At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 83
A beautiful woman may be born to dress up, or in other words, a beautiful woman will look good even if she dresses up casually. Dou Xianniang just went to the stream to wash her face, and simply combed her long hair into two halves and tied it behind her head. She became more and more delicate and cute, and even the loose and fluffy man's gown she wore seemed to have a special charm.

Looking at Dou Xianniang who came back from the stream, Gao Bufan and Gao Shou's master and servant couldn't help but brighten their eyes.Dou Xianniang lifted the baggy clothes, and said a little embarrassedly: "It seems too big, isn't it ugly?"

Gao Shou immediately flattered him and said: "It's not ugly, on the contrary, it's still pretty, young master, don't you think so?"

Gao Bufan nodded and smiled and said: "It's really not ugly, there are no suitable clothes for Miss Dou right now, I'll make do with it for now, and I'll buy you some suitable ones when I enter the city. A girl can't always wear men's clothes." clothes."

"Thank you, Brother Gao. When I find Dad later, I... I'll return the money to you!" Dou Xianniang said in a low voice with a pretty face blushing.

Gao Bufan said with a smile: "I'll talk about this later, come on, drink a bowl of fish soup to warm up your body first, it's cold in the morning, and you have just recovered from your fever, so you need to supplement your nutrition."

"Well, thank you, Brother Gao." Dou Xianniang's heart warmed, and she quickly took the pottery bowl from Gao Bufan's hand, and drank it in small sips. The fish soup was still very hot, so she pursed her mouth and blew a few times from time to time.

Gao Shou licked his lips and said to himself: "A good-looking woman is so good-looking even drinking soup, look at this little cherry mouth!"

Gao Shou glanced at it for a second and then didn't dare to look any further. He probably already included Dou Xianniang as one of the young mistress candidates in his mind.

Dou Xianniang ate very little, drank a bowl of fish soup, and ate a few mouthfuls of dry food before saying she was full. She sat by the side and watched Gao Bufan eat and drink. Strictly speaking, she watched Gao Bufan eat and drink, and her eyes never left her. After the former, Xiao and Gao Bufan felt a little embarrassed, and asked for something to say: "Miss Dou, are you cold?"

Dou Xianniang smiled sweetly and shook her head to show that she was not cold. The two ponytail whips tied behind her head swayed from side to side with her movements, which was really cute.

Seeing this, Gao Shou couldn't help jokingly said: "It seems that Miss Dou has recovered, you don't know how scary you looked in a coma last night, suddenly jumped up and screamed, and even hugged my son and called Dad, You refused to let go no matter what, and in the end it was my young master who carried you back to the tent and slept soundly before getting out."

Dou Xianniang immediately blushed in embarrassment and lowered her head, Gao Bufan glared at Gao, rolled up a few pancakes, stuffed them all into the guy's mouth, and scolded: "There is something to eat, but you can't stop your three Eight mouths!"

Gao Bufan's cheeks were stuffed up, silent like a toad, rolling his eyes, Dou Xianniang looked funny, couldn't help laughing, but when his eyes touched Gao Bufan, he immediately returned His face was flushed, and he hurriedly lowered his head.Although she was in a daze with a fever last night, she still had an impression of what happened. She even remembered that Gao Bufan wiped her sweat with a handkerchief!
Gao Bufan lightly kicked Gao Shou's ass and said: "Go to work when you're full, and go back to meet the horse team. Miss Dou and I are waiting here!"

Gao Shou swallowed the food in his mouth, drank a few more sips of water, and then said with a smile: "Then I will not hinder the young master!" After speaking, he quickly jumped on the horse and returned on the same road.

Dou Xianniang just lost her memory, not dementia, she naturally understood the meaning behind Gao Shou's words, she blushed again, she buried her head and dared not look at anyone.

Gao Bufan couldn't help being secretly surprised. He remembered that when he met Dou Xianniang for the first time on the street, she was an out-and-out little chili pepper with a fork in her waist and full of domineering aura. She is so shy and lovely, she blush at every turn!
At this time the sun had risen very high, and the big green horse and Dou Xianniang's bay red horse were leisurely eating the half-dried grass by the stream, looking quite harmonious.

Dou Xianniang lowered her head and didn't see Gao Bufan making a sound for a while, so she took a sneak peek and saw that the latter was looking at the horse, followed her gaze, and immediately spat secretly, it turned out that the big green horse At that time, he even rode on the back of the bay red horse.

Gao Bufan couldn't help crying and laughing. Originally, the two horses were grazing leisurely side by side a second ago, but he didn't expect the painting style to change suddenly. They rolled over on their backs, and then the two horses continued to grind each other, grazing, and ran further away to play arhats.

Gao Bufan was in embarrassment when he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves, and saw two healthy horses galloping towards him from the direction of the road, kicking dust billowingly.Gao Bufan's eyesight was excellent, and he could see from a long distance that one of them was the high head who had gone and returned. Suddenly, a bad premonition arose in his heart, and he stood up abruptly.

Seeing this, Dou Xianniang stood up quickly, and asked a little nervously, "Brother Gao, what happened?"

Gao Bufan didn't answer, just stood there waiting with frowning eyebrows, soon, the two horses ran up one after the other, and the first one was Gao Shou.

"The young master has an accident!" Gao Shou rolled off the saddle and shouted anxiously.

Gao Bufan's heart sank slightly, but he remained calm on the surface, and said, "Don't panic, what happened?"

Gao Shou pointed to the man behind and said, "Ask him, he knows better."

At this time, the person behind also flew off the horse, rushed to Gao Bufan in three steps at a time, clasped his fists and saluted, "May I ask if this is Mr. Gao Changqing?"

Gao Bufan nodded, and calmly said: "Exactly, what is the name of this brother?"

Seeing this, the man couldn't help secretly praising him. This son is as young and stable as Cui Guanshi said. From this calmness, he quickly said respectfully: "Don't dare, the younger one's name is Cui Jiu, and he is a member of the Qinghe Cui clan. I ordered Cui Guanshi to come and tell Mr. Gao that your horse team had an accident in the back, please return quickly to deal with it."

Gao Bufan secretly screamed that it was not good, he really came here for whatever he was afraid of, he just left for half a day and one night, and something happened, what happened to the two Gao Shixiong brothers?

"What kind of accident happened?" Gao Bufan asked in a deep voice.

"The people under Mr. Gao have clashed with the Longxi Li family!"

Gao Bufan was stunned for a moment, he thought the horse had been robbed, but he just had a conflict with others, as long as the horse is still there, he couldn't help but feel confident, and asked: "Longxi Li family? Could it be Li Yuan?"

Cui Jiu looked a little strange, shook his head and said: "Young Master Gao made a mistake, Tang Guogong Li Yuan is the Li family of Guanzhong, not the Li family of Longxi!"

Gao Bufan sweated, and quickly asked humbly: "Then what is the origin of this Longxi Li family?"

Cui Jiu explained: "In fact, the ancestors of the Li family in Guanzhong and the Li family in Longxi have the same ancestors, and they are also called the Li family in Guanlong, but the relationship is not close now. The Li family in Longxi is in the Hexi Corridor. Damaying at the foot of Qilian Mountain The ranch is the largest military horse farm in the entire Sui Dynasty, with an annual slaughter of [-] head, and this Damaying ranch is run by the Li family in Longxi. Of course, the Damaying ranch is a military horse farm owned by the imperial court in name. Li only has the right to operate."

Gao Bufan couldn't help smacking his tongue secretly. The annual slaughter of [-] horses means that the number of horses in the entire ranch is at least three times that number, which is [-] horses. How big is such a ranch?

Moreover, with such a huge ranch, a cavalry force of ten thousand people can be formed at will. No wonder the imperial court confiscated it and only reserved the nominal management right for the Longxi Li family, which is equivalent to state-owned nature!

However, this also reflected the strength of the Li family in Longxi in the local area. Even the imperial court took a piece of their pie and handed over such a huge military horse farm to them for management.

Gao Bufan quickly asked about the reason for the conflict between the two sides. This Cui Jiu was articulate, and he quickly explained what happened.

It turned out that after Gao Bufan left yesterday afternoon, the Gao Shixiong brothers drove the horses and war horses for a while, and found an open place to camp before it got dark. Unexpectedly, the Li family's cavalry from Longxi also arrived there just before it got dark. So we camped nearby.

As a result, the next day, when Gao Ren counted the horses, he found that more than a dozen horses were missing. He suspected that they had gone to the Li family's horse herd in Longxi.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter, and the horses at the Flying Eagle Racecourse were all clearly and secretly marked, so it was easy to recognize, as long as the other party was willing to cooperate, they would definitely be able to find out, but the people of the Li family in Longxi did not know whether they were ulterior motives, or they were used to being arrogant. He rejected the request of Brother Gao Shixiong and prepared to set off on horseback.

Brother Gao Shixiong had a bad temper at first, but he couldn't bear it when he was insulted and taunted by the other party, so the two men started fighting, and each other was injured. It's about to kill someone.

The Qinghe Cui family was one of the top families in the Sui Dynasty, and the Longxi Li family naturally did not dare not lose face, but they still refused Gao Shixiong's inspection of the horses, and demanded an apology from the Gao Shixiong brothers, and compensation for the soup and medicine of the injured.

Brother Gao Shixiong was furious, and the two sides almost fought again. Cui Hu had no choice but to send Cui Jiu to inform Gao Bufan while mediating. It was the logo of Flying Eagle Racecourse, so when I stopped him and asked him, I knew that the other party was Gao Bufan's close companion.

Cui Jiu was overjoyed and asked Gao Shou to bring him to find Gao Bufan!

After listening to Cui Jiu's narration, Gao Bufan couldn't help raising his eyebrows. He thought the accident was caused by Gao Shixiong brothers' recklessness, but now it seems that they were wrongly blamed. They were right, the other party was too arrogant.

As the saying goes, a good man is bullied by others, and a good horse is ridden by others. It doesn't matter whether he is the Li family in Guanzhong or the Li family in Longxi.

Gao Bufan blew the whistle, and the big green horse who had finished his work ran over happily, and the bay red horse followed suit, looking like a husband and wife.

Gao Bufan jumped on the horse, and Dou Xianniang also quickly got on the bay red horse when she saw this, and the four of them galloped towards the way they came.

(End of this chapter)