Galloping over from the opposite side was a pure black horse with shiny black hair, a thin head, a tall neck, and long limbs. There was not a single stray hair on its body. Except for the color, its other characteristics were somewhat similar to the precious Xiazhu horse that Qiu Yuehua had obtained.
Likewise, this dark horse is extremely fast.
In the blink of an eye, he ran from the front of the tent to Wei Yunlan and others.
As they got closer, everyone saw that there was a person covered in a black robe lying on the back of the black horse.
It turned out that the group of herdsmen who were chasing after her shouted "Stop her". The "she" here did not refer to the black horse, but the person on the horse.
The black robe was so large and thick that it was impossible to tell what the person underneath looked like.
But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and those who oppose the northern barbarian tribes are inherently their "allies."
Wei Yunlan and his group followed Hamut calmly as they moved forward, making a gesture as if they wanted to trap the black horse.
In reality, there was a gap in the encirclement that could be broken through.
Wei Yunlan's inquiring gaze fell on the horse's back.
Suddenly I caught a glimpse of the black spot on the horse's back, which was moving slightly upwards.
The man on horseback leaned forward, revealing only a pair of bright and alert eyes from his heavy robe.
Their eyes met.
Wei Yunlan recognized the owner of these eyes at once.
It turned out to be Yu Qi!
The black horse galloped past him, and the faint smell of blood wafted away from his nose.
Wei Yunlan frowned suddenly.
Oh no, Yu Qi is injured.
The people behind her were still chasing her, and seeing the distance between them getting bigger and bigger, they all took out bows and arrows from behind.
"That's the stallion I got from Yingtu Ranch with great difficulty. Don't let her ride it away. Quick, shoot the arrow!"
"Be careful, don't shoot the horse, shoot the person on the horse!"
The black horse ran too fast. Among the crowd, only Hamut and another tall and strong bronze-haired herdsman dared to point their bows at the black horse.
Seeing that they were about to draw the bow, Wei Yunlan's expression changed and he quickly moved out the rubble that he had collected into the space in the canyon earlier.
Not more, not less, just three or five fist-sized pieces.
However, the position he moved to was exactly where the horses of Hamut and the other man were about to step on.
As expected, the horse under Hamut stepped on the ground and its body tilted. Hamut, who had just drawn the bowstring, also tilted to the side on the horse's back. He barely managed to grab the reins and sit still. Not to mention drawing the bow and shooting an arrow, he was able to avoid falling off the horse, which was a result of his quick reaction.
The other herdsman was a little luckier, as his horse's hooves only brushed past the stones. However, even so, the slight deviation caused the direction he was aiming in, which was already difficult to aim, to deviate a little. The arrow he shot brushed past the black horse and did not hit the man on the horse, and almost hit the horse by accident.
"A Suyang, why are you shooting blindly? If you shoot and injure the horse, can you afford the compensation?"
Among the people who caught up, the leading man cursed, but for a moment he was at a loss what to do with the black horse that was running away.
But he was unwilling to give up just like that, so he had to grit his teeth and continue to lead his men to chase after him.
"I'm sorry to make you laugh." Hamut didn't chase after them with the others. He jumped off the horse and patted the horse soothingly. Then he put the bow on his back and explained to everyone with a drooping mouth, "That horse is a stallion my uncle got from Yingtu Ranch in exchange for his most beautiful daughter."
"The girl I like lives at the nearby Sanghe Ranch. Her father saw that my uncle had traded for a war horse stallion, so he wanted to follow his example and make a deal with Yingtu Ranch."
"I have to send the hairpin to her father before he makes up his mind... and settle our relationship."
"So that's the case. I wish you success." Xue Tong patted Hamut's shoulder.
While Hamut was counting the hides of cattle and sheep, he turned around and looked behind him. After exchanging glances with Wei Yunlan, he said, "We trust you for the number you have counted, so we won't count again. Since something happened at your ranch, we can't stay here any longer. If we pass by here again, we'll see you there if we're lucky."
Hamut also knew that the current situation at the ranch was not suitable for entertaining guests, and he had more important things to do, so he immediately waved goodbye to everyone and just said "see you again if we're lucky".
Out of Xishan Ranch.
The tent behind them could no longer be seen from afar. Wei Yunlan and his party changed their previous careless attitude, turned their horses quickly, and galloped towards the southwest in the direction where the black horse had just left.
"Miss Wei, the person just now... was Yu Qi, right?" Zou Yun's eyes were full of anxiety, and there was a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
As if he was afraid that he had just seen it wrong.
"It's her." Not only did Wei Yunlan and Yu Qi spend every day together, they had also been traveling together for nearly two months.
Yu Qi is almost the person she is most familiar with besides her family.
She believed she wasn't wrong.
"That group of people chased her all the way, and I don't know if she would turn her horse around and go in another direction." Zou Yun frowned. It is not easy to find someone in this vast grassland.
"Don't forget, we have a helper."
Wei Yunlan reminded softly.
"Huh?" Zou Yun looked at her puzzledly.
Then she put her thumb and index finger together, put them to her mouth and whistled. Then a black figure rushed out from somewhere, quickly approached the herd of horses, and stopped in front of the horse that Wei Yunlan was riding.
It's a black cloud.
I actually forgot about it just now.
It is said that it could smell the scent of the young master of the Wei family from hundreds of miles away, and follow the scent to find him.
Yu Qi has only been gone for less than half an hour. Even if the black horse runs faster, it will never leave the range of a hundred miles.
It should not be difficult to make the black clouds smell something.
"Do you have anything related to Yu Qi?" Wei Yunlan asked Zou Yun.
Zou Yun was slightly startled, then he remembered and took out a dagger tied to his forearm from his sleeve, "Will this work?"
"This is the dagger Yu Qi gave me before he went to Beiman for a mission."
Wei Yunlan nodded, took it, and held it in front of Heiyun's nose.
The wet tip of the nose kept moving.
After a moment, a black figure ran wildly towards the southwest mountain.
Wei Yunlan and others hurriedly rode their horses to catch up.
Soon, they arrived at the foot of the mountain. From afar, they saw some herdsmen hesitating beside the forest, not daring to move forward and eventually returning empty-handed. Wei Yunlan and others avoided them and entered the forest.
After walking about two miles, we finally saw fresh horse hoof prints on the soft soil.
The smell of blood lingering in my nose became heavier.
Soon, I saw a black horse shaking its tail and standing beside a tree, eating grass with its head down.
And on the other side, Yu Qi was lying on the ground with his face pale.
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