Chapter 5: Stormy Night Walkers
The famous Sanxiu Academy in Raozhou is located next to the Sanxiu Forest. After King Wu took half of the south of the Yangtze River, he set up academies in various parts of the Jiangnan to recruit students, and there are more than ten large and small academies in Raozhou City.
The convoy passed Sanxiulin, and after a while, it was not far from the Raozhou Salt Field. From a distance, I saw the lanterns and torches illuminating the salt field as bright as day. The leader of the convoy was the pock-faced man. This person's surname was Li, and the people were called Li Mazi.
Later, the Ming army defeated Raozhou and sent a prefect to come.
Today's Li Mazi has a house, silver, a 'daughter', and a son in Raozhou, and in just one year, he has everything that he couldn't think of before. These are all given by the prefect.
For the sake of Lord Yin, Li Mazi would rather die, and he can get the weight of Lord Yin, which is the blessing of several generations of cultivation. Li Mazi now takes the former people and horses to escort Haiyan full-time, and every month he can receive one hundred taels of silver from Lord Yin of Fu. One hundred taels of silver is unthinkable in the eyes of ordinary people.
In the past, Li Mazi lived a life in fear, but now he is confident and bold to transport 'private' salt. Pan Lei, the prefect of Quanzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, is the cousin of Yin Pan Cao, the governor of Raozhou. In the past, Li Mazi also made a lot of friends in the green forest.
The convoy passed Sanxiulin, and after a while, it was not far from the Raozhou Salt Field, and I saw the lanterns and torches illuminating the salt field as bright as day.
Li Mazi urged, and the convoy hurried to the salt field, and the wooden fence of the salt field opened early, waiting for the convoy to enter.
Li Mazi couldn't help but curse.At this moment, it can't be unloaded when it rains.If the salt bag sees the rain, it will be shorter than two catties.In desperation.Li Mazi ordered the carriage to stop after entering the salt field.Everyone went into the salt field shed for shelter.Wait for the rain before unloading.The carriage is covered with tarpaulins.Besides, they are all tied up and stopped.
After Li Mazi finished instructing, he went to the earthen house on the edge of the salt field with a few heads talking and laughing.
Along the way, Li Mazi didn't get a drop of wine.At this time, when he arrived at the ground, he was naturally no longer restrained.He sat around the square table in the room with his head in front of the room.Then he shouted to eat and drink.After three rounds of wine and five flavors, he walked into the two of them from the back 'door'.These two people were wearing hats and wearing robes.But Li Mazi closed his eyes and knew that these two people were the second year of high school of Master Ma and his entourage of the Salt Division.
Master Ma entered the room, first took off the hat and took off his robe, showing a Confucian robe.
Master Ma bent down and reached out to dust off the muddy water on his robe.
"Hehehe, Li put his head, this is a routine deed of goods, it has been stamped, you put it away." Master Ma handed over the paper sign, Li Mazi took it, unfolded it, looked at it, and then folded it into his arms.
This deed of goods is silver, three pieces a month, with it, you can go to Lord Yin to get the silver, but I don't dare to lose it. Li Mazi received the deed of goods, and then he smiled and said: "This rain can't stop for a while. Master Ma came just right.Let's drink two cups together.Come on.I'll fill it for you."
Li Mazi said and took an empty cup and poured the wine from the wine jug.
Master Ma couldn't help frowning.The wine glass that Li Mazi was holding was used by a saltworks beside him.How could a literati drink with him.
"Li doesn't have to be polite, I'm going back to report to Master Fu next." Master Ma refused and turned around and put on his coat and hat.
Li Mazi laughed and said, "In this case, the master will go slowly, and he won't send it." Having said that, Li Mazi's heart is bright, every time he toasts with someone else's cup, this Master Ma is avoided.
The people sitting here are all their own brothers.In the past, they all followed their own knife heads to 'lick' the blood.If you 'insert' into a sour literati, no one will be at ease.So every time you 'hand' over the deed of goods.Li Mazi will send off the guests according to this method.
Master Ma dressed and stopped and bowed to everyone in the room again, and then he took his entourage and went out through the back 'door'.
The Raozhou Salt Division is not far from the salt field, so Master Ma comes on foot every time, but it is raining tonight, and the road is quite muddy.
As he was walking, he could vaguely see the three people walking towards him, and it seemed that he was in a hurry, but he didn't even bring a paper umbrella. The three people ran all the way with their hands on their heads. Master Ma couldn't help but sneer when he saw it.
The three people in front of them ran close in a moment, who knew that at the moment when they were on the wrong shoulder, Master Ma only felt that his legs tightened, and then he fell to the ground. Before Master Ma could scream, he was stuffed with his mouth and nose tied and his hands stuffed into a sack.
Master Ma's sophomore year of high school is not good to see.' Draw the 'waist knife' and 'want' to resist, but I don't know where 'Xu' 'shoot' a sharp arrow to kill it on the spot.
At this time, more than a dozen black-clothed 'masked' people flashed out of the grass on the side of the road, each holding a bow and a crossbow and a long knife, and went straight to the direction of the salt field.......
"Come, come, drink." Li Mazi and everyone in the room were pushing cups and changing cups to drink.
Unexpectedly, there were two loud bangs, and the front and rear 'doors' were kicked open at the same time, and more than 20 black-clothed people rushed into from outside the two 'doors'.
Li Mazi was shocked when he saw this, seeing that these black-clothed people were all holding long knives and black scarves were 'masked', but he didn't know where they came from.
Li Maziqiang calmed his mind and asked, "Friends on that line, report your wrist."
The man in black who spoke earlier sneered: "What are we doing, don't ask, go to a place with us, Your Excellency will understand." As he spoke, he waved behind him, and a man in black held a knife in one hand and a rope in the other.
At the moment when the rope was on the body, Li Mazi's waist twisted, and his left arm was suddenly struck back.
Holding a knife in his hand, Li Mazi's figure did not stop, and he jumped up and came out of the window. Who knew that outside the window, there were two people holding a sack, opening the mouth of the bag, and waiting there. Li Mazi happened to get into the sack by himself.
The black-clothed man who took the lead in the room laughed and said, "Don't be surprised, everyone, we are only for Li Mazi this time. As he spoke, he took out a paper bag from his bosom and unfolded it, walked to the table, opened the wine jug, and poured the contents of the paper bag into the wine jug.
The man in black spoke again: "If you drink this wine, you will be fine, if you don't drink it, you will be killed, and if you play tricks, you will be killed. I will count to three. If you don't drink, don't blame me for waiting for the black."
The black-clothed people around him all showed a fierce light, the long knives in their hands were shining, and they didn't look like they were acting.
The leaders were hesitating, and the leader of the men in black was already saying, "One."
Don't wait for two, otherwise it's really two.Li Mazi is still calculating.Not to mention these unpopular foremen.Everyone present took their own wine glasses and drank all the wine in the glass.The people in black stared at them and threw themselves on the table.Only then did they check one by one.Seeing that everything was **numb.,Then he greeted and led all the people in black to push out the room 'door'.
The night rain continued to fall heavier and heavier, even if I stood in the rain and shouted, the sound would not come out too far, not to mention that these men in black came and went silently, even the footprints were quickly diluted by the rain.
When Li Mazi saw the light again, he was in a secret room, the secret room was not big, but only two zhang square, the wall was lit with pine torches, and the room was as bright as day.
I'm thinking about it from my own cranks.' Outside the door, there was a man dressed in crimson and richly dressed.
As soon as the man in red clothes entered the 'door', Li Mazi couldn't help but be surprised. In the past, he naturally didn't know that it was powerful, but after being in contact with Lord Fu Yin for a long time, he had a certain understanding of the official system.
Although the person who came in was dressed in a regular uniform, Li Mazi knew that this was an official uniform, and the official rank of this person who came in was greater than that of Lord Fu Yin.