Broken Bonds

Chapter 67

Chapter 67:

The grassland was full of spring ambience, the verdant lawn was littered with small and trivial flowers, endlessly scattered all over the ground, with a shallow fragrance, jumping across the lowland plains, turning over the hills and mountains, and spreading all the way to the horizon. Connected with the blue sky.

This is the faraway suburb of Beitang, the capital city of Ming Kingdom.

Hundreds of horses on the prairie whizzed and galloped past, where the dust and smoke rose, the wind rushed and the earth was shaking, and the momentum was like a rainbow. The hooves hummed, and even the grass trembled slightly. Behind the horses, several herders chased them with their whips.

These hundreds of horses belong to the same horse farm. This horse farm was originally not big nor small, and the number of breeding horses was only a dozen. It was originally designed to provide horses for some horse farmers in Beitang. However, in the past two years, the new ruler of the Ming Dynasty ascended to the throne and attacked vigorously, annihilating the surrounding small countries, gradually unifying the northwestern grasslands and southern borders, and the demand for war horses greatly increased. Therefore, taking advantage of this low-handed business opportunity, the original small horse farm suddenly expanded its operations and became one of the horse farms dedicated to providing war horses to the Imperial Guards of the Emperor and the Xuanwu Army of the King of Beitang.

A little girl in a yellow shirt, who looked thirteen or fourteen years old, riding on a tall horse, cantered far away from the hillside.

"Uncle Pan! Uncle Pan..." Her tender and clear voice was covered by the buzzing of horseshoes, but the herders in the distance still saw her bright color. The one leading the horses in the front waved his hand and sprinted over.

"Ya'er." The man came to the girl, smiled slightly, and asked: "Why didn't you go to school today? You came back so early?"

"Uncle Pan." The girl glared with bright eyes and said excitedly: "Today, King Beitang and General Yu's regimen are back to the court, and the school is off. We will go to the city gate to see him later."

"Really. So fast?" The man was taken aback.

"Yes. The King of Beitang is so powerful. It took only half a year to destroy the Kingdom of Sun and the Kingdom of Eagle last time, but it took only two months to destroy the Southwest this time. The Emperor was overjoyed and issued a decree that the King of Beitang should return to the court. Classes will resume a month later. We don't have to go to school anymore!"

"Are you so happy you don't need to go to school for a month?" The man made a fake face.

The girl stuck her tongue out and said imaginatively: "This is the Emperor's decree, and it's not like people skip classes deliberately."

"Okay, I got it." The man loosened his face, smiled and stretched out his hand and patted her pretty little head.

"Uncle Pan is the best." The girl took his hand and acted like a baby. She is actually still young, only eleven years old, but the northern women develop faster and she looks like a little adult.

"Why is Ya'er looking for me?"

"That's right." The girl remembered the business now. "My dad is looking for you."

"Okay, let's go home together." The man led the girl and walked their horses slowly.

When they came to the courtyard of a house, the two jumped off their horses, and Liu Ya hopped in. A big man with scars on his face and arms, remnants of his battle woven early life, just came out and saw her and scolded: "Girl, I let you go to find your uncle but it took so long for you to come back. Where did you go to play just now?"

"Father, I didn't go out to play, my uncle was grazing, and I only found him after climbing over the mountain."

"Ah-qi, don't scold her. Today we have gone far."

The big man said to his daughter: "Go back and clean up, your mother is cooking, go and help her."

"Okay." Liu Ya obediently responded and ran into the room.

"Xiaoyan, you come with me." This big man with scars on his face is not someone else, but his good brother, Liu Qi, who grew up with Yan Feili and also his brother in arms when they were in Pan Jun.

"Ah-qi, don't call me that outside. My name is Pan Li now."

"Ah! Yes! I forgot for a while." Liu Qi patted his head and said absently.

Yan Feili shook his head, knowing that he didn't take his words to heart and didn't care too much. Anyway, it has been so long, and no one has been looking for him. Presumably that person...has forgotten himself.

The two walked into the accounting room, Liu Qi closed the door, sat across from Yan Feili, and said, "Xiao Yan, the King of Beitang will return to the court today."

"Yes, I know."

"This morning, someone from the Beitang Palace suddenly came and said that they would match his beloved horse with a good horse. Let us prepare here, you pick three of the best, and send it to the Beitang Palace in the afternoon to go with me."

"That's..." One of his horse, Yunmo, is also seven or eight years old, and Mo Xue should be the age of its father. Fortunately, Beitang Ao endured it for so long and had never matched him.

"But time seems to be a bit short. To pick the best horse, you have to prepare."

"Yes. That's what I said to the people from the palace, but they said it was the Young Prince who was in a hurry and couldn't wait for a moment. Then the prince ordered to pick it quickly and said that it would be matched within two days."

He jumped suddenly when he heard his words. He doesn't know who they are talking about...

Liu Qi drank slobber, and said, "It seems that not only us who need to prepare horses for the racecourse, but there were also several racecourses such as Fulai and Qianli. Everyone chose to send three horses to the Palace. In the end, if the people in the palace chose them. We might be left behind. The Thousand Miles Racecourse in the past two years could hardly support us. If you hadn't come in time to help us, we wouldn't have such beautiful scenery. So this time..."

Yan Feili listened carelessly to the words behind Liu Qi, but his heart kept tumbling with the news that he had just heard. After being here for so long, he has been holding back not to inquire. Anyway, that person is well-known in the world, and his every move will always be heard in his ears from time to time. But it was the first time he heard about the other Young Prince today. Although there is no content at all, and he didn't know who he was referring to, he couldn't help but stir his heartstrings...