The next day, Ma Chao took Wang Wu out. Cast a post to see people, this time it was Taifu Liu Zizhong, Lord Liu Zizhong was wearing a home clothes, without his usual sharpness, and he looked like a kind old man. The servant served tea and took snacks.

It was freezing on this day, Liu Zizhong had a leg disease, even if he sat down, he put the stove on it, and after taking a sip of tea, he couldn't help coughing. Ma Chao hurriedly greeted him and said that if it was inconvenient, he would come back another day. Liu Zizhong suppressed his cough, shook his hand to signal that he didn't need it, and said that he was old, and it was not certain that he would get over this year.

The cough eased a little, and Liu Zizhong directly asked Ma Chao what he meant? Since it spread in Kyoto that Ma Chao is the son of Ma Yutang, there are more people who want to meet him, especially Hubu Shangshu, Zhang Xuansu and Master Zhang. Everyone knows that Zhang Xuansu and Ma Yutang are old friends, and later Zhang Xuansu entered the official career and rose step by step under the King of Hailing, but the relationship between the two was not broken, because of this, after King Hailing was killed, Zhang Xuansu returned to Jin Shizong and was still soaring.

Zhang Xuansu has already released his words to see this nephew, Zhang Xuansu didn't eat this meal, and it is not easy for others to rob Zhang Xuansu. Liu Zizhong said that Ma Chao obviously didn't know about this situation, so he came to see him.

Hearing what Lord Liu Zizhong said, Ma Chao was not in a hurry, took a sip of tea, and asked with a smile, everyone is afraid of Zhang Xuansu, why did Lord Liu Zizhong meet him. Liu Zizhong stroked his beard, looked at Ma Chao's face carefully, and said after a while, why should a dying person be afraid of Zhang Xuansu.

Ma Chao smiled, immediately got to the point, and said directly to Liu Zizhong, just to discuss this explanation. Liu Zizhong is the Taifu, the affairs of the main government, and he is in charge of the royal affairs, so he can mobilize the guards in the city. Everything Liu Zizhong did was beneficial to the royal family.

Ma Chao came to discuss the law, which is naturally related to the royal family, and of course Liu Zizhong understands what is going on? Ma Chao wants to do things, but he needs Liu Zizhong to express his position.

Liu Zizhong took a sip of tea and said to his subordinates that this tea was a little bitter, so let his subordinates go to make tea, and after the subordinates left, Liu Zizhong said to Ma Chao very casually, and this statement was given to Ma Chao.

This made Ma Chao quite surprised, but he still knelt down to thank Lord Liu, Lord Liu accepted it calmly, and then coughed again, and then the tea cup continued, and Ma Chao, who was sharp-eyed, vaguely saw bloodstains. coughed for a while, and the subordinate ran in with a panicked face, and Lord Liu Zizhong just handed the teacup to the subordinate and let the subordinate pour it.

Liu Zizhong calmed down and said to Ma Chao that Ma Chao could do anything, but his time was running out, and what Ma Chao had to do needed to be as soon as possible. Ma Chao smiled, first said that Liu Zizhong is as blessed as the East China Sea, and it is naturally Shoubi Nanshan. Lord Liu Zizhong listened quietly, smiling silently at these flattering words.

Ma Chao looked at Liu Zizhong's face and saw the trust, so he said, I won't move if the enemy doesn't move.

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A few more days passed like this, and the New Year was approaching. The king of pickaxes, Wan Yan Yunzhong, asked the prince to watch a dance, and Ma Chao also received an invitation post. Ma Chao happily agreed, but called Wang Wu, Wang Wu has been full of energy recently, his eyes are bright, and the inner qi in his body is full, just like a bottle filled with water, and with a slight shake, there will be water overflowing.

In this incident, the person who was most helpful to Ma Chao was Wang Wu. Ma Chao never said words of thanks to Wang Wu, and Wang Wu didn't have to listen to words of thanks, between them, they had long surpassed friendship and turned into brotherhood, and this kind of brotherhood could also be called life and death together.

This time it was the place arranged by Wanyan Yunzhong, a clean and elegant attic, with four stone tables, to Ma Chao's surprise, even King Xu Wanyan Yunju was there, the prince, the pickaxe king, and the king of Xu used three tables, and the last table was reserved for Ma Chao.

Xu Wang Wanyan pointed to Ma Chao's nose and said, what qualifications do you have to sit on the stone table? Ma Chao is very humble, as soon as King Xu asked, Ma Chao knelt down with a smile, and explained to King Xu, saying I don't know, there is still a difference between respect and inferiority here, but when I saw King Xu sit down, I sat down.

You...... King Xu was so angry that his eyes widened, pointing at Ma Chao, he didn't say anything for a long time, many people can understand Ma Chao's words, since King Xu's sinful body is sitting, then Ma Chao, a meritorious man, what can't he do. However, Yan Yunzhong played a round and persuaded Ma Chao and King Xu to reconcile. King Xu has already surrendered to the crown prince, and the prince will inherit the throne in the future, and blindly Huairou will definitely not work, so he needs a vicious dog like King Xu. There is another reason, Jin Shizong loves the prince very much, and the prince does not want to let the emperor Lao Tzu have an opinion of himself because of fratricide.

Ma Chao began to understand that it is easy to be a prince, and it is easy to be a prince, but it is not easy to be a powerful prince, as a prince is not to drive out all enemies, but to make all princes submit to him, so that the earth can tremble under his feet. Ma Chao has a new view of the prince, and of course he also sees the weakness of the prince, and the prince's enthusiasm for Han dance has reached an unbelievable level.

is still a dance of rebirth, this dance, the prince has watched it more than ten times, and he still loves it. Ma Chao was the second time, but he had no feelings about the dance itself, but stared at the Xueyue girl on the dance floor. The graceful dancing girls formed a circle, and at the end, the Snow Moon girl wearing a blood-red mask was slowly displayed.

It's time for the Snow Moon Girl to take off the blood-red mask, Snow Moon Girl, hurry up, a few steps later, the person has already taken off into the air, in the air her movements still did not stop, with a bang, she pulled out a soft sword as thin as a cicada's wings from her belt.

The prince had no way to hide, and the soft sword had touched the prince's throat. Xu Wang Wanyan Yun's expression was a little frightened, and the pickaxe king Wanyan Yunzhong had a vicious smile, Ma Chao also saw it, his expression seemed to be smiling but not smiling, which made people guess.