The story of Ma Yue escorting Pei Ying'er back to Hedong has come to an end for the time being, and now we want to talk about an incident that happened in his hometown, which is not big, but has a far-reaching impact on the future of Ma's Group.

At noon, Liangzhou Zhisuo Longxian, Chen's Teahouse.

Even at noon at the beginning of spring, the temperature in Liangzhou is still not high, but it has turned around a lot.

The second master of the Ma family and a few little brothers are sitting and drinking tea by the side of a few cases at the door of the Chen family's teahouse, Ma Zong looks very comfortable at this time, the dress is still the same as before, a cloth coat, boots, a sleeveless leather armor, long hair is scattered on the shoulders, holding a tea bowl in his left hand and a courgette in his right hand.

Courgette is a new variety, that is, the cucumber we eat now, which was introduced into the Han Dynasty by Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, and was widely planted in the Han Dynasty at this time.

This was a glorious era, starting from the Han Empire in the east, to the Kushan Empire, passing through Parthia, and finally reaching the end of the West, the Great Qin Empire, which was also Rome. Four of the world's most powerful empires connected the prosperous Silk Road in the second century AD.

And Liangzhou is the closest place between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, and Longxian is the seat of Liangzhou, which is the only way for business travel.

At the end of the long street, the candidate walked briskly with three men.

The candidate walked over step by step, and when he approached Ma Zong, he reached into his arms, took out a bulging money bag and handed it to Ma Zong.

"Second brother, the commission of this decade in the West Market."

Ma Zong took the money bag and was not in a hurry, put it on a few cases and ate the courgette in his hand unhurriedly, then picked up the money bag and turned it upside down, and said: "Quite a bit, I will go to the East Market in the afternoon to have a few drinks, and let the brothers go to the village when it gets dark." Chao'er just hunted two deer yesterday, and the brothers who killed the head sheep at night were happy. ”

The gang members were all smiling when they listened to it, and the candidate took two sips of the tea bowl and wiped it on his lips with his sleeve and said: "Second brother, a brother told me that there is a horse dealer in Dongshi who is inquiring about us, and I don't know what it means. Or... Let the two brothers take a look? ”

Ma Zong waved his hand when he heard this, and said with a smile: "If he looks for me, you will let him come to me, can a horse dealer still eat my horse Er?" ”

After hearing this, the candidate nodded and left, and Ma Zong laughed to himself.

Since the eldest brother Ma Teng and the third brother Ma Yue have official positions one after another, Ma Zong's life has become boring. In the past, he and Ma Teng stuck together all day long, no matter what happened to the two brothers together, and Ma Zong also felt that life was easy at that time.

He and Ma Teng are two diametrically opposed people, Ma Teng is quiet, and Ma Zong is hot. Ma Teng has always appeared beside Ma Zong as a mastermind, and Ma Zong is the resolute executor of all Ma Teng's plans.

Even now, it was Ma Teng's idea to take care of the East and West Bazaars in Longxian County, which was led by Ma Zong. It's just that after Ma Teng left, Ma Zong expanded the original plan and implemented it for a long time, bringing a fixed large amount of income to the Ma family.

After a while, the candidate led a tall middle-aged man into the teahouse, and the middle-aged man's left cheek had a red birthmark the size of half a palm, which was particularly piercing on his face, and Ma Zong saw at a glance that there was an earthworm-like scar on his neck, as if it was caused by a sharp weapon cutting.

Spit out a piece of tea in his mouth, Ma Zong's expression straightened, and said, "A certain Ma Zong, I heard... Are you looking for me? ”

The middle-aged man stroked his chest with his right hand and said, "Su Shuang...... Horse sellers. Ma Zong saw that this man named Su Shuang was missing two fingers on his right hand, this should be a tough guy who has suffered enough.

Ma Zong scratched his head and said, "Listen to the accent... Jizhou people? What are you looking for me? ”

Su Shuang knelt opposite Ma Zong, his body was motionless, and he said word by word: "I buy a horse, can you help me?" ”

"Smack!" Ma Zong slapped a few cases with his palms, and shouted outside the door: "Wait for the knife, take him to the people in Huangzhong in Dongshi, he wants to buy a horse." ”

The candidate came in from outside the door and planned to take Su Shuang to Dongshi, but when he saw Su Shuang shaking his head and saying word by word: "Huangzhong people...... Don't, don't. ”

I don't know if this is called Su Shuang's stuttering or something wrong, he always has a lot of trouble talking, Ma Zong is an acute son, and he doesn't like to communicate with such people by nature, not to mention that he thinks that the horses raised by the people in Huangzhong are already good, and there are many good horses This Su Shuang is not satisfied, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and said patiently: "I suspect that the horses of the people in Huang are horses?" Interesting, let me think about it, in addition to the Huangzhong horse dealers here, there are also horse dealers from the Tu tribe, and even the golden retriever merchants from Guishan, which one do you want? ”

Su Shuang waved his hand and said with difficulty: "The fastest, Xianbei Horse, Western Regions Horse, people say... Can you help me. ”

"Straight sissy thief!" Ma Zong's fiery temperament was finally ignited, and he got up and kicked over a few cases and scolded: "You are a mediocre dog who deliberately entertains Second Master Ma, right?" ”

At this moment, a short and thin young man ran in the wind outside the door, quickly blocked in front of Su Shuang, bowed down and said with a smile: "Second Master Ma is angry, Second Master Ma is angry, Su Shuangzhen didn't mean to entertain Second Master, Second Master, please listen to me in detail." Then the short and thin young man turned his head and said suddenly: "Didn't I tell you to wait for me to come over for you, I don't feel comfortable running over by myself!" ”

was counted down by this young man for a while, Su Shuang was not angry, pouted and said aggrievedly: "He, angry." ”

Ma Zong frowned, his whole face was flushed, and he forcibly suppressed his anger and said: "The second master will listen to you say four, five or six, if you have nothing to do, your second master beware of Lao Tzu and throw you two broken legs to Zhangshan to feed the wild wolves!" ”

The short and thin young man nodded and said with a smile: "The second master is angry, the second master is angry." As he spoke, he helped Ma Zong pat the floating soil on the kneeling ** and said quickly: "Second master, please sit down, the contemptible Zhang Shiping, and Su Shuang are generally from Zhongshan, Jizhou." Su Shuang was cut off by a horse bandit in his early years, but he didn't die by luck, but he struggled to speak, and the second master didn't care about what he said. ”

Ma Zong bowed slightly, and only after hearing Zhang Shiping say this did he feel a little more comfortable, and he knelt down next to a few cases again and still had fire pressure in his stomach, and it was very hard to suppress it.

However, this Zhang Shiping looks festive, his body is only seven feet long, which is lower than Ma Yue, there are few young people like him in Jizhou, and although his body is not thin, he does not have much meat, but he has a baby face, like a stunted fifteen or sixteen teenager.

Zhang Shiping saw that Ma Zong calmed down his anger, and said: "What Su Shuang said just now is right, the two of us really want to buy Xianbei horses and even buy Western Regions horses, don't be excited, the small one is definitely not a pastime for the second master." Zhang Shiping said while carefully looking at Ma Zong's expression, worried that the humanoid beast in front of him would burst out and hurt people.

"The two of us have been selling horses in my Han territory for the past three years, and the price of horses has continued to rise since last year, and when the two of us came, Luoyang BMW has been rare for 100 gold, and this year, His Majesty has made good horses 100 gold rare, so it is definitely profitable to go to Xianbei to buy horses."

Ma Zong was no longer angry at this time, he had been bluffed by these two stupid guys, and he had been staying in the border of Liangzhou, he had never thought about the concept that a BMW was worth 100 gold. He collected accounts three times a month like this, and after thirty years, he only received three or four thousand yuan from his own brother. If you can sell a BMW and sell it to Luoyang, it will be an income of 100 gold in the blink of an eye, even if it takes a year to go back and forth. Merely...

"It's just... Your ideas are very good, and they are indeed profitable, but you want to buy Xianbei BMWs, or even Dawan horses, sweat and blood horses, these BMWs are useless for you to look for me. Where is that kind of BMW in Longxian. ”

Ma Zong was indeed suppressed by a huge sum of one hundred gold, but Ma Zong was not stupid.