Chapter 41: Fate is predestined
Ma Chao's eyes flashed, and he said: "It's very simple, recuperate, develop the population, strengthen the army and stock up on grain, just when the time is ripe, you can wave the army to capture Xiaoguan and take the land of Qinchuan in Guanzhong for 800 miles in one fell swoop." β
Ma Teng was stunned when he heard this, and frowned: "Wu'er just said that you can't attack Dong Zhuo, is it because you don't want to cooperate with your Uncle Han?" β
"Yes, not only can you not cooperate with Uncle Han, but you also have to give him most of Liangzhou and completely trap him in the land of Xiliang. And as long as my Ma family takes the rich Guanzhong 800 miles Qinchuan, it will be a big deal! Relying on the dangers of Tongguan, Wuguan, Sanguan and Xiaoguan, you can ensure that you have no worries in the customs, and at the same time, you can take Hanzhong, Xishu and Jingxiang in the south; The East can be a tiger and a state, Si Li and other places in the Central Plains; The Southern Xiongnu in the north are also under the control of the child, and as for Uncle Han in the land of Xiliang, it will be okay to think about it! β
Without waiting for Brother Xiao Ma to finish speaking, Ma Teng's eyes widened and he exclaimed: "Isn't my ambition the whole world?" After more than 400 years, the Han Dynasty has been deeply rooted, and the Yellow Turban thieves, who are known as tens of millions, have not been able to make the Han collapse. β
Brother Xiao Ma breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, at least Ma Teng is not the kind of foolish loyalist, everyone has ambitions, and Ma Teng is naturally no exception. Although my father can rest assured, Dahan's luck is not exhausted at this time, and the time is far from ripe, my father only needs to sit in Xiliang and wait for the opportunity. As I expected, within three to five years, the world will be in turmoil, the prestige of the Liu family of the Han dynasty will be discredited, and the imperial court will completely lose its dominance. When the child goes to Luoyang, I am afraid that he will have to stand on his own feet from the land of Xiliang, and at that time, our father and son will echo each other from afar, and it is not difficult to take down the land of Guanzhong! β
Ma Teng was skeptical when he heard this, and kept asking the reason, but Xiao Ma smiled bitterly, he couldn't tell him that after Emperor Han Ling hung up, Dong Zhuo would enter Beijing to harm the Han Dynasty, right? The father and son talked secretly for a long time, and they did not disperse until late at night.
Brother Pony has been planning about this for a long time, although it is still unknown whether he can succeed, but now he is full of confidence. Because history has been changed a little by him, under the influence of the powerful butterfly effect, he firmly believes that he can reverse the general trend of the world from a small trend, at least not to follow the original trajectory.
In fact, major events in the world are often created by fate, and the future is often changed because of the will of a certain person. If the same thing can happen again, maybe there will be a different result, saying that the historical habit cannot be changed, and the general trend of the world is unchangeable, it is completely bullshit!
For example, when Liu Bei Xuzhou was defeated and defected to Cao Ying, if Cao Ying also became a traverser, I am afraid that Liu Bei would be cut down with one knife without the persuasion of Guo Jia and Cheng Yu. If so, will there still be three kingdoms? And Cao Ying will be able to dominate the world in less than ten years. Then again, when Cao Ying failed to assassinate Dong and fled, he was captured by Chen Gong, the county commander of Zhongmu County at that time, and if Chen Gong was a person who crossed over, he would never help him escape, and cut off his head in the future. If Cao Ying had hung up at that time, what would the world be like? It's unimaginable.
As a person who has crossed through and been reborn, Xiao Ma naturally wants to make full use of the advantages of the prophet, and his purpose is to make a lot of money before he loses his advantage due to the change of the general trend of the world.
The next time, as soon as Han Sui left on the front foot, Brother Xiao Ma began to prepare for the dowry on the back foot, although it was just to marry the tablet and go home, but the show had to be more realistic, and Brother Xiao Ma was very serious. At the same time, the news also quickly spread out from the Ma family, and people were already very surprised when they heard that the famous "Shenwei General" had recently married, and they were even more surprised that they were still married to a ghost, so this matter was very unusual, and it was an unprecedented thing.
Almost at the same time, after Han Sui returned to the office, he publicly announced that he would make a yin kiss for his beloved daughter who had just been buried, and the object was Ma Mengqi, the eldest son of his fiancΓ© Jun Xiliang Taishou. After five days, the grave was opened and re-buried, Ma Mengqi was buried with his body on behalf of the body, and married his tablet home as his wife, and his name entered the genealogy of the Ma family, and the second son of the Ma family took Han as his surname.
These two shocking news spread throughout the entire Xiliang land in less than three days, and both the powerful people of the family and the common people began to discuss it, with mixed reviews. Some people say that this move is very good, but it is really a move of loyalty and righteousness, and affection to the surname; Some people also say that Brother Xiao Ma is hypocritical and pretentious, and it is the act of annihilating Ruoxian, in short, there are different statements.
Brother Xiao Ma didn't have time to care about these gossips, so after three days, he wore a wedding dress, wore a red flower on his chest, and his father Ma Teng, two brothers Ma Dai, Ma Tie and others led five hundred soldiers to carry the dowry and carry the sedan chair to Zhangye County, where Han Sui's expedition to the west of the general's mansion was located.
According to the Yin Kiss ceremony at that time, first of all, the woman's family feasted relatives and friends, the scale of which was no worse than that of a normal married woman, and then the coffin was opened at an auspicious time, and the man and woman were reburied together.
Because Brother Xiaoma's move is unprecedented, there is no precedent to follow, so there is no fixed ceremony, so the two can only discuss it. According to the prior agreement, the Han family first invited the guests, and then invited relatives and friends to come to the cemetery early to wait for Brother Xiao Ma to come to the funeral, and at the same time prepared the tablet. Just wait for the prayer of heaven and earth under the witness of the elders on both sides, take the coffin and bury it in the ancestral grave of the Ma family, and welcome back the tablet into the new house of the Ma family.
When Xiao Ma Ge and the others arrived, there were hundreds of people waiting on the Han family's cemetery for a long time.
According to the contract, Brother Xiao Ma solemnly took over the spirit card from Han Sui under the witness of the elders on both sides, although he had never met this Miss Han Ying, he still pretended to be sad, and said loudly: "The good relationship is not over, and the beautiful woman is dead." Yin and yang are separated, life and death are boundless. The firmament of the sky, pity me sincerely, the brilliance of the earth, soothe my heartache! Today, Xiliang Ma Mengqi prayed here: I have a marriage contract with Han Ying, the second daughter of the Xiliang Han family, since I was a child, but the world is impermanent, the fate is ill-fated, the best time has not come, and the soul has been slim! I would like to marry the Han woman and bury her with her body! Throughout his life, Ma Mengqi wished to marry the soul of the Han family as his wife, and his name entered the genealogy of the Ma family, and the two families will always be in-laws, and I will be with them after a hundred years! Heaven and earth learn from each other"
As Brother Xiao Ma prayed emotionally, Han Sui felt his sincerity, and involuntarily thought of the dead girl, his mind was extremely complicated for a while, and his eyes were moistened unconsciously. And Han Sui's wife Zhang couldn't cry for a long time, and hugged a young woman and cried into tears, and behind Mrs. Han there were two dressed girls, about twelve or thirteen years old, with beautiful faces standing side by side, and their eyes were full of tears.
As he spoke, Brother Xiao couldn't help but think of his parents who had worked hard for him for most of his life in his previous life, and he was also sad and tearful. I also heard that this fiancΓ©e, whom I had never met, admired him very much, and his heart moved, and he turned around and shouted: "Second brother, fourth brother take brocade silk and pen and ink, before the spirit, I will personally write a couplet for my deceased wife!" β
The couplets were popular in the Spring and Autumn period, and by the Han Dynasty, most of them were short-lived, designed to express deep mourning for the deceased.
Waiting for Ma Dai, Ma Tie prepared the pen and ink and brocade silk, and Xiao Ma Ge also thought about it, and wrote with a pen and ink in front of everyone: "The sky is ruthless, the flowers and candles in the cave room have not entered the glass of wine, so that the jade beads are sinking, and the soul of this world will stay forever!" β
The book implies that Xiao Ma Ge was frail and sickly in his previous life, and he practiced calligraphy for several years in his childhood, especially Wang Xizhi's calligraphy method. His imitation of the "Lanting Collection Preface", which is known as the first book in the world, can almost confuse the real with the fake, otherwise he would not dare to show off in front of thousands of people.
Sure enough, among the nearly 1,000 people present, there were people who knew the goods, and when the last one fell, some people cheered loudly: "Good!" The sentence is better, the penmanship is vigorous and powerful, and it is a school of its own, which is really natural and natural, and the work of Fengshen Gaidai! The Ma family has a son, Wencheng Wuluo! is worthy of the title of 'Shenwei General', and he admires it very much! β
When I looked back, I saw an old man beside Han Sui, nearly seventy years old, in good spirits, dressed as a scribe, with deep and shining eyes, and he had a high popularity. Brother Xiao Ma didn't know his identity, and said slightly: "The old man has a good reputation, and the four words 'Fengshen Gaidai' will never dare to be, and his clumsy work is like a firefly than Haoyue compared to the contemporary calligraphy master 'Zhang Youdao' and Cai Bojiao, how dare you call Fengshen Gaidai!" β
The old man smiled slightly, returned the half salute, and said: "The little general is too modest, this work is beautiful, the ink is colorful, the beauty is superb, and the heart is shocking, it is not weaker than any famous calligrapher in the world, and the old man will wait and see what follows!" β
Most of the people present were big and coarse, but the quality of the calligraphy could still be distinguished, and it was nothing, but after the old man praised it, some people immediately talked about it.
On this occasion, Brother Xiao Ma didn't ask much, so he gave another salute, turned around and continued to write: "Qing has a feeling, don't drink Meng Po soup on the Wangxiang platform, and wait for the old man to be wasted, and get married again in the next life!" β
"Well, well said!" Han Sui came out of the crowd and praised loudly: "The sincerity of a virtuous son-in-law touches the heavens and the earth, if a son-in-law is like this, what more can a husband ask for?" The spirit of the little girl in heaven should also rest in peace! β
Ma Chao said respectfully: "My father-in-law is above, please accept my son-in-law!" "Then bow down and give the gift of the son-in-law!
After Han Sui received the salute, he helped Ma Chao up and said: "The virtuous son-in-law has been wronged, but how can my Han family's daughter have no dowry?" More than ten years ago, I had given a treasure gun, and now I will give the family heirloom treasure armor as a dowry to the virtuous son-in-law, and at the same time, my righteous daughter Yang Wan master and servant two married into the Ma family as a dowry maid to make up for the lack of the little girl! β
"This" Brother Xiao Ma couldn't help but hesitate a little when he heard this, he took so much effort to get rid of that Yang Wan, but he didn't know that he would have to take it into the room in the end. You must know that at that time, there were one or two dowry maids in the husband's house as concubines, such as Cao Ying's wife, Mrs. Ding, who had a dowry maid, that is, Mrs. Liu, the biological mother of Cao Ang, Cao Shuo and the eldest princess of Qinghe.
Although Brother Xiao Ma's move to marry a ghost as a wife was fulfilled as he wished, the dowry maid proposed by Han Sui was reasonable, and there was no room for refusal. As for the family heirloom armor as a dowry, he deserved it, and pondered for a while: "Miss Yang is the daughter of General Yang Qiu, the Taishou of Jiuquan, and she is also everyone's lady, so I am afraid it is not appropriate to give my son-in-law as a concubine!" β