Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Nanzheng

This happened before dawn that day. At that time, Cao Cao, the military prison, received an order from the Zhengsi of the Han Army, demanding that the prisoner Ma Di be transferred to the prison of the Zhengsi of the Han Army immediately to facilitate the public trial.So early in the morning, Cao's jailer in the military prison lazily got up, yawned and harnessed the carriage, put Ma Di in a cage, and then headed towards the Junzhengsi Prison on the west side of Nanzheng City. When the car came to a downhill turn, the axle on the left side of the carriage suddenly broke, the car lost its balance, and fell into the ditch beside the road.When the patrolling soldiers arrived at the scene, they found that the jailer driving the cart had fallen to his death, the two guards in charge of escorting the cart were seriously injured, and the prisoner Ma Su and the horse pulling the cart were missing.

Ma Di was galloping in the direction of Yangping Pass.For the first time in more than a month, he was free. During the meeting the day before, Fei Yi had handed him a note.After returning to the cell, he secretly opened it to avoid the guard's sight, and found that it said "Go out of the city tomorrow, play by ear". He stayed away from the county for a while, where Fei Yi had some reliable friends. So, when he heard that he was going to be transferred to the Army Zhengsi, he immediately cheered up and waited quietly in the cage for things to happen. As a result, it really happened. Fei Yi obviously did something wrong on the carriage.When the carriage rolled down the main road, Ma Di was lucky to only scratch a few places.When he crawled out of the half-destroyed cage, he could hardly believe that he was a death row prisoner just now, but now he was a free body.

Ma Di couldn't care less about expressing his joy, he quickly unmounted the horse's saddle while there was no one around, found some money and food from the jailer, and took advantage of the darkest sky before dawn without hesitation to clear the prison. and go.At this time, he actually had no choice: it was absolutely impossible to go back to Nanzheng to meet the prime minister, it would be tantamount to throwing himself into a trap; and his family was far away in Chengdu, so the only way to find shelter was to go to Mian County. The important thing is that he wants to live and be free, not die with a humiliating crime.Along the way, the cool wind blows on his face, the scent of wild flowers on the side of the road permeates the air, and the pleasure of galloping his horse, all these make him intoxicated, enjoying the relaxed feeling of breaking free from the fence...

All of a sudden, Ma Di heard the sound of horse hoofs coming from the opposite side of the official road. He hastily poked the horse's head, trying to escape into the woods beside the road.Unexpectedly, this stalled horse was not used to being ridden. It was startled by Ma Di's sudden movement, its hooves were raised high and it neighed.Ma Su was caught off guard, and fell from the horse to the ground with a "snap". At this time, the sound of horseshoes on the opposite side came from far to near, and a group of people had already arrived in front of Ma Di. Ma Di was wearing a ochre-colored prison uniform, and it was inevitable that he could avoid it, thinking that his short escape career seemed to be over.At this moment, the leader of the team waved his hand and told his subordinates to retreat, then got off his horse, came to Ma Su, and said in a trembling voice: "You Chang, it really is you..."

When Ma Di heard someone calling him, he hurriedly turned his head to see that it was his good friend Shi Xianglang. "... Juda...it's you..." The two hugged each other's arms, and their eyes were moist for a moment. They never expected to meet their best friends under such circumstances. "Juda, you, why are you here..." Ma Di asked. Xiang Lang wiped away his tears and said, "I was ordered by the Prime Minister to go to work in the foreign camp, and I just returned to Nanzheng today. You Chang, this is..." He looked at Ma Di's red clothes, and then at the branded clothes next to him. The horse with the imprint of "Five Soldiers Cao genus" suddenly understood everything in his heart.

"I wanted to hurry back to Nanzheng so that I could fight for you, Xiaochang, in front of the prime minister, but I didn't expect...have you gotten to this point?" "Hey, since I met Juda today, it is also God's will. Please tie me back, if I can be captured by you, I will die in peace." After Ma Su finished speaking, he knelt down in front of him.Xiang Lang was in a hurry, he quickly helped him up, and said loudly: "The ancients spared their lives for their friends, am I not as good as them?" After speaking, Xiang Lang took out a purse from his pocket, stuffed it into Ma Su's hand, and handed him the reins of his own horse.Ma Su stood there in a daze, not knowing what he was going to do.

Xiang Lang's eyes were red, his expression was full of sadness before the farewell, and he said anxiously: "Why are you still waiting here, why don't you get on your horse and leave here? Are you still waiting for someone to catch you?" Ma Di hesitantly grabbed the reins, got on the horse, But still staring at Xiang Lang. "I'll go to the prime minister to intercede, you must take care, Xiaochang!" Xiang Lang slapped the horse's butt after speaking, and the horse let out a long neigh and galloped away.Ma Di leaned on the horse's back, held the rein and did not move. He only turned his head back and saw that Xiang Lang kept his fists folded and gradually moved away, finally disappearing into the morning mist.

The last side of the two friends ended in such a hurry.Ma Di let his tears flow out, while speeding up his horse and ran towards Mian County. The bureaucratic system of Shu Han in Zhuge Liang's era was quite efficient, and the military and political system of the entire Hanzhong responded as quickly as possible after the incident.More than a dozen urgent official documents were sent from Nanzheng to various places, ordering Guanka counties and counties to arrest the fugitive military criminal Ma Di.All this was only within half a day after Ma Su fled. Their work efficiency is also surprising. Five days later, Ma Di was arrested.

The process of Ma Di's arrest was simple: the county search and arrest team in Mian County found a suspicious man in the border area and stepped forward to question him. It happened that someone in the team had seen Ma Di's appearance before, so he was caught on the spot. When Prime Minister Zhuge heard the news that Ma Di had been arrested again, he ordered him to be imprisoned in the Tianzi Prison of Jinjun Zhengsi without hesitation.He was completely disappointed in Ma Di. "Ma Di absconded in fear of crime", whether it is an official document or people's private discussion, Ma Di's move will be regarded as an admission of his crime - this is understandable, if you are not guilty, why don't you defend yourself? Instead, run away?He originally had a little confidence in Ma Di, but Ma Di's escape shattered this last possibility.

Prime Minister Zhuge himself had to accept the fact that Ma Di was guilty.Therefore, he immediately released Fei Yi's investigation documents, and in an informal meeting, he reviewed his mistakes in the selection of Jieting guards. Ma Di's ending was soon determined, and the death penalty was signed by Prime Minister Zhuge himself. This result got a good response in Hanzhong.The generals generally believed that this was an acceptable treatment, and although the civil servants in the prime minister's mansion expressed sympathy for Ma Di's experience, they dared not say anything in the political environment.Only Chang Shi Xianglang raised objections to Prime Minister Zhuge, but he couldn't produce any evidence, he just begged the prime minister to pardon Ma Di's death sentence.

Jiang Wan and Fei Yi who came from Chengdu made similar requests, but they were all rejected by Prime Minister Zhuge.This time, Zhuge Liang seemed to be determined to completely sever all ties with Ma Su.As for Xiang Lang, Zhuge Liang was even more angry, because it was revealed that he not only did not report immediately when he discovered that Ma Di had escaped, but instead gave his horse to Ma Di to help him escape.When Prime Minister Zhuge summoned Xiang Lang to question him, Xiang Lang only replied calmly: "I am fulfilling the duty of a friend, not the duty of a long history." Ma Su, who was in this vortex, was unaware of those things. He was locked in the Tianzi Prison, isolated from the world, and quietly waiting for the arrival of death. In view of the previous prison escape experience, this time the Tianzihao Prison is extremely heavily guarded.There are four guards guarding the gate 12 hours a day, and there are more than a dozen guards scattered around the main points inside. The military commander also specially dispatched 30 soldiers to the outside of the prison, which can be said to be watertight. Zhenbei General Wei Yan was in charge of inspecting the security work, which also reflected the importance the military attached to this matter.Facing this big man, the warden was both excited and nervous. He walked beside Wei Yan, patted his chest and assured the stern-faced general: "Unless the prisoner is Zuo Ci or Yu Ji, it is absolutely impossible to escape from this place." Prison." Wei Yan let out a "huh" and turned his head to peek at Ma Di who was in the cell.Ma Di was lying on the straw bed in the prison room, keeping a curled up posture, as if he had given up all resistance and remained motionless. "Don't let your guard down, maybe that guy will escape again at some point." Wei Yan said coldly to the warden, who nodded repeatedly and showed him the iron railings and big locks in the cell.He grasped it with his hand. The lock weighed three catties and needed two keys at the same time to open it; while the walls of the cell, including the floor, were completely made of stone. The transom window is only more than a foot wide, and it is divided by six iron railings.He really didn't see any possibility of escape for the prisoner. "There will be a public trial in three days, but don't make any mistakes." "Little one understands, so don't worry." "Li Sheng and Zhang Xiu were also escorted in the afternoon, so you can't take it lightly." "Both cells are ready, and additional staff are in place." While the two were talking, they left the cell, and the two guards immediately took their place and watched the prisoner closely.Ma Di was lying on the bed with his face pressed into the grass, and he seemed to have fallen asleep, but he was actually thinking nervously about the conversation between Wei Yan and the warden just now. Li Sheng and Zhang Xiu were also arrested?But Fei Yi told him that day that the two of them, together with Huang Xi and Chen Song, confessed to Ma Su's guilt, so why were they also put on death row? Ma Di shook his head slightly, changed his posture, continued to recall the meeting with Fei Yi that day, and suddenly realized that he only saw the confessions of Huang Xi and Chen Song, but not of Li Sheng and Zhang Xiu. One doubtful point... No, the whole Jieting incident is the biggest doubtful point. Ma Di felt that there was a net hanging over his head, dragging him into the quagmire of conspiracy. After experiencing these tortures of life and death, Ma Di's anger and anger have been completely consumed.When he was placed in this death row, he was no longer as madly resisting as he was at the beginning. Instead, his calmness in desperation allowed him to recover his rationality that was once dazzled by anger; on him. But no matter how many doubts he has, it is impossible to get clarification.In such a death cell, no matter how strong his desire to survive and doubts are, they cannot pass through the thick stone walls to the outside.There are only three days left in his life. He kept the prone position thinking for more than half an hour, and felt a little dizzy, so he planned to sit up.But the moment his body stood upright, his head suddenly became extremely heavy, forcing him to change his posture and lie down again.This time, my head felt a little better, but my lungs started to feel stuffy and painful. "Probably caught wind and cold while fleeing." Ma Di thought with some self-mockery that the person who was about to be executed had a cold, which is really ironic.As he thought so, he curled up his body even tighter, feeling a little cold. In the evening, the headache, which was insignificant at first, became more and more serious. He felt cold all over his body and shivered constantly, but his body temperature kept rising.When the jailer brought in the supper through the small window on the door, he was shivering under the thin quilt, his face was red. The jailer noticed this abnormality immediately, but out of caution, he didn't rush to open the cell door, but called Ma Di's name through the railing.Ma Di raised his head reluctantly, waved his hand towards the door, and then lay down heavily on the straw mat, panting violently, dizzy. Seeing his appearance, the jailer quickly asked his colleagues to go to the warden and patrol to get the keys to open the door, and then brought a basin of clear water and a bowl of gruel to the cell.Ma Su struggled to get up, first drank half a basin of clear water, a burst of coldness entered his stomach, it seemed that the heat was temporarily suppressed.He picked up the porridge again, and just after taking a few sips, he felt his stomach churning, and couldn't help but vomited out with a "wow", the porridge was mixed with gastric juice and wet a large straw mat. Ma Di was an important prisoner during the public trial and had a lot to do with it.Hearing that he was suddenly seriously ill, the warden didn't dare to neglect, and immediately got up from the warm quilt at home, and rushed to the Tianzi cell. At the same time, there was a doctor called temporarily. After arriving at the prison, the warden lay at the door and watched carefully for a long time, thinking that it was not like pretending to be sick, so he asked someone to open the cell door.Then several guards rushed into the room and stood aside, and then asked the doctor to approach Ma Di. The doctor first took Ma Di's pulse and checked the color of his tongue coating, then asked the guards to help Ma Di up, took off his shirt, and left him naked.When his clothes were taken off, the people present immediately noticed that Ma Su's upper body was covered with small dark red pimples, relatively few on his chest and abdomen, but many on his limbs. These small spots had spread to his neck. The look will soon rush to the face, and the scene will look very frightening. When the doctor saw it, he was shocked for a moment, stood up "teng", waved his hands and loudly called everyone in the cell to leave the room.Seeing the doctor's abnormal expression, the guards thought something serious happened, and ran out in panic one by one, and the doctor was the last to leave the cell. "How is the patient?" The warden who had been waiting outside the door for a long time asked eagerly. The doctor wiped his sweat and stammered and replied, "My lord, just now I took this man's pulse, and what I got was a numb pulse. The pulse is like a mess of pockmarks." , Minor to the extreme, the main guard's blood is dry and astringent, which is a critical condition. This man's moss is dry and yellow, his complexion is dull, his limbs are withered, and he also suffers from prison, eating disorder, and torture instruments..." "What disease is it?" the warden interrupted impatiently and shouted. "It's Luso..." The inside and outside of the cell were frozen for a moment.The warden and the guards subconsciously took a few steps back, as if they were extremely afraid of the name.The mood was understandable: few survived Luso, a dreadful disease that could wipe out a village in a few days.More than two hundred years ago, the great Han general Fubo Ma Yuan and his soldiers died of this disease when they conquered Wuling barbarians. Since then, this disease has spread to the Central Plains and has become a nightmare for all Han people. But now "Lushang" appeared on Ma Di who was separated from them by a wall. The face of the warden changed. He swallowed his saliva and asked reluctantly, "Then... what should I do then? Can it be cured?" "With all due respect, this is impossible... The most important thing now is not to let 'Lushang' turn into a major epidemic, otherwise the whole of Hanzhong will be over." "Then this patient..." "In my personal opinion, the sooner it is burned, the better." Everyone present, including Ma Di, who was a little comatose from the fever, heard this sentence clearly. Prime Minister Zhuge frowned after receiving the report from the prison. He is very clear about what "lu sore" means. Last year, the Shu Han crusade against the southern rebellion. This disease also broke out in the army, and almost wiped out the entire army.The prime minister did not expect that it would suddenly appear in Hanzhong, and the person who got sick was a death row prisoner who was about to be tried by the public. Ironically, this death row prisoner was also a hero in the Southern Expedition. "Wen Wei, do you think this is the best way to deal with it?" The Prime Minister looked at the name "Ma Di" on the document and asked Fei Yi who was standing aside. Fei Yi thought for a while, and replied, "Yi Youchang...oh, no, with Ma Di's current situation, I'm afraid it's not suitable for a public trial anymore...if it causes an epidemic, it will be difficult to deal with." The prime minister nodded. To be honest, deep down in his heart, he didn't want Ma Su to be tried publicly. That would not only mean the death penalty, but also the shame of dishonor.He has decided to give up on Ma Di, but there is always a lingering sense of guilt lingering in his heart - after all, Ma Di is his confidant for many years, he has entrusted him with important tasks, and he has trusted him immensely. "Youchang, let me save you a little pain at the end." Zhuge Liang hung his pen in the air for a long time, and finally approved the four words "permitted to be burned" at the end of the document, then picked up the seal, and printed a big red letter on the document.At the same time, two tears flowed down his face.Fei Yi saw it, sighed a little, and moved his steps a little. Now that the prime minister's office approved the method of secretly burning Ma Di, the people below took action immediately.No one dared to approach Ma Di's cell anymore, and the prison specially dispatched a large amount of lime to scatter around the cell; in addition, the Army Zhengsi also sent someone to find a secluded mountainous area outside Nanzheng City to pile up a pile of firewood for burning. Corpses—It was originally intended to be burned in the city, but physicians warned that incomplete burning would also cause disease. After all the work is ready, the only thing to wait for is Ma Di's death. Judging from the current situation, they don't need to wait long.Since Ma Su fell ill, he has been shivering, vomiting, and has a high fever.Although the prison still provides food according to the daily ration, he eats very little.According to the jailer who delivered the food, those small mounds had spread all over his body, and gradually formed blisters, which even began to suppurate. This situation lasted for two consecutive days. On the third morning, the guards who came to inspect found that the dinner from the previous night had not been touched at all.When he looked carefully into the cell, he found that the prisoner, who was supposed to be shivering in a blanket, was lying peacefully on the bed without moving, with the sheet covering his face. Whether he had died of "lupus" was a key question, but no one, not even the warden, was brave enough to step into the cell to confirm it. This is a rather embarrassing technical problem.It is so difficult that the prison cannot make a judgment on whether the prisoner is dead; but it also seems ridiculous, so it is impossible for the prison to use this as a reason to ask the superior for instructions. This situation lasted for a long time, and everyone turned their attention to the warden.The warden wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said as if he had made up his mind, "Lu sore is a deadly disease. It has been three days. No one can survive, right?" His words were originally just an inquiring question, but the people around him immediately accepted it as a conclusion, and nodded in agreement.Ma Di lay motionless on the bed, proving that the warden's words were correct from another angle. So conclusions were hastily drawn without a doctor.According to the plan that had been drawn up in advance, the warden sent people to report to the army chief and the prime minister's mansion, and at the same time ordered the carriage for the corpse to be ready for departure. Transporting Ma Di's body was a hassle, and two guards were reluctantly assigned to carry it.They put on the thickest clothes, sprinkled lime powder in the seams, and covered their mouths and noses with Shu brocade covers to prevent them from being infected. measure. When the two guards stepped into the cell tremblingly, they found that Ma Di covered his whole body with a quilt before he died, probably because the deceased felt cold at the last moment.This was lucky, because they didn't have to look directly at the horrible abscesses all over the body of the dead.So they directly wrapped Ma Su in a quilt and carried him into the carriage carrying the corpse. Soon the officer in charge of verifying the identity of the Army Zhengsi arrived, but he was obviously intimidated by Lushang and did not dare to approach.The jailer lifted up a corner of the quilt, he stood far away and glanced at Ma Di's face, nodded quickly, and turned his head away. "The clothes and bedding used by the Lupu patients can also be infected, so we have to burn those things together." The warden explained to the official of the Army Chief Division that the latter took the document, stamped the seal of the Army Chief Division on it, and asked casually, "Is the burning place ready?" "Well, yes, it's in a valley in Gushan, south of the city." "It's not close there, in such a cold morning..." the official complained. "Yeah, why don't you just have a few drinks with me here and wait for their return." "This is not good." The official said, but his eyes glanced in the direction of the house. "In fact, the person is already dead, and now that he has been verified, there is no need for you to go there yourself. Besides, the sores are severe, and it is too unsafe to go there." When the officials heard these words, they smiled and closed the documents again and again to express their agreement. As a result, neither the warden nor the army officer attended the incineration site in person, only the two jailers who had carried Ma Di's body in advance drove a carriage to the incineration site in Gushan. The wood in the incineration site was piled up in advance. In order to ensure full combustion, the firewood pile was more than two feet high and two feet wide, with flammable dead branches and round firewood interlaced in the middle to form a large pile. square.The two jailers got out of the carriage, first poured the oil brought with the cart onto the firewood little by little, and then put Ma Di's body on the top of the firewood pile together. In the end, the carriage was also pushed to the edge of the firewood, ready to be burned together.One of the jailers looked up at the sky, took out a flint and a scythe from his pocket, bent down and lit the pile of firewood. The fire was not big at first, starting from the flammable dead leaves and branches, and the thick white smoke came out before the flames.The two guards ran out for more than twenty feet, looking at the pile of firewood from a distance, checking each other to see if they had strange abscesses. At this moment, the right finger of the corpse lying in the pyre suddenly moved, and the whole arm was bent immediately, and then let out a breath of relief. Ma Su is still alive. Ma Di in Tianzi Prison is subtly different from Ma Di in Cao Li, a military prison.He was no longer depressed, but full of a strong desire to survive out of despair. Those five days of free escape ignited his desire for survival and kept burning.A bird that has escaped from its cage will not be willing to be imprisoned again. From the moment he entered the cell, he had been thinking about how to escape.At this time, he got Lupus.Ma Su had a certain understanding of Lushang. Although he didn't know how to treat it, he knew the general symptoms of Lushuang and the way the Han army handled the corpses of Lushuang. So when the doctor suggested to incinerate the body outside the cell, a plan was formed in Ma Su's mind.In the next few days, Ma Di tried to exaggerate the pain of suffering from lupus several times in order to impress others; then on the third day, he stopped eating, and suddenly became silent, using The quilt covers the whole body, pretending to be dead, waiting to be moved out of the prison. In fact, this is not a plan, but a complete gamble.As long as someone pulls off the quilt to check his pulse, test his heartbeat or breathing, he will immediately find out that he is still alive, and then he loses. What he gambled on was people's general fear of Lupus.They were afraid of the sores, and they were afraid that they would be infected if they got close, so they didn't seriously examine the corpses.Obviously he won, but what a price for this victory.When Ma Su was carried away by the prison guards, he had to endure the torment in his body, and he had to keep extremely quiet, not making a sound, not shaking, not even moaning or panting. It is hard to imagine that a normal human being can endure such pain; you must know that internal injuries to the body are more painful than external injuries, and they are also more difficult to bear; Emperor Cao Cao could hardly hold himself back just because of the onset of head wind, and became dizzy.It shows how great the pain of internal injuries that Ma Su needs to bear, the ancient Sun Bin and Sima Qian pale in comparison. It wasn't until the jailers had gone far that Ma Su, who was surrounded by flammable firewood, dared to breathe heavily for the first time. He was still suffering from the sore all over his body, and it didn't ease at all.If it weren't for the support of a strong desire to survive, he might have truly died. Ma Di turned over cautiously, trying not to touch the surrounding firewood.Fortunately, the white smoke was billowing and the branches were crackling, which could better conceal his movements.However, the gradually growing fire was still a crisis for Ma Di, he began to feel a scorching heat under his body, and after a while, this scorching heat would turn into anxiety. But he couldn't move, and the jailer was still standing at a distance.He had to wait for the fire to get bigger before he could escape from the pyre.So he gritted his teeth amidst the smoke and fire, maintained a supine position, and moved little by little towards the opposite side of the woodpile. His palms and skin all over his body suffered from burning pain. This distance is only a few feet, but it is more difficult than any of Ma Su's marches.He must make the right choice at the right time. If it is too early, the jailer will find him; if it is too late, he will be engulfed in flames and become a real cremation. The fire has spread, the oiled wood burns extremely fast, and at the same time bursts of smoke are also rising.The clothes on Ma Di's body also began to burn, and he felt that he had reached his limit... At this moment, a picture suddenly appeared in his mind, it was Jieting!He remembered that the soldier beside him was shot through the throat by a flying arrow, and more soldiers fell in the distance, and the sea of ​​life and death was churning around; he was afraid of all the torrents that took away life, so he pulled out Saber, staring at blood-red eyes, shouted with all his strength: "I can't die like this!" I can't die like this... Ma Su murmured to himself, while resisting the pain all over his body, he moved again.Finally, one of his hands reached the edge of the woodpile.He closed his eyes, and while he was sure that he was really burning, he used his last bit of strength to prop up his body and rolled over towards the outside of the pyre. What Ma Su felt first was the cool wind, then the scent of green grass, and finally the severe pain in his back. He exhausted his physical and mental strength and finally passed out under the strong impact. It turned out that on the other side of the funeral pyre was a cliff about twenty feet high, and below the cliff was a thick lawn. It was night when Ma Di woke up slowly, and the first thing he saw was the sky full of stars.He moved left and right, and found that his body was trapped in the thatch. The burns and burns on his skin felt a little better, but the pain of Lusoa still existed, and after all the tossing, it became more serious.He stretched his right leg, and a bone-piercing pain came from his ankle, which may have been fractured when he fell. He barely pulled himself together, and dragged his broken body up from the weed pile.Twenty steps away happened to be a small stream in the true sense. Ma Di lay down by the water and drank a few mouthfuls of water, then sat up leaning against a big tree.It is very dark now, there is no movement around, and the woods are quiet.It seems that the prison guards did not notice that the condemned prisoner escaped from the cremation, so the prison did not send a large force to search for it. In other words, Ma Di is now a dead person in the official records of the Shu Han. The artificial confinement has been broken by him by chance, but the natural test is not over yet.Ma Su's head, throat and limbs still had unbearable dull pain, and he was shivering all over his body, and the acne all over his body did not disappear in any way. Fortunately, Ma Di was still sane. He knew that his situation was still very bad: this place is too close to Nanzheng. If soldiers and civilians pass by by chance and find him, even if they don’t recognize him as Ma Di, they will treat him as suffering from an epidemic. The patient was notified to the military.He had to get out of the area as soon as possible and find a place to stay with supplementary food. Whether he has the physical strength to persevere until he walks out of Gushan is still unknown. Ma Di looked around, picked up a thick and long branch as a crutch, then propped himself up with amazing perseverance, and limped towards a vague direction—this kind of perseverance was never possessed by him before of.Every few steps he took, he had to stop to catch his breath due to the suffering of internal diseases and external injuries, but he continued to walk upstream along the stream firmly; A wild fruit to satisfy one's hunger.There have been several times when even he himself felt that he couldn't do it, but every time he survived miraculously. After a whole day like this, on the afternoon of the second day after Ma Di escaped from the cage, he walked to the mountainside of Gushan and found a mountain road that had been abandoned for a long time. This mountain road was dug between two hills, and the width was no more than two feet, just enough for a rider to pass through.Because it has been abandoned for a long time, the black and yellow soil road surface is uneven and overgrown with weeds. The stones originally used to protect the road are scattered on both sides of the roadbed, and are almost covered by the lush forests on both sides. Ma Di walked along this road for about two or three miles, turned over an uphill, and turned into a mountain depression.Just when he almost felt that he had reached his limit, he noticed a building that seemed to be a small temple in the shade of the trees in the distance. "Would anyone live there?" The first thing Ma Di thought of was this question. He cautiously hid in the woods, observed carefully for a while, and felt that there were no traces of people living there, so he moved closer.When he came to the front of this small temple, he saw two characters written on the gate of the temple: "Yishe". Ten years ago, the ruler of Hanzhong was Zhang Lu.This person is not only the political head of the Hanzhong area, but also the local religious leader.He used the "Five Dou Rice Religion" to publicize the local people.As one of the means of preaching, Zhang Lu set up "yishe" on both sides of the roads in various places in Hanzhong, where there are righteous meat and righteous rice, and passers-by can take them at will according to their own appetite, without guards.If someone is too greedy, ghosts and gods will make him sick. This is a public welfare facility, and the one that Ma Di sees now is obviously a relic of Zhang Lu's era. When Ma Di walked in, he was surprised to find that there were still food left in the shelter.Of course, the meat and wine are completely inedible, but the stored sorghum and yellow rice are still intact. In addition, firewood, kindling, candles, salt and dried chili are also available, and there are even a few old clothes.Probably because this road has been forgotten, these things are still intact after more than ten years, but there is a thick layer of dust on them.There is a ditch behind the house, which is full of rotten leaves, but if it is cleaned up, there should be running water coming in again. "God bless me not to die, this is fate." Ma Di couldn't help kneeling on the ground, muttering to himself.He doesn't believe in any gods, so he only expresses emotion to the sky, thanking the mysterious power in the dark for saving his life when he was on the verge of collapse. So the seriously ill former prime minister of Shu Han joined the army and lived in this unexpected paradise.Although the threat of Lushang made Ma Su's body weaken day by day, at least he could have a stable environment to rest—or quietly wait for death. Another three days passed, and the herpes all over his body began to grout and gradually turned into pustules. He felt a sharp pain, the surrounding blush deepened, and his body temperature, which had subsided, rose again.The high fever once made Ma Su unable to even get out of bed, so he could only pour cold water on his head continuously.In this high fever state, he even had hallucinations, seeing his dead brother Ma Liang, his friend Xiang Lang, and many others, but there was no Prime Minister Zhuge.In Ma Di's hallucination, Prime Minister Zhuge was always an elusive existence, elusive. During this period, Ma Su could only pull himself together and cook some porridge as food. His broken gums and weak stomach could not accommodate anything else. The high fever lasted for nearly ten days before it slowly subsided.The pustules on his body and face began to suppurate, then congealed into scabs that covered his face.Ma Di felt very itchy, but he didn't dare to scratch it, so he could only wait for it to fall off.In this way, another ten days passed, the body temperature returned to normal, and there was no recurrence, the pain in the head and throat disappeared, and the repeated chills stopped raging; Ma Su's spirit gradually recovered, and his appetite returned. to normal levels.At this time, Ma Di knew that he had passed the most dangerous stage, and he miraculously survived from the clutches of "Lu Suo". On this day, he got up from the bed and brushed his face habitually with his hands. All the scabs fell off naturally at once, turning into pieces and falling to his feet.He was very happy and decided to give himself a thorough cleaning.So Ma Di picked up the bucket and went to the ditch outside to get water. When he squatted down, he saw his own reflection in the water, which was very clear. That once white and pure face was now densely covered with blisters.Surrounded by these pockmarks, his facial features are almost unrecognizable, and his appearance is terrifying.This is the last commemoration left by "Lushang" to Ma Di. 不知为什么，马谡看到自己的这副模样，第一个感觉却是想笑。于是他索性仰起头，对着青天哈哈大笑起来，附近林子里的鸟被这猝然响起的声音惊飞了几只。笑声持续了很久，笑到马谡上气不接下气，胸口喘息不定，那笑声竟变得仿佛哭号一样。大概是他自己也被这种颠覆性的奇妙命运所困惑了吧。