Chapter 125: Joining the Stream
The headache of the hangover made Ma Yue squint his eyes, and he sat in the lobby with a cold face, and the atmosphere was a little depressing.
"Master, did you let Chao'er kill someone?"
Cheng Li sat below, and next to him was Du Ji, who was drunk in Jingzhao Mansion last night and is still unknown.
Nodding slightly, Cheng Li didn't speak, looking like he was to blame...... Things must be used to the best of their ability, and people must make the best use of their talents. Cheng Li is a master of Ma Chao's martial arts, so he should do what he should do. If it weren't for Ma Yue's drinking yesterday, there would be a 100% chance that Ma Yue would follow him, an old man, to intercept the messenger on the official road with a knife.
Ma Yue clenched his fists, his face was blue for a while, but finally let go of his hand, let out a long breath, and asked, "Why?" ”
Cheng Li raised his eyes and glanced at Ma Yue, sighed and said, "Fujun, why can't you?" ”
Why can't it, Ma Yue can't say it, he just thinks that Ma Chao shouldn't be allowed to kill again. To this day, he has nothing to fear, and he is not afraid of how many people in the court are hostile to him. He was afraid that such a big nephew would go astray in the future and become a tyrannical who ignored morality and etiquette. But Cheng Li said this and stopped him, can he say that he is my nephew?
At the same time, he was a little unhappy with Cheng Li in the bottom of his heart. Cheng Li is not a master and servant, in the final analysis, he gave Cheng Li a lot of respect, but can this respect make him the master of the Ma family? Ma Chao's appearance, an old fritter like Cheng Li, if he has the slightest bad intention, he can lead a big devil who cares about people's lives...... He decided to wait for Ma Chao to come back and let him stay away from Cheng Li.
"Master, it's not your fault." Ma Yue had a little complaint on his face, he knew that Cheng Li was only afraid that he had done too much for Liang Hu in Youzhou. So he said: "Do you remember that I told you, asking you how to educate your son, it was Chao'er, he was the vanguard of the Han army in Liangzhou, everything he went to was broken, and the dock was ruined and killed, I hope to change his view of people and influence him, instead of letting him be a knife again." ”
"You know, from Liangzhou to Luoyang...... I've been making knives for so many years, isn't that enough? Ma Yue looked at Cheng Li, his face couldn't tell the joy and anger, "My nephew, my future son, go get a knife." ”
I didn't say yes, I didn't say I would, I just said simply, 'My nephew, go get a knife.' ’
Established facts.
Cheng Li suddenly felt a sense of anger in Ma Yue's bland expression, which was the tyranny buried in the depths of Ma Yue's heart, like a beast trapped in a cage, sneezing boringly, but exuding a fishy smell of roaring mountains and rivers.
The old man restrained his demeanor, bowed his hand respectfully, and said, "Fujun, you ...... Grown. ”
"Huh." The stubborn old man's sentence said that Ma Yue's temperament disappeared completely, and he scolded with a smile: "I have been held in my hands for seven or eight years, and I don't even know where to cut it, but I really live to a dog." ”
"In any case, Master should not summon Chao'er in the future." After laughing, Ma Yue Zhengse said: "You can use it as you like, let me know first, and you can do whatever you want." ”
Cheng Li bowed his head, "No." ”
He still thinks of this young man who is ambitious, Ma Yue has always been nothing more than a young man with ideals and ambitions in his heart, but his heart is too stable, and he is brave, but he looks forward and backwards, and is worried and afraid. It's rare to come forward a few times, but you just finally collect such a sum of money, which is not domineering enough.
Today's sentence made Cheng Li see a different side of Ma Yue, although it was only a presumptuous sentence, but he compared the Manchu Dynasty magnates and today's sons to swordsmen...... Expecting to be a person with a knife, did the old man hear something? I was secretly surprised in my heart, but I didn't show anything on my face, thinking about it, if Ma Yue had a heart of disobedience, it would be really dangerous for the world.
Could it be that he has been hiding clumsily for so many years?
Although Cheng Li was in Youzhou at that time, he had heard of the personnel appointments in Liangzhou, and almost all the real power official positions above 1,000 stones were recommended by Ma Yue, and the two elder brothers had more than 4,000 direct people in their hands, plus those captains and school captains who were related to each other. The real power of Youzhou's military positions, Gongsun Zhan, Xu Rong, Zhang Fei and others have a lot of contacts...... If a 2,000-stone servant enters the ears of His Majesty at the right time to recruit the border army, he will abandon the border defense. Youliang Xiao will drive straight in, and the fast horse will be able to come to the city in five days...... The more he thought about it, the cooler Cheng Li's heart became, how could he unconsciously do things under this person?
But Ma Yue, will you do this?
Cheng Li asked himself, thinking about it, he still felt that Ma Yue would not. This is not just a simple trust, he understands Ma Yue, people like him who are afraid that his family and his husband will be hurt, if there is any disobedience, I am afraid that the most decisive way is to send Liang Hu to Liangzhou first. If one day the horse goes crazy, the situation is predictable, and he will put everyone he cares about in a safe place and go back to the fight.
Therefore, Cheng Li concluded that Ma Yue had no reason to betray the Han. His ambition may simply be a desire for greater authority, which is not contrary to his own beliefs.
Ma Yue didn't know how much ambition Cheng Li had read from his words, he just wanted to choke the throat of the world and teach the world to go on the right path.
"Master, what are you thinking?"
Ma Yue's words pulled Cheng Li back from the edge of the sky, realizing that he was distracted, Cheng Li's resolute face rarely showed a trace of embarrassment, lowered his head shallowly, and looked up after a moment and asked: "The old man is thinking, what do people like Fujun want?" ”
Cut, the longer I have known each other, the more Ma Yue feels that Old Man Cheng is not as kind as when he first met, and the more Ma knows that this old man is thinking about talking when he looks down, and he must be distracted!
"Righteousness, self-cultivation."
Ma Yue smiled, his warm smile and the hideous scar on his face looked so contradictory, he seemed to be used to such a smile, and he smiled at any time, and said: "Master may not know that when I first arrived in Luoyang, I was taken to prison by the Tingwei Mansion because of my mistakes, and Zhang Rang gave me two books, "The Book of Rites" and "Spring and Autumn". ”
Cheng Li nodded and asked, "Was it the time when the old man clashed with He Miao when he was in Youzhou?" ”
"It's not." Ma Yue shook his head, being put in prison by that little bastard in He Miao's mansion was his biggest shame in 20 years, and he would never take the initiative to mention it to others in his life, "When I first came to Luoyang, Mr. Cai Bo Cai was framed by a traitor and sent Mr. Cai to escape from Luoyang. ”
Cheng Li nodded, then he really didn't know, after all, he didn't stay in Luoyang for long, but he knew a lot about Cai Yong's talent and persecution.
"It's been almost half a year in the dark Tingwei Prison, and I can only read those two books when I turn over and over again in those days, and I am going crazy when I see it, and I go around in circles in the cell all day long, and I haven't touched these two books since I came out." Ma Yue's expression suddenly had a sense of nostalgia, and said: "At that time, I saw that sentence, the ancients said that the knowledge of things, first sincerity, then righteousness, and then self-cultivation, the master knows." ”
Ma Yue is saying that what he wants is not a foreign object, but he wants to give himself an explanation, and it is really rare for a young man to have his idea of self-cultivation. Cheng Li looked at this young man who was twenty years younger than him, and suddenly felt a little jealous, if he had this kind of heart twenty years ago, maybe he would have made a career now.
The old man who has passed the age of not being confused knows that when he hears people, he must listen to what people say, and even more so when he listens to what people don't say, Ma Yue talks about righteousness and self-cultivation, but in Cheng Li's ears, he is clearly saying that he wants to rule the country and level the world.
[Self-cultivation Qi family governance in the world is not the meaning of pacifying the world, but the world is peaceful]
Hearing this, Cheng Li's heart was put down, such a young man with ideals and ambitions would never think of overturning the world.
"Fujun, when the old man was in Youzhou, I heard that you had a close relationship with Jian Shuo and the Ten Standing Servants, and you went to the banquet to give horses?"
The eunuch is Cheng Li's real sore foot.
"Zhang Rang?" Cheng Li is very well-informed, and he knows everything. Ma Yue squinted his eyes and nodded, "It's some contacts, what's wrong?" ”
"This is absolutely not good, your ambition is so ambitious that the world is peaceful, how can you get close to those who are causing trouble in the world?" Cheng Li's beard was blown, obviously angry and about to leave, his distressed appearance made Ma Yue feel that he had really done something wrong, "They, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng, they, these traitors are the culprits who are causing trouble in the world, Fujun!" It is the villain who is in charge that makes the gentleman dusty, you, you ......"
Hey, you said that the old man here is also obedient, why don't you look at things for the better, why don't you mention it when Lao Tzu is still snatching food from their mouths in the court?
Ma Yue rolled his eyes at Cheng Li, the tip of his tongue brushed the corners of his slightly chapped mouth, and asked lightly, "Can I kill them directly?" ”
"You sit down first, Confucius has said that gentlemen are harmonious but different, why should you be so stingy?" Ma Yue got up and pulled Cheng Li to sit in front of him again, but the old man mentioned that the eunuch's temperament was not ordinary, but he sat down and continued to rise and fall with his panting, and said urgently: "What are you talking to them about harmony and difference?" The old man and the prince of the house are called harmony but different, and you and them are called the same stream! ”
"Okay, don't worry, listen to me explain to you...... Yes, they are in trouble, they deserve death, but can I kill them directly? Ma Yue comforted Cheng Li and said: "Of course I can't, yes, the villain is the one who makes the gentleman dusty, but what did those gentlemen do?" People know that the Ten Permanent Servants are not good, but who can kill them? Whoever dares to kill, if he kills, he is the three tribes, all of them are benevolent and righteous, why does no one dare to kill? If so many Confucian celebrities don't kill, do they have to be my turn to kill a ruffian? ”
"Fallacious reasoning!" Cheng Li said angrily: "Even if you don't kill, it's better than going along with it!" The old man heard that you are also a descendant of Ma Fubo, how will you face the martyrs in the future? ”
"Then according to what you said, I should follow those cowardly Qingliu to hide in the house and scold them together?"
"Not afraid of treachery, this is bravery, how can you be cowardly as a mouse?"
Ma Yue shook his head, his face resolute, "That's no different from being in the same stream!" ”