The night slowly deepened.

The Taoist did not find a random place to rest in the camp below, like other people who did not bring tents, but walked a long way in the dark night to a nearby mountain.

In fact, the Taoist does not care about the trouble and danger, but just wants to be farther away, a little cleaner, the air is better, and on this mountain you can overlook the fire of the entire camp, which is also pleasant.

The three-flowered cat walked to the edge of the hill and looked down.

Only a small back was left for the Taoist, and it was almost impossible to see clearly in the grass.

There was a large bonfire at the foot of the mountain, and many torches were sparsely lit in the tent, and many people danced around the campfire in a circle, and the singing and cries were so far away that the hot and undisguised emotions seemed to be felt even by cats.

The Taoist sat cross-legged on the wool felt at the back, holding a small bowl of blue and white porcelain with half a bowl of water.

"It's time for Sanhua Niangniang to drink water."

“……”

The small back in front of him turned around, first glanced at the bowl in his hand, and then looked up at him, and then said softly: "Sanhua Niangniang has drunk water." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang only licked two mouthfuls just now."

"That's enough."

"Not enough."

"That's enough."

"Sanhua Niangniang hasn't drunk water for a day, water is the source of life, Sanhua Niangniang wants to be a child who loves to drink water." Song You looked at her calmly, as if he knew what she was going to say, and after a pause, he added, "It's the same with the little kitten." ”

"Okay, okay......"

Sanhua Niangniang is good at admonishment, so she muttered quietly, retracted her gaze from below, reluctantly walked back, leaned over the edge of the small bowl, and licked the water to drink.

Licking and licking, she raised her head again and looked at the Taoist:

"Tomorrow morning they're going to race!"

"Hmm."

"The fastest runner can get a sheep!"

"Hmm."

"Our horses are good horses! Run fast! ”

"Of course."

"Sanhua Niangniang can also ride horses!"

"Drink more water."

"I'm drinking, I'm drinking......"

Sanhua Cat then lowered her head again, licked a few mouthfuls of water, and didn't drink much, and then raised her head again, her eyes shining in the night: "Taoist priest, you say, can Sanhua Niangniang go and race horses with them?" Win a sheep back? It's like you win the lantern! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked around.

She had always carried the pony lantern.

"It should work."

"Can the Sanhua Lady go?"

"Is Sanhua Niangniang asking me?"

"Sanhua Niangniang is asking you ......"

"Sanhua Niangniang is a mature and intelligent cat. If Sanhua Niangniang knows that drinking water is good for the body, so she can know that she should drink more water, and she will naturally know other things and make the right decisions in other things. Song You sat on the wool felt and said to her calmly, "Such a Sanhua Niang can obviously make her own decisions." ”

"Of course I know!"

After the three-flowered cat finished speaking to him, as if to show that he really knew, he immediately lowered his head again and licked a few mouthfuls of water.

I don't know if she understood what Song You meant, but after raising her head, she still looked at Song You and asked:

"Can the Sanhua Lady go?"

"Since Sanhua Niangniang can already make her own decision, if Sanhua Niangniang wants to go, how can I stop Sanhua Niangniang?" Song You thought for a while, "But horse racing is not something that Sanhua Niangniang can do alone, so you should discuss it with the horses." ”

"Horses are our horses, and horses will listen to Sanhua Niangniang."

"That'll be fine." Song You nodded, "But we are outsiders, and we are relatively unfamiliar with the process of the Jockey Club, so I have to go to an official tomorrow morning to find out." ”

"Ask an official."

"I'm good at dealing with officials."

"Sanhua Niangniang is good at dealing with rabbit dogs."

"That's right."

Song You smiled slightly, and said more.

The three-flowered cat hurriedly lowered its head and drank water.

I usually don't want to drink more water, but today I drank all the bowls cleanly, and when I walked around after drinking, the water in my stomach shook and gurgled.

This added a lot of trouble to her dealing with rabbit dogs.

Song You closed his eyes and felt the charm of heaven and earth.

At this time, in early March, it was late spring.

If you are in the south, the weather is better, and the sun is shining, I am afraid that you can already find a little bit of summer feeling. The weather is bad, and it may be winter. However, in this Yanzhou grassland, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, even if the sun is shining these days, you can feel a little chill at night, you have to wear thicker, put on a blanket, in order to keep out the cold.

This place is vast, there are no mountains, no torrents, and the highest mountain is only a hundred feet, but the spiritual charm of this heaven and earth also has its special features.

Expansive, calm.

Throughout the ages, Yanzhou has always been the battlefield of the northern grassland tribes and the Central Plains Dynasty, I don't know how many heroes and heroes have fought on this land, and I don't know how many famous generals galloped through, this vast land is like the starry sky overhead, witnessing the struggle between the two sides, the ups and downs of civilization.

The howling wind seems to be full of whispers of history.

Song You felt this heaven and earth, and also gave his heart to heaven and earth, letting it know that in the late spring of the sixth year of Mingde, there was such a Taoist who passed by.

Perhaps many years later, there will be other practitioners who will come here and sit cross-legged here for a night, communicating with the spirit of heaven and earth, and also talking to him thousands of years ago.

The three-flowered cat still ran around on the grassland, sometimes catching hares, sometimes running to talk to the horses, and only in the middle of the night did he run to Song You's side, staying honestly, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth around him, and absorbing the essence of the moon.

……

Early the next morning.

Song You packed up his things, then went down the mountain and re-entered the camp.

In the past, when the grassland was governed by the North King, the grassland meeting was held by the North King, but now that the North King is gone, the Upper Limit is filled into Yanzhou, and it is naturally organized by the government.

Song You asked an official.

Dayan's officials respect Taoists and monks very much, and they also love to communicate with monks and humanists, so Song You quickly asked clearly.

The official horse race starts at the right time, you don't need anything to sign up, you only need people and horses to go, and there is not much attention to it, the race venue goes around the camp, and almost around the mountain, as long as you don't take a shortcut and mix in the middle, the first to the finish line is to win.

I heard that the last day will be a bit more complicated, there will be writing on the horses, someone will open a handicap, and the rewards will be richer, but the first few days are very simple, mainly for entertainment.

Anyone can participate.

By the time Song You arrived at the starting point with Sanhua Niangniang and Zao Hongma, there were already many people gathered here.

The participants are mainly half-grown teenagers, who ride either carefully selected horses or beloved horses that they have grown up with, almost without saddles and stirrups, only reins. Without a saddle and stirrups, it is the same as the jujube red horse ridden by Sanhua Niangniang, but the horse without even a rein is the only one with the jujube red horse.

In addition to Sanhua Niangniang, there are other girls, but there is no one who is as young as Sanhua Niangniang, and there is no one like her.

Therefore, when Sanhua Niangniang rode into the herd of horses on a jujube red horse, almost everyone who participated in the competition and onlookers cast their eyes on her.

Not only are the people small, but the horses are also small.

Although most of the horses present are Northern Yuan horses, which should be the same breed as the jujube red horse, the jujube red horse is indeed the shortest among them.

The crowd either grinned or chattered.

Among them was an acquaintance, the boy from yesterday.

It's just that he came early and took a high position.

As soon as he saw Song You, he greeted Song You with a bright smile: "Sir, I see you again." ”

"It's fate."

Song You also smiled with him.

The boy didn't see the horse and the girl beside him, but when he looked behind him, he saw it, and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "You are also here to race horses?" ”

"Play-oriented."

"Hey, you want to win sheep too?"

"Play-oriented."

"How can you run this horse so small?"

"As the saying goes, a man cannot be a person, and the sea cannot be measured, in fact, the same is true for horses." Song You stood outside, his voice gentle, "I don't know what I do, although my horse is small, but I am good at running, my Sanhua Niangniang is also a rare master of horsemanship, and it is not known who will kill the deer." ”

When the boy heard this, he couldn't help but laugh.

The people around him were speaking in the local dialect, and if they didn't understand what to say, Song You could probably guess it.

This is Sanhua Niangniang's entertainment, Song You didn't care, and he really didn't want to say more, he just stood next to him and laughed silently, until a well-wisher came to express his concern, afraid that Sanhua Niangniang was too young, and the horse didn't even have a rein, and it would be dangerous to fall, so Song You opened his mouth and explained a few words to them, so as not to pull his own Sanhua Niangniang out.

Someone came to host the event.

The boy was kind enough to translate for them.

The little girl on horseback listened attentively.

Until a shout -

The crowd of onlookers suddenly stirred, and there was a strange roar with local characteristics, and the horses in front of the queue had run forward under the urging of their masters, and the teenagers behind also hurriedly urged the horses to follow closely.

"Horses, run!"

A soft, thin voice.

Sanhua Niangniang lowered her body, grabbed the horse's mane with both hands, and didn't care about anything more.

Let the red horse run forward.

Listening only to a series of chaotic horses' hooves and calls, at least dozens of horses are running at the same time, although most of the horses are teenagers, but the teenagers are also quite imposing.

Song You's gaze only looked at that-

A dwarf jujube red horse with no reins.

The little girl was lying on her stomach tightly, but her face was serious.

It's also a little heroic.

And in a large herd of horses, the jujube red horse is short and small, and it is really inconspicuous if it were not for the youngest and extraordinarily beautiful girl sitting on it.

However, not long after running away, the onlookers on both sides noticed that something was wrong.

The horse was small, but it was unusually fast!

It was in a very backward position, but as soon as it started, it was constantly overtaking the horses in front, one after another, and in less than half the distance, it had already run to the front.

"Oh ......"

Onlookers were surprised and surprised, but they were also very excited.

The sound of the horses' hooves faded away and came back again.

Running at the forefront was the jujube red horse.

Although the jujube red horse is congenitally insufficient, born short, but it has already been made up for by the acquired, and even has been extraordinary, Sanhua Niangniang actually does not know equestrianism, but it is better to be small and light, even if the jujube red horse is already running leisurely, the result is really no suspense.

Song You was neither surprised nor delighted.

It was only after hearing a cry around him that he saw the happy Sanhua Niangniang walking back with a sheep in a crowd of onlookers, and saw the look on her face, that he showed a hint of a smile.

(End of chapter)