At this time, Brother Hu's group had gone deep into the dense forest and came to a glade. (.la marshmallow)

They behaved strangely, and were looking for tree by tree, but it didn't look like they were looking for prey. After searching for a while, a man shouted, "Found it, it's here!" ”

As they gathered around, they saw that the bark of the tree had been peeled off, revealing a pattern that looked like a cluster of flames.

Brother Hu took a closer look and said, "That's right, this is it, let's wait, I notified that it was today, and I don't know how much we can come." ”

He waved his hand, and everyone hid, they were obviously proficient in this way, and the positions they chose were very tricky, and they buried their bodies in the long grass, holding their breath, even if someone passed by, they could not find any trace of it.

In the forest, calm has returned.

The whereabouts of the lowly households did not go deep into this place, naturally they would not approach here, not far away is a tributary of the Songhua River, not wide, but the water flow is not small, and the sound of the water makes some slight movement also let go of people's ears.

Half an hour passed.

Not far away, there was a sudden strange movement, which seemed to be the sound of some heavy object dripping water, and then the very heavy and sluggish footsteps were getting closer and closer, and after a while, the two people showed their tracks. Two men, one in his forties and the other in his twenties, have quite similar faces, they should be father and son, both of them are dark-skinned, wearing short shirts, and a strong fishy smell on their bodies can be smelled from a distance. These two are apparently fishermen who fish on the Songhua River all year round.

The older man walked under the marked tree, swept around with sharp eyes, and said lightly: "Have the people from the Huaixi Peng family arrived?" How did you hide and hide, and when you see your brother, you don't know how to come out and see you? ”

After he finished speaking, there was silence around him, only the sound of the wind blowing and the trees.

A flash of anger flashed in the young man's eyes, he snorted coldly, and was about to speak, but was stopped by his father, who smiled slightly, but nodded: "Yes, after all these years, he is still very vigilant." ”

He cleared his throat and said, "Vacuum hometown, no biological parents." Outside the Northern Sect of the Lower White Lotus Sect, Xu Hongru of the Xu family, the brothers of the Peng family, can they always come out to meet, right? ”

At this time, the grass leaves just brushed and brushed, and Brother Hu walked out, all of them with serious faces, Brother Tiger walked to the front of Xu Hongru, clasped his fists and saluted, and said in a deep voice: "The White Lotus Sect Southern Sect Huaixi Peng Family Peng Shanhu, I have seen Senior Brother!" ”

The people he brought with him also shouted in unison: "I've seen Senior Brother!" ”

Before Xu Hongru could speak, the young man snorted coldly: "They have all been beaten into pariahs, and the rules are not small!" ”

"You!" The people brought by Peng Shanhu all showed angry faces, and a murderous aura flashed in Peng Shanhu's eyes, and he said lightly: "Brother Xu, my brother received your message as soon as he arrived here, and he hurriedly came to see him, is it like this, in order to humiliate his brother?" Although we were beaten as pariahs by the Zhu family dog thief, this backbone has not been broken! The inheritance of the motherless in the vacuum hometown has never ended. Having said that, thirty years ago, wasn't your brother also a pariah in Jingzhou Mansion, Hunan? It's just that he moved outside this pass early to get rid of the slavery, what did my brother say? ”

"You ......" the young man wanted to say more, his face was brittle, half of his face was swollen, and five finger prints appeared on it, this slap was obviously very strong, his head was crooked, and a mouthful of blood saliva and two teeth fell out.

"Daddy!" The young man covered his face and looked at his father in disbelief, but he didn't expect that a father who loved him very much would beat him for a few outsiders.

Xu Hongru's face was expressionless, he pointed at Peng Shanhu, and said: "Xu Zheng, this is the head of the Peng family in Huaixi, the Peng family and our Xu family are both great sects of the White Lotus Sect, pick up the generations, this is your uncle, scold your uncle, put it in the past, cut your tongue!" Go, kowtow to Uncle Peng and apologize. ”

"Daddy!?" Xu Zheng shouted again.

Xu Hongru's face was already cold: "Go!" ”

Xu Zheng saw his father's face, and his heart suddenly tightened, knowing that his father was really angry, but he saw with his own eyes how his father dealt with the people who offended him, and he suddenly didn't dare to be presumptuous, walked in front of Peng Shanhu, kowtowed three times honestly, and said: "Uncle Peng, my nephew is innocent, I was offended just now, Uncle Peng has a lot, please bypass my nephew this time." ”

It's just that everyone can hear the resentment in the words.

But that's what Peng Shanhu wants.

The White Lotus Sect can be called a rebel professional household after the Song Dynasty, and its teachings were born from Maitreya and Manichaeism.

Among them, Maitreya is a religious group that worships Maitreya Buddha, and since the Sui and Tang dynasties, some ambitious people have repeatedly reincarnated Maitreya in an attempt to rebel. Manichaeism was introduced into our country after Tang Wu, because Tang Wuzong was distributed, Manichaeism was also banned, and went underground, with the religion advocating light, the god worshiped was called Mingwang, so it was renamed Mingjiao. The teachings of these two religions contain the idea of dissatisfaction with the status quo and longing for the future, and there are many similarities in rituals such as burning incense and eating fasting. Whenever realpolitik disappoints the people, rumors about the birth of Maitreya and King Ming naturally emerge.

Song Gaozong Shaoxing three years by Mao Ziyuan founded the Buddhist branch of the White Lotus Sect, because the believers are careful about green onion milk, do not kill or drink, so it is also known as the white lotus vegetable, and then gradually evolved into the white lotus sect, a folk community organization.

From the beginning of its establishment, the White Lotus Sect adheres to the tradition of rebellion, Shunzong, Luancheng Han Shantong father and son, sophistry White Lotus blooms, Maitreya descends into the world, officially founded the White Lotus Society, relying on Buddhism, making scriptures and talismans, spreading the people, in the eleventh year of Zhizheng to lead the foolish people to chaos, not long before being executed, this is the "red turban thief." ”

And this also opened the curtain of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang started with Mingjiao, so he naturally understood how terrifying the power of this religion was, and after he ascended the throne, he wantonly hunted down believers, banned associations, and the White Lotus Sect went underground.

The White Lotus Sect was very widely spread among the rebels at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the main components of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng's subordinates were the White Lotus Sect, so when the two were defeated and the people were demoted to untouchables, some of the big forces in the White Lotus Sect were also hidden among the untouchables.

The ancestors of the Xu family and the Peng family were not only the generals in the rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but also the high-level in the White Lotus Sect.

The Xu family was born in a very prominent place, and was the descendant of Xu Shouhui, the emperor of Yingtian Qiyun who was hammered to death by Chen Youliang, Xu Shouhui and Zou Pusheng in August of the twelfth year of Qizhou used the White Lotus Sect to gather people to revolt, and also took the Red Turban Army as the name. In October, he captured Qishui and Xishui, ascended the throne as the emperor, and the country was called the end of the day. In the second year, the subordinate shouted the slogan of "destroying the rich and helping the poor", and successively captured large areas such as present-day Huguang, Huaixi, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang, Huaibei, and even Guizhou. Later, although he was hammered to death by the general Chen Youliang, he was also a generation of heroes.

And the Peng family is also shocked to say it, it is the descendant of Peng monk Peng Yingyu, this person was Xu Shouhui's general, it stands to reason that he is one level lower than Xu Shouhui, but in terms of popularity among the people, it is extremely high.

Despite this, in front of the Xu family, the Peng family still had to bow their heads.

And although the two are both untouchables, but the Xu family was lucky, and was moved to the Liaobei General Jurisdiction of the Nuergan Governorate District thirty years ago, after these years of operation, there is already a considerable force - the existence of the White Lotus Sect, naturally has its own channels for news circulation, although it is far away in southern Zhejiang, but Peng Shanhu is also clear about these things.

He is actually a very scheming person, and he also knows that over the years, he has been among the untouchables, and limited by the situation, the power of the Peng family has been very weak, and it is far from being comparable to the Xu family. The two are now strong and weak, one is a local snake, the other is an outsider, and their identities are very sensitive, so he cares more about the Xu family's attitude towards him.

To put it bluntly, this is the self-esteem of the weak.

At this time, he already felt that Xu Shouhui valued him, so he also relaxed.

With a smile on his face, he stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "Nephew Xu Zheng, hurry up." ”

He said to Xu Hongru again: "Senior brother, it's just a child's words, my brother cares so much, which makes my junior brother panic!" The senior brother's noble status is already full of sincerity, and the previous words are the junior brother's childishness, please don't blame the senior brother. ”

Xu Hongru laughed: "Where did the junior brother come from, let's teach the middle brothers, they are like brothers, as for the past, they will all be revealed, how about it?" ”

Peng Shanhu smiled: "I can't ask for it." ”

"Brother shouldn't have eaten yet, right? Let's talk while eating. Xu Hongru said to his son: "Go to the boat and bring that basket of fresh fish, as well as the best Shaoxing roast." ”

Xu Zheng responded and walked away.

The bonfire was raised, and several fat fish were worn on the iron hammers, which were already roasted and browned, and layers of fine grease seeped out of the fish and fell on the fire, making a fluttering sound, which added to the fire. The smallest of these fish is more than two feet long, two palms wide, and very fat, and it looks like it weighs more than a dozen catties.

These fish have been scraped scales, washed belly intestines, and filled with lemongrass grass, Xu Hongru has been a fisherman since he was moved to the north, and the guys on the boat have everything they need, and they are holding a small jar in their hands at this time, sprinkling some spice on the fish. After sprinkling it, use a small brush to brush it carefully.

After a while, an alluring strange aroma came out.

"This is the finest South Sea pepper?" Peng Shanhu said with a smile: "This thing is not cheap, six dollars of silver per liter, four hundred and twenty yuan!" Senior brother is having a comfortable life! ”

Pepper in this era is indeed not cheap, at that time the Ming Dynasty did not produce pepper, were transported from the big islands in the South Seas, before Zheng He went to the West, the price of pepper was more than 20 times higher than that of later generations. Even after Zheng He went to the West, the price dropped a little, and the call was not affordable for ordinary people.

The Ming Dynasty consumed a lot of pepper, not because the Ming Dynasty people liked to eat pepper, but because the Ming Dynasty people were rich and loved beauty. The Ming Dynasty was the most spice-consuming dynasty in Chinese history, with rich men going to the streets and powerful men going to court, all of which smoked incense in advance. There is always an incense burner at home, and the agarwood, cloves, borneol, ash, pepper, cinnamon, ambergris and other spices are burned, and a smoker cage is set on it, and then the clothes to be worn are put on the smoker cage, smoked overnight, and worn out the next morning, the big sleeves are flicked, and the fragrance is overflowing. The extravagance of the Ming Dynasty can be seen, in fact, in addition to clean and beautiful, there is a more important meaning, in fact, the most important thing for them to smell incense is not to let others smell, but to let their own smell, the Ming people are generally convinced of a legend: smoke too much spice burning produced by the clouds, can prolong life.

In the sixteenth chapter of "Golden Bottle Plum", it was written that Li Bei'er had lost her husband and wanted to remarry Ximenqing, so she pointed to the bottom of the bed and said to Ximenqing: "In the tea box behind the slave's bed, there are still forty catties of agarwood, two hundred catties of ash, two jars of mercury, and eighty catties of pepper. ”

At this time, pepper is also a manifestation of fixed assets, which is something only used by the upper class.

Although Peng Shanhu is a descendant of the Peng family, and most of the untouchables around him are Peng Yingyu's original generals, his prestige is extremely high, but it is only prestige, and he is still poor. This can also be seen from the people under him, if he is rich, there will not be only such a few people under his hands.

However, although he said words of envy, he was by no means low-voiced, neither humble nor arrogant, and even made Xu Hongru look at him. After learning that the Peng family was also among the movers, he began to arrange, and finally took advantage of the opportunity to rectify and rest here to contact Peng Shanhu. This junior disciple, who is quite prestigious in the rivers and lakes of southern Zhejiang, is quite prestigious among the three sects and nine streams, and is nicknamed 'Huang Sick Tiger', and he is top-notch in all aspects.

Xu Hongru smiled: "Earlier, I was also very poor, but later I came here, without the constraints of various rules and regulations, I can hold all kinds of industries, and the local supervision is not very strong. Truth be told, this fishing is just a façade. ”

He looked at Peng Shanhu and said: "Senior brother, you don't need to envy me, you just came here and don't know, this northeastern place is very different from Guannei, sparsely populated, there are many different races, and the government is also very weak. With your ability, brother, and your prestige among the people, I am afraid that it will not take a few years for the achievement to be above the Taoist temple of my senior brother and me. ”

Peng Shanhu hurriedly waved his hand: "Senior brother has won the award, passed the award." The junior brother has no ambitions, in this life, it is lucky to be able to pass in peace, and it would be better if he could be a rich man. ”

"Oh? What does the junior brother really think? Xu Hongru glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Back then, Master Peng's surname was fierce and bursting, and he was superb in Buddhism, invincible, and had the power to fight against a hundred enemies. Leading the army to fight is also a repeated victory, and finally defeated by the dog thief Zhu Yuanzhang, which is also bad luck, but it is not a crime of war. Why does the junior brother think like this? ”

Peng Shanhu just smiled lightly, but did not answer, he naturally has thousands of ambitions in his heart, especially as a descendant of Peng Yingyu, such a prominent background, but he has suffered a hundred years of humiliation. For Zhu Yuanzhang and the Ming Dynasty, they already hate it to the core, but these things are not something that can be said to a stranger.

The aroma of the fish is strong enough, the heat is enough, and the skin is already golden brown with a little burnt.

Xu Hongru turned the grilled fish over one by one, brushed the dipping sauce with a small brush on both sides of the front and back, and handed the iron drill to those men, and said with a smile: "I arrived at the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei at the age of nine. It has been more than 30 years, and I have been fishing on the Songhua River for 30 years, and I haven't learned anything else, but this hand of grilled fish is a praise word, brothers all taste it! ”

Those men all glanced at Peng Shanhu, and when they saw him nodding, they took the iron hammer one after another, and they didn't care about the heat, took a bite, and shouted hello one after another, and then they gobbled it up.

They are accustomed to living a hard life, although there is no shortage of fish and meat in the past few days after coming to the big city of Zhubang, but this pepper is not able to eat at all, some people have never eaten it in their lives, after the entrance, they only feel that the taste is indescribably delicious and fatty.

Seeing them gobbling up, a flash of disdain flashed in Xu Zheng's eyes. Although he was born as a fisherman, over the years, Xu Hongru's mission has entered a high-speed trajectory and has a fairly large group of believers, and the White Lotus Sect has always been known for its oppression of believers, so it has accumulated a lot of wealth. This fisherman's identity is just a disguise, so he has not suffered much, and even his private life is very luxurious, so he naturally looks down on these real coolies.

Peng Shanhu smiled slightly and said, "A few of you go over there to eat." ”

His subordinates left one after another, Xu Hongru also separated his son, took a fish and took two bites, and Peng Shanhu over there was also full of praise when he tasted it.

Xu Hongru slapped open the mud seal of a jar of wine and put it on his side, but he didn't take the bowl, but took another jar of wine and slapped it open, put it in Peng Shanhu's hand, and said with a smile: "Let's celebrate today." ”

"Haha, senior brother lifts, junior brother dare to disobey?" Peng Shanhu nodded, raised his face and drank a few big sips, and gave a thumbs up: "Good wine!" ”

"The best Shaoxing old burning, the first two said that a Shaoxing businessman who came to the north to do business converted to the Holy Religion and specially honored my senior brother. This is in the capital, and an altar costs five taels of silver! Xu Hongru said with a smile, although he was boasting, but there was no intention of showing off on his face.

He has always inadvertently emphasized the great benefits that the development of the White Lotus Sect can bring, and its purpose is to lead Peng Shanhu to speak, as long as Peng Shanhu speaks, he can always see Peng Shanhu's thoughts.

But this time he was disappointed again, Peng Shanhu's scheming was deeper than he imagined, and he just smiled and said nothing.

(To be continued)

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