Out of Dunhuang, Ma Chao's speed is not fast, he has nothing to return to, but there is still a lot of reluctance to Dunhuang, but there is no way.

On the horse, Ma Chao thought to himself, last year he entered Dunhuang alone, and now he is leaving Dunhuang alone, except for the change of destination, it seems that nothing else has changed.

As soon as he walked more than a mile, he found that someone behind him had caught up with him, and when he looked closely, they were all acquaintances. Ma Chao stopped and dismounted, and the people behind him had already caught up and dismounted, "Wei Ping, why are you here?" ”

It was none other than Wei Ping and the two hundred soldiers selected by Ma Chao from the Yumen Pass and Dunhuang defenders before, but after a few battles, there were only half and a hundred people left, and Ma Chao never thought that they would come.

"Taishou, why did you leave like this, if it weren't for Brother Wei, our brothers wouldn't be able to find you!"

The one who spoke was one of the hundred soldiers, Ma Chaozhi said, his name was Ergou. Ma Chao patted Wei Ping's shoulder, "You kid is okay!" He thought he didn't know what was going on, but it turned out to be discovered.

Wei Ping smiled at Ma Chao, which meant that Taishou had forgotten what I was doing.

"Okay, I've seen everything, let's all go back, I'll leave too!"

said that Ma Chao was about to get on the horse and leave, but was stopped by Wei Ping, "It's too guarded and slow, you can't just go!" ”

Ma Chao was stunned when he heard this, what is the situation, isn't it generally a woman who says this to a man, why did Wei Ping also say this. I saw Wei Ping kneeling down on one knee in front of him, and everyone else was the same, "My subordinate Wei Ping is willing to follow the lord, no matter the ends of the world, and swear to follow him to the death!" ”

"We are all willing to follow the lord and swear to the death!"

When Ma Chao heard this, his heart was extremely excited and he couldn't calm down. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, they actually wanted to follow themselves, where to find this good thing. Now he can be said to have only a few subordinates, and the rest are not a single soldier. There are people in Guanhai cottage, but people are people in the cottage, not his Ma Chao. And Wei Ping, one hundred and one of them worship themselves as the master, that is, if they want to become their own personal soldiers, that is, their own descendants.

"You guys, aren't you going back to Dunhuang?"

"Lord, I will no longer be the defenders of Dunhuang yesterday!" Wei Ping said.

Ma Chao understands that Zhang Ji and Wang Yan are Taishou and Sima, as long as Wei Ping begs the two of them and says that they want to follow him, then the two of them will definitely give the green light, and they will all be done right away. Thinking of this, he was grateful to the two of them.

"Let's get up, since everyone can afford me Ma Mengqi, then from now on, as long as there is a bite of me to eat, there will be a bite for everyone!"

"I am willing to go to the soup for the Lord and never give up!"

And all of them said in unison, and when they had finished speaking, they all got up. Ma Chao looked in the direction of Dunhuang and said in his heart, farewell, Dunhuang!

"Let's go!" Then he turned and mounted his horse, and rode away, and all the people got on their horses and followed.

It is not unreasonable for everyone to follow Ma Chao to the death, first of all, these people are just old brothers, they have nothing to worry about, and there is actually no difference where they live, even Wei Ping. The second is that they feel that they should follow Ma Chao, so that they can not regret it. Because of Ma Chao's charm, Ma Chao's ability, and Ma Chao's kindness to them, they felt that it must be not wrong to follow Ma Chao in this life, and they would regret it if they didn't go, so they made such a choice.

Ma Chao took Wei Ping, a hundred and one people, back to Longxi Didao, and saw Liu at home. And Wei Ping and they were stationed in a remote place far away from Ma Chao's house, originally Ma Chao meant to settle Wei Ping and them at home, although their own family could not fit so many people, but they could ask the neighbors to help, but Wei Ping and they politely refused. They also know the difficulties of the lord of the Dao, and they know that Ma Chao will not stay at home for too long, and besides, his hundreds of people are from the background of soldiers, so there is no problem at all when he is stationed outside.

"Chao'er, are you no longer doing that too guard?"

Obviously, Liu still remembered what Ma Chao said before, Ma Chao said in his heart, no, even if your son wants to do it again, the emperor won't let him.

"Yes, my son has been transferred to Luoyang, and he is no longer too guarded in Dunhuang!"

When Liu heard this, he was relieved. "Okay, it's better to go to Luoyang, it's better than being too guarded in that dangerous place!"

In Liu's view, Luoyang is at the foot of the Son of Heaven and the place where the emperor lives, which is naturally not comparable to the dangerous land of Dunhuang.

"My son is going to Luoyang as an official this time, my mother should be relieved!"

In Ma Chao's view, one of the biggest benefits of going to Luoyang is that he can reassure his mother.

"Yes, I am much more relieved for my mother. Chao'er, are you still in a hurry to leave when you come back this time? ”

"Yes, Mother. My son has to go to Hanyang to visit his teacher first, so he will leave the day after tomorrow. ”

Ma Chao really can't stay for a long time, he didn't go to Hanyang to visit his teacher Yan Zhong last time he went to Dunhuang, and he has to go and see what he says this time. On the other side of Luoyang, Liu Hong summoned himself over, and it was impossible for him to let the emperor wait for him. This is not the last time I went to Dunhuang to take office, and it is nothing if I go late, you try to see if you let the emperor wait for a long time, and see if there is any benefit. A delay of a few days is understandable, but it must be unjustifiable after a long time.

Liu can also understand this, after all, his son was summoned by the emperor and was going to visit his teacher, so naturally he couldn't stay at home for long.

"It's okay, since I'm going to see the teacher, my mother also has to prepare a gift. When you go, Chao'er, hand it over to Master Yan on behalf of your father. ”

Because Ma Teng was not there, Liu wanted to prepare a gift for Ma Teng, which was handed over to Yan Zhong by Ma Chao. Whether it is from the relationship between the Ma family and Yan Zhong, or from the relationship between Ma Chao and Yan Zhong, these are all necessary.

"No! Obey your mother's orders! ”

After that, Ma Chao briefly told Liu about what had happened in Dunhuang for more than half a year, but although he also talked about the extermination of bandits, he did not say that he went into battle in person, but said that he was a behind-the-scenes commander and a person who gave orders to command the three armies. To say that the level of Ma Chao's nonsense has indeed improved again, Liu is convinced of him, in her thoughts, as a superior person, he should be like what her son said, there is no need to charge forward at all, just sit in command of the whole army.

Ma Chao and Liu chatted about the same, so they left to find his younger brothers and sisters, anyway, every time Ma Chao came home, he had to do this series of things. Talk to Liu first, and then go to Ma Tie Ma Xiu and Ma Yun to talk to them and give them the gifts that were brought to them. This time he brought back a bunch of fruits, Dunhuang is not very rich, but after all, it is connected to the Western Regions, so there are many more fruits than Longxi, and the variety is also complete, and the price is cheap. And Ma Tie and the others were very happy when they saw the delicious food, and they usually couldn't eat so many delicious fruits.

On the third day, Ma Chao left Longxi Didao and went to Longxian County, Hanyang. Longxian is the seat of Liangzhou governance, and in Ma Chao's thoughts, the teacher Yan Zhong has been living in Longxian County, which has a sense of being hidden in the city. He didn't know if Lu Dao was right to think so, anyway, Ma Chao thought so.

came to the Yan Mansion and met the teacher Yan Zhong, "Disciple Ma Chao has seen the teacher!" ”

"Chao'er, get up, sit!"

"Thank you, teacher!"

Although Yan Zhong also missed Ma Chao as a disciple, he never complained about Ma Chao who hadn't come to see him for many years. In his opinion, as a disciple, as long as you have this heart, you can think of the teacher. Instead of coming here with a smile on the surface, it seems that I want the teacher to come and take a look, but in fact, I don't want to come at all, so it's really better not to come.

Next, Ma Chao told Yan Zhong about his experience in the past few years, and what he talked about was how he pulled out a sword to help when he saw injustice, how to help the poor, and how to help others. To say that Ma Chao is indeed a teacher who knows him very well, if he tells Yan Zhong how powerful he is and how he won the championship in the Yingchuan Academy Exchange Conference, it is definitely not Yan Zhong's favorite thing to hear.

Yes, everyone who is a teacher wants their disciple to be a talent, and Yan Zhong is no exception. But what he values most is not these, but the virtues of his disciples. He can be said to be quite satisfied with Ma Chao, and what he is satisfied with is not that Ma Chao is famous, but that he really follows his own teachings and does what a scholar should do, which is what Yan Zhong is most pleased with. Seeing Ma Chao today, he felt that he could comfort his old friend Ma Ping (Ma Chao's grandfather). Under his own teaching, his grandson finally became an adult and a talent, and now Ma Chaocai can be said to be a real talent.

"Good, good. Chao'er, you can do this, and you can live up to the expectations of your teacher! ”

"The disciple never dares to forget the teacher's teachings, and the eldest husband does something and does not do something, and the disciple always keeps this in mind!" Ma Chao said respectfully to Yan Zhong.

For the teacher Yan Zhong, Ma Chao is grateful and admired from the bottom of his heart. Needless to say, gratitude is not only admiration for the teacher's ability, but more importantly, character, Yan Zhong's personality is what Ma Chao admires the most.

"Master led the way into the door, and the cultivation was personal. Being a teacher is just responsible for preaching and teaching and solving doubts, and more importantly, it is up to you! Today, you can be like this, and you have such achievements, and your own efforts are inseparable! ”

Ma Chao understood what the teacher meant, what he said earlier could refer to his usual actions, and such achievements certainly refer to the events at the Yingchuan Academy Exchange Conference.

"When the disciple saw Mr. Bo Jiao again in Yingchuan Academy, Mr. asked the disciple to convey it on his behalf, saying that he hoped that he would have the opportunity to drink with the teacher in the future!"

Yan Zhong smiled when he heard this, thinking that he had indeed not seen his old friend for many years, let alone drinking the moon. It seems that there is a chance to really see old friends again, and then drink under the moon, life is like this, what more can a husband ask for. Yan Zhong asked Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan, and Xun Shuang how they were now, and Ma Chao told the teacher everything he saw and heard.

"Time is urging people to grow old, and now that we are all of this age, we may not find a chance to meet again, and we may never see each other again in the future!"

When Ma Chao heard it, why did the teacher say that. Now, these guys are in good health.

"The teacher wants to meet a few gentlemen, and it is not difficult to think about it. But the teacher's life is poor, and all the disciples obey it! ”

Ma Chao means that if the teacher needs the disciple to do something, send it. Yan Zhong nodded, "I haven't looked for you yet, if there is something to do, you kid can't hide if he wants to!" ”

Ma Chao raised his eyebrows, the teacher rarely said such half-joking words, it seems that the teacher is indeed in a good mood today. What his teacher said is good, if he wants to find it, then he can only find himself, he is his only disciple, if he doesn't look for himself, can he still find outsiders.

The two chatted until dinner time, and after dinner, Ma Chao said to Yan Zhong: "The disciple has also dabbled in some medical books over the years, and I want to read it for the teacher." ”

Ma Chaozhi said to his teacher, you can say whatever you have, just don't beat around the bush.

Yan Zhong understood what his disciple meant as soon as he heard it, and it seemed that his previous words had worried his disciple. He is not a person who shy away from medical treatment, and although he is not sick, Yan Zhong understands Ma Chao's intentions, so he agrees.

After Ma Chao saw it for Yan Zhong, he really didn't find any problems, maybe his own level was not good? Phew, phew, what do you think, it's best if the teacher doesn't have anything to do, and I'm much more relieved.

He prescribed a health care prescription for Yan Zhong, after all, Yan Zhong was old, and it was beneficial and harmless to use this prescription. The disciple's heart, Yan Zhong didn't shirk it, he didn't expect that after a few years, Ma Chao still had a long ability, and the more he looked at this disciple, the more satisfied he became.