In the thousands of calls, the sound of the pipa sounded again, this time it was played on the moonlit night of the Spring River, with the music, the tent on the side of the horse farm suddenly opened, it turned out that there was a secret door.
More than a dozen women dressed in red short jackets and red trousers walked out, and the horses were tied with copper bells around their necks, which complemented the golden bells on the women's ankles.
The women are charming, the horses are beautiful, and the artistic conception is empty and sometimes lingering and sympathetic, which immediately reminds people of the polo that was prevalent in the ladies before the heyday.
Now in the capital, the children of Xungui are still popular with this kind of instant bowing, and Zhao Si likes it very much.
These women are obviously courtesans from the Qinhuai River, they are smiling and smiling, not shy but generous and decent, only rouge, not dust.
Each woman holds an ivory wat in her hand, which is marked with the horse's breed, age and starting price.
Prices start at 500 to 800 taels.
Luo Jinyan has no common sense, she only knows that the horse market divides horses into upper, upper, middle and lower, and she doesn't know what kind of horses these horses belong to, but looking at this formation, she can guess that this should be a horse suitable for women to ride.
The women walked around the horse viewing ground, and suddenly turned over and got on the horse, their movements were free and generous, and the voices of the audience invariably shouted hello.
The women rode slowly around again, but stopped in front of the secret door, and a dozen horses and a dozen beauties were lined up on both sides, and they looked beautiful from a distance.
The secret door opened again, and a black horse galloped from outside the door, and when he came to a distance of three or four feet away from the guests, he grabbed the reins, and the guests immediately burst into laughter: "Don't come unharmed if you don't see Zhang Gongzi for a year" "No wonder I haven't seen Zhang Gongzi all the time, this must make our Qin Huai beauties line up to greet each other, so they are willing to come out."
Gao Shen walked over, and the beauties who commanded the horseback were lined up behind Zhang Gongzi, and there were red clouds again, shining brightly.
Luo Jinyan's gaze fell directly on Zhang Gongzi.
He flew down from his horse, and he was wearing a moon-white robe that he would only wear in his spare time, and the robe was embroidered with a clump of bluegrass, which was simple, like ink dyeing.
With such a robe, he simply compared the splendid garden full of people, and no one would think that there was anything abrupt about him appearing here in a Taoist robe, but they just thought that he should wear it like this.
He stood tall and tall with a green hair curled up with an ivory comb, and he stood in front of his horse, the sun shining on his hair, reflecting a faint halo.
But just under that halo was a hideous face.
Luo Jinyan knows this face, which is one of the masks that children like during the Chinese New Year, King Lanling.
Luo Jinyan was stunned for a moment, her eyes were fixed on the mask for a long time and did not take away, although she was a few feet away, she could still feel the bottomless gaze behind the mask.
And at this time, the man also looked at her.
Luo Jinyan immediately intuitively felt that she needed to avoid it, but where could she avoid it, at this moment, Huo Xing, who was standing beside her, suddenly took an arrow step in front of her, blocking her behind her.
With Luo Jinyan's appearance, even if she wears men's clothes, she can be recognized as a daughter, but although the people who came today are not rich or expensive, there are also a few women like her who wear men's clothes, and at first glance they are boudoir women who follow their father, brother or husband to buy horses, and Luo Jinyan is young and will not be pointed at.
And the people present are either rich or expensive, of course, they can't stare at the female dependents.
The man's gaze only glanced this way, and then moved somewhere else.
Luo Jinyan breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Huo Xing, who was blocking the front, "Brother Ah Xing, thank you." ” Huo Xing didn't answer, nor did he move away, the fourteen-year-old boy was not burly, but like a big tree that could shelter from the wind and rain, he protected the petite Luo Jinyan behind him.
Luo Jinyan's heart was pounding, but a familiar voice was already ringing in his ears: "I brought fifty horses this time, not many of them, but they are all carefully selected, you don't have to be humble, just order what you like, if you are late, you have to wait another year, and after a year, if you have a favorite, who knows." ” There is a hint of laziness in the voice, and it also has the clarity characteristic of a young man.
Everyone laughed, saying yes again and again, someone had already shouted out the price, and Gao Shen was adding fuel to the fire, shouting, laughing, mixed with the woman's Wu Nong's soft words, covering the melodious and tactful pipa sound, but Luo Jinyan, who was hiding behind Huo Xing, never heard that familiar voice again.
Li Yi turned around and said to Luo Jinyan: "It's a pity, these are all horses suitable for my daughter's family to ride, which one do you like, my uncle will give it to you." ” Luo Shao hurriedly excused Luo Jinyan, and Li Yi was angry: "What's the matter, I, who is an uncle, sent a horse to my niece, and you didn't agree."
Luo Shao didn't want to say anything, so he had to look at Luo Jinyan, he was a little strange, he was sorry that he had always been generous, why did he hide behind Ah Xing today, as if he didn't dare to see people.
Luo Jinyan had no choice but to explain to his uncle: "The capital is not like Yangzhou, and I don't have the opportunity to ride a horse, so my uncle might as well give me a few good beads, and I will use them to inlay jewelry." ” Li Yi was relieved, and even said: "Okay, uncle will find you some good Nanzhu and Dongzhu when I go back." ” But he was a little unhappy in his heart, didn't Luo Shao have a pity through the rumors, or Luo Shao didn't want to marry Xi Xi to Yangzhou at all Soon, more than a dozen horses were all ordered, the cheapest one was 1,500 taels, and the most expensive one was bought by a merchant from Yuhang for 5,000 taels.
Suddenly, the sound of the pipa stopped abruptly, and when it sounded again, it was already a song of sea green taking swans, and there was no doubt that all the horses that were about to be drawn out were suitable for hunting, and the ones that were just one of them were a notch higher.
Luo Jinyan peeked out from behind Huo Xing, and saw that the women in Hu clothes had retreated, and from the side door came more than a dozen mighty men leading horses.
And that person is gone.
"What about Gongzi Zhang" She quietly walked out from behind Huo Xing and asked Li Qingfeng, who was sitting in front.
Li Qingfeng said with a smile: "I have left a long time ago, and I will not come back until the final vote for next year's organizer." ” Luo Jinyan breathed a sigh of relief, but he was suspicious, it must be that person who is right, but who is that Qin Gongzi in Qixia Temple It's really as her father said, she misheard it, it's obviously two people But that person has the fragrance of the same dust, and it is too coincidental to appear in Qixia Temple.
The starting price of hunting horses is 1,000 to 2,000 taels, which is much higher than the horses in front.
Without the help of Qinhuai's famous female branch, the guests were more direct, and these horses were quickly ordered out of seventy percent, and the remaining few horses quickly retreated, and these horses would be kept in Luyangzhuang and auctioned again three months later.
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