20 horses
At night, Liu Feng came to Ma Chao's house with a pot of wine. At the beginning, Ma Chao attached Liu Feng to Chang'an with Yan Xing and Pang De, but Liu Feng only brought him back to Bingzhou from Chang'an, leaving Pang De and Yan Xing in Chang'an.
It was late at night, Ma Chao seemed to have forgotten to light the lamp, sitting lonely in the dark, with straight eyes, silent, a handsome face like a knife, changing various moods from time to time, Ma'er, injured.
Ma Chao's surname is Ma, how to train a horse?
Ma Chao's arrogance cannot be avoided, but Ma Chao's fighting spirit cannot be suppressed, a Ma Chao without fighting spirit is just an unreliable proton, Liu Feng is in the name of taming horses, beating Ma Chao heavily, but at this time, he has to comfort the injured horse.
It should be admitted that Liu Feng still doesn't trust the loyalty of Ma Chao and other generals of the Western Liang Army, these people have families and businesses in Liangzhou, and the reason why they belong to the state is just forced by the situation, and they took advantage of the fire to rob each other in troubled waters, and the comradeship between them is very low, once necessary, the spoils are unevenly distributed, or there is a greater temptation in front of them, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not think about their own benefits, or even stab them in the back. Historically, Ma Teng, Ma Chao's father and son, as well as Han Sui and other Liangzhou heroes, actually fought together at Cao Cao's call, and were high-ranking officials in the Han court dominated by Cao Cao.
In such a situation, Liu Feng naturally tried his best to avoid it, so he tried his best to dig up the three best generals in Liangzhou, undress them, and push them to eat. Among the three, Ma Chao, the young master of the Ma family, was the most thorny, which is why Liu Feng wanted to bring him back to Bingzhou and stay away from Liangzhou.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and the three most famous in the state army, Zhao Yun's ability Ma Chao witnessed with his own eyes, how Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are, Ma Chao is very doubtful, and these two people are the righteous brothers of the lord Liu Bei, the identity is extraordinary, and it gave Ma Chao an illusion, thinking that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei only relied on the relationship between the lord and the righteous brother to be repeatedly reused, ranking first among the generals, Ma Chao was young and vigorous, and he was dissatisfied in his heart, and repeatedly raised the idea of challenging Guan Yu.
This is exactly what Liu Feng is most taboo about, which is why he said such harsh words during the day.
Ma Chao was recruited by Liu Feng, Liu Feng treats Ma Chao like a brother, in a sense, Ma Chao is Liu Feng's person, just like Tian Feng, Zhong Xuan, Zhao Yun, Zhang ?, Xu Huang, Zhang Yan, and Fa Zheng Xu Shu and others, they are all known because of Liu Feng, and they surfaced, they can all be regarded as Liu Feng's people, and on some occasions, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Jian Yong were separated!
And because of Liu Feng's repeated achievements, to a certain extent, his fame overshadowed his father Liu Bei. Of course, father and son are close to each other, and Liu Feng does not need to go to his father's majesty, but as a son, Liu Feng should still have a sense of consciousness, consciously not offending his father's majesty, but also deliberately maintaining his father's authority, and not letting someone guess.
This is also the reason why Liu Bei, as a father, wants to promise his son that he will not uphold Mrs. Gan's status as the main family, and will not let his own son threaten Liu Feng's status as a concubine, and even hand over the power of the family to Gongsun Wan'er as a daughter-in-law.
Naturally, such a topic cannot be mentioned by anyone, nor can it be reminded by others, but it is a fact that Liu Bei and Liu Feng's father and son can't avoid, and it can only be realized by their father and son.
Ma Chao's so-called home, like other generals of the state army, is just a courtyard on the edge of the state governor's mansion, and Ma Chao has no family in Jinyang, except for two generals and an old servant, Liu Feng arranged some maids and guards for him. Liu Feng arrived, no one dared to stop, the vigilant old servant found that something was wrong with the situation since the young master returned, but he didn't dare to ask, he had been waiting outside carefully, seeing Liu Feng's arrival, he didn't know what the reason was, and hurriedly came over to salute, and said loudly: "The old slave has seen the son!" ”
Liu Feng glanced at the dark deep room, raised his hand to pick up the old servant, pointed to the house, and said, "Uncle, is Meng Qi okay?" ”
The old servant's heart suddenly sudden, and he originally wanted to drag it out and not let Liu Feng come in, but he thought that Liu Feng had already seen it, and cried helplessly: "Childe, after my eldest son came back, he stuffed himself in the house, the old slave, the old slave didn't dare to ask, Childe, you see ......"
Liu Feng smiled bitterly, comforted the old servant for a while, motioned him to take the lamp, and then made some food for Ma Chao. Ma Chao also found out about Liu Feng's arrival, but he lowered his head but just ignored it, as if he didn't realize it.
"Meng Qi, you think too much." Liu Feng got straight to the point, pulled a chair and came over to sit in front of Ma Chao.
Ma Chao glanced at Liu Feng, turned his head away, and a sneer appeared on his face.
The old servant lit the lamp, glanced at Ma Chao worriedly, sighed lightly and retreated, and closed the door with his hand.
Liu Feng said: "You are still angry with me, do you think that I said that the whip, hammer, and sword are aimed at you?" ”
Ma Chao snorted heavily: "Don't dare!" Ma Chao is just a contemptible barbarian, how dare he compare himself to a thousand-mile horse! Childe exalted me too much! ”
Liu Feng laughed out loud: "Meng Qi, you see that you can't even lie, you obviously have this idea in your heart, but you still pretend to do something that you don't understand ......."
"Isn't that so?" Ma Chao stood up with a "bang" and brought down the chair, his fists were clenched, his muscles were tense, he glared at Liu Feng angrily, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed: "Didn't Childe always think that my Ma Chao was just a martial artist, and I didn't understand anything, right?" Hahaha......"
Outside the door, the old servant's soul that was eavesdropping with his ears flew out of the sky, and almost subconsciously wanted to come back to cover Ma Chao's mouth, trembling and looking at the closed door, but he didn't dare to move.
Liu Feng smiled slightly, leaned against his back, Ma Chao was even more angry, and sneered: "Childe thinks that as long as I keep Ma Chao by your side, Ma Teng in Liangzhou can only be willing to accept the order?" Hehe, Liu Gongzi, Hou Ye, you think too highly of me Ma Chao, you really think of me as a treasure! It's a pity that you're blind, you're wrong! Speaking of this, Ma Chao almost roared out, took two steps and glared at Liu Feng angrily, and a mouthful of spit Xingzi unceremoniously sprayed at Liu Dagongzi, Liu Feng quickly turned his head to the side, avoided this spittle, and secretly exclaimed: It's dangerous!
Ma Chao was even more angry, the flashing lights reflected a young and handsome face, distorted by anger, and laughed miserably: "Haha, Liu Gongzi, believe it or not, even if you kill me, that Ma Teng, he won't shed a single tear, and he will thank you greatly, thank you for getting rid of his disobedient son!" Do you believe it or not? Believe it or not? Haha, haha......"
Liu Feng slowly stood up and sighed softly: "Meng Qi, if you are like this, you will kill me first, and then, go back to Liangzhou and kill Ma Teng," his voice was faint, as if he was an old friend persuading, and painstakingly persuaded: "A man is a man who establishes the world, controls people but not others, anyway, he dies, kill me and then die, how about it?" Ma Teng does not recognize you as a son, so why should you recognize him as a father? Sage Cloud: Monarch, father, minister, son! I, Liu Feng, am not benevolent, why is Ma Chao afraid of injustice? Ma Teng is not kind, Ma Chao is not filial, what does it matter if he returns the same report? ”
If it weren't for Ma Chao's words, Liu Feng wouldn't have imagined that Ma Chao's resentment towards his father Ma Teng was so deep, and he felt a little pity for Ma Chao in his heart, and he didn't know what Ma Teng, a father, had done to make his son resentful to this point.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the horse is just injured today, complaining about the heavens and others, as if the whole world has abandoned him, and he hates his father, who has a grudge in the past.
If this is the case, Liu Feng is suspected of separating the father and son, and this crime is even greater.
Ma Chao just sneered: "How dare you, the king is not benevolent and the minister is unjust, the father is not kind and the son is not filial, haha, haha, control people but not others, the son taught me another trick, let your people come out, give Lao Tzu less of this!" ”
At the end of the words, Ma Chao gritted his teeth, and squeezed out of his teeth with difficulty word by word, with a lot of force, word by word, hitting Liu Feng's heart. The frightened old servant outside the door had weak legs, sat down with a thud, stretched out his long hand straight to the door, and opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't say a word, only a low voice.
"Huh!"
Liu Feng threw off his cuffs, a shiny dagger was in his hand, Ma Chao sneered, looked at Liu Feng's incomparably sharp movements like a monkey, and pouted. Liu Feng also sneered, don't believe it? didn't say a word, grabbed Ma Chao's hand, put the dagger in Ma Chao's palm upside down, wrapped his palm, lifted it, pressed it on his neck, facing the major artery, and raised his chin: "Now you can kill me with confidence, right?" ”
After saying that, Liu Feng's hands naturally drooped and closed his eyes.
Ma Chao is like a soulless puppet, played by Liu Feng's movements, until he really grasped the blade of sharpening iron like clay in his palm, heavy, just holding it so really, Ma Chao's forehead slowly oozing oil, the blood-red eyes like fire, an indescribable feeling slowly climbed up, gradually, devoured all his anger:
What am I doing? What the hell am I doing?
On the back of Ma Chao's hand, the green tendons burst out, the big hand full of thick calluses, and the hand that was as powerful as cutting grass trembled uncontrollably. Ma Chao's eyes suddenly straightened, straight and straight, a wisp of blood, from the bright and shining knife face of the blade, slowly slid down, and gently slid over the handsome face reflected on the knife surface......