Chapter 2: A Trip to Xiazhou
Yuegu sat under the window and bowed her head to embroider, Yang Hao looked sad for a while, the female girl Ying who rode a horse and shot arrows on the grassland had been tortured into an embroidered girl in this cage, seeing Yang Hao coming, Yuegu put down the embroidery frame and stood up, lowered her head and didn't speak, the cell head closed the iron door and retreated, and the house was deserted again,
Yang Hao noticed that a new door had been built on the wall by the window on the south side of the house, and a large and sturdy copper lock was hung on the door, but the key was inserted in the keyhole, which meant that Yuegu could go out of the cell and take a walk in the small courtyard at any time.
Can have such a "creative", needless to say that it should be Guan Suo, even if others have this idea, they don't have the guts, the Department of Military Justice sentenced Yuegu to lifelong solitary confinement, and it is not clear where the solitary confinement is, Yang Hao originally wanted to open up a small courtyard in the back garden, so that Yuegu lived in it, even if she didn't want to come out, she had time to see her often, but this kindness was categorically rejected by Yuegu, Yang Hao couldn't forget the look in her eyes when she rejected herself, indifferent and resentful, and every time she thought of it, her heart was sore and painful,
Although serving a sentence in Fengzhou Prison was requested by Yuegu on his own initiative, he was still anxious to judge Si Menglang, and he was not sure how to confiner Yuegu's seclusion and how to forbid it, and later instructed this fifty-year-old official to knock on the door of the closing rope late at night, and ask the young junior who was twice as young as himself for advice.
Guan Suo instructed him, the first essence of the seclusion is to live in a quiet and quiet environment, and no idlers should be disturbed, second, since it is forbidden, she can't be allowed to walk out of the Feng'an prison at will, especially not out of the defense compound, otherwise where is the majesty of the law,
Meng Lang suddenly brightened, a thousand thanks, after returning to the prison, he vacated his official room, converted into an elegant cell as a place for Yue Gu to serve his sentence, Zhang Bozhong once came to see, looked at a piece of yellow earth outside the window and said: "Isn't it too monotonous, if the wind will be sand into the house." Meng Lang understood, as soon as Zhang Bozhong left, he immediately led people to spread grass and plant flowers on the vacant land, which was very green and green.
Soon Guan Suo also came to take a look, and when he was leaving, he walked to the window of the south wall, looked at the small garden for a while, and then slapped the wall and left.
Meng Lang concluded that there must be a reason for his beat, so he thought about it for three days and three nights, and the old wife saw that he was muttering all day long and didn't listen, so he asked the reason, and the judge told the truth, and the old wife clapped his hands: "I don't understand this, he thinks that the wall is in the way, you just open the door where he has photographed." Meng Lang suddenly realized, hugged the old wife and kissed twice, the horrified old wife couldn't close the mouth for a long time, and the next day Meng Lang gathered people, personally commanded, and opened a door on the wall, the reason is to facilitate the flower carpenter to prune the flowers and trees in the small courtyard,
Yang Hao took off the lock and threw it aside, pushed open the small door and walked into the small courtyard, but an acre square, there are a few locust trees in the northeast corner, along the wall in the south is a cluster of moon flowers, next to the moon season flowers dig a pool, the pool water is used to water the flowers and trees, someone still has a few fish in it, when the sky is cloudy and stuffy, you can often see the fish probe inhaling, this is the only living thing in the courtyard, near the small door is placed next to a stone table and three carved stone piers,
Yang Hao asked Yuegu: "The air outside is good, why do you have to hide in the house." ”
Yue Gu didn't answer Yang Hao's question, but asked, "Why do you want to imprison my father again?" ”
Yang Hao didn't understand how Yuegu could know that the barbarian was under house arrest when he was in a prison cell, so he replied: "Your father raised troops to attack Yongbian County, killed Zhu Yong, the commander of Yongbian County, and slaughtered innocent people, and should be beheaded according to the law." ”
Yuegu wept angrily: "According to the law, I should also kill my head, why don't you kill me, but you want to confine me here like a sheep, I would rather be killed by you than live like this again, please kill me, bury my body in the prairie, I will be grateful to you in the next life." ”
Hearing this, Yang Hao became inexplicably irritable, and said angrily: "It's not that I don't want to kill you, it's that I can't kill you, you are willing to be used by others and plot to assassinate your husband, not only do you not repent, but you also complain that I imprisoned you here, you don't want to stay here, I prefer you to stay until you grow old." Yang Hao slammed the door and left, ignoring the sound of Yue Gu covering his face and crying bitterly behind him,
Originally, I wanted to relive the old relationship, but I didn't want to make a fuss without a face, Yang Hao regretted and blamed himself, his face was gloomy and ugly, at the door of the prison, he bumped into Qing'er and the maid Jin Ling, Jin Ling's hand was holding a food box, and when he saw Yang Hao, he quietly hid the food box behind him, and his eyes glanced at Qing'er unnaturally,
Qing'er didn't expect Yang Hao to come, they met on a narrow road, and it was too late to hide, seeing Yang Hao's gloomy face, guessing that he had touched a nail in Yuegu, Qing'er knew his personality too well, if he didn't find a place to vent this nameless fire, he would not be happy for a day, she secretly complained in her heart, this good person really can't do it, she made some snacks to see Yuegu with good intentions, and he wanted to be his punching bag for no reason,
Qing'er gritted her teeth, barely squeezed out a smile, but her hands nervously squeezed the handkerchief, and her heart jumped to her throat.
Yang Hao snorted softly in his nose: "Since you came, you won't go in." After saying this, he walked over, and for the first time, he didn't get angry at anyone.
"Scared the hell out of me." Jin Ling patted his heart and secretly rejoiced,
Qing'er glared at her and snorted coldly: "What's there to be afraid of, he can still eat you." ”
Jin Ling didn't dare to say anything, but secretly made a noise in his heart: "I said something wrong, a slanting fire actually came at me." ”
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Yang Hao is the first time to Xiazhou, from the scale of the city, Xiazhou is much larger than Feng'an, but far less prosperous than Fengzhou,
Meng Bochang personally went out of the city to greet Yang Hao, he hadn't seen him for more than a year, Meng Bochang didn't seem to have changed at all, he was still tall, thin, clear and cold, and his eyes were still condescending, he greeted Qing'er and Lu Rui, and then asked Xiaoyu: "Are you his good-looking Xiaoyu?" ”
Xiaoyu also learned his tone and said: "I am Xiaoyu, are you his old friend Meng Bochang?" ”
Meng Bochang was speechless, blinked and stopped talking, Lu Rui covered his mouth and laughed non-stop, Yang Hao was afraid that Meng Bochang would not be able to get off the stage, so he glared at her, Lu Rui couldn't hold it anymore, and laughed recklessly,
Qing'er hurriedly said, "Let's go to the city to see the little nephew." Xiaoyu patted Lu Rui: "Don't smirk, it's embarrassing." It was easy for Lu Rui to stop laughing, but it was very uncomfortable, Meng Bochang was afraid of her, so he said to Yang Hao: "Don't you want to see my horse farm, go, I'll accompany you to go around." Yang Hao, who said the word "accompany", sighed in his heart, in his impression, Meng Bochang has always been condescending when talking to himself, it seems that this time is really different from the past, and even Meng Dashuai, who is arrogant by nature, began to look down on himself.
Meng Bochang's horse farm is in the west of Xiazhou City, covering an area of thousands of acres, the horse farm breeds a thousand inferior horses that are only suitable for pulling carts and packs, the Uighurs promised not to intervene in the dispute between Fengzhou and Quze in the "Dong Sai Agreement", Yang Hao was determined to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to Qu Zebu, obtain the technology of Quze Buke to breed oolong foals, and breed this excellent horse breed himself, oolong foals are too good, with it, there is no need to worry about the nomadic tribes on the grassland who come and go like the wind,
There are many places in Fengzhou that are suitable for building horse farms, but Yang Hao doesn't want this technology to spread to the surrounding nomads.
Therefore, as soon as the "Dongsai Agreement" was signed, Yang Hao wrote to Meng Bochang, persuading him to vacate the horse farm to raise valuable oolong foals, but there has been no positive response from Meng Bochang, this time he came to Xiazhou, Yang Hao was holding back a force to persuade him to change his course, Meng Bochang took the initiative to take himself to see the horse farm, which is a good sign, but Yang Hao also knew in his heart that this was still 108,000 miles away from his nod and agreement.
"What do you mean by Pegasus, can you show me some of them?"
Meng Bochang had heard the name of the oolong horse, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, he was quite unimpressed with this kind of miraculous horse, with his personality if he didn't see it with his own eyes, even if you said the sky, he wouldn't really believe it, Yang Hao decided to let the facts speak, let him see the handsomeness of the oolong foal with his own eyes, he beckoned behind him, and the guard Zhang Lang rode a tall thin horse and walked over,
"This is the legendary Pegasus." Meng Bochang's face was shrouded in a thick cloud, the appearance of the oolong horse was too inconspicuous, a pair of bones were big and thin, and the fur was gray, how could this have the appearance of a heavenly horse,
"Brother, how about we race a lap." Zhang Lang challenged a small school school riding a Hexi horse beside Meng Bochang,
The little colonel turned his horse's head and asked, "How do you compare?" ”
Zhang Lang pointed to a big tree two miles away: "Go around that tree and come back." ”
"Let's go." The small school will leave after beating the horse, this is completely Meng Bochang's style, just do what he says, without dragging his feet.
"Drive."
Zhang Lang didn't expect the other party to react so quickly, when he urged the horse to start, the little colonel had already run out at least twenty feet, Meng Bochang sneered: "Is this the soldier you brought, is this still useful." Yang Hao didn't say anything, the reason why Zhang Lang reacted so slowly was because he explained it in advance, in order to completely convince Meng Bochang,
The tea time is not enough, the two horses have run back around the big tree, when the school is ahead of Zhang Lang more than 20 zhang, when the two horses are basically walking side by side, everyone can't help but sigh, Meng Bochang is silent, the riding skills of the two are almost the same, Zhang Lang can come to the top, the reason can only be attributed to the good horse under his seat, when there is still half a mile from the end, Zhang Lang shouted to the school: "Brother, I will go first." He clamped his legs, and the oolong horse suddenly opened its four hooves, and swooped out a large section, like a heavenly horse descending to earth, and immediately left the little colonel far behind,
Seeing Zhang Lang and his horse coming head-on, Meng Bochang's attendants couldn't help but panic, because according to common sense, at such a close distance, they couldn't restrain their horses.
But Meng Bochang didn't move, who dared to move,
"Phew."
When there were still three or four zhang away from the crowd, Zhang Lang retracted the reins of the horse, and the galloping oolong horse suddenly retracted the four hooves and stood firmly in place, the crowd suddenly broke out into a burst of screams, Zhang Lang started twenty zhang behind, but threw the small colonel riding the Hexi horse nearly thirty zhang away, and could suddenly stop his feet in the rapid run, the two horses are superior and inferior at a glance,
Meng Bochang didn't have anything to say, he called Xiao Yunze, the tooth general who took care of the horse farm: "Vacate this place within ten days, and the stables should be carefully washed and ready to welcome Tianma into the stable." Meng Bochang's words were never said once, and the people below did not dare to question his orders in the slightest, Xiao Yunze, the captain of the horse steward, frowned, it was indeed too difficult for him to dispose of thousands of horses within ten days,
"Give me all these horses, I have them on my farm." Yang Hao helped him come up with an idea,
"Give it to you, trade with cash, and don't owe it on credit." Meng Bochang made a straight face and did not give in, Yang Hao is now a wealthy upstart in the northern country, if he doesn't knock on his bamboo pole, is there still heavenly reason?