[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Cui Song got down from the tree lightly, and landed right in front of the man, with the blade unsheathed.

The man was picking up branches on the ground, and when he heard the sound, he took two steps back in shock, tripped over his heels, and fell to the ground.

Only then did Cui Song see the opponent's face clearly.

He was not a short adult soldier, but a boy who looked only about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Cui Song's sword tip faltered, but he still didn't retract the sword edge after all.

"Who are you?"

The young man looked at his long sword in fear, shrunk his neck, but did not answer vigilantly, but instead asked: "You, you, and who are you?"

Cui Song thought to himself that although this young man is young, he is not young in vigilance, and saw that he stuttered - I don't know if it was born like this, or he was deliberately pretending to lower the vigilance of others.

Cui Song was hesitating whether to continue asking or knock him out and take him away when suddenly he heard slight footsteps in the bushes not far away.

He already has the powerful martial arts instinct of "Cui Song", and he has specially done intensive training in the past few years, he is stronger than ordinary swordsmen, even in a one-on-two, he still has spare strength.

But Cui Song still didn't relax his vigilance, secretly watching the movement over the grass.

Unexpectedly, this boy picking up branches was even more nervous than him.Seeing the people in the grass getting closer and about to pop out, the boy suddenly shouted: "Don't, come here!"

The movement in the grass stopped for a moment, and in the next second, a thin figure rushed out, holding a big knife and rushing towards Cui Song.

Cui Song held the saber in one hand and put the other on the scabbard around his waist. When he was waiting for the battle, the figure that was rushing towards him suddenly stopped halfway.

"Emperor?"

... benefactor?

Cui Song was a little confused by the sudden appearance of words, he was evaluating whether the opponent really knew him, or was deliberately deceiving him, so he stopped the sword momentum that had been prepared for a while, and carefully looked at the opponent's face.

"You are……?"

"I am Ma Yulang, Ma Yulang of the Luo clan! Ten years ago, Engong and Guo Engong rescued me."

Compared to the other party's excitement, Cui Song was a little dazed, he couldn't remember the name Ma Yulang for a while.It wasn't until the other party mentioned the Rao tribe that Cui Song suddenly recalled that when he was in exile with Guo Jia, he was taken in by a female Qiang tribe who respected women.His eyes were on the obvious tattoo on the opponent's face, and he finally recalled the identity of the person in front of him.

"Oh it's you."

There was once a vicious incident of collective vomiting and diarrhea among children of the female Qiang nationality.At that time, Ma Yulang was still a teenager. Because of the tattoo marks on his face, the tribesmen regarded him as an ominous person. They believed that he had brought disaster to the children and wanted to punish him.

Later, after Cui Song's investigation and analysis, he found that what caused the children to get sick was the stone statue that was regarded as a sacred object by the tribe.

He acted decisively and saved those children with goat milk, and indirectly saved Ma Yulang who was regarded as a sinner.

The Ma Yulang in my memory is not bad, and he is also wearing the uniform of Cao Jun, obviously a partner with the boy who picked up the branches.

Cui Song felt a little more relaxed, although it would not completely dispel suspicion just because this person had known him before, after all, it was not as tense as before.

Cui Song tentatively responded to the code: "Shao is self-confident..."

Ma Yulang continued, "It's better to cut off the root with one knife."

Match the password.

Cui Song felt relieved.

With Yuan Shao's character, it is impossible for his soldiers to easily know this devilish words.

Even if they found out, no one would have the guts to say it without hesitation.

Therefore, it is more appropriate to use this sentence as a secret code in the army, which is easy to remember and reassuring.

After matching the code, not only did Cui Song let go of his doubts about the identities of the two, but the two people on the opposite side also dispelled their doubts about Cui Song's presence here.

Cui Songgui sheathed his sword: "Who is this?"

Seeing Cui Song questioning the young man, Ma Yulang said excitedly, "He is Ma Jun, and this name was given by the old Guo Engong."

Cui Song also remembered the scene when Ma Yulang rescued a child from the kitchen and asked him and Guo Jia to name the child.

Guo Jia named the child Jun, which was taken from a sentence in Jia Yi's "Ode to the Bird", "The great Jun spreads things, and the siege is boundless".Combined with Ma Yulang's surname is Ma Jun.

At that time, Cui Song only thought Ma Jun's name was familiar, so he didn't think much about it.But now, a young man named Ma Jun stutters... The combination of the two conditions made him think of Ma Jun, the famous mechanical inventor in the Three Kingdoms—the inventor of the keel waterwheel.

If it was Cui Song who just crossed over more than ten years ago, he would probably think "how could it be such a coincidence" when encountering this situation; but now Cui Song has long been accustomed to go out for a walk and easily catch a celebrity from the Three Kingdoms. Stop the lost middle-aged man from diving and bump into the big boss Liu Bei's European emperor treatment.

So he asked kindly, "What is the kid's hobby?"

Ma Yulang was respectful and awkward, as if Ma Jun was his son, and he was about to send his son for an interview, while Cui Song was the examiner and teacher who decided whether to admit him or not.

"Back to Engong. Although Jun'er suffers from stuttering, Yu Qiaogong has unique insights."

These remarks sounded like they were not humble enough.But Cui Song knew Ma Yulang's character. Since he said so, it meant that Ma Jun was indeed young and had good research on ancient machinery.

So Cui Song asked Ma Jun a few questions and ideas about mechanism techniques.

Ma Jun stuttered, but when it came to the mechanism, it was endless, without any sign of stagnation.

The deeper the inquiry, the brighter Cui Song's eyes became, and the black pupils seemed to be dotted with stars on a moonless night.

And the more Ma Jun communicated with Cui Song, the brighter his eyes became, and he wished to tell the "Mohist scholar" in front of him what he had learned and thought in the past.

After confirming Ma Jun's ability, Cui Song was very happy: "It seems that this battle will end soon."

Then he led the two of them back to the tent to meet the commander.

Along the way, from time to time there were chiefs and chiefs saluting to Cui Song.

Even in Ma Yulang's heart, his two benefactors were exceptionally powerful, and this situation made his heart tremble, and he felt honored.

After entering the area of ​​the main tent, the soldiers asked Ma Yulang to wait outside, and led Cui Song and Ma Jun inside.

Ma Yulang had no objection, and obediently stepped aside.

After Cui Song entered the tent, he saw Guo Jia who was stopping to talk with the coach at first sight.

Once again, he subconsciously wanted to avoid his eyes, but forced himself to stop by relying on the concentration he had trained over the years, and looked at Guo Jia without avoiding it.

Guo Jia noticed Cui Song's gaze, raised his head and smiled at him.

It was clearly the same smile as usual.

But Cui Song's heart was burning hot, and he wanted to avoid his eyes again inexplicably.

...He felt that he might be crazy, or had some strange disease, or why did he suddenly suffer from "Can't Eye-to-eye Syndrome with Feng Xiao"?

Cao Ang, the coach in the tent, didn't notice the abnormality of the two of them. Seeing that Cui Song led a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in, he couldn't help being a little puzzled.

"Bucheng, this is—"

Cui Song briefly introduced the boy, and evaluated his abilities fairly and objectively.

Cao Ang didn't pay much attention to it at first, until he heard the young man's powerful production ability of mechanism art, he couldn't help looking at Cui Song suddenly: "Bu Cheng, could it be—"

Cui Song nodded.

Cao Ang laughed happily and heartily: "This is really a blessing from God."

Ma Jun listened to their riddles with a dazed expression, pondering for a long time by himself, unable to comprehend what they were talking about at all.

He looked at the last person in the tent, he thought he could find a comrade in arms, but this person also had a smile on his lips, as if he knew everything about Cui Song and Cao Ang's riddle.

Then, Cui Song lured Ma Jun out of the main tent with a dazed face, and went to his tent.

Cui Song showed Ma Jun a few drawings drawn on Cai Hou's paper.

As soon as Ma Jun saw those structural diagrams and explanatory texts, he immediately opened his eyes wide, fascinated by them.

By the time Ma Jun finished reading, it was almost noon.

Ma Jun put down the blueprint in a still unsatisfactory manner: "The one who designed this thing is really a god."

"It's just based on the crossbow made in the Western Han Dynasty, combined with the experience of the predecessors, and it's made out of it."

Hearing this, Ma Jun was suddenly surprised.

Although he knew Cui Song was good at the way of Mohism through the mechanism technique, but when Cui Song took out these blueprints, because the structure inside seemed too novel and mysterious to him, he subconsciously offered them up. As a fetish, he didn't think about Cui Song at all.

Even if Cui Song Ziqian improved on the basis of the machine crossbow of the Western Han Dynasty and combined with the experience of the predecessors, in his opinion, it is already very remarkable.

Bits of admiration rose in Ma Jun's heart.

Cui Song saw the respect in his expression, and smiled sassyly:

"Don't need to be like this, you will achieve more in the future than me."

Ma Jun couldn't help being taken aback by Cui Song's affirmation.Although he has always been unswervingly fond of mechanism techniques, studying them every day and thinking about them every night, he has actually been confused more than once.

Even though his adoptive brother never stopped him from this hobby, he always reminded him: "Work is a small way, and the road is long and difficult. It is difficult to find a chance of life in a troubled world, so why make a living by the small way..."

Ma Jun doesn't know how far he can go. In troubled times, he has no right to be willful.

So he chose to be conscripted as a soldier because he was poor and destitute. He only secretly thought about the farm tools in the farmland in the dead of night, and made thousands of improvements to them in his mind.

He had been itching for the composition of the crossbow for a long time, but he never saw it.

As for the crossbow, which was hailed as a magic weapon in the army, he was not qualified to touch it, and he had only seen it once from a distance.

However, even if he had never touched a crossbow and didn't know its structure, he had made a wooden crossbow with more than [-] steps of power by virtue of his own attempts.

Now, not only has he seen the mysterious military crossbow diagram, but the designer of the diagram has also affirmed him...

Ma Jun's heart was surging, and his uncertain heart was filled with confidence.But for all the tasks that Cui Song entrusted to him next, he mustered all his energy and worked hard to do it, determined to do his best.

With just a little honey nectar, a passionate mechanic was harvested. Cui Song finally became the biggest winner in life in this battle.

Five months later, Yuan Shao was defeated at Guandu.

The beginning of his defeat came from the long-range crossbow that made him change his face when he heard about it.