Sure enough, as Zhang Yang said, on September 17, Ding Yuan led the army back to Jinyang, and everyone returned to Jinyang with him.

Ding Yuan and Lu Bu walked in the front, behind them were Zhang Liao and Cao Xing, and then there were 10,000 Bingzhou troops, and then Gao Shun and Zhang Yang led more than 300 soldiers from the camp and elite battalions, and Ma Chao at the end.

This was arranged for him by Zhang Yang, and Ma Chao also asked Zhang Yang, "What if I run away Uncle Zhi?" Zhang Yang smiled, "Brother Meng Qi, you don't have to worry about me, with Fengxian and Fu Yi here, Ding Jianyang won't kill me." The worst result is that I leave the army, or demote me to an ordinary soldier, it's not a big deal, you just go, I pulled you in in the first place, of course, I should escort you away. ”

Zhang Yang is indeed a friend enough, Ma Chao is very grateful to him, he has no chance now, so he can only find a chance to repay him in the future.

On the way back to Jinyang, Ma Chao found an opportunity for the army to rest at night, and he slipped away quietly while people were not paying attention. By the time they were discovered, it was already dawn. Ding Yuan was more angry after knowing the way, and actually deserted under his nose, and originally wanted to punish Zhang Yang severely, but with Lu Bu Gaoshun and their intercession, the most Lu was punished lightly, and Zhang Yang was demoted to an ordinary soldier because of this incident.

Ma Chao ran, although Ding Yuan was more angry, but he didn't care much, Ma Chao was just a little stronger than ordinary soldiers in the eyes of him, the assassin of a state, just ran away, what could there be. Only Gao Shun doesn't think so, although he and Ma Chao have not been in contact for a long time, and there is not much, but he knows that Ma Chao is definitely not such a simple person on the surface, and he has long thought about escaping.

But it's useless to say anything now, people have long since left. After Ma Chao escaped, he rushed to Cloudsdale without stopping, and finally on the afternoon of September 19, he finally arrived.

As a result, when I arrived at the city gate, I saw Cui An waiting for him there, and I don't know how long Lu Dao had been waiting.

Cui An also saw Ma Chao, and he hurriedly ran over, "Lord, you're back!" ”

Ma Chao asked, "Fuda, have you been waiting for me here?" ”

"Yes, my lord, you let me wait for you here. When I came back in August, I waited for you at the gate every day during the day, and I went back at night before the gate closed. ”

Ma Chao smiled after hearing this, this Cui An is really obedient, it seems that he is really afraid that he will drive him back to Fufeng's hometown.

"Well, Fuda, you're doing well! Let's go, let's go back to our home in Cloudsdale together! ”

So the two returned to the house that Ma Chao bought in Cloudsdale together, and Cui An also brought his horse and package. After settling the horses into the house, Ma Chao asked about Cui An's escort of Cai Yong's father and daughter all the way.

Cui An told Ma Chao about what happened after the separation outside Jiuyuan City in Wuyuan County. He escorted Cai Yong's father and daughter to Wu County, but when he looked at it this way, he had horses to ride, but Cai Yong's father and daughter had nothing. So Cui An returned to Jiuyuan City, hired a carriage, and set off with Cai Yong's father and daughter. Originally, when I heard that the handlebar style was going to a place so far away from Wu County, people didn't like to go, but after Cui An took out the money and glared again, he finally couldn't agree.

So the handlebar-style carriage pulled Cai Yong's father and daughter, Cui An rode a horse and followed, and the four of them embarked on the road to Wu County. Along the way, I also encountered one or two thieves who couldn't open their eyes, but under the wave of Cui An's halberd, everyone was either dead or injured, and none of them were standing. This time, he was afraid that the handlebar style would be broken, and only then did he realize that the master who dared to hire a car was not a good stubble, and he didn't blink an eye when he killed people, but fortunately he agreed to come at the time, or the lord would have given himself such a halberd, and this little life would have been explained earlier.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the four of them arrived in Wu County, paid for the car, and took another job to Jizhou and left. And Cai Yong's father and daughter also went to a friend's house, and after saying goodbye to each other, Cui An also returned to Bingzhou alone. …,

When he arrived in Cloud City, he never forgot what Ma Chao told him, and waited for Ma Chao at the city gate every day. After waiting for a month and a half, I finally waited for it today.

That's the way it is, after Ma Chao listened to Cui An, he was relieved of Cai Yong's father and daughter. Cui An is really obedient, waiting for himself for so long, fortunately, he has a lot of belongings in his bag, enough for him to spend.

Ma Chao took out the map and looked at it, and the trip to Bingzhou can be said to be a successful end, and his next plan is to leave Yunzhong City to go to Youzhou or Jizhou. But he hesitated a little whether to go to Youzhou or Jizhou first, but Ma Chao decided to go to Jizhou first and wait for a while before going to Youzhou.

"Fuda, have a good rest tonight, and early tomorrow morning, we will leave for Jizhou!"

"Great, lord! I haven't been far from this place for more than a month, and this time I can be regarded as leaving this hellish place! "It seems that staying in Cloudsdale for so long has annoyed Cui An.

The next day, Ma Chao and Cui An packed up their things and went on the road. As for the houses in Cloudsdale, leave them at that. It can't run without legs, so if it comes back to the clouds one day, it will have a place to stay.

The two of them traveled towards Jizhou Changshan Country, passing by Yanmen on the way, where they would stop for a while, and then rush to Jizhou. Originally, Ma Chao's earliest plan was to go to Yanmen, but who knew that he saw Zhang Liao in Ding Yuan, so there was no need to stay in Yanmen any longer. But passing by this time, Ma Chao felt that it was just a good time to take a good look.

The horses of the two are all first-class horses, especially Ma Chao is still a person and two horses, one of which is the one given by Zhang Yang, and he will think of Zhang Yang when he sees the horse. I don't know what happened to Uncle Zhi now, don't get too involved in your own affairs.

He and Cui An were not in a hurry all the way, they arrived in Yanmen County in the past three days, they didn't stay here for too long, they only stayed for one night, and left for Jizhou on the second day.

The closer he got to Jizhou, the more Ma Chao felt that Jizhou was a poor place, and Jizhou was much stronger than Jizhou. It is no wonder that both Liang and Yu are poor places, and Jizhou is definitely the top three Fuzhou in terms of comprehensive strength in Dahan.

But in the past few years, with the continuous natural and man-made disasters, the first to stand up and resist was also Jizhou, there are many people in the state, and there are many people who have been oppressed and forced to be cornered without food or drink. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and now Ma Chao looks at the people as if they are living well, but that is more of a superficial phenomenon.

There are many families in Jizhou, and the ordinary people are oppressed enough, although it is said that it is stronger than that of Bingzhou, but when it catches up with natural disasters, I don't know how many people will starve to death without food. Within the imperial court, it is not a problem for you to let them intrigue, but if you want them to go to disaster relief to help the people, the treasury has no money, and they all pull it into their own pockets, and a few people care about the life and death of your people.

By the place? There was no way out, and the people had no choice but to pick up the hoe and resist. Anyway, if you don't have anything to eat, you will starve to death, and if you stand up and resist, you may be able to have something to eat, and if you can live a few more days, it will be a few days.

After Ma Chao entered Jizhou, he also saw people wrapped in yellow scarves at three or three, two or two, which should be the people with yellow scarves. Although it is not particularly large, as time goes by, more and more people will join the yellow scarf in the future. He knows what will happen in the future, but this is a historical necessity, even if you extinguish the yellow scarf today, there may be green scarves, black scarves and the like tomorrow. So it's not something that humans can change.

After coming out of Yanmen, Ma Chao and Cui An walked for more than three days, and finally came to Changshan Zhending on this day. He came here to find Zhao Yun, Ma Chao remembered that Zhao Yun was a person from Changshan Zhending, and he should be about the same age as himself.

After arriving in Zhending, Ma Chao and Cui An began to look for Zhao Yun, he remembered that Zhao Yun's family seemed to live in Zhaojia Village, so Ma Chao asked people about the location of Zhaojia Village, not to mention, there is really such a place. …,

Ma Chao was ecstatic after understanding the situation, it was much easier to do it if there was a place, and after knowing the place, he and Cui An hurried to Zhaojia Village in Zhending. When they arrived at Zhaojia Village, it was already night, so the two had to spend the night at the house of an old Zhao uncle in the village, and by the way, they asked where Zhao Yun's family lived.

Zhaojia Village, Zhaojia Village, 90% of the village is surnamed Zhao, Ma Chao and they stayed at Uncle Zhao's house, this Uncle Zhao is sixty-seven years old this year, which is definitely a long life in ancient times. Whether it is Ma Chao or Cui An, they all respect Uncle Zhao very much.

Uncle Zhao is the only one in the family, his wife is long gone, he has two sons, the eldest son is doing business outside, it would be good to come back once in ten days and a half months, and the younger son is a soldier in the Jizhou army, it seems that he is still a long, and it is even more difficult to see him once.

Uncle Zhao doesn't look at his age of sixty-seven, but Ma Chao looks at him like a person in his fifties and less than sixty in his previous life, his body is stiff. Ma Chao felt that there was no problem at all for this old man to live for more than ninety, maybe there was no problem for more than one hundred.

The old man is also very humorous, he is happy to see everyone, Ma Chao thinks that the old man has a very good temper, maybe it is because of this that he can live a long life. Because it was evening, the old man prepared dinner for Ma Chao and them, how could Ma Chao let this old man do it. So the three of them started cooking together, don't look at Cui An's sometimes bad brain, but he can cook or anything, not to mention Ma Chao, he will be in his previous life.

Originally, they didn't let Uncle Zhao do it, but he said, it's rare to have guests at home, you must try my best stewed chicken. Because of Ma Chao's arrival, Uncle Zhao killed one of the two chickens raised at home, which made Ma Chao very unhappy. In ancient times, the folk customs were simple and simple, and he wanted to give Uncle Zhao some money to show his gratitude when he left.

After dinner, Ma Chao and Uncle Zhao chatted. He asked Uncle Zhao about Zhao Yun's situation, "I don't know if Uncle Zhao knows if there is a person named Zhao Yun in Zhaojia Village?" ”

"Zhao Yun, of course there is. Yun boy, this kid is a good boy! Uncle Zhao smiled, and then he told Ma Chao about some things about Zhao Yun's family.

Zhao Yun's parents were gone many years ago, leaving only three children. Zhao Yun's eldest brother Zhao Lei, Zhao Yun and his sister Zhao Yu. The children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and although Zhao Lei is young, he has taken on the responsibility of taking care of his younger brother and sister since the death of his parents. And Zhao Yun and Zhao Yu are also very sensible.

It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, people have good fortune and misfortune, Zhao Lei also died of illness last year, and only eight-year-old Zhao Yun and five-year-old Zhao Yu were left at home, so Zhao Yun naturally took on the responsibility of taking care of his sister. But how much an eight-year-old child can do, it is nothing more than going up the mountain to chop some firewood to sell, and with the help of the villagers in the same village, the brother and sister can barely survive with food and clothing.

Until a few months ago, a person came to the village, and after he saw Zhao Yun, he said that he had excellent roots and bones, and he was a good seedling for practicing martial arts, and he wanted to accept him as a disciple and go into the mountains to learn martial arts with himself.

Zhao Yun really liked to practice martial arts, but as soon as he heard that he was going to enter the mountain, he refused. The man was strange, so he asked him what he was doing, and Zhao Yun said that if he went to the mountains to learn martial arts, then his sister Zhao Yu would have no one to take care of.

Who knew that the man smiled when he heard this, and said that you two brothers and sisters should go into the mountain with me. When Zhao Yun heard this, he was relieved, so he fell to the ground to apprentice. The man said that his name was Tong Yuan, and he accepted Zhao Yun as his closed disciple, and there were two senior brothers in front of him, the senior brother was called Zhang Xiu, and the second senior brother was called Zhang Ren. After that, they went into the mountains, and it has been more than two months now.

After Uncle Zhao finished talking about this, he looked at Ma Chao happily, which means to say, you see that the old man and I know a lot about the Tao, if you ask others, people may not know the Tao.

"Thank you, uncle!" Ma Chao thanked him respectfully.

"Meng Qi, you don't have to be polite."

"I don't dare to hide it from you, I actually came to Zhaojia Village to find Zhao Yun and want to make friends with him, but I don't know where he is. Now that I heard the old man say this, I know where to find him on the road. ”

"Meng Qi, you are also a good boy, otherwise I wouldn't have told him so much about ordinary people, I think you will become good friends." After speaking, Uncle Zhao gave Ma Chao an encouraging look, which seemed to mean, young man, I am optimistic about you.

Ma Chao suddenly felt that he was looked at by Uncle Zhao like this, as if everything had been seen through, it seems that this old man is by no means an ordinary old man. He was thinking about it, but Uncle Zhao spoke again, "Meng Qi, you guys should rest early." The house has already been cleaned up, and I will go to sleep first, old man, because people are easy to get sleepy when they are old, so they must go to bed early. After saying that, Uncle Zhao turned around and left.

Ma Chao hurriedly thanked, "It's really troublesome old man!" ”

Uncle Zhao didn't reply, but waved his hand slightly, "Meng Qi, do whatever you want!" It's nice to be young! ”

Uncle Zhao went to rest, and Ma Chao couldn't stay either, so he and Cui An naturally went to their own room to rest.