"Ma Ye, you're here, please come inside!"

Songzhuzhai's men recognized the imperial guard a few days ago at a glance, and called out the name accurately.

"Hmm. Can Mr. Zhang be in the store? Mara nodded slightly, counting as a response and approval. He knew that this must be the quick-witted Zhang Suihan "Store Manager Zhang" who had trained his subordinate employees in advance, otherwise he would have come to the door for the second time, and the guy would be as enthusiastic as seeing an old acquaintance?

"Master Ma, it's really unfortunate, Lord Zhang said that there is something important going on in the past few days, and he hasn't come over!" The man was respectful and ready to let the guard master to the table to serve tea.

Mara understands that Zhang Suihan has not come to take care of the business of his shop for several days, and must have gotten involved in the affairs of the North Koreans according to the requirements of the master. So he didn't ask any more questions, and was ready to turn back and greet the girl. I didn't even look back when I came all the way just now, but I was sure that she would definitely follow her.

"Hey, Miss Ji, why did you come back so quickly? Is there anything missing, I'll buy it for you, little one! Take a look at it first, I have a distinguished guest here, slack off! The man beckoned behind Mara, and several of them bowed and greeted Qian'er, apparently as regular customers.

Mara hurriedly turned around, and the one she was called "Miss Ji" was the beautiful woman she met on the bridge!

"I ......" Miss Ji saw Mara looking back at her again, and there were many surprised looks, and she thought that this young man was surprised that she really came with her. So his face was even more flushed, and he was left holding two scrolls, and a pair of jade hands were pulling at each other's sleeves, in a dilemma - I didn't know what evil I had fallen into just now, and the young man turned around and left, only with a sentence of "follow me", and he was obedient and obedient like a ghost, and hurriedly followed behind, until he entered Songzhu Zhai again, and then realized that he was in a trance. I want to go out, but I am worried about being presumptuous, and I want to stay, but I can't find a reason! Alas, shame on you!

"Dude, what did this girl buy just now?" Mara blushed and nodded at the girl, and turned to the man again, trying to restrain her cheeks, which were also rapidly reddening and hot, and calmly asked. But no matter how much he suppressed himself, he couldn't calm down in his heart at the moment, especially the shy appearance of this Ji girl, which instantly burned into his mind......

"Oh? Master, you said Miss Ji, she just bought a four-scroll scroll, which is a six-foot sandalwood scroll and a three-foot fir scroll. Ma Ye, do you want to ......? The man's head was very bright, and he gave a half-cut sentence, and after he finished speaking, he didn't say much, but looked at the girl, looked at the young man, and smiled.

"Okay, take it as it is, and give it to this girl. How many taels of silver, I will pay the bill. Mara said and went to her waist to pull out her purse.

"Don't worry, Ma Ye, the small ones will do it. The silver taels are free, you are our colleague of Lord Zhang, how can the small one receive your silver? If you accept it, and catch Ming'er Zhang Ye back, won't you call me? Besides, you are a hero for a beautiful woman, and I will also give affection to my family Zhang in place of my family, okay? You see, I'll get you a haode sandalwood, a water of sandalwood, four axes! Rory rambled a bunch of words, and just when Mara was also embarrassed, the man had already taken four scrolls, all of them of sandalwood, and sent them to Miss Ji respectfully.

That Miss Ji was going to be polite and shirk, but when she heard the phrase "heroes give beautiful women", she couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to cover her hot face, and she didn't care about any courtesy, she took the scroll with a red face, hugged it in her arms, turned around and hurried out of the store again, and quickly disappeared from Mara's field of vision.

"Girl, don't run, be careful of bumping into people again......" Mara shouted as soon as she strode to the door, but she didn't know what else to say, but she felt stunned, and her words were not yet ......

"Haha, Brother Mara, you've lost something!" Suddenly, from the depths of the shop behind him, a very familiar voice came from the depths of the store. Mara hurriedly turned around, stunned!

"What's the matter, Brother Mara, his eyes are full of spring, and he can't recognize his brother?" The man looked like he was fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed as a nobleman, with his hands behind his back, and slowly paced, with a playful smile on his face.

"Ahh Don't dare! Mara meets with Lord Doro-e-so! Mara finally came to her senses and hurriedly saluted.

It turned out that the person on the other side was called Geng Zhaozhong, who was the second son of Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan. This "prince" is recorded in history as "good at articles, craftsmanship, and good at identification." It is often proficient in calligraphy, painting, piano, game, flute, building, medicine, xiao, and bobo. The famous relics of the Song and Yuan dynasties that have been circulated in this world have Geng's Tibetan seals on them. "It is natural to appear in Liulichang today, to appear in this Songzhu Zhai.

Just this year, he and his brother Geng Jingzhong, just attached to the Qing Dynasty royal family, and was promoted to the "forehead" - on the second day of the sixth month of the twelfth year of Shunzhi, the Ministry of Rites wrote to the emperor, saying, "Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, consulted Yizi Jingzhong and Zhaozhong, and he has grown up and should be invited to conclude a marriage." Don't dare to poop. Wait. It means that Geng Jimao's two sons, Geng Jingzhong and Geng Zhaozhong, have grown up, and it's time to talk about marriage. But because he is the prince, he doesn't count the marriage of his children, and he doesn't dare to decide on his own, so he waits for the emperor to make a decision.

So, Fu Lin asked the Minister of the Interior to play. The conclusion of the discussion is: Geng Zhongming, the father of Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, has the merit of leading the people to sail to Chengcheng, and Jimao is in Yanjiang (a remote and dangerous place). Today, the marriage of the two sons does not dare to ask for help, and looks up to the emperor to report the merit and compassionate work, benevolence and virtue. It is advisable to marry a prince or other daughter.

Fu Lin is so smart that he naturally won't miss this good opportunity. In fact, at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were "four feudatories", not the "three feudatories" often said in later generations, and the four kings were Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, all of whom were former Ming courtiers who descended to the Qing Dynasty in the early years. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652), Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army attacked Guangxi and broke through Guilin, and Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, committed suicide, and more than 120 members of his family were all killed and extinct, leaving only one daughter, so only three feudatories remained.

The armies of the three feudatories were all under their own jurisdiction, and they were neither incorporated into the Eight Banners nor subordinate to the Green Battalion, but their establishment was still based on the Eight Banners. At the beginning of the Qing court, due to the limited strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, they wanted to make full use of the Han generals and Han soldiers, so the trip to the three feudatories was reused, and the three kings also guarded a province respectively, as if they became the local emperors. In February of the 11th year of Shunzhi, Fulin issued two edicts, one edict was the edict to the two kings of Pingnan and Dingnan, "King Shangke of Pingnan is happy to stay in the town to guard Guangdong", Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, moved to Guangxi, appointed Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, to move the town of Yunnan, and granted the political power to govern the province.

Among the three kings, King Shang Kexi of Pingnan lowered his gold in his early years, and he has always been loyal to the imperial court, and he has no other intentions. Geng Zhongming, the father of Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, although he also returned to Shun very early, but in the sixth year of Shunzhi, he was cut off by the ministry for a hidden fugitive, and Geng Zhongming committed suicide in fear of crime, which will not leave a shadow on Geng Jimao. As for Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, the situation is different. At first, he held on to the outside of the pass to resist the Qing soldiers, but when Li Zicheng's army surrounded Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui was forced to ask the Qing soldiers for help, the purpose was still to protect the Ming Dynasty. Because of this twist and turn, the regent Dolgon only used it at first, and was not completely at ease, and always let the "Morgen" guard, Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan, move to Hanzhong with him. Since then, Wu Sangui has actively led the army to attack Yunnan, to eliminate the Yongli regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, it can be seen that he has long been in love with the former Ming Dynasty, and he will always be loyal to the Qing Emperor in the future. This naturally made Wu Sangui grateful and loyal.

Not only that, as early as the tenth year of Shunzhi, Fulin promised Princess Heshuo, the fourteenth princess of Taizong, to Wu Yingxiong, the eldest son of Wu Sangui in Beijing, as his wife. How could the soaring prosperity of Wu Sangui's father and son not make other princes itch in their hearts? Fu Lin is happy to push the boat down the river, and also has the intention to let the sons of the three kings of Pingxi, Pingnan and Jingnan all marry the princess, so that the three kings will become relatives of the emperor and will always be loyal to the court.

Therefore, with a stroke of the pen, the emperor gave his cousin niece, the sister of Prince Heshuoxian Fushou (who was six years old at the time), the title of "Heshuo Gege", married Geng Jingzhong, and waited for the princess to hold a wedding. At that time, the beating of Hongyi by Fu Shou's subordinate Baoyi Sun Gouzi had not happened, otherwise it is estimated that this "good thing" of political marriage would not be their turn.

Fu Lin also gave his deceased cousin, the daughter of Gushan Beizi Subutu, the title of "Gushan Gege", and married Geng Zhaozhong. If you talk about the generations of the two Gushan Gege, the elder brother Geng Jingzhong is the "future brother-in-law" of Dorobelle Xuanye, and the younger brother Geng Zhaozhong is Xuanye's "niece and son-in-law", and the two brothers are inferior in this regard.

Geng Zhaozhong, who was playing tricks, smiled and helped up Mara, who was beating Qian'er, and pretended to be disgusted: "Brother Mara, don't refuse people thousands of miles away!" Be careful, little brother, I'm angry! Don't you ask me what you've lost? It turned out that Geng Zhaozhong was only sixteen years old at the time, and he was only a half-grown child (poor or "happy" early marriage and early childbearing), and when he was still young, he joined the Fulin as a guard and awarded the first-class Jingqi Nihafan, so it can be said that he has known Mara for many years, and he can be regarded as a colleague.

"It's a joke, you are now a Dora forehead, and you don't dare to trespass on your position!" After Mara turned her ways, she turned back into the strict and unobtrusive royal guard.

"Won't Dora's forehead be able to make friends with 'heroes' and be cited as robes? Could it be that only 'beautiful women' can match heroes? Yes? The young man Geng Zhaozhong continued to relieve Mara, deliberately quoting the phrase "heroes give beautiful women" to the guys in the store just now.

"I ...... Mistress ...... "Mara blushed.

"Call me Zhaozhong, or brother, otherwise, what I have seen and heard today, but I can't keep it up and say that ......I will go out," the sixteen-year-old colt began to let go.

"This ......" reason told Mara that he should not be weak-hearted, but his intuition told him that there was something deep down in his heart! It's over, and I'm grabbed by the pigtails behind my back!

"Alright, Brother Mara, did you lose something?" Don't look at this prince who is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but the wind and snow in the poems and songs are familiar, and the love between men and women is also very early understood. Just now I saw Mara standing in the doorway, and I knew the clue.

"I lost something? No? Mara was confused, looking herself up and down, left and right.

"You, you just lost the person you liked, didn't you! Haha, but don't worry, I'll visit you soon! Moreover, the little brother is waiting for your big day, and he will be the first to come to the door to congratulate! Geng Zhaozhong did not forgive.

"I ...... I still have tolerance to do, so don't overdo it. Mara was so embarrassed that she forced herself to finally come to a hurry and prepare thirty-six plans to go as the best plan.

"Wait, there is tolerance, my little brother is free today, how about I go for a walk with you?"

"No, I really have a life, I can't help myself, forehead, farewell!" Mara turned and walked away, and had just taken half a step when she heard the following sentence:

"If you leave, I'll go to Cining Palace to tell you that you're going......"

Come on, choose the lesser of two evils, and start from it! Mara turned decisively.

"Brother Zhaozhongxian, you can go, but you can't talk nonsense like just now, so as not to spoil the master's big thing!" Mara advised.

"Master? Do you mean that the second son of the emperor and Lord Dorobelle will not succeed? Was it an errand he arranged? "I didn't expect Geng Zhaozhong's eyes to shine, it really made Mara regret her intestines!

"Uh,...... Precisely. ”

"Great, my father has been loyal to the Qing Dynasty for many years, and my brothers and I have been in this capital all day long, and have nothing to do, when will we be able to serve the emperor? I have long heard that little Belle is auspicious from the sky, and he is very wise, and he wants to make friends as soon as possible, so as to serve the country. Today must be with you, let's work together to do this errand Lilisuo and repay Lord Belle. Let's go, Brother Mara! While speaking, Geng Zhaozhong had already rushed to the door of the store, and he didn't care about the warm farewell of the guys, so he beckoned Mara to hurry up.

Alas, when you go back, you must check the yellow calendar to see if this day is a blessing or a curse! Oh, and one more thing!

Thinking of this, Mara took out three or four taels of silver from her purse, and threw it directly into the hands of the guy, regardless of whether it was enough or not.

"Don't talk about it, I never owe money on credit! If it's not enough, please tell me and I'll send it again. Mara said decisively, feeling faintly that she had done the right thing, and she must be in line with Master Xuanye's requirements. I was just about to be complacent, but I remembered that the one at the door was still waiting for me, so I had to shake my head helplessly, and in the respectful thanks and goodbyes of the guys, I followed Geng Zhaozhong, the head of the Qing Dynasty, and moved out of the gate of Songzhu Zhai step by step, grinding and grinding - this errand must not be known by the second son of the Geng family, but how is it good? Mara deliberately grinded, and her mind was tense for a while......