Ma Hong invited Zhu Ran into the house, asked the maid to prepare meals and wine, retired from everyone, and drank with Zhu Ran alone.

The two didn't talk about business at first, just chattered about some family things, and introduced each other to some of the children they had born, what the names of the children were, how many pounds they weighed recently, and how much food they could eat. The two talked for an hour, and it wasn't until late at night that the topic of the two came to the point.

"By the way, junior brother, my spy came to report that you will only arrive tomorrow, why did you come alone in advance."

"Didn't I miss my senior brother, so I hurried to visit my senior brother first."

"Hey, hey! Senior brother can say this, senior brother, my heart is warm! Come and have another drink. ”

Zhu Ran burped, raised his glass and said, "Senior brother! I haven't seen you for many years, but I'm still so able to drink, I've practiced drinking for so many years, and I'm not your opponent. ”

"Hehe, what you said is a lot better than before." Ma Hong said with a smile.

Zhu Ranqiang swallowed the wine, shook his head, sobered up and said, "Senior brother! While I'm still drunk, let's get down to business. ”

"Okay, let's get down to business. Senior brother, how are you doing in Jiangdong? ”

Although Zhu Ran hadn't met Ma Hong for a long time, he still remembered Ma Hong's tone of speech, and he naturally knew what it meant, so he said: "It's quite nonexistent!" Compared to the princes on the senior brother's side, it is far behind. “

"Oh, junior brother, you are so modest, didn't you lead your troops to attack Jiangxia some time ago?"

"Didn't that come down either!"

"They can lead the army alone, remember what you said to me? You said you were going to be better than Zhou Yu. ”

Zhu Ran's eyes lit up and said, "Of course I remember." ”

"Senior brother, if you are here with me, you have more room to play, I am afraid that it will be ...... in Jiangdong"

Zhu Ran smiled and said, "Senior brother, you are drunk." ”

"Eh, I'm really a little drunk, so I said what was in my heart, you see that there are eight of our senior brothers, six of them are here with me, if you also come, our senior brothers work together, why worry about the world."

Ma Hong said this, of course, he didn't count Xu Shu.

"Senior brother is really ambitious, but Zhu Ran swore an oath to my lord at the age of sixteen to swear allegiance to him."

Ma Hong secretly said in his heart:, who are you fooling, you are sixteen, Sun Quan is also sixteen, Sun Ce was not dead at that time, you swore allegiance to Mao Sun Quan.

drank too much wine, Ma Hong almost said this, and when he said a word, Ma Hong immediately changed his words: "Cao Cao and Liu Bei stabbed me in the back!" ”

"Yes! But it also hurts! No, at that time, I immediately persuaded my lord to attack Jiangling, Liu Bei was too unkind. ”

"So is the junior brother's visit this time related to Liu Bei?" Ma Hong asked calmly.

Zhu Ran put down his wine glass and said, "The most important thing is for the lifelong event of my senior brother." ”

"A lifelong event? What do you mean. ”

Zhu Ran squeezed his eyebrows and smiled: "Of course I married a wife." ”

When Ma Hong heard this, he immediately cried and mourned, held his forehead and said, "Pity my wife, just like this......"

Zhu Ran patted Ma Hong's shoulder and said, "Senior brother, why is the eldest husband without a wife, and a hero like Senior Brother naturally needs a beautiful woman to accompany him." ”

I have already married Ma Teng's daughter and Yuan Shao's daughter, is this going to marry Sun Jian's daughter? That's really great...... Ha ha...... Shang Xiang ...... Ha ha. Ma Hong said in ecstasy.

Zhu Ran looked at Ma Hong with his head down, pushed Ma Hong and said, "Senior brother, didn't you inquire with me about my lord's sister?" I just turned nineteen this year, and now I look more graceful, are you interested? ”

Ma Hong's old face was red, that year, that is, when Jian'an was four years old (200 AD), Zhu Ran was tied up by Ma Hong to Jiangxia, and then Zhu Ran went to Shuijing Villa to study, Ma Hong asked Zhu Ran about Sun Shangxiang sideways, at that time, I heard Zhu Ran say that Sun Shangxiang was only nine years old and now it is the fourteenth year of Jian'an, Sun Shangxiang is nineteen years old, he was about to forget about it, and now he is quite excited when Zhu Ran mentions it. This Sun Shangxiang Ji Jian'an was only nine years old when he was four years old, that is, he was born in the year of Sun Jian's death.

"Senior brother, aren't you lacking a virtuous helper now?"

Zhu Ran said with a smile.

Virtuous help, there is indeed a lack of one, Ma Yunlu has a heroic personality, and he is not suitable for managing housework at all, as for Yuan Xian, he is still young, but he inherited Yuan Shao's appearance, but his head is not very bright. Ma Hong does lack a virtuous helper, but Sun Shangxiang is famous in history for being strong and untamed, almost similar to the style of all her brothers, with more than 100 maids around her, and her brother is guarding her with swords.

"Senior brother! I know you've got a good idea, but ......"

"Senior brother, don't you often say that beautiful women always come and don't refuse, now my lord intends to marry you as a good friend of Qin and Jin, don't refuse." Zhu Ran said with a smile.

"Well, marrying a wife, for me, it's still more troublesome to do now." Ma Hong said.

Zhu Ran nodded and said, "How can I not know that one of your two concubines is Ma Teng's daughter and the other is Yuan Shao's sister, and the identities of both of them are extremely noble." ”

"That's not the point."

"So what's the key."

"The key is that it's not easy for me to take Ma Yunlu and Yuan Xian as concubines, that's Ma Teng and Yuan Shang have asked me, once to help Ma Teng pacify Xiliang, and once to attack Cao Cao, you said that Sun Quan married his sister to me as a concubine, I think it will be very troublesome." Ma Hong deliberately said that Sun Quan married Sun Shangxiang to her as a concubine, not a wife.

"Senior brother, at that time, it was because you had a wife that you accepted them as concubines, and you generally can't be concubines with their status. Now that you have no wife, senior brother, you naturally want to marry a lady. ”

"Oh, junior brother, didn't you say that? My current two concubines, neither of them are suitable to be concubines, so I am going to choose one to be my wife? If you keep letting them be concubines, you will be too wronged by them, don't you say? ”

Zhu Ran knew that Ma Hong said this on purpose, not only smiled: "Senior brother! Do you think that if my lord marries his sister to you, he will let you help him fight Jingzhou? ”

"Isn't it?" Ma Hong asked.

Zhu Ran rubbed his lips and said, "How can that be?" My father-in-law is mainly grateful for the grace of my senior brother not to kill, and because my father-in-law is a man, I can't promise each other with my body, so I married my sister to you, senior brother. ”

When Ma Hong heard Zhu Ran's words, he suddenly had goosebumps all over his body, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Senior Brother Zhu Ran!" You say this about Sun Quan, he wants to know, what will you do? ”

"It's a joke, brother, how can you say it, hehe." Zhu Ran said with a smile.

"Senior brother! You quietly tell Senior Brother whether Sun Quan is a good man or not, and whether he has ever insulted you. Ma Hong said to Zhu Ran seriously.

Zhu Ran couldn't help but sigh, if he was a hooligan and shameless, he was far from being Ma Hong's opponent, not only clasped his fists with both hands and said: "Senior brother! I admit defeat, more shameless, no better than you. ”

Then Ma Hong and Zhu Ran laughed together, laughing and laughing, and the two of them covered their stomachs and lay on the food table.

Next door, Ma Jian and Zhang Wei were playing Go, and Ma Jian smiled slightly: "Brother is really happy?" ”

Zhang Wei didn't say anything, just took the chess pieces and put them down, took the chess pieces and put them down, he didn't find out that Zhu Ran would come to Nanzheng first, although Ma Hong didn't say anything about him, but he was still very unhappy. (To be continued.) )