On the afternoon of the same day after Liu Pan was defeated in a surprise attack on the east bank of the turbulent water, Liu Hu returned to the city with more than 400 remnants of Jingzhou.

When Liu Pan heard that Liu Hu was back, he didn't care about the injuries on his body, and went out of the city to greet him in person, and Ma Hong also followed him to the city gate, where a middle-aged man stood side by side with Liu Hu. Liu Hu saw Liu Pan and Ma Hong, with tears in his eyes, he wandered between life and death for a while, and now he is coming to life, with an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Ma Hong looked at the middle-aged man, who was seven feet long, dressed in a gray Confucian suit, and looked extremely ordinary, but his eyes were extremely sharp. Ma Hong said: "Brother Hu, who is this gentleman?" Won't you introduce it? ”

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Don't bother the general, just introduce yourself below, in Xia Jia Xu, Wuwei Guzangren, now on behalf of our army to ask General Liu for peace." ”

Ma Hong was stunned in his heart, and said secretly: Jia Xu, how could he be here, no, Jia Wenhe in history, he should not be in danger and come to the enemy army to seek peace, unless Zhang Xiu has reached the end of the road. ”

Jia Xu handed over the letter to Liu Pan as he spoke, and continued: "General Lao Fu presented my lord's letter to Liu Gong. ”

When Liu Pan heard that Jia Xu asked for peace, he was stunned at first, and he forgot to receive the letter. At this time, Ma Hong suddenly stood in front of Liu Pan and smiled at Jia Xu: "Sir, aren't you afraid of death?" ”

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said, "You should be Ma Hong!" I didn't expect to be young and still a talent. ”

When Ma Hong heard Jia Xu call him by name, he knew that Liu Hu might have told Jia Xu about Pang Tong and his strategy, so he said, "Sir, it's useless for you to praise me, what if General Liu wants to kill you?" ”

Jia Xu squinted his eyes and smiled: "Before the two armies, if you don't cut the envoys, I believe that General Liu will not make a move against him, even if General Liu does something against him, I think you should stop it." ”

Ma Hong asked rhetorically: "Mr. said that he laughed, how can he have such rights in the next white body?" Besides, why stop it? ”

Jia Xu stretched out his hand and patted Ma Hong's shoulder, leaned down slightly to look directly into Ma Hong's eyes, and said word by word: "Anyway, I am also your uncle, and I can't be so rude to my uncle." ”

Ma Hong was suddenly stunned, uncle, Jia Xu said that he is my uncle, what does this mean, Liu Hu should tell my identity, then Jia Xu knows that I am a student of Mr. Shuijing, so is Jia Xu the teacher's junior brother? What the hell is this, what the hell is this!

Jia Xu saw that Ma Hong was stunned, so he patted Ma Hong's shoulder again and said with a smile: "Study hard, don't worry about adult affairs, remember to call Uncle Shi next time we meet, and remember to tell my senior brother when you go back, I will visit him when I have time." ”

This doesn't seem to be false, but Ma Hong doesn't believe it very much, because Jia Xu has always been scheming, but even if he is scheming, he doesn't need to deceive him with this matter! It takes four days for Shuijing Villa to go back and forth from the city, and Ma Hong doesn't need to go back to confirm it, but he has never heard anyone say that the teacher has a junior brother, and his name is Jia Xu.

When Ma Hong continued to stand at the gate of the city in a daze, Jia Xu had already entered the city with Liu Pan. After Jia Xu entered the city, he stayed in the city and waited for news from Liu Biao.

Ma Hong has a certain understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms, although he doesn't know how much romance is mixed with the history of the Three Kingdoms that he knows, but he still knows exactly that Zhang Xiu took refuge in Liu Biao and stationed troops in Wancheng to defend Liu Biao against Cao Cao. The nice thing about this is to take refuge in Liu Biao to defend Liu Biao against Cao Cao, and the ugly point is that he has become Liu Biao's watchdog, but it is indeed a watchdog who can bite his master. In history, Liu Biao's ability to tame dogs was not high, but he always liked to watch dogs, and finally took Liu Bei in.

Although Ma Hong didn't know whether what Jia Xu said was true or false, it really made him feel a little uncomfortable, Ma Hong didn't have a good impression of Jia Xu from the bottom of his heart, and he wanted to take the opportunity to mock Jia Xu, but he didn't expect to be taken advantage of by Jia Xu. So when Pang Tong came to Ma Hong with great interest, Ma Hong didn't give Pang Tong any good looks. Pang Tong originally wanted Ma Hong to design a set of residential drawings for Pang Ji's eldest son, that is, Pang Tong's brother Pang Rui, but he didn't expect Ma Hong to scold him as soon as he heard about it.

Pang Tong said helplessly: "Ma Laosan, I originally wanted to take over a job for you, I told my brother that if you can design a house for him, he will give you a piece of gold cake, what's wrong with you?" ”

As soon as Ma Hong heard about the golden cake, his eyes instantly lit up and said, "Is this true? ”

Pang Tong snorted and said, "Have I ever lied to you?" ”

After Ma Hong listened to the words, he looked Pang Tong up and down, and said slowly: "Have you ever told me the truth?" ”

Pang Tong coughed dryly and said, "You have to believe me this time, or you and I will go to see my cousin now." ”

Ma Hong nodded, and then followed Pang Tong to see Pang Rui, Pang Tong and Ma Hong have known each other since childhood, and know Ma Hong's ability, Ma Hong built a house by himself when he was eleven years old, which surprised Pang Tong when he saw it. Now Pang Rui wanted to build a house, so Pang Tong proposed to Pang Rui that Ma Hong draw a set of drawings for him, and Pang Rui readily agreed.

When Ma Hong and Pang Tong met Pang Rui, Pang Rui was supervising the construction in the south of the city, and he led people to level the land, lay the foundation, and prepare all the building materials that should be prepared.

Pang Rui was standing brightly dressed, he was about twenty years old, less than seven feet long (about one meter five), with a pockmarked face, and a large number of Pang Rui's faces made Ma Hong a little uncomfortable, and more importantly, Pang Rui's speech also made Ma Hong uncomfortable. When Pang Rui spoke, he seemed to call everyone who listened to him as a grandson, and the first thing he said to Ma Hong was: "Ma Laosan, I heard Pang Tong say that you have built a good house, then you can draw a picture of your house, and I will build a house three times larger than your house." ”

Ma Hong looked at Pang Rui and said secretly in his heart: Am I very familiar with you? Call me that. But Ma Hong still said on the surface: "Then your land is not enough." ”

Pang Rui smiled, stretched out his finger and pointed to the land and said, "How much is it missing, you say?" ”

Ma Hong smiled slightly and stretched out five fingers, Pang Rui looked at it and laughed: "Is it fifty acres?" No problem, I'll tell someone to expand it. ”

Ma Hong shook his head and said, "No, I mean that on the basis of your house, it must be expanded five times." ”

Pang Rui was stunned, he lowered his head and kicked the stone with his foot and said, "My land is already fifty, will you let me expand it five times?" ”

Ma Hong nodded and said, "It's still a little smaller to expand five times." ”

Pang Tong saw that the atmosphere was a little stiff, so he interjected: "Brother, the house built by Ma Hong is a house where five of their brothers live, and you live alone, two hundred and fifty acres, you live alone, it is a little bigger, it is better to live on fifty acres." ”

Pang Rui hadn't noticed it yet, but as soon as he heard that Pang Tong had reported 250 acres of land, he understood, it turned out that this Ma Hong was scolding him for 255 acres! [I don't know if there is a saying of two hundred and five in the Han Dynasty, it is just to add some fun to writing it here] But Pang Rui is inconvenient to say anything, if he builds a house of 100 acres, his father will scold him at most, if he builds a house of more than 200 acres, his father is afraid that it will not be as simple as scolding him a few words, it is estimated that he will cut him with a knife. If it weren't for Pang Ji taking in a large number of homeless people and needing to expand the house, he wouldn't have let Pang Rui build such a big house, if it weren't for the use of these homeless people who only had to eat, Pang Rui wouldn't have been able to summon so many people at all. Pang Rui wanted to have a look in front of Ma Hong, but he was slapped in the face by Ma Hong, but this slap also woke Pang Rui up, after all, his father Pang Ji is only a branch of the Pang family, and Ma Hong's father is indeed the head of the Ma family, whether it is financial or manpower, Pang Ji cannot compare with Ma Hong's father.

When Pang Rui saw Pang Tong come out to help him speak, he immediately said: "Pang Tong, you are right, fifty acres is enough." ”

Ma Hong smiled: "That's easy to do, I can draw the drawings in one day, brother, you will definitely not let the little brother work in vain, right?" ”

Pang Rui has some bad habits of rich children, but he is not the kind of person who fights with Ma Hong, so he smiled and said: "Are you still satisfied with the remuneration that Pang Tong said?" ”

Ma Hong nodded and said, "Brother, take a look around with me, after all, the houses built on different lands cannot be exactly the same, so this drawing has to be changed." ”

After Ma Hong finished speaking, he saluted Pang Rui and left, Pang Rui looked at Pang Tong's face and asked softly in surprise: "Pang Tong, what does this sentence mean?" Why can't houses built on different plots of land be exactly the same? ”

Pang Tong said softly: "Brother, at this time, even if we don't understand, we have to pretend to understand. ”

Pang Rui looked at Pang Tong and nodded with a sudden understanding.