HLnovel Chapter 463 Horse Thief
Chapter 463 Horse Thief
The slanted-eyed sergeant blew a whistle and surrounded Chu Xiaomu with the other three soldiers. He shouted, "Hey, brother in gray!"
Chu Xiaomu stopped his horse and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you, sir?"
The squinting sergeant looked at Cheng Huang for a long time and praised, "What a good horse!" Then he asked Chu Xiaomu loudly, "Where did you get this horse?"
Chu Xiaomu was secretly angry when he saw that he was being rude, and said unhappily, "I raised him at home, so what?"
The squinting soldier said, "Can we raise such a good horse at home? The Wang family of Xuanmayi, who are the best horse breeders in our city, I don't think they have ever raised such a good horse!"
Chu Xiaomu loosened the reins, reached out and stroked Cheng Huang's neck, frowned and said, "Then where do you think my horse came from?"
Seeing Chu Xiaomu's fearless appearance, the squinting sergeant also became angry and deliberately raised his voice and shouted: "Damn it, did you steal this horse from somewhere?!"
A soldier beside him hurriedly pulled him back and whispered, "Huang Laosan, don't say that. What if..."
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but laugh out of anger and said, "Sir, you can't just frame me without any evidence."
Huang Laosan said, "I don't have any evidence for now, but you are sneaking around and your behavior is very suspicious. It is my duty to interrogate you. Is this not okay?!"
Chu Xiaomu thought, since you want to embarrass me, I will really fight with you. At worst, I will use force! He made up his mind, let out a long breath, and said, "Then ask whatever you want to ask, General. I have something important to do."
"I don't care what matters to you! I ask you, where did you steal this horse?!"
"This is the horse I have raised since I was a child. I did not steal it. I am not lying. Please check it carefully."
"If he raised it from childhood, it could be a stolen pony. Is it or isn't it? Tell me now!"
Chu Xiaomu thought it was hard to say, Qisheng was not born from the horse he raised, but was picked up in the mountains. But if you want to embarrass me, I'm afraid I don't have the ability to do so, so I'll tell you the truth and see what you can do. So he said, "It was born in the deep mountains, and I picked it up not long after it was born, so I raised it from childhood to adulthood."
Now not only Huang Laosan didn't believe it, the other soldiers also began to doubt it. Another five or six soldiers came over and surrounded Chu Xiaomu and Cheng Huang.
Huang Laosan laughed and spoke even louder: "Brothers, we finally caught a thief today! This thief wanted to sneak into our Baijun City to commit crimes, which is really unreasonable! Go and call General Luo over."
Chu Xiaomu looked calm and asked, "General, I just said that I picked up this horse in the mountains. Why do you think I am a thief?"
Huang Laosan said, "You want a reason? I have many reasons! Listen to me carefully! First, horses give birth to their calves in grass nests. I have never heard of them giving birth in the mountains, let alone in the deep mountains! Second, you look so poor, how can you afford such a good horse? Even if you can afford it, this kind of horse must be fed with fine feed. You don't even have a silver shell in your pocket, so you definitely can't afford to raise this horse! And this face guard, this saddle, stirrups, I'm afraid you will work yourself to death all your life and still not be able to afford any of them! Third..." Huang Laosan couldn't find a third reason at once and was a little stuck.
"What about the third one? Go on." Chu Xiaomu said lightly.
Huang Laosan glared at him fiercely, "Third... Damn it, third is you, kid. You have shifty eyes, and you are not a good person at first glance. You must be a habitual thief who steals and robs people!"
The other soldiers followed suit and said that Huang Laosan's analysis made a lot of sense. We caught a thief today and finally made some contribution in the past two months.
More and more people gathered around, talking at the same time, and the city gate suddenly became lively.
Chu Xiaomu was secretly angry: I look so righteous, how could I have such a shifty look?
But he didn't want to cause trouble, so he suppressed his anger and said, "You can do whatever you want now, but there must be evidence for everything. I think the laws of Baijun City are the same. It's impossible that if you say I'm a thief, then I'm a thief, right?"
Huang Laosan said: "You are right, everything must have evidence. Then please stay in our prison for ten days or half a month. We will also take some time to find evidence and make you convinced!" After saying that, he reached out and grabbed Chu Xiaomu.
Chu Xiaomu raised his right palm, waiting for Huang Laosan to touch him so that he could use his original force and make this ungrateful Huang Laosan suffer a loss.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "Huang Laosan, what's going on?!"
Chu Xiaomu turned around and saw a soldier wearing iron armor, but his clothes and armor were more splendid than those beside him. He should be the General Luo mentioned by Huang Laosan, but he was just a gatekeeper and not a person of great status.
As expected, Huang Lao San said, "General Luo, come here quickly. I have helped you catch the thief who wanted to sneak into the city to commit evil!"
General Luo came over quickly and shouted, "Where did these thieves come from? How dare they come to my Baijun City to cause trouble?" He squeezed into the crowd and saw Cheng Huang next to Chu Xiaomu. His eyes were immediately drawn to him and he couldn't help but praise him, "Well, this horse is good, a good horse!"
Chu Xiaomu saw that their lieutenants had all come over, and they should be more reasonable than Huang Laosan, so he said, "General Luo, your soldiers have falsely accused me of being a thief without any evidence, saying that my horse was stolen. Can you please speak a fair word for me?"
General Luo looked Chu Xiaomu up and down and asked, "Fair words? Of course I have to say them." After a pause, he continued, "But you...how do you prove that you are not a thief?" He dragged out the words "but you", obviously agreeing with Chu Xiaomu's identity as a "thief".
Chu Xiaomu's anger suddenly soared, thinking to himself, it turns out that you, Luo, are just like Huang Laosan, not a good person. There is a saying in Cangmu country that goes, "If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked." This is exactly referring to you!
He suppressed his anger, took out the Bicheng military badge from his pocket and handed it to General Luo, saying, "I am a genuine Bicheng sergeant. This is my military badge, please check it, General Luo."
General Luo took the badge, turned it over and over in his hand, and said, "The Bicheng is gone, so how can there be any Bicheng soldiers or Bicheng soldiers?! Your badge is obviously fake!"