Ma Cheng heard Gu Zhong say that there was a fight in front of him, and looked on the horseback, the crowd in front of him surrounded the inner three layers and the outer three layers, and he could only see the crowds in the inner circle, and from time to time there were people cheering, but Ma Cheng couldn't see the details clearly.

Ma Cheng looked around and cursed secretly in his heart: Chinese just love to watch the excitement, isn't it just fighting, what is there to see, delay Lao Tzu to go home and rest.

Now the crowd is crowded with the not wide road, and it is not realistic to bypass from other roads, so Ma Cheng has no choice but to get off the horse and prepare to go in to see, what bullshit can get to the point of beating each other on the street.

Ma Cheng came to the back of the crowd, kicked at a guy in front of him who was watching the excitement, and then scolded: "Your mother, don't you go to sell coolies to see the excitement?" Don't hurry up and get out of here! ”

The guy who was kicked was in his thirties, and he was about to turn around and scold Ma Cheng, but as soon as he saw the silk and satin that Ma Cheng was wearing, and there were more than a dozen sergeants around him, he knew that the guy in front of him was either rich or expensive, and he was not something he could provoke. So the man hurriedly lowered his body and hid to the side, making way for Ma Cheng to pass.

In this way, Ma Cheng squeezed out a way and came to the middle of the crowd. Ma Cheng went in and was dumbfounded, it turned out that the party who was beating was his old acquaintance, Lu Siye, the unlucky nephew of Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Fengyang Town.

Lu Siye was the culprit who caused Ma Cheng to cross, if he hadn't fought with the dead ghost Ma Cheng at that time, he wouldn't have let Ma Cheng cross. However, Ma Cheng also avenged himself in Fengyang and opened Lu Siye in Huaiyang Tower. But I didn't know the news of Lu Siye in the future, and Ma Cheng thought that this guy stayed in Fengyang and didn't follow his uncle to Nanjing.

Lu Siye didn't have the scenery of swaggering through the city with more than 20 guards in Fengyang now, Ma Cheng walked into the crowd and saw Lu Siye being pressed to the ground and beaten by a young man in his twenties.

In addition to Lu Siye, there were more than a dozen people next to him, but the clothes they were wearing seemed to be the young man's family, and now the head of the family was beating Lu Siye, so these family members did not come forward to help.

Lu Siye happened to see Ma Cheng walking in at this time, and shouted in a hurry: "Second Brother Ma, come and save the little brother!" ”

Ma Cheng didn't want to care about Lu Siye's, but after thinking about it, his uncle Lu Jiude was still Ma Shiying's ally after all, so it was better to help this guy anyway.

Ma Cheng stepped forward and kicked the young man riding on Lu Siye, and then asked Lu Siye, "I said Old Lu, what's wrong with you?" It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, why was he beaten by others again when he arrived in Nandu? ”

Lu Siye stood up with a red face, and then thanked him: "Second Brother Ma, thank you for your help today, otherwise I would have to be beaten to death by this guy!" ”

Ma Cheng knew that Lu Siye's uncle Lu Jiude's identity was not ordinary, and Zhu Yousong immediately promoted Lu Jiude to be the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi after he became emperor in Nanjing, which can already be called the internal minister, how can anyone dare to beat Lu Siye in public?

At this moment, the young man who was kicked away by Ma Cheng stood up and scolded: "Who are you guys?" Don't know who the young grandfather is? ”

At this time, more than a dozen family members behind the young man also rushed over, if they hadn't seen ten soldiers behind Ma Cheng, they would have stepped forward and beat Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng looked at the guy opposite, medium height in his twenties, a pair of goldfish eyes, dark eye circles, and at first glance, he was a wine-colored man.

Ma Cheng pulled Lu Siye and asked, "Old Lu, who is this guy?" ”

Lu Siye tidied up his clothes and said, "Second Brother Ma, this guy is Xu Jiujue, the eldest son of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei!" Lu Siye took this opportunity to explain the cause and effect.

It turned out that although Lu Jiude became a Bingbi eunuch after arriving in Nanjing, he was under Han Zanzhou, the former Nanjing garrison eunuch, regardless of his identity and status. This is also no way, Han Zanzhou was the governor and eunuch of Jingying when he was in Beijing, and you Lu Jiude was just a prison army in Fengyang back then. Although Lu Jiude later became the guard of the central capital, Han Zanzhou also became the guard of the remaining capital. You must know that the four capitals at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the first is of course Beijing, the second is Nanjing, the third is Fengyang, the central capital, and the fourth is Huguang Chengtianfu, the hometown of Emperor Jiajing. Therefore, Lu Jiude is the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the pen, and the eunuch of the palm seal is Han Zanzhou.

And Lu Siye and Ma Cheng are different, Ma Cheng licked his feet in Fengyang and offered his sister, so he made a real shortage of a general soldier, but Lu Siye did not have a sister to dedicate to Zhu Yousong, so he could only borrow his uncle's light to make a brocade guard governor's errand. Without military power and real power, Lu Siye naturally couldn't swagger through the market like Fengyang, so he could only take two family members to wander around the streets.

But there is no benefit to nothing, that is, Lu Siye does not have to be as busy as Ma Cheng to hit the back of his head, and in the past two months, Lu Siye has visited the large and small green buildings on the side of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

Today, Lu Siye heard that a new green building was opened here in the Confucius Temple, and the most famous kabuki Yueniang in Nanzhili was invited to sing, so Lu Siye was ready to have some fun here. Knowing that he was shocked after seeing this Yueniang, he didn't expect it to be so beautiful, so Lu Siye had the idea of redeeming himself for Yueniang. Think

But if she doesn't die, this month Niang was taken by Xu Jiujue, the little grandfather of Wei Guogong, at the same time, so the two of them got together. Lu Siye was used to being arrogant in Fengyang, and he put Xu Jiujue in his eyes. Xu Jiujue is even more so, after the Duke of Wei moved the capital from Zhu Di to Nanjing, it has been more than 200 years, although the position of the garrison is now taken by Liu Kongzhao, but the perennial cultivation of the Bahu there can be changed in a moment and a half.

So the more they talked, the more stiff they became, so they moved on the street, originally Lu Siye didn't take Xu Jiujue in his eyes, after all, the two family members who followed him out today were also veterans of the battle back then. But I didn't expect that the family of Wei Guogong was so powerful, and the kung fu of the soldiers in Wei Guogong's family was not weak, so Lu Siye's two family members were beaten by others.

The next step for the soldiers to be beaten away is to deal with Lu Siye, of course, Wei Guogong's personal soldiers know Lu Siye's identity and don't dare to beat him, but Xu Jiujue is different, everyone is the second generation of officials, who is afraid of whom!

When he got started, Lu Siye found that this Xu Jiujue looked like a drunken man, but there was no ambiguity under his hands, and he knocked Lu Siye to the ground in three strokes and two strokes, and then rode on his body and beat him fatly.

Ma Cheng said with a smile after hearing what happened to Lu Siye: "Old Lu, old Lu, aren't you very powerful in Fengyang?" How can you not come across such a waste? ”

Lu Siye scolded in his heart when he heard Ma Cheng say this: What? If you can't do it, you can break your second ancestor's head! But now Lu Siye needs Ma Cheng's help to vent his anger, and he didn't dare to say what he thought in his heart, but said flatteringly: "The younger brother is one level worse than the second brother Ma, and now this Xu Jiujue is bullying us Fengyang, please ask the second brother Ma to help the younger brother take revenge!" ”

Ma Cheng originally didn't want to care about Lu Siye's, but knowing that the person in front of him was Xu Hongji's son, it was different, and when Xu Hongji's industry was burned in Fengyang, he had already formed a bond with Wei Guogong. In addition, in order to win over Liu Kongzhao, Ma Shiying gave Xu Hongji the position of Nanjing guard to Liu Kongzhao, so that there is no room for relaxation between the two families, and Xu Hongji has a bad relationship with Han Zanzhou and some people in the Donglin Party, since this is the case, what is Xu Jiujue used to doing?

Ma Cheng walked to Xu Jiujue and asked, "You are Xu Jiujue, the stupid son of Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei?" ”

When Lu Siye told Ma Cheng what happened just now, Xu Jiujue also knew Ma Cheng's identity. It's very simple, through the livery of Ma Cheng's own soldiers, I learned that these people were soldiers of the Shenji Battalion. Xu Jiujue's Laozi is in charge of the Nanjing military, and naturally knows that now the Shenji Battalion has been replaced with a new general soldier, and this general soldier is still Ma Shiying's second son Ma Cheng.

Xu Jiujue was furious when he heard Ma Cheng scold himself for being stupid, he was the eldest son of the Duke of Wei, born with a golden spoon in his mouth, and he had suffered this kind of humiliation there. Not to be outdone, Xu Jiujue scolded: "You are Ma Cheng, the second son of the eunuch Ma Shiying?" ”

Ma Cheng was not angry when he heard Xu Jiujue say this, and said with a smile: "Yes, it is your grandfather Ma Cheng!" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he ignored Xu Jiujue, but asked Lu Siye beside him: "Old Lu, who is this Duke of Wei?" Why haven't I heard of it? "There is no need for Lu Siye to say that Ma Cheng also knows who Wei Guogong is, but he wants to humiliate Xu Jiujue under the pretext of humiliating him.

Lu Siye explained on the side: "Second brother, Wei Guogong is the descendant of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and the contemporary Wei Guogong is Xu Hongji!" ”

Ma Cheng suddenly realized after hearing Lu Siye's words: "I know, it's the Xu Da who can't eat goose meat if he has a flower willow, but Emperor Taizu gave him a steamed goose, and he hung up after eating?" ”

Ma Cheng's words can cause an uproar in the crowd, Xu Da's matter is known to the entire Nanjing City, but it can only be circulated in private before, but now it is lifted by Ma Cheng, and immediately the people around who are watching the excitement begin to whisper.

"It turns out that King Zhongshan is really dead like this!"

"I just heard about it before, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

"Didn't you say you had dorsal gangrene? How did it become a willow? ”

"You know a fart, he is a prince, and he must have many wives, can you say that you have a flower willow?"

The people on the side suddenly realized that this was the truth!

Xu Jiujue didn't expect Ma Cheng's poisonous mouth to say the taboo of the Xu family in public, can this reach the emperor's ears and have his own good fruits to eat?

Xu Jiujue hurriedly said loudly to the crowd: "Don't listen to it, my ancestor King Zhongshan died of illness, and he definitely didn't eat any steamed goose!" Don't believe this bastard! ”

In fact, what Xu Jiujue said is the truth, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless methods, if you want to kill you, Xu Da must be killed directly, and what kind of steamed goose do you want to get there, which is not in line with Zhu Yuanzhang's character at all. But the legend of steamed goose has been passed down for more than 200 years, and everyone unconsciously takes it as true, so naturally no one wants to believe Xu Jiujue.