The location of the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Han Empire is Yecheng, and the Weiwei Mansion of the 18th District of Xifang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info early in the morning.

Xifang is the most deserted neighborhood in Yecheng, it is the area where Cao Cao used to concentrate on the placement of civil and military ministers loyal to the Han court, generals and subordinates who were neglected and distrusted, the more famous, Wu has the general Poqiang, Xuanwei Hou Zhang Xiu, the former general, Wei Wei, Huaili Hou Ma Teng and other generals, and Song Zhong, Liu Hui and other Jingzhou ministers.

There was a slight drizzle in the gray sky, and the cold breeze blew, intertwined and disordered, and the cold and miserable streets of Dongfang were full of birds, and everything seemed desolate and bleak.

Compared with other mansions where the courtyard is cold and Kurama, Ma Teng's Weiwei Mansion is surrounded by a lot of ironclad soldiers, with five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry, and they are heavily guarded.

"Squeak", the mottled paint door in disrepair opened, and out came a young maid carrying a vegetable basket, this girl is named Ma Tao, in her early twenties, crisp and smart, looking handsome and clever.

Ma Tao walked straight out of the gate, not squinting, ignoring the black-armored soldier standing at the door, his face full of contempt. When the soldiers at the door saw that it was Ma Tao, they became accustomed to ignoring it and continued to stand guard like a wooden man. Because Ma Fu goes to buy vegetables 365 days a year, since the old housekeeper Uncle Ma is old and weak three years ago, and his mobility is inconvenient, Ma Fu has changed to Ma Tao to purchase.

Ma Tao walked through the cold streets of Xifang and walked towards the vegetable market. Along the way, she didn't have to look back to know that there were two "black dogs" silently escorting her behind. It was the Netherworld Guard led by Cao Pi under the command of Cao Cao's Badao Mansion, who specially monitored the people entering and leaving the Ma Mansion.

A quarter of an hour later, Ma Tao arrived at the most lively vegetable market in the southwest corner of Yecheng. This is the most lively place in Yecheng, with many shops, sufficient goods, businessmen gathered, busy transactions, busy traffic, and people's voices.

Ma Tao walked into the vegetable market, only to see that it was full of people, crowded, shoulder to shoulder, you squeeze me, I squeeze you. There is also a wide variety of dishes, and everything you need.

"Fresh Chinese cabbage!"

"Fresh big carp!"

"Fresh river prawns!"

"Come and see, come and buy, cheap and fresh."

"Passing by, seeing it, not to be missed, good quality and low price."

The shopkeepers were shouting hard, and their voices were connected, and the tone was very beautiful. The sound of buyers and sellers haggling, as well as the cries of chickens, ducks, geese, cows, sheep, and horses, rise and fall, like a symphony of life.

With their moving and seductive shouts, customers crowded into their stalls. The bosses are busy weighing the dishes, collecting money, and they are very busy.

Ma Tao carried a vegetable basket, walked in the endless crowd, looked left and right, bought a few catties of beef and a few vegetables, and then walked past the fish stall that he frequented.

There are several kinds of vigorous and delicious big fish swimming in the pool of the fish stall, and the owner of the fish stall, Lao Yutou, saw that it was Ma Tao, his eyes lit up, and he greeted enthusiastically: "Ma Tao Nizi, what kind of fish do you want today?" ”

Without waiting for Ma Tao to answer, the old man was busy selling his goods: "These are all fresh river fish that were salvaged early this morning, fat and delicious, bright in color, alive and vigorous, and inexpensive." Whether it is braised or steamed, or stewed, it is guaranteed to make you eat for a while and think about it for a while. ”

"Uncle Yu, you've finished saying all the good things. I didn't want to buy it, so I bought two carps today and went back to cook soup to replenish the body of the master, the young lady, and the young master. Ma Tao squatted down, looked at the fish in the pool and smiled.

"You really have a vision, that's right, these are the big carp in the Qingni River, which is similar to the famous Yellow River carp, and the soup is extremely delicious, and there is no fishy smell and muddy smell at all." Old Yu said with a smile on his face.

"Okay, let's call the two biggest." Ma Tao said briskly.

"Great!" Lao Yutou weighed the fish with his hands and feet, and skewered it with bamboo silk and put it in Ma Tao's vegetable basket.

Ma Tao paid the money and happily set out on the way home. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, the two Nether Guards also routinely continued to follow back.

When they completely disappeared into the crowd, they had been watching all this in secret, and the young man with a stern face wearing a hat walked over and squatted in front of the fish stall.

He asked Lao Yutou to string two fish and said, "It's hard work." Secretly stuffed a bag of money to the old Yutou, and in the busy thanks and grateful eyes of the old Yutou, he blended into the flow of people with another young man waiting on the side.

These two people are Feng Xi and Zhang Nan, who came to Xuchang to wait for an opportunity to rescue Ma Teng's family on the orders of Liu Chan. They had already contacted Wei Wei and Geng Ji, who had returned to Xuchang in advance, to find out about Ma Teng's situation, to know the law of Ma Tao's activities, to bribe the old man he had never known, and to stuff the wax pill containing the letter into the stomach of the big carp in advance.

Ma Teng's mood was as messy and complicated as this ghost weather, pacing back and forth in the living room, restless, and complicated, like the cold rain of spring.

Ma Teng is a general who is more than half a hundred years old, with gray hair, a burly body, a majestic face and nose, and a sharp gaze, and the wind and frost of the years have carved wrinkles on his face, revealing incomparable fortitude and a sense of vicissitudes, although he is quite old, but he still can't hide the fearlessness and fierceness of the past.

Ten years ago, Ma Teng was deceived by Cao Cao's Yilang and Zhong Xuan's military Zhang Ji, so he had to raise a family of more than 200 people, with his son Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, daughter Ma Yunlu, and nephew Ma Dai, to Xuchang to take up the post of the guard appointed by the Han court under Cao Cao's control (in charge of the guards of the various gates of the capital, equivalent to the admiral of the nine gates in later generations). In order to better control Ma Teng, the suspicious Cao Cao soon forcibly moved the Ma family to Yecheng, and as soon as he arrived in Yecheng, he was monitored, and the family could not enter and leave Yecheng, which was like house arrest.

Their family can only move around in Yecheng every day, but the Ma family's father and son are followed in and out, and the outside of the mansion is besieged by heavily armed ironclad troops, and the netherworld guards of Cao Cao's sword mansion are closely monitored, and the barriers are deep and strict. For more than ten years, Ma Teng has been in a cage like a tiger, becoming a trapped beast in an extremely irritable mood. Every day, the walking corpse survived, and the years consumed his sharpness little by little, and the only thing that made him happy was to meet his children and nephews, and teach them to practice martial arts.

Recently, Ma Teng's henchman overheard the guards' discussion that Cao Cao was preparing to make a move on his eldest son Ma Chao, who was stationed in Huaili, which made him feel restless, anxious, and anxious, like an ant in a hot pot. I meditated hard every day, racked my brains, and couldn't think of a solution. Although he also knew that even if he came up with a plan, it would be useless, because there was no chance to send the letter out, let alone the letter could reach Ma Chao.

But Ma Teng was unwilling to sit still, he asked people to notify Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, Ma Yunlu, and Ma Dai to come to discuss countermeasures.

After a while, everyone gathered in the secret room, Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, and Ma Dai all arrived, but Ma Yunlu was nowhere to be seen.

"Daddy, the little girl got a secret letter. Hee-hee. Zhu Lip smelled before he smiled, after a bag of cigarettes, a string of silver bell-like laughter came from outside the secret room, Ma Yunlu was in a hurry, striding meteors, hurrying over, and laughing with a wax pill. (To be continued.) )