The Wife is First - 48 Chapter 48 Tiger Cub

Mu Hanzhang waited in the only restaurant in town for nearly two hours before Jing Shao came to see him, feeling quite downcast.

“What, aren’t you convinced?” Mu Hanzhang pushed the job to him and asked the waiter to add two more hot dishes.

Jing Shao was overjoyed when he saw Hao Dadao just now, and wanted to persuade him to go with him. Unexpectedly, the man actually said that he wanted to chop the meat into pieces and asked him to talk later. The weather was hot in midsummer, and it was almost noon. Jing Shao was afraid that his princess would be overheated, so he asked him to go to the restaurant to wait for him. He waited there for nearly two hours before he and Hao Dadao went into the room to talk in detail. I thought I knew him very well. He is a descendant of a famous general with strong martial arts and extraordinary military skills. Naturally, he is frustrated by killing pigs in this small mountain village. Who knows that when I express my intention to recruit, the person is still your deputy? “Why are you like this?” troublesome” expression.

“I am making a good living by killing pigs and selling meat. Why should I go to the battlefield and fight to the death? If I don’t go, I won’t go!” Hao Dadao said this and kicked him out of the pork shop.

“If you want a good general, you must be patient and ask for it.” Mu Hanzhang poured him a glass of water. “It will take a few days for the army to circle Dahang Mountain. We can stay here for a few more days. Don’t be impatient.”

Jing Shao raised his head and drank the water in the cup: “This water tastes really cool!”

Mu Hanzhang poured him a glass and told him that the water was unheated well water, drawn directly from the well in the backyard of the restaurant. It was cold and sweet, and it was very delicious: “I am already here We’ve reserved a room in this store.”

“Ah?” Jing Shao swallowed a mouthful of food and looked up at him, “Jun Qing, are you sure that I can’t persuade him?”

“To get a wife, you need three letters and six appointments. The principle of recruiting talents and marrying a wife are the same. You have to be sincere and have the means.” Mu Hanzhang slowly took a sip of water, “But there is a problem.”

“What’s the difficulty?” Jing Shao frowned in thought.

In the previous life, it was because in the 19th year of Hongzheng’s reign, a foolish and money-grubbing county magistrate was transferred here, and the people were being treated laxly. The yamen servant bullied Hao Dashao’s neighbor’s little daughter. He was so angry that he hacked the yamen servant to death with a butcher’s knife. The county magistrate wanted to arrest him, and the villagers petitioned for him. The magistrate was confused and drove the villagers away with whips. There was a moment of chaos, and the government officials actually beat to death two innocent people, triggering a sudden civil uprising.

Jing Shao’s attack on the King of Huainan was frustrated at that time, and he happened to encounter this civil uprising on his way back to Beijing with his troops. After leading his troops to quell the rebellion, he killed the county magistrate in front of the people, and the people were angry. At that time, Hao Dadao trained a group of villagers who did not know how to use martial arts to fight against the officers and soldiers, which made him cherish their talents, so he asked for an order to recruit Hao Dadao under his command.

However, the county magistrate probably hasn’t taken the imperial examination yet.

Mu Hanzhang said calmly: “The bedding in this inn is very old, I’m afraid there are fleas.”

“Ah?” Jing Shao was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was the difficulty his princess was talking about.

Mu Hanzhang looked at his stunned look and couldn’t help but curled his lips: “After dinner, let’s go pull some fabric and spread it on the bed for the night.”

“Why don’t you let the waiter change the bed to a new one?” Jing Shao frowned. There will definitely be fleas in such a shabby inn in a small mountain village. What if a pimple is bitten out of the princess’s jade-like skin? ?

“It is very dangerous to reveal one’s wealth in a place like this. It would be inappropriate for you to give that hunter some silver today.” Mu Hanzhang persuaded him, raising his hand to grab some food for him.

“There are rare wild deer in this town, and businessmen often come to collect them. We are not the richest.” Jing Shao picked up the bowl, gulped down all the food in the bowl, and then stretched the bowl towards himself. princess.

Mu Hanzhang glared at him, then gave him another chopstick: “The waiter said that it costs a fortune to buy a new bed, but it only costs thirty cash to buy a new bed sheet from the cloth shop opposite.”

“Cough cough cough…” Jing Shao heard this and immediately choked on the rice grains. After talking for a long time, Jun Qing found it too expensive!

The two of them went to the cloth store to pick up two sheets and came back. There were no stalls in the market. Most of the people who come here to go to the market are mountain residents from the nearby mountains. They have to rush back early to get home before dark, so by dusk, the streets are already very deserted, and even the stalls selling saozi noodles have disappeared. The two of them had no choice but to go back to the inn to eat the expensive meal.

The room in the inn was really messy. Jing Shao looked at the bed in front of him and felt that even if he put the new sheets on it, his princess would not be willing to sleep on it, so he simply carried him to the roof of the inn and put the sheets on. After laying it on layers of rubble, I bought a new quilt from the waiter at a high price.

“It’s cold at night in the mountains. If you don’t have a new quilt, you’ll be frozen.” Jing Shao wrapped his princess in a quilt. “This is how this inn does business. It’s the only one far and wide. There’s nothing we can do.” There’s no shortage of money, so why? Is your princess 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 other business.”

“Okay, in two years I will take you to live in Jiangnan. Business there is easy.” Jing Shao smiled and hugged him, “Why do you suddenly value money so much?”

“I heard from Xiao Yuan that the problems in the household department have been very serious in recent years. The treasury may have been empty long ago. If you want to get that position, silver is also indispensable.” Mu Hanzhang sighed. Yesterday, a letter came from King Rui, The incident of corruption in the military camp was becoming more and more serious, and he vaguely discovered that Yongchang Bo and the Fourth Prince were also involved. It would be troublesome if all the silver taels in these years were taken by the fourth prince.

“We’ll worry about this later,” Jing Shao touched the head of the person in his arms, “Help me think of how to persuade Hao Dadao.”

Hao Dadao’s ancestor was a mighty general of the previous dynasty, and he used troops like a god, and Taizu admired him very much. After the demise of the previous dynasty, the ancestors of the Hao family refused to obey the imperial court and occupied the Dahang Mountains as kings. However, by Hao Dadao’s generation, the village had declined, and now they only made a living by killing pigs.

Mu Hanzhang closed his eyes and thought for a moment: “Listening to what you said, his ancestors were against the imperial court. Now it will be difficult for him to switch to Chen Dynasty Weijiang. I will go with you tomorrow to have a look and then think of a solution.”

The two slept on the roof for a night. The cool breeze blew in the mountains on a summer night, and it was very comfortable to cover themselves with quilts.

The next day, when the two of them arrived in front of the pork shop, they were stopped by someone. Jing Shao was startled and immediately protected Mu Hanzhang.

“Sir, you said yesterday that you would give me ten times the money for the tiger cubs, weren’t you trying to trick me?” It was the hunter yesterday who handed over a bamboo basket after saying this.

Jing Shao opened the bamboo basket and saw something black scratching back and forth inside: “Is this a tiger cub?”

“Is there any falsehood?” The hunter pinched out the contents inside. “I went up the mountain before dawn. The other tiger cubs were picked up by unknown sources, but this one fell into a mud pit and survived.”

Jing Shao looked at the dark mass and really didn’t want it, but Mu Hanzhang had already bought a cloth towel from a nearby stall to wrap the small things in, so he had to pay the man two silver and send the man away.

He wiped the wet mud with a cloth, revealing the little tiger cub’s face covered in mud. Although it was still dirty, he could tell it was a tiger. The body was about a foot long, with half-open eyes, and said listlessly: “Wow~”

“Hey! Tiger cub!” The fat lady Hao Dadao was bringing out the meat dumplings. When she heard the tiger cub’s cry, she excitedly came over to take a look.

Mu Hanzhang glanced at her: “Sister-in-law, is there warm water in the house? This tiger cub must be washed first.”

“Yes, I just boiled a pot of water for scalding pig hair. Come with me.” The fat lady seemed very happy and asked Mu Hanzhang to follow him into the house.

Mu Hanzhang winked at Jing Shao, and carried the tiger cub and the fat lady into the house. He saw Hao Dadao who was killing pigs in the courtyard: “You go and 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 butcher knife in his hand and walked out.

Although the fat lady was fierce, she was unambiguous in her work. She quickly poured a basin of warm water and put the little tiger cub in the water: “Here, take a bath!”

“Wow!” The little tiger cub was startled. Just as he was about to struggle, he suddenly smelled the smell of pig blood on her arm. He twitched his little nose and squinted his half-open eyes to find the blood. He opened his mouth and licked it, and the more he licked, the more vigorously he opened his mouth. He even opened his mouth, which was not full of teeth, and nibbled on the thick arm. However, the tiger’s mouth was even smaller, and he couldn’t even bite half of the arm. Taking it into his mouth, he completely forgot that he had been submerged in the water.

Mu Hanzhang looked at her skillful movements and asked, “Sister-in-law, do you like to raise cats and dogs?”

“Haha, I have loved little things like this since I was a child.” The fat lady laughed. The young master in front of her was gentle and kind, and his voice was gentle and elegant, which made her unable to be fierce. While washing, she chatted with Mu Hanzhang, and also talked about her when she was a child. I followed my father to perform on the street and compete in martial arts to attract brides.

“It must be Brother Hao who wins the ring before he can marry a beautiful woman, right?” Mu Hanzhang smiled and looked at Hao Dadao, who was bringing pork into the yard for the third time.

“Tch, him?” The fat lady glared at her husband who was not far away. “He lied to my father that he was the mountain king of Daxing Mountain. He lied to my father and said that if I followed him, I would be able to eat well and drink spicy food.” Then he took a cloth and hugged the washed little tiger cub and wiped it. The little tiger cub struggled dissatisfiedly and kept moaning.

“I heard from people in the village that the ancestors of the Hao family were really kings of the mountain.” Mu Hanzhang took the washed tiger cub and looked down at it. The yellow and black down was wet, maybe it was following the tigress before. She ate well, and despite being hungry all day, she was still chubby. She looked at him with a pair of round amber tiger eyes: “Wow!”