A soldier carried water to a villager's house.

Who knows, he had just arrived at the gate, which was only half open, and before he could cross the threshold, he saw an old woman with a small foot standing at the gate.

Looking at the warrior lightly, he said very calmly: "You can put the water at the door." ”

Ma Hongji took a few guards, humming a song, and just went out less than twenty meters away with a happy mind and body, he saw this scene, and suddenly became angry: You are too unkind to an old widow, others are kind enough to help you carry water, and you don't even let the door in, is this like a word?

The happy mood was suddenly a little unhappy, but he was the head of the family, and he couldn't bother with a widow for such a trivial matter.

The young man was not angry at all, but smiled and said to the old woman: "Auntie, it doesn't matter, I'm fine anyway, and I have the strength, I must help you fill the water tank as soon as possible, right......?

"Don't dare to take that one!" Who knows, the old woman didn't even listen to the other party's words, and directly interrupted: "Although the old woman is a little older, she still has the strength to carry water, and she can't ask for help." ”

As soon as he heard this, the young man was not angry, and explained: "Auntie, I didn't mean that, I ......"

The old woman also interrupted him, and waved her hand impatiently: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to bother with you, you can go quickly." ”

Then he turned around and closed the door, and there was a loud complaint: "Really, I said that my flat shoulder and bucket disappeared early in the morning, and it turned out that someone had borrowed them." Hmph! ”

Ma Hongji on the side was so angry that he almost stomped his feet and asked someone to rush in to teach this old woman a good lesson, but if you think about it carefully, this old woman is not only her distant relative, but also her man died in order to protect his father, blocking bullets for his father, and for this, he helped her a lot......

Forget it, forget it, out of sight is pure, can't I provoke and hide?

Thinking of this, I originally planned to step forward to comfort this somewhat embarrassed warrior, but I didn't have this mind at this time...... Hide your face and go away, lest you be found out that you will not discipline your people.

He had not gone a few steps when he heard the soldier shouting to the old woman through the gate, "Lady, I have left the bucket and water by the door, and you should be careful when you go out, so as not to touch ...... I'll go first, and I'll come back tomorrow to fetch water for you. ”

Ma Hongji didn't have much idea about this, at most, he felt that this young man was late today, and he would come tomorrow?

The point is that this young man's attitude is very good, even if he is sarcastically pricked by the old woman, he is not angry at all, and he has the meaning of going to the pole to find abuse. This made Ma Hongji suddenly look at the young man differently.

can think about it, maybe it's just a special case, so Ma Hongji just looked back at the young man, remembered this young man who left a deep impression on him, and continued to walk with his hands behind his back.

Now, his original happy mood was long gone, and he had long since turned into depression: he wanted to discipline this old woman, but he didn't dare, but he didn't teach him, and he was embarrassed. Don't mention this depression.

After walking a few steps, he heard the laughter and happy shouts of children in the distance, which made Ma Hongji look forward to it.

When I walked over, I saw a few girls wearing commando uniforms, playing a game of eagle and chicken with a large group of children.

The children laughed, the girls were happy, and Ma Hongji was also happy: under his own control, it should be like this, the more laughter, the stronger his governance ability.

But before Ma Hongji approached with a smile, he saw a young woman walking out of the left side of the street where the children were playing, and shouted: "Second dog, take your sister and get back for me." ”

The child is simple, he doesn't understand the thoughts of these adults, and he is happy to play, and he suddenly becomes a little reluctant, and begs: "Mother, I still want to play for a while." ”

"What's the fun? Get back to me. ”

The three children reluctantly walked over.

But the woman also pointed at Sang and scolded Huai and shouted: "I don't understand any rules! What do you say like crazy all day long? If you are abducted, I think you ......."

Before she finished speaking, the woman found Ma Hongji standing there with a blue face, glaring at her viciously, and was immediately startled, but after snorting heavily at a few girls who had seen it, she quickly pulled the child into the house and closed the door.

Ma Hongji is so angry in his heart! Don't mention it.

Besides, even if you want to take your child into the house, but others don't recruit you to provoke you, you can treat others like this?

In fact, this is also a misunderstanding by the villagers: in the minds of the villagers, no matter how many people come, as long as Li Jing takes the lead, as long as it is Li Jing's subordinates, then they are absolutely all bandits, even if they have become the Eighth Route Army now, but Li Jing was a big bandit before, so he is still a big bandit, and his men and horses are naturally all regarded as bandits.

In particular, seeing that some of the people brought by Li Jing were bandits back then, then, naturally, I thought that there were so many bandits mixed in it, if you want to say that they are not bandits, who would believe it?

Even the girls were treated as female bandits by the villagers.

The only difference is probably that these girls are prettier and more vibrant, much less murderous than the legendary female bandits, but a little more sassy and heroic. But...... Still a female bandit.

And this is also Ma Hongji's negligence, when he shouted in the middle of the night last night, he didn't make it clear for a while, or rather, Ma Hongji didn't think of this stubble at all. Who knows, just because of this seemingly insignificant little problem, it caused such a big misunderstanding among the villagers.

directly gave Li Ling's subordinates an equal treatment - either male bandits or female bandits. Even if you're a woman, even if you're wearing glasses, don't I know you're just a bandit?

After all, when they attacked Majiapo Village, the bandits caused great damage to the village, so that the villagers always kept in mind that it was naturally impossible to resolve it with a one- or two-sentence explanation.

"You say, am I being too lenient with the people in the village, so that they have all developed a mallet and don't know how to treat them at all. ”

How dare a few guards answer, and each bow his head.

Just now, the woman's husband was the deputy captain of the village guards, and he was not only higher in rank than their guards, but also Ma Hongji's confidant.

Naturally, it was impossible for Ma Hongji to teach the woman a lesson for such a trivial matter, because if he taught the woman a lesson, he would slap her husband in the face, and he might leave dissatisfaction in his husband's heart. It's really not cost-effective to let a henchman deviate from morality for the sake of such a trivial matter...... So, although the woman was startled, she dared to snort at the girls.

And such a relationship has pros and cons for Ma Hongji.

The advantage is that it can be more cohesive, after all, the same clan and clan, if there is something and whether it is reasonable or not, it will subconsciously protect its own family.

The disadvantage is the same as now, even if you want to discipline it, it is inconvenient to start, so as not to chill the hearts of the loyal henchmen under your hands for this little thing.

Ma Hongji sighed, walked over and clasped his fists at a few embarrassed girls and said, "A few girls, you have been wronged by the lack of discipline. ”

When the girls heard this, they all said that it was all right.

Seeing that the children were also a little overwhelmed by this atmosphere, Ma Hongji simply took out a few copper plates from his pocket and said to the eldest among them: "You can take the money and sell some candy to the village shop to share it with everyone, so that you can continue to play happily." ”

The children immediately yelled, but they still pulled a few girls very righteously, shouting to hurry up and buy candy and eat together.

Ma Hongji saw the child laughing, and he couldn't help but feel a lot more peaceful in his heart.

With your hands behind your back, keep walking.

But this time, his anger roared, and he rushed to the top of his head at once.

Seeing that he was about to walk to the restaurant where he was having breakfast, suddenly, a guard next to him pointed to the end of the alley and said, "Patriarch, there are a lot of people around over there, something must have happened?"

I looked at it, and sure enough, there was a group of people gathered around, not knowing what they were doing. However, looking at them talking to each other, something must have happened.

Ma Hongji immediately walked through the alley, and only then did he see clearly that there was not a small group of people on the opposite side, but no less than 200 people, including old and young women and children.

Ma Hongji felt that he was really angry early this morning, and if he was angry again, he might not be able to control his anger. Therefore, in order to be as calm as possible, he did not plan to walk over directly, but sent someone to figure things out first, so that he could at least reduce the strong grievances caused by directly facing the anger that could not be vented.

"Whose house is that?" Ma Hongji asked the guards, pointing to the house that was being besieged.

"Ma Ermao's home. ”

"Go over and ask what's going on?"

"Yes!"

One of the guards went with curiosity on his face, but when he returned, his face was strange and distracted.

"What are you doing? ”

It turned out that Li Jing went from house to house to apologize with the people who had participated in that war early in the morning, with a large amount of grain and cloth.

In that battle, those who were not injured were 10 pounds of grain and two pieces of ocean per household, 20 pounds of grain, one piece of cloth and five pieces of ocean for each family that were wounded, and 100 pounds of grain, two pieces of cloth and 20 pieces of ocean for each household that died.

At that time, for ordinary people, this was definitely a generous gift, and it was shared by everyone in the village, which could definitely reflect the sincerity of Li Jing's apology. After all, even in a village as wealthy as Majiapo, some people can't get enough to eat.

It's strange that Li Jing has already left more than ten households, and none of them are willing to accept it.

"Confiscated from all households?" Ma Hongji was a little surprised, afraid that he had heard it wrong.

"Not a single household was confiscated. ”

At this moment, Ma Hongji was a little emotional, a little proud, and a little angry......