"No, no, no! How can I take your stuff. Luo Sanmu repeatedly emphasized, "It's not worth much to say a few wild pears." ”

But Meng Changqing had already handed it to him with the bag.

Luo Sanmu could only reach out and take it, as soon as he touched the bag, Luo Sanmu knew that it was grain, and from the protrusion next to the bag, it might be white rice.

"It's just a few liters of white rice, it's not a precious thing, so let's take it home and give it to the children."

"This ......" Luo Sanmu hugged the bag in his hand, his cheeks and ears were red, "How embarrassing is this, white rice is expensive." ”

"Thank you for thinking about the yamen, a few liters of white rice thank you for your heart, and I hope you don't dislike it."

"How dare you dislike such a good thing." Luo Sanmu said these two sentences back and forth.

"There's one more thing to tell you."

"You say."

"When you came from Yangmen County, you saw two high mountains?"

"Yes, I saw two mountains."

"There are mountain bandits on those two mountains, I just came to Beishan County at the beginning of the year, I was robbed by them, although they did not let their purpose succeed, but they have privately cast weapons in their hands, if you ordinary people face them, I am afraid that it is not so easy to talk.

The situation on the mountain has not been clarified by the Yamen until now, so if you have traveled to and from Yangmen County, I will basically let the people from the Yamen escort you, for fear that you will have an accident on the road. ”

This era was not peaceful, and although the people were timid, they were not surprised to hear words such as robbery and robbers.

After Luo Sanmu listened, he thanked Meng Changqing, "You are really good to our people." ”

Meng Changqing waved his hand and continued, "You have also seen that the two high mountains are connected to the mountains on the east and west sides, and the mountain bandits will follow the mountain road to the mountains on both sides, you must pay attention to safety when you go to chop wood, you can't go deep into the mountains, and people who enter the mountains must not be left alone."

I can understand that you want to save firewood, but if you go down and go again, you must come to the yamen and say something, and I will send someone to escort you over, and if the yamen's car is idle, it can also be lent to you, so that you can run more. ”

After Meng Changqing finished speaking, Luo Sanmu knelt down directly, "I've grown up so big, it's the first time I've seen a good official like you." ”

"Get up, you don't have to say such things, it's not early, you can go back."

Luo Sanmu kowtowed a few times at Meng Changqing before he was willing to get up, "I will definitely tell the whole village about your kindness." ”

After Luo Sanmu left, Meng Changqing called Bafang and asked about the time.

Bafang said: "When I was still in the unitary, I forgot what time it was, I went to the water room to have a look." ”

"No, you don't." It's between five and seven o'clock in the afternoon, and it's not too late," you go and call the Malaifu from the west side. ”

"Hey."

Bafang ran away, and after a while, he came back and said, "Young master, people are still having dinner, let me call them." ”

"Let him in."

Bafang went out and brought in the people who were waiting outside the door.

"Alright, don't kneel." Meng Changqing said, "I asked you to come because I have something to tell you." ”

"Yes, you command."

"What happened over the mountain. You said before that you want to lure the people down from the mountain, and let me think about it. Now that I've thought about it, I think half of what you said was right, and the other half was unrealistic. ”

Ma Laifu bent down slightly to look at Meng Changqing and listened to her carefully.

"It's right to let people go down the mountain, but what you said, posting a notice at the bottom of the mountain, this method is useless without doing it." Meng Changqing said, "You have other ways. ”

Malaifu has it, but he doesn't dare to say it.

Meng Changqing knew that he still had something to say that day, so he called someone over.

Now this Malaifu is still hesitating, and that thought is so unspeakable.

"I asked you about Ma Lishan before." Meng Changqing said: "You said that he was originally on the mountain, but later he was driven down by the people on the mountain because his hands and feet were not clean.

In this way, he knows the mountain better than we do. ”

"Yes."

Meng Changqing looked at Ma Laifu, "When I talk about this, can you say it?" ”

Ma Laifu had a kind of embarrassment that someone had pierced his mind, "If I go back to my lordship, I have also thought privately that it is better to persuade those who have come down from the mountain to go up the mountain, or just to bring them to the adult, but I later thought that Ma Lishan is not a credible person, and if he goes up the mountain and does not come down again, it will not be a good thing for us." ”

Meng Changqing nodded, "You said that among them, among the two hundred people, including you, who else came down from the mountain?" ”

"I'm not sure." "If you want to know, you can send someone to ask them." ”

"Don't bother, I trust you, you say it."

"My lord, many of the 200 people came down from the mountains. There was no Beishan County before, and there was no city wall, if you didn't want to die under the Yan army's horses, you could only ask the people on the two mountains to take you in.

Only when you really can't go up the mountain, you will hide in the mountains elsewhere. ”

Meng Changqing walked in the open space in the house, pacing slowly.

"The vast majority of those of us who can't go up the mountain, or who are driven down the mountain, will not be involved in the mountain." Ma Laifu hurriedly defended himself in order to prevent Meng Changqing from becoming suspicious, "Just like me, I was assigned here with the rest of the Ma family, because the previous master family offended the current leader, and those people didn't let me go up the mountain with my mother at all."

When I was starving and cold, my mother and I carried it stiffly, and finally watched my mother die of cold and hunger.

With such a thing in it, I would never have anything to do with the mountains. ”

"I don't doubt what you're saying." Meng Changqing said, "Among those two hundred people, I trust you especially, so I am willing to tell you something." ”

"Thank you for your trust."

"Since you know that the people who were driven down the mountain are just like you, and they won't have anything to do with the mountain, then why did you think of Ma Lishan before?"

Ma Laifu was stunned, he didn't expect such a loophole in his words.

He could only say, "Ma Lishan, it's not that I said bad things about him, I knew him before I came to Beishan County, he is a little faceless and skinless, even if someone kicks him, he will still smile and stick it for some benefits."

If a person like him goes up the mountain, the people on the mountain will not trust him much, but they will not doubt him much. ”

Ma Laifu followed up and said: "But a person like Ma Lishan, I don't dare to guarantee that he will definitely stand there, if the adults use him, I am afraid it will be a lot of risks." ”

Meng Changqing nodded, "Then what if I use you?" ”

"Me?" "I can't go up the mountain at all.

Although the people of the Ma family only occupy the mountain on the east side. But the wall on the west side was higher, and the people above it were even more arrogant and unreasonable, and when they saw that we outsiders were going up the mountain, they directly hit us with stones. (End of chapter)