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An hour later, as the sun was setting in the west, Ma Jinliang, a member of a hundred households in Dashui Pingzhai, "sent" Liu Sheng out of the village with two big shoulders.

The dozen or so servants raised by Ma Baihu and dozens of guardsmen followed closely behind, reluctant to leave.

Liu Sheng looked back and said with a smile: "Ma Baihu, your subordinates seem reluctant to let me go. How about I stay at your house for the night?"

Although Ma Jinliang looks tall and fat compared with others around him, he is actually only a little over 1.7 meters tall and is covered in fat.

Those two big shoulders were heavy and heavy. After only walking the distance from his home to the village gate, he was so tired that he was panting and sweating profusely.

After listening to Liu Sheng's words, he began to sweat even more on his forehead. He quickly turned around and shouted: "What are you doing with me? Do you want to kill me? Everyone goes back to his home!"

The dozen servants holding weapons looked at each other and had to retreat to the walled city.

As for the dozens of soldiers, most of them held farm tools in their hands, and they were simply summoned to build up their momentum. As soon as Ma Jinliang's servants retreated, they dispersed.

Ma Baihu "sent" Liu Sheng nearly three miles away. Seeing that the sun was setting and it was getting dark, he sat down on the ground and almost spilled the money in his bag.

He gasped: "Good man, I really can't walk anymore, let me take a rest."

Liu Sheng looked at him and shook his head, "Ma Baihu, your body needs to be exercised, otherwise in the future if the intruders come or the slaves come, what will you do? Should you wait to die, or surrender to the thieves and become slaves?"

Ma Baihu was too tired to speak, but he felt that Liu Sheng's words were strange.

'This man calls Li Zicheng a trespasser. Is he a subordinate of another thief chieftain, or does he have a grudge against Li Zicheng? '

As for the arrival of Jiannu, he had never thought about it - he felt that even if Jiannu joined the invaders again, he might come to Henan, but he would never come to Runing Mansion in the south.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Liu Sheng was not prepared to let Ma Baihu waste any more time.

He said: "Put down the robe and go back."

Ma Baihu was stunned for a moment, then immediately put down his robe, kowtowed and said, "Thank you, good man!"

After he kowtowed, he seemed to have regained his strength and stood up to leave.

Liu Sheng said loudly from behind: "Ma Baihu must remember that letter of commitment so that he can take care of himself."

Ma Baihu trembled and froze after hearing this, and then quickened his pace and left after a few seconds.

Liu Sheng smiled, picked up a bag in one hand, and left quickly.

The bags in his hands each weighed dozens of kilograms. It was difficult for Ma Baihu to carry them, but he carried them easily.

Inside were the five hundred taels of silver and dozens of copper coins that Ma Baihu used to buy his glass bottle.

In order to show that he would not regret this transaction, Ma Baihu wrote a letter of commitment, saying, "If this happens again, the Chongzhen child will have no descendants and will not have a good death."

He stamped his seal of hundreds of households on it and pressed his fingerprints.

Liu Sheng saw that Ma Baihu was sincere, so he sold him the precious glass bottle.

Ma Baihu cried with joy after getting the glass bottle. Seeing that Liu Sheng's clothes were tattered and unfit, he insisted on giving him some good clothes, as well as matching socks, shoes, and hats.

Ma Baihu's "enthusiasm" even made Liu Sheng feel ashamed of his original idea - initially he wanted to kill Ma Baihu to avenge the poor people of Dashuipingzhai who were oppressed by him.

Later, he thought that the death of a hundred households would most likely alarm the local government, causing tension in Tianmu Mountain and disharmony between the government and the people, which would be detrimental to what he wanted to do next, so he gave up.

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The third day of wearing the house.

That is, the eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.

This date was also obtained by Liu Sheng from Ma Baihu yesterday. It is consistent with the modern date, except that the lunar calendar is used here. To be precise, it is the "Datong Calendar" of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Chongzhen ordered people to combine Chinese and Western astronomical knowledge to compile a more advanced and accurate "Chongzhen Almanac", which was the mother version of the lunar calendar for later generations, it was not used until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Tianmu Mountain, a small place, naturally uses the outdated "Tatong Calendar".

At four or five o'clock in the morning, Liu Sheng got up and washed up, and had bread and milk for breakfast.

After eating, he changed into the clothes given by Ma Baihu yesterday.

Wearing an indigo Tang scarf (cap), a set of Chu-colored wide robes, and brown-gray high-top hiking boots on his feet. Inside, he was wearing modern underwear and a body armor (also stab-proof).

This outfit may seem odd at first glance, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Taoist robes were popular clothes among literati in the late Ming Dynasty. It was normal for others to follow suit and wear Taoist robes.

As for the Tang scarf, it was a very common hat in the Ming Dynasty, with many styles.

The shoes and short hair are indeed incompatible with people at this time, but in this time period of the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Sheng was not afraid even if he was noticed.

What's more, he wasn't going to a big city to meet an official this time, he was just going to Maojiaji in the southwest of Tianmu Mountain.

Originally, Liu Sheng wanted to go to the surrounding counties, but even the closest county to Tianmu Mountain was forty or fifty miles away. The next best thing he could do was visit the nearby market town.

This Maojiaji was called Maojia Town in later generations. In the early Ming Dynasty, because it was located on the official road from Tongbai County in Nanyang to Xinyang Prefecture, someone built a hotel. Then more and more people settled here and made a living by doing business.

Because most people have the surname Mao, it is also called Maojia Pu or Maojia Dian.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many towns appeared in the Huaihe River Basin like in the south of the Yangtze River. Maojiapu also developed into a market town due to the increase in business travel, so it was often called Maojiaji, or Maoji or Maodian for short.

Liu Sheng's "home" was about twenty miles away from Maojiaji. He left at about five o'clock in the morning and arrived at Maojiaji at about eight o'clock.

He found that there were unexpectedly many people going to the market. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that many of them were refugees.

This reminded him of some scenes he had seen on the road before - many streams and ponds were dry, and many rivers and lakes were shallow. This is in the Tianmu Mountain area where water is relatively abundant in southern Henan. The situation in other places can be imagined.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, droughts, locust plagues, military disasters, and plagues occurred in Jiangbei almost every year, and the areas involved became wider as we went later.

Henan has a large population, the highest concentration of vassal kings, and serious land annexation. It suffered a major disaster and the Ming court was unable to provide relief. I don’t know how many people would be desperate. No wonder Li Zicheng was able to sweep Henan this year and gain an army of millions of rogues, achieving great success. '

After sighing in his heart, Liu Sheng walked into Maojiaji, which was composed of a large number of houses and several streets.

Some of the refugees on the road brought their belongings to support the elderly and the young, while others could no longer walk and were sitting on the roadside, inserting a few thatch sticks into their bodies and selling themselves.

As for people who say their faces are tasty and look haggard, they are all there.

There are also some people whose thin bodies hold out their bellies as if they have been pregnant for several months. Their eyes are either green or dull, which is even more eye-catching.

Most of those who sold themselves kept their heads down and remained silent. Only a few people occasionally raised their heads and shouted a few words in a pleading tone, but the volume was not loud because they lacked the strength.

As for the people in movies and TV shows who sell their bodies to bury their loved ones, Liu Sheng didn’t see any of them.

He suddenly realized that here and now, the dead may not wait until they are buried, or they may not wait until they are buried...