Chapter 192: The City Gate

Five days later.

The horse's paws collided one after another on the smooth road of Jianye City, and the sound of "stepping on and stepping" was extremely crisp, and on the street full of pedestrians, Qin Ke rode a tall war horse all the way, attracting countless pedestrians who couldn't help but look sideways.

Although the batch of war horses promised to Jing Wu in Canghai had arrived in Jingwu, there was no such large horse farm in Jianye City, so a horse farm was built in a wide area outside Jianye City, which was specially used to contain war horses and breed foals.

It won't take a few years for these improved horse breeds of Northern Barbarian War Horses to grow, and under the crotch of the ghost riders in Qingzhou, they will gallop across the field and make contributions.

And this batch of war horses is the next center of gravity of Jing Wu, Gao Changgong directly stationed 30,000 Jing Wu troops plus 10,000 Qingzhou ghost horsemen, surrounding the camp like an iron bucket, it is even more impossible to let anyone in to watch and taste.

Naturally, in Jianye City, there are still a few high-level war horses in the Northern Barbarians. Therefore, it is common sense that the black wind under Qin Ke's crotch can attract so much attention.

Black Wind obviously felt good about this new horseshoe, his feet were like the wind, and the horse's hips twisted and twisted, like a child with a new toy. Qin Ke was also happy to see this naughty black horse so happy, and let it run forward with joy.

And in the place where the horsehair above the head of the black wind was luxuriant, there was a small lizard lying on its stomach, which was sleepy in the sun with its eyes closed, who was it not Xiao Hei.

"Why do you like to sleep on top of people's heads so much now?" Qin Ke looked at Xiao Hei and couldn't help laughing, "Is it because the hair is so soft?"

Xiao Hei ignored him, he seemed to be more and more assertive now, just lying on Hei Feng's head and continuing to sleep.

"This time it's the Black Wind that Lord Gongjin helped borrow...... When the time comes, I'll return the Black Wind, and you'll have to sleep in the stable. Qin Ke teased, in fact, thinking about Xiao Hei who had been on the chest of his clothes for a few months, and leaving abruptly really made him a little uncomfortable.

Raising his head and looking at the city cave that was constantly pouring into pedestrians, Qin Ke got off his horse, took out the token from his arms, led the black wind, and approached the guards who were checking the road guide documents.

"You, you can't do this bow. The guard was frowning, looking at the people dressed as hunters, "Jianye City has a law, a stone on the bow, you are not allowed to bring it into the city, your horn bow is no longer in accordance with the law, either you can store it with me, or you go back, come back tomorrow, remember not to bring this thing." At this point, he looked at Orion suspiciously, "Can you pull such a heavy bow?"

His suspicions are not unreasonable, although the hunter in front of him has wide bones, but his body is not very strong, and his face is also slightly fat, it is estimated that he is not a ruthless person who can go up the mountain to hunt tigers and leopards, if he can't pull it, what is he doing with this bow? If it is those short bows that are purely beating hares and pheasants and roe deer, he is too lazy to care about it anyway, and he loves to take it with him.

Orion's face was also a little sad, he stroked the horn bow in his hand, and said, "Master, you have good eyesight, where can I pull this bow?" This is made by my father, who was a craftsman during his lifetime, and has a good skill in making bows. I don't have a good job as a son, I didn't learn, I can only be a hunter, there are few prey in the mountains recently, and I have a child at home, and I lack money to buy some things, if you detain my bow, what will I sell?"

The guard still frowned, and said, "If you want to sell bows, you can set up a stall outside the city gate, so why bother entering the city?"

"What kind of broken copper and ......iron are those people selling outside the door," Orion said with anticipation, stroking the smooth body of the horn bow, "This is a good thing...... Only those big men in the city know the goods, and outside, those people want to take my bow for a tael of silver, and if I sell it like this, I don't know how to see my father after I die......! Please. ”

There was already a long queue at the city gate, and countless people were waiting to enter the city, and the people behind saw that Orion had spent so much time alone, and they were suddenly a little displeased, and a few scoldings came over.

"Eh! The front, if you don't let you in, you won't let you in, what nonsense are you talking about! A broken bow, a tael of silver can't be bought? Still looking for the big man? I think you're a charlatan! Get out of the way, we're still in a hurry to enter the city!"

"That's it!"

The guards looked at the hunter with tears in his eyes, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed, the people didn't know the quality of bows and arrows, but he had been in the army for many years, although he didn't become a general, but he had an eye for appreciating these bows and crossbows, and he didn't know where the hunter's father was a craftsman during his lifetime, but this bow, even he couldn't necessarily pull half of it, and only those warriors in the army could exert the power of this bow and sell it outside the door, which was indeed a little inappropriate.

But the law is the law after all, the common people are not allowed to carry a stone bow and crossbow into the city, if he dares to let this person into the city easily, he will have to bear what goes wrong at that time, he is a small pawn, where can he afford it?

At this moment, he heard the loud sneeze of the war horse, the sound of trampling came into his ears, and then the slightly immature voice of a young man: "Sell it to me?"

The guard turned his head, saw Qin Ke's cheek clearly, and was slightly stunned, and Qin Ke was also stunned, the two looked at each other for a while, Qin Ke suddenly found that the guard in front of him was the captain who checked his documents when he entered the city, after a long absence, he could see this old face again, and Qin Ke, who had experienced many things, couldn't help but smile a little.

In fact, Gao Changgong went out of the city that day, and this Wu Changgong was also there, he had already seen Qin Ke who was following Gao Changgong, and now he saw it again, and a smile appeared on his face: "This lord." ”

"My lord?" Qin Ke was stunned, but quickly reacted, it was the black wind behind him who gave this guard a wrong judgment, the Northern Barbarian army horses are rare, and those who can ride are either rich or expensive, and more of them are generals in the army, and naturally the guards also regard him as an adult.

"I'm not an adult, it's me, it's me. Qin Ke pointed to his face, "When I first entered the city that day, you still checked my paperwork." My name is Qin Ke, just call me by my name. ”

"I know. Wu Chang also had a smile on his face, "But now you are not what you used to be, how can you still be commensurate with your peers?"

"What is it like now......?" Qin Ke smiled bitterly, is he cultivating? But even if he takes a step forward in cultivation, he is not a big person, right? Or is he a student in the Taixue Hall? But the students are just a group of students, although everyone knows that they will have a bright future in the future, but before that day, they are just cloth clothes, without any fame, what kind of adults are they?

"You can still call me by my name, I'm not an adult, I'm not an official, I'm not a general, I'm just a flat-headed commoner. Qin Ke said solemnly, then he turned his head, looked at Orion, and said, "This ......"

Orion hurriedly raised his hand and said, "My lord, the villain Lou Pu." ”

"I'm not an adult. Qin Ke couldn't help but laugh and said, "How much are you going to sell this bow for?"

Anyway, Zhuge Wanling paid for it, and he took the "archery" class in the Taixue Hall for so long, and on the way to the Tang Kingdom, if he met a thief, the bow and arrow would sometimes be better than the sword, even if he couldn't meet the thief, he could always use it for hunting in the mountains.

Zhuge Wanling said that he said Jing Wu, he can't have too much shadow of Jing Wu's military, bows and crossbows are standard in Jing Wu, and people can see it at a glance, so he has to buy it himself, and now he has a lot of money on him, almost overnight from a poor ghost to a "little rich", it is not a problem to buy a bow.

"Your Excellency. Look at it......" Orion squinted at the tall and sturdy Northern Barbarian war horse, and secretly said, obediently, this is not a mount that ordinary people can have, although there have been horse dealers who have come to the north over the years, but after all, the number is scarce, and the shape of the horses is by no means as tall and strong as Black Wind.

With such a war horse, it is not a problem to sell a few hundred gold in those official eunuchs' homes, right? For a grassroots citizen like him, a few hundred gold is enough for their family to have food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and even his son and grandson can ......

And this "adult" is so young, could it be that he is a new generation of generals in the army? Or is it the son of those nobles of the noble clan?