Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 533: Destroying Pegasus Ranch
After hearing what Kou Zhong said, the smile on Song Shidao's face instantly disappeared. Although the Song clan in Lingnan had always been in a corner and did not even obey the orders of the Sui court, the crime of plotting rebellion still caused some unrest in the local officialdom. Moreover, Lingnan was a place with many poor mountains and bad waters, and the grain production was seriously insufficient, and the minerals used for iron smelting were also scarce. Before the incident, mainland merchants had normal dealings with the Song family and each took what they needed. After the incident, in order to avoid offending the Sui court, some merchants chose not to do business with the Song family, or moved their business into secret. This greatly increased the circulation cost and had a significant impact on the stability of the Lingnan region.

As the young master of the Song clan, Song Shidao naturally could not have a good attitude towards the culprit who caused this situation. He was not as weird as Song Yuzhi, which could be considered as well-mannered.

After hearing what Kou Zhong said, Shang Xiuxun's face darkened, with less curiosity and more disgust.

Chu Pingsheng immediately understood that it seemed that Song Shidao had already gotten together with Shang Xiuxun. He just didn't know whether Lu Miaozi had reconciled with his daughter.

"I didn't expect my story to spread so quickly. In just a few days, even you know about it."

"Humph." Song Yuzhi curled her lips and said, "What a pity! How come a despicable person like you wasn't killed by Yu Wenzhi?"

"I am a despicable person? Then you are upright gentlemen?" Chu Pingsheng said with a smile: "Du Fuwei, Zhai Rang, Fu Gongju and others are fine. They can't survive and they started an uprising, which makes sense. But you are a bunch of people who have received the emperor's grace for generations but are deliberately rebelling. You are worse than pigs and dogs. Emperor Wen should have killed all your ancestors. He would regret giving you fiefs and official positions if he knew about it in the afterlife."

"you……"

Song Yuzhi was choked by him and his eyes widened and his face turned red.

Song Shidao, Li Xiuning and Li Shimin were all filled with hatred. This kid's insults were too harsh. The key was that they wanted to retort, but they couldn't find any negative information about the Chai father and son.

"Emperor Wen was wise, but his son Yang Guang was immoral, so the heroes chased him away. Now wars are raging everywhere, and the people are suffering. Father did this because he cared about the people and could not bear to see them suffer. He wanted to wipe out the Chinese bandits with all his might, help the poor and needy, and let the country recuperate and the people have enough food and clothing."

Either Li Shimin is a liar, or look at his rhetoric, it is so high-sounding and powerful.

Just look at this guy in the drama. He knows that Song Yuzhi likes Kou Zhong, but he still pesters her and pursues her in the most gentle way. He fails again and again, but keeps trying. Is he really so infatuated?

Ha ha……

The Lingnan Song clan has always been the most powerful enemy of the Li Tang Dynasty, and Song Yuzhi is Song Que's weak spot. If he marries Song Yuzhi, the north and the south will unite, and there will be no obstacle to the Li family's unification of the world. Even if he cannot marry Song Yuzhi, this stupid woman will feel that she owes "Brother Shimin" something, and she might become the last straw that breaks the camel's back at the last moment. In the TV series, didn't she successfully persuade Kou Zhong and Song Que to give up the world?

"Tsk tsk tsk, your Li family is really great and glorious." Chu Pingsheng said, "Since everything is for the common people, I think it would be better if the Li family handed over the military power to me. From then on, the two capitals of the east and the west will be connected, and the people of Chang'an and Luoyang will not have to endure the suffering of war. Xiao Xin is the nephew of the Empress Dowager. Once the Li family surrenders, it will not be a problem to deal with him. Similarly, Shen Faxing and Wang Hua in the east will not be a problem. In this way, the Yangtze River will be connected, and it will not be difficult to destroy Li Mi and Du Fuwei. What do you think? This is all for the common people to suffer less."

Li Shimin was speechless.

Song Yuzhi said in a hateful voice: "Why should I give you the Li family's army?"

"Didn't he say that the Li family did such disloyal and unrighteous things, worse than pigs and dogs, in order to save the common people from suffering? For the common people, they are willing to do such things, worse than pigs and dogs. What does handing over military power mean?"

"You... you are making up excuses. If the Li family gives you the military power, who knows if you will create another unjust and incompetent ruler."

"What he meant was that the rest and recuperation granted by the Li family to the common people is called rest and recuperation. What others give does not count. Since he doesn't trust me, why should I believe him? Or is it that he is just making empty promises without asking for money, so he will cheat as many people as he can?"

Chu Pingsheng laughed and said, "Li Shimin, on this point, Li Xiuning, a woman, is a hundred times more honest than a hypocritical villain like you. At least she used the idea that a man should make a career in troubled times to deceive Kou Zhong."

Kou Zhong didn't think Li Xiuning was trying to deceive him. He pulled the reins, and the horse under his crotch finally calmed down. He said manly, "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Chai Shao, let me ask you, what are you doing at Pegasus Ranch?"

Chu Pingsheng looked at the white horses galloping in the distance, the black horses pausing to graze, and the horses of all colors in the stables licking water from the stone trough. He said calmly, "I came to Pegasus Ranch to buy war horses."

"Buy a war horse? You come to buy a war horse?"

"Is there a problem?"

Chu Pingsheng's expression remained unchanged, and he remained calm: "I am the new Minister of War, and it is my job to take care of the warhorse affairs."

"This horse is not for sale. You can go back."

Kou Zhong raised an eyebrow and shook off the dust on his collar, with a look of pride on his face - the kind that couldn't be suppressed. Along the way, they had been defeated. Facing a guy with mediocre martial arts skills, it was not easy to beat him up. Yu Wenzhi didn't kill the Chai father and son, but made them the new nobles of Luoyang. Now he came to Pegasus Ranch to purchase war horses. From their point of view, they could finally pinch his balls.

Chu Pingsheng was neither arrogant nor impatient. He took off the water bag hanging on the horse's belly and drank a sip to moisten his throat which was a little dry and itchy from the days of traveling. He then said, "I remember the owner of this Pegasus Ranch should be surnamed Shang, right?"

Shang Xiuxun lightly clamped her fur-edged deerskin boots, and took a few steps forward with the Dayuan horse with shiny black fur and a row of long golden mane behind its neck, shaking its neck at Chu Pingsheng's mount, clearly mocking and provoking it.

"Kou Zhong's meaning is what I mean."

"You are selling horses, and I am buying horses. Shouldn't we talk business and not do business without profit? Could it be that Miss Shang is afraid that Chai can't afford the money?"

Chu Pingsheng was still very polite, even though his horse had already developed a bad temper. It gently pawed the ground with its front hooves, bending the yellow grass and causing lumps of dirt to fall everywhere.

Shang Xiuxun said expressionlessly: "Since it is a transaction, I have the right to choose the trading partner. You are not welcome at my Pegasus Ranch, please go back."

"Direct enough."

Chu Pingsheng's tone and expression remained the same.

Song Yuzhi crossed his arms across his chest, raised his eyebrows, and the mole at the corner of his mouth seemed to come alive, turning into a black-headed fly, dancing and laughing towards the sunset in the sky.

"Chai Shao, you may not know this yet, but my father has come to Pegasus Ranch and agreed to the marriage between my eldest brother and Sister Xiuxun. From now on, she will be a member of the Song family. You just spoke without restraint and said such harsh words. Don't you know that scolding our Song family is equivalent to scolding Sister Xiuxun? How can she sell the horse to you? You are still talking about business, hahaha... Do you think everyone is like you and can do business with anything?" "Oh, that's how it is." Chu Pingsheng didn't waste time talking to them. He gently pulled the reins, turned his horse around, and said without looking back: "Then I wish Miss Shang and the young master a happy marriage. I will present a generous gift to celebrate one day."

Song Yuzhi made a face at his back: "Pah, who cares about your gift? You should think about how to report to your father when you return to Luoyang."

"Yes, Yuzhi, you are right." Kou Zhong deliberately raised his voice and said to his enemy, who was riding a Qingcong horse and swaying gently to the rhythm of his walking.

"Why waste your energy with this kind of person? Let's go, Brother Shimin, Sister Xiuxun."

It can be seen that Miss Song was in a very good mood. She patted the horse's butt and called out "Gee". The horse neighed loudly, moved its four hooves, and ran towards a courtyard in the north.

"Yuzhi, why are you running so fast? Wait for me." Kou Zhong rode his horse straight after her, and the wind he brought up blew up her hair, like a pair of small wings flapping up and down.

Li Shimin, Song Shidao and Shang Xiuxun also left one after another. Only Li Xiuning stayed on his horse and watched. It was not until he saw Mr. Chai walking across the inclined bridge and the backs of the man and the horse became blurred and sank into the horizon bit by bit that he woke up from his trance.

She thought things would not end like this, but...she didn't know how it would end.

……

Willow head on the moon, after dusk.

Later that day, Lu Miaozi brought her daughter a jar of six-fruit liquid made from pomegranates, grapes, oranges, hawthorns, green plums and pineapples. However, unlike the six-fruit liquid that was used as an inducement for the reconciliation between father and daughter, the taste of this jar of six-fruit liquid was lighter.

However, for Kou Zhong, Li Shimin and others, it was still the best liquor on earth. Even Xu Ziling and Shi Feixuan, who came from Lu Miaozi's retreat, heard that Chai Shao had a big defeat at Pegasus Ranch and they were very happy. They drank a lot in one breath until they fell asleep drunk.

Because Song Shidao was right next to her, Song Yuzhi didn't dare drink too much. In the middle of the night, when she was half drunk and half awake, she heard a mild horse neighing. She didn't take it seriously. She frowned and scratched her head, smacked her lips twice, muttered something annoying, and turned over to continue sleeping.

It was not until the next morning that she heard a rooster crowing in a daze, and her subconscious told her that it was dawn.

It was dawn, and the eldest daughter of the Song family had no farm work to do, so she naturally had to sleep until noon. Just as she was building up her emotions and preparing to continue playing chess with the handsome Mr. Zhou, she heard Shang Xiuxun's screams from outside.

"horse……"

"horse……"

"My horse..."

Song Yuzhi shuddered and woke up suddenly. While mumbling "something happened" under his breath, he got out of bed, kicked off his white embroidered short boots, and without even having time to tie the ribbons on his sleeves, he pushed open the door sleepily and rushed into the yard.

Coincidentally, Li Shimin and his sister Li Xiuning also ran out of their respective rooms. They were in similar conditions, looking bleary-eyed and as if they had been awakened by someone.

"What happened?"

"do not know."

In response to Li Shimin's question, Song Yuzhi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

"Wu Ya...Wu Ya, wake up, get up."

At this time, another sad voice was heard.

Song Yuzhi said, "It's Sister Xiuxun."

Li Shimin identified it briefly, pointed to the southeast and said, "It's over there, let's go quickly."

The three of them quickly cheered up and ran along the newly painted red corridor towards the southeast exit. Soon they were out of the courtyard and came to the horse farm outside. They saw Shang Xiuxun lying in dishevel beside a fallen warhorse, seemingly pushing it hard.

Song Yuzhi recognized the horse. It was the fine horse from Dayuan that Shang Xiuxun rode yesterday. Because of its shiny black hair and long golden mane, it was very beautiful and strong, so Song Shidao gave it a very appropriate name - "Wuya".

At this moment, the horse fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth and motionless. Judging from its stiff limbs, it had obviously been dead for a long time.

It was Shang Xiuxun's favorite mount and was one of the top three horses in the entire horse farm. Last night, Shang Xiuxun fed it six kinds of fruit liquid and said that the horse could drink as much as she did. So... how could it die?

"Brother, Yuzhi, look..." Li Xiuning discovered an even more amazing scene and quickly pointed it out to the two of them.

It was not just Wuya who died. In the stable in front, through the fence, one could see one horse after another lying on the ground. Their conditions were similar to Wuya's, with foaming at the mouth and stiff limbs.

"Xiuxun, Xiuxun..." At this time, Song Shidao came running from the west, his face slightly pale, and his scattered hair was stained with a string of sweat, which showed that he had exerted a lot of effort.

Shang Xiuxun woke up with a start, turned around quickly, and looked at her fiancé anxiously: "How is it?"

(End of this chapter)