Vol 3 Chapter 13: Horse thief

There are eight hundred miles of Pingchuan in Guanzhong. There are large farmland outside Lueyang County. Occasionally there are not high mounds. The surrounding village houses are dotted with beautiful paintings.
Xie’s team did not hurry and walked slowly, and gradually slowed down 30 miles from the county seat.
"What does it mean?"
Looking at Xie's home, the train team is getting slower and slower, and Fusu frowns and thinks.
At this time, there are some dry fields and uncultivated wasteland on both sides of the road, and there are no villages. There is only one small horse farm on the bank of a small river not far away. There are only a few horses scattered on the grassy slope. Green grass.
No matter how you look, there are no people around you who can trade with Xie.
"It just slowed down completely, but it didn't stop completely. This shows that this place is the place where they have to do things, but the other party has not yet arrived." Ding Ning turned to look at Fusu and said with a slow voice.
Zhou’s ancestors squinted at the eyes, as if they were always sleeping, but the mind was active.
Suddenly, his auricle was fretting and he had already heard something.
"It’s a horse thief."
It was only after a long period of time, Ding Ning took a deep breath and looked at Fusu.
"Markey?"
Fusu was awkward and somewhat puzzled, but he immediately felt the slight tremor of the ground passing from the carriage wheel to the bottom of the carriage. He immediately reacted completely and frowned.
In the Daqin Dynasty, there were eight hundred miles of Pingchuan in Guanzhong. There was no such thing as a poor mountain that was difficult to chase after the escape of the army. However, the mountain king who did not whisper the mountain forest did not mean that there was no amnesty.
This kind of horse Pingchuan gave birth to a horse thief on horseback.
Horse thieves usually have three or four horses. They never stay in one place. The places where they camp every day are different. For the Daqin dynasty, this kind of production is only a destructive horse thief. It is a real locust. The Daqin dynasty had a guerrilla ride in Guanzhong with a special pursuit of horse thieves. However, the elite cavalry is extremely difficult to train. This kind of horse thief is very easy to form, often annihilating one, but there are two more, killing and killing.
In the distant dry land, a mud dragon and a long smoke suddenly rolled up. It was only a moment, and a group of horse thieves appeared in the sight of Ding Ning and Fusu.
There are more than a hundred horse thieves, each with at least four horses. Except for one horse riding and an empty horse next to each other, the rest of the horses are carrying weights, not only On the cloth carrying the weight, even the horse's body has dry black blood.
All the horse thieves have different clothes and a yellow towel. Even if the body shape is not like the riding posture of Daqin, it is quite straight and cold. However, the smell of cold and bloodthirsty is constantly radiating from the body.
Ding Ning's eyes have become more and more cold. In terms of quantity, these horse thieves are not a big deal. The powerful horse thieves often exceed thousands of horses, and the horses are thousands of horses. They have the ability to compete with the small-captains and the practitioners. However, just by the height of the dust raised by the horse thieves at the moment, he can judge the weight of those horses is extraordinary.
It is normal for a caravan to carry goods, but for horse thieves, the weight of multiple belts is a matter of life and death.
Xie’s family only came to several manned carriages, and there were obviously passengers in each carriage, which could not carry the weight of all these horse thieves.
This is dangerous for Ding Ning.
"The load of these horse thieves seems to be very heavy." At this time Fusu also turned his head and looked at him with a dignified voice: "And it doesn't look big, it is likely to be some symbols or ordnance. ""
Fusu is the most important emperor of Emperor Yuanwu and Empress. Since childhood, it was taught by the Master. It is not surprising that Ding Ning is able to make such a judgment.
He nodded. "These horse thieves don't seem to be trading, but they are like fighting."
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"Even the coaches of these three carriages are not ordinary people." In the carriage of Xie's family, Xie Lian should not go too far to see the team of horse thieves carrying the dust dragon, but to pay more attention to follow. Three black carriages at the rear.
Looking at the calmness of the three carriages, Xie Lian should have a relaxed smile on the face of obese micro-oil: "The horses who drive even have the spirit of calmness, and the identity of the nobles of Changling is bound to be extremely high."
"Let's go out."
In the next moment, the smile on his face disappeared, and a rare layer of coldness slowly emerged. "Don't waste the time of the nobles of Changling."
The team of horse thieves suddenly stopped when they approached the distance of hundreds of feet of the Xie family team, and the words were silently arranged. Under the control of these horse thieves, both the horses underneath and the horses under load are almost all stopped, the dust under the horse's hooves is still burning like fierce, but the hoof and the rider above are already quiet. Such as Lin, giving people a sense of pressure like a mountain.
A gray-haired horse thief controlled the horses underneath and slowly walked out. He looked at Xie Lianying and Xie Rou who walked out of the curtain. He flashed a glimmer of light in his dimly bright eyes, and then his gaze. It fell on the three black carriages of the Zhou family in the distance, and the brows were slightly undetectable.

Where are our people and goods?

Looking at the more popular horse thief, Xie Lian, who also walked to the front of the team, smiled slightly, first said.
The gray-haired horse thief glanced at him calmly, keeping silent, without any redundant expression.
The dust dragons behind them slowly spread out, and dozens of horse thieves who were parked in the distance also slowly appeared in the eyes of everyone.
The horse thieves became a small circle, and there were more than ten rides in the circle that were obviously different from their clothing.
"Your goods are there, and all of you know."
The gray-haired horse thief leader only calmly said at this time, saying: "Your people have already seen it, and we should let us see what we want."
Xie Lian should nod, his face has not changed, but his tone suddenly became ridiculous. "I really admire your courage, even our people dare to rob... I really think we are thankful, what is Guanzhong? Are people moving?"
The brow of the gray-haired horse thief leader wrinkled deeply.
He heard a lot of unusual meanings from Xie Lian's sentence, but he did not say anything, but his left hand was separated from the horse, and he would lift it.
"Don't think about killing me alone to threaten me."
Xie Lian's eyes picked up at this time and mocked: "I have seen what I have brought to you."
With the export of this sentence, two of the coaches in the Xie family team opened the carriage curtain.
The body of the gray-haired horse thief suddenly became stiff.
On the soft couches of the two carriages, there was only one passenger.
One is a white-haired old man, and the other is a five- or six-year-old child.
Xie Lian should look at the body of the horse thief who suddenly stiffened, with a strong sarcasm: "How, I see what is enough for you?"
"My people, from now on, you just kill."
In the next breath, the seemingly cheesy merchant changed his face and sneered. "But as long as you kill one, I will let you have no old age and no smallness."
Ding Ning and Fusu have been trying hard to listen to the dialogue between Xie Lian Ying and the leader of the horse thief. Fortunately, their voice is not small, so they can hear clearly.
At this time, although they could not see what was in the two carriages of Xie Jia, but through the words of Xie Lian, both of them quickly realized.
"These are not real horse thieves, or they have other identities."
Fusu turned his head and looked at Ding Ning, whispering: "They robbed the people and goods of Xie's family, but did not expect that Xie Jia also found out their details and robbed them."
The leader of the horse thief breathed deeply and remained silent for a while.
At this time, Xie Lian Ying has already said it.
Xie Lian applied the sympathetic gaze to the leader of the horse thief and shook his head. He said: "Although I can't compare my family to the really expensive home of Changling, my Xie family has already been in Guanzhong for more than 50 years. What? I haven’t seen the wind and rain. Do you think these children can just replace the position of our home with such a means?"
"I want to deal with our thank you."
Xie Lian's tone suddenly turned sharply, and the face that radiated with oily eyes began to be covered with a layer of frost. "But you should know what we are escorting. You are also a Qin person. Even this kind of thing can be done." ?"
Listening to these words of Xie Lianying, the leader of the horse thief shook his head slowly, and his dizzy eyes showed a deep helplessness and emotion.
Then, he directly solved the yellow towel that covered the face.
Under the yellow towel is a slightly pale and thin face.
"Children are not filial, so you are shocked."
The thin-faced white-haired man was deeply covered and bowed to the old lady in the Xiejia carriage. Then the face returned to calmness. Looking at Xie Lian-Yi, he said simply: "Substitution."
Xie Lian should smile coldly, knowing that these people can only become real horse thieves from now on, so he nodded and said: "The deal."
The horse thief took a deep breath and his left hand was once again out of the stable and would be lifted.
However, at this time, an indifferent voice sounded behind him. "I want to give it a try."