The little fat man Liu Dazhu was first sent back to Mr. Miao's house by Sun Zongcheng to report the news, and when he left, Sun Zongcheng gave him another tael of silver and asked him to come back with some burning knives by the way. When Liu Dazhu and Xiao Er of the wine shop came back with two large jars of soju, Yu Chengyue had already prepared the back meat, tenderloin, pork belly, pig intestine, pig ears, pig tail, pig head, pig's trotters and a few side dishes, which were placed on the shabby table in the house, and everyone sat down.

Sun Zongcheng looked at these large bowls of pork on the table, laughed and said, "Old Yu, do you really plan to let us eat a pig?" Yu Chengyue was silent, picked up the wine jar, and poured two large bowls of wine for Sun Zongcheng and Sikong Jing, the aroma of the soju was overflowing, Sun Zongcheng couldn't help but praise: "Good wine!

Yu Chengyue looked at Sun Zongcheng's eyes, and suddenly said sadly: "The last time we had dinner together was ten years ago! You are a guest from afar, let alone eat one pig, what if you give you ten pigs? Over the years, the families of those brothers who died in battle have been taken care of thanks to you, and I have to thank you for them! Come, I will toast you with a bowl of wine on behalf of your dead brothers!"

Yu Chengyue picked up the wine bowl with both hands and looked at Sun Zongcheng, Liu Dazhu on the side glared, and couldn't help drooling: "Uncle Yu, this wine smells so fragrant, I want to drink too!" Yu Chengyue glared at Liu Dazhu, "What kind of wine do you drink in your child's family? When you grow up and really become a man, I will naturally let you drink it! Eat your meat well!" Liu Dazhu had no choice but to lower his head and eat the vegetables in a sullen voice.

Sun Zongcheng shook his head and said: "Lao Yu, I don't like to hear this, those brothers who died in battle are your comrades, and they are also my comrades! I still remember that sixteen years ago, seventy miles east of Taoliang County, we defeated the 7,000 soldiers and horses of King Tu of Great Xia, but we didn't expect to be tricked, outflanked by King Fanlu, and lost 3,000 brothers.

Yu Chengyue put down the wine bowl and raised two fingers, "I saved you once, but you saved me twice! In those years, we turned to Longting and fought with the people of Daxia, outside Songbei County and Yangguan County, once you blocked a knife for me, and the other time you led the army to save us from the enemy's ambush circle, in the end, I Yu Chengyue still owes your grandson a life!"

Sun Zongcheng smiled and said, "I thought you had forgotten! Drink, drink!" The two picked up the wine bowl, touched it, and drank it all, Sun Zongcheng smacked his lips and praised: "Good wine! I didn't expect that there could be such a strong wine in the wine shop in this small village, it's enjoyable! I must not get drunk today!"

Yu Chengyue scolded with a smile: "Return it to your uncle! I'll sleep here when I'm drunk tonight! We haven't seen each other for ten years, your kid has been promoted to Zhaowu Lieutenant, but Lao Tzu has changed from a halberd to a butcher who kills pigs, it was originally to kill the Great Xia people, but now it has been changed to killing pigs, but the Great Xia people are also pigs in my eyes, wild boars, stupid and ferocious wild boars!"

Sikong Jing picked up the wine jar, poured a large bowl of wine for Yu Chengyue and Sun Zongcheng, and also raised the wine bowl and said: "Old Yu, the old man heard the little fat man say on the road just now, you have beheaded the fourth level on the battlefield, the old man respects you as a man!

Yu Chengyue smiled coldly, and said with a sullen face: "Beheading the fourth level? Lao Tzu beheaded the fourteenth level, it was someone who took my credit, and I beheaded the fourteenth level before it became the fourth level, but the traitor was in charge, the emperor was mediocre, and there was no way to appeal, so I left the army in frustration, came to this Songshan County and settled on this mill, and became a butcher who killed pigs! How unfair the imperial court treated us!" Yu Chengyue angrily picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.

Sikong Jing was stunned for a moment, and drank the wine bowl in his hand empty, and then asked tentatively: "Since someone has taken your credit, why don't you go to the National Teacher's Mansion and ask the National Teacher to come forward and appeal to the emperor on your behalf? If the National Teacher knows about this matter, can he still ignore it?"

Yu Chengyue squinted his eyes and said disdainfully: "Grand Commander Sikong, how can you understand! Do you know who the person who took the credit for me is? It is the brother-in-law of the first emperor, the younger brother of the queen Wang who was hanged by Yang Jingzhong! You asked me to sue my uncle of the country? Even if the national teacher is willing to come forward, the first emperor can withstand the wind on the pillow? The officials below will defend each other, and there will inevitably be all kinds of difficulties, can you still let the national teacher personally go down to investigate and cut down the uncle Wang Wensheng at that time?"

Sikong Jing was speechless. Sun Zongcheng

ate a piece of pig ear, put down the chopsticks, poured a bowl of wine for Yu Chengyue, and asked, "Old Yu, then why did you come to Songshan County to settle down?"

Yu Chengyue smiled sadly, "Have you forgotten that there is a big head of Wu in our army, named Wu Disheng? He once blocked a knife for me outside the city, and finally died outside Taoliang City, he had a blind old lady and a younger sister, no one took care of him, when he went to join the army, the government rewarded him with five taels of silver in his family, but after he died in battle, how could those bastards still care about his old mother and weak sister? So I came to take care of his old lady and married his sister out again. ”

Yu Chengyue closed his eyes, recalled the past, and said: "He blocked a knife for me and saved my life, and his wife is my wife." I told the old lady that he had been promoted to a junior officer with a big head, and the border county needed him, so he couldn't leave Longting, and the border place was too far away to come back, so he asked me to take care of Aunt Wu and his sister for him. It wasn't until the year before last when Aunt Wu was dying that I told her that the old man had already died in battle. ”

Sun Zongcheng was suddenly moved, raised the wine bowl, and the two of them drank it all. Sun Zongcheng said: "The first emperor did some things really not very well, but I think we and him have not yet reached the point of incompatibility, the world is so bad that it is by no means a problem of the first emperor alone, which of the ministers and workers is not responsible? Everyone is fighting for power and profit, even I am difficult to be alone, and I am not thinking about being promoted and making a fortune? Over the years, I have slowly worked up, and I have climbed up, and finally become a petty official, and I have the ability to take care of some of my brothers." ”

The little fat man Liu Dazhu ate pork silently for a long time on the side, and when he heard this, he stared at his round little eyes, and said with a look of reverence: "It turns out that Uncle Sun has also killed the enemy on the battlefield, and he is still a captain, he is disrespectful, disrespectful! I will ask Uncle Sun for sword skills later!"

Sun Zongcheng smiled and shook his head, "Your Uncle Yu's sword skills are much stronger than mine, you have to follow him to learn hard, and when you grow up in the future, you will also go to the battlefield, and also, your Uncle Yu used to be a showman, he is not only martial arts but not literary, that is a fart in the nest, can smell and cover (can be literary and martial), you know?"

Liu Dazhuzi looked shocked, turned his head to look at the sturdy Yu Chengyue, "Yu, Uncle Yu, are you still a showman? Then why haven't I seen you read some poetry all these years? I always thought that in addition to killing people on the battlefield, you would only kill pigs! Hey, the kid is disrespectful!"

Yu Chengyue sandwiched a piece of tenderloin to Liu Dazhu, and said angrily: "You have followed Mr. Miao for a year, and you have learned to be disrespectful in three words? It is always right to study well, I am Xiucai, that was more than 20 years ago, my hometown is in a small village outside Anping County, Longting Road, called Yujia Workshop, when I went to Anping County to take the exam, the Daxia cavalry suddenly came to Anping County to loot, and my parents were killed by the Daxia people, so I was angry and threw my pen from Rong. Facts have proved that the pen is more powerful than the knife, and those who can only write in the court arbitrarily bully our soldiers who can only use knives and guns!

Sikong Jing sighed: "Taiping was originally determined by the general, and the general was not allowed to see the peace! There can be no only martial arts without literature, nor can there be only literature without martial arts. Otherwise, if Daxia seized the prefecture and county, would he be able to let the civil officials go out to meet the battle with their pens? Thirty years ago, I was a bodyguard in Jiangdong Province, a little dart master, and my bodyguards traveled every day, and I worked diligently. Once a dart to Liaodong, bumped into the plundering of the Great Xia cavalry, the dart silver was lost, a group of dart divisions were also killed, I have a home difficult to return, in a fit of anger, in Liaodong Fuyuan County from the army. ”

Yu Chengyue nodded and said: "Your martial arts are strong, you can be a dart master well, and you must be a soldier!"

Sikong Jing said with a smile: "I was in the Fuyuan Army, quite a military merit, appreciated by the county Shouyun, promoted me, I first became the halberd chief, and then did the small captain from the seventh grade, twenty years ago, it was the first emperor to inspect the Liaodong army, stationed in Fuyuan County, Liaodong Province, the first emperor was quite good at hunting, so regardless of the dissuasion of the officials, insisted on taking three thousand imperial forest troops out of the city to hunt, I didn't want the Great Xia people to learn about this situation from the spies, the five thousand cavalry of the Great Xia raided in the starry night, and trapped the first emperor in Peng'an County. The city wall of Peng'an County is low, and the city is frightened, but fortunately, Qiu Jie, a pro-military captain, broke out with fifty horsemen and moved to rescue the soldiers!"

The little fat man Liu Dazhu listened with relish, and hurriedly asked, "Then what? What happened to the emperor?"

Sikong Jing said: "Pro-military captain Qiu Jie led fifty horsemen to break through at the risk of death

, Forty-one horsemen were killed, Qiu Jie only took nine horsemen and horses to break through to Fuyuan County for help, at that time there were only 3,000 foot soldiers stationed in the city, and the military horses elsewhere were too far away, but I was afraid that when they arrived, the county seat of Peng'an would have been broken long ago. Even if the three thousand foot soldiers in the city attack and are lucky enough to rescue the emperor, they may not be able to return to Fuyuan County safely, and the hair of Lord Shouyun is gray. Or I asked Lord Yun for 200 cavalry, 2,000 foot soldiers, more chariots and crossbow arrows, divided into two teams, bluffed the flag, and let people run with branches tied to the tail of the horse, and took the initiative to attack Peng'an County. ”

Sikong Jing remembered the past, and still couldn't help laughing, "Those Daxia people don't know the details, they saw the overwhelming banners from afar, and the dust covered the sky, thinking that at least tens of thousands of soldiers and horses had been killed, and mistakenly thought that their side had been tricked, so they quickly broke the siege and fled to the desert, I led two hundred cavalry to chase for more than 30 miles in the back, beheaded more than 300 people, and then led the army to retreat, and the first emperor was able to return to Fuyuan County safely." The first emperor saw that I had great merits and good martial arts, so he transferred me to the Imperial Forest Army as a captain. ”

Yu Chengyue smiled bitterly: "Look, if you hadn't saved him at that time, I am afraid that he would have been taken captive by the Great Xia people and become a bargaining chip for the Great Xia to blackmail the big merchants!

Sikong Jing said again: "Later, I was transferred to the imperial guard battalion by the first emperor as a captain, and gradually became the commander of the imperial guards. The first emperor was a smart man, but he acted absurdly, especially in his later years, the alchemy maid was even more excessive. I also tactfully persuaded the first emperor, but he could speak better than me, so I had to shut up. But our new emperor is by no means a person like the first emperor, he has ambition and ability. ”

Yu Chengyue sneered, and said disapprerovitically: "I think he is even more ridiculous than his Lao Tzu, worshipping a eunuch as a father, doing a Chinese book order, and worshipping the prime minister, well, yes, it is indeed unprecedented and unprecedented." There is probably no emperor who can do such a thing anymore! The Longting Army and the Liaodong Army are both disarmed, and it is difficult to resist foreign insults, so when his father is alive, he can still have a relationship with Great Xia!"

Sun Zongcheng laughed, "Lao Yu, think about it, his stepmother is in charge of the harem, and conspired with several princes to abolish him and kill him." It was the old eunuch who rescued him, shouldn't he be grateful to the old eunuch? He first ascended to the great treasure, and the power was not in his own hands, but he was able to endure humiliation and bear the burden, demoted Tang Fulong to Jiangnan Province, and asked him to contain the Lingnan king Yin Chun who might rebel, and demoted Jiang Yongchun to Jiangling as a general, preparing to resist Pingxi Wang Yin Quan, and demoting Guo Chong to Longting as a strategic envoy to resist Great Xia, isn't this a strategic vision?"

Yu Chengyue drank another bowl of wine, the wine was a little up, and he snorted coldly: "Longting's armament is wasted, then Guo Chong is just a scholar, and he doesn't know how to use soldiers, what's the use of sending him to Longting?"

Sikong Jing said: "It has been about ten years since the Longting armament was abolished, and it is not the fault of the current saint, he just suffered it on behalf of his father." Guo Chong doesn't know much about military affairs, but he is a good hand at governance, and in the past three or four years, production, economy, and people's livelihood have slowly gone up. Now that you have money and food, are you still afraid of war in the future? Moreover, Guo Chong never interferes in the training and military preparation of the border army at will.

Sun Zongcheng also said: "That's true, a few years ago, in order not to anger Yin Quan, the king of Pingxi, he sent Jiang Yongchun to be a general in Jiangling, even if Yin Quan was lucky enough to take Jiannan Dao, he would not be able to cross Jiangling, the only way to go north! Moreover, this year, he took advantage of Yang Jingzhong's absence to recapture the forbidden army and hold it in his own hands. But Yang Jingzhong didn't think that the emperor had taken away his power, this trick and scheming, do you think you can do it when you are twenty years old?"

Yu Chengyue laughed loudly and sneered: "According to what you say, it's just that this emperor is the first emperor of the ages?!"

Sun Zongcheng said: "The first emperor of the ages does not dare to say, but the new emperor will definitely be able to reverse the sluggishness of the dynasty in recent years! But now this emperor doesn't regard us as a mustard? Do you think it's better for us to smash this mess and start all over again, or do we help him do all this so that the people can live in peace?"

Yu Chengyue was silent, and drank two bowls of wine with Sun Zongcheng and Sikong Jing, fell crooked on the table, and muttered to himself: "Drunk, drunk......" Liu Dazhu came over and wanted to pick up Yu Chengyue and go to bed to rest, but heard him mutter: "Drunk to pick up the lamp and look at the sword, dream back to blow the horn and the battalion......"

Sun Zongcheng and Sikong Jing, who were half-drunk, glanced at each other and nodded to each other, both with a pleased smile on their faces.

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