Now all the contradictions seem to have dissipated from the northwestern border, and with the wind, they swept across the meanders of the Yellow River and gathered in the Kanto region.

A few days later, the battalion generals of Jingzhou City, Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang (Liu Haibin's son) rode horses, and took dozens of athletes to Baili New Town to hunt, Gao Yue was entertained in the public house, and Zhi Hui was accompanied, after hearing that the Lingtai Ling was charmed by the fox demon, Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang laughed, "Hu Lang and Hu Ji are just demagoguery with illusions, and Gao Shiyu misses his beloved wife, and he is a scribe in Dengke, and the fox likes you the most." Now please send out the second tun official and the tun team to follow us, and let the high servant Yu see what the fox is most afraid of, that is, we are wearing soap robes, shooting skin and drinking feathers! ”

At that time, the buckwheat around Lingtai County has been harvested, and the winter wheat has been planted, it is the leisure time of early winter, as soon as I heard that I was going to hunt foxes and raccoon dogs in the Daxi River, Gao Yue's two subordinate officials Hou Lan and Cheng Junren, plus dozens of soldiers from the tun team (Gao Yue intended to let the tun team exercise their hunting skills), and even the sister light party items from the city side also came over dozens of horses, and stepped on the snow together, searching for the fox who was a demon.

Zhi Hui also wore a wool light coat, rode on a small horse, followed Gao Yue, and watched the hunt herself.

Eventually, the group of soldiers drove to a cypress grove next to the river, because Hou Lan and Cheng Junren found that there were several lines of fox footprints on the snow here, and soon Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang ordered all the battalion soldiers and party soldiers to approach and enclose the forest.

The soldiers of the scout came to report that there were more than ten large ancient mounds in the woods, as well as an abandoned small temple, and the steles were down, and the desolation was incomparable.

"This is it!" Zhang Yufei shouted.

The battalion soldiers carried firewood, grass and shovels on their backs, approached these ancient mounds from all directions, and then dug a pit on one side, once the fox's nest was dug through, they lit the firewood and grass and threw it inside, and soon fireworks broke out, and the cry of "wah, wow, wow" similar to a crow exploded from all corners of the woods, and this sound Gao Yue now knew that it was the cry of the fox.

"Oh my God." Zhi Hui saw that in the raging flames, many foxes of all sizes, some of them were burnt, some were so smoked that they rolled everywhere, they all let out the crow-like screams, and ran out of the woods, and the whole forest was full of red and gray figures shuttling.

But all the passages outside the woods were blocked by the athletes, and the sound of bows was endless, and the foxes fell one after another, and died by drinking their feathers.

"There, there!" Suddenly, the sharp-eyed Zhihui pointed to the west side of the woods, and there was actually a woman who looked like a mule with a blue-gray head, and hurried out.

"That's a fox ghost, don't let it go!" As soon as the woman on the back of the mule heard the hound's bark, she immediately fell to the ground, showing her true form, and ran on the snow.

Gao Yue looked at it, and sure enough, it was the fox that appeared on the roof of the back building earlier.

After about a moment, he chased the hounds out of more than two miles, hunted the fox to death, and ran back slowly with its corpse.

When Gao Yue and Zhi Hui walked into the mule that the "orchid" was riding, they found that it was actually transformed by a wild boar, and the women's dress and socks worn by the orchid were scattered on the ground, like the remnants of a cicada after it had shed its shell, and the skirt was indeed yellow, exactly like what she saw in her dream.

"Haha!" Zhang Yufei jumped off the horse, took out a dagger, opened the mouth of the dead fox, took out a bead, and handed it to Gao Yue, "Gao Shiyu, this is the charm bead that the orchid bewitcher handed over to you." However, this is also an adventure of the high servant, I heard that the fox charm and not death, the future glory and wealth are amazing. ”

Gao Yue took it, only to think that this bead looked weird, and there was a smell of the fox's body.

It turned out that the orchid relied on this to give me a nightmare, thanks to Zhi Hui seeing that the situation was not right when I was asleep, she acted at the opportunity and sacrificed herself to save her, alas-this Tang Dynasty, it seems that because of the vast land and sparsely populated people, there are really things that are troubled by evil animals!

It's just that the ridiculous beast changes just a few times, and soon the donkey skills are exhausted, and the laughter stops.

In the middle of the day, the foxes in the cypress forest were all hunted and killed, and the athletes used wooden poles to carry more than 100 foxes one after another, ready to cut the meat and peel the skin. Later, Gao Yue ordered that all the woods be cut down and transported to the New Alanta Monastery into timber, ready to wait for November, which will be used to build a new Buddhist hall, and to clean and repair the ancient mounds in the forest, so as to comfort the deceased and prevent them from being occupied by wild foxes and rabbits as caves.

As for Mei Zhu, Gao Yue thought it was a harmful thing, so he sent it to the Alanta Temple and handed it over to Master Mingxuan to be suppressed by the pagoda.

Since then, there has been no such strange thing in Baili New City, and the people, soldiers and party members in the city have said that Gao Shiyu will have an extremely legendary life in the future, and it is not enough to be a small prologue in the fox demon dream.

On the third day of the second half of October, the sisters who had gone to buy horses returned one after another, and Ming Cunyi brought good news to Gao Yue: they had bought good and cheap horses from Shizhou in the east of the river, only twenty-five horses, a full four hundred, and the detachment was returning along different roads.

Following Ming Cunyi, of course, there were camel and horse merchants from Shizhou and people from Dang Xiangfan, who came to collect the balance.

Gao Yue stabilized Ming Cunyi, and sent someone to inquire privately, only to know that Ming Cunyi, who looks nine feet tall, is rough and simple, and it turned out that he ambushed me.

Why these horses are so cheap is very simple.

They were originally driven by Tu Dong and Chixin, because they failed to sell all to the Tang family, so they brought 4,000 horses back, as a result of more than 900 people in Zhenwu City, Tu Dong and Chixin Mission were killed by Zhang Guangsheng and left only one person to go back to report the news, these horses Zhang did not want, so they sold them to local merchants at a low price, and rushed to Taiyuan Mansion to sell, and Hedong Jiedu made Ma Sui dare not ask, and the merchants had no choice but to hurry, to Shizhou, where there are many party people in Hedong Road and Hezhong, Xia Sui, where there are especially many party people, and the northwest town will also come to buy livestock, hoping to sell it, It doesn't matter how much it costs.

Ming Cunyi and his two brothers, Ming Jingyi and Ming Weiyi, heard that there were cheap horses for sale, and they also rushed to Shizhou when they heard the news, and bought 400 horses at a price of 20 guan per horse without any difficulty, so they swallowed the extra 1,000 yuan.

After learning the facts, Liu Deshu asked Gao Yue if he wanted to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Gao Yue replied: "Yan Xiang told me that when he was in the Jianghuai Tongcao Transport, he had supervised the construction of Cao boats, and at that time, the shipwrights and boatmen were greedy for money, and took part of the shipbuilding materials to subsidize the family. Farmers, craftsmen, and soldiers are the cornerstone of the country, and they must be let for private use first, and then the official property can be reliable, this is the truth that Yan Xiang told me. Don't ask the Ming brothers, this thousand yuan will buy him more tea and wine,"

Anyway, this group of party members buy tea and wine, and our government and public officials can also share the money, and they have already bought cheap and excellent war horses, so why bother?