For more than ten days, Cao Cao insisted on not fighting, and Wen Chou's repeated challenges were fruitless, and there was no other way but to wait for Yuan Shao's army to converge.

Yuan Shao was waiting for the rations to be delivered.

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The former overlord of Xiliang, after losing his power, is now just an ordinary old man, Han Sui pushed open the door, and after thinking about it, he turned around and took out his cane again.

If you forget to bring a cane, you will sometimes staggering when you walk, which will make others laugh at you.

If you're still a hero, even if you're wearing heavy armor, you'll be able to hold on and won't shake a bit.

At the door of the house, Deng Ji arranged for Deng Ji to temporarily take care of his two black iron guards, and when Han Sui went out, they followed together.

Former Koji Yi took the opportunity to rebel in Xiping and Jincheng, and several of Han Sui's sons were killed, and he had no heir, which was the reason why he agreed to Ma Chaochong as his son when he raised the army for the last time, and it was also an important factor for Cheng Gongying to persuade him to agree to surrender to Sizhou after the general trend went.

Now living in Luoyang, there are only a few women and a young girl left in the family, two loyal servants, and no one else.

The woman was accepted later, and the only remaining little daughter was snatched out of Jincheng by several loyal servants at the beginning of the Koji uprising, and only returned to Han Sui after more than half a year.

The former heroes of the poor road, now show their identities again, maybe they will be ridiculed. Wandering is only used to consume food, and when you are old, you should move your muscles and bones more, and when you go out recently, Han Sui does not let the loyal servants set up the car, and only walks around slowly with a pestle and a cane.

Walking on the street, he doesn't look like a Liangzhou hero who can still ride a fast horse and carry a spear to compete for power, and he has been in a few months. Zao and the people around his residence are familiar with each other. If it weren't for the two Black Iron Guards behind him. No one on the street would probably look at him again.

He traveled slowly along the street to the north, but it took him nearly two moments to reach the palace gate.

This is the former Han Palace, Deng Ji from Hedong after the Son of Heaven has been repaired and maintained, at least no longer see the traces of Dong Zhuo's evil, and then the Son of Heaven went to Cao Cao, and it was abandoned for four years. Only a few Black Iron Guards have been guarding the door since the beginning of this year.

After a few years of desertion, the palace was overgrown with weeds, and the wooden attic corridors were mostly soaked by insects and rain, and many places were dilapidated. Now Deng Ji is hiring craftsmen to repair it, and a faint tug-of-war can be heard outside the palace walls.

This was once the center of power in the whole world, and when Han Sui still had the ambition to compete, how many times did his dream linger. But now standing in front of the door, looking at the ugly spots on the palace gate after peeling off the paint, listening to the faint sound of tug-of-war coming from inside, I have come here several times, and I only feel that this is just the case.

Deng Ji was appointed emperor on the first day of June. After the renovation and cleaning of this place, it will become the imperial palace and cabinet of the Yuan Kingdom, and the temple of the six official departments.

This palace will become the center of power of the new Great Yuan. But after hearing about Deng Ji's new dynasty system, I didn't think that the attraction here had increased much.

In a different mood, Han Sui stopped outside the palace gate and looked at the palace, feeling that it was still only sentimental, and there was not much excitement.

After stopping in front of the palace gate for a short while, Han Sui turned around and strolled east.

There were originally many official residences in the northeast corner of the city, Dong Zhuo was a fire that year, so that most of them became ruins, and after Deng Ji led the people south to Luoyang, because they were far away from the gathering place of the people, they did not pay attention to this rubble land.

When Han Sui arrived slowly, construction was already under construction here.

The building under construction can still only be seen outside a huge stone fence, towering over a large open space. On the ground, the stonemasons roughly polished off the corners of the large stones, and there were servants to supervise the criminals and hired servants to carry the stones up the stone fence.

From more than ten miles outside the west gate to here, there are many civilians who drive livestock to pull carts and transport stones in a steady stream.

The huge stone enclosure is square on the outside, and the length and width are 60 zhang. After the outer two-story corridor, you can enter the circular place with an internal diameter of 30 zhang, and the construction is also underway, just like the outer stone fence and corridor.

This is the future township old people's home, and it is estimated that it will take one or two years to complete all of them.

Now there are nearly 200 counties under Deng Ji's rule, and the minimum number of township elders in each county is about 600.

Han Sui slowly walked past the busy craftsmen, through the corridor under construction, and entered the inner core of the large circle.

The traditional seating takes up too much space, and the perimeter of the round hall is built into stone steps that can sit on people, and the stone steps gradually increase from the inside to the outside, divided into eight gates, and eight walkways divide all the stone steps into nine even pieces, and the lowest open space in the center is the pulpit platform. Logs are evenly placed throughout the round field and are ready to be used to support the roof beams.

Although half of the project has not yet been completed, it can already be imagined what it will look like after completion.

Rough, sturdy, and huge, Han Sui's overall perception of this building.

After entering the circle, Han Sui found that in addition to the craftsmen and errand servants, there were still several Black Iron Guards today.

Looking left and right, I found that there was an old man and a young man standing next to the central podium, each looking around.

He already knew both of them, the young one with empty sleeves was Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, and the old one was Tian He, a retired general from Sizhou.

These Black Iron Guards should have come with Cao Ang.

Seeing Han Sui, Tian He stepped forward to salute, but Cao Ang just bowed his head from a distance, and then turned his head again.

For Tian He here, Han Sui is no exception. After setting up the Xun Rong Hall in the old courtyard in the countryside, General Wei's Mansion preferred Changde, Deng Zhong, Wu Gong, Li Dangzhi, Zhang Ji, Tian Mazi, Ma Pi, Ma Teng, and Han Sui as the first batch of Xun Lao, after learning the news, Tian Mazi was very excited, and came to see the progress of the project two or three times a day, and Han Sui only came once every three or five days, and most of them could be met when they came.

However, Cao Ang, who stayed in Luoyang as a hostage, met him for the first time at the construction site of the township old home.

However, the other party was just a young man, but he was arrogant and did not take the initiative to come up to salute, and Han Sui would not pay attention to him.

It is estimated that he and Cao Ang also ignored each other before, and when he saw Han Sui, Tian Mazi's interest suddenly rose, pointing to the project under construction and talking endlessly, and said: "The township old people's home is vast, if it is preached on the stage, the middle row can no longer hear its voice, and when he acts every day, he must put another person in the field to spread the word!" ”

Tian Mazi was attentive, feeling the irrepressible excitement in his words, Han Sui also brisked and catered to a few words, and suddenly felt the shadow of the opposite door, as if someone had come in again.

He raised his head and saw someone coming, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

There were two people who came in, and Matthew was holding Ma Teng.

His old brother and old enemy.

Surrendering to Deng Ji and staying away from military and political affairs for less than half a year, Han Sui felt that he was already much older, but his old brother was hit by his son, but he collapsed even faster.

Ma Teng is more than eight feet tall, his body is strong, and he is not as old as Han Sui, but now his temples are all white as frost, compared to the last time he saw in General Wei's Mansion, his back is also arched more, and he only sees weak footsteps in a few steps, and he has to rely on Ma Xiu's support to walk steadily.

"Humph!"

After going down the two stone steps, he found that Han Sui was also present, Ma Teng snorted lightly in his nose, turned his head to Ma Xiu and said, "Go home!" ”

He stopped moving forward, turned his head and went out step by step with Ma Xiu.

Since Jia Xu pacified Xiliang and led the army back to Luoyang, Ma Teng hardly left home on weekdays, and Han Sui only saw him once on the day Deng Ji announced the founding of the country.

I didn't expect that today was rare, and he was willing to go out for a walk, but when he saw that he was ruined, he had to turn around and go home.

Han Sui came back to his senses, gritted his teeth, threw away his cane, and strode out.

The two Black Iron Guards who took care of him were afraid that something would happen, so they hurriedly followed.

"Shoucheng!"

"Shoucheng!"

Han Sui chased after him and shouted twice before Ma Teng paused, turned his head and stared at him with a frown.

Han Sui stood still six or seven steps away from him, first anxious to calm down and breathe, Ma Teng waited a little impatiently, and then he smiled bitterly: "Now you and I have been descended to Sizhou, but the old and decrepit two who are waiting to be put into the ground, the old feud is still unsolvable?" ”

Ma Teng sneered: "You don't need to hold grudges, but the hatred of losing a wife and child, but you don't dare to forget!" ”

When the two faced each other in Liangzhou, Han Sui did not suffer much loss, but Ma Tengfa's wife and young son were killed.

Looking at this scene, the black iron guard who followed Han Sui and Ma Xiu, who supported his father, were all a little nervous.

Hearing Ma Teng say this, Han Sui was also silent, and only sighed after a while: "At that time, Shou Cheng was the first to be gracious, and he attacked me, and a certain counterattack!" ”

Well, the war between the two was indeed provoked by Ma Teng first.

"Humph!"

was told by Han Sui, Ma Teng's face couldn't hold it anymore, and he snorted coldly again, and shouted to Ma Xiu: "Go home!" ”

Ma Teng's father and son had already turned around, and Han Sui suddenly shouted: "Although you have lost your wife and you can't raise filial children, your heart is hard to stop, but today there are still two and third sons and nephews under Chenghuan's knees!" Can I compare to being the last one? ”

Ma Teng paused, and after a while, he didn't look back and asked, "What do you want?" ”

Han Sui turned his back at him and said: "A certain loss of power, and an old body, but just waiting to die in Luoyang, only entering Deng Gongxun's Rongtang to view the new deal can only be praised, the body of dying, why can't the hatred be solved?" A certain is willing to solve this revenge, there is only one daughter left under his knees, nine years old, and he can be married to Shoucheng's uncle! ”

Hearing Han Sui say this, Ma Xiu next to him was taken aback and looked at his father worriedly.

Yesterday she was an enemy girl, will she become her brother's wife tomorrow?

The corners of Ma Teng's mouth showed a sneer: "Han Wenyue is impartial, and he is believed by Qiang, but he is not light." With your daughter to my son, what do I need to give up? ”

To this day, Ma Teng still refuses to believe himself, and tears have overflowed from the corners of Han Sui's eyes: "After the white head is gone, can there be more sad things in the world?" How about choosing one of your grandchildren to succeed me? ”

"Huh?"

It's just that Ma Tiezi asked for one to be his heir, his daughter is still young, and he doesn't know if he Han Sui will live until then, so there is no calculation, Ma Teng was finally moved, and suddenly looked back at Han Sui.

After looking carefully, I found that my righteous brother was full of wrinkles, and like himself, he was just an old man who had experienced vicissitudes of life and was only sad, and he was no longer the male lord of Liangzhou in the past.

(The next chapter is very late, you will read it tomorrow morning) (To be continued.) )