The fire burned the corpse, burning very strongly, Ma Hong sat from a distance and watched the scene, silently pouring rice wine into his mouth, the wine seemed to have no taste. This wine is the wine made by the best winery in Wancheng, but Ma Hong tasted the taste of blood from the wine. Ma Hong led 2,000 soldiers to attack Wancheng, but many of the 2,000 soldiers were no longer able to taste Wancheng's rice wine like him, because he died with them. Ma Er stood beside Ma Hong, and he looked at Ma Hong's face, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning.

Ma Hong stood up, patted Ma Er's shoulder and said, "Ma Er, you follow me to continue to walk around the street." ”

Ma Er nodded and walked behind Ma Hong, Ma Hong walked very slowly, there was no one on the street at this time, and in the city that had just been soaked in the war, the people were hiding at home and did not dare to come out.

Ma Hong walked so casually, and when he came to the end of a street, suddenly a young man ran up to him and knelt at Ma Hong's feet and kept kowtowing to Ma Hong. Ma Hong stopped Ma Er, who wanted to drive the boy away, and bent down to help the boy up, but the boy still kowtowed stubbornly, and when Ma Hong struggled to help the boy up, blood was already flowing from the boy's forehead. The young man's eyes were red, and he bit his lower lip with his teeth and wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry and looked at Ma Hong.

Ma Hong smiled slightly and rubbed the young man's head and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"I'm looking for my third brother." As soon as the boy finished speaking, tears flowed uncontrollably.

Ma Hong looked at the young man's eyes, and his heart jerked, it was a pair of eyes that would make people sad, Ma Hong instantly understood where the third brother the young man said would be, maybe he was alive not long ago, but he was ordered to be burned by Ma Hong. Ma Hong stretched out his hand to wipe the young man's tears and asked, "Is your third brother a soldier?" ”

The boy nodded, and continued to bite his lower lip with his front teeth to look at Ma Hong.

"You are looking for your third brother, why are you looking for me?" Ma Hong is not wearing armor or riding a war horse now, how can this young man know that he is a general?

"When you entered the city, I saw you, and they all said that if you want to find the third brother, you have to find you." The boy wiped tears from his face and said.

"Are you hungry?" Ma Hong saw that the young man's face was hungry, so he asked.

"The third brother is back, and he will bring me bread to eat." The young man shook his head and still asked Ma Hong if he wanted his third brother.

After Wancheng was breached, almost all of the Cao troops who were not infected with the disease were Cao Hong's guards, and they were evacuated with Cao Hong, and the original Wancheng army was almost infected with the plague, and these soldiers infected with the plague had been isolated by Cao Hong, and when Ma Hong led the army to find those soldiers infected with the plague, many soldiers had already died, and in order to prevent the spread of the plague, those who were still alive were killed and burned together with the dead soldiers. Now it is impossible for Ma Hong to find his third brother for this young man, so he smiled at the young man and said, "What about your parents? ”

"Dead." The boy replied.

"What about the eldest brother and the second brother?" Ma Hong asked again.

"The eldest brother starved to death, and the second brother died in battle." The boy replied.

"Take this child back! His relatives are all dead, he is only eight or nine years old, and one person will definitely starve to death. Ma Hong said to Ma Er, and after finishing speaking, he was no longer interested in hanging out, so he turned around and walked back.

Ma Er took the young man's hand and followed Ma Hong's footsteps.

In the evening, Lian'er had already cooked a meal for Ma Hong. Ma Hong picked up the chopsticks and put a bite of his favorite fried pork into his mouth and chewed it carefully. Speaking of fried meat, it is not easy to eat stir-fried vegetables in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, after all, the technology of making iron pots in this era is not mature, and Ma Hong spent several years hiring a lot of blacksmiths to reluctantly make a few iron pots that can stir-fry vegetables in order to be able to eat stir-fried vegetables. Lian'er understands Ma Hong's meaning very well, and every time she travels with Ma Hong, she will bring an iron pot. Lian'er's stir-fry skills were taught to her by Ma Hong, and now her stir-fry skills have been recognized by Ma Hong. But this time, Lian'er didn't immediately go to pick up the vegetables after seeing Ma Hong sandwich the small fried meat, but paused for a while and went to sandwich another fried green vegetable. Could it be that the fried pork is not delicious?

After Ma Hong finished eating a bite of fried vegetables, he didn't pick up the vegetables anymore but tapped the plate with chopsticks and said, "Lian'er, did you forget to put salt?" ”

"Let it go! It's all put according to Childe's taste. Ma Hong said.

"Then why do I feel tasteless?" When Ma Hong said this, he suddenly felt weakness in his arms, ringing in his ears and hot eyes, his whole face slowly became hotter, and then his vision began to become a little blurry, and then his hand dropped to the ground as soon as he let go of his chopsticks.

Lian'er bent down to pick up the chopsticks, and when he got up, he saw that Ma Hong was already lying on the table with his head on his head.

"Childe, what's wrong with you?"

Lian'er stretched out her hand to pull Ma Hong's hand, when her hand touched Ma Hong's hand, it really made her jump, she quickly helped Ma Hong up and put her face against Ma Hong's forehead, and the temperature on Ma Hong's face really startled Lian'er.

"Lian'er, am I sick?" Ma Hong said a little tiredly.

"Childe, you lie on the bed first, I'll go to Ma Er and ask him to find a doctor for you." Lian'er hurriedly helped Ma Hong to the bed and ran out in a hurry.

Ma Hong lay on the bed, picked up the pillow with one hand and smashed it into his face, laughing while smashing, laughing and crying.

Ma Hong muttered in his heart: "Now I have a fever, is it a plague?" Where did I come from the heart of Our Lady, who would be kind to a strange child, and who had intimate contact, and who must have been plagued. Didn't I say to myself a long time ago? If I only regard this world as a game, a game that cannot only win and lose, am I going to die again? I can't ...... it."

When Ma Er and Lian'er hurriedly broke into the house with the military doctor, Ma Hong was sitting on the ground barefoot, and the two hurriedly helped Ma Hong to the bed.

Aren't they afraid? Why do you dare to get close to me? Aren't you afraid of being infected by me? Ma Hong looked at Ma Er and Lian'er in a hurry, and kept muttering in their hearts.

The young military doctor carefully examined Ma Hong's whole body, and then nodded reassuringly: "The general's health is fine, it's just because of running around that he contracted the wind cold." ”

Ma Hong smiled at the military doctor: "Are you sure that I am not the plague?" ”

The young military doctor said: "The general can rest assured, the onset of the plague is not so fast, and I heard the general's guards say that the general only came into contact with a child at noon." ”

Ma Hong coughed and yelled at the military doctor: "Quack, don't you know that the onset period of pneumonic plague is very short? Do some acute patients become ill after only a few hours? ”

The young military doctor was really startled when he saw Ma Hong angry, and hurriedly explained: "The general is very knowledgeable and admires him, but I also ask the general to believe that the general is definitely not infected with the plague." ”

Are you okay? How could Ma Hong believe it? In order to take advantage of this plague siege, he also read a lot of medical books at first, and he also knew the symptoms of the plague very well. Now he has a headache, bloodshot eyes, cough, and tiredness, which is exactly what the symptoms describe in the medical books.

"Get out of here! Don't touch me again, do you hear me? Lian'er, Ma Er, go and isolate the child who brought back. Ma Hong said to Ma Er in a commanding tone.

After listening to Ma Hong's words, Lian'er burst into tears, not knowing what to do?

Ma Er knelt on the ground and cried to Ma Hong: "Childe, the doctors all said that you were fine, why do you have to say that you are fine?" ”

Ma Hong smiled bitterly: "Am I not clear about my illness?" ”