Han Qing has led many hunting expeditions into the mountains in the past six months. Han Qing is very familiar with the terrain and roads near Jinniuzhai. He rode his horse along a semi-deserted trail and covered more than 20 miles in only about half an hour.
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The sky was getting darker and darker, and the road was getting more and more rugged. The strength of the horse under his crotch was gradually unable to support it, and it slowed down and kept snoring.
Although Han Qing has never personally served animals, he has learned a lot about taking care of horses from archers and local warriors over the past six months.
Therefore, he did not dare to continue to squeeze the physical strength of his mount, and quickly jumped on the back of another mount, letting the latter carry him and his luggage and walk slowly in small steps.
War horses are very attached to people in the wild. The first mount had an empty saddle and immediately followed Han Qing.
So, one person and two horses walked along the path for more than ten miles, until Han Qing's stomach began to growl, and then they found a mountain depression near the stream, stopped to replenish food and rest their strength.
The last quarter moon has risen, illuminating the surrounding area brightly.
Autumn has entered the season, the water vapor in the air is getting less and less, and people can see very far under the moonlight.
While Han Qing was feeding beans to the animals, he looked back and saw no torches or pursuers. However, the outline of the hill where Jinniu Village was located instantly fell into his field of vision again.
Suddenly there was an indescribable feeling in his heart. He grinned and shook his head gently under the moonlight.
Since time traveling, he has spent most of his time at the Jinniu Village Inspection Station. If he said he had no feelings for the place at all, he would definitely be deceiving himself.
The only time in his previous life and this life that he became a "business editor" and became a "manager" and enjoyed the feeling of being able to respond to everything at once was also in Jinniu Village. To say that he has no nostalgia is just to make a fool of himself.
Before this evening, even after being jointly suppressed by the county magistrate and the chief registrar, Han Qing was still thinking about what he should do to keep his hard-won position.
On the way to escape in a hurry, Han Qing was still thinking in his mind whether he had taken the matter too extreme and lost a stable income.
He even had a chance to imagine that if he misunderstood County Magistrate Zhang and Chief Zhou, he would play outside for a few months, and when the storm was over, he could go back and continue to be his ninth-grade sesame official!
However, it is absolutely impossible for him to stay in Jinniu Village and wait for all the mysteries to come to light.
Even staying one more night is impossible!
It is even more impossible for him to be like the loyal ancient clerk in film and television works, who would risk his own life in order to uncover the conspiracy behind the fire in the granary.
In his previous life, he was a common man, greedy for money, lustful, timid, and lacking in opinions. He looked down on those corrupt national worms, but he often wished to replace them.
In this life, he has traveled through time and things are basically the same.
"Shush, shush--" A horse licked all the black beans in his hand, but it was not full, and made a low protest sound in its mouth.
Han Qing's thoughts were quickly pulled back from the Jinniu Village. He quickly smiled apologetically at his mount, and then went to get new food from the bag.
The order of eating is horse first, people last.
This is the basic knowledge of life in the mountains that he learned from his brothers.
After making both mounts full, he can take turns riding them and maintain a stable driving speed. But he himself will not faint immediately if he is hungry for a while. After that, he can ride on the horse while driving.
Eat solid food.
Another basic common sense of life in the mountains is to identify animal footprints.
The footprints of pheasants are clusters of bamboo leaves, and the footprints of wild ducks are fans;
The deer's footprints are made of two melons, while the wild boar's footprints are larger than the deer's, and there are two more melon seeds under the melon;
The wolf's footprints are like a ball of fire. If the fire turns into half a plum blossom, it is a tiger or a leopard...
However, during the first few hunting trips, Han Qing decided to chase the animal by identifying its footprints by the waterside.
But this time, he wanted to avoid the beast through the footprints on the waterside.
He had to admit that his memory and learning ability in this life far exceeded those in his previous life.
Relying on the knowledge he learned from his brothers when he went hunting in the past, Han Qing continued on his way along the stream after his mount was full. He was very successful in avoiding the beasts that came out to look for food in the middle of the night, and separated Jinniu Village from his own.
The past is thrown further and further away.
After walking and stopping for more than an hour, he finally stopped beside a forest fifty miles away from Jinniu Village.
According to the information he learned when he went hunting before, walking more than ten miles through this forest was a village called Dingping. After bypassing Dingping Village and crossing a river, he completely left Ding'an County.
, entered the territory of Pizhou.
It was now late at night, so the gates of Dingping Village were definitely closed and no one was allowed to enter, and there were no ferries or boatmen on duty at the ferry.
Therefore, this forest near the path is the best place for him to rest.
Autumn has just begun, there is a lot of food in the mountains, and the wild animals are very full, so they will not easily go near densely populated places.
The woods can provide shelter from the wind, and the temperature inside is relatively high. By tying the horse to a tree, he doesn't have to worry about the horse getting lost.
After quickly weighing the pros and cons, Han Qing jumped off his mount, held the reins of the two horses, and walked into the woods. Before he could choose a place to sleep, he suddenly heard the rapid sound of horse hoofbeats in his ears.
Yes, yes, yes...
One, two, three... at least ten. They came in a hurry. They were walking almost the same way as him, and they were going in the same direction.
"It's broken, it might be the pursuers!" Han Qing shivered, and all the fatigue in his body was gone.
He quickly took off a Tang knife from one of the saddles, and then tapped the buttocks of the two horses with the handle of the knife.
A low sound of protest came from the horse's mouth, and then, with full reluctance, he walked deep into the woods.
Han Qing didn't care whether his horse would get lost. He held the knife in his mouth and quickly climbed up an old poplar tree near the road using his hands and feet.
The leaves had just begun to turn yellow and had not yet begun to fall. Therefore, it was very easy to hide his body tightly in the crown of the tree.
"Inspection, inspection, is it you? Wait for us, we are coming to find you!" Wang Wu's voice immediately entered his ears, and then Zhang Fan's unique drake voice came.
"Inspection inspection, why did you leave without saying anything? Where are you going? We are here to see you off!"
"Inspection, inspection, where are you——, wait for us——"
More voices followed and came into the woods. They were the village heroes of Jinniu Village, at least five of them. Everyone's voice was full of irritability and anxiety.
"As expected, Magistrate Zhang placed people around me, and there are more than one of them!" Han Qing bit the blade of the knife tightly in her mouth, hugged the tree trunk with both hands, and did not dare to make any sound.
The night wind howled and blew through the treetops where he was hiding. In an instant, he felt chilled to the core!