In addition to more than 100 sets of military uniforms, Ma Cheng got 100 iron guns made of fine ash wood and 10 Yanling knives made of stainless steel.

The musket horse only needs ten shots, but these ten shots are not the best Lumi guns, but ordinary bird guns. Zhang Guozhu doesn't have a few Lu Mi guns here, so naturally it is impossible to give them all to Ma Cheng, and in the end, Ma Cheng has to come to ten bird guns to make up the number. Loaded these armaments into more than a dozen carts, Ma Cheng took them back to the school field.

Xu Dahu was very happy to see the weapons and equipment brought back by Ma Cheng, these are all good weapons.

Xu Dahu happily asked, "My lord, are all so many spears for us?" ”

Ma Cheng didn't speak and just nodded, although he got a lot of good things from Zhang Guozhu this time, it was too far from Ma Cheng's ideal, and Ma Cheng had no choice but to come to the spear as a cold weapon to fill up.

In fact, Zhang Guozhu is already the best armament there, in addition to the Lu Mi gun, there are countless other three-eyed guns, handguns, guns, and various types of Franc machines, and even the border armies on the three sides may not be as well equipped as Zhang Guozhu. But Ma Cheng came from later generations, and this kind of half-cold and half-hot weapons and equipment was not eye-catching. In the end, Ma Cheng had no choice but to come to the spear to equip his subordinates to adapt to the future queue shooting formation.

At this time, it was getting late, and the aroma of food came from the kitchen, Ma Cheng didn't eat in the barracks tonight, and Ma Shiying, the cheap old man at home, came back, so he naturally had to go home for dinner tonight.

Ma Cheng looked at the soldiers who were running a five-kilometer cross-country, and then said to Xu Dahu: "Big Tiger, organize people to send these weapons down for a while, and start training them to stand in line with guns tomorrow, I won't eat in the barracks tonight, and let the soldiers go to bed early after eating for a while!" ”

Xu Dahu heard Ma Cheng say this, and hurriedly gave up the order, and then organized people to help the Kuding in the warehouse unload the truck.

Ma Cheng took Gu Xiying home, changed into ordinary clothes first, and then returned to the back house to greet Ma Shiying.

When the head of the family came back, naturally the whole family had to come to say goodbye, and only now did Ma Cheng see everyone in his family.

Among the second generation of males in the Ma family, the oldest is Ma Luan, and the second oldest is not Ma Cheng, but Ma Shiying's nephew Ma Qi, this Ma Qi is the son of Ma Shiying's second brother Ma Shiqing, but Ma Shiqing died early, this Ma Cheng grew up in Ma Shiying's family since he was a child, and he is twenty-six years old this year, eight years older than Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng had never seen this second cousin, so he couldn't help but look at it twice, and he knew that Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Second brother, why don't you recognize your brother?" ”

Ma Cheng couldn't say that he really didn't recognize it, so he had to smile shyly: "I'm really sorry, my little brother fell off the horse a few days ago, and the doctor said that he had some soul disease." ”

Ma Luan heard Ma Cheng say this and said with a smile: "Second brother, this is your second cousin Ma Qi, the eldest son of the second uncle, but the second uncle died early, so Ma Qi grew up in our family, and now your second cousin is not simple, he is already a general of Linhuai!" ”

Ma Qi heard Ma Luan say this, and hurriedly said modestly: "The eldest brother said that he was laughing, the younger brother is comparable to the eldest brother, the younger brother is just stupid and doesn't like to study, so the uncle found an errand for the younger brother." ”

The general was already a senior officer in the Ming Dynasty, this is not a low-level officer of a hundred households and thousands of households, as long as he becomes a senior officer, there must be two hits, and no one on the battlefield will let you go if your uncle is a big official.

Ma Cheng heard Ma Qi say this, and hurriedly said: "I didn't expect that the second cousin is already a general, and the younger brother just entered the military today, just a thousand households, and the last general is here to say goodbye to the adults!" ”

Ma Cheng was stunned when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he didn't expect his uncle to let his sister-in-law join the army. Ma Qi's sons Ma Shiqing and Ma Shiying were not born to the same mother, Ma Shiqing is a concubine, so it is already very good for his descendants to get a general. But Ma Cheng is different, Ma Cheng's old son Ma Shiying is the son-in-law, and Ma Cheng is the second son-in-law, this kind of background has always been an important training object in other families, but now Ma Cheng has entered the military, which really makes Ma Cheng unable to see through.

Ma Cheng saw Ma Qi's suspicious gaze, and said with a smile: "Second cousin, the younger brother has always been very stubborn, and he is not the material for being an official, so I asked my father to enter a military position, and I will ask the second cousin to take care of it in the future!" ”

Ma Qi didn't know whether what Ma Cheng said was true or not, so he could only politely say that it was no problem at all.

Standing behind Ma Cheng was Ma Xi, who was very happy to hear that Ma Cheng had fallen into the military by himself. Ma Cheng, a bastard, originally overpowered him, but now he has entered the military, so after he became a jinshi, wouldn't he be able to crush Ma Cheng?

Ma Xi stood at the end and said with a smile: "The second brother is really temperamental, and the younger brother is very envious of the second brother!" ”

Because Ma Cheng and Aunt Zheng are not clear, Ma Cheng is very good to Ma Xi, and now hearing Ma Xi say this, Ma Cheng asked happily: "Third child, otherwise, I will say to my father in a while, you and I can join the army with me?" ”

Ma Cheng is a good intention, after all, his brother is fighting in the war father and son soldiers, and he has such a younger brother who has a shield to block the knife, so he knows that Ma Xi's ambition is much more than Ma Cheng, Ma Xi listened to Ma Cheng's words and refused with a smile: "Second brother, the younger brother is still young, it's better to follow the eldest brother to study at home!" ”

Although Ma Xi's words were respectful, his expression was completely disdainful, Ma Cheng was about to scold when he saw Ma Xi's appearance, Ma Cheng was afraid that Ma Shiying had no choice, who called Ma Shiying Lao Tzu. Ma Cheng respects Ma Luan, because in Ma Cheng's memory, this eldest brother is the best for himself, but this third brother also treats himself like this, so Ma Cheng can't get off the stage.

Ma Cheng was just about to scold, but he heard Ma Luan say: "Okay, it's our turn to say hello to my father, don't say it!" After Ma Luan finished speaking, he led a few younger brothers into the hall.

When Ma Shiying came back today, the whole hall was naturally brightly lit, Ma Shiying and his wife sat in the middle, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zheng stood behind Gu, and sister-in-law Zhang stood at the end.

Ma Luan led a few younger brothers into the hall, Ma Cheng squinted at Ma Xi behind him, and deliberately tripped with his foot when he stepped into the hall, Ma Xi was originally younger than Ma Cheng, just a fifteen-year-old teenager, Ma Cheng has been running with the soldiers for more than ten days, and his physical fitness has been greatly improved.

Ma Cheng used small means to bully Ma Xi, and was immediately seen by Ma Shiying, who was sitting in the middle, Ma Shiying saw the second son bullying the third son, and was about to scold Ma Cheng angrily, then he knew that Gu Shi spoke first.

"Master, Xi'er is now an adult, and it just so happens that the ancestral house in Guiyang's hometown is unguarded, and Guiyang's industry is unattended, so why don't you let Xi'er go back to her hometown to guard the family business?"

Ma Shiying's ancestors were military households and senior military officers, and they had some land and real estate in Guiyang back then. However, since Ma Shiying's great-grandfather began to abandon martial arts and literature, the family has always taken studying and studying as the way out, and now the Gu family has asked Ma Xi to return to his hometown to guard the ancestral business, which naturally deprives Ma Xi of the hope of studying and progressing, and it is also the only hope.

As soon as Ma Xi got up from the ground, he heard Gu's words, and he quickly knelt down again in fright, begging: "Father, mother!" The son is ready to participate in this year's hospital examination, please father and mother do not send their son back to Guiyang! ”

Although Ma Xi was born to Aunt Zheng, his mother-in-law was Gu, that is, in the legal sense, Gu was Ma Cheng's wife. The Ming and Qing dynasties paid attention to filial piety first, and the orders of the parents could not be resisted by the son, if Ma Xi dared to say a word, not to mention that he still wanted to enter the imperial examination, even if he could not gain a foothold in the society.

Ma Xi has now participated in the county examination and the government examination, and he is just short of the autumn college examination. Ma Xi didn't expect the Gu family to be so vicious, and at a critical moment, he let himself return to his hometown to take care of his ancestral business, and his dream of showing off his talent would come to naught.

"Xi'er, you can also participate in the imperial examination when you return to Guiyang, the style of learning in Guiyang is not prosperous, and you are likely to be named on the gold list!"

Gu's words are completely ill-intentioned, Ma Xi's current household registration is in Nanzhili, although Nanzhili is very difficult to take the exam, but the college exam is not to go to Nanjing, but to take the exam in the prefecture and county to which he belongs, and the examiner is the provincial school administrator. Ma Shiying is the governor of Fengyang, and Nanzhili's Xuezheng is also under the management of Ma Shiying, and the son of the upper eyelid will naturally not be embarrassed to take the exam.

But it's hard to say when you return to Guiyang, although Guiyang is Ma Shiying's hometown, and the Ma family is also a scholarly family in Guiyang City, but the Ma family has no help in Guizhou officialdom, and the only Guizhou commander who has some relationship with Gu Congxin is still Gu's brother, it would be good not to set up obstacles for Ma Xi, can you still expect Gu Congxin to help Ma Xi?

Ma Xi saw that he was about to be driven back to Guiyang, and hurriedly said to Ma Luan: "Big brother, please persuade my mother that you must not let your younger brother go back to Guiyang!" ”

Ma Luan started to clean up the door Qing that Ma Xi knew about his mother, which was nothing more than resentment towards Aunt Zheng, but Ma Luan was very good to Ma Xi's younger brother, and Ma Xi had also been studying with Ma Luan in the past few years, so Ma Luan really didn't want this younger brother to cut off the road to the imperial examination like this.

Ma Luan thought for a while and said: "Mother, Fengyang is thousands of miles away from Guiyang, and it is already April, even if the third brother sets off now, it will take three months to return to Guiyang, and it is really too late to participate in the hospital examination at that time, so it is better to let the third brother stay in Fengyang to participate in the hospital examination?" ”

Ma Luan thinks so that he can really think about Ma Xi, and he was admitted to Xiucai here in Fengyang, and then returned to his hometown Guiyang to participate in next year's Guizhou Township Examination. Guizhou is deep inland, and the literary style is not prosperous, and Ma Xi has a great chance of being admitted to the Juren.

Ma Luan's wishful thinking played very well, but he could hide it from the Gu family, and the Gu family sneered: "Xi'er, why do you dare not listen to the old body?" ”