On this day, seeing that the sun was already in the west, the little meal I ate in the morning had already turned into a fat field. Now, from the emperor and the aunt to the horses and coachmen, all of them have not drunk a drop of water, and the grain of rice has not been touched. When people's "five organs" collapse, they can still grit their teeth and resist it, but it is difficult to cope with the rebellion in the belly of mules and horses. They hissed and screamed, as if to tell their owners that they were hungry, and then they did not tell themselves, as if to remind them that they had been doing well and that it was time to give them something to eat.

When they found that their master did not respond to either suggestion, they simply stood still, stretched out their long tongues, licked their lips from side to side, raised one of their front hooves, and still impatiently wrote the word "one" over and over again in place, as if to say: "Even if we are to drink 'one' saliva, eat 'one' grass, and chew 'one' of ingredients." "

It seems that grass does not grow in this place of Broken Leaves. In the morning, through the county and through the urban area, in addition to the stone road is the yellow earth, there is no grass to fall. In the afternoon, I saw the countryside, and I still couldn't understand it.

You say that this is a place where trees do not grow leaves and grass does not grow on the ground, but the crops in the fields are more lush than those in the country of Xinglin.

Patches of black, shiny earth, if anyone said that a stick of fire would grow into a forest next year, no one would doubt the possibility.

You say that he has fertile land, and that the ridges, the fields, and the roadsides are all like freshly shaved monk's heads, and cooked ducks that have already been roasted—not a single hair.

When the king of Miaozhuang saw that the horse refused to go, he asked the coachman to whip it, and he whipped it three times in a row, and the horse kicked the hind legs, but he did not move the nest.

The coachman said to the king of Miaozhuang bitterly: "No man is rich without windfall, and no horse is not fertile without night grass." Not only do they need forage during the day, but they also need forage at night, not to mention the saying that 'the horse's head goes down, and it eats from day to night'. Seeing that the sun is about to set, they are still empty, and they are afraid that it will be useless to fight!" After speaking, regardless of whether King Miao Zhuang agreed or not, he unloaded one of the old horses, took off his chew, threw the reins on the horse's back, and slapped the horse's ass and said "Go" and didn't care.

King Miao Zhuang was wondering, the horse had already fled in all fours.

Princess Celestia asked curiously, "What are you ......?"

The coachman said, "You have to eat with a long mouth, and you need to get fat when you take root!"

The second princess said, "Didn't you let the fish drink water, and there was no return?"

The coachman said: "Ma Tong human nature, will never forget the benefits given to it by the owner, the old horse knows the way, there is no reason not to return." "

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. The eldest princess thought that the coachman was using the horse as an excuse to satirize the lack of father-daughter love between her sisters, so she angrily "snorted".

After the second princess was reminded by her sister's "hum", she also seemed to have an understanding and said, "In your opinion, this animal is stronger than a human!"

The coachman was "free of cold disease in his heart, and boldly ate watermelon", and did not know that the second princess was "the copper bell and drum have another sound", so he replied without thinking: "People and animals are general, sheep have the feeling of kneeling and breastfeeding, crows have the grace of feeding, the son does not dislike the mother ugly, the dog does not complain about the poverty, although the livestock is not better than people, but it is not worse than people." "

Although the coachman was reasonable, the second princess was not convinced, and she was about to refute, when she just said the word "you ......", when she was interrupted by a long cry from the old horse...... When the other four horses heard the horse's call, they all joined in with their necks.

The coachmen immediately unloaded the wheels, chewed their mouths, and let go of the reins. The mule and horse, having regained their freedom, sped away one after the other in the direction of the old horse's neighing.

There is a saying: the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. King Myo Zhuang heard something from his daughter's conversation with the coachman that pleased him, so he took the lead and dismounted and walked forward in the footsteps of the mules and horses.

The two princesses and the two coachmen saw the emperor driving, and they had to follow.

He hadn't gone far before he saw several horses all grazing on a green meadow.

King Myo Zhuang looked at the coachman in disbelief and asked him how he knew that there was grass nearby.

Without even thinking about it, Coach Li said, "The credit is not on him, but on the horse." ”

It turned out that the old horse took the lead in the "strike" because he smelled the grass nearby.

The owner let go of it, and it ran straight here, and when it found the meadow, it didn't eat a bite, so it sent a message to its companions that there was grass.

Ma Tong human nature, the coachman also understands horse nature, it is because of mutual understanding and trust that there is a series of words and deeds just now.

This incident touched the two princesses a lot.

They both lowered their heads one after the other. Miaoqing was secretly crying, and Miaoyuan's eye circles began to redden. Although the coachmen didn't know why they were crying, King Miaozhuang thought that the coachman Li was smarter than himself.

He was about to praise the coachman when he suddenly heard "Catch the robber!" Catch the thief, ......" shouts came and went.

King Miaozhuang hated robbers and thieves the most in his life, and in the legal code of Xinglin Kingdom, there are relevant clauses that thieves chop off their fingers every time they steal, and cut off their hands every time they rob each robber, and they are caught three times. When he heard the shouts of the robbers, he immediately looked around vigilantly, and the coachmen were most worried about the two carts of treasure and silver.

The strange thing is that apart from them and the common people who shouted to catch the robbers, in the wilderness, as far as the eye can see, there is no one in the wilderness, can this robber have a stealth method?

Everyone was wondering that the common people with spears, machetes, hoes, and iron rakes had already surrounded them, and kept shouting: "Robbers, robbers, ......" King Miaozhuang searched around inexplicably, even under the belly of the horse, behind the horse's buttocks, and found no shadow of the robber.

"The horns on the dog's head - pretending to be a sheep (feint), the robber is you, you are the robber, where else can you find it?" As soon as the black-faced man's voice fell, King Miaozhuang laughed: "The widow is rich in the world, the power is overwhelming, and the things you want cannot be obtained, how can you be a robber and a thief!"

The black man did not show weakness: "People are all stolen and say that there is no reason to be a robber, it is really to wipe lime into the coffin - to die to save face, since you are rich in the world, why are you greedy for a few grasses?"

King Miao Zhuang finally understood that the so-called robbers and thieves were just for a few horse grass. I can't laugh or cry, and I don't know what to say.

He really didn't understand that this kind of thing, which was regarded as superfluous in Xinglin Country, seemed to have become a treasure among treasures here.

How did he know that this Broken Leaf Country was different, and they were the most practical. Since ancient times, the people take food as the sky. For clothing, food, shelter, and transportation, they have always focused on food, and everything related to food, whether it is the grain eaten by people, the chaff eaten by pigs, or the grass eaten by horses, are all regarded as treasures. Even the leaves blown off by the autumn wind are swept back three times a day to feed cattle and sheep or used as firewood.

That's how the country of Broken Leaves got its name. This is the only way to the west and the South China Sea, and thousands of pilgrims pass through the country of Broken Leaves every day, most of these people are relatively wealthy, and they are never afraid of expensive money.

They live in first-class rooms, buy what they see, never ask the price, eat what is good, and throw away what is not delicious. There are also a small number of stingy pilgrims who love money as their lives, they never buy a dispensable thing, in order to save money, they have tea and drink only water, do not live in inns and live in the temple under the eaves of the temple.

However, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic, and no matter how stingy you are, you can't eat or drink it.

The common people of the Broken Leaf Country saw this, and everything they ate was sold very expensive, not to mention the chickens, ducks, meat, eggs, beans, wheat, and rice that people eat, even the selling price of a pound of forage and wheat husk was more expensive than a pound of meat in Xinglin Country.

In order to make money, the ridges, the fields, and the grass on the side of the road were shoveled back to dry and store as soon as they appeared.

Now, the grassland they saw was a forage field for the owner of Liujiazhuang to herd cattle and horses, and there was a special person to take care of it all day and night.

As soon as the grass manager entered the village, he suddenly heard a horse barking, and when he looked back, he saw five or six horses running towards the forage field.

Boss Liu was born with five big and three thick, he is excellent in martial arts, only because of his irritable temperament, he is nicknamed Liu Cannon. In Caogui County, even the county magistrate is afraid of him, and the common people dare not break ground on the head of "Tai Sui".

Like this, in broad daylight, blatantly herding horses in his hay yard is the first time that a monk has been a groom.

When Liu Cannon heard the report, he was immediately furious, and immediately brought up the guy and led the whole village to surround him.

Although King Miaozhuang revealed his identity as the king of Xinglin Kingdom, Liu Dacang said: "The Jade Emperor can't go down to earth. "After that, the guy is going to use force.

Seeing that the situation was not good, King Miaozhuang drew his sword with a "whoosh" and prepared to deal with it.

At this critical moment, I don't know who shouted: "Don't do it, I have a night pearl here!" Everyone looked back, only to see Coachman Li holding a night pearl high above his head and walking towards this side.

Seeing that the bead was shining in the afterglow of the setting sun, Liu Dacang already understood what was going on, and hurriedly motioned to the strong men to move slowly.

When Li Chefu presented the Night Pearl to him, this Liu Cannon immediately became "Liu Shanren", not only did not use force, but politely invited King Miaozhuang and his party into the village, held a sumptuous banquet to entertain them, and gave up his bedroom and living room to give them rest.

The next day, he saw him off with wine. The warmth of hospitality and the abundance of wine and food are no less than the governors of the state capitals and counties of Xinglin State.

For the first time, King Miaozhuang and the two imperial aunts realized the meaning of the phrase "money can make ghosts grind". It is said that the saying "only money and not people" was handed down at that time.

From that day on, King Miaozhuang appointed Li Chefu to be in charge of contacting food and lodging.

Coachman Li is rich and easy to do, and he takes very good care of the three masters. I don't know how big the Broken Leaf Country is, but seeing that a year and three months have passed, it is still wandering around the country that is separated from money.

Along the way, many hotels and inns made a fortune from the arrival of King Myaozhuang, and many farmers sold horse feed to the generous monarch.

A cart of money is about to be spent, and the country of broken leaves still doesn't know which year and month it is.

King Miao Zhuang remembered that the madman said that there was a journey of eight or nine years, and he was very worried.

There is a way: the road to heaven and man. On this day, when they found that the last few dozen pieces of the first cart of treasure were left, they suddenly saw a large stone tablet on the side of the road with the three big characters "Cheap Gold Country" written on it.