Volume II, Chapter 9, Taming the Horse
Except for the sight of the village courtyard and the valley chief Sun Sheng, who could not see it for the time being, the farmland in front of them was all unobstructed, and there were no horses.
Changsun Sheng pointed to the valley: "Third brother, could it be that there are wild horses here?" ”
Yang Tian smiled slightly: "Of course not, you come with me." "Clamp the horse's belly and walk directly towards the village.
As soon as Yang Tian arrived at the gate of the village, the gate of the village suddenly opened, and several servants came out of it, leading the horses for the two, and Changsun Sheng was surprised to find that these servants had clearly seen them in the small courtyard in Chang'an.
Eldest Sun Sheng stammered: "Third brother, you ...... Don't tell me that this farm is yours. ”
"It wasn't before, but now it is, let's go, go in and have a look."
Changsun Sheng was surprised, from the intersection of these days, he knew a little bit about Yang Tian, the small courtyard in the city was given to Li Gang not long ago, but he didn't expect to buy a village here, just from the area of this village, it will cost at least thousands of yuan, where did Yang Tian get so much money.
Walking into the courtyard, it is dizzying to see the eldest grandson, the pavilions and pavilions inside, the pond and the small pavilion, made exquisitely, the garden, the rockery, everything.
Changsun Sheng couldn't help but ask: "Third brother, this village is really yours, how much does it cost?" ”
"Well, it's not expensive, this farm, including the fertile fields outside, only cost less than 20,000 yuan in total." Yang Tian replied lightly.
There are at least thousands of acres of fertile land outside, 20,000 guan, if it was a year ago, these fertile fields alone are not only at this price, it is indeed not expensive, thanks to the new emperor's ascension, Emperor Zhou Xuan sat on the throne for less than four months, and now he has killed a prince, five generals, and more people who have been delegated and degraded, and those imperial uncles were all driven out of Chang'an by Emperor Zhou Xuan, so that Chang'an's housing prices and land properties have depreciated rapidly for a while.
This Zhuangzi was the property of an official who had just been demoted, and his family had been sent to other places and was in urgent need of money, so they sold it cheaply, probably less than half of the normal price.
Despite this, Changsun Sheng is also staggered, he is a forbidden army, and guards the palace, and his salary is very generous, and it only totals more than 90 or 20,000 yuan a year, and Changsun Sheng's income will take more than 200 years to achieve.
Changsun Sheng couldn't help but sigh, he had already heard the neighing of the horse, the sound of this horse had never been louder, Changsun Sheng knew that it was a good horse when he heard it, and hurriedly ran towards the sound of the horse.
After a small lake, a garden, two halls, Changsun Sheng came to the stable, this stable covers a vast area, at least dozens of acres, there is a racetrack outside, there are more than ten good horses on the racetrack, Luo Yi and other eighteen people are walking around with a horse.
This is the trick that Yang Tian taught them to ride a horse, like them, if they want to learn to ride a horse, they must first be familiar with their own horses.
Although all the horses in the field were good, Changsun Sheng's gaze did not stay on them, his eyes were fixed on a tall horse in the stable that was completely black, and it was it that made the cry just now.
Changsun Sheng walked in and took a look, the skeleton of this horse is tall, the muscles of the whole body are all symmetrical, streamlined, and there is not a single miscellaneous hair on the body, only under the hooves of four horses, there is a faint white hair exposed, Changsun Sheng remembered the horse scripture he had read before, and took it out: "Dark clouds cover snow, this is dark clouds cover snow." ”
Yang Tian nodded: "Yes, it is the dark clouds covering the snow." ”
It is said that Xiang Yu's mount black horse is a dark cloud covered with snow, can travel thousands of miles a day, treading water like walking on the ground, although it may be exaggerated, but this horse from the appearance alone, anyone can see that it is a good horse.
This dark cloud covered snow had already put on the saddle, this saddle may make it uncomfortable, and after a few long neighs, grinding its body on the pillars of the stable, trying to get the saddle down, saw Changsun Sheng and the others coming, only stopped, opened the horse's eyes, and looked at them.
The more Changsun Sheng looked at it, the more happy he became, and he stretched out his hand to mold the dark cloud cover snow, "Whew," the dark cloud covered the snow unceremoniously, opened his mouth and bit Changsun Sheng's hand, if it wasn't for Changsun Sheng's hand to shrink quickly, he would be bitten.
Seeing that Changsun Sheng was coming, Luo Yi and the others dropped their horses, and hurriedly followed to see the excitement, no one would not like to see this horse, but it was a pity that this dark cloud covered the snow and was unruly, only yesterday in order to saddle it, five guards had been bitten, and a few people were almost kicked off, Yang Tian strictly forbade any of the eighteen teenagers to approach this horse.
Changsun Sheng's whole mind was on this dark cloud cover snow, and when he saw that the horse was locked by iron chains, he said to Yang Tian: "Third brother, let people remove the horse chains." ”
Yang Tian was a little worried: "Second brother, you have to be careful, the dark clouds cover the snow but it is a wild horse." ”
This horse was left by the previous owner of the Zhuangyuan, it is said that it cost the owner a large price of 1,500 yuan when he bought it, but the owner got it for three months, but there was no way to tame it, and now he wanted to leave Chang'an, so he had to leave this unruly horse, and he didn't even ask Yang Tian for a copper coin.
When the previous owner of this horse bought it from a horse dealer, according to the horse dealer, at least five of the best horse catchers died to capture the horse, and no less than ten good horse catchers who wanted to tame it were killed or injured.
Tie Lian was opened with a bang, and the dark clouds covered the snow looked at the wide open stable door suspiciously, five months ago, it was still a horse king who was free on the grassland, since it was ensnared with a mare, I don't know how many people wanted to tame it, and after it was killed or injured, the dark clouds covered the snow was tightly locked by the iron chain, and no one dared to touch it.
After three months in this farm, some people began to try to tame it, and after several people were killed and wounded, the dark clouds covered the snow and locked it again, and it was trapped in the stable. Today it was opened again, and the dark clouds covered the snow with excitement, and finally someone wanted to find death, and it looked up at the crowd outside, and walked out of the stable with its head raised proudly.
Yang Tian watched the dark cloud cover snow walk out, and hurriedly took Luo Yi and the others to withdraw a hundred steps away, only Changsun Sheng stayed in place, and the dark cloud cover snow suddenly knew his opponent this time. This time, the opponent was taller than the previous ones, and the eyes were far sharper than those who wanted to conquer it before, and the dark clouds covered the snow with a very bad premonition.
"Roar." The dark clouds covered the snow with a hiss at Changsun Sheng, like a lion roaring.