Verse 171: Cattle thief
Fortunately, there were no accidents on this night, and when the sky brightened, Mu Sheng took out the ox cart and moved it to the ox cart with Nangong Yuhuan. Mu Sheng found that Nangong Yuhuan's appearance today seemed to be older than last night, but this change was very subtle, and I don't know if it was because of the light.
Mu Sheng didn't care so much, he still stuck the invisibility talisman on Nangong Yuhuan's body, and drove the green ox cart slowly to the northwest, all the way, Mu Sheng's worries did not appear, but there were a few times Mu Sheng vaguely felt that there were masters of the Dao period searching on the official road and both sides, as if they were looking for themselves.
If you want to say why you can avoid the search, this is probably because Mu Sheng made enough disguise, not only did the opposite, abandoning the faster carriage, but also made the carriage extremely simple, and also sat in the carriage with his own external incarnation, and at the same time used a woman's puppet for the dead wood, which was also placed in the carriage, so that if the divine consciousness only swept from the air, it would not be possible to distinguish the real from the fake.
After three days of walking without danger, it seemed that he was about to get out of Xiyun County, but it was already dusk, and Mu Sheng found an inn to stay. After Su He led the troops to make such a fuss, Xiyun County was obviously depressed a lot, it was originally a densely populated city, but now it is slightly decayed, and there are many broken tiles along the way. This is especially true the farther away from Gyeonggi City.
Mu Sheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart: 'Hey, Xing, the people are suffering, and when they die, the people are suffering.' Although he knew that what Su He did was also righteous, but seeing such a scene, the center was inevitably sad. After the war, there are not many inns that are still in business, Mu Sheng looked for a long time to find such a place, it was already overcrowded, only a small room to live in, and this room was originally a firewood room, because of the large number of people living in the hotel, this was temporarily changed to a guest room, not to mention that there is any spirit gathering circle in the room, even the roof is in tatters and has not been completely repaired.
Fortunately, there is no rain today, otherwise there will be continuous rain leaks in this house, Mu Sheng wanted to find an inn to live again, but when he inquired, there was no inn within a radius of ten miles to rest, so he had no choice but to stay here. Handing over the ox cart to the little second-hand, Xiao Er said: "We have a lot of people here, and the guests can't be served, but we can't control the livestock and vehicles." ”
Mu Sheng listened and hurriedly took out a handful of spirit stones from the storage ring, stuffed them in the small second-hand and said: "I'm tired of taking care of one or two, and my livestock can't eat much feed." ”
Xiao Er glanced at the spirit stones in his hand, although they were all low-grade spirit stones, there were dozens of them, so he nodded and said, "Okay, but I'm going to say ugly things ahead, I just care about feeding your green cattle, but I don't care about the safety of your carriage." ”
Mu Sheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "What does this mean?"
Xiao Er sighed and said, "Guest officer, you came from Gyeonggi City, right?"
Mu Sheng nodded, and Xiao Er continued: "Then you should have heard that we just experienced war a while ago, right?" Mu Sheng nodded again.
Xiao Er explained: "Although the war quickly subsided, but this person died a lot, and the livestock also died a lot. ”
Mu Sheng was puzzled and asked, "You said that this person died a lot, I understand, but how can this animal also die a lot?"
Xiao Er said: "You don't know this, let's talk about horses, mules, donkeys, not to mention horses, soldiers and horses, leading soldiers to fight, how to do without horses, the first thing to be requisitioned is horses, mules and donkeys are much worse than horses, they can be used to carry things, and the speed is much stronger than that of green oxen." ”
"Wouldn't it be much safer for the green cow then?" Mu Sheng couldn't help but ask.
Xiao Er shook his head and said: "That's not the case, guest officer, you don't know, although the speed of the green ox is much slower than that of mules and horses, but the load capacity is much larger, and it has a benefit, the beef is delicious and big, killing one is enough for many people to eat, compared to mules and donkeys, it is much more cost-effective, even compared with pigs, it is not too much." ”
When Mu Sheng heard this, he suddenly realized: "So in this way, your green cattle have been requisitioned, right?"
Xiao Er patted his thigh and said: "That's right, seeing that it's the busy season again, this green cow is even more in demand, so the little one said that he can only take care of the feed of your green cattle, but he can't care about their safety." ”
Mu Sheng saw that Xiao Er had said everything to this point, and he could only say helplessly: "Okay, since this is the case, then Brother Lao will help us feed the livestock." Saying that, he handed the reins to Xiao Er's hand, and he and the avatar outside his body carried Nangong Yuhuan and the puppet into the firewood room.
Nangong Yuhuan still hadn't woken up, his mind was still practicing, after entering the firewood room, Mu Sheng posted a masking charm, then he took the puppet, took out the futon from the storage ring and sat down, as before, Mu Sheng and Nangong Yuhuan practiced, and the clone meditated on the side with his eyes half-closed, observing every move outside at any time.
The business of this inn is booming, and there are people coming in and out at any time, but most of them come to stay, but they find that there is no room, and the guests who have to leave, so bustling until midnight, it slowly quiets down. There was no sound at the time, the moon was dark and the stars were scarce, except for the sound of cattle grazing and snorting from time to time in the carport behind the inn, there was silence in all directions.
Just after the child, Mu Sheng's incarnation suddenly opened his eyes, at this time in the livestock shed behind the inn, there were two people holding feed to feed the livestock, it looked natural, but these two people were not the little two in the inn, there were not many livestock in the livestock shed, in addition to Mu Sheng's two green oxen, there were four flying cloud horses and a few wind-chasing mules and a few big-mouthed donkeys.
The two hesitated for a moment, and for a while they didn't know whether to go to Feiyun Ma or Qingniu's side, but soon the two exchanged eyes and decided to come to Qingniu. Qingniu was not wary, eating feed by himself, and didn't even glance at the two of them when he saw them coming.
But when the two of them took out the feed from the sack and sprinkled it in front of the green cow, the green cow's attention was immediately attracted. It's no wonder that the two green cows, Xiao Er fed them grass before, but now the two of them took out and fed concentrated feed.
The two of them didn't take out many kidney beans from the sack, just enough for the green cow to eat a mouthful, and after the green cow finished eating, they could only eat it in the palm of their hands. Mu Sheng's external incarnation can be seen clearly, and the two of them have a good plan, planning to lure the two green cows away step by step by relying on the food in their hands.