In the last rays of the sunset, the south gate guards of Fengyang City leaned on the city gate tower to bask in the sun, but the sun was about to set, in such a dry and cold day, it was a pleasant thing to have the sun in the boring work of the guards, so most of them liked to huddle together in the sun and brag, of course, this was in the absence of Shangfeng and no money to gamble. It will be two or three months before the harvest is ready, but you can already see half-human-tall seedlings swaying in the wind.

A small black dot appeared at the end of the wheat wave, which was rapidly enlarged, and when I got closer, I realized that it was a little boy galloping on a black horse." This little rabbit cub's riding skills are not bad" One guard pointed to the front and said, the other guard agreed, the two-sentence kung fu rider had arrived closer, he turned over and dismounted, his movements were clean and neat, making people almost ignore that he was still a child. It can also be regarded as a military town with a permanent garrison, so there are more sergeants, and you can see sergeants everywhere on the street, Wu Xiao didn't dare to ride a horse, and it was not a joke to bump into these people, he still had this common sense, and he ran all the way without rest, Wu Xiao was very tired, he Bi Jing was still a seven-year-old child, and his physical fitness was definitely not as good as that of adults, and ordinary adults were not comfortable after galloping on horseback for two hours. Wu Xiao began to look around for the pawnshop, and led the horse around for a long time before he saw a Jin Ruidang whose façade looked okay, he bolted the horse to the pillar outside and walked in.

The counter of the pawnshop is very high, and there is a young man sitting in it, and the countertop of the counter is almost on top of Wu Xiao's head, he checked his feet, put the jade pendant on the counter and said: "Take this jade pendant as a piece", the guy was a little napping, he didn't see anyone when he heard the voice, and he stuck his head out to see a child standing under the counter, who looked like a child from a big family, and the guy thought to himself that this must be a loser of which family, and stole the things from the house to exchange for two pocket money.

The guy took the jade pendant and looked at it, his face was a little dignified, from his intuition he could see that this was a good thing, he stretched out his head and said to the child: "You wait, I'll take it to the second gear hand to see", if it is a leather jacket, broken furniture or something, the guy can still set the price, good things have to pass the eyes of the second gear hand, and the second gear hand is not easy to determine before getting the pawnshop's big file hand.

Wu Xiao waited for a while, the guy came out with the jade pendant, and asked Wu Xiao: "You secretly took this thing out of the house, if this is the case, we don't dare to accept it, and when you come back, your family will find it, and we won't end well". Wu Xiao didn't know the value of the jade pendant, so he could only nodded, and the guy simply gave him a pawn ticket, gave twenty taels of silver and put it in a small cloth bag, and when the ticket was stuffed in it and handed it to Wu Xiao.

Before dark, Wu Xiao stayed at a Huifeng inn on the edge of the north gate, because tomorrow he was going out of the city from the north gate and going to Shangyang City, he wanted to catch up early tomorrow, and he would leave as soon as the city gate opened. It wasn't until Wu Xiao threw away two pieces of silver that he shut up.

The night was deep, but for Zhangjiaji, this night was the beginning of a nightmare, more than 20 horses on horseback, the knights were all standard light armor, waist across the narrow saber, head tied with a red scarf, rushed into Zhangjiaji, a knight dismounted at random to open a door on the side of the road, a man from the inside dragged out, a saber out of the sheath on which man's neck, the man had never seen this formation, scared to pee his pants, and kept telling forgiveness: "Master Jun, we are good citizens, what do you say", The knight asked very calmly: "Have you ever seen a seven-year-old strange child, is a mute", which man thought about it and said: "The child has one during the day today, but it doesn't seem to be mute", the knight glanced at the captain who was headed by him, and the captain also heard the man's words, and said coldly: "Ask again". Rushed into the house and dragged out a woman, the saber frame woman's neck, has opened a small opening, a trace of blood from the neck, the woman is so frightened that she can't speak, just keep shaking, and her mouth is chanting "Don't kill me, don't kill me".

The first knight said to the man at this time: "Say it quickly, or you will kill your woman", the man glanced at his own woman, knelt down and kept kowtowing, and begged: "Don't kill her, she just got pregnant with a child, don't kill him". Which was called Xiao Wu immediately said yes, and his companions rushed away, and after a while a man and a woman were pulled, the two of them knelt on the ground with a plop, and the man immediately said: "Which child did Aunt Zhang in the east of the town talk to, Aunt Zhang lives in the easternmost house", the knights laughed, "This recognition", Aunt Zhang was quickly pulled over, after a turn of interrogation, the knights knew that they had been looking for two days and finally found a clue, they all rejoiced, and the old bull head was also arrested, and told everything that had happened, And took out a piece of jade pendant, the captain looked at it, handed the jade pendant to Xiao Wu and said: "Hurry back to Beijing and ask the master to recognize, we will meet in Fengyang Town", Xiao Wu got on the horse and galloped along the road.

The captain looked at the few people kneeling on the ground, and gave an order to the knights: "Chickens and dogs will not be left." After a heart-warming scream, Zhang Jiaji fell silent forever.

As soon as the day dawned, Wu Xiao got up, dressed neatly, went to the downstairs of the inn to find a vendor selling buns, bought more than a dozen big buns, made a package, and bought a sheepskin water bag from the inn guys, filled with water, settled the house money and took out the horses, and went to the city gate to line up out of the city, the city gate has not yet opened, but there are already early peddlers and pawns lined up in a long line, when the city gate opened, Wu Xiao followed the team out of the city gate, he looked at the sun, it has not yet risen, the weather is very cold at this time, and the snort of his black horse is hotAfter hanging up the package and water bag, he turned over and got on his horse, and was about to urge the horse to move forward, when he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the city, and someone shouted loudly: "Let it go slowly, there is a warrant from the guard", a knight wearing light leather armor rushed to the front of the city gate, and asked the city gatekeeper: "Can there be a child riding a black horse out of the city", the two guards looked at the knight for a long time, and at the same time pointed to Wu Xiao who was ten zhang away from the city, which knight saw and shouted: "Take him, I will inform the captain".

Wu Xiao saw that this situation was not right, and immediately reacted, and shouted softly: "Drive", as soon as the legs clamped the horse's belly, the black horse galloped up and went away, how could the city gate guards run to catch up, and even their shouting and scolding Wu Xiao never heard.

Wu Xiao was very nervous, but he forced himself to calm down, he knew that the enemy would soon chase after him, and their horses must be faster than his own, there must be a lot of people, what should he do, Wu Xiao slowly calmed down when the danger was approaching, now he only has to fight for endurance, he runs before the enemy, there is a distance in the middle, the enemy must be a starry night to capture himself, how is it very likely that the enemy is now sleepy and lacking, even if it is a fast horse, the speed and physical strength will be greatly reduced at this time, and he and the dark horse have just rested, and they are lightweight, The burden of the black horse is not heavy, the enemies are all adults, the burden of the horse is heavy, it must not last, thinking of this section, Wu Xiao immediately bowed down, stuck to the horse's back, relaxed the reins to make the black horse run more comfortable, he silently thought in his heart: "Horse, this time it depends on you, you must run past them", the black horse seemed to know what he was thinking, snorted, ran more happily, and after a while, he heard the rumbling hooves behind him, it sounded like there were more than twenty horses, the black horse also felt the pressure, and he sped up, At this time, it had been running for an hour, Wu Xiao looked back and saw the smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and the enemy was chasing closer and closer, he touched the neck of the black horse, fortunately, he had not sweated yet, indicating that the black horse had a long physical strength.

Wu Xiao and the twenty light armored cavalry behind them launched a chase on the official road from Fengyang to Shangyang, the military horse was obviously better than Wu Xiao's black horse in speed, the distance between the two was getting closer and closer, from ten miles apart, to nine miles, and then to eight miles, the cavalry captain seemed to suddenly realize something, turned back to the subordinates behind him and said: "Take my warrant and go back to the city to find the garrison to transfer forty military horses, we have to change horses in front", the two subordinates took the warrant and turned around.

The distance was shortened again, only five miles apart, Wu Xiao could see the red scarf on the forehead of the pursuer at the front fluttering.He was in a cold sweat, fortunately at this time, the distance was no longer widening, and the front and back were holding each other to chase down, and the horse's mouth began to foam, and the speed slowed down significantly, everyone felt that the horse was a little difficult to run, and the breathing began to be bigger, indeed, in order to rush to Fengyang City quickly, twenty horses ran in the middle of the night, and they were already a little sleepy and tired. As soon as they heard the news that the child was outside the city, everyone immediately got on their horses and chased after them, and then ran for another three hours, and a subordinate followed the captain sideways and shouted: "Big brother, if you run again, the horse will be tired to death", the captain looked back at the other subordinates and horses, shook the whip, and shouted: "Get off the horse and rest, wait here to change horses and chase again."