Fluttershy, who is not used to riding a horse at first, has to ride with Liu Cheng in order to make a fuss, which is very slow, and Liu Cheng also feels very awkward, and he can only get off the horse and walk in crowded places, so as not to attract gossip.

Later, Liu Cheng came up with a way to buy a thick wool sheepskin on the road and put it on the saddle so that Fluttershy was willing to ride the horse herself.

Jinyiwei's work efficiency has always been very high, and Liu Cheng is no exception, and he directly chose to move forward on the post road. The next morning, we arrived in Datong.

According to the address given by Liu Mao, I inquired all the way outside the city, and finally found the village where Gao Qisheng lived. But no one was home.

After inquiring with neighbors, I learned that Gao Qisheng and his son Gao Rui have gone to the horse market to do business, and since the horse market opened this year, many people have gone there to do business, which is very popular. When asked about his mother, Hao Ruilian, she found out that she had passed away two years ago.

Fluttershy regrets that our generation couldn't do what the immortals had told us. The family seems to be getting poorer.

I heard that among the seventy-two forts in Datong, only Zhenqiang Fort and Hongci Fort opened a horse market, and Zhenqiang Fort was the most important official horse market, and then there were some sporadic illegal horse markets, but because the illegal trade was strictly controlled, they could not become a climate. This makes it much more likely that they will find their father and son.

Fluttershy calculates that she should look for her in the northwest of the Horse Market in Zhenqiangbao, so the two urge the horses to go, and when they arrive at the horse market, it is already afternoon, and the horse market is not open, so they are not allowed to enter. So the two of them planned to find a place to rest and eat something first.

Due to the opening of the new horse market after the "Gengxu Rebellion", other businesses here have also been stimulated, and it is easy to find places to eat in the surrounding area, mostly snacks, Liu Cheng and Fluttershy order two bowls of wide noodles in a roadside shed that sells noodles, and observe as they eat.

I saw that there were many traders here, and many commodities such as cloth, sugar and tea, grain, and light industrial products from the mainland wanted to be exchanged with horses, cattle, sheep, and furs from Mongolia. There are clear regulations on the cloth or how much tea there is, and it is mainly the transaction of Tatar officials to the Ming officials, and the transactions of civilians are basically carried out privately, and there are many people who take risks to carry out prohibited transactions, such as iron weapons are expressly forbidden to trade, then it is a smuggling act, and those caught are punished.

But everyone is trying to eat, there is danger, but they are also standing up, after all, there are interests to follow.

Because Datong belongs to the border area, and it is an important place to carry out the horse market, in order to prevent the Tatars from taking advantage of the trade and the spies in the interior to secretly communicate with the outside world about the secrets of the Ming Dynasty, so the officers and soldiers guarding here are not less than the people who trade, and each pass can be seen heavily guarded, and there are patrolling troops on the road.

Liu Cheng also sighed that the army in Xinjiang and the capital is really different, and some officers and soldiers here are indeed not as powerful and gorgeous as the army in Beijing, and they look like some soldiers, and the officers on patrol make things difficult for the traders here from time to time, and they can only let go if they get some benefits.

Liu Cheng asked the shopkeeper, what is the northwest corner of this horse market?

The shopkeeper was happy, and said with a local accent: "You still have a baby, what are you doing in that place, yesterday the man with the boy was arrested together, and it is not good to make money." ”

"Why can't you go to that place?" Liu Cheng hurriedly asked.

"Why can't I go, it's basically a place leading to the desert, there is no customs clearance document, and going out is equivalent to banditry and smuggling. Yesterday some people went there to trade illegally, and they were all arrested and locked up. In fact, this horse market has only been open for a few days, and it has never been opened again, and people who come here to make a fortune cannot waste it, so many of them take risks and want to trade in the desert privately. ”

Liu Cheng was anxious when he heard this, so he hurriedly paid and pulled Fluttershy over there. But there are many checkpoints, and I can't get through it at all, and I don't know how those smugglers got through.

Liu Cheng takes Fluttershy to find an inn first, and plans to let Fluttershy fly over with him at night to find out. However, Fluttershy worries that if the Gao Qisheng father and son are among the people who are captured, if they go too late and are beheaded, they will be in vain.

Fluttershy tells Liu Cheng to lock the door from the inside and take care of her body. He lay on his bed as if he were asleep. Liu Cheng felt a whirlwind blowing in the house, and then there was silence.

Fluttershy, after turning into a spirit, flies straight into the sky and takes possession of a sparrow's body, adjusts to it for a while, and then flies northwest.

I saw the intricate military castles below, consisting of earthen walls and brick walls, forming a solid defense line as dense as a spider's web.

Came to a military fortress in the northwest direction. Sure enough, I saw a group of people in the courtyard locked in a wooden cage. Fluttershy flies down on the branch of a large tree, just below which is a cage where she can hear the people below.

I saw that in one of the cages, a tall and mighty strong man scolded loudly: "It's been locked up for a day, and I don't say anything to eat for Lao Tzu." Don't you all grow up drinking the northwest wind?don't you know thirst, don't you know hunger?" But let him cry, the guards paid no attention to him.

A hunchbacked old lady with white hair, standing there with a cane in her hand, not knowing what she was muttering. And the rest of the people were basically lying there lazily sleeping.

It was almost dusk when the food delivery finally came, and one of them said, "Come to dinner, come to dinner, Lao Gao quickly get some food for your son." "Everybody came and scrambled for it.

Fluttershy notices that there is a man with the surname Gao, and she takes a closer look to see a plainly dressed man sharing the steamed buns he has snatched with his son. Fluttershy is thrilled, it is likely that it is the father and son of Gao Qisheng, and in order to verify it, it flies to the distant grassland and attaches its soul to a lark.

Flying to the top of the cage, he began to sing, and after trying his voice for a while, he shouted: "Gao Qisheng, Gao Qisheng." ”

"Who is calling me?" Gao Qisheng looked up sharply. But I didn't see anything but a big tree and a blue sky overhead.

Fluttershy is happy that it seems to be him.

At this time, a man who looked like an officer walked over, "Hurry up and eat, sleep well, and wait for tomorrow's official document, and you can go to Huangquan Road." I said you old lady don't eat, what are you talking about here?" said the officer angrily to the gray-haired hunchbacked old lady.

"I'm older than your mother, why do you speak so unruly? I see that half of your soldiers will not survive to the next year, so I pray for you in advance. The old lady said in a straight voice. (In the 31st year of Jiajing, the Mongol Altan army attacked Datong many times, and the soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties.) ）

"Eh, you are an old immortal, you don't scold people with dirty words, I have good words to persuade you, but you rely on the old and sell the old, and you also make false rumors, and when you see you, you are related to the cult, saying, are you from the White Lotus Sect?"

An old man who pooped a lot next to him hurriedly got up when he heard this, "Is she really from the White Lotus Sect?" Senior brother, there is a White Lotus Sect here." Senior brother, this is taught by the White Lotus. ”

"What are you yelling about, eat your food honestly. The official gave him a white look.

The old lady turned her head and said, "The old man is not the White Lotus Sect, nor is it a cult, but he was arrested as a collaborator when he passed by here. ”

"Those who were caught said to be innocent, what are you wandering around the grassland at such an age. Still passing by, where are you going? The officer said disdainfully.

At this moment, a tall Mongol was escorted by several soldiers, he was almost two ends taller than the others, like a giant, dressed as a herdsman, his whole body was chained and strong, his hands and feet were also handcuffed, and he wore a large wooden shackle around his neck, and he had to hold the aisle and blindfolded.

The two people in the front are pulling the chains, and the two people in the back are pulling the chains. Come to the middle of the courtyard. Officers and soldiers nailed four iron chains to the four corners of the ground.

The tall Mongol struggled slightly, and the officer's whip immediately hit his yoke.

The officer did not know what he said in Mongolian. And the giant did not move any more.

"Looks like we won't survive tomorrow at noon. "Someone cried in despair.

"Don't be so pessimistic, Poor Dao just calculated a hexagram, Ji people have their own natural appearance, and I still have a lot of life to live, so we may not die. The old man said with a smile while rubbing the mud balls on his stomach.

"Lao Hu, you go and rub it, I'm eating. A gray-haired old man next to him said.

It turned out that these two were Hu Laodao and his senior brother who had a relationship with Liu Cheng.

When Fluttershy sees this, it seems that she will have to rescue her overnight, so she flies back to the inn and discusses the rescue plan with Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng has also been familiar with military books since he was a child, so he plans to attack the east and west.

In the evening, the two changed their outfits and secretly came to a pyre outside Zhenqiang Fort, preparing to light the firewood to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers.

Before he could do anything, he heard the sound of artillery in the distance, as if a fort in the distance had been attacked by a sneak attack, only to see that the fire and smoke suddenly turned the sky in the distance red, and the sound of cannon shouting and killing was endless.

After a while, I heard the people in the Zhenqiang Fort shouting horses barking, chickens and dogs making trouble, only to see the gate of the fort open, all the way the cavalry rode out, and the lanterns and torches were bright, "The White Lotus Sect is here, this time they can't be told to run." Drive!"

Liu Cheng and Fluttershy hide in the shadows and watch the group go away, secretly happy, really lucky.