Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

"Sanniang, you ride this horse to find him! Be careful on the way." Hu Cheng handed the reins of the horse to Hu Sanniang.

Hu Sanniang took the reins of the yellow horse, then turned her head to look at the remaining horse tied to the tree, her eyes lit up, and she jumped on the horse.

Hu Sanniang let go of the rein on the horse and let the horse walk on its own.Sure enough, the yellow horse turned slowly to the west.

"Ximen Dalang should have gone west, I'll look for him myself. Brother, you two go back to the village first!" Hu Sanniang immediately turned sideways and said to Hu Cheng, then rode off to the west.

Hu Chengchang let out a sigh of relief, and led the remaining horse with Hu Yong, heading east towards Hu's Village.

At this time, Ximen Qing was holding the reins of the horse in one hand, and holding a handful of grass pulled from the roadside in the other hand, and handed it to the horse's mouth, leading the horse to move forward quietly.

After Ximen Qing bit through the leather net covering him with his iron teeth, in order not to disturb the three people in the cave, he pulled the grass all the way and quietly led away a maroon horse.

Because he was not too far away from the cave, Ximen Qing didn't dare to run away with his horse and whip, fearing that the three people would catch up after hearing the noise.Ximen Qing knew that his riding skills were not as good as the opponent's. If he ran away directly, he would be overtaken by his pursuers.Therefore, he had no choice but to lead the horse and walk quietly, preparing to get on the horse and run away after walking a little farther.

Ximen Qing turned two turns along the mountain road, and suddenly heard the faint sound of horseshoes coming from behind.

It's not good, those three people have already noticed that I have escaped, so they are catching up!Ximen Qing quickly got on the horse, clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and ran away in a panic on the horse.

The paths here are messy, and they may not know which way I'm going!Ximen Qing urged his horse to run straight towards the seemingly remote road, even walking through the woods without paths.

After a while, after turning around several times in the woods, even Ximen Qing himself couldn't tell the direction.He had no choice but to lean on the horse's back, avoiding the branches above, and let the bay red horse gallop with him.

I don't know how many laps in this mountain forest, the speed of the bay red horse gradually slowed down.When it ran under a few big trees, it stopped. Sometimes it stretched its neck and sniffed around with its nose, and sometimes it pricked up its ears and neighed from time to time. Ren Ximenqing urged him not to run away.

Ximen Qing rode on the horse and looked around, only to realize that this is not the place where he was caught and hung on a tree by thieves?

Not far ahead is the big tree that used to hang him, but the broken net is no longer on the tree.On the upper right is the cave where the three thieves roasted game.Ximen Qing could still smell a little aroma of barbecue, and couldn't help but salivate.

This bay red horse is quite human, it is coming back to find its owner!However, it seems that its owner has left here to search for my high officials elsewhere.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is also the safest place. Those three thieves never expected that I, the official Ximen, would turn back here!Now this place can be regarded as the safest, right to dismount and rest for a while.

Ximen Qing jumped off the horse, tied the horse under a tree and let it graze, and approached the cave carefully.

When he came to the entrance of the cave, Ximen Qing looked in with his probe and couldn't help but be overjoyed.There was no one in the cave, but half a roasted Gazelle was thrown on a stone and was not taken away.

God really helped me, those three thieves left in a hurry, but they took advantage of me!

Ximen Qing hadn't eaten for half a day. Although he just ate some vanilla-flavored cowhide ropes, his stomach was still empty.How could he bear it now that there was delicious food in front of him? He threw himself on the gazelle and bit down on it with his iron teeth.

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Zhu Long and Zhu Hu followed Jiao Ting all the way, and finally saw many horseshoe prints on a road.

It's just that the horseshoe prints are divided into two directions. The left one goes southeast in only one direction, while the right one goes northeast. There are two directions. jungle.

Deliberately stepping on so many horseshoe marks on the ground, this is the opponent's suspicion, trying to lure me into the woods for a circle!Hmph, little skill, how could I wish the dragon would be fooled!

Zhu Long took Jiao Ting and the others to a high hill on horseback, and looked towards the southeast where there were few horseshoes.It was also a coincidence that he saw the back of Hu Cheng riding a horse across a mountain ridge.

"Brother Jiao Ting, do you think he is that person?" Zhu Long asked anxiously.

Before Jiao Ting could take a closer look, Hu Cheng had disappeared under the ridge.But he still vaguely recognized the man in front of him as the masked knight who had intercepted him early in the morning.

After Jiao Ting's confirmation, Zhu Long was very proud and called everyone to chase him down.He didn't know that, turning north over a small hill, he could see Ximen Qing who was eating in the cave.

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Outside Hu's villa, Zhu Biao asked someone for news, and after learning that Hu Sanniang was not at the villa, he suddenly felt worried.

Why can't Sanniang be found anywhere? Where is she hiding? My guess is correct, brother Ximen must have been snatched away by her.

Zhu Biao knew that Hu Sanniang wanted to trouble Ximen Qing's brother last night, but failed.She must have done something today to vent her anger.It's a pity that Zhu Biao doesn't know where to look for it now.

Zhu Biao, who had nothing to do, had to take Brother Qiao Yun to guard outside Hujiazhuang, and be the one who waited for the rabbit.I don't know what happened to the eldest brother and the second brother, can they find brother Ximen?

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Ximen Qing sat in the cave and ate the roast lamb that was still warm, unaware that someone was approaching from outside the cave.

Chapter 64 You are not as good as a horse

Ximen Qing ate half a leg of yellow lamb in one go, and his belly was somewhat full.He belched and almost choked on the lamb.It was only then that Ximen Qing realized that he didn't drink water, because he was extremely thirsty.

When Ximen Qing thought of riding a horse, he seemed to hear the sound of water. There should be a stream nearby.He hurriedly got up and went out of the cave to find the water source.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, a cold object suddenly protruded from the side, and it was directly placed between Ximen Qing's neck.Ximen Qing's heart trembled, his body froze there, not daring to move.

There was a woman's voice behind her and she said with a coquettish smile: "What a sheep thief! After eating my sheep, do you want to run away like this?"

When Ximen Qing heard the slightly rough voice, he immediately understood that it wasn't Hu Sanniang behind him, who else could it be?

After thinking about it for a while, Ximen Qing realized that he was being teased by Hu Sanniang again today.

This hateful wild woman!Why are you so rude, you have to get angry from time to time? How dare you play tricks on me like this today, I will take revenge someday!

But thinking that Hu Sanniang's knife was still on his neck, Ximen Qing decided to forgive her temporarily today.

I, Ximen Qing, a high-ranking official, can move from being poor to humble, from being rich to being promiscuous, and from being mighty even more subdued.With the knife resting on my neck, I will definitely be a good lover who won't fight back when beaten or scolded!Hu Sanniang, you can boldly rob sex, I will never resist!

Ximen Qing squeezed out a happy smile, slowly turned his head and said to Hu Sanniang: "Sanniang! How could it be you? Sanniang, you don't know, I haven't seen you for a few days, I really don't think about tea, I don't want to eat, I serve you You want to kill me!"

Just as Ximen Qing uttered a lie against his conscience, he couldn't help hiccupping, and showed Hu Sanniang how he didn't think about tea or food.Hey~ It's true that God doesn't help.

Fortunately, at this moment, Ximen Qing also saw clearly that the knife with a sheath was resting on his neck.From this, it can be seen that Hu Sanniang still loves herself, fearing that she will be accidentally hurt.Her heart is not as strong as it appears on the outside.

Understanding this, Ximen Qing was greatly relieved.

"Your Majesty Ximen, don't lie to me! When you ate my mutton in this cave just now, it looked very delicious. You just wanted to chew and swallow all the bones! Tell me, how will you compensate me?" Your sheep?" Hu Sanniang slapped Ximen Qing in the face, mocking Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing smiled bitterly and said: "San Niang, you have caught me and hanged me for a long time, are you still angry? I don't care about the matter of you teasing me today. You and I will make up now, okay? I just picked you up The leftover half sheep, San Niang, why are you so stingy? You still want to play tricks on me? I have nothing else on me, why don’t you give me compensation?”

When Hu Sanniang heard the words, her eyes widened, and she spat and said: "What a Ximen Dalang, he is full of sweet words! What I want is a man who is honest, not a blushing starling like you! Let me ask you, if you You really miss me, why don't you come to me first, but go to Lijiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang? In my opinion, Dalang, you are not as good as one of my horses! Horses know it, but you don't!"

Hearing this, Ximen Qing couldn't help poking his neck and looking towards the woods below.Looking at it this way, I was really dumbfounded.

I saw the bay red horse tied to the tree was neighing happily towards the sky.Behind it, a yellow horse is lying on the back of a bay red horse, playing hooligans, doing shameful moves!

It turned out that what I stole was a mare in heat, and it took me around in the woods, and then came back here to find the stallion.

The horse Hu Sanniang was riding was a stallion, and she could smell the mare in heat from a long distance away.No wonder she found me so quickly, it turned out to be two horses at work!

Hu Sanniang is blatantly provoking me, a senior official of Ximen!How am I not as good as that yellow horse? Although it is very long, I am not short either!It can move, and I, Ximen Daguan, can do it too.I, Ximen Daguan, will act like a horse? To say that I am not as good as a horse is the greatest insult to me!

What Hu Sanniang meant was that even horses know how to find their companions, but Ximen Qing doesn't know how to come to him, so he is not as affectionate as a beast.It's a pity that when Ximen Qing saw the majestic yellow stallion having fun, all he could think about was his lower body.

"San Niang, don't you want to humiliate me! It's not that I, Ximen Qing, boasted. I can know what horses can do, and I can do what horses can't. My big tortoise is also long enough, how can I not be as good as that horse?" Ximen Qing was shameless. said.