Chongzhen five years, February, Chengcheng.

As the sun sets, there is a red glow on the horizon that is beautiful.

Desperately, Saburo took his brother to patrol the city all day, and when he was tired, he dragged his tired body to his big mansion.

As the big leader of Chengcheng, the place where he lives is certainly not too shabby, but it is one of the best mansions in the city, with as many as sixty or seventy houses, pavilions, gardens and pools, it is really everything. But in such a big house, there are only two subordinates in it, one is the mother-in-law who boils water and cooks, and the other is the offspring who is responsible for cleaning and carrying things.

The reason is very simple, Desperate Saburo feels embarrassed to call people!

If a person is born and hugged back and forth, and grows up with a maid and servant, he probably doesn't know how to be considerate of the poor, three words: spoiled!

But a person like Desperate Saburo, who has crawled out of a poor mountain village and died again, knows how to think about others, and if he wants to let the poor work from above, his conscience can't get through.

At the beginning, he lived alone in these sixty or seventy rooms, and no one could chat and talk when he lived alone, which made a large house ghostly, and passers-by couldn't understand whether it was a person or a ghost living here, and then he desperately picked up an old beggar woman from the street who asked for food, so that there was a little voice in the big house, but he didn't dare to treat people as slaves and keep them at home as aunts.

This old beggar didn't dare to treat herself as an aunt, and when she saw that the desperate San Lang was also called the third master, she usually cooked and cooked, and she was very diligent. But she is also a nosy person, and after a few days, she picked up a poor boy for the family that no one wanted, and the poor boy also called him the third master at first, and after getting acquainted, he found that his master had no shelf, and slowly became called the third brother, and he screamed at all, and he didn't pay attention to it at all.

In short, there are still a lot of empty houses, and if Saburo's home wants to become like a home, at least dozens of people have to be picked up.

In the past few days, Xu Renjie has lived in his house, chatting with him for a while, and drinking two glasses of wine, but he is happier than spending time with the two "servants", so his mood has become better and better.

was humming a little tune, and suddenly saw a thin figure kneeling by the stinky ditch on the corner of the road, fishing for something in the ditch.

"Suspicious!"

As the boss of Chengcheng, of course you have to see this kind of suspicious thing. I didn't expect to walk to the corner of the street, but he was startled, there was a skinny little girl in the corner, about ** years old, it seemed that she was hungry, her cheeks were too thin, her eyes were so big, she was like a ghost, her thin arms were scooping up in the mud in the gutter, it turned out to be looking for a sandworm in the ditch. When I found one, I quickly picked it up, threw it in my mouth, and chewed it carefully.

This noodle can frighten the desperate Saburo, how can this thing be eaten? Quickly picked up the girl from the side of the gutter, took out the cake she was carrying and handed it to her, and after asking a few words, she figured out that this girl was a little beggar with no father and no mother, so desperately Saburo was kind again and took her home directly.

The little girl was also well-behaved, and probably understood that this person was here to help her, and after eating the cake, she silently followed behind the desperate Saburo and walked to her new home.

Entered the door, penetrated into the compound, desperately San Lang raised his eyes to see, Xu Renjie actually sat on the stone bench in the middle of the compound, holding a crossbow in his hand, and was winding it with the strength of milk, the winding method of the crossbow is very troublesome, and it is necessary to sit in a sitting posture, and at the same time use the strength of the arm, foot, and waist to pull the string up and hang it well.

"Hahaha, Generalissimo, what are you playing?" Desperately Saburo laughed and said, "Didn't you lose all your hair for the sake of hard thinking?" Why are you in the mood to play crossbow again? ”

"Hahaha!" Xu Renjie laughed: "Of course I have a clever plan, a small city like Dali, how can it make me have a headache all the time?" ”

"Blow, and you blow hard...... If you fail again this time, let's see how Bugs Zhu cleans you up. Desperate Saburo laughed at Xu Renjie, and said to the girl behind him: "I have a lot of empty houses at home, you can choose the one you like to live in......"

"Well......" The little girl nodded, but her feet did not move, it seemed that she was a very scared child, and did not dare to run around in the newly arrived home.

"What, picked up another person?" Xu Renjie smiled: "Now there are four people in your family." I said Brother San Lang, you rely on picking up to add population to your own house, when will you have to pick up this mansion to fill up? Hahaha! I'll introduce you to a few people, they have good goods in their hands, and you can buy a desirable maid for twenty taels of silver. ”

"You're saying this again......" Desperate Saburo shook his head with a wry smile: "They are all raised by their mother's biological parents, what does it look like to buy them with silver?" It's pathetic...... I can't say that anymore. ”

"Hey, I can't listen to this, what are you going to do in the future?" Xu Renjie shook his head: "With your status in the cottage, the mansion will be more than so big in the future, maybe there will be thousands of houses, tens of thousands of acres of fields, if you don't buy maids and servants, or rely on picking people back to fill in, I don't think you will do anything in your life, just go around the street corner......"

"If you want me to use money to buy people back, I'd rather go around the circle for the rest of my life." Desperately Saburo snorted.

"Then how do you get a concubine?" Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Taking a concubine is a transaction, a silver ingot is sealed, a sedan chair is carried back, and the money is handed over with one hand and the other hand is delivered......"

"Phew! Dogs can't spit human words out of their mouths. Desperate Saburo shook his head: "I won't take a concubine!" ”

In fact...... For most people, there is no difference between taking a concubine and buying goods in these years, and it is not free love, anyway, it is a sum of money from the family, and a girl you don't know carries into your door, whatever you want, you can fight, you can scold, and you can also call her to do all kinds of chores...... It doesn't hurt to sell it if you are tired of it, because the law clearly stipulates that "concubines are bought and sold", and this thing is a little higher than the status of the maid.

"Okay, don't talk about things so far away, you coarse man who doesn't understand the amorous feelings, his wife and concubine are too far away from you, let's listen to some news that is relatively close." Xu Renjie put down the crossbow in his hand and said with a smile: "When you went out to patrol the city during the day, Zhu Bugge sent someone to pass on a message, which was about the righteous army in the east and west. ”

"Oh?" Desperate Saburo was in high spirits: "Come and listen." ”

"Let's talk about the monkey first, after this guy was driven out of Luochuan by us, he entered Yijun westward, relying on the strength of the crowd, he quickly took Yijun City, and then occupied Baoan and Heshui two counties, and now he is in the limelight!"

Hearing the name of the chaotic monkey, Desperate Saburo showed a look of disdain: "This guy relied on the lie of 108,000 taels of silver to inspire the army to have such momentum, wait for his lie to be exposed, and see how he lives." ”

"Haha! Just guess you're going to say that. Xu Renjie said with a smile: "Brother Zhu said that this guy is going to die soon, don't worry about him...... Now that Zhu Bugle has opened his mouth, I don't think he will live long...... Let's talk about something else. ”

He paused, and then said: "After the death of Shen Yikui, his rebel army split into many small units, at the end of last year, his old subordinates Huang Youcai, Hao Lin'an, Liu Wu, Liu Liu, Ke Tianfei and others attacked everywhere in Qingyang and Huanxian, and they were extremely active...... Hong Chengchou hurriedly transferred Yang Jiamo, the chief soldier of Gan * Su, and He Huchen, the general soldier of Ning * Xia, to come to the rescue. In a big battle between the two sides, Huang Youcai was killed by the fire of officers and soldiers, but Tianfei and Hao Lin'an led the crowd to the northern mountain stream, and in this month, Ke Tianfei and Hao Lin'an came out of the mountains and besieged Qingyang Fucheng...... Hong Chengchou sent Cao Wenzhao to the rescue, but the results of this battle have not yet been reported. ”

"Ahh Cao Wenzhao went? Desperately San Lang gasped: "The situation of Tianfei and Hao Lin'an is very bad, Cao Wenzhao is not an easy guy to deal with, I hope these two heroes will not be killed." ”

Xu Renjie nodded: "Cao Wenzhao is indeed powerful, but our Zhu Bugle is even more powerful than him, hum, if he dares to come to Baishui, he will not be beaten all over the ground looking for teeth." ”

"If you don't come, Bugling Zhu doesn't like to fight this kind of meaningless battle!" Desperate Saburo said with a smile: "He can try not to fight if he can, and if he can spend less manpower and material resources, he will spend as little as possible, and strive to avoid head-on conflicts with officers and soldiers." ”

"I know it too!" Xu Renjie spread his hands and said: "Brother Zhu is right to do this, he is using this trick now, and our Emperor Taizu has used it...... What's it called...... Build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king, as a result, Emperor Taizu successfully defeated the Yuan Dynasty and established our current Ming Dynasty. But...... I know he's right, but I don't like it, and I want to fight...... I really want to fight the war as soon as possible. ”

"You guy...... Just know how to fight! Desperately Saburo laughed and scolded.

At this moment, there was a sound of "bumping" slamming the door at the gate of the house, and a herald shouted outside: "Brother Sanlang, Brother Generalissimo, Xue Hongqi has returned from the defeat of Dali, and now he is in Chengcheng, please hurry up and take a look." ”

"Oh, finally defeated!" Xu Renjie was overjoyed, and jumped up on the ground: "I can finally fight!" ”

"Finally, we can defeat the battle again!" Desperately Saburo teased.

"What defeat? This time, Uncle Ben's clever plan is unique, and the custody of the teaching Dali is broken. Xu Renjie shouted while running out, although he was too tired to do anything, he still ran out with him, but he only ran a step, and suddenly felt someone pulling his shirt from behind, and turned his head to see that it was the poor little girl who had just picked it up.

The girl smashed her mouth: "Master...... Don't go, I don't know what to do if you're gone......"

Ah, it's getting late, it's not appropriate to run around at this time, let's arrange this little girl who is afraid of life, and Saburo has no choice but to give up.

(To be continued)