He Angelica was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, he was a child, with red clothes and green pants, flowery tiger shoes, and his hair was a little yellow, a little smaller than Brother Zhu'er - he was a colorful child, judging in his heart. She bent down and asked, "Little friend, did you see who took away the jujube red horse tied here?" ”

The child nodded, pointed to the north, and said, "That man just left." He Angelica hurriedly thanked him and chased after him, a thief or something, the most unforgivable, stealing her horses in her territory is even more unforgivable! The wind blew in his ears, and the child's shouting faintly came from behind him, but because He Angelica was full of horsepower under his feet, his lost footwork was amazing, and he ran even several times faster than riding a horse, so the child's words were also left far behind.

Children, it's nothing more than looking for adults to ask for candy to eat, and next time I buy medicinal candy from Bai Yangbai and send it to the child.

With her mana, she drove her down the street, and the faster she ran, the faster she ran, the faster she ran, the faster she ran, the faster she ran, and then she really saw her jujube red horse, and also saw the person riding on it, a man about thirty years old, wearing a nocturnal cloak, lying on the horse and running fast.

He Angelica slowed down and followed him far behind, because she could run easily after slowing down, so that she could better observe the condition of the man on the horse, and see that he rode the horse skillfully, while holding the reins in his left arm, he bent his elbow to the left front, and did not hold the whip in his right hand—because after she had dismounted before, she had hung the whip in her hand outside her night clothes—the man's right arm was as long as a whip, and he was as good as a horsewhip, and he ran fast with his horse.

He Angelica felt that this kind of horseback riding posture looked very familiar, and it seemed to be the usual riding posture of people in the army. Because the quiver and the stiff bow were hung on the left side of the horse's mane during military exercises, in order to facilitate the collection of arrows, the cavalry would gradually develop a riding posture with the left arm tilted. And the posture of lying low on the horse can better avoid the cold arrows shot from all directions, strangely, the man from the riding posture to the black velvet cloak tied to his body, no matter how he looks like a thief. Although no one has ever prescribed what a thief looks like, the person just doesn't feel like a thief.

After chasing her for three or four streets, the man on the horse suddenly turned back, looked at her twice, and then stopped with a "whew" on the reins. The man did not dismount, looked at her condescendingly, and asked suspiciously, "Are you running after me?" What are you chasing me for? ”

He Angelica laughed when he asked, let him be a thief, and don't you allow her to chase a thief? She pointed to the horse under the man's crotch and told him, "This horse is mine." ”

"Yours?" The man was stunned for a moment before he opened his mouth and retorted, "This horse is mine." ”

He Angelica didn't expect that this person was a splash of skin, and he had been hit by the owner, and the dead duck had a hard mouth, so he mercilessly pointed out the characteristics of the horse: "This horse's whole body is brown and red, but there are two small handfuls of white hair under the bell in front of its neck, it likes to eat zongzi candy and rice cakes, and it also likes to listen to me sing." As he spoke, he began to sing, "The dark sky is low, the bright stars are with each other, the insects are flying, the insects are flying, who are you missing......"

With her singing, the front hooves of the horse under the ploppy body were raised, and the pace of a dance step was drawn in a circle, and when the neck was raised, the mane under the horse's bell was indeed very different from the others, a kind of snow-white long fluff. At this moment, it is self-evident who the owner of the horse is.

But the pimp still said, "Little sister, this horse is really mine." Because the horse under his crotch was spinning in place, and he did not stop commanding, he simply turned over and dismounted, and explained to the masked little girl with accusatory eyes, "You must be the original owner of this horse, right?" The horse is mine now, and your brother has sold it to me. ”

"Brother?" He Angelica frowned, "I don't have a younger brother." ”

"......" Splash Pi made a signature stunned gesture again, and finally told the cause and effect of the matter completely, "I'm sorry, this matter is a misunderstanding, I was listening to music in Yihong Courtyard, and suddenly I was in a hurry to leave, and when I went to the stable to lead the horse, I found that my horse was missing, I looked around anxiously in a hurry, and I saw a horse tied to the back door." ”

"But that's my horse." He Angelica pointed out ruthlessly.

He smiled, tilted his head and said, "Little girl, you let the master finish speaking, I walked out of the door and saw a little boy squatting next to the horse, thinking that he was a horse boy who watched the horse for the master, so I threw him twenty taels of silver and rode away." I didn't expect to pay the wrong account, and let the real owner chase after two streets, alas, today is really unlucky. ”

He Angelica said in his heart, I think it is even more unlucky, in just one day, I heard the ambiguous voices of men and women that should not be heard three times in a row, and the people I wanted to find couldn't find them, but the people I didn't want to see bumped into a lot of them, and I lost my beloved horse when I went out...... She looked up coldly at the tall man of about twenty-seven or eight, and asked: "Your Excellency, you didn't ask about buying horses indiscriminately, you didn't ask who the owner was, and you didn't care if people wanted to buy horses. ”

The tall man glanced anxiously at the road ahead and said anxiously, "I'm in a hurry, don't pester me anymore." As he spoke, he took out two ingots of silver from his bosom and threw them to her face, saying, "Twenty taels and twenty taels are enough to buy three horses, and you tell your horses to stop dancing." "Anyway, I didn't drink the flower wine, so I should reward this chick with money, it seems to be a beauty.

He Angelica did not accept his money, and continued to reason with him: "Do not do to others what you would not do to yourself, and when your horse disappears from the stable, how do you feel?" Would you be happy if it wasn't a thief who stole it, but a self-righteous man who 'bought' your horse and hung a bag of silver on the railing of the stables? When you go out, horses are a means of transportation, no one is convenient without horses, I don't want your silver, please return the horse to me. ”

Although this horse has not been raised for a long time, it still has feelings after a long time, not to mention that it is still a living creature with human nature. This horse buyer looked at the poor face, and slapped the horse's ass with her hand very roughly, and now when she got closer and looked closely, the horse's ass was beaten red a lot, how could she entrust her love horse to such a rough person? Or a little mare said. The beast.

The man reiterated with a fished head: "This horse is mine." ”

He Angelica shook his head: "The horse is mine, and I will confiscate the silver." Now the best solution is for you and me to go back to the back door of Yihong Courtyard to find the boy to get back your twenty taels of silver, if you can't find him, I am willing to pay you twenty taels of silver, in short, this horse can't be given to you. ”

The man said irritably: "Tell your uncle to be in a hurry!" If the silver is given to you, you will continue, and then you will chirp crookedly, and the lord will take you away with you, and you will not even have a place to cry! As he spoke, he went to lead the jujube red horse that was spinning in place.

He Angelica also stepped forward, took the reins one step ahead of him, and discussed with him in a good voice: "Uncle, you are not an ordinary person at first glance, there is a heroic spirit from the inside out, can you still rob my little girl's horse, I have been dependent on this horse for many years, and it is difficult to give up, so please raise your noble hand." Since you still have the money in your hand, why don't you buy a horse from a passer-by? As for the twenty taels you gave to the boy, if you can trust me, I will go and help you get it back, and if you can't get it back, I will go home and give you the money, and you will leave an address, and I will send it to you. ”

said so earnestly, and she was also an innocent victim, the man couldn't get a little angry when he heard this, especially the other party's pair of watery and talking eyes, and when he was looked at twice, he suddenly had a feeling of drinking sorghum wine.

The man lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said more earnestly: "I'm really in a hurry, otherwise I wouldn't have mistaken the owner of the horse, and there is nowhere to buy a horse if I have money in the middle of the night, so you can borrow me to ride your horse, okay?" I don't need you to pay back, I will bet ten taels of silver to you, my surname is Du, my name is Du Yao, you go to the ice flower dian outside the city tomorrow to lead the horse, I invite you to eat sugar cake, how about it? Saying that, a piece of silver of ten taels was stuffed into her hand, and at the same time took away the reins in her hand, and asked threateningly, "You can't come with me again, and if you delay your work again, you will treat you well!" His tone gradually changed to a gloomy tone of ill intentions.

Horses are human animals, and when the red horse feels the strength of the hand holding its reins, it no longer spins in place, and even bows its head in a tame manner. The man chuckled, muttered something "rouge horses are also horses", and then unexpectedly took off the whip from He Angelica's waist. As soon as he stretched out his arms and stepped a little, he flew on the horse, and then whipped the rope again, "Ride!" Drive! And the horse galloped far away.

He Angelica didn't chase it anymore, holding the ingot of ten taels of beautifully carved silver in his hand, and he didn't know what he thought of in his heart.

The ice flower garden on the ten-mile slope outside the city? Shilipo was also the place she planned to go, there was an ice flower garden in the east of Shilipo, and there was a snow lake in the west, and the place she planned to go to was the Mocha Villa in the snow flower garden, which was the Yangzhou Prime Minister's office of Jinyiwei...... Meng Ying, the third son of Meng, said that Duan Xiaolou also came to Yangzhou, is he also in Mocha Villa now? Now if you want to find Gao Jue, can you only go to Mocha Villa?

He Angelica lowered his head and pondered for a while, and slowly walked back to Yihong Courtyard, where the back door was empty, and the boy in red clothes and green pants was gone. She walked into Yihong Courtyard, the quietness of the backyard set off the singing and laughter in the front yard, "There is wine today and drunk today", which is the theme of this issue of Yihong Courtyard's "New Year's Party", and it is also Qing'er's unique creation.

Because of the strict access control of the Luo family, He Angelica rarely stays outside, so Yihong Courtyard does not have her room, only Qing'er has a strangely arranged room in the backyard, and the furnishing style in it, in He Angelica's words, is a "cold and impersonal" strange house; In Qing'er's words, it's called "post-modern metal wind". For now, I had to take a break here first, and then hire a carriage to go to Shilipo after dawn, just to think of a reasonable excuse to ask Gao Jue for the cold poison solution.

I went into the house and lit the lamps and candles, and pulled the maverick "waterwheel power brake device wind chime" in front of the porch twice, and after a while, Qing'er's maids Jin Jia, Yin Yi, Man C, and Nei Ding came to two of them. He Angelica occasionally got confused, and later found that several of them seemed to be more interested in "role-playing", often mixing clothes, imitating each other's mannerisms, and their faces looked similar, deliberately making others admit their mistakes and take pleasure in it, so He Angelica simply didn't remember their strange names.

After a simple grooming, she instructed the two maids to send someone to Luofu Taoyao Courtyard to report, saying that Miss Qing invited her to live in Guanfu for a day, and she would only go back tomorrow, and if the old lady came to find her, she would return in the same way. Anyway, there were a lot of snacks in her room, and Meng Xuan couldn't die of hunger, and she went back to live in it would affect his rest, and she only hoped that his injuries would not continue to deteriorate until she found the antidote to that cold poison.

After sending away the two maids and eating something simply, she lay down on Qing'er's strange waterbed to rest, thinking about things in her heart, so she didn't sleep deeply, and in a hazy way, she felt that she had dreamed of a lot of past events, and her faces jumped in front of her, and everyone's mouth was open and closed, but she couldn't hear the sound. gradually fell asleep, but when she thought that Meng Xuan was still waiting for her to go back to heal, she felt a thrill in her heart, and she immediately woke up, and she couldn't remember the messy dream she was having just now.

She stepped on her soft shoes, walked to the bronze table and drank two large glasses of water, feeling refreshed a lot. Eating frost persimmon cakes and looking at the sky outside the window, it was probably less than five watches, but when I got out of the city, the sky would naturally be bright.

Thinking like this, she straightened her makeup, re-rolled two tight buns, somewhat similar to the one that the girls at the bottom often wore on, and cut a half-opened autumn hibiscus bud hairpin from the flower pot. Originally, it was right to change out of the night clothes on the body, and the clothes that looked the most hidden at night became an eye-catching presence during the day. But Qing'er's dresses were too wide, and none of them fit her to wear, so she had to take a slightly shorter silver-gray cloak and wrap it outside, and at the same time replaced the black scarf covering her face with a silver-gray feather satin scarf.

Out of the door, and then listening to the front yard of Yihong Courtyard, it was basically silent, at this time it was the season when everyone had just begun to sleep, and the day and night in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion were just reversed. She went to the stable for a walk, and picked a short brown horse that looked slightly fat, if she remembered correctly, the owner of this horse, Master Wang, had been living in Yihong Courtyard for more than half a month, and now he must be in a good dream, so let's borrow his horse for the time being.

So he turned over and got on his horse, "Drive!" "Drive!" "Drive!"

As soon as she ran around, she came to Shilipo, followed the path pointed by the man named Du Yao, and arrived at the Binghuadian on the east side of Shilipo.

"Phew—"

Stopping the run, she dismounted, and tied the dwarf brown horse to the side of the jujube red horse, and wanted to enter the inn to pay the man's deposit of ten taels. But the moment before she lifted the curtain, the moment before her fingertips touched the thick curtain cloth with cotton wool, there was a stranger who knew the most familiar and laughed inside, and he cried out, laughing, "Haha! Two more jars of loquat wine, this wine is really exciting, let's get drunk today! ”

This is...... Duan Xiaolou's voice, a clear voice that she would never mistaken.