3. Fox Hunting Cypress Grove
Now all the contradictions seem to dissipate from the northwest border, and with the wind, they pass through the winding winding thousands of miles of Yellow River and gather in Guandong.
A few days later, the camp generals of Jingzhou City Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang (son Liu Haibin) rode a horse and brought dozens of athletes to Baili New City for hunting. Gao Yue was entertained by the Gongshang and Zhihui accompanied him. After hearing that Lingtai Ling was charmed by the fox demon, Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang laughed, "Hu Lang, Hu Ji is just using illusions to bewitch people's hearts. Gao Shiyu misses his beloved wife and is a scholar who has passed the imperial examination. Fox Mei likes you the most. Now please send out the second tun officials and the tun team to follow us, so you will let Gao Shiyu see what Fox Mei is most afraid of, that is, we are a soldier who is wearing soap robes and shooting skin and drinking feathers!"
At that time, the buckwheat around Lingtai County had been harvested and winter wheat had been planted. It was the leisure time in early winter. When I heard that I was going to hunt foxes and raccoons in Daxi River, Gao Yue's two subordinates, Hou Lan, Cheng Junren, and dozens of soldiers from the garrison team (Gao Yue intended to let the garrison teams practice their hunting skills). Even the sister Qing Dangxiang next to the city came over dozens of horses, stepping on the snow to search for foxes that were making trouble.
Zhihui also wore a light fur in wool, rode on a horse, followed Gao Yue, and watched the hunting himself.
Finally, the group of soldiers drove to a clump of cypress trees beside the river. Because Hou Lan and Cheng Junren discovered that there were several lines of fox footprints back and forth on the snow here, Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang ordered all the camp soldiers and Dangxiang to approach and surround the forest.
The scouts came to report that there were more than ten large ancient tombs in the woods and an abandoned small temple with stones falling across the mountain and extremely deserted.
"It's this!" Zhang Yufei shouted.
The soldiers of the camp were carrying firewood and iron turfs, approaching these ancient tombs from all directions, and then digging pits. Once the fox's nest was dug, they lit firewood and threw it inside. Soon fireworks rose everywhere, and the "Wow" sound like a crow exploded from every corner of the woods. Gao Yue now knew that this sound was the fox's call.
"Oh my God." Zhihui saw that in the burning flames, many foxes, some were burnt in the burning flames, and some were so smothered that they were rolling around. They all made crow-like screams and ran out of the woods. The whole forest was filled with red, gray and yellow figures.
But all the passages outside the woods were blocked by the athletes, and the sounds of shooting bows were endless. The foxes fell one after another and fell down and died when they drank their feathers.
"Where, there!" Suddenly, Zhihui, with sharp eyes, pointed to the west side of the woods. There was a woman who was riding a blue-gray mule and hurriedly ran out. When the athlete who was pulling a bow in that direction saw this scene, she was shocked and dared not shoot arrows.
"That's a fox, don't let it go!" Zhang Yufei rushed to chase the horse, and hunting dogs barked and chased after him. When the woman on the mule heard the hooves's croaking, she immediately fell to the ground, showing her true form, and ran on the snow.
Gao Yue looked around and found that it was indeed the fox that had appeared on the ridge of the back building.
About a moment later, he chased out more than two miles of hunting dogs, hunted and killed the fox, and ran back slowly with its body.
When Gao Yue and Zhihui walked into the mule that the "Hu Ji" was riding, they found that it was made of a wild boar. The women's dress and silk stockings worn by the Hu Ji were all scattered on the ground, like the remnants of the cicada after she was shed. The skirt was indeed yellow, exactly the same as what I saw in my dream.
"Haha!" Zhang Yufei jumped off his horse, took out a dagger, lifted the dead fox's mouth, raised a bead, and handed it to Gao Yue, "Shi Yu, this is the charming bead that Hu Ji bewitched ghosts. But this is also considered a strange adventure of Shi Yu. I heard that those who are charmed by foxes will be extremely prosperous in the future."
Gao Yue took it and thought that the bead looked strange and had a smell of smell on the fox.
It turned out that Hu Ji was relying on this to make me nightmare. Thanks to Zhihui's situation when she saw that I was asleep, she acted according to the opportunity and sacrificed herself to save her. Alas - this Tang Dynasty seems to be because of the vast land and the vast population, and there are really things that are caused by evil animals!
It’s just a few ridiculous changes in the beast, and soon the tricks of the donkey will end and make it even more laughable.
At midnight, all the foxes in the cypress forest were hunted. The athletes used wooden poles to carry more than a hundred foxes of all sizes one after another, preparing to cut their flesh and peel them. Then Gao Yue ordered that all the forest be cut down and transported into the New Alanta Temple, preparing to wait for November to build a new Buddhist temple, and clean and repair the ancient tombs in the forest to comfort the dead, so that they would not be occupied by wild foxes and cunning rabbits to become caves.
As for Meizhu, Gao Yue thought it was a harmful thing, so he sent it to Alanta Temple and handed it to Master Mingxuan to set up a pagoda to suppress it.
From then on, there was no such strange thing in Baili New City. The people, soldiers and the party members of the city all said that Gao Shiyu would have an extremely legendary life in the future, and the dream of the fox demon was not enough to be a small prologue in the great chapter.
On the third day of late October, the girl Qing Dangxiang, who went to buy horses, returned one after another. Ming Cunyi brought good news to Gao Yue: they bought both good and cheap horses from Shizhou, Hedong. They only had 25 kilns per horse, and they bought a total of 400 horses. The score team was returning along different roads.
After the Ming Cunyi, of course, there were the camel and horse merchants and Dangxiang Fan people from Shizhou, who came to collect the remaining funds.
Gao Yue calmed down Ming Cunyi and sent someone to ask privately. Only then did he realize that Ming Cunyi looked nine feet tall and thick, so he had an ambush for me.
Why is this batch of horses so cheap? It's very simple.
They were originally driven by Tu Dong and Chi Xin, but because they failed to sell them all to the Emperor of the Tang family, they brought back four thousand horses. As a result, Tu Dong Dong in Yu Zhenwu City, more than 900 people from Chi Xin delegation were killed by Zhang Guangsheng and left only one person to report the news. These Ma Zhang did not want them, so they sold them to local merchants at a low price and rushed to Taiyuan Prefecture to sell them. However, the Hedong Jiedushi Ma Sui dared not ask for them, so the merchants could only rush to Shizhou, where the border between Hedong Road and Hezhong, Xiasui, where there were many people in Dangxiang, and the northwest town would also come to buy livestock, hoping to sell them, and the price didn't matter.
Ming Cunyi and his two brothers Ming Jingyi and Ming Weiyi heard that there were cheap horses to sell, and they also rushed to Shizhou after hearing the news. Without any difficulties, they bought four hundred horses at a price of twenty guan per horse, so they swallowed the excess one thousand guan.
After understanding the truth, Liu Deshi asked Gao Yue if he wanted to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Gao Yue replied: "Yan said to me that when he was carrying out the canal transportation in the Jianghuai River, he supervised the construction of the canal ship. At that time, the ship workers and boatmen were greedy for money and took part in the material money to subsidize the family's income. Yan Xiang also turned a blind eye and only increased the investment in the shipbuilding, which was equivalent to giving some profits to this group of people. As a result, no piece of sampan was ruined and no raising rice was overturned. In terms of major plans, it is not a pity that tips were made. Farmers, craftsmen, and military soldiers were the cornerstones of the country. They must first let them use their own private goods and then they can be reliable. This is what Yan Xiang told me. If you don't ask about the Ming brothers, you can buy more tea and wine for the Fanluo for this thousand jin of money."
Chapter completed!