Chapter 8 A Thousand Miles

Ma Yue and Guan Yu still slept in the broken temple all night, and the next day the second sister-in-law Wei came to persuade him to go home, but Ma Yue didn't agree, not that he didn't want to bow his head and go home, but he didn't think about how to go back.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ma Yue's two brothers sent Pang De and the three of them away to the small broken temple in the north of the village, and said something, and Ma Yue took Guan Yu home.

After these things, Guan Yu did not have a little tribulation when he entered the Ma family, so what did Ma Yue's eldest brother and second brother say? In fact, the general direction is basically in the hands of Ma Teng, Ma Zong did not express any constructive opinions, in short, they made a plan for the future of the Ma family in the north of this village.

Ma Teng Ma Zong, who came to the broken temple, did not take responsibility for Ma Yue's mistake of showing a knife to the guests, and Ma Teng, who entered the broken temple, first greeted Guan Yu, thanked Ma Yue for taking care of him recently, and then sat down next to Ma Yue.

Ma Teng looked at Ma Yue's dirty little face and smiled first, and said gently: "San'er, then Pang De, you will pierce it, at most, this robe brother and brother don't want it, go home with your brother, your sister-in-law didn't sleep all night last night." ”

If Ma Teng came up and beat Ma Yue with his head and face, Ma Yue might feel more comfortable than now, he looked at Ma Teng and Ma Zong's face with big black circles, how could they sleep well, thinking of this, he almost cried, and blinked hard to prevent tears from flowing out, and said: "Big brother, I was wrong." ”

Ma Teng sighed, touched Ma Yue's head and didn't say anything more.

Ma Zong laughed heartily when he heard Ma Yue admit his mistake, "It's just that little brother, you don't have to draw your knife at will in the future." ”

Ma Yue took Guan Yu back home with the two brothers, and the days were still like that, practicing archery and horses every day and reading military books at night, and the days were also fulfilling, and their family's military books were turned out and read by Ma Yue one by one, that is, the Ma family was not those who were in the world, otherwise Guan Yu would not have been able to learn these books.

The books of this era are the foundation of everyone's door valve continuation and will not be passed on. And Ma Yue doesn't care about these, he thinks that since someone wrote the book, it is for people to see, what is the reason for sealing the dust in the iron box and being bitten by insects, his own boss has read a few books in the early years, and then he was busy with life and had no time to read. The second brother Ma Zongna didn't like to read since he was a child, and he was beaten by his father's bamboo stick and ran all over the yard and never read.

Ma Yue didn't mention that day he was kicked by Pang Rou, why didn't the two brothers stand up for him, he didn't ask, but later a drunken conversation Ma Teng told him that this place in Liangzhou in northern Xinjiang was going to be messed up.

The answer is about to come out, Ma Teng is accumulating contacts, he is a person who is not satisfied with the status quo, hoping to win something in the big wave, Ma Yue doesn't know what it is, but he understands that Ma Teng's nature is definitely a good person, even if a good person makes the wrong decision, where can he be wrong?

Today's Liangzhou is indeed not peaceful, because of the old saying that the heart of the non-ethnic group must be different, the Qiang people living in the border areas have not received much protection even if they have returned to the imperial court, and the Qiang captain Leng Zheng inherited the mantle of Duan Ying, and treated the Sanqiang tribes who have lived inside and outside Liangzhou for generations with the attitude of fighting a small battle in March and a big battle a year.

In the days that followed, this Zhangshan village gradually became lively, and there were many young people from the surrounding counties, these people came one by one, and Ma Teng entertained them one by one, these visitors are ordinary villagers and low-level military attaches who Ma Teng has met with several times in the army over the years, and they are definitely brave people, just Ma Yue has heard the name of several people, such as Ma Play, Yang Qiu and others, but the Pang brothers have never come again.

But none of this is about Ma Yue's affairs, whether it is the turmoil in Liangzhou or Ma Teng's party, it has nothing to do with Ma Yue, and it is not his turn to worry about the affairs of adults, and all he needs to do is practice martial arts and study.

Guan Yu built a house next to the Ma family with the help of the young and strong people in the village, and the courtyards of the two families were connected together, he integrated well into the Ma family, and also integrated into this small Zhangshan Village.

It's just that when I look at the smoke of every house at dusk, I think of my wife and children in my hometown, and I don't know how they are doing.

The number of visitors to the Ma family gradually increased, and Ma Yue also saw that Ma Teng was preparing for a big move, because Ma Teng often seemed uneasy recently, and he asked Ma Teng what happened Ma Teng and Ma Teng didn't say.

He thought of Pound, the name he was familiar with in history, he must be a good hand at charging into battle, he didn't know what his eldest brother was worried about, but he finally regretted hurting Pound, but in fact, if he was given another chance, he would definitely not hesitate to stab Pound.

Whoever asked him to kill Rhubarb, some people are destined to not be friends at first sight.

Guan Yu, who was lonely and homesick, finally handed Ma Teng a letter during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Toma Teng helped.

Ma Teng asked, "Where to send it?" ”

Guan Yu didn't know, after so many years of time and change, he didn't know if his wife had remarried someone else, and finally he thought of a more reliable way, he wanted to reply to the letter, and went back to write a new letter to Ma Teng, he said: "Help me hand it over to a person named Yang Feng in Hedong, he is very famous, he must be able to inquire." ”

Ma Yu was with everyone at the time, Ma Yue pricked Pang De before, it was he who sent the Pang brothers home, and went back to his house for a while, and he felt that it was not interesting to ride a horse and run to Zhangshan Village, anyway, he didn't feel embarrassed, anyway, he didn't like to eat dog meat.

Ma Yu saw that Guan Yu wanted to help, so he didn't say a word and took the letter from Ma Teng's hand.

He said to Guan Yu: "Brother Guan, don't worry, this letter will definitely be sent to Yang Feng." ”

Guan Yu felt very embarrassed, the two places in Longyou and Hedong were thousands of miles apart, and he and Ma Yu were not relatives and non-relatives, so they volunteered to take this drudgery, and their hearts were very moved.

"Brother, be careful all the way."

However, Ma Zong waved his hand, pulled everyone to continue drinking and admiring the moon, and said: "Horses love to run around when they play with this kid, brother, you have to give him a few years of wandering, and he doesn't know what kind of happiness he can make for the horse monkey." ”

Ma Zong is right, Ma Play This person is only nineteen years old this year, and he is the youngest in such a group of people except Ma Yue, but he is only nineteen years old, and most of Liangzhou is full of his footprints and his friends. Horse martial arts are considered to be a midstream among the people, and fighting in the frontier is not as brave as the Ma family Pang brothers, and the third-rate level martial arts are always dangerous on the battlefield, if it weren't for the good brothers who took care of him, he didn't know how many times he would have died. But this person is righteous, everyone usually does their best to lend a hand when they have anything to do, and he also likes heroic characters like Guan Yu and Ma Teng, and everything he looks at is indispensable for a little bit of heroism.

Ma played with his head and exaggerated a little towards Guan Yu, squinted and smiled, the faint freckles on his face became obvious, and said: "Brother Guan doesn't have to worry about it, I am used to traveling in the mountains and rivers on weekdays, eh, Brother Guan Xie County is there a delicious bean cake?" ”

Guan Yu smiled, this horse is really a fun-loving person, and said: "Yes, especially the mung bean cake made by the old man surnamed Zhang on West Street has a unique flavor, but I don't know if the old man Zhang is still alive in the past few years." ”

"Haha, Brother Guan is hungry, Ma Monkey, you have to bring more bean cakes when you come back, so that Brother Guan can taste the taste of his hometown."

"What else do you need to say?"

After four or five years, Guan Yu, who was in exile, finally found a place to stay, and with his new friends, he finally mustered up the courage to send his first letter home.

If it weren't for the turnaround brought by Xiaodouzi, Guan Yu might have continued to live a stop-and-go life, until he met a guy with big ears while drinking in Zhuojun and really started his legendary life. At this time, because of the existence of Ma Yue, Guan Yu's life has embarked on another fork in the road, I don't know if the martial saint is still a martial saint after a thousand years, I only know that if Guan Yu sends this family letter, if he can reunite with his wife who has not seen him for several years, and see his worried son, it is a great thing.

After the third day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ma Yu said goodbye to everyone, and led his horse to the county seat with Guan Yu's family letter in his arms.

In fact, if he is a businessman, he must be very successful in circulating things from south to north, because he likes to run north and south too much, and he can't stay at home for a few days all year round, and he stays at this friend's house for a few months or that friend lives in the village for half a year, and he has lived like this since he was thirteen or fourteen years old.

Ma Play This person is very smart, he knows that his martial arts are average, and ordinary two or three people can't get close, but who knows what accidents will be when this is thousands of miles away, so he aimed at the caravan passing through Longxian County.

In these days, ordinary people generally do not go far away, one is that the traffic is not developed, and the other is that the roads are not very smooth, not to mention the murderous bandits blocking the road, even if they encounter hungry people like locusts, they are not panicked.

There is only one word difference between the so-called homeless and bandits, but in fact, there is no word, that is the difference between a thought, people are very hungry and die if they don't rob, so rob or not rob?

Ma played when he was a child, the family conditions were not bad, and he read a few books, he felt that Xun Qing was right, human nature is evil, otherwise how could children laugh and do some cruel things such as burning cats, otherwise how could people not stop when they are evil?

Otherwise, how could those thieves burn other people's houses?

He entered the city restaurant like an experienced hunter, leaned on the railing on the second floor and took a sip of the Northland spirits, and looked at the pedestrians coming and going at the city gate with a confused look.

Half an hour later he found the target he was waiting for, a procession of dozens of merchants, including camels and horses, jumping off the eaves and chasing after them.

"Can the trade route pass through Hedong? Hongnong has to go. A certain horse plays, with a little force, can I go along? ”