Ruan Dacheng came down from the steps and said with a smile: "Brother Yaocao, I haven't seen you for almost ten years since Chongzhen said goodbye for eight years, and Brother Xian is still so elegant. ”

Ma Shiying heard Ruan Dacheng say this and smiled: "Hehe, Brother Ji praised it, what a Qingyi, it's just that he is much older." ”

Ma Cheng has read a lot of time-traveling novels in later generations, and the deeds of Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng, the eunuch duo, are going to grind out their ears. Although the alliance between Ma Ruan and the two wanted to deal with the Donglin Party together, after all, Ma Cheng played a small role in the alliance, so Ma Cheng was still a little excited when he saw that the two had finally come together now.

After Ruan Dacheng finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Ma Cheng: "This must be the second son of the virtuous brother?" ”

"Yes, he is the little brother's dog Ma Cheng!" After Ma Shiying finished speaking, he said to Ma Cheng: "Don't meet Uncle Ruan yet!" ”

Ma Cheng really hated the etiquette of kowtowing when he saw his elders in this era, and Ma Shiying and Gu Shi didn't care, after all, they were the parents of their own body, and it was nothing to worship. But Ma Shiying's good friends all have to kowtow by themselves, which makes Ma Cheng unbearable.

But there is no way to do it, the relationship between Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying is not simple, in the same year, friends and Ma Shiying were all Ruan Dacheng's efforts, if Ma Cheng is not good, it is easy to be said that he does not understand the good thing.

There was no way Ma Cheng secretly scolded the eunuch duo in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Nephew Ma Cheng, meet Uncle Ruan!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he knelt down on his knees and saluted.

Ruan Dacheng smiled and helped Ma Cheng up: "Virtuous nephew, your sentence of the two dynasties should raise the prince of Hou, and endure to say Li Xiang to the peach blossom!" It really made the old man very relieved! ”

When Ma Cheng heard that this was the case, it was probably because the words he scolded Hou Fangyu at that time reached Ruan Dacheng, Ruan Dacheng and Hou Fangyu didn't deal with each other, so they naturally looked at him differently. But at that time, Ma Cheng didn't say good things for Ruan Dacheng, but he didn't look down on Hou Fangyu's stinky attitude, so he used Ruan Dacheng's matter to humiliate Hou Fangyu. Unexpectedly, he unintentionally befriended Ruan Dacheng, and Ma Cheng didn't plan to explain, and was ready to make mistakes.

Ma Shiying didn't know what was going on, and after listening to Ruan Dacheng, he asked, "Brother Ji, what's going on?" ”

Ma Cheng hurriedly explained: "Dad, a few days ago, my son followed my eldest brother to meet friends, and it happened that Hou Fangyu humiliated Uncle Ruan during his words at the banquet, and the son couldn't stand it and said a few words for Uncle Ruan!" ”

Ma Shiying was very unhappy when he heard Ma Cheng say this, he had a good relationship with Ruan Dacheng, but he didn't want his son to be involved with Ruan Dacheng, because Ruan Dacheng's bottom was too stinky, and Hou Fangyu was the leader of the Restoration Society, and offending him was not good for Ma Cheng's career. But he couldn't say anything in front of Ruan Dacheng's face, so Ma Shiying had to make up his mind to go home and teach Ma Cheng a lesson, and stay away from Ruan Dacheng, a eunuch.

Ma Cheng explained casually, but Ruan Dacheng wiped his tears and said: "Ruan has been lonely for many years, and most of his best friends have left the old man, but now Ma Xian's nephew can speak out fairly, which really makes the old man so grateful!" ”

Since Ruan Dacheng was dismissed and sent home, because his reputation is too stinky, many of his good friends in the past have stopped interacting, and those young students of the Donglin Party have fallen into the ground, which has made Ruan Dacheng very depressed. Now it's easy for someone to speak up for himself, Ruan Dacheng sighed at the warmth of human affection and cried for a while.

Ma Cheng saw an old man in his fifties and sixties wiping his tears in front of him, which was too easy to misunderstand. There was no way to look at Ma Shiying, hoping that his father would come forward to resolve this embarrassment.

Ma Shiying said with a smile: "Brother Ji, this is what his junior should do." I heard that the drama troupe of the brother of the collection is a must, and I don't want the younger brother to appreciate it! ”

Ruan Dacheng remembered that it was really embarrassing for a big man to cry at this time, and hurriedly said: "Yes! Right! Brother Fool has already prepared water, wine and thin dishes, please let Brother Yaocao and his nephew in! ”

Ma Shiying Ma Cheng father and son followed Ruan Dacheng into Ruan Mansion, Ruan Dacheng's home Ma Shiying had been here before, but the old mansion had been set on fire by Hou Fangyu, but Ruan Dacheng was not short of money, and the rebuilt Ruan Mansion this time was better than before.

Ma Shiying's home was the dowry of the Gu family back then, and the Gu family was the landlord of Guiyang, so the Ma Mansion was built very brilliantly, and Ma Cheng was also very shocked when he first entered the house. However, Ruan Dacheng's home and Ma Shiying's home are two ways, and there is no big family, but the winding path is deep and very elegant.

Ma Cheng doesn't know the reason for this, Gu's maiden family is a military family, and he has no knowledge, so how luxurious is to build a house, so Ma Shiying's home is naturally good in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of real intellectuals, it is vulgar.

But Ruan's mansion is different, Ruan Dacheng is a real son of a family, his Laozi and grandfather are both Jinshi, plus Ruan Dacheng himself is a famous literati and opera, so Ruan Dacheng's home naturally has a kind of Jiangnan garden elegance.

However, the delicacy of this Jiangnan garden falls in the eyes of the turtle Ma Cheng is a pick, it is a good yard not to make the atmosphere magnificent, but to get some stone rockeries to put in it, the whole day can not see the sun.

Ma Cheng belittled Ruan Mansion in his heart, but Ma Shiying was a person who knew the goods, and after passing through several landscapes, he couldn't help but praise it for being excellent.

Ruan Dacheng's family has the best troupe in Nanzhili, and naturally there is a theater at home, in order to welcome Ma Shiying's father and son today, Ruan Dacheng placed a banquet in the theater to welcome Ma Shiying.

Ruanfu Theater is a courtyard courtyard, due north is the main building, due south is the stage, on both sides are the ear towers, and the banquet welcoming Ma Shiying is placed in the main building.

Today is mainly to receive Ma Shiying, so Ruan Dacheng did not invite anyone else. Entering the room, Ruan Dacheng invited Ma Shiying into the chairman, and he was the second seat to accompany him, and Ma Cheng could only sit on Ma Shiying's right hand.

After the three of them sat down, the servants began to arrange wine and dishes, Ruan Dacheng was a big landowner, and there was naturally the best cook in Nanzhili at home, so the dishes prepared were much better than those that Ma Cheng participated in the banquet a few days ago.

Ma Shiying said with a smile: "Brother Ji, your troupe is a must in the south of the Yangtze River, you and I haven't seen each other for many years, but what new plays have you written?" ”

"Hehe, the foolish brother has been in love with the landscape in the past few years, and he hasn't done anything else, but the good book has been sorted out a lot, and what I am preparing for the virtuous brother today is a new drama "Dream Tiger Yuan" that the foolish brother has newly organized!" Ruan Dacheng clapped his hands after speaking, and let the troupe come to the stage to start the performance.

Menghu Yuan is adapted from the folklore Menghu Marriage, which tells the story of Han Shizhong, a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his wife Liang Hongyu. It is about the Western Xia invasion of the border at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the eighteen-year-old Han Shizhong was recruited into the army, killed the Western Xia horses before the battle, offended Tong Guan because of the angry beating of the grain officer, and was not promoted for ten years.

Ruan Dacheng's selection of this repertoire has a deep meaning, that is, comparing himself to Han Shizhong and Donglin traitor to Tong Guan. Han Shizhong has not been promoted for ten years, and he Ruan Dacheng has been in love with the landscape for fifteen years, and they are all unlucky children.

Although Ma Shiying's knowledge is not as great as Ruan Dacheng's, he is also a famous literati, and he naturally knows what this dream of Huyuan means. The current situation is similar to that of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ruan Dacheng is comparing himself to Han Shizhong, hoping that Ma Shiying will become Wang Yuan who promoted Han Shizhong back then.

But Ma Shiying is an old fritter in officialdom, where can I recommend you Ruan Dacheng if it is not beneficial? So Ma Shiying pretended not to know at all, but watched the drama with relish.

Ma Ruan and the two chatted while watching the play, of course, they talked about old things. Ma Cheng, a turtle, where can he understand Kunqu Opera? If it is a later generation of Pingju and Huangmei Opera, you can probably watch some of them, but Kunqu Opera is sung in Wuyue dialect, and the lyrics are allusions, and Ma Cheng can understand it.

But I don't understand that there is something else to do, and that is to eat! Ruan Dacheng's chef has good skills, Ma Cheng shook off his cheeks and munched, and a pair of whirlwind chopsticks rolled most of the dishes into his mouth. Fortunately, Ruan Dacheng is not the master who is short of money, and the three of them have prepared a total of more than 20 dishes, or they will really make a fool of themselves.

Ma Cheng suddenly felt pain in his abdomen halfway through eating, Ma Cheng had eaten very lightly in the army for five or six days, and suddenly his stomach was a little uncomfortable after eating these delicious foods, and the came!

Ma Cheng saw that Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng were chatting energetically, so he didn't bother them, stood up and prepared to go out to.

There were servants of Ruan's Mansion who were waiting during the banquet, and when they saw Ma Cheng getting up, they hurriedly stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Master Ma, what do you need for the villain to do it!" ”

Ma Cheng asked in a low voice, "Where is the toilet?" I'm going to! ”

The Ruan family listened to Ma Cheng's vulgarity, but they didn't dare to laugh: "Master Ma, please come with the villain!" ”

Ma Cheng waved his hand and said, "No need, you are here to serve my father, you tell me that I will go to the toilet by myself!" "Ma Cheng is mainly afraid of his bad stomach, and it is not good to when the time comes, after all, Ma Cheng is a general soldier, and he still needs some decency.

When the servant heard Ma Cheng say this, he hurriedly said: "It's just outside, turn left when you go out, and walk fifty steps!" ”

Ma Cheng nodded, went out and turned left.

After walking more than ten meters, Ma Cheng was dumbfounded, Ruan's Mansion is a Jiangnan garden, and unlike the straight alleys in Ma Cheng's house, the roads in Ruan's Mansion are tortuous. Ma Cheng walked more than ten meters along the road and got lost, unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest.

Ma Cheng's stomach hurt at this time, Ma Cheng really couldn't hold on, looked left and right to see that there was no one, lowered his head into the bamboo forest on the side of the road, untied his trouser belt and pulled a bubble of thin freely.

Ma Cheng was pulling crookedly, and suddenly heard a voice in the distance, someone was coming. Ma Cheng was very anxious when he heard the voice, this is not what he can do in his own home, he is unruly in Ruan Dacheng's house, and he ran away and pulled, which is a shame for the adult.

Hearing the sound of people getting closer and closer, Ma Cheng had no choice but to get up and half-squat and rub into the depths of the bamboo forest, hoping to avoid being discovered. Ma Cheng thought it was good, but he forgot the smell. Ma Cheng's training tasks in the past few days are very heavy, and he is worried about the future in his heart, so the fire is big, and the smell can really be smelled half a mile away.