Fujian Xingdu Division is one of the five Xingdu Command Envoys of the Ming Dynasty, established in the eighth year of Hongwu, and the seat of governance is in Jianning Mansion.

Jianning's right guard is located in Jianning City, and in addition to the Jianning Prefect's Yamen, there are two major yamen in the city.

The military households that clashed with Yan Zhong lived in a place called Shangma Village on the outskirts of Jianning City, and three of Yan Zhong's men died, and two of the military households also died, which can be described as very bad in nature.

After the incident, Jianning's right guard commander Yamen immediately sent people to arrest the military households involved in the conflict and put them into the prison of the Wei Command Envoy Yamen.

Since this matter involves moving to Xiaoliuqiu Island, the Fujian Xingdu Division is extremely concerned about this matter, and it is said that Feng Yong, the commander of the Fujian Xingdu Division, is extremely annoyed by this matter, and summoning Yang Yu to split his head and cover his face is a scolding.

After all, now is an extraordinary period, Li Yuntian, who patrols Jiangnan, is now sitting on Xiaoliuqiu Island, but Yang Yu's brother-in-law Yan Zhong has made such a big deal out for a little selfish gain, which is simply taking the initiative to hit the muzzle of the gun, purely looking for death.

Shangma Village has been shrouded in a depressing and dull atmosphere recently, and the military households in the village have all received warnings from the officials of the guard, telling them to keep their mouths shut and not get involved in this conflict.

The officials of the guard station fiercely told those military households that if anyone dared to talk nonsense, then they should not think about living a peaceful life in the future.

This made the military families in the village panic and silent, and they had to obediently shut their mouths under the obscenity of those guards officials, after all, they would have to live here in the future, and if they offended those guards officials, they would not want to have good fruits to eat in the future.

It is worth mentioning that after the conflict broke out, both the Jianning Right Guard Yamen and the Fujian Xingdu Si Yamen sent people to Shangma Village to investigate, and in the face of the pretended interrogation of the two Yamen officials, the military households in the village had to deal with the interrogation of the two Yamen officials according to the requirements of the officials of the guard.

Some young people wanted to hold grievances against the captured military households, but as soon as they wanted to open their mouths to tell the truth at that time, they were stopped by the officials of the guard station who were supervising the scene, and then they were kicked and beaten and taken away in the name of the accomplices of the arrested military households, while the officials of the two yamen who were present at the time turned a blind eye.

After witnessing this scene in front of them, the military households in the village knew that Yan Zhong's divine powers were vast and that these ordinary people could not fight him, so they had no intention of avenging the grievances of those arrested military households.

In order to appease the military households in the village, Yan Zhong also promised to lure him, as long as the military households in the village honestly did what he said, then not only could they forgive part of the debts owed to him by the military households in the village, but each household could also receive 100 catties of rice and a piece of cloth.

Under Yan Zhong's coercion, the military households in Shangma Village succumbed one after another, presenting a scene of dead silence, the village was deserted, and occasionally people were in a hurry, but many soldiers from the guard post were carrying knives and guns in the village.

It turned out that due to the pressure of Feng Yong, the commander of the capital of Fujian, Yan Zhong asked the guards who were with him to go to the village to monitor for the sake of safety, so as not to make any mistakes, after all, the king of Zhongwu is not easy to provoke, not to mention Yang Yu, a small guard commander, even the governors of the five armies will bow down when facing Li Yuntian.

At dusk that day, two merchants who pulled a cart of goods in a cart came to Shanma Village, and because it was too late, they stayed overnight in a family in the village.

Several guards wandering on the street checked the two merchants, and found that the two spoke with Jiangnan accents, not only proficient in business but also had the tactfulness of small traders, and took the initiative to take two or three hundred dollars to invite them to drink, so the guards did not take this matter to heart, and each took a few goods when they left.

After all, there are such merchants who walk the streets and alleys all over the Ming Dynasty, plus those two merchants are very knowledgeable about current affairs, as the saying goes, reach out and don't hit smiling people, who is full of food to take the initiative to cause trouble?

The two merchants did not stay in the big families in the village, but asked the guards to find them a home for an ordinary military family, after all, compared with those large families, ordinary people were more enthusiastic about them who traveled from south to north.

The guards chose the most honest family in the village for the two merchants, and the head of the household was named Zhang Laohan, who was timid and afraid, and would definitely not talk much.

When the two merchants arrived at Zhang Laohan's house, they were just in time for dinner at Zhang Laohan's house, and a family of three generations and more than ten people were waiting for dinner around a broken square table.

After seeing the guards coming, Zhang Laohan didn't know what was going on, and hurriedly greeted him.

"These two brothers will spend the night with you, and give you twenty big dollars, but you must take good care of them." A few soldiers of the guard post briefly introduced the situation of the two merchants and then left, and the two merchants gave them two or three hundred yuan enough to give them a good meal after returning to the city.

Twenty big money is twenty wen, which is enough for the expenses of an ordinary family in the countryside for two or three days, so Aoki Mingyi gave Wu Ziyan five hundred taels of silver tickets as soon as he made a move, which is a big deal.

Because of the care of those guards, and the accommodation fees given by the two merchants, Zhang Laohan hurriedly asked his son and daughter-in-law to pack up a room for the two of them to live in.

While the son and daughter-in-law were cleaning up in the room, the Zhang family's dinner was served, black bread and batter, plus three plates of unknown wild vegetables and pickles, this was their dinner, exuding a strange taste.

As soon as the meal was served, the children of the family couldn't wait to grab the black bread and stuff it into their mouths, nibbling on it with relish.

There are not many black flour cakes, and there are not a few left, Zhang Laohan broke half of it and gave the remaining half to his second son, it can be seen that he is reluctant to eat, and behind it is the helplessness of lack of food.

"Uncle, you're going to eat this?" The two merchants pushed a cart loaded with goods into the yard, and when they saw that the dinner of the Zhang family was so shabby, one of the older merchants with a beard and a beard stepped forward and picked up the hard dough and looked at it, and asked with some surprise.

"The countrymen don't have anything to eat to make you laugh." Zhang Laohan smiled when he heard this, pushed a small rattan basket containing black flour cakes in front of him in front of the old merchant, and said with a simple face, "If you don't dislike it, eat some with us." ”

"I'm embarrassed enough to disturb your place, how can I let my uncle entertain us, we should invite my uncle's family to dinner."

The old merchant shook his head, put the black bread in his hand back into the small rattan basket, and said to the young merchant who was standing in front of the cart to unload, "Fifth brother, take out our half bag of rice and let the aunt steam it, and then bring the appetizers we bought from the town, and let's have a few drinks with the old uncle in the evening." ”

After the young merchant answered, he put down the goods in his hand, took down half a bag of rice from the car and handed it to Zhang Laohan's wife, and asked Zhang Laohan's wife to steam the white rice.

This made the children who were originally around the table and chewing black flour cakes cheering, and they put down the black flour cakes in their hands and ran to the kitchen to watch Zhang Laohan's wife cook, but they can only eat rice during the New Year's holidays, and it is also inferior old rice, and the rice of the two merchants is this year's new rice at a glance.

But then the children ran out of the kitchen and stood at the table swallowing their saliva, and the young merchant had put some cooked food and braised vegetables on the table, including roast chicken, braised beef, pickled fish, shredded kelp, etc., as well as a plate of red-skinned beans that no one had ever seen before.

This pack of red-skinned beans is peanuts, but because peanuts have not yet been popularized in Daming, they are only planted by military households in Wutang, so don't talk about those children, even Zhang Laohan, who has lived forty or fifty years old, has never seen such a strange thing.

Soon, Zhang Laohan's nose couldn't help twitching, he smelled an enticing aroma of wine, it turned out that the young merchant actually took down a jar of wine from the cart, and just opened the wine seal, a refreshing aroma of wine rushed to his face.

"Good wine!" Zhang Laohan likes to drink, to be precise, he can only be with that kind of inferior bulk wine, or the first time he smelled such a pure aroma of wine, he couldn't help but praise it, hooking him with wine worms.

"Go, call your uncle and them." Seeing the family gathered around the table and swallowing the dishes on the table, Zhang Laohan thought about it and ordered the second son on the side.

When encountering such a good wine and food today, Zhang Laohan naturally wanted to call his close brothers, first, to let them taste such a good wine and food, and secondly, to accompany the guests.

Then Zhang Laohan waved his hand to the second daughter-in-law, and the second daughter-in-law led the family in front of the table to leave, and several children didn't want to leave and were dragged back.

Zhang Laohan's second son came back soon, followed by five or six middle-aged people, all dressed in patched clothes, sniffing their noses as soon as they entered the door, and the courtyard was already filled with the smell of wine.

Under Zhang Laohan's greeting, several middle-aged people sat down at the table one after another, compared to the appetizers on the table, their attention was more focused on the jar of wine, no one had ever seen such a good wine before, just smelling it made people feel a little drunk.

These middle-aged people who accompanied them were all poor military households in the village, and compared with Zhang Laohan, who was not good at words, they talked more, and everyone was most interested in the origin of the jar of wine.

"This is a home-brewed wine given by a distant relative who opened a winery, and it has been cellared for several years, and I am not good at drinking, so I borrowed flowers to offer Buddha for everyone to taste." The elderly merchant said with a smile while pouring wine for everyone, "This wine must be drunk by those who are destined to know wine, otherwise it will be ruined." ”

Hearing this, several middle-aged people present, including Zhang Laohan, showed a smug look on their faces, feeling that the elderly merchant said that it had reached their hearts, they all had twenty or thirty years of wine age, although they drank inferior loose wine, but they also had a unique taste and understanding of wine, which was the "destined person who understands wine" in the mouth of the old merchant.