While speaking, he had already come to a meadow, Qi Jingyun reined in the horse's reins, stepped on the bottom of the snow and made a sound, stopped his steps, Qi Jingyun turned over and dismounted neatly, and opened his arms to her.

Qiao Mingyue jumped off the horse with a smile and fell into Qi Jingyun's arms, her warm embrace carried a faint smell of agarwood incense, which made people feel relieved.

He hugged her, and pointed from afar, and in the night, one or two fireflies flew over the grass from time to time, fluttering, illuminating this side of the world.

In the distance, it was already dark, and the moonlight above could only illuminate the road under his feet, and the sky was completely dark.

"Ahead, there are many such grasses, which are the most common grass here, and the local people who have cattle and sheep at home will also come here to cut the grass and mix it with bran to feed the cattle and sheep, do you suspect that it is the problem of those grasses?"

Qi Jingyun knew from the time Qiao Mingyue said that she wanted to come to this grassland to have a look, and she knew that she was suspicious of the forage that the war horses ate.

It's just that these grasses are not only eaten by the war horses this year, in the past, when he was here, the soldiers in the army would always come here with ox carts to cut the grass and feed the war horses, and they have never seen such a situation today.

"Lord Wang, all things are mutually reinforcing, maybe it's okay to eat this grass alone, but if it's mixed with something, there will be problems, in short, let's go and check it carefully!"

She wasn't sure if it was really the grass that was wrong, but she heard from the soldiers who managed the horses that the water they drank was all living water from the river, and that it was not easy to poison the water and ensure that all the horses drank the poisoned water.

But this forage is different! If you use your hands and feet in the forage, you can ensure that every horse can eat, but it is only a matter of how much.

That's why the horses are now unable to afford to fall to the ground, while some of them are still able to continue to eat grass and move normally.

It's just that when she checked it just now, she was able to determine that the hundreds of war horses in the stable were all poisoned, which proved that these horses had been exposed to this poison!

"Shh Qiao Mingyue wanted to continue walking, but Qi Jingyun suddenly pulled her and squatted in the grass, Qiao Mingyue looked at him suspiciously, Qi Jingyun stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance.

Standing up slightly, Qiao Mingyue poked her head and looked in the direction of Qi Jingyun's finger, it didn't matter, she realized that there were a few people in the distance who were sneaking in the grass and didn't know what they were doing.

Lowering her voice, Qiao Mingyue frowned and said: "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, these people are sneaking around here in the middle of the night, it must not be a good thing!"

Under the darkness of night, they couldn't see the clothes and looks of the people in the distance, they could only see a few of them bent over in the grass and didn't know what they were doing.

"It's from Xiliao!" Qi Jingyun stared at the few people in the distance, his gaze was as deep as this boundless night.

Qiao Mingyue wondered how hard she could see how many people were in the distance on this big night, how could Qi Jingyun be able to tell that the other party was from Xiliao through those vague figures?

Qi Jingyun did not answer Qiao Mingyue's doubts for the first time, but took her hand and cautiously approached those people little by little, and when the distance was about ten meters, Qiao Mingyue saw clearly that these people were dressed differently from the Central Plains.

They did not like to tie their hair with a hairband like to tie their hair like the people of the Southern Zhao, nor did they prefer to tie crowns like the people of the Great Zhou, and these Western Liao people liked to tie their hair into small braids and spread all over their heads.

Or just scatter so casually, the people who ride on horses on weekdays are naturally not as delicate as the people of the Great Zhou and Nanzhao, so that their hair looks extraordinarily rough, like the withered yellow weeds in the mountains.

"The people of the Western Liao will wear the decoration made of animal teeth to represent their bravery, and I saw the animal tooth decoration from a distance to recognize that it is the Western Liao people." Hearing Qi Jingyun say this, Qiao Mingyue took a closer look, and sure enough, she saw the decoration of the beast teeth from the bodies of several people.

The beast's tooth is inlaid with a small stone that is not too big or small, the stone is in the night, slightly glowing with a pale green glow, because the distance just now is a little far, and she did not look carefully, so she did not see it, now take a closer look, only to find which faint green stone.

"The name of that thing is the Sun Stone, which is a kind of ore that the Western Liao people worship very much, because this kind of stone will shine at night, and the Western Liao people are nomadic people who worship the sun, so they feel that this Sun Stone is a symbol of the sun."

Qi Jingyun carefully talked to Qiao Mingyue about the things she didn't know about Xiliao, Qiao Mingyue nodded when she heard this, and Qi Jingyun said that the reason why the people of Xiliao put the beast teeth and the sun stone together was to represent the power given to them by the sun.

When the men of Western Liao reached adulthood, they would hunt a beast of prey, polish its teeth into ornaments, and wear them on their bodies.

This is why he recognized at a glance that these people in front of him were from the Western Liao, when he was in Zhennan, he had also followed the army to fight with the Western Liao, and he still knew a little about the Western Liao.

Seeing that those people in Xiliao were sneakily doing something on a meadow, Qiao Mingyue and Qi Jingyun thought about it, but still didn't startle the snake, but waited for those people to leave in a hurry, and then walked to the place where those people were staying to check.

"This is ......" Qiao Mingyue looked at the fine white powder on the blades of grass, frowned slightly, twisted a little on her fingertips, gently kneaded it on the tip of her nose and smelled it carefully.

The smell was somewhat familiar, but she didn't know much about Chinese medicine, and there were many herbs in this time and space that she hadn't seen before, so she didn't call out her name for a while.

"Xuancao! It is an extremely cold thing, which is extremely unfriendly to herbivorous animals, and can cause vomiting and diarrhea to death if you eat a little. Listening to Qi Jingyun's words, Qiao Mingyue concluded that those horses were poisoned!

Looking at this piece of grassland, Qiao Mingyue was puzzled: "Now I know that it is the people of Xiliao who are doing their hands and feet on the horses, but I really can't figure it out, this grassland is so big, how can they be sure that the soldiers will come here to cut the grass?"

Qi Jingyun smiled when he heard this, pulled her up a small hill, stood on the small hill and looked down, the grassland was flat, the wind blew, blowing the grass like waves in the sea.

Looking at the neat and cut grass one by one, Qiao Mingyue understood, it turned out that the soldiers did not cut the grass with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, but cut it from north to south in an orderly manner, so the people of Xiliao would know where to use their hands and feet to achieve their goals.