Chapter 12 Buying a Horse
"It's good to finally have a horse. Jun Yanran held a wounded horse in his hand and looked at it infatuatedly. The horse was not small, quite strong, but the hair on his body was uneven, and there was a wound on his side, the whole piece of fur had fallen off, and the bare wound was mixed with blood and sand, and the body hair was brownish yellow, gradually turning yellowish and white to the abdomen, and the whole horse looked extremely sickly. Jun Yanran wanted to touch it before, but was stopped by Xia Guang. Because the horse's ears were in an attacking state with their ears against their necks before, Jun Anran might be in danger of injury if he made a rash move.
"It's true that we have horses, but we don't have any money. Xia Guang said helplessly. Although she complained, when she looked at the horse next to her, her expression was much softer. Its physique is a little smaller than Jun Ranran's, and its hair looks much better than Jun Ranran's, but there is a deep bone wound on its front hoof, the wound looks very serious, and the blood is thick, and the carrion exposed around it even attracts a lot of flying insects.
It has been half a month since she left the village, and in the past half a month, she and Jun Anran have been walking on foot, although they are much closer to Quyang City, but the road is still very far. During this time, they walked during the day and stayed in the desert at night, and if they came across a village or town by chance, they would go in and rest for the night. As for eating, passing by the village will go in to eat a good meal, other times are in the wilderness, bring some steamed buns or something, find some wild fruits to eat, but if you are lucky to meet hares, pheasants, will also open the mud.
Of course, at the beginning, Jun Anran didn't adapt so quickly, and he would occasionally get injured, and he would have stomach aches because of eating. Fortunately, when Xia Guang lived in the valley, he often went down the mountain to help Doctor Zhao in the town, and he also learned a little fur, and occasionally solved some simple diseases, so this kind of problem can still be easily solved. Now Xia Guang often has some medicinal herbs on his body in case of emergency.
At first, I thought that Jun Anran would be so difficult to serve with some of the eldest ladies in the story, but after getting along for a long time, I found that she was very easy to get along with, and she was not so delicate, and she didn't shout tired along the way, but she was a little nervous and didn't care much about money.
For example, half an hour ago, they were planning to go into this small town called Xilai Town to rest and wash up, after all, they had been sleeping outside for five days, and it was hard to get to a small town, it couldn't be better. Not long after entering the town, I found that this is a town that specializes in raising and selling horses for a living. Jun was overjoyed, and she suggested that the two of them finally buy two horses in this horse market, so that they could not only travel, but also speed up the speed of going to Quyang City. After much deliberation, she agreed. They didn't even have anything to eat, so they began to search for horses in the horse market. But after looking for a long time, the most inferior horses in the horse market were more than 100 taels, and they didn't have that many silver taels at all, and finally the proposal to buy a horse ended in vain.
When they gave up and tried to find a place to rest, someone blocked their way. It was a man in an iron mask, dressed in a navy blue stub, with a tall figure and two emaciated foals in his hands. At first, they gave way to the man, but no matter where they went, the man would follow them, and then they realized that they seemed to be being targeted by this man.
After all, Jun Anran is used to being the eldest lady, although he has restrained a lot in front of Xia Guang, but he doesn't treat others so well, he strode in front of the man, pointed to his face, and said angrily: "Hey, what do you want to do?"
In fact, from the very beginning when they entered the town, there were many people observing them, after all, the two of them were not bad looking, and they were the best in such a town.
Xia Guang didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he hurriedly walked to Jun Anran's side, tore off Jun Anran's hand, and motioned for her to be quiet.
"That's right, I see...... Meet the two aunts...... The girl wants to buy a horse, so ...... Place...... to think about it...... Think...... Think. The man spoke intermittently, apparently stammering, and seemed anxious to say something, but the more anxious he was, the more he could not speak.
"Want to sell horses?" Xia Guang asked.
The man nodded vigorously, for fear that they would not understand what he meant.
Xia Guang looked at the two horses behind him, and at a glance he could see that these two horses were not very good-looking, "But we don't have any money." ”
"I ...... It's mine...... Target...... Horse...... Also sold. Can't sell ...... Go...... Go...... Convenient...... Cheap...... Some. Sell. Sold to you...... You ......" the man finally finished speaking.
Jun Anran barely broke his neck before he patiently listened to him finish speaking. And learn him to speak, "That." That. Then you are. Only. Say. Dry. Do...... Obstruct. It's in the way. The people around him laughed too.
"Me. I ......" As soon as the man heard that Jun was still learning from him, the whole person became anxious. "Me. I don't ......."
"Don't talk like that. Xia Guang looked bad, she was too rude to learn to speak to that person like this. "This brother, it's not that I don't want to buy it, it's really not easy to have money, I think you can find someone else to take a look. ”
"I ...... I...... I'm here...... Over here...... Sell. It's been selling for a long time. "The man slowly lowered his head, looking a little down," he ...... He...... They all. I hate me...... My Horse ...... Accept. Wounded, while ...... And I'm ...... I...... This. Such a person...... People don't ...... when they look at it Don't want to buy ...... Bought. ”
Jun was stunned by Xia Guang's fierce eyes, and knew that he was really rude just now, and looking at the sad appearance of the man, he couldn't help but feel compassion, even if the horse was injured, it would be okay if he wanted him to go out to talk, and he wouldn't let people die in a hurry, "Brother Guang, buy it, this horse seller is quite pitiful." ”
"But we're fifty taels. Xia Guang said embarrassedly, how much money will be spent on the way.
"Brother Guang, it's okay, let's buy it first, you see how pitiful he is, he can't speak, when will this be sold. Jun looked at Xia Guang with pity.
When Xia Guang saw her demeanor, he really couldn't harden his heart, after all, this horse seller looked a little pitiful, sighed and said, "Alas, I'll listen to you first." ”
Xia Guang took out all the silver taels on his body and handed them to the horse seller, "I'll just order the silver taels like this, if you think it's okay, we'll do it." ”
The man took the taels of silver in her hand, counted them, nodded happily, gave the reins in his hand to the hands of both of them, took a bag from his bosom and gave it to them, and then bent down to them, and departed with joy.
So now the two of them are left with only these two injured horses in their crotch.
"Brother Guang, what is in the bag that person gave?" Jun Anran was a little embarrassed, she also knew that her behavior just now was a little reckless, but she did feel that person was a little pitiful.
Xia Guang handed the reins in his hand to Jun Anran, and then opened the package and found that it contained some medicinal materials for healing wounds.
"That guy is pretty good, at least we saved money for the medicine for the horse's treatment. Xia Guang shook the package in his hand and said.
"Really, that's great. Jun said gloomily......
The horse seller came to a certain courtyard in Xilai Town, and there was a small pavilion in the courtyard, and in the pavilion there was a man dressed in white who was holding a book and looking at it, as if the book was really so attractive. The horseseller walked up to the man, took the man's book, looked at it casually, a book of poems, and the horseseller pouted, rolled it up and stuffed it into the man's hand. He took out a small bag from his bosom, threw it into the air, and then took it, and then took it again, and then with a bitter face, his tone was slightly pitiful: "These two girls are really pitiful, and they have only a little silver taels on them, and they have been deceived by a shameless fellow." The tone and tone of his speech were obviously completely different from what he had just said, and his tone was a bit of a sass.
The person reading the book flattened the book in his hand, and then nodded approvingly, "Well, it's really shameless." ”
The horse seller reacted immediately, as if he was the one who had just deceived people, his face changed, he put the money bag on the stone table next to him, and sat cross-legged opposite the man in white. "I said you want to send two girls horses, just send them, and do such a thing, do you know that those two horses are rare good horses, if you want to find them again, but it is not easy, so you ruined them. The horse seller said bitterly. Those two foals, he took a fancy to them as soon as he arrived in this town, who knew that such a thing would go wrong.
"You don't understand. The man in white said lightly, turning a page of the book by the way.
"What don't you understand, do you like one of them?" the horse seller snapped out.
"Nope. The man in white paused for a moment, then replied simply.
"What's nothing, Lixuan, I've seen you all the way. Everywhere you go, you will go to an inn, ask them to reserve the best room, and then ask the shopkeeper to give them a room at a low price if he sees two girls. You said that if you don't fall in love with someone, why are you doing this?" During this period of time, he followed Qu Lixuan, seeing everything in his eyes, sometimes he wanted to ask, but he always got it back with a look, and he had to make it clear today.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you tell you. Qu Lisheng closed the poetry book in his hand and slowly told him the ins and outs of the matter. As for the other things he found suspicious, he didn't mention them.
"So you're going to help them along the way?" the horse-seller was a little curious about the two girls.
"Uh-huh. Qu Lixuan nodded.
"That's okay, these two girls are very kind-hearted, but don't like them, if Qu Lisheng knows, he doesn't know how to toss you. The seller commanded.
"Huh. Qu Lisheng smiled, looking a little unconcerned.
And because he didn't like to talk about it, the horse seller didn't say much more. But there is another thing that has to be mentioned, "These two girls are penniless now, do you think we have to go to the snow to deliver charcoal?"