Chen Tongsheng was unexpectedly stunned and wanted to step forward, but Song Chuanbai held down his shoulder, turned his head to look, Song Chuanbai frowned, and shook his head gently.

After Van Rui finished his bow, he didn't say a word, and began to clean the surroundings of the house, and he didn't show any curiosity or desire to enter, and he didn't even try to look inside when he cleared the windows.

Then he stopped suddenly.

From Chen Tongsheng's perspective at the time, he couldn't see clearly, but his paused movements were very abrupt, and it was obvious that he had suddenly noticed something.

Fan Rui turned his back to the two of them, approached the window again, checked the window little by little, and then came to the door nervously, paused and groped the steps with his fingers, checking up layer by layer, and finally arrived at the door, carefully checking the lock that was not secure.

His series of actions were very cautious and vigilant, making people feel a little nervous, Song Chuanbai said in a low voice: "He found us." ”

His voice was soft and almost lips, Chen Tongsheng looked at his lips, saw him and said silently: I have never seen him like this.

There was no sound from this, and Fan Rui circled around the wooden house nervously a few times, with a mixture of anger and horror on his face, but quickly finished cleaning, picked up the guy and returned the way he came.

Chen Tongsheng and Song Chuanbai glanced at each other, and got up at the same time to follow.

Fan Rui gave Chen Tongsheng the feeling that he had regressed, generally speaking, Fan Rui would not be so slow to be followed, and the tracking in the forest was actually easy to detect that something was wrong, Chen Tongsheng felt strange, and gently tugged Song Chuanbai's sleeve, his eyes signaled that he was going to approach the past, Song Chuanbai nodded in response, and she stepped forward quickly and narrowed the distance with Fan Rui.

However, even when he reached a distance of only ten trees from Fan Rui, he did not react to the movement behind him. Fan Rui is also trained, unless this dead Yang and Hou are two different people from Song Chuanbai next to Chen Tongsheng, otherwise the means of training people under the two should be the same, Song Chuanbai will not raise a person who is so dull in the face of danger by his side.

Chen Tongsheng looked back, Song Chuanbai had already noticed that something was wrong when Fan Rui first appeared, after all, he was the master who got along with Fan Rui day and night, and he knew Fan Rui's temperament well, and his intuitive sense of crisis at this time was faster than Chen Tongsheng's awareness.

Fan Rui dragged the broken leg, slowly out of the mountain forest, and slowly walked down the hillside, he rode a horse when he came, but people with leg problems are actually difficult to control horses, let alone travel on mountain roads.

Chen Tongsheng looked at the appearance of his legs, thinking that Fan Rui should not be able to control the horse at this time, so he just put the guy on the horse and led the horse to walk slowly.

The place where Chen Tongsheng and Song Chuanbai tied their horses happened to be at a staggered intersection with the road where Fan Rui came, so he didn't notice it, so he followed slowly and wordlessly for a while, and finally saw Fan Rui leading the horse in front of a small village near the town.

In the village, Chen Tongsheng used to see donkeys and mules, after all, these two things are hard to eat, cheap and easy to raise, and the villagers who do not need to go far away are very general about horses, and there are more people who raise horses in the town.

However, even if it is a donkey and a mule, the few horses tied at the entrance of the village, compared with the one held by Fan Rui, all look shabby, all of them are strong and stupid, and some of them can't even be called strong, just a big skeleton of miscellaneous livestock.

The horse in Fan Rui's hand has a smooth and smooth fur, and in this season of raising autumn fat, the fur is even more beautiful like satin under the tightness of the muscles. Even the sideburns of this horse are combed cleanly, and the miscellaneous hair of the four hooves has been trimmed, and the appearance is very upright, like a horse raised by some good family.

Fan Rui can raise horses, he follows Song Chuanbai all the year round, just watching his subordinates do it, and he has almost learned. What's more, in a place like Kyoto, don't say it's a waiting master, it's just a high-ranking family who is more ordinary, and the master can't hide it if he doesn't understand this, but the people around him don't understand anything about raising horses and playing birds, and this kind of fun doesn't understand, that's a very face-saving thing.

There is an unspoken rule in Kyoto, but anyone who cares about raising a small pet has to raise a few people around him, and sometimes they secretly compare themselves with each other, raising those who know horses, maybe they raise more than horses, and if they are less, they will lose face.

Raising outsiders shows financial resources, but also shows that they value talents and can attract and recruit talents, which is one, and there are some clans, often the family will raise such a special person.

The servants around him understand this, and the servants are trained by the family, so it seems that his clan has a background, but the family understands the tricks, why do you have to go outside to invite someone? Famous people are enough for them to bother to invite.

Song Chuanbai wants to mix in this gang, and he often only takes Fan Rui with him, so he intentionally or unintentionally asks Fan Rui to follow him to learn, and gradually he can learn a little bit of everything, and he is not timid in front of outsiders, Song Chuanbai just needs to earn face.

But Fan Rui himself has already reached this step, and he actually has the heart to raise horses?

Raising horses is not difficult, it is simple, but it is definitely not a simple guy, to raise this beautiful fur, I don't know how much effort it takes to eat on weekdays. And looking at the posture of the horse walking and standing, and the appearance of the muscles when running, even a layman like Chen Tongsheng can see that this cannot be cultivated without spending a lot of effort.

What's more, this is not the Hou Mansion, but in a remote and impoverished village in Yanshan, he has no help, no financial support, and no fine food.

Could it be that after the death of Yang and Hou, he suddenly saw through the red dust and left Kyoto to be a horse breeder with peace of mind?

Don't go to the warm south, don't go to the grasslands that are rich in forage and suitable for galloping horses, and come to such a barren place?

Chen Tongsheng doesn't remember that Fan Rui has a hobby of raising horses, he doesn't seem to have any personal hobbies, he is simply a right-hand man on call, and sometimes he is like a loyal silent shadow, unlike Song Zhilan, who frantically ordered clothes and bought fat powder hairpin rings after receiving wages, and Fan Rui's own thin almost non-existent.

Seeing Fan Rui leading his horse into his yard, Chen Tongsheng asked strangely: "Fan Rui doesn't have any family members, or is he good?" ”

Song Chuanbai said: "No, he has always been a person, and he has a good relationship with anyone, but I have never seen him drink and eat with anyone, and go out for fun." ”

"The Hou Mansion must treat his subordinates well, at least he will not be bad for a steward like Fan Rui, so where does he use the wages he received and the things that the Hou Ye rewarded?"

Song Chuanbai hesitated for a moment, his face seemed to be even worse, and said, "Save." ”

"Save?"

"At first, it was saved," Song Chuanbai: "Later, he bought a house by himself, and I thought he was finally planning to get up for himself, but I never saw him buy household things, and when I asked again, he said that he gave it away, and now it is no longer his." I later checked who he had given it to, and found that the recipient was a woman who had nothing to do with him. ”

Song Chuanbai paused, and then said: "After checking again, it became clear that the woman was a girl he liked when he was young, I don't know what psychology he had, he felt that he was doing well now, and when he saw that the girl was not married to a reliable person and took the child to endure hardships, he felt that he couldn't go away, so he used his savings for many years to buy a house for others." The woman was not polite, she couldn't even remember others, and if she gave it, she accepted it, and the family lived in it, which was considered to improve her life. In the future, she was beaten by her husband, and this house gave her the confidence to quarrel and make trouble. ”

Chen Tongsheng was simply unbelievable, and asked half-loudly: "Why didn't he just kidnap people?" Since the woman was beaten and scolded by her husband, and the husband had no self, why didn't she leave herself? ”

It was Song Chuanbai's turn to look at her, shook his head and said, "Not everyone can be as disrespectful as you. Originally, it was trivial and messy, and he had no friendship with others before. Fan Rui later confessed to me that he just looked at the beautiful girl from a distance and liked it, and did not expect to be nice to her. After that, she married a wife, like a flower that had been picked, withered, and no longer looked good when she was young, but quarreled with her husband all day long, and was spicy and fierce. ”

Song Chuanbai said here with some emotion: "He said that he met her on the street when he could, and when he saw her scolding the street, his heart shook beyond measure, as if his crush on his youth was also scolded...... Who knows? ”

"After buying a house, he never contacted people again, and he honestly saved his own money, and after two years, I remembered that I had admired a painting of him before, and there was a very interesting seal on it, so I wanted to extend it. As a result, he was called in and asked, and he said that he had sold it, and asked why he was selling it...... Then the woman had an accident in her house and came to him for money, so she sold something to support her. ”

The woman's family took the money and left, and the house was kept, and she didn't sell it in the end, but returned it to Fan Rui, who confiscated it and kept it. He couldn't save any money, so he was generous to the poor, funded his two children to study, and raised some miscellaneous eyeliner on the streets and docks, which was also a lot of expenses, and he paid for it himself. ”

"Therefore, he has not had much money in his hands over the years."

"Why didn't the woman just sell the house?"

"I need money urgently, and I can't get out of the house for a while. In fact, in the end, it was sold back to Fan Rui. ”

Chen Tongsheng didn't think that Fan Rui would be like this, he opened his mouth, and just said: "He bought a house for others, but in fact, he wanted a house in his heart, so let's settle down." ”

Song Chuanbai was stunned, and then nodded.

The two of them approached Fan Rui's residence, making Chen Tongsheng's scene even more silent in front of them.

There are two wings in the courtyard, separated, the main wing is like most of the houses in the village, simple and inconspicuous, and the wing built on the left side is obviously a lot more refined, but some places such as doors and windows are very strangely built.

Chen Tongsheng watched Fan Rui open the better left wing, led the horse in, and then came out and entered the main room by himself.