Mu Hanzhang waited for nearly two hours in the only restaurant in the town, before Jing Shao came to look for him, feeling rather dejected.
"Why, didn't you persuade him?" Mu Hanzhang gave him his rice bowl and explained that Xiao Er added two more hot dishes.
Fang Cai Jingshao was overjoyed when he saw Hao Dadao, so he wanted to persuade him to go with him, but unexpectedly the man said that he was going to chop the scorpion and told him to wait a while. It was hot in midsummer, and it was almost noon. Jing Shao was afraid that his princess would be hot, so he asked him to wait for him in the restaurant first. I thought I knew him very well. He is a descendant of a famous general, with high martial arts and extraordinary tactics. It is naturally unsatisfactory to kill pigs in this small mountain village. troubled" expression.
"I'm doing pretty well now killing pigs and selling meat. Why should I go to the battlefield to fight to the death? If you don't go, you won't go!"
"If you want to win a good general, you have to be patient." Mu Hanzhang poured him a glass of water. "It will take a few days for the army to circle around the Dahang Mountain. We can stop here for a few more days. Don't be impatient."
Jing Shao raised his head and gulped down the water in the cup: "This water is really cool to drink!"
Mu Hanzhang poured him a glass and told him that the water was unburned well water, which was directly drawn from the well in the backyard of the restaurant. There are rooms in this shop."
"Ah?" Jing Shao swallowed his food and looked up at him, "Jun Qing, are you sure that I can't persuade him?"
"It takes three books and six appointments to marry a wife. This is the same principle as recruiting a virtuous person and marrying a wife. You must have sincerity and means." Mu Hanzhang took a sip of water slowly, "but there is a difficulty."
"What's the difficulty?" Jing Shao frowned and thought.
In the previous life, it was because a county magistrate who was greedy and greedy for money was transferred here in the nineteenth year of Hongzheng, and the fish and meat people were not strictly governed. The yamen bullied Hao Dadao's neighbor's young daughter. He was so angry that he hacked the yamen to death with a butcher's knife. The county magistrate wanted to take him down. The villagers petitioned for him. When chaos broke out, the yamen killed two innocent people, causing a sudden upheaval.
At that time, Jing Shao was frustrated in attacking the King of Huainan, and on the way back to Beijing with his troops, he happened to encounter this civil uprising. At that time, Hao Dadao trained a group of villagers who were not skilled in martial arts so that they could fight against the officers and soldiers.
It's just that the county magistrate probably hasn't taken the imperial examination yet.
Mu Hanzhang said lightly: "The bedding in this inn is very old, I'm afraid there will be fleas."
"Ah?" Jing Shao was stunned for a while, and then he realized that this is the difficulty that his princess said.
Mu Hanzhang looked at him dumbfounded, and couldn't help hooking his lips: "After eating, let's go and pull some cloth, and spread it on the bed for one night."
"Why don't you let Xiao Er get a new bed?" Jing Shao frowned. There are bound to be fleas in such a shabby inn in a small mountain village. What if you bite down on the jade-like skin of your own princess?
"It's very dangerous to expose the rich in this kind of place. It's not suitable for you to give the hunter some silver today." Mu Hanzhang persuaded him, raising his hand to bring him some vegetables.
"This town comes from the mountains and wild deer, and merchants often come to collect them. We are not the richest." Jing Shao picked up the bowl, snorted and ate all the vegetables in the bowl, and then stretched the bowl to himself. princess.
Mu Hanzhang glared at him, and then took a pair of chopsticks for him: "Little Er said that it would cost a lot of money to change a new bed, but it only costs thirty cents to go to the cloth shop opposite."
"Cough cough cough..." Jing Shao choked on the rice grains when he heard the words. After talking for a long time, Jun Qing is too expensive!
The two went to the cloth village to pull two sheets and came back, and the market has no stalls. Most of the people who come to the market here are mountain people from the nearby mountains. They have to go back early to get home before dark, so by dusk, the streets are very deserted, and even the stalls selling sangzi noodles are gone. The two had no choice but to go back to the inn to eat the expensive food.
The inn's room was really messy. Jing Shao looked at the bed in front of him and felt that even if he put the new sheets in his hand, his princess would not want to sleep on it, so he carried him over to the roof of the inn and put the sheets Spreading it on the rubble, he bought a new quilt from Xiao Er at a high price.
"It's cold in the mountains at night, and if there is no new quilt, it will be frozen," Jing Shao wrapped his princess with a quilt. "This is the way this inn does business. It's the only one in the distance. There's no way to do it." Your own princess is getting more and more stingy
Mu Hanzhang was wrapped in a warm quilt, resting on Jing Shao's arm, looking up at the night sky in the mountains: "When this battle is over, I want to do some other business."
"Okay, I'll take you to live in Jiangnan in two years, where business is easy to do." Jing Shao smiled and hugged him, "Why do you suddenly care so much about money?"
"I heard Xiao Yuan say that the problems in the Ministry of Households have been very serious these years. The treasury is probably empty. If you want to get that position, silver taels are also indispensable." Mu Hanzhang sighed. Yesterday, Prince Rui sent a letter, It was said that the matter of greed for ink in the military camp had become more and more troublesome, and he faintly found that Uncle Yongchang and the fourth prince were also involved. It would be troublesome if all the silver taels of these years were taken by the fourth prince.
"Don't worry about these later," Jing Shao touched the top of the head of the person in his arms, "Hurry up and think about how to persuade Hao Dadao."
Hao Dadao's ancestor was a mighty general of the previous dynasty, who used his troops like a god, and the Taizu also admired it very much. After the demise of the previous dynasty, the ancestors of the Hao family refused to obey the imperial court and took over the mountains as kings in the Daxing Mountains. However, by the generation of Hao Dadao, the cottage has fallen, and now it is only a business of butchering pigs.
Mu Hanzhang pondered for a moment with his eyes closed: "I heard you say that, his ancestors were against the imperial court, and now it's not easy for him to switch to the Weijun of the Chen Dynasty. I'll go see you tomorrow and think of a way."
The two slept on the roof for one night. The cool breeze in the mountains on the summer night made it very comfortable to be covered with a quilt.
The next day, as soon as the two of them arrived at the pork shop, they were stopped by one person. Jing Shao was startled and immediately protected Mu Hanzhang.
"Young Master, you said yesterday that you would give ten times as much money as you get a tiger cub, didn't you frame me?" It was the hunter yesterday, and he handed over a bamboo basket after saying that.
Jing Shao opened the bamboo basket and saw a black thing scratching back and forth: "Is this a tiger cub?"
"Is that still fake?" The hunter squeezed out the contents. "I went up the mountain before dawn. The other tiger cubs were caught by something. Only this one fell into the mud pit and survived."
Jing Shao didn't want to see the dark mass, but Mu Hanzhang had already bought a cloth towel at a nearby stall to wrap the small things in, so he had to pay silver taels to send the man away.
I wiped the wet mud with a cloth towel, revealing the small face of the little tiger cub, which was covered in mud. Although it was still dirty, it could be seen that it was a tiger. About a foot long, with half-open eyes, he let out a listless cry: "Wow~"
"Yo! Tiger cub!" Hao Dadao's fat lady came out with a meat pier, and when she heard the tiger cub's cry, she eagerly came over to look at it.
Mu Hanzhang glanced at her: "There is warm water in the sister-in-law's house, this tiger cub must be washed first."
"Yes, I just boiled a pot of water to scald pig's hair. Come with me." The fat lady seemed very happy and called Mu Hanzhang into the room with him.
Mu Hanzhang winked at Jing Shao, he carried the tiger cub into the house with the fat lady, and saw Hao Dadao who was slaughtering pigs in the courtyard: "Go look at the stall first, I gave the tiger cub a bath. Go again."
Hao Dadao frowned slightly when he saw Mu Hanzhang, put down the pig-killing knife in his hand and walked out.
Although the fat lady is fierce, her work is unambiguous. She quickly poured a basin of warm water and put the little tiger cub into the water: "Come, take a bath!"
"Wow!" The little tiger cub was taken aback and was about to struggle when he suddenly smelled the smell of pig blood on her arm. He opened his mouth and licked it, and the more he licked it, the more vigorous he was. He also opened his mouth, which was not full of teeth, and gnawed at the thick arm, but the tiger's mouth was smaller, and no matter how he gnawed, he couldn't lick the half-circle of the arm. In the entrance, he completely forgot that he had been immersed in the water.
Mu Hanzhang looked at her skilled movements and asked, "Does my sister-in-law like to keep cats and dogs?"
"Haha, I like this kind of little things since I was a child." The fat lady laughed and laughed. The young man in front of him was gentle and kind, and his voice was also gentle, which made her not angry. She chatted with Mu Hanzhang while washing, and talked about her childhood. Followed by his father on the street to perform tricks and competed in martial arts to recruit relatives.
"It must be Big Brother Hao who won the ring to marry the beautiful woman, right?" Mu Hanzhang smiled and looked at Hao Dadao who took pork into the yard for the third time.
"Cut, him?" The fat lady glared at her husband who was not far away. "He lied to my father that he was the king of the mountain, and lied to my father that I would be able to eat and drink spicy food with him." Said Then, he took a cloth towel and hugged the washed little tiger cub and wiped it.
"I heard from the people in the village that the ancestors of the Hao family were really kings of the mountain." Mu Hanzhang took the washed cub and looked down at it. The yellow and black fluff was wet, maybe he was following the tigress before. He ate well, even though he was hungry for a day, he was still round and looked at him with a pair of round amber tiger eyes: "Wow!"