"Name!" Sima Bing, who was guarding the checkpoint, shouted expressionlessly.

"Ma Erdong." Malone gave himself a casual name.

Sima Bing naturally did not suspect that there was anything wrong with this name, they carefully searched Ma Long's body, if Ma Long's body appeared something that did not match his identity as a homeless person, such as weapons, gold and silver, letters, etc., once these items appeared, it could basically be determined that he was a fine work, these days, these sentries of Sima Jun were simply sharp-eyed, and they saw through a lot of Huainan Army's rape, and these rape were also punished as they deserved, either buried alive or killed.

Sima Bing's inspection was quite meticulous, and he did not let go of every place on Ma Long's body, but the connivance was so careful, and he didn't find any problems, and he didn't find anything from Ma Long's body, so he waved his hand and signaled Ma Long to leave.

"Wait!" A voice sounded behind him, and a leader of Sima Jun called out to Ma Long, who stepped forward and circled around Ma Long, and said with confusion: "How old are you?" ”

"Master Huijun, the villain is twenty-one years old." Malone said with his head down.

"Twenty-one? Seeing that you are in good health, why didn't you join the Huainan army? "The small leader of Sima Jun is full of suspicions, in fact, the reason is very simple, most of the young and strong people like Ma Long were recruited into the army, and few of them slipped through the net.

Now that the situation facing both sides is very serious, how can a young and strong man become a homeless person with nothing to do?

The surrounding Sima soldiers seemed to hear the questioning voice of the little leader, and immediately drew their swords and surrounded Ma Long, if Ma Zhuan's answer did not satisfy them, he would probably become a ghost under the sword.

Malone took two steps forward very calmly, pretending to be limping, and he lowered his eyebrows and said, "The villain has a disability on his calf, so he has not been recruited into the army. ”

This statement is naturally the most appropriate, with a disability, he will naturally not be recruited by the army, and Malone's limping appearance is very natural, not at all like a fraud.

So, the little leader waved his hand, motioned for Malone to let him go, and then went on to check on the next refugee.

In order not to let Sima Bing have any suspicions, Malone continued to pretend to be lame, and walked forward with great effort, fortunately it was dark at the moment, and he didn't take a few steps before he broke away from the sentry.

I have to say that the identity of the exile gave Ma Long a good cover, and Sima Jun's control over the Huainan soldiers who surrendered to Cheng was quite strict, and like the treatment of prisoners of war, there was almost no possibility of escape.

As for the homeless people, Sima Jun is very extensive, there is no problem, these homeless people will basically be expelled to the rear of Sima Jun, except for a little food subsidy, most of these refugees are left to fend for themselves.

These displaced people who escaped from Shouchun City, because they had no money and no food, could only live in the countryside of Huainan in the end, relying on preying on fish and shrimp and digging wild vegetables to survive, and barely survived.

By daybreak, Malone had already gone beyond the control of Sima Jun, and had completely parted ways with the outcasts, and he sat alone in the wilderness, eating half of the dry bread that had been hard and hard, and it was the only dry food he had on him.

Malone took off the wooden shoes, in this era, the ordinary people are interspersed with nothing more than straw shoes and wooden shoes, straw shoes are all made of straw, wooden shoes are made of wood as the bottom, straw rope as a tie, compared with the straw shoes, the durability of the wooden shoes is higher, but in terms of comfort, the wooden shoes are inferior to the straw shoes.

Other people's wooden shoes are solid, but Marlon's wooden shoes are specially made, and from the outside, there is almost no difference, but when Malone opens the mechanism, he can see that it is hollow inside, with a few small compartments, and a letter wrapped in oiled paper and a small amount of gold nuggets are stored.

However, these gold nuggets are naturally necessary for Ma Long, he wants to go north and merge states, a journey of thousands of miles, without these entanglement road funds, he will not be able to move forward at all.

Ma Long looked at the gold and hid it safely in the wooden shoes, and he was relieved, Sima Jun's inventory was extremely strict, but Ma Long had Ma Long's method, this method of hiding gold in wooden shoes was probably impossible for anyone to come up with, even if Sima Jun's sentry wanted to break his head, he would not have thought that Ma Long would hide the most important thing at the bottom of his feet.

Malone crossed the Huai River and then looked north.

With Ma Long's ability and means, it seems that it is not difficult to steal a war horse to use as a mount, but it is a big annoyance to attract the attention and pursuit of the local government because of this, so Ma Long adopts the way of walking, although the speed is slower, but it is the least noticeable way, relatively speaking, the safest.

Ma Long went all the way and spent nearly a month, and finally arrived in Bingzhou and met Cao Liang.

It stands to reason that with the identity of a low-level messenger like Ma Long, he would not have the opportunity to meet Cao Liang in person, so he could only hand over the letter to other personnel and then pass it on layer by layer.

Ma Long naturally knew that if he submitted it like this, it was likely that the letter would not reach Cao Liang's hands, and he was entrusted by Wang Ling and Wang Feixiao's father and son, so he insisted on asking to see Cao Liang in person and handed the letter to Cao Liang in person.

Looking at Ma Long, who was ragged and shaped like a beggar, the guards of the Governor's Mansion naturally despised him very much, not to mention that Ma Long did not indicate his identity, saying that he came on the order of someone, just by virtue of his appearance, he actually wanted to see Cao Liang, who was above 10,000 people in Bingzhou, of course the guards refused as a matter of course, if everyone was like him, Cao Liang would have to meet everyone, wouldn't it be exhausting to death.

Ma Long has a tough personality, since he can spend nearly a month walking from Huainan to Bingzhou, of course he will not care about delaying for a few more days, he persistently guards at the gate of the Governor's Mansion, and finally waited for Cao Liang to leave the mansion, he rushed up with an arrow step, and said: "Huainan messenger Ma Long visited the rebel Governor!" ”

Because Ma Long's movements were as fast as the wind, it aroused the vigilance of Lu Chaonan, the chief of the guard next to Cao Liang, who was worried that Ma Long was an assassin sent by the enemy, so he immediately blocked in front of Cao Liang, and ordered his guards to take Ma Malone down immediately, and then verify his identity first, and then let him approach Cao Liang easily. Reading with quick eyes_