Hearing a sigh beside him, Tao Dai turned his head to look over, and after glancing at him, he found that his two hands were clenched into fists, especially the one holding the letter, which had been crumpled into a piece of waste paper.

Tao Dai stretched out his hand and grabbed the general's sleeve, gently dragged him back two steps, and then asked softly, "Why is Brother Yuan like this?"

Yuan Ze glanced at Tao Dai with his afterglow, finally let go of his clenched hands, and said with a cold snort: "If you are a reasonable person, why bother to pretend to be like again!"

"Oh, why did Brother Yuan Ze say this?" Tao Dai was puzzled, and also looked at Yuan Ze with his spare eyes and asked.

"When did you find out?" asked Yuan softly.

"What did you find? Brother Yuan Ze's words really made the younger brother unclear, please tell Brother Yuan Ze the true reason. Tao Dai asked with a puzzled look.

"You don't believe me, so you're tempting?" Yuan Ze asked with a frown.

"Brother Yuan Ze, please. Tao Dai didn't answer, in fact, he was indeed testing Yuan Ze, under this kind of big event, Tao Dai couldn't trust him 100%.

"Don't come out tonight, I'll go over the wall to find you in your house. Yuan Ze sighed, he could also understand Tao Dai's caution.

Tao Dai nodded and agreed, and the two returned to everyone in an extremely natural manner.

From the beginning of the conversation, the two never faced each other head-on, nor did they look at each other squarely, not to disrespect each other, just to prevent Ma Zhu and Li from finding out that the two were talking.

Yuan Ze stepped forward and pretended to appease Ma Zhu and said: "Since Taishou has committed suicide, it is useless for me to be sad again, and I also ask my son and wife to mourn and change." ”

In order to be more like him, Ma Zhu ignored Yuan Ze's comfort, and just hugged Ma Zhong's corpse and cried bitterly.

Seeing that Ma Zhu was indifferent, Wenwu on the side also wiped his tears and stood up, and persuaded him together: "Yes, Gongzi, Taishou has already gone to the immortal, and it has been stated in the book that Gongzi wants to take over the position of Taishou. ”

Ma Zhu is not a fool, of course he knows that he will accept it when he sees it, under the persuasion of a group of people, he finally stood up, but his face was still grief-stricken, and said: "There are often clouds 'parents call, should not delay, parents order, do not be lazy', now since there is a father himself, I should be the leader of the seal, and my father also said that let me lead the crowd to surrender, but let me cut off my father's head and surrender is really difficult for Wei'er to do!"

In the end, he began to cry bitterly.

"This trip, don't say Childe, even if we wait for it, we will not be able to obey our fate!" everyone sighed and shook their heads in refusal.

Among them, there are those who are really loyal and unwilling to exchange Ma Zhong's head for glory and wealth, and there must be those who only save their lives and don't care at all, but no matter how they can't say it clearly, they still have to try to pick loyal words to say.

Li on the side stood up, Wen Ying couldn't do it because of filial piety, and Wen Wu couldn't do it because of loyalty, so the only one who could speak was himself.

She cleared her throat and said, "After death, the three souls return to heaven and earth, and the seven souls enter the grass and trees, even if the body is left in the dust, my son can respect your father's will." ”

Ma Zhu was happy in his heart, but he still had to pretend, pretending to be surprised for a while, and then pretending to be a stopper: "But mother ......"

"It's nothing, we don't want to think about ourselves, but also think about the countless people of Youling and the civil and military forces present, don't they have families? Don't you hope that their children will have fathers, parents and children, wives and concubines and husbands in the future?" Li interrupted with a wave of his hand.

Ma Zhu admired the Li family in the bottom of his heart: I originally thought that a suicide note was not enough to convince and agree that I was the Taishou of Youling, even if all the sins were put on Ma Zhong's head, but everyone knew what he was doing on his daily life, and now after my mother's hand, the people must not be grateful to my mother and son?

Invisibly, it added a thousand brilliance to herself and Ma Zhu! In the future, people will say that Ma Wenying and his mother did not hesitate to give their father (husband) the head for the sake of the people and officials in the city!

Ma Zhu pretended to be disbelieving and then closed his eyes, squeezed out two more tears, and then nodded hatefully and replied, "Yes!"

Wenwu stopped him either true or false, and finally forced by the nods of Li and Ma Zhu, he had to follow and agree to the order in Ma Zhong's "suicide note".

Having arrived at this step of the field, the banquet must not continue, and the attendants were arranged to remove the wine and food and purchase funeral things, and after everyone wore linen and filial piety, they arranged for people to start the activity of keeping the spirit.

In order to pretend to be sympathetic to the officials, Ma Zhu deliberately let them go to the wake in two batches, and asked Tao Dai to go back to rest.

Tao Dai and Yuan Ze were worried that they had no chance to get out, and pretended to be reluctant and slipped out of the Taishou Mansion early.

After seeing him off at the door to make sure that Tao Dai was out of the Taishou Mansion, Ma Zhu went to the backyard under the pretense of going to the toilet, clapped his hands and called Ma Zhong's previous personal guard plus a school captain.

There were six men who came, and although they were the guards and dressed like the other guards, they were not armed with halberds, and each of them had only a ring-headed sword at his waist.

Ma Zhu said to the six people: "Change into your outfits, go to the mansion of the general of the army to watch its movements, if there is no abnormality, report it back, and if there is any abnormal movement, ...... directly" In the end, he made a hand knife with his hand, and then went down everything, indicating that if he found something wrong, he would kill Tao Dai directly!

The six of them knelt on the ground and clasped their fists and nodded, and then withdrew from the backyard, Ma Zhu took a deep breath and returned to the hall to guard the spirit of his father Ma Zhong.

The six guards went back to the room, took off their armor and changed into all-black night clothes, took out black scarves to cover their mouths and noses, then nodded to each other and flashed out of the room.

I couldn't see it with my face exposed just now, but now after covering my face with a black scarf, I can find that the six of them were the ones who intercepted and killed Chu Yang halfway at that time!

Now at four o'clock, Tao Dai, who had already returned to the house, asked his subordinates to make tea, and then sat firmly in the hall and waited for Yuan Ze's arrival, he did not know that in another half an hour, the killer arranged by Ma Zhu would also come to his home.

A dark shadow flashed on the wall a quarter of an hour later, and Tao Dai smiled slightly and rushed out of the door and asked, "Coming?"

As he finished asking, the door of the hall was pushed open from the outside, and the person who came was Yuan Ze, who was wearing a plain suit.

Tao Dai didn't get up, and directly stretched out his hand to the cushion that had been prepared next to him, and then personally filled a cup of tea for Yuan Ze.

Yuan Ze walked over and sat down, and said straight to the point: "Say, how did you find Ma Wenying's feet?