Miaoyan said: "Tonight, Uncle Wang of the Iron Cavalry will negotiate with his father. The agreed place is not far ahead."

“…”

The big stone pressed on my chest made me feel extremely calm. I was silent for a while before saying, "Is that so? Didn't Yangchu have already arranged it and let us go together?"

"Yes."

“When will you set out?”

"Let go as soon as it gets dark."

"Okay, you go down and prepare, mom needs to prepare too."

She slowly stood up, but looked back at me and said worriedly: "Mom, what happened just now? Don't you really tell me?"

I looked up at her, my eyes were still a little hot, but the expression on my face had calmed down. Perhaps the huge rock in my heart made me no longer have any emotional fluctuations. I just curled the corners of my lips and said, "Don't ask so much, deal with the major issues in front of me first, and then talk about it."

“…”

She hesitated and nodded obediently: "Oh."

After she left, I slowly raised my hand and saw a piece of skin in my palm being worn out. It was rubbed on the ground when I fell down. However, I couldn't feel it at all. Even my lips were bitten by myself and blood flowed. I just tasted the bloody taste, without any pain.

Perhaps, this level of pain is nothing to me.

I slowly clenched my hands and held them tightly. Until my nails pierced into the wound, I felt a slight tingling pain. Although it was just a little bit, it pierced straight into my heart.

Soon, everyone was ready.

I sat in the tent and heard the sound of horse hooves when the Iron Cavalry King left the barracks with his men. The ground was trembling. After a while, Yangchu and Miaoyan came to find me. Yangchu said, "Aunt Qing, we are going to set off."

"good."

I followed them out and it was completely dark. Someone lit a bonfire in the camp and lit it with torches. He led us to the door, where there were a few riders waiting.

He said: "We can only ride over, Aunt Qing, your body--"

"Be careful, I can hold on."

After saying that, I got on the horse and didn't fully recover. With the blow from Nangong Lizhu, I fainted almost at any time at this time, but I still gritted my teeth and sat on the horse's back and grabbed the reins hard. Yangchu and Miaoyan looked at my pale face and looked worried.

I looked at the two children calmly and said, "Don't worry about me, I won't fall until the big thing is over."

“…”

After all, they didn't say anything and got on the horse.

This team has a small number of people, and they are light and simple. They have sent a few more people to protect our safety. They are obviously Yangchu's own people.

I didn't expect that this child, who is only in his teenage years old, was usually bullied by Miaoyan and had already begun to have his own power.

Maybe in the future, or in the near future, he will have a place on this vast grassland.

After leaving the barracks, we rushed all the way. Although we were uncomfortable, we ran and listened to the cold wind whistling in our ears. We felt the snow foam piercing on our faces like steel needles. The pain on our body made me feel more comfortable, so I ran faster and faster. Miaoyan and Yangchu even needed to step up to catch up with me.

After a while, we arrived at the place where they negotiated.

There turned out to be a small lake here.

We didn't pass here on the way, or maybe we had passed by, but Su Su and I were already in a semi-coma and didn't notice that there was already a camp here, and several huge tents were connected in a row, and the firelight looked particularly dazzling in the night.

There was still some distance away from there, and Yangchu took us off and walked over the other road.

When we arrived, we didn't alarm anyone, and someone took us into a tent, which was the largest tent in the center. After sitting down, we could hear the sound of someone patrolling and walking outside.

After riding for so long, I was panting hard. After sitting down, Miaoyan kept standing beside me and stretching out his hand to caress my back.

I asked, "Have they arrived?"

Yangchu went out and said a few words to the people, and then said, "The emperor is already on the road and should be here soon. The place where they negotiated is next to us. We can't speak later."

I nodded.

After being comforted by Miaoyan for a while, I felt a little more comfortable, so she didn't have to sit down and rest. This girl was young and had a better foundation than me. As the Iron Cavalry King said, she was probably born on the back of a horse. The horse she had been riding for so long did not even change her face. At this time, she couldn't help but run to the door, lifted the front tent and looked out.

She should also miss Pei Yuanhao very much.

At this time, she said, "Father is here!"

I didn't go over and see, and I could hear a sound of horse hooves coming from outside. There were not many people coming, but obviously there were quite a few. After all, Pei Yuanhao's safety was insured on the grassland. I heard them approaching and then got off the horse. It seemed that the people on both sides gathered together for a while and then, they walked into the huge tent next to them.

I could roughly recognize the voices of those people, so I quickly heard Pei Yuanhao's voice. They walked into the huge tent in two directions, and then sat down on both sides. Someone came in to deliver tea to them.

The voice of the Iron Cavalry King sounded: "Although we should treat guests with wine, what we are talking about today is important, so let's drink tea, which is the tea that I treasure."

Pei Yuanhao smiled faintly: "Okay."

At this time, someone also brought us hot tea and some food.

Of course I had no appetite, Miaoyan still served a bowl of tea and handed it to my mouth. I had no choice but to eat two bites, but when I ate it at this time, I felt even more blocked in my chest.

Everyone in the tent over there drank water and ate some food.

Then, I heard the Iron Cavalry King say, "Your Majesty, our people on the grassland don't like to talk around the bush. You have someone to send a message to me, saying that you want to unite with me. Do you really have this intention?"

Pei Yuanhao chuckled: "I speak the word of gold and jade, and so on, how could I speak nonsense?"

"But what I want to know is, why do you come to join forces with me?"

"If I say, I am optimistic about you and the Iron-Face King, I believe you will let the sky above the grassland sweep away the haze and finally see the sunrise. Do you believe what I said?"

"You don't need to believe this sentence from the Emperor. We will do this because we are confident that we can."

"Isn't that just right?"

"It's true, but this is just right for us, but for you? You have traveled thousands of miles to the grassland. Is it just a unity with me? In my opinion, union is just a means. What goal do you want to achieve through this means?"

It seems that the Iron Cavalry King is very smart.

"In the past, I often went to the border to see the trade in Ma City, and I also met many smart merchants in the Central Plains. There was a saying among them that made me remember it deeply - people would not get up early without profit, let alone His Majesty the Emperor. You traveled thousands of miles and ventured to the grassland. If there was no profit, would you do this?"

“…”

"What is the profit you are seeking?"

Pei Yuanhao did not answer him immediately. We heard a silence in the big tent over there. I think there were many people in the big tent, but at this time he didn't even smell a cough and wheezing.

I can almost imagine that everyone's eyes are focused on Pei Yuanhao alone.

And he - what exactly is he thinking?

I held my breath, held the cup with hot tea in one hand, and listened intently. It took me a long time to hear Pei Yuanhao say, "The Iron Cavalry King just said, you have visited the border to see the trade in Horse Market."

"good."

"How long ago did that happen?"

“Many years ago.”

"I haven't been there all these years, are you?"

"Of course, the border has already closed the horse market over the years. Except for some merchants who took risks to smuggle horses, normal trade has long been no longer seen."

"Yes," Pei Yuanhao seemed to sigh, "This incident has always made me worry over the years. The horses in the Central Plains are not as fierce as those on your grassland. Tu Shuhan resisted the invasion of the cavalry of the East Chaga tribe in the northwest, and has been complaining to me that the horses have poor breeding."

“…”

I don't know why he suddenly said this. Although this is not a state secret, it always makes people feel a little strange when he said it in front of the Iron Cavalry King.

Not only did I think so, even Yangchu, who was holding his breath and listening quietly, frowned and murmured, "What are he thinking?"

Pei Yuanhao didn't seem to feel anything wrong, and asked the Iron Cavalry King again: "What impact do you have?"

“…”

The Iron Cavalry King was silent for a while and said, "Since His Majesty the Emperor said so, I can also tell the truth that after the horse trade stopped, the tea we used had been cut off for a long time. There were very few people who could drink tea among the people. Only some wealthy merchants bought it at high prices, and the quantity was far from enough."

On the surface, tea is just an ordinary thing. Compared to Pei Yuanhao's need of horses, their demand for tea is not important. But I know that because people on the grassland are difficult to get fresh vegetables, they eat meat all year round and need tea to help them relieve their greasiness and digest food. In the past, both sides benefited each other, but now, the number of tea entering the grassland has greatly reduced, and the illnesses of people on the grassland have gradually increased.

This kind of change is difficult to detect at the beginning, and even after it occurs, it is difficult to find the crux of the problem.

The Iron Cavalry King obviously wants to be much smarter than the deacons of Shin-Kaki.
Chapter completed!