Early in the morning of the second day of the new year, Ma Maocai, the contemporary head of the Ma family in Zhenbei, stood at the door of the old mansion that had been abandoned for many years, leading the heads of the family and the young son of the long house who had just turned ten years old to welcome the distinguished guests from all the way from the south of the Yangtze River.

Chengnan Gu, Chengbei Ma, are the two most powerful families in Panlong Town, collectively known as Beima Nangu.

Different from the way the Gu family took the north-south trade route, the Ma family was originally just an ordinary small landlord in the town, with a total of dozens of acres of land in the family.

At that time, the head of the side branch of Majia Jiangnan Province was still thinking about the small town parents who raised him after gaining power, so he began to devote his resources to give back to his family.

The Ma family's family knows that their own ability is limited, and they have more than enough to defend and not enough to develop, and after receiving funding from Jiangnanlai, they just desperately bought land and land, which is why they have come to the town today, "one horse and half a city" situation.

Today's Ma family greeted the distinguished guest, is with a group of students to come to Panlong Town of the thin man, the family got the news a month ago, Beiyue Academy vice president Xie Puyan brought his own disciples to Panlong Town to study, will be received by the Ma family, the Ma family did not dare to slack off, the distinguished guests in the ancestral house to show respect.

Finally, after three poles in the sun, Xie Puyan and his disciples appeared at the corner of the street, Ma Maocai reached the ground from a long distance, and everyone behind him also did the same.

However, Vice President Xie didn't mean to return the salute at all, he didn't raise his eyelids, walked straight in front of everyone, and went directly to the door, but the short-haired young man looked at everyone in the Ma family with interest, and even reached out and pinched the face of Ma Maocai's young grandson.

Although there are many properties in the town, the ancestral house of the Ma family has been vacant for many years, but there are still people responsible for cleaning and repairing on weekdays, Xie Puyan looked around, showed a satisfied look, and turned around to explain to Ma Maocai, who came from behind him, it turned out that this time he came from Jiangnan, which was the meaning of the high-level of the academy, and the main purpose was to set up a courtyard in Panlong Town.

The Ma family is mixed, and they are happy that they can have a relationship with such a snob as Beiyue Academy, and it is almost certain that the Ma family's rise in the town in the next few decades is a sure pattern, and even through the relationship between the academy to open up a new business route, it is not impossible to take away part of the right to speak in the north-south trade from the Gu family. The worry is that when the academy first arrived, they occupied their ancestral home, and they didn't regard the Ma family as a partner at all, at best, it was just a role that could be used locally, and whether they were willing to take care of one or two in the future.

After Xie Puyan explained the relevant matters, he served tea and sent it off, and everyone in the Ma family withdrew from the old house with complicated feelings.

There was also a short-haired boy who left with the Ma family, Xie Puyan pulled the boy to his side, whispered a few words, the boy nodded expressionlessly, caught up with everyone in the Ma family, and walked out of the gate together.

The boy's real name is Ma Sichen, is a genius of this generation of the Ma family Jiangnan side branch, when he was a child, he was accidentally met by Vice President Xie who traveled down the mountain from the academy, marveled at his talent, and accepted him as a disciple, these years of practice have made rapid progress, and at the age of sixteen, he has stood on the threshold of the peak of the photographic period, and he is only separated by a layer of window paper from breaking through the Ruyi period.

The south side branch of the Ma family also attaches great importance to Ma Sichen, and the heavenly and earthly treasures related to cultivation have been sent to the academy like flowing water over the years, and even when he was fifteen years old, he set up a family rule that the next generation of family heads will not pass on to Ma Sichen.

As for Ma Sichen's own character, it was not always frizzy when he faced Zhao Xifeng at the gate of the town yesterday, it was for the master to see.

At this time, Ma Sichen politely greeted every elder, especially to Ma Maocai, who called a grandfather one by one, with a slightly shy smile on his face, and his appearance and posture could not pick out the slightest difference.

Everyone also greeted politely, admiring that there are such juniors, and the family is prosperous.

After politely rejecting an uncle's offer to stay at home, Ma Sichen asked to talk to his grandfather alone, and everyone retreated.

After that, Ma Sichen inquired in detail about the information of each first-time student in Panlong Academy, including personality, age, family background, etc., and found that none of them matched the children under the peach tree yesterday, so he asked if anyone was used to practicing boxing under the peach tree.

After learning that the child's father named Zhao Xifeng was just a post officer, Ma Sichen nodded with a smile, and after saying goodbye, he left the Ma Mansion.

Panlong town said big or not, said small but not small, seven horizontal five vertical a total of twelve streets, the south of the town three horizontal is the town where ordinary people live, Zhao five father and son and Aunt Li and others live here, the north of the town two horizontal belong to the Ma family for private use, the west of the town is the location of the Panlong school, the east of the school is separated by a small street, is the town guard county ya, and the east of the town is the town bazaar, the most is the dragon and snake mixed, Aunt Li sells wine here, Zhang Butcher's butcher shop is here, Jia Daoli and Zhen Xingqing are also fortune tellers here.

After coming out of Mafu, Ma Sichen also came to visit the Zhendong Market.

He squinted, holding a map of the town prepared for him by the Ma family in his hand, walking and stopping, searching, and his other hand was still regularly pinching and calculating directions.

Eventually, his footsteps stopped at the door of Qingfeng Bookstore, the only bookstore in the town, and on the plaque of Qingfeng Bookstore, there was a notch that was recessed inward under the Qing character, Ma Sichen flicked his fingers around the notch three times on the left and right, and a paper scroll popped out of the dent after a while.

Ma Sichen came to the back alley of the bookstore with the paper roll in his hand, and waited quietly, and a quarter of an hour later, the butcher's kitchen servant in the market walked up to him expressionlessly and spread his palms.

After receiving the paper roll handed over by Ma Sichen, he verified that it was correct, so he waved his hand to follow, and turned around and walked away.

Young Master Ma followed behind the little maid, turned around and walked out of the market, and came to a simple laundry room in the residential area of the people in the south of the city, and several middle-aged women at the door were holding wooden sticks and slapping the clothes in the basin, and no one looked up at the two.

The little guy didn't say hello, turned around and left, and Ma Sichen pushed the door in.

In the room, a short and fat man who looked like an account room sat in front of a desk that was three feet square, saw someone coming in, got up with a smile to greet him, and said in his mouth: "It's the third son of Ma, look up for a long time." ”

Ma Sichen was surprised: "You know me?"

The bookkeeper explained with a smile: "In our industry, what we pay attention to is that we are well-informed, and when a person like Ma Gongzi enters the town, of course, we must be prepared as soon as possible." ”

The two sat down together at the desk, and the bookkeeper poured a cup of ordinary tea for Ma Sichen, and at the same time filled the empty cup for himself, and then asked, "I don't know what kind of business Ma Gongzi wants to do when he comes to my humble shop." ”

Then he handed over the pen and paper.

Ma Sichen took the pen at random, scribbled the three words Zhao Xifeng on the paper, and handed it back with his backhand.

Mr. Bookkeeper took the paper, burned it to ashes on the candle he put in his hand after reading it, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be this child, the little demon king that everyone in Panlong Town knows." ”

"Make an offer. Ma Sichen picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then put the quilt back on the table in disgust, it was like a leaf soaking in water.

The bookkeeper smiled slightly, wrote down a number on the paper, and handed it to Ma Sichen.

"This price is not appropriate," Ma Sichen sank his face, his fingertips shook out a handful of flames on the rice paper, "He's just a ten-year-old kid who has just felt it!"

"Here's the problem" Mr. Ledger leaned forward, smiled unchanged and said: "He is a child who first felt at the age of ten, you also know that this means two words in only Da Zhou, genius, and he is also a disciple of Mr. Zhou, Panlong School seems to be loose, but in fact, the protection of students is not leaky, the price I ask you for is not only the price of this child, but also the settlement fee that my two mortal men deserve." ”

Ma Sichen's face was gloomy and he groaned for a long time, in fact, he and Zhao Xifeng had no grudges, starting from the interests of each person, and there was no motive to buy murder, it was purely because the master had a life, and Xie Puyan's plan, Ma Sichen could also guess a rough idea.

The strong dragon of Beiyue Academy crossed the river and entered the main Panlong Town, and fought against the Panlong Academy, and at this time, there were suddenly students in the school who had an "accident" at this time The premature death will have a chilling effect on the forces concerned about the situation in Panlong Town, and the parents of the children in the town will also have new considerations for their children's school choices, and at this time, the entire Zhou Dynasty is restless, and the cabinet of Tianqing Division is empty, and there is no time to take care of the situation in the town.

Everyone in Beiyue Academy traveled to Panlong Town, and encountered the students of Panlong Academy at the entrance of the town, and within a few days, the students died violently, which is a good plot, Ma Sichen thought to himself, but his face did not show a look, and replied lightly: "Then that's it, is there any difficulty?"

Mr. Bookkeeper still smiled and shook his head, and said: "The protection of the students by the academy and Master Kuhai is through the means of monitoring the flow of spiritual energy in the town, mainly for cultivators, and the guys we sent are pure martial artists, all of them are experts in this area, there is no problem, but after killing people, they will definitely not be able to escape." ”

"I don't care about that, I just care if it can be done. Ma Sichen shook his hand impatiently, stood up, slapped the Tongbao silver ticket on the table, followed the appearance of a man in the rivers and lakes, saluted with his fists, pushed open the door, paused for a long time and suddenly asked: "There is another question, why do you want to kill this organization?"

"Because we are hidden in the market, the people we kill are often acquaintances. Behind him came the bookkeeper's explanation.

Ma Sichen sneered, closed the door and left.

The bookkeeper looked at the silver ticket on the table, smiled mockingly, and began to tap the table rhythmically with the wrench in his hand.

After a while, Butcher Zhang's assistant cook still had a blank face and walked in from the door where Ma Sichen had just left.

"You heard that next door, so let's arrange for the guys to do something. The bookkeeper collected the approachable smile on his face just now, and instructed indifferently: "In addition, except for the people who do things, the other guys are all quitting Panlong Town tonight, and now these rich sons are not as good as the generation in cultivation, but they are getting bolder and bigger, anyone dares to kill, we don't need to stay and bury him." ”

The little guy nodded and took the order.