Chapter 8 The Road
Ten miles away from Chang'an City, a long pavilion stands on the edge of the official road, which is built here to send off people and greet VIPs. At this time, the place was already full of people, and the neighing of horses was incessant, and it was a mess.
Because now there are dozens of people gathered here, they are all children of various military generals in Chang'an City, and they are waiting for someone here with their own guards. Li Kuan went on the road alone this time, and Li Er originally prepared a team of guards to escort him to the right guard to report, but Li Kuan refused. It took a lot of effort to get Li Er to give up this idea and let the guards retreat.
Li Kuan rode to chase the clouds, running around the small gray ash, raising a road of smoke and dust on the official road, and quickly approached here. This made those gentlemen who had been waiting for a long time excited, they had been waiting here for almost an hour, and in the morning they said goodbye to their respective families, and waited for Li Kuan in this ten-mile long pavilion with a few guards, but they didn't expect him to come now.
"His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" Li Kuan came to the front, and everyone knelt down on one knee to salute, this is not usual, because Li Kuan is wearing a suit of armor at this time, not civilian clothes, these people are also wearing armor, and they followed Li Kuan to the mixed military camp this time.
"Get up! Why just a few of you? What about Cheng Chumo? And Li Huaiyi, where did Li Huairen and the three of them go? Li Kuan raised his eyes and saw that there were only two members of the Wei Chi family, Chai Lingwu, Li Pengcheng, Liu Pengju, and the three brothers Cheng Chuliang and Cheng Chubi were still young, but Cheng Chumo didn't come at this age, and two of Li Xiaogong's family didn't arrive, which made him feel surprised.
"Cousin Kuan. The three of them can't come, because they want to go to the left guard, not to the right guard with us! "Chai Lingwu and Li Kuan have had a great relationship in recent years. That's why Li Kuan is called his cousin on weekdays.
"What? The three of them went to Zuo Wuwei? What's going on? Li Kuan didn't expect that something would happen at this time, the left Wuwei was in Longyou, and the right Wuwei was in Tianshui, the two were separated by a long distance, and they were originally going to have a group of brothers together, but they were separated like this.
"There's no way, their dads are all in Zuo Wuwei. They can't help but go! It is an indisputable fact that the left Wuwei is the most elite unit in the Tang Dynasty, and its combat effectiveness is higher than that of the right Wuwei. The main thing is that Zuo Wuwei's general is the old general Qin Qiong, and most of the generals under him are fierce generals, and the soldiers brought out by such generals are all screaming, and of course they are fierce in battle. The right guard is different. The commander-in-chief was Generalissimo Li Jing. In addition to General Wei Chi and Li Shiji, Hou Junji, these two people are good at using strategy, although their martial arts are also very strong, but most of the time they fight with their brains, not muscles. "Chai Lingwu knows more about these than Li Kuan, and his father Chai Shao is also an errand under Li Jing, so the right Wuwei is a little worse than the left Wuwei in terms of force value.
"If that's the case, forget it. I'll settle accounts with them later! Li Kuan was ready not to pursue it again, but thought again: "That's not right." Even if you can't go, you should come to see you off, why don't you even show up for this farewell? ”
"We all set off on the same day, how did they come!" Li Pengcheng shouted loudly. Li Kuan's face turned red, and he was a villain in vain, he thought that Longyou was a little closer to Chang'an, and Cheng Chumo and the others would leave two days later.
"Forget it, let's go! This time we all went to report together, I really didn't know that I would be assigned to those people, I hope it's not General Hou Junji or General Wei Chi, I don't like General Hou Junji, I always feel that he is a little bit unpredictable, General Wei Chi is too violent, and when he is a soldier under him, he doesn't know when he will be kicked in the ass! Li Pengcheng complained that he was Li Shentong's grandson and Li Kuan's cousin. This old prince has also made great achievements for the Tang Dynasty, and he has been at home for many years. Among his grandsons, only Li Pengcheng likes military life, and the rest hold the sage book every day and don't plan to fight on the battlefield. Therefore, Li Shentong, the old prince who has been fighting all his life, loves Li Pengcheng very much, and this time he specially transferred two personal guards around him to protect Li Pengcheng.
"By the way, cousin Kuan, why didn't you bring a guard?" Chai Lingwu saw that Li Kuan was alone and asked.
"What are you doing with a guard? I'm going to adapt to the battlefield this time, how can I really feel the cruelty of the battlefield with my guards? When there is danger, the guards pounce on them to protect me, and I feel like a fart! Li Kuan said, in fact, he felt that it was really inconvenient to take a guard, especially that kind of personal guard, Li Kuan didn't know if he was talking in his sleep, so he had been sleeping alone, and Xiao Tianxiang was arranged by him to sleep in another room.
"It's up to you, anyway, your skills are almost the same with or without guards, those who are taller than you are all already generals, or the personal guards of various bigwigs, I think the two around me together are not your ten enemies, you don't have to bring them!" Chai Lingwu said with a little jealousy, he was really jealous of Li Kuan's martial arts, you must know that his cousin is only thirteen years old, and he is still a half-grown boy, but his skills are actually better than most of the generals in the army, and even Chai Lingwu has seen Li Kuan pedal Ping across the water, although it is only a small river of less than three feet, but Li Kuan actually ran over from the water and did not fall into the water. This made him envious and jealous in his heart, and he knew that he was afraid that he might not be able to reach Li Kuan's current height in this life.
"Alright, let's go! Strive to arrive in three days! Li Kuan is not arguing with Chai Lingwu, because when he mentions his skills, this guy is full of resentment.
The group set off on horseback and galloped on the official road. Chai Lingwu was close to Li Kuan, and he didn't fall half a step all the way down, Li Kuan was surprised. You must know that Chaiyun, where Li Kuan sits down, is one of the best horses in the Royal Horse Farm, and he always runs at the front in the stocking on weekdays. If there were other horses next to him, he would definitely be willing to overtake him, and he felt that the speed of chasing the clouds was getting faster and faster when he left before, but he didn't expect to be able to get rid of Chai Lingwu. So Li Kuan looked at Chai Lingwu carefully, and under his crotch was a yellow fat horse, but the mane of this horse was curly, and the ears of this horse were actually very long, more than half of them compared to other horses like Li Kuan's chasing clouds.
It was the first time Li Kuan had seen this horse, and before Chai Lingwu's mount was just a red horse, although it was also handsome and extraordinary, but it was definitely not as good as the current one. Li Kuan looked carefully for a while, and the war horse that could be compared to his own cloud-chasing black horse, which made him interested.
"Cousin, isn't your horse the legendary curly-haired red rabbit?" Li Kuan asked out loud when he saw that the horse's ears and mane were very distinctive.
"Definitely! My horse is not a curly-haired red rabbit! Chai Lingwu replied.
"Not? How is this possible, look at this ear, this mane, and this cloud-stepping black horse that can keep up with me, how can it not be a curly-haired red rabbit? Li Kuan asked.
"Really, cousin Kuan, look, my horse is red? It's obviously yellow, so it should be called a curly-haired yellow rabbit! Chai Lingwu laughed, this horse was really a cross between a yellow fat horse and a curly-haired red rabbit, the skin color was yellow, but the rest of the characteristics were the same as the curly-haired red rabbit.
"You...... Haha......" Li Kuan wanted to say that Chai Lingwu was quibbling, but when he saw the color of the horse's coat, he was speechless for a while, and he laughed with it.
"Alright, let's wait for them later! I ran a little hurried just now, and they fell behind, especially Yu Chi Baolin and Yu Chi Baoqing, who were as strong as bears, plus a suit of armor and a pair of steel whips, a unique weapon handed down from their family, they really wanted to crush those two war horses to death! Chai Lingwu said bad things about the stupid sons of Wei Chigong and the others. But it is also a fact, these two muscular pimples weigh more than 200 catties alone, plus armor, and the weapon is 400 catties. If you change to two inferior horses, you will definitely be crushed.
"It's not a good man's job to speak ill of people behind your back, beware of me telling those two brothers, unless you lend me your curly-haired rabbit to ride later. Otherwise, if you are beaten, don't blame me for not being righteous! Li Kuan said with a smile.
"How can you do that? Am I wrong? Make a small report, beware of me asking my mother to clean you up! Chai Lingwu said viciously to Li Kuan, and threatened Li Kuan with Li Xiuning.
"Auntie won't be in Youwuwei, I'm afraid we won't be able to return to Beijing until the beginning of spring next year, most of the year, if you still remember, then I will admit it!" Now it's up to you to consider whether or not to lend me your horse to ride. Otherwise, I'll help Brother Wei Chi stop your horse later, so that you won't be able to run away!" Li Kuan said indifferently.
Chai Lingwu looked at the rest of the people and the guards who were gradually approaching, and gritted his teeth fiercely: "Count you ruthless, I'll lend you a ride later, but I'm going to ride your chasing clouds!" Chai Lingwu bargained.
"Okay!" Li Kuan promised that the reason why he wanted to ride this horse was mainly influenced by the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in which the sentence "Lu Bu among the people, the red rabbit among the horses" left a deep impression on him, and there were countless good horses in the whole "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", only that red rabbit horse made all the generals droop.
And the curly-haired red rabbit is also mentioned in "Three Kingdoms", which is the best mount of the tribe of Mrs. Zhurong, the wife of the Southern Barbarian king Meng Huo, and the two curly-haired red rabbits are her and Meng Huo's mounts.
In this way, there are talking and laughing all the way, there are fights and troubles, and the group of people drove nearly 2,000 miles in three days, and it was okay at first, but when they got to the back, they were guilty of riding a horse, but they were all big men, how could they weaken their face, and they all held on, hoping to fall down after others.
Anyone who has ridden a horse should know that after riding a horse for a long time, needless to say, the uncomfortable strength on the inner thighs of those herdsmen is full of calluses, these sons usually ride horses to practice riding where is it like this time, together for several days, one by one is uncomfortable to death, and even Liu Pengju and Chai Lingwu, the two walking postures that are not so bad, are a little deformed. Li Kuan didn't feel uncomfortable, he still had the heart to look at the surrounding scenery along the way. (To be continued......)