Will Ming

The wind in March is always a bit cold and clear, especially when the horses are galloping, the wind blowing on their faces is as sharp as scissors. Fortunately, the horse thieves are not used to this kind of life, so they won’t be scratched by the scissors. Thousands of green silk ribbons hang down.

The place where the horse thieves were hiding was a small village called Qugou. It was not very far from here to Yuyang County, three hundred miles away, and the official road of the Sui Dynasty was flat and straight, and it was very comfortable for horses to run.To say that it is comfortable is relatively speaking. If ordinary people jolt on horseback for half an hour, they are afraid that their buttocks will be worn out, and if they run down three hundred miles in one breath, even regular cavalry will feel pain.People who have lived on horseback for a long time are easy to recognize. Walking on the street, you can see who has awkward legs, bowed legs, upper body motionless when walking, and lower body bouncing. Either long-term horseback riding is polio.

It would be easier to identify if they were in the bathhouse. Whoever has a layer of calluses on their buttocks can almost confirm their identity. Either they are spanked every day or they ride horses on an eight-hour work day.Being spanked every day is something that no one is willing to give up a layer of dead skin.

These horse thieves lived with Zhang Zhongjian in Yanshan Mountain for several years, and spent several years in Saibei. They have long been used to life on horseback.After going north from Qugou to Gu'an County to buy supplies, Tiefutu, a team of horse thieves who could stop children from crying at night in Youzhou, Zhuojun, left like this.Their next stop was Yuyang County. No one thought that so many brothers would die in that place, which was not much bigger than a donkey's egg.

"Grandpa, Xiao Di is in Yuyang?"

Li Xian's crotch was a two-year-old black horse, which Zhang Zhongjian specially selected for him from dozens of young horses.It is said that there is also the lineage of Botawu, a famous Khitan species, but there is no white hair like the four auspicious clouds on the horse's hoof.Li Xian has been raising this horse for more than a year, and he likes it very much.Chen Que'er once deliberately teased that an impure Bota black is so rare?What's the point of fooling you, silly boy, because your grandpa fooled you.Li Xian said with a deep expression, Brother Xiaoniao, you don't understand, this horse is different from a human, and a bastard may not be a good thing.

Zhang Zhongjian held a piece of fluffy grass in his mouth, raised his head and looked at the gray sky: "Her aunt took her to the Eight Immortals Mountain, and said that the girl with a clear bone is a good seedling, and she must be taken away as a disciple. You know, I can't afford to offend that aunt of yours."

Li Xian smiled, yes, there are not many men in this green forest who can provoke the red Buddha girl.

Li Xian sighed, the same aunt, how could there be such a big gap?Yang Guo had an aunt who eventually became his wife.I also have an aunt who might become my foster mother.

"Grandpa, if there is a fight, who is better, you or your aunt?"

Li Xian has always been curious about this question.

Zhang Zhongjian thought for a while and said: "Fight immediately, I can defeat her in less than five rounds. If it is a close fight, I really can't tell who will win and who will lose if your aunt's little tricks are used. Her mess It’s a trick, it’s a headache just thinking about it.”

"pity."

Li Xian sighed.

"What a pity?"

"It's a pity that she is such a good stepmother, Luo Hua intends to be ruthless."

Zhang Zhongjian glanced at Li Xian and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Brother Yaoshi has a strategy for governing the country, and his martial arts and martial arts are all superior to mine. And the Red Buddha has a long-standing marriage contract with him. Don't talk nonsense like this in the future, let your aunt listen To tear your mouth."

Li Xian shuddered, thinking about the scene when he first saw the Red Buddha girl when he was a child, he still has lingering fears.I don't know if that terrible woman crossed over from the Valley of the Wicked, actually caught a nearly adult black bear and locked it in the cave, and then asked Li Xian, who was only seven years old, if he had eaten a bear's paw.Li Xian hadn't eaten it yet, but the Red Buddha asked if he wanted to eat it?Li Xian naturally said that he wanted to eat, and then the Red Buddha smiled and said: "You cut it yourself." Then he kicked Li Xian into the cave.

Zhang Zhongjian was anxious to rush in to rescue Li Xian, but Hongfo said seriously that if he wanted to truly grow, he had to face all kinds of dangers and continue to grow through the trials of life and death.What he said was righteous and reasonable, so Zhang Zhong insisted on a hard bow and stood guard at the entrance of the cave, and did not go in to rescue Li Xian from the dire straits.

The Red Buddha stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted to Li Xian: "Little guy, no matter what a man wants, he must rely on his own efforts to get it. If you want to eat a bear's paw, you can cut it off yourself!"

Li Xian wailed in the cave: "Auntie..."

The Red Buddha gritted his teeth and shouted cruelly: "Don't beg me, you are a man, don't you even get what you want?"

While dodging in embarrassment, Li Xian stayed and cried, "Auntie is right, you have to fight for what a man wants. But Auntie, if you want me to cut the bear's paw, at least give me a knife?"

Red Buddha: ...

That's a veritable female devil, Li Xian sighed in his heart.

"Grandfather, Xi Ren's tribe is very close to Yuyang County?"

It was Zhang Zhongjian's decision to transfer Tiefutu to Yuyang County this time, and the reason was that recently the Red Buddha in Yuyang County sent Zhang Zhongjian a letter saying that recently Xi people frequently crossed the Great Wall to fight grass valleys.At this time, Li Jing was living in seclusion on Panshan Mountain in Yuyang County, so the Red Buddha was also here.It's just that the two of them didn't live on the same mountain. The Red Buddha lived in seclusion in Baxian Mountain, which was still a long way from Panshan.Compared with the Turks, the Xi people are not fierce and warlike, and their relationship with the Han people has always been stable.It's just that I don't know what happened during these days, the soldiers of Yuyang County were exhausted, but they couldn't block the entrance of the North Great Wall.

"Out of the Great Wall of the North is the territory of the Xi people tribe. The Xi people live in the wet water. They are a group of timid and fickle grassland people. Compared with the Turkic people, they are much more gentle. The merchants in Shanggu Boling and other places love to be with the Xi people. When dealing with people, they are hospitable and generous, and the merchants can return with full rewards every time. This time they frequently enter the pass, it may be that something major has happened to the Xi people."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said: "The pharmacist pretended to be a casual person in Yuyang, and the matter of Xi Ren made Yuyang county governor Pei Yan very anxious. He sent people to invite pharmacist out of the mountain several times but was rejected by the pharmacist. Your aunt let me go because of it." Persuade the pharmacist. Although he has no intention of official career, he should do something for the people of Yuyang."

Li Xian curled his lips, thinking that Li Yaoshi had no intention of career?Silly grandpa, you and the red Buddha treat him as an outsider who is indifferent to fame and fortune, a person who would abandon or even murder his married wife in order to become an official, and has no intention of official career?Lie ghosts!

"When you arrive in Yuyang, Grandpa will ask the pharmacist to think of a name for you."

Zhang Zhongjian smiled and said, "Grandfather doesn't study much, so it's time to find you a famous teacher to learn from saints."

Li Xian said: "Forget it, Grandpa, Biaozi is not a bitch, anyone can mess with it."

"Xian'er, why do you seem to dislike the pharmacist?"

Li Xian tilted his head, too lazy to explain.

Tiefutu was the name Li Xian came up with, Zhang Zhongjian is still wondering why the three-year-old child could say such a name.But the surprise is the surprise, horse thieves like this name very much.Although everyone doesn't know what Tiefutu means, whatever, just listen to domineering.Since the Five Dynasties period, many of the elite cavalrymen have used the three characters Tiefutu. In the Song Dynasty, they specifically referred to the heavy armored cavalry under the command of Wanyan Wushu of the Jin Kingdom.

The folk customs in the north are tough, more than [-] horses gallop past, and the common people will not be very scared when they see it.At this time, the Sui Dynasty had not yet reached the chaotic period. The country was strong and the laws were strict, and there were not many horse thieves and bandits everywhere.The people in Yanzhao are brave and brave, and most of the men are sticks, so they don't run away when they see a horse team.After driving for three days in a row, they finally reached the boundary of Yuyang County at dusk.

Yuyang County, where Yuyang County is located, is also the only county under the jurisdiction of Yuyang.

Yuyang County is not big, and the county government is here, so the county is safe and peaceful.Zhang Zhongjian took people across the county town without entering, and headed straight for Baxian Mountain.Eight Immortals Mountain is in the northeast of the county, not too far from the county.Li Xian rubbed his numb buttocks and asked, "Grandpa, you have already passed Panshan Mountain, why don't you go see your virtuous brother pharmacist first?"

Zhang Zhongjian frowned and said, "I didn't intend to see him at all."

"why?"

"Back then, the pharmacist advised me to go to Yang Su, Duke of Chu, but I didn't have much to do with the people of the Yang family. Back then, Yang Jian recruited, but I didn't like him, let alone a Duke of Chu? Thanks to Yang Su, but he was killed by Yang Su. It’s fine if I didn’t kill him. Why would I work under his sect? The pharmacist tried hard to persuade me, but I just didn’t follow. Now I rashly go up the mountain to see the pharmacist. I’m afraid that persuading him to leave the mountain will backfire There is nothing difficult to do about people, since I am here, why go to Panshan to see the face of the pharmacist?"

Li Xian laughed loudly and said: "It seems that you are not very close to your brother pharmacist."

Zhang Zhongjian rubbed his forehead and said with a smile: "As long as you are clever, the pharmacist is good at everything, but he is too unsympathetic. Wancheng has been waiting for him for many years, but she doesn't know why she refuses to marry him! Every time I see him, I feel uncomfortable, so I might as well disappear." (Note 1)

Seeing that they were about to reach their destination, everyone relaxed, talking and laughing, and galloping on their horses.There is a village named Xiaodao at the foot of Baxian Mountain, and there are more than [-] households in the village.The villagers live close to the mountains, and the folk customs are simple.Zhang Zhongjian had been to Baxian Mountain before, so he knew there was a village at the foot of the mountain. He planned to stop at Xiaodao Village to get water, and then go up the mountain to see the Red Buddha.

There are still two or three miles away from the mountain village, Zhang Zhongjian said with a smile: "The villager in front is called Chen Xiaodao, he is over sixty and can still drink two catties of rice wine in one go, the last time he rested at his house."

Just as Li Xian was about to say why Lizheng was still in collusion with you, a big horse thief, his heart tightened suddenly, and he subconsciously leaned back against the horse's back.A crossbow bolt shot past his chest, tearing a hole in the front of his chest.Immediately afterwards, a burst of machine noise was heard, and countless crossbow arrows were shot from the woods on both sides of the road like rain.