Yong Yang's voice suddenly stopped many spectators who were about to leave, and looked over curiously.
The aunt who talked to Fu Yunyan before came over to persuade her: "Girl, is that your grandmother? Quickly persuade her, you can't buy wild horses, we women can't tame wild horses."
Fu Yunyan boasted bluntly for Yong Yang: "Don't worry. With my grandmother's ability to track horses, I can't suffer."
Judging from the girl's tone, could it be that her grandmother is still a master of horses? The aunt looked curiously at the gray-haired old woman in front of her, and saw that she was wearing a summer gown with amber pigment and she was so straight. Standing there, it makes people feel different from ordinary old women, there is a kind of... what is it called... By the way, it is noble!
Looking at the two girls and a young lady next to the old woman, each has its own merits, but they are dragons and phoenixes among people. I have seen many people in the past few years. If nothing else, their origins may be not simple.
The aunt's thoughts turned quickly, and she said with a smile: "Then I want to open my eyes!" She didn't plan to leave immediately.
For a while, those who really wanted to buy a horse walked away, and those idle spectators saw that there was some excitement to join in, but changed their minds and stayed, wanting to see how dignified the old woman was. Not really capable.
Master Ning shook his sleeves coldly, and muttered in a barely audible voice: "A woman's opinion." Then he left without looking back, taking a group of enthusiastic followers with him.
Seeing that the situation has eased slightly, the owner of the horse thought that if he could make a fortune, it would be a fortune, so he smiled courteously and said: "This old lady, the rules of betting on horses are that you have to pay the money first, and then bring the horse over." Yes." The implication is to ask for money.
Baihui immediately stepped forward and gave the horse owner twelve taels of silver.
After weighing the horse, as if he was afraid that they would regret it, he hurriedly hid it in his arms, and said with a smile: "Madam, you can choose whatever you want, take your time, we are not in a hurry. But once you choose, then you can play chess with us." It seems that I have no regrets!"
The spectators around whispered to each other, wanting to see what kind of horse the old woman would choose.
Nangong Yue and the others turned a blind eye to the scorching eyes of everyone's curiosity, Nangong Yue smiled and asked Yong Yang: "Grandma Yong Yang, which horse are you looking at?"
Yong Yang pointed in a certain direction: "The one with the number sixteen." For the convenience of identifying horses, the dozens of horses in this enclosure are numbered.
Looking in the direction she pointed, many people around were dumbfounded. They saw that the horse numbered sixteen was a yellow horse with white hair on its head, and some white spots scattered on its belly and sides. It looks extremely thin, even the ribs are exposed, so thin and thin, I am afraid that if someone rides on it, it will be crushed to death.
All of a sudden, the onlookers whispered to each other and whispered:
"Is this old woman dizzy?"
"That's right, it's really a waste to throw out twelve taels of silver so casually!"
"I think rich people are stupid."
"..."
Even the owner of the horse was confused for a while, wondering if the old woman was really dazzled, or if she was just trying to find fun with twelve taels of silver... But what fun is there in buying such a thin and weak horse back home
The owner has taken this yellow horse for more than half a month, and it has become thinner and thinner. The owner wondered if it had worms in its stomach, but he was unwilling to spend money on a veterinarian, so he planned to come to the horse market this time. They are sold, and now they are put in the fence just to make up a random number.
The owner of the horse hesitated for a moment, thinking that if the business is finished, even the spectators would run away, so he said in a whisper, "Madam, are you reading it wrong? Do you want to take a closer look?"
Before Yong Yang could speak, Fu Yunyan had already burst out laughing: "Boss, didn't you just say, 'Once you choose, it's like playing chess, you have no regrets!'" She deliberately imitated the other party. emphasize.
The owner of the horse showed a bit of embarrassment, thinking about the outfits of these women, he probably did not lack these twelve taels of silver. Since they like it, why should he be troublesome.
The owner of the horse gave orders to his men, and a man in blue and bunting immediately entered the fence and pulled the thin yellow horse out.
Looking closely, this yellow horse is even more frighteningly thin.
The spectators around felt bored, and after booing a few times, they gradually dispersed...
Fu Yunyan stepped forward to take the rope from the clerk. To be honest, if it wasn't for her grandmother, she wouldn't have paid attention to this sallow and emaciated horse, but there must be a reason for her grandmother to choose it.
Fu Yunyan looked at the horse curiously, from the limbs of the horse to the head of the horse...
Xiao Fei behaved in the same way, their eyes fell on the same place, they both narrowed their eyes slightly, and let out a "huh".
The two looked at each other, and when they were about to talk, they heard a somewhat familiar male voice from behind: "Water and fire are about to be distinct, the upper lip is about to be sharp and square, and the mouth is about to be red and bright: this is a Maxima."
Following the sound, he saw that Master Ning came back at some point, stood behind, and strode forward.
With the arrival of Master Ning, another group of spectators were attracted. Most of what Master Ning said was half-understood, but the three words "Qianlima" were still clear enough.
If others say that this skinny yellow horse is a thousand-mile horse, no one will believe it, but what comes out of Master Ning's mouth is worth a fortune!
Master Ning looked around the yellow horse, and murmured: "The white hair on the horse's head is round like a full moon. Could it be that this is the 'Xiliang Yuding hay yellow' mentioned in the book? The hair is long, the tendons are exposed, but it is not fat... Could it be really..." Master Ning swallowed excitedly, "Could it be a yellow puma!?"
In the next moment, the crowd suddenly boiled up, and there was a lot of discussion:
"It's really a Maxima!"
"If it's really a yellow pussy horse, then it's not a thousand-mile horse!"
"I heard that Huang Puma has been fed fat, but he is eight feet tall, with yellow hair all over his body, without any variegation!"
"I didn't expect this old woman to have such eyesight, let her pick up a loophole..."
"..."
The onlookers talked to each other, and even the owner of the horse was almost dumbfounded. A BMW worth thousands of dollars actually slipped away from him!
The horse owner couldn't bear it anymore, jumped out of the box, came to the yellow horse and asked Master Ning: "Master Ning, is this really a yellow pussy horse? Then I fed it so much hay, why didn't it gain weight at all? "He has fed this yellow horse for half a month with good food and drink!
Master Ning cast a disdainful glance at the owner of the horse, and said bluntly, "You've always heard of 'a good horse never turns its head back', right? A good horse can catch a glimpse of the most delicious tender grass at a glance, that's why it never turns its head back Grass, just your broken hay, eating a bite would be a grievance to this BMW!"
As he said that, Master Ning glanced at the yellow horse again, then looked at Yong Yang, clasped his fists and said: "This old lady, you really have a good eye for a good horse! I wonder if I can give some advice to this junior?" Said Come on, he also felt a bit sad in his heart, a thousand-mile horse is one in a thousand, a thousand pieces of gold is not easy to get, this way of looking for a horse is really unpredictable and profound.
Yong Yang smiled heartily: "I don't dare to be a guide. It's just four words 'learn more and see more'."
Before Master Ning said anything, Fu Yunyan clapped his hands and praised: "Grandmother, you summed up your words well." That's not the case! Grandma used to fight on the battlefield, and I don't know how many war horses she has seen before, so that she can learn and use it.
Nangong Yue and Xiao Fei also knew it well, and they couldn't help showing a knowing smile.
"Grandmother," Fu Yunyan said impatiently, "let's go back quickly, I think poor Shiliu is almost starved to death!"
This poor yellow puma has been hungry for so long, and his intestines are rumbling. It is time to take it back quickly and feed it some fresh green grass.
"Okay, let's go back." Yong Yang immediately agreed, without looking around, she could feel the scorching and curious gazes around her, because of the matter of the yellow pussy horse, they have become the focus of everyone's attention in this horse market... Stay any longer , also meaningless.
Nangong Yue and Xiao Fei naturally had no objection, they turned around and walked back, with Baihui leading the yellow horse behind, and many spectators reluctantly followed them, pointing and pointing, today's horse If the news about Huang Puma's surprise discovery in the market spreads, it will be another good story in the horse market!
"Old lady, listen to your accent, you are from the north..." Master Ning came after him excitedly after he came back to his senses, "Why did you leave so soon after you come here so rarely! We will return later There will be a more formal and grander horse meeting event. If the younger generation is lucky enough to see the senior again, it will be really... "
Master Ning is really acquainted, he can't get rid of them like a dog's skin plaster, and has been trying to talk to Yong Yang.
There was another change in the front. Many passers-by looked towards the entrance of the horse market and gave way to both sides. Nangong Yue and his group also slowed down subconsciously. Then they saw three or four people wearing brocade The man in the robe led seven or eight soldiers in armor rumbling towards this side. The short and fat man at the head seemed to be in his forties. He has a short beard in his middle and has a lean face.
Looking at the armor on the soldiers in the rear, you can tell that they are from the regular army in southern Xinjiang!
Which of the people in the southern border didn't know the soldiers in the southern border, so they heard a young man on the side of the road say: "Could it be that the master of the horse supervisor also came to the horse market to buy today?"
"Isn't that normal?" The young man who looked somewhat similar to him beside the young man said, "There have been frequent wars in the past two years, and there must be a shortage of war horses, so the prince ordered the horse supervisor to come to the horse market to purchase war horses." .”
The young man said enviously: "If this horse farm takes over the business from the Southern Frontier Army, wouldn't it not only benefit, but also gain fame?!" The horse that can be selected to be a war horse is naturally a fine horse!
The passers-by talked excitedly, and they all planned to see which racecourse would be lucky enough to fall into the eyes of the Southern Border Army.
Under the leadership of the short and fat man, several subordinates and several Nanjiang soldiers followed closely to look at the horses all the way, and the horse owners came forward to greet them with some trepidation.
The short and fat man looked arrogant, he shook his head repeatedly after seeing several enclosures for horses, and one of the horse owners was even pale and sweating profusely when he said that he had obviously been approved for a penny not worth.
Nangong Yue and the others felt that it was a bit strange. When they entered the horse market, they clearly showed all the horses in the vicinity. Although those horses were not BMWs, they were not so bad.
Nangong Yue, Fu Yunyan and Xiao Fei looked at each other strangely, and they all showed doubts.
The short and fat man looked at the horses of several families as if pointing Jiangshan, then stopped beside a blue tent, pointed to the more than a hundred brown horses in the fence and said: "These horses are of good quality."
Hearing this, Fu Yunyan frowned, and muttered: "Grandmother, is that the Wu family's horse farm? How could I remember that the horses in his family's horse farm are not very good!" She clearly remembered that the horses in that family were obviously thin and weak , A third-class horse with poor legs.
While speaking, he saw that a guy had already pulled out two brown horses, and the short and fat man was checking the limbs and teeth of his horses solemnly.
The owner of these brown horses is a middle-aged man in a stone blue brocade robe. Reaching far”, “Infinite divine power” and other good words are endless.
And the short and fat man nodded from time to time, obviously agreeing.
Fu Yunyan frowned tightly, and said again: "This horse supervisor doesn't know how to track horses at all, and he's just pretending..."
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Mr. Ning beside her: "Girl, you have never experienced anything..." He had a meaningful expression on his face, "It doesn't matter whether the horses at the Wu family's horse farm are good or not, the important thing is Will their boss be a human being?"
Fu Yunyan narrowed his eyes slightly, and heard the other party's implication, sneered and sarcastically said: "The person in charge of love is not looking for horses, but 'looking' for people!"
Fu Yunyan's analogy was so amusing that Nangong Yue was almost amused, and Baihui told her, "Baihui, go over and find out what the name of the horse supervisor is." After a pause, She frowned slightly and said, "I always feel that this person seems a bit familiar, and he is also a horse supervisor..."
Baihui was startled, as if she had thought of something, and after saluting, she ran to inquire.
Master Ning on the side looked at them suspiciously. Before, he was only concerned about the matter of horses. He didn't pay attention to the looks and demeanor of these women. Only now did he faintly realize that they seemed to have some background—if it was an ordinary person, why bother to inquire about it? What is the origin of the horse supervisor
At this time, after the short and fat man pretended to check a few horses, he took out some official purchase documents and handed them to Boss Wu, and the servant behind him took out a few bank notes, which seemed to be a deposit.
There were more and more people onlookers, all of whom were whispering to each other. Many people were envious of the fact that Wu Family Racecourse had made such a big business. When the military purchases war horses, it will definitely not just purchase the hundred or so horses that are here today. That is a huge order of thousands!
Baihui inquired among the crowd and came back to report. This time, she whispered into Nangong Yue's ear: "Ma'am, I heard that the horse supervisor called that man Mr. Niu, and asked someone to inquire again. It really is Niu Xinglong."
Nangong Yue nodded slightly, the Niu Xinglong Baihui was talking about was the Niu Xinglong from Liuhe Village!
Nangong Yue still remembers what happened in Liuhe Village back then. Niu Xinglong is the elder brother of Xiaofang's aunt and also her "uncle" who has taken care of the estate left by the old prince for her for many years, especially in Liuhe Village. Domineering, oppressing tenant farmers, treating disabled veterans harshly, and deliberately smearing Xiao Yi's reputation, it is really abominable, but in the end she only taught Niu Chang'an, the nephew of Steward Niu, a lesson, but failed to catch Niu Xinglong!
Naturally, Nangong Yue also sent someone to look for Niu Xinglong, and knew that he had returned to Southern Xinjiang to join the Xiaofang family.
At that time, she was far away in the royal capital, Nangong Yue could only put this matter aside for the time being. After returning to southern Xinjiang, she asked Zhu Xing to investigate carefully, and only then did she know that Niu Xinglong was arranged by Zhennan King to enter the horse prison as a young prisoner. Nangong Yue kept her composure all the time, planning to wait until she and Xiao Fang's business were officially settled, and then clean up together, so as not to startle the snake, but she didn't expect to see him here.
If it wasn't for Niu Xinglong's resemblance to Niu Changan back then, I'm afraid she still wouldn't be able to recognize him.
"Ma'am, there is one more thing." Baihui added in a low voice, "I just heard Niu Xinglong and his deputy say that the two thousand war horses they purchased this time will be sent to Huiling City tomorrow. "
Nangong Yue's pupils shrunk. Many of the reasons why cavalry are stronger than ordinary soldiers are because of their horses. Once these inferior horses are sent to the battlefield, they may affect the battle situation.
Ah Yi is in Huiling City, how could he be exposed to such danger!
Thinking about it, a dark light flashed in Nangong Yue's eyes, and her heart was filled with anger, but she could only watch helplessly as that Niu Xinglong reached an agreement with that Boss Wu to buy those bad horses.
Purchasing war horses is a matter in the army, she is a female family member in the inner house, even if she is the princess of Zhennan Prince, she has no right to interfere, and Grandma Yongyang is not a general in Southern Xinjiang, and she cannot interfere in the military affairs of Southern Xinjiang either.
The only ones who can manage this matter are Xiao Yihe—
Zhennan King!
It's just that with Zhennan Wang's temperament, rashly speaking will only be counterproductive. It may not only destroy the harmony that has been barely formed these days, but also prevent the horses from being sent to the front line.
Nangong Yue tried her best to calm herself down, she had to find a way...
Nangong Yue's eyes fell on the yellow pussy horse, and after pondering for a while, she said a few words to Yong Yang, and after getting her permission, she invited Bai Hui to whisper in her ear, and Bai Hui left as ordered.
Niu Xinglong, who was diagonally opposite, distributed the purchase order in duplicate to Boss Wu, and said pretendingly: "Today, the official will pay a deposit of 5,000 taels first, and take away the two hundred horses, and the remaining 1,800 taels." You must deliver the hundred horses to the camp in Luoyue City before tomorrow's midnight, and I will pay the balance at that time."
Niu Xinglong naturally knew that many people were watching him, but he didn't care about it at all, thinking that after buying these two thousand war horses, ten thousand taels of silver would fly into his pocket, Niu Xinglong was elated. Others say that fighting is not good, according to him, these people are short-sighted, how can they get rich if they don't fight!
"Yes, Master Niu." Boss Wu only agreed, secretly pleased that he was well-informed, and had already found out that the Southern Border Army wanted to purchase war horses, so he quietly tested Master Niu who was in charge of the matter in advance, and told the reporter about the matter. It was done beautifully.
Now that the errand was done, Niu Xinglong planned to go back home, but at this moment, the deputy young prison accompanying him strode up to his side, and said to him in a low voice: "My lord, I just heard that today's There is a thousand-mile horse in the horse market... "
Maxima?! Niu Xinglong's eyes lit up immediately, and his heart was surging: If there is really a Maxima, and he can present it to King Zhennan, King Zhennan will definitely be "long" happy, and maybe he will think that he is capable of doing things , I will give him more lucrative errands in the future...
Thinking of this, Niu Xinglong couldn't wait to ask: "Where is that thousand-mile horse? I must buy it." There was a sense of certainty in his tone, and he never thought that the other party might refuse he.
The deputy young supervisor was a little bit embarrassed, and continued: "My lord, this thousand-mile horse was taken away by an old woman when she was betting on a horse..." As he said, he pointed to Yong Yang, Nan Gongyue and his party not far away.
Niu Xinglong looked over in the direction he pointed, his eyes swept over several people lightly, and he didn't pay attention to them, his eyes finally settled on the thin yellow horse, with a look of suspicion in his eyes : "The Chollima you are talking about is not the horse with ribs, is it?"
The deputy young supervisor was also familiar with the temperament of his immediate superior, so he hurriedly summarized what he had just heard, and then pointed to Master Ning and said: "Master Ning is famous for his horse-hunting skills. Holding on to that old woman, maybe she also wants to buy this yellow pussy horse..."
Although Niu Xinglong doesn't know much about horse hunting, he has been in the horse prison for a while, and he has heard of these famous BMW names, and the deputy young supervisor has spent a few days in the horse prison. After ten years, although he can't be called a bole, he is still quite proficient in the way of horse hunting.
Niu Xinglong still knew the reason why a BMW's daughter is rare, and without hesitation, Niu Xinglong walked towards Yongyang and his party at a brisk pace.