Stretching for 800 miles in Yimeng, if the mountain is high and steep, and the mountains are steep, it is the top of the turtle and the top of the main peak of Mengshan Mountain. The boulders are craggy, the cliffs are three hundred zhang high, and it looks majestic.

Although there are many mountain bandits gathered in the seventy-two peaks and thirty-six caves of Yimeng, no one dares to go to the boundary of Guimengding, because this is the territory of the most famous group of heroes in Yimeng Mountain.

Of course, these heroes will not stupidly arrange their nests on the top of the mountain, in that case, if the officers and soldiers surround the mountain, it will become dumplings and be served to the pot. It's just that the place where they settled has always been hidden and not known to outsiders, so everyone only knows about this area in Guimengding.

This group of heroes, headed by the surname Qin, named Bajia, has a bandit called "Qin Huzi", is a good man who fights righteousness and squanders money, and is very famous in Yimeng Mountain. He has two sworn brothers, one is surnamed Liu, named Cathay, he is a landed talent and a second master; A surname Zhang, named Jiang Hu, is the third master, is the first boss of Guimeng, and has always been known for his bravery.

In addition to Liu Guotai, who has always had a high vision and has not yet married a wife and concubine, Qin Bajia and Zhang Jianghu have both married wives and had children.

This is the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, because there is something to say, Qin Boss and Zhang Laosan left for the mountain before dawn. Liu Lao Er stayed in the cottage because of his physical discomfort and did not go with him.

Although Zhang Jianghu's wife Guan grew up in the mountains, because her father-in-law knew a few words, she taught her daughter very carefully, wrapped her little feet and did not say anything, she was also extremely virtuous, and she only looked like a good woman, who would have thought that she would be a bandit woman.

After breakfast, Guan remembered the second uncle who was unwell, so he went to the kitchen and boiled a small pot of hot meat porridge with rice with pheasant's breast and meat foam.

After loading the food box, she was thinking about who to call to send food to the second uncle, when she heard a mother-in-law say: "Third grandmother, if it is sent to the second master, I am afraid it will be a pity." The eldest grandmother also boiled porridge early in the morning and sent it in person. ”

The eldest grandmother in the mother-in-law's mouth is Qin Bajia's house-filling Luo, who is much younger than the Guan family, and she married into the mountains the year before last.

Guan heard that Luo was also over there, thinking that he had the demeanor of a sister-in-law and was so considerate and thoughtful, so he smiled and said to the mother-in-law: "Since the eldest grandmother is there, then I will personally send it over, and I just want to talk to my sister-in-law!" With that, he picked up the food box and went to Liu Guotai's residence.

The mother-in-law who had just spoken just wanted to speak to dissuade her, but was stopped by a young daughter-in-law: "Mother, do you want to die, these are what we can manage?" ”

The mother-in-law looked sad, and after a while, Fang said, "The third grandmother is a good person!" ”

After entering Liu Guotai's courtyard and walking to the porch, Guan put down the food box, and just about to call someone, he heard the woman's coquettish moaning from the house.

Guan Shi was stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on, and then the sound of the mattress rustling, mixed with the woman's voice: "Ah...... Yes...... Good...... Shu Tan is a slave to death......"

Guan was taken aback, even if he hadn't seen it in person, but after all, he had been married for ten years, and even if he was a fool, he could hear that this was a man and a woman. She was so shocked that she felt that her body was stiff and she didn't dare to move; Be careful that the liver "poof" and "poof" should be slapped and their eyes will jump out. The voice of the woman in this room is clearly that of the eldest grandmother Luo.

was stunned, I heard Liu Guotai gasp and say: "Xiuxiu, your body is getting softer and softer, and it is even rarer than before giving birth, I can't bear it for a long time, so I have to come over early in the morning...... This**...... But it's cheaper, our son......"

"Wrongdoer, there is still a smile on the face, Xiaobao's eyebrows gradually opened, now it's okay, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide it in the future......" Luo Zhi sneered: "You have an idea, save that beard from being suspicious......"

"The master has his own arrangement, beautiful and reassuring......" As he spoke, the squirming sound became louder.

I heard Roche's moaning getting faster and faster, and finally it was like a cry: "...... It's really not in vain...... Hurry up...... Sooner ......"

Not to mention how happy the two people in the room were, but the Guan family outside the room was so frightened that his face was pale, and he was almost distracted, one of them was unstable, and he almost fell to the ground, and he hurriedly helped the door frame, but he accidentally made a sound.

All kinds of voices in the room stopped, and Liu Guotai asked, "Who, which one is outside?" ”

bumped into such a private person, where did the Guan family dare to respond, and he didn't have much scruples, and ran out of the courtyard with a red face.

When Liu Guotai pushed the door out of his clothes, the courtyard was already empty, and he was just about to close the door and go back to the house, when he saw a lacquered food box under the porch. He was slightly stunned, bent down and lifted it, but did not panic.

Luo is very young, but he looks like he is in his twenties, he is wrapped in the quilt, his eyes are slightly closed, his mouth is half open, and he is immersed in spring.

Liu Guotai put the food box on the table, the clothes went, and then pounced on the kang, hugged Luo Shi over, and kissed him: "Look at you who are squandering, but you are bold, little silver woman, hooking up with a little uncle like this, you are not afraid of being sunk in the pond ......"

Luo turned over, lay on Liu Guotai's chest, and laughed "giggled": "It's just a halfway couple, the slave family's good little daughter-in-law is doing it, and the beard is troublesome, which makes the slave family a bandit, but it is cheaper for you......"

Liu Guotai rubbed it vigorously twice, and said with a smile: "It's not a joke, let people see it......"

Luo Zhi vigorously pasted his little face on Liu Guotai's face, and said in a coquettish voice: "Wrongdoer, come to coax the slave, is it really a stupid woman to be a slave?" Boss Qin and Zhang Laosan are just paper tigers, except for the few around them, aren't everyone else obedient to the master? If not, what do you do if you run so diligently, this official is ...... obsessed."

Liu Guotai laughed twice, hugged Luo's waist, pointed to the food box on the table, and said, "Let her hear, she is a serious person......

Luo Zhi looked along Liu Guotai's arm, lacquered food box, she had seen this thing, when she was stunned, she asked a little uneasily: "How is this good?" The husband and wife are connected, and she specified that she wanted to talk to Zhang Laosan. ”

Liu Guotai responded: "Don't worry, Zhang Laosan went to Jinan Mansion with Boss Qin, and it will take ten days to come and go as fast as possible." When the time comes, all ideas will come up. If you have an emergency, you will lose your footing and fall on your heels, and you will not be able to save it. ”

Although Luo does not abide by women's morals, but in the end it is a woman's family, somewhat kind, listening to this, it seems that Liu Guotai wants to kill his mouth, and muttered: "Sister Guan is a good person, she has taken care of the slave family in the past two years, and it is also very good for our Xiaobao." ”

Liu Guotai smiled and said, "What is an excellent method? You are not afraid of mistakes, and you must let her go. ”

Luo replied: "The slave family didn't have to be early, no one taught me since I was a child, the sister of the Guan family is kind-hearted and treats people well, and the slave family treats her relatives in her heart." ”

Seeing that Liu Guotai didn't have a change of mind on his face, Luo was a little anxious, kissed his face, and said in a coquettish voice: "If the master is not at ease, then he will be close to the sister of the Guan family." Zhang Laosan is a reckless man, he is used to not pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and he loves the scoop, and he only treats the virtuous lady as a yellow-faced woman. ”

Liu Guotai rubbed Luo's chest and said jokingly: "You are becoming more and more like a lady, and you want to find a little one for your master, so your heart is not pantothenic?" But she doesn't have a look, and she is older, which makes it difficult for her to be born. ”

Seeing that he was loose, Luo Shi became more and more tightly entangled with his hands and feet, and said coquettishly: "Master, the sister of the Guan family has an ordinary skin, but she has a good skin and meat, and she is very good, so she will not let her suffer hardship." This 'dewy couple' is done, she has a ghost in her heart, only to help us cover it up, where do you dare to mention it again......"

…… When Guan returned to his yard, he saw the maid Xinghua and her two children playing in the yard. The two children were wearing thick leather jackets, and when they saw Guan coming back, they all came to hug her, this one said, "Mother, I want to eat jujube nectar", and the other said, "I want to eat too".

The eldest is five years old, and she is a daughter; The youngest is three years old, and he is a son, all of whom are from the Guan family. Guan saw that the two sisters and brothers were blushing, and said to Xinghua: "It's cold in the end, even if they are naughty, they have to wait until noon to play tricks." ”

Xinghua responded, and seeing that Guan's face was not good, she asked, "What's wrong with grandma?" But don't feel well? Do you want to invite the second master to come over and take a look? ”

Guan's face froze, squeezed out a little smile, and said, "What did you say?" Second Master...... The second master is still sick himself, how can he toss him? I just didn't have a good rest last night, and I'm a little tired, so I want to lie down in the house for a while, and you take the two of them to the east room to play. As he spoke, he touched the little heads of his daughter and son, lifted the curtain and went into the house.

It wasn't until lying on the kang that Guan sighed heavily. I really didn't expect that there would be such a thing in the village? And two of them, one is the shy Luo Che, and the other is Liu Guotai, who is full of rules and etiquette.

These two people, who have always said that they have nothing to do with the "annihilation of husbands and silver women".

She thought of Liu Guotai's sentence of "our son" again, and thought about the origin of Luo's family, but it was Boss Qin and Liu Guotai who brought it into the mountain together. Because Boss Qin took a fancy to it, he made Boss Qin's house-filling.

Could it be that she and Liu Guotai have long been in love, but they were broken up?

Guan's own heart is kind, and he thinks about people for the better, and then contacts Luo Shi Ping and says that he doesn't love squeaks very much, Liu Guotai has not married so far, so he complains a little about Qin Boss snatching love, so that lovers can't be dependents.

Although it is sympathy, but the most important chastity of women in this world, since she has married Boss Qin, and then she has ended up with Liu Guotai, she does not abide by women's morals.

Guan sighed in his heart, only felt that Luo's life was bitter, and he forgot about the food box in his mind, and he didn't know that he was calculated by those two "hard-working people" ...... * In Yizhou City, in Daotai Mansion.

Cao Hao looked at the palace newspaper of the imperial court, and now the whole court is busy with the longevity of Jiazi. In addition to the lords and their families from other provinces who came to the capital to celebrate their birthdays, there are also many people over the age of 65 who have entered Beijing to celebrate their birthdays, and old women over the age of 70 who want to go to Beijing to greet the queen mother. Among them, these "Renrui" who are 80 years old and over 90 years old have to be sent to Beijing one by one.

For the folk elders in other provinces, the elderly over the age of 80 must also be counted by the provinces, waiting for the court's reward.

Kangxi, who is about to celebrate Jiazi's birthday, finally admitted that he is an "old man", and such a fanfare of grace to show his "benevolence" as a king, and let the world know that the "prosperous peace" is given by him, the "Ming Jun".

Cao Hao looked at it, but couldn't help but shake his head. Although later generations heard that the "Thousand Suo Banquet" was held in the Qing Palace, he was originally an old man in the capital, but he didn't expect that this toss was a bit wide. The road is rugged, the cars and horses are tiring, and these eighty or ninety-year-old birthday stars may not be blessed to enjoy the "grace" of the emperor, and they may be killed halfway.

Mr. Zhuang also saw this, and when he saw Cao Hao's expression, he knew that he did not approve of the court's behavior of working the people and wasting money, but he didn't say anything. Now, it is the second half of the first month, and although the announcement of the Ministry of Rites has only been issued, the provincial designation has already been moved.

After Cao Hao shook his head, Fang knew that he wanted to be left.

If it is an old man in the Gyeonggi Zhili territory, there may be someone from an ordinary family; Those old men of the Eight Banners who came to Beijing from other provinces to celebrate their birthdays must be old ladies and old feudal lords of official eunuchs.

The number of places is limited, where will it be the turn of the people? I'm afraid that the whole province will regard it as a "grand honor", squeeze my head, and send my father and mother to Beijing.

Along the way, naturally wait properly, otherwise you won't earn your face, and then mix up with "Ding worry", that would be a fool's doing.

Thinking about it like this, Cao Hao felt very bored, and put the report on the bookcase. Thinking of their parents, who were also going to Beijing to celebrate their birthday, they were going to hit Jiangning in mid-February.

Thinking of the cumbersome exchanges between various prefectures in the capital, Cao Hao felt a little lucky, it seems that it is good for his parents to retire in Jiangnan, at least he doesn't have to give people a salute all the time.

If it is in the capital, although Cao Yin is an uncle, there are countless people with a higher status than him, even if he sees a palace milk doll, he has to give a thousand courtesies; The Li family is also here, in front of those Fujin and side Fujin, there is only the right to stand and speak.

After reading the Di newspaper, Mr. Zhuang remembered that Cao Hao had sent people to Yuzhao two days ago, and asked: "Furuo, the matter of Baoquan Temple still needs to be carefully planned and planned, and it must be very careful." ”

Cao Hao replied with a smile: "This is for Mr. To, it's not a sneaky thing, it's just to avoid some tongues." If it weren't for the fear that they would be too timid to enter the house, I would have wanted to see them at the yamen. ”

Mr. Zhuang said: "Even so, we must also prevent them from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and have individual thoughts." In a few days, it is estimated that the message from the other side will spread to the mountains, and we will make two people go to the clouds to stare at it. How many people go down the mountain, you must always have a number in your heart, if you can save it, if you make trouble, although Fu Ruo will be fine, but it is always not beautiful to hurt the people or make some other statements. ”

Cao Hao said: "Please ask Mr. to arrange it, I won't come too much if I want to, it's just a way to explore." Let's stay at home, and it should be them who are afraid. ”

Mr. Zhuang nodded, touched his beard and said, "These words have also sent people to several counties near Yimeng to investigate. Qin Bajia is the leader of the Yimeng Mountain bandits, I heard that he is very righteous, if he can be made to vote for the head, there must be many followers. At that time, you still need to think of a safe way to avoid being thought by the green camp as robbing them of their credit and accumulating old grudges. ”

Cao Hao thought of the wrench that had been sent to Hongmen with Mr. Zhuang's secret letter, and was a little puzzled, if Qin Bajia really had some collusion with Hongmen, how could he think of joining the official mansion? If it doesn't matter, then how can they rely on the token of the Du family to make friends?

He said what was confused in his heart, and Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "Regardless of whether he has anything to do with Hongmen or not, he always needs to fill his stomach to live, forcing them to take the initiative to surrender, which is also the credit of Fu Ruo." Not only Qin Bajia's side, I'm afraid it's the bandit village in Yimeng Mountain, it's better to talk about the few people, and the more people are all thinking about it. ”

Cao Hao suddenly realized, patted his head and said, "It turns out that this is the reason!" No wonder I felt that something was wrong before, these mountain bandits wanted to surrender too sincerely. Earlier, they planned first when they saw the Du family being detained and were afraid of being exterminated. Thinking about it now, if they were so timid, they wouldn't have been entrenched in Yimeng Mountain for all these years. Eight hundred miles of Yimeng, guerrilla warfare, those green battalions are just given for nothing, what is so terrible! ”

Mr. Zhuang's contribution to Cao Hao refers to the "real-name system" for purchasing rice that began in Yizhou at the end of March, in order to prevent people from hoarding rice and grain. As long as you buy more than one stone of rice and noodles in the grain store, you must register your name and address, and the county government will supervise your affairs every quarter.

After the civil unrest in Tai'an, the governor Yamen knew that Yizhou relied on this to prevent the people from hoarding grain and raising grain prices, so it was implemented in the whole province of Shandong, and the effect was very significant.

(To be continued)