"Sir, sir, something bad has happened. Your horse has been stolen!"
Early in the morning, Pei Yun and Xu Zong were still sleeping when they heard the waiter knocking on the door frantically.
Pei Yun sat up with a start, and Xu Zong rushed to the door. "What did you say? Our horses were stolen?"
Outside were not only the waiter but also the shopkeeper, all of them looked worried at the moment.
Pei Yun said coldly: "What's going on? Tell me!"
The shopkeeper shuddered and said with a sad face, "I don't know either. The horse was still there last night. I asked the clerk to feed it grass. He was supposed to feed it again this morning, but when the clerk went to the stable, he saw that the horse was gone."
Xu Zong grabbed the shopkeeper and said angrily, "Do you know who we are? This is the commander of Ruifeng County. How many heads do you have if you dare to lose our warhorse?"
As mentioned before, in the Jing Dynasty, war horses were strictly controlled like oxen. During the great famine, the military camp would rather let people starve to death than kill war horses.
Unless the horse has no grass to eat and starves to death, you can eat horse meat.
He just received two war horses from the military camp yesterday, and they were lost today. If Yuan Zheng knew this, how would he look at Pei Yun?
If he can't even take care of his own warhorse, how can I trust him to perform other tasks?
What's more important is that without horses, how could they get to Shudu? Losing the horses would be a small matter, but if it delayed their journey to the palace, that would be a big deal.
The prince invited you to the celebration banquet for the first time, but you refused to go. What would the prince think?
You're a bandit who's just been promoted to a regular official. I ask you to attend the celebration banquet because I think highly of you, but you don't come. Are you dissatisfied with me, the prince?
Hearing that his head was going to be chopped off, the shopkeeper was terrified and quickly knelt down.
"Master Qianhu, we really didn't do it on purpose. We have never lost a horse before. I am willing to compensate you, no matter how much."
The shopkeeper felt bitter and unlucky. In the past, when officials stayed in the inn, neither their horse-drawn carriages nor their ox-drawn carriages had ever been lost. How could they be lost today?
I'm afraid this captain is going to ask for an exorbitant amount of money, and the shopkeeper can only accept that he has bad luck. Losing money is better than losing his head.
Pei Yun glanced at Xu Zong, who understood and said, "War horses usually cost around a million coins."
One million coins could be exchanged for one thousand taels of silver according to the silver price of that era.
Pei Yun did not blackmail the shopkeeper, and said, "Then you should pay two thousand taels."
"I'll pay, I'll pay."
After saying that, he got up and ran away. After a while, he came back with the silver note. Pei Yun accepted it and left the inn with Xu Zong.
After the two men left, the shopkeeper went to the backyard and said, "Sir, they are gone."
The door opened and Pei Feng walked out with a sneer on his face. He didn't care how Pei Yun went to the palace. He had always held a grudge against Pei Yun for assassinating him in his heart.
When Yuan Zheng came to Ruifeng County, the Pei family invited Yuan Zheng to be a guest. Pei Feng made some indirect inquiries and learned that Pei Yun was going to attend a celebration banquet. He came to Qingyang County in advance, and when Pei Yun arrived, he sent someone to keep an eye on him.
Taking away the two men's horses was only the first step. The second step was to kill Pei Yun. He would not do it himself, but he had already hired a killer.
It doesn't matter if Pei Yun cannot be killed. Anyway, by preventing him from going to Shudu, the prince will have a bad impression of him, and the goal will be achieved.
However, Pei Feng felt that the killer would not fail, after all, he was a killer from Yanyu Tower.
"Sir, what about the two thousand taels?"
"You will get it anyway. The money will return to you in due time." Pei Feng said calmly.
"As for what happened today, if you dare to tell anyone, be careful of the lives of your entire family."
"Don't worry, sir. I won't leak a single word." The shopkeeper hastily stated that this man was a young master from an aristocratic family and he couldn't afford to offend him.
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"Brother, what should we do now? How about I carry you to Shudu. I can run as fast as a horse."
Xu Zong spoke.
Pei Yun said: "Let's go to the military camp first and see if we can get two more horses."
The two men went to the military camp and explained their purpose. The military officer who had led the two men on horseback was also surprised when he heard that the horses were lost.
He wanted to scold her, but he remembered Yuan Zheng's words to be polite to Pei Yun. In addition, the other party was a thousand households, and he was only a military marquis, with a higher official position than him, so he could only hold back his anger. "The captain only gave you these two horses, no more, you can figure it out yourself."
After saying that, he left the two of them and Pei Yun was embarrassed. Xu Zong cursed, "It's just a horse. I don't care about it. Brother, get on. I'll carry you to Shudu and make sure we can get there before the celebration banquet starts."
Xu Zong was full of confidence. Although he had never carried someone on his back and ran such a long distance before, he felt he could do it.
He ate good food in the village every day and did not participate in training. He just ran errands and delivered messages, which made Xu Zong feel like he was eating and living for free. Now the opportunity has come.
Let me show you, big brother, that I’m not just swindling a fool.
Pei Yun couldn't think of a good solution for the time being. He originally wanted to buy an electric car online, but there was no place to charge it. Moreover, he left Yiyun Village and his body was unable to enter the shopping mall, so he couldn't enter the shopping mall to charge it.
Moreover, electric bikes are not as fast as horses. There are motorcycles online, but unfortunately there is no gasoline for sale, so they cannot be ridden.
He thought about the mall and found nothing that would help the current situation, so he could only nod and agree with Xu Zong's suggestion.
"Brother, hold on tight, I'm going to run."
After Xu Zong called out, he started running. Pei Yun immediately felt a strong wind blowing on his face, and the scenery on both sides quickly receded. He could not help but sigh that Xu Zong's leg skills were really amazing. Pei Yun had never ridden a horse, so he didn't know its speed and didn't know who was faster, Xu Zong or the horse.
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