twenty one
Horse market. All kinds of horses are traded on the horse farm in the wilderness. The second young master Liu Zongyi huddled in the crowd, surrounded by a brown-red horse, listening to the horse owner boasting: "This horse is called the Chitu Ma, the 200th generation descendant of the Guanyun Chang Chitu Ma in the Three Kingdoms. You see, this whole body is red," There is no miscellaneous hair. The horse has high legs and thick legs. It runs thousands of miles a day and walks eight hundred at night. If you don’t believe me, I will show you.” As he said, the owner saddled the horse, leaped on the horse, and brandished his whip. I saw the horse raised its proud head, shrank, and kicked its back hoof, rushing out like an arrow. The second young master was a man who loves horses like his life. Seeing all this, his heart is drunk. He said to the two doglegs around him, "I have to get this horse!"
The horse owner galloped back on a horse, got off the horse, and said proudly: "I rode back from Lijiazhuang. There are at least six miles to Lijiazhuang. How many minutes did it take to go back and forth 12 miles?" I took my watch out of my arms and looked at the watch and said to everyone: "I rode to 9:30, and now it’s thirty-five. Folks, I ran twelve miles in only five minutes. Run thousands of miles?"
Onlookers chattered and argued endlessly. The second young master went forward and circled the horse for a week, patted the horse's back, looked at the horse's teeth, and asked, "How much is the price?"
The owner of the horse looked at him, like a rich owner, and said: "This horse is unparalleled in the world, and it is of great value. If the owner likes this horse, it can be called'Bo Le', I will transfer it to you at a low price." Hold up a finger and say: "Ten thousand yuan."
"Ah, isn't this a sky-high price?"
"Hush—isn't it more expensive than buying a big house?"
Everyone talked in a rush.
The owner of the horse heard everyone's remarks and raised his voice and said, "If this horse is offered for auction in the metropolis, 80,000 or 100,000 will be rushed to buy it. This 10,000 yuan is really half free and half sold. It is too expensive. Pull it down!" He said he was going to leave with the horse.
"Don't go, don't go! I want it." The second young master said desperately: "How to pay?"
"Xu Ji Bank's silver bills, pay here." The owner of the horse said, took out a business card and handed it to Zongyi, and pointed to the card and said, "I will pay with one hand for three days and pay the horse with the other."
"Okay." The Second Young Master replied.