Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

"Gift for meeting?" Miao Yi asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"What do you mean, you're not going to see the people from Mount Emei with this?"

"I'll take the salt permit, the banknotes, and the bracelets of two inner disciples. How can they not trust me?"

Ma Zhan answered Miao Yi's questions while admiring the bracelet on his wrist.

Miao Yi's face turned red with anger, and he really wanted to chop this shameless little guy with a sword.

Ma Zhan packed up and said,

"Master, I'm going home. I'll come to see you tomorrow after I go to the Hairi Inn."

"Wait a minute~"

Miaoyi called out to Ma Zhan, "You haven't sworn yet."

"Does it matter?"

"Very important."

Ma Zhan shook his head. "There's no trust between people anymore, but I never swore an oath."

"I said, you learn from me."

"Alright alright."

Seeing that Miaoyi was determined to keep her promise until Ma Zhan got it, Ma Zhan was convinced.

"God is above me, I will fight..."

After swearing the oath, Ma Zhan felt like laughing. "If swearing is useful, what's the point of having laws? It's terrible to be so uneducated."

——In the Qingshui Marquis Mansion, Guo Shanfeng, under Yuehua's instruction, met with Ma San. As soon as he left, Ma Zhan returned.

Ma Zhan came to the main room of the Marquis' Mansion, greeted the Marquis and the princess, and then gave them the Chixia Qi written by Miaoyi.

Ma Botong has fought on the battlefield for many years and his rank is definitely not low. Yuehua was born into a royal family and is knowledgeable.

It was impossible for Ma Zhan to understand the Chixia Qi by himself, so he could only count on the help of the two big guys.

Ma Botong and his wife had long known that Ma Zhan had killed people to save people in Laoshan, but what they didn't expect was that he also brought back a set of martial arts.

Although it is just a general outline, one can see at a glance that this technique is extraordinary.

Yuehua asked Ma Zhan in surprise.

"Hu Zi, did Fairy Miao Yi just give you the technique?"

Ma Zhan felt that he needed to show off, because without Yuehua or Ma Botong's consent, it would be impossible for him to become someone's disciple.

"I saved her, and because I was handsome and had great martial arts skills, she wanted to marry me. Look, she even gave me the token of love." Ma Zhan shook his wrist.

Yuehua lifted Ma Zhan's wrist and looked at it.

"A spiritual object, it wards off external evil, purifies the mind and nourishes the spirit. There is a mark on it."

Then, Yuehua pretended to look at Ma Zhan seriously.

"Huzi, you will be punished if you lie to me."

In front of Yuehua, my own skills are really nothing.

"this..."

"Have you forgotten the beating you received when you were six years old?" Ma Botong looked at Ma Zhan with a smile.

Ma Zhan's heart shuddered.

When Ma Zhan was six years old, the newly appointed Weiwei County Magistrate came to the Qingshui Marquis's Mansion with his wife and daughter to visit Ma Botong and Princess Yuehua.

Seeing that the county magistrate's daughter was a cute girl of seven or eight years old, Ma Zhan took her to Qingshui City for fun.

At that time, Ma Zhan was in a playful mood and told the girl the story of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, in an immersive way.

In their previous life, the county magistrate’s daughter was Bai Suzhen, Ma Zhan was Xu Xian, and the county magistrate was Fahai, who separated them.

How could a girl of seven or eight years old hear this? She went back to the mansion and went to fight her father.

She said she was a snake demon and wanted to elope with Ma Zhan, and called his father an old bald donkey.

The county magistrate's face turned green at that time. Yuehua knew it was Ma Zhan's doing as soon as she heard it.

In front of the county magistrate's family, Ma Zhan's pants were taken off and he was given a scolding.

Ma Zhan, who thought he had a barbaric physique, didn't take it seriously at first. He just thought it was embarrassing to have his pants taken off in public.

Unexpectedly, the cane left a bloody mark on his buttocks, which made Ma Zhan scream and try to run away with all his strength.

I don’t know how Yuehua had so much strength, but she held Ma Zhan down with one hand and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn’t move.

The county magistrate was also a scholar. He couldn't bear to watch Ma Zhan's buttocks being beaten to pieces.

The county magistrate personally pleaded for Ma Zhan, and Yuehua spared Ma Zhan's life.

Recalling the beating with a cane, Ma Zhan couldn't help but shiver.

He looked up at Yuehua, touched his butt subconsciously, and told her everything.

Yuehua and Ma Botong looked at each other, with a hint of smile in their eyes, Yuehua said.

“I’ve raised Tiger for ten years and I’m starting to want a wife.

Miaoyi is too old, I'll find you someone prettier than her in two years."

Ma Zhan thought that he would be scolded if not beaten, but he didn’t expect Yuehua to have this attitude. However, he was right.

In this world, the average marriage age for boys is fourteen or fifteen, which is similar to that in ancient times.

Yuehua married Ma Botong at the age of sixteen, which was considered a late marriage.

In families with child brides, the arrangement may be done when the child is ten years old.

Ma Zhan did not refute anything. What he was most concerned about now was the red cloud energy.

"Holding a martial arts manual but not being able to understand it is like a group of eunuchs visiting a brothel..."

Yuehua saw through Ma Zhan’s thoughts at a glance and said.

"Tonight you must memorize every word, imprint it in your mind, and then burn this paper.

As for the rest, I don’t care.”

"Well, it's pretty much what Miao Yi said~."

Ma Zhan agreed, picked up the secret book and returned to his yard.

Ma Botong and Yuehua sat opposite each other, and Ma Botong said: "This may be an opportunity for Huzi."

Yuehua nodded, "Hu Zi has his own destiny, but I really don't want him to go down this path."

The next morning, Ma Zhan reviewed the general outline of Chixia Qi again. After making sure he had memorized it completely, he burned the paper.

After breakfast, I rode the old horse to the salt field.

——The salt field town was once a wasteland when it was occupied by the barbarians.

After nearly a hundred years of operation by the Ma family, this place has clearly gone beyond the scope of a small town and can be regarded as a small seaside town.

The small town was formed naturally, with no city walls and no government offices.

Everything here is managed by the Ma family's salt field, and the salt field's guards are also responsible for catching thieves and violent criminals.

Countless salt fields surrounded the Ma family's shipyard.

The main residents of the saltworks town are craftsmen working in the saltworks and shipyards and their families.

Ma Da and Ma Er, the persons in charge of the salt field and shipyard, lived there.

Ma Da's son, Ma Sheng, was being groomed as the heir to the management of the shipyard and saltworks, while Ma Er's daughter, Ma Qing'er, was now essentially Ma Sheng's wife.

These two people are Ma Zhan's cousins. Although they are not related by blood, their relationship is closer than that of family members. They are also particularly good to their younger brother Ma Zhan.

As soon as Ma Zhan entered the saltworks town, he stumbled upon a woman, or rather a girl, wearing a silver mask, following behind a shipyard worker.

"This girl doesn't look like a shipyard worker. She looks more like someone's daughter."

Ma Zhan rode his horse to the workers' team and shouted.

"Song Baotou~."

A dark-skinned man in his forties turned his head and looked at Ma Zhan.

"Hey~, Master Xiaohu, come and look for Master Sheng and Miss Qing'er."

Ma Zhan dismounted and came to Song Baotou. Others who knew Ma Zhan also jokingly called him "Little Tiger Master".

"Whose daughter is this? She's going to the shipyard with you guys." Ma Zhan asked, pointing at the girl in the silver mask.

Song Batou introduced formally.

"This is Mr. Meng, whom the Second Master invited. He specializes in engraving runes for ships."

"Engraving runes? ...A pattern master!"