Chapter 15: The Past of Webster
How much strength does it take for a dying man to grasp with all his might? Just look at Ma Yue's ankles. A large piece of Wuqing is swollen and tall, Ma Yue is now walking with some crutches, his right foot can't touch the ground at all, and his ankle hurts a little.
There were thirty-seven thieves who attacked them at night, and none of them ran away, and they were killed by the guards in the middle of the stairs. In the chaotic battle, seven guards died, and Wei He's two bookkeepers died, as well as the young Wei Fa and two old ministers, Ma Bole. They are all old men who follow Wei He, and Wei He, who is back on the road, has become a little silent.
This era makes people accustomed to life and death, but it does not make people cold-blooded.
Ma Yue wanted to ask Wei He why those men in black were targeting him, but seeing Wei He's appearance, he decided to let it go, and then ask when Wei He was more comfortable.
The caravan has been reduced in strength after such two bloody battles, and there are less than twenty of the more than thirty guards left, half of them had horses and half of them when they set off, and now each of them has a horse, not to mention two swords on their backs, and even a few pieces of leather armor. Wei He gave Ma Guan and each of them a leather armor, which originally had Ma Yue's share, but Ma Yue didn't ask for it.
He felt that it was something that had been ripped from a dead man, and he didn't want to wear it.
However, he had already decided to go to Jiuquan to find Weihe and borrow money to buy a leather armor, no, it was a full-body armor. The world outside of Akiyama Village is terrifying, and he needs to protect himself. He also wanted to participate in the chaos of the world a few years later, reincarnated in such a wonderful era, with such an excellent family, how could he die so early.
Even if he died, he couldn't die in a place like this, at least he had to see his nephews in the world.
On the road, Ma Yue didn't dare to play the Qiang flute again, for fear of arousing people's thoughts about Weifa. Wei Fa's father is still alive, a white-haired old Maiqiang man, who wanted to take his son out to increase his knowledge, but encountered the tragedy of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man. The pain of the end of the day made the old man unbearable, and these days the old man did not say a word, and he always held the Qiang flute that his son often played to see the distraction.
These days, Wei He has become a very good friend with Ma Yue, Wei He's well-informed experience of traveling south and north is very new to Ma Yue, Ma Yue likes to listen to Wei He tell stories. As for Wei He, as a low-status businessman, he rarely has friends who have no interests, and he is very comfortable with friends like Ma Yue, who are on the same road but have no interest, so the two have almost nothing to talk about.
After finally resting in Jiuquan County, Wei He confided in Ma Yue the huge grievances that had been held in his heart.
"Brothers, if I had said that I had always known that someone was going to attack the caravan, would you blame me?"
Wei He didn't look at Peng Tuo, he took Peng Tuo to his home from the famine in the second year of Xiping, and it has been almost five years now. In the past five years, Peng Tuo has become the person he trusts the most, and Peng Tuo knows these things.
Ma Zong was a rough man, and he was drinking when he suddenly pulled on the attack, and he didn't turn around all of a sudden. He was stunned for a long time before he said, "You kid has a temper with me, I don't blame you." It's just that... It's a pity that those brothers died. ”
Guan Yu drank a lot of wine, squinted his eyes and didn't care about it at all, and when he saw Wei He looking at him, he said, "Take people's money to eliminate disasters for others." Brother Wei, you paid a lot of money, and everyone understood that the money was used to buy coffin boards. ”
Chen Guang didn't say anything, just looked at Wei He and waited for him to continue.
Finally, Wei He looked at Ma Yue. Ma Yue is special in the caravan, he has no interest relationship with the big boss Jiaweihe, he doesn't want to be paid just follow the experience, although he didn't really let Ma Yue suffer any injuries along the way, but Weihe, who knew the reason for his own cause, still felt a little guilty about Ma Yue.
Ma Yue took a sip of wine, he didn't drink much and got drunk, but he didn't dare to drink more. Suddenly found that no one was talking, looked up and saw that everyone was looking at him, and hurriedly said: "It's up to me to do something, oh, if you want to talk about those thieves, talk about it." I've long seen that there's a cat. ”
Among these people, Guan Yu is the one who understands best. Ma Yue is okay, he is an outsider.
Wei He sighed and said: "I was born in a small village in Anyi, Hedong, and my mother raised me alone since I was a child. Seven years ago, the man named my father took me and my mother and me to the county seat of Anyi. In the past, I could only watch such a large house from afar, and when I got closer, I was driven away by the vicious house slaves, and later I was able to live in such a large house myself. At that time, I thought that my father was really good to us. ”
"You say that such a good father, how can he not remember that he has a son for more than ten years?"
"Later, I learned that he also had two sons, all of whom were scholars, both younger than me. Those two brothers never treated me as an older brother. They studied, but I became a businessman, and when they became officials, I was a slave. The housekeeper died, and my father asked me to do business. ”
"After going south and north for so many years, I also understood the matter, he took me home because the second child in the family was born sick, and the eldest almost died when he fell into the water. He was afraid that no one in the family would inherit the family business, so he took me back. Later, the eldest and second were fine, so I was enrolled in business. ”
"After all, it's better for their mother to be married to Ming Media."
"In the past seven years, I am now taking care of the business of the entire Wei family's twelve states in the world. My father's health is not good, and the boss's mind is also alive, and he is afraid that I will divide his family business in the future. ”
"At first, I thought it was done by the Zhen family and the Pei family, but then I felt that it was wrong, as long as I led the team to walk thousands of miles, there must be a wave of assassinations, and the people who also had me in the family asked out that it was my good brother's murderer. My father turned a blind eye to this, and if it weren't for his acquiescence, the boss would not have dared to be so arrogant, what else could I do? ”
The three of them were silent, what else could they say, the water in the big family was too deep. The three people, who didn't know anything about the grievances involved, couldn't interject at all.
Wei He's voice was already choked up at this time, and the emotions of the liquor rushing to the human brain suddenly flooded.
Ma Yue was silent for a long time, and then said, "Since this is the case, Brother Wei, why don't you start first and ask someone to kill him?" ”
Wei He said with a smile: "He Wei Kai is not benevolent, but I can't do such a thing that has lost my conscience, my father didn't let me kill his son when he took me home, after all, I have the grace of raising him in the past few years." If I die at the hands of Wei Kai, Brother Peng will avenge me. ”
Sighing, Wei Kai said, "That's it, Brother Peng also got in." ”
Guan Yu fiddled with the wine bowl and said, "Since you know that you will inevitably die if you come out, it is better to stay incognito and not go back." ”
Wei He's face was a little crazy when he heard this, and he laughed sharply: "Isn't Wei Kai afraid that I will share his property, I don't want it, I really don't want it." But he repeatedly summoned the dead soldiers in the family to kill me, I said that I would run this business, I really don't hide that it is not important to buy horses in the Western Regions on this trip, I heard that there is a thousand-year-old turtle board in Wusun Country in the Western Regions, I want to buy it for the second child to treat the disease, and the second child is cured and let him fight with Wei Kai for the family property. Wei He said with a smile, "When the time comes, I will go to Hanzhong to find a Taoist temple to be a Taoist priest, build a righteous house for others every day, and chant the scriptures to curse others to die if they eat too much." ”
Ma Yue laughed secretly in his heart when he heard this, but Wei He was a little stingy. I didn't dare to fight, so I invited a second child, but in the end, this is what a brother should do, and it's not wrong.