The fish belly is white in the east, the smoke surrounds the mountain village, and the chickens crow and the dogs are barking.

The morning light broke through the gaps in the clouds and spread from the earth, pushing the black edges to cover the sky and the earth. The refracted light of the dewdrops slid across the tips of the mulberry leaves, and a "pop" sound caused a rippling circle in the water tank.

In the fenced courtyard, Wang Jinqiu started cooking breakfast at the stove early, and Qiao Niang also got up early and helped her to help. The woman told me something, wiped her palm, ran to the inner room, and pushed the old man Geng who had already gotten up to the eaves to dry the morning light. She took the chamber pot in the room and poured it over to the toilet without any dirtyness.

"Sir, it's time to eat." Soon, Qiao Niang packed up and walked to the door, shouted in through the window frame. Geng Qing then dressed up, rolled up the drawings in her hand, picked up the cake, and drank the porridge.

"Slow down, no one will compete with you."

The woman brought two other bowls of porridge on the table. Looking at the diligent girl there, she liked her from the bottom of her heart.

"Mom told me that you don't want the cousin from my mother's house, but I brought back a thirteenth one. If the truth is true, I will decide the marriage."

"Mom, I just pity her for being miserable and homeless. It just so happened that there was no one to take care of her by the two elders, so she took her in."

Geng Qing didn't feel anything about the woman who had appeared around him, otherwise he wouldn't have easily climbed into a widow's bed. Listening to his mother's nagging, Geng Qing finished drinking porridge and stuffed half a piece of cake into his mouth in three mouthfuls. It was time for the county government to slap in. After Dachun's shouts came, he told Qiao Niang to say "Let's stay for now" and "be careful to rest more", and then hurried out of the yard.

In the shabby area, the villagers gathered. After hearing what Geng Taigong said, most of them came to apologize to Geng Qing. However, the men in the village were quite shallow and hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything.

"Everyone doesn't know and has resentment in his heart. That's common sense. How can I take it to heart? Now things have passed, and we can continue to do business there, and the inn will be repaired as usual."

Geng Qing stood on the chariot and bowed to everyone, comforting them not to think too much, and said, "I have to go back to the county government and say goodbye first."

Immediately, I opened the curtain and sat in the carriage, and ordered Dachun to drive out of the village entrance. In addition to the envoys from the court, there was another important thing waiting for him.

It was already two o'clock when he returned to Feihu County. The carriage was parked at the door of the Jindao Gang. He asked Dachun to go to the county yard to spread a message, saying that he still had something to do and could not go to the yamen for the time being.

Immediately, he turned around and walked into the courtyard. Dou Wei, who had received the news, rushed over, bowed and greeted Geng Qing and went to the front yard to speak.

The maid brought the tea and retreated. Then Geng Qing asked about the banquet yesterday.

"How? Which one has not come, or has it all come, looks, and words are inappropriate?"

Dou Wei acted as the leader of the gang, and his clothes and momentum were very different from the past. The black open cloud pattern round collar fir made out his power. At this time, he took out a stack of paper from his arms and held it in his hand to hold Geng Qing on the left.

"All of them are here, Mr. Geng please check it out."

The paper unfolded, and Geng Qing looked at the vertical lines from right to left, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. There were scholars invited outside to secretly record the expressions and words of the heads of the three families of Wang, Li and Cai who were attending the banquet. For example, the Ma family sent an invitation and never handed back a reply, let alone the person who was present.

"These people's words are subtle, and they think they are testing them. There is no need to worry about it, but the Ma family can be used to kill the chicken to warn the monkey."

Geng Qing's fingertips fell on the word "horse" circled. Dou Wei nodded and immediately waved out: "Come."

A sound of footsteps came, and more than twenty swordsmen gathered outside the door. Geng Qing frowned, put the paper aside, stood up and pressed Dou Wei's arm down.

"There is no need to kill a chicken to warn the monkey. The imperial envoy is about to arrive in Feihu County. Don't make anyone die, which makes the other households feel fear. Then secretly sue the Golden Knife Gang, and things will become troublesome."

Dou Wei was not stupid either. After thinking about it carefully, this kind of thing is indeed easy to happen. Once the court envoys know about it, the yamen will be asked to arrest people. The current situation with the Golden Sword Gang can only be mermaid meat.

After a moment, he clasped his fists hard: "Sir, how do you do it?"

"From the future, Jindao Gang should try to make a serious deal." Geng Qing didn't rush to answer. This matter was not something you could think of just thinking about, "Let me think about it."

He stood up and walked to the flowerbed with his hands on his hands. Dou Wei did not dare to urge him between the potted plants, so he moved in small steps, and a maid from the wife came over in the distance.

Before he could speak, he waved the person away: "Go back and tell your wife that Mr. Geng is looking for a solution, don't disturb him."

In front, looking at the butterflies in the flying morning light, Geng Qing suddenly turned around and walked straight to the yard gate. He asked Dou Wei to call the two people in the gang, "Follow me to go to the Ma family."

Thinking that it was a break in search of revenge, Dou Wei immediately went back to get the weapons and walked in front with two minions, protecting the carriage with fierceness, scaring the people who were passing by and vendors to hide on both sides.

The Ma family runs a Leyou shop in the east of the city, runs pawn shops in the city, and has three restaurants. There are hundreds of acres of land outside the city. It is a very famous wealthy family in the east of the city. You can know it by asking casually on the road.

"Wait a minute, don't talk or call the door. Just follow me. If you see me laughing, you will laugh too, the kind that makes people scared."

When he arrived at the place, Geng Qing got out of the carriage and gave the three people a message, took a booklet, carried a brush behind him, walked leisurely to the archway, walked straight to the gate of Qihongyuan with the plaque of the "Horse House" and passed by the two guards at the door. From time to time, he looked at the courtyard wall, lowered his head and wrote and painted.

"What is this man doing? He is wearing yamen clothes." "The one who follows him looks like Dou Wei from the Golden Knife Gang..."

"I'll keep an eye on our house...you can watch, I'll inform the master."

Seeing the group of people outside pointing at the house, the guard guard did not dare to be careless, he said something to his companion, turned around and ran in, the stone path under his feet stretched out, and in the front yard where the Feng Shui wall was around, Ma Huai, dressed in a fine robe, was talking to his son. When he heard the footsteps, he turned his face and saw the guard guard stop at the door and bowing with his fists.

"What's the matter?"

The yard was a little panting, and pointed to the outside and told the father and son that the latter had heard the "Dou Wei of the Golden Knife Gang" glanced at each other, and hurried out of the front yard to the outside of the yard. Except for a carriage parked at the intersection, no one was seen.

"Where are their people?"

"Go back to the main house, they went around to the side." A guard staying at the gate pointed to the front.

Ma Huaila took his son and took a few servants to walk quickly, turning around the corner of the wall, and on the side of the road, a group of four were still wandering around slowly. One of the young men with a dark face was not looking up at the courtyard wall, but he felt uneasy.

"Gang Master Dou, it's been a long time since we met." Ma Huai smiled and stepped forward and bowed. He turned around with Dou Wei who was accompanying him, put his fingers between his lips and snorted, indicating that he should not be loud.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing that Dou Wei was not speaking, Ma Huai had to turn his eyes to the young man in the head. Seeing him wearing black boots in his clothes, he knew that he was a man in the yamen and bowed and bowed: "I'm off Ma Huai, don't know the surname of the little brother? Why not go to a humble house to drink tea and talk."

On the other side, the young man looking up at the wall of the courtyard, turned his face sideways, took the booklet brush and arched casually, and said with a smile: "I'm the next name Geng, and the single name is Qing. Let's take a look outside and don't go in and bother me."

"this......."

Ma Huai couldn't figure out what he was going to do, so he was polite. Geng Qing took the people from the Golden Knife Gang to continue walking for a while, and said, "Let's go." Then he returned far away and got on the carriage and left.

The father and son who came back stood in front of the yard, and the doubts in their eyes became increasingly deeper. Ma Huai had an impression of the young man named Geng Qing. At first, he had heard of the Niu Family Ji's name, but later he gradually forgot it. When it was mentioned, it was already at the funeral of the leader of the Golden Knife Gang. Later, he also asked some questions. He was just a young man who came out of the mountain village. He had some strategies, but unfortunately he didn't know the big words and worked as a penman in the yamen. It would be difficult to do anything in the future.

"Father, he came and walked around and left. What exactly are you going to do?"

Ma Huai shook his head calmly. He didn't know what Geng Qing's gourd sold, so he waved his son to go in with him: "I don't know, just be more careful and be cautious in doing things, so the other party won't be able to make any troubles."

However, not long after the father and son entered, the servant waiting outside hurriedly came in again, "The master's family, that man is coming again, and he has brought a few more people from the Golden Knife Gang."

"Do you know what they do?"

"Looking around the house..."

"I'm too bullying, what's my home?" The young man sitting next to him slapped the table in anger, and then he was scolded by Ma Huai on the side to sit down, "What's so panic? Come out and take a look."

The father and son hurried outside with their men. The original group of four people turned into six people. They held swords and pressed them on the courtyard wall as if measuring the height. When they saw the Ma family coming out, they even grinned at them politely, and then followed Geng Qing away.

The Ma family here had to go back.

It was almost noon, and the father and son who had just sat down and picked up their bowls, heard the people from the Jindao Gang coming again. Geng Qing led to the courtyard wall to the west. After a while, he left again, and even put a ball of mud on the wall, like a mark.

The angry young man hesitated to look at the first father. Ma Huai squeezed the bowls and chopsticks hard, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

With a slight moment, he knocked the bottom of the bowl heavily on the table and stood up: "What are these people going to do?! Is it so comfortable for people to feel!"

"Father, will Geng Qing know what we are going to do? Liu Miao was in his hands before."

"I must know that I know. Even a fool can see that my father didn't go to the banquet... I just don't know our details."

"Will anyone report it secretly... Just like Liu Mang's incident, our families colluded to take over his family, if... if... the other families also had the same idea now, colluded to use the Golden Knife Gang..."

Hearing his son's words, Ma Huai turned his head, frowned even tighter, and walked back and forth for a while.

"Prepare gifts and add the visits together. You can go to the Golden Knife Gang personally to ease the relationship. As for the matters that have been made with the Li family, Cai and Wang family, our family will not get involved."

I had no intention of eating the food anymore. After saying that, I brushed my sleeves and went back to the backyard. The young man hurriedly dug a few bites of the food, hurried to the account office to pay silver, prepare gifts, and go out in a carriage.

The bustling streets and alleys passing by, rows of houses unfolded. Going far away to the city gate to the west, a convoy of cars came and went. The people and merchants retreated and avoided, watching the soldiers escorting carriages into the city.

.........

The white clouds were like trunks, and the sun shone through the gaps of the clouds, swaying shades of trees falling from swaying fingers among the garden gardens, and the annoying cicadas screamed and screamed.

Under the eaves of the high house, Geng Qing was lying on a large upholstered sandalwood chair. The maid next to her was holding a fan and gently shook it. Bai Yunxiang was wearing a refreshing dress, scooped a spoonful of iced cheese and fed it to Geng Qing's mouth, pinched a handkerchief and gently wiped off the milk stains on the corner of his mouth, her face chuckled, and her red lips were charming.

"Just just now, the person who came from the front said that the Ma family's son came to the door in person and accompanied Dou Wei, his mouth was almost worn out. As soon as he left, the other families also sent people to talk. The gifts of this car were almost impossible to stuff in the warehouse. Uncle, how did you do this?"

Feeling the cool breeze blowing on his face, smelling the scent, Geng Qing twisted his neck lazily and said with a smile: "Suspicious, the Ma family has dirty things hidden in his heart. No matter how calm the people are, they will have some speculations in their hearts. Just amplify his suspicion and cannot hold it down, they will naturally be solved. When the other companies, when they see the Ma family coming, they are afraid that they will fall behind and have any activities with them, they will naturally have to have a relationship. Then, they will have a gap in their hearts and will no longer unite, at least in a short period of time, they will no longer focus on the Jindao Gang's industry."

Yun Xiang opened her red lips slightly. She didn't expect that there would be a solution like this. She happily pressed her against the man and tightened her tighter. She scooped a spoonful of cheese and fed it to the man's mouth.

Geng Qing was so cold that he was in his mouth, and he looked at the smiling eyes of the woman in front of him, and was about to get up and carry him to the room. Someone came over outside, so he quickly sat down and put his robe on his crotch to cover it slightly.

A maid came over quickly and gave a blessing.

"Mr. Geng, a public official came outside and said that the county master asked you to go back. It seemed like an angel came into the city and was in the county government."

"It's been here."

Geng Qing pinched Yunxiang's cheek, and the beautiful woman came over to tidy up his robe and collar, "Will uncle come here tonight?"

"I'm not here, I have to entertain the envoys of the court."

Geng Qing blinked at her, then followed the maid to the front yard, met with the official, and took a carriage to join the complicated streets.
Chapter completed!