Song Zhuzhu came back with more than a dozen truckloads of grain, and said loudly to the soldiers who came out to greet him: "Start the stove!" Burner! Loosen the belt! ”

Everyone rushed up, frantically grabbing the food on the car, and no one even asked who the strange woman next to King Chu was.

Song Zhuzhu smiled at the woman and said, "Look at my brothers, how enthusiastic." ”

The woman was in her twenties, with a long face, not ugly, but not beautiful, with a serious face, and if there was a bunch of keys around her waist, she would be like a housekeeper in charge of the door.

But she didn't have a key at her waist, only a long sword.

"You don't have 10,000 people here." Woman.

"Some go out on patrol."

"Even the tent was taken away?"

"Haha, Madame doesn't have to check so clearly, I don't have 10,000 here, but 8,000. Come here, brothers, the food is here, it won't fly away, come and meet my new lady. ”

"Do you have an old lady?" The woman immediately asked.

"No, I haven't been married until I meet Mrs. You, presumably there is a providence in the dark, I have been waiting for you in my thirties, Mrs...... I've been waiting for me too. Ha ha. ”

While the soldiers were still carrying the food, a group of leaders gathered around and looked at the "new lady", one of whom said, "I know you, you are ...... Ma Lao's machete daughter, Ma Qigu, after waiting for so many years, you are finally married. ”

The woman nodded, "I also know you, Xue Dakui, a blacksmith from Xiaoguzhuang, owes my family fifty catties of iron, and he hasn't paid it back for three years." ”

Xue Dakui stuck out his tongue, "It must be returned before the end of the year, and it will be doubled." ”

Ma Qigu snorted, her eyes swept away, no one dared to say that she knew her, and several people who owed the Ma family hid back.

Song Zhuzhu said loudly: "Let everyone know, I just got married to my seventh aunt yesterday, from now on, she is the housewife of my Song family, you have to call her 'madam', Ma Lao machete is my father-in-law, you have to call him...... What to call him? Song Zhuzhu asked.

"Ma Dad." Ma Qigu said.

"Ma Dad, you all have to remember that you must not make a mistake in the future. In the future, we will be a family with Ma's family, lack of food and clothing, and go to Ma's father to ask for it! ”

The crowd cheered, and even the soldiers who were carrying the food shouted.

Ma Qigu frowned slightly, the situation here was completely different from what she had expected before she arrived.

Song Zhuzhu's tent was dilapidated and old, only slightly larger, with too few things on display, and it looked very empty, and it was more than enough to store a few boxes of dowries from the Ma family.

"This is where you live?"

The big words never came back, Song Zhuzhu was a little nervous, and said with a smile: "I don't know what you like, so I just empty it, just wait for you to arrange it, and come according to your heart." ”

Ma Qigu sighed lightly, and Song Zhuzhu's heart chuckled, "Don't be sad, madam, what do you want, just say it, even if you rob it, I will rob it for you." ”

"Do you think that the people of our Ma family like to grab things?"

"No, no, I mean ......"

"I don't want anything, just your truth."

"Every word I've ever said...... True. "Song Zhuzhu is very weak-hearted.

"How many of your men are there?"

"Uh...... It's actually less than 10,000, but it's not too bad. ”

"How much?" Ma Qigu's tone was a little stern.

"Five thousand...... No, probably...... Three thousand, that's the truth, there were three thousand people when I left, and I don't know how many ran away in the past two days. But I didn't deceive my wife and father-in-law, when I raised troops in Xiangyang, there were indeed 10,000 people, and later I lost some, as long as there was food, I could quickly regather 10,000 people. ”

Ma Qigu said softly: "I'm already married to you, how many soldiers and horses do I have compared to you?" I only need a real number, and I can calculate the degree. ”

"Madame generous, food or something, always the more the better."

"Someone's food doesn't fall from the sky, it has to be carefully calculated in order to live a long time."

"That's right, I'm just wasting a lot of food because of my big spending......"

Someone lifted the curtain and came in, and Song Zhuzhu said, "Hey, don't you know that I have a bride here?" Knock on the door later...... You have to make a loud announcement, and you have to get my permission to come in. ”

"Yes, I'll inform you later, I'm here for an urgent matter." Dai Pohu didn't run, he was still in the Chu military camp, took a step forward, and arched his hand to Ma Qigu: "Dai Pohu, meet Mrs. Ma." ”

"Excuse me, I've heard of General Dai's prestige a long time ago, and when my father usually talks about our heroes in Jingzhou, he must mention Honghua Tai Sui."

Honghua Tai Sui was Dai Pohu's nickname in his early years, and now not too many people remember it, even Song Zhuzhu heard of it for the first time, Ma Qigu said it casually, obviously she really heard of it.

Dai Pohu was overjoyed, "I am a grasshopper in the grass, how can I compare to the tiger Ma Daddy in the mountains?" Dai Pohu changed his words quickly.

"It's great that people look up to each other for a long time. Lao Dai, what is your urgency? ”

Dai Pohu immediately said: "Xu Ji is back again." ”

"Who?"

"It's the Xu Ji who was sent by the Xi family a few days ago and asked us to send it to the Xi family."

Song Zhuzhu was stunned for a moment, "And then I let you let go of that Xu Ji halfway?" ”

"Yes."

Ma Qigu was confused, "Who is Xu Ji?" The Xi family sent it and returned it to the Xi family? ”

Song Zhuzhu was still in a daze, Dai Pohu said: "It's a strange person, he was the son of a general, he was called King Wu in the incarnation army, and he almost could be the king of the incarnation, but after the officers and soldiers were repelled in the eastern capital, he suddenly abdicated and went to Jizhou Yecheng to live in seclusion, I don't know when he came out of the mountain again, and I don't know how he came to Jingzhou, I haven't asked." The Xi family regards Xu Ji as an enemy, but they don't want to offend the king of Shu upstream, so they send him here first, and then we send it to the Xi family, so that as soon as it is handed over, the king of Shu can only blame the king of Chu......"

"You agree?" Ma Qigu asked her husband.

Song Zhuzhu said with a smile: "It's all to stabilize the morale of the army, but I asked Dai Pohu to let him go halfway, not because I was afraid of the King of Shu, but because Xu Ji and I have the same friendship." What is he doing again? ”

"I don't know, it's from Yiling City, and I'm accompanied by a lot of Yang Moyu's subordinates, at least fifty people."

Song Zhuzhu scratched his head, "Didn't you say that he went to Xiangyang and Dongdu?" ”

"yes, I don't know when he turned around......"

"He came to Xingshi to ask for sin?"

"More than fifty people is not enough, and if you want to talk about the culprit, Yang Muyu is the biggest one."

Song Zhuzhu couldn't figure it out, and didn't really want to see Xu Ji, "You go and deal with it, say I'm ...... Said I didn't come back from my outing. ”

"Yes." Dai Pohu was ordered to leave, and Ma Qigu said: "Wait, no matter what kind of character Xu Ji is, if he dares to come, we will dare to see him, the husband claims to be a hero, and he doesn't even have the courage to do this?" ”

Song Zhuzhu said with a smile: "Madame, I don't even have the courage to meet people?" It's just that...... I had nothing to say to him. And that man calls himself a strategist, and he is the most demagogue, and he will not do good when he comes, and I may not be able to refuse in the end. ”

"Then I'm going to see you even more."

Song Zhuzhu was helpless, and said to Dai Pohu: "Then please come in, my wife and I are newly married, and the dowry is still owed, so let's treat Xu Ji as a gift." ”

Dai Pohu went out, and Song Zhuzhu said to his wife: "The person is what Mrs. wants to see, and if you refuse later, Mrs. will also say it." ”

"I'll tell you."

"Whatever he proposes, refuse it all, don't be tempted, don't even hesitate, no matter how nice he says, how interested Madame is, you know, it's all a strategist's strategy, give a piece of bait first, and when you take the bait, he will ......"

"Can he still persuade me to remarry him?"

"Haha, that's not it, he didn't ...... Madame He didn't have the guts. ”

Ma Qigu sneered, frowned, and said, "You don't even have a chair here?" ”

"Someone may have used it as firewood. Madame sitting on the bed? Not suitable, there is a way. Song Zhuzhu carried the box containing the dowry, two side by side, the throne of him and his wife, and the other was placed on the right hand side, which was regarded as the position of the guest.

The box was heavy, Song Zhuzhu was a little out of breath, and asked with a smile: "Madame's dowry is really a lot." ”

Ma Qigu was about to speak, when Dai Pohu's voice came from outside: "Dongdu Xu Ji, ask to see the King of Chu and his wife." ”

"Xuanjin." Song Zhuzhu sat on the box and said loudly.

Dai Pohu came in first, followed by Xu Ji, and then Song Zhuzhu's four guards.

Dai Pohu stepped aside, Xu Ji stepped forward, and arched his hand: "In Xia Xu Ji, I have seen King Song Chu and Mrs. Ma." ”

Song Zhuzhu didn't squeak, it depends on how Mrs. responds.

Ma Qigu looked at the guests and said, "Mr. Xu, please take a seat." General Dai, you should step aside, since you are the old man of the King of Chu, you don't have to be formal. ”

Dai Pohu knew Xu Ji and knew that he was not a threat, so he took the guards out of the account.

Xu Ji sat on the other box and said with a smile: "I haven't congratulated King Chu yet." ”

Song Zhuzhu waved his hand, "I told you earlier, don't call me King Chu." ”

Ma Qigu rushed and said: "The king of Chu is too humble." What is the matter with Mr. Xu? We don't have to be polite, let's talk straight. ”

Xu Ji didn't know anything about this Mrs. Ma, and seeing that Song Zhuzhu had no intention of talking alone, he got up, took out Leng Yifang's letter from his arms, and handed it over with both hands.

"It's good to say it to your face, so why write a letter?" Song Zhuzhu was inexplicable, took the letter, didn't look at it, and transferred it to his wife.

Ma Qigu took out the letter, held it in her hand, looked left and right, and had to whisper: "I don't know how to read." ”

"Madame can keep accounts, but she can't read?" Song was quite surprised.

"Those are two different things."

Song Zhuzhu took the letter, opened his mouth to read it, closed his mouth again, read it quickly, and asked in surprise: "How did this letter fall into your hands?" ”

Ma Qigu coughed, and Song Zhuzhu said: "It's a letter written by Leng Yifang, the city lord of Xiangyang, inviting me to lead troops to defend Xiangyang, and allowing me to be the deputy city lord." ”

The husband and wife looked at each other, and neither of them would say anything, because the letter really moved their hearts, even if they pretended, they couldn't refuse it.

"Who is the enemy?" Ma Qigu finally spoke.

"Jin Jun."

"Jin Jun?"

"And the state."

"Why are the people of Bingzhou beating us in Jingzhou?"

"The people of Bingzhou will be the vanguard of He Rong's department, and He Rong's army will occupy Kyushu, not only Jingzhou."

Ma Qigu let out a long sigh and said to her husband, "Can we beat the Hezhou army and He Rongren?" ”

"I can't beat it."

Ma Qigu said to Xu Ji: "Then there is no way, knowing that we can't beat it, we can't go to Xiangyang to die." ”

Xu Ji didn't argue, stretched out his hand to Song Zhuzhu, and prepared to reply to the letter, "Okay, I can't make it difficult for others, in the land of Jingzhou, there are always heroes who dare to face difficulties, and I will go to find someone else." ”

Song Zhuzhu refused to return the letter, raised his eyebrows and said, "You say I'm not a hero?" ”

"The King of Chu is a hero who judges the situation, not a hero who rises to the occasion."

Song Zhuzhu turned his head to look at his wife, and Ma Qigu sighed lightly, "It's you who loses, not me." ”

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