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Xia Chen looked forward, and an old man with gray hair sat on the threshold of a courtyard door and did not move, only the scattered white hair fluttered in the evening breeze.

Han Ran stopped the carriage and stepped forward to ask, "Uncle, I was passing through here on the next road, and I wanted to find a place to stay, but I just ...... Where have all the people in the village gone? ”

The old man was still motionless, and he didn't even raise his eyelids, until Han Ran asked again, and then he muttered, "Let's go!" All gone! The hoarse voice was extremely desolate.

Han Ran said: "Gone? Then why didn't the old man leave? ”

The old man actually laughed dryly twice, which sounded very weird. "It's gone, there's nothing, it's the same whether you go or not."

Han Ran frowned, this old man's words were unclear, and he was embarrassed to keep asking.

Xia Chen jumped out of the carriage: "Second uncle, this old man is saying that his relatives are gone." ”

When the old man heard this, he looked up at her, and suddenly cried sadly: "My son died in battle, my daughter-in-law was snatched away, and my grandson starved to death!" I'm damned too! Damn the Hattars! ”

Han Ran was a little puzzled and said, "The Xuan army didn't fight here, why was the village ruined like this?" "If this old man's family is a military household, it can be said that his family is ruined and died like Second Uncle Yao, but where have the rest of the people in the village gone? and ruined walls everywhere.

The old man raised his head suddenly, and on his face like dead bark, a pair of cloudy eyes suddenly released a light, staring at Han Ran scorchingly: "What did you say?" Half a month ago, it was clear that a team of Xuan troops ransacked our village. ”

Han Ran said: "I haven't heard that there is a Xuan army fighting in Taizhou along the way. "Before the Northwest Yanguan was breached, Tongguan was in an emergency but was robbed back by the Great Cloud Kingdom, and the Xuanjun retreated to the Beiyanguan, and I haven't heard of a large-scale war for a while."

Xia Chen said: "Second uncle, maybe a small group of Xuanjun has mixed in, let's go." ”

Han Ran nodded helplessly: "Okay!" Chen'er, bring some dry food from the car. ”

Yueniang heard their conversation and handed a bag of dry food to Xia Chen from the car window.

Handing over the dry food to the old man, Xia Chen said, "Old man, please take care." ”

The old man took the dry food, slowly stood up and said sadly: "I will definitely live, I will live until the day when Hu Tartar is killed." ”

Xia Chen secretly smiled bitterly when he heard this, he was afraid that he had the intention to kill the thief and was powerless to return to the sky! Cursing and scolding is just self-comforting!

Leaving the village and continuing on, the moonlight was cold, the night dew was heavy, and the sound of the wheels and the occasional birdsong were desolate.

Xia Chen thought about what happened in that village, and a thought popped up in her heart, just now she didn't let Han Ran say any more, because she was afraid that it was really as she thought, that so-called Xuan army was actually the army of the Great Cloud Kingdom or thieves pretending to be. The emperor is mediocre and incompetent, the evil officials and cruel officials are exploited layer by layer, and the common people are facing the destruction of their families at any time, who can care about the life and death of others.

In the middle of the night, they arrived at another village, and the situation was not better than before, so they had to continue on their way.

The moon is faint and the stars are sparse, the east is getting white, and finally came to a county seat, the soldiers guarding the city have just opened the gate, and some people who don't know where to come from, but have already lined up outside the city gate, flocked to enter the city.

The soldier shouted: "Whoever squeezes me again will cut him." ”

After being interrogated and searched one by one, although the sun had not yet risen, the east was already red.

When I entered the county seat, I saw beggars begging everywhere on the streets, old people with gray hair, women with disheveled sideburns, babies crying loudly, and pedestrians cursing endlessly, a miserable picture.

Turning to the main street, several children in their teens surrounded them.

"Okay, okay, give me a few steamed buns!"

"My mother is dying of hunger, give me a few pennies."

"Give me something to eat, my sister hasn't eaten in three days."

Han Ran kept shouting: "Dodge, dodge, startled the horse will trample you to death, drive!" "There's no way, he can't help it, he can manage it for a while, but he can't manage it for a lifetime.

After finding an inn and settling down, Han Ran went to see the horses after breakfast, and Xia Chen and Yueniang returned to the room to rest.

When I woke up, it was past noon. Xia Chen ran to the big bunk in the backyard to find Han Ran. In order to save some money, Han Ran asked for a single room for her and Yueniang, and she slept in a big bunk room with many people.

The entrance to this large bunk room is a passageway, with a large slab shop on the left and right, and a straw mat on the top, which can sleep more than a dozen people in each bunk.

Han Ran was sitting there chatting with a few guests, when he saw Xia Chen come in and beckoned, pointing to a middle-aged man with dark skin and a big beard, and said, "Chen'er, this big brother Liu Shan is on the way with us, and we will go together early tomorrow morning." ”

Xia Chen nodded: "Uncle Liu." ”

Liu Shan said: "The little master is so handsome. ”

Xia Chen heard him call himself Little Young Master, and knew that he was a northern man. "Little Son, Little Young Master" are polite names, northerners call young masters, unless you can see at a glance that it is a scholar or a child of a family to call a child, and to the Central Plains, it will basically be called a child, one comes to the Central Plains There are many children and scholars, it is difficult to distinguish, and the other is also a vassal elegance.

Han Ran said: "Brother Liu has won the award. Chen'er, I heard from Brother Liu that the imperial court will not recruit soldiers from non-military households for the time being, and if the peace talks are successful, there will be no war. ”

Han Ran and Han An had argued about this matter before, but the Zhang family was pregnant, and in the end, Han Yi decided to come to recruit soldiers and let his second son Han Ran go.

Xia Chen was a little unimpressed, she always felt that this peace talk was unreliable, but if the second uncle didn't have to be a soldier, she was also happy. "Second uncle, then you still want to go to the horse grazing this year?"

Han Ran nodded: "Yes, I don't know if I can meet that old brother." ”

Xia Chen pursed his lips: "Second uncle wants to take Jiechen away?" ”

Han Ran touched her head: "Well, but I'll bring it back in the fall, I think about it, exchange it with the flames to that old brother, if he doesn't agree to me add another horse to him." He also saw that Juchen was a rare good horse, with good endurance and speed, and was extremely human, and the most important thing was that his nephew had a lot of feelings for Jechen, which he felt very understanding. Blaze - even that jujube red horse is also a good horse, but it is of the same type as Jiechen, and I believe that the old brother will not refuse.

Xia Chen knew that the second uncle was very trustworthy, and Juechen had to go, so he nodded: "You must exchange Jiechen for me." ”

Liu Shan said: "What you mean is a horse? ”

Han Ran said: "Brother Liu also understands horses? ”

"Haha, I did a horse business outside the gate in my early years, and Marco brought it? Can you show me? ”

Han Ran said: "Of course. ”

When he came to the stable, Liu Shan was full of praise when he saw Juechen: "In my opinion, this horse is a pure-blooded Dawan horse, and you can see it when you are three years old." ”

Xia Chen was very happy to hear it: "It's almost two years old now." ”

Han Ran was a little unimpressed: "Brother Liu, I have been letting horses for many years, and I have seen a lot of Dawan horses, if I believe that this horse has the bloodline of Dawan horses, it can be said to be pureblooded, I dare not compliment." ”

Liu Shan smiled and asked, "Why?" ”

Han Ran said: "Although this horse is not variegated, the hair on the ears and belly is not very regular, and now it can be seen that this horse's legs are too long, the skeleton is too large, and the endurance must be limited. ”

Liu Shan smiled: "Haha, you don't understand this, there are always exceptions to everything, tall people don't necessarily have no stamina, and the irregular hair you said is 'hole', I heard that Dawan has a kind of dragon finch, that is, there are horn roots in the ears, and there are traces of the lins in the abdomen." ”

Xia Chen exclaimed in surprise when he heard this: "Second uncle, I want to exchange this horse back at any price." "It seems that the famous general Zhao Yun of the Three Kingdoms period is riding a dragon sparrow, although it is deified in the book, but this ** is a good horse that is one out of ten thousand, but it is certain, and what Han Ran said is not the characteristics of a war horse? If this white horse is pure-blooded, it will be a divine horse in the future.

Although Han Ran has always raised horses, they are mostly used for household and agricultural purposes, not even military horses, let alone war horses, just imagine that a similar war horse has to be a hundred taels of silver to lay the foundation, and some of them are worth a thousand gold, and the Han family can't even afford a foal, let alone raise it. The gallop he rode and the bloodline of that blazing horse were already rare, and it had to be said that Han Ran's vision was lucky.

Han Ran was still a little incredulous: "Chen'er, I know you like Juechen, I will find a way to persuade that old brother to change it to me." ”

Xia Chen nodded again and again, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Liu Shan staring at Juechen, his eyes showing a bit of greed, and his heart was not good. "Second uncle, of course I like Juechen, it is the slowest of the horses in our family, and it will never fall me." Ignoring Han Ran's surprised face, he took his hand: "I've been suffocating to death in the car for the past few days, take me out for a walk." ”

"You!" Han Ran shook his head at Xia Chen with a little doting, then said hello to Liu Shan and left the stable with her.

Liu Shanhu stared at Juechen suspiciously, and muttered, "The slowest runner?" Am I mistaken? ”

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