Drinking Horse Town is a very inconspicuous town in Youzhou, Daxia, but it is one of the strategic towns of Daxia.

As we all know, Youzhou produces good horses, which is the horse farm that the Great Xia cavalry relies on for survival! Countless excellent war horses were born, grown, trained, and then put into the battlefield of the endless mountains in Western Xinjiang.

Horses, the foundation of armor soldiers, the great use of the country!

Every household in Drinking Horse Town makes a living by raising horses, and most people may not know it when it comes to Drinking Horse Town, but when it comes to the unique war horse White Hoof Wu in Drinking Horse Town, it is like thunder in Great Xia and even the Sun Empire.

White hoof black, the mane of the whole body is pure black as ink, only four white hooves are like snow, the explosive power is very strong, the speed of the instant charge can be called the first among the horses, and it is deeply loved by the heavy cavalry.

There are not many people who come and go in Drinking Horse Town on weekdays, because there is nothing else here except horses, and the scenery is not beautiful, there are grasslands everywhere, that is, a drinking horse lake on the edge of a town The scenery is slightly more pleasant, but there is often a smell of horses in the air, if it is not for the people who have lived in the Youzhou area for many years, they are really not used to it.

The white hoof black is a strategic material strictly controlled by Great Xia, and ordinary merchants have no right to touch it, so except for the sergeants who come to choose horses, it is difficult to see an outsider in Drinking Horse Town all day long.

Today, when the sky was just dawning, Li Jinfu Li Old Man Li walked out of the house slowly and leisurely on crutches as usual, this person is old, and his sleep is not good, so he is going to go to the racecourse to see the white-hoofed black cub that was just born some time ago.

He can be said to be a respected horse breeder in Drinking Horse Town and even the entire Youzhou, and the horse breed of Baihu Wu, which is famous outside the Guan, is cultivated and promoted by him, so for the entire Great Xia, he has great merit!

The other day happened to be the time of birth of the white hoof, so there was a lot of new life in the stable, and it seemed to be full of life.

The entire stable was strictly protected by an army inside and out, and the sergeant on duty saw the figure of the old man on crutches early in the morning, and hurriedly ran over to help, and the rest of the people also shouted respectfully, Old Man Li is early, Old Man Li pays attention to his body.

The old man is the teacher of everyone in Drinking Horse Town, and he is a living dictionary! Fortunately, the old man's body is still tough, and he is very energetic every day.

Old man Li first nodded to the sergeants, smiled, and then slowly walked into the stable and began to observe the foals, this batch of horse cubs is superior in terms of quality and bone mass, which made the old man happy from the bottom of his heart, and his wrinkled face was also smiling, revealing most of his front teeth, which made the horse breeder who followed behind breathe a sigh of relief, the old man was good at everything, but he was a little strict.

"This batch of cubs is very good, it is the best batch of white hooves in recent years, so you should be extra careful, the foal grows the fastest in the first few months of life, remember that in addition to breast milk, other prepared feed should also keep up, and the cleaning and hygiene on weekdays should be careful, so as not to get sick to the foal!" the old man chattered all the way, constantly reminding the precautions, and everyone behind him nodded frequently yes.

"By the way, don't forget to stroke and brush the foal, gradually lift its limbs, clean the bottom of the hooves, gently tap the bottom of the hooves, and form a habit for future hoof care, these white hooves are going to go to war in the future, don't look at these things and ignore them. ”

The old man, who had been around the circle, walked to the door, as if he had thought of something, and turned back to say a word, and then turned and left the stable.

Then the old man Li had breakfast at the porridge shop in the town, and after insisting on giving the money, he walked leisurely to the house on crutches, he had no children under his knees, only a daughter had just married at the beginning of the year, and his wife also died early, he even refused the maid sent by the court to take care of his daily life, alone, it can be said that he only has white hooves in his life!

There are traces of the door of the house being opened, the old man didn't care, thinking that it was the girl of the family who sent some food, and every once in a while there would be people in the town to take turns to take care of him, he always shouted that he was not old enough to be taken care of, but he was really old, and even a little old and dizzy, sometimes a doze was a morning.

The old man pushed open the door and walked into the yard, there was a big willow tree planted in the yard, ten thousand green silk silk ribbons were hanging down, and under the willow tree sat a person, an old lady!

The old lady's hair is a little gray, but it is very neat, and she wears the most common narrow-sleeved shirt of the Daxia folk, with blue on the top and white on the bottom, and she sits quietly like this, as if she is the center of this world.

The old man's somewhat cloudy eyes were stunned for a moment, and then he showed a look of disbelief, and stepped forward quickly, and kept muttering: "Is it you, eldest lady, is it really you?" came to the old woman, and after seeing it clearly, he fell to his knees at once.

"Jin Fu, I haven't seen you for so many years, it looks like you're doing well, and you're still alive. The old woman's faint voice came, and tears welled up in the old man's cloudy eyes.

"I'm doing well, what about you, eldest lady, I heard that the west is full of wind and sand all the year round, dry and cold, and it is completely unsuitable for Great Xia, including me and my dead comrades-in-arms, I want to ask the eldest lady, why did you think so much about it in the first place, why did you make such a decision?" The old man burst into tears and asked with a cry.

"Jin Fu, you don't understand, I wanted to do this, I did it, everything in the world needs so many reasons?"

A fresh breeze blows, and catkins fly.

The old lady gently pinched a piece of catkins from the air, put it in front of her eyes and looked at it carefully, and then said: "There is one thing you are right, the west is really not suitable for people, except for sand or sand, this sky of catkins flying, I haven't seen it for fifteen years, and the clothes I wear, although cheap, but compared with the precious beast clothes in the west, I don't know why, I always feel very comfortable." ”

Old Man Li was so choked up that he couldn't speak, and it took a long time to calm down, and finally asked, "The eldest lady has been absent for fifteen years, what happened when she suddenly came to me this time?"

"I'm going from west to north, and then all the way south, I'm getting old, I'm a little tired, I want to borrow you here to rest for two days, is it okay?"

The old man nodded in agreement, without a moment's hesitation.

In the next two days, the door of the old man Li Jinfu's house was never opened again, and he did not go to inspect the white hoof black that he had raised for half his life on crutches every morning as before, and even the magistrate of Yinma Town, who came to visit, was turned away on the grounds of physical discomfort.

The rest of the Si Tian Jian in Youzhou investigated every house day and night, and the mountain and sea charts on the top of the Si Tian Tower were also searching with all their might, but suddenly lost the trace of the target.

Three days later, the magistrate of Yinma Town, together with the commander of the garrison, opened the gate of the old man Li, in the yard, under the flying catkins in the sky, the old man Li lay peacefully on the chair, his eyes were closed, and the catkins fell on him, snow-white, just like the heavy snow that fell all day after the winter in Youzhou.

On the table next to it was a letter, on which the old man had a silver hook painted on it.

"The sinner Li Jinfu shielded the treason and rebellion against the thief in the early autumn, and the crime deserved death, and the only way to thank him was death. ”

On the same day, the regent Empress Wu bypassed the queen mother's maid kneeling in front of her, pushed open the door, and entered the Lingbo Hall at night!