The two of them rushed back to the General's Mansion, and just received a new message from Ye Yuanpei: "Lu Xiao is really in the racecourse." ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't stop in the house, turned around and walked outside.

Qing Ran stopped him and said, "Mr. Si, the city gate has been closed at this time, it is very troublesome for us to go out, it is better to go back early tomorrow morning, you can also go to Mr. Wen to inquire about the current situation of the Jingjiao Horse Farm." ”

When Zhuang Siyan rushed to Wen Qing, it was inevitable that she would see a face that did not welcome her.

Now she is used to it, and she doesn't care, she only asks about her own business.

Wen Qing knew better than them about the situation in the racecourse on the outskirts of Beijing, and that place used to be his family, in Wen Qing's own words.

When his father was alive, he would take them to the horse farm every year to ride and hunt.

But since Ling Tiancheng became the emperor, even this entertainment has been canceled, because this emperor has no hobbies, and his biggest hobby is to work.

Wen Qing sighed and said, "I'm really worried that he will die of exhaustion one day." ”

Zhuang Siyan poked him obliquely and asked, "If he dies of exhaustion, will you feel distressed?" ”

Wen Qing immediately shook his head: "No, he is the emperor, he can choose not to die of exhaustion, he has to toss himself like this, and he doesn't blame others." Besides, it's just that he's taking people to play now, and I can't go, so what's the matter with me? ”

You see, no matter when, you still have to learn to hurt yourself, and your own brothers are unreliable.

Zhuang Siyan talked with Wen Qing for a while, and then turned back to the topic, Wen Qing said: "I advise you, don't go anywhere, if you really want to go, let the emperor take you there." ”

"Why, is that place scary?"

Wen Qing raised her voice long: "What do you say?" It was originally a royal place, but now it has become a place for death row prisoners, let me tell you, as far as you enter, those people don't pay attention to it at all, and what will happen? ”

Zhuang Siyan doesn't believe in evil: "Even if he is a death row prisoner, he is still under the royal jurisdiction, even if the people below don't know, isn't the leader above still under control?" ”

"Serving? If he really obeyed it, Ye Yuanpei had been going for so long, why hadn't he brought Lu Lin back yet? Even he didn't come back himself, and he could only send back a letter? He's a general, oh, we're the top military attache in the Dasheng Dynasty at the moment, shouldn't those people listen to him and be afraid of him? ”

Zhuang Siyan was really stopped by him, and sat silent for a while.

Wen Qing was not in a hurry, holding a cup in his hand, which contained some wine, he didn't drink it, and from time to time he leaned under the tip of his nose to smell it.

Zhuang Siyan really didn't want to invite Ling Tiancheng, so he had no choice but to ask Wen Qing: "Can you take me there?" ”

"No, I can't see the light of day, don't you know?"

"Then I'll go by myself." After Zhuang Siyan finished speaking, he stood up, didn't tell Wen Qing again, and went back to his house directly.

The next day, she got up early in the morning and took Qingran and Ah Si to the outskirts of Beijing.

The Beijing suburb racecourse is on a hill more than ten miles away from the city.

In addition to raising horses, it is also a royal hunting ground, and a small mountain is enclosed in it.

Horses can be released on weekdays, and if there is any activity in the palace, they will occasionally choose here.

Because it is surrounded by mountains, the place is relatively large, and there is no way to verify how the edge is handled.

Zhuang Siyan was intercepted at the door, because no one could enter without the emperor's decree.

She took out all the things on her body that could represent her identity, including the jade match that Ling Tiancheng gave him, but unfortunately those people didn't eat this set at all, and still didn't let it go.

Zhuang Siyan was so angry that he walked back and forth outside several times, imagining how Ye Yuanpei got in.

He definitely didn't have a holy decree, and these people wouldn't give him a good face, otherwise Lu Xiao would have come out a long time ago.

When they were entangled with those officials at the door, Ah Si had already walked out along the foot of the mountain, and after a quarter of an hour, he turned back and whispered a few words to Zhuang Siyan.

The three rode away, and when they were almost out of sight of the men, they found a hidden place for their horses and bolted them back, and they walked back on foot.

didn't go to the entrance, but followed the place where Ah Si had just walked and found a gap.

In fact, the mountain horse farm is not so easy to control, after all, the place is very large, and the wall is not too high, and people with high kung fu can climb over it.

What is more troublesome is that there are fixed sentry posts in the horse farm, and there are also moving people, and in some slightly higher places, you can still see those people looking towards them from high places.

Although the gap found by Ah Si was obvious, if they entered, the people inside would probably be able to see it immediately.

Zhuang Siyan only took a cursory look, then stopped and said: "We can't go in now, we go in at night, turn all the clothes on our bodies over, the white ones are outside, and the head is wrapped in a white cloth, so that it is the same color as the snow on the mountain." ”

In this way, they succeeded in entering the horse farm.

After walking more than a mile inside, I vaguely heard the voices of people in front of me, as if they were carnival or something, and there was a loud noise.

The three of them glanced at each other and hurried over there.

In the distance, I saw the light of the fire in the col, and then the people in circles.

The outside of the crowd was guarded, and the innermost part was a man on a horse.

"It looks like a dueling arena." Zhuang Siyan said.

The matter of the dueling arena, Wen Qing had mentioned to them a long time ago, and at first it was just an entertainment organized by the guards of the racecourse.

Later, it became more and more difficult to control, especially after the addition of death row inmates, and now this is no longer a place of entertainment, but a place of blood.

The three of them didn't rush in, they put down a few guards in the outer circle first, and after picking up their clothes and changing them, they walked closer.

The dueling arena should have already started a few rounds, and from time to time people with blood on their bodies can be seen being dragged out, as well as horses.

Every time the people inside attacked, they would make the people outside shout loudly, and the sound was full of cruel laughter, especially when they saw someone falling, the sound was especially loud.

Horses that are wounded or hacked to death are quickly dragged down with a pot next to them, and the executioner will dispose of the horse's meat as soon as possible.

There was also a barbecue rack there, and as more and more horses were lifted down from the field, more and more meat was on the meat rack, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of blood was wafting through the air.

Those who were stabbed to death were dragged to the other side.

It was a large pit, and there were already several corpses in it, all of which were red with blood, and they couldn't see their faces, and they couldn't tell who they were.

In fact, there was no one to tell, people were busy watching the duel in the middle, and there were people shouting for money.

It's like a big and chaotic horse betting arena, or a gambling arena.

There are very few who can survive, because it has always been a wheel war, one person wins, and there are countless people coming up behind him, in short, until the audience rests, the above will continue to compare.

Rao is Zhuang Siyan has been to the battlefield, and when he saw corpses all over the ground, he was also shocked by the scene in front of him.

Especially when he saw a man dragging a dead man among the horse's corpses, and the executioner with the knife did not hesitate to kill the man as if he were a horse.

Zhuang Siyan lay on his stomach in the snow and almost vomited his stomach.

finally relieved himself, and scolded in his heart: "Is this Ling Tiancheng sick, being an emperor, he can't even manage this kind of thing, every day on the golden palace, listening to those ministers full of mouths, but the people are suffering, miserable and frightened, but he doesn't even know anything." ”

Qing Ran and Ah Si were also shocked, and the two of them didn't talk much since they came in, and their eyes were straight.

The people inside were still screaming, as if they were not seeing a duel, but a chicken, or a cricket, or something like that, so it was not like worrying about life and death.

Zhuang Siyan dragged Qingran: "Have you seen Lu Xiao?" ”

When Qing Ran turned his head to look back at her, the shock in his eyes was still gone, so he was stunned for a moment, but he quickly woke up, shook his head and said, "No." ”

Zhuang Siyan suppressed his voice and said, "Ye Yuanpei only said that he was here, but he didn't say what he was doing?" Are they dueling like these people, or have they already betrayed? ”

Qing Ran could only shake his head at her, unable to answer a single question.

They didn't even find Ye Yuanpei, and after looking around, they only felt frightened, and wanted to escape quickly, otherwise they might go crazy with them.

Taking advantage of the night to tread in the snow, the three of them exited the circle of people and walked towards the gap where they had entered.

Perhaps it was too lively inside, but the defenses outside were a little looser, and the three of them came out smoothly and found the horse at the bottom of the mountain.

Once you've ridden it, look back at the mountains at night.

It was white and quiet, as if nothing had happened, like all the hills outside the capital.

A heavy dark cloud rose in Zhuang Siyan's heart.

She had also walked through here when she went out of the city before, and because she knew that this was a horse farm, she yelled for Ling Tiancheng to take her to play.

But it has never taken shape.

She didn't think much about it, but she just felt that she was missing a place.

But after tonight, it will be her nightmare.

There is nothing left here, and none of those who have cruelly ruined human life can be left, and the human nature they have lost has become the devil.

Zhuang Siyan thought, this time when he went back, no matter what Ling Tiancheng said, he would have to lift this place and rescue those who were caught in the duel.

What Royal Horse Family? This is hell.

Zhuang Siyan went back to her own house, sleepless all night, and when she closed her eyes, it was as if she saw those bloodstained people being dragged out.

At dawn, her whole head hurt and her eyes hurt too.

I drank a bowl of tea, I couldn't swallow a bite of food, I changed my clothes and was about to go out to the palace, but news came from outside first, saying that Ye Yuanpei was back.

Zhuang Siyan didn't even get dressed, and ran outside towards the gate.

The moment she saw Ye Yuanpei, her tears were about to fall, and she suddenly went over and hugged him, and her heart jumped suddenly.

Ye Yuanpei had already heard that they had been to the racecourse last night, but he could understand her reaction now, and slowly smoothed her back with his hand.

It took a long time to say, "It's okay, didn't I come back?" We're still good brothers. ”

Zhuang Siyan suddenly remembered something, raised his head and asked him, "What about Lu Xiao?" ”