As night fell, the Ma Family Manor was full of people.

Now the two uncles of the Ma family are one in the county and one is in the pasture as a team, and the main task of the Ma family falls to the second Ma Zong, who has been leading Zhuang Ke into the mountains to hunt, and Ma Chao, who is only twelve years old, is also in the team, although most of them need Zhuang Ke to protect but have grown a lot, until the heavy snow covers the mountain. However, after the heavy snow closed the mountain, Ma Chao still went into the mountain alone every once in a while, and no one could persuade him to come up stubbornly.

Xiao Ma Chao dragged his tired body back to the Ma Family Manor, he was almost thirteen years old, he was already more than six feet, carrying two white foxes on his shoulders, and his tail was almost dragged to the ground. It was not easy to find the white fox in this snowy forest, and although he was physically and mentally exhausted, he was very happy to mumble something to his fingers.

"Two today, one the day before yesterday, three in the first half of the year, a total of ...... Five! No, it's six! ”

Seeing that the manor was in front of him, Ma Chao held back his strength and trotted all the way into the village and went straight to the inner room. Four pieces of white fox skins on the ground were neatly placed on the ground, and Ma Yue brought a skin cutting knife to find two intact fox skins after a while. Xiao Ma Chao picked up six fox skins and ran to his biological mother Li's house, and said to Li with a smile on his face: "Mother and mother, help me weave a fox fur." I hunted six fox skins, which should be enough to make fox furs. ”

The Li family in the room looked at the intact fox fur on the ground and was suspicious, "Hey, Chao'er, do you feel cold, these fox furs are enough for you and Xiao Xiu to have a fox fur." ”

Ma Chao became anxious when he heard this, "It's not A-Niang, I don't want to be a fox for me and Brother Hugh, my uncle stays in the barracks all day...... I'm afraid he's cold. ”

"Among your brothers, Uncle is the closest to you, but Chao'er has grown up." Li touched Ma Chao's little head and felt that his child had finally grown up.

Ma Yue went home and packed up his bags and fell asleep, woke up the next morning, put on a red military uniform and walked out, stepped on the war horse to react that he didn't have to go to the barracks for a few days. Pull up Ma Chao and Ma Xiu, and Ma Yue's day begins with martial arts as usual.

Martial arts is the foundation of his life, he has never dared to relax over the years, no matter the scorching sun or heavy snow in the city, he has always been consistent, and it is this persistence that makes him invincible in the future.

Persistence is sometimes difficult, and when people's inertia comes, how much they want to stop for a day, even if it is just for a day. But it can always be overcome.

He is only sixteen years old, his body has not grown into a body, and his huge strength has not reached the limit, he seems to have grown a little taller in the past few months, and his physical fitness has also risen to a new level, but for him, the biggest gain these days is that he has the training experience of commanding a team of men.

He has always been a person with no ambitions, he hopes that the people around him can live a better life because of his existence, in his opinion, saving thousands of people is a great good, and saving one person is also a great good. What's more, he doesn't have the strength to save tens of millions of people at all, and the top in the world he has in contact with is only Dong Zhuo Lianghu, and he can only look at these two people, and he has no foundation in his connections and power, and he is not comparable with the two at all.

A pawn must have the consciousness of a pawn.

The survival of this era is not so easy, the Ma family has just gotten rid of food and clothing, and in the eyes of the common people, dozens of servants may be regarded as a small wealthy family outside Longxian County, in fact, he understands that this is nothing. If it is a peaceful year, such a life is enough for Ma Yue. Hungry people everywhere compete for food, what fool would think this is like a peaceful and prosperous world. Now the strength of the Ma family, if he doesn't work hard, he will only disappear into the long river of history, without a trace of waves. I am afraid that when there is another natural disaster, hundreds of displaced people will destroy his home and slaughter his relatives.

He didn't know what accidents he would encounter when he went to Jincheng, and he was not a scheming person, not to mention that he didn't have any information, he had walked the farthest places, except for the state and the Western Regions, and he was familiar with a hundred miles away, and he needed to be fully prepared.

In the afternoon, Ma Yue, who was dressed in regular clothes, sat on the steps, with several bamboo slips for his calligraphy practice in front of him, as well as some wooden sticks, copper rings, patches, horse halters and other miscellaneous items. In the courtyard, Ma Xiu and Ma Chao were practicing the ancestral spear technique.

The bamboo slips are connected to the copper ring and the horse halter covered with a layer of animal skin, which is simple as the chest, and the traditional vest is leather, which can play a role in blocking the cut but can not prevent stabbing blows. Now Ma Yue's mount is no longer the yellow-maned horse that he once was, but a white-bodyed black-hoofed horse among the ten inferior horses allocated to him by Thorn Shi Lianghu. He didn't need to worry about the horse's head, the war horse's overcover armor was standard, and Liang Hu already had it when he gave him this horse.

The white body and black hooves are named Moyun, and Ma Yue has loved it very much since Liang Hu gave it to Ma Yue, after all, this is his first real war horse. Speaking of which, the sprinting ability of this war horse is not even as good as the other war horses sent by Liang Hu, but the endurance is definitely the first-class among the horses, and he will not get tired after galloping for several hours in a row, which is why he especially loves this Mo Yun.

The endurance of the horse is the most important thing for him, and his body has grown rapidly in the past two years, and now his body length of seven feet six inches and a bulging muscle has a weight of one hundred and fifty pounds, plus the bag and the spear throwing knife, it is already very heavy, and the horse without endurance cannot run fast.

It is worth mentioning that the military armor of the Han Dynasty is very interesting, and the ordinary soldiers' uniforms basically only have a cold protection function, just a layer of thicker cloth clothing, and the chest leather chest protection. There is almost no defense, and Ma Yue's team only has a layer of iron armor to protect the chest and abdomen, and there is almost no defense in other positions.

Because there is no defense, it is not heavy.

It was already afternoon after tidying up his own stomach and the horse's armor, and after exchanging martial arts moves with the candidates, Liang Hu sent someone to send four volumes of Liutao, and at the same time asked him if he had any recommendations for the people who took care of the horse farm, Ma Yue recommended Peng Tuo, who lived in the horse farm, and whether Liang Hu was requisitioned was not something he could consider.

Because Ma Teng Ma Yue is going to travel far tomorrow, the Ma family at night is very lively, Pei's family, who has always been diligent and thrifty, deliberately pulled out two fat sheep, Ma Teng, Ma Zong, Ma Yue, Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Ma Xiu six people, Guan Yu Peng Tuo candidate Cheng Yin is here, Qin Hu and other 27 families and more than 10 new Han refugees collectively bid farewell, the scene is a little sad.

In ancient times, the traffic was blocked, and it was already far away to walk around ten miles and eight towns, not to mention that Ma Teng and Ma Yue were thousands of miles away from Jincheng this time.

The Northland shot glass was in his throat, and the horse was drunk this night, and in his dreams there were high-rise buildings rising from the ground, and wide asphalt roads were speeding metal cars, all of which were so bewildering to him, who was accustomed to bowing and swords.

It's a bizarre dream.

The sixteen years of life had changed him, and everything that had been forgotten in his deepest mind had not been remembered for a long time, and last night's dream had annoyed him in his chest, even though he had long accepted the reality that he had become his ancestor, a son of the Han family. This annoyance did not gradually move away from his body and his mind until he ran out of the snow for an hour on the fifth watch.

Ma Yue, who had vented, returned home and sorted out his salute.

Inside the double white jacket, thick robe, wearing armor, leather boots and white scarves. The long knife of the Ten Refining Heads and the Dagger of the Diren were tied around the waist, and three pure iron short spears were placed behind the waist. After the armament, Ma Yue walked out of the house and hung the six-foot mace on the horse, and saw Ma Teng leading the horse to the front of the house, and saw him come out and hand him a mink fur hat, with a smile on his face.

Ma Teng was dressed in a thick robe and leather armor, carrying a long knife and a bow and arrows at his waist, and a spear hung obliquely, and the cold light flashed on his horse.

It can be seen that the brothers see the same thing, and neither of them underestimates this long journey.

"In the past few months, Saburo has grown taller, and he is about to be like me."

Ma Yue smiled, now he has grown to Ma Teng's hairline, about one meter eight, the two brothers are as strong as tigers, the square between the eyebrows and eyes is roughly the same, almost a mold is carved, the slight difference is that Ma Yue's side face and the two scars on his head look fierce.

"San Lang, this time I will follow Captain Dong Jincheng and his party, which is a good qualification for the Ma family, and you and my brother can also be added to the rank of knight if they perform well."

Ma Yue nodded in kindness, knowing in his heart that Ma Teng did not want to live under the assassin Shi Lianghu for a long time, and it was not what he asked for to steal.

Today's Dong Zhuo is powerful in Lianghe and Liangzhou, how many heroes are proud to join Dong Zhuo's command, it is not surprising that his eldest brother thinks so, in his opinion, it is best to be poor and lowly, but this is not the only criterion to measure whether he is a big husband, because of his own existence to make the relatives around him live a better life, it is not a big husband's move, but for Dong Zhuo, he would rather be a friend than a monarch, as for why he can't say clearly.

Ma Yue was accustomed to seeing outlaws begging for a living on the tip of a knife in the north, and he was the only one in his group who was curious about the young man next to Dong Zhuo who covered his whole body in a fox fur, that person was not as vulgar as a border man, and his words were meaningful.

There are so few scribes in the Northland.

It's just that he and Ma Teng fell at the end of the team all the way, and the fierce people are all direct relatives of the Dong family, it is good not to be excluded, and even more stupid, there is no need to go forward and find it boring.

Dong Zhuo has a good impression of the two, it doesn't mean that these warriors under his command also have a good impression of the two of them, otherwise there would not be only Li Ji and Guo Yan talking to the two of them along the way.

In a few days, Li Dao has already introduced the door Qing to him in the team, and the fat man with two short axes on his waist is called Niu Fu, who is Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and he ranks second in everyone's status. The highest status is the second son-in-law Li Ru, who is a scribe who has always followed Dong Zhuo, and he is everyone's brain.

In addition, there are such as Fan Chou who set up a carriage, Zhang Ji who took his nephew into the forest to hunt during rest, Hu Chi'er who was in charge of food, etc., and so on.

After a few days of companionship, Ma Yue became more and more confused about the purpose of going to Jincheng this time, this group was mixed, not counting the previous people, as well as Dong Zhuo's son Dong Wei, nephew Dong Suo, Li Dao's nephew Li Li, these little guys in Ma Yue's opinion.

Of course, he is not a few years older than the above.

It's like visiting relatives and friends.

Everyone drove all the way and rode quickly, out of Longxian County to pass through Luoyang, but in just a few days out of Hanyang County, and then crossed the road into Longxi County.

After leaving Hanyang County, Ma Yue understood why Liangzhou Prefecture was in Longxian County, and Hanyang County was desolate enough, but when he entered Longxi County, Ma Yue deeply understood what it was to be uninhabited for hundreds of miles.

All the way to the eye is full of unfluffy grass that grows to a foot high, the ruins of abandoned villages, and wild wolves running around with human arms in their mouths.

Everything in Longxi County is not as good as Hanyang County, the county seat is in disrepair, and the people who live here are also yellow and thin, and the road is not very peaceful.

No mentally ill-fated refugee would want to intercept them, even the long-fought bandits, Dong Zhuo and his party were not many in number, and even had a few children, but these thirty or so Northwest men were all heroic, not to mention that they were fully armed and well-armed, and they were not good men and women at first glance.

It's not that I didn't meet those thieves on the road, but the thieves all took a detour.

Most of the robbers on the official road are small groups of retail investors, and the organization is only 350 or 100 people, and the living conditions of the people are not good, and these robbers are not rich, most of them are bronze swords, where can they beat these more than 30 strong murderers.

Despite the wealth of people's hearts.

But these people are so fearless, not to mention carrying bows and arrows, and hanging long weapons made of fine iron on their horses, almost telling the bandits along the way, those who don't want heads to come and rob us.