Cui Shiyuan turned around and saw a man in his family uniform walking quickly, who was the Lai Fu'er he had seen through the wall before. He walked closer, saluted, and said, "People come to Fu'er, and I am ordered by my wife to accompany my son to borrow a horse." Cui Shiyuan nodded and said, "Very good." There's a housekeeper for Lao. ”

At that moment, Laifuer led the way, and after passing through the big pine forest, he turned north, walked another road, and walked six or seven miles, and came to a big house. Leffle stepped forward and held on to the knocker, tapped twice, paused for a moment, struck four more times, and then struck three more times.

The door slammed, and a crack opened in the door. Le Fuer whispered to the person who answered the door for a while. It was already dark at that time, Cui Shiyuan looked at Shangshuxing, and suddenly remembered what he saw in the valley cave.

Suddenly heard a long neighing sound in the door, Cui Shiyuan couldn't help but cheer:

"Good horse!" the door opened, poking out a horse's head, a pair of horse eyes sparkling in the night, looking forward to it, it already looked extraordinary, two soft clicks, a black horse stepped out of the door. The horse's hooves are very light on the ground, and the body is thin, but the legs are slender and majestic. The man leading the horse was a weeping maid, whose face could not be seen clearly in the dark, and seemed to be fourteen or fifteen years old.

Lai Fu'er said: "Son, Madame is afraid that you will not be able to return to Chang'an in time, so I borrowed a horse from the sister here for riding." This horse's strength is extraordinary, the sister here is a friend of my girl, and I learned that the son was going to save my girl, so I borrowed it, which is really a big face. Cui Shiyuan had seen a lot of horses, and when he heard the neighing of this horse, he knew that it was a good horse in ten thousand, and said, "Thank you!" and reached out to take the reins.

The maid stroked the mane on the horse's neck and said softly: "Black pearl, black pearl, the girl lends you to this prince to ride, you have to be obedient and go early and return early." ”

The dark horse turned his head and rubbed against her arm, looking very affectionate. The maid handed the reins to Cui Shiyuan and said, "This horse can't be whipped, the better you treat it, the faster it will run." ”

Cui Shiyuan said: "Yes!" thought to himself: "The horse's name is Black Pearl, and it must be a female horse." Said: "Sister Black Pearl, Cui is so polite!"

He made a gesture to the horse. The maid sneered and said, "Your dress is also interesting." Hey, don't fall off. ”

Cui Shiyuan gently stepped on the horse's back and said to the maid, "Thank you sister!" The maid smiled and said, "Don't you thank me?" Cui Shiyuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you, sister." When I come back, I'll bring you some more candied fruit. The maid said, "You don't need to bring the fruit." Don't hurt your horse. ”

Lai Fuer said: "This goes all the way to the north, which is the main road to Dali." Take care, Childe. Cui Shiyuan raised his hand, and the horse let go of the west hoof, and a few ups and downs were already dozens of feet away.

This black pearl does not need to be pushed, running like flying in the dark night, Cui Shiyuan felt that the woods on the side of the road seemed to be backwards, and he couldn't help jumping past his eyes, and what was even better was that the horse's back was stable and abnormal, rarely bumpy and undulating, and his heart said: "This horse is so fast, tomorrow afternoon, it will be able to reach Dali." ”

In less than a tea hour, it has galloped out more than ten miles away, the cool breeze is blowing in the dark night, and the fresh air of plants and trees is blowing in the face. Cui Shiyuan said in his heart: "Galloping a horse at night, life is happy." ”

Suddenly, someone in front of him shouted: "Thief mother, stop!" In the darkness, the knife flashed, and a single knife slashed over. But the black horse galloped very fast, and when the knife fell, the black horse was already out of the way. Cui Shiyuan looked back and saw two big men, one holding a single knife and the other a spear, striding and hurrying over.

The two of them scolded: "Thief mother-in-law! Can a woman disguise herself as a man, so she can hide it from her master?" In a blink of an eye, the dark horse had thrown the two away.

Although the two big men were chasing quickly, they couldn't even hear the shouts for a moment.

Cui Shiyuan pondered: "How can these two reckless men scold me for being a 'thief mother-in-law', what kind of woman is pretending to be a man? Yes, they want to find this black pearl master to be unlucky, and they don't recognize horses, it's really reckless." ”

He galloped out of Riche again, and suddenly remembered: "Ah, no! I am fortunate that I am fast and escape from the ambush of Errao." Look at these two big men seem to be martial arts, if the sister who borrowed the horse doesn't know about it, and she is about to come out without warning, it is inevitable that she will be plotted.

I have to go back to report the news!" Immediately stopped and said, "Black Pearl, someone wants to assassinate your sister, we have to go back and tell her, please don't leave home." ”

At that moment, he turned the horse's head, and went back from the original road, and when he came to the place where the big man had been ambushed before, he urged the horse to say: "Run, run!" The black pearl seemed to understand, and under the urging of these two "runs", it really galloped faster.

But the two big men are gone. Cui Shiyuan was even more anxious: "Wouldn't it be bad if he went to attack that sister in Erran Zhuangzhong?" he couldn't stop shouting "Run", and the four hooves of the black pearl galloped back as if they were off the ground.

When he came to the front of the house, he suddenly swung two poles against the ground and hit the horse's hooves. Black Pearl didn't wait for Cui Shiyuan to respond, jumped over on his own, flew out of his hind legs, and with a bang, kicked a man with a rod and stick straight out.

The black pearl rushed to the door, and in the darkness, four or five people stood up at the same time, reaching out to buckle the black pearl's bridle. Cui Shiyuan only felt a tightness on his right arm, and he had been torn off the horse. Someone shouted, "Son, why are you here?

Cui Shiyuan secretly complained: "It's so bad, the house is surrounded by people, I don't know if the owner has been poisoned." ”

But he felt that his right arm was held tightly, as if it was set in an iron hoop, and his body was sore, so he said: "I came to find the master here, what are you doing so rudely?" Another old voice said: "This son rode the black horse of the mother-in-law, it must be the good friend of the mother-in-law, and let him in, let's cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and catch them all." ”

Cui Shiyuan's heart went up and down, and he was terrified: "I call this self-throwing net." That's the way it is, only to go in again. Then the man who had taken his arm let go of his hand, straightened his clothes, and stepped forward to the door.

Passing through a courtyard, the stone road is full of roses on both sides, the fragrance is rich, the stone road zigzags through the moon cave door, Cui Shiyuan walked along the stone road, but saw that one side on both sides, one side there, are full of people.

Suddenly, he heard someone coughing softly from a high place, he raised his head, and saw seven or eight people standing on the wall, and the cold light on the blade in his hand flashed in the dark night, and he was secretly frightened: "There may not be many people in the Zhuangzi, why are there so many enemies, do you really want to kill them all?" But seeing these people glaring at him viciously in the dark, some of them pressed the hilt of their swords, intending to intimidate.

Cui Shiyuan could only force himself to calm down, smile reluctantly, and saw that at the end of the stone road was a hall, and rows of floor-to-ceiling long windows came out of the healing fire. He walked to the long window and said aloud, "I have something to ask to see my master." ”

A hoarse voice in the hall shouted, "Who? ”

Cui Shiyuan was angry, pushed open the window, stepped into the threshold, and at a glance, there were seventeen or eighteen people sitting or standing in the hall.

On the chair in the middle sat a woman in black, with a vest facing outward, unable to see her face, with a slender back, and a bush of black hair in a girl's outfit. There were two old women sitting in the Taishi chair on the east side, with their hands empty, and the rest of the more than ten men and women were holding the caries in their hands

There was a person lying on the ground in front of the old woman below, blood gushing out of her neck, already dead, it was Laifu'er who led Cui Shiyuan to borrow a horse. Cui Shiyuan thought that this person was polite and polite to him, but he was miserable in a moment, and he came because of himself, and he couldn't bear it in his heart.

The old woman sitting at the top was full of white hair and short body, and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Hey, son, what are you doing here?"