After hearing Li Yuan's order, Zou Laohan was so distressed that his brows jumped, according to his thoughts, the mounts of the Metropolitan Governor and the soldiers were rare good horses in Chudi, and obviously they could not be easily tried, and it seemed that they could only use their own donkeys to test for the Metropolitan Governor.

But his own donkey has been with him for so many years, Zou Laohan has regarded it as a relative, even if this donkey loses his temper and shakes his hooves on weekdays, although he scolds and whips it, he has never been willing to give up his heavy hand, and indulges like his own child, if he really dies in the hands of the Metropolitan Governor this time, it will be really painful.

Li Yuan didn't notice Zou Laohan's emotions, and since he decided to do so, he acted immediately. But Li Yuan will not feed the animals so rashly to eat this freshly dug thing, the color is still light yellow, if you don't eat it, you know that it is poisonous, he still needs to purify these salt grains.

After a while, Li Yuan and his entourage returned to the camp, ordered someone to take the copper basin used to wash their faces, and poured a small pile of salt into the basin. After Li Yuan stirred with his long sword for a while, a small pile of salt grains melted into the clear water, and the basin became a turbid and pale yellow liquid.

Zou Laohan lit a fire outside the tent according to Li Yuan's request, and witnessed Li Yuan put the copper basin on the fire and began to boil.

It was the middle of winter, and everyone was sitting around the fire, just to warm up and relieve the discomfort, but Li Yuan's attention was obviously not on this, and he had been standing intently stirring the liquid in the copper basin.

Lin Sichang was originally napping, and seeing that the Metropolitan Governor had been leaning over, he hurriedly stepped forward and whispered if he needed a helper, but Li Yuan just shook his head, still staring intently at the liquid in the copper basin.

After a while, the liquid in the copper basin began to boil, and a layer of yellow foam began to gather on the side of the basin. Li Yuan carefully scraped off the foam and blew it open, and looked intently at the boiling basin of salt water.

After an unknown time, the boring "coo" sound finally began to fade, and the brine in the copper basin was almost burned dry, leaving only a thin layer of yellow liquid. At some point, a layer of white particles appeared on the edge and wall of the copper basin, which seemed to be covered with a thin layer of snow crystals.

"It's finished!" Li Yuan wiped the sweat on his forehead and exclaimed in surprise.

The originally sleepy crowd hurriedly gathered around to take a look, Li Yuan immediately ordered someone to extinguish the fire, and then poured the last yellow liquid in the basin clean, but saw that the bottom of the basin was covered with a thick layer of white powder, white as snow, bright as crystal.

"This is the purified salt, I don't know if there is poison or not, but I can finally give it a try to the livestock."

Li Yuan carefully swept the powder in the copper basin and gathered a small pile of white powder, which was much less than the pile of crystals that had been put into the basin before, but it looked whiter and finer.

"The Metropolitan Governor is mighty!" Lin Sichang led the guards to open their eyes and let out incredible admiration in unison.

Well, this moment has finally arrived, Zou Laohan is very helpless, a pair of old cold legs trembled and got up, silently ran to pull the donkey from home to the side, muddy tears began to fall from his eyes, stroking the donkey he raised with his own hands, and muttered in his mouth: "Da Hei, my baby, you accept your fate." Don't worry, if you are really poisoned, I will not eat your flesh, I will bury you alive in the ground, teach those beasts that can't eat you, there will be a whole corpse.

Alas, I can't help you! has been loyal to me for more than ten years, and this is no way. You don't blame the Grand Duke, the Grand Governor didn't mean to poison you, alas...... In short, resign yourself to your fate."

The donkey Da Hei naturally couldn't understand human words, but lifted his lips and showed his teeth with a funny expression to blow bubbles, rubbed Zou Laohan's face affectionately, and blew a lot of snot from his nostrils.

Zou Ping, who was busy with his work, saw his father's unrelenting appearance, and hurriedly ran over and asked, "Dad, why are you talking to our stupid donkey, can it understand?"

Unexpectedly, Old Man Zou glanced at his son fiercely, and said angrily, "What stupid donkey?! This is Dahei, you conscienceless ......."

This loud voice clearly attracted everyone

attention, and then Zou Laohan pulled Da Hei towards Li Yuan in the incomprehensible gaze of the crowd, sighed and bowed down and said, "Dadu Governor, Da Hei is a good donkey, although his temper is a little stubborn, but he was raised by the old man with my own hands, just like a relative. Now that it's dying, how can it not say a few words to him?

Beasts understand human speech, they just can't speak, and their hearts are bright. Don't worry, the villain has told the big black that it won't blame the governor."

"Slowly, slowly!" Li Yuan was surprised, "Why is this said so strangely? As if Pontus had offended your donkey? Hear from you, why is this donkey going to die?"

Old Man Zou sighed heavily and said, "Isn't the Governor of the Metropolitan going to feed poisoned salt with livestock? Can't you feed poison salt to the war horses of you and your military masters? You must know that in Chudi, good horses are hard to find, and it would be a pity to fold them in vain, so you can only use my family's big black."

As soon as these words came out, although everyone was impressed by Zou Laohan's kindness, they still couldn't help laughing, Li Yuan also couldn't cry or laugh, patted his forehead and said, "Old man, when did the governor of Pontus say that he was going to try it with your donkey?" We have brought so many horses with us on this trip, and Pontus will only use them to try, how can we use your donkey to try? The Governor of Pontus was never a bully."

"Hahahaha......" Now everyone laughed even more.

"Dad, don't retreat, the Metropolitan Governor has always been kind to the people, he never said to try our big black......" Seeing Zou Laohan's helpless appearance, Zou Ping was also a little anxious, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Dad.

Zou Laohan opened his mouth for a long time, thinking back to Li Yuan's words, the Metropolitan Governor did not mention using his donkey to test salt, but only said that he would use an animal, but he would be wrong.

"It's okay, Zou Ping, your father is also very kind, and the governor of Bendu understands it."

Then Li Yuan smiled and beckoned, "Sichang, go and bring the horse from Yasukuni, and the governor of Pontus will feed it with his own hands."

This time it was Wang Jingguo's turn to glare, and he couldn't help muttering, "Governor, why is it my mount that is unlucky, why don't you use your big black horse?"

Li Yuan shook his head and smiled, "Ponturake's mount is a rare horse. You are just a good horse, and you need as many as you want in our army, even if you are poisoned, Pontus will give you another one."

Wang Jingguo pursed his lips and muttered, "You are the Grand Governor, what can I do."

Zou Laohan had red eyes on the side, obviously the Metropolitan Governor did not use his donkey to test the poison, which touched the psychological defense of the old man, and he wiped his tears while regretting: "The Metropolitan Governor is really a selfless and good person, but hey, a horse died in vain, what a lot of money......

Soon Lin Sichang pulled Wang Jingguo's yellow horse over, seeing that the yellow horse seemed to be thirsty and panicked, he kept sticking out his tongue and spitting at Lin Sichang, looking extremely stupid, the donkey on the side chewed in his big black mouth, snorted and inhaled, and was showing a pair of disdainful eyes skimming the yellow horse, with an expression that you are more stupid than Lao Tzu.

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Yuan poured water into the copper basin and brought it to the side of the yellow horse, which was so thirsty that he licked it wildly, and after a while, he drank the salt water in the copper basin, and licked the water stains and salt grains in the copper basin with his tongue, almost burping.

"Okay, let's wait and see, I'm afraid we won't see anything for a while, let's rest tonight!" Tomorrow it will be clear whether the horse is dead or alive. Lin Sichang, Zou Ping, lead the soldiers to patrol the camp." Li Yuan smiled.

"Yes!" Lin Sichang and Zou Ping bowed their hands in unison.

After Li Yuan entered the tent to rest, Zou Laohan seemed to be a little distressed, and kept squatting next to the yellow horse to watch, no matter how persuaded by his son Zou Ping, he did not move.

Not long after, seeing the yellow horse's tail curled, Zou Laohan was highly nervous, and secretly said, "It's over, it's a pity for this good horse."

But seeing that the yellow horse's nostrils were propped up, the two rows of teeth showed a weird smile together, and the hind legs stepped on as if they were exerting force, and finally the "bald" burst out of the stinky fart, followed by the "bang-la-la" leaked out a large pool of horse manure, and then began to jump around lively, which was no abnormal.

"Grandma's, splashed Lao Tzu's leg! Brute......" Zou Laohan scolded fiercely, covering his nose and kicking

The earth buried the horse manure, and then he got into his tent with his trouser legs and ignored it again.