"The sky is like a dragon, and the earth is like a horse. The horse is the foundation of the armor and the great use of the country". Han Fubo's general Ma Yuan's words expressed the role of horses on people at that time. Li Le is also a horse lover. When he decided to leave the Heavenly Soldiers, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many inseparable emotions in the ancient city, Li Le even thought about finding a border city and setting up a horse farm. Play the song immediately, drink to the moon, and be happy.

In the wind and snow, the sound of horses' hooves gradually approached, and it was finally clear to see. A jujube red horse, a divine horse is extraordinary, but there are only horses, no people are seen, like wild horses, but it is certainly not a wild horse. Because he had a saddle and reins on him. It stopped twenty meters in front of the jeep, raised its hooves and hissed, then turned around and walked away. Walk to an unknown place in the wind and snow.

The steed is psychic, and it is clear that it intends to lead the way. Li Lening didn't believe in people, jumped into the jeep without hesitation, and drove to follow.

Shi's eyesight could barely see the outline of the horse in front of him, and he asked hesitantly, "Is that a horse?" Is it reliable to just keep up? ”

Li Le did not answer, and the wheels of the jeep that were not buried by the snow had already answered the question of the stone.

The horse is in front, first walking unhurriedly, and the faster it goes, it becomes a trot, and it runs fast and unhurried. Proud, brisk, and elegant, like a dressage. Li Le drove and saw clearly that this horse had a long neck, a high neck base, long enough shoulder blades, and a moderate inclination. The armor is obvious, which is suitable for the placement of the saddle. The body is deep and broad, slightly oblique, and muscular. The horse ran faster and faster, its hooves leaping and tumbling, and its stride was like flying. Li Le drove the jeep to a speed of fifty before he could barely keep up. Although there were bumps along the way, there was not a single deep pit.

After running for a while, the horse in front of him stopped. Use your hooves to cut through the snow and eat the grass. This place is leeward, only flying snow and no smoke and snow, and the visibility is much higher. Ao Baiji looked at the horse and said, "I know how to shave grass from under the snow to eat, it must be a horse in the pastoral area, but I have never seen such a divine horse, but I don't know what breed it is." ”

Yan Xiaowu asked with interest: "Is this horse very good?" ”

Li Le nodded, and said: "It is the best Frederiksburg horse, adapted to the alpine region, extremely endurance, generally used as a military horse, you also felt it just now, in fact, the most outstanding thing about this kind of horse is explosiveness, super jumping ability, the general height is about one meter five three, but this horse is nearly one meter seven, it must be a rare atavistic species." ”

Yan Xiaowu was excited: "Then I'm going down to see which one is better than the thoroughbred horses that have won the Australian Grand Prix with my old man." ”

Thoroughbreds are the fastest sprint horses in the world from the UK and are best suited for racehorses. Expensive is as shocking as purebred Arabian horses. Several of the old men of Yan Xiaowu's family have won the Australian Grand Prix, which is one of the highest awards in horse racing, equivalent to a Grand Slam event in tennis. Thoroughbreds that have won this class have a market value of more than $20 million each. More expensive than any luxury sports car.

Li Le looked at the red horse in front of him intently, his eyes were full of envy, and he shook his head and said: "Compared with the kind of horse used to perform running skills, it is the biggest insult to it, in my opinion, it can no longer even be called a horse, you see it running without trampling on the soil, traveling thousands of miles in the wild, day by day, it is not an exaggeration to call it a dragon horse." ”

If there was no one next to the horse to shave snow and graze there, Yan Xiaowu looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see the reason, nodded ignorantly, and said, "Since you said that it is better than the old man's thoroughbred, then it must be okay." ”

"In terms of breed alone, there is no other horse breed more expensive than a thoroughbred except for an Arabian thoroughbred, but you must know that for an excellent military horse, expensive does not mean good, spirituality and bravery, endurance and explosiveness, loyalty and unyielding, are the most important qualities of an excellent military horse, these conditions are combined to form a standard, and the thoroughbred horses raised at your home are definitely not up to standard." Li Le's fingers tapped lightly on the steering wheel, tasting his head and talking like a famous wine.

The horse had eaten enough grass, craned his neck and snorted, and turned around and continued to run. Li Le knew that it had come to lead the way, so he had the heart to find out, so he stepped on the accelerator and followed. The snow on the road is still not too thick, and the occasional small potholes do not pose a threat to the T-98. The horse was in front, the cart was behind, and it ran for a long time. The jujube red horse stopped, and on a leeward half-slope, a man was sitting.

The wind has weakened, the snow has become much lighter, and looking down on the slope, the temperature of the city of Erhan is already impressive.

Li Le and the others got out of the car and came to the man, who turned out to be a middle-aged man, wearing a marmot skin hat on his head, with a strong figure and a red face. Seeing that the horse returned and brought back the guests, he got up to greet him and said in Mongolian: "Yesterday I heard that a large number of guests went to the Belhe grassland, I thought there would be nothing wrong, but I didn't expect that there would be a sudden white-haired wind, and it was estimated that someone would get lost, so I sent the reverse dragon to look for it, this guy's army didn't find it, but found a few of you young people." ”

It turns out that the jujube red horse is called the reverse dragon. Li Le learned what the middle-aged man said through the stone, and turned his head to look at the horse. "Thanks to it, we've been lost," he said. Then he asked, "Who are you?" "Stone translates in the middle.

The middle-aged man said: "My name is Sured, I am the lord of the Belhe steppe, and I am also the mayor of the city of Öndörkhan. ”

Li Le and the others were taken aback, this is the municipal party secretary-level figure who has jurisdiction over 30,000 square kilometers of land? Li Le thought that Longcheng, the capital city of the province where the ancient city was located, was only 7,000 square kilometers, but Li Fumin, secretary of the municipal party committee, was about to alarm a group of people with every move. In comparison, the mayor in front of him is shabby.

Sured said with a smile: "We don't lack anything in this place, but there are fewer people, and I, the mayor, are in charge of the livelihood of twenty or thirty thousand people, and these people are all herdsmen who live all year round, you are from China, you probably think that the mayor on horseback is a little strange, right?" ”

Li Le nodded and said, "It's really surprising, but it's not incomprehensible." ”

"Our industry here is backward, mainly agricultural, and the annual economic output value is less than two million US dollars, which is not comparable to the output value of a random open-pit coal mine in Ordos, China, for a week. ”

Li Le said: "The mountains are not high, the water is not deep, the depth of the moral cultivation is not in the power of the officials, your parents are very good, you can still think of caring about the life and death of tourists in such bad weather, you are also quite hard, this is much more reliable than our officials over there." ”

"It's very dangerous to play on the grassland in this kind of weather, there are a lot of wolves in this area, and there are a lot of other beasts, and it is easy to hurt people, you haven't encountered any danger, right?" ”

Kyakhta and Ao Baiji both wanted to speak, but Li Le preemptively said: "No, I didn't encounter anything, I just got lost in this snowstorm, if you hadn't sent the reverse dragon to guide the way, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come back until the snow melted and the sky cleared." ”

Sured said: "That's very good, since there is nothing to do, let's go back to the city and settle down first, don't wander around the grassland in this weather, if you really encounter something, it's too late to say anything." ”

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Laguna Hotel, the only inn and tavern in the city of Öndörkhan. The lobby is both the lounge area of the inn and the business area of the tavern. The building area is very large, but there are not many tables, and there are more than 20 tables.

Yan Xiaowu sat near the stove, drinking hot milk tea, pleasantly: "If you want me to say let's stay here and wait for the snow to melt clean before going, everyone's food and accommodation expenses are all mine, and it is best to live until the beginning of spring next year and then enter the grassland." ”

Of course, this is a joke, she knows Li Le's mood. As soon as he thought that Donald and the others were still looking for Chengling in the depths of the grassland, he couldn't wait to kill him immediately.

Li Le still thought about Sured's horse, he had seen a lot of good things in his life, but he rarely liked anything in particular, and that horse had only accompanied him for a short journey, but it was deeply imprinted in his mind.

The boss was a short, stout man, with bean-wrapped eyes, a beard, and his arms were open, revealing a clump of chest hair. is full of fierceness that kills pigs and sheep and never leaves his hands. Li Le and the others sat on the sofa and watched the boss and waiter pour water into the wine behind the counter.

I've drunk watered wine, but I've never seen a tavern owner who is openly watered. This kind of thing is done so brightly, this boss deserves to be a strange one. He walked over with two flasks in his hand, one of which was freshly mixed with water. Q: "Would you like a drink?" ”

Li Le took out the wine jug from his arms and expressed his gratitude. The boss said: "Don't think that my wine is not good if it is mixed with water, in fact, it is because my wine is too strong, and if you don't mix some water into it, ordinary people can't stand it at all." The words are correct and round, and he speaks Chinese very fluently.

Fan Taohua had been fighting with the mutton on the table, and at this time her mouth was thirsty, and she looked up and said, "What kind of liquor is so amazing?" I'm going to have a drink. ”

The boss asked, "Is it going to be mixed with water or pure wine?" ”

"Nature is as pure as possible."

The boss poured wine for Fan Taohua, and Li Le asked casually: "Boss, the people in this city are not prosperous, you know all the people, right?" ”

The boss nodded and smiled: "You are from China, you must have seen the world, our place is called a city, in fact, it is not as good as a town on your side, there are only so many hundreds of families who often live here, how can they not know each other." ”

Li Le continued to ask, "Are you familiar with Mayor Sured?" ”

The boss smiled: "I grew up in a yard and ate a grandma's milk, do you think we are familiar with it?" ”

Li Le was slightly stunned and asked with a smile: "You are brothers?" ”

The boss nodded and said, "My brother, we have five brothers, he is the eldest brother, and I am the fourth." ”

Li Le said happily: "So, if I like something that belongs to him and want to buy it, I can contact him through you?" ”

"Unless it's his horse and dog that you want to buy." The boss did not hesitate: "Except for these two things, I can sell the rest to customers." I was afraid that Li Le would not understand, so he added: "In the eyes of us shepherds, horses and dogs are family members and brothers, not commodities. ”

Li Le said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was abrupt, but his reverse dragon is indeed a divine horse, and such horses are not common." ”

The boss said it didn't matter, and said, "That's my brother's heart, no one can help you in this matter." ”

Yan Xiaowu suddenly interjected and asked, "Isn't it negotiable how much money you have?" ”

The boss paused, his face was displeased, and said, "Would you betray your brother for money?" As he spoke, he took the flask and turned back to the counter, as if he was angry. Just for this sentence, I didn't even do business.

Ao Baiji said: "The snow on the meadow is impossible to melt for a while, if we still want to go in, we have to find some means of transportation that can adapt to the snow, it is really necessary to buy horses, we have a professional horse market here, I can take you to buy good horses." ”

The stone forehead said: "Okay! Let's eat and go. ”

The boss snorted and said, "In such weather, the horses fed by the forage in those circles in the horse market can't even go out for a hundred miles on the grassland." ”

Fan Taohua picked up the wine glass, regardless of it, and drank a big sip, the cup was very large, and the amount of wine in Fan Taohua was not small, so this sip was enough to have a small half catty. I saw that his face changed suddenly, and he turned red all of a sudden. Then he began to cough violently. Breathless: "Fuck! What kind of wine is this, so strong? ”

The boss saw that he was drinking heroically, his face looked better, and he stood behind the counter and laughed: "This wine came from your side, called the horse pole puree, it has nearly eighty degrees, like you drink like this, three cups, we are afraid that the bravest man on the grassland will be drunk to death." ”

Li Le beckoned to him, and the boss came over again. Li Le looked at him and said, "Bring me five cups." The boss was stunned for a moment, and then poured five cups with his hands and feet. Q: "Are you going to drink it in one sitting?" Li Le nodded and said with a smile: "How about a bet?" ”

The boss shook his head in disbelief and said, "If you dare to drink it, you can bet anything." He waved his hand again and said, "Except for the fact that you want to buy the reverse dragon, I really can't be the master." ”

Li Le said: "We Han people have a saying, a gentleman does not win people's love, horses are like family to you, how can I be strong?" ”

The boss suddenly put his mind at ease and asked, "Then how are you going to bet?" ”

Li Le said with a smile: "I drank five glasses of wine in one go, my face did not change color, and I was not drunk, even if you lose, even if I lose, if you lose, tell me the origin of the reverse dragon, and if I lose, I will send you the car we drove here." ”

"The face doesn't change color?" The boss looked at Li Le in surprise, "Drink five glasses of puree wine in a row?" If you lose, give me your car? ”

Li Le nodded and said: "It's not a secret, a few of us are going to enter the grassland today, and the car can't be driven back to China if we keep it, good horses are hard to find, I am also a horse lover, your brother's horse is not sold, but there should always be a provenance, right?" Even if you can't buy such psychic, at least there should be the same variety, the snow on the grassland is so thick, it is difficult to walk where we are going, and if the horse is not good, I am afraid that it will be difficult to reach. ”

The boss looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, shook his head and said: "This is not a good thing, Changshengtian is losing his temper, the horse is the son of Changshengtian, people are not, people will get lost when they go to the prairie at this time, I advise the guests to stay with me first, and when the weather is better, let my brother send you back to Ulaanbaatar by horse." ”

Li Le picked up the first glass of wine and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but we have a reason to go, our bet is still valid, and I started to drink the first glass." ”

PS: At work, the automatic update set the wrong date again, but fortunately it took a good look.