Deng Bao unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a foot-long scar on his chest, and said, "Leader Ma, I have been stabbed for you, save me!" ”

Ma Kun's heart couldn't help but soften. At that time, he was still a small leader in the fast step, and he took his five brothers to get a thief who picked the door and locked it. At that time, everyone was dirty, and when the big guy saw that the thief was thin and weak, he was all careless, and he neither searched his body nor put him in the yoll, and led the thief to the yamen. Unbeknownst to him, the thief took out a woodcutter from his arms and slashed at his back, trying to kill him, and the other officials fled in panic.

Deng Bao's eyes were sharp, and he knocked him away with one shoulder, and the knife left a foot-long wound on Deng Bao's body. At that time, the blood was pouring out, but fortunately there was a medical hall next to it, so he was able to save his life. Otherwise, now the cypress trees at the head of Deng Bao's grave have thick bowl mouths.

Ma Kun turned his head to look at Li Feibai, hoping that Li Feibai would loosen his mouth so that Deng Bao could keep this errand. saw Li Fei's white nostrils facing the sky, and he didn't even look at him.

Ma Kun turned his heart sideways and said secretly: "Brother, it's not that my brother doesn't help you, it's really that this master can't afford to offend." I helped you, and my brother didn't end well. He shouted at the servants, "Tie him up for me!" As for what crime to convict, it is up to the county order to decide! ”

Seeing Deng Bao's attitude towards Ma Kun, the laborers naturally knew that Ma Kun was the boss, so they hurriedly took the rope and stepped forward to tie it.

Deng Bao's heart was like ashes, and he knew that he was in a catastrophe. Seeing Ma Kun's attitude towards Li Feibai, he really couldn't figure out what kind of character this was, why Ma Kun was so stammering, and secretly said in his heart: "Who am I offending!" He did not resist, and allowed the servants to tie him tightly.

Li Feibai tilted his chin and said to the four officials lying on the ground: "What do these four say?" ”

Since Ma Kun was admitted to the hospital, he was very strange why the four officials were lying on the ground and sleeping. At this time, after listening to Li Feibai's words, he rushed to the servants and said: "Take down the four of them too, and then ask the county commander to ask for the guilt together." After the four sleeping officials were tied, he smiled and said, "Brother Feibai, are you satisfied?" ”

Li Feibai's chin tilted back to where Jiang Guoxian was standing, and said, "As the lieutenant chief, you should know about the county's halving of the imperial grain." But he, who is an account for the tiger, does not control the life and death of the people at all, this kind of person is really hateful! ”

Jiang Guoxian was so frightened that his knees weakened, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, "Lord Chief, spare me, Feibai Xian's nephew spare me!" ”

Li Feibai shouted: "Shut up, which one is your virtuous nephew!" ”

Jiang Guoxian changed his words and said: "Grandpa Li spare me, Grandpa Li spare me!" ”

Ma Kun even took it from his subordinates, how could an irrelevant outsider take it to heart, and shouted: "Take him down too!" ”

The laborers hurried forward to tie up. After Jiang Guoxian was tied up, he kept shouting: "Grandpa Ma spare me, Grandpa Li spare me!" Ma Kun heard the noise and gagged his mouth for me.

was smashed by Jiang Guoxian just now, and when he saw Jiang Guoxian lose power, he was particularly active. He looked around, and there was nothing to gag about, so he grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, and didn't care that there was mixed in it, and stuffed it into Jiang Guoxian's mouth. Jiang Guoxian spit out the soil and asked for mercy, and the servant said angrily: "If you dare to open your mouth again, believe it or not, I will go to the pigsty to grab some and stuff it in your mouth?" Jiang Guoxian didn't dare to beg for mercy anymore.

Ma Kun smiled: "Brother Feibai, now you are satisfied!" ”

Li Feibai smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Ma for saving me in time, otherwise my brother would have to suffer today." But in his heart, he said, "So that's so!" Thinking that he was so unreasonable to Ma Kun, Ma Kun was not angry, everything was based on his satisfaction, and he treated him with a smile, didn't he know his relationship with Qian Zijun, what else could it be? I couldn't help but secretly warn myself that I had to be careful when I spoke and did things in the future, so as not to happen again.

Ma Kun said: "Brother Feibai just got home, and he was disturbed by this kind of trouble, presumably what should be done has not been done, and what should have been said has not been said!" ”

Li Feibai shook his head, Ma Kun walked up to the second elder, and saluted: "Uncle, aunt, I don't know if there is a spare room so that I can detain these lawbreakers?" ”

Li Daning and his wife are both farmers who do their duty, they are timid and afraid of things, and when they saw ordinary officials before, they were all careful, and they didn't dare to take a breath in the atmosphere. If he hadn't been forced to be in a hurry today, he would have dared to follow the fast team leader. Now when he saw the leader of the officials saluting him, and called him his uncle and aunt, he was immediately dumbfounded, feeling like he was dreaming, everything was so unreal.

Li Feibai stepped forward and said with a smile: "Dad, mother, what are you thinking?" Brother Ma is talking to you? ”

Li Daning and his wife reacted at this time, and waved their hands again and again: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" You are a dignified master, we are ordinary people, how can we afford to be called like this! ”

Ma Kun said: "Feibai is my brother, and the two of you are no different from my parents, why don't you dare to be?" Dare to be very serious, the second elder should not be so outside, otherwise he will look down on my old horse and think that I am not worthy of being your nephew and treat me as an outsider. As he spoke, he stepped forward, held Li Daning's hand, and said: "Today is the first time I have seen the second elder, and I have no preparation for coming in a hurry. ”

Li Daning suddenly felt that there was an extra object in his hand, and he didn't know what it was? When Ma Kun let go of his hand, he saw that there was a small gold ingot weighing three or two in his hand.

According to the regulations issued by the Ming court, one tael of gold can be exchanged for three taels of silver, and in fact, one tael of gold on the market can be exchanged for five or six taels of silver, and sometimes it can even be exchanged for seven or eight taels of silver. In other words, Ma Kun gave Li Daning twenty taels of silver at once, and even said that it was a thin gift. The Zhuang family, tired and tired for a year, can't save three or five dollars of silver, not to mention three taels of gold, three taels of silver have never been seen! Li Daning was at a loss for a while, so he had to go to see his son.

Li Fei said in a white heart: "Don't give things for nothing." Besides, if you don't control it strictly, you almost ruined my family, so take it as compensation! Then he said: "Daddy, this is Brother Ma's intention, if you don't accept it, you will brush off his kindness, you can accept it!" ”

Ma Kun saw Li Daning put the gold ingots into his arms, knowing that his relationship with Li Feibai had gone further, and said happily: "That's right!" After a pause, he said, "Uncle and aunt, you haven't said yet, is there an empty room for prisoners?" ”

Li Daning hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, I'll clean it up." ”

Ma Kun said: "What else do you pack up when you detain a prisoner, it's so beautiful for them?" The worse the conditions, the better! ”

Li Daning led the way, came to a room stacked with firewood, pushed open the door and said, "What do you think of this room?" ”

Ma Kun glanced at it casually and said, "That's great!" He ordered the servants to bring six men tied up to the door, and ordered two to keep watch outside the door, and all the other servants to go out to the courtyard to standby.

Li Feibai saw that Ma Kun had no intention of leaving, and it seemed that he was going to return to the county seat with him tomorrow. Then he said: "Daddy, if it weren't for Brother Ma arriving in time, our family would be in great trouble today, and we would have to invite someone to drink!" ”

Li Daning said: "Yes, yes! However, our family has nothing, but we are afraid that we will neglect others. ”

Ma Kun smiled: "Uncle and aunt, you talk like this, but you treat me as an outsider again!" Can there be wine and meat? ”

Li Daning said: "There is still an old hen at home, so I will kill it." The wine is home-brewed sweet potato roast, I'm afraid you won't get used to it. ”

Ma Kun said: "If there is wine and meat, as long as you can accompany the second elder to have a drink, why do you care what wine and meat?" ”

Li Daning immediately went to kill chickens, and his wife also went to the kitchen to get busy. The villagers in the courtyard came to talk one after another, but in the final analysis, they were still afraid of the official errand, so they didn't dare to say anything to Ma Kun, but just talked to Li Feibai about it, and their tone was full of stammering. Li Feibai casually responded to two sentences, and the villagers went home to cook without mentioning it.