Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

As expected, Su Mu sneered in his heart. Given the grievances between him and Ma Quan, and Ma Quan's despicable temperament, he had fallen into his hands, so he would naturally be sent to the saltworks to do hard labor. How could he send Su Mu? A place full of oil and water like the Armory.

How could Ma Quan find out with conscience.

It must be as Zongzhen and the others said last night, Ma Quan wanted to burn my sumu to death in the armory, and also burned the entire warehouse by the way.Even if I can't burn my sumu to death, it can still put the crime of fire on my head.At that time, death is inevitable.

If I guessed right, this little official is also a member of Ma Quan.

Su Mu deliberately pretended to be very surprised: "Go to the armory to be a guard?"

His expression fell into the eyes of the little official, and he said with a smile: "Actually, Mei Fugui, we also know about the grievances between you and Master Ma. This time, I was going to ask you to go to the salt flats to suffer a little bit. Mei Fugui, you are lucky, you have someone to help you!"

Su Mu didn't take it seriously: "I still ask for advice." According to the unspoken rules of the yamen, he intentionally and secretly stuffed a piece of broken silver.

The little official said: "To tell you the truth, after you were assigned to serve in the Salt Division yesterday, the master of the Gu family sent someone to send money to intercede for you, and asked to assign you an easy job. To be honest, We don't pay much attention to money, Mr. Ma. However, Mr. Gu is also a Cangzhou gentry after all, so he has to be perfunctory in order to save you. Go!"

Just waved his sleeves and told Su Mu to retreat.

"Gu Wenwen, what is he doing here? Could it be that his Gu family is also involved in this matter?" Su Mu couldn't help frowning, if this is the case, things will be troublesome.

However, after thinking about it: no, if the Gu family also participated in this big ink corruption case, there would be a lot of benefits anyway.And why is the Gu family in such a poor state, the family members even sell private salt.Also, knowing that Gu Huashao is going to be a son-in-law, the whole Cangzhou only has a few members of the Gu family, Su Mu and Guan Zhizhou.In the eyes of others, the Gu family is just an ordinary family.How could the people from the Yan Division allow him to participate in a big deal of one or two million taels of silver?

Well, it must be Gu Wenwen who saw that he was unlucky, so he came to repay my previous kindness.Speaking of which, Mr. Gu is a nice person.

Su Mu nodded, after figuring out this joint, he accepted the Gu family's love.

Soon, he was at the armory.

The armory is located in the west of the city on the bank of the Grand Canal. According to folklore, the west belongs to gold and is the main military force, so it is convenient for Su Mu to do things at night.

The place is very remote, and there are no people nearby.

The arsenal has a large area. In terms of its size, it is already larger than the Cangzhou granary. It has at least [-] acres of land, all of which are surrounded by green brick walls.

The wall is about six meters high and half a foot thick, and the bricks are glued together with glutinous rice and clay.

Su Mu stepped forward, took a look, and found that it was very solid.However, this warehouse is estimated to be some years old, and there are still a few clumps of ferns growing on the walls, and some holes are broken in some places, exposing the wooden boards sandwiched inside.

This made him a little confused. If there is a wrench in the wall, isn't it afraid that it will rot every year?

One of the soldiers who led Su Mu in saw that Su Mu was standing by the wall and kept looking, and urged impatiently: "Mei Fugui, you should hurry up, the armory can only be entered and exited at noon and evening every day. It's closed. Once the gate is closed, even the Heavenly King and Lao Tzu can't get in."

He softened his tone again and said, "The boards in the walls are anti-theft. As long as someone pries the wall outside, the sound will be transmitted by the boards."

"Oh, it turned out to be a simple loudspeaker device!" Su Mu admired the wisdom of the ancients.

He cupped his hands again and asked, "Dare to ask elder brother Gao's name."

"My name is Yuan Bao." The man's attitude looked very bad, and he spoke very bluntly: "Come on, everyone is waiting for you. When you arrive, close the warehouse door earlier. It’s better to stare for half an hour.”

Being lazy in the afternoon, Yuan Bao yawned, and the two drops of eye feces at the corners of his eyes were clearly visible in the sunlight.

There are a total of four salt soldiers guarding the armory. The local army, military households, and frontier soldiers in the Ming Dynasty could not tell the difference before they went to the battlefield. They wear soft-brimmed hats with red tassels, and each has a goose feather saber on their waists.

Except for Yuan Bao who was leading the way for Su Mu, the other three guards were sitting sleepily in the shade.

The three of them had probably had wine, and the room was smelly of feet and alcohol, Xun Sumu couldn't help but frowned.

The ancients were all thin and small, but the three of them, including Yuan Bao, were all 1.5 meters tall.

In fact, the guards in the armory did not have any military training on weekdays, so their physical fitness was naturally extremely poor.

Compared with these four people, Su Mu is a head taller and half a circle stronger than them.

Seeing their appearance, Su Mu sneered in his heart: These four clowns also want to kill me, even if they don't need muskets, they can easily knock them down if they occupy a good location.

"Brother Friday, Lu Da, and Lu Er, the newcomers have arrived." Yuan Bao casually saluted the three of them, and Su Mu followed suit.

Among the three, Wu Wu was about forty years old, with dark skin, and Lu Da and Lu Er were obviously two brothers, like Yuan Bao, who were in their early twenties.

"Yuan Bao, this person is Mei Fugui?" Friday was obviously the head of the group of guards. He reeked of alcohol and stood up, shaking his body. "I heard that you were an officer in inspection before. Now it's broken." When the incident happened, you were dispatched to the armory, hehe, I don’t care how majestic you were before, the dragon has to be coiled up for me, and the tiger has to be curled up for me, as long as you hear about it, you can save yourself from suffering.”

While talking, he stretched out his hand and patted Su Mu's shoulder vigorously.

How could Su Mu be willing to let this filthy guy get close to him, this guy obviously wanted to give him a blow.

He also knew that if he didn't get tough when he first arrived, he would inevitably have a lot of trouble later on.

Immediately, he raised his hand to support Friday's hand, held it and squeezed it hard.

Thanks to the gift of Emperor Zhengde, during the two months in Xiyuan, Su Mu spent other than studying and exercising. He could lift a stone lock that usually weighed about thirty kilograms, and he could lift a hundred or so in one breath without even panting.Sometimes, Su Mu wondered if he looked like a literati.

Friday is just a small guard, he is used to being domineering on weekdays, bullying ordinary people is naturally majestic, when has he ever encountered such a tough idea as Su Mu?

He only felt a strong force coming, and the piercing pain hit him, causing a layer of cold sweat to break out in his vest.

"What are you doing!" Friday twisted his face and yelled in pain.

Su Mu let go of his hand and said with a smile, "Hello Brother Friday!"

"Fuck you..." Wu Wu was furious, reaching out to draw the knife, but felt someone pulling him from behind.

Looking back, I saw Yuan Bao kept giving him winks.

On Friday, he resentfully removed his hand from the handle of the knife.

How could the situation of these two people be hidden from Su Mu, he suddenly understood in his heart that Yuan Bao was asking Wu Wu to endure.