I didn't intend to be a Fairy

The night slowly deepened.

The Taoist did not just find a place to rest in the camp below like other people without tents, but walked a long way in the dark to a nearby mountain.

There are many troubles in places with many people, and danger in places with few people. Taoists actually don’t care about troubles and dangers. They just want to be far away, clean, and the air is better. The firelight in the camp is also pleasant.

The three-flowered cat walked to the edge of the hillside and looked down from a distance.

Only a very small back was left for the Taoist, and he could hardly see clearly in the grass.

A large bonfire was lit at the foot of the mountain, and many torches were sparsely lit in the tent. Many people formed a circle and danced beside the bonfire. The singing and shouting could be heard clearly from such a distance, and the heat was undisguised. It's as if even cats can feel the emotion.

The Taoist sits cross-legged on the wool felt behind him, holding a small blue-and-white porcelain bowl with half a bowl of water in it.

"It's time for Empress Sanhua to drink water."

"..."

Only then did the little figure in front turn around, first glanced at the bowl in his hand, then at him, and then said softly, "Mistress Sanhua has drunk water."

"Empress Sanhua only licked twice just now."

"Enough."

"not enough."

"Enough."

"Miss Sanhua hasn't drank water all day. Water is the source of life. Mistress Sanhua wants to be a child who loves to drink water." Song You looked at her calmly, as if knowing what she was going to say, and added after a short pause One sentence, "The same goes for kittens."

"Alright alright……"

Empress Sanhua was good at accepting advice, so she muttered in a low voice, looked down, walked back reluctantly, leaned over the small bowl, licked the water and drank.

Licking and licking, she raised her head again and looked at the Taoist:

"They have a race tomorrow morning!"

"Um."

"The fastest runner can get a lamb!"

"Um."

"Our horses are good horses! They run fast!"

"Of course."

"Empress Sanhua can also ride a horse!"

"drink more water."

"Drinking, drinking..."

The Sanhua cat then lowered its head again, licked a few sips of water, but didn't drink much, then raised its head again, its eyes shining brightly in the dark night: "Taoist, tell me, can Mistress Sanhua go to race horses with them?" ? Win a lamb back? Just like you win a lantern!"

Then he turned his head and looked around.

She has always carried that pony lantern.

"it should be OK."

"Then Empress Sanhua can go?"

"Is Empress Sanhua asking me?"

"Miss Sanhua is asking you..."

"Mistress Sanhua is a mature and smart cat. If Mistress Sanhua knows that drinking water is good for her health, so she knows that she should drink plenty of water, Mistress Sanhua will naturally know other things and be able to do better in other things. The right decision." Song You sat on the wool felt and said to her calmly, "Such a lady like Sanhua can obviously make her own decision."

"Of course I know!"

After Sanhuamao finished speaking to him, as if to show that he really knew, he immediately lowered his head and even licked a few mouthfuls of water.

I don't know if she understood what Song You meant, but after raising her head, she still looked at Song You and asked:

"Then Empress Sanhua can go?"

"Since Mistress Sanhua can make her own decision, if Mistress Sanhua wants to go, how can I stop Mistress Sanhua?" Song You thought for a while, "But Mistress Sanhua is not alone in matters like horse racing. It can be done, so we should discuss it with the horse."

"The horse is our horse. The horse will listen to Mistress Sanhua."

"That's good." Song You nodded, "But we are outsiders, and we are relatively unfamiliar with the procedures of the Jockey Club. I have to ask an official tomorrow morning to find out."

"Ask an official."

"I'm good at dealing with officials."

"Empress Sanhua is good at dealing with rabbit dogs."

"Exactly."

Song You smiled slightly and didn't say much.

Sanhuamao hastily lowered its head to drink water.

I usually don't want to drink too much water, but today I actually drank a whole bowl. When I finished drinking and walked around, the water in my stomach shook and gurgled.

This added a lot of trouble to her dealing with rabbit dogs.

Song You closed his eyes, feeling the aura of heaven and earth.

At this time in early March, it is already late spring.

If you are in the south, the weather is better, and the sun is shining, I am afraid that you can already find a bit of summer feeling. The weather is bad, and it may be winter. However, on this Yanzhou grassland, there is a large temperature difference between morning and evening. Even though the sun has been shining all these days, you can still feel a bit chilly at night. You have to dress thickly and put on a blanket to keep out the cold.

This place is vast, there are no big mountains, no torrents, and the highest mountain is no more than a hundred feet long. However, the aura of the world here also has its own special features.

Vast and peaceful.

Throughout the ages, Yanzhou has always been the battlefield between the northern grassland tribes and the Central Plains dynasty. I don’t know how many heroes fought on this land, and I don’t know how many famous generals galloped past. This vast land is like a starry sky above your head. Witness With the struggle between the two sides, the ups and downs of civilization.

The howling wind seems to be the whisper of history.

Song You feels the world here, and he also gives his heart to the world, letting it know that in the late spring of the sixth year of Mingde, such a Taoist once passed by.

Maybe many years later, other practitioners will come here, sit cross-legged here for a night, communicate with the aura of the world here, and talk to him thousands of years ago.

Sanhuamao was still running around on the grassland, sometimes catching hares, sometimes talking to horses, and only in the middle of the night did it come to Song You's side, staying obediently and absorbing the surroundings. The aura of heaven and earth around me also absorbs the essence of the moon.

...

Early the next morning.

Song You packed up his things, then went down the mountain and returned to the camp.

In the past, when Da Da Prairie was governed by the King of the North, the Grassland Meeting was held by the King of the North. Now that the King of the North is gone, it is natural for the government to hold the meeting in Dacheng Yanzhou.

Song You asked an official to inquire.

Dayan's officials respected Taoists and monks very much, and they also liked to communicate with monks and Taoists. Song You quickly asked about it.

The official Jockey Club starts at the time of Si, and you don’t need anything to sign up. You just need people and horses to go, and you don’t have to pay much attention. The first to reach the finish line wins.

I heard that the last day is more complicated. You will write on the horse, someone will set up a handicap, and the rewards will be more abundant, but the first few days are very simple, mainly for entertainment.

Anyone can join.

When Song You arrived at the starting point with Empress Sanhua and Zaohong Ma, there were already many people gathered here.

Most of the participants are half-grown teenagers, and they ride either carefully selected good horses, or the horses they have grown up with since they were young. Almost none of them have saddles and stirrups, only reins. Without saddles and stirrups, it is the same as the bay red horse that Empress Sanhua rides, but without a rein, there is only a bay red horse.

Besides Empress Sanhua, there are other girls, but there is no one as young as Empress Sanhua, and there is even no one as white and tender as her, carved with jade.

Therefore, when Empress Sanhua rode a bay red horse into the group of horses, almost everyone in the competition and onlookers cast their eyes on her.

Not only are people small, but horses are also small.

Although most of the horses present were Beiyuan horses, which should be of the same breed as the bay red horses, the bay red horses were indeed the shortest among them.

Everyone was either grinning or talking.

There is also an acquaintance among them, who is the boy from yesterday.

It's just that he came early and took a front seat.

As soon as he saw Song You, he greeted Song You with a bright smile: "Sir, I see you again."

"Fated."

Song You also laughed with him.

The young man didn't see the horse and the girl beside him, but he turned around and looked behind him, and sure enough he did, and asked in surprise, "Are you also coming to the horse race?"

"Play is the main thing."

"Hey, you want to win sheep too?"

"Play is the main thing."

"You are such a small horse, how can you run past it?"

"As the saying goes, a person cannot be judged by his appearance, and the sea cannot be measured. In fact, the same is true for horses." Song You stood outside, with a gentle voice, "You don't know what you are doing. Although my horse is small, it is good at running, and my wife Sanhua is also good at running. It is still unknown who will be the winner of the rare riding master."

The boy couldn't help laughing out loud.

The people around spoke the local dialect and couldn't understand what they said, so Song You could probably guess it.

It was originally Sanhua Empress's entertainment, Song You didn't care, and really didn't want to say more, just stood by and laughed without saying a word, until some kind-hearted people came to express their worries, fearing that Sanhua Empress was too young, and this horse would turn on again. He didn't even have a rein, and it would be dangerous if he fell down, so Song You opened his mouth and explained a few words to them so that his Sanhua Empress would not be pulled out.

Someone came to officiate the game.

The boy was kind enough to translate for them.

The little girl on the horse listened carefully.

until a cry—

There was a sudden commotion among the onlookers, and there was a strange roar with very local characteristics. The horses in front had already been urged by their masters to run forward, and the teenagers behind hurriedly urged their horses to follow closely.

"Horse, run!"

A soft and thin voice.

Empress Sanhua bent down, grabbed the horse's mane with both hands, and didn't care about anything if it was too much.

Let the bay red horse run forward.

Only a series of chaotic hooves and shouts were heard, at least dozens of horses were running at the same time, although most of the horses were young, but the spirit of the young was quite imposing.

Song You's eyes only looked at that one——

A small bay horse without a bridle.

The little girl was lying tightly on her stomach, but her face was serious.

He was actually somewhat heroic.

Among the large herd of horses, the bay red horse was short and small, if not for the youngest and extraordinarily beautiful girl sitting on it, it would be inconspicuous.

However, not long after running, the onlookers on both sides realized something was wrong.

Although this horse is short, it runs extremely fast!

He was in the back position, but when he ran, he kept passing the horses in front, one after another, and he had already reached the front in less than half the distance.

"Oh hoo..."

The onlookers were both surprised and surprised, but they were extra excited because of it.

The sound of hooves gradually faded away, and then came back again.

The one running in the front is the bay red horse.

Although the bay red horse was born short and deficient, it has already made up for its innate nature by the day after tomorrow, and it has even become extraordinary. Mistress Sanhua does not know how to equestrian, but she is small and light in stature. Yes, the result is really no suspense.

Song You was neither surprised nor delighted.

He only showed a smile when he heard the shouts from around him and saw the look on the face of the overjoyed Empress Sanhua walking back with a sheep led by a crowd of onlookers and admiring her.