The shopkeeper of the cloth village sent clothes, and the rough Liangzhou costumes were worn on Guan Yu's body and were majestic and majestic, sweeping away the white and decadent appearance of the previous cotton robe. Sister-in-law Pei Shi was recently pregnant with her third child, and her eldest brother Ma Teng was beaming with joy recently. The second sister-in-law, Wei, made a felt hat for Ma Yue, with two wolf tails hanging on the side to wade in the wind. The lame man next door made a small shield for Ma Yue and didn't say anything.

Ma Yue and Guan Yu led the white horse and left Zhangshan Village with Wei's caravan, accompanied by the second brother Ma Zong. This nine-foot man still didn't worry about his third brother being alone, so he said goodbye to his wife and children at the last moment and left his hometown with a long knife on his back.

Before leaving, Ma Teng took Guan Yu's arm and gave him a big salute: "Brother Guan, San Lang is willing to meet you in the world, and I will entrust San Lang to you as my brother, I only ask him to return safely." ”

Guan Yu nodded calmly, "Brother Ma, don't worry." ”

Then Ma Teng turned his gaze to Ma Zong, the man who represented the highest martial arts of the Ma family, smiled heartily and said: "Big brother, don't worry, the stupid thief in this world who can cut down me and Brother Guan and hurt Xiaodouzi has not yet been born." ”

Ma Teng and his family stood under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village and watched them travel for a long time, until their figures turned into black spots in the distance, hidden in the lush forests of Dazhang Mountain.

After the caravan left, Ma Teng summoned the help of the villagers to build a house with a separate courtyard next to his house.

"Let's work hard to build the house before it freezes."

……

The size of the caravan expanded, and there were twelve caravan stewards and servants, including the two brothers of the Ma family and the thirty guards of Guan Yu, and the whole team was forty-two people. The tall horse carried seven wagons of goods.

Horses walk on potholed dirt roads, and the more unaccustomed the horses are on their first journey.

"Wei Gongzi, are there too many guards?"

Wei He looked a little preoccupied, and suddenly turned back when he heard the words: "What did you say?" ”

"I said, isn't there a little too many guards?"

Wei He's expression was a little solemn, and he said while carefully observing the surrounding situation: "Not much, there will be people ambushing us on the road, there is no big mistake in being careful." ”

Hearing Wei He say this, Ma Yue was also a little nervous. He didn't know what kind of enemy he was going to face, but he knew that he was definitely not a good person, and the thirty-eight guards who took Ma Yue were paid thirty-seven gold alone. How much money is 370,000 yuan, Ma Yue has no concept at all, and he can't imagine how much it is.

The financial strength of the Wei clan in Hedong can be seen, and the Wei family first flourished in the famous Han general Wei Qing and Wei Zifu, who was made the queen. The Wei family has been on the rise since that moment. However, Wei is now no one in the court as an official, although he is governed by Confucianism, his strength is incomparable with that of his heyday.

Several of the accompanying guards were recruited in Longxian County, and they mostly walked around with Ma Zong on weekdays, so they gathered around Ma Zong to walk together. Although they are all men who have been on the battlefield, they don't look as professional as Wei He's own guards. The original caravan guards entered the wilderness and looked left and right to observe the situation, but they were indifferent, and they were still immersed in the joy of high commissions.

"If you have money, you have to take your life."

Guan Yu said softly, but unfortunately Guan Yu was the only one by his side, Ma Yue. Ma Yue accompanied him just to increase his knowledge, he didn't want a commission, and this word was like nonsense in Ma Yue's ears.

"San Lang, try to follow me and your second brother on the road, don't be reckless if you are in danger."

Ma Yue smiled when he heard this and said: "Brother Guan, don't worry, I will definitely hide behind you in case of danger, and I will never be strong." "His family knows his own affairs, and he knows best what grade his martial arts are. It is estimated that two can be overturned by an ordinary farmer with bare hands, and it would be good if one of the bandits and robbers with perennial knife edges could be cut down by hand-to-hand combat.

After all, they are all empty-handed, Ma Yue has learned boxing and kicking from Guan Yu for half a year, and he can barely handle it with the strength of the Ma family. In white-knuckle combat, he is definitely not a fierce opponent who has been accompanied by swords all year round, after all, he has not practiced swords for more than a month, and he has not yet mastered the knife.

Along the way, it was much calmer than Ma Yue imagined, and Ma Yue was also a little nervous when he saw Wei He's people not leaving their swords, but for seven days, the caravan traveled nearly 3,000 miles, passing through two counties and seventeen counties without accidents, and Ma Yue's mood relaxed.

The so-called 'reading 10,000 books is better than traveling 10,000 miles', leaving Longxi County and entering Hanyang County, the road is becoming more and more desolate. Almost except for the county seat, there are few villages along the way.

Hundreds of miles of uninhabited, only allow two carriages to pass through the path on both sides of the eyes are grown to the height of the body of the grass, Ma Yue until this time really realized the word "Central Plains", what it means to the people of Xiliang. Along the way, the desolation of the people was almost progressively rising. Fufeng County is close to Sili and close to the Central Plains, and Zhangshan Village is a special environment full of military households, so he has no feelings except for the low productivity in ancient times.

On this trip, he understood how bitter Liangzhou was, and how rich the Central Plains was.

All the way to the west, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and most of the people encountered are Qiang people driving cattle and sheep, and the vicissitudes of life carried by nomads are engraved on their faces, and the fertile pastures may not bring them a comfortable environment.

The herders are self-sufficient, their clothes are animal skins, their shoes are animal skins, and they are taken from nature. Their ferocity comes from the fact that their ancestors have been fighting for their lives against the sky for generations, and they have survived day after day. The wind blowing like a knife in the northwest could not prevent them from surviving, the natural disasters in Liangzhou three or five times a year could not prevent them from surviving, and the bandits and bandits could not prevent them from surviving.

These things that can't kill them make them stronger.

Ma Yue has seen children as young as four or five years old learn to bow and arrow, and he has also seen children of seven or eight years old fall off a horse and climb up to conquer a foal.

Human potential is forced out, and if you don't fight for it, you never know how strong you will become.

Although he is a Han Chinese, he has never set foot on the land of the Central Plains in the true sense of the word, and this trip has stimulated his urgent desire to go to the land outside Liangzhou to see it, he wants to go out, and even he wants to take them out.

Take the Qiang people, Di people, and Liangzhou Han'er out, let them take a look at the great rivers and mountains of the Han family, wear gorgeous clothes made of silk and satin, and drink a bowl of Central Plains wine that is not spicy.

Even if it's just for a short time.

Although he knew that this was impossible, the people who had lived on this land for hundreds of years were accustomed to it, they were accustomed to life on the grassland, they were accustomed to the dome covering the four wilderness when they went out, they were accustomed to the wild wolves harassing the sheep at home, they were accustomed to the wind-dried faces of the Saibei, and they were also accustomed to drawing their swords to each other because of a cow or sheep.

This is the life of Liangzhou and the fate of Liangren.