In the next few days, Ma Mingyuan led Chen Zilong to several scenic spots in Wuchang and met many friends and celebrities in Wuchang. also went to the brothel twice and invited Feng Ziyong and Zhu Hongsan to go together. Feng Ziyong, this old shameless man, of course went. But Zhu Hongsan, a little shameless person, really didn't dare to go.

Chen Zilong also asked him why he didn't go, Zhu Hongsan blushed and said, "I have a fierce wife at home, so I really don't dare to go." ”

Feng Ziyong said with a smile that the last time Zhu Hongsan* went to a brothel and was chased into the toilet by Ma Xiaofang, everyone laughed. Chen Zilong said: "Since the junior wants to accompany his good wife at home, then let's go." After saying that, the three of them laughed and left.

The root of Zhu Hong's three angry teeth itched, and when he went home, he only dissipated his anger after two rounds came from Ma Xiaofang's mouth. made Ma Xiaofang nauseous.

Chen Zilong left after staying in Wuchang for ten days, after all, he is still a person now, and he still has to pay attention to his fame. After Zhu Hongsan* went to see him off, he came to Shiweitian with Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong. Food for the sky has returned to Zhu Hongsan since the Guo family died.

In addition, half a year ago, Zhu Hongsan lent Zhu Hongyi and 20 non-commissioned officers to Qian Lide to unify the underground forces in Wuchang County. Feng sent someone to pass the word to Zhu Hongsan not to make too much trouble. After half a month of cleanup, more than 20 people in the Hualiu Gang in Nancheng Huajie died (Zhu Hongsanzhen has a grudge against the brothel). The coolies in Xicheng were frightened, and the gang leader led people to withdraw from the county seat and sent three thousand taels of silver to show their submission. Since then, Zhu Hongsan has completely become the underground emperor of the county.

The three of them came to the gate of Shiweitian, and the shopkeeper hurriedly came out to greet him, the shopkeeper was still the shopkeeper, and Zhu Hongsan saw that he was doing his best to take care of it, so he didn't change him.

When he saw his owner coming, he immediately brought someone to greet him, respectfully sent him to the second floor, and went down to prepare wine and food without mentioning it.

Ma Mingyuan asked, "Isn't this the Guo family's industry?" How did you become a junior? ”

Feng Ziyong said on the side: "You ask your own good brother-in-law, he killed the Guo family." also accepted your niece Ma Ruyan as a concubine, and now you have children. ”

Zhu Hongsan's face turned red, after all, this is not a glorious thing. sprayed at Feng Ziyong, and said: "What about the second cousin's wind and snow, don't you have a fancy for soy sauce Shih Tzu, if it weren't for me, would the two of you be able to stay and fly together?" You should thank me. ”

Ma Mingyuan didn't understand what soy sauce Shih Tzu was, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhu Hongsan hurriedly replied: "Before you leave, that Zhu You didn't know if you knew no." That soy sauce Shih Tzu is Zhu Youcai's daughter, your second cousin takes a fancy to others. I felt that I was not good at what to do, so I begged me to let him do his good deeds. I found out that I got married on the day of the rolling mines, and invited Soy Sauce Shih Tzu to sing, so I brought someone to snatch it back. But the matter was revealed, and I was afraid that they would be endless, so for the sake of the second cousin's reputation, I killed all of them. and rescued Ma Ruyan by the way. Ruyan was impressed by my youthful heroism, crying and shouting to marry me. No way, her husband's whole family is dead, I can't throw her there, just take her home and get married. ”

Zhu Hongsan's reversal of black and white tone Feng Ziyong jumped to his feet and scolded: "Shaft, is the thing what you said?" You were the one who killed his whole family because of a conflict with Guo Huaiyi, and saved Wan'er easily. ”

Ma Mingyuan saw the two brothers arguing, sighed, and thought: "This Zhu Hongsan is also ruthless, I don't know if it's right or wrong to be attached to him." ”

The matter has come to this point, and Ma Mingyuan can't help it. What else can Ma Ruyan do if she is pregnant, only by admitting a fait accompli.

Ma Mingyuan didn't want to get too involved in this matter, so he interrupted the dispute between the two and said, "Okay, two." If everything is like this, don't spoil the brotherhood. Let's talk about what we've seen for more than half a year. ”

At this time, the wine and food came up, Zhu Hongsan sent his men out to close the door, served wine to the two of them, and said, "Let's ask Second Brother Mingyuan to talk about it first." ”

Ma Mingyuan took a sip of wine and said: "This time I walked thousands of miles and saw a lot, and Nan Zhili was basically helpless." When Fengyang was broken, there were people in Nanzhili who first thought of letting the city go. In the end, it was the Liukou who did not have the ability to cross the Yangtze River, so they did not escape. ”

Ma Mingyuan sighed and continued: "But there are also people of insight who say that they want to live and die with the city, and the brother of the people is one. That's when I met him. And a few friends. Yes, Hou Fangyu is also good, not as incompetent as you said, Xiaosan. The other three Chen Zhenhui, Fang Yizhi, and Mao Bijiang were all bright for a while. ”

When Zhu Hongsan heard what he said, he hurriedly asked, "Has the second brother seen Dong Xiaowan?" ”

Feng drank it himself: "Listen carefully to your second brother, what's wrong." ”

Ma Mingyuan said with a smile: "Of course I have seen it, it is really talented and beautiful." I heard that Dong Xiaowan intends to venture out of Xinjiang. It's time to get married. ”

Ma Mingyuan continued: "I have good friends with the four of them, and I believe that they should be our help in the future. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "They still have it, they are not as good as the second brother in strategizing, they are not as good as the second cousin in governing the place, and they are almost the same as being a-stirring stick." Let them do something, keep the right and do the bad. ”

Feng Ziyong heard Zhu Hongsan praise him for the first time, and couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect Xiao San to be my confidant." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You are better than them, after all, you have been a magistrate for a few years, if you are not as good as them, you might as well buy a piece of tofu and die." ”

Feng Ziyong rarely cultivated a little good impression of Zhu Hongsan, and suddenly disappeared, snorted and turned his head to ignore him.

Ma Mingyuan said with a smile: "Second cousin, don't listen to Xiao San, he actually admires you very much." ”

Hearing Ma Mingyuan say this, Feng Ziyong's face was better.

Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Second brother, have you gone to see Ruan Dacheng?" ”

As soon as Feng Ziyong heard about the eunuchs, his family had suffered a lot from the eunuchs. Hurriedly asked, "Isn't Ruan Dacheng never activated?" See what he's doing. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "I don't know if I burn the cold stove. What if someone else works in the future? ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "See, Ruan Dacheng is a bit miserable now, when I went, I heard that his house was burned by the people of the Restoration Society." Ruan Dacheng's beard was burned, and he almost didn't die in the fire. Ruan Dacheng was very enthusiastic when he saw me going to see him, he didn't ask for any money, and he gave me a thousand taels of silver when I left. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "In this society now, there are no people who send charcoal in the snow, and there are a lot of people who send. That's good, it's better to care about it at this time than to send 10,000 taels of silver in the future. ”

Feng Ziyong couldn't look down on Zhu Hongsan's power eyes. asked, "Mingyuan, will you go to Guangdong in the future?" Well, it's okay over there. ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "Guangdong does not have a large population of Nanzhili. The population is mainly in the vicinity of Guangzhou Prefecture, and if we want to develop, we should find a piece of land near Guangzhou Prefecture. I found that it is good on the edge of Nanhaiwei, not far from Guangdong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River, with convenient transportation and flat land. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "It can be used as a place to consider, and we have to go and see what to do." ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "My situation is all over, let's talk about you." ”

Feng Ziyong said: "Let him say it, it's all about him." ”

Zhu Hongsan took a sip of wine to moisten his throat and said, "The second brother has been gone for more than half a year, and the farm has grown to a population of 2,000 people. Among them, there are 900 members of the militia group, who are training, and I think it will be about the same in a few months. Steel has already opened up sales. At present, we mainly go to Nanzhili to buy goods, and iron ore and coal are cheap. In addition, there is water transportation on the Yangtze River, which is very convenient. The finished products are mainly knives, guns and iron armor. At present, Ma Youfu is responsible for the sales of Henan, and can be sold as far as Shandong, Shanxi. Due to the perennial war in the north, there is a great demand for weapons in various places, basically everything, a horizontal knife has now risen to 50 taels of silver, you must know that our cost is less than 1 tael, it is really a million profits. I heard Ma Youfu say that if you go to Shanxi, you can buy 100 taels. But it's too far, and our team is not strong enough to go to Henan. But in this way, the horses are blessed, and they can get back 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver once they go out. Now we have 100,000 taels of silver in deposit. This is because we are afraid that we will not be able to digest it, or 10,000 militia groups will be able to pull it out. ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "It is not appropriate to expand the strength at present, after all, Huguang is still too peaceful at present. ”

Then Ma Mingyuan asked Feng Ziyong: "Second cousin, how is the official side." ”

Feng Ziyong said: "The news is not good, Zhang Xianzhong broke Fengyang a few years ago, and then broke through Anqing along the Yangtze River. I heard that the whole city was slaughtered. I thought I could cross the river to Wuchang. At that time, the whole city of Wuchang was already under martial law. But I didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong to cross the river, maybe there were not enough boats. So I went up the river into Henan, and I heard that I went to Shaanxi. There is also a report from Di yesterday that Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the bandits, was beaten to death by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, I don't know if this is true or not. If it were true, it would have been a fatal blow to the Rogues. ”

Zhu Hongsan thought in his heart: "Gao Yingxiang is dead." What you don't know is to release a more powerful Li Zicheng, this is the big killer star that wants your life. But Zhu Hongsan just thought about it in his heart and didn't say it, because after all, Li Zicheng is just an ordinary general under Gao Yingxiang now, and no one will believe him when he says it, so it will be good to see how it develops in the future.

Feng Ziyong continued: "Mingyuan, the trial will be held again in April next year." What are you going to do this time? ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "I'm going to try." ”

Zhu Hongsan is in a hurry, now he can believe it, and he has not been at home for three days. It's going to exhaust me.

Ma Mingyuan saw that Zhu Hongsan was about to speak, so he waved his hand first and said, "Don't say it, junior, I know what you have to say." But I've been studying for so many years, and I've taken the exam three times. I'm not reconciled. I'm twenty-six years old this year, and I have to prove that I'm not the one who used to say that I was only admitted by a little cleverness. ”

Zhu Hongsan sighed. thought to himself: "Ma Mingyuan still has a plot for the imperial examination." Also, he has fought for the imperial examination all his life. How can you be willing if you don't take the test. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything.

Feng Ziyong hoped that Ma Mingyuan would try it, because being admitted was a major event in a person's life. Feng Ziyong asked, "When is Mingyuan going to leave?" ”

"I'm probably going to leave after the New Year. Now the north is not quiet, and I am afraid of delaying time on the road, so I try to go as early as possible. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Then let's go after fifteen." We set up a banquet to send off the second brother to the title of the gold list. ”

Ma Mingyuan laughed and said, "Thank you two for your kindness." ”

After the big event, the three of them began to drink and eat, and talked about some interesting things that happened in the past six months.