Mu Hanzhang waited in the only restaurant in town for nearly two hours before Jing Shao came over to him, rather downcast.
"What, not convinced?" Mu Hanzhang pushed the rice bowl to him and explained that Xiao Er would add two more hot dishes.
Just Jing Shao saw Hao Dazhou, overjoyed, would like to persuade him to go with himself, I did not expect that the man said that they want to chop bashfulness, let him wait a while and then say. Midsummer weather is hot, it is about to arrive at noon, Jing Shao is afraid of their own Wangfei hot, then let him go to the restaurant and so on him, where he waited for nearly two hours to be able to talk with Hao Dazhou into the house. I thought I knew him very well, he is a descendant of a famous general, martial arts, military law extraordinary, nested in this small mountain village to kill pigs is naturally depressed, who knows that they show their intention to recruit, that person is still your deputy "how do you so much trouble" expression.
"I'm having a good time killing pigs and selling meat, why should I go to the battlefield and fight to the death? No way!" Hao Dazhe said this and blew him out of the pork store.
"If you want to get a good general, you naturally have to be patient and seek it," Mu Hanzhang poured him a cup of water, "It will still take a few days for the army to go around the Daxing Mountain, so we can stop here for a few more days, so don't be in a hurry."
Jing Shao tilted his head and gulped down the water in the cup, "This water tastes really cool!"
Mu Hanzhang had poured him a cup, telling him that this water was well water that had not been burned, directly from the well in the backyard of the tavern, ice cold with some sweetness, very good: "I have booked a room in this store."
"Huh?" Jing Shao swallowed a mouthful of rice and looked up at him, "Junqing, are you calculating that I can't persuade him?"
"Marrying a wife still need three books and six appointments, this Na Xian and marrying a wife is a reason, must be sincere and means are available," Mu Hanzhang slowly drank a mouthful of water, "but there is a difficulty."
"What difficulties?" Jing Shao frowned in thought.
In his previous life, he was transferred here in the 19th year of Hongzheng's reign because of a muddleheaded and money-grubbing magistrate who was not strict enough in ruling the people. The magistrate bullied Hao Dazhou's neighbor's little daughter, he was not angry, took a pig knife and chopped the magistrate to death, the magistrate to take him down, the villagers petitioned for him, the magistrate confused with the whip to drive away the villagers, a moment of chaos, the magistrate even killed two innocent people, suddenly provoked the people to change.
Jing Shao then attacked the king of Huainan was thwarted, with troops on the way back to the capital just met the civil unrest, with troops to quell the chaos after the people in front of the beheading of the county magistrate to be able to civilian indignation. At that time, Hao Dazhou trained a group of villagers who do not know how to fight with the soldiers, so that he had the heart of the talent, and then asked for a decree to recruit, Hao Dazhou into the command.
It's just that, these days, that magistrate probably hasn't taken the imperial exams yet.
Mu Hanzhang said indifferently, "The bedding in this inn is all very old, so I'm afraid there will be fleas."
"Huh?" Jing Shao froze, and only then did he realize that the difficulty his own princess was talking about was this.
Mu Hanzhang looked at his dumbfounded appearance and couldn't help but hook his lips, "After we eat, let's go pull some fabric and spread it on the bed for the night."
"Why don't you let Xiao Er change the bed for a new one?" Jing Shao frowned, this kind of broken inn in a small mountain village will definitely have fleas, in case the glistening jade-like skin of his own princess bites out the pimples, what can be done?
"It's dangerous to show your wealth in a place like this, and it would be inappropriate for you to give that hunter broken silver today." Mu Hanzhang persuaded, raising his hand to give him some dishes.
"This town is out of mountain treasures and wild deer, often merchants come to collect them, we are not considered the richest in this way." Jing Shao picked up the bowl, huffed and puffed and ate all the dishes in the bowl, and then extended the bowl to his own princess.
Mu Hanzhang glared at him and resumed giving him chopsticks, "Xiao Er said that to get a new bed would require a hang of money, but to go to the cloth shop across the street to pull a new sheet would only cost thirty wen."
"Cough cough cough ......" Jing Shao sniffed and immediately choked on his rice. After saying half a day, Jun Qing is too expensive!
The two went to the cloth shop to pull two sheets back, the market has not much stalls. Most of the people who come here to catch the market are the mountain people in the nearby mountains, and they have to rush back early to reach home before dark, so by dusk, the streets are already very cold, and even the stalls that sell bashful noodles have disappeared. Two people can not, only to go back to the inn to eat the price is quite high meal.
The room of the inn is really very dirty, Jing Shao looked at the bed in front of him, felt that even if he put the new sheet in his hand to lay on it, his own princess would not be willing to sleep on it, and simply held him and rolled over to the roof of the inn, spread the sheet on the layers of rubble, and he himself paid a high price to the second to buy a new bed quilt.
"The mountains are cold at night, no new quilt will be frozen," Jing Shao used the quilt to wrap his own princess, "this inn is this way of doing business, near and far only one, there is no way." And not lack of money, why is my Wangfei more and more stingy?
Mu Hanzhang was wrapped in a warm quilt, resting on Jing Shao's arm, looking up at the night sky over the mountains, "When this battle is over, I want to do some other business."
"Good, in a couple years I'll take you to live in Jiangnan, business is good there." Jing Shao smiled and wrapped the person into his arms, "How come you are suddenly so attached to money?"
"Listen to Xiao Yuan said, these years among the Ministry of households is a very serious problem, the treasury is afraid that has long been empty, if you want to get that position, silver is also indispensable." Mu Hanzhang sighed, yesterday Rui Wang sent a letter, said that the barracks of corruption and ink matter has become more and more big, he vaguely realized that this also involves Yongchang Bo and the fourth prince. If all these years of silver were obtained by the fourth prince, it would be troublesome.
"Worry about these later," Jing Shao touched the top of the head of the person in his arms, "Quickly help me think about how to persuade Hao Da Dao."
Hao Dazhu's ancestor was a mighty general in the former dynasty, using the army like a god, Taizu is also very admired. After the demise of the former dynasty, Hao family ancestors do not obey the court, in the Daxing mountain range to occupy the mountain as the king, only to Hao Dagger generation, the cottage has been declined, and now only fell into a pig killing business.
Mu Hanyang Zhang converged his eyes and pondered for a moment, "Listening to you say so, his ancestor was against the court, and now he wants him to switch to the Chen Dynasty ungeneral, I'm afraid it's not easy, tomorrow I will also go with you to take a look, and then think of a way to do it."
The two of them slept on the roof for the night, the cool breeze of the summer night in the mountains, covered with a quilt is very comfortable.
The next day, the two had just arrived in front of the pork store when they were stopped by a man, Jing Shao was startled and immediately protected himself in front of Mu Hanzhang.
"Sir, you said yesterday that you would give ten times the money if you fetched the tiger cubs, you are not framing me, are you?" It was the same hunter from yesterday, who handed over a bamboo basket when he finished speaking.
Jing Shao lifted the bamboo basket, only to see a black thing inside scratching back and forth, "This is a tiger cub?"
"Then there is still a fake?" The hunter pinched out the contents, "I went up the mountain before dawn, and all the other tiger cubs were taken by who knows what, and only this one survived by falling into a mud pit."
Jing Shao looked at the black mass really don't want, but Mu Hanzhang already in the neighboring stall bought cloth towel to the small things wrapped in, only to pay the silver sent that person to leave.
Using a cloth towel to wipe the mud that hadn't dried, revealing the little tiger cub's little face that was covered in mud, although it was still dirty, it could be seen that it was a tiger. Its body was about a foot long, its eyes half-open, and it gave a listless cry, "Woowoo~"
"Yo! Tiger cub!" Hao Da Dao that fat lady is end meat pier out, heard the tiger cub's call, then excitedly come over to see.
Mu Hanzhang glanced at her, "Is there warm water in sister-in-law's house, this tiger cub must be washed first."
"Yes yes, just boiled a pot of water for scalding pig hair, you come with me." The fat lady seemed to be very happy and greeted Mu Hanzhang to follow him into the house.
Mu Hanzhang gave a wink to Jing Shao, holding the tiger cub himself and going inside with the fat lady, meeting Hao Dazhe who was killing a pig in the courtyard, "You go watch the stall first, I'll give this tiger cub a bath before I go."
When Hao Da Dao saw Mu Han Zhang, he frowned slightly and put down the pig-killing knife in his hand and walked out.
Although the fat lady was ferocious, her work was unambiguous, and she very nimbly ran a basin of warm water and put the little tiger cub into the water, "Come on, it's time for a bath!"
"Woohoo!" The little tiger cub was startled, just to struggle, suddenly smelled the pig's blood on her arm, pumped the little nose, squinting was only half-open eyes to find the blood-stained place, opened his mouth and licked, and the more licked the more energetic, but also open the mouth without full teeth, to the thick arm gnawed, but the tiger's small mouth is even smaller, how to gnaw how to gnaw can't be half a circle of the arm into the mouth, and simply completely forgotten that he had been soaked in the water. Into the water this matter.
Mu Hanzhang looked at her skillful movements and asked, "Does sister-in-law love raising cats and dogs and such?"
"Haha, I love this kind of small things since I was a child." The fat lady laughed, the gentleman in front of her was gentle and kind, and his voice was gentle and elegant, so that she could not be ferocious, and while washing, she chatted with Mu Hanyang, and talked about her childhood when she followed her father to walk the streets to sell his art, and competed in the martial arts.
"I think it must be that Brother Hao won the ring to marry a beauty, right?" Mu Hanzhang smiled and looked at Hao Dazhou who had taken the opportunity to make his third trip into the courtyard with the pork.
"Che, him?" The fat lady glared at her husband who was not far away, "He lied to my father that he is the king of the mountain in this Daxing Mountain, and lied to my father that if I follow him, I will be able to eat fragrant food and drink spicy food." Saying this, she took a cloth towel and held the washed tiger cub and wiped it, the cub struggled discontentedly and wowed and wowed and wowed and wowed.
"I heard from the people in the village that the Hao family's ancestors were actually mountain kings." Mu Hanzhang took the washed tiger cub and looked down at it, its yellow and black fluffy fur was wet, perhaps because it had followed the tigress before and eaten well, despite being hungry for a day, it was still round and looked at him with a pair of round amber-colored tiger eyes, "Woohoo!"