Speaking of Song Zhi and Zheng Qian, Ma Hongshu felt that when they grew up, they would definitely grow into qualified soldiers, and it would be good to be guards.

But staying in Zheng Sheng's Qingzhuling is really a bit condescending.

After all, Zheng Sheng, who is willing to run, has been labeled as an invincible by him, so a good seedling like Song Zhi should not stay with Zheng Sheng forever.

Ma Hongshu followed the crowd into the Xishan camp, and then arrived at a school field that covers a large area. At this time, there happened to be two teenagers wearing bamboo armor and wielding wooden sticks on the field.

There were a lot of white stains on their bamboo armor, which Ma Hongshu recognized, which was the white ash often used in the more elegant fighting forces in the army.

In this kind of competition, in the end, the number of white and gray points on the bamboo armor is used as the criterion for judging the victory or defeat.

The two teenagers are of the same level and are very familiar with each other, but they are unceremonious when they start to attack each other, and the two fight fiercely.

But Ma Hongshu felt bored, it was purely a child's play!

It was getting late, and people were lighting torches around the school grounds, and the contest was still going on. Ma Hongshu felt tired, so he said goodbye to Lao Zhang and left.

He returned to the single-courtyard house arranged for him by the Zheng family's people. There are several rows of houses and courtyards that are not particularly neat, and they are places where visitors or subordinates and families live. Of course, the families live closer to the houses in the east, and the guests live closer to the hills, so the environment is better.

His house was further south, and further south along the courtyard, except for another courtyard, was a stretch of mountain peaks. To the west, over a small dirt slope, you will reach the big road where you just ran and compete, and to the north and east are this courtyard built by the Zheng family.

The stables are located in the lower people's quarters, and further north near the main road.

In the past two days, his course of action was to set off from his yard in the morning, walk to the stable, take Lao Zhang's carriage to the east to Nanxiang, and come back from Nanxiang in the evening, Lao Zhang went back to the courtyard assigned by him and his family over there, and Ma Hongshu went back to where he lived.

Ma Hongshu had eaten very little this morning, and now it was close to seven o'clock in the evening, and he was hungry.

Although he felt very uncomfortable about waiting for dinner, he had no way to change his situation when he fell into such a field.

Where did Wang Sui go? Ma Hongshu felt that Wang Sui couldn't find him, and the most likely thing to do was to go back in despair.

He couldn't count on it. Fortunately, he left a letter for his family, so everyone should not be too anxious. But after Wang Sui went back, he said that he had disappeared, and what would happen in the future was unpredictable.

He needs to contact his family as soon as possible. Now, he is still reluctant to leave Qingzhuling, so he can only write another letter and ask Zheng Sheng to send someone to send it over.

Zheng's family brought him two plates of stir-fried vegetables, steamed buns, and rice. While eating, Ma Hongshu thought about how he would meet Zheng Sheng.

But in fact, the letter does not have to be passed through Zheng Sheng, he asked the people of the Zheng family to send a letter out, just to Nanyang, the people of the Zheng family will not feel too embarrassed, right?

After the meal, he thanked the housekeepers who had come to clean up the dishes, and then continued to sit on the wooden chair in contemplation.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and when he went out, he saw that it was Huang Chongru, who lived not far to the east, who heard that he lived here and came to visit the door.

Both the Huang father and son felt that this cautious young man might have a great background, and heard that he lived in the courtyard next to his house.

Huang Chongru had already run to him twice and wanted to visit him.

Huang Chongru explained the location of his house, and incidentally told him another piece of news, "The courtyard on the south side of Brother Ma lives in Yuan Fangshi, if Brother Ma has free time, we can visit him." ”

Ma Hongshu politely declined.

Huang Chongru asked Ma Hongshu about the situation of Nanxiang and others, and he told the truth. Huang Chongru regretted it, chatted with Ma Hongshu for a while, and left.

The next day, Ma Hongshu decided to ask to see Zheng Sheng.

On the third day, however, before he could go to see Zheng Sheng, the Zheng family had already come to invite him. Zheng Sheng invited him to breakfast.

Ma Hongshu walked into Zheng Sheng's courtyard for the first time.

Mrs. Wang had already gone to the bamboo garden in the mountains.

The Wenwu Camp competition was too noisy, although Mrs. Wang was curious about the lively Wenwu Camp competition, but after she was woken up by Zhong Ling the next day, she moved to Zhuyuan to be with Mrs. Han Qinghan.

Now, there are only Zheng Sheng, Qing'er, Liu Wen'er, and Bu Bo in the small courtyard, and Liu Wei'er is busy with fireworks. Therefore, when Zheng Sheng invited Ma Hongshu to dinner, there was only Qing'er around him, and there was no one else except for the little corn in the big kitchen who came in to help.

Ma Hongshu was invited into the front yard restaurant, and Qing'er said to Ma Hongshu while placing the food with Xiao Xiaozi: "Young Master Ma, my family will come over immediately, please sit down first." ”

Ma Hongshu was surprised, doesn't this host give face to the guests? Could it be that Zheng Sheng didn't welcome him and did it on purpose?

Zheng Sheng couldn't control Ma Hongshu's thoughts, he was tired one day yesterday.

The Tiger Guard Battalion competition is in full swing. From the morning fist and foot skills, that is, the free sanda style of 16 into 8 races, to the 5 kilometers and 20 kilometers running races, to the one-day water surface fixed-point floating target archery competition, and the final free skills 16 into eight competitions.

Although he was not personally involved, Zheng Sheng returned, and he inevitably had to stand up and encourage everyone and reward the winners.

Yesterday evening, the reason why Ma Hongshu didn't see Zheng Sheng outside the hospital was because he was too tired. So he changed the place of encouragement to the small courtyard.

When he woke up, without Yuan Fangshi, Zheng Sheng went for a run. When he returned, he remembered what the king had told him about Ma Shizi the night before. Lao Zhang was very neat, and as soon as he came back, he explained the matter of the unclaimed Ma Shizi clearly, and Wang Zhong temporarily took over the chores here, and he immediately said it to Zheng Sheng.

Zheng Sheng felt that as the host, it was impolite not to entertain the guests in person. Moreover, this is said to be a young man under twenty years old, Zheng Sheng pondered that if it was suitable and fit his eyes, he could recruit this horse master.

So Zheng Sheng sent someone to invite Ma Shizi over for breakfast, and he took advantage of this time to change into clean clothes.

It was a breakfast without much preparation, and everything was as usual. When Zheng Sheng opened the curtain and came in, he saw a young scholar sitting in the guest seat with his waist upright and respectfully.

In the history books of later generations, the two young people met for the first time on the third day of the penultimate ten years of Taikang.

It was the beginning of a legendary friendship. However, as far as the two are concerned, they are approaching each other with different thoughts.

Zheng Sheng felt that this was a very "honest" obedient child, because his movements and posture were too in line with the gentleman's standard that Qiu Fuzi said.

Therefore, Zheng Sheng feels that he is a very stereotypical person.

Ma Hongshu got up and arched his hand and said, "Zheng Shizi, thank you for taking care of you in the past two days." ”

Zheng Sheng returned the salute, "Brother Ma doesn't have to be polite, please sit down." ”

The two of them sat down and began to eat in silence.

In this atmosphere, Zheng Sheng didn't feel very uncomfortable, you must know that over the years, he and Zheng Quan, Song Zhi and others have eaten together almost every day, and the active and lively dining table is what he is familiar with.

But with Ma Hongshu each picking up their own food, Zheng Sheng was not uncomfortable because his companion did not speak. Could it be that in his heart he actually prefers to eat without saying a word? Or, was he infected by the other party? Zheng Sheng was puzzled.

After eating, Zheng Sheng was silent for a moment and said, "Brother Ma, why did you come to Nanxiang, a poor country?" ”

Zheng Sheng knew that he was from Sizhou, that is, from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River: in the north-central part of Henan, in the southern part of Shanxi, and in the eastern part of Shaanxi. There is no doubt that it is the most developed place in China now, and Ma Hongshu came to the mountainous area of Shunyang alone at this point in time, Zheng Sheng was really a little curious about what he was going to do?

Ma Hongshu was a little embarrassed, he came to Zheng Sheng. Of course, this can't be said explicitly, after all, he is looking for money in private, losing money and hurting his body, and he is unwilling to contact the government for help. For Zheng Sheng, he naturally couldn't say his identity clearly.

"I'm here to travel." Ma Hongshu arched his hand, he felt that his face was hot. Lying, for him, is an extremely rare situation.

Zheng Sheng scratched his head, he believed it, and sighed, the scholars of this era are really very leisurely!

"Well, then let's do it, it just so happens that the New Year Festival is coming soon, you stay in Qingzhuling and celebrate the New Year with all of us!"

Ma Hongshu suddenly thought of his mother, and his original plan was to go back to see his mother as soon as possible after going to Qingzhuling in private. At least at the beginning of the new year, he was going to rush back on the first day, but now he can't go back!

"Next year, I have to go back to Nanyang, and I will travel north with Brother Ma as a companion, okay?" Zheng Sheng continued to his own mind.

Ma Hongshu nodded, "Okay." ”

"Uh, Qingzhuling has been a little noisy in the past two days, especially in the morning, disturbing Brother Ma's morning dreams, right?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Brother Ma, you can go around Qingzhuling more in the past two days, it's quite lively."

"Okay."

"I stayed in Qingzhuling, but I wanted to write a letter to send home, and I asked the prince to send someone to transfer it."

Zheng Sheng thought that this was a trivial matter, and agreed with his mouth.

After Ma Hong finished talking about this, he thought of another question: "Yesterday, I watched the arrow test by the river. If the prince also participates, I don't know how many points he can get? ”

Zheng Sheng thought about it, was embarrassed to boast about Haikou, and said honestly with some shame: "I'm not as good as Song Zhi and Zheng Qian's magic marksmanship, twelve arrows, I can probably get about ten points, right?" ”

Ma Hongshu substituted his own level into the standard of Qingzhuling, and felt that he was almost at this level. So he went away satisfied.

Zheng Sheng sent Ma Hongshu away, he thought about it, and finally felt that something was wrong, this is my home, Ma Hongshu is a homeless "guest" person, why did he feel that he was the passive one answering just now?

Something is wrong with this man! But what was wrong, Zheng Sheng couldn't feel it.