In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhu Neo-Confucianism had not yet appeared, and the ethics collapsed in the Five Dynasties. In addition, the bold and unrestrained style of the Tang Dynasty was still there, so the boys and girls among the nobles played together since childhood. If they were indeed a good match, they would naturally arrange marriages if they had played well.

Although it is not a free love story, as long as the children are identified, there are few parents who are opposed. Otherwise, Zhao Pu and Li Chongju would not have children and relatives in such a position as the melon field. Do these two big guys have no political IQ? Anyway, almost 90% of the bureaucrats firmly believe that the two young people must be in a hurry, and even cooked raw rice and cooked rice.

Now, Zhao Tingmei's face is probably similar to Li Chongju back then.

But that's his own daughter, can he beat someone to death? Do you dare to delay if you don't beat him to death? What if you get pregnant? Do you dare to give Cao Bin a face? A girl is marrying, so she wants to enter someone's house. Is it a careless thing to offend her in-laws?

So just two days later, Sun Chunming received an invitation to attend the engagement banquet for Cao Bin's second son Cao Yu and Zhao Tingmei's eldest daughter.

Sun Chunming was so amused and laughed at this. He never expected that Cao Bin would even dare to plot like this in order to create a suitable time to meet, which shows that he was under great pressure.

"This Cao Bin is so cruel. He underestimated him before."

On the day of engagement, Zhao Tingmei, Sun Chunming, Cao Bin, and Zhao Pu, who had a good time with Zhao Tingmei, recently gathered together at the table. Even Xue Juzheng, the other people were embarrassed to join the table with them.

Zhao Dezhao naturally had to come here in person, and after drinking two glasses of wine, he encouraged the couple for a while, and then went back. On such a festive day, Cao Bin and Sun Chunming naturally would not talk about the annoying political affairs. They just talked about friendship through personal friendship and recalled the past, and there was no shortage of pleasant cooperation experiences between the two, so they soon felt like they had a grudge.

After the banquet, everyone went back to their homes. Sun Chunming and Cao Bin happened to walk along the way and talked and laughed. It was normal. For such a big leader, ordinary people couldn't get over to talk.

"Brother Chunming, it's really hard to chat between you and me. It's hard for you. I still remember our friendship."

"Yes, Brother Cao, time flies. In a blink of an eye, we have known each other for almost twenty years."

Cao Bin said: "Brother Chunming should just say something. Didn't you say enough polite words just now? Time is limited."

"Okay, then I'll just say it. You seem to be hesitating about my conditions?"

"Of course, everyone knows that the Military Commission is the lifeblood of the new army. They all hold your hands. I am blind. Is this military power yours or mine? Then I will never be able to fight you in my life?"

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Is life long? To me, it's really a little while. It's hard to say to Brother Cao. Brother Cao, you're more than ten years older than me, even if you're longer than life, my chances of winning are greater than you. The most important thing is that I have a good son. Even if you can beat me, you may not be able to beat Brother Yue. Even if you can beat Brother Yue, can you compete with him for life?"

Cao Bin's face turned bitter when he heard this. What are the affairs of the Central Secretariat and the company, these are all external things. Their son is their real trump card. How can we make sense? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but say so bitterly: "Oh, if I have such a son, you may not be able to hold my lifeline so easily. With the skills of the two old guys, I really may not be convinced."

Sun Chunming nodded with a smile, and did not argue with him. Instead, he went downstairs and said, "Oh, Brother Cao, you don't know. This brat doesn't make me worry at all. He basically didn't obey. When Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Pu were in a bad mood, don't you know what the relationship between us father and son? I don't believe that your son dares to talk back to you. This brat is really ignorant as he grows older. I asked him to send my grandson to me two days ago, and I refused if I don't give me any face. I really envy you. My son is well-behaved and obedient, and he is really better than anything else. We are at this age, aren't we just playing with our grandchildren?"

Cao Bin twitched his mouth and said helplessly: "Let's talk about serious business."

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll talk about serious business. Brother Cao, I really don't know what the meaning of fighting with me is, for yourself? You are not the kind of ambition, and you can't beat me and my father and son to the Zhao family? Haha, for the people of the world? I'm not as good as you in the battle, but you are far worse than me in terms of prosperity and peace."

Cao Bin glanced at him and said, "I am indeed not a person with great ambitions, but now I think you father and son are you. You are going to accept me as a child. Haha, I have to leave some confidence for myself."

Sun Chunming said: "I don't keep my confidence like this. Look at me, my son is my greatest confidence. If the official family dares to harm me, Yue'er will lead troops into the capital. My back is stronger than you."

Cao Bin frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"

"Brother Cao, I think your son is also a phoenix among people, why not follow the example? Brother Can is not much younger than me. Brother Wei is already sixteen this year. When Brother Yue was sixteen, he had already fought in the world. Now, Zhuzhou is a good place to make great contributions, and Yue'er is in charge. If you agree, you and I will join forces to let them go. I promise that Yue'er really value it and lead the troops alone. Can'er is steady and as you, he is also qualified to be a chief supervisor. I think Wei'er is quite energetic. I promise that within three years, he will be at least the deputy commander commander and work under Yue'er. This is the confidence. Even if there are any changes in the capital in the future, your Cao family will have successors. How about it?"

Cao Bin was surprised: "You want Sun Yue to praise Can'er and Wei'er? Can the country's life and death matters still be so traded? Can Sun Yue agree? Could you father and son be so unprincipled?"

Cao Bin was not worried about whether his two sons would become hostages when they threw them into Sun Yue's hands. On the contrary, if the Sun family really wanted to do such a huge ambition in the future, Sun Yue would definitely lead his troops back to Beijing. At that time, he, the Privy Councilor, could keep his two sons in the north. As long as he did not break up with Sun Chunming, their family would be as stable as Mount Tai.

But he was still shocked. In his memory, this should not be the character of the Sun family father and son. Can such an important event in the frontier be given privately?

"Yue'er, don't worry. He's too happy yet. You don't have to look at me like this. After all, the two brothers are the generals. You taught them by yourself. Don't you know what to do? We all believe that they are fine and will even become Yue'er's right-hand man in the future."

Cao Bin didn't speak, and he felt that he couldn't get over this threshold.

"We should part ways at the fork in the road ahead. What I want to say today has been finished. You think about it for another two days, and I'll wait for your news."

After saying that, Sun Chunming turned around and left.
Chapter completed!