Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

Chapter 36: Organizer Mr. Fang

The Li brothers' vision is beautiful, and their family has worked hard for it.

However, the intentional or unintentional actions of the children of officials in the academy shattered the confidence of the two brothers.

The dandies of Qingshui City never concealed the contempt they showed towards the two brothers.

The sons of two boatmen should not even dream of becoming officials.

The right choice is to go home and inherit my father's business and continue to be a boatman.

Until one day, Mr. Fang, a teacher, found the two brothers.

Mr. Fang was very kind to the two brothers. He not only taught them to read, but also taught them martial arts. The brothers knew that they had met a noble person.

A month ago, Mr. Fang told the two brothers that their talents were limited and that he needed to improve their physical fitness.

So he gave the two brothers two magic pills, and they reached the eighth level of martial arts overnight.

From then on, the two regarded Mr. Fang as their benefactor.

Some time ago, the Li brothers discovered that Mr. Fang seemed to have some unspeakable secret and was always looking worried.

After asking many times, I found out that the big man behind Mr. Fang wanted to assassinate the son of Qingshui Hou's retainer.

Mr. Fang hoped that the two brothers could help him and promised that as long as they helped, regardless of whether they succeeded or not, they would become members of the court.

The Li brothers knew Ma Zhan when he was very young.

They didn't dare to provoke Jingjiehu, nor did they dare to offend Qingshuihou Mansion.

But for the sake of future wealth and glory, the two decided to take a risk.

It was not until now that Li Erlang realized what kind of existence he had offended.

What surprised him even more was why his honest and simple second uncle had become so powerful.

At this moment, Ma San ignored Li Erlang and walked straight towards the assassin lying on the ground.

He raised his sword and chopped off the assassin's head.

It might be Ma San's ruthless action that made Rijiro wake up instantly.

His first reaction was to run, to leave here quickly, to save his life, and to enjoy the future glory and wealth.

Li Erlang's potential was instantly stimulated and he quickly climbed over the wall.

Ma San didn't care about the escaping Li Erlang, and just glanced in the direction of the academy and the salt field town.

——Ever since the ambitious Emperor Wu of Liang incorporated Dongshan Road into the territory of Daliang, Confucian preachers from the Central Plains have flocked into the former territory of Dongyi.

They recruited disciples and opened an academy here.

Qingshui City is an important city on the new Dongshan Road, so the Confucians will naturally not let it go.

A long time ago, the clerk of the Hu Ben Army, with the support of Qingshui Hou, established the Qingshui Academy on a gentle hill outside Qingshui City.

Over the past few decades, a large number of Confucian talents have been cultivated for Daliang.

Now there are two Huangmenlang, who are disciples of Mr. Fang, a great scholar from Qingshui Academy.

The people in Qingshui City are rich, so there are many scholars.

Qingshui Academy has more than a thousand Confucian scholars and nearly a hundred teachers. An academy of this size can be ranked among the top three in Dongshan Road.

Mr. Fang is one of the three most prestigious Confucian scholars in Qingshui Academy.

Mr. Fang's original name was Fang Keming. He was born into the Fang family of Jizhong Prefecture. The Fang family was considered an emerging aristocracy that rose at the same time as the Ma family.

Fang Keming was intelligent since childhood. At the age of nineteen, he entered the fourth rank of Confucianism. He was a truly handsome young man.

He once went to Jizhong Prefecture and served as the magistrate of Zhanghe County.

Fang Keming was a staunch supporter of Confucianism, strictly observing etiquette and laws, and was passionate and dedicated to his duties.

However, after Fang Keming took office, he found that he, as the county's chief official, could not make the decision in Zhanghe County.

The legal advisors, clerks, and constables of Zhanghe County did not take this young man from aristocratic family seriously.

Many of the livelihood policies prepared by Fang Keming could not be implemented. The depressed Fang County Magistrate was so angry that he resigned from his post and returned home to concentrate on studying.

A few years later, he was invited by the president of Qingshui Academy to teach at the academy.

Fang Keming came from a noble family and had extraordinary knowledge, so he was highly respected in Qingshui Academy.

He was also happy with his place and stayed in Qingshui Academy for more than ten years, leading a life of pure concentration on studying.

Such a comfortable life was eventually disrupted by a foreigner.

A barbarian brought a letter to Fang Keming, a letter written by the great scholar Lu Yiqing from Guanlong on behalf of the current queen.

Fang Keming had already retired from officialdom and lived in seclusion, but this letter made him realize that no noble son could ignore everything.

Fang Keming knew very well why the queen wanted to kill a ten-year-old child. It was simply because the Ma family was powerful.

Fang Keming asked himself more than once how a Confucian disciple who was well-read in the books of sages could harm a ten-year-old child.

But the letter gave a clear answer: aristocratic families only care about their stance, not about right or wrong.

Fang Keming had no choice. For the sake of his family and Confucian etiquette, he had to be a bad guy.

For the sake of his family, Fang Keming cannot expose himself.

After all, the title of the No. 1 Marquis Mansion in Daliang is not for nothing, and the Fang family of Jizhongzhou cannot withstand the revenge of the Qingshui Marquis Mansion.

In a very short period of time, Fang Keming used the two brothers of the Li family to settle the people sent from Guanlong.

However, a Confucian scholar is a Confucian scholar after all. Fang Keming's self-proclaimed perfect arrangement was easily seen through by the illiterate Ma San.

At this moment, Ma Jiu, dressed in black, had arrived at the gate of Fang Keming's courtyard and spoke in a kind tone with a hint of murderous intent.

"Ma Jiu, a retainer of the Ma family, is here to pay a visit to Mr. Fang."

Fang Keming's heart sank to the bottom. He didn't know that Ma Jiu represented the Laoshan bandit camp.

But when the people from the Ma family arrived, it meant that the matter had been completely exposed, and the Fang family in Jizhong would face an unprecedented disaster.

The one who responded to Ma Jiu was a slightly shorter barbarian. The guy rushed towards Ma Jiu savagely and smashed the fence of the courtyard in the process.

Ma Jiu remained calm in the face of danger, tiptoed and dodged backwards.

The sword behind him came out, and two sword energies shot out, piercing into the barbarian's eyes.

The barbarian sensed the danger, twisted his body, and averted his eyes, causing the sword energy to slash his cheek.

The barbarian swooped forward without slowing down.

He grabbed Ma Jiu's ankle with his right hand and was about to exert force to flip Ma Jiu over when he felt a chill on his wrist and his entire right hand lost consciousness.

Ma Jiuzhen pushed away the barbarian's right hand and said lightly.

"Guanlong's sheep horn wrestling, it seems that you are the wild wolf raised by the Guanlong Lu family.

Unfortunately, you are too young."

Ma Jiu instantly rushed in front of the barbarian and stabbed his sword into his face.

The next moment, the barbarian's eyebrows were pierced, his eyes widened, and then he fell to the ground.

"Master Jiu's instant-kill sword power is truly perfect."

Fang Keming was already standing in the courtyard, leaning on the handrail.

Ma Jiu's sword entered his body and he clasped his fists towards Fang Keming.

"I, Mr. Ma Jiujing, have been teaching for more than ten years. How could you have ended up like this?"

Fang Keming turned towards the west and said.

"There's no point in saying more. I, Fang Keming, will not surrender without a fight."

The next moment, Fang Keming's robes moved without wind, a surge of righteousness burst out, and he uttered the true words.

"The Confucian sage said..."

Fang Keming is a fourth-rank Confucian scholar, and the words of the Confucian sage can completely restrict Ma Jiu.

But at this moment, the sky changed color, and an ink-colored word "封" (seal) in the sky covered Fang Keming.

Fang Keming's noble spirit dissipated, and the words of the Confucian sage were interrupted.

Ma Si, dressed in a Taoist robe, and Ma Qi, holding a judge's pen, descended from the sky.

Fang Keming sighed and sat down casually on a large rock nearby.