Yipin Tang

Chapter 91 Chasing and Killing
After the meal, Lao Huang closed the noodle stall and began to calculate today's income. The fat sheep hanging in front of the stall was almost only the skeleton. It can be seen that his mutton noodle soup business is still very good. Tie Dan ate five bowls of noodle soup alone. They are all ten cents a bowl.

"How is it? Did you earn two pennies today?" Wang Xi sat on the ground and chatted with Lao Huang when he had nothing to do.

All the things he brought have been traded. A cart of goods has been exchanged for three fat sheep, two strong yaks and some miscellaneous daily necessities. A lot of medicinal materials for bruises have also been exchanged. The fat sheep and yaks are tied up near the market A sergeant watched from a small tree, and the other goods were loaded into the wagon.

Although their goods have been traded, the sergeants will wait until Youshi to go back with the people of Huaiyuan Town. During this time, they can also go to the market to pick out some personal things they want to buy.

After counting the last copper coin, Lao Huang said again and again: "Almost, almost." But judging by his joyful appearance, he must be very satisfied with today's income.

Of course, Lao Huang will not just throw away the remaining sheep skeleton, but chop it into small pieces and put it in a pot to take home. At night, you can cook a big pot of sheep soup. It is delicious when soaked in pancakes or steamed buns. The children at home like to chew on bones.

Wang Xiang could see that Huang had specially left some tendons on the mutton bones, presumably for the children in the family.He suddenly felt that life in Bianzhen was not as difficult as he imagined, and what he saw in Lao Huang's eyes was satisfaction.

"It seems that you are all doing well here."

Hearing Wang Xiang's exclamation, Lao Huang smiled: "It's not all that you saw so well, there are many horse bandits around here, if General Zhang sent people to escort us all the way, we would not dare to come out so far. Even these merchants from the Western Regions brought their guards, and the horse bandits don’t care if you are Han Chinese or Western Regions.”

Wang Xiang wondered: "Why are there so many horse bandits here?"

This question was answered by Wang Xi: "From here to the west is the Yanqi State, to the north is the Gaochang State, after Gaochang is the Turkic State, and Yanqi State used to have Qiangruo, Wusun, and Kucha. There are often conflicts and fights almost every few days."

"What does this have to do with horse bandits?"

Wang Xi smiled bitterly and said: "Whenever they fight, there will be winners and losers. However, they don't kill each other. The winning side only plunders the other's property. The nomads are different from us Han people. No more, so many of these people became horse bandits. Don’t underestimate these horse bandits in the Western Regions. Almost all of them are rich in good horses, and the horses in Gaochang and Yanqi are especially good. General Zhang is determined to exterminate these horse bandits in the Western Regions However, the horses of our Great Tang are not as fast as others. Besides, even if a few groups of horse bandits are wiped out today, tomorrow a few small countries in the Western Regions will fight, and new horse bandits will appear again. It is impossible to finish the suppression..."

After hearing this, Wang Xiang was speechless for a while. It turned out that he was robbed by someone and then he wanted to rob others. It was really messy...

"However, most of these horse bandits are here and there, and they only look for those who are alone, and they don't dare to come to the market to play wild, and there are often fights among the horse bandits."

Wang Xiang finally understands that the so-called horse bandits are actually a group of mobs. They were originally ordinary people from various countries in the Western Regions. However, the people of the Western Regions are tough. After losing their cattle and sheep, they naturally stepped on horses and became horse bandits. From this point of view The group of Turkic horse bandits who attacked the mission was completely different from them.

"Then are there many Turkic horse bandits around here?"

Wang Xi shook his head and said: "Not to mention Turkic horse bandits, there are very few Turkic merchants. After all, there is a Gaochang between Turkic and Turkic, and the relationship between our Tang Dynasty and Turkic is not very good, so in fact, there are very few Turkic businessmen here. people."

Wang Xiang nodded thoughtfully upon hearing the words.

After chatting with Wang Xi and Lao Huang for a while, Wang Xiang got up and continued to visit the market with Tiedan. He also bought a lot of weird gadgets, thinking of giving them to Wushun and Xiao Luoli when he returned to Chang'an. Li Zhi's share is ready.

Unknowingly, the sun gradually moved to the west, and the people of Huaiyuan Town came back one after another to gather and prepare to return to the town with the soldiers.

There was no trouble on the way back, and I didn't even see a so-called horse bandit. After entering the town, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Chen, the deputy general, had been waiting for them for a long time. He couldn't let Wang Xiang go if he didn't come back. make up your mind.

When Lao Huang saw that Li Chen received Wang Xiang in person, he believed that Wang Xiang must be a very great businessman in Chang'an, and he became even more curious about the mutton steamed bun he taught him, thinking that he would go back to try it tonight try.

When they arrived at the residence, Ma Wenxin stayed in his room obediently. Cheng Chuliang, Li Huiming and Ju Yiya gathered together to fight the landlords. They didn't see Aqinu. After asking, they found out that she rode a fast horse and returned first. After going to Xizhou, Changsun Wuji felt that it was necessary for her to go back and inform Ju Wenya first, because he was worried about what would happen to Gaochang.

There are many people in the Western Regions in this border area. Aqinu changed his costume and encountered no obstacles on the way back to Xizhou. At this time, the sergeant sent by Zhang Kuishan to deliver the letter to Chang'an was being chased by the Turkic horse bandits.

Xiaodouzi is just over 20 years old this year, but he is the best scout under Zhang Kuishan. He is agile and clever, and his equestrian skills are the best in the entire frontier army. This time the task of delivering the letter is entrusted to him, which shows Zhang Kuishan's trust in him .

Not long after he left Huaiyuan Town, he felt that he was being watched. He rode his horse all the way and did not dare to stop, but he was still blocked. He had never encountered such a difficult horse bandit. The ordinary horse bandits have long been left behind, but these horse bandits have been chasing him closely. He has already guessed that the horse bandits chasing and killing him must be the same group of horse bandits who assassinated the eldest grandson. The letter that the adults asked him to send should not be lost.

The sky was getting darker and Xiaodouzi's heart froze, and he clamped the horse's belly fiercely. The horse under his crotch accelerated suddenly. The huge inertia almost brought him off the horse.

Clenching his teeth and sticking tightly to the horse's back, the war horse under his crotch seemed to feel the danger and let go of his hooves for a while, even throwing the horse bandit behind him a lot away.

The sharp arrow nailed to his left shoulder was consuming his strength all the time. Little Douzi knew that he would not be able to escape the pursuit of the horse bandits, so he pulled the reins and ran away in another direction.As night fell, Xiaodouzi finally breathed a sigh of relief. At night, people's vision would be greatly affected, which was a good thing for him, because it was even more difficult for the horse bandits to track him down.

(End of this chapter)