Chapter 442: Getting along happily (2)

General, Madam Called You To Farm

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Qin Canglan's eyes flickered with subtle surprise.

This was no ordinary horse. It was a superior desert warhorse, even more exceptional than the famed Ferghana horses.

“Can I…… touch it?” Qin Canglan asked.

For a cavalry commander like him, the only things that could inspire such fascination were weapons and warhorses.

“Oh, sure.” Su Ergou gently patted the little pony and led it over to Qin Canglan.

The little pony was very well-behaved.

Qin Canglan stroked its mane and examined its bone structure.

This was a purebred desert horse!

Qin Canglan was thrilled with excitement.

Such horses were extremely rare in Great Zhou.

The Prince of the Southwest once owned a few, but it was said they all died in battle.

In the Great Zhou, the most common warhorses were Mongolian breeds and Ferghana horses.

The mongolian horses were cold-resistant, highly resilient, and had good recovery capabilities.

In emergencies, they could even be used as a source of blood for soldiers. They were the standard warhorse in the northern regions.

However, Mongolian horses were relatively small, and their burst power and jumping ability weren’t exceptional.

Ferghana horses, on the other hand, had incredible explosive strength and could run a thousand miles in a day. Their endurance was amazing.

But they weren’t as cold-resistant as Mongolian horses, they were better suited for desert warfare due to their heat tolerance.

Yet, even Ferghana horses weren't particularly large, and lacked carrying capacity, so they were mainly used for light cavalry. Heavy cavalry would be too much for them.

But for the Desert horses... They were the most well-rounded. They were suitable for both light and heavy cavalry, and most importantly, they possessed a level of calmness on the battlefield that far exceeded that of ordinary horses.

"A horse like this... Should be nearly impossible to acquire..." Qin Canglan murmured.

Su Ergou just said, “Originally, they weren’t going to sell it. But its mother had died, and it was on the verge of dying too. The people at the station took pity and sold it to my older sister.”

Qin Canglan nodded, though at the same time, he was quite surprised.

He had dealt with horses for many years, so he knew well that a foal without its mother usually couldn’t survive.

Other mares would only nurse their own offspring, they wouldn’t feed a stranger’s foal, and might even attack it.

And also, without a mother’s comfort, some foals would simply refuse to eat and starve themselves to death.

The fact that this one had survived... He had to admit that it was a miracle.

“It must’ve cost quite a fortune, huh?” He asked.

Even a dying desert foal would still……

Su Ergou replied with a pained look, “Yeah! It cost my older sister a whole forty taels for it!”

Qin Canglan nearly choked to death on a bite of sweet potato.

What did you say?

F-Forty taels?

Are you sure it wasn’t four hundred taels?

Qin Canglan would’ve been willing to pay four thousand taels for this horse!

Su Ergou finished mixing the feed and led the pony over to eat.

Qin Canglan looked at the coarse mash skeptically, and commented, “I think… that feed looks a bit too rough……”

Surely the pony wouldn’t want to eat it.

But the next second, he watched as the pony shoved its head into the little wooden trough and started munching happily.

Chomp chomp chomp!

It was such a well-behaved baby horse, definitely not picky!

Qin Canglan’s expression was indescribable.

For someone like him, who loved horses more than life itself, watching Su Ergou feed such a precious horse with those wild and messy coarse feed was no less shocking than seeing the Chief Eunuch giving pig food to the crown prince……

Qin Canglan was utterly devastated.

……

Meanwhile, Su Xiaoxiao and Su Mo had begun investigating the matter of the Duke Protector’s estate.

They were approaching it from three angles. The first was the mistress, and this was a bit tricky, since the servant hadn’t clearly seen her face, so they’d have to proceed slowly and carefully.

Secondly, they needed to investigate whether Duke Qin Canglan had any connection to the incident back then.

Thirdly, it was Qin Che.

When Qin Che came to the capital to acknowledge kinship with the Duke Protector’s household, he was already sixteen. There was no way he could have been completely unaware.

Unless he was an orphan and didn’t remember anything from before he was six, then maybe, under someone’s ‘brainwashing’, he might truly believe he was the real Qin Che.

The first case would mean he was hiding the truth deliberately, while the later meant that he was misled.

But in either case, Qin Che had definitely lied.

Because what he originally said to the Duke Protector’s household was: “I lost one of the jade pendants. Thankfully, I still have this one with me.”

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