Ma Yue woke up for more than a month, every day can only lie in bed to read, after the beginning of the spring, the physical condition is better, the outside is not very cold, he will stick a stick in the village during the day, he is really afraid that lying in bed for a long time muscle atrophy, not to mention that he can't lie down at all.

Walking around the village on weekdays, lying in the house and reading books when he is free, such a period of time is also considered to be a chance for God to give him a chance to take a good look at the book, if the average child looks at "Liutao" will definitely not understand, but he is a college student in later generations, although there are still many meanings that cannot be understood, but most of them can understand a rough idea.

Seriously, the art of war and strategy seemed to him to be a boring thing, but he knew very well that it was the foundation of his future life, and his physical fitness and strategic vision were indispensable.

It's not so easy to survive in this era.

What's more, what Ma Yue wants is not just to live, he also wants to live well.

On this day, there was a nine-foot red-faced man in the village who collected animal skins, and there were also men who went out to hunt in the village at the beginning of spring, although there were not many of them, but this was the first one to collect animal skins this year, and they could really receive some.

When the red-faced man arrived at Ma Yue's house, Ma Yue was sitting in the yard reading a book, and after the man knocked on the door, Ma Yue thought it was a neighbor in the township, so he put down the book and shouted: "Come in." ”

Pushing the door in, a tall figure came in, making him suddenly think that the second brother was back, and his second brother Ma Zong was so tall.

When he looked at it, he was a red-faced and bearded man, Ma Yue had never seen this person, not a neighbor.

With a beating in his heart, he asked, "What do you want?" ”

The red-faced man turned a blind eye to Ma Yue's verbal estrangement, and said with a smile: "A certain is a traveling merchant who collects animal skins, and the people in the village say that the little brother has a pair of newly beaten wolf skins in his house, so he took the liberty to come to the door to disturb him, and I hope not to be surprised if he disturbs the little brother's study." ”

Good guy, this red-faced man treats Ma Yue as a scholar, look at this respectful man, good man. But the red-faced man spoke very methodically, not as vulgar as an ordinary traveling merchant, as if he had read a book.

In this era, it is not easy for ordinary people to want to study.

Ma Yue suppressed the doubts in his heart, pointed to the corner of the wall to the red-faced man and said: "No, the wolf skin that was beaten last month is quite smooth, there is a hole in the wolf's leg, the wolf head made me smash it, and everything else is good." ”

The red-faced man looked over at the wolf skin and knew that what Ma Yue said was indeed true, and when he heard Ma Yue say that the wolf head was broken, he suddenly felt surprised, "Little brother, you said that you beat this wolf?" ”

Ma Yue rolled his eyes, he knew that he would definitely not believe it, who would believe him when he said it, not to mention that he looked like an eight or nine-year-old child, as tall as Ma Chao, the red-faced man definitely didn't believe it, and said angrily at the moment: "Didn't I beat you?" ”

The red-faced man was good-tempered, and said with a smile: "That's not it, it's just that the wolf skin of the little brother is too complete, and the money I bring is not enough, or I will sell the goods in a few days and then come to collect them, and the little brother should not sell them to others." ”

Ma Yue smiled, waved his hand to show that it didn't matter, and said, "Big brother, I don't listen to your accent like a cool person." ”

The red-faced man was stunned for a moment, and said with a somewhat reminiscent look on his face: "Yes, a certain person is from Hedong, and he hasn't been back for a few years. I've done everything anyway. ”

Ma Yue has been reborn so far, I have seen too many real people, what is the origin of his village, once upon a time it was a group of old men who fought in the war, when the old department of Duan Ying, the captain of the dynasty, the hundred and ten people who forged friendship in the war, after the Xiqiang War, they also dragged their families to retreat here, more than ten years have passed away in the past ten years, and the people who did not go were also injured, and the younger generations all carried the strength of the older generation, a village is more yours is yours, and mine is also your kind of strength, but Ma Yue doesn't understand, He thought that the whole world was like this during the Han Dynasty.

waved his hand at the moment, "You take this big brother, and the money will be sent in a few days." ”

This guy was moved by the red-faced man and didn't know what to say, so Ma Yue scooped out a scoop of water from the tank and handed it to the red-faced man, "Big brother, drink saliva and then leave, see if this makes you blush." ”

Ma Yue is also very puzzled, this man looks really special, the face of the Chinese character is quite gentlemanly, and the big eyes with single eyelids are blushing and poofing.

The man drank the water and walked away with the wolf's skin, leaving behind a short knife as a hostage. Ma Yue continued to study, and his life was still like this, and he couldn't help but live like this with both legs lame.

To say that Ma Yue is really risky to do this, Ma Yue is so a wolf skin is quite complete, if you want to buy it, you can really exchange it for a few gold cakes, even if you sell it casually, you can sell it for two thousand gold cakes, thousands of dollars.

He just waved his hand and let people take it away, if he really ran into a bad-hearted person, he really cried, that is, his sister-in-law didn't ask much when he heard that he sold it, and he knew that he didn't sell it for money, so he had to give him a scolding.

A few days later, on this day, several officials came to the village and escorted a red-faced man, and the red-faced man also carried an animal skin in his hand. There is a servant in this Zhangshan Village, named Wang Yuanshan, who is one of the few descendants of the village with a small surname. He served as a thief in the county government, and led people into Ma Yue's house.

On this day, Ma Yue was still sitting in the courtyard reading a book, and he still had the book "Liutao" in his hand, Wang Yuanshan scooped up a scoop of water to drink as soon as he entered the door, Ma Yue saw that it was Wang Yuanshan who said hello and didn't take it seriously, and then seven or eight officials in red clothes came in with a nine-foot big man, Ma Yue saw that something was wrong, so he asked: "Brother Shan, what's going on." ”

Wang Yuanshan put down his saber and sat on the ground, and said: "This man sold your wolf skin in the county yesterday and ran away with a person, today I brought a group of brothers to the house to drink, and when I saw him at the entrance of the village, I stopped him, he said that this wolf skin is from the village and will be returned to me and then let me go, I brought it to you as soon as I heard that it was your family." ”

As soon as Ma Yue heard this, he pondered that it was nothing to beat someone, and took two steps forward on crutches, but Wang Yuanshan stopped him, "Brother Shanzi, what do you mean." ”

"Stay away from him, this man is a bit similar to the Hedong murder case in the county a few years ago, be careful."

Ma Yue laughed when he heard it, ", you are waiting for a rabbit and catching a murder case..."

"Little Bean, why are you plugging the door?"

Ma Yue waved his hand, "Brother Shanzi, what can you reward for escorting this man back." As he spoke, Ma Yue had already taken the wolf skin back and put it in the corner.

"What's the matter, my brothers also have a few hundred rewards."

A square-faced official behind Wang Yuanshan who spoke, Ma Yue nodded when he heard this, asked Wang Yuanshan to wait, and shouted into the house: "Second sister-in-law give me the gold cakes left over from my second brother a few years ago." ”

After a while, his second sister-in-law came out with two pieces of gold cakes, and at first she wanted to ask Ma Yue what she was going to do, but when she saw the posture in the yard, she didn't ask much, and then gave the gold cakes to Ma Yue and then opened the door and went out, and Ma Yue took the gold cake and plugged in the door.

This golden cake is the silver money that Ma Zong has always left behind for emergency use at home. There is a way that wealth is not exposed, and now Ma Yue's golden cake is exposed, and he has no intention of taking it back.

This red-faced man is trustworthy, and he looks so powerful, Ma Yue moved his mind. The family can't all point to the two brothers and throw their heads and blood in the north, he wants to do many things, but these things have prerequisites.

Manpower, financial resources, prestige, all are indispensable.

The three complement each other, and saving this red-faced man is the first step.

He first took out a piece of gold cake and handed it to Wang Yuanshan, "Brother Shanzi, this man is a loyal and righteous person, people sent me wolf skins for you to catch, I can't bear others, gold cakes, your subordinates and a few big brothers take away a glass of wine and buy a pair of shoes, how about this matter today." ”

Wang Yuanshan accepted the gold, didn't say much, turned his head and said to his subordinates: "Xiaodouzi has heard what he said, this matter is over." ”

Saying that, Wang Yuanshan checked the golden cake in his hand and said with a smile: "Today, the third master of Ma invites a few brothers to drink, let's go, go drinking." ”

When a few officials saw the money, they didn't say anything, a gold cake can be exchanged for 2,000 yuan, and if you get so much money, you can still sell Wang Yuanshan's personal favor, which can be regarded as earning.

Ma Yue saw that Wang Yuanshan accepted the golden cake, and the subordinates also agreed to the promise, and then put the second golden cake in Wang Yuanshan's hand, at this time Wang Yuanshan felt that the golden cake was a little hot, and asked the Yue family to send two gold cakes, especially this golden cake is still famous for the second master of Ma Zong, if Ma Zong comes back, he will have to give him a skin if he bullies his younger brother. He didn't dare to take it.

"Brother Shanzi, you accept it, this gold is for you to help." After stuffing it into Wang Yuanshan's hand, he pointed at the red-faced man, "This brother will live in my Ma family in the future, Brother Shanzi, you help me burn his case in the county office, and the official will not come to Zhangshan Village in the future." ”

Wang Yuanshan nodded and didn't say anything, it's not a big deal to burn one or two cases, it's just a brawl, and it's nothing to catch. Burn it and burn it.

Wang Yuanshan didn't speak, and the man behind him said, "Why are you the master." ”

Wang Yuanshan turned his head and glared, "You talk a lot." ”

Ma Yue limped to the corner of the wall and took out the short knife of the red-faced man, the pillar was at the door, the two-foot short knife was just right in his hand, and he said with a small face: "Why should I, just because I am Ma Yue, the wolf who made a mistake with me a few days ago made me smash it into a skin, just because my eldest brother is Ma Teng, and my second brother is Ma Zong!" ”

As soon as Ma Yue said this, several officials didn't speak, not afraid of him but afraid of Ma Teng and Ma Zong, Ma Yue walked to open the door and prepare to send off guests, but even he was startled the moment he opened the door.

As soon as the door was opened, the old and young masters of the whole village, holding all kinds of things in their hands, including hoes and knives, spears and axes, stood at his door in unison, and no one spoke. Ma Yue saw his second sister-in-law looking at him with a sickle in the crowd, and he also saw that the old lady Sima Ma of Duan Yingjun, that is, Ma Cripple's father, stood at the front with a spear, the old man's body was not as good as the previous body, but he was still always straight, and there were more than forty remaining men in the village, both young and old, who had something that could barely be called a weapon in their hands, standing.

In the melting mood.

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, but the people of this village are willing to fight with the officials for him and his family.

Ma Yue thought about it afterwards, if he had a dispute with those eight or nine officials in the house that day, I am afraid that in the end, no one except Wang Yuanshan would be able to leave, and they would all have to leave their lives in this small Zhangshan Village.

Wang Yuanshan took the servants and left, they came arrogantly, and they walked with a dirty face, and the talkative official behind him didn't say any more nonsense to more than forty farm tools this time, and walked away in a gloomy manner.

It's a farming tool, but it's also a life-threatening weapon.

Wang Yuanshan really felt that the two gold cakes in his arms were too hot, and he planned to go back to the county government in a few days, so he would burn the red-faced man's case paper when he had the opportunity. Otherwise, he was really afraid that he wouldn't be able to go home.

Wang Yuanshan left, someone didn't leave, and the red-faced man didn't leave. Later, many years later, many people forgot this day, but many people still remember that Ma Yue, named Xiaodouzi, from this day on, there was a red-faced man with a height of nine feet by his side, and this man has been by his side from beginning to end, clearing all the difficulties in front of him for him.