Shi Cheng is thirty-two years old and is already a veteran general in the army.

But he worked in 100 households at the age of 22, and then in the position of 100 households, he didn't move for ten years.

This time, he followed Tan Yuan's soldiers and horses to slaughter, and he couldn't bear it, wanting to save some teenagers and girls, but he didn't expect to be slapped a few times by Tan Yuan in public.

After returning to Beiping, the army demoted Shi Cheng from 100 households to 100 households on the grounds of disobeying the order, and a general banner under his command was promoted to 100 households and replaced his position. 、

Shi Cheng didn't care about the size of the military position, but the slaughter of Mancheng County made him a little confused.

said that Fengtian was difficult, why did you want to kill Daming's own people?

The officials and generals defending the city refused to surrender, and after the city was broken, wouldn't it be better to cut them down? Why do you want to be angry with the people?

He was demoted, and his colleagues in the army also thought he was worthless, so no one cared about Shi Cheng these days.

Shi Cheng has been in a very bad mood for the past two days, and today he left the guard early in the morning and returned home.

On the way home, Shi Cheng thought that his mother-in-law said that there was not much rice and salt at home, and the brown sugar had already been cut off, so he wanted to buy some on the street, but he found a few shops, and found that the price of rice and salt in Beiping City was very scary, not to mention the price of sugar, and he couldn't afford it at all.

Then I heard from the people that it was still Yanwangfu that actively put salt and rice to stabilize the effect of the market, otherwise it would become more expensive.

There are still rumors in the city, some time ago the northern army and the southern army fought near Zhending City, Baoding Mansion in the middle was short of food and salt, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism in Baoding City.

Shi Cheng didn't know what was going on in Baoding City, but when they attacked Mancheng County, they robbed a lot of rice salt in the county seat.

Many colleagues hid some privately, Shi Cheng was upright, and only cared about begging the teenagers, but he didn't get anything.

Shi Cheng wandered around the street for a long time, and finally bought a bag of twenty catties of rice and five catties of salt and brought it back.

The battle had just ended, and all the bounties had been spent.

As soon as he returned home, Shi Cheng heard the sound of a cheerful run out from inside.

"Daddy, Daddy--" Shi Cheng looked up and saw his daughter running out happily and threw herself into Shi Cheng's arms.

The daughter is only ten years old, lively and cute, obedient and sensible, which is also the reason why Shi Cheng is willing to charge into battle.

He is willing to fight for King Yan, just to support his wife and daughter, it's as simple as that.

Many Yan soldiers also think like this, they don't understand what Fengtian Jing is difficult, they just know that they want to live and let their families live.

Although people will die in battle, but if they don't fight, they will also die, just like in July, most of the officers and soldiers killed by the Yan army were lying on the streets, and there was no family to collect them.

"Look what Daddy brought?" Shi Cheng carried twenty catties of rice on his back, picked up five catties of salt in his hand, laughed, and shook the salt bag to his daughter.

"Rice, salt." Mud eyebrows smiled.

Then he took Shi Cheng's hand: "Daddy, Daddy." "Pull him in.

Shi Cheng was carrying twenty catties of rice on his back, and he couldn't run fast, so he had to stride up, and after entering the house, he hurriedly put down the rice first.

Suddenly, his body shook, and he saw several bags piled up under the table in the room, which were large and bulging, and looked like they were also rice?

"What is this?" Shi Cheng was shocked and walked over quickly: "Who has been here?" ”

"It's Mr. Shen." Someone came out of the inner room, it was a woman, it was his mother-in-law Yang.

Yang said with a smile, King Gaoyang has a subordinate relative who is Mr. Shen Ji.

The king of Gaoyang County ran to Mancheng County to rescue Mr. Shen, and happened to meet someone outside the door who slashed and killed the teenager, including Mr. Shen's family.

The king of Gaoyang County rescued those teenagers.

Yang spoke intermittently, but Shi Cheng still understood the big denigration.

The subordinates of the king of Gaoyang were relatives of Shen Ji.

Xiao Wang went to Mancheng County to save people, and Yan Jun was cutting off the heads of a group of teenagers, and among those teenagers, there was Shen Ji's family.

The young man also mentioned Shi Cheng, he wanted to save them before, and delayed the time, if it wasn't for Shi Cheng to propose to save them first, they would definitely not be able to wait for the King of Gaoyang County to come over.

In order to express his gratitude, Shen Ji asked people to send 200 catties of rice, 50 catties of salt, 20 catties of sugar, and 100 yuan of treasure money.

Shi Cheng listened, his expression was extremely complicated, he stared blankly at the pile of food under the table, and his face gradually turned red: "No merit, how can I accept this great gift for nothing--"

"Ah Lang, don't be stupid." Yang was in a hurry, and stepped forward to sit on the grain bag: "This is our life, I don't allow you to mess around." ”

Shi Cheng smiled bitterly and quickly rubbed his hands: "I didn't mean that, don't panic, I won't be so stupid." ”

Now food and salt are rare things in Beiping City, no matter how upright Shi Cheng is, he will not do stupid things for the sake of his family.

He was thinking about how to repay Mr. Shen.

He discussed with the Yang family at home for a long time, and felt that he had to come to the door to thank him, but he didn't know where Shen Ji lived.

Yang blurted out: "The king of Gaoyang County also went to save people, and also saved many children, Tan Yuan is ruthless and inhumane, although I am a woman, I also feel that you should defect to the king of Gaoyang County." ”

Shi Cheng stomped his feet: "You think I don't want to, but you can't do this, King Yan was the first to refuse." ”

Yang stared at her husband, and suddenly realized that her husband was not very stupid.

But early the next morning, Shen Ji came to Shi Cheng's house with several children, and Shi Cheng was ecstatic.

Shen Ji and Du Shi took the children to kneel down and worship Shi Cheng, thanking Shi Cheng for saving his life, which made Shi Cheng excited, he was at a loss, his face was flushed, and he expressed his shame again and again.

But Shen Ji said, although you didn't save it on the spot, but you stopped the butcher's knife before and delayed the child's life for nearly an hour, and after the king of Gaoyang County arrived, he finally saved these people, and everyone is very grateful to you.

This made Shi Cheng even more ashamed, and he felt that Tan Yuan was not as good as a pig and a dog.

Shen Ji talked to him and was about to leave.

Shi Cheng saw that he hurriedly pulled Shen Ji and Du Shi to the side, and asked in a low voice, "Can I see King Gaoyang?" ”

Shen Ji and Du Shi looked at each other, and Du Shi said slowly: "Don't see you for the time being." ”

"Ahh

"Your intentions, King Gao Yang knows, but you are here, sometimes it is better." After Du Shi finished speaking, he immediately added: "This is the original words of King Gaoyang." ”

Shi Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "I understand my humble position, please rest assured that King Gaoyang, let's not see each other in the future." ”

"Farewell." Shen Ji and Du Shi laughed and hugged their fists towards him.

Seeing Shen Ji and the others away, Shi Cheng was full of joy, he didn't want to go to the guard before, but now he is full of energy.

Yang saw that he was about to go out with joy, so he hurriedly stopped him.

"What?" Shi Cheng asked strangely.

"Ah Lang's face can't hide the joy, is it because he is afraid that others will not know that our family has hundreds of catties of rice and salt?" Yang gave him a blank look.

"Ahh ”

"Ah Lang is not stupid, but unlike some people, he likes to use his tricks and use them to harm others." Yang sighed: "But sometimes, you don't want to harm others, but others want to harm you, Alang has to be smarter, when necessary, white lies are more important than honesty." ”

Shi Cheng knew what his mother-in-law meant, and he nodded heavily: "Don't worry, I understand, I'm not stupid." ”

Shi Cheng now belongs to Tan Yuan, Tan Yuan was the deputy of Yanshan's right guard before King Yan raised his troops, and was immediately promoted to Qianhu after the army, and then made many military exploits, and now he is the commander of Yanshan's right guard.

The right guard of Yanshan is now the guard of King Yan's henchmen, with a full staff of more than 5,000 people.

Shi Cheng came to his 100 households that day and found that many brothers were bored to get together and chat to pass the time.

King Yan is about to move troops again, and those who have family members are fighting for time to go home for reunion, but there are also many people like Shi Cheng, who are bored at home, so it is better to run to hundreds of households.

Shi Cheng is upright and honest, and he has won the support of his brothers for so many years in the Baihu Institute, and he was demoted recently, and no one looks down on him.

Seeing Shi Cheng come in, all the brothers greeted him one after another, and the new surname of the hundred households was Liu, who was also a member of these hundred households before, and he was also very respectful to him.

Shi Cheng is actually quite happy now, but remembering Yang's words, he can't pretend to be too happy, so he can only frown and pretend to be weak to find a corner to sit down.

Several of his confidants and brothers came over and patted him on the shoulder to express comfort.

All the brothers were chatting, and they didn't have the heart to train their troops.

Soon, some people complained: "Now the price of rice in the city is really high, and the price of salt is even more terrifying, and they can't afford to eat salt." ”

"It's good that there is hair in the army, otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford to eat."

King Yan still takes good care of the soldiers, there is rice and salt every month according to the routine, but he is rarely paid, and generally after a battle, he will give some rewards, and before leaving, he may also send points, such as before fighting Song Zhong, he will make a big fortune.

"Yesterday I met Zhang Jie on the street, grandma's, he is a good day now." A general flag in the crowd shouted.

"Zhang Xiaoqi?" Of course, everyone knows, Zhang Jie, the little flag of the former right guard.

"The family is now Zhang Qianhu, deputy Qianhu."

"Ahh The crowd was amazed and incredulous.

"Rise so fast?" Shi Cheng also had a look of disbelief.

"Who don't look at you? The people followed the victorious King of Gaoyang County. The general banner said: "The king of Gaoyang County has clear rewards and punishments, and he is sympathetic to his subordinates, and I heard that his generals receive rice and salt every month." ”

"Don't we have that too?"

"How much can we get? I saw Zhang Jie receive a stone of rice and 20 catties of salt yesterday. ”

"Really, fake."

The crowd fryed again.

"The king of Gaoyang County is really good to his brother, I have a former brother who followed Xu Qianhu to the king of Gaoyang County, and he is also full of praise for the king of Gaoyang County, and I heard that he also eats and practices with his brothers." And some people praised.

Suddenly, many people at the scene were sighing, and some people even said directly, why are we not the soldiers and horses of the king of Gaoyang County.

Shi Cheng thought about it, and suddenly sneered: "Eat and practice together? The generals of the ancient times liked to do this, and they showed it to everyone. ”

"Shi Baihu, you can't say that, you are willing to show everyone, that is also sincerity."

"That's it, Tan Yuan doesn't act."

"Shhhhhh

The new Baihu looked at Shi Cheng, then at everyone, and suddenly said sharply: "Enough, don't talk about the affairs of the officials." ”

Everyone shrugged their shoulders and quickly dispersed.