Wei He left, along with Peng Tuo and Chen Guang. This native of Longxian not only did not rise in awe after this journey, but also made up his mind to go to the Central Plains to have a look. Ma Yue originally wanted to leave Wei He incognito in Zhangshan Village, but he was still afraid that Wei He's brother would ask someone to assassinate him again.

Before leaving, Ma Yue said, "Brother Wei, don't go." ”

Wei He sat on the horse and grabbed the reins with one hand and smiled: "Don't worry, I think clearly." It's okay. ”

Wei He still left, and he was stubborn and wanted to go home to see his father. Six horses kick up a large cloud of dust on a country road.

Zhangshan Village has returned to the peaceful time of the past, and bacon is hanging on the walls of every house, and the taste of the New Year is getting more and more. The Ma family is in the market every day, and all the neighbors who are familiar with the Ma family come to visit the injured Ma Yue at home. There are more friends and entertainment is indispensable, of course, most of the entertainment here is that friends come to the house as guests and are entertained by Ma Teng.

Ma Zong and Ma Yue were both lying on the couch, Ma Zong's wound was kicked and cracked by Ma Teng, this nine-foot man who was in pain at night snorted, sometimes when he woke up in pain, he saw Ma Yue looking at him, he endured the pain and grinned, and asked: "San Lang, do your eyes still hurt?" ”

Within a year, this was the second time Ma Yue had been injured in bed, and this time the injury was far more serious than that of the wolf. After this period of training, Ma Yue's body is also much stronger than at that time, and the knife wounds and sword holes on his body have not hurt the muscles and bones, and they will be transparent within a month. Only the face was still bandaged. The healer said that his eyes would not see light until at least the first lunar month. These days, only when there is no oil lamp in the house, Ma Yue dares to open it to let his face breathe. The eyesight recovered well, and I could see clearly, but there was always a faint red light in front of my eyes, and the pupil of my left eye turned red. The eyes were saved, but after all, they were broken. A two-and-a-half-inch scar slashed through his left eye, and it would stay with him for the rest of his life.

During the time he went out with the caravan until he recovered from his injuries, a lot of changes happened in his family. There was an extra sheepfold with more than forty pigs and sheep in it. These pigs and sheep were sent by Cheng Yincha, the leader of the nearby Qiang tribe, a few days ago. Ma Teng has more friends than before, and Ma Yue has also met a few good brothers.

Most of these people are famous figures in history in later generations, such as Tianshui people who are proficient in the art of projecting hidden weapons. During this time, he lived in Ma's house, and taught Ma Yue some projection techniques every now and then.

Cheng Yin, the bearded Qiang chieftain, his tribe is only separated from Zhangshan Village by a mountain, and it is a small tribe with thousands of cattle and sheep and hundreds of horses.

There is even Li Chen, the leader of the horse thieves who is in Wuwei, is also a guest of Ma Teng, and when Ma Yue was recuperating from his injuries a few days ago, he took several henchmen to live in Ma's house for a while, and I heard that it was to avoid the investigation of the government.

There are good and bad in these people, and there are high and low personalities, and Ma Teng will not refuse to come. Ma Yue just chose XJ to go some, such as Li Chen, the leader of the horse bandits, and Ma Yue chose to stay away. This guy is a first-class bad guy in his eyes, he can do anything to rob caravans and oppress the good, only if someone gives him gold, even if he is asked to slaughter the village, he will not hesitate. Interestingly, this man has also done a little good, and there are hundreds of homeless orphans in his territory. From his words, Ma Yue learned that he was an orphan, so he was particularly concerned about orphans.

This made Ma Yue sincerely disdainful, and what he did destroyed countless originally peaceful families and created a large number of orphans in Liangzhou. But in the final analysis, Li Chen is not a mad dog, he just laughed at Ma Yue's shameful smile at him, and said incomprehensibly, "You don't understand." In any case, these people, whether good or bad, can be called heroes, and they come to the house every once in a while, and Ma Yue can also gain some insight when he listens to them talking to each other. Like the living conditions of the Qianghu tribe in the north, the powerful forces in various places, and so on. Among them, he is most interested in the name Dong Zhuo, who read the comic book version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when he was a child, must be very familiar with the image of the big fat man wearing the crown.

It is now the fifth year of Xiping of the Great Han Dynasty, and Dong Zhuo is far from being the future Xiangguo who will cause trouble in the imperial city. At this time, he became the commander of Guangwu as the son of a micro-official in the border area, and also received the captain of the Western Regions. Bold and generous, if 'Liangzhou Sanming' is the idol of Dong Zhuo's generation, then Dong Zhuo is the object of worship of his generation.

With his own ability, he has become a great power in Liangzhou, and his power is almost a hundred times stronger than the Ma family. Ma Teng's friendship is with the down-and-out Haojie county officials, or the small leaders of Qiang Hu. And Dong Zhuo's guests were several levels higher, including high-ranking officers in the border areas, and Qianghu chieftains. Even Cheng Yin, who is very powerful in Ma Yue's opinion and has a tribe of thousands of people, is proud to have seen Dong Zhuo a few times, and Dong Zhuo's prestige in Liangzhou is now in full swing.

But these still failed to change Dong Zhuo's status in Ma Yue's heart. In the early years, when he was a soldier, his subordinates did such a thing as killing good people and risking meritorious deeds, and he didn't know that it was forgivable, but he didn't punish his subordinates when he knew about it afterwards. On the contrary, he continued to take those unjustified souls who died unexpectedly as a stepping stone to his ascendancy.

This kind of person praises him when he says he is a hero, but no matter what, a person has a person's way of living. Everyone's ambitions and ideals are different, and Ma Yue can take responsibility for them in his heart, but he also has no power to make others not worship him.

Liangzhou is sickly, like a cursed land. Only the horses here are tall and robust and eligible for the abundance of horse grass. And the cool people are men and women, old people and children. All life is as thin as paper, and you will die in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, the people of Liangzhou work extra hard in everything they do, and they are born with a heroic pride of life and death. The men born in this place have almost the same life, and they began to practice martial arts at the age of four or five, with swords and horses as their companions all day long. When you are a teenager, you may be a herding herd, you may die in your twenties on the battlefield of fighting with foreigners on the frontier and become a string of money sent home, or you may die in your thirties in a village attacked by bandits and become a piece of coke in a fire, or you may be in the cold winter and snowy night of your forties, and a wind will turn into a frozen ice cube in the early morning. The difference between them is just that they are miserable in their own way. The people who live here are so eager to get ahead that they will not hesitate to fight for their lives, because they are fighting for their lives every moment of their existence.

Ma Yue wants to change the status quo, but now he is just a child who will be taken away by wild wolves and slaughtered by thugs at any time. You can't even change your own fate, so how can you start changing the fate of others?

Thinking of these, Ma Yue felt sad and confused, he said: "Since Liangzhou is so bitter and there will always be deaths, then why do you still live here?" ”

Cheng Yin, who was gnawing on the golden leg of mutton, smiled, he stretched out the leg of mutton, and after Ma Yue took a bite, he waved the leg of mutton and said: "Because here, only here, as long as we don't die, we can become stronger." ”