Chapter 1163: Runaway Little Train
Half an hour later, when Chen Xu and Chen Ping arrived at the river beach outside the south gate of the city by car, they found that the entire river beach was already full of people, and at least 100,000 onlookers had gathered in the dark, and the flow of people at the city gate was still gushing out like a fountain, and the noise and noise resounded for dozens of miles, and even countless people gathered on the other side of the Wei River, some climbed on the top of the trees to watch.
"Master Hou, isn't it too big to be in the battle!" Lu Huan, who came with the forbidden army to escort the Dawan merchant and ten horses, turned slightly pale.
"Alas, it's time to change this bad habit of looking lively!" Chen Xu's face also twitched lightly and sighed.
However, the bad habit of Chinese people to watch the excitement seems to be still the same after thousands of years, and they can't change it if they want to.
By the time Chen Xu walked through the crowd of onlookers and cheers to the river beach, the place where people usually race horses without anything had nothing to do had been vacated for a competition field about three miles long.
After getting off the horse and watching the venue, a group of princes and princes poured up to greet each other, and after the emotions around him slowly calmed down, Chen Xu turned his head to look at Meng Yun and a group of gentlemen and said with a smile: "Which of you will come first!" ”
"I'll come first!" Meng Yun took off his long shirt and revealed a short body, his white face was like jade, his body was slender, and his black beard under his chin looked extremely heroic.
"Which horse did Childe choose?" A Hu merchant who came with Dawan helped translate.
"That's it!" Meng Yun fell in love with a snow-white horse at a glance.
"Sneer~~"
Seeing that his reins were handed to a stranger, the white steed instantly snorted irritably, and ignored Meng Yun's reassuring actions, and the restless stumble expressed resistance, and when Meng Yun grabbed the horse's mane and was about to get on the horse, he even stood up with his front legs off the ground and kept neighing, not letting Meng Yun climb on him at all.
"Yu Yu~~"
In the face of such violent horses, Meng Yun didn't dare to be careless, so he could only hold on to the reins tightly and keep pacifying.
As a gentleman who likes extreme sports such as horse racing and gliders, Meng Yun has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars every year through bookmakers and Keju competitions in recent years, and is definitely a rich and handsome man, so he is willing to spend money, and he has raised seven or eight good horses in his house, although it is not as good as this big horse, but they are also very special, it is definitely a one-in-a-thousand breed, and the house has specially invited a horse master, so he still has a bit of experience and appreciation for horse taming, and even a good master.
But this Dawan horse is different from the horses of the Hun Hu Central Plains after all, and it is born with a strong wild nature, even if it has been domesticated by the Dawan people for a long time, but in the face of Meng Yun, a stranger whose breath is completely unfamiliar, coupled with the hustle and bustle of more than 100,000 onlookers, these ten horses are extremely nervous and anxious at this time, and it is completely impossible to calm them down in a short time.
Time passed minute by minute, and soon a moment passed, only to see Meng Yun tossing back and forth around the horse to appease, trying to climb on the horse's back several times without success, and even twice almost being kicked by the horse's hooves raised high.
The handsome Meng Yun looked quite embarrassed at this time, his head was falling to the ground, his hair was scattered and his clothes were scattered, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.
"This horse is really fierce, it seems that Brother Yun can't succeed!"
The faces of the group of gentlemen around Chen Xu were very ugly, some sighed and some shook their heads.
Among their group, Meng Yun's equestrian skills were at least in the top three, but now that a moment of time had passed, he hadn't even climbed on horseback, which hit everyone hard.
And just when Meng Yun was trying to tame the white horse, Qin Shi Huang ascended to the tower at the south gate of the city under the escort of a group of Xuanwu guards, and after a while, Meng Yi, Feng Quji, Zhao Hai, Zhao Wei and a group of princes and princes who heard the news also went up to the city tower and gathered around the first emperor to watch.
"It seems that Yun'er can't succeed!" Qin Shi Huang held the monocular and watched for a long time, then put it down and shook his head with a smile.
"This rebel!" Meng Yi twitched and put the binoculars down.
For horses, Meng Yi's interest in horses is not as high as his son's, not to mention that he doesn't like to do too exciting things when he is old, so for his son who is not doing his job all day long, riding a horse and walking a dog and glider, Meng Yida's heart is full of resentment, and now through the telescope, he saw that his son was like a clown in the presence of countless princes and princes and more than 100,000 people in Xianyang and Dawan people, and he didn't even climb up on horseback for a full moment, and he was embarrassed, Meng Yi's face was blue and hateful.
Today, Montessori has lost a bit of a face.
"Hehe, why should Lord Meng be angry, listen to my Erlang, Ling Lang's equestrianism is still quite good!" Standing next to him, Neshi Ling Qi Tang gloated.
"I also heard that Mengxiao Ling has good equestrian skills, and he is very famous in the circle of horse playing in Xianyang, and he also knows a lot about the art of horses, but this Dawan horse is indeed a miracle horse and has a violent temperament, I'm afraid that I can't get my wish today!" The Ministry of Works ordered Jae Hong to explain to his subordinates on the side, but his tone was obviously disappointed.
"Hmph, the old man is afraid that he can't afford to enjoy it himself, how can Zuo Xiang's five hundred gold be so easy to get?" Meng Yi snorted coldly and spoke.
"Five hundred gold, two hundred thousand dollars, it is indeed ridiculously expensive, and only Qinghe Hou in the world can give it away so lightly!" Tobe Ling Gao Teng shook his head with emotion.
"Five hundred gold is not counted, I heard that the Dawan merchant sold a thousand gold at the beginning!" Hou Zhaohai added.
There was a burst of silence on the castle tower, and even the emperor's face twitched slightly.
If it was before, the First Emperor would not have been moved by money at all, but since the last time he almost lost face because of the lack of money to build a library, he now has a deep grudge against money.
A horse is worth 1,000 gold, worth 400,000 yuan, then the total price of ten horses is 4 million yuan, more than 10,000 stone grain, this price is indeed a bit big in the emperor's opinion, but these horses are indeed abnormal, even if there is still a distance of three miles across the river bank at this time, but they can still be seen very clearly through the telescope, these horses are smooth and muscular, with long legs and long necks and huge hooves, light and vigorous movements, and the fur on the whole body is like brocade without a single variegated color, compared to the horse that pulls the jade chariot for him, it is several times more miraculous, It is indeed a rare horse in the world.
The most important thing is to listen to Xuanwu Wei's report, Qinghe Hou has a very high praise for this horse, otherwise he would not be willing to spend a lot of money to buy it.
Although Qinghe Hou spent money relatively quickly, he was generally more cautious, and he had never heard of spending money indiscriminately, and spending money would inevitably earn back tenfold, so the value of these ten horses should be much higher than the price seen on the surface.
"Look, look, nephew Meng Xian has gone up!"
Suddenly, an official holding a telescope shouted, the first emperor and others raised the telescope again, and sure enough, they saw Meng Yun, who had been pacifying for a long time, suddenly turned over and climbed onto the horse's back with a vigorous movement, and at the same time his legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, and his hands clasped the white horse's mane and neck, and the sudden change made the white horse go crazy, jumping back and forth on the river beach like madness, and even stopped and stood upright, neighing desperately trying to throw Meng Yun off his back, But Meng Yun stuck to the horse's back like a piece of kraft candy, and although he looked even more embarrassed when he swayed his head from side to side, the white horse did not succeed.
"Yay~~"
A burst of enthusiastic cheers instantly sounded on the river beach, and countless people began to cheer for Meng Yun.
No matter how sequivocal Meng Yun usually is, but now after all, he represents the face of the Great Qin people, and there are not only hundreds of thousands of civilians watching at the moment, but also the First Emperor and a group of princes and princes on the city tower, this face Meng Yun can afford to lose the people and the emperor of the whole city.
"咴~~"
The white horse galloped back and forth on the river beach like madness, and under the violent bumps, Meng Yun felt like he was sitting on a small sampan in the middle of the raging sea, not only was his head dizzy but even the overnight meal was about to be turned upside down, but at this time he did not dare to relax and carelessly, and could only use all his strength on his arms to strangle the horse's neck, trying to calm down the manic horse.
However, the endurance of this big horse is simply devilish, like a runaway little train sprinting back and forth on the river beach, stopping and standing, five minutes later, Meng Yun, who was dizzy, was slightly relaxed, and bang, Meng Yun was thrown off the horse by the white horse, and then a pair of huge front hooves were raised high and stepped on Meng Yun who rolled down on the river beach.
"Woo~~" With a sharp whistle, I saw a tall Dawan man rushing up and grabbing the reins, and the white horse instantly quieted down, snorted at Meng Yun, who was getting up with his head, and then shook his head and tail back to the horses, and a group of horses immediately surrounded each other to rub their backs shoulder to shoulder to express their affection and support.
"Alas~~" Not only did a group of people shake their heads in disappointment, but more than 100,000 people on the lookers also collectively sighed.
On the top of the city tower, the First Emperor, Meng Yi, Feng Qujian and others also sighed and shook their heads, their faces were not very good.
Chen Xu, who was standing on the river beach, had a flat face and was not half disappointed, but had more smiles.
He knew that Meng Yun's equestrian skills were very good, at least countless times better than him, and he was definitely a qualified professional rider.
In fact, there are few fierce horses in the army, because the army emphasizes group charging and fighting, so the war horse is required to be more docile and obedient, and the horse that is too stubborn or too violent is not suitable for being a war horse, so many really good-tempered horses in the world are actually hidden in the people, and are collected and fed by many princes and princesses and horse lovers, these horses have many advantages, but also have a lot of disadvantages, such as recognizing life, such as not being gregarious, such as biting and kicking people, etc., but once tamed, they are very loyal to their owners, and even in critical moments, they can savior.
Meng Yun has a few good horses Chen Xu is very clear, and he has ridden them a few times, better than the horses in his house, running fast and steady, and the order is very obedient, mainly because Chen Xu is not very good at horseback riding, although he has practiced for so many years, he can only ride the kind of more docile horses trained by others, as for the so-called peerless good horse that is too savage and violent, he has to let him tame it himself, that is too demanding for him, first, his identity does not allow it, and it is impossible for him to be exposed to this dangerous activity, There is also Chen Xu's own unwillingness, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and the horse taming can only be handed over to a special horseman to do, he is a dignified Qin Zuo Prime Minister and two marquis, it is absolutely impossible to do this kind of thing.
The most important thing is that since he was torn off the horse by a bamboo kite on the river beach and injured, he has already had a slight psychological shadow, he usually goes out and rarely rides a horse, basically takes a car, and several wives are also afraid that he will fall on a horse, every time he rides a horse, several women will always be worried until he comes back, after a few times, Chen Xu in order not to let a group of wives worry, he rarely takes the initiative to ride a horse.
Although Meng Yun did not succeed in taming this white horse, it also confirmed that the legendary sweat and blood horse is indeed an excellent breed, and this kind of horse and the good horse of the Hun Hu Yue clan are crossbred to definitely improve the war horse breed of Daqin.
"Sister-in-law, so-and-so failed!" Meng Yun limped back with the help of several servants, his face full of loss and unwillingness.
"Hehe, uncle, don't blame me!" Chen Xu grinned a few times and turned his head to look at the group of gentlemen, "Which of you still wants to try!" ”
"Come on!" After a few people looked at each other, Gao Laosan stood up, took off his robe, and also showed a short body, and pointed to a black horse after moving his hands and feet.