Ma Xiaotian talked with Li Yan all the way, looking confident, compared to him a few months ago, it is indeed a little different, the sense of calm reflected from the bottom of his heart makes the red lady really incomprehensible. And in the past, Ma Xiaotian would secretly pay attention to the red lady no matter what the situation, afraid of snubbing her, and leaned over to talk to her from time to time, but now the red lady doesn't feel that Ma Xiaotian has such actions.

As if the red lady was not beside her, Ma Xiaotian's eyes only looked ahead, firm and calm.

What kind of thing makes an immature teenager suddenly become like this? The red lady doesn't know, she just vaguely feels a trace of melancholy, of course, this does not mean that she is in love with Ma Xiaotian, but a creature like a woman, finding that the man who used to have a crazy crush on her now doesn't love herself, there will inevitably be a sense of loss.

The group was about to enter the yamen lobby, but they didn't expect a woman to come out of the yamen first, this woman looked quite weak, it seemed that the wind blew and fell, and a woman's bun was tied on her head, indicating that she was married. The red lady has practiced flying knives, and her eyesight is naturally outstanding, and she can recognize it at a glance, this woman is little mute.

She couldn't help but be surprised: the little mute is actually married?

However, the more surprise was still behind, the little mute ran over to Ma Xiaotian, stretched out his hand and handed over a wet cloth and said: "Xianggong, you are tired when you come back from business on a hot day, look at you sweating profusely, wipe it quickly." ”

Ma Xiaotian smiled slightly, took the wet cloth and wiped a few handfuls on his face, and the beads of sweat on it were swept away. Showing a sense of spirit, he said softly to the little mute: "Siya, have you been waiting here?" ”

The little mute nodded: "People are worried about you, I heard you go out to catch the spy who spreads children's rhymes, people are worried that the spy dog jumped off the wall in a hurry and hurt you...... By the way, what about the spy you caught? ”

Ma Xiaotian said with a smile: "There is no spy, it is the red lady who is back, and she came to introduce the military advisor who broke into the army, Li Yan and Li Gongzi." I'm taking them to see Bugs Zhu. ”

"Red ...... The Red Lady is back? The little mute was taken aback. There is no one else in her simple world except Ma Xiaotian, so among a large number of people, only Ma Xiaotian is seen, and the others are who they are, tall, short, fat and thin. It's male or female. She didn't even take it to heart. Until Ma Xiaotian's words came out. The little mute was startled, and hurriedly looked for it in the crowd, and saw the red lady staring at her with a strange look on her face.

The little mute suddenly took a few steps back. Far away from Ma Xiaotian, a look like a second wife who was caught cheating flashed on his face. Anyway, he is obviously Ma Xiaotian's wife, why did he show such a look? It turned out that the little mute knew what Ma Xiaotian felt about the Red Lady before, and she was able to combine with Ma Xiaotian, in fact, a large part of the reason was that Ma Xiaotian regarded her as the Red Lady, and that night was confused, and it became a good thing inexplicably.

This has to be replaced by a woman in later generations, she has to cry, make trouble and hang herself, and scold her husband's ear every day, so that he can quickly forget his previous first love, but the little mute is not such a person, she feels that she has taken the position of the red lady, and snatched Ma Xiaotian, a good young man, from the red lady to become her own man.

With this kind of thought in my heart, wouldn't I be afraid when I see the red lady? What's more, she saw that the red lady's eyes were full of strange eyes, so she was even more afraid, her weak body shrank far away, she was obviously a wife but she lived like a junior, it was really pitiful for me.

In fact, she didn't understand that the strange eyes of the red lady looking at her were not because of Ma Xiaotian, but because the little mute actually spoke...... The red lady rushed up with an arrow step and held the little mute's hand.

The little mute was frightened: it's terrible, she must be going to hit me.

She quickly closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, ready to be slapped in the face. However, I heard the red lady ask happily: "Little mute, why do you know how to speak?" ”

"Huh? Doesn't she blame me for robbing Ma Xiaotian? The little mute's head was full of question marks, but she didn't know that the red lady was also a simple little girl, and she basically didn't think about men's affairs in her mind, only about fighting and killing. And the little mute never thinks about fighting and killing, only thinks about his own man...... These two women are completely two parallel lines, and their minds can never be put together.

"You can speak, and you are married to Ma Xiaotian?" The red lady asked anxiously.

"Hmm......" The little mute lowered his head and thought to himself, "She asked so clearly, she really wants to beat me now, right?" Or tell me to return her husband? No way! She can beat me, but Xianggong must not give it to her. ”

As a result, the red lady still didn't hit her, but breathed a long sigh of relief, and thought in her heart: No wonder Ma Xiaotian doesn't treat me like that anymore, it turns out that he has married a little mute, whew, a big stone in his heart has landed! I knew that I wouldn't run out to avoid him, causing me to get lost in the mountains and suffer a lot, but fortunately I picked up Li Yan, otherwise I would still be bouncing in the mountains.

Although the red lady felt a little lost because of Ma Xiaotian's empathy, she felt more like a feeling of seeing the moon through the clouds and mist, and finally having nothing to do, only to feel that the troubles that had plagued her for a long time had finally disappeared, and she could be happy to be a carefree little leader in Zhu Jun this time, how happy.

She couldn't help but hug the little mute and exclaimed happily, "Great, really good!" ”

The little mute thought to herself: I robbed the man who liked her, but she said it was too good? The Red Girl is really a good and generous woman, alas, I am inferior to her.

The two women were so headless and brainless, and the people next to them couldn't understand what they were talking about, in fact, the two of them didn't understand it very well, but they could actually talk, and the more they talked, the more they talked, the more profound they became.

At this time, Ma Xiaotian was not idle, and took Li Yan straight into the lobby, only to see many people standing in the lobby, most of the leaders of the Zhu army were here, it turned out that Zhu Jun had just peeled the skin of an evil official today, that is, Li Yan saw that at the door, this incident caused a stir among the leaders of the Zhu army, so Zhu Yuanzhang summoned the leaders here, and was emphasizing the issue of integrity.

Zhu Yuanzhang also knows. In a few hundred years, there will still be a lot of things in the so-called "new era," but they are a little better than the so-called "feudal era," and the methods he is now using to "pay high salaries and support the incorruptible" and "get convicted of illegal and unknown property" can only be said to be a compromise plan, and it cannot be done seamlessly.

Zhu Yuanzhang in the previous life was as vicious as hatred and vowed to kill all the corrupt officials in the world. But look at the world hundreds of years later. He also knew that it was an angry young man's idea, and now he was thinking that it didn't matter if he couldn't kill all of them, just minimize it. Therefore. He gathered his closest men together. Give them a few words of earnestness.

When Li Yan walked in, he happened to hear Zhu Yuanzhang say: "Corrupt officials and corrupt officials harm people a lot, how did we revolt in the first place?" Isn't it just that corrupt officials and corrupt officials have caused an uprising? If we connive at our officials, they will also come to the court. Have we also become villains in the eyes of the people? When the time comes, we will fight with the officers and soldiers in the front, and the people will revolt and rebel in the back, what should we do? ”

"What Zhu Baba said is true!" Wang Er jumped out of the side, waved his big fist and said: "If anyone oppresses the good people, Lao Tzu will not wait for Zhu Bugling to deal with him, he will skin him first, even if it is his own brother, Lao Tzu will kill him." As he spoke, he glared at Bai Yuzhu sitting below, because everyone present knew that the old brothers under Bai Yuzhu were the most demons in the entire Zhu army.

Bai Yuzhu didn't dare to argue with Wang Er, and of course he didn't dare to argue with Zhu Yuanzhang, so he laughed dryly and said, "Brother...... I also support what the two eldest brothers said, and tonight the brothers will go to the whole camp and practice those disobedient bastards, I don't believe they are unruly. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Take the skinned corpse at the door and show them...... Warn them about it......"

At this time, Ma Xiaotian walked to the hall and said loudly: "Eighth Brother Zhu, Li Yan and Li Gongzi ask to see you." ”

"Oh? Li Yan? Zhu Yuanzhang's face remained unchanged, his eyes slowly turned around, fell on Li Yan's body, and said lightly: "What is the matter with Li Zicheng's military advisor coming to me?" Although he was asking, when he saw the red lady walking in behind, he had already guessed in his heart.

The relationship between Zhu Jun and Chuang Jun was not bad before, but since the battle under Agate Mountain, they have been regarded as great enemies of each other, and at this time, the military advisor of Chuang Jun came to the door, and I really didn't know what it meant. Several leaders in the hall suddenly became nervous, thinking: Could it be that Li Chuang is coming to give us a war letter?

In the surprised expressions of everyone, Li Yan suddenly bowed down, and said sincerely: "I came here to ask Eighth Brother Zhu to preach and teach and solve doubts...... If you can find a good way to govern the country and save the people, you are willing to serve Brother Zhu in your later life......"

As soon as they heard this, everyone was moved: it turned out that this man had come to surrender!

On that day, after Li Yan joined the Zhu army, he went to the back hall with Zhu Yuanzhang, and the two of them had nothing to say, but when the two came out of the back hall, Li Yan had been completely impressed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as a celestial man.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not immediately welcome him as the military advisor of the Zhu army, because the specific ability of Li Yan had to be left to be observed later, and he temporarily operated in the Zhu army as an idle staff.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to search for Li Zichengjun's family for a while, and really found out Li Yan's wife Tang, Li Yan saw that his wife was unharmed, and he was very happy in his heart, and he was even more desperate for Zhu Jun-

At the same time that Li Yan threw himself into the Zhu army, in the mountains near Guangyuan, a Sichuan army of more than 1,000 people was slowly moving, and the leader of this Sichuan army was a family of three brothers, Meng Changshui, Meng Changsheng, and Meng Changxing.

These three brothers originally belonged to the troops led by Zuo Guangxian, but after being defeated by the Zhu army, Zuo Guangxian fled eastward and disappeared, but these three brothers were unwilling to follow Zuo Guangxian to retreat eastward, because they were all natives of Sichuan, and the hometown of the three of them happened to be in a small mountain village under Guangyuan's rule.

After Guangyuan was captured by the Zhu army, the small mountain village in their hometown became the territory of the Zhu army, which made the three of them even more reluctant to go, the Sichuan people were extremely rural, compared to the people in Jiangnan and the Central Plains, the Sichuan people were more attached to their hometown, and the same was true for the three brothers, vowing to snatch their hometown back from the thief army.

But the three brothers couldn't act immediately, because their eldest Meng Changxing was in the last battle. Stabbed by the red lady, the three brothers had a deep love, so they hid in the deep mountains in the northwest of Guangyuan, relying on the help of the local mountain people, hunting game, eating some wild grass, and holding on in the mountains for half a year, so that the third child healed his injuries, and more than 1,000 Sichuan soldiers prepared game as dry food, and drilled out of the mountains again. I'm going to go back to my hometown. "Rescue" the people in their hometown.

Their kind of kung fu of lying dormant in the mountains for half a year to prepare their own food can only be done by Sichuan soldiers, and if they were replaced by any army, they would have starved to death in the mountains and mountains of Sichuan.

The three brothers cautiously figured out the mountain. Move slowly between the ravines. The closer you get to your hometown. The more familiar the terrain, turn a ditch here and drill a hole there. God didn't know, ghosts didn't know, even the sentry posts all over the Zhu army couldn't find them, and they were really touched by these three brothers on the hillside outside a small village. The name of this village is Mengjia Village, and there are more than 40 families in the village, all of whom are surnamed Meng, and they are basically clansmen who can beat with eight poles.

The three brothers were not in a hurry to bring troops into the village, but disguised themselves a little, and they became three local farmers. It's really not too simple to disguise themselves as people from their hometown, the three of them are a little dressed up like this, not to mention that the soldiers of the Zhu Army can't see that they are fakes, even if they come from a neighboring village, they may not be able to recognize the three of them as the three brothers of the Meng family who left home many years ago and went to become officers and soldiers.

After the three brothers were disguised, they went out of the mountain and walked generously along the dirt road towards Mengjia Village. Although on the outside, the three brothers walked with a big grin, in fact, the three of them carefully observed the surrounding situation, on the one hand, to see if there was any trace of being ravaged by the thief army, on the other hand, it was to protect themselves, if someone from the Zhu army saw through them, they would immediately turn their faces.

Before the three of them had time to enter the village, they saw a group of people walking on the dirt road in front of them, it seemed that they were people sent by the "government" to collect summer fu, several of them were wearing official uniforms, and one person was wearing official uniforms! There were also many retinues nearby, as well as vehicles carrying taxes.

Of course, these people can't really be people from the "official government", only people from Zhu Jun. The three brothers of the Meng family glanced at each other, and they all thought in their hearts: The government's method of collecting taxes is usually to designate a place, and the people pay it themselves, and this designated place is generally the county seat. But these Zhu soldiers actually went to the village to collect taxes, which shows that they not only want to collect taxes, but also want to squeeze the people and rob them of all the food stored in their homes!

The three brothers were very uncomfortable, so they wanted to go back to the mountains and bring the army out, but the three of them were not reckless people, and the situation in the village had not been reconnoitred clearly. This is entirely possible, you must know that the Sichuan people are very strong, and the thief army will definitely be resisted by the Sichuan people when they come to grab grain, so it is impossible for the thief army to enter the village to collect taxes, and they must send an army to accompany them. The three brothers didn't want to rush into the encirclement of Zhu Jun impulsively, so they had to continue to follow.

Until they followed to the entrance of the village, the three brothers saw that the small team collecting taxes had entered the village, so they climbed on a big stone next to it and looked at the village.

The third brother, the eldest Meng Changshui said happily: "In the future, the main force of the thief army will only come to collect taxes. ”

The second Meng Changsheng hurriedly said, "Then what are you waiting for?" Let's hurry back, order troops to kill directly, and kill this group of thieves who forcibly collect taxes. ”

The third elder, Meng Changxing, also nodded and said: "Exactly, after killing all these guys, we took more than forty villagers in the village to escape far away, into the deep mountains and old forests, and never let them be bullied by Zhu Ba Na again." ”

The three brothers were all in general mind, and they were not following up the village, because the situation in the village was very familiar to the three of them, and it was completely unnecessary to go in and see, so they hurriedly returned to the ravine, picked up more than a thousand Sichuan soldiers, and rushed straight to Mengjia Village.

But it was said that this team that came to Mengjia Village to collect taxes was led by Xia Erduo!

He is also a considerable civilian official in the Zhu army, how could he personally collect taxes?

It turns out that Mengjia Village is located in a remote area, the water and soil are also very poor, this is a very poor mountain village in Guangyuan, the land is thinner than other places, when Xia Erduo promoted corn here, he put a lot of thought into it, and he found a group of pirates who can grow corn from the coast, here also racked their brains, thinking about how to plant corn here.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang proposed a small method, after the corn was sown in the thin soil, and then covered with a layer of straw on it, this planting method really made the corn grow obediently. Zhu Yuanzhang's trick made those pirates from the coast admire them so much, I really didn't expect that they could grow corn like this, of course Zhu Yuanzhang would not say that he saw it by chance in the later life, but could only vaguely say that he was blind.

However, no matter how well the corn grows, if the harvest is not much, it will be a blind toss.

This time, after the harvest season, Xia Erduo personally came to this mountain village to inspect, on the one hand, to collect taxes, and the main purpose was to find out how much the method provided by Zhu Yuanzhang could bring to this village.

The arrival of Xia Erduo and the pirates made the whole village boil, Uncle Meng, Uncle Meng, the second baby of the Meng family and others in the village, anyway, they were all surnamed Meng, ran out of the house together, and told jokes around Xia Erduo's team, and the words were all praises, it turned out that Mengjia Village had a lot of harvest this time, and it was no different from the harvest in other places, which was a miracle in Mengjia Village, a particularly barren place.

Therefore, the villagers welcomed the arrival of Xia Erduo and his party, and when they were in the military and civilian families, they suddenly heard a shout outside the village, and the three brothers of the Meng family took more than 1,000 Sichuan soldiers and killed them violently. (To be continued.) )