Guan Zhiqing and his entourage rushed for less than a quarter of an hour when they found a group of pacesetters on the official road escorting a senior official's car. Guan Zhiqing naturally didn't dare to provoke. Hiding aside and waiting to find out who is coming, he continued to move towards the cottage. With fast horses and light knives, several of them repelled many people who tried to make danger on the way back, and also dispersed a group of hungry people who blocked the way.

On the way, he met several brothers led by Zhang Mengguang, who was sent by the big boss to answer. After the team grew, Xiao Xiao along the way did not dare to provoke. After a thrilling journey, I finally returned to the cottage safely.

After letting his nephew, who was depressed along the way, barely cheer up, Guan Zhiqing presented Zhang Mengjin with a certificate of nomination. Zhang Mengjin naturally found that the child was not in good spirits, so he arranged for him to rest first. Then he went to the thatched hut with Guan Zhiqing to talk about what he saw and heard along the way.

"How did I hurt my shoulder when I went back this time, although it was okay, and it would be fine after a few days of rest, but you are also the second master in this village, don't be too big." found that Guan Zhiqing was injured, so he hurriedly asked him to sit down and interrogate him, and after knowing that there was no major problem, he couldn't help but persuade Guan Zhiqing a few words.

"Brother Lao is worried, this time it is indeed a big deal." Guan Zhiqing and Zhang Mengjin are lifelong friends, and they know that Zhang Mengjin's concern is not out of shape. Honestly admit my mistake.

Seeing that Guan Zhiqing honestly admitted his mistakes, Zhang Mengjin was no longer verbose and asked about what he had seen on the road.

Guan Zhiqing sighed and said: "This world is too miserable, you can see dead bodies everywhere along the way, those who eat white stone powder with their stomachs bulge and swell themselves to death, and those who rob each other of food and beat them to death, old and young, on the way back, I also saw people cooking human flesh with dead people's bones." There are still many dolls outside Ansai City who are thrown into the dung pit to dig dung and eat, and there are many crying looking for their parents next to them, and many dolls have died when I left. There are robberies everywhere on the official road. A few of us happened to see a group of soldiers escorting an official to Ansai City, I inquired, it was a local named Ma Maocai in Ansai, I remember that he held a banquet at his house after he was a sergeant, and I also ran business and passed by his door. Big brother, you said that this Ma Mao is finally from his hometown, and he will always be able to ask the court for some relief money and food. ”

"I hope that if the world is chaotic like this, the court will always come out to take care of it. Otherwise, not to mention Ansai, even the whole of northern Shaanxi would have to make trouble. Zhang Mengjin said with a sigh, and at the same time remembered something, and asked Guan Zhiqing: "Guan Er, this Ma Maocai and you are also fellow villagers, do you have anything to do with him, and ask for an official for the brothers in our village." After all, most of the endings of the grass are not good, and Zhang Mengjin still hopes to whitewash his identity as a group of others.

"I'm afraid it's difficult, if there was a way in the past, maybe there was a way, this time I returned to my hometown, and found that many of the original old relationships either died or ran away, and I couldn't even find a few friends on the road along the way, and I changed a lot of new faces. Now the money is not yet moving, and the people will only help if they need food. Guan Zhiqing replied truthfully.

"It seems that it is still like what Meng Cheng said, when the world continues to be chaotic and everyone is a thief, the court will think about Zhao'an, and the brothers in this village will have the opportunity to change into official skins." After Zhang Mengjin finished speaking, he took off a pipe from his waist, took out the tobacco leaves in the cigarette bag, grabbed a little and smoked it. In the current days, it is difficult to find even tobacco leaves, and Zhang Mengjin can only save smoking little by little.

"A few days ago, we shot the third brother who was rolling in the sand to death, and robbed more than a dozen truckloads of food and property. It's a mortal enmity with Sha Liluan. Just as we were waiting for Sha Lilu's reaction, a group of unknown Hui Hui occupied Sha Lilu's lair and slaughtered Sha Liroll and several of their family leaders. Now Shariroll is doing his best to deal with this group of returns, and I am still inquiring about the origin of this group of returns. There are quite a few returnees in that group, and there are also many veterans. It's not clear whether we are friends or foes, and I'm afraid that Sha Liluo won't be able to settle them, which one do you say we should help. ”

"What do you say about Cai Shorty at the top of Artemisia and a few other big leaders in the realm?"

Cai Xiaozi replied that if these guys don't follow the rules, they are willing to join forces with us to do them, and the territory is divided in half. It's just that Yang Jiagou was assigned to Cai Shorty, and Cai Shorty was willing to take five war horses and eight pack horses as compensation. I rejected him and said to Cai Xiaozi that we would not attack Li Jiazhuang in the future, and at the same time I was willing to give him ten pairs of armor. Yang Jiagou must be in our hands, Cai Xiaozi agreed. There is chaos on the side of Shilou Taishan now, and Tie Helmet Yu and the official army fought a battle and died of a stray arrow. Most of his men and horses fled, and Zhao Shishi and Yugou Chen fought hard to grab the territory, and they didn't have time to care about the gang back. The two rich men of Jiajiazhuang and Zhoujiazhuang have already sent us a letter saying that they are willing to make offerings to us in the future. ”

"Now that I have negotiated with Cai Xiaozi, I am not afraid that this gang will make trouble back. I haven't seen much back, but I've seen a few people who are angry. If this gang talks back to the rules and re-emphasizes righteousness, anyway, we have already formed a mortal enmity with Sha Li Luo, but fortunately we destroyed Sha Li Luo with them, and then wait for what Shilou Taishan would be like. Is there any news from the official army?"

Chen Sanhuai is still pretending to be blind when he can't see, so there's nothing to worry about. Yesterday two more escapees joined the gang. Although the riding skills are not good, it is good to practice. Zhang Mengjin is full of confidence in the attitude of the official army, although the Zhang family has fallen into the grass, but some relationships are still not broken.

After making a conclusion about the sudden return, Guan Zhiqing suddenly became a little twisted, and said slowly: "Big brother, I have always had a thought in my heart over the years, and now I have an opportunity to deal with this matter for me." I know that now we are falling into the grass, and we live a life of licking blood from the knife every day, and this fact is not very appropriate, Xiucai is willing not to say it, he may not have that kung fu, but I ......"

"Huh... Eh... Tube two, tube two. Seeing that the usually capable Guan Er suddenly became a chatter, Zhang Mengjin stopped smoking, quickly stopped Guan Zhiqing, and asked directly: "If you have something to say directly, what else do our brothers have to worry about." It's related to Meng Cheng, right, you just said it, which woman in your family can get married when she is old? Okay, as long as the appearance of the person is not too rough, I will call the shots. ”

remembered that his third child was still a single, and when his father died, the third child was still young. When the old lady died, the third brother and the two brothers in the family said that they should keep filial piety, and they couldn't say kiss, and scholars were taboo about this. The Zhang brothers temporarily stopped the idea of finding a daughter-in-law for the third child, and then the Zhang family fell into a precarious situation, and the Zhang brothers were even more unhappy about this matter.

Now the cottage is also stable, and thinking about his mother-in-law for so many years, he hasn't been able to add a handle, but the second family has a kid, but he died in less than half a year. At present, he has two daughters. Thinking of the fortune teller that my mother found a few years ago, I panicked.

After Guan Zhiqing was interrupted by Zhang Mengjin, he could be regarded as coming back to his senses. But when I heard that Zhang Mengjin actually misunderstood that he was going to explain to Xiucai's mother-in-law, "Big brother misunderstood, I want to talk about my eldest nephew." He is going to be fourteen years old this year, and he didn't have a chance in his hometown before, but now that others are coming to the village, I want to ask my eldest brother to help me talk to Xiucai and teach him to read and write. I don't expect to be admitted to the Jinshi. I just beg him not to be blind like me and my ancestors. ”

There are few relatives in Guan Zhiqing's hometown who know how to read. Only the family in charge of the genealogy has an old boy, but there is really not much friendship with relatives like Guan Zhiqing, who are about to come out of five suits, after Zhang Mengcheng was admitted to Xiucai at a young age, Guan Zhiqing likes to call Zhang Mengcheng Xiucai. No matter what Zhang Mengcheng said, Guan Zhiqing just didn't want to change his words.

"This is a good thing, I'll talk to Meng Cheng when I go back, and in the future, our brothers who still have children of age will all be sent to the third child to study. In the future, we will change to an official body, and these younger brothers and nephews of ours will have to go to the Jinshi examination, if we can come back with a top score, it will be worth it in our lives. Hearing Guan Zhiqing's request, Zhang Mengjin agreed very happily, and at the same time determined Zhang Mengcheng's future work. However, thinking of the issue of the Zhang family's heirs, Zhang Mengjin frowned again.

Guan Zhiqing saw Zhang Mengjin's brows raised and guessed what Zhang Mengjin was thinking.

When Zhang Mengcheng was just a child. Zhang's mother once found a passing Taoist priest to tell the fortune of the Zhang family, and the Taoist priest had some eloquence and tricks, saying that the two brothers of the Zhang family were stained with too much blood, and the Zhang family's heirs were difficult, and the Zhang family would have a big disaster in the future.

At that time, Zhang Mengcheng was studying in the city, and his two elder brothers were not in Zhuangzi. The superstitious mother Zhang was completely dazed, and was deceived by the Taoist priest to donate her family property to eliminate the disaster. Just as Zhang's mother was about to hand over the money that the Zhang family had saved for many years to the Taoist priest, the Zhang brothers came back with a bunch of brothers who were selling smuggled salt.

I don't know if the Taoist priest's body is too bad, or the Zhang family is too heavy. The Taoist priest was killed in a few blows, which frightened the old lady who was at the scene at the time into illness. The Zhang brothers, relying on their many years of business relationship in the yamen, naturally did not involve any lawsuits.

But after that, the Zhang family had already given birth to the eldest daughter-in-law of a female baby and another daughter. The daughter-in-law of the second eldest of the Zhang family finally gave birth to a child, but she was sick when she was born, and she died after half a year.

Zhang's mother was very superstitious, and regarded this matter as God's punishment for the Zhang family, and she was worried all day long, and her body and bones were not as good as day by day, and finally died half a year after Zhang Mengcheng won Xiucai.

The Zhang brothers were depressed because of this incident, but they still understood very well that the Taoist priest was a passing liar, but then there was an incident where the Zhang family offended the passing imperial history, and then they had no choice but to end up in the grass. Such an end also made the two brothers Zhang Mengjin and Zhang Mengguang suspicious.

Now the third child of the Zhang family has also lost his reputation, and he has started a business of killing people and setting fires, and there is no hope for the imperial examination, and even the in-laws who used to find the third child have also cut off contact. Therefore, Zhang Mengjin is really afraid that his three brothers will be extinct. At that time, Guan Zhiqing was one of the brothers who beat the Taoist, so Guan Zhiqing knew everything clearly.

Guan Zhiqing felt that Zhang Mengjin was purely thinking too much about this, and comforted Zhang Mengjin: "There are many of us who have sons in their forties, eldest brother, you are only twenty-eight years old, Meng Guang is only twenty-five years old, and Xiucai is only three years older than my nephew. Nothing to worry about. In the future, find a few more mothers-in-law and aunts, and there will always be one who will give birth to a son. ”

Zhang Mengjin was also relieved when he heard Guan Zhiqing's comfort. After talking with Guan Zhiqing for a long time, Ma Xiangbo and Zhang Zhaoen rushed to report the news, saw that Guan Zhiqing was also there, and said to Zhang Mengjin after saying hello: "Big boss, that guy has moved back to Sha Lilu." ”