The man returned the salute: "It's definitely not good, the injuries on the body are not good, the money is spent, and the horse is thin." ”

"Haha, brother said that he laughed, who can be wandering on the rivers and lakes without encountering difficulties, I didn't bring much silver when I went out today, here is a little, brother take it and use it first." Chao Gai said and took out his wallet, but there were only ten taels in it, and he looked at Liu Tang again, and Liu Tang only had five taels on him. A total of fifteen taels were handed to this man.

"Brother is too little, but the owner of this shop knows me, let me tell him, your room and board are exempted." Chao Gai said that Tianya Inn was opened by the Chao family, which is a secret, and outsiders basically don't know.

This man was a little at a loss, "I don't know anything in my life, the first time we met, my brother gave so much silver, it is not Brother Chao Gai, who is known as the King of Tota." ”

"It is here, I see that my brother has a strange appearance, it is not Duan Jingzhu, who is called Cybernaut in the rivers and lakes, Brother Duan." Chao Gai said.

Liu Tang next to him scratched his head, he heard that Duan Jingzhu, the horse thief, was nicknamed the Golden Retriever.

"Brother is in love, Duan is just a groom, how dare you call Cybernaut." Duan Jingzhu said modestly, but the psychology is so beautiful, and I don't know which dog day named himself a golden retriever, and now he has a new nickname called Cybernaut.

"Why don't I do it, how about the three of us eat a few bowls of wine." Chao Gai laughed.

"Okay, it's just what you can't ask for."

Tianya Inn is a hotel secretly established by Chaogai, in order to listen to the news, it belongs to the middle and low-end level, and the food is cheap. Liu Tang shouted: "Xiao Er cut four catties of mutton, stewed a rooster, and came to two jars of good wine." ”

The three of them sat down on the seat next to the window, Chao Gai saw that Duan Jingzhu's arm was oozing blood, took out a bottle of gold sore medicine and said, "Brother Duan, if you don't dislike it, I have a bottle of gold sore medicine here, the effect is okay, how about bandaging it." ”

After that, Chao Gai went to untie Duan Jingzhu's bandage and helped Duan Jingzhu with medicine.

Duan Jingzhu got up from the stool, pushed Jinshan and poured the jade pillar, knelt down and kowtowed to Chao Gai and said: "How can Duan someone be virtuous, dare to work for his brother, please accept the worship of the younger brother." ”

Chao Gai hurriedly helped him up, Liu Tang had a good look, and hurriedly went outside to call Lang Zhong over, bandaged Duan Jingzhu's wound anew, and prescribed seven or eight pairs of medicines, and asked the shopkeeper to send them to the room.

After a while, the wine and meat came up, and the three of them ate and drank nonsense, and Duan Jingzhu was dizzy from drinking. After eating, Duan Jingzhu took Chao Gai's hand: "Brother, when we met for the first time, thanks to my brother's love, I couldn't repay it, so I gave my brother this dark cloud snow." ”

"This, this, how this makes, is too precious." Chao Gai hurriedly excused himself.

Duan Jingzhu lowered his voice and said, "Don't hide it from my brother, this horse was stolen by me from the Western Xia, and I was chased and killed by the Xixia people along the way, and the wound on my arm was shot by an arrow." I am very happy to see my brother today, and I see that my brother is a general's demeanor, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, how can he not have a good horse. ”

Chao Gai repeatedly refused, Duan Jingzhu insisted on sending it, and Chao Gai had to accept it. Out of the inn, Liu Tang asked, "Brother, isn't Duan Jingzhu's nickname called Golden Retriever?" Why do you call him Cybernaut? ”

"Liu Tang, you have to use your brains in case of trouble, think about who wants to be nicknamed Golden Retriever, he must not be happy, so why not give him a better nickname, usually learn from me carefully, you are first-class and learn more things, I will send you out to stand alone in the future." Chao Gai said.

Chao Gai went to the horse market and asked people to send the horses to the Chao family building in the city to be well guarded and carefully fed. He called Liu Liang again and said: "Duan Jingzhu from Tianya Inn gave me a good horse today, and you will send him a thousand taels of silver in a while, so that he can send any good horse to our horse market in the future." ”

Liu Tang said: "Brother, he said that he would send his brother, why did he send him a thousand taels of silver." ”

"This horse is worth thousands of taels at least, my brother received such a generous gift from him, and it doesn't sound good to spread it out in the rivers and lakes, and I asked Liu Liang to send him a thousand taels of silver, which is the deposit for a good horse in the future."

Liu Tang smiled: "I understand, my brother is benevolent." Liu Tang also studied hard, and Chao Gai's treatment of people and things is what he learned.

At dinner, Chao Gai and Liu Tang came to Tianya Inn again to find Duan Jing to live in, and this time they went directly to Duan Jing's guest room.

"Brother Duan, I've got you a few clothes to see if they fit." Chao Gai said. Liu Tang put his clothes on the table.

Duan Jingzhu came over to take a look, there were quite a lot of things, a rattan hat, two coarse cloth clothes, although it was not a good clothes, but this cloth was strong and durable, and everyone liked it, and a pair of cowhide boots. There is also a short knife made of fine iron.

Duan Jingzhu tried on clothes and shoes that fit very well, the short knife is only a foot long, and the shape of the mountain knife is exactly the short knife that the blacksmith has been tempered thousands of. Duan Jingzhu touched the blade with his fingers, almost cutting his hand.

"My brother loves him so much, how can my brother bear it." Duan Jingzhu's eyes moistened.

"Brother Duan, don't be like this, Brother Duan is downcast in my Yuncheng territory, this is the result of my Chao Gai's poor care." Chao Gai said.

Liu Tang asked the shopkeeper to send a few roast chickens and a jar of wine to the guest room, and chatted with Duan Jingzhu while drinking.

"Brother Duan, my family has a lot of business, and I intend to buy two or three hundred horses for my own use, although our local horses eat and drink in the province, but they can't run, Brother Duan goes south and north, I don't know where the horse is suitable."

Speaking of horses, Duan Jingzhu's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "The horses that grew up in the agricultural area are actually not bad, but they didn't graze long distances when they were young, so their bodies are not suitable for fast running, but they can jog and pull carts to plow the land." If you want to say that there are two kinds of horses I have seen, one is the Dawan horse in the Western Regions, this kind of horse is tall and long-legged, runs fast, has strong bearing capacity, and is most suitable for military generals to ride. There is also a kind of horse that is still in the Western Regions, called the Bedouin horse. ”

"Why is this horse's name so awkward?" Liu Tang interjected.

"Yes, this horse has a beautiful body, a medium physique, and a beautiful gait, and is very popular with the nobles of the Western Regions. However, these Bedouin horses and Dawan horses are both scarce and expensive, and the people of the Western Regions regard them as national treasures and refuse to sell them easily, so they are not suitable for my brother. Guanzhong horses are tall, strong, very enduror, and resistant to roughage, but the horses there are strictly controlled by the Western Army, and there is no problem where to buy ten or eight horses, and it is almost impossible to buy more horses, so don't think about Guanzhong horses. Only the Khitan pony in the Liaodi grassland is very good, this kind of horse can eat grass roots, can eat snow, is resistant to severe cold in winter, resists heat in summer, and has little demand for concentrate, and the grain straw in our place can be used as feed. This horse has the strongest speed and endurance, and can run 200 miles a day, but it is a little shorter, and it doesn't look very beautiful on the outside. ”

Chao Gai understood, this so-called Khitan dwarf horse is a Mongolian horse, with a shoulder height of no more than one meter and two three, and a weight of only six or seven hundred catties, which is much worse than the Western Regions horse and Dawan horse. The body is stout, the limbs are solid and powerful, the physique is rough and strong, the head is large and the forehead is broad, the chest is deep and long, the legs are short, the joints are firm, and the tendons are developed. The back hair is dense and the coat color is complex, and it doesn't look very good. However, this horse is resistant to roughage, simple to manage, and is most suitable for large-scale military horses.

"Oh, Brother Duan, do you have a way to sell this kind of horse?" Chao Gai asked.

Duan Jingzhu said with a smile: "It should be no problem, I have a group of brothers in Hebei who just happened to pull them to do it together." In the morning, the shopkeeper of Mashi Liu sent a thousand taels of silver, and I used this as the capital, and my brother waited for my news, and there would be news in three or two months. ”

Chao Gai, Liu Tang and Duan Jingzhu chatted very speculatively, Duan Jingzhu is very proficient in Xixia dialect, Khitan dialect, and even the dialects of some small tribes, and he is well-informed. It was almost midnight when Chao Gai and Liu Tang went back to the horse market, and in order not to arouse suspicion, the men transferred from the department store and the restaurant in the horse market all went back, and there were only six resident guys, two veterinarians, and Liu Liang. Chao Gai and Liu Tang led thirty elite guards to live in the guest room of the horse market, and everyone was unsheathed with swords and guns, ready to attack at any time.

After a while, the chirping of night owls sounded outside, and the neighing of war horses, Chao Gai sat on a chair with his cheeks propped up and pretended to sleep. Liu Tang took two guards to the roof and looked around. At this time, something strange happened, the fence of the stable, and a black shadow was driving the horses out.

"Someone stole a horse." Liu Tang broke off with a loud voice, waking everyone up. Liu Tang Tipu knife jumped down from the roof, and he and Chao Gai's horses were tied to the door, and the saddles were ready.

"Drive, drive." Liu Tang pounced on the horse, and through the not too bright moonlight, he saw that there were more than ten black-clothed people who stole the horse, and their faces were covered with black cloths.

The man in black was also taken aback, he didn't expect to be discovered just after opening the fence, shouting, and he didn't care about stealing horses, so he turned around and fled, and this group of bastards actually prepared horses outside and ran out of the poplar forest on the road and ran away.

The group of black-clothed people who have been chasing for two or three miles have stopped running, and the first person is also carrying a large knife with a big waist and a round waist, and it seems that it is Yu Baosi who came over during the day.

"Birdman, look at the knife." Liu Tang urged the horse, and the Pu knife slashed the façade of Yu Baosi with the sound of the wind, and Yu Baosi raised his knife to parry. In terms of strength, Yu Baosi is not small, but in terms of knife skills, he is a lot worse than Liu Tang, and after twenty rounds, Yu Baosi was invincible, and shouted, "The wind is tight, pull and breathe." Chao Gai brought people to arrive at this time, and killed the horse with a knife on his back, and knocked over three people with the back of the knife, Liu Tangpu also slapped down the two people, and everyone came to tie up the five people. Yu Baosi led the people to continue to run forward, but before they walked 500 meters, there were two tripping ropes on the road, and everyone was caught off guard and fell off the horse. A man on a horse, armed with a big knife, touched his beard and smiled. Next to him were twenty or thirty horses, and in a few moments they caught all the ten horse thieves.

Chao Gai also brought people up, and it was Zhu Tong who led people to ambush in front.

Seeing Chao Gai Zhu Tong said: "Chao Baozheng, the thief has been caught, give me the five people you arrested, and I will go to the yamen to receive the reward, and also exchange some wine for the brothers." ”

"Zhu Dutou, I'm afraid I can't solve it this time, look at who you arrested." Chao Gai said.

Zhu Tong pulled the person in the lead, tore off the mask, and saw that it was Yu Baosi from Zengtou City.

"Why did Bao Zheng harm me?" Zhu Tong complained.

Chao Gai said: "I'm waiting for the horses to be stolen, and it's not common sense to find a quick catch." ”

Zhu Tong has nothing to say, and besides, he usually doesn't take Chao Gai, but Zengtou City is not only him, but even the prefect of Yuncheng County and Jeju do not dare to offend, fortunately, Zengtou City is in Lingzhou, according to which it is two or three hundred miles.