Chapter 213: Spoils of War

"Oh my God! Why are the beasts here again?" The villagers who had just fallen asleep at the construction site were awakened by the howling of wolves.

"Don't panic! It's far away from us! It won't come!" Yang Dalang comforted everyone.

As expected, those bastards couldn't hold back and came to launch a sneak attack so quickly! Yang Dalang was glad that Atang was there.

Everyone quieted down and listened carefully, and discovered that the wolf howling tonight was not coming from the usual mountain, but from the official road.

That's strange, how did it get there?

After listening for a long time, everyone felt relieved when they found out that there was no sign of him coming over. However, they still didn't dare to fall asleep and kept their ears open.

After a while, the wolf howling stopped and everything became quiet. Everyone then went to sleep peacefully.

"Da da da..." The sound of horse hooves woke everyone up again.

When I got up, I saw a few horses flash by and run towards the village.

Yang Dalang panicked. Could it be that the beasts hadn't been stopped? Had these bastards broken into the village?

"Hey, there's no one on the horse?" Someone with good eyesight saw that several horses were empty.

"Did you see it clearly?" Yang Dalang asked.

"I see it clearly!" the man said affirmatively.

As he was speaking, Yang Dalang saw the shadow of a tree swaying and Atang's face flashed by.

"Okay, everyone, go to sleep!" Yang Dalang understood that this was the captured spoils of war.

Yang Erlang had a similar mental journey to Yang Dalang. In the end, everything settled and he slept soundly.

"Da da da..." When they arrived at the village entrance, the beasts went back to their homes.

Atang jumped onto the horse's back and shouted, "Go!"

The horses kicked and stamped, following Atang obediently.

After entering the yard, Atang jumped off the horse and went straight back to the house to sleep. The horses stayed in the corner of the yard with the plowing oxen and three pigs, and did not dare to neigh.

"Squeak!" The door opened, and Atang slipped in like a loach, climbed onto the bed and snuggled into Ajie's arms.

Su Ying reached out and embraced Atang, gently patting the little girl in a half-asleep state.

"Snoring..." After a while, Atang started snoring.

Su Ying was amused and pulled the little girl into her arms. The two sisters slept head to head until dawn.

Su Bucheng was not at home these two days, so Xiaotao went to accompany Mrs. Du and slept in her parents' room.

"Oh! Where did these come from?" In the morning, Mrs. Du opened the door and was shocked to see several horses popping out from the corner.

The exclamation startled Su Laosan and his wife, who hurried out.

"Whose horses are they? How did they get to our house? When did it happen?" Wei was confused. When he woke up, he found a few more horses.

In ancient times, cattle were important production tools and horses were important military supplies, and both had to be registered with the government, including mules, donkeys, etc.

If a cow dies of illness or is too old to work and needs to be slaughtered, it must be reported to the government. It cannot be killed at will.

Likewise, horses are not something that ordinary people can own.

First, it was used to meet military needs, and then for the enjoyment of the nobles. The rich generally used mules and donkeys.

This thing either runs into your house or it belongs to yours. It has a mark on its body and the owner can recognize it.

When we were in Chang'an, our family didn't have a carriage, so we had to hire one from a carriage agency when we went out to visit others.

Su Laosan smiled and pointed to Su Ying's house.

This could only have been done by the two people in that room. Last night, Atang ran to the woods carrying a basket of fried cakes and brown sugar.

Aren't these the same bastards from yesterday? They're showing off their power and trampling over a lot of wheat seedlings. How abominable!

Showing up at my house in the middle of the night, what does that mean? It means these bastards did something bad last night!

"Is this possible?" Wei was shocked.

When a few horses suddenly appeared in the poor and dilapidated Huanggou Village, anyone would suspect that they were stolen.

"It's okay. When Aying wakes up, I'll ask her what the rules are!" Su Laosan didn't think it was a big deal.

Now that these horses have run away, where have those bastards gone? Will they come back again at night?

Su Boyan and several other young men also got up and washed up. Suddenly, they saw several horses and came over to look.

"Uncle San, why is this horse acting weird?" Su Boyan noticed something was wrong.

Normally, when strangers approach, horses will stick out their hooves and neigh to prevent people from getting close, but these horses were very quiet, as if they were afraid of something.

Yes, everyone noticed it now, and then realized that it must be related to Atang, and tacitly stopped mentioning it.

"What's the point of this thing? You're getting bolder and bolder!"

The old lady was worried about the basket of oil cakes last night. When she got up and saw a few horses, she was startled. When she saw Su Ying coming out, she couldn't help grumbling.

Su Ying smiled and said, "It's just right for plowing the land!"

Horsepower Horsepower, in mechanics, horsepower is used to express the power value, which means that the horse is very powerful.

Plowing the land is no less powerful than using an ox, but most people can't afford it.

"What a sin! You use such precious livestock to plow the fields," Old Mrs. Su was shocked by Su Ying.

This granddaughter is simply a monster, always doing weird things.

In her entire life, Old Mrs. Su had never seen anyone using horses to plow the land. Due to the limitations of her cognition, she believed that Su Ying's behavior was unorthodox.

Su Ying ignored the old lady's nagging.

As life got better, the old lady wisely chose to shut up and stopped hitting people with her cane.

After breakfast, the village elders were called to discuss the matter.

"He really came last night!" asked Old Man Yang.

Several people circled around the horse, "Well, the Lu family is really generous. This kind of dog slave deserves a good horse!"

The horse is fat and strong, with shiny and smooth fur. Only generals in the army are qualified to ride horses of this level.

"It should be the Hu horses from the Turkic side!" Old Wang concluded after looking at his hands behind his back.

While fighting with the Turks in the north, merchants continued to do business.

Tea, salt, ironware, and porcelain are the favorite things of the Hu nobles, and Hu horses are also the favorites of the Han people.

With this in mind, it is no longer surprising that these people are riding these Hu horses.

"Okay, from now on we will have a means of transportation to and from our village!" Old man Zheng clapped his hands.

"Ah?" Su Ying was stunned. "How dare you ride this out? I want to use it to plow the land."

"Look! You're so timid!" Old man Zheng pretended to be disgusted.

"Brand it again and ask Magistrate Hu to register it. It will be our Huanggou Village. No one can stop us!"

"Can they still do this? What if the Lu family sues the government?" Su Ying really didn't expect these village elders to be so bold.

"A few horses? The Lu family doesn't need that much! There's no need to travel thousands of miles to ask for them!"

Even if he comes, it's a good time to settle the accounts, our wheat seedlings, the people who were almost stepped on, one by one! Let's see if the Lu family can afford to lose this person!" Old man Zheng was full of confidence.

"That's right! No matter how poor we are, if the Lu family bullies us, wouldn't that be trampling on the reputation of several big families? We don't need to do anything, someone in our family will take care of it!" The others echoed.

We did it right away, took it to the village and re-branded it.

From then on, Huanggou Village had an additional livestock to replace its riding power, but the poor horses had to suffer physical pain again.

The branding iron burned on the buttocks, sizzling and emitting blue smoke.

While everyone in Huanggou Village was celebrating happily, pedestrians on the official road were terrified by the horrific scene and ran to the county government office crying to report the case.