Jiang Wei simply packed a few changes of clothes in the evening, thinking that he would get up early tomorrow and go to bed.

This time I traveled south, and I was afraid that I would not be able to return to Tianshui in a short time. According to the friendship of friends, he should have informed Yin Xian and the Liang brothers. It's just that this matter is very important, and if you rashly tell it, there is a risk of leaking secrets and killing yourself, and second, you are afraid that it will cause trouble to your friends after the incident, so you have not told you about it. Only at night, he announced to Yang, Jiang Wen, and Jiang Wu that they would return to their hometowns early tomorrow morning to worship their ancestors.

Xu is because the two brothers rarely travel far away, and they are all excited to learn that they are going out of the city.

Jiang Wei got up early the next day, but unexpectedly, the two brothers Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu had already gotten up early to get busy. The Yang family had already prepared dry food and water, and was now instructing the two brothers to carry it to the carriage.

Jiang Wei hid his armor and two bows, as well as the gold, silver and copper coins he had received from Cheng Yi in the carriage. Although the imperial court did not prohibit pedestrians from carrying swords, such as armor, bows and arrows, and other heavy military weapons were not among them.

When everything was ready, Jiang's mother had also gotten up, carrying a burden on her right shoulder, and looked like she had simply packed up the gold and silver. Because they had to hurry during the day, Jiang Wei's mother and son invited Yang, Jiang Wen, and Jiang Wu to use breakfast together.

After dinner, Jiang Wei helped Jiang's mother to board the carriage, but saw her mother suddenly stop, looking at the old house and crying.

Jiang Weixin said: "My mother has lived in this mansion for half a lifetime, although she urges me to hurry up all day long, in fact, she is the most reluctant person...... Someday, I will return here with my mother in another capacity. ”

After everyone was in place, Jiang Wei rode a horse, Jiang Wen drove the car, Jiang Wu rode Xiao Hei and led Da Hei, and the group went to the south of the city.

Ma Jun had already carried a small burden and was waiting in the south of the city. I saw that his eyes were red and swollen, and his complexion was a little unpleasant, thinking that he was in an excited mood last night and had not slept all night.

After seeing Jiang Wei and his party, Ma Jun showed a respectful face, stepped forward, and saluted Jiang's mother and Jiang Wei respectively. Jiang Mu and Jiang Wei also returned a salute, and after a few words of greeting, Ma Jun borrowed Jiang Wen's big black and joined the team.

It was already dawn, but there was still a stick of incense before the city gate was opened. Inside and outside the city gate, many hawkers, woodcutters, golden water cart drivers and other people have gathered and waited.

The soldiers guarding the door saw that it was their boss Jiang Wei who arrived, and hurriedly came up to talk a few words, which were nothing more than auspicious words such as congratulating Gao Sheng and Gonghou Wandai.

Then the pawn wanted to open the door in advance and let him go, but Jiang Wei stopped him: "Since the county has set the time to open the door, it should be followed." As a county magistrate, how can I know the law and break the law? It's okay, just wait. He was actually a little apprehensive in his heart, and he only hated to get out of the city as soon as possible, but he maintained the appearance of an ancient well on his face. If you open the city in advance and go out and be bumped into by someone with a heart, you are afraid of causing unnecessary waves.

Seeing this, the soldier guarding the door confessed guilty, and put Jiang Wei's car in the first place. In this regard, Jiang Wei did not stop it. The two of them had a ride and said half a pillar of incense kung fu, and a shout came from the city tower: "The time has come!" ”

The soldiers guarding the door immediately opened the gate and sent Jiang Wei and his party out.

The sun is still early, the morning breeze is warm, there is no feeling of dryness and heat, the road is flat, and there are not many pedestrians. Jiang Wei and the others were in high spirits, talking and laughing along the way, and headed south. Because of the horsepower, the group kept moving non-stop, and the foot was extremely fast.

After more than ten miles of road, you will enter the western extension of the Qinling Mountains. It is summer, wild flowers and lush grass, as far as the eye can see, are lush green mountains, the more you go to the deep mountains, the more you see thousands of mountains and ravines, heavy mountains and mountains, green pines like the sea, clouds and mist, distant and near objects are intertwined, forming a very beautiful picture.

After traveling more than 20 miles, out of the mountain road, into a river valley area, the situation in front of him has changed, the pleasant scene is no more, and the desolation is suddenly born.

The land in the river valley area is fertile, and it is a good place for settlement and reclamation, Jiang Wei and the others did see many villages and villages along the way, but they are all abandoned now.

After a long period of war in the world, the rural people are often joined by all kinds of powerful Latin, or robbed of food and materials, without men and rations, how long can the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled last? Those who have a way have already gone elsewhere, and those who have no way can only wail and wait for death in place.

It has been 30 years since Dong Zhuo raised his army, and after Ma Chao and Han Sui rose up, and there were more than Qiang rebellions, so in addition to the vicinity of Dacheng Juyi, which is still safe, the rural villages a little farther away have long since disappeared.

In fact, there are many princes in the world, but wherever the soldiers go, the countryside and the people are already ten rooms and nine empty.

As Jiang Wei and his party saw, there were small mounds of dirt like mountains near the village. It turned out that there were many dead people in troubled times, so they used straw mats to circle and bury them hastily. This is not bad, along the way, I also saw a lot of white bones, half sunken in the soil, half exposed on the ground, and there was not even a person to collect the bones, it was really miserable.

Jiang Wei couldn't bear it, and sighed: "In the past, when the King of Wei crusaded against Dong Zhuo, he made "Artemisia Travel", and the poem Yun: The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crying for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. I should have seen this situation, and today I have a relation. ”

Ma Jun also sighed: "The world has been fighting hard for a long time... For a long time, too... I don't know what year or month... All the time. ”

The two of them went south and north, and now they are just sighing, and the other four have always only walked around Jicheng, and rarely go to the outside world, and they have never known that the world is so difficult. Especially the two women's families, who were obviously frightened, were curled up in the car, crying, and did not dare to look out.

The people hurried for a while, and it was almost noon, and the sun was a little scorching, and they could not help but be a little hungry. Jiang's mother was afraid of colliding with the resentful spirits and was unwilling to rest in the dilapidated village, so she found a shady forest and stopped to rest.

Yang took the dry food and water, and distributed it to everyone to eat. Jiang's mother lost her appetite, and under Jiang Wei's careful service, she ate a few mouthfuls roughly, drank a lot of water, and said quietly: "At the moment, I just hope that Uncle Liu Huang is a benevolent monarch, and he can end this world as soon as possible." ”

After Ma Jun finished eating the last bite of the cake, he raised the water bladder and was drinking water, when he suddenly heard Jiang's mother mention Uncle Liuhuang, and he was shocked and almost squirted out of his mouth.

Seeing this, Jiang Wei knew that Ma Jun was already suspicious. He wanted to arrive in Wudu before he dragged out the plan, but his mother quickly said that he had leaked his mouth. Now that I can't hide it, I just said it.

He looked at the two brothers, Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu, and said, "On August 15, I have to ask my ancestors to ask me to go south to the king of Hanzhong, what do you have to say?" ”

Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu said without hesitation: "Where the young master goes, I will follow him, it is all up to the young master's orders." "They don't know who the king of Hanzhong is or where, they only know that Jiang Wei is their backbone, and the sword mountain and the sea of fire should follow.

Jiang Wei bowed slightly, this is the benefit of having a child. He looked at Ma Jun again, and said: "Brother Deheng, my Jiang family is loyal to the Han family, and the world is favored by the country. Returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors was just a pretext for Wei Ju's family to leave Jicheng. Dare to ask Brother Deheng, would you like to walk with me? ”

Ma Jun's face has changed.

At this time, the world is divided into three, and everyone thinks that the general trend of the world is in Cao Wei, and there are many people who think that justice is in Shu Han. After Liu Bei's Han Dynasty, benevolence and righteousness came first, and he started a business in the middle way, and was defeated repeatedly, but he never gave up, and eventually became a generation of heroes, so many people have sympathy for Shu Han.

The foundation of Shu was created, and the king of Hanzhong was also a generation of masters, and it was also a good place to go, Ma Jun was not very resistant to this, but this time he had to leave home thousands of miles away. The ancients were nostalgic for their hometown, paying attention to the leaves falling back to the roots, although his family only had a few acres of thin fields and a grass house, for more than ten years, it was also a shelter from the wind and rain, relying on support, Ma Jun was difficult to choose for a while, and fell into contemplation.

Jiang Wei knew what he was thinking, and he didn't urge.

After a long time, Ma Junfang raised his head and asked, "Dare... Dare to ask about the ambition of Boyo? ”

Jiang Wei faced Ma Jun and said: "Wei's ambition is to be a world, the princes of Jiuhe, to succeed the heirs of Yan Han, and to open peace for all generations!" ”

The first half of his sentence was described by Han Feizi to describe the great achievements of Duke Kuang of Qi Huan to help King Zhou; The second half of the sentence quotes the famous words of Zhang Hengqu, a great Confucian in the Northern Song Dynasty, because of its conciseness and grandeur, it has been praised by successive dynasties. He was also deeply loved in his last life, and he cited it as a motto. This time when they were said together, there was a loud sound, which suddenly made Ma Jun feel deafening.

Ma Jun said in his heart: "That's it, since there is no hope of promotion in the Wei State, it is not worth it to follow such a figure now." Thinking of this, he straightened up again, bowed to Jiang Wei, and agreed to Jiang Wei's request.

Jiang Wei knew what he was thinking, and smiled: "Brother Deheng, you and I are both people who have the world in mind. It is necessary to know that there are thousands of hectares of good land, and it is not one acre. But there is ambition, not in Angelica! ”

But there is ambition, not in Angelica!

When Ma Jun heard this, there was a huge shock in his chest.

He looked at Jiang Wei again, and saw that the person in front of him had a resolute expression, full of spirit, and his expression and bearing seemed to be reborn compared to when he first met. This person has great ambitions and can bend and stretch, which is really worth following.

Ma Jun silently recited in his heart, "But there is ambition, not in Angelica", and suddenly laughed:

"Ma Deheng, Ma Deheng, compared to the person in front of you, you still look like a small family."