Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Fire Rises Seventy-Three
Ma Honggang wanted to shake his head, but he was dragged by the teenager to play with the ball, and since he was dragged in by the teenager, he had to play twice. It seemed to Ma Hong that it was a boring game, but from time to time there was the clear laughter of the teenagers, and Ma Hong's heart slowly warmed up, and he actually threw himself into the game.
Ma San stood not far away and watched his son-in-law and a group of children playing, and laughed softly: "Childe is finally like a child." ”
Half an hour later, Ma Hong sat on the ground tiredly, and the children also sat next to Ma Hong to rest, at this time the black-faced young man said to Ma Hong: "Brother, were you also rescued by Boss Xu?" ”
Ma Hong nodded and said, "Are you talking about Boss Xu Gan?" ”
The black-faced young man giggled and said, "We all call him Boss Xu, and every time Boss goes out, he brings back a lot of food and homeless people, and I am the one Boss Xu brought back." ”
Ma Hong snorted and said, "Boss Xu is really a good person. ”
The black-faced young man said: "Of course Boss Xu is a good person!" ”
Ma Hong gradually understood something from the mouths of children, it is difficult for children to lie, and children who can lie do not have such clear eyes. It is difficult for Ma Hong to say what kind of person Xu Gan is, but he is a good person in the eyes of the children. He gave to homeless people, but he also made many homeless people, he robbed the rich to help the poor, and sometimes killed many poor people in order to support the people he rescued. How to evaluate such a person, Ma Hong is a little embarrassed.
It was almost dark, and the seventy-three pyres not far away had already lit fires, and Ma Hong knew that the banquet was about to begin, and their actions were after the banquet. After the banquet, this paradise will be full of blood, where will these smiling faces flow?
Ma San followed Ma Hong towards the firelight, Ma Hong suddenly turned back to Ma San and said, "Ma San, you said that we were going to destroy this place, do you think it's a pity?" ”
Ma San looked at Ma Hong's eyes and said, "Xu Gan has ruined a lot of good places. ”
Ma Hong nodded, walked to the fire, next to the fire in the middle, Liu Ye and Xu Gan were sitting, Ma Hong walked over and sat down.
Xu Gan was grilling the fish, and when Ma Hong passed, the fish was just grilled, and three of them were grilled, and Xu Gan gave the fish to Ma Hong and Liu Ye. Next to the pyre, there are twenty-seven small tripods, each of which has a fat sheep boiled in it. Fifty or sixty people gathered in the larger pyre, more than twenty people gathered in the smaller pyre, and there were only three people sitting on the pyre where Ma Hong was.
So much dry wood burned at the same time, as bright as day, the men talked and laughed together, and the women whispered on the side. Ma Hong said secretly: This Xu Gan actually took out so much food to entertain us, it seems that he attaches great importance to Senior Brother Ziyang. The more he attaches importance to Senior Brother Ziyang, the more ambitious this person is, because the reputation of the Liu family in Yangzhou is very high, if he can get Senior Brother Ziyang, more people will come to him, and he is likely to support the army in the future. It's just that I've never heard of such a person in the Three Kingdoms, so this person is just a bubble.
Xu Gan picked up a jar of wine, opened the lid of the jar, and said with a smile: "A boat we intercepted on the lake at noon yesterday was full of wine, and it seems that God also knew that Brother Liu was coming, so he specially brought me wine." As soon as I intercepted the wine, I heard the news that Brother Liu was coming, and I was busy receiving Brother Liu, I haven't tasted this wine yet. ”
"I know that it is a good rice wine, although the rice wine is good, but it is indeed worse than Du Kanglai, I will ask Brother Xu to taste my wine."
Ma Hong took off the gourd from his waist as he spoke, poured a bowl of Du Kang wine, and gave it to Xu Gan with both hands. Ma Hong naturally wouldn't drink Xu Gan's rice wine, because the wine was specially given to Xu Gan by Liu Ye and Ma Hong, and Liu Ye and Ma Hong specially left Chengde a day later to ensure that Xu Gan intercepted the rice wine. The wine is drugged, and anyone who drinks half a bowl of wine will definitely fall down in the time of one stick of incense, as long as he drinks three sips of wine, he will definitely not be able to support it after two sticks of incense.
Xu Gan laughed and said: "Brother Liu is young, he is indeed a connoisseur of wine tasting, I just opened the lid, you know what kind of wine it is, we are really the same people." ”
Xu Gan finished speaking, picked up the wine bowl handed over by Ma Hong and drank it all, Xu Gan deserved to be Xu Gan, and the wine was also clean. Ma Hong's wine was non-toxic, and he poured wine for Liu Ye and Xu Gan, and then filled himself with wine.
Xu Gan's subordinates saw that the boss had already started drinking, so they opened the wine jar one after another, drinking wine for those who should drink, and eating meat for meat, and the atmosphere was excellent for a while. Most of the soldiers and domestic slaves brought by Liu Ye and Ma Hong gathered, most of them only ate meat and did not drink, but Ma Hong was afraid of arousing Xu Gan's suspicions, so he asked some of the soldiers to really drink and show Xu Gan. At this time, the dancers brought by Liu Ye came out and danced, and for a while, the shouts, whistles, and endless sounds.
Ma Hong secretly said in his heart: These poor worms, this dance is a prelude to sending you to hell.
The dancers danced two dances, and two or three hundred people had fallen.
Liu Ye smiled at Xu Gan and said, "Brother Xu, your subordinates can't drink too much!" At the beginning, they were already drunk. ”
Xu Gan said with a smile: "Brothers have not drunk alcohol for a long time, once they can drink good wine, they will naturally drink more, no surprise, no surprise." ”
Ma Hong then smiled: "Plus seeing this graceful dancer, everyone is drunk if she is not drunk!" ”
Xu Gan laughed and said: "It's a good wine that everyone is drunk, let's have another drink." ”
Liu Ye and Ma Hong sang and sang in harmony with Xu Gan's attention, trying to attract Xu Gan's attention to the wine bowl, but fortunately, Ma Hong prepared two big gourd Du Kang wine in advance, which was enough to attract Xu Gan's stomach as an alcoholic. When Xu Gan, Liu Ye and Ma Hong drank three more bowls of wine, more than half of Xu Gan's subordinates fell, and if they didn't fall, they wouldn't last long before they fell. At this time, Xu Gan had already sensed that something was wrong, the banquet had just begun, and the number of drunk people had already exceeded half, which was very abnormal. Xu Gan looked at Liu Ye at the pyre where the person Liu Ye brought, and found that more than half of it had fallen, but Liu Ye drank with him casually.
Xu Gan put down the wine glass at this time and said to Liu Ye: "Brother Liu, something is wrong!" ”
Liu Ye squinted his eyes, looked half-drunk and half-awake, opened his mouth and was a little sluggish, and slowly spit out a few words: "What's wrong?" ”
Xu Gan looked at Liu Ye's appearance and said, "The brothers are all drunk. ”
"It's good to be drunk, I'm not drunk, haha, haha!"
Liu Ye clasped the wine bowl with both hands, shaking his head while shaking the wine bowl and said.
Ma Hong looked around, frowned and said, "Brother is not strong enough to drink, it's normal to be drunk, but so many people are drunk, this is a bit abnormal, what is the reason for this?" ”
Xu Gan picked up the jar containing rice wine, sniffed it and said, "This rice wine can't be so strong." ”
Ma Hong looked at the wine jar containing rice wine, and said slowly: "No matter how strong the wine is, it is impossible to put down so many people, this rice wine is much worse than Du Kanglai, I think there is something wrong with this wine." ”
Xu Gan snorted, this time it was a long sound, and then asked, "Little Brother Liu, what's the problem?" ”
Ma Hong asked: "We eat the same food as our brothers, but the wine we drink is different, and this wine was snatched by you, Brother Xu, if there is a real problem, it is a problem with the wine." ”
Xu Gan asked puzzledly, "How can there be a problem with the stolen wine?" ”
Ma Hong said slowly: "What if Brother Xu's enemy deliberately let Brother Xu steal the wine?" ”
Xu Gan's face turned blue all of a sudden, and he said word by word: "Does Little Brother Liu mean that my enemy drugged the wine and deliberately asked me to rob the wine?" ”
Ma Hong nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Xu Gan's face became even more ugly, he stood up anxiously and said, "We finished grabbing the wine and tasted one of the jars first, and there was nothing wrong. ”
"So what if the wine that is placed on the outer layer is not poisonous, but the wine on the inner layer is poisonous?"
Ma Hong said slowly, of course he knew that the outer layer of wine was not poisonous, because this plan was set up by him.
Xu Gan's face had turned dark, and he stood up and shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't drink, there is a ...... in the wine Yes! ”
The poisonous word was not spit out, Xu Gan only felt a cold waist in his waist, followed by a heart-wrenching pain, he lowered his head and saw Liu Ye's eyes, Liu Ye's eyes were very round, and his eyes were full of sarcasm.
Liu Ye held a short knife and stabbed Xu Gan's left waist, Xu Gan roared, picked up the wine jar and smashed it towards Liu Ye's head. Ma Hong immediately threw the wine bowl in his hand and smashed it on Xu Gan's face, Xu Gan's hand did not stop, and the wine jar continued to smash towards Liu Ye's head.