The second young grandmother said in an excited voice: "I am willing to take out all the dowry labor army, and I ask the military master to break the corpses of Zheng Yanfu and his group into ten thousand pieces!" ”

"Huh?" Yang Hong was a little curious, this young master showed that he was unwilling to pay, how could he run out of a woman and say that he was willing to pay? It's a lot of fun.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing next to him, was bright in his heart, the second young grandmother was Zhang Douyao's daughter, this father's hatred was not shared, and the Zhang family was full of hatred of being killed, she didn't want to revenge it, I heard that the officers and soldiers were going to kill Zheng Yanfu, she should be the happiest one.

The second young master jumped up on the ground, and said angrily: "You stupid woman, why did you move out so much money? Without my consent, who would dare to transfer the family's money. ”

The second young grandmother glanced at him with contempt and said, "This is the money I got from selling my own property and title deed, and it is my dowry. ”

Saying this, it was not convenient for the second young master to speak, and all the cursed words in his stomach were held back.

Yang Hong glanced at his own soldiers, and one of his soldiers walked over, carefully searched the box for a while, and then leaned over to Yang Hong's side and said in a low voice: "At least three thousand taels." ”

Yang Hong was happy in his heart, he got three thousand taels from this woman, and the second young master also promised two thousand taels just now, adding up to five thousand taels of silver, which is not a small number, this trip was not in vain. He laughed twice, and said to the second young grandmother: "This lady is so arrogant, you contribute to the country, this official will record it, and after returning from the bandits, you will report to the court to commend your patriotic deeds." ”

The second young grandmother shook her head and said, "I don't want commendation or anything, I just want one thing......" Speaking of this, she paused, and a flame of hatred shot out of her eyes: "Zheng Yanfu's head!" ”

"He can't give you his head." Yang Hong hurriedly said: "If I capture him alive, I must send him to Xi'an Mansion and behead him at the entrance of the vegetable market." If you are caught dead, you will also have to send the head to the court to repay the merits, how can you give it to you. ”

The second young grandmother nodded and said, "I understand this, I only need to take a look at his head...... At first glance! Just one look! ”

"That's fine." Yang Hong said with a smile: "Anyway, when I go back to Xi'an Mansion, I will pass by you, and I will show you Zheng Yanfu's head when the time comes." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened to it funny next to him, you know that you will definitely be able to hold Zheng Yanfu? said so much, and was not afraid of the wind flashing his tongue. Thinking of this, he suddenly smiled bitterly: Yang Hong dared to say so much, of course, he had confidence. If this guy can't catch Zheng Yanfu, just grab a few villagers, cut off his head and send it to the imperial court, anyway, those big officials in the imperial court don't know Zheng Yanfu at all. The matter of killing good people and taking meritorious deeds has been seen everywhere in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is not new.

Zhu Yuanzhang can think of it, and the second young grandmother can also think of it, after all, she is the daughter of the county order, and she also knows a little bit about the Taoism in these officialdoms, and said seriously: "Don't fool me with a fake head, I know the surnames of you officers and soldiers, sometimes you can't catch the main master, just grab a villager and cut it with a knife, and say that it is Zheng Yanfu who repays his merits!" Among my maids, there are people who know Zheng Yanfu, you can't fool me. ”

"Do you have any maids who know him?" Yang Hong was bluffed, this is a troublesome thing, if he kills good and riskes his merits, he is seen through by this maid at a glance, and he loses face and loses his heart, and after it is spread, it is a crime of panicking military merit and bullying the king.

The second young grandmother beckoned, Qiu Ye lowered her head, and walked quickly to the middle of the hall: "The maid knows Zheng Yanfu, the last time the rogue rebelled, the maid and Zheng Yanfu turned their faces ......"

When Yang Hong heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, in fact, no officer and soldier like to kill good and take risks, if he can catch the main master, why use this kind of subordinate means? However, since ancient times, it has been easy for the bandits to get rid of the bandits, and the most important reason is that the officers and men do not know the bandit leaders; when the two armies are fighting, the scene is chaotic, and once the bandits are defeated, they often run in all directions, and the bandit leaders run away in the scattered minions, but the officers and men do not know which side to chase.

If there is someone who knows Zheng Yanfu to help guide him, the chances of catching the bandit leader will be greatly improved.

Yang Hong hurriedly said: "Little girl, do you really know Zheng Yanfu?" ”

"Hmm......" Akiba sighed, a little embarrassed and said: "The servant was caught by three rogues and was almost insulted, at this time, Zheng Yanfu passed by with a bandit wearing a hat and stopped the three rogues, and the servant was spared...... So I remembered the appearance of Zheng Yanfu. ”

Yang Hong stared at Qiu Ye, seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, and was overjoyed: "Haha! That's great! ”

He said to the second young grandmother: "This lady, this official wants to borrow you as a maid." There is no need for her to do anything difficult, just help me identify Zheng Yanfu among the chaotic people when I am suppressing the bandits, so that the chance of the official catching Zheng Yanfu will be greater, and it will be easier to achieve your wish to see Zheng Yanfu's head. ”

Akiba was taken aback: "Are you going to see the Liukou again?" Servant ...... I'm afraid ......"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Yang Hong said with a smile: "There are a thousand soldiers under this official, and the rogue is very safe to follow this official." "Although he has only 500 soldiers, he has to say 1,000 to the outside world.

At this time, the second young grandmother who was standing on the side suddenly spoke: "Qiu Ye, I have wronged you, follow this military master to suppress the bandits, you must arrest Zheng Yanfu back, I want to watch him be broken into pieces." ”

When her own young lady opened her mouth, Autumn Ye had nothing to say, so she had to respond in a low voice: "Yes!" ”

The second young grandmother turned to Yang Hong and said, "I'll give you half of the silver here, you bring Zheng Yanfu's head back, and I'll give you the remaining half, so good?" By the way, the autumn leaves will also be sent back safely! She first said that she wanted Zheng Yanfu's head, and after she finished speaking, she remembered that she wanted to bring Autumn Leaves back, so she added it to the back, it can be seen that in her heart, Zheng Yanfu's head is much more important than the life of the closest maidservant, if she can get Zheng Yanfu's head, Autumn Leaf's life and death are not important at all, and the mentality of the superior is undoubtedly exposed!

Zhu Yuanzhang watched from the side, and he didn't interject, only to see that Qiu Ye's face quickly dimmed, and she looked very sad, but she was just a maidservant, and it was not her turn to speak for this kind of thing, and she could only bear it by herself.

"Cheng, no problem!" Yang Hong agreed in one bite, in his opinion, it was really a piece of cake to deal with the rogues, and this silver was already in his pocket.

After a while, Yang Hong's subordinates carried two boxes of silver out of the Ma family's compound, these two boxes of silver were more than 3,000 taels, and there were more than 1,000 taels waiting for him to take Zheng Yanfu's head back to receive it, and the harvest was very rich, and he couldn't help but be elated, Qiu Ye followed him with his head down, and went sadly and scared.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the door of the Ma family compound, staring at the officers and soldiers going northeast, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Zheng Yanfu did not go to Huanglong Mountain, but stayed in Dongziya, which he could not have imagined. It seems that most of Zheng Yanfu's subordinates are unwilling to enter Huanglong Mountain, and the will of the group makes Zheng Yanfu, the leader, unable to make a decision, so he turned into staying in Dongziya.

This situation is very common in the peasant rebel army, especially when they have just revolted, and they don't know how many catties and taels they have, and they killed a county order and robbed the county warehouse, so they don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, so they think that they can afford to pull Shuibo Liangshan. Most of the members will fall into a kind of pathological euphoria and do not take the officers and soldiers seriously. So I thought that if I found a random hill to station, the officers and soldiers would not be able to do anything about them.

Now the officers and soldiers are going to clean up and suppress it, but it is a good opportunity to give them a blow to the head and tell them what it means to use the mantis arm as a car, and when they have tasted the bitter fruits of rash and rash advances, and know how powerful the government is, they will know that such a thing as killing officials and rebelling is something that requires the use of brains, and it is not such a simple matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't plan to get involved in this matter, he didn't care who won or who lost between the officers and soldiers and Zheng Yanfu, anyway, no matter which side won or lost, it would have no direct impact on him. He turned and walked back to his little yard and continued to do the laundry.

Just rubbed twice, suddenly saw a figure at the gate of the courtyard flashed, Wang Er's figure with a tiger's back appeared in front of him, today's Wang Er is dressed a little differently, although he is still wearing the usual set of coarse cloth clothes when he is doing coolies, but he has a hunting bow on his back, and a firewood knife is also hung on his waist, and some murderous aura is soaked out of his body.

After entering the courtyard, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's hut and confirmed that there was no one else inside, so he said in a low voice: "Eighth Brother Zhu, do you want to follow the officers and soldiers to see the excitement?" ”

"Watching the excitement? What's so nice about this? Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"Officers and soldiers catch thieves, thieves fight officers and soldiers, what could be more lively than this?" Wang Er laughed hesitantly: "Brother, I always dreamed of seeing a real battle, and this is the first opportunity I've been waiting for in my life." ”

Tut! From the beginning of your uprising next year, you will always fight until you die, what's so much to see about the excitement. Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, but he couldn't say this, so he could only think about it in his heart, he lowered his head and said, "I'm not very interested, I don't want to see it." ”

"Then tell me, do you think the officers and soldiers will win, or can Zheng Yanfu and his gang win?"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think about it and said: "The officers and soldiers win!" ”

"Isn't it? Do you actually think that the officers and soldiers will win? Wang Er jumped up: "Impossible!" Look at these officers and soldiers, their eyes are blank, their weapons are rusty, their clothes and armor are broken, they are like this, even the most stupid monkeys in the countryside can't win, Zheng Yanfu and his gang killed officials and rebelled, and they were all heroes and heroes, how could they lose to such officers and soldiers. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "The battlefield is not a battle between the rivers and lakes, it is completely different from what you think." ”

"Brother Zhu, I usually obey what you say, but today I am absolutely not convinced." Wang Er dragged Zhu Yuanzhang's hand hard: "Go!" Come with me to watch the excitement, I'll make a bet with you, if the officers and soldiers win, I won't call you Zhu Ba Brother in the future, but Zhu Ba Ge. ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart moved, which is interesting. He and Wang Er have always been commensurate with each other as brothers, playing the emotional card, but he did not make Wang Er transform his attitude of "admiration" towards him, which is obviously not conducive to controlling Wang Er in the future. Taking this opportunity to convince Wang Er fiercely is only good for himself, not harmful.

"Okay, I'll go with you to watch the fun, if you lose, you really have to call me brother!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"A gentleman's word, a quick horse!"