Kui Duoyou and his entourage walked south from Qilian Mountain for seven or eight days before they arrived at the northern border town of Zhou and Qiangli - Qibei Pass. Nearly 100 years ago, this area was the former residence of the Lynx tribe, and after the raid of King Zhao of Zhou, the Lynx tribe was forced to migrate to the northwest, and this place was taken over by the Zhou Dynasty. Later, King Xiao of Zhou made Ying Feizi, who was good at raising horses, a vassal, and established the country as Qin, and this place was handed over to Qin Jun to manage.

When Kui Duoyou arrived at the North Pass, it was already late, a round of red sun slowly set west according to the tall corner tower, and ten thousand golden lights burst out from the gap in the arch of the corner tower, illuminating a brilliant light in all directions.

This is the first time Kui Duoyou has come to the northwest frontier, and he is a person who knows the soldiers, so he can't help but feel new in everything, and the joy in his heart is self-evident. Even the vast desert seemed to him to be vast and desolate.

To enter the customs, you have to walk through a dry river, which has been dry for a long time, not even a single ice is visible, and the bottom of the river is full of pebbles the size of a fist. But fortunately, the stones were far easier to focus on than the yellow sand, and the horses walked one foot deep and one foot shallow, and moved faster than before.

As soon as I got up the embankment, I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind me, accompanied by the shouting and scolding of several men.

I heard one person say, "It was your horse when I came, so now it's my turn, right?" ”

The other replied: "Nonsense, the day before yesterday it was the sick horses you received, and all the horses in the gate fell fucking down." Now, what face do you Liang Bo still have to ride a horse? Lao Tzu didn't beat you down, even if it was about brotherhood! ”

Kui Duoyou listened to these words in his ears, and asked Uncle Mi behind him in a low voice: "Are the soldiers in the Great Perimeter Pass all patrolling on foot?" ”

Uncle Mi replied, "No. This area is adjacent to the lynx, and in order to prevent the opposing cavalry from raiding, the patrol soldiers generally have to patrol on horseback. Listen to what they mean, isn't there a horse plague in this place? ”

"I'll ask."

Kui Duoyou urged the horse forward and drank the two soldiers who had been scuffled together: "Two heroes, stop!" I have something to ask? ”

The man named Liang Bo withdrew his hand first, squinted at Kui Duoyou in front of him, and saw that the other party was heroic, seemingly extraordinary, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he bowed back and said, "Don't dare?" What do you have to ask? ”

"What's the matter with what you mean by the horse being sick?"

Liang Bo's face turned pale, and he replied coldly: "This is my matter, who are you?" Why bother with this? ”

The other pointed out menacingly: "I think you look like a traitor, don't care, arrest them and interrogate them first." ”

"Wait!" Uncle Mi hurriedly protected Kui Duoyou: "You have to be presumptuous!" In the next is the elder of the auxiliary government to summon the Guogong, this is General Kui Ziliang, and he is also a distinguished guest invited by the Guogong from Chaoge! How dare you be so rude? Take us to the Governor! ”

The two looked at each other, and Uncle Liang boldly shouted, "You said yes?" What are the credentials? ”

Uncle Mi took out a palm-sized solid bamboo board from his arms and handed it over, which was the common image of the servants of the noble family in the royal city of Hojing. The head of the person, the name, the owner of the owner and the imprint of the government are engraved on it, and Uncle Liang looked at it for a long time before he believed it. He bowed his hand and said: "It turns out that it is really the old man of the Zhaoguo Mansion, the villain is rude, and I hope to forgive my sins!" ”

Kui Duoyou couldn't wait any longer, and asked eagerly, "What's the matter with the horses in your pass?" ”

Liang Bo replied: "A few days ago, a group of lynx people drove hundreds of horses with the intention of attacking the border, but they were repelled by us and killed two of them. Naturally, the horses they drove were confiscated, and according to our rules here, the captured horses were to be sent to the Qin State Horse Farm for the training of the Western Sixth Division. Yesterday, as soon as the horses were sent away, the horses in our gate fell ill one after another, so that our patrol soldiers could only walk. ”

Kui Duoyou was taken aback when he heard this: "What, is there a problem with those horses?" ”

"I don't know," Liang Bo looked dazed: "In the past, there were also herdsmen who didn't want to get close to our border pass, and we also confiscated their horses for military use, and nothing happened to us?" This time, how ------?"

As he was talking, the brown horse beside him suddenly snorted, fell to the ground suddenly, foaming at the mouth, and kept twitching------ Uncle Mi was startled, and ordered his entourage: "You quickly dismount, lead our horses to the open area outside the pass and settle them, and you must not have any contact with the horses in this pass." ”

Kui Duoyou stared at the sick horse on the ground who was twitching on all fours, a dark cloud surged in his heart, and he turned to Liang Bo and said, "Take me in, quickly!" ”

"No!"

The chief was a fat man, and he walked with fat and trembling all over his body. When Kui Duoyou came in, he was in the stable when he saw more than a dozen horses lying next to the trough in a daze, and finally scolded the groom: "I was fine yesterday, why did I fall ill one by one?" Didn't you feed them some unclean fodder and poison them? ”

"It's not poisoning, it's horse plague!" Kui Duoyou replied proudly and strode in.

"Who are you? Dare to talk nonsense here? Liang Bo whispered a few words, and the chief immediately put on a smiling face: "It turned out to be a distinguished guest of the Duke of Zhaoguo, disrespectful and disrespectful!" You say that horse plague is horse plague! ”

Kui Duoyou glanced at him and asked, "Didn't those two lynx people be killed by you?" What about corpses? I want to see! ”

The chief glanced at Liang Bo and replied, "I was going to bury them, but because the captured horses needed to be resettled, I couldn't spare them for a while." The corpse is sitting in the back room! Are you going? ”

"Lead the way!" Kui Duoyou said expressionlessly.

"Okay then------ well!"

An hour later, Kui Duoyou came out of the back room and stared at Liang Bo with a blue face: "You tell the truth, you really killed those two lynxes?" ”

Liang Bo dodged his gaze, and seemed to feel a huge coercion in his heart, he lowered his head, pondered for a while, and finally whispered: "Yes." ”

"How dare you say yes?" These words burst out from between Kui Duoyou's teeth, murderous, and everyone who heard it was terrified.

For a long time, Kui Duoyou kept staring at Uncle Liang, staring at him until his heart was furious, and then he said: "If you think you are incompetent, you still don't lose your true character as a man, if you are greedy for heaven, you are shameless!" What do you see what this is? ”

After speaking, he took out something from his arms and threw it at Liang Bo's feet. Liang Bo trembled his hands, picked it up and took a closer look, it turned out to be two shiny arrows, and his face changed color slightly.

Kui Duoyou sneered and said: "This is what I got from those two corpses, it is called Mingdi, and there is a hole in the collar of the arrow, which makes a terrible sound when the arrow is shot, and the grassland people often use it to indicate the direction of the enemy. We Central Plains people don't use this kind of arrow at all. You're not going to tell me you shot these two arrows, are you? ”

He smiled and glanced at everyone in Guanzhong, and his voice was chilling: "Those two lynx people committed suicide!" ”