For a time, many rumors circulated in the streets and alleys of Fufeng County.
Some people added fuel to the fire and said that Ma Teng was out to be assassinated; some people vividly said that Ma Teng had arrived outside the Great Wall and led a large army to attack Chang'an to protect the emperor. , as a result, he died loyally; some people said that they saw with their own eyes several eunuchs dressed as Huangmen entering Ma Teng's mansion late at night.
Later, I heard from relatives in Chang'an that a general named Ma attacked Chang'an and was defeated.
Ma Chao knows everything about the ups and downs outside.
Moreover, he also knew that those rumors were partly correct.
"Hasn't Hua Xin's whereabouts been found yet?"
Ma Chao spoke slowly in a suppressed tone.
Although he was calm, he could not hide the trace of pain.
"My subordinates are incompetent.
Hua Xin seems to have evaporated overnight.
Even his family members who stayed in Fufeng don't know where he went."
Brother Chou knelt down to report, feeling as if something was blocked in his heart.
Ma Chao suddenly threw his head up to the sky and laughed loudly.
The laughter echoed in the room, which was particularly sinister and crazy.
He vomited a big mouthful of blood: He didn't expect that he was still working hard to unify Yongzhou.
He was planning to give his father a surprise when he got home, but he didn't expect that it would be a surprise but not a surprise.
Suddenly, a person burst in from the outside.
As soon as the person bowed, but before he could say anything, Ma Chao, furious and furious, shouted: "Get out."
Just as he was about to fly up, he saw that the person turned out to be himself.
Yun'er, his personal maid.
Ma Chao's anger was contained and he roared loudly: "What are you doing here?"
Because of the long period of wailing and roaring at the top of his lungs, Ma Chao's voice became hoarse and unpleasant, like the howling coming from hell.
"Young master Aunt Liu calls you over."
Yun'er looked at Ma Chao cautiously and said these words hesitantly.
She thought she had a physical relationship with Ma Chao and knew Ma Chao completely.
Unexpectedly, the scene now made her realize that she had not seen through this temperamental man at all.
Ma Chao was stunned for a moment.
Turning around, looking at Yun'er who was in tears, she murmured: "Aunt Liu" When I met Ma Teng's real wife again.
Ma Chao discovered that what he saw was an old woman with a vicissitudes of life, even destroyed by grief.
The glorious appearance of the past.
It was as if her beauty had been taken away in an instant, and she had become completely out of shape.
Her eyes were blank.
After seeing Ma Chao come in, her eyes rolled, as if she was shocked by Ma Chao's image.
Ma Chao only saw the image of Aunt Liu, but he did not see that due to his grief for the past two days, he had already lost the dazzling light of the Brocade of Xiliang.
The head is disheveled.
The beard also sprouted thickly.
The whole person is more like a ghost than a human being.
Seeing this kid who used to be ridiculously handsome, this kid who inherited all of Ma Teng's good looks.
Mrs.
Liu felt that a string in her heart suddenly broke, and she fell into endless nothingness.
This time, she didn't cry again, because her tears had solidified into ice after Ma Teng's death.
Ma Chao looked at Aunt Liu blankly, and finally found out.
Aunt Liu, who is only in her thirties this year, has already turned as white as frost and snow on her head.
"Auntie, my child is unfilial, so you..."
Ma Chao came up and knelt down in front of Aunt Liu, choking and not knowing what to say.
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For a moment.
Time and space seemed to have stopped, and the whole room was as rigid and desperate as cold lead.
Finally, Aunt Liu moved, and her tears still flowed down: these days, she saw Ma Chao in grief, laughing and angry, acting wildly, and his innocence was clearly evident.
However, this time she cried even though her heart was broken.
But she tried her best to stop her tears quickly, hugged the strong Ma Chao in her arms, and cried loudly: "Chao'er, please forgive me and take care of yourself.
Your father was murdered by a traitor.
He even died without knowing how."
Damn it.
And your brothers and sisters are still young.
Now you are the only one who can support the overall situation of the Ma family.
From today on, you are the head of the Ma family and the god of our Ma family."
"Auntie," Ma Chao felt even more heartbroken when he heard this.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Auntie, don't worry, Chao'er wants to avenge his father even if he flattens the entire Han Dynasty."
It wasn't until he met Aunt Liu that Ma Chao seemed to have a hint of life in his eyes.
He returned home, carefully arranged his appearance, and summoned everyone to discuss important matters.
When everyone saw that Ma Chao had freshened up, they all showed a hint of shock: No, my lord, my lord is so strong in suppressing his grief, so today's council may make some earth-shattering move.
I don't know, will the lord because of this?
The deep sorrow pushed the entire Ma family into the abyss of eternal destruction.
"Everyone is summoned today to gather our wisdom and find out the cause of my father's death.
My father's death is very strange, and it is a serious matter that the entire Ma family has to face squarely."
After everyone sat down, Ma Chao said this .
At this time, Ma Chao's voice was as hoarse as a knife, and to everyone's ears, it seemed as despairing as torn cloth.
"Chao'er, I have met Aunt Liu before, and according to her wishes, I will treat you as the head of the Ma family today," Jia Xu said this as his first sentence without looking at Ma Chao.
The first is naturally to ensure Ma Chao's status and the stability of the Ma Group; the second is to put a shackles on Ma Chao to prevent him from being overly sad and doing crazy things.
"My lord, the country will never be without a king, and the family will never be without an owner.
Now the second and third young masters are young, and you are the eldest son of Ma.
If you don't stand up at this time, I'm afraid the foundation of the Ma family will be unstable.
He said that even the stability of his rule was deeply affected."
Yang Fu stood up, prostrated on the ground, and also suggested that Ma Chao should take over as the head of the Ma family today.
"You still need to avenge the eldest brother and uncle.
If you don't revive the Ma family, how can you talk about revenge?"
Ma Dai has been crying to death for the past two days, but he still has no hesitation on the issue of Ma Chao succeeding as the head of the family.
"I sincerely request my lord to succeed to the throne."
Pang De, Brother Chou, Fazheng, Zhang Ji, Meng Da, Han Feng and others all bowed to the ground and could not kneel down for a long time.
Ma Chao glanced at these people with cold eyes, raised his hand, and asked everyone to stand up and said: "Of course I know what you mean.
From today on, I, Ma Chao, taking the courtesy name Meng Qi, will officially succeed as the head of the Ma family. .
I hope that all the nobles will stand up and support me, and with the wish to transcend the humble, we can restore a prosperous and prosperous world to the world."
"My subordinates must swear allegiance to the lord to the death."
Seeing that Ma Chao was clear in his affairs, everyone kowtowed and pledged their allegiance.
"Everyone, take a seat.
What happened today, I have said before, is to explore the mystery of my father's death.
This matter is not a family matter, but a state matter.
If you have any doubts, please tell me."
"Rumors are spreading all over the country, and the people's hearts are uncertain.
The Lord first announced the plan to calm the people, and explicitly ordered the people under the rule not to talk about the death of the old Lord.
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If there is any violation, he will be punished for the crime of rumors and chaos."
After Fa Zheng experienced more than a year of government affairs, I am becoming more and more aware of my role as a mastermind.
"It's better to block than to block.
If someone deliberately prohibits the people under his rule from making unreasonable comments, I'm afraid the rumors will spread faster and be more bizarre."
Ma Chao said this calmly, with an expression that was neither happy nor sad.
After Fazheng thought about it for a while, he felt that human nature is like this, so he asked: "My lord, if it is as my lord wants, how should we guide him?"
Ma Chao reached out and took out a letter and handed it to Fazheng.
Fazheng took it and murmured: "Unexpectedly, these rumors are actually correct in some plots."
Everyone was confused about what Ma Chao took out.
After Fazheng read it, he also knew what Ma Chao meant.
He passed the letter in his hand to Jia Xu and asked everyone to check it in turn.
That letter was left by Ma Teng to Ma Chao before he left.
It did not use the impassioned words of a monarch or minister to express his wishes, but a suicide note written as a loving father with a deep affection for licking the calf.
Ma Chao has already read the above content.
Although the letter was long and verbose in some places, it was basically divided into three parts: In the first paragraph, Ma Teng said that he knew that Ma Chao's aspirations were different from his own, but as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, he still wanted to show off his ancestors Prestige; in the second paragraph, Ma Teng said that he used Ma Chao to give him 30,000 guan of money every month, and secretly organized a group of troops from Dong Qiang.
I originally wanted to leave it to Ma Chao as the last trump card of the Ma family, but I didn't want to use it elsewhere; the third paragraph is almost my last words, telling Ma Chao to take good care of Aunt Liu and raise his younger brothers and sisters.
And when the letter reached Brother Chou, Brother Chou visibly trembled: The shadow reported that Dong Qiang had an excellent army of five thousand men, but he never thought that it was the old master who used these five thousand men.
What did the troops do that resulted in their deaths: