Ma Chao stopped at the horse when he heard the sound, turned his head and saw that there was a man running in front of him, who looked like he had to be fifty years old, and he was holding a five or six-year-old girl in his hand, and the man looked very embarrassed.

Chasing them behind was a group of soldiers from the state army, it is estimated that there can be about ten, this is an infantry squad, no one rides a horse, or they have caught up early, and they are about to catch up.

Seeing this situation, Cui An wanted to step forward, but Ma Chao quickly stopped him when he saw this, "Fuda, don't be reckless!" ”

Cui An stopped, and Ma Chao tore off a large piece of cloth from his clothes as fast as he could, tore it in half, covered his face with a piece of cloth, only his forehead and eyes were exposed, and the other piece was handed to Cui An.

"Cover your face, you won't speak for a while! You can do what I do, if you want to say a word, you don't have to follow me anymore! ”

Cui An nodded hurriedly after hearing Ma Chao's words, and then covered his face with a cloth, it seems that Ma Chao is really good at speaking. Seeing Cui An nodding and doing so, Ma Chao was relieved.

Stopping Cui An just now was afraid that he would cause trouble, if the person who ran in front of him really committed a repetition in the imperial court, then Ma Chao would never interfere. If there were other hidden secrets, he might be nosy. But it is definitely not possible to go directly like Cui An, Ma Chao and Cui An are both white, with no money and no power, although they are not afraid of offending the government, they will definitely be in trouble in the future.

The two rode forward, and when the people running in front of them were about to catch up, the horses overtook them.

Let the people who ran in front of them, Ma Chao and Cui An stationed in the horse blocked the way of the pursuers.

"Who are you? Dare to stop the official from handling the case! This was said by the man who shouted to hurry up and catch them, and it seems that this man should be the leader of their group.

"Dare to ask them what they have committed?" Ma Chao asked with his fists clenched.

"This, they are Jiangyang thieves wanted by the imperial court!" The leader-like man replied.

"Hahaha!" Ma Chao couldn't help but laugh, Jiangyang thief? Please, big brother, you have to make it up like a little bit, okay, there are a few Jiangyang thieves who still take their children to do this. And you see that the person who ran, one has no weapons, and the other has no martial arts, and he can't take his breath when he runs. Although the clothes are not very worn, they are definitely not worth anything, and at a glance, you can see that Lu Dao is a scholar, how can there be such a shameful appearance of Jiang Yang thieves.

"Okay, Jiangyang thief, good, good." Saying that, Ma Chao glanced at Cui An, "Don't hurt people, just knock them all out, go!" ”

Ma Chao launched an attack as he spoke, and with his order, Cui An also swung his halberd at the team of soldiers. Ma Chao is a little better here, he can grasp the sense of proportion, and he fainted, and the worst thing is just a slight injury. But Cui An can't do it, there is no one who was smashed by his halberd without being injured, although he can't die, but the injury is definitely not light.

Ma Chao sighed when he saw it, "Smash it lightly next time!" Cui An nodded quickly when he heard this, but he always remembered that Ma Chao didn't let him speak.

Ma Chao shook his head with a smile, got off the horse and walked towards the rescued person, of course, he had already taken off the masked cloth when he went, and Cui An also dismounted and followed.

The person who was rescued by Ma Chao has not completely recovered, and it is really difficult for him to be chased by someone all the way with a child in his arms, but now he can be regarded as putting the child down to rest.

However, when this person saw Ma Chao and them coming, he was about to clench his fists and salute, but was quickly stopped by Ma Chao.

"It's not enough to worry about it!" Look at this person, he must be fifty, although he has helped others, but Ma Chao can't let him give him a gift.

But this person seems to be brainless, pedantic enough, "No, the benefactor has a life-saving grace for me and the little girl, and deserves to be worshiped by me!" Saying that, he insisted on giving Ma Chao a gift, Ma Chao really had no choice, the ancients, how helpless, he could only accept a bow from others. …,

After everything was done, Ma Chao said: "I don't know the name of Mr. ”

"Chen Liu, Cai Yong, Cai Bojiao. This is the little girl Cai Yan, who is five years old this year. Cai Yong said, pulling the little girl next to him, "Yan'er, I haven't seen a benefactor yet!" ”

He is Cai Yong, Cai Bojiao, what an accident, Ma Chao thought to himself.

"It turns out that you are Mr. Bo Jiao, after the end of learning, Fu Feng Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi has seen Mr. Bo Jiao!" Ma Chao bowed down to give Cai Yong a salute, and after saluting, he took out the letter to Cai Yong that Yan Zhong handed over to him from his arms, and respectfully handed it to Cai Yong.

"I didn't know it was Mr. Bo Jiao before, and the crime of Chao was also, this is a handwritten letter from the teacher, and I told the student to hand it over to Mr."

"Oh?" Cai Yong took the letter suspiciously, opened it and looked at it.

After reading it, he said to Ma Chao: "I didn't expect Meng Qi that you are actually a disciple of Senior Brother Min, and Senior Brother Min also asked me to take care of you, but I didn't expect that the first time we met, my life was saved by Meng Qi!" After speaking, Cai Yong couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

Min Xue is Yan Zhong's word, taken from the Analects, "Min and studious, not ashamed to ask." "The teacher's words, even Ma Chao, a disciple, don't know it, in fact, let alone Ma Chao, there are only a few people in the world who know this. Yan Zhong is not only low-key, he doesn't have many friends, he knows a lot of him, but there are really few people who know that he is a word, and only Mo Zhi's friends understand.

"As the family teacher often says, Mr. Bo is a rare person in the world who is well-educated, and he is a model for my generation!" Ma Chao gave it a slap, but Cai Yong is a Confucian at home after all, so of course he will not be dizzy by Ma Chao's few words of flattery.

"Senior Brother Min is too humble, in fact, I admire Senior Brother Min's knowledge!" Cai Yong and Yan Zhong are the same age, they are both forty-six this year, and it is impossible for the two of them to distinguish who is older and who is small, anyway, they both call each other brothers.

"Yan'er, I haven't seen you Senior Brother Meng Qi yet!"

"Cai Yan has seen Senior Brother Meng Qi!" The little girl said.

Ma Chao looked at it, it was the little girl Cai Yong was holding before, although Cai Yan was only five years old, she looked really cute, staring at herself with big eyes, Ma Chao liked it very much. This little girl asked her to call Ma Chao's benefactor before, she didn't speak, but now let her call her senior brother, she just spoke, it can be seen that the little girl is a big ghost, smart and clever.

Ma Chao patted Cai Yan's little head, "Yan'er is so cute, this is for you!" As he spoke, he took out a jade pendant from his arms, which was turned out in Fufeng's house when Ma Chao moved from Fufeng to Longxi, and it may have been in the dowry of his mother Liu's dowry.

He didn't have any feelings for jade, and this jade pendant was not a valuable thing, but Ma Chao still kept it by himself, and he also carved a super character on it, which he usually carried with him. Isn't this the first time I've seen Cai Yan today, as a senior brother, I don't have anything to give, so I can only take this out.

"Xie Lu, Senior Brother Xie Mengqi!" Cai Yan happily took the jade pendant and put it away.

"Senior Brother Meng Qi's gift to Yan'er, Yan'er likes it very much, but Yan'er has nothing to give to Senior Brother." Cai Yan said with a serious face.

Ma Chao almost fell, "This, you don't need it, it's okay." ”

"Alright then, I'll talk about it later!" Cai Yan said.

"Okay, okay." Ma Chao said with a smile, thinking to himself, as long as his cute little sister is happy, everything is fine.

Cai Yong wanted to stop Cai Yan from accepting Ma Chao's jade pendant, but seeing Cai Yan's happy appearance, he didn't say much, let them deal with the child's affairs, they can't take care of it too much, thought to themselves, shook his head and smiled.

"I wonder why Mr. Bo is here?" Ma Chao asked.

"It's hard to put into words!" Cai Yong sighed.

Originally, Cai Yong was a good official in the court, but he offended people in the court, and then made the emperor angry, so he was exiled to Shuofang. …,

Later, because the emperor admired Cai Yong's talent, he remembered that he was exiled, so he pardoned him and let him return to Anyang, Wuyuan.

As a result, he offended Wang Zhi, the Taishou of Wuyuan, Wang Zhi was a villain, and he was very cautious, while writing a chapter saying that Cai Yong was dissatisfied with the court and the emperor because of his exile for thousands of miles, and also slandered the court, and on the other hand, he sent someone to arrest him, so this is what happened before.

After listening to this, Ma Chao thought that this big man was really about to finish, although Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao were just a powerless reader, but he was a well-known Confucian in the sea, and a little Taishou dared to frame him and arrest him, how bold did he have to be.

"I don't know what Mr. Bo will do next, you can't stay here for long!" Ma Chao said a classic line.

"Yan'er and I are going to go to Wu County, Jiangdong."

"It's okay, Jiangdong is far away from the state, and it's safe. It's a pity that I still have something to do and can't escort my husband there! Ma Chao said regretfully.

"Fuda, from today onwards, you will follow Mr. and protect Mr. and Yan'er! Until they reach Kure! ”

"Lord, my father asked me to follow you!"

"Didn't Mr. Cui also tell you to listen to me?"

"Yes, but if you listen to the lord, you can't be by the lord's side, you just didn't listen to my father! If you want to be by the side of the lord, you just don't listen to the lord, what can I do? Cui An said with his head covered.

Ma Chao, Cai Yong and Cai Yan all laughed.

Ma Chao said: "Fuda, you think so, now you are by my side to listen to Mr. Cui's words, and I asked you to go to Wu County, you just listened to me." When you come back to me from Wu County, don't you still listen to what Mr. said? ”

"yes, yes. You're still smarter than me, lord! Hahaha! Cui An smiled.

Ma Chao asked Cui An to escort Cai Yong's father and daughter to Wu County, and before leaving, he specially told Cui An to listen to Mr. Bo Jiao's words, if he didn't listen, after being known by himself, then let him go back to Fufeng's hometown, Cui An nodded hurriedly after hearing it.

Cui An escorted Cai Yong's father and daughter away, before leaving, Ma Chao also gave them his own dry food, originally Cai Yong insisted on not wanting it, but Ma Chao said that he couldn't let Cai Yan go hungry, so he had to accept it.

Cai Yan knew that she was going to part with Ma Chao, and she cried a lot, it seems that the little girl is really reluctant to Ma Chao. After Ma Chao repeatedly promised that he would have the opportunity to see her in the future, the little girl stopped crying, and then waved goodbye to Ma Chao.

In fact, Ma Chao is also very reluctant to them, but since Cai Yong has a purpose, it is safer to have Cui An's protection. If they have nowhere to go, Ma Chao will ask Cui An to place them in Longxi, anyway, it is impossible to take them with him, because of the road ahead, Ma Chao doesn't know if there will be danger, and if so, how dangerous it will be.

After watching Cui An and them leave, a stone in Ma Chao's heart finally fell to the ground, and he knew that it was absolutely no problem to escort Cai Yong's father and daughter to Wu County safely with Cui An's skills. And although Cui An is not by his side, he should not cause too much trouble.

He didn't think much about it, turned on his horse, and headed for his next destination. Of course, Ma Chao's next destination is still in Bingzhou, that is, Yunzhong County in Bingzhou, Yunzhong and Wuyuan are adjacent to each other, so Ma Chao arrived in Yunzhong City in less than two days.

Cloud City gives Ma Chao the same feeling as Jiuyuan City, first of all, both of them are important military towns in the northern part of Bingzhou. So it's actually the same in a lot of places.

Entering Cloud City, Ma Chao saw the recruitment list, and when he saw this, he made a decision. decided to join the Bingzhou Army for the time being, this is not a whim, but he has his own ideas, not to mention that he has never seen what the Han barracks are like, so it's good to see it.

Ma Chao first bought a room in Cloudsdale, the house is not big, and there is not much money. Located in a place like Cloudsdale, it would be good if the house could be sold, but it couldn't be sold for a lot of money. After putting away his things, Ma Chao went to sign up as a soldier.