After a while, Dahan came back from washing, and it happened that Ma Chao had finished eating.

"Little Er, check out!" Dahan shouted to Xiao Er, Xiao Er hurriedly ran over, and before Xiao Er could speak, Dahan directly threw Xiao Er a piece of silver, "Is it enough, not enough." Even the little brother's face money is counted! ”

"Enough, enough, enough." Xiao Er hurriedly replied.

"That's good, there's no need to look for the rest of the money, reward you, go down!"

"No, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Xiao Er left happily.

It can be seen that the big man has a generous hand and a bold temperament. Ma Chao hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, brother." ”

"Little brother, why be polite, meeting is fate!" Dahan hurriedly waved his hand and said. "There is a problem, that is, I don't like to talk too much when I eat out, and I can eat casually. Now that we've all eaten, we can have a good chat together. ”

"That's what I want, I can't ask for it." Ma Chao said to Dahan.

"Introduce yourself, a certain is a native of Lintao, Longxi, surnamed Dong Mingzhuo, the word Zhongying, and now he is the captain of Wuji in the Western Regions."

Ma Chao was slightly shocked in his heart, this is Dong Zhuo? It seems that he can't be wrong, why did he come here, it's really weird.

"Fufeng Maoling, Ma Chao." Ma Chao hugged Dong Zhuo's fist.

"I still think that Little Brother Ma is my Liangzhou boy, Little Brother Ma is a Fufeng person, why did he come to Liangzhou?"

"I'm here to study with a teacher."

"I don't know who is worshipping under the door?" Dong Zhuo thought to himself, it won't be a famous teacher.

"The family teacher is loyal to Yan Xia."

Yan Zhong? Dong Zhuo was surprised in his heart, as a native of Liangzhou, of course he had heard of Yan Zhong's name. However, Yan Zhong had never confiscated disciples before, but he didn't expect to accept disciples now.

"Oh, little brother Ma is amazing!" Dong Zhuo praised.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Thinking that Yan Zhong, he has never accepted an apprentice, if he says that he wants to accept apprentices, even if he doesn't queue up, then the family will be like someone stepping on the threshold. Since Little Brother Ma has become a disciple of Yan Zhong, no matter what the reason, it is enough to see the ability of Little Brother Ma! Dong Zhuo said with a smile.

Ma Chao hurriedly said: "Where, where." I don't know where Brother Zhong Ying came here? ”

"Since Brother Ma asked, there is nothing that cannot be said." Now Dong Zhuo's title for Ma Chao has changed from the previous little brother to the little brother Ma, and has changed from the little brother Ma to the current brother Ma.

"When I received a letter from home, my mother asked me to go back to Lintao, and I had to take leave and go home first. This ground is a must, I haven't eaten it for a long time, and I just arrived home a few days ago, so I came over to eat. Dong Zhuo said and licked his lips with his tongue, as if he was reminiscing about the taste of noodles and leg of mutton.

This guy is really a foodie, and he came here to eat noodles, Ma Chao thought secretly.

"Haha, let Brother Ma laugh. There are only four things left in this life, power, beauty, food and wine. Life in the world, eat and drink, don't eat more now, and when you die, you won't be able to eat anymore, Brother Ma, you say that's the truth, isn't it? ”

"Yes, yes. What Brother Zhong Ying said is extremely true! Ma Chao replied helplessly.

"Brother Ma, you are perfunctory, you understand, you won't say much. In a word, Brother Ma must go to Lintao in the future, even if he is not there, there is a family to entertain you! ”

"Okay, if you have the chance, you will definitely go!"

"Well, that's it. Brother Ma, I'm going back, although I saw him for the first time today, but I and Brother Ma hit it off at first sight, but unfortunately I can't talk to Brother Ma about something, I believe that I will meet again if I have the opportunity, and I will have a good time with Brother Ma! Brother Ma stayed, and he said goodbye! After speaking, Dong Zhuo left the noodle shop.

Ma Chao clenched his fists and looked at Dong Zhuo's back, thoughtful. …,

Dong Zhuo's father has a total of three sons, the eldest is called Dong Zheng, the word Meng Gao, has passed away a long time ago, the third is called Dong Min, the word is Shu Zhuo, and the second is Dong Zhuo.

When Dong Zhuo was young, he liked rangers, and he himself traveled to the territory of the Qiang people. Because he has good martial arts, and his temperament is also bold and generous, so the Qiang people respect and fear him, and Dong Zhuo and the Qiang people get along well and have a good relationship. And he also slowly cultivated his cronies among the Qiang people in order to develop.

Later, Dong Zhuo returned to his hometown of Lintao, grazing and farming, and when the Qiang people visited him at home, he killed the family's cattle and sheep to entertain them, in fact, it was to entrap them.

The Qiang people saw that Dong Zhuo's martial arts were so strong, and he was so interesting, so they were quite willing to listen to him. Once, the Qiang people were handsome in Dong Zhuo's house and found that Dong Zhuo had killed not many cattle and sheep, so he sent Dong Zhuo thousands of various livestock to thank him.

Later, Dong Zhuo became an official, and he served as a military Sima until he became the current captain of Wuji, which was all fought with a knife and a gun. So no matter what Dong Zhuo will become in the future, at least he is still a good person now, at least in Ma Chao's eyes.

As for the future, since Ma Chao wants to dominate the world, of course he will be all over the world, and Dong Zhuo is the indispensable one to deal with. Without thinking much about it, he returned to Yan Fuzhong after leaving the noodle shop.

When he returned to his house, he saw Yan Zhong waiting for him at the door.

"Teacher." Ma Chao was busy giving gifts.

"Chao'er, come back early when you go out in the future."

"No." Ma Chao himself wondered why he came back so late, and it was estimated that it was noon when he went out. I went to the blacksmith shop, then went to the noodle shop, chatted with Dong Zhuo for a while, thought of some things, and arrived home. It's just getting dark, so it's going to be too fast.

Yan Zhong left after telling Ma Chao, and didn't ask Ma Chao what he did. In fact, Yan Zhong also gave Ma Chao some space for himself, as long as Ma Chao didn't do anything too out of line, Yan Zhong wouldn't care about anything, so Yan Zhong was still relatively open-minded as a teacher.

After returning to the house, Ma Chao looked at the book, but fell asleep on the couch.

Early the next morning, he got up. No way, who let the teacher go to class at the hour, Ma Chao had to get up before the hour, it seems that he will have to get up early in the future, Ma Chao thought.

After washing, Ma Chao went to the study to meet the teacher and started his studies.

He taught for two hours a day, with the morning being the hour and the afternoon being the hour. In the middle is the rest time, you can go out, but you must come back before the time of application, and you will be severely punished for being late.

Ma Chao thought of a question, it seems that teachers in ancient and modern China and abroad don't like students who are late. So Ma Chao didn't dare to be a late student because he was afraid of the teacher.

As soon as the class was finished, he ran out of the door, and what to do, of course, was to get the snow drinking knife.

came to the blacksmith shop yesterday, and as soon as he entered the door, Ma Chao opened his throat, "Shopkeeper, has the knife I ordered yesterday been ready?" ”

The blacksmith master was busy striking iron, and when he heard the sound, he raised his eyes and saw Ma Chao, "Yo, you are here." What you want has already been prepared, just waiting for you to pick it up! ”

Saying that, the blacksmith hurriedly moved the knife out from the side, yes, forty catties, not four catties.

Ma Chao looked at the knife and was overjoyed, yesterday the blacksmith said that he would come to pick it up at noon, but he didn't expect that just after the hour, people had already prepared it. He didn't think about it, the things ordered by the customer, the business basically said that the delivery time was late, how could it be too early.

The blacksmith looked at Ma Chao, what does that mean, what about the person with the knife? You can't lift it as a five or six-year-old child.

Ma Chao didn't understand what it meant, he thought, the blacksmith family may want the rest of the money, right, do business, pay the money with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other. …,

He hurriedly put the money on the case, and then took the knife from the blacksmith. The blacksmith was not bad, and he gave him a scabbard for free.

After pulling out the knife, he carefully looked at the blade, to be honest, this knife and scabbard are not good-looking, black and swarthy, it should be made of iron. Of course, Ma Chao doesn't care whether the knife is good-looking or ugly, some gorgeous things are not practical, but he is still a very pragmatic person.

The knife is also the murder weapon. It's something used to kill people and defend themselves, is it useful to look so good, no matter how good-looking it is, it has to be used to kill people, the purpose is the same, and what kind of appearance Ma Chao doesn't care about.

He drew his knife and slashed slightly at the long case next to him, and without any effort, the corner of the long case was cut off. "Good, good knife, good knife. Ha Lu Ha! Ma Chao held the knife and stroked it lovingly.

The handle of the knife is engraved with the word snow drink, although this snow drink knife is not a treasure knife, but Ma Chao still likes it very much. He looked at the blacksmith and was about to speak, but he found that the blacksmith was looking at him in a daze.

Ma Chao didn't understand what he meant, could it be that I was too handsome, so there was no need for this. Could it be that Longyang is good? No, he had a chill, probably not. Oh, I see, maybe that's the case, the blacksmith made the knife and made the scabbard for free, and now that someone has bought it, he is a little reluctant.

"Oh, you don't have to be like that, shopkeeper. I bought the knife today, and I will make it famous all over the world! Live up to your hard work! Saying that, Ma Chao also took out the rest of the money, put it all on the long case, and then walked away.

There was only a blacksmith left in the blacksmith shop who was still stunned, if he wanted to say that the blacksmith was like this, he was stupid after seeing Ma Chao's actions. Forty pounds, a child of five or six years old, just picked it up so easily, this is against the sky, only seen in life, only seen in life. This, this is incredible, who can believe it.

Not to mention that the blacksmith was surprised alone, just that Ma Chao took the snow drinking knife out of the blacksmith shop.

Raising his eyes to the side, he saw that it was still the same noodle restaurant yesterday, and he met Dong Zhuo there yesterday. Dong Zhuo's appearance of eating a leg of mutton with his mouth full of oil appeared in front of Ma Chao's eyes, he smiled slightly, it seems that this kind of thing may only happen once in a lifetime, and it is probably impossible to see Dong Zhuo like this in the future.

Remembering that he met Dong Zhuo yesterday, Ma Chao once asked Dong Zhuo, why didn't Brother Zhong Ying eat and drink and invited me to eat?

Dong Zhuo said, it's not a certain leftover to Brother Ma, but to hit it off with Brother Ma at first sight, and they are very close to each other, so I want to invite Brother Ma to eat and drink together. Originally, with the amount of food and alcohol, even if there was more, he would not refuse, but he couldn't help it, and remembered that before going out, a subordinate advised him to eat and drink less when he went out, so he ......

Ma Chao thinks that the current Dong Zhuo is still very good at listening to people's persuasion, and he doesn't know how to ...... in the future Not thinking about it, he returned to Yan Mansion with a knife.

It was just after noon when he returned to Yan Mansion, and Ma Chao had nothing to do, so he started practicing martial arts again. Practice marksmanship first, and then start learning knife skills.

After learning it, I realized that although the knife technique is simpler than the marksmanship, it is still very difficult, and I didn't understand too much when I saw it at noon. It seems that you have to study it slowly, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

It's almost time to apply, and Ma Chao has no choice but to go to the study to study. Following Yan Zhong's study, Ma Chao realized how powerful Yan Zhong was. The art of war is strategic, all of which are refined. not only told Ma Chao about the things in the military book, but he also told Ma Chao some of his own understanding of the art of war, which benefited Ma Chao a lot.

And every half a month, he would lead the horse out of the door and go to the outskirts of other counties to see various terrains and terrains. Whenever this happens, he will teach Ma Chao how to ambush the soldiers and how to crack the enemy's ambushes. What type of troops is most suitable to use, how to attack most effectively, how to defend the most to get twice the result with half the effort, how to solve emergencies in case of emergencies, etc. …,

Many times, he also gives horses more than all kinds of problems. At first, Ma Chao's answer was not very good, but the longer he studied by Yan Zhong's side, the better he answered.

Sometimes Yan Zhong was also surprised, Ma Chao is still a five or six-year-old child, he is simply an adult. Yan Zhong really thought it was right, plus his current age, Ma Chao was going to be thirty years old, can five or six years old be compared with thirty years old?

There are outside learning methods, and there are home learning methods at home.

In addition to the art of war, Yan Zhong also took the map of the Han Dynasty to explain to Ma Chao. The map is not the most important thing, the important thing is that Yan Zhong is actually a living map. Although it is not that he knows every county in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty in particular, Yan Zhong basically knows the important counties, passage fortresses, and topography of each state.

Ma Chao was surprised, how many years did it take to travel to reach such a level. Yan Zhong is really a strong man, but how come he hasn't heard of such a powerful character? It seems that the Three Kingdoms have really buried a lot of talents, and many of them are unsung heroes with unknown reputations.

And so on day after day, year after year, cold and summer, winter and spring. Five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Yan Zhong has gone from just forty years old to forty-five years old now.

Ma Chao has also grown from a five-year-old child to a ten-year-old boy now. Don't look at the fact that he is only ten years old, Ma Chao's height now exceeds his peers a lot, and he is like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy.

And the time has also shifted from the second year of Xiping to the current first year of Guanghe.

One day in April of the first year of Guanghe, Ma Chao still went to the study as usual, but today is a special day, special for him, because today is the day when Ma Chao learns and becomes a teacher.

Ma Chao couldn't see anything from the outside, but he was very uncalm inside. I have also experienced parting before, but I have only been with Cui Hong for two years at that time, far less than the current five years.

Ma Chao also knew that it was useless to think too much, fate gathered and scattered, and many things were helpless. With a deep sigh in his heart, Ma Chao walked into the study, and sure enough, he saw Yan Zhong waiting for him.

"Chao'er, now that you have learned something, you can go on a study tour."

"No, teacher. But ......"

"Okay, what are you going to say for the sake of the teacher. After so many years, you can also see that the world is going to be chaotic, and heroes are born in troubled times, and I hope you are a hero for the teacher! ”

"The disciple will live up to the teacher's expectations!" Ma Chao knelt down and kowtowed to Yan Zhong.

"Chao'er, here is a handwritten letter from the teacher. Now, when you meet Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao, you will forward the letter to him. He is a friend of his teacher, and he will take care of you in the face of the old man. ”

As he spoke, he handed the letter to Ma Chao, and Ma Chao took the letter, "More teachers." ”

"Chao'er, you can go by yourself." Yan Zhong glanced at Ma Chao, waved his hand, and then left the study without looking back.