Zhang Feng didn't know what happened in Chang 'an City.
In three days, Ma Zhou's house was finally built under Zhang Feng's "deliberate" arrangement. It was a two-story Little Red House.
At the bottom of the house, there was something that looked like a lattice. The lattice was not big, only about ten square feet. The fences of each lattice only reached the height of a person's chest. Inside, there was a water trough, a food trough, and a door.
However, there were dozens of such things. It could be seen how big Ma Zhou's house was under Zhang Feng's deliberate arrangement.
The second floor was for living. Ma Zhou knew that one was for sleeping. After all, there was a bamboo straw bed in it. The other room was similar to a study, but there was nothing in it except a table and stool made of bamboo and a bookshelf.
Oh, there was also an oil lamp.
However, there were only two rooms with a study. The other nine rooms only had one bed. That was all.
Zheng Tufu and his son and daughter-in-law happily became his neighbors. In the other room lived a man who made Ma Zhou's hair stand on end.
It was said that he was an old eunuch from the palace. When he was in the palace, he was a big shot. His main job was to clean people's bodies. Ma Zhou always felt a little creepy when such a man lived next door.
Of course, the house that the eunuch lived in was much better than Ma Zhou's. After all, his house was the largest and best house except for Zheng Tufu's house. Behind the house, one could see a waterfall in the depths of the Xiao Mountain.
It was enough to prove that this man's importance was incomparable to Ma Zhou and Zheng Tufu.
Ma Zhou didn't understand this arrangement.
But it was a great honor to have a house here. After all, except for the teacher Zhang Feng and the others, everyone here was still living in shacks made of twigs and sheepskin.
Every time someone passed by, they would comment on this house and show envious eyes.
However, Ma Zhou always felt that something was wrong.
As for what was wrong, he didn't know for the time being, but he always felt that something was wrong.
At this moment.
Just as Ma Zhou placed his few books on the bookshelf and covered his bed with a layer of dried straw, Zhang Feng walked into Ma Zhou's room with a blanket in his arms under the envious gazes of Zheng Tufu and his family.
Seeing this, Ma Zhou hurriedly stood up and bowed.
"Student Ma Zhou pays respect to Teacher!"
"Ma Zhou, are you satisfied with this house? Time was tight, so I didn't have time to paint it. Once Li Gan is done with his work, I'll personally ask him to bring someone to paint it for you. Then, I'll add some furniture for you. That's how a house should look like! But now the conditions on the mountain are limited, so you have to bear with it for a while. "
When Ma Zhou heard this, he instantly teared up.
"Thank you, Teacher, for your kindness. What virtue and ability does Ma Zhou have to deserve such kindness from Teacher? Ma Zhou is really terrified! "
"Hahaha, it's fine, it's fine."
Zhang Feng rubbed his hands.
"Since you're free, I have something to tell you."
Zhang Feng pointed to the floor and said, "Do you know what's under here?"
Ma Zhou shook his head in puzzlement.
The architecture here was simply inconceivable. How would he know what those circles below were?
Although he had a rough idea that this was not a place for humans to live in, he had no idea what it was used for.
He hurriedly bowed and said, "I'm willing to listen to Teacher's teachings!"
Zhang Feng was speechless.
But what he liked about Ma Zhou was his vigor. It was more convenient to use him like this.
When they arrived at Xiao Mountain, Zhang Feng had basically prepared everything that he could think of for Ma Zhou. This made Li Chengqian and the others jealous. But Zhang Feng only said one sentence. They could either have the house as a gift, but there was a condition, and that was that they had to rear pigs!
When they heard this, each of them ran away faster than the other.
They did not even dare to look at Zhang Feng.
Zhang Feng gathered his thoughts and looked at Ma Zhou up and down. Then, he said, "I heard that you've been in Chang 'an for five years? Why didn't you participate in the last imperial examination? "
Ma Zhou's eyes darkened when he heard this, but he did not dare to not answer. He said, "Teacher, you need to send your name to the imperial examination. Before I met Teacher, I sent my name to all the places in Chang 'an that I could send my name to, but …"
"I heard that you raised horses?"
Zhang Feng did not want to listen to his long-winded words and asked directly.
Zhang Feng already knew about this.
Ma Zhou's face turned pale when he heard this. He said helplessly, "Yes, I did. It was all for my livelihood and to buy a book. I had no choice but to do this."
"Good, very good. Raising horses is good!"
Ma Zhou's expression froze.
Raising horses is good?
How is it good?
If it was not for the handwritten authentic work of the former Great Scholar Chen, would he lower himself to feed horses?
This was a humiliation to the literati.
He did not understand what Zhang Feng wanted to say. What was the connection between this and the small enclosure below. He could only bow and wait quietly.
When Zhang Feng saw this, he patted Ma Zhou's shoulder and said, "When I saw you for the first time, I knew that you and I were fated to meet! So now, I have an important matter that I want to entrust to you. Are you willing to do it? "
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