() A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and the weather was better than before. The long-lost sun was emitting warm light. Although there was still thick snow on the official road, people and horses could already pass slowly on it. But it was cold.

People in the prefectural and territorial boundaries who were accustomed to cat winter did not come out because of this, so the official roads still seemed very deserted.

But on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the situation changed somewhat. A group of more than fifty horsemen carefully walked on the still somewhat inconvenient road. Most of these people were burly and armed with swords and bows. They were former horse thieves.

Yiwofeng, the personal guards Wang Feng and others around Ma Yue now, the others seem much thinner.

Since the victory of Lintao, Wang Feng and others have been fully accepted by the government because of their contribution. As the leader, Wang Feng has been promoted to the position of commander, who can lead a team of 100 people, which can be regarded as a relatively good position.

Origin. However, Wang Feng politely refused the invitations of Ma Teng and Dong Zhuo, and resolutely followed Ma Yue, a young man who was now just a commoner, as a personal guard.

Many people are confused about this and think he is too confused. After all, Ma Yue himself has to rely on others at this time, and there is no future at all. But Wang Feng doesn't think so.

, through the previous battle with the Qiang team, he had already seen how powerful Ma Yue was, and he believed that this young man would become a great person in the future. Moreover, he also had a love and care for the people that ordinary people did not have, which made Wang

The wind was willing to follow him around and be driven by him. The other thirty or so people also had the same idea as him.

Today, their group appeared on this official road, so they naturally followed Ma Yue, and Ma Yue was also among them. Their destination was Long County.

A few days ago, Ma Yue took over the thorny problem and would help Dong Zhuo raise enough food and grass. After sending those hundreds of capable people to various counties, he took no other action. But in fact, Ma Yue

Yue did not just let it go, but was considering his next move.

It's just Dong Zhuo's unilateral power. It may be difficult to convince those wealthy families. You must know that these people have been entrenched in Xiliang for many years, and their power cannot be underestimated. If you want to make them submit, you must show sufficient strength. Except for Dong Zhuo

On the other hand, Ma Yue also thought of Li Xiangru, the governor of Longxi. If he could win his cooperation, this matter should have a three-point chance of winning.

So Ma Yue made up his mind to go back to Long County and have a good talk with Li Xiangru. But before he was ready to leave, Ma Teng sent someone to bring him good news. His brother Ma Yue

Yue will get married on the 18th of the twelfth lunar month, and I hope that his younger brother will be able to go back by then.

When people from the Ma family sent the news, Ma Yue immediately decided to return to Long County. Firstly, he had every reason to get permission from Dong Zhuo to go home. After all, he left on official business. Secondly, he saw that

The time has come to the end of the year, and he also hopes to spend this New Year with his family. You must know that this is his first New Year's Eve in this era, so it naturally has a different meaning.

As for the third point, he feels quite guilty towards Ma Chao. Ma Chao could have got married to Lin Wan, the daughter of the Lin family, a long time ago, but it was delayed until today because of his own affairs. Now that his brother is finally getting married, what he has done

Of course my brother has to go and congratulate me.

With these reasons, Ma Yue immediately made the decision to set off. It was easier to talk to Dong Zhuo this time, and he quickly obtained his approval, and then brought Wang Feng and other personal guards, as well as the people sent by Dong Zhuo

Ma Yue set off with a group of helpers to help him deal with official affairs.

Since leaving Lintao yesterday, Ma Yue and the others have traveled dozens of miles. As the sun sets in the west, everyone plans to find a place to rest. The night before last, because they missed Sutou, everyone was

Sleeping in a tent set up in the wild, looking at the vast white surroundings, Ma Yue thought that he might have to make do tonight like this.

At this time, a guard named Zhou Yong suddenly pointed forward and said: "Sir, look, there is a village there. It seems that our accommodation for tonight is secured!"

Ma Yue looked intently and found some vague low-rise buildings not far away. It was only because the surroundings were white and the buildings were covered with thick snow that he didn't notice them for a while.

He nodded immediately: "Then we will go to this village to stay overnight. I guess we won't disturb these villagers too much."

Everyone beat their horses and continued to move forward, but when approaching this small village, the faces of many former horse thieves became a little solemn, because they had clearly felt that something was wrong here. They suddenly reined in their horses, and then

He turned to Ma Yue and said, "Sir, this village is a little weird. We'd better be careful."

"What?" Ma Yue asked with some confusion. He didn't realize there was any problem. The other officials in the government also had blank faces, looking at the strong men as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Wang Feng raised his head and glanced at the red sun that was about to set, and explained: "Young Master, you see, it is already dusk now. Logically speaking, the people in this village should be cooking. But now there is no smoke in the entire village.

This is really unreasonable. Even if a certain family happens to not have a fire at this time sooner or later, it will not be the same for the whole village."

After hearing what he said, Ma Yue suddenly said: "So that's the case. It's true that I've neglected to observe. I'm afraid there's something weird here."

"Just in case, we have to go and investigate first. Master, it's not too late for you to go." As he said that, Wang Feng had already drawn the knife in his hand, and pointed to the brothers around him and said: "Come three people with me.

Go over and take a look, others are protecting the young master and pay attention to the surrounding situation."

"Yes!" Everyone responded and dispersed, setting up a formation with Ma Yue as the center. As for the men, no one cared about them. These men only had Ma Yue in their eyes, but not

What is the status of others?

After seeing that Ma Yue was already under the protection of his brothers, Wang Feng jumped off the horse and led the three brothers to walk through the snow toward the silent village. Soon, they fell into the white earth.

A few small black spots, and then entered the village with a somewhat weird atmosphere.

Ma Yue looked at this overly quiet village under the protection of everyone, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. This was something he had never experienced before. "Could there be someone ambushing me?"

Does the village want to do harm to me? But this really doesn't make sense. I'm not a great person now. No one would lay such a trap just to deal with a little person like me." Ma Yue muttered in his heart and looked worriedly at the same time.

Heading towards the entrance of the village, I just hoped that nothing unexpected would happen to Wang Feng and the others.

After a while, Wang Feng and the other four people emerged from the village and hurried back. When they got closer, Ma Yue discovered that the faces of the four of them were a little pale, as if they had suffered something.

He was frightened. This puzzled him and he quickly asked: "Why, what happened in this village?"

After hearing the question, Wang Feng let out a breath: "Sir, something has indeed happened in this village. There is no one left alive in the whole village, not only people, but also pigs, dogs and other livestock."

"What?" After hearing this, everyone changed their expressions, and the princes turned pale, obviously thinking of the corpses in the village and feeling fearful.

"Who could do such a crazy thing, actually massacring an entire village of people, not even sparing the livestock?" Then someone said in disbelief. Although they were horse thieves, they had never killed many people. After all,

They are also from Liangzhou and have a certain affinity with the locals.

"I'm afraid it's not the work of some horse thieves?" Ma Yue's face turned livid, not because of cold or fear, but because of anger. He had already guessed the whole story.

"What the young master is saying is that we took a quick look at two of the corpses and found that the fatal wounds on their bodies were all caused by Hu people's scimitars." Wang Feng nodded: "So we judged that it was Hu people who killed them.

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"It should be the Qiang people." Ma Yue said with a tight face: "Recently, in Xiliang, only the Qiang people have done evil."

"But weren't those Qiang people killed and driven back a month ago? Why are they still here?" A man named Cui Yao asked in confusion.

"I think these Qiang people are just the remnants of those people before, but they are already very scary to ordinary people." Ma Yue said, thinking of the scene he saw before, there were just more than a hundred Qiang people, just like that.

They were able to drive away more than three hundred Han people. If they had just killed people, the number would have been even higher.

"The Qiang people were defeated in Lintao. Although most of them fled, there are still many scattered people around Lintao. Whether these people want revenge or obtain their own needs, they are bound to attack the surrounding villages.

If it poses a threat, they would not dare to attack villages too close to Lintao or other county towns, but this small village far away from the county town was chosen by them." Ma Yue made his own judgment based on the facts.

"Damn it!" After hearing this, everyone yelled and cursed, wishing they could find those Qiang people who had done evil now and kill them all. But at this time, there was no trace of the Qiang people around, and there was nothing they could do.

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