Listening to Pei Yue's words, Yuan was silent.

"Master mother, the little master has grown up, and if he is an eagle, he has to spread his wings and fly high!"

After a long time, the Yuan family sighed leisurely: "Uncle Yue, Tao'er will please you!" ”

Although Hua Jingjing was also very reluctant, having Hua Wenxuan by Li Tao's side also made her feel a lot more relieved.

After dealing with the two most difficult people, Li Tao explained to Li Longji, Li Wenjiao, Nie Wushuang, Fan Changfeng and others respectively. In addition, Li Tao also carried out the necessary training for 23 child slaves, especially the training of camping in the field and repelling the enemy in the chariot formation. Although there is some meaning of grinding guns in battle, it is better than touching the dark in both eyes.

In addition to Pei Yue, Hua Wenxuan, the Tong brothers and 23 child slaves, there were also Wang Maozhong, Li Yide, Kang Ba and Zalle, as well as more than 20 handlebar styles carefully selected by Fan Changfeng.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, 50 or 60 people, including Li Tao, and more than 20 horse-drawn carriages and Ucha and his party went straight to the outside of the Saiwai.

After a thousand miles of trekking, they came to Huangsha City outside the Saiwai after more than ten days. Wucha is really trustworthy and takes Li Tao around every day.

A few days later, Li Tao was ready to go back. He said to Ucha, "Shopkeeper Ucha, thank you for your hospitality these days. I'm going back, I wonder if I can sell a bunch of horses back! ”

When Wu Cha heard Li Tao's thoughts, he gave a thumbs up and said, "Li Xiaolangjun, you have courage!" ”

Ucha has a lot of prestige in Huangsha City, and he opened his mouth, and sure enough, the cattle dealers were very face-saving. Li Tao only used eighty percent of the price to buy 200 healthy horses. Of course, there must be no Turkic pure ** in this. Li Tao didn't expect to get the Turkic horses back this time, he just wanted to familiarize himself with the route and the process of selling horses, so as to lay the foundation for the next chance to transport the Turkic horses back to Luzhou.

Before returning to Luzhou, Wu Cha specially told Li Tao that he must find two good veterinarians, you must know that Huangshacheng has traveled thousands of miles to Luzhou, the pasture has changed many times a day, and the drinking water has become irregular, and the livestock is very likely to suffer from dysentery, and if it is not treated, the consequences will be unimaginable.

According to Ucha's advice, Li Tao found two good veterinarians to accompany him, but after the long journey, the horses still suffered from dysentery, and at least one hundred and fifty died.

Li Tao and his party came to Baicao Town, where they stayed at the largest Sitong Inn in the town, while the remaining horses were locked up in a livestock shed in the backyard of the inn. While they rested, they had two veterinarians treat the remaining horses.

But after a few days of treatment, twenty or thirty more horses from Li Tao died, and the remaining dozens of horses were all dying.

Li Tao then knew that the original horse trafficking was not as simple as he imagined, he walked around the Sitong Inn every day, and found that there were still a few merchants who sold horses, and they were also worried, because the horses they trafficked were also suffering from dysentery.

Li Tao looked at Kangba: "You also saw the horses trafficked to Luzhou by Wucha, all of them are so strong, does he have any secret to trafficking horses?" ”

Kang Ba shook his head in shame.

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At dawn, I heard an arrow "creak" outside. When Li Tao walked out of the house, he could already hear the sound of fighting outside.

Pei Yue stood beside Li Tao: "Little master, I heard from the people in the inn that it was the madman of the grassland who came into the town!" What to do? ”

"Don't worry about the goods and the horses, let our people not act rashly, and see what they have to do first!" Li Tao said quietly.

Hou Luozi led more than 100 horse bandits into the inn, and nearly 100 healthy horses and merchants' goods in the Sitong Inn were all stolen by Hou Luozi's men, but fortunately, Hou Luozi did not hurt anyone.

Looking at the figure of the horse bandit in the distance, Pei Yue turned his head and asked, "Little master, why don't we make a move?" ”

Li Tao smiled: "Uncle Yue, don't worry, there is a time for you to do it!" Now you follow them and find out their nest, I have my own plan. We are waiting for your news at the inn."

Pei Yue nodded, turned around and disappeared into the night.

In the afternoon, Pei Yue returned.

"Uncle Yue, how is it?"

"Little master, found! In addition to the horse bandits, there is another group of people who have joined them! ”

"Oh? Who? ”

"Speaking of which, it's still an old acquaintance!" A smile appeared on Pei Yue's face.

"Could it be Ucha?" Li Tao's heart moved.

"That's right, it's Ucha!"

Pei Yue followed the horse bandits from a distance, and the horse bandits walked along a desolate fork in the road, but Pei Yue did not disturb them. Eventually, the bandits entered a stone village on the Gobi Desert. After determining the location of the horse bandits, Pei Yue was about to come back to report the news, but saw the madman Hou riding out again. It turned out that it was a team of nearly 100 people, driving more than a dozen carriages into the stone village. And the leader is none other than Ucha.

After listening to Pei Yue's words, Li Tao said without hesitation: "Without further ado, let's set off immediately!" ”

When Li Tao and the others arrived at Shizhai, the sky was already dark. Li Tao was not in a hurry to enter the stone village, and when he was about to let Pei Yue enter again, it happened that Wu Cha and his subordinates drove hundreds of horses stolen by the horse bandits out of the stone village and headed straight to the southeast. It seems that Hou Madman and Ucha are indeed in the same group.

Li Tao looked at these horses carefully and found that they were all dressed in horse clothes. Livestock are trafficked thousands of miles away, and experienced livestock dealers will prepare clothes for those horses, although these clothes are extremely rudimentary, only the back and belly of the healthy horses are simply wrapped, but in the event of violent storms and cold weather, the healthy horses can still withstand the wind and cold weather.

When the horses passed by on the road, Li Tao, who was at the downwind outlet, smelled a pungent bitter smell.

Li Tao suddenly patted his head and said, "I know the secret of Wucha's purchase of fake Kuding tea!" ”

The raw material for making fake Kuding tea is bitter herbs outside the city of Luzhou, which is also a kind of herb, although it is cheap, but it has miraculous effects in curing dysentery. Because of the extremely bitter taste, the horses would never drink the medicinal soup made from bitter herbs. Ucha is cunning and cunning, and he has come up with a solution, that is, to set up a cauldron and put the fake Kuding tea and horse clothes into the pot to boil. After absorbing the medicinal soup of bitter herbs, the horse clothes can be worn on the body of the healthy horse, and the horse can be used to treat diseases. Ucha accidentally discovered that fake kuding tea was effective in treating dysentery in livestock, and after using the method of soaking horses in horse clothes, the horses that were trafficked basically did not die of disease.

Finding out Wucha's secret, Li Tao had a smile on his face.

"Little master, what should I do?" Pei Yue asked.

"Let them go!"

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