For a time, there were many rumors in the streets and alleys of Fufeng County, and some people added fuel and vinegar to say that Ma Teng was assassinated when he went out; Some people said that Ma Teng went to the outside of the Saiwai and led a large army to attack Chang'an to save the emperor, but he died loyally and righteously; Others said that they saw several eunuchs dressed as Huangmen in the middle of the night enter Ma Teng's mansion. Later, I heard from relatives in Chang'an that there was a general surnamed Ma who attacked Chang'an and was defeated......

There are ups and downs outside, and Ma Chao knows everything. Moreover, he also knew that those rumors were really partly true.

"Hua Xin's whereabouts, haven't you found it yet?" Ma Chao spoke slowly in a suppressed tone, although he was calm, he couldn't hide the pain.

"The subordinates are incompetent, and Hua Xin seems to have evaporated overnight. Even the family members he left in Fufeng don't know where he went......" The ugly brother knelt and reported, feeling like he was blocking something.

Ma Chao looked up to the sky and laughed, and the laughter echoed in the room, which was particularly eerie and crazy. He spat out a mouthful of blood "wow": he didn't expect that he was still in high spirits for the unification of Yongzhou, and he was ready to surprise his father after returning home, but he didn't want to, he was surprised or unhappy!

Suddenly, a person broke in from the outside, this person just bowed down, and before he could speak, Ma Chao, who was furious, shouted loudly: "Get out!" He was about to fly up, but he saw that the person turned out to be his personal maid Yun'er.

Ma Chao's anger was contained, and he roared loudly for a while: "What are you doing here!" ”

Because of the long howling and hoarse roaring, Ma Chao's voice became hoarse and ugly at this time, like a howl from hell.

"Less... Young Master...... Aunt Liu called you over. Yun'er looked at Ma Chao cautiously and said these words. She thought that she had a skin-to-skin relationship with Ma Chao and had fully known Ma Chao. But she didn't want to, but today's scene made her realize that she hadn't seen through this temperamental man at all.

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, turned around, looked at Yun'er with tears in his eyes, and muttered, "Aunt Liu? ......”

When he saw Ma Teng's wife again, Ma Chao found that what he saw was an old woman with a vicissitudes of life and even destroyed by grief. The former graceful face seems to have been drained of its beauty in an instant, and it has become a skeletal shape. Her eyes were dazed, and when she saw 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 didn't see that because of his sorrow in the past two days, he had already lost the dazzling light of Xiliang Jin. His hair was disheveled, and his beard was thick and thick. The whole person is not so much a human being as a ghost.

Seeing this handsome child who didn't talk like anything before, this child who inherited all the good-looking side of Ma Teng, Liu only felt that a string in his heart suddenly broke, and he fell into endless nothingness. This time, she didn't shed any more tears, because her tears had frozen into ice after Ma Teng's death......

Ma Chao looked at Aunt Liu blankly, but finally found that Aunt Liu, who was only in her thirties this year, already had white hair as white as frost and snow on her head.

"Auntie, the child is not filial, so you ......" Ma Chao came up and knelt in front of Aunt Liu, choking and not knowing what to say.

For a moment, time and space seemed to stand still, and the whole room was as hard and desperate as cold and hard lead ash.

Finally, Aunt Liu moved, and her tears still flowed: these days, she saw Ma Chao grief-stricken, laughing and angry, behaving wildly, and showing her innocence.

However, this time, although her heart was like a knife, she still cried. But she tried her best to stop her tears quickly, just hugged the sturdy Ma Chao in her arms, and cried loudly: "Chao'er, you must mourn, take care of your body!" Your father was murdered by traitors, and you don't even know how he died. And your younger brothers and sisters are still young, and now you are the only one who can support the overall situation of the Ma family! From today on, you are the parent of the Ma family, and the heaven of our Ma family! ”

"Auntie! ......" When Ma Chao heard this, his heart was even more broken, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Auntie, don't worry, Chao'er is stepping on the entire Han Dynasty, and she will also avenge her father!" ”

It wasn't until he saw Aunt Liu that Ma Chao's eyes seemed to have a hint of liveliness. He returned home, carefully sorted out his appearance, and gathered everyone to discuss important matters.

Everyone saw that Ma Chao had already dressed up, and they all showed a trace of shock: The young master... No, the lord is so strong in suppressing grief, then today's council may have an earth-shattering move! I don't know, the main guild will not push the entire Ma family into the abyss of no return because of the bitter grief?

"You have been summoned today to gather wisdom for the sake of finding out the cause of my father's death. The death of his father is very weird, and for the entire Ma family, it is also a serious thing that has to be faced! After everyone sat down, Ma Chao said. At this time, Ma Chao's voice was hoarse like a knife, and when he heard everyone's ears, it seemed to be as desperate as a torn cloth.

"Chao'er, I have already met Aunt Liu before, according to her meaning. Today, I will serve you as the Lord and be the parent of the Ma family! Jia Xu didn't look at Ma Chao's gaze, he said this in his first sentence. The first is naturally to ensure the status of Ma Chao and the stability of Ma Group; The second is to put a shackle on Ma Chao, so that he will not be overly sad and do some crazy things.

"Lord, the country can't be without a monarch for a day, the family can't be without an owner for a day, now the two young masters, the third young master are all young, and you are the son of the Ma family, if you don't stand up at this time, I'm afraid that the Ma family's foundation is unstable, not to mention, even the stability under the rule is deeply affected." Yang Fu got up, bowed to the ground, and also suggested that Ma Chao succeed as the head of the Ma family on the same day.

"Big brother! Uncle's revenge still needs you to revenge, if you don't revive the Ma family, how can you talk about revenge?! Ma Dai has also cried to death in the past two days, but he still did not hesitate at all on the issue of Ma Chao's succession as the head of the family.

"My subordinates implore the lord to succeed to the throne!" Pang De, Chouge, Fa Zheng, Zhang Ji, Meng Da, Han Feng and others all bowed to the ground and couldn't kneel for a long time.

Ma Chao's cold eyes swept at these people, raised his hand, and made everyone get up and said: "A certain naturally knows the meaning of the kings, from today on, I, Ma Chao, take the word Mengqi, and officially succeed to the position of the head of the Ma family." I hope that all the princes will support it, and return the world to a prosperous world with a super ugly wish! ”

"The subordinates must swear allegiance to the lord to the death!" Seeing that Ma Chao was doing things clearly, everyone kowtowed their allegiance.

"Sit down, as I have already said, to investigate the mystery of my father's death. This matter is not a family matter, but a state matter, but you have any doubts, you can speak. ”

"Now the whole rule is full of rumors, the people's will is uncertain, the lord can first make a list to calm the people, and clearly order the people under his rule not to talk about the death of the old lord, if there is a violation, it will be punished as a crime of rumors!" After more than a year of government affairs, Fa Zheng has become more and more conscious of being the mastermind.

"It's better to be sparse, if someone deliberately forbids the people under his rule not to discuss it, I'm afraid that the rumors will spread faster and more bizarrely......" Ma Chao said lightly, looking unhappy or sad.

After thinking about it for a while, Fa Zheng also felt that human nature was like this, so he asked: "My lord, if it is as the lord wants, how to guide it?" ”

Ma Chao reached out and took out a letter and handed it to Fazheng. Fa Zheng took it and muttered: "I didn't expect that these rumors were even right about some plots!" ”

Everyone didn't understand what Ma Chao took out, and after Fa Zheng read it, he also knew what Ma Chao meant, and passed the letter in his hand to Jia Xu, and let everyone check it in turn.

The letter was left to Ma Chao before Ma Teng left. It did not use the impassioned words of the monarch and the minister to describe his own wishes, but a testament written by a loving father who licked the calf.

Ma Chao has already read the above content. Although the letter is long and wordy in some places, it is basically divided into three parts: in the first paragraph, Ma Teng said that he knew that Ma Chao's intentions were different from his own, but as a loyal minister of the Han family, he still wanted to show the prestige of his ancestors; In the second paragraph, Ma Teng said that he used Ma Chao to give 30,000 yuan a month and secretly organized a group of troops in Dongqiang. I thought it was left for Ma Chao as the last hole card of the Ma family, but I didn't want to use it elsewhere; The third paragraph is almost the last word, telling Ma Chao to take care of Aunt Liu carefully and raise his younger brothers and sisters to adulthood......

And when the letter reached the ugly brother, the ugly brother obviously trembled: the shadow reported that Dongqiang had a fine army of 5,000 people, but he never thought that it was the old lord! But what did this old lord do with these 5,000 troops, causing his death to fall?