Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 13
In August, the morning and evening are slightly cool, but the daytime is hot when the sun comes out, and the autumn tiger's tail is still fierce.

Luo Feng carried more than a stone of grain on his thin shoulders, which was a hundred catties, and he walked out of the city for several miles without feeling tired at all.

He could keep up with the steps of the third uncle and the others, and he was even able to chat with them while carrying a burden.The pole on the shoulders trembled under the weight of the grain at both ends, but there was a wonderful rhythm, and it seemed that walking along this rhythm was not so tiring.

"Second Brother Qin has a good eye, and he's a good pick of horses. Although the horse doesn't look young anymore, it walks briskly with more than a hundred catties of copper coins on it. It doesn't break a sweat. What a horse." While carrying the burden, he looked at the horse Luo Feng had just bought.

It was a black horse, its whole body was pitch black except for a pinch of white hair on its forehead and a section of white hooves.

Qin Qiong said with a smile, "A good horse can live to be three or forty years old, and the horse's mouth is only ten years old. If compared with us, this ten-year-old horse is actually equivalent to a 40-year-old man, and it's justified. According to a notebook left by my grandfather, it is said that there was a horse in the Han Dynasty who lived to be 40 years old, and it was a cross between a Dawan sweat horse and a Hetao prairie horse.”

He is a guard soldier who is skilled in bow and horse, and he is very familiar with horses.According to his introduction, when a horse is one year old, it is equivalent to a human being 12 years old, when it is two years old, it is equivalent to three years for a human being, and every year it grows is equivalent to three years for a human being. Early forties.

Qin Qiong led her own yellow puma with her left hand, and Luo Feng's black horse with her right, "This horse looks a little thin and has a messy mane, but it is actually a good horse. Look at his legs, his hooves are strong and strong. The horse has strong explosive power and good stamina. I fell in love with this horse at a glance just now, otherwise I wouldn't have insisted on letting you buy it."

He said that the dark horse is actually a good horse, an authentic Hetao horse blood breed, but it's a pity that it was not nursed and trained when it was young.

"The people in Naya sold a good horse as a draft horse. They really wronged the horse. After Xiaowu returned, he fed the horse well, let him recover, and then trained him in a proper way. I dare not say that the horse will To be an excellent war horse, but at least it is good for riding, if it pulls a cart on plowing land, it will be really wronged.”

Luo Feng also liked this horse very much. He guessed that the four white hooves of this horse made Ya people dislike it. If the whole body of this horse was black, it would be a black-tailed horse under the seat of Overlord Xiang Yu.

But he prefers these four white hooves, they are pretty.

"Little Wu, this horse is black all over, but has four white hooves. Why don't we call it White-hoofed Crow." Qin Qiong gave the horse a name, and his horse was yellow, so he named it Huang Puma.

"White-hoofed crow is a good name, but it lacks a bit of momentum. I think it's better to call it a lamp for thousands of miles?" Luo Feng looked at the horse, and couldn't help thinking of a horse in an old gentleman's storytelling book. .

It is also black all over, with a little white hair on the top of the head.

Qin Qiong was stunned, the name of the horse was a bit too long, a lamp for thousands of miles would cover thousands of miles, the name is very scary, but who named the horse like that.But after thinking about it, my cousin is only sixteen this year, so he smiled, "That's right, the name is loud."

"How nice to be called Lao Hei!" Xiao Jiu said.

"I think it's better to be called Xiao Hei."

"It should be called Dahei."

As a result, several teenagers from the same village thought the name was too long and a mouthful, so they gave the dark horse nicknames one after another.

Everyone carried hundreds of catties on their shoulders, but everyone looked very relaxed, which made Luo Feng extremely admirable.

Although everyone is very thin, they seem to have endless strength, especially the amazing endurance.He himself only carried twelve buckets of grain, but Third Uncle and the others picked more grain than himself, one stone of grain, plus dozens of catties of reward money and silk.

There were no robbers at all along the way, maybe it was because the blue-faced ghost had just been planted in Zhangqiu, or maybe Qin Qiongluo and the others were famous now and no one dared to mess with them. In short, the journey went smoothly.

After a twenty-mile journey, after resting for a few shoulders, I finally arrived at Nanshan Village in half an hour.

Nanshan Village is twenty miles away from the county seat, on the southeast side of the county seat, surrounded by mountains and rivers.

To the north of the village is Changbai Mountain. This mountain is also very famous in Zhangqiu County, even in the entire Qi County, because the mountain is often surrounded by white clouds. , Xiang has the name of Taishan Fuyue.

Nanshan Village was built close to this little Taishan Mountain, with about a hundred households. Because it is located in a mountainous area, it can be regarded as a relatively poor place in Zhangqiu, with less land and more people.

Because of the lack of land, there are more craftsmen in Nanshan Village, those who learn craftsmen, work as clerks, etc. Luo Feng's family has been forging iron from generation to generation, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

From a distance, you can feel the poverty of Nanshan Village. The low and dilapidated thatched houses are scattered at the foot of the mountain.

The road in front of the village is winding and narrow, and the fields on both sides of the road are sloping and dry land, and there are no orderly irrigated fields.

At this time, some crops were growing in the field, but it could be seen that the growth was not good. Several elderly men and some women in thorn hairpin cloth skirts were scattered on the slopes.

He couldn't even see a young man, which made Luo Feng lament that the days of this great cause are getting worse and worse. Although many people in later generations will reverse the case for Yang Guang, saying how ambitious he is, how diligent he is, and how His failure was due to the rebellion of those aristocratic careerists, but Luo Feng wanted to say that no matter whether the history books exaggerated his stupidity or not, no matter how great an emperor is, he shouldn't let his people have enough to eat.

Now that he has become an ordinary citizen in the Sui Dynasty and during the Daye period, he dislikes Yang Guang even more. Just looking at the women, children and old people in the fields, he knows that this dilapidated and desolate mountain village is actually a big village. The epitome of the Sui Empire today.

"elder brother!"

A voice sounded in the distance, and then Luo Feng saw several teenagers running towards him.

There was a boy who ran the fastest, and he rushed to the front after a while.

Long and simple-minded, with a particularly large head, slender legs and a brain, and a thin body.A face is full of dishes, but the eyes are bright, and the hair is combed into two buns, like two horns.

He surrounded Luo Feng happily, "Fifth brother, are you back?"

The third uncle on the side said, "I'm not back, little six, look at what good things your brother brought back for you, food, a whole pick of food, including millet, rice and noodles, you have enough tonight We have eaten."

As soon as the young man heard that he had enough to eat, his eyes sparkled, and he took a sharp breath. Immediately, the two long snots on his lips were sucked into his nostrils again. After sucking, he extended his palm and wiped it hard. He wanted to touch Luo Feng.

Looking at it, Luo Feng felt a chill, and quickly put down the pick and dodged it.

"Xiao Liu, hurry up and help my brother pick up a shoulder. After picking up the food all the way, my shoulder hurts."

In his memory, this snotty, big-headed boy was called Luo Xiaoliu, his brother of the same father and mother. He was 12 years old this year, but he was malnourished and looked like a big-headed doll.

"Brother, these are really grains, are they all from our family?"

"Of course, help me choose and go home."

Luo Xiaoliu looked left and right around the picker, and after confirming that it was indeed food, he screamed in excitement.

"Where did it come from, brother?"

"Go home first, and I'll tell you later, where's your mother?"

"Mother is weaving at home, and my sister-in-law and younger sister are also helping, so I'll go back and tell them." After speaking, Xiao Liu picked up a burden of more than a hundred catties and ran back, but the small man ran very fast .

Qin Qiong exclaimed on the side, "Sixth cousin is also born with supernatural power, such a small man, but so powerful."

"In terms of strength, Xiaoliu is much stronger than me. This kid is a little silly, but he is born with great strength. Now he is helping the landlord's house in Wangzhuang next door to herd cattle. He often fights with cattle and has never lost."

"Fighting with a cow?" Qin Qiong couldn't close his mouth in shock, "My cousin is really fierce!"

"Hahaha, it's fierce but it's a bit silly. I was just about to introduce you, cousin, to him, but he has already carried the burden and ran away. Second brother, let's go. The thatched cottage in front is my home. It's a bit dilapidated. Cousin Don't dislike it!"

"What's the matter, let's go. I saw my aunt once when I was a child, and I haven't seen her for nearly seventeen or eighteen years. I don't know if my aunt is in good health." Qin Qiong said with emotion.If it wasn't for the meeting halfway this time, maybe I might not see this cousin married to Zhangqiu again in this lifetime.

　Do you think the name of this horse is cool? What other majestic horse names are there?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)