This place is called Zhenchuanguchi, and the largest official is a garrison. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhang family did not flee to the south with these people, but surrendered to the Jin State and became a small official in Datong Mansion.

When it came to Zhang Lin, that is, Zhang Shoubei's generation, the Zhang family no longer had any wealth, and the biggest official was Zhang Lin, Zhang Lin still borrowed the light of his wife Guan Yue, made a five-grade garrison, and guarded the bitter place of Zhenchuankou.

Jin and Western Xia were allies, and the defense of Zhenchuankou was relatively lax, Wang Wu said, give some money to the soldiers who defended the city, and they could get out of the pass at any time.

Ma Chao promised, but he had no intention of leaving the city. Walking on the street, I really want to find a good restaurant, Zhenbeichuan can not find a pavilion like Qingfeng Hall in this place, most of the restaurants are adobe sheds, walking on the street, you can see the kitchen steaming, fragrant noodles, meaty fragrance, make Ma Chao's stomach gurgling.

Ma Chao took the eldest lady and Wang Wu to find a lively place and sit down. Stopped Xiao Er and asked for three bowls of noodles, two catties of beef, and a pot of white wine.

Wang Wu is an anxious man, and the Wang family regards Ma Chao as a life-saving straw, but Ma Chao is not in a hurry, and he is a stuffy gourd, so he doesn't say anything, Wang Wu is anxious, and as soon as the wine comes up, he pours himself a bowl.

Here is the border pass, there are many people coming and going from the south to the north, everyone drinks two sips, talks about two jokes that are not meat and vegetarian, and there are also strange things, but there are not many of them.

Ma Chao sat here for an hour, and the noodles were finished, but the wine in the bowl was still there, and he served it a lot of times, but it was gone. Even the eldest lady's temperament couldn't help but ask Ma Chao, what is this doing?

Ma Chao said, just take a look and listen to it.

As he was talking, a man wearing a short shirt and carrying an extra-large wooden box on his shoulder walked in, sighed as soon as he came in, asked for a bowl of noodles, ate a few bites, looked at the wine jar in the store's cabinet, must have wanted to take a sip, or he couldn't take out the money bag from his pocket again and again, and counted dozens of copper coins in it back and forth, shook his head and sighed, and put the money into his arms.

When Ma Chao saw it, he took a clean bowl, poured a bowl of white wine, divided a small plate of beef, and sat on the middle-aged man's table.

The eldest lady thought that Ma Chao was going to deliver wine, but she didn't expect that Ma Chao sat on the side, ate a bite of meat, picked up the wine and pretended to drink, and sighed again when it came to her mouth.

The middle-aged man touched his sparse beard, stared at Ma Chao's wine, smashed his mouth, wanted not to speak, and couldn't help the smell of wine, so he twitched with his nose and couldn't help but talk to Ma Chao.

The middle-aged man said, "What's the matter with this brother? ”

Ma Chao raised his head, didn't smile, stared at the middle-aged man's face, looked at it and said, "How did Brother Tai know?" ”

Before the middle-aged man could speak, Ma Chao added: "Brother Fei also has something that can't be solved." Watching the brother's business, is it a doctor? ”

The middle-aged man said that he was a doctor, a horse doctor who healed animals, and checked the condition of the horses every day for the knights who traveled north and south, and most of the time, he used herbal water to clean the external wounds of the horses.

As soon as the middle-aged horse doctor's chatterbox was opened, he couldn't hold it back. While talking, he couldn't help but look at Ma Chao's wine bowl, and Ma Chao said that if he didn't dislike it, he would take it and eat it. The middle-aged horse doctor hurriedly took a big sip and made a comfortable sound of tearing.

Then he said: "In this town, most of the wild horses outside the Saiwai are wild horses, and there are also some farm horses that cultivate the land. There is one of these good horses, and that is the horse of Guan Yue, Liu Shoubei's wife. Guan Yue's horse has white hair, as shiny as satin, a rabbit head, and a broad back. The garrison lady loved this horse like a treasure. Just yesterday, this horse was sick, and the soldiers guarding the city passed me on, and I thought about earning a few rewards, but when I got there, I was completely dumbfounded, and I didn't know what was wrong with the horse, not only did I not make money, but I almost got hit by the board, and the garrison lady asked me to go back to read the horse scripture, if this horse has any three long and two short, let me get out of Zhenbeichuan. ”

Ma Chao listened to this and was overjoyed. Originally, I was in a lively place, and I just wanted to find an opportunity to enter the garrison mansion, but I didn't expect that at this juncture, the garrison lady's horse turned out to be sick, which was exactly what I was good at.

Ma Chao hurriedly asked the store to put half a catty of beef and a pot of liquor on it. and the middle-aged horse doctor said: "Brother Tai's troubles are also my troubles, I just want to meet the garrison adult, but there is no way, the ancestors are horse doctors for three generations, it is better to ask Brother Tai to introduce to the garrison wife, so that Brother Tai will not suffer from bumps and displacement because of that BMW."

The middle-aged horse doctor thought about it and had a difficult look on his face. Ma Chao hurriedly stuffed the usual money into the hands of the middle-aged horse doctor, and in this way, the middle-aged horse doctor and Ma Chao agreed to enter the garrison mansion at an hour tomorrow.

After Ma Chao came back, Wang Wu said dissatisfiedly: "We are pressed for time, why do you bother to work a five-grade official, my lord is Qingguo Gong, take out the documents, a five-grade garrison, do you dare to be disobedient?"

The eldest lady said that Ma Chao did this because he didn't want to reveal his identity. Although Wang Wu agreed, he hoped that Ma Chao would give him an explanation, but Ma Chao said: "This is my decision, if you are such a mother-in-law's nonsense, let me go back to Huining Mansion?" ”

"You ......"

Wang Wu was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out, and he pointed at Ma Chao speechless.

However, Wang Wu is a short-tempered person, if you don't say something, he can really suffocate to death. Wang Wu took the case, Ma Chao raised his head and looked at Wang Wu quietly.

The eldest lady knew Wang Wu's temper, and dared to stand up and say that Wang Wu was calm.

Wang Wu took a few breaths, pointed at Ma Chao and said, "If this matter is delayed because of you, even if the master stops me, I will kill you." ”

Ma Chao was not frightened by the aggressive momentum, but calmly asked: "What if this thing happens?" ”

Wang Wu was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Then I will be a house slave for you for the rest of your life." ”

"Wang Wu!" The eldest lady shouted dissatisfied, Wang Wu turned around and threw down a sentence: "I, Wang Wu, speak, count." ”