Before dawn, when the east was just white, and most of the people in the Majia village were still sleeping, a few officers and soldiers came from outside the village, saying that they had come to the village to urge food and pay wages on the order of the general army of Lushun.

Urging food and wages? It's the other way around!

After listening to the report of the villagers, Master Ma Deguima, who had not yet gotten up, asked someone to ring the gong without saying a word.

The gong sounded quickly, and in an instant the entire village, men, women and children were awakened, and after a while, hundreds of soldiers wearing white hats and holding knives and guns gathered at the gate of the village.

A few old people who listened to the lecture said that the officials and soldiers came outside and asked the village for food and wages, and suddenly the white hats became angry, and the younger ones rushed to pick up their swords and guns and wanted to go out of the village to teach the officers and soldiers who did not know the height of the sky. Fortunately, several old people of the Ma family, who were in charge of the village, were shocked, and they stopped the young ones with a few shouts, and then hugged Ma Degui and went up to the wall.

Before going to the wall, Ma Degui thought that there were a lot of officers and soldiers outside, but after going up to the wall, he found that there were only five or six people, so he immediately put his mind at ease, and after explaining a few words to a few old men of the Ma family on the side, he opened his throat and shouted outside the wall: "Which way are the officers and soldiers coming?" ”

This is a knowingly asked, the officers and soldiers outside have long told the white hats guarding the village that they are the Liaodong Army under the command of the Lushun General Army, but Ma Degui deliberately shouted such a voice, as if he didn't start like this, he wouldn't show his majesty.

The officers and soldiers wearing red cherry blossom felt hats and riding on horses in armor outside listened to Ma Degui's words, and they were not annoyed, and the general flag of the leader took a few steps forward on the horse, and then shouted: "I am Wang Qianyuan, the general banner under the command of the general army of Lushun, and I came to your village to collect grain on the order of the general army of my family." ”

Ma Degui frowned: "Which Lushun commander-in-chief?" ”

Wang Qianyuan also frowned and said: "Naturally, it is the Lushun general of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Ma Degui has been a soil overlord in Tangyin for decades, and he has been to Kaifeng Mansion as far as possible, and he has never heard of this Lushun, combined with his understanding of the general soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, he can't help but conclude that the general army of Lushun is estimated to be the title of the imperial court in order to suppress the Kou, not a genuine general soldier, and the soldiers and horses are limited, so it doesn't matter.

With this level of cognition, Ma Degui couldn't help but be emboldened, and shouted: "I know that there are general soldiers in Kaifeng, Luoyang, and Nanyang, but I don't know where this Lushun general soldier is!" Let me tell you, my village is the village of Tangyin County, not your village in Lushun, and I want to give you food and salary, but there is no door! ”

"Yes, there are no doors, no doors!"

The white hats behind the wall heard Ma Degui's uplifting words, and couldn't help but shout.

A middle-aged man next to Ma Degui shouted even more arrogantly: "You don't inquire about what kind of village my Majiazhai is, you are blind and dare to come to our village to ask for food and wages!" Acquaintances hurry up and get out, otherwise you gangsters who are pretending to be officials and soldiers will be wiped out! ”

Hearing this shouted on the wall, Wang Qianyuan didn't laugh angrily, and glanced at Chen San on the side, Chen San hurriedly ran to the front, and he had already thought about how to shout in his heart, but when the words came to his mouth, it was: "Master Ma, it's me, the little one is Chen San under the third master, do you still remember the little one!" ”

"Chen San?" Ma Degui took a look, but he was not one of the errands under the third child, it was good that he didn't know him, but this realization was even more unhappy, and he scolded: "Okay, you Chen San, dare to eat inside and lead outsiders to come to the village to ask for food, you are not afraid of my third child cleaning you up!" ”

"Master Ma, you are angry, there is no way to be small" Chen San is obviously too afraid of Ma Degui on weekdays, this will be so frightened that his face turned white, and he was about to say that he was also forced, but he was suddenly glared at by Wang Qianyuan on the side: "Don't you want to live!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Chen San suddenly became agitated, and his whole face changed instantly, and he shouted at Ma Degui with an angry face: "Ma Degui, this mission is ordered by Lord Lushun Shi General Soldier, and you Ma Family Village will gather the food and grass needed by 3,000 people for half a month in the afternoon, if you can't get it together at noon, Lord Lushun General Soldier said, I will definitely come to kill you mobs and leave no chickens and dogs!" ”

"Damn Chen San, you don't want to live anymore!" Ma Degui didn't expect that a small errand officer of the yamen would dare to intimidate him like this, and he was so angry that he scolded.

"Humph! Ma Degui, I advise you to do the same, otherwise, no one in this village will survive! ”

After Chen San finished speaking, Wang Qianyuan waved his hand and led his subordinates away. Chen San hurriedly followed, he didn't have a horse, if he fell behind, the return in the village would not spare him.

The officers and soldiers of Lushun came strangely and left suddenly, so that the Ma family on the wall did not react for a while, and only when there was only a blurry image left in their sight, did they react: Just leave?!

An elderly white hat asked Ma Degui: "What should I do about the official army's food?" ”

"When the sky falls, there is a tall man on top, I'm afraid that he will do something, so if he has the guts, he will come to fight!" Don't look at Ma Degui's kind face on weekdays, he laughs when he meets people, but when it comes to death, he is also very tough, he gritted his teeth and ordered everyone: "You immediately go and gather all the parishioners within a radius of ten miles to come to the village, and say that the government bullied our parishioners, and told everyone to come and fight with the officials and soldiers." ”

He also instructed a clansman who could ride a horse: "You immediately ride a fast horse to the temple to inform the old servant, and let him spread the news immediately, hmph, in less than two days, the entire Nanyang Mansion will rush to my Majiazhai, and then I am afraid that he will be a miscellaneous soldier in Lushun!" This bullshit total soldier is only three or two thousand soldiers and horses at best, as long as we teach the people to hold together, we don't have to be afraid of them at all! ”

"In addition, immediately send someone to the county seat to ask the third child to find the county magistrate, and say that I, Ma Degui, said that if the magistrate county lord watches outsiders bullying our Ma family's village, our people will let him get out of the county!"

"Pack up all the valuable things in the stockade, and drive back the cattle, sheep and livestock outside, but you can't ask someone to rob them. The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law all moved, boiled the stove for me, and slaughtered cattle and sheep so that they could entertain the parishioners who had arrived, so that everyone could eat and have the strength to work with the officers and soldiers. ”

"Go and tell the surrounding horse gangs, this time my Ma family is in trouble, please see that my Ma family is not thin on weekdays to come to their aid, and after retiring from the official army, my Ma Degui will repay him with a lot of money!"

When the people of the clan took the order to go, Ma Degui whispered to the second brother Ma Dexi who stayed: "You go to Zhending to find Ma Shouying in person, he is a horse with us, and they are all religious, and there are many others, and even the reinforcement and suppression of the general army can't beat him, not to mention this bird Lushun general soldier." You go and tell Ma Shouying and ask him to send troops to Tangyin, let's help fight the officers and soldiers of Lushun, and then break Tangyin City and make a fortune! ”

"Hey! Good! As soon as Ma Dexi heard that he was going to ask the old man to come back to Ma Shouying, and he was going to break Tangyin City, he immediately smiled from ear to ear, and went down the wall.