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Chapter 197 The Divine Horse Appears
Zhang Hou walked away angrily. After a while, he couldn't help it anymore, so he squeezed in next to the crowd and said, "I heard that Zhou Zhongjun's daughter has a strange disease..."
Everyone pretended to ignore him. Zhang Hou continued, "I don't know why. A little girl who used to be full of energy suddenly lost control of her legs more than a year ago. She couldn't even stand, let alone run or walk..."
He exaggerated and described Jinglan's strange illness in detail, and then said: "Zhou Zhongjun was very worried at the time. He sought doctors everywhere and invited almost all the famous doctors in the seven cities of Cangmu. He almost invited them to the Snow Country, but without exception, no one could cure her..."
"Then why do we have to go to the Nanding Army Camp?" Chu Xiaomu asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Zhang Hou looked confident and said, "Zhou Zhongjun saw that his daughter was seriously ill and difficult to treat, so he took her for a walk. I think... I think it would be easier for her to walk behind him..." He spoke in a very low voice, for fear that others would hear.
Yingdan immediately retorted: "You are talking nonsense. It's just a leg disease. How can it kill someone?" Lin Zhen, Wang Gang and others nodded and said that they had never seen anyone die from a leg disease.
Chu Xiaomu said: "I once heard the teacher who taught me the art of asking spirits say that all things are interdependent and mutually restraining, and no matter what kind of disease it is, there is a way to restrain it in the world. Miss Zhou's leg disease cannot be life-threatening, and it does not look like a serious disease. There must be a cure. We can..." He wanted to say "We can use the art of asking spirits to find medicine", but suddenly remembered that the art of asking spirits is a forbidden art in Cangmu Country, and Bicheng has expressly prohibited the use of the art of asking spirits, so he had to keep silent.
Unexpectedly, Ling Weidou suddenly said, "You can use the spirit-asking technique to find medicine..." Ling Weidou was a Snow Countryman, the youngest of the ten people, only a few months older than Zhou Weiyi. He looked honest and cute, and was usually very easy-going, so everyone liked him very much. He usually had no opinions of his own, so he rarely talked and discussed with others. At this time, he suddenly said "spiritual-asking technique", which surprised everyone.
Everyone in the team knew that Chu Xiaomu could ask about spiritual arts, so they all stared at him and waited for him to speak. Yingdan hissed and said, "You can't talk about spiritual arts here, or you might get beaten again."
Everyone had to keep silent.
An Wenyuan ordered some soldiers to lead the horses to the grassland to graze, some soldiers to cook, and the remaining soldiers to stand guard around. Several things were arranged in an orderly manner.
Chu Xiaomu's team was assigned to look after the horses. Most of the territory of Bicheng was plains, so there were many sheep and horses. After more than two hundred years of breeding, the war horses provided to the soldiers were all selected good horses, all of which were tall and long-legged, and extraordinary in appearance. Moreover, these horses were very human-like, and when they were eating grass and resting, they did not need anyone to look after them, but only lowered their heads to eat and did not walk far.
Zhou Weiyi was the youngest, and he also practiced horsemanship with everyone else at the racecourse of Zhongjing Camp, but he was not very good at it. At this time, he had some free time, so he asked Chu Xiaomu for advice on horsemanship - he was the best horseman among everyone. Chu Xiaomu did not refuse, and taught him how to get on a horse, how to control the reins, how to step on the stirrups, how to coordinate the strength of the left and right hands, how to coordinate the legs and waist... He explained it in great detail; from time to time, he also demonstrated, jumping up and down on the horse's back, very agile. When the other soldiers saw it, they all praised it, thinking that such a skilled horsemanship would be difficult for ordinary people to practice unless they were gifted in this area.
Chu Xiaomu, Yingdan, Lin Zhen and others sat on the grass and watched the horses grazing leisurely. The vast sky and earth were everywhere, and everyone felt relaxed, so they started chatting about all sorts of things.
As they were chatting, they suddenly heard a rumbling sound of thunder coming from the north, which became louder and louder. Chu Xiaomu and others looked at each other in surprise, and stood on tiptoe to look north, but they could not see anything.
Jinglan called softly from the car: "Father, what's outside? I want to see it too."
Zhou Bo walked to the front of the cart, pulled back the curtain, and said, "There are only sounds now, so I guess it's a group of wild horses."
Jinglan said, "It sounds like there are so many..." She held the car window with her hand, leaned slightly, looked towards the place where the sound came from, and waited eagerly.
Chu Xiaomu and the others had never seen wild horses before, let alone seen so many wild horses galloping on the grassland. As they heard the rumbling sound getting louder and closer, gradually shaking the earth, they were all fascinated and eager to see this spectacular sight.
Although the sky was dark, it had just set and there were a few glimmers of clouds floating in the sky. Under the afterglow, the grassland became a black line, magnificent and extraordinary. The other soldiers also stopped what they were doing, and everyone looked up, looking in the direction where the wild horse was running.
As the sound of the wild horses galloping got closer and closer, a gray-black "fog" gradually rose from the horizon. Everyone knew that this was the dust raised by the horses running. The "fog" rose higher and gradually blocked the afterglow, making the sky even darker. On the distant horizon, a thin, winding black line slowly emerged. This black line spanned the east-west direction, like a thunder sticking to the ground, rumbling straight over. It was the countless wild horses running.
As the herd of wild horses approached, a grayish-white horse could be seen in the middle. This white horse was running at the front of the herd, and was about ten to twenty feet away from the horses behind it. It was obviously the leader of the herd. The horses spread out like a blunt cone, following closely behind it.
The wild horses did not seem to be afraid of strangers around the campfire, and did not go around them, but galloped straight past the soldiers not far in front of Zhou Bo. Everyone could see more clearly at this time, and saw that the leading horse was unusually handsome, with a faint grayish-white light all over its body, and when it galloped, it looked like a comet across the sky.
Amid the thunderous sound of horse hooves, Chu Xiaomu suddenly felt that the surroundings were unusually quiet. He looked around and saw that the soldiers were holding their breath and concentrating, their expressions were solemn, as if they had seen something magical. The dozens of military horses that were originally grazing also stopped eating at this time, lowered their necks and lowered their heads, quietly facing the direction of the galloping horses, like believers who worshiped the gods devoutly.
The herd of wild horses was very fast and had extraordinary momentum, like wind and thunder, rumbling in and rolling away, and finally disappearing into the darkness.
From Zhou Bo onwards, everyone was shocked by the scene just now, and it took them a long time to recover.
Suddenly, a soldier shouted loudly: "An ancient prophecy says, 'A divine horse will appear, and a strange man will be born.' Something big is going to happen in the world..." Several soldiers also shouted: "A divine horse will appear, and a strange man will be born..."