted to beckon someone to take two more pancakes to roll the soup at the bottom of the bowl to fill the belly gap, and saw that Nanyang and several maids were looking at him with a stunned expression, and were about to open their mouths to defend themselves, Chen Pu said first: "Sister, don't be surprised, most of the garrisons in border towns are like this, and the food is ugly, but it is very affordable." The garrison is all two units and one party, also known as a gang, and the morning and evening meals are all in a group to receive bread and soup in the gang room. Cakes and dry buns are counted according to the number of heads, a person has a fixed number, the soup is to eat and take, the fast hand has the slow hand no, of course, the faster you eat, the more affordable. After saying that, she also ate well, asked her to take two white flour pancakes, divided them into one, and took one of the meat scrap soup base left in the bowl, and ate it in her mouth.

These scenes made Nanyang and several maids feel completely inconceivable and unimaginable. Shang Cheng didn't say it, an eight-foot tall and strong man, it's just that he is so gluttonous, Chen Pu is a dignified princess of Changsha, how can he eat like this? That's not how she usually eats......

Chen Pu smiled and said, "Actually, I usually do this at home, and I only abide by those rules when I go outside." This is also a problem left on the grassland the year before last, there are strong enemies in front and chasing soldiers behind, if you don't eat quickly, you may not have to eat. Later, when I came back to Beijing, I also wanted to correct it, but I didn't know what was going on, and I was always unable to change it back. ”

Nanyang was silent. She lowered her head and silently ate her own.

Chen Pu once told her what happened when the imperial court sent troops to the grassland the year before last. She also knew that at that time, the Zhao army was defeated by Alegu, and Chen Pu and a group of routs fought thousands of miles away, fleeing all the way from the west bank of Alegu to Mogan. But Chen Pu never mentioned to her what happened along the way. She always thought that even if she was a little worried and frightened in the rout, Chen Pu would not suffer much. But what Chen Pu said just now showed that she was completely wrong. My sister has not only endured hardships, but these hardships are also very unforgettable, they are not only imprinted on Chen Pu's body, but now there is an arrow mark left on her face, which is also engraved in her heart, and even changed the living habits she has developed since she was a child......

After eating this night dinner, which was not lively but not cold, Nanyang let people serve fragrant tea. Shang Cheng, who didn't touch a drop of wine, couldn't pretend to be drunk, so he had to hold a tea cup and talk to the two sisters.

He mainly talked to Chen Pu about some less important military affairs, and also talked about some interesting things that happened during his tenure in Yanshan.

While they were talking, Nanyang was listening. She couldn't even say a word about what they said; Among the Yanshan officials mentioned by Shang Cheng, she only knew Lu Ji and Guo Biao, and she was not very familiar with them. She had to pour them tea and pour them tea, or put the fragrant pumpkin and sweet preserved fruit in front of them.

Shang Cheng actually didn't want to snub her as a master. However, just as Nanyang was very unfamiliar with him, he didn't know this princess at all. The only thing he knew was that the princess who knew his other identity was also a great scholar. But he couldn't mention calligraphy yet. He thought that even if the rumors of him being Mr. Yu Que leaked out, it would not have any effect on him. But Lu Jidi, who was at fault for "negligence", was different. They all have opponents in the court, and if someone finds fault with it, it will be troublesome. Even if they barely pass the test in the end, it is impossible for them to devote themselves to government affairs in a short period of time. At that time, at least half of what they should have done would be pushed on him, and he was entangled by these things every day, how could he still fight to clean up the king of Donglu Valley? If Lu Ji and them were demoted or transferred by the imperial court, it would be even more troublesome, and he would have to slowly run in with the new officials......

While he was talking to Chen Pu without a sentence, he was thinking about finding a good topic for Nanyang to say a few words.

Chen Pu didn't notice any of this, and was still interested in asking Shang Cheng to discuss military affairs.

She is the general of the Pillar Kingdom, which is true; It is the deputy head of the Gyeonggi camp, which is also true; is still the deputy commander of the Liyuan Battalion, and there is also an appointment document from the Ministry of War; It is also true that she is also the squire of the military department, and can participate in some less important military meetings. But in the military, whether it is a boss, a subordinate or a colleague, no one has ever seriously regarded her as a general of the Pillar State. Only the fake monk and the fake governor of Yanshan in front of him is an exception. From the time the two met on the grassland, Shang Cheng has always respected her. She realized early on that Shang Cheng's respect for her was not because of her status as a princess, but because he really regarded her as his comrade-in-arms and colleague. He spoke to her as casually as he did with others, talking about things when he had something, talking nonsense when he had nothing to do, and occasionally making jokes, but not the vulgar jokes he said among the soldiers that made people blush. This person is very easy-going, even if he is a small soldier who has only eaten military rations for a few days, he dares to pull a few words in front of him; But at the same time, it is also very strict, and it is completely denied by the six relatives. She heard Wang Yi say that at the beginning of this year, Huo Shiqi secretly ran home when his son was born, and after being known by the Commander of the Army, he was punished according to the punishment of "leaving the station without permission", and was to be punished with 40 whips for a minor demerit......

However, she loves to talk to Shang Cheng, not because he respects herself, nor because this person has clear rewards and punishments, but because he is now a famous general of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty after Xiao Jian and Yang Du. Speaking of this, she still felt a little guilty, if it weren't for her short-sightedness and rejection of the strategy of five thousand elite cavalry and great depth interspersed with the five thousand elite horses he proposed in the early winter of the previous year for the people who entered Yanshan, he would have been famous all over the world.

This is such a person, a general who should be famous all over the world but has not yet had much fame, but now he is like a teacher in a private school, tirelessly giving himself military guidance.

“…… The essence of the art of war, to put it bluntly, is a sentence: to fight the few with the many, and to bully the weak with the strong. If you can do this, no matter how careful you are, you won't be able to defeat if you want to. According to Sun Tzu, it is to 'fight the false with the real'. Shang Cheng paused. He really couldn't remember whether the original words in "The Art of War" were like this, and he added, "It may also be 'the truth is false'." He also said, "Xiao Laoshuai's use of troops is this method, and what he pays attention to is not to be slow, not to be negligent, not to leak, and to suppress people with potential." ”

Chen Pu thought for a while, and then asked: "In this case, then you are fighting against the Tuqi people in Yanshan, why are you fighting with the weak twice and three times?" ”

Nanyang on the side also looked at Shang Cheng with wide eyes. Although she doesn't understand military affairs, she also knows the basic common sense of "using reality to make fiction", and the difference between strong and weak is also clear. She was also curious, why did Shang Cheng say one thing and do another?

Shang Cheng said: "I look forward to bullying the weak with the strong every day, and I can defeat the few with more, but the military department and the prime minister's public office ...... They don't give me soldiers, so what can I do to bully others? He originally wanted to complain about Chen Pu's father refusing to hand over Da Zhao's heavy army group to him, but he swallowed back the words when they came to his mouth. He felt that it seemed that the Eastern Yuan Emperor did not have that right. He grinned and said, "The king of Donglu Valley always regards our Yanshan as a soft persimmon, and if he has nothing to do, he will lead people to walk around and pinch two handfuls, I can't stand this idleness, so I want to go to his house to find him to theorize." But it is also a fact that Yanshan lacks major generals. I want to bully the weak and I can't get it, so I have no choice but to learn from Zhuge Liang and the imperial court won't let me fight bravely, then I can only fight my wit. ”

His statement was so funny that Chen Pu and Nanyang couldn't help but laugh.

Chen Pu said while laughing: "According to your set of rhetoric, are you Zhuge Liang or forced out by the princes of the imperial court?" Don't you even look at it, where are you like Zhuge Liang? She knew that Shang Cheng was not taboo about her appearance, so she used this to laugh.

Nanyang glanced at his sister very unhappily, and said in a low voice: "It is recorded in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" that Kong Ming is 'eight feet long', which is consistent with Mr. As for this sentence in "Three Kingdoms", there is also a following, saying that Zhuge Liang "looks great and is different when he is different", she didn't have a title at all.

Shang Cheng immediately took over and said, "Look, even your sister says that I am like Zhuge Liang!" As she spoke, she smiled gratefully at Nanyang, thanking her for standing up in time to prove that she had similarities with Zhuge Liang......

…… The next day, before dawn, the eastern sky was still dark, Shang Cheng and the guards had already got up and packed up, had a simple breakfast, and went to the backyard stable to find their horses and prepare to hurry.

Chen Pu and Nanyang also rushed to the backyard to see them off.

Nanyang asked people to take out the Arabian horse. This time she was extremely stubborn, no matter what Shang Cheng said, she had to give the horse to Shang Cheng. Even Chen Pu was next to her sister to help. Shang Cheng had no choice but to accept this expensive gift in the end.

Nanyang and Chen Pu sent them all the way out of Zhuangzi.

After crossing the bridge and going up to the official road, Shang Cheng didn't let them send it again. He jumped on the horse and said to Chen Pu and Nanyang: "Princess, Zhuguo, there will be a period later." With that, the whip swept away, and the Arabian horse sprang out with a slight stroke......