"Good horse! All of them are rare and good horses! ”

Wei Qing touched this horse, and then touched that horse, and only this sentence was left in excitement. A large number of horses walked through the streets of Pinewood, and the crowd of onlookers gave a sigh of praise. Sometimes there are also good horses from the Pingyang Hou Mansion passing through Songlin Town, but those are too few, how can there be dozens of horses to come spectacular. What the Han Dynasty lacked was good horses, and many county orders and even officials in the state capital rode ox carts.

"Brother Su! These are the horses you got back from Qiangdi? Wei Qing's face was full of excitement, and his eyes were glowing green.

Su Ren nodded: "This is only a part, if the business is good this time, there will be good horses sent here!" ”

Hawking looked at Wei Qing, as if the upper class saw a bun that had never seen the world, with a look of contempt: "How is it?" It's a lot better than the broken horses in your horse farm, isn't it? ”

Wei Qing smiled: "The horses in the horse farm are all bought by Her Royal Highness the Princess and Pingyang Hou from all over the country, there are Xiongnu horses, there are also Western Regions horses, and it is the first time I have seen Qiang horses." ”

Su Ren said: "Horses everywhere have the strengths of all places, the Hun horses have short and thick legs, especially advantageous, the speed of running is not very fast, but it is better in endurance, long-distance running is considered first-class, but the speed is inferior; The horses of the Western Regions are tall and sturdy, with slender hooves and tall heads, very beautiful appearance, and fast sprints over short distances, but they are not good at long-distance running; The local horses of our big Han, hehe, don't dare to compliment. ”

"Although the Han Dynasty has a vast land and thousands of miles in length, it is a pity that there is no good pasture, and most of the horses raised are dull, and it is useful to drive and grind, and it is not good to go into battle; Qiang horses are good, growing on the plateau, there is no problem with endurance, the Qiang land is endless, the speed of the horses is not slow, and the Qiang land has many mountains, these horses walk on mountain roads, dangerous roads such as walking on flat ground! Of course, Qiang horses also have a disadvantage, that is, they eat a lot of food, and if they are raised according to ordinary horses, they will be scrapped sooner or later. ”

"Brother Su is really a good horse man, don't worry, our horse farm has special people to raise horses, no matter where the horses can get the best care!" Wei Qing nodded again and again, and immediately promised to treat these horses well.

Su Ren smiled: "Before the negotiation is completed, my brother is so sure that Pingyang Hou can buy my horse?" ”

Wei Qing looked left and right, leaned over to Su Ren's side, and said in a low voice: "I don't dare to hide it from my eldest brother now, the horse farm is nominally the property of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, both the place and the personnel are from the Pingyang Hou Mansion, but these horses are raised for Your Majesty!" As long as His Majesty personally recruits, they will become war horses in the true sense of the word! ”

"Oh? Have you met Your Majesty? Su Ren pretended to be surprised.

Wei Qing hurriedly shook his head: "How can I have that blessing, how noble Your Majesty is, I'm just a horse boy, but I don't have that blessing!" ”

"If you can see Your Majesty, it is not a big deal to dedicate these Qiang horses to Your Majesty! It's a pity ......"

So they found an inn in Songlin Town, rented their livestock shed, and had their own groom who came with the horses from Chang'an to take care of the horses. After a few people had eaten, they were ready to rest. After running for two days and one night, I was so sleepy that I couldn't do it, and I snored loudly as soon as I hit the pillow. This is Songlin Town, with Huo Zhongru's support, and Su Ren has already let out the words, these horses are going to be sold to the Pingyang Hou Mansion, but he is not worried that someone will dare to make up his mind.

was sleeping comfortably, and Su Ren felt that someone was pushing him. He turned over and went to sleep, but the man didn't give up. Su Ren opened his hazy eyes and saw that it was Wei Qing: "Isn't Brother Wei looking at the horse?" How did you come to my room, what? ”

Wei Qing smiled embarrassedly and said, "Brother Su, it's time to go, shouldn't we go?" You and Leader Yang have made an appointment for the hour, and you can't walk too fast at night with the horses, I calculated that it will take about three hours, let's ......"

Su Ren rubbed his face, and had no choice but to get up: "You are a punctual person!" ”

Wei Qing hurriedly helped Su Ren bring the shoes: "What the manly husband promised should be done, and those who don't keep their promises will not be able to become a big deal, this is what Her Royal Highness the princess said." ”

With such a spy by his side, a group of people had to follow Wei Qing's plan. One by one, they were woken up and yawned to wash their faces. Wei Qing had already asked the shopkeeper to prepare the meal, slept for four hours, and was hungry. After eating and drinking, the guards and grooms went to pack up the horses, and a few others sat in the lobby of the inn and waited.

It was dark and I couldn't see my fingers, and I felt that it was about to rain. Wei Qing looked at it for a while, and then hurriedly ran to the livestock shed. Hawking said angrily: "This kid is a house slave, he is so loyal to his master, and he doesn't know what there is in the Pingyang Hou Mansion that is worthy of him?" ”

Su Ren smiled but said nothing. Leng Jun happened to see it, so he asked, "Looks like you know?" ”

Su Ren shook his head and smiled: "I can't say it!" I can't say enough! ”

After packing up the horses, the group hit the road again. After walking for less than five miles, it rained, Wei Qing hurriedly instructed the groom to drape the grass curtain he had prepared for the horses, and the rain and sweat drenched Wei Qing's body. With Wei Qing, the "groom head" Zhang Luo, Su Ren couldn't refute Wei Qing's kindness, so he had to continue to move forward in the rain.

The road became more and more muddy, and the horses became more and more difficult to control, so Wei Qing and the horsemen simply abandoned the horses, led all the horses in the rain, and moved forward step by step. Su Ren and the others wanted to help, but they were stopped by Wei Qing. One is that they don't understand horses, and if they startle one, something will happen. In addition, this proposal was put forward by Wei Qing, and it is not easy to trouble these people in this kind of weather.

At dawn, the rain finally stopped. After a night of tossing, it's not far from the racecourse. Right by the river, a place was found to wash the horses, and they also rested. Raise the fire, roast your clothes, and drink the hot batter. Wei Qing was watered by the rain all night, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.

Leng Jun touched Wei Qing's forehead: "It's okay, just warm up!" ”

Wei Qing hurriedly got up: "Thank you Leng Gongzi!" ”

Looking at Wei Qing's embarrassed appearance, he thought for a while: "There is a question, I haven't understood it all the time, don't you mind if you say it?" ”

"Leng Gongzi, please speak!"

"You are just a house slave in the Pingyang Hou Mansion, although the house slave is also very loyal to the master under normal circumstances, but I have never seen such a loyal person as you, for the sake of the master, even if you lose your life! I always feel that there is something here, I wonder if Brother Wei can tell me? ”

The conversation between the two did not escape everyone, and Hawking and several of the guards also heard it. Last night, Wei Qing had to take the horses to the racecourse even if he didn't want to die, and they all saw it clearly, and they were all very curious about this issue.

Wei Qing looked at the people beside him and smiled: "You are all outsiders, and you don't know the horror of the drought in Hedong more than ten years ago!" At the beginning, they ate weeds, and then they ate bark and grass roots, as long as they could eat everything, and when these things were eaten, they were left to eat people. ”

Wei Qing stopped and drank the noodle soup in the bowl: "We have many children, two sisters, two younger brothers, and me, as well as my parents, seven people, such a big family has nothing to eat, what a terrible thing, the first to starve to death is my youngest brother, I can see it clearly, just buried it, it was dug out by someone, and it was snatched up!" ”

Speaking of this, Wei Qing choked up and couldn't cry, many guards also cried, and Hawking, who was chirping, also listened silently.

"Later, the second brother also starved to death, I didn't want to bury it, I didn't want to be robbed like the younger brother, so I held the body of the second brother and didn't let go, those hungry and crazy people came to rob it, I was too young to fight for them, I saw that they were going to snatch the second brother away again, the eldest sister, the second sister and I cried and shouted, how to beg is useless! I can't blame those people, I don't blame them until now, no one can do anything at that time, but no one would do such a thing if there was a little way! ”

wiped a handful of tears: "Just when I was about to despair, Pingyang Hou came, he replaced my second brother's corpse with three stones of grain and rice, three stones of grain and rice, ten people can eat for a month, and my second brother's skinny corpse can't eat for that long!" ”

"Later, many people are desperate, dead and dead, Pingyang Hou Mansion also accommodated a lot of people, we are also among them, although we can't eat enough every day, but at least we don't starve to death, my parents took two sisters and I took refuge in Pingyang Hou Mansion, do these things Pingyang Hou has no requirements, always with a smile on our homeless people, give us food, give us clothes, every time I see him, I have an impulse, who wants to move Pingyang Hou in this life, I Wei Qing will fight with him!"

The guards nodded. Wei Qing smiled: "Later, our whole family willingly entered the Hou Mansion as slaves, although Pingyang Hou is very good to us, we can eat well, have a place to live, and occasionally have a few rewards, isn't this what we ordinary people want to live all our lives?" ”

Leng Jun nodded: "Well said!" Good brother of Zhi'en Tubao, I have made up my mind for your brother! ”

"We've got it too!" A group of guards stretched out their hands.

Hawking stood up: "Pingyang Hou is not bad, but it is far worse than my eldest brother, the dignified Hou Mansion saved a few people and boasted about it, my eldest brother raised 100,000 yuan mountain thieves in Shu County, that is the big hero!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves, a group of people galloping through the road. I ran out a short distance and turned back again. Seeing Su Ren from a distance, he asked loudly: "Is it Mr. Su of Shu County on the other side?" ”

When Wei Qing saw it, he stood up, threw away the guy who was eating in his hand, and ran towards the horse team: "Hou Ye, Hou Ye!" We are here, it is Mr. Su of Shujun! ”

Su Ren looked at Wei Qing's crazy appearance. The brain was completely short-circuited, and listening to what he had just said, his guess was completely wrong. I thought it was Wei Qing and Princess Pingyang who frowned when Cao Shou was not dead, but I didn't expect it to be Wei Qing and Pingyang Hou Cao Shou who had a relationship! The result was a big surprise.