Chapter Twenty-Three: The Cao Fathers and Sons
This family of 5, 2 men and 3 women is really fierce, to be exact, 2 people are really fierce, and the white-fronted tiger does not fall behind. When Ma Yun was at a loss, Qian Qing and Shi Da behind him had already jumped out of the fierce battle tiger with a little excitement, while Liao Renyong stood beside Ma Yun with a sword in his hand and comforted: "Childe, don't worry, Qian Qing and Shi Da are enough to deal with it." ”
This family of 5 people, 2 men and 3 women is really fierce, to be exact, 2 people are really fierce, and the white-fronted tiger is not left behind. When Ma Yun was at a loss, Qian Qing and Shi Da behind him had already jumped out of the fierce battle tiger with a little excitement, while Liao Renyong stood beside Ma Yun with a sword in his hand and comforted: "Childe, don't worry, Qian Qing and Shi Da are enough to deal with it." ”
As expected, after a while, the 30 soldiers led by Ma Yun had just arrived, and the battle here was over.
Seeing that the live tiger had turned into a dead and sick cat, the short-bearded middle-aged man who was fighting the tiger let out a sigh of relief, handed the long sword to the young man in green clothes and purple scarves beside him, walked over and said to Ma Yun: "This son, I don't know your name, if it weren't for the help of the son today, Cao Yun's family would have died in the tiger's mouth." ”
Ma Yun said in his heart: Don't thank me, you scared me just now, if it weren't for my little brother, I guess I would have fed the tiger.
Ma Yun's expression was uneasy, and he reluctantly smiled and said: "With a lot of effort, why worry about it, but Brother Cao's style of fighting tigers is admirable." The boy's surname is Ma, and he is a businessman. Brother Cao, where are you, how did you meet the tiger? ”
Cao Yun looked at his wife and said: "In Xia Zhending Lingshou people, now the Central Plains is in turmoil, I moved my family south, today I happened to pass by Huangcheng Mountain, but I met this beast, my father and son fought with it for half an hour. ”
Before Ma Yun could speak, Liao Renyong had already praised him sincerely: "Hehe, Your Excellency is really brave, this white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, eyes like copper bells, and a big mouth of blood." Most people see that their legs are weak. It's amazing that you've been fighting for half an hour and still standing firmly. After Liao Renyong finished speaking, he glanced at Ma Yun with admiration.
Cao Yun was about to speak, but the kid snorted, seeing that he was dissatisfied with Liao Renyong ignoring him. Ma Yun looked at the left turn of the mountain road, faintly revealing a piece of gable roof tiles, then pointed to the left and said: "I don't want to meet a hero like Brother Cao's father and son today, I don't think it's early, why don't we go to someone's house over there for a night, and talk while eating?" ”
Cao Yun said with a smile: "Okay, I'm tired to death from the battle today, just go to rest and rest, and I'm in a hurry tomorrow." ”
Ma Yun asked the soldiers to drive their carriage over and pick up their daughters. Seeing that Cao Yun wanted to thank him again, Ma Yun smiled as he walked: "Brother Cao, if you want to thank you again, you will be outside." Now that the country is in turmoil, why don't heroes like Brother Cao serve in the army. ”
Cao Yun glanced at me and said, "Listening to the childe's accent, it doesn't look like a person from the Central Plains." ”
Ma Yun said with a smile: "I am a Chu person, and now there is a big mess today, and the emperor does not open the imperial examination, and there is no power to bind chickens in farming, so I can only do business, and I am preparing to sell cloth to Bianjing." ”
There is a saying that if you want to know someone else's secret, you must first tell someone your own secret. Ma Yun saw that Cao Yun's family looked like an official eunuch, and saw that he didn't want to answer his own questions. So Ma Yun told Cao Yun about his experience first, of course, this experience was fake.
Ma Yun didn't ask Cao Yun at the moment, but just chatted with him while walking. The topic was hot, and suddenly a black shadow staggered over from the forest next to the mountain road, and fell directly in front of Ma Yun, blocking the way.
Ma Yun was taken aback, Cao Yun had already taken a step forward, stopped him behind him, pressed the sword with his left hand, and shouted: "Who are you?" ”
I saw that the man's body was swaying like a pendulum, and he said slightly: "Uncle, there is... Do you have any stuttering? ”
Damn, I thought it was a robbery.
Ma Yun let out a long breath, glanced at Qian Qing with an unbearable face, and said, "Go and help him, and get him something to eat when you get to the front." ”
As he spoke, he arrived at the front of the house, and it turned out that this was not a family, but also a mountain temple. The mountain temple in the novel seems to have always been dilapidated, and this one is also like this, not to mention the ruins and broken walls, and the roof tiles in the main hall are also a lot less, standing in the room and looking up, you can see the sky, and there are many cobwebs on the window. However, perhaps because of the recent presence of refugees in it, the back wall is quite clean, and there are still two or three piles of ashes left over from burning at the entrance of the temple.
Seeing that the sky had darkened, Ma Yun instructed Qian Qing and Shi Da to prepare a fire for cooking, and also asked the female relatives of the Cao family to build a fire.
Cao Yun said to Ma Yun gratefully: "I'm going to bother my son again... Cao"
Ma Yun smiled, interrupted him, and said: "There is a saying that "all brothers in the four seas", Brother Cao, don't be so polite. ”
Ma Yun didn't want to be entangled with Cao Yun about this matter, so he thought about it for a while and then said, "Brother Cao, do you guess what my biggest wish in life is?" ”
Cao Yun was stunned, as if she didn't expect Ma Yun to ask this.
Ma Yun smiled and said to him a little mysteriously: "Little brother, my biggest wish is to meet a hero like Brother Cao, but I don't have any chances, I am really lucky to see Brother Cao today." If you want to thank me, then I will also thank the two tigers, without which I would not have had the opportunity to meet Brother Cao. Hahaha. ”
Cao Yun patted Ma Yun's shoulder violently and said, "Since the son... ”
Ma Yun interrupted him and said, "Brother Cao, you and I are fortunate to know each other today, I call you Brother Cao, you call me a little brother, okay?" ”
Cao Yun smiled: "Okay, good, this is what a man does." Little brother, now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, you are traveling around as a businessman, I'm afraid it's not safe. Cao Yun was happy in his heart, but his son pouted, quite dissatisfied, and said: You are only seventeen or eighteen years old, so don't you stand on my cheap.
Ma Yun smiled and said: "Lao Tzu once said, "Fortune and misfortune lurk, misfortune and fortune rely on", how can there be a perfect strategy for things in this world, the chaos in the world is naturally very risky, but it is also the chaos in the world, and the people are displaced, so they have to do business. ”
Ma Yun looked at Cao Yun and seemed a little unimpressed, and said in his heart: Ancient people were really very uninterested in the merchant industry. So, he continued: "Actually, in the lower family, he is also quite generous, his father and brother are mostly in the officialdom of Dachu, and the younger brother is not a businessman, and his life is also passable." It's just that last year, I heard that the people of the Central Plains were in dire straits, with little food and clothing. The younger brother couldn't bear this, so he wanted to do business, trade goods from the north and south, and sell grain and cloth from the south to the north, hoping to help the people a little with the profits of business. ”
After Cao Yun heard this, she said with a straight face: "Brother Ma's move is really a bodhisattva's heart." ”
Ma Yun couldn't help blushing a little: I just want to emphasize that business prosperity is beneficial to the country and the people, you don't really believe that I am helping the people. But this can't be regarded as bragging, after all, Ma Yun's business has not yet opened, and after Bianjing sells the cloth, he will casually give the beggars some money, which can be regarded as helping the people.
When Cao Yun's son heard this, his eyes flashed, and he looked at Ma Yun suspiciously, as if he didn't quite believe that this was true.
It has always been Ma Yun's style to divert unclear topics, so he asked with a smile: "Brother Cao, where are you going?" ”
Cao Yun glanced at me, as if she wanted to see if Ma Yun was trustworthy, and then sighed and said with emotion: "Brother, you also know that the Central Plains is in turmoil now, and my brother wants to move his family south to avoid the war." ”