The wind in March is always a little cold and clear, especially when the horses are galloping, the wind blowing on the face is really as sharp as scissors, fortunately the horse thieves are used to this kind of life and will not be scratched by the scissors.

The place where the horse thieves are hiding is a small village called Qugou, and it is not very far from here to Yuyang County, three hundred miles away, and the official road of the Great Sui is flat and straight, and the war horse is very comfortable to run. Speaking of comfort, it is relatively speaking, if ordinary people are bumpy on horseback for half an hour, they are afraid that their buttocks will wear out their skin, and if they run down for three hundred miles in one go, even regular cavalry will feel pain. People who have lived on horseback for a long time are easy to identify, walking on the street you see who has awkward legs, looped legs, walks with the upper body still, and the lower body is bumpy and bumpy, either long-term horseback riding or polio.

It's easier to identify if you're in a bathhouse, and whoever has a calloon on their buttocks can almost be identified, either spanked every day or riding a horse with an eight-hour workday. Being spanked every day, I don't know if anyone is willing to beat a layer of dead skin.

These horse thieves had lived in Yanshan with Zhang Zhongjian for several years, and after several years in Saibei, they had long been accustomed to the words on horseback. After going north from the ditch to Gu'an County to buy supplies, Tiefutu, a team of horse thieves who could stop children crying at night in the area of Youzhou, Zhuo County, left like this. Their next stop was Yuyang County, and no one thought that in that place not much bigger than a donkey's egg, so many brothers would be killed.

"Grandpa, Xiao Di is in Yuyang?"

Li Xian's crotch is a dark horse that is only two years old, which Zhang Zhongjian specially selected for him from dozens of young horses. It is said that there is also the bloodline of the famous Khitan breed Botawu, but there is no white hair like the four auspicious clouds on the horse's hooves. This horse Li Xian has been raising for more than a year and likes it very much. Chen Que'er once deliberately made fun of an impure Bo Ta Wu, what is rare? Silly boy, it's your grandpa who fooled you, what is there to be proud of. Li Xian said with a deep face, Brother Little Bird, you don't understand, this horse is different from people, and mongrels may not be a good thing.

Zhang Zhongjian held a hairy grass in his mouth, raised his head and looked at the gray sky: "I was taken to the Eight Immortals Mountain by her aunt, and said that the girl Qingqi is a good seedling, and she has to be taken away and accepted as a beginner disciple." You know, I can't afford to mess with your aunt. ”

Li Xian smiled, yes, there are not many gentlemen in this green forest who can afford to provoke the Red Buddha girl.

Li Xian sighed, she is also an aunt, why is the gap so big? Yang Guo had an aunt who eventually became his wife. I also have an aunt, and if I don't do it, I might be able to become my stepmother.

"Grandpa, if there is a real fight, who is better between you and your aunt?"

Li Xian has always been curious about this question.

Zhang Zhongjian thought for a while and said, "Fight immediately, I can win her in less than five rounds." If it's hand-to-hand combat, and your aunt's little tricks are unleashed, I really can't say who wins and who loses. Her messy methods are a headache to think about. ”

"It's a pity."

Li Xian sighed.

"What a pity?"

"It's a pity that it's a good stepmother, and the falling flowers are intentionally ruthless."

Zhang Zhongjian glanced at Li Xian and said, "Don't talk nonsense!" The pharmacist has a strategy for governing the country, and his martial arts are above me. And the Red Buddha has a marriage contract with him. Don't talk nonsense about such things in the future, let your aunt hear and tear your mouth. ”

Li Xian shuddered, thinking about the scene when he saw the Red Buddha Girl for the first time when he was a child, and he still has palpitations in his heart. I don't know if the terrible mother-in-law crossed over from the Valley of the Wicked, and actually caught an almost adult black bear and locked it in the cave, and then asked Li Xian, who was only seven years old, if he had eaten bear paws. Li Xian hadn't eaten it, and the Red Buddha asked if he wanted to eat it? Li Xian naturally said that he wanted to eat, and then the Red Buddha smiled and said, "You can cut it yourself." Then he kicked Li Xian into the cave.

Zhang Zhongjian was anxious to rush in to save Li Xian, and the Red Buddha said seriously that if he wanted to truly grow, he must face all kinds of dangers and continue to grow in the test of life and death. The righteousness of what he said was awe-inspiring and reasonable, so Zhang Zhong insisted on standing at the entrance of the cave with a hard bow to guard, and did not go in to rescue Li Xian from the dire situation.

The Red Buddha stood at the mouth of the cave and shouted to Li Xian: "Little guy, no matter what a man wants, he must rely on his own efforts to fight for it." If you want to eat bear paws, cut them yourself! ”

Li Xian wailed in the cave: "Auntie ......"

The Red Buddha gritted his teeth and shouted fiercely: "Don't beg me, you are a man, can't you even get what you want to eat?" ”

Li Xian shouted while dodging in embarrassment: "Auntie is right, what a man wants has to fight for himself." But auntie, if you ask me to cut the bear's paws, at least give me a knife, right? ”

Red Buddha: ......

That's a veritable female devil, Li Xian sighed in his heart.

"Grandpa, the tribe of the Xi people is very close to Yuyang County?"

The reason for the transfer of the Tiefutu to Yuyang County this time was Zhang Zhongjian's decision, and the reason for this was because the Red Buddha in Yuyang County recently sent a letter to Zhang Zhongjian saying that the Xi people had frequently crossed the Great Wall to fight the grass valley recently. At this time, Li Jing was living in seclusion on the mountain in Yuyang County, so the Red Buddha was also here. It's just that the two don't live on the same mountain, and the Red Buddha lives in seclusion in the Eight Immortals Mountain, which is still a long way away from the mountain. The Xi were not fierce and belligerent compared to the Turks, and their relations with the Han Chinese were always stable. It's just that I don't know what happened during this period, the soldiers of Yuyang County were tired of running for their lives, but they couldn't block the mouth of the North Great Wall.

"Out of the North Great Wall is the territory of the Xi tribe, the Xi people live by the water, this is a group of timid and fickle steppe people, compared to the Turkic people are much gentler, the merchants in Shanggu Boling and other places love to deal with the Xi people, they are hospitable and bold, and the merchants can return with a full load every time. This time, they frequently entered the pass, and it could not be said that something big had happened in the Xi people. ”

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said: "The pharmacist pretended to be a loose person in Yuyang, and the matter of ridiculing people made Pei Yan, the shou of Yuyang County, anxious, and he sent people to ask the pharmacist to go out of the mountain several times, but the pharmacist refused, and your aunt asked me to go to persuade the pharmacist." Although he has no intention of pursuing a career, he should also do something for the people of Yuyang. ”

Li Xian pursed his lips, and said in his heart that Pharmacist Li has no intention of career? Silly grandpa also treats you and the Red Buddha as a worldly master who is indifferent to fame and fortune, a person who can give up or even murder his wife who has a marriage contract in order to be an official, and has no intention of pursuing a career? Fool it!

"When you get to Yuyang, Grandpa will ask the pharmacist to think of a table for you."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said, "Grandpa doesn't read much, so it's time to find you a famous teacher to learn from a saint." ”

Li Xian said: "Forget it, grandpa, the table is not a bitch, anyone can mess around." ”

"Xian'er, why do you seem to dislike the pharmacist so much?"

Li Xian tilted his head, too lazy to explain.

Tiefutu is the name that Li Xian came up with, and Zhang Zhongjian is still surprised why the three-year-old child could say such a name in his mouth. But surprised to be surprised, the horse thieves liked the name very much. Although everyone doesn't know what Tiefutu means, whatever, just listen to it. Since the Five Dynasties, many of the names of the elite cavalry have used the word Tiefutu, and in the Song Dynasty, it specifically referred to the heavy armored cavalry under the command of Wanyan Wushu of the Jin Kingdom.

The people in the north are fierce, and more than 60 horses gallop by, and the people will not be very afraid when they see it. At this time, the Great Sui had not yet reached that chaotic period, the country was strong, the law was strict, and horse thieves and bandits were not common in various places. The people on the land of Yan Zhao were brave, and the men practiced sticks, so they scattered and fled when they didn't see the horse team. After three days of continuous driving, I finally advanced to the boundary of Yuyang County at dusk.

Yuyang County is located in Yuyang County, and it is also the only county under the jurisdiction of Yuyang.

Yuyang County is not big, the county is here, so the county is also stable and peaceful. Zhang Zhongjian led people through the county without entering, and went straight to the direction of Baxian Mountain. Baxian Mountain is in the northeast of the county, and it is not close to the county seat. Li Xian rubbed his numb buttocks and asked, "Grandpa, you've already passed the mountain, why don't you go to see your pharmacist first?" ”

Zhang Zhongjian frowned and said, "I didn't plan to see him." ”

"Why?"

"Back then, the pharmacist persuaded me to defect to Yang Su, the Duke of Chu, but I didn't have anything to deal with with the people of the Yang family. When Yang Jian recruited him, Lao Tzu didn't bird him, let alone a Duke of Chu? My brother Sun Shan'an Ping Chen Shi had merit, but he was killed by Yang Su for nothing. It's okay if Lao Tzu didn't kill him, how could he go to work under him? The pharmacist persuaded hard, but I just didn't follow, and now I rashly went up the mountain to see the pharmacist, but I was afraid that persuading him to go out of the mountain would be counterproductive. There is nothing difficult to do about the ridicule of people, since Lao Tzu is here, why go to Panshan to see the pharmacist's face again? ”

Li Xian laughed and said, "It seems that Grandpa, you are not very close to your pharmacist brother." ”

Zhang Zhongjian rubbed his forehead and said with a smile: "As far as you kid is clever, the pharmacist is good at everything, but he is too ruthless." Wancheng has waited for him for many years, and she doesn't know why she refuses to marry! Every time I see him, I feel uncomfortable, so I might as well disappear. (Note 1)

Everyone was relieved when they saw that they were about to reach their goal, laughing and galloping. There is a village named Xiaodao at the foot of the Eight Immortals Mountain, and there are more than 70 households in the village. The villagers live in the mountains, and the folk customs are simple. Zhang Zhongjian had been to Baxian Mountain before, so he knew that there was a village at the foot of the mountain, and planned to rest and beg for water after going to Xiaodao Village, and then go up the mountain to meet the Red Buddha.

There are still two or three miles away from the mountain village, Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile: "The village in front of him is called Chen Xiaodao, and he is already more than sixty years old and can still drink two catties of rice wine in one go, and last time he rested at his house." ”

Li Xian was just about to say why Lizheng was still colluding with you, a big horse thief, when suddenly his heart tightened, and he subconsciously leaned back and stuck to the horse's back. A bolt of bolt shot through his chest, tearing a hole in the placket of his chest. Immediately afterwards, I heard a sound of a machine, and countless crossbow arrows were shot from the woods on both sides of the road like rain, and several of Tiefutu's brothers were shot off their horses!

Zhang Zhongjian shouted, and the brothers of Tiefutu immediately dispersed.

"It's Sui Bing!"

Zhang Zhongjian pulled Li Xian's black horse and hid in the dense forest on one side.

Although Li Xian had not experienced many battle formations, he also judged that it was definitely not the grassland people who were ambushed. The steppe people are good at riding and archery but do not like to use crossbows, and only the soldiers of the Great Sui are equipped with modified Wuhou crossbows. Listening to the voice, there were no less than 100 Sui soldiers ambushed in the dense forest!

Note 1: The real name of the Red Buddha has not been found, and Zhang Wancheng is made up by the author.