Chapter 2: New Hatred and Old Hatred
"Hahaha, the blue is better than the blue, Geng Guang has a successor, and there is a successor! I've got another warrior! "The executioner's steel knife did not fall, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty laughed, which was inexplicable." Your Majesty, you scared your concubines to death. Queen Ma pouted and said angrily.
Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty said: "Kill a minister who dares to admonish, and leave a reputation in history for the ages, do you think I am so mediocre?" I just want to see if the Geng family, who is the third general, is in the middle of the road and has no good generals. Wang Kang, bring Geng Bing out! ”
Sili Lieutenant Wang Kangzhang Er and King Kong were puzzled, thinking, "What is the emperor's mind?" Why did Ma Fang tell that story? Next, what will the emperor do? Fortunately, I treated Geng Bing well and did not increase the punishment, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. Wang Kang raised his head slightly, looked at the wounded jailers all over the ground, angry and hateful.
Geng Bing came out and knelt on the ground: "Minister, Geng Bing, knock to see the emperor." ”
"Geng Bing, aren't you unwilling to kneel?"
"Your Majesty, the minister is not disrespectful, the emperor reuses his relatives, and there will be endless troubles, please think twice and take back your life."
"Geng Bing, it seems that you have not reflected in the edict and have no intention of repenting."
"The emperor does not accept the minister's suggestion, and the minister is willing to stay in the edict prison for the rest of his life, and he can't bear to see the rivers and mountains of the Han family, and repeat the same rut."
"Well, the courtier is so upright, I can't be unreasonable. Geng Bing and Geng Gong obeyed orders. ”
"The minister is here." Geng Bing replied in unison.
"Geng Bing, I ordered you to replace Ma Fang and fight the Xiongnu and the Western Regions with Dou Gu and Liu Zhang; Geng Gong, I order you to go out with the army! ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty! The Emperor Shengming! Geng Bing and Geng Gong glanced at each other and were overjoyed.
"The Geng family is the home of my great Han heroes and famous generals, I hope you will fight bravely to kill the enemy, unify the Western Regions, and don't insult the reputation left by your ancestors!" After Emperor Han Ming finished speaking, he turned around and left. Queen Ma followed from behind, looked at the back of Emperor Wei'an of Han Ming, and burst into tears of gratitude.
Ma Fu, Ma Fang was in a hurry, he drew his sword, and slashed dozens of times at the camphor tree in the backyard like crazy, sawdust splashed, sweating. How much he hated, if he was born in a civilian family, he could be like his father, go into battle to kill the enemy, make meritorious contributions to the country, and worship the prime minister, how could he be a little Huangmenlang? How can you have an empty skill, but die at home and do nothing? How much he hated the Geng family, his father Ma Yuan all his life, in order to revive the Han Dynasty, the east and the west war, countless meritorious contributions, at the age of sixty-two, he was also ordered to conquer Wuling Wuxi "barbarian", the war was not smooth, and he died of illness in the army, but he did not expect that he was beaten by Geng Shu and Geng Niche down, saying that his father was slow to march and missed the opportunity, the first emperor was angry, and took back the seal given to his father Xinxihou, and some people said that the Ma family had a large number of treasures, and the first emperor was even more angry. Ma Fang was the eldest son, and he didn't dare to bury his father in the ancestral grave, so he had to choose a thin land in the west of the city and bury him hastily......
Sister Queen Ma's words are still echoing in her mind at the moment: "Brother, you should be grateful to Geng Gong, not hateful. The two brothers risked their lives to admonish them, and they touched their faces to protect the Ma family, and you, as the son of the Ma family, went to Geng's Mansion for me and came to thank you. "How much he hates his sister Queen Ma, as the mother of a country, not only does not take revenge, but maintains the Geng family everywhere, his father is still nameless and partless, buried alone in the west of the city, and his sister never says a word in front of the emperor.
Ma Fang's heart was full of hatred, he hated the Geng family, if it weren't for Geng Shu, Geng Gong, and his father who had made great contributions, how could it be such an ending? What about relatives? Isn't a relative human? Can't you make a contribution? They are jealous, afraid that the Ma family will prosper, and they will settle accounts after returning to the autumn.
"Okay, don't you want me to come and thank you? You are the queen, you are not afraid of losing face, so what are I afraid of my little Huangmenlang! Ma Fang threw down his sword, wiped away his tears, took off his clothes, bare half of his body, picked up the freshly cut camphor branch, thrust it into his waist, and rode his horse away.
"Father, what are you doing?" A girl rushed out of Ma Fu, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and was worried when she saw Ma Fang's angry appearance, but Ma Fang had already left.
Geng Bing and Geng Gong are piling up the terrain of the western region of the city with sand, arranging troops, attacking and defending, and they are full of interest. "Brother, you are so risky with soldiers, if you are not careful, you will regret it."
"Brother, the Huns killed and plundered our country, always thought that the Han soldiers were weak, I rushed to kill, surprise, will catch him off guard, my brother is calm with soldiers, and then lead the army to follow, will be able to win a big victory."
"Brother, our army is on an expedition, there are not enough soldiers and horses, you attack more with less, relying on sharpness and surprise, if you are seen through by the Huns, the gains outweigh the losses, brother or set up more suspicious soldiers, bluff as well."
As he was talking, there was a lot of noise outside the house, and Geng Gong raised his voice: "What's the matter? ”
Ma Fu, who was in charge, said: "There is a strange man outside, naked, with mud on his face, and a branch stuck in his back, claiming to be the queen's younger brother, saying that he wants to see you, and we all laugh at him for being a madman, and we are not letting him in, and we are clinging to each other." ”
Geng Bingdao: "The queen's younger brother? Is it horse defense? Let's go, let's take a look. Ma Fu was still chanting words on the side: "The tree lives a skin, and the person lives a face, this is like this, people are not people, ghosts are not ghosts, what does it mean to live?" I heard that Chaoshangang has been in chaos recently, he might as well go to Chaoshangang to find a tree and hang him, he ......"
Listening to Ma Fu's nagging, Geng Bing and Geng Gong couldn't help but smile, and were about to go out, but just as they took a step, the strange man had already squeezed into the house. Geng Bing saw that it was Ma Fang, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Uncle Guo, why are you?" How do you dress up like this? ”
Ma Fang didn't say a word, just bowed. Geng Bing and Geng Gong hurriedly dodged: "Why is Uncle Guo like this, don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" ”
"You don't have to be too humble, I'm here to thank you for the queen's decree."
"Thank you?" Geng Bing, Geng Gongzhang and the two monks were puzzled.
"Exactly. The emperor wants to reuse his relatives, the Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, no one dares to admonish, only two of them are extraordinary, courageous, and say that relatives can not pawn soldiers, risk death to play, protect the Ma family, this grace and this virtue, forever unforgettable. Ma Fang said sincerely.
"This, Uncle Guo has a good reputation, it's a trivial matter, why worry about it, please get up quickly, please get up quickly." Geng Bing pulled up the horse defense, pulled off the willow branches, and took off his clothes to put them on.
"The two of them set out on the expedition, for the national merit, just around the corner......" Ma Fang said halfway, and was surprised to see the big sand pile on the ground, high and low, and the terrain was complicated, and asked: "What is this?" ”
"I'm ashamed to say that my younger brother said that Huo Qubing liked to pile up sand and stones and talk about the art of war in the past, so he followed suit, and it happened that this expedition, we followed the landform of the Western Regions, piled mountains and built roads, defended each other, and practiced the art of war. After Uncle Guo is also a hero, he might as well give some advice. ”
When it came to the practice of the art of war, Ma Fang couldn't help but itch, leaned over the sand table, stared for a while, and couldn't help but dance, and said: "According to my speculation, Geng Duwei must be on the side of this long stick, and your brother must be on the side of the short stick." ”
"How do you know?" Geng Gong was curious.
"Captain Geng uses soldiers, calm and capable, slightly conservative, you see this wooden stick cloth soldiers, continuous, front and back; And Geng Gong, you are strong, brave and brave, and not stable enough, if you are besieged by the Huns, you can only serve the country loyally. ”
Geng Bing listened to it and couldn't help admiring: "Uncle Guo is worthy of being behind the gate, and his vision is so sharp!" Geng Gong was not convinced: "Uncle Guo, why don't we play together." ”
Geng Bing's heart sank, thinking of the grievances between the Geng family and the Ma family, he was afraid that the feud would get deeper and deeper, so he was busy looking at Geng Gong again and again, but Geng Gong was unmoved.
Ma Fang snorted lightly and thought, "This kid doesn't know how thick the sky is, it seems that he wants to give some color to take a look." He picked up the willow branches on the ground, folded them into several sections, and said, "Come on, it just so happens that you attack the Huns, and I will defend them as the Huns." ”
Ma Fang looked at the border line with the Western Regions, pondered for a moment, he chose a mountain to hold onto, choked the throat of the Han army's advance, and expanded the defense line to the outer line, forming an inner city and an outer city to support each other. When Geng Bing saw it, he couldn't help frowning, thinking hard about the strategy of breaking the enemy, and thought: "Ma Fang followed his father to fight in the south and north when he was young, and saw him arrange his troops in formation, which can be attacked and defended, he is a rare general, if it is not a relative, he is the best candidate to attack the Huns this time!" ”
Geng Gong was not in a hurry, Bu Zhengjun confronted the horse defense, sent a partial division to the back of the mountain, attacked the horse defense by surprise, and attacked the front and back, obviously restraining the horse defense. Ma Fang laughed: "The back of the mountain is steep, and there is no road, how can you march?" Such an arrangement of troops is clearly a self-defeating trap and a dead end. Geng Gong smiled: "Uncle Guo is in danger of the mountain, pressing the defense line to the front, and there is no soldier in the rear, which is a good plan." But why is there no way behind the mountain, please take a closer look at Uncle Guo. Ma Fang looked at it and found that there was indeed a fine line on the sand, which went straight to the top of the mountain, and his face turned pale.
"Don't say that there is a dangerous road in the mountain, even if there is no road, I Geng Gong will also form a brave man, venture up the mountain, and raid the rear, it is by surprise, attack it unprepared, and attack before and after, not afraid of the enemy is undefeated!" Geng Gong put his hands behind his back, held his head high, sneered, and looked conceited.
Ma Fang was ridiculed by a fledgling junior, and suddenly felt that his face couldn't hold it, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, holding the stick tightly with one hand, not knowing what to do, and thinking: "This Geng Gong is self-righteous, hum, one day, I will ask him to pay the price of blood!" But he said humbly: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves...... It's good, it's good, hehe......" The words came to the back, the sound was inaudible, and I didn't want to stay for a long time, so I said goodbye.
Geng Bing kept him again and again, Ma Fang didn't say a word, turned around and left. Geng Bing reproached: "My younger brother is young and vigorous, and he has to talk about winning or losing in everything, but there is no way to win or lose, the loser is not necessarily a loser, and the winner may not be a winner." ”
Geng Gong sneered: "Ma Fang is narrow-minded, so happy, how can he pawn soldiers?" If the power is great, I am afraid that the country will have another disaster. ”
"Since my brother knows the horse's defensive nature, how can I offend again, I'd rather offend a gentleman than a villain, doesn't my brother know? The grievances between the Geng family and the Ma family, doesn't the younger brother know? Then he sighed again: "If it weren't for my younger brother's excitement, I wouldn't have admonished him this time, and the third world will be ominous." Ma Fangcheng is very deep, how can he give up? I don't know what the disaster will be in the future, but it seems that we will have to be careful in the future. ”
Geng Gong disagreed: "Brother, it was not my uncle's fault that Ma Yuan was cut off from the marquis back then. The two uncles said in the letter that General Ma was slow to use troops, and the first emperor learned that he sent Liang Song to ask, he had a vendetta with General Ma, and took advantage of General Ma's illness and death, and planted it in every possible way, and the first emperor was furious, what does it have to do with our Geng family? ”
Geng Bing slowly walked to the window with his hands behind his back, looked at the dead leaves that fell to the ground, and sighed: "At that time, the two uncles could have spoken up, but they chose to be silent, can they say that it has nothing to do with my Geng family?" Poor General Ma Rong Ma has been sick and died on the battlefield all his life, but he has nothing, and his soul is ......"
Ma Fang's face was pale and he returned home. Ma Juan had been waiting for a long time: "Father, where have you been?" Why is your face so bad? Ma Juan is Ma Fang's eldest daughter, Ma Fang regards it as a treasure, very doting, seeing her ask, remembering the old hatred of the family, the shame of coming to the door to thank him, and the humiliation of Geng Gong's defeat, he sighed: "The dream of leading the army to fight for my father, I'm afraid it can't be realized in this life." Alas, Geng Bing Geng Gong is a genius in the world, when will the Ma family have such a handsome man? Look at your uncles who are not angry, and they are not in the flow of Huangmenlang, they are satisfied, hum! ”
Ma Juan was gloomy, she couldn't figure out the feud between the Ma family and the Geng family, she only knew that her father was arrogant, he was high-spirited when he was young, and he fought with his grandfather in the north and south, and his grandfather died, so he was idle at home, waiting hard, but he didn't expect that this was more than ten years, boiling his hair and declining body, but no one called him. Now, this boiled duck is flying like this, how can it not be sad? She gritted her silver teeth and firmly remembered the names of Geng Bing and Geng Gong.
Nothing was said all night. The next day, Ma Juan saw her father leave home, so she disguised herself as a man, ran out of the house with a smoke, stepped on her father's sweaty BMW, waved her whip, and went straight to Geng's mansion.
The wind was whistling, the horses were neighing, and through the prosperity and desolation, in less than an hour, they arrived at Geng's Mansion. Ma Juan looked up and saw that at the door of Geng's mansion, there was a royal plaque hanging with four large gold characters on it: generations of good generals. Ma Juan looked disdainful, squinted for a moment, hehe sneered, pulled his sword and flew away, brushed a few swords, only to hear a loud bang, the plaque smashed on the ground and shattered in half. Ma Fu rushed out and hurriedly shouted, "You, what are you doing?" Why ......" Before the words were finished, a sword stabbed him, Ma Fu dodged to the side, and said in a lost voice: "What a ruthless person, I have no grudge against you in my previous life, and I have no enmity recently, why do you want to kill the killer, is your heart black?" Is it ......?"
Ma Juan didn't have time to deal with Ma Fu, sneered, and broke into the backyard to see a teenager-like person practicing swords. The sword light is dotted, and the sound of the sword is like thunder, flickering east and west, fluctuating. Ma Juan looked at it for a moment, a little impatient, she was going to trouble Geng Bing Geng Gong today, not to watch the sword, so she asked in a thick voice: "That kid with a wooden stick, do you know where Geng Gong is?" ”
The young man put away his sword and said, "Are you looking for Geng Gong?" Who are you? Do you know Geng Gong? ”
Ma Juan pursed her lips and raised the sword in her hand: "I don't know any Geng Gong, but my sword knows him!" ”
The boy laughed, and Ma Juan realized that the boy was nine feet tall, extremely majestic, standing there like a hill and like a majestic horse. At this time, Ma Fu was out of breath, took a group of doormen, picked up his weapons, and rushed to the backyard with a shout, ready to take down Ma Juan.
The young man waved his hand, Ma Fu was helpless, so he had to stand aside, stupid, but he refused to give up, and was still chattering there.
(End of chapter)