In late autumn, the cold fog enters the window. Liu Xun was tired, cold and hungry, and said weakly: "Why haven't the wine and food been delivered yet?" Shi Gao said: "I went to urge." ”

While the two were talking, the old man pushed the door and came in, followed by the old woman holding the wine and food and a group of men.

Shi Gao was overjoyed, and quickly stood up to take the still steaming wine and food, and brought it to Liu Xun's case.

Liu Xun didn't say a word, he took the wine jug, poured a full glass, raised it and drank a big sip, wiped his mouth, his heart was happy, and he shouted: "Good wine." ”

The old man laughed and handed over the cup. In the face of hot wine and food, everyone couldn't care about much, and they moved together and gobbled up.

Liu Xun praised again and again: "It's delicious." The taste is comparable to that of a royal palace meal. ”

The old man glanced at him: "You haven't eaten the palace meal." He couldn't hide his pride and said, "However, my family's food is said to be delicious by the guests." ”

Liu Xun laughed when he heard this, raised his glass, and said, "Uncle, I toast you." ”

The old man was worried about getting them drunk, so he sat down, and Liu Xun also wanted to inquire about some customs, so he beckoned him to drink together.

The two pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and they were happy. The old woman also instructed the men to bring a lot of wine.

The old man has a stubborn temperament, and no one wants to listen to his nagging on weekdays, but now someone is willing to listen to him, and he suddenly became excited, drinking wine, and talking about those folk anecdotes.

He said energetically, Liu Xun listened interestingly, and frequently persuaded him to drink with a wine jug. The old man had already forgotten everything, and within half an hour, he was drunk to the ground.

The old woman came in with vegetables, and was secretly happy when she saw this, and she made a compensatory gesture to Liu Xun, and wanted to help the old man out.

Liu Xun thought that he had drunk the old man and couldn't help it, so he asked Shi Gao to help her support the old man together.

Shi Gao simply carried the old man on his back and sent him directly to his house. He put the old man on the table, and he was about to go back.

The old woman stopped him, took out a hemp rope, and said, "Tie him up." ”

Shi Gao was taken aback. The old woman actually wanted to tie up the old man, he thought he had heard it wrong, and he stayed there at a loss.

The old woman then told her wife what she had planned before, and said, "He was originally going to get you drunk, but he got drunk. I see that you are not a bad person, and if you follow his ideas, you will be in trouble. It is better to bind him, lest he wake up and cause trouble again. Only then did Shi Gao understand what was going on, and he smiled as he tied the old man's hands and feet.

Shi Gao returned to the guest room and said about the old woman and the old man, Liu Xun was also funny when he heard it, and said with emotion: "This old couple is righteous. ”

While the two were talking, there was a noise outside the house, and the neighing of horses, which was heard by a large number of people.

Shi Gao had the responsibility of protecting the emperor, and he didn't dare to be careless, so he leaned in front of the window and looked out.

I saw the old woman and a few men carrying torches to greet them, opened the courtyard gate, and a large group of people poured in at once.

Shi Gao saw the person coming clearly by the firelight, and couldn't help but be stunned, turned around and said softly: "It's Huo Yun." ”

"Huo Yun?" Liu Xun frowned slightly.

"It's so late, how did they get here." Scoop muttered to himself, his ear pressed to the lattice, wanting to hear what they had to say. However, he was still faintly uneasy in his heart, if Huo Yun and the others came in to spend the night and bumped into the emperor, they would be embarrassed by each other.

Huo Yun was followed by Zhonglang General Wang Han and Guanglu Doctor Zhang Shuo, Wang Han said: "The store, there are good rooms." ”

The old woman said: "There are many guests here today, and the best rooms are full. ”

Wang Han was surprised: "Your small country shop, there will also be many customers?" ”

The old woman pointed to the stables in the courtyard and said, "You see, so many horses are tethered. ”

Wang Han glanced at it, turned sideways and whispered to Huo Yun, "There are more than a dozen good horses tethered in the yard. ”

"A dozen good horses?" Huo Yun's expression was solemn.

"Yes." Wang Han said.

"Let's go." Huo Yun pondered for a moment, then turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

"Let's go? Let's go? Why don't you drive them away? Wang Han didn't understand, so he chased it out and asked.

The family led the horse over, Huo Yun took the reins, and did not look at Wang Han, and said: "There are more than a dozen good horses, how can they be ordinary people." ”

Wang Han thought for a while: "It is also possible to travel for business." ”

Zhang Shuo glanced at him and said, "You don't look carefully, these are good horses to ride, not horses to pack goods." There is such a battle, at least from the marquis' mansion, or from the prince's mansion. ”

Wang Han suddenly realized, stuck out his tongue, and said: "In this case, if you bump into each other, you will be embarrassed by each other." He pondered for a while, and then said, "It seems that I can only go back to my barracks, which is about thirty miles away." ”

Huo Yun turned over on his horse, waved his whip, and said, "Let's go." ”

Liu Xun and Shi Gao didn't expect to meet Huo Yun here, and they were also relieved to see these people withdraw from the courtyard.

Shi Gao left the window, snorted, and said, "The head of the Chiyang Pavilion said earlier that there are armored soldiers who practice trampling on the wheat field, and it must be the Tiger Ben Army led by Wang Han. ”

Liu Xuntie blushed, raised his wine glass and drank it all.

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Huo Yun and the others came here, which was also a coincidence.

Huo Yun has always regarded himself very highly, and he is not used to Huo Yu's indecisiveness, but also despises Feng Zidu, who is yin and yang. He disagreed with the plan to behead a few prisoners on the grounds that the prisoners of Shuofang were delayed, believing that if it was a big thing, it was necessary to kill decisively, and to have an army that obeyed his orders and a group of loyal dead soldiers. He called the nephew and son-in-law of the Huo family to Zhang Shuo, the doctor of Guanglu in the matter, and took a group of family members to the Wang Hanhuben military camp in the northern suburbs.

Wang Han is Huo Guang's grandson-in-law, a Zhonglang general, in charge of the forbidden army. Huo Yun is the same age as Wang Han, and he is more intimate than others, and he often goes to Wang Han's military camp to drink and shoot hunting these days.

When Wang Han saw Huo Yun and Zhang Shuo coming, he smiled and said, "The Marquis of Guanyang is here." In the end, there will be a disappointment, and I hope you will forgive me. Huo Yun punched him, Wang Han pretended to be in pain and covered his chest, then smiled and grabbed his arm, and walked into the barracks together

Huo Yun sat down and said, "I'm bored today, I'm here to drink." ”

Wang Han said: "What kind of wine are you drinking?" Today's weather is fine, just in time for hunting. As he spoke, he pulled him up and turned back to greet Zhang Shuo, "Go, go, go." ”

Huo Yun originally liked to hunt, but at this time he was also interested, and said, "I didn't bring a bow and arrows. ”

Wang Han smiled: "Will I have a good bow and arrow here?" ”

Huo Yun was followed by more than a dozen family members, and Wang Han took a team of cronies and tiger cavalry, and dozens of horses rolled towards the foothills of Qishan Mountain. After more than half an hour, they came to a sunny hillside with thick bushes and deep thatch.

Wang Han raised his horsewhip and drew a circle, and said, "The forest here is dense and the grass is deep, and it can be used as a hunting ground. As he spoke, the branches of the bushes in the distance suddenly swayed, and a soldier pointed to it and shouted, "There is a deer ahead." ”

Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing, but there was no wild deer to be seen. Wang Han reprimanded: "I'm blind. "Raise the whip and whip the soldier. Huo Yun grabbed his arm, signaled not to make a sound, and said in a low voice with his lips twitching: "There seems to be movement in the grass in the distance." ”

Sure enough, there was a rustling sound in the grass, and suddenly, the head of a deer appeared.

It was a sturdy stag, with a coat like withered grass, and a pair of large antlers on the top of its head, the antlers were curved in a semi-arc to the sides, and a few sharp branches branched out from the main trunk, which pierced the sky. If it does not move, it will be completely different from the surrounding vegetation and cannot be seen.

Huo Yun looked at it intently, and was amazed in his heart. The deer also slowly turned its neck, its dark eyes staring at him.

And everybody saw the deer at this time. Zhang Shuo was surprised: "How can there be a flower deer here, will it be from the royal Shanglin Garden." ”

Wang Han said: "It doesn't matter where it comes from, we hunt it, it's ours." ”

Huo Yun stared at the wild deer blankly, and a sentence suddenly appeared in his heart: "Qin loses its deer, the world will chase it, and those who are high-quality and healthy will get it first." I couldn't help but grin.

"Do not act rashly, and see that I have captured this deer." He reached out and took the bow and arrow handed by Wang Han.

Wang Han waved his hand and motioned for everyone to squat down and not alarm the wild deer.

Huo Yun tiptoed forward slowly, he didn't dare to get too close, so he stopped a hundred steps away, leaned on a big tree, twisted out an arrow and put it on, pulled the bowstring hard, and aimed straight at the head of the wild deer.