"Cui'er, I've worked hard for you, I'll go find a carriage when I get to the town in front, and now I can only wronged you to ride a horse first." Su Xiu led the horse slowly forward and said softly to Liu Cui'er.

Although Liu Cuier is not a beautiful girl, but a girl, coupled with her poor family background, has never ridden a horse, and even when she got on the horse, Su Xiu took a lot of effort to make Liu Cuier sit firmly on horseback.

(It should be noted here that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no Gaoqiao saddles and bilateral stirrups in archaeology, but historians speculate that saddle stirrups had appeared in the Han Dynasty, but stirrups are also divided into unilateral stirrups and bilateral stirrups, and bilateral stirrups appeared earlier in the tombs of Langya Wang's family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty found in Nanjing in the sixties and seventies.) Therefore, this article assumes that there is a saddle and no stirrups. ）

"Big brother, it's okay, Cui'er is riding on a horse, but big brother, you are walking, Cui'er is already very unhappy in her heart, so you don't have to break the bank."

"It's just a carriage, what's the cost, not to mention that I hired a carriage for you completely, the eldest brother has to rush to Zhuojun, if you really want to go like this, I don't know what year and month it will go, so Cui'er doesn't have to worry about letting me spend money." Money is something that life does not bring and death does not bring, it must be used at the right time. ”

"Alright then, Cui'er listens to big brother."

Soon, Su Xiu and the two came to Zhending County. I haven't been back for a year, and I still haven't changed much. Su Xiu took Liu Cui'er to the inn, ordered some food, and added some dry food by the way.

"Cui'er, let me tell you, that's where I met Master in the first place. At that time, thanks to my eldest brother's wit, otherwise Master would definitely not want me. ”

"How is it possible, the eldest brother is fooling people, with your wisdom and intelligence, your master is the loss if you don't want you!"

"Yo, is Cui'er so good at chatting? Why didn't I notice it before? Come, let me hear a few more nice words. ”

"Huh? Big brother, why are you so thick-skinned, how can anyone chase after others to praise you. ”

"There is no way to live in today's world, and I still have to practice." Su Xiu looked at Liu Cui'er with a wicked smile.

Liu Cuier's face was flushed when she was stared at by Su Xiu, and she was eating vegetables vigorously, and she secretly saw that Su Xiu was still staring at her, and the blush that had slowly dissipated came up again.

Su Xiu saw that Liu Cuier was indeed thin-skinned, and she didn't continue to tease her anymore, in fact, Su Xiu did this just to let Liu Cuier come out of her grief as soon as possible, but she didn't have too many ideas. But in the eyes of others, it is the little couple flirting.

During the meal, Su Xiu told Liu Cuier about the process of his travels, and heard Liu Cuier's yearning, it turned out that Brother Su had done so many magical things in just one year, from having almost nothing to do after going down the mountain, to spending millions of dollars to buy officials, and then to Mount Tai to gain a firm foothold and train troops to suppress bandits. These piles are all things that Liu Cuier can't think of.

Girls have a dream of a hero prince in their hearts, and Liu Cuier is no exception. Liu Cuier, who originally had a good impression of Su Xiu, now admires Su Xiu even more.

……

After eating, Su Xiu hired a carriage and headed all the way to Zhuojun.

Near Zhongshan Country, a horse team was shrinking its formation, staring at the horse thieves surrounding them outside with a wary expression.

"Which cottage are you from?"

"It's good to say, the master is Meng Wei, the second master of Zhongshan Panlong Village. I'm in a good mood today, I only want money, not human life, so hand over your money, leave 300 horses, and you can pass. ”

One of the horse thieves said a man with a big knife with a ring head twenty-seven or eight.

"It turned out that Meng Er was in charge, and I was fortunate to be lucky. I am Zhongshan Sushuang, and I have had several encounters with you Panlongzhai Zhouda. Today, I came back from selling horses in Liaodong, and there is not much money left around me, and there are still three or four hundred gold here, so I think Su invited my brothers to tea, and I will come to thank you in the future. ”

A twenty-four-five-year-old young man in Tsing Yi came out of the horse team and said to Meng Wei.

Su Shuang, a native of Zhongshan, was on the same road as Zhang Shiping in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a horse dealer who walked in Zhuo County, Liaodong, and funded Liu Bei's military capital and iron, and was an investor in the beginning of the Shu Han regime, and later disappeared.

"It turned out to be Brother Su, since it is Brother Su's horse team, then leave two hundred horses." Meng Wei laughed and said to Su Shuang.

"Second master, so you won't let me go anyway?" When Su Shuang heard Meng Wei say this, the smile on his face immediately retracted.

"Su Daguan, I can't help it, you also know that I have a lot of people under me, so if you pass, the brothers can only drink the northwest wind, forgive me."

"Since the second boss is unwilling to sell Su's face, then let's see the real chapter under our hands. In the future, I will come to the door to ask for an explanation. After saying that, he retreated into formation.

Su Shuang's horse selling this time was originally to see that there were too few horses in Zhongshan, and he felt that he could make a fortune by transporting a batch of horses in Zhongshan, plus he sent a lot of things to Zhou Jian, the biggest horse thief leader in Zhongshan, but he didn't expect that it was this Longzhai that stopped him in the end.

It's a shame that Su Shuang feels that this trip is relatively far, and basically brings out his escort team, otherwise he will really have to suffer this dumb loss this time.

However, when the two sides met each other, Su Shuang found that his escort team and the horse thief on the opposite side were not at the same level at all. The convoy is a deterrent all year round, so that some small people dare not beat the idea of his horse team; And the horse thief has been living a life of licking on the knife's edge, spending all day in fighting and killing, and he is extremely fierce.

"Shrink your defenses, don't let the horse thief get close to the carriage and horses!" Seeing that his guards were suffering heavy casualties, the captain of the escort hurriedly gave an order.

"Yo, it's so lively, tsk, this formation is really not small. I said you should let it, this pipeline is not spacious in the first place, and a lot of you people are blocked here, and you don't let people pass? Believe it or not, I will accuse you of one charge of obstructing traffic. ”

The people on both sides were red-eyed here, and suddenly there was a discordant sound, and everyone couldn't help but pause. Following the prestige, I saw a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old riding a tall horse, followed by a carriage, the groom trembling and following the young man, the curtain of the carriage swayed in the wind, and there was no one inside.

"Who are you, there's nothing to do with you here, if you don't want to die, get out of here!" Meng Weijian, a young man, was very angry, but his face did not change in the face of this large group of people fighting, and he couldn't tell what this person was coming from for a while. In line with the idea that more things are better than less things, quickly persuade people to leave, so as not to cause trouble.

"It's getting dark, where are you going for us? Why don't you get out of the way and let us go? ”

"Less nonsense, hurry up, although the master doesn't want to kill more, but he has already killed so many today, and he doesn't care about one or two more."

"Originally, the uncle was in a good mood and didn't want to see you in general, since you don't know each other, then the uncle asked you to see the uncle's methods today." After saying that, the young man rode his horse and rushed forward, brandishing the spear in his hand, and rushed left and right among the bandits, as if he had entered a no-man's land.

"Keep up!" The boy turned back and yelled at the groom. After roaring, he opened the way in front and broke through in the direction of the horse team with the carriage.

"Pick up the young man." Seeing that the young man was unstoppable, the captain of the guard hurriedly ordered his subordinates.

Although the horse thief was fierce, his personal strength was mediocre, and he did not have much cooperation, but he only relied on a deadly ruthlessness to kill, so he was quickly carved out of a passage under the situation of being attacked on both sides.

After the rendezvous, Su Shuang immediately stepped forward and said to the young man: "Shaoxia is strong in martial arts, please ask Shaoxia to help me and others retreat from the enemy, and Su Shuang will definitely be rewarded in the future." ”

"It's okay, a group of rabble, I, Su Xiu, am not afraid of them. Wait, you said your name is Su Shuang? Zhongshan horse dealer Su Shuang? ”

That's right, this young man is Su Xiu who took Liu Cuier to Zhuo County, the two of them hurried all the way unhurriedly, this day just passed Zhongshan Kingdom, seeing that it was getting late, they planned to go to the county town in front to stay, who expected to meet horse thieves on the road to rob.

"It's Su, the young man knows me?"

"I've heard that I often hear people talk about Zhongshan horse merchant Su Shuangzhang Shiping in Zhuo County, and I didn't expect to meet him here. A certain Su Xiu, the word Pingdi. ”

"Su Pindi? Could it be that you are Lord Su Xiusu, the Taishan County Shou of Yingchuan Academy? ”