Daming Yinghua

Chapter 12
This year is the first year for Nurhachi to stand on his own mountain, and it will be several years before Mao Wenlong leads the Dongjiang Army to manage Pidao and contain Houjin's military forces. He is indeed just a small officer near Liaoyang.

But at this moment, Zheng Haizhu had no time to be surprised that the Zheng family had friendship with Mao Wenlong.

She was even more worried, if Mao Wenlong brought up the past of her brother Zheng Hailin's life, would she be able to use the information accumulated in the past two years to deal with it.

However, Han Ximeng had already made up his mind, and bowed to Mao Wenlong and said, "Since the general is an old man of Zheng's family, and he said that he was going to Songjiang Mansion on business, we will go back to Songjiang with Mr. Huang. Mr. Huang, what do you think?" ?”

Her last sentence was to ask Huang Zunsu a question.

Huang Zunsu also understands that although the two women are smart and brave, after all it is taboo to walk alone with rough warriors like this, it is quite safe to have half of Songjiang's parents and officials around.

When the Ming Dynasty arrived in this dynasty, the military system had already been ruled by civilian officials, and civilian officials could point their nostrils at generals. Huang Zunsu was born as a Jinshi in the new department, and he has been awarded an official. His status is far above that of Mao Wenlong, a small border guard.

But after Huang Zunsu learned of Mao Wenlong's identity, he didn't show arrogance, and he still said modestly at the moment: "We can go with General Mao, so I can feel relieved when I go to Songjiang. I have to thank General."

Mao Wenlong returned the gift indifferently, his heart fluctuated slightly.

He is conceited that he is old in the rivers and lakes. He has long seen that the inspection department and the bandit den wear a pair of trousers. He is quite confident in catching the woman surnamed Zheng from the bandit den. He went to the gate of the cottage and let the inspection department lead the way. The boy went in to make amends, anyway, he didn't want the bandit leader to hand over the eldest lady, he just wanted the maid back.

But now the situation has changed drastically.

The leader of the bandit was put to death, but there were still civil servants and generals in the imperial court.

That little boy surnamed Ma is still from the Sichuan army.

Well, the little boy is actually not white.

There was a dark and murderous look on his face, but he said to the little girl surnamed Zheng that he was grateful for saving his life and would be reported in the future.

What, is this mixed with friendship?

Forget it, what the hell, what I'm going to do to the Zheng girl later is also for the soldiers and civilians of the border town, so I have a clear conscience.

When Mao Wenlong thought of this, he had made up his mind, and the flesh under his cheekbones loosened.

He turned his head and saw the stable next to him, and said to Ma Xianglin, "My brother, is there a carriage in the village, let Huang Daguan and the others sit in it, and I will personally drive the carriage to escort you."

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After Mao Wenlong and his party left, Ma Xianglin suddenly felt exhausted after all the excitement had been exhausted.

"Cut off Qiu Wanliang's head, marinate it in lime, and bring it back to Shi Jie to pay homage to father." He ordered his subordinates.

He also said to the family member who had been lurking with him in the bandit den for more than half a year: "Go and ask the third lady to get the things ready. Mr. Cui's people will see our signal, and it will be just a stick of incense."

"Yes."

Not long after, the servant led a young woman in her early twenties to Ma Xianglin.

"Did the third lady clean up the backyard?" Ma Xianglin sat on the stone pier, squinting at the busy scene of the Sichuan soldiers counting the captives and gathering the family members of the bandits, and asked the woman indifferently.

The woman had curved eyebrows and almond eyes, charming and beautiful, with a soft and romantic attitude.

His fair cheeks and hands were bloodstained, which was shocking.

The woman took a look at Ma Xianglin, who was as arrogant as usual, and curled her lips in disdain: "General Ma, you don't need to address me as the third lady. I am just a slave whom the concubine respects. The general can just call me Amber. As for Qiu Wanliang's backyard , I didn't keep any of the first two wives, and Lao Qiu's blood, including the one born between me and Lao Qiu."

Ma Xianglin cast his eyes on her face after hearing the last sentence.

From the eyes of others, it seems that General Ma, who has seen too many scenes of flesh and blood, couldn't help expressing his surprise to the woman: You said that you killed your own baby with your own hands, and your tone was the same?
Hu Po turned her head to see Qiu Wanliang's head being cut off by the soldiers, and said with a smile, "Congratulations to General Ma for his revenge."

Ma Xianglin didn't pay attention to her any more, leaned slightly, stood up suddenly, and walked towards the gate of the village.

Two brocade-clothed guards rode into the bandit village, guarding a man and a horse in the middle.

The man was only in his twenties, wearing a black hat, white face without beard, dressed in crimson red, with unicorn patterns embroidered on both sides of the snow-white collar.

Ma Xianglin went up to meet him, stood in front of the man's horse, cupped his hands and said, "Eunuch Hu."

Seeing that Ma Xianglin didn't intend to reach out to help him, the eunuch Hu Fang snorted and got off the horse.

Seeing that Ma Xianglin did not kneel down, his eyes flashed venomously, and he teased in an unfair voice: "Hey, General Xiao Ma thinks that the underground is full of blood and water, and he is afraid that his battle robe will be dirty?"

Ma Xianglin's knees were still straight, and he said neither humble nor overbearing: "It was indeed a fierce battle last night. The brothers haven't cleaned it up yet, and it stained the father-in-law's eyes."

Hu Fang gave him a sideways glance: "General Xiao Ma thinks too highly of our family. Our family is just running errands for the imperial concubine and Mrs. Cui. How can we be so particular about it?"

After saying that, he walked straight up to Amber, his expression changed from a prey to a pity in an instant.

"Humber, you have made great contributions this time, but you have also suffered a great grievance. The imperial concubine and godfather miss you."

Hu Po bowed her knees to return the salute, took off a small bundle from her shoulders expressionlessly, and handed it to Hu Fang with both hands, saying: "Thank you, Concubine and Mrs. Cui, for your concern. This is Qiu Wanliang's secret account, I have checked it, Jin Jin Fifty bolts, more than [-] bolts each of ramie silk and gauze, and more than [-] bolts of silk. After selling the stolen goods, they were exchanged for silver. Here, those in Guangfu, I haven't found them yet, I only heard that they are close to the place occupied by the Frangji people (referring to the Portuguese)."

Amber was originally a secret stake kept by Concubine Zheng Gui outside the palace, and was directly assigned by the eunuch Cui Laogong, so when paying the bills, she did not show the slightest obscenity to Hu Fang, Cui Laogong's adopted son, and she always called herself "I".

Hu Fang stared at her.

Even though her temples were messed up and her face was covered with blood, this state of embarrassment could not hide her peony-like appearance.

The young eunuch's heart fluttered for a moment, and when he went to pick up the package in her hand, he held her hand pretending not to.

Amber quickly retracted her palms as if being pricked by a needle, and the burden fell to the ground.

Ma Xianglin on the side stepped forward, picked up the bag, patted it, and handed it to Hu Fang, saying, "Eunuch Hu, put it away, and nothing else is as important as this bag."

Hu Fang smiled calmly, stroked his beardless chin, and asked again: "By the way, Brother Jin Yiwei who was ambushing nearby told our family that a small group of soldiers came to the stockade at dawn, but left with an extra carriage. Who is it?"

"It's a Liaodong general named Mao Wenlong. The Ministry of War sent him to Nanzhili and Zhejiang to discuss some firearms matters. He didn't want to meet the son of an old friend and report to the officials for help, so he came here and took away the old friend's sister who was kidnapped by Qiu Wanliang. And an official from the Songjiang Mansion who was hijacked by Qiu Wanliang."

"Mao Wenlong? I haven't heard of it. What's the name of the pusher? Why was he robbed?"

Ma Xianglin said: "My name is Huang Zunsu. This year, I am a Jinshi of the New Division. Because I sued Shen Tonghe from Wujiang for cheating, Shen's father asked Qiu Wanliang to tie him up."

"Huang Zunsu..." Hu Fang's complexion changed, "It's this person. Although he is in the top three, the Holy Majesty also paid attention to him because of the report. The Holy Majesty has read this person's article and wanted to keep him in the capital. Hearing that he belongs to the Donglin School, he rushed to Nanzhili. General Xiao Ma, it's a pity that our family came a step late, otherwise, our family will order someone to pass on a message to you, and kill this Huang Zunsu in the chaos!"

(End of this chapter)